3 November 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Welcome to week four of what has been a busy term so far. We hope you enjoy reading the information in this newsletter.

The Placement Panel met in week two to review applications for a place at one of our PLDS sites. We are in the process of notifying parents and will look forward to meeting new members of our school next week for Induction Meetings and at the Kindy Café on Friday 11th November.

As our planning is underway for 2017 it's very important that parents let us know if you are considering moving schools next year. Could you please let the front desk know by this Friday 4th November if your child won't be attending PLDS in 2017.

The next Board Meeting will be held on Friday 4th November at 1.00pm. Please send in your nominations to fill possible vacancies on the Board for 2017.

We have a several staffing changes occurring in the next few weeks. Mrs Kristen Aird will be taking maternity leave from the end of week five. Miss Dominique Sullivan will be very capably stepping into Kristen’s position and we will shortly welcome Miss Bronte Ranford to the Speech and Language Team at PLDS. On behalf of our school community I would like to sincerely thank Kristen for the wonderful work she has done in our school and wish her every happiness with her new family member.

Mrs Hayley Martincic will be returning from Long Service Leave in week five to her position as Kindy B teacher. Mrs Josie McPherson will continue as the Kindy A teacher and I would like to sincerely thank her for the wonderful work she has done in Kindy B.

On behalf of the school community I would like to congratulate Mrs Forbes who received a 2016 Outstanding Professional Service Award from the Professional Teaching Council of WA. Mrs Forbes was nominated by the Western Australian Education Support Principals and Administrators Association. I would also like to congratulate Miss Jess Rudland and Mrs Emma Coustley who have been nominated for the Department of Education People’s Choice Awards. Thank you to community members who took the time to acknowledge the valuable of our teachers.

We hope you enjoy reading the exciting news from all our sites in this newsletter. I would like to thank our staff for your wonderful efforts in these events.

I would also like to thank parents who participated in our 2016 survey. Your feedback is very important to us and we value your input to assist us to make our school even better!

Enjoy the warm weather and we look forward to seeing you and the Junior Assembly this week.

World Teacher’s Day

Thank you to all of the amazing parents for submitting the forms for the World Teacher's Day. PLDS staff loved reading these and really appreciate you filling these in to show your support.

School Bus Services

If your child currently catches the school bus and you are changing address or campuses in 2017, you will need to re-apply for school bus collections as soon as possible for 2017. If there are no changes to your details, you DO NOT need to re-apply. You CAN NOT use the “Change of Details” form on the SBS website.

Please contact School Bus Services on 9326 2528 if you have any queries.

Bungaree Campus

On Thursday the 27th of October students in room 4 participated in a Robot making day. The day was highly successful with a huge amount of parent and grandparent participation.

Prior to the Robot day students were required to plan, draw and label a diagram of a robot. The diagram had to include the recycled materials students had been collecting from home. They were required to identify and sort the materials into plastic, cardboard, metal and glass. They were then required to instruct their parents to assist them in constructing their robot.

The students were highly engaged in the activity and were all able to take a robot home at the end of the day. Thank you very much for all the assistance from parents and grandparents, we hope you had just as much fun as we did.

Pinjarra Campus

This term the students in room 29 are joining their peers from room 31 for one hour each week. This is to enable them to meet and mix with some of the students they will be classmates with next year. During these sessions students will be completing many interesting activities. During Weeks 2 & 3, students from Room 31 joined room 29 students in room 29. This week students introduced their buddies to a classroom favourite ‘Simons Cat’. After viewing the humorous clip ‘Simons Cat in Hot Water’ the students from both rooms joined together to sequence and verbally retell the story before completing a written retell.

Sports Carnival

On Friday the 21st October Pinjarra Primary held their annual school Sports Carnival. The students arrived wearing their faction colours creating a sea of red, blue, green and gold. Students from pre-primary to year 6 participated in races and team games, jumps and throws and the students had a fantastic day. Well done to all of the Peel Language students who participated and tried their best. Everyone had a great time and showed great team spirit for their faction. Congratulations Cody Rozman for winning Year 3 Runner Up Champion Boy.

Mandurah Campus

Everyone from Room 11 has been enjoying getting straight into our theme of ‘Fairy tales’ for the term. We have covered the Gingerbread Man/ Gingerbread Boy and Goldilocks. We are looking forward to going through all the other Fairy tales. Here are some photos of our Fairy tale work so far.

The children in Room 11 have been looking at how to write a Narrative. They were super excited to write their own story about a monster. Here are some photos of our monster story that we created.

Both Room 11 and Room 14 have been lucky enough to participate in the Dockers AFL program for the past two weeks. This was run on a Friday and all the children got to participate in lots of hands on and fun football drills. Thank you to Miss Pimlott for organising this for us.

RLPS Campus

This term in D3 we have been very busy!! We all enjoyed participating in our swimming lessons and we all tried really hard! All the teachers were very impressed with our behaviour and our confidence with our swimming. The year 1’s had a very successful sports carnival on Friday and everyone had a wonderful time!!

On Wednesday the Pre Primaries will be having their sports carnival and we wish them all the best!! The Pre Primaries have many exciting games to play during their carnival. Please feel free to come and watch the games. We hope everyone tries their best! In Science this term we have adopted 7 pet fish, we are learning how we look after them, what they eat, things they need to survive and the difference between fish and us. Pre Primary’s please remember to complete your science homework and return on Friday.

Sports Carnival

On Thursday the 15th October we had the 2015 whole school Athletics Carnival. Students from years 1-6 competed in running races, relay races, individual events and team games. The students demonstrated the skills they had learnt throughout this term in their faction groups. All of the students were extremely well behaved and showed good sportsmanship.

Thank you to all of the teachers who helped with the smooth running of the day and also to all of the parents and family members who were able to come and support our athletes. Peel Language was very well represented for the individual awards.

Congratulations to Chase Amesbury for winning Year 1 Runner Up Champion Boy, Deegan Wood for winning Year 2 Runner Up Champion Boy and Brett Moreton for winning Year 3 Runner Up Champion Boy. The school is extremely proud of your achievements.

Fun With Language

Daily reading and the use of ‘wh’ questions- who, what, where, when, why.

Model ‘wh’ questions and how to answer them. Encourage your child to ask you questions.

‘What is happening there?’ ‘They are jumping!’

Talk about the picture on different pages and describe what you think is happening in the story. Let your child have a go. Ask them ‘wh’ questions.