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YOUR CHILD, YOUR SCHOOL, YOUR COMMUNITY

45 Thomas Street Boyanup WA 6237 Telephone (08) 9731 5111 Absentee SMS 0437 204 580

Principal: Mr Justin Grasso Justin.Grasso@education.wa.edu.au

Issue No: 10 July 2nd 2019

This week brings the end of term 2. I would like to thank parents, community members, teachers, school support staff and the children of Boyanup for their fantastic efforts again throughout this term. Last day of school is this Friday, 5th July. We wish you all a safe and relaxing holiday and look forward to seeing everybody back for next term. Teachers commence Term 3 on Monday 22nd July for their School Development Day – this will be a Pupil Free Day.

Term 3 for students commences on Tuesday 23rd July.

Semester 1 Reports

Student reports will be sent home to families on Tuesday 2nd July. Please make sure you receive your child’s report and please feel free to see your child’s classroom teacher if you have any questions or concerns regarding your child’s progress at school.

The information contained in this report provides a summary of your child’s achievement, attitude, behaviour and effort. Below is an outline of the grading system being used and is determined by your child’s achievement within each learning area being reported as Excellent, High, Satisfactory, Limited and Very Low. Judgements are made against the expected learning outcomes of your child’s year level and are in line with the Western Australian Curriculum.

A Excellent: The student demonstrates excellent achievement of what is expected for this year level.

B High: The student demonstrates high achievement of what is expected for this year level.

C Satisfactory: The student demonstrates satisfactory achievement of what is expected for this year level.

D Limited: The student demonstrates limited achievement of what is expected for this year level.

E Very Low: The student demonstrates very low achievement of what is expected for this year level.

Your child’s demonstration of effort within each Learning Area and overall attitude, behaviour and effort are reported using the scale: Consistently, Often, Sometimes and Seldom.

Justin Grasso

Principal

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Our You Can Do It! focus this fortnight is Problem Solving. A problem is a worry, question, or distressing

situation that needs some sort of action to sort it out. Sometimes when we experience a problem we are not

sure what the right thing to do is, or we are not sure we can manage on our own. It is important to use our

brains to help us think carefully about what we can do to solve a problem before we take action. We call

this Thinking First. This helps us to control the way we express our emotions and understand how our

actions might affect the way other people feel.

On Thursday 20th June, the students at Boyanup Primary School participated in a range of

activities to raise awareness about the importance of sustainability. Students had the

opportunity to discuss important environmental topics and engaged with guest speakers who

spoke to the children about their areas of expertise. Students enjoyed planting native tree and

shrub seedlings, which were kindly donated by Boyanup Botanicals, with their friends and

families. These seedlings will be nurtured and cared for at school and once they are more

established, they will be planted out within the community.

Thank you to everyone, including P&C members, parents, families, staff and students for

making this day a wonderful success. Thank you also to our guest speakers; Joeri Mak and

Peter Carr - Forest Products Commission, Kit Prendergast - Native bee scientist, Brian Smith -

Boyanup Fire Brigade and Doreen Jones - Wildlife Care Bunbury. Your enthusiasm and the

knowledge you shared was greatly appreciated and well received by all of our students. Last,

but certainly not least, thank you to our on-site environmental guru, Marion Lewis! As always,

we thank you for your dedication and commitment to providing these opportunities for our

school.

Positive Behaviour Support and You Can Do It!

P & C News

P & C News

Monike Fitt

Deputy Principal

Sustainability Day

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Here are the thoughts from some of our students from Sustainability Day;

Trinity Cahill – Kindy

I got to hold a possum. He was eating a biscuit on my lap and he didn’t

give it back to the lady - wasn’t he cheeky?

Sophie Niclair - Pre Primary

The possums were fluffy and they had curly tails. We counted the rings

on the logs. The man told us it’s good to burn the bush.

Delilah Pearce and Myla Richards - Year 1

We thought it was awesome! We learnt about fire and bees. If a bee stings a

person it dies. Fire is a part of sustainability because it burns down the trees

and then they grow back.

Pippa De Graaf - Year 2

I learnt how old trees are by how many rings they have.

I really had fun because we were learning.

Erin O’Leary - Year 3

Sustainability means that you can use something lots of times without it running out. I really liked the animal

session because there was a snake and I learnt how to hold a lizard so it doesn’t bite you.

Seth ‘R’ Hetherington - Year 4

I thought it was excellent. When we were talking about natural

resources, like trees, I learnt about how we can use them now and

in the future. We need to be careful with our resources because

some can’t be replaced.

Aidan Mak - Year 5

I liked seeing Doreen from Wildlife Care Bunbury…we have taken injured animals to her before. I also

enjoyed the Forest Products Commission (aka my dad) because I found the machines they use to cut down

trees really interesting and it was fun building with the wood at lunchtime.

Pru Ugle - Year 6

I enjoyed all of the sessions. My favourite one was the bee lady because I

found out that bees were alive at the same time as dinosaurs. Bees are

important because they pollinate the plants and vegetables we eat and

without bees we wouldn’t have food.

Sustainability Day

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‘AUSSIE’ OF THE MONTH’

Grace Frith

VALUES AND ACHIEVEMENT AWARD WINNERS

Left to Right – Grace, Hailey, Victor, Aidan, Harper

Back – Jaxon, Levi, Lily, Israel, Riley

Front – Miriama, Prudence, Erin, Caleb, Sunny

Assembly Thursday 20th June 2019

VALUES AWARDS

Harper Reardon – Respect & Responsibility

Grace Frith - Learning

Hailey Strand - Responsibility

Victor Skewes - Learning

Aidan Mak – Getting Along

ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

PP Prudence Skewes and Sunny Charlier

Year 1 Miriama Forrest

Year 2 Israel Reardon and Caleb Fisher

Year 3/4 Erin O’Leary, Levi Fleay and Riley Fleay

Year 5/6 Jaxon Hawkins and Lily Boyle

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The Boyanup St John Ambulance recently visited our Kindergarten, as part of the Kindy Ambulance Familiarisation program. A big 'Thank you' to Mr Craig Bourne, who made the visit very interactive and educational for the children. We learnt about oxygen masks and pulse meters, and all children had a go at laying on the stretchers. Mr Bourne said this really helps take away the fear of going into an Ambulance, should the situation ever arise.

The Boyanup St John Ambulance has now installed a defibrillator at the Boyanup Primary School. In the event of an emergency, please call 000 and advise the location of your nearest defibrillator. You will then receive the code to open the secure box. There are several defibrillators located in Boyanup, all donated through our local Ambulance branch: at the Boyanup General Store, the Post Office, Meadowbrook Estate, the Ambulance Depo, the Bowling Club, the Chemist and now at the Boyanup Primary School.

Interm Swimming Lessons will be held Week 3 & 4 of Term 3, 2019.

Dates: 5th August to 16th August

Forms have been sent home with the children.

If you have not received one, please collect a replacement from the Front Office ASAP.

These forms must be completed and returned to school with payment of $50 by Tuesday 30th July 2019.

2020 Kindergarten Enrolments We are now taking enrolments for children starting Kindy in 2020.

Children eligible for Kindy in 2020 were born between 1st July 2015 and 30th June 2016.

Enrolment forms are available at the office. Please bring a Birth Certificate and

up to date Immunisation Records (from MyGov) for your child upon enrolment.

Swimming Lessons

2020 Kindy Enrolments

Ambulance Visits Kindy

The new

defibrillator is

located on the wall

outside the School

Front Office.

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School Banking, THURSDAY mornings - School Office 8.30am-9.00am

New students are welcome to sign up for school banking.

Some great prizes are available when savings ‘milestones’ are achieved.

2019 BOYANUP PRIMARY SCHOOL Term Two

Wk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

10 1 July 2 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Reports Home

3 4 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

5 Students last day KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen

6 7

H 8 July 9 10 11 12 13 14

H 15 July 16 17 18 19 20 21

Term 3 Commences for all Students – Tuesday 23rd July 2019

Term Planner – Term 2

School Banking

Community Interest

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2019 BOYANUP PRIMARY SCHOOL Term Three

Wk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

1 22 July School Development Day – NO STUDENTS

23 All Students Resume KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

24

25 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

26 Canteen

27 28

2 29 July 30 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

31 1 Aug KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

2 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen * Proposed Disco (TBC)

3 4

3 5 Aug Interm Swimming (Wk1)

6 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

7 8 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

9 Canteen

10 11

4 12 Aug

Interm Swimming (Wk2)

13 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

14 15 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM ASSEMBLY TA2 School Banking

16 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen-Values

17 18

5 19 Aug

Book Week

20 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Dress-up Day for Book Week

21 22 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM PHOTO DAY School Banking

23 Canteen

24 25

6 26 Aug 27 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

28 Winter Carnival Senior Students

29 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM INCURSION “3 Experiments that changed the World” School Banking

30 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen

31 1 Sept

7 2 Sept 3 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

4 5 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

6 Canteen

7 8

8 9 Sept 10 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

11 12 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM ASSEMBLY TA1 School Banking

13 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen-Values * Proposed Movie Night (TBC)

14 15

9 16 Sept 17 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

18 19 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

20 Canteen

21 22

10 23 Sept 24 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM

25 26 KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM School Banking

27 Students last day KINDY 8.50AM – 3.00PM Canteen

28 29

H 30 Sept Queens Birthday

1 Oct

2 3 4 5 6

H 7 Oct

8 9 10 11 12 13

Start and End of Term Public Holidays School Holidays (students) School Development Days

Term Planner – Term 3