1 August 2014

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Community

Welcome back to the commencement of second semester. This will be a very busy term with cross country, athletics and Science & Book Weeks all occurring along with our normal academic programs.

Cross Country

I am amazed at how our parents get involved in activities and support the school. We had a great turn out for our Faction Cross Country last week. Luckily the weather was very kind to us. Mr Moon has provided the relevant details of the champion faction, well done Lightning for winning the shield for the second year in a row! It was fantastic to see the level of participation school wide. I would like to thank the P&C for providing funds for the ribbons.

Madeley Strengths- Positive Education.

Both strengths and talents refer to things we do well. However, strengths, unlike talents, have some sort of moral association. In other words, using a strength is a morally good thing to do. For example being honest is considered moral, showing kindness is considered moral and being fair is considered moral. Honesty, kindness and fairness are therefore considered character strengths rather than talents.

Talents, in contrast to strengths, have no positive or moral association. A talent is natural ability to perform a specific type or task. A person may have musical talent or artistic talent etc. While people may want to have these talents, having a talent does not make a person a good person. Strengths (Honesty, kindness, fairness etc) are related to moral goodness. Although changes have been made, the strengths continue to be the core of our positive education.

DLA1 - Assembly

I must congratulate Mrs Barnes and the students of DLA1 Year 3 who, at the last assembly, showed us how to live well with many helpful tips. The students enjoyed entertaining the audience.

2015 Enrolments

We are currently working on enrolments and class structures for 2015. Please advise our front office staff if your child will not be returning to Madeley Primary School next year.

Later this term we will be asking our current Kindergarten families to confirm they require a place in Pre-Primary for 2015.

Principals Position

This is due to be advertised early next week with the successful applicant to begin the appointment beginning Term Four.

Danielle Stitfold
Principal

Reminder School Photographs

• Students must bring their envelope in on the day of photos being taken.
• Family photo order envelopes can be collected from the front office before Thursday 7th August.
• Important: Every student must return their envelope – even if not buying photos.
• Spare envelopes are available at the front office.

BLA1 and BLA2 Wakakirri Update

The latest information about the rehearsal and performance at the Regal Theatre on 6th August has been emailed to all parents. Please see the following attachment for a copy.

Parent permission slip regarding pick up from the Regal Theatre at approximately 9.30 pm is required to be returned to school as soon as possible. Students must be signed out and I would appreciate your assistance in this running as smoothly as possible.

Sherree Gull
Performing Arts Teacher

Fun Run

Well done to all of the students who participated in the Fun Run at the end of last term. It was great to see so many parents and relatives get involved on the day – one of the best things we can do as parents is to inspire our own children to live a healthy lifestyle. The Fun Run raised a total of $7444.80 which will go towards the Year 6/7 camp and school resources. Students received raffle tickets for the money they raised and names were drawn out of a box for prizes.

Prize winners were:

Tara Meeres, Alyssa Cahill, Addison Perry, Joshua Avalos-Ramirez, Summer Jefferson, Jack Blower, Addison Perry, Tyson Ashkenazy, Olivia Molloy, Hannah Uriarte, Ethan Cangemi, Rhys Annells, Sienna Monastra, Sienna Fazari, Jake Joncevski, Lucas Santich, Mitchell Perry, Nate Patterson, Kriya Valji, Cody Pedretti, Ashley Walker, Hannah Blackwell, Leah Oatey, Lissa Jesani, Maya Williams, Imogen Ince, Anthea Parrelli, Joshua Van Beesten, Aiden Donoghue, Owen Ansell, Brody Jefferson

The prizes were kindly donated by the following local businesses:

We would like to thank them for sponsoring our school Fun Run. Please support these businesses as their contribution is of great benefit to our school.

Book Week

Our theme this year is

We would love to hear from parents who would like to assist with book sales, please add your name to the list in the library.

Mrs Miller

Emergency Contacts and Email Addresses

Please remember to notify the school office of any changes to your emergency contact numbers and your address.

In a bid to reduce the amount of paper being used in the school many of our notes and flyers etc. are now being sent by email. We are finding that emails are occasionally returned due to the email address no longer being valid. Please contact tina.drinkell@education.wa.edu.au with any changes to your email address.

Ashdale Secondary College Tour

Exciting New Fundraisers

Hog’s Breath Café

Madeley Primary School and Hog’s Breath Café Joondalup have joined forces to help our school raise funds to purchase new resources.

It is very easy to help our school. Every time you eat at Hog’s Breath Joondalup and order a kids meal and an adult meal mention that you are from Madeley Primary School and you will be given a $5 voucher. Bring your vouchers to school and place them in the box at the front office.

At the end of each month we will take our vouchers to Hog’s Breath and they will exchange them for a cheque for our school to the total value of the vouchers.

So please help out our school and eat at Hog’s Breath Joondalup.

Thanks for your support

Dockers Football Jumper Raffle

Do you love the Fremantle Dockers or know someone who does? If you do, buy some raffle tickets to be in the draw for a chance to win a: Fremantle Dockers 2014 Signed Sublimated Signature Jumper

Phys Ed News

Faction Cross Country

Well done to all students who completed the cross country course. If you achieved your goal you hopefully experienced a feeling of accomplishment and pride and it’s now time to set a more challenging goal. If you didn’t achieve your goal you need to either re-evaluate your goal or push a bit harder next time. It was great to see most students push themselves beyond their comfort zone.

The overall results were:

Good luck to our Interschool Cross Country Team who compete today.

Mr Moon.
Phys Ed

Get in 2 Action, Get in 2 Cricket

What a great opportunity for improving your cricket skills.

Thursday afternoons Term 3 weeks 4 to 9 from 3.15 to 4.15pm Mrs Barnes will be coordinating inter cricket at Madeley Primary School for Years One, Two and Three. Possible places for Year Four and up if numbers allow.

Interested parents and students should read the flyer and submit details and money to Mrs Barnes or place in the Cricket box in the office by Friday 8th August,

Any enquiries call in to see Mrs Barnes in DLA1 Year 3

P&C News

Canteen Relief

The Canteen are still looking for people to go into a paid relief pool for when our permanent staff are unable to work. You must be a regular volunteer in the canteen to apply. If you have some spare time and are able to help out, or if you would like to apply for the paid role please contact Rochelle Kelly on 0438 443 968.

A big thank you from Rebecca to the following parent helpers Vasanta, Kathleen, Rochelle and Joanne.

P&C Fundraising Officer Role Vacant

Our fundraising officer Linda Falconer, has had to step down effective immediately so we are looking for a replacement. This can be an individual role or shared between a couple of people or a group. Linda has a file full of notes and some suggestions for upcoming events and is happy to help out the new applicant/s so you aren’t just thrown in the deep end. If you are interested in the role then please contact me to discuss it further at mariesa76@iinet.net.au

The P&C committee would like to thank Linda for her hard work and co-ordination of her team to help make our recent events so much fun for all involved and such a success.

P&C Meeting

The next P&C meeting is Wednesday 6th August 7:30pm in the school library. New members always welcome.

Faction Carnival Merchandise

With the Faction Carnival fast approaching the P&C are busily putting together the merchandising fundraiser. An order form will be sent home over the next couple of weeks for you to order your faction tattoos and pom poms – we are planning to include some exciting new merchandise this year too! Merchandise sales will be subject to availability and there will be no sales on the day. We will also be sending home an order form for the Subways and Sushi lunch options for the Faction Carnival as they were so well supported last year, this will come home closer to the event.

Entertainment Book Orders

Calling out for final Entertainment Book orders!

If you haven't already ordered your Entertainment Book or Digital Membership yet, then please click on the link below. Just fill in the form and the book can be delivered to your classroom or the digital membership is sent to your mobile phone once you have downloaded the app. I have the digital app and it is really handy. While I am out and about, I can search for places in the area, or type in a specific business. This works so much better than carrying the book around, or missing out on a discount. All funds raised go back to the school to purchase resources for our kids.

Thank you,

Tracey Rutter

Camp Australia News

Welcome back! We all at Camp Australia hope everyone had amazing holidays!

This term the kids have decided that our theme will be jungle animals and zoo animals, we have started making elephants, hippos, tigers, lions, rhinos, giraffes and koalas. We will continue our theme making many different arts and crafts to do with jungle and zoo animals. These activities are all educational and the children are all loving learning new things about animals.

For further information about Madeley’s Before and After School Program, please click on the attached flyer.

Grasshopper Soccer

Grasshopper Soccer is a community based soccer program that delivers fun, skill based and non-competitive soccer to children aged 2 – 12 years. The program aims to build the fundamental soccer skills of children, build their self-esteem and make friends.

Programs operate at several locations and at Madeley Primary School on Wednesday afternoons.

Please download the attached flyer for more information.

Marangaroo Pre-Kindy Program

We are a community run not-for –profit organization running the following Pre-Kindy Programs. Enrolments for 2015 commence during Term 3.