Dear Greenmount families

We had an interesting Science Week with some fascinating displays. Congratulations to all of the classes and also a big thank you to Mrs McGlew for coordinating the fabulous displays and for continuing to promote Science in our school. Here are photos of the winners below:-

Hatching chicks As a continuation of Science Week, Rooms 10 and 12 are currently hatching chickens. They are excited to announce that they are parents to 8 chicken eggs each. They are due to hatch today and tomorrow. Once they have hatched they will be transferred to our brooding box for two weeks. As a part of our Biological Science studies, this

term we are studying the life cycles of living things and therefore, it is our responsibility to take care of these chicks for two weeks. The chicks can be bought by students and their families after the two weeks. The children are keeping diaries of the chicks development. They are so excited to be able to experience this process in their classrooms first hand. If you are interested in purchasing a chick for $15, please contact the school.

Athletics Carnival Mr Hodgson and the teachers are busy practising for the forthcoming Athletics Carnival on Friday 28th October, jumps and throws Wednesday 26th October. Save the dates in your diary!

Greenmount Primary School

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50-68 Innamincka Road GREENMOUNT 6056 9294 1155 Email School greenmount.ps@education.wa.edu.au Email Principal lucy.webb@education.wa.edu.au Website www.greenmountps.wa.edu.au

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ISSUE:

Science Week 1

Hatching

chicks

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Athletics

Carnival

1

SMS Absences 1

Calendar of

Events

2

Merit Awards 2

School

Banking

3

Web Stars 2

Massed Choir

Festival

3

Greenmount’s

Got Talent

3

Thank You 3

P&C News 3/4

Community

News

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Please SMS if your child is absent,:

name, class and reason. Natalie Astle

ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL

Fantastic effort everyone!

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School Banking

The Bendigo Bank School banking is on a Monday from 8.30am - 9.00am in the Uniform Shop. Teach your children about saving. Beginning in Term 4, School Banking will be open for business in Weeks 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10.

Please mark these dates on your Calendars Thursday 1 Sept. Choir excursion Tuesday 6 Sept. P & C Meeting Thursday 8 Sept Book Week Plays—SVSHS Friday 9 Sept Room 3 Assembly Monday 12th Sept Safety House Show—Kindy and Pre Primary School Sausage Sizzle Tues 13th Sept Scavenger Safety House Hunt Fri 16th Sept Free Dress Yellow Day Friday 23 Sept. Last day of Term Tuesday 11 October Students resume school

Fantastic effort

everyone!

Friday 26th August

Rm 1 Alex Brown Pixie Farr Rm 3 Alex Bauer Raiden Hei Hei Rm 5 Kylah Laing Alyssa Donovan Eloise McKinlay Rm 6 Jarrahn McDonnell Alana Agostino Rm 7 Rivalee McEwen Lily Foster Rm 8 Sylas Martorana Jacob Sims Rm 9 Ruby Webb Lucas Moody Rm 10 Hunter Pearce Shalyn Jones Rm 11 Charly Kennedy Jasmin Bauer Rm 12 Billy Reynolds Jacob Hillis Rm 14 Daria Kennedy Isabella York Jordan Lyle-Eckersley Rm 15 Jordyn Marshall Isabella George Rm 17 Jakob Tolj Luke Parnaby

MERIT AWARDS

Please take the time to look at these new items on our website:-

Recent News Book Week Parade

Science Education Interactive Incursion

Class Items Room 4 Zoo Animals

Room 11 Maths Room 8 Ancient Greek Games

Phys Ed Hills Interschool Cross Country

Art News

LOST PROPERTY

If your child has lost an item of clothing, please come and check

the lost property.

Jumpers are spill-ing over into the

passageway!

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P A G E 3 Greenmount Primary Choir Massed Choir Festival Performance!

We are very excited to be performing at this years Massed Choir Festival at Winthrop Hall, UWA! Greenmount Choir will be joined by 8 other Primary School Choirs as we sing a delightful mix of songs. Please visit the website: http://massedchoirfestival.org.au/ for more information. Tickets are on sale at http://www.ticketswa.com/event/massed-choir and our password is greenmount. It would be lovely for the students to have support as they perform at this very special event. Date: Friday September 2nd Performance time: 7.30-9.00 performance Where: Winthrop hall, UWA

Midland K Mart Tyre and Auto Services

The school would like to sincerely thank Midland K Mart

Tyre and Auto services located at Midland Gate shopping

centre, who kindly accepted all our old car tyres for recycling.

This would normally be a costly exercise but thanks to their

support, our Gardener was able to take all the old tyres to be recycled free of charge. A

special thanks to Chris the Assistant Manager and of course Len our gardener.

Flexi Schools - Don’t forget we now have FlexiSchools for the Uniform Shop and P&C fundraiser events. You can order your school uniform at any time, orders are filled each Wednesday when the shop is opened. There is a small processing fee of $2 per Uniform shop order. The school fundraiser events have no additional charge to purchase online. Your tickets for the event will be emailed to you, you just need to print them off. School Disco - Orders for tickets are due back by Friday 2nd of September. The event will be held at Swan View Youth Centre at the Brown Park Recreation Complex from 5.30pm for K-Year 2, Years 3-6 from 7pm. Tickets are just $8 each and snacks/refreshments/glow sticks will be available to purchase on the evening. Any parents who are able to help out on the night, for the Junior/Senior sessions or pack up please indicate on the order forms or send an email to fundraising@gpspnc.org.au. Bookclub - Orders for Issue 6 must be in by Monday 5th of September to the P&C Letterbox. As always, online orders can be purchased via the LOOP app. Toy Catalogues from Chalk Educated Toys and Parent Direct Toy Fundraiser will be heading home with the kids shortly. This will be a great opportunity to do some Christmas Present shopping without having to hit the shops! At the same time, 20c for each dollar spent gets donated back to the school to be spent on teaching resources that will directly benefit the kids.

Next P&C

Meeting Tuesday

6th September, 6.30pm in the

staffroom.

Everyone welcome.

Please park on the basketball

courts.

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P A G E 4 Safety House News - Good luck to all the entrants who have sent in their colouring competition forms. Safety House Contact Card orders are due by Friday 2nd of September. Important dates for September to note, Monday 12th of September - Safety House Show at 9.15am. Parents are invited to stay and watch and there will be tea and coffee afterwards. On the same day there will be a Sausage Sizzle for lunch - order forms will be made available closer to the date. Tuesday 13th of September there will be a Safety House Scavenger Hunt starting from the Undercover Area between 2.30-4.30pm. The last event scheduled is for Friday the 16th, a “wear yellow” free dress day for a gold coin donation. All monies raised by these events go towards the provision of Safety House Awareness Month events and new Safety House Signage for the school.

Final orders of the new 2016/2017 Perth Entertainment

Membership from GREENMOUNT PRIMARY SCHOOL P&C

are due by Thursday, 22 September 2016, just in time for the School Holidays!

Any purchase made until 22 September 2016 will go into the draw to win a Family Pass Voucher to use at one of the businesses within this years’ Entertainment Membership. Available as a traditional Entertainment Book OR the new Entertainment Digital Membership for your Apple or Android device, your Membership gives you over $20,000 worth of valuable offers valid through to 1 June 2017!

Order by clicking on (or pasting the link into your web browser): https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/8607k4

or you can use the order form at the Front Office.

www.bubbler.com.au Easy Fundraising for Your School!

5% of each purchase comes back to Your School just nominate

Greenmount Primary School when finalising your purchase.

Don’t forgot to follow us on our Facebook page,

“Greenmount Primary School WA P&C Association”

to keep up to date with the latest news and events.