Term 3 Edition 14 …. 24 September 2015

FROMTHEOFFICE….ThanksandCongratulations

Spelling Bee… Congratulations to our team of Spelling Bees!! What a fabulous result in bringing home first place in all three divisions!! Well done to Declan Kilpatrick, Abbey Cooke, Matthew Schilling, Kirsty Noonan, Mackenzie Thomas, Rebekah Aynsley, Ella Cooke, Tabitha Roche and Hannah Morrell who attended the Spelling Bee hosted by York DHS this year!! Go Beverley!!! A big thank you to Anthea Cooke, Deane Aynsley and Mrs Corinna Thomas for your attendance on the day.

Interschool Carnival…The Interschool Carnival was hosted by York DHS this year. We are so proud of the effort, behaviour and sportsmanship of our students who attended the carnival. Unfortunately the carnival was not able to be finished on the day, which was a little disappointing for our relay runners but overall the Beverley team performed to their very best and did our school proud!

AIR Program… Our Artist in Residence Program has sadly come to an end, but what a fabulous way to finish off with the ART EXTRAVAGANZA!!! Thank you to Charlotte O’Shea and Jenny Broun for all of your efforts over the semester, the art produced was brilliant and the students learnt such a range of skills from you both. Thank you also to Corinna Thomas for your involvement in the application process and general running of the program. Without teachers’ enthusiasm for such projects our students would never have had this opportunity. Our ART EXTRAVAGANZA was a great success and a big thank you must go to our Year 2 and Music Specialist Ms Romola Brennan, along with Charlotte and Jenny. The parade and performances were great fun and the day was enjoyed by all.

Health Forum… Our Year 8 – 10 students attended a Health and Well Being Forum hosted by our Beverley CRC for students in the Wheatbelt. Our students enjoyed the day immensely and took away some life skills for coping with difficult situations as well as gaining some perspective on what it means to have a meaningful life without conforming to the pressures of society today. The students also had the opportunity to participate in Noongar Sports on the day which was a lot of fun! Thank you to Mrs Sam Fricker and the CRC for all of their efforts in providing this opportunity for our students.

NewsandViews

Uniforms… We are very impressed with the number of students wearing full school uniform this term! If you require any uniform items, the P&C have recently sent out a uniform order that can be completed and returned to the school.

Royal Show… If you are planning on some holiday fun at the Royal Show, please drop in to see some of our AIR Project art that is being displayed at the Show this year!!!

Swimming Teachers… We are asking for expressions of interest for Swimming Teachers, for our In Term Swimming in Term 1, 2016. We require four qualified teachers from the 8th – 20th February. If you are interested please contact the school on 96461165.

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Beverley‘ParentConnect’

Beverley DHS Parent Connect is a new tool for keeping students, parents, teachers and the school community informed about activities, learning programs and administration matters at Beverley District High School. Parents who have provided the school with email addresses will begin to receive email notifications from the school with a subject line that begins New Notice or Connect Account Created from an email address called Connect Notifications. Some parents will have received these notifications a month or so ago, but might not have known what they were about.

These notices will begin to replace newsletter emails and some of the text messages that you have previously received from the school. You will be able to look back through these notices at any time by visiting the Connect website. You will be able to access calendars of events, newsletters, forms, timetables, excursion information and other resources through the Beverley DHS Parent Connect Library. The Library is accessible through a tab that you can click on the left of the home page. It has folders inside containing relevant documents which you can download. This is very handy when an excursion note goes missing! You will also be able to view photographs and see examples of student work, peruse the minutes of previous P&C and School Council meetings, and look at the School Report and selected policy documents.

To access all of this information, you will need to register with Connect. If you do not register, you will still receive emails, but won't be able to access the attachments or additional information in the Library such as excursion notes or newsletters. Once you have registered, you will follow a link to set up a password and can then visit the official Beverley District High School Connect Community and look for Beverley DHS Parent Connect in the Classes tab at the top of the page (it's not really a class, it's a site for parent information, but it's called a ‘class’ in Connect).

For the rest of 2015, we will just be using the Beverley DHS Parent Connect group for sending school news and information about whole school activities. Teachers will not be using this tool to tell you about your child’s learning programs yet. During 2016, each of the primary and secondary classes at Beverley DHS will develop and use its own Connect tool so that parents have information about the learning programs specific to each of their children, as well as having access to their child’s regular homework tasks and a range of educational resources.

We look forward to working with you to improve your connection with the school and your understanding of your child’s learning programs through Beverley DHS Parent Connect. Please contact the school if you have any difficulty accessing the community, or if you have not received information about your password. We will be happy to assist you either over the phone or by showing you how to navigate the site on one of the computers at school.

UpcomingEventsSwimming… We are presently organising a Swimming training program to commence in Week 4 of Term 4. We are extremely fortunate to have Mrs Jacinta Murray coaching our students as a part of our Physical Education program.

Boxercise…. Welcome back Lyn Kay!! Lyn is returning to Beverley DHS to challenge our High School students with Boxercise each week!! We are very excited to get this program back up and running and thank Lyn for the opportunity!

Year 5/6 Camp… The Year 5 and Year 6 classes are off on Camp next term in Week 2! Mrs Shaw and Mrs Thomas have been working hard to get the camp organised and we would like to thank them for their efforts and their willingness to leave their families behind so our students can have this opportunity to experience new things!

T 20 Cricket… T20 Cricket has been organised for November 3rd. Brookton will be hosting the competition this year and we will be taking our willing Year 5 and 6 students to participate. More details next term……

DidyouKnow?

Kindy enrolments are now open for 2016

Wendy Moore Aliesha Murray Principal Deputy Principal

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JustforFun Escalators don’t break down… they just turn into stairs!!!

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SPELLING BEE

CHAMPIONS!

STRANGER DANGER INCIDENT

Parents should be aware that two students from Beverley were approached and followed by strangers in the main street area on the weekend. The incident was reported to police, who have advised the school of the incident. We would encourage you to talk to your children about strategies for how to stay safe, how to deal with a situation in which they are approached by strangers, and how important it is to tell someone straight away if this occurs. Parents are encouraged to report any incidents to Beverley police promptly.

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BOOK FAIR IS COMING!!

Where: Beverley District High School Library (Please sign in at the front office) When: Tuesday 27th October 2015 8:30am to 4:00pm Wednesday 28th October 2015 8:30am to 4:00pm Thursday 29th October 2015 8:30am to 2:00pm

HEAPS OF GREAT

BARGAINS SHOP FOR

CHRISTMAS

SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL—ALL PURCHASES BENEFIT OUR SCHOOL BY GAINING COMMISSION TO CHOOSE NEW BOOKS FOR THE LIBRARY!

Go ahead...be brave....choose your team!

Who will make it to the

grand final ???

To celebrate both WA teams making it to preliminary finals,

wear the colours of your favourite football team to school tomorrow.

There will be NO

Canteen Week 1 Term 4

Jars with lids Jars without lids Plastic bottles – 250mL Plastic bottles – 500mL or 600mL Plastic bottles – 1.25L Plastic bags

The Junior Science Lab is looking for the following recyclable items – can you help?

Please leave your contributions at the front office or send it to school with your child for delivery to Mrs Aynsley . Thank you.

Ice cream containers Takeaway food containers Other plastic containers Ice cube trays Newspaper Shoe boxes

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INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 11 September 2015

Championship Shield Handicap Shield

Primary Secondary Primary Secondary

Pingelly 1st York Blue 1st Brookton 1st Beverley 1st

Brookton 2nd Beverley 2nd Pingelly 2nd Brookton 2nd

Beverley 3rd York Gold 3rd Beverley 3rd York Blue 3rd

York Blue 4th Brookton 4th York Blue 4th York Gold 4th

York Gold 5th York Gold 5th

PRIMARY CHAMPIONS

AGE GROUP AWARD NAME SCHOOL

7/Under Boys Gold Jacob Darr York Gold Silver Cameron Jetta Pingelly

7/Under Girls Gold Makayla Penny Brookton Silver Kate Cousins Pingelly

8 Years Boys Gold Nicholas Lee Pingelly Gold Jimmy Slater York Gold

8 Years Girls Gold Cleo Young Brookton Silver Alice Stevens Beverley

9 YearsBoys

Gold Harrison Creighton York Blue Silver Liam Farrell York Gold

9 YearsGirls

Gold Ella Cooke Beverley Silver Dinga Beckett & Grace McLean Beverley

10 YearsBoys

Gold Cody Stanfield York Gold Silver Lachlan Young Brookton

10 YearsGirls

Gold Renisha Humphries Pingelly Silver Mackenzie Thomas Beverley

11 YearsBoys

Gold Jahvis Salley-Riley Brookton Silver Jay Sewell Pingelly

11 YearsGirls

Gold Asha Parsons Pingelly Silver Shontae Jetta Pingelly

11+ YearsBoys

Gold Josh Paterson Pingelly Silver Joshua Styles Beverley

11+ YearsGirls

Gold Charlie Gaskell York Blue Silver Denniell Ugle Brookton

SECONDARY CHAMPIONS

AGE GROUP AWARD NAME SCHOOL

12 Years Boys Gold Jamie Mathews Brookton Silver Toby Weir York Blue

12 Years Girls Gold Zali Stone York Blue Silver Emily-Jane Grewar York Gold

13 Years Boys Gold Antwon Ugle Beverley Silver Billy Byworth Beverley

13 Years Girls Gold Lillian Warr York Gold Silver Katie Harris York Gold

14 Years Boys Gold Liam Church York Blue Silver Kelvin Quartermaine Beverley

14 Years Girls Gold Annie Fewster York Blue Silver Jennifer Fewster York Blue

15 Years/Over Boys Gold Connor Sing York Blue

Silver Jake Tilbee Beverley

15 Years/Over Girls Gold Emily Nybo York Blue Silver Brooke Pickett York Blue

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INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL 11TH SEPTEMBER 2015 HELD AT YORK

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Recently year 6 students have been given handouts on scoliosis and colour blindness. Please take the time to read these and follow up with your Doctor, Physiotherapists or Optometrist if you have any concerns. Parents/guardians of older students in Year 7, 8 and 9 are reminded about the importance of re-checking their child `s spine as children may show signs of scoliosis following a rapid growth spurt.

Colour blindness Colour blindness means that a person can not dis nguish some colours or see the colours differently to other people. Very few people who are colour blind are ‘blind’ to all colours. Commonly, the colours seen differently are greens, yellows, 0ranges and reds. For more informa on and see the Colour Blind Awareness and Support Group on h p://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~doverton/ If you have any concerns, colour vision tes ng can be performed by some general prac oners, eye specialists or optometrists.

Scoliosis Scoliosis is an abnormal sideways curvature of the spine. It can be detected by a simple examina on of the back. The normal spine has three curves – one in the neck, on in the upper back and one in the lower back. These curves can be seen from the side, but when you look from behind the spine should appear straight. If the spine has a sideways curve, this is scoliosis. An informa on leaflet about Scoliosis has been distributed to all year 6 students. Please read through the informa on provided and check your child for scoliosis as described in the leaflet. If you have any concerns, please contact your General Prac oner or local Physiotherapist. Helen Guinness. Community Health Nurse. 96410200

Mental Health Week encourages keeping

active and getting involved With Mental Health Week being celebrated these school holidays, we are reminded to simply do the things that we enjoy and to do them more often.

Mental Health advocates advise that if we keep active (physically and mentally), get involved in community life, and do things that give us a sense of meaning and purpose, we not only feel happier but we can cope better with problems and stress.

Act-Belong-Commit is the official theme for Mental Health Week, which runs from 2–10 October, coinciding with World Mental Health Day (10 October).

Act-Belong-Commit is based on research conducted by Curtin University into people's perceptions of mental health and the behaviours they believe protect and promote good mental health.

For more information visit www.actbelongcommit.org.au or phone Sarah Dixon, local Act-Belong-Commit Project Officer on 9690 1320. To get more involved in community life and find out about local clubs and groups, visit the Shire website.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR TERM 4

School commences for students on TUESDAY 13 October. All students from Year 3 to 10 will be swimming during sport in

Term 4 Last day of school for students in 2015 is THURSDAY 17th

December

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COMMUNITYNOTICESBEVERLEY AMATEUR SWIMMING CLUB INC

EFT: BSB 016540 ACC: 494608285

The 2015/2016 Season begins on Monday 2nd November after school at the Beverley Pool.

Registration Day : After School Tuesday 13th October

Registration Forms can be completed and returned to the box in the front office of the school by Tuesday 13th October, or alter-natively outside the library after school on Tuesday 13th October and there after at Junior Tennis Coaching.

Payment by EFT is preferable please use surname as reference, alternatively cheques can be mailed to:

Beverley Amateur Swimming Club Inc PO Box 73 Beverley WA 6304

Children who have passed Stage 3 are eligible. Membership costs are as follows:

7 and Under $30 8 years $80 9 years + $110 Based on the age of the child at the time of registration

This does not include pool entry. Coaching sessions are held on Mondays after school with Time Trials taking place on Fridays. If you would like further information or would like to discuss payment options please contact a committee representative.

Contacts: Anthea Cooke (President) 9647 2080 [email protected] Sally Kilpatrick (Secretary) 9646 4004 [email protected] Anne Cleland (Treasurer) 9647 2054 [email protected]

Kindy Enrolments for 2016

ENROLMENT FORMS ARE NOW DUE BACK

If you wish to enrol your child in Kindy for 2016, please collect an Enrolment Form

from the school office.

Children who were born between 1st July 2011 and 30th June 2012 are eligible to attend

Kindergarten in 2016.

An Information Session will be

held at the Kindy at a later date.

Waterwise Tip:

Look after our rivers and wetlands by preventing nutrients and organic matter entering our water-

ways.

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