Newsletter 4 Term 4, 2020 – Message from Admin Team, Yr 1 St John Incursion, 2021 Charges & Voluntary Contributions, 2021 Personal Items Lists, P&C General Meeting, P&C Kindy/PP Subcommittee Meeting, Canteen Volunteers, Containers for Change, CSHS Yr 7 2021 Orientation Day

Message from the Executive Administration Team

Dear Parents and Caregivers

This week we celebrate NAIDOC week. This year’s theme Always Was, Always Will Be recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years.  

NAIDOC 2020 invites all Australians to embrace the true history. That involves our students seeing, hearing and learning the First Nations’ 65,000+ year history of this country – which is Australian history. Mrs Jordan has set up a wonderful display in the library for students to readily access quality reading material. 

   

Teaching and Learning

Wembley celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day on 5 November 2020. The theme was Love the Outdoors! Children are spending less time outdoors than ever before and this is affecting their health, wellbeing and love of the natural world. Time outdoors – on Outdoor Classroom Day and every day – makes children happier and healthier, as well as helping them form habits that will stay with them for life. They will have a love of the natural world and will take action to protect it. 

This afternoon, our Pre-primary students had their first transition afternoon for Year 1 in 2021. There was lots of excitement as they made their way up to the ‘big’ school to see the Year 1 classrooms and meet the teachers. The Pre-primary students will have another session in the classrooms next week and also spend some time in the junior play areas to help ease the transition into their new learning environment.  It’s also lots of fun for our current Year 1 students who get to play in their old stomping ground in the PP and Kindy playgrounds! 

Leadership 

 WINNER of a Library and Information Focused Training (LIFT) Library Officer Excellence Award – Mrs Jill Jordan.  

Wembley is blessed to have Mrs Jordan as our library officer. Her outstanding commitment to every student and their reading journey has been recognised by her work colleagues, peers and the LIFT panel. Not only has Mrs Jordan recently lead Wembley to be the top WA school and in the top ten Australian schools in the MS Read-a-thon, she creates innovative reading spaces, magical themes and displays for Book Week and specific events and celebrations throughout the year. Calm, kind, professional, energetic, passionate and talented describes our Mrs Jordan perfectly! Congratulations on the well deserved award Jill. 

 

Congratulations to Mrs Tammy Misson who completed her Key Language Leadership course yesterday. The focus of the professional learning is to build capacity of lead teachers to improve the language/literacy outcomes of students in the early years with a focus on students at language risk. The service integrates current language development theory and research with the principles of best practice teaching.   

 

 

Engagement and Relationships 

Tomorrow, on Remembrance Day we will observe a minute’s silence at 11am to honour all soldiers who fought and died for their country in years gone by. 

For a gold coin donation, you can purchase a red poppy from our student leaders before school and at recess time. All proceeds will go to the RSLWA. 

 

 

Collaborate, Connect, Communicate. 

Yours in learning

Executive Admin Team

Donna, Alan, Milani, Tamara