What a highly productive and engaging Term 3, which culminated with the whole school celebration of learning at last week's Open Night. The students have been actively engaged throughout the term with Read More in August and Book Week literacy activities, 3 vibrant Athletics Carnivals, Bring a Cup Fill it Up to promote the eating of fruit and vegetables, and RUOK Day. At our school we focus on giving Our Best and aligning with our new Business Plan motto Connecting Minds and Hearts. A print copy of our new Business Plan will be sent home first week back next term.

I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holiday break. School resumes for students on Tuesday 13 October.

The 'finale' of our amazing Open Night has traditionally been a celebration of singing together as a school. In previous years we have always concluded the event with whole school singing as well as performances by our school choir. We have had to do things differently in 2020 and we were unable to have our community singing at the end of last week's Open Night. As an alternative, we are delighted to present a video recording of all Year 1-6 classes performing You Won't Bring Us Down, the Year 4-6 school choir performing Times Like These and our Year 5-6 String/Flute orchestra.

To access the video please use the following link and password:
https://vimeo.com/460651508
Password:   SPSmusic2020

Our whole school song performance You Won't Bring Us Down was co-written for Music Count Us In by Greta Lynch, a former student at our school. Greta visited our school earlier this term and performed the song during sub-assemblies. Greta certainly inspired our students when preparing for our whole school song.

We hope you enjoy it!

Thank you to all the parents who attended Open Night. I received a lot of positive feedback from parents and teachers about the reduced numbers in classes. The flow on effect was a calm environment for parents to engage in the learning process with their children. All the children were extremely proud of their work and the beaming smiles captured it all. Click HERE for photos.

Today marks the end of an era. Carol Malpas, our wonderful School Officer, is finishing up her time here at Subiaco and trading in the front desk for some well deserved downtime.

We would like to thank Carol for her hard work and dedication to our school over the last 10 years and wish her all the very best for the future.

The sun was shining and the smiles were beaming at the 2020 West Coast Region Interschool Athletics Carnival. Subiaco students competed in Sprints, Team Games and Relays against students from Karrinyup PS, Mt Hawthorn PS, Wembley PS and Floreat Park PS. This day was the culmination of a lot of hard work from our interschool representatives. All students competed with fierce determination and did our school proud. Click HERE to see photos of the children in action. While we didn’t walk away with the overall trophy with did have some special individual performances.

Ella Boyne - Year 3 R/U Champion Girl
Oliver Poot - Year 5 Champion Boy
Isaac Spencer - Year 6 Champion Boy

We are looking forward to next year’s competition.

Raz Sela	Alicia Gu	Luke Lynam	Diego De Orueta
Keefen Wilson	Cooper Oberg	Archie Murray	Hugo Hristofski
Kyrah Heller	Georgia Gerrans	Remy Isitt	Quenton Kennedy
Christopher Gu	Milla Binet	Tess Porter	Celeste Fitzpatrick
Sofia Kosyak	Kaif Khan	Ella Levitzke	Fender Thompson
Henry Grebe	Mei Zhao	Sharlyn Mak	Natalie Matthews
Millie Benedit	Kari Elder	Ikta Notay	Scarlett Momberg
Eleanor Ma	Scarlett Abbott	Joshua Chan	Dhiksha Karthikeyan
Leah Kawai	Stella Schaffert	Griffin Murray	Conan Walker
Kelby Taurayi	Aarya Bhatt

The Social Justice Group have been raising awareness and fundraising for CARAD, an organisation caring for refugee, asylum seeker and detainee families in Western Australia. To end the term, students were allowed to wear their craziest socks and bring a gold coin donation. Thank you to everyone for getting involved and giving towards a very important cause. We raised over $500! See photos HERE.

Mel Gilchrist and Kristen Carter, from the Healthy Hub, managed to squeeze in one of the ever popular Bring a Cup days to help celebrate September Fruit ‘N Veg Month.

The kids loved the fruit smoothies, and hundreds participated in the event. Click HERE for photos.

Every September during Fruit ’n Veg Month, Noelene Swain, a former parent, supplies our school with 100 fresh crisp AUSSIE APPLES from West Australian growers. This year our apples were shared amongst our athletes at the various sporting events held last week.

On behalf of the P&C Executive, I am thrilled to announce the projects that received funding from the 2020 P&C Funding round, which will be ratified at the Term 4 General Meeting. The $40,000 raised by the P&C has enabled wide ranging projects to benefit our children and the teaching and learning program. Thank you is extended to everyone who has been involved in raising money for our school.

SUBMISSION	FUNDING AMOUNT
High interest novels Year 3-6	$1,800.00
Our Land Our Stories educational series with historical and contemporary stories of Indigenous Australia.	$2,200.00
2 Soundfield amplification systems to improve sound environment, enhancing speech sounds, comprehension and concentration	$4,500.00
Hands on and concrete Maths resources to engage students and support deep understanding of maths concepts	$5,000.00
Creating flexible classroom learning environments fostering collaboration & innovation eg. small folding tables, fit balls, wobble chairs, kidney desks	$6,500.00
Replacement of iPads K-3	$10,000.00
Undercovered area replacement structure	$10,000.00
Total	$40,000.00

 

All Year 2-5 students will be participating in the Interm Swimming program at the Claremont Aquatic Centre during Weeks 1-2. Information was sent out via Compass this week. The school requires permission for the students to travel by bus and to participate in the swimming lessons, this is to be filled out online. The Department Interm Swimming ENROLMENT FORM needs to be printed, completed and returned to class teachers by Tuesday 13 October. Hard copies of this ENROLMENT FORM, required by the swim instructors, were also sent home this week.

Due to the Aquatic Centre double booking the pools on Monday 19 and Wednesday 21 October, our students will now participate in a 6 day Interm Swimming Program.

Kindy Educated by Nature
The Kindergarten children were taken on a magical imagination adventure this week. We made potions to scare away dragons, turned ourselves into frogs, and even made Mummy’s Morning Green Juice with mason jars and essential oils. We built castles for princesses to live in, we built our own houses, and even our neighbourhood. We tinkered with beautiful antique tea cups, and precious brass items. Thank you to Educated by Nature for this wonderful incursion. Click HERE for photos.

Pre-Primary West Oz Wildlife Incursion
This week West Oz Wildlife came to Pre-Primary and all classes had the opportunity to view a variety of Australian animals including Kira the Koala, Yapper the Dingo, some snakes including Rosie the Python, and a blue tongued lizard. The children learnt so many interesting facts about these animals including what they eat, their habitats, how they protect themselves, special features and which species they belong to. Under supervision, the children were given the opportunity to pat the animals gently or to have a snake placed around their shoulders. It was an educational, hands on and enjoyable experience for all. The incursion was also a great conclusion to our Term 3 animal studies unit of work. Click HERE for photos.

Pre-Primary Science Day
All four Pre-Primary classes enjoyed experiencing a vast range of science activities and experiments as part of a special Science Day this week! They had a fantastic morning learning many new science concepts and loved being outside on such a beautiful Spring day. Some of the science stations included:

• exploding volcanoes
• colour mixing experiments
• coloured goop
• expanding balloon experiment
• leakproof bag experiment (poking pencils in a bag without all the water coming out!)
• air stomp rockets- using a pipe and 2L soda bottle
• floating and sinking boat experiment
• magnets exploration table
• making helicopters
• Japanese flower press station
• teddy bears picnic role play cooking station
• bubble blowing art

Many thanks to the incredible parent volunteers who helped run various science stations in the morning! Click HERE for photos.

If anyone is interested in building their own air stomp rocket over the holidays, Rylan's dad Matt, has kindly shared the instructions which can be viewed HERE.

Year 2 Insect Incursion
This term, the Year 2 students have been looking at Lifecycles for Science. To finish off the unit, we were lucky enough to have Butterfly Dreams come in and teach us about some different insects and allow us to have hands on learning. Some students were very brave! Click HERE for photos.

Telethon Virtual Choir at Langley Park
Our school choir have been busy preparing for a Telethon Virtual Choir performance of the song Times Like These. Earlier this week the choir were filmed singing with 1000 students at Langley Park. The students did an amazing job in between rain showers, with drone cameras filming their singing together with perfectly co-ordinated actions! Look out for their performance which will be broadcast on Chanel 7 on Sunday 25 October after the 6:30pm news. Follow Telethon7 on Facebook for regular updates, photos and videos. Well done to all our school choir! Click HERE for photos.

Technology offers so many benefits for children and families, but we must be mindful and manage the risks and challenges that are an inevitable part of the digital world. Over the holiday period, it is important parents stay connected to their child’s digital use and ensure you have set up a cyber safe home for children of all ages. You can access help, support and guidance through the recently released App, Beacon. Click HERE to be directed to their website for further information.

Recommended strategies for managing risks around digital use are detailed below:

• Compose family guidelines around digital use together.
• Set restriction on your child’s device (age range for APPS, movies, websites).
• Set time limits for device use.
• Monitor messaging and social media platforms that your child or child’s friends may use.

We hope this information is helpful in your discussions with your child. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Peter Hayward at peter.hayward@education.wa.edu.au

Every year, World Mental Health Day is commemorated on 10 October, with this year's theme being Mental Health for All: Greater Investment - Greater Access.

COVID-19 has been a global health emergency that has impacted heavily on the mental health of millions of people. Life as we knew pre-Covid-19 has changed for most of us. Being optimistic, building resilience and having the capacity to navigate through difficult times may be even more challenging.

During Mental Health Week this year, 10 to 17 October, we can aspire to strengthen our personal wellbeing and that of our families, as well as support our friends, neighbours, and community. I have included a few websites to provide resources for your interest and information:

• LAYMHA: Mental Health Tips
• Strong Spirit Strong Mind
• WAAMH Mental health Promotion

Our annual Dance program will commence Week 1 next term. All students from PP- Year 6 will engage in the Edu-Dance Dance program this year. Session days and weeks will vary slightly but all 8 sessions and the Dance Concert will be held between Weeks 1-10 on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Click HERE for a look at the program.

Our annual Chapathon will be held Week 3, Term 4 in the Theatre Gardens on Thursday 29 October from 10.00-10:40am. All parents and caregivers are invited to come along and join in the fun event. The students will be walking to raise money to help support the School Chaplaincy program. Forms will be sent out through Compass in the first week of Term 4.

To help refuel the weary bodies of the students after their Chapathon walk, the Year 6 students will be holding food stall at recess where they will be selling a range of healthy food options. Watermelon and iced fruit sticks will also be on sale.

The graduating Year 6 students are raising money to buy a gift for the school which will presented to Mrs Press at their graduation ceremony on Tuesday 15 December at the Arts Centre.

The School Dental Mobile will be closed from Thursday 1 October to Wednesday 7 October and also on Friday 9 October. During this time, emergency cover will be provided by Caralee Dental Therapy Centre who can be contacted by phone on 9337 6818 during working hours (8.00am-4.00pm).

The Mobile will re-open on Monday 12 October at Jolimont Primary School.

Assemblies
Assemblies are held in the Subi Church directly opposite the school. The assemblies commence at approximately 8.55am and conclude at 9.25am. We have reduced the audience numbers significantly by alternating the participation of the Year 1-2 and the Year 3-6 assembly days.

Hand sanitiser is now provided at stations in the entry and auditorium, and bins are provided in the foyer for disposable coffee cups. Please remember this is a community church, and to refrain from bringing food and drinks into the auditorium.

We welcome parents taking photos and videos at the assembly but please do not put it on social media as some children do not have media consent.

Term 4
Week 2	22 October	Year 2 L3 & L6 (Junior Yrs 1-2 attend)
Week 4	5 November	Year 3 L1 & L2 (Senior Yrs 3-6 attend)
Week 6	19 November	Year 2 L9 (Junior Yrs 1-2 attend)
Week 8	3 December	Year 4 U5 (Senior Yrs 3-6 attend)

Please note Junior Honour Awards will be presented only during Junior assembly days and Senior Honour Awards will be presented only during Senior assembly days.

School Development Days 2020
The Board has ratified the following dates:
Term 4 Monday 12 October (first day Term 4) & Friday 18 December (last day Term 4)

Newsletters
We have a fortnightly Newsletter that is emailed. Hard copies are available at the front office or can be viewed online at subiacops.wa.edu.au/information/newsletters-and-newsfeed/

School Banking
School Banking is back on Wednesday mornings from 8.20-8.45am in the school library.

Call Education Security If You See Anything Suspicious In School Grounds After Hours
On weekends and holidays we sometimes have unwanted behaviour and vandalism on our school grounds. Please call Education Security on 9264 4632 or 9264 4771 if you see anything suspicious.

School Grounds After Hours
We would like to remind parents that students should not be on the school grounds out of school hours unless accompanied by an adult. This includes not only after school, but on the weekends and during the school holidays. The school grounds are being used more and more by a wide range of community members, and the school staff cannot be held responsible for the safety of the students outside school hours.

Cross Walk Attendant
From time to time, the Cross Walk Attendant is not available and a replacement cannot be found. When this happens, we ask that children cross at the lights and not at the normal crossing place, unless accompanied by an adult.

Nature Play Area
Our Nature Play Area is a very popular site not only during school hours but after school and on the weekends, and the level of use in the area continues to grow as the school numbers grow. We hope that everyone who enjoys our Nature Play area (which includes 3 Morton Bay Figs and a Port Jackson Fig, all heritage listed trees) are respectful of the fact that these trees are very old. Climbing all over the large roots and trampling around the base of the trees can cause stress to the trees, especially in very hot or windy weather. Hopefully everyone using this peaceful and calming area will keep to the nature play equipment and be respectful of the trees.

Unwell Students
In line with WA Government advice that students and staff who are unwell should stay at home, we are asking all parents to keep your children at home if they show signs of cold or flu-like symptoms. If children become unwell during the school day we will call parents to collect their child. Students and staff should not return to school until they are completely well or have clearance from a medical practitioner.

Health Conditions & Allergies
Upon enrolment, if a child has a health condition or allergy (eg. diabetes, seizures, asthma, anaphylaxis etc) parents fill out a Student Health Care Summary form and an Action Plan is written. At the start of each year, the Action Plan is updated. Please contact the front office if you are unsure whether your child has a current Action Plan in place and they require one.

Updating School Records
If your address, telephone number or email address has changed, please contact the school office.

Publications Permission
Upon enrolment, parents decide whether to give consent for their child’s name, photo or work to be published in school newsletters, school related activities, promotional material for the Department of Education and articles for the West Australian and community newspapers. This consent continues for your child while enrolled at our school. If at any stage you want to change the permission status then you will need to notify the office in writing of this request.

Compass
Our school uses Compass School Manager to further enhance communication between home and school. If you are experiencing problems logging on to Compass please email subiaco.ps@education.wa.edu.au

P&C FUNDRAISING UPDATE
Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who sent in food for the food stall at the Athletics Carnival and to the Year 2 parents who helped organise it all. The kids enjoyed all that was on offer and we raised $2,700 which is fantastic!

Term 4 is shaping up to be an exciting one for the school.

Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories - 20 November at Octagon Theatre, UWA
Helen Hristovski is a school mum to Harry and Hugo and is also the CEO of the Barking Gecko Theatre. They have a delightful performance for children and adults of Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories on Friday 20 November only.

There will also be an opportunity to meet Bambert (who is a puppet) and have your photo taken with him after the show.

Tickets are $30 each and Barking Gecko Theatre have generously offered to give a large portion of ticket sales to the P&C. There will only be 160 tickets available for the school. To purchase tickets please go to ticketswa.com/bambert and use the promo code SUBIPRIMARY.

Book Fair 9-14 November - always a popular one for kids with lots of popular new books available for sale.

Quiz Night 14 November - at Bob Hawke College. This will be a great night out for parents. Due to current COVID restrictions numbers will be limited to 130 people at this stage and there will be tables of 10 people. Tickets will go on sale early next term so try to get a table together as we do expect we will sell out. Thank you to everyone who has donated items for the silent auction so far. We are still looking for items so please get in touch with Narissa if you are able to help (narissaperks@bigpond.com). 

Movie Night 21 November – bring your picnic blankets and pillows along for some family fun on the school oval as we watch The Secret Life of Pets 2.

Tea towels - The Kindy, Pre-Primary and Year 6 students have been busy doing self-portraits for year group tea towels which will be on sale online or in person through the Uniform Shop. The Kindy ones are now available for $15. Please keep these in mind as a great gift idea for Christmas presents.

Greeting Cards - We will also have greeting cards with your child’s artwork on them available for sale in Term 4. Mrs Elliot and the Kindy and Pre-Primary teachers have been busy with the students finalising their creations and they will be perfect to send to family and friends.

Enrolments are now open for VacSwim swimming lessons during the October and December/January school holidays.

October is a great time to get your children ready for summer, and January offers fun lessons at beach or pool locations during the long break.

Your children can start as young as five years old.

Enrol your children in VacSwim now at education.wa.edu.au/vacswim

Click HERE for Community News and School Holiday activities. This document includes information on activities available around our community for children and families.

WMRC partnering with Paraquad
WA Containers for Change officially launches on 1 October, and nearby Paraquad Industries in Shenton Park will be an authorised Refund Point. In support of the scheme, the West Metro Recycling Centre will accept donations of eligible drink containers and send them to Paraquad for recycling.

Taking your eligible containers to Paraquad Industries, 4 Orton Road, Shenton Park will earn you 10c per eligible container AND help create jobs for people living with disabilities. Now, that's a worthy investment!

And if you want to recycle more than empty drink containers, you can donate your pre-loved books, quality clothing, furniture, bric-a-brac and working appliances to Paraquad for their Op Shops and Book Bazaars. They even do house collections for bulky items!

Visit the Containers for Change site to see what containers are eligible, signup for a Scheme ID and to locate other refund points.

8am-noon every Saturday
Subi Farmers Market have moved back to Subiaco Primary School!

Click HERE for their latest newsletter, HERE for their website and HERE for the Market's Facebook page.

SUBIACO PRIMARY SCHOOL
271 Bagot Rd, Subiaco WA 6008.
Phone: 08 9207 7900
Email: subiaco.ps@education.wa.edu.au