Glengarry Primary School
Newsletter

Dear Parents & Community Members,

We live in dynamic times and I can only applaud our community, including staff, students, parents and carers for being understanding and flexible.  This includes the postponing of the Interschool Cross Country to September given the unforeseen weather.

On a far more positive note, we finally were able to conclude our celebration to the school’s cultural awareness journey that commenced last semester.  The recognition during the assembly was highly respectful and the artwork produced by classes absolutely outstanding – if you have not had a chance to see some of the work, we have left a number of displays in the Assembly Area.

Thanks to Mrs Just, we also enjoyed the experience of a helicopter landing on the oval earlier this week.  This “prompt” promoted some wonderful pieces of writing and I have enjoyed reading these, especially those produced by our younger students.

Congratulations also to our Senior Choir for their tremendous performance at Crown last week – they certainly did our school proud.  This Friday will see the Year 4 and Senior Choirs performing at The RAC Arena as part of the One Big Voice concert.  A wonderful event with thousands of primary school students singing in harmony.

 Peter Meston

Principal

The following We Care awards were presented at the last assembly for "Respect".  Congratulations to all recipients.

On Wednesday, August 18, the Year threes and fours in Room 6 travelled to Mullaloo Beach where they planted over 100 seedlings of a native coastal plant called Spinifex hirsutus.  This planting is helping with the regeneration of the dunes and provides additional coastal habitat for animals and improved ecosystem health.

Students also participated in a beach clean-up, working in teams to clean-up a section of beach before sorting and surveying what they collected. This data will be added to the national Australian Marine Debris Initiative (AMDI) database.  It provides valuable information on where, when, and what kind of marine pollution is showing up on our beaches.  Sadly, we noticed a lot of small pieces of plastic and many carelessly discarded cigarette butts.

We would like to say a special thank you to Wayne from Perth NRM and Mark and Rani from Mullaloo Beach Community Group for volunteering their time and making our day such a great success.

On Monday the 16th of August, Room 9 and 10 went by bus to Parliament House in West Perth.  It was a sunny day and we had three rotations in five hours. 

One of the rotations was a guided tour of Parliament House where we were informed of lots of interesting facts.  While we were there, we met Paul Lillburne who is our local MP. 

We also went to the Electoral Education Centre where we learned about the voting process and conducted our own vote about lollies and chocolate!  The next rotation included learning about the three levels of Government in Australia.

We enjoyed being out of class and in the spectacular weather!

By

Amber B and Juliet L

The library will be open during the following times for Book Fair sales. Payment can be made via card or cash:

Monday 23rd August to Friday 27th August

Before School: 8:20am- 8:45am

Lunch: 12:35pm -1:00pm (students only)

After School: 3:00pm -3:45pm

Last week Sam O represented Glengarry Primary School in the Year 5 Boys 2.5km cross-country event at the Western Australia School Sport competition.  He competed against 292 students and came FIRST!

A big congratulations to Sam for an outstanding achievement.