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IMPORTANT DATES
Mon 23rd Oct: Musica Viva Incursion
Tues 24th Oct: P+C Meeting 7pm Library. All welcome.
Wed 01st Nov: Assembly hosted by Student Councillors.
Friday 20th October 2017 Issue 16
Hello, Namaste, Salaam parents /guardians Aap sabhi ko Deepavali ki Hardik Shubkamnayein 2017!
Best wishes and a prosperous Diwali to our Indian families.
Term 4 is off to a great start and the beautiful rain is a welcome break from the allergies. I’ve now spent just over a week with the students and I want to compliment you as parents for teaching your children such excellent values. It is very evident in the playground that our students use the language of caring for one another. Translation in Farsi – by Mrs Seema Rozavi
Music Awards Music award: Shubh P Grammy Award: Year 2
Pre Primary Riley C and Skylah D Saindavi K
Year 1 Teiarnee D and Lachlan T Henry P
Year 2 Koby K and Amber M Achilles C
Year 3 Maliaka I and Drukdra P Promise L
Year 4 Jaime M and Vanshpreet S Annabelle W
Year 5/6 Kaiser H and Amber N Tasman M
The Aussie of the Month award went to Aastik V for demonstrating respect and kindness to his friends and teachers. PEDESTRIAN CROSSING SAFETY : Please respect the road safety rules by using the crosswalk with your children. The habits of our children are formed by the examples we set for them. SCHOOL PLANNING FOR 2018 We are now in the planning stage of classes for next year. If your children are not returning to Osborne PS in 2018, please fill in a Leaving Form at the office. If your child will not be at school on the first day of Term 1 2018, i.e.Wednesday 31st January, please complete a Holiday Form with the intended day of return. By informing us at your earliest convenience, it will greatly help our planning. Thank you.
P&C NEWS AND UPCOMING EVENTS
Welcome back to our last term for 2017. I would like to extend a very warm welcome to our new Principal Mrs
Griffin. This term is promising to be a fabulous one with three P & C projects in the calendar already! This means there
are many opportunities for you to join in. Where can you help out?
The next P & C meeting will be on Tuesday 31st October, 7pm in the School Library. This is a new time to
previously advertised. We will be organising the upcoming Book Fair and Fun Run so it will be great to have as
much support as we can to ensure smooth running of our fundraising events.
Our next Book Fair is in Week 7,
Wed 22nd - Fri 24th November. The theme is Reading Rainforest – Go Wild for Books.
Book Fairs are a lot of fun and the children love looking at the books. We need people
to help in the morning and afternoon with selling of books and helping the children
make their selection. If you are able to help with this please contact Sarah to find out
more, the roster is ready to be filled and the best spots always go early.
There is a very exciting event coming up for our school to participate in. This term the P & C will
be holding a Colour Fun Run Fundraiser. This will involve paint, white t-shirts, fundraising,
prizes, laughter, a sausage sizzle and everyone is invited to join in! Keep an eye out for more
information as it comes home over the coming weeks.
Lastly, sadly our Friday lunch orders have had to be cancelled due to not having a driver to collect and
deliver them each week. If you have 45 mins free on a Friday, a reliable car and are able to help with this, please
contact Sarah.
I look forward to working with you all this term.
Sarah Aitken President 0424 480 400
Visit our Website at www.osborneps.wa.edu.au.
KINDY CLASS REPORT
The children have begun Term 4 with their usual wonderful enthusiasm and sense of wonder. Over the past two weeks we have learned about the Amanda Young Foundation and Meningococcal disease with Mrs MacDonald. What we have learned is that it is very important to wash our hands, cover our mouths if we cough or sneeze, and not to share eating utensils such as spoons with other people. Our Talk for Writing topic for Term 4 was introduced this week and we are all very excited to ‘Go on a Bear Hunt’ in Kindy. We have made some magnificent maps of the story already and we will use the maps next week to go on a hunt around the school!
PRE PRIMARY CLASS REPORT
Well done to Pre Primary for doing a great job presenting the assembly. In Literacy we have been interpreting and responding to visual texts. We have been looking at the differences in imaginative writing and informative text. Using our created informative text, a recipe, we followed the given procedure to make fairy bread. Finally we got to the best part of our lesson: eating the fairy bread! We also had a visit from Cara who works with the City of Stirling. She spoke with the children about recycling and reducing the amount of waste going to landfill and the different bins in their area and what they are for.
PRE KINDY ORIENTATION
On Wednesday, 18th October we had our First session with the 2018 Kindy Kids! It was
lovely to meet lots of new parents and children who will be joining our school
community for 2018 as well as see some familiar faces and siblings of previous students. The series of
sessions are extremely
important as they help
reduce separation
anxiety for the children
and their parents as well as increasing the
children’s familiarity
with the Kindy, the
teachers and the school.
LEGO CLUB
What a fantastic way to begin Osborne Lego club! The group of children who attended on Tuesday were well behaved, enthusiastic about their creations and worked together across the year 1 to 6 ages with ease and inclusiveness. Ms Pittard and I were extremely happy to have Mrs Cerin, Mrs McAuliffe and Mrs Griffin all come to help us out with the inaugural session. It looks like this is going to be a fun and creative time for all who attended. I am already looking forward to next week! Ms Ballam
Visit our Website at www.osborneps.wa.edu.au.
YEAR 1 CLASS REPORT
A big thank you to Kyati Ranparia’s mother for coming in to class to tell us how her family celebrates Diwali. It was so interesting. Kyati wore her amazing traditional dress. We admired the pearls and the clever stitching and intricacy of the mixing of the fabrics. The student’s have settled in to the last term of Year One. Keep in mind some consumables like glue sticks and erasers may need replacing. In Science, the class is enjoying wondering what a Palaeontologist does for a job. The children have heard what the scientists have estimated the noise of different dinosaurs roaring and talked about how they worked that out. In Mathematics we are looking at patterns of shapes and numbers and working on knowing how to count by 2, 5 and 10.
YEAR 2 CLASS REPORT
Welcome to our final term of the year! This week we have been learning about Diwali. In Art we contributed to the making of a Rangoli ** which is displayed in the school library, make sure you check it out! Mrs Bansal who is mother of Arnav in Year 5, visited our class and taught us how to make Coconut Latoos, a special sweet eaten at Diwali. They were delicious, thank you Mrs Bansal! In Maths we are counting money so next time you go shopping, talk to your child about the costs of the items you are purchasing and see if they can tell you what notes and/or coins you would need to buy them! We have also started studying a persuasive text called ‘No Fast Food’. Not only is it helping us to learn about the structure and techniques of persuasive writing but it also ties into our Health
program for the term where we are learning about healthy and unhealthy choices and lifestyles. Phew, we are busy! **Rangoli is an art origininating in India in which patterns are created on the floor in living rooms or courtyards using materials such as coloured rice, dry flour, coloured sand or flower petals.
YEAR 3 CLASS REPORT
We all enjoyed our first Edu Dance lesson! Everyone tried so hard and had a lot of fun. We can’t wait to see what the final dance will look like. In Maths we have been learning about Fractions. We got to cut a chocolate bar in half and had to make sure that both halves were fair and even. The best part was getting to eat the chocolate bar! We have also been folding and cutting shapes into halves, thirds and quarters and made a Fractions poster to practise writing different fractions. Last week we started our science topic of “Day and Night” and learnt how big the different planets of our solar system are and the order of them from the sun. We made up silly sentences to remember the order. Then we used our knowledge of fractions and planets to make colourful planet pictures. We are looking forward to another busy term.
COMMUNITY NEWS
YEAR 5/6 CLASS REPORT
The Year 5/6 class has had a busy start to the term. We would like to welcome all our new students and hope that they find their time at Osborne Primary rewarding. We have had a great start to our Edu Dance program. It is already looking really good. We are looking forward to the Musica Viva incursion on Monday. Just a friendly reminder to those that haven’t paid yet, please do so as soon as possible. The Year 6 students are already busy making plans for their graduation at the end of the year and the Year 5s are keen to lend a helping hand. Please make sure that your Year 6 child is enrolled in high school so that they don’t miss out on valuable transition programs.
YEAR 4 CLASS REPORT
Mr Tsironis, our new student teacher, is going to be with us for the next five weeks. On Tuesday, we went onto the basketball court to learn about time. We used team work to help find out the time on the human clock. Some people had to be the hands and others were the numbers. In Science, we are studying Earth and Space andlooking at rocks and landforms. We had the Waste Wise people from the City of Stirling here on Monday, talking about our three coloured bins, and how we need to reduce the amount of household rubbish going into landfill. Edu Dance has started and it is going to be fantastic.
MUSIC NEWS
Welcome back! This week we have had a wonderful time exploring the customs of celebrating Diwali. We have listened, danced and played to festive music from both the Indian classical tradition and the Bollywood Bhangra styles of music. Students from Year 1-3 tried out some Tabla playing techniques, and a number of students gave us a glorious display of some typical Bhangra dance moves. Thank you to all those students who shared some of their own experiences of Diwali with us.
We’ve also been working on the 2017 Music Count Us In song, ‘Shine Together’ which we will be singing as a whole school on Thursday 2nd November. The Year 1’s have begun to learn Auslan sign language actions for the song. We loved the expression of Auslan! Year 1 learn sign language Year 2 practising Bhangra
Musica Viva presents B’Tutta! at Osborne P.S A fabulous percussion music performance.
Lots of student involvement. Monday 23 October at 9.50am – 10.50am
Students to return permission notes and $5 to attend Parents and community members are invited to attend free of charge.
Come and join the fun!
Visit our Website at www.osborneps.wa.edu.au.
ART ROOM – URGENT REQUEST This term we are planning on designing some beautiful sculptures using
recycled materials in art.
If you have an empty water bottles (any size) we would love to use them.
They can be dropped off to the art room any time. Thank you
Julia Boardman
WASTE WISE INCURSION
On Monday, the City of Stirling's School Waste Education Program came to the school to talk about Recycling and how we can reduce landfill. Landfill is such a big problem and we as community, need to try and reduce the amount of rubbish we put in the red bin, which ends up in the ground. Our green bin is for garden wastes only, not food scraps! The yellow bin is for clean bottles, cans, plastic bags, paper and milk cartons.
Use your 3 bins correctly.
At Balcatta SHS we are entering a new
and exciting phase where we are
looking at building an engaging and fulfilling program in Music and
Instrumental Music into the future.
This will involve two periods a week of
Music plus an Instrumental Music class
provided by Instrumental Music School
Services (IMSS). Activities in the Music class will be varied, but will include
listening and composing skills and
looking at the elements of Music and how they interact.
Students who have been involved in the IMSS instrumental
lessons in primary school will be provided an opportunity to continue their lessons at Balcatta Senior High School from
2018. Those who have learned an instrument privately may
be considered for a position in our program where this sits
within the guidelines and policy of classroom numbers and
available instrumental teachers.
Further information on this exciting new program will also be
available at a Music and Instrumental
Music Information evening at Balcatta Senior High School
on Tuesday 24 October 2017 at 6.30 pm.
Please feel free to direct any enquiries to Mr Kevin Fraser on
9345 8200, email at [email protected].
