Reading Challenge

Take to your books

Coolbinia's Reading Challenge has begun! Take a trip to your local library, raid a friend's bookshelf or find a gorgeous new book at our school book fair - whatever you need to do to get busy reading.  Make sure your children fill out their Reading Log and see what they can accomplish before Friday 9 September.  

NAPLAN

Results coming home this week

In May this year national literacy and numeracy tests were administered to students in Years 3,5,7 & 9 throughout Australia.
Coolbinia’s NAPLAN reports will be going home this Friday for our Year 3 & 5 students.
If you have any queries about your child’s report please contact your class teacher.

Coolbinia's Got Talent - Friday 22 September

We take to the stage soon

Thanks to all those talented Coolbinians who have already submitted their audition videos to Mrs Smith.  It is such a busy week this week that we have extended the deadline for entries until Friday 26 August.  Details about the event are on the website. 

Sharing Our Stories

Our Students are making us proud 

Uniform Shop - Winter Sale 

Great Bargains on Winter Stock - Friday 2 September 

Bring your wallet along to the Faction Athletics Carnival next week and get organised for next winter now! Lots of bargains to be had. 

COSCA Open on Pupil Free Day

Monday 10 October

Don’t forget to register if you would like your child to attend COSCA on the first Monday back next term. Please get in touch with COSCA to arrange. 
Our very best wishes go to Cheryl our COSCA leader who will be away from work for a while recovering from surgery to her wrist.

Bullying is Not On

How we deal with bullying at Coolbinia 

In schools it is important to teach children the skills of positive behaviour. Children don’t always get it right intuitively.  Maintaining positive behaviour is everyone’s responsibility.  Everybody is accountable; the school, parents, teachers and friends to deal with these problems.  Bullying and unkind behaviour should be brought out into the open so we have the opportunity to help our children grow to be positive citizens.
Some of the ways we deal with bullying at our school includes group discussions, role play, class lessons, and individual conversations.  We aim to empower our children to make good choices, support kind behaviour and deter unkind behaviour.

Coolbinia Primary School has a Bullying Prevention and Management Brochure available for parents to refer to.    Further information is available online.

Science Week Is Coming

Getting Wired

This year's Science Week is going to be amazing.  Our theme is Wired for Science and there's lots in store!

Tree Planting in Abundance

By Our Great Coolbinia Gardeners

Our fabulous students have literally planted hundreds of trees.

All our classes, from Kindy to Year 6, have participated in our annual tree planting program in the school's bushland. 

Over 500 trees and shrubs have been planted to help conserve endemic species, as well as assist control of erosion and weeds. Well done to all our gardeners!

Children worked with their buddy classes and learnt about the importance of trees and how to plant seedlings to maximise their survival rate. 

Many thanks to all teachers for participating in the program and to Dr Lewis for organising the planting schedule.

Good Luck to Our Chess Players

Interschool Chess Tournament next week

We are sending 6 teams to compete on Monday 29 August at John 23rd College. They will face some stiff competition - fingers crossed for you chess players!

Wirelss Wonders of Robots

Coolbinia's Expertise on Show

Ten impressive students presented a one hour robotics workshop at a Community Science Expo on Sunday 21 August. 
This event was part of National Science Week and was held at the Canning River Eco Education Centre.  The students, from across the primary years, shared their knowledge about different robots used at our school and then invited other children to experiment the robots. 

Thanks to Mrs Creasy and Dr Lewis for organising this workshop so that our children could share their expertise and enhance their presentation skills.

Well done!

Congratulations

Academic Success

Well done to two of our graduating year six students who have earned places in specialist programs next year. Javier de Sousa will take up a place in the Languages Program at Mount Lawley Senior High School and Drew Dembo has accepted a spot at Perth Modern School in 2017. 

In Other News

Some more things that might be of interest:

• Enrol Now for Vacswim - October School Holiday Program
• Community Service Posts - new information about cricket, sports, events, assistance and more
• Check the Term Planner - To keep up to date with what is happening at school!