l o o h c S y r a im r P ia Yakam Newsletter

Principal: Julie Blythe Deputy Principals: Yvonne Height, Helen Walmsley and Paul Murray Ph: 9841 7533 Fax: 9842 1350 Email: Yakamia.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Volume 2 21 February 2014

From the Principals Desk

Swimming Carnivals The Year 4 & 5 Carnival will be held on Tuesday 25 February and the Year 6 & 7 Carnival will be held on Wednesday 26 February. We look forward to seeing lots of parents or family members at the Leisure Centre to cheer on the students. Assembly There will be an assembly on Friday, 28th February at 1.20pm. Parents and visitors are most welcome to attend. The host class is Mrs Beards Year 4s. We look forward to seeing you there. Reading Intervention Program Our RIP program has started with a bang. We have two new coordinators in Mrs Vicki Castle and Mrs Jeanette Brooks who have worked hard to get the program up and running by Week 2. Thankyou to those parents who have done their Help Wanted! If you have some spare time during the school day please volunteer at the school library. Lots of help needed with resources, book covering etc. Dr Paul Swan Dr Paul Swan attended after school yesterday to provide Professional Learning in Numeracy to Yakamia teachers and teachers from other schools within the region. Dr Swan is renowned across the state for his knowledge and enthusiasm for all things mathematics. Teachers engaged in a variety of activities and games that enhance understanding, knowledge, problem solving and reasoning in maths. Dr Swan gave up his own time for no charge, providing an excellent PL that will benefit all students from Albany and other schools . We thank Brian Stamp for inviting Dr Swan to Yakamia. training and supported their children to a great start. Some children have already jumped two levels in less than a week. That is largely because of the hard work, partnership and assistance of all involved. This is a very important and worthwhile program and includes the Reading Club volunteers and Mrs Lidia James. Thanks for your support.

SCHOOL BANKING

THURSDAY IN THE HALL,

TUESDAY IN BLOCK 4

8.30 9.00am
Money payable to office or by Direct Debit Direct Debit Details: BSB 016-510 Account no: 3408 23089

The 2014 Voluntary Contributions are: Kindergarten Pre-Primary to Yr 7 $50 per child $60 per child

Please note childs name in full if different from parent

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School News
Woolworths Earn and Learn Competition The EARN AND LEARN BOXES have ARRIVED! A huge THANKYOU goes out to our whole school community due to your contributions in 2013 The Yakamia community has earned the school over $10 000 dollars of resources in the last two years. In 2012 the school spent the money on Literacy resources and in 2013 our earnings were spent on maths equipment. this is a huge bonus to the school through the direct actions of our parent and grandparent body so again thankyou from all of the kids and staff at Yakamia.

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School News
Veggie Patch We are in the process of rejuvenating our patch for the new year. If you can help out with donations of any of the following they will be very much appreciated:

Healthy Eating -Ten tips for parents

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Give children a variety of different foods Offer nutritious snacks, like fruit, yoghurt, crackers and cheese Encourage your child to eat breakfast Ensure that the family eats together at least once a day Pack your childs lunch at home. Let your child help. If your child refuses a new food, dont make a fuss. Try again several times. Listen when your child tells you they are full When your child is thirsty, encourage them to drink water. Allow your children to help with planning and preparing healthy meals.

Animal manure Seedlings Soil Mulch Worm Widdle/Castings Fertiliser

Please drop any donations in to the Science Room (31). Many thanks Bill Beard & the children of Yakamia PS

10. Plan physical activities for your family

Honour Certificate Winners14 February 2014

Room 11 Name Mia Shephard Imani Officer 12 Kynan Smith Emily Glew 13 Victoria Cash Lachlan Linn 14 Kyle Bradbury Tahlia Roberts 15 Zerah Bermejo Ksharna Coyne 16 Olivia Steel Jack Ditchburn 21 Bryke Cook-Vigus Jemma Carbonell 22 Kobi Smith Sienna Ugle 23 Sophie Moore Matthew Rowley 41 35 34 33 32 26 25 Room 24 Name Kelsey Smith Jonothon Cash Dylan Maguire Ella Belfield Jorja Ercegovich Chloe Pietrala Ella Ayres Luke Probert Luke Dawson Kasey Pears Caede Oreo James Wynne Luca Burr Bella Medbury Madeline ONeill Jesse Hill

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Social Networking
Social networking describes a variety of online services like Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter and online games such as World of Warcraft and RuneScape. These services let children and teens communicate with other people online. Social networking sites are a great way for your child or teen to stay in touch with their friends and family. They can post information about themselves and display photos, tell everyone what theyve been up to, play games and basically just hang out. However, sometimes its easy for children (and adults) to forget who they are communicating with online and who might see the information they post. Its easier to say and do things online that they might not do in real life. As a result, its important for children (and adults) to stop and think about how their behaviour will affect others, as well as themselves. There are other risks. Cyberbullying, people making inappropriate contact, identity theft, scams and possible exposure to adult content can make places like social networking sites risky. But if your child or teen plays it smart they can stay safe online.

Tips for parents

Stay involved in your childs use of new technologiesask them to show you how social networks work. Set up your own account, ask to join your childs friends list and see for yourself what theyre doing. It can be a fun experience for you too! Check the age guidelines of any site or game your child might want to engage in. Help your child set up their profile to make sure that they dont put too much personal information online. Help them to identify what is and isnt appropriate to post online. Check the privacy settings for each service and find out how to block other users and report abuse. Hopefully you will never need to do this, but its good to be prepared. Talk to your child about who they should communicate with or make friends with online. Discuss the amount of time your child can spend online and ensure they maintain a balance. Remind them of their other responsibilities and encourage outside activities, hobbies and face-to-face time with friends. Keep the lines of communication open. Children need to be confident that they can talk to you about whats happening.

Tips for your kids & teens

Think before you post. Content posted online can be there forever. You can put it up, but you can't necessarily take it down. Make sure you dont put any key personal information on your profile. This includes your phone number, personal email address, home address or the name of your school. Be careful, when you post photos, that they dont include any of this information either. Check with your parents if you do decide to give out personal information or put it in your profile. Use the privacy settings. Learn how to make your profile private, so only people you accept as friends can see what you're posting. It's still public. Even if your profile is private you can't control what your friends do with the information you post. It's important to guard your privacydon't post information or photos that you wouldn't want everyone to see. Remember, not everyone is who they claim to be. Although its great to have online friends, including them on your 'friends' list allows people you dont know to learn all about you. This information could be used for a scam, to steal your identity or worse.

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Social Networkingcontinued
More tips for your kids & teens

Keep your online friends online. If you do want to meet someone that you havent met so far in person, ask a parent or another trusted adult to go with you and always meet in a public place, preferably during the day. Say no! Free offers are usually too good to be true and can end up costing you a great deal. Be considerate. Only post comments you would be happy to receive yourself. Dont post photos of other people without their permission. Remember, when you post photos you might be impacting the privacy of your friends too. Dont respond if someone sends you unkind or bullying messages or asks you to do something that makes you feel uncomfortable. Instead, tell your parents or another adult you can trust.

For more information contact:

Australian Communications and Media Authority Cybersmart program Cybersafety Contact Centre Telephone: 1800 880 176 Email: cybersafety@acma.gov.au www.cybersmart.gov.au

Parent Information
Parent Traps (Professor Matt Sanders) Its tough being a parent but its easy to fall into one of the common parenting traps. The criticism trap is when there are frequent power struggles with your child. The situations escalate from criticising to threatening and yelling. This type of discipline often backfires. The parents anger makes the child and parent resentful and hostile. If these kinds of battles take place frequently, its time to try a new way of handling the situation. doggedly to the same marriage routines, for the sake of the children, rather than addressing the problems constructively. The perfect parent trap. There is no such thing as a perfect parent and trying to be one will only lead to disappointment, resentment, guilt, and feelings of inadequacy.

The martyr trap is one where parents become so over-involved in the task of parenting they neglect their own needs. The parents relationship suffers and may end in feelings of dissatisfaction and resentment. Quality parenting can only happen when adults have their own lives in The leave them alone trap involves the parent simply not acknowledging their child when balance. they are behaving well. If good behaviour is taken Professor Matt Sanders is founder of the for granted it may be replaced with the Triple P Positive Parenting Program. For misbehaviour that receives more attention. A more information go to www.triplepbasic principle of positive parenting is to praise parenting.net or ParentingWA 98410790, behaviours you would like to see more often. your school or your Child Health Nurse (for The for the sake of the children trap occurs 18mth-4year olds). when parents in unhappy marriages stick

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School Dentist
Yakamia Dental Therapy Centre From 2014 all parents will be required to bring their child/children to their dental examination appointment(s). This is so we can have forms signed, take x-rays if required and to consult with the parent for any other reasons relating to their childs oral health. Please contact the clinic if.....

Address and contact details have changed If you cant make it to your appointment We have issued you with an appointment time that doesnt suit Your child has a toothache (the sooner the better) If you think your child is due for an appointment Youre attending a private dentist and would like to withdraw from the School Dental Service

Yakamia Dental Therapy Centre is located at the Yakamia Primary School, directly opposite the YMCA Child Care Centre. The clinic can be contacted on 9841 3498. If you cant get through, please try again as we may be with a patient and unable to answer the phone. Thank you Catherine, Margaret and Jaqui

Year 1 Room 35 Fraction Activity

The Year 1s made their own pizzas as part of a Maths activity. They were learning fractions and had to halve their pizzas. Last week they enjoyed Green Eggs and Ham!

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Community News

Please note notices appearing below are not necessarily endorsed by the school. We provide this space for community groups to advertise to the school community. It is up to parents to scrutinise the activity and organisers for their child.

FREE Two day Workshop and Information Sessions for PARENTS/CARERS of school age students on the autism spectrum
When: Tuesday 11th & Wednesday 12th March Where: Albany Entertainment Centre The Positive Partnerships initiatives have been developed and delivered by Partnerships between Education and the Autism Community (PEAC) and funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations through the Helping Children with Autism package.

What will PARENTS/CARERS LEARN?

a greater understanding of the impact of autism both at school and at home knowledge about how to develop effective parent, school and teacher partnerships information about local school systems processes opportunities to network and share strategies with other parents/carers and key community members opportunities for discussion around a range of topics relevant to students with an ASD and their families

Some key community representatives that support families living with autism will be identified and invited to participate in the workshop with a view to supporting a community focus beyond the workshop. To register for this unique opportunity go to www.positivepartnerships.com.au. If you are not able to attend a workshop the website has FREE resources, interactive modules and information about autism. For more information call Kim on: 0407 897 368
Vegemite SurfGroms is back. TWIGHLIGHT DREAMS Ballet Contemporary Jazz-Ballet Hip-Hop Latin Children to Adult classes Term I sign up now at affordable prices www.twilightdreams.com.au 0428 129 672 This fun filled surf educational program for 9 12 yrs, encourages kids to get involved in surfing all around Australia. Lessons and games that teach water safety, build confidence, ocean knowledge and surfing skills. Starting after school on Tuesday and Wednesdays 3.30 5.30. Book online at www.surfgroms.com For further information call Roz 0427 413 627 Little Seeds Surf Coaching www.littleseedssurf.com

Australian Airforce Cadets Parents and Young People You are invited to 705 (City of Albany) SQN Open Night Wednesday 26 February 2014 at 6.006.30pm Cnr of Spencer & Serpentine Road, Albany Find out all you need to know about cadets!

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Community News
Triple P Program

Please note notices appearing below are not necessarily endorsed by the school. We provide this space for community groups to advertise to the school community. It is up to parents to scrutinise the activity and organisers for their child.

Positive Parenting, Professor Matt Sanders As a parent, you want to do the best for your child, but how do you know whats right? What do you do when your child answers back? Or is being bullied at school? Or starts telling obvious lies? Over coming weeks in your newsletter, I will share some of Triple Ps proven tips for the best ways to handle common behavioural and developmental problems in children. From battling disobedience to encouraging homework routines, Ill cover those everyday issues to help you work out some strategies to suit your family. Ill highlight common parent traps and hopefully make the very important job of raising kids as enjoyable and rewarding as possible. But remember, parenting is sometimes hard work and it may take time to tackle more difficult problems. The good news is that help is always at hand. Throughout the Albany area we are offering parenting support with Triple P, one of the worlds most highly-regarding parenting programs. For more information go to www.triplep-parenting.net or contact Parenting WA 98410790 or your child health nurse (for children 18mths-3years), or, your school for local Triple P courses ( being held in schools for parents of school aged children). Professor Matt Sanders is founder of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program.

Saver Plus

Did you save your cash bonus for education costs?

Saver Plus provides free financial education, budgeting and savings tips to assist you in making your money go further! Saver Plus will even match your savings dollar for dollar, up to $500 towards education costs. Theres no catch.
To be eligible you need to have:

a Health Care or a Pensioner Concession Card a child at school, starting next year or study yourself some regular household income, e.g. you or a partner may have casual, part-time, full-time or seasonal work. Contact Maureen Adams at Anglicare WA on 9845 6617 or maureen.adams@anglicarewa.org.au
Saver Plus was developed by ANZ and the Brotherhood of St Laurence and is funded by ANZ and the Australian Government.

YAKAMIA JUNIOR SOCCER CLUB The 2014 soccer season will start after the April school holidays on Saturday 3rd May and ending 20th September. Girls and boys from Pre-Primary to year 7 are welcome to register. All games are played on Saturdays at North Rd Soccer grounds. The fees for this year are $85 for PP-Yr1, $90 for Yr2-Yr5 and $105 for Yr6-Yr7. Some families are eligible for assistance through KIDSPORT. You can obtain information online at www.clubsonline.dsr.wa.gov.au/kidsport Registration dates are as follows: Thursday 6th March 8.20am-9am Yakamia school hall Saturday 8th March 9am-1pm North Rd Soccer club rooms Tuesday 11th March 8.20am-9am Yakamia school hall Friday 14th March 8.20am-9am Yakamia school hall Lisa Manera. 0439601295 or 98421876

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Community News

Please note notices appearing below are not necessarily endorsed by the school. We provide this space for community groups to advertise to the school community. It is up to parents to scrutinise the activity and organisers for their child.