Newsletter Week 10 Term 3 – Message from Administration, Public Holiday Thursday, Important Dates, Interschool Athletics Tomorrow, Library, Senior Choir, Canteen, Colour Run, Mark Lee Soccer, Redhage Basketball Term 4, Young Engineers Club – Term 4, Tennis Term 4

Message from Administration

Dear parents and caregivers

We are almost at the end of a busy but also such a productive term in so many ways. Last week’s Inquiry Showcase was a real celebration of the learning happening in our classrooms and I hope you enjoyed spending time with your children as they shared their learning journey with you.

As I toured the classrooms, I was incredibly proud of our students and teachers. Inquiry learning is all about making connections and going further, past just learning content knowledge. The culture of thinking we are trying to build in our school was so evident as I listened to our students tell me about their learning. I could also see the Visible Thinking routines being used from Kindy right through to Year 6. For many years, Wembley has embedded Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Visible Thinking Routines into our programs. You might have seen routines such as ‘See, Think, Wonder’, ‘Tug of War’, ‘Compass Points’ and ‘Claim, Support, Question’ in your child’s classroom. These routines help our students to dig a little deeper with their thinking and critically evaluate topics and issues.

We also hope you enjoyed the pop up Art exhibition showcasing our visual arts program in the Undercover Area. The quality was just outstanding and I thank our art teachers Mrs Robyn Barratt and Mrs Jemima Heley for their contribution to the showcase.

Thank you for supporting your child on Friday, I know they were so excited to host you in their classrooms. I also wish to sincerely thank our Year 6 parents, Genna and the canteen staff and P&C for running the very popular sausage sizzle, canteen stall and cake stall throughout the afternoon. An extra special thanks to Dani and James Clyne, Cassie Singam and all the parents who organised the set up and helped pack down.

Keen2STEAM Churchlands Network Event

Yesterday, we hosted the second annual Keen2STEAM interschool event at Wembley PS. We had Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 teams of students from both Churchlands PS and Woodlands PS join us to engage in lots of exciting activities and challenges, all with an ocean conservation theme.

Dr Bruce Webber from CSIRO and Shark Biologist Amanda Elizabeth presented talks and judged the final pitches from our senior students. There was some incredible design thinking happening and ‘Shark Tank’ style pitches to the judging panel. Our students should feel very proud of themselves!

I also wish to thank Ms Leila Sugden, Mrs Sue Webber, Mrs Rochelle Stacey and Mr Jordan Tait who worked very hard on organising, coordinating, and hosting the event.

I am very pleased to confirm that we won Champion School for the Keen2STEAM event and also won the Year 3/4 division! Congratulations to all competing schools and every student who took part.

Public Speaking

Congratulations to all our Public Speaking finalists! We were so amazed at the standard once again. Thank you to our staff and parents/carers for their support. Giving our students a voice about the topics they are passionate about is so important. What a lifelong skill these students are developing.

	1st	2nd	3rd
Year 1	Jade G	Caelan P	Ellie C
Year 2	Rose L	Eva Y	Abigail W
Year 3	Raphael S	Sophie S	Alice F
Year 4	Curtis C	Daniel Mc	Louie W & Livia (Tie)
Year 5	Claire T	Tom L	Patrick N & Elena H (Tie)
Year 6	Zephyr T	Penny D & Drea P (Tie)	Ben S

Year 1-3 Finalists

Year 4-6 Finalists

I wish our families a wonderful holiday break when we finish school on Friday afternoon. See further along in this newsletter for information on Friday afternoon’s Colour Run event. It’s going to be such a fun way to welcome in the holidays.

‘Collaborate, Connect, Communicate and Care’.

Yours in learning

The Senior Leadership Team

Tamara, Milani, Rachel, Stacey and Natalie