Dear Families,
What a fabulous evening we had last night watching our
students star in ‘Clowning Around’. Congratulations to all
our HWPS Circus Performers – they were amazing! Our
students showcased different individual and team skills
during the performance - from diablo to devil sticks and
towers to totem poles. The audience was enthralled by the
skills, talents, team work and ‘have a go’ attitude displayed
by the performers. We would like to thank everyone
involved in the lead up and presentation of the performance
Clowning Around!
Fabulous Fashion
Paris, New York, Milan, London, and now Hawthorn West –
the new fashion capital of the world!
At our assembly on Monday, we had front row seats to a one
off event - the 5/6 fashion show. The show celebrated the
creative fashion designs by our 5/6 emerging designers.
These colourful and unique designs were developed during
the term in the HWPS Fashion House (Art Room) under the
guidance of our ‘in house’ designer Melanie Jacobsen. These
fabulous outfits are now on display in the entrance foyer to
the school.
NAPLAN
We are delighted to share our school’s results for the 2016
NAPLAN testing. As you can see from the data below, all
our results are significantly higher than the state mean in all
curriculum areas assessed.
At Hawthorn West we always strive for excellence and we
are very proud of the teaching and learning programs that our
teachers provide to cater for all of our students.
Cyber Safety – “Respectful & Responsible”
Cyber bullying involves the use of information and
communication technologies (ICT) to support deliberate,
repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group that
is intended to harm others (Bill Belsey, cyberbullying.org).
This form of bullying is usually committed using tablets,
mobile phones or the Internet and includes such activities as:
Posting hurtful messages on social networking sites.
Sending repeated unwanted messages either by SMS,
instant messaging (IM) or email.
Excluding someone from an online group.
Creating fake social networking profiles or websites that are
mean and hurtful.
Our students need to know that they can tell someone if they
are being cyber-bullied - ignoring the problem won’t make it
go away, and there are steps that they can take to address the
cyber-bullying. What is most important is that they tell
someone.
Year 3 State Mean Hawthorn West Mean
Reading 435 493
Writing 433 462
Spelling 425 469
Grammar &
Punctuation 444 485
Numeracy 414 484
Year 5 State Mean Hawthorn West Mean
Reading 508 551
Writing 488 518
Spelling 496 514
Grammar &
Punctuation 506 537
Numeracy 502 531
From the Principal Team
Curious, Confident, Connected
Achieving Excellence
Newsletter Term 3 - Week 7, August 26th 2016
At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.
At HWPS we are committed to educating our students about
being safe, smart and responsible online. We encourage you
to closely monitor the computer / mobile device access your
child has at home. Discuss internet issues and share internet
experiences. Keep the computer in a public area in the home
and set ground rules for the use of the computer and other
mobile devices. Reinforce safety messages and cyber rules.
Remind your children about their privacy and the privacy of
others and ensure both you and your children understand
laws relating to copyright, privacy, hacking and obscenity.
Be careful of what is published online. Often our students
are unaware of the legal, moral and ethical issues related to
online activity.
There are rules in place and they are to protect children. The
legal age to use some accounts is 13 and by signing up to
these accounts when you are not 13 is breaking the law.
Some of our students openly admit to having these accounts
and our staff are very concerned at the unusually high
number of students who have accounts on apps such as:
Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Kik.
As we know children are quick to take up the latest
developments in technology and are often the first to know
when something new comes along. They are growing up in
an ever-changing technological environment and can have a
lot of fun doing so. The Internet and associated technologies
offer many benefits to young people. They can communicate
with friends and family from all over the world, access all
types of information for school projects, and express
themselves creatively, all with the click of a button.
It is vital to talk to your children about behaving
appropriately online and with their mobile devices. They
need to be aware that there are real world consequences for
their virtual world actions.
It is important that students know that we want them to be
able to communicate online – but we want them to be doing
it in safe, respectful and responsible ways. Education, open
communication and support from home and school is the
key.
Congratulations to:
All our students and teachers who have had a fabulous
Book Week – sharing stories, exploring new books and
dressing up as a Book Character for our parade.
Darcy McKenna - who has been selected to represent
Victoria in the Melbourne Rebels U12 State Team
(Rugby). Darcy is off to Adelaide to compete during the
upcoming holidays. We wish him all the best.
All HWPS students who represented our school at the
District Athletics competition held at the Bill Sewart
Athletics track today.
Warm Regards,
Glenys and Justine
The HWPS Father’s Day Breakfast will be held again this year on Thursday 8th September.
Invite Dad, Grandad, Step-Dad, or a special person be-fore school to celebrate Father’s Day.
Thursday 8th September
7:30am – 8:50am
Pancakes from the Little Dutch Pancake Man (with choice of 3 toppings) + orange juice $8
Egg and Bacon Roll + orange juice $5
The Little Coffee Van will be there again serving a range of hot beverages too! (cash on the morning)
Book via TryBooking http://www.trybooking.com/MLYK
Bookings close Monday 5th Sept at 3pm
(for catering purposes - no late orders accepted)
Any queries contact Lisa Johns 0415 149 158
We’re looking forward to seeing you there!
Calendar Dates
August
Mon 29th - Fri 2nd Grade 5/6 camp, Camp Howqua, Howqua
September
Tues 6th Grade 5/6 Hooptime, 8:30am—3:30pm, MSAC
Wed 7th Walk / Ride to School day
Foundation 2017 Transition Program (session 1), 9:30am - 10:30am “Story Time & Activity” & Parents
Meet & Greet
Grade 4/5/6 Maths Olympiad
Thurs 8th Father’s Day Breakfast, 7:30am - 8:50am
State School Spectacular rehearsal, 9:00am - 5:00pm, Hisense Arena
Fri 9th State School Spectacular rehearsal, 9:00am - 5:00pm, Hisense Arena
Sat 10th State School Spectacular performance, 1:00pm & 6:30pm, Hisense Arena
Sun 11th Grade 1/2 Working Bee , 9:30am - 12:30pm
Tues 13th Student Led Conferences
Wed 14th Foundation 2017 Transition Program (session 2), 9:30am - 10:30am “Alphabet Fun”
Thurs 15th Student Led Conferences
School Council meeting, 7:00pm, LRC
Fri 16th Kaboom incursion & football lunch
Final day of term 3, 2:30pm dismissal
October
Mon 3rd First day Term 4
At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.
Teeball
Well done to the Grade
5/6 Girls and Mixed
Teeball teams who
competed at Division
level last Friday
against other schools
who were also
representing their
districts. Our Mixed
team came 4th and our
Girls Team came 2nd
on the day. It was an
extremely wet and windy day to be
playing but they did exceptionally well
under the circumstances.
Grill’d Community Matters
Just a reminder that
HWPS are currently
featured as a
community jar at the
Grill’d burger store on
Bridge Rd so please
support us by placing
a community coin in
our jar if you happen
to be visiting Grill’d
for the remainder of
August.
Icy Pole Roster: September 1st
Elizabeth Trott
Liz Reid
At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.
Dear Parents, If you have boxes (big and small) and plastic bottles at home please bring them to OSHClub as we can use them for craft activities. Also, please remember to book in children with notice, otherwise check with Rosie if your child can attend
BSC/ASC on the day. Thank you
Next Week’s
Activities
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Before Care Activities
Group painting jenga Group
colouring cards Group signals
After Care Activities
Group signals & basketball
Group painting & basketball
Balloon soccer & charades
Octopus & dancing
Gymnastics & team toss game
Ride/Walk/Scooter 2 School –
Wednesday 7th September
We will be having a Ride/walk/scooter to
school day on Wednesday morning in week 9.
This is a great opportunity for our school
community to get healthier and reduce our
carbon emissions. On arrival at school that
day, see a Green Team member at the BBQ,
collect your sticker and put your name into
the raffle for a chance to win a prize.
In celebration of National Science Week the students explored the value and behaviour of water during their Science lessons last week. Students in Foundation, Grades 1 and 2 discussed the advantages of water and experimented with absorption to make water ‘walk’ uphill. You can check out the experiment we watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8YtroKjVxo. This week we’ll measure how much water can be
absorbed by paper towel and use eye droppers to develop our fine motor skills. Grades 3 to 6 students explored the process of water
desalination and examined the amount of fresh water on
Earth. FUN FACT: Only 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh,
why is more than 2% of this fresh water unable to be
used by us? This week we will draw scale drawings to
show the size of the Sun, Moon and Earth, we loved the
video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q
Thank you to Glenferrie Meats for their generous donations to our sausage sizzles. Please support this
worthwhile business.
HWPS does not endorse the product or services of any advertisements paid or unpaid printed in our school newsletters.
At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.
Are there any boys interested in forming a new basketball
team?
We are looking for boys born in 2009 to form another ATOMS
team.
If you are interested please email Karen Eames on