Issue No. 18 Date: 16th December

South Bunbury Primary School and Education Support Centre

NEWSLETTER

CHRISTMAS MESSAGE

Graduation assembly

This will occur on the last day of term, this Thursday 17th December starting at 8.50 am in the school’s undercover area. Our year Sixes will be graduating and receiving their graduation packs, there will be other presentations as well. This is always a good assembly and I hope to see as many parents of our year Sixes as possible – some may-be for the last time! This can be a sad time, but also an

exciting one for our graduating class.

On the last day, I ask parents who wish to take their kids home after assembly to see the classroom teacher to sign their child out – as it is a prescribed school day that is

recorded on the attendance register.

Parent morning tea

Straight after the graduation assembly I invite all parents to stay on and join us in a morning tea. Have a cuppa and a cake and celebrate with us the end of another success-ful school year. This is a lovely time just to unwind as the year Sixes have their shirts signed by classmates and

catch-up possibly for the last time.

2016 commencement

School recommences for students on Monday 1st February. As always the class lists and their room numbers will be placed on notice boards in the UCA, on that first day. I will be in the UCA with our 2 Deputies to assist on the morning. The staff have done a great job ensuring that the classes are constructed to meet the needs of the children. A lot of thought goes into the making of the respective classes and I believe we get it

right pretty much all of the time. I would ask that you prepare your child/ren through the holidays for their next year ahead. Do this by explaining that it is a new year that brings new social and academic opportunities. Our PP students have received an additional letter for parents today explaining further details that will hopefully make

day one a smoother one for students and parents

Parent Survey

Students were given a reminder note yesterday regarding several school opportunities. One of these was the parent survey where our parent body has the opportunity to provide the school with some feedback. The note contained the web link that will take parents straight to the questionnaire. We would like all of our parents to participate, so if you have not got the link please see our

friendly office staff to get the original note.

School Development Days – 2016

Public schools are required to have 7 school development

days throughout the year.

There are 2 at the beginning of the year, 1 at the end of the year and 1 that starts each of terms 2, 3 and 4. We have one day that our school board can approve for where the school sees fit to use it. That day will be Tuesday 7th June, the day after the WA Day long weekend. This will

give families the opportunity to have a 4 day break.

Warmest wishes for a wonderful festive season and

summer holidays.

Aussie of the Month December 15

From the Principal, Mr Harvey

Congratulations Blue faction — Champions for 2015

3680 THIRD

Red

3562 FOURTH

Gold

3836 SECOND

Green

4099 FIRST

Blue

SOUTH BUNBURY

EDUCATION SUPPORT

CENTRE

Important Dates:

First day for students in Term 1, 2016:

Monday 1st February, 2016

Uniform Shop Open:

Friday 29th January 10am-2pm

Dear parents and guardians,

Another year is done! I would like to thank everyone for coming to all of our end of year events in the last week—it has truly

been a celebration of everything that our school has achieved this year.

At the end of the year we always have a number of people to thank, say goodbye to and celebrate with. This year, we farewell a group of 9 Year 6s, as they continue their schooling in the Bunbury area. We wish them all the best, and hope they look back at their time at SBESC with pride and

Book Awards & Final Assembly:

Congratulations to the students who were presented class book award at our final assembly last

Friday.

Room 1: Brooke Berry Room 5 P/P- Zavier Rijkuris

Room 2: Bella Sims Room 5 Kindy- Cailin Read

Room 3: Kyron Demeza Room 7- Olivia Fabry

Room 4: Daniel Watts Room 10 - Kaide Kinsella

Room 6 -Bronson Bell Room 11 - Jacob Beacham

The winner of our overall PBS Award was presented to Matthew Donovan who had received the PBS Award and Josh

Harkins who has won our ESC Citizenship Award for 2015.

Thank you to Volunteers at RDA:

Thank you to Julie and her wonderful team of volunteers, who kindly help each week to give some

of our students the chance to ride the horses. We hope you enjoyed your delicious cake!

We look forward to seeing you all next year.

Farewells:

We say farewell and thankyou to some of our staff who will be leaving us this year. Thank you to Mrs Kate Moore, Mr Len Deeley, Mrs Fiona Kirk, Miss Melissa Kett, Mrs Nicole Vivers and Mrs Wilkinson. Your dedication to our students and school over many years has been greatly appreciated. I’m sure

many staff, students and families have memories of your generosity and kindness towards everyone.

We farewell Jordan Triffett (Room 4) and his family to NSW. We wish them all the best in their future

endeavours, and hope they have enjoyed the time they have spent at South Bunbury ESC.

We have also farewelled Loghan Kingsley (Room 6) and her family. We wish them all the best at their new

school, and look forward to Loghan joining us for visits next year with her friends.

2016

Monday 1st February will be our student’s first day in 2016. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday

break, and look forward to introducing students to their new classrooms on the first day of school.

Have a Merry Christmas and a safe holiday season.

Cathy Allen

2015 Year 6 Graduation Ceremony

DUX AWARD Norah Harkin

CITIZENSHIP AWARD Finn Reid

ARTS AWARD Kay Yamauchi

SPORTS GIRL AWARD Charlotte Rowe

SPORTS BOY AWARD Jimi Prefumo

LOTE AWARD Amelie Gates

SCIENCE AWARD Jimi Prefumo

SCIENCE AWARD Abby Curti

Indonesian

SBPS Indonesian Dance Troupe enter-tained the audience with an Indonesian Dance, ―Tari Cucak Ijo,‖ a dance about a little green and yellow bird from Ma-lang, Java where Mbak Candrika comes from. Ibu Zulsdorf and Mbak Candrika have been teaching the girls the dance which was also performed at the Interschool Indonesian quiz and school fete last month. The girls have given up a lot of time out of school to learn the dance. Ibu Zulsdorf made all the costumes for our Indonesian Dance

troupe.

Congratulations to the 2016 Faction Leaders, pictured right. (absent Cameron Stathy)

We look forward to seeing your leadership skills in action in

2016 .

2016 Faction Leaders

GOLD Cameron Stathy

Lara Riley

RED Damon Van Vliet Leaman

Maya Sutton

BLUE Hayden Noble Ashlee Ward

GREEN Mason Childs Alanna Mitchell

2015 Class Award Winners

Rm 1 Yr 4 Jairah Moral Jasper Hall

Rm 2 Yr 4 Sarah Duce Arya Meshkat Hazrati

Rm 3 Yr 3/4 Carmen Gray Kay Miles Akerman

Rm 4 Yr 3 Montana Smith Taku Tarupuwa

Rm 5 Yr 2/3 Tex Magennis Livya Joesph

Rm 6 Yr 2 Ben MacPherson Riley Brown

Rm 7 Yr 1 Jaxon Magennis Zion Matenga

Rm 8 Yr 1 Euan Morris Lucah Hotker

Rm 12 Yr 2 Brayden Hall Nate Valli

Rm 13 Yr 5/6 Matthew Lawson Lara Riley

Rm 14 Yr 6 Amelie Gates Isadore Farnworth

Rm 15 Yr 5 Daisy Pilsworth Lachlan Rogers

Thank you to everyone who has made their voluntary contributions already this year. Please make your payments at the school

office. EFTPOS and Direct Deposit is available. Please help us reach our goal of 100%. We still have a fair way to go. Every cent

collected helps our children. $45.00 per primary and $40.00 per pre primary and kindy student is the amount due for 2015. A

very small amount of money that makes such a big difference to our school funds.

Our aim is to reach 100%.

1. Uniform shop open Monday after school and Friday before school. Parent help needed for 2016.

2. Parent help required in the canteen. Please phone Yvonne if you can help 0447 793 355

3. We are now on facebook—South Bunbury Primary School P&C Association https://www.facebook.com/southbunburyprimaryschoolpandc?fref=ts This page has been created to keep our school community informed

about upcoming events and other information for both SBPS and SBESC.

4. The School Fete, held on Sunday was a HUGE success. The P&C raised over $6000.00 for our school.

5. The Thermomix Raffle was won by Jodie Gray.

6. Early uniform orders $50.00 Meat Voucher from Buckingham Meats was won by Emily Doddy.

P&C News

Voluntary Contributions and Charges

Kindy Pre Primary Primary Total

73% 78.8% 68% 70%

We have been advised by Kapture Photography that all sports and/or special team photos taken this year will be removed from their website at the end of this term in readiness for next year’s photography. This is your last chance to view and purchase the-

se photographs. Please visit www.kapture.com.au and access the gallery using our school code – F76D26

This code can also be used to purchase class or individual photographs for 2015 should you have missed out earlier in the year.

2015 School Photos

Year 6 escape to Xscape

Our Year 6 students had a great day at Xscape in Dunsborough this week, to celebrate the end of

the year.

Our school is ‘Nut Aware’

We have students with an anaphylactic reaction to not just peanuts but all kinds of nuts. We ask that parents

do not send nut products in

children’s lunches.

DATES TO REMEMBER

16th Dec Yr 6 Xscape

17th Dec Yr 6 Graduation Ceremony 9am followed by

parents morning tea.

17th Dec Students last day.

18th Dec Office closes today

25th Jan 16 Office opens

29th Jan Uniform shop open10am-2pm

1st Feb Students first day.

Meaning

Integrity is standing up for what you believe is right, living by your highest values. It is being honest and sincere with others and yourself. You are integrous when your words

and actions match. You don’t fool yourself into doing what you know is wrong. You fill your life and your mind with

things that help you to live a good, clean life.

Signs Of Success

You are practicing integrity when you

Think about what virtues you care about

Stand strong for what you believe

Willingly clean up mistakes

Think for yourself and avoid temptation

Do the right thing even when it is hard

Room 1, Year 4– Ms Kingdon/Ms Kavanagh Kamry and Rosie

Room 2, Year 2 – Miss Brunton Luke and Elena

Room 3, Years 3 & 4 – Mr Raven

Room 4, Year 3 – Ms McDonald Alyssa and Jenell

Room 5, Years 2 & 3 – Mrs Merritt Joshua and Justine

Room 6, Year 2—Mrs Wilkosz Udari and Heidi

Room 7, Year 1—Mrs Greaves/Mrs Daws Zarah and Marley

Room 8, Year 1—Mrs Turner Liron and Poppy

Room 12, Year 2 – Ms Thomson Tia and Alivia

Room 13, Year 5/6—Mrs Goodman, Mr Greaves

Sacha and Kyara

Room 14, Year 6—Mr Allen Daisy and Kai

Room 15, Year 5 – Miss Webb Harry and Rylie

Contact us: South Bunbury Primary School Prosser Street BUNBURY WA Telephone: 9721 3299 Fax: 9721 3445 PO Box 1101 Bunbury WA 6231 Principal: Ian Harvey Deputies: Rob Williams & Jane Leaman South Bunbury Education Support Centre Principal: Cathy Allen Deputy: Jez Ainsworth/Lisa Rynasewycz Paisley Street BUNBURY WA Telephone: 9721 4808 Fax: 9721 6808 South Bunbury Dental Clinic Telephone: 9721 1497 Yvonne Broome—Manageress Canteen: 0447 793 355

Supporting children’s motivation

Parents and carers play an important role in supporting the development of motivation in young children. Children feel

safe and free to explore when they have warm and trusting relationships with significant adults in their lives.

Recognising children's efforts rather than their achievements supports the development of children's self-motivation.

What motivates children changes as they get older. Arranging developmentally appropriate experiences for children

gives them many opportunities to experience success and mastery through their effort which will help to keep them

motivated. Experiences should be pitched at the right level, not too hard, but not too easy either. Activities need to be

challenging enough to maintain children's attention and require persistent effort to achieve success. Children may

become bored if things are too easy. However, if things are too challenging, children can become disheartened and

begin to give up. They may not be motivated to try if they don't think they can do it.

It’s Pantomime time again, so the BMCG Pantomaniacs are staging their own special version at the Lyric theatre from Jan 15th to 24th. So bring along your oohs and aahs and loud hurrahs and at $15 single/$50 family this would make the

perfect Christmas gift as tickets are available now from BREC.