Newton Primary School 4 Marvell Avenue, Spearwood Phone: 9418 4122

www.newtonps.wa.edu.au newton.ps@education.wa.edu.au

OUR MISSION

To provide a safe, caring, co operative and stimulating learning environment.

1st June 2017 Term 2 Week 6

REMINDERS TERM 2 2017 June

Thursday 1st Assembly Rooms 9&12 Friday 2nd PD Day (no school for students) Monday 5th WA Day Public Holiday

Thursday 8th P&C Meeting 9am

Thursday 15th Assembly Pre Primary

Friday 16th Senior Sport Vs Coolbellup

Monday 19th School Cross Country 9am-12.20pm

Tuesday 20th Open Day 9-10am

Wednesday 21st Canteen Special Lunch

June Thursday 22nd Senior Lightning Carnival

P & C DISCO

Thursday 29th Edu Dance Concert 1.45pm

Friday 30th Last day Term 2

July

Monday 17th First Day of Term 3

Faction Sports Carnival is scheduled for Friday 8th September

2018 Enrolments - Friday 21 July is an important date!

Families need to apply to enrol their children in a public school for 2018 if they are:

* Starting Kindergarten – children born between 1 July 2013 - 30 June 2014

* Starting Pre-primary (first year of compulsory school) – children born between 1 July 2012 - 30 June 2013.

* Starting Year 7 (first year of secondary school) - children born between 1 July 2005 - 30 June 2006.

To apply to enrol your child fill out an application form by Friday 21 July 2017.

Forms for 2018 Pre Primary students will be sent home this week to existing Newton Kindy students.

Dear Parents and Carers Assembly - Well done to Room 9 and 12 this morning on a fantastic item - the students displayed great energy and enthusiasm as they danced and sang to several ‘golden oldies’. Coding Club - Mr Carlé has introduced a lunchtime Coding Club for students in Years 4 to 6. The Coding Club will focus on coding resources that were recently given to all schools by the State Government. The students are currently working with two robots called Dash and Dot, on a Monday and Wednesday. The students have been exploring over the past two weeks how to code and program the robots. The students have been really enthusiastic and have enjoyed the two sessions a week. Each child in year 4 to 6 had the opportunity to ap-ply for the club based on an application form.

School Development Day - On Friday 2nd June the staff will be looking at Brightpath, which is a moderation tool for writing, reviewing the ICT scope and sequence and doing a workshop on the Health and Physical Education Syllabus. Please note that the first day of term 3, Monday 17th July is not a pupil free day. We wish families a wonderful extended long weekend, including Monday 5th June ‘WA Day’. We look forward to seeing the students back Tuesday 6th June refreshed, ready to take on the last 4 weeks of term. Linda Humphreys Principal

1st June 2017

Room KP Year P Billy R

Room PP Year P Sam M Isaac H

Room 3 Year 1 Mia L Amelia P

Room 4 Year 1/2 Lucas P Mahlika K

Room 2 Year 2 Zane N Sethuli J

Room 6 Year 3 Layton W Imogen W

Room 8 Year 3/4 Shakira A Tyreise W

Room 12 Year 4/5 Haylee D Jorja R

Room 9 Year 5/6 Ashton L Samantha C

Science Elijah H Chloe Z

If you have any size

4 or 6 school uniforms

(skorts, shorts or

pants) that your child

has grown out of the

Early Childhood

classes would love

them! Thank you.

Other Awards

Tidy Class - Pre Primary

Uniform - Room 12

Community - Room 8 Singing

Hand bands for Honesty

Peyton W Room 3 Charlie W Room 3

Gold Slips for good

playground behaviour

Seren L Room 12 Honey S Room 6

SCHOOL VALUE

The next value is Co-operation

Co-operation is about getting along with others and working with them in a thoughtful and considerate way. Co-operation is about unity and harmony. It is about doing and achieving things with the help of other people. Co-operation is very important in your classroom. You need to listen when others are speaking and raise your hand when you want to talk. Co-operation creates a happy feeling when everyone in the family tries to get along and work together, there is happiness in the family. The more we learn to co-operate the easier it is to reach our goals. If you are willing to work with others and you keep a positive attitude, people will want to cooperate and work with you.

Newton P & C News

UNIFORM SHOP is open fortnightly Thursdays at 8.35am - next date = 8th June

Helpers required. ALL ORDERS MUST BE PLACED IN PERSON AT THE UNIFORM SHOP

SCHOOL BANKING

School Banking for 2017 is on every Tuesday morning from 8:30-9:00am

in the undercover area. If parents have not yet signed up their children go

to your local branch or sign up online at; commbank.com.au/schoolbanking

WE HAVE A FACEBOOK PAGE PLEASE GO TO NEWTON PRIMARY P&C - and LIKE US.

NEWTON CANTEEN IS OPEN EVERY DAY EXCEPT WEDNESDAY

WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR HELPERS SO POP IN AND ADD YOUR NAME TO THE ROSTER.

P & C Disco Thursday 22nd June Please return tickets to the P & C BOX in the office.

Library News.

Time seems to have flown by. We cannot believe it is nearly the middle of the year. Our displays for this term are: Wombat Stew, West Australian Young Readers' Book Awards, Western Australia Day, Animals in War. We have now purchased the WAYRBA books. The books are selected from a shortlist and nominated for awards. The theme for this year is ‘Reading is a Blast!’ We would like to thank the P & C for enabling us to purchase these outstanding books. We have some nice bright tables in the library and new seats. With the help of some volunteers last year who helped paint the library, it is now looking much brighter. There are plenty of things to do in the library and we would love some help to cover our new books, even if just for an hour. Otherwise just pop in for a visit to say hello and see our new furniture!

Book club - On Tuesday 30/05/17 students was given Scholastic Book club Issue 4. This issue must be returned by Wednesday 7/06/17. There is a LOOP page on the scholastic website if you would like to order on line www.scholastic.com.au/LOOP. Your order will be electronically linked when you order and pay by LOOP.

We hope to see you soon! Janice and Gillian Library Officers

Tyrone B won gold in 9 yrs Kumite (sparring) at WAKL Perth Open at Melville Rec on the 21st May 2017 . This is his first gold medal! He has trained in KUA Shotokan Karate since he was 5 at Fremantle PCYC. Well done Tyrone!

Cadel B won silver in kata (pattern) & bronze in Kumite (sparring) at the Ryu novice tournament in Malaga 28th May 2017 . Like his brother he trains at Freo PCYC 2 classes a week and is an orange belt in Yoseikan. Well done Cadel!

Look at some of our great ‘Jumpers’ who

participated in Jump Rope For Heart.

Last week our Senior Choir performed at the

Melville Singfest and they performed ‘Lanterns’ by Birds of Tokyo.

Bryce did a great job of introducing the Choir and they performed well. While we were the smallest choir at the festival we had no trouble filling the room with our beautiful voices. It was fun to be on stage and work together as a team. Ms McBain, Music Teacher.