Newsletter Week 9 Term 3 – Message from Administration, School Grounds Weekend Security, Interschool Athletics – Tomorrow, Canteen Volunteers, Pre-primary Enrolments for  2023, Important Dates, Chaplain Corner, RUOK?, Wembley PS Concert Band, MS Readathon, Wembley P&C Fundraiser – Wine Wall, P&C Kindy PP Tea Towel Fundraiser, Colour Run, Redhage Basketball Term 4, Young Engineers Club Term 4, UWA West Coast Squads

Message from Administration

Dear parents and caregivers

We are approaching the end of a busy term, with so many events and celebrations being held, including Science Week, Book Week, Concert Band Festival, Public Speaking and Athletics Carnivals.

This week, we have the beginning of our Interschool Athletics events tomorrow and our annual open classrooms for the Inquiry Learning Showcase on Friday afternoon. It has been fantastic to see the community support this term, thank you for coming along to spectate and getting involved with volunteering where you can. Your children are excited to show you their learning this Friday (and this afternoon for Kindy A and C). The focus for the open classroom time, will be for your child to be a host and tell you all about what they have been learning and creating.

Your child’s teacher will be in the classroom and may help your child to elaborate on the learning process if needed or point out different displays in the learning spaces. As there will be lots of parents and carers in the classroom, it won’t be the time for detailed conversations about learning progress. You are encouraged to email your child’s teacher for a private meeting if you would like to discuss specific aspects of your child’s progress.

On Friday afternoon, we will also have a selection of art work from students across the school in the Undercover Area. You are also welcome to visit the Science Room upstairs in the middle double storey block, which is above the Art Room next to Room 27. Our specialist teachers run outstanding programs and we also want to celebrate the learning happening in these curriculum areas too.

Public Holiday: As you would be aware, next Thursday 22 September has been declared a national public holiday to honour the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The school will be closed on this day. The school will re-open on Friday 23 September for the final day of Term 3. We expect all students to attend on this day. The P&C Colour Run will be held after lunch on the Friday, which will be a great fun way to end the term.

Teaching and Learning

Artist Spotlight:

The Year 4s in Room 25 have been creating sea creatures inspired by US artist Kerry Heath’s work. These collage and mixed media pieces are on display in the junior verandah space near Room 9. Make sure you take a look next time you are passing, they are incredible!

NAPLAN 2022:

We are still awaiting the delivery of the printed reports to distribute to Year 3 and 5 parents with information about your child’s NAPLAN results. As soon as these have been received, these will be sent home with your child.

Music at Wembley:

Congratulations to our Concert Band for their incredible performance last week at the Concert Band Festival which took place at the Churchlands SHS Concert Hall. Mrs Kate Humphreys was so proud of them, particularly after such a disrupted year due to COVID. Thank you to Mrs Humphreys for all her hard work teaching our talented concert band musicians. The standard of our concert band is just outstanding thanks to Kate’s leadership.

Next week, we look forward to seeing our Senior Choir take to the stage for the Massed Choir Festival at the Perth Concert Hall. After months of preparation, also disrupted due to COVID, our Year 5/6 students have their chance to shine. Thank you to all parents/carers for supporting your children to take part in these opportunities.

Community Engagement

Inquiry Showcase:

Please make sure you reserve your spot for the open classrooms using the Student Online Booking System link that has been emailed to all parents. We are using a booking system again to ensure the time in classrooms is relaxed and not too crowded.

We also have a Cake Stall for Year 6 fundraising being held outside the Undercover Area all afternoon and the P&C are running a sausage sizzle so you don’t have to worry about dinner. Thank you to all parent volunteers helping to make the cake stall and sausage sizzle possible. We also thank Wembley Supa IGA for generously supporting our P&C Association once again.

P&C Events:

Our dedicated fundraising sub-committee have been working really hard this term on the Father’s Day Stall, Wembley Family Fun Day and the Colour Run. Thank you to Victoria Martelli, Bailey Stewart, Susan Havlin, Therry Tay, Dani Clyne, Bec Guy and all class parent reps and parent volunteers. With the huge canteen upgrade happening (some works begin this holidays) and an ongoing commitment by the P&C to supporting the school’s technology leases so we can avoid a Bring Your Own Device program, these fundraising initiatives will continue to make a huge difference to the learning environment and resources we can provide your children. The Family Fun Day will also be a great opportunity to enjoy a fun day out as a community. I look forward to sharing in this day with you!

We also thank our Kindy/PP P&C sub-committee for their hard work and partnership. We are moving ahead with providing shade sails for the mud kitchen area in Kindy and a synthetic turf space under a shade sail just in time for summer outdoor eating. Thanks so much to Shohan Johnson-Kain, Kindy parent and landscape architect, who has been supporting us with expertise and contacts to move this project along. Partnerships with our community are vital and we thank each of you for supporting our school, in whatever way you can.

‘Collaborate, Connect, Communicate and Care’.

Yours in learning

The Senior Leadership Team

Tamara, Milani, Rachel, Stacey and Natalie