Como Primary School
COMO PRIMARY SCHOOLPrincipal: Mr A. MalcolmTelephone 9450 3112Email: .wa.edu.auNewsletter No. 9 – 2nd April 2015Dear ParentsI would like to thank the whole school communityfor the contribution and hard work that has beendone at Como Primary School this term. Can I wishyou all a happy and restful holiday and we will lookforward to having students return to school onTuesday 21st April 2015.ANZAC ServiceThis will be held on Friday, 24th April at8.45am in our School Hall. Parentsare most welcome to attend. Areminder that it is a solemnoccasion and as such we willrefrain from clappingHonour AwardsAt last week‟s assembly honour certificates werepresented to the following children.John MDylan POceana OSarah MBlake UAbigail NKaela UKyan GHouse School Voluntary ContributionsThank you to the parents who have already paidthese. To date 71% of families have contributed.We are hopeful that outstanding amounts will bepaid by the end of term. Reminder letters have beensent to those families who may have overlookedthis.A contribution to the P & C is included in theseamounts. Please pay to your child‟s class teacher.Illness at SchoolParents are reminded that we do not have agreat capacity to care for children who arenot well at school. If children are unwell,feverish, or coughing we stronglyrecommend that they not be sent to school.Children who are feeling ill are unable to learneffectively and in the case of colds/flu canunfortunately spread the virus to others in the class.Thank you in anticipation.First Term HolidaysFirst term ends today.Children return to school on Tuesday 21st April.Interschool Swimming CarnivalCongratulations to all our swimmers whoparticipated in the Interschool Carnival at BeattyPark last week. Como swimmers performedextremely well with Matthew G receiving the Year3 Champion Boy runner up, Maeve M receiving theChampion Girl Year 5 and Aiden B Champion BoyYear 5. Mei P received Year 6 Champion Girlrunner up. A fantastic effort!! Como came third inthe overall competition which was won byApplecross. Excellent sportsmanship anddetermination was displayed by all members of ourteam. A special thank you to Mr McDonald foracting as second place judge, Miss Martinoassistant starter and Mrs Brook for assisting in thebay area. Thank you to all the parents who camealong to cheer on our team. A fantastic effort!!The VirtuesExcellenceWhat is Excellence?Excellence is doing your best. It is giving yourvery best to any task you do or any relationshipyou have. Excellence is effort guided by a noblepurpose. It is a desire for perfection. The perfectionof a seed comes in the fruit. When you practiseexcllence, you bring your gifts to fruition.Our School Library is Upgrading!I am looking for volunteers to be of assistance inthe Library. Help is required for tasks such as coveringbooks, repairs and shelving. No experience necessary – trainingprovided. Find out what we have available for yourchildren! Meet people from our Como schoolcommunity.Times: Tuesday or Thursday – at a time convenientto you!Interested? Call in to the Library - I am here8.30am till 3.30pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays.Alternatively, call the school on 9450 3112 and askto speak to me. Jo NowlandJellybeansDear FamiliesJellybeans have spaces available in Term 2 forBefore School. We also have spaces available on aMonday and Tuesday in After School Care. If yourequire any of these services, please do not hesitateto contact Aoife on :Phone 0434 692 995 or byemail on comooshc@jellybeanschildcare.com.au.
Term One Class ReportsRoom 8 Year 3Pre Primary One and TwoIn Room 8 we have been very busy in HistoryWe have had a very busy term in Pre-primary. Welearning all about celebrations in Australia andhave been learning our sounds and have learnt aaround the world. In Maths we have beendifferent sound each day. We have completed someinvestigating how to add and subtract numbers infun activities to practise our sounds like makingcolumns and the language of chance. On Fridaysmuffins for the sound M and kites for the sound K.Mrs Callaway has been teaching us lots about areaIn numeracy we have been counting every day,and 2D shapes. This term our writing focus haslearning our shapes, measuring different objects,been on persuasive writing and narratives. We havelearning what each number represents and how tobeen creating some very good stories indeed! Inwrite our numbers. We have learnt some fun songsScience we have been learning all about solids andand actions and created a volcano that erupted. Weliquids. We have made, ooze, rocky road and icehave been on a treasure hunt around the school withcups to demonstrate how things melt and freeze.real treasure at the end. We have learnt about livingWe also found out that ooze acts in a crazy way!things and what they need and explored our senses.We have had a great, busy term in Room 8. TheWe started PMP (perceptual motor program) wherestudents in Room 8we have been learning specific motor skills. Wehad a wonderful visit from Monsieur Hughes whoRoom 4 Year 5/6came and read some stories in French and taught usThis year Room 4 have had a flying start gettingsome French words. Bravo!We would like to thankinto the routine of year 5 and 6. The kids haveparents for all your support this term and wish youtaken on new responsibilities and shown the schoolall a safe and happy holiday. Mrs Brook and Mrshow amazing they are! We have been workingDesmondreally hard on our persuasive and narrative writingRoom 10 Year 4and will each be entering the South Perth YoungThis spectacular term one in Room Ten we've had aWriters Competition with our incredible narratives.very interesting time! We've done some healthyWe have started our SEPEP program whichsport, which we enjoy very much! We have plantedinvolves taking responsibility for their sportssome tomatoes in the School Community Gardenprogram in 5 teams. Each week one of the teams isfor Science. They are sure to be delicious. We'veon duty and in charge of running the volleyballlearned about some famous Australian Explorersgames versus the other teams. This gives everyoneand researched their information. We have createda chance to show their leadership skills and have afabulous narratives, based on giant things. We havehuge amount of fun at the same time! One of thealso happily welcomed a new student, from Bhutan,highlights of the term was going to attend Theinto our class. We are sure she will love Como too.Giants in Perth City to experience the amazingOur most amazing thing is the Harmony Dayperformance. And of course, we have taken on theAssembly, it was harmony for all! by Charlesprivilege of bringing in iPads from home as a toolShoebridgein the classroom! The kids have learnt SO much injust a term to allow them to use technologyRoom 9 Year 3/4responsibly and effectively. We use them to2015 has been a terrific start for us in Room 9. Webrainstorm, research, make flashcards, and createhit the ground running and got straight into lots ofshort explanation videos as well as presentations.hands on, group tasks as we learned aboutWe can't wait to get started again next term!Indigenous Culture in History. We made our ownhumpies out of materials we “gathered” fromRoom 7 Year 3around the school grounds, as well as separatingIt has been a fun filled term in Room 7. We haveinto men and women groups to go hunting andloved learning about solids and liquids in Sciencegathering for our food (using iPads- not quite thethis term because we have been freezing andsame as the Aboriginal people!). We also got tomelting lots of delicious treats like chocolate,enjoy the fantastic art incursion with Urbanmarshmallows, jelly and cordial. We also madeIndigenous. Alongside all of this learning aboutslime, which sometimes acts like a solid and aIndigenous cultures, we‟ve also investigated theliquid. In History we are learning about celebrationscultures of our families. It has been so interestingand commemorations, including Australia Day andand exciting to learn of all the differentANZAC Day. We have been writing somecelebrations, population information, flags and ofconvincing persuasive texts and page turningcourse FOODS from around the world. On our lastnarratives that we are very proud of. Our class hasday of school, we held big celebration day, dressedachieved a record breaking goal of returning all ourin our nation‟s colours as we tasted different foodslibrary books every week this term, which hasfrom around the world and discussed the positivemeant George the library bear has become aeffects of multiculturalism in our community. Wefamiliar face in our class. A big thank you to all thehave definitely earned a rest these holidays!Room 7 parents who helped us achieve thisimpressive goal. We couldn‟t have done it withoutyour help!
KindergartenIt‟s been a very exciting term for our Red and BlueKindy children as they have been familiarisingthemselves with their new school surroundings,meeting and getting to know their teachers andmaking new friendships. The Kindy Kiddies havebeen learning about themselves and how they sharemany similarities as well as having manydifferences, including their unique facial features.Spot the dog and his friends have been welcomedinto our classroom and the children have had greatfun in teaching them the rules and routines of Kindylife. The children have been exploring differentmaterials and developing skills in pre literacy andnumeracy concepts including learning how to formpre writing patterns like tall man, singing favouritenursery rhymes and songs and learning how torecognise their names. They are becoming moreconfident at managing their personal items andrelying less on their teachers and parents forassistance. The term has concluded with theclassroom being transformed into scenery of eggs,Humpty Dumptys, chickens, rabbits and Easterbaskets. It‟s time for the Kindy Kids to have a wellearned rest!Room 6 Year 2Our class loves to write Acrostic Poems!In writing we have already written two, one aboutFRIENDS and the other one on EASTER.Hers an Acrostic Poem for everyone to read basedon our theme AUSTRALIA.All of us Australians in Room 6 have been so busythis term working hard on Reading and Maths andmuch more.Under and over we went into History in search ofOur Past and “My Place of Significance”photographs and doing project work on theAboriginal People.So much to learn using iPads to create a Storybookabout „Us‟ and setting goals to achieve for the yearof 2015.T &E was fantastic fun, designing models of boastusing plasticene to see if they floated or sunk inour Science experiments.Railbow Serpent was part of our “AboriginalDreamtime” literature and Reading and Writingactivities including Story Maps were so much funand even making a Rainbow Serpent for our class.Awesome Indigenous Art was done on canvasusing dot painting, during our incursion in Art.Loving Harmony Day and dressing up in nationalcostumes with our buddies and joining “Handsaround the world” to show tolerance and respect asAUSTRALIANS.Interesting things were done and now we‟relooking forward to the next term.And finally we‟d like to wish everyone a HappyEaster and Safe Holidays.Room 2 Year 1It‟s been an exciting term for children in Room 2as we have started our primary school journey. Wehave learned much in a short time and it has beengreat to make new friends with the children whohave come to Como for the first time. We beganthe term with activities based around our themes ofSummer and The Sea. We quickly learned to workhard and listen attentively as we strived to acquirenew skills in all curriculum areas.At school we have had fun doing scienceexperiments. One we found amazing. Wediscovered plants suck water to the tips of theirleaves!We have explored new app‟s on the iPads,participated in different activities with our bigbuddies and have been very happy to earn GoldenTime at the end of the week.Some of the special days we enjoyed were theUrban Indigenous Art incursion where we learnedabout art as a form of storytelling and we told ourstories on boomerangs. On two occasions we havecome to school dressed up. Harmony Day was socolourful with costumes from around the world.Our room was full of cats, chefs and cowboys/girlson the prefects‟ dress up day! We certainlyenjoyed the slushies we bought at the canteen thatday.This week we finished off the term with Easteractivities including cooking, craft and a variety ofother things. The Easter Bunny visited our schooland left some treats for us to find. It was a greatway to finish the term and we are looking forwardto a nice break with our families. Then we will berefreshed and ready to continue the journey.French NewsChers Parents / Dear ParentsWelcome to the last week of Term 1.We have been covering „Les Paques‟ / Easter forthe last 2 weeks.Two story books were read about Easter, alistening/rhyming work activity done with the Year2 and 3‟s, a great site „Paques en France‟ waslooked at and translations of French text completed,the Year 5/6‟s used their iPads to complete aworksheet on Easter – „Euroclub – French Zone‟and finally a game of Bingo / Lotto was played,depending on time.Check with your child what they have learned /covered this term and enjoy your holidays „ViveLes Vacances‟.Merci BeaucoupInstituteur de francaisM. Hughes
Room 3 Year 5/6It has been a very busy term. We have beeninvolved in a variety of activities as well asbringing our own iPads to class. Students haveadjusted well to all the new knowledge andinformation they have gained throughout the termon the use of iPads.We started off the term with an excursion to the“Giants” at Langley Park in Perth. It was especiallyenjoyable being splashed by water when the girlgiant passed us in her boat.The year 5‟s have been working hard on theirNaplan preparations throughout the term while theyear 6‟s have been involved in a variety of activitiesincluding Mathematics sessions with Ms Martino.Our class leaders went to the “Grip LeadershipCourse,” and enjoyed being part of that.Harmony day was a lot of fun and it was nice to seeall the school children dressed in their colourfuloutfits.Urban Indigenous came to our school for three daysand we thoroughly enjoyed our paining and culturalsessions with them. We can‟t wait to see thefinished mural when it is displayed in the upperschool passageway.Our swimming carnival was a lot of fun. Maeve andAidan were our champion Year 5 swimmers. Theywere also successfully in the Interschool SwimmingCarnival both winning trophies for championswimmer in their divisions. It was a super effortfrom both of them.We would like to thank the parents for all theirsupport throughout the term.We wish everyone a very enjoyable Easter and afantastic holiday.Room 5 Year 2What a busy term we have had. We have mumscome in and help hear our reading so we want tothank them for listening to us each morning.We have been working on the theme, “The Past inthe Present” for our History area. We also havebeen learning about traditional Aborigines way oflife and the present Aboriginals. We had fun in ourAboriginal art class creating beautiful work withdots and lines. We even made a Rainbow Serpentfor our classroom and we wrote stories about it.In Maths we have been learning about twodimensional and three dimensional shapes. We havebeen counting and writing numbers to 1000 andbeyond.Science activities have been filled with Push/Pullactivities.Other exciting happenings have been celebratingour Harmony Day and making hands with ourbuddies and dressing up for our “C” day was funtoo.We are all now looking forward to our holidays.We hope you have had a safe and enjoyable onetoo.Room 5 Kids, Mrs Willis, Mrs Stals and MrsRuddell
P&C Events 2015School-wide play date – Thursday 2 April – afterschool - Neil McDougall ParkCome along with yourpicnic rug and afternoontea for a school wide playdate at the Flying Fox Parkto celebrate the last day ofterm one! Hope to see youall there!Term 2 Dates for yourdiary – put these dates in your diary ready for nextterm!Book SaleSunday 3 MayWalk to School DayFriday 22 MayBreakfastRotary Money TrailSchool DiscoSchool wide play date– MacDougall ParkSaturday 13 JuneFriday 19 JuneFriday 3 July3.00pmHave you been wondering what to do with all thosebooks you have at home? - well why not donatethem to Como Primary School P&C?We're hosting a MASSIVE BOOK, DVD &PUZZLE SALE at school on Sunday 3rd May andwe're hoping to have over 2,500 books for sale.Currently we have had over 500 donated.We'd love any books, DVD‟s& puzzles in good condition* Fiction* Non-Fiction* Children's Books* Baby Books* Recipe Booksbut please no text books / oldencyclopaedias etc.You can either drop them in the box outside thecanteen on Wednesdays and Fridays, or if youprefer we can arrange a drop off or pick up - give usa call or textLeanne Pool 0409-114-876 orAngela Paddick 0433-080-169Uniform Shop RosterFriday 24th AprilLiz, Jillian and KatiaHouse ShirtsThe house shirts are now available for collectionfrom the uniform shop.Uniform store is always looking for volunteers so ifyou'd like to join us for half an hour to help outplease contact Katia on 0498000276Well what a great endto Term 1! Our“Thursday Special”was a hit, and we lookforward to many morenext term. We intend on having a lunch serviceprovided every Thursday next term. Our “ThursdaySpecial “days will consist of lunch orders ONLY.No Recess will be available for purchase on theseThursdays. We will again, commencing the secondweek of term, be back with our “Thursday Special”.Children will have a choice between a BLTSandwich or Wrap, Soup and a drink, Or Egg SaladSandwich, Soup and a drink. Both GREEN itemswhich makes it even better! We would also like tosend out a quick note to parents that the menustarting next term will be slightly different than thelast, and to make it easier for everyone we will beserving all menu items both Wednesdays andFridays. Also, we do have GLUTEN FREE Breadfor Sandwiches and our GLUTEN FREE AnzacCookies will be back as well.Another fun mention is that we will be having smallcontests each week. Every Wednesday and Fridaywe will be drawing for a Hot Chocolate, Ice Creamor Drink of choice. Themes will vary week to weekbut we will give plenty of notice!! First Contest ofthe first week term 2 will be – “Buy a GREEN itemoff of the menu and you will receive a ticket for achance to win, should your number be called. Yourchild will receive a small ticket in their lunch bagand we will do the draw at 12:30 sharp each ofthese days. If any parents have any concerns orquestions, please do not hesitate to ask myself orChristine Mann.On a final note, we are still in desperate need ofvolunteers on Wednesday, Thursday and Fridaysnext term. Even if you only have an hour or two tospare, please consider helping. Even once a termwould be a tremendous help! I hope everyone has aterrific and safe holiday and looking forward tostarting up fresh and healthy next term!Tanya HopperCanteen Coordinator - 0473359292como.canteen@gmail.comTERM 2 WEEK 1 ROSTERWednesday, April 22nd Wednesday, April 22ndWindow 8:15-9:00am Canteen 10:45-12 pmIngrid MeyerTanya HopperTanya HopperPosition VacantFriday, April 24thWindow 8:15-9:00 amTess HarrisJenny RamshawFriday, April 24thCanteen 10:45-12 pmAngela PaddickTanya HopperFUNDRAISING MEETING DATES – TERM 2Tuesday 21 April 2.00pm – location TBDTuesday 2 June 2.00pm – location TBD
COMO PS TEATOWELS 2015Do you love your 2014 tea towel? We are doing themagain this year & need a dynamic person/s to helporganise this very easy activity. Please let Claire know youare interested and we can work together to make thisanother successful memento. 0439 966 194.COMO PS TEATOWELS 2015Do you love your 2014 tea towel? We are doing themagain this year & need a dynamic person/s to helporganise this very easy activity. Please let Claire know youare interested and we can work together to make thisanother successful memento. 0439 966 194.ROTARY MONEY TRAILRotary is a not-for-profit organisation that supports locallyrun charities. Last year they helped us raise over 2500 atthe Rotary Money Trail held at Como IGA. If you are ableto help out at the easy fundraiser on Saturday 13 June,please let Claire know. 0439 966 194.
Como Primary SchoolTerm PlannerTerm 23-AprSchool starts forstudents2.3.26-Apr3-May27-AprAnzac May7-May8-May9-MayPrefects‟AssemblyP & C ayChoir to SingfestRm 9 AssemblyWalk to School dayI/S Soccer Carnival28-May29-MayCentenary 6-May20-May27-May16-May23-May30-MayNo Assembly7.8.31-May7-Jun1-JunWA Day8-Jun2-Jun9-Jun3-Jun10-Jun4-Jun5-JunRm 9 nWorld of MathsRoom 5 AssemblyI/S AFL/NetballCarnivalP & C nPrefects‟/RecordersAssemblySchool DISCO10. 21-Jun22-Jun23-Jun24-Jun25-Jun26-Jun27-JunPrefect ChoirAssembly11. 28-Jun29-Jun30-Jun1-Jul2-Jul3-Jul4-JulRoom 6AssemblyEnd of Term 14-Jul15-Jul16-Jul17-Jul18-Jul
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