Newsletter #10...Adis Ljaljic Oregon Selman Toh Pierce Bowman Samar Khanchi Emily Pedzisah Jaxon Mercer Paige Mekins Ivy Braae Hugh Bodycote Leo Campbell Our vision: To strive for

83A Ivanhoe Street, Eden Hill WA 6054 Ph: 6455 0800 Email: [email protected] Website: www.edenhill.wa.edu.au

A Final Farewell

Oh my goodness, this is so hard – to say goodbye – to write what I want to say and to say how I feel after more than 23 years at the most amazing school in the entire world! However, as Winnie the Pooh says “How lucky am I”!

I really don’t know how to begin to say thank you to all the wonderful people who have been a part of those years – the students, their families and of course, the awesome staff. I will take away many, many fabulous memories and life-long friendships.

I am sure that you all recognize, by now, just how special I believe Eden Hill is, and it is because of everyone in the ‘team’ that makes up our school. The new Principal is a very, very lucky person to be joining this wonderful school. I wish them all the best and hope that they too will have the opportunity to be a part of this amazing team – the Eden Hill Family.

As a final note, I would like to add this quote from one of my favourite books, The invisible String by Patrice Karst, which I used with last year’s Graduating Class. Whenever I am missing you, I will remind myself that I will always be connected to Eden Hill:

“People who love each other are always connected By a very special string made of love

Even though you can’t see it with your eyes, you can feel it with your heart

and know that you’re always connected to everyone you love Everyone in the world is connected by Invisible Strings …

no one is ever alone.”

Thank you and farewell to everyone that has made my job the best job in the world – I will miss you all.

Newsletter #10 4th July 2019

OUR CHAMPIONS

Assembly Congratulations to Room 1 students and Ms Innes for hosting such an entertaining assembly on Friday, 21st June and congratulations also to Room 10 for hosting an equally fabulous assembly last week. A big thank you to our Room 1 and Room 10 Class Coordinators Sam Peet, Stephanie Harvey & Adele Orme for organising morning tea for those who were able to stay behind after assembly.

Student Reports Your child’s Semester One Report is now available on Connect. To access the report, please go to www.connect.det.wa.edu.au and log in with your parent username and password. Once you are logged in, please click on the “My Children” tab and then on “Reports”. Please make contact with your child’s class teacher if you are having difficulty accessing the report or if you require a paper copy. Please also take this opportunity to look through your child’s report with them.

Enjoy the holidays The final day for Term 2 is tomorrow, Friday 5th July. Term 3 commences on Monday, 22nd July and we look forward to seeing you all back for another exciting term.

28th June Hayden Ahola Azumi Greenhalgh Cooper Boston Toby Littlewood Levi Kelly Jordan Hayes Lauren Catley Annie Nguyen Mailey Sims Emily Huynh Jacob Singh Rosie Vo Dhani Jha Cooper Davidson Charlotte Leader Huntah Rusiecki Ivy Moloney Joy Wang Mannix Chapman Nyaliep Bhar Seth Bowen Matilda Martin-Hiller Desmond Breadsell Ella Faulkner

21st June Llewellyn Zheng Connor Kirkby Jasmin Murphy Brianna Stewart Ding-Heng Leow William Duckett Jurahan Cross Izaak Brache Jacob Littlewood Ebel Vettiyadan Jayan William Morley Jai Brown Adis Ljaljic Oregon Selman Toh Pierce Bowman Samar Khanchi Emily Pedzisah Jaxon Mercer Paige Mekins Ivy Braae Hugh Bodycote Caleb Warnock Edward George Leo Campbell

Our vision: To strive for excellence by working collaboratively and respectfully with our students to build strong, meaningful connections with our community.

Term 3 Planner A Term 3 planner has been included in this newsletter. Please note however, that we are occasionally forced to make changes due to unforeseen circumstances. Updates will be made to our Term planner on our schools website.

Parent Teacher Meetings On Wednesday, 7th August the school will be holding parent teacher meetings. Students WILL NOT be attending school on this day. Meetings will be held between 12 noon and 6.00pm as this will give as many parents as possible, the opportunity to attend. A letter will be sent home with students early next term, explaining the process to book the parent teacher meetings. On the back of the letter is the surname login and PIN that parents require to access the website. The bookings will be made online using a website called PTO. We encourage all parents to attend the parent teacher meetings.

Interschool Cross Country Our school’s cross country team competed in the Annual Guildford Cross Country Championship last Wednesday. Sincere thanks must go to our ‘coaches’ and to the students for their hard work too. Eden Hill came runner up in Stirling Division. Well done team!

Special congratulations go to: Sienna Jones - 1st place, Lina Allen, Lauren Catley & Daniel Errington - 2nd place in their year groups.

Deputy’s Luncheon Our Deputy’s Luncheon was held on Wednesday for some of our outstanding students. Congratulations to the following students for being chosen by their class teacher/s to attend: Georgia Byers, Matthew Ahola, Sienna Jones, Danica Govender, Marina Nakagawa, Conner Kirkby, Georgia Leader, Mia Furnell, Misham Ansari, Charlie Thomas, Mailey Sims, Jai Brown, Ruby Ness, Yogitha Balaji and Abbey Williams.

Water Wise Tips Our Environmental Team would like to share with you, tips on being Water Wise. Here is fourth water wise tip:

Tip 4 - Install a modern dual-flush toilet, which uses only 4.5 or 6 litres for a full-flush and 3 litres for a half-flush (single-flush toilets use 11 litres every flush).

Award Winners

Courage 21/6/19

Louie Burnette Jackson Young Samara Ralston

Thea Miell Liam Stavretis

Alirah Michael-Hill Matthew Bickley

Rhys Jones Cardia Orme

Spencer Keynes Koda Barnes

Ebony Higgins Izayah Taylor

Zoe Bruce Dylan Williams

Katrina Nash Genevieve Kent

Trusting Yourself

28/6/19 Beau Spencer Aadhish Sood Tayte Knight Noah Glass

Griffin Higgins Bakar Kakay

Sunny Hollingsworth Mailey Sims Bodhi Shanks Mia Furnell

Scarlett Warnock Ryan Hayden Evan Collopy

Sophie Machin Danica Govender

Dylan Beutel Madison Fabre

Faction Sports

Training for our Faction Carnival will commence the fir st week back, on Wednesday, 24th July for all students from Years 1 to 6. Please make sure that your child has a faction shirt for training days and of course for the Faction Carnival. If your child is unable to participate in training then please write a letter of explanation to the faction teacher.

This year our Faction Athletics Carnival will be held in Week 7 with Distance Running on Tuesday, 3rd September, Jumps/Throws on Wednesday, 4th September and Track/Team Events on Friday, 6th September.

Our Motto - Only Our Best Is Good Enough

After School Club After School Club will commence for Term 3 in Week 2, Tuesday 30th July. After School Club, supported by the Bassendean Church of Christ, is for students in Years 1-6 and runs after school until 4pm on Tuesday afternoons.

Bullying Here is our next article on Bullying.

Talking with your children if they are bullying others

All children are capable of bullying and it is important for you to respond in a calm and helpful manner if your child is displaying bullying behaviours. These strategies also apply if you believe your child may be bullying others online.

Encouraging your children not to bully others

You can:

Talk with your children about what is acceptable behaviour and what is not, online and offline e.g. “we should not send nasty messages to people to make them feel bad”.

Work together with your family to establish simple rules and expectations about how your family treat each other.

Work with your family to establish clear guidelines about internet use at home.

Encourage and provide opportunities for your children to openly discuss bullying issues, including cyberbullying with the family

Discuss friendship and help your children to make friends by encouraging them to play with other children at school, at home or in the neighbourhood.

Discuss with your children how to be a friend online.

Invite other children to your home for visits and teach your children how to make their guests feel welcome.

Encourage your children to share and be aware of the feelings of others.

Chaplains Chatter

Brian Dyson, a former Chairman of Coca Cola, said the following in a public address: ‘Imagine life as a game in which you are juggling five balls in the air. You name them; work, family, health, friends and spirit. You will soon understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. But the other four balls – family, health, friends and spirit – are made of glass. If you drop any of these they will be irrevocably scuffed, marked, nicked, damaged or even shattered. They will never be the same. You must understand and strive for balance in your life.’

We know this is true, but it is sometimes hard to keep things in perspective, but it is so worth the effort, because at the end of the day it is relationships which matter the most, not achievement. This holiday break try and make time to build into your relationships with your kids and make some great memories.

Jenny Palandri

Dad’s Sunday Skating

Eden Hill Dads returned to the Perth Ice Area on Sunday the 30th of June. Ice Skating with Dad is always such a popular event and this time saw our biggest turnout. We had over 90 people attend Sunday's event, with families from all years, and many new faces. It was so great to look out on the ice and see Dads helping young kids skate for the first time, I believe some of our year 6's also started a game of TAG on the Ice. Thank you to everyone that attended, it really is great to see our fathering group growing. If you want to be part of our fathering group email Jeremy at [email protected], we have a very exciting event that we are planning for term 3 so look out for that one.

Life isn't about what I do for a living, but who I

am while I'm living.

Brian G. Jett

SCHOOL PLANNER – TERM 3 2019

Week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

1 July 22 First day students

23

24 Faction Training

25

26 Assembly –Prefects Parent/teacher meeting bookings open

2 29

30

31 Faction Training Staff Meeting

August 1 Newsletter WAGSMS Concert

2 Assembly- Room 13

3 5 Parent/teacher meeting bookings close at 10pm

6

7 Pupil Free Day – Parent/Teacher Meetings 12 - 6pm

8

9 Assembly–Room 16

4 12

13

Hampton SHS Bright Sparks Program Year 6

14 Faction Training

15 Newsletter

16 Assembly–Room 17

5 19 P&C Meeting

20 21 Faction Training

22

23 Assembly–Room 14 Walkathon

6 26

27 Staff Meeting

Hampton SHS Bright Sparks Program Year 6

28 Faction Training

29 Newsletter Father’s Day Stall

30 Assembly–Prefects

7 September 2 3 Faction Carnival Distance Running

4 Faction Carnival Jumps/Throws

5

6

Faction Carnival

8 9

10 Hampton SHS Bright Sparks Program Year 6

11 Book Character Parade

12 Newsletter

13 Assembly–Room 18

9 16 P&C Meeting

17

18

19

20 Assembly–Room 19

10 23 Interschool Jumps, throws and long distance running

24 Deputy’s Luncheon Yr 6 Bassendean Visual Art Awards

25 Interschool

Athletics Carnival

26 Newsletter

27 Assembly–Room 20 Last day of term 3

Kiara College Daze 2019 On Monday 1st July 2019, the year

5 students from Room 6 and

Room 15 attended Kiara College

for the day. Students participated

in a variety of activities and had a

taste of what it is like to attend

high school.

The staff at Kiara commented,

“Every student showed wonderful

interest in all the activities and

asked a lot of questions. We al-

ways enjoy having Eden Hill stu-

dents visiting us. “

Lockridge Dental Therapy Centre

Lockridge Dental Therapy Centre will be opened Monday 8th July and Tuesday 9th July only. For Emergencies ONLY for Wednesday 10th, Thursday 11th and Friday 12th please contact Guildford Dental Therapy Centre on 92795869. For Emergencies Monday 15th to Friday 19th please contact Middle Swan Dental Therapy Centre. After Hours and weekends please contact 1800098818.