20 March 2024

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Principal’s Report

With only nine weeks to this term, we are now almost at the end of Term 1 for 2024.

It has been a very busy term. Our Pre-Primary and Year 1 children have been busy with On Entry testing and parents’ summaries are going home this week. The Year 3 and 5 students are currently very busy with NAPLAN testing. Earlier in the term the children in Years 2 to 6 did PAT testing in reading and mathematics. Other children have been doing sight word testing or PLD spelling testing and next week all the children will do their quarterly Origio Maths test. What a busy testing term!

P&C News

Thank you to Ashton and the amazing fundraising team within the P&C, this Friday’s Easter Trail on the oval looks set to be a great deal of fun. All families are welcome to attend this free event. There will be stalls selling items like baked goods and cool drinks so you may wish to bring some loose change with you, alternatively eftpos facilities will be available. The children have the choice to wear free dress to school this Friday, with a Gold Coin donation going to the P&C if they do participate. The raffle prizes look amazing, and the raffle will be drawn next Tuesday 26 March, so make sure you send your raffle tickets back in by then.

Speaking to Students on School Grounds

On occasion, parents have been known to tell someone else’s child off for a misbehaviour towards their own child. This is extremely inappropriate behaviour. Only staff at the school have that right and that would only ever be after the situation had been investigated. It is very distressing to a child to have, what in some cases, is an unknown adult suddenly telling them off. If you feel that your child has been slighted by another child, please speak to your child’s teacher in the first instance. The situation will then be dealt with through the correct channels.

Early Arrival to School

The school day doesn’t officially start until 8:45 am when the first siren sounds. The teachers open their doors at 8:30 am so the children can come in and prepare for the day. We ask families attempt to drop their child/ren to school as close to 8:30 am as possible. Teachers work in their rooms prior to 8:30 am and it is very distracting when children are playing outside the doors. From the first day of Term 2, if a student must arrive before 8:30 am, we ask that they go straight to the undercover area with their bag and not go to their classroom. These children will be supervised there by admin staff.

Harmony Day

Next Wednesday we will be celebrating Harmony Day. Communications have already been sent home regarding this. Please check with your child’s teacher if you didn’t get the notes. This year as well as our Long Table Lunch, which we love everyone bringing their traditional food from their cultural background for, the children also have an opportunity to participate in Bollywood dancing. This is an incursion and does require the children paying to participate. There will be rotational activities happening in all the classrooms as well. We hope that by the end of the day the children have learnt at least one new thing about another country that they didn’t know before or have tried different food.

School Chaplain

Many thanks to Mr Joshua Benjamins, who has been our Chaplain here for two years. Joshua’s last day is Thursday 28 March, as he will be moving to another location to continue his work closer to home. We wish Joshua and his wife, Aly, all the best for the birth of their first child in August. The school is currently looking at a replacement for Joshua.

Merit and Values Awards

Congratulations to the following students who received a Merit Certificate or Values Award at our last assembly.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a safe and peaceful Easter break. May there be plenty of recharging of energy levels ready for Term 2 on Monday 15 April.

Library News

Please make sure overdue books are returned so other students can borrow them. There are still a lot of overdues, and students will not be allowed to borrow if they have not brought their book/s back. The bags that are loaned out to students are a loan only, please return them to the library.

Harmony Day Display

We have a Harmony Day display in progress in the library which will we will be adding to over the next week, this will feature in the next newsletter.

WAYBRA – Coming Soon

Children will be able to read and vote on books on display, which will help choose winning books at the end of the year across WA for WAYBRA.  Last year’s winners were ‘Frank’s Red Hat’ by Sean Avery and ‘The Baby-Sitters Little Sister: Karen’s Roller Skates’ by Ann M. Martin.  This year’s theme is ‘Reading is Magic’.

Ms Roberts
Library Officer

Chinese News

We are delighted to announce the winners of the ‘Year of the Dragon’ poster competition held at the beginning of the year to coincide with Chinese New Year celebrations. There were many good entries. Congratulations.

Mrs Lee
Chinese Teacher

Has your contact information changed?

Please notify the office if any of your contact details have changed. It is important that we have the correct contact information for carers and students for general correspondence and in the case of an emergency.

Pay your Voluntary Contributions and go in the draw to WIN

Thank you to families who have paid their voluntary contributions. These monies go to much needed resources for students.

The P&C have donated three Tudor Uniform vouchers for tri colour shirts. To be in the draw to receive one of these vouchers all you have to do is make sure your Voluntary Contributions are paid by Friday 26 April. If you have already paid your contributions this year, you are already in the draw. There will be a voucher for one shirt, a voucher for two shirts and a voucher for three shirts to be won.

Thank you to the P&C for your continued support of the Hampton Park Primary School community.

P&C

Community Notices

Creative Kids Art Club

Guildford Grammar School – Academic Excellence Scholarship

We are excited to introduce our new Year 5 Academic Excellence Scholarship for 2025 enrolment. The Scholarship is available to Year 5 students who demonstrate academic excellence and success in their learning and co-curricular activities.

This unique opportunity strives to maximise learning outcomes for students within a stimulating environment from Year 5 to Year 12, whilst supporting their transition into the Senior School.

Our scholarship provides up to 50% remission of tuition fees for students who may not have the financial means to attend Guilford Grammar School. Please note that students must not already be enrolled at Guildford Grammar School or any another PSA or IGSSA School.

Scholarship enrolment opens today and closes Wednesday, 1 May. Strict eligibility criteria needs to be met, including a financial needs assessment and a comprehensive portfolio provided on application, followed by a scholarship examination on Saturday, 18 May.

If you have any questions about the application process, please call (08) 9377 9222 or email registrar@ggs.wa.edu.au for more information.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Kind regards 
Gia Smith
Head of Admissions

John Forrest Secondary College

Dental Health Services Message
Reminder Regarding Smile Patrol Attending Hampton Park Primary School

To the parents of Hampton Park Primary School,

Dental Health Services would like to advise that we are not affiliated with the Smile Patrol Program. Dental Health Services is a government-funded service which provides free routine dental care for children aged 4 to 17 years of age, including treatment.

Smile Patrol, as per their website, is a private company based in Victoria, Australia. As always, you are free to choose which dental provider you and your child attend. Please keep in mind that for those who receive $1095 every two years through the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, then these funds will be used to pay for your child’s treatment at Smile Patrol (as per the website). Should your child require further treatment at a private dentist or paediatric specialist, then you may need to pay out of pocket expenses.

Should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact myself at Guildford Dental Therapy Centre, on 9279 5869.

Thank you and kind regards,
Dr. Joshua Oversby
Dental Officer, Guildford

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