83A Ivanhoe Street, Eden Hill WA 6054 Ph: 6455 0800 Email: edenhill.ps@education.wa.edu.au Website: www.edenhill.wa.edu.au

Principal’s Note If you were fortunate to attend our faction carnival last Friday, I am sure you will all agree it was a fantastic day. Events like that require a lot of planning, hard work and effort and I would like to thank all the staff, students and parents who made it such a successful day.

I am pleased to inform you that we will have our Public School Review on Wednesday, 23rd October which provides the opportunity for us to self-assess against our school data, celebrate our strengths and identify areas for improvement. The assessment period will be for 2018-2019 and a report will be provided to the school at the end of the process. We will share this report with our community in due course.

I would like to remind parents that when visiting school during the school day it is imperative that you come to the admin office first so we know who is on the school site. We appreciate your co-operation in this matter.

Each year across Australia, The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) brings children and books together celebrating CBCA Book Week. During this time schools, libraries, booksellers, authors, illustrators and children celebrate Australian children’s literature and you will often see children’s book character parades and talented librarians creating amazing displays. At Eden Hill PS reading is promoted and celebrated and as part of our Book Week celebrations we will hold our Book Character parade next Wednesday 18th September at 9am. I look forward to seeing the students and staff dressed as their favourite book character.

The focus for 2019 is ‘Reading is my Secret Power’ and if you would like to find out more about Book Week and the Book of the Year Award Winners for 2019 please visit www.cbca.org.au

Have a great week at Eden Hill everyone.

Natalie Mayho

Newsletter #14 12th September 2019

OUR CHAMPIONS

30th August James Rossitto

Emily Sherwood Indi Chapman Tyeson Day Kira Morgan Asha Keynes

Jarvis Stephen-Moritz Minori Teo

Abbey Faryen Zane Ravanal Bakar Kakay Riley Cooper

Nathaniel Meldrum Leah Beutel

Karisma Narrier Paige Horton

Annabelle Moore Braxton Young

Elliott McLennan Jasmine Ostaszewskyj

Frankie Wright-Toussaint Lailani Yates

Charlotte Telfer Maya Jeffery

Niharika Nishad Ellie Sherriffs Jaxon Rusiecki

Assembly Well done to our Prefects for hosting our assembly on Friday, 30th August, you did a fabulous job. Well done also to our dance group, Dance Detour, who put on a fabulous performance the same morning: all your hard work is certainly paying off. We look forward to tomorrow’s assembly which will be hosted by Room 18.

Citizenship Awards

Special congratulations to our Aussie of the Month, Katrina Nash and Junior Citizenship winner Alicia Wang. These superb students were presented with badges and cer tificates in recognition of their exceptional citizenship, leadership and role-modelling skills and active contribution to Eden Hill School. Congratulations to you both.

Our vision: To strive for excellence by working collaboratively and respectfully with our students to build strong, meaningful connections with our community.

2019 Bassendean Visual Arts Exhibition Congratulations to the following students who have had their work selected for display in the 2019 Bassendean Visual Arts Awards: Isla Broad, Aila Glynn, Philby Ho, Mikayla Innes, Eliana Lucente, Kayelee Pirga, Amber Reichelt, Faizan Shah, Keelani Spencer and Charlie Thomas.

These works, and those of other exhibiting artists, will be open to the public for viewing at the Bassendean Community Hall, 48 Old Perth Road, from Friday 20th -Wednesday 25th of September. Please see the flyer on page 6 for more information.

Water Wise Tips Our Environmental Team would like to share with you, tips on being Water Wise. Here is eight water wise tip:

Tip 8 - Use a broom, rake, outdoor blower or vacuum instead. Washing paving is a thing of the past and is not permitted under WA’s permanent water efficiency measures.

Priority Parking Bay Raffle Tickets are now available for our Term 4 raffle where parents can win a priority parking bay for the whole of Term 4. Tickets are $2 each or 3 for $5.00 and are available from the uniform shop or the front office.

NAPLAN Results Individual student NAPLAN results will be sent home with Year 3 & 5 students tomorrow. A brochure with detailed information about how to understand your child’s individual report can be found through the following link: https://k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/assessment/testing/naplan/parents/results-reporting

Award Winners Being a Good Friend

30th August

Liam Lockyer Moses Goorah

Elliott McLennan Thea Miell

Sascha Donlin Jacob Snare

Grishak Ghimire Charmaine O’Connell

Jayden Saul Benjamin Williams

Oliver Danaher Ashley Bellomo Grace Flowers

Jordan Cridland Zac Murray

Leila Goorah AJ Greenhalgh

P&C Meeting Our final P&C meeting for Term 3 will be held next Monday, 16th September at 7.00pm in our Staffroom. Your attendance would be most welcome. If you are attending please drive into the school off Marion Street and park on the bitumen.

Book Covering Help Needed Mrs Stacey is looking for volunteers to help cover our new library books. Our next book covering morning will be held in the Library on Thursday, 26th September at 8.45am. Morning tea will be provided and everyone is welcome to come along and meet other parents, while helping our school Library.

Chaplains Chatter Do you find worried thoughts often intrude into your mind and before you know it you have imagined a whole scenario of impending disaster or conflict? If this is true for you, you are not alone! Worried thoughts plague all of us from time to time. Our kids are no different. A survey in 2017 by the ABC of over 20,000 children found that 41% of primary aged children said they worried "sometimes", and 14% said “most of the time”. Becoming aware of our thinking is the first step to change. One of the strategies for helping children with anxiety and worry is to help them gradually start to be better (and faster) at noticing the content of their worried thoughts - if we can help them do this, they get better at being able to "argue back" with these thoughts, add in positive, calm opposite thoughts, use mindfulness to shift their attention, or other strategies to manage worry. There seem to be three main types of worried thinking –

Catastrophizing - thinking something is very, very, very bad

Future predicting - imagining a negative future

Mind reading - imagining negative things people think about us

Explaining what these types of worried thoughts are and, if possible, sharing examples, may help our children start to recognise them in themselves and change their thinking to become more realistic and helpful.

Information from Calm Kid Central website

Jenny Palandri

Our Motto - Only Our Best Is Good Enough

The results from the carnival were:

Overall Champion Faction: Gold Team Games Champion Factions: Green

Champion Athletes

Junior Division Champion Girl: Dani Flannery Runner Up: Peppr Chapman Champion Boy: Xavier Spinks Runner Up: Gabriel Johnson

Intermediate Division Champion Girl: Emily Bantz Runner Up: Lina Allen Champion Boy: Izayah Taylor Runner Up: Hassan Batat

Senior Division Champion Girl: Sienna Jones Runner Up: Brooke Andrews Champion Boy: Jacob Sein Runner Up: Edward George

An enormous thanks, of course, goes to our P&C who so generously support the carnival with trophies and ribbons; these form such an important part of the success of the carnival and the children are so proud of their ribbons won on the day.

Interschool Carnival Notes containing all relevant information, will be sent home with students who have been chosen to represent Eden Hill Primary School at the Interschool Athletics carnival. Interschool jumps, throws, 400m and 200m events will commence at 9.30am on Monday, 23rd September at Guildford Primary School with the remainder of the events being held at Steel Blue Oval on Wednesday, 25th September also commencing at 9.30am.

School uniforms help identify where we belong. If you get lost on an excursion you will be able to be identified straight away. (Hunter and Jemimah)

We shouldn’t wear school uniforms because kids need to feel meditative during the day. It is good for kids to feel meditative in free dress clothing because our school uniforms have material that agitates our bodies. (Callum and Caden)

It is absolutely ridiculous that our parents spend money on school uniforms that we don’t even like. It is ridiculous that parents have to work and spend money on school uniforms. Do you know how expensive they are? (Isabelle and Arini)

School uniforms give us a feeling of belonging. They make you feel like you are part of a team and safe to be at school. (Cadel and Mr P.)

It is essential that students wear school uniform to prevent teasing or bullying. If some students wear expensive clothing, they may bully other students for wearing cheaper or worn out clothes. (Samuel) School uniforms are a waste of money. If we didn’t have to wear a school

uniform we could just wear the clothes we have. No need to buy more. I have seen a school jacket for $75 and a normal one for $15. Do you really think school uniforms are worth it? (Kira)

School uniforms help identify where we belong. If we are on an excursion and get lost, other people can send us back to the school. What happens if you get lost and you don’t have a uniform, no one would be able to recognise where you are from. (Will and Evan)

If primary school students are misbehaving outside of school while wearing a school uniform then the public will know exactly where the student has come from and the school will find out. (Skye)

I think you should not have to wear school uniforms because teachers don’t have to wear school uniforms. (Michael)

If each day we could wear what we want it would be less boring. Wouldn’t you get sick and tired of seeing the same thing all day, every day? (Sophie)

It is definite that students should not have to wear school uniforms because we all have lots of clothes in our cupboards but we only get to wear them on the weekends. If we had free dress students could wear them whenever they like. You can be unique and feel free in your own way, it won’t be boring having to wear the same thing every day. (Amethyst and Marina)

We disagree that school uniforms should be worn during the week because we think you should be able to wear what you like. Wouldn’t you want to wear what you like on a school day? (Angus & Levi)

School uniforms are always needed because they can help people recognise any student that has unexpectedly left the group. That way everyone is always safe as they can get back to the right place. School uniforms in this way are certainly very handy when coming to be part of a group. (Surabi and Philby)

In 2019 Lockridge Primary School will be

providing the new KindiLink 3 year old

program for young Aboriginal children

and their families.

KindiLink enrolment will be available for

other families if vacancies exist—please

register your interest today.

3 year old “play and learn” sessions

3 hour sessions : 9.00-12.00

Monday / Wednesday mornings

KindiLink is a pre-kindergarten program to

help children and their families be better

prepared for school.

Set your kids up for a bright future !

Contact Alice Lawson (AIEO) 9377 1110