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South Thornlie Primary School

Newsletter: Term 1, Week 9 Wednesday, 31 March 2021

Term Planner – Term 2

Principal’s Message Dear parents and caregivers, welcome to the week 9 newsletter. I cannot believe the end of Term 1 is here already! To begin 2021 we had a very short term with only 8 weeks of school due to the delayed start with the mandatory COVID-19 lockdown. I would like to thank our dedicated teachers and staff for their hard work and professionalism, ensuring students progress through their learning and achieve their academic goals. I would like to commend students on their positive and enthusiastic attitude to learning. It’s amazing what can be achieved in 8 weeks! Student success relies upon the partnership between parents and teachers as we work together to achieve the best outcome for each and every student, I would like to take this opportunity to also thank parents and caregivers for your continued support this term. I look forward to a successful Term 2 and wish you all a very enjoyable school holiday break.

Term 2 Students return for the commencement of Term 2 on Tuesday, 20 April 2021.

Staff News I would like to advise our school community that we have a new Deputy Principal commencing with us next term. Paula Vardy will be joining our South Thornlie Team and is very much looking forward to meeting you all.

Principal’s Morning Tea Congratulations to the students who were selected for the week 8 Principal’s Morning Tea held last Thursday. Thank you for your hard work, dedication to learning and being an all round positive class member. Well done!

Pizza Day Last Thursday the Year 6’s held their first fundraiser with a whole school pizza day. It was a very successful day with a total of $781.15 raised! The funds will go towards the Year 6 camp and graduation. Thanks to Jenny Liedermoy, the Year 6 students and the wonderful parent volunteers who generously gave their time to help on the day.

Values Winner Congratulations to Ojas Singh and Neve Spratt from A1, our week 8 values winners who were awarded at assembly last week. Well done!

Megan Barnett Principal

WK Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Pupil Free Day Students do not attend

20 APR Students start Term 2

School Banking 8-8.30am

Jnr Robotics Club 2.30-3.45pm Y3&4

Art Masters Class Y5&6 2.45pm-3.45pm

21 APR Canteen Open

22 APR Snr Robotics Club 2.30-3.45pm Y5&6

23 APR Canteen Open

2 26 APR

ANZAC Day Public Holiday

27 APR School Banking 8-8.30am

Lego Club 2.30-3.30pm

Jnr Robotics Club 2.30-3.45pm Y3&4

Art Masters Class Y5&6 2.45pm-3.45pm

28 APR Canteen Open

29 APR Snr Robotics Club 2.30-3.45pm Y5&6

30 APR C2 & C3

ANZAC Assembly

Y6 2nd Camp Installment due $70

Canteen Open

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HONOUR CERTIFICATES Congratulations to the following students on their outstanding achievements!

Week 8 – Friday, 19 March 2021 Recipients

ECC1 Hassan Khan Sachin Yogatheepan B2 Diana Pepenar

ECC2 Lena Sukasman Owen Fulton B4 Isabel McDonald Thomas Graney

A1 Maxx Schneider Ojas Singh C1 Jacob Ferguson Ruby Matthews

A2 Aria Fa'alelea Hee Je C2 Callum Brown Aswan Ahmed

A3 Tiara Hicks Ryda Lindner C3 Keahn Van Deudekom Aizlyn Paton

A4 Harvey Vince Maccy Jacob C4 Jessie Dawson Matthew Turner

A5 Kirra Rice Vaega Nanai C5 Shylah Paekau-Tamaki Benjamin Hunt

B1 William Fulton Ayce Taylor

ATTENDANCE Developing the habit of going to school every day is vitally important so your child does not miss out on important skills they need for future learning. That is why we strongly encourage you not to go on family holidays during school time.

Why is going to school regularly so important? At school, many concepts such as literacy and numeracy are taught in a sequence. Missing school means missing out on learning – which can often make it difficult to catch up later. This is particularly important in the early years when essential foundation skills are being taught. Going to school every day helps children learn the important life skill of ‘showing up’ – at school, at work, to sport and other commitments.

Research from the Western Australian Telethon Kids Institute shows that every day at school counts towards a student’s learning. Students who attend more, generally do better at school and in life. The School Education Act 1999 does not allow Principals to give permission for families to take holidays during the school term. As students are required to attend school every day, time off for holidays is recorded as an absence.

Lisa Haboldt Attendance Officer

SCIENCE NEWS These holidays are a great chance to get out and do some exploring. Make observations about what you discover.

Is there anything that surprised you?

Are your discoveries living or non-living?

Can you explain what you are observing?

If you are after a great activity, this is one that relates to Easter! Can you make a raw egg bounce? If you want to find out how, have a look at this website: www.coolscienceexperimentshq.com for the Bouncy Egg Science Experiment.

Let me know what happened next term when we get back to school!

Larissa Waghorn

Science Teacher

MY SCHOOL RULES Do you shop at Forest Lakes Shopping Centre? Help our school win shopping vouchers by dropping your receipts from Aldi, Coles, Woolworths or any of the 40 specialty stores into our red box, located in the centre of the Forest Lakes complex.

Look for South Thornlie’s box next time you shop and help our school win.The winning school each term receives the top prize of $1000 worth of shopping vouchers! Thank you for helping our school.

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SCHOOL EVENTS Summer Sports Carnival On Friday, 19 March the Year 5 and 6 students attended the Summer Sports Carnival which was held at Sutherlands Park, Gosnells. Students had to nominate, train and be selected to attend the event.

The Softball team performed amazingly, winning every match against the other schools! The students demonstrated great sportsmanship and enthusiasm, evident in some big hits and great catching, which was highlighted in a close victory against Yale. The team, coached by Mrs Wills and Mrs Parfitt, was successful in winning the A division shield. Well done! A huge thank you to the teachers for regularly giving up their lunch times to coach and train the students.

Our Cricket teams were was also very successful. The girl's team won all of their matches and finished first in their group. A strong bowling line up was a feature of this team and a highly competitive squad was formed. Thank you to Mr Edwards for coaching and training the team in the lead up to the carnival and to Mrs Liedermoy for coaching and leading her team on the day.

The boys competed admirably and won their first game against Gosnells. They then lost to Ashburton by 2 runs in an amazing game, before finishing with a tie against Huntingdale. The boys finished 2nd overall in their group and can be proud of their perseverance in very hot conditions.

Thank you to all of the parents who came along and cheered on the teams. Your support on what turned out to be a very hot day was appreciated. I know the cricketers also appreciated the generous icy pole delivery too!

Chris Mattock / Graeme Edwards

PE Teachers

STUDENT LEADERS Hello, my name is Kylan Paddon, and I am a Student Leader for 2021. The famous person I admire is Thomas Alva Edison who was born 11 February 1847 and died 18 October 1931.

Thomas Edison is known for his inventions like electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording and motion pictures. His highest achievements are the light bulb and electric power generation. I chose this person because everybody uses technology now because of him. We probably wouldn’t have advanced this fast without his achievements. Myself being one of the people using technology today, I thank him.

Thomas Edison was the youngest of seven children to Samuel and Nancy Edison. His father was an exiled political activist from Canada, while his mother was an accomplished school teacher and a major influence on Edison’s life.

Thomas Edison demonstrated our school value of Excellence by inventing revolutionary technology, and never giving up on it. The lesson I learnt from him is that one little thing can be revolutionary and to never give up on something if it doesn’t work the first time. I’m going to apply this lesson in my life by never giving up on things, even if they don’t look so good the first time like drawing, work and other daily routines.

Kylan Paddon Student Leader

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P&C NEWS Lego Club Lego club will commence next term fortnightly on Tuesdays from week 2, 2:30pm to 3:30pm in the Community Room. Lego club is open to students in Year 1 to 6. If you would like your child to participate, please complete a Lego Club form, these are available in the office. We look forward to seeing you all again and meeting some new faces.

Mother’s Day Raffle The P&C will be running a few raffle fundraisers this year, the first one being our Mother’s Day raffle. We are looking for donations of prizes from our talented parents and caregivers. If you make soap or are a qualified nail technician or beauty therapist etc. and are happy to help, please contact our Fundraising Coordinator Nancy Papaphotis on 0412 814 136.

Thank you Thank you to all the students, parents and caregivers for your support and participation in our Icy Pole Fridays. A special thank you to all our wonderful parent helpers for your ongoing efforts selling the icy poles. Without volunteers like you, events like this wouldn’t be possible.

P&C Meeting If you would like some more information about the P&C or are considering joining, we will be holding a general meeting in the second week of Term 2. Time and date to be advised.

On behalf of the P&C we want to wish you all a happy Easter and a safe and enjoyable school holidays. We look forward to seeing you all again next term with some exciting upcoming events happening in Term 2.

Nicole Paton P&C President

SCHOOL CLUBS Robotics Club We have some very exciting news to share. In addition to our Senior Robotics Club, we will be introducing a Junior Robotics Club next term! These clubs are free extension groups that provide opportunities for students to work together in a collaborative environment to problem solve, develop solutions to real world issues and learn skills relating to coding.

The Senior Robotics Club is open to students in Years 5 and 6 who have good standing. This club is run on a Thursday afternoon from 2:30-3:45pm. These students will be using the Lego Mindstorm EV3 robots to compete in the First Lego League Challenge.

The Junior Robotics Club is open to students in Years 3 and 4 who have good standing. This club is run on a Tuesday afternoon from 2:30-3:45pm. These students will be using the Lego WeDo robots to participate in the First Lego League Challenge.

Notes for the Senior Robotics Club were given out this week and notes for the Junior Robotics Club will be given out the first week of next term. We are also looking for some parent volunteers to come and help us at both of the clubs. No coding or robotic experience is needed! If you missed the note or have any questions please don't hesitate to come and see either Miss Murray (A5), Mrs Liedermoy (C4) or myself.

Larissa Waghorn Science Teacher

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