1 July 2021

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From the Principal’s Desk

Term 2 has been 11 weeks long. I remember in the old days; some terms were 15 weeks long. As I explained to one of the students, the terms are usually 10 weeks long, but Easter is celebrated at different times each year, and this is how terms 1 and 2 holidays are set. We have been very busy with basketball carnivals, Market Day, Music Rocks performances. The students have done themselves proud at these events.

We would love your feedback on Market Day – please send a quick email to your class teacher with your ideas, what worked well, what needs to be changed. Proceeds from the day go towards funding our enterprise projects and the classes to spend some of their profits.

Congratulations to our year 9 team for the assembly. The students did an excellent job with a keyword sign Noongar song—a brilliant effort and very well done. Our communications committee and our speech therapist Ashley are doing a lot of work ensuring all our students’ communication needs are being met.

As an aside, one of the parents asked me after assembly whether I was well as it looks like l had lost a fair bit of weight. She was concerned. I assured her the weight loss was planned, and apart from a few age issues in the feet, I was feeling fine and thanks so much for asking.

All student reports were sent out via Connect or posted home. If parents/caregivers want to discuss the reports, please contact your class teacher directly. We had some technical glitches, including some reports not having the principal’s comments attached. Sending them out electronically via Connect overall has been very successful as well as environmentally friendly. I encourage parents/caregivers to reflect upon their child’s achievements and, if applicable, consider how your NDIS goals can be incorporated into student’s individual education/transition plans.

We are looking at developing some more parent workshops to navigate the NDIS and will let you know when they are being run. Our network has produced a planning tool for parents that we hope to share next term.

Winter weather often brings sickness. We try our best to cover unwell staff but can’t always get staff who have worked at our school before. If anyone is exhibiting cold or flu-like symptoms, it is best to stay home. We need to maintain hand hygiene practices and follow Covid-19 health advice. The lockdown as a circuit breaker is a timely reminder that we are yet to conquer this virus and need to be vigilant.

School commences for students on Tuesday 20th July. On the Monday School Development Day, staff will be going over our business plan, learning about safe manual handling, sensory diets, diagnostic testing, physical therapy and sports programs.

It was a great afternoon farewelling Mrs Cave, who commenced teaching 44 years ago. I have worked with Pam for over 25 years at two schools, and she was a true professional. We wish her well in retirement. Miss Coombe returns in term 2 from parental leave, and it will be great to have her back part-time.

I want to acknowledge all the work carried out by the staff this term who continue to innovate and find ways to keep the students engaged and on track. To our school community - thank you for working as partners with us. Have an enjoyable holiday break.

Andrew Wilson

Consent2Go

We are excited to announce that we will soon be offering our families Consent2Go. This digital solution easily enables you to keep your child’s health records accurate and provide consent for school events, excursions and camps in a secure and timely manner.

We are always looking for ways to enhance our student care, and after careful evaluation of our requirements and providers in the market, we have decided to use Consent2Go. Consent2Go is a direct provider of services to the school and must comply with our privacy policy.

Consent2Go is used in many other schools across Australia and New Zealand and is highly effective.

Why are we changing?

For student safety, it is vital that their information is as up to date as possible and complies with government regulations. The processes we currently have to support this are complex and time-consuming for all involved, and we have been looking for a superior solution.

Consent2Go will replace our current paper process and be the channel that informs you on school incursions, excursions and camps, obtains consent and be the collection point for student health information.

It has an easy to use parent interface, and we are confident you will find it a much easier process for your child/children. This system doesn’t require parents to download apps or log into anything, as all communications are done via an email link.

When will this change occur?

We are currently producing a video with easy-to-follow steps to confirm our records of your contact information and your son/daughter’s health details. The accuracy and currency of these elements are important to us and essential for the care of your child. We will introduce the video together with the new system during term 3,2021.

The Admin Team

End of Term Assembly Awards

Merit Certificates

Class Updates

7C

Mr Cunnane is currently on leave.

7M

7M students are looking forward to a well-deserved holiday break after what has been an action-packed, extended-term 2. In week 6, students were excited to explore the senior campus for The Biggest Morning Tea. We successfully raised some money for a great cause (Cancer Council) and got a brief taste of senior campus life.

In week 10, our students participated in the college cross-country, and I congratulate all students who participated. Special mention must go to Patrick Kargbo, who achieved a second-place finish. Well done, Patrick!

Last Friday was our Market Day, and 7M enjoyed the opportunity to participate in what was a fantastic day. Our naughts and crosses boards were made under the guidance of Mr Arrantash and proved to be very popular, selling out quickly. Afterwards, our classroom quickly filled with various plants, art/craft, food, and drinks purchased by our students. All had a great day.

Some exciting topics and activities we have been learning about this term include; making stop-motion videos out of lego on our iPads, exploring Google Earth for geography, Ultimate Frisby for PE and learning about the solar system in Science. Along with these activities, students have been working hard on their daily literacy and numeracy programs.

Finally, a big thank you to all of our parents for their support over the semester. We look forward to more exciting events next term, including our middle school camp at Point Peron. I encourage all parents to keep updated via our class Connect page (7M), our website and our Facebook page. I would like to wish all of our students and parents a safe and happy holiday break.

Ricky Mitchell

Stop motion videos

Reading box cards

8JS

We are almost halfway through the year already; it seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye. It won’t be long before we are counting down the days to Christmas and the new year. We have had some great fun and laughs in our class this term. Cross country happened on Monday 14th June, and all the students attempted to run a 2km lap around the school. All of them did so well, and in our class, we had Edmund, who achieved 8th place, and Hugh, who achieved 13th place. We have been working hard to prepare our worm castings to sell at Market Day on Friday 18th June. There were many great products to buy, and we are very proud of the students for how hard they worked to get everything ready to sell on the day. The students have also been enjoying Art through the term, where they have been engaging in making lots of different and unique paintings, pictures, and collages. One of the projects they loved was getting messy and painting their hands to press onto paper to create a handprint piece of Art based on Andy Warhol’s works. Overall the students have had a fantastic term, and we can’t wait to do even more exciting activities next term!

Jacob Sands

8SS

Term 2 has been a productive and busy term for staff and students. Students have been working hard on their IEP goals and all curriculum areas and enjoying and having fun along the way. As we are coming to the close of a long term, in this issue of the newsletter, students are sharing their favourite part of the term:

The Class of 8SS

Ashton his 3D images

9M

We can’t believe that we are almost halfway through the school year. It has flown by, and the second half will be even quicker.

We have been working hard at prepping for Market Day, which was on Friday 18th June. We made and sold coloured sensory rice and playdough. We were so pleased to sell all of our products on the day. We are especially grateful to the junior classes at Cannington Community College. Check out our product development photos and selling of products.

We have just started a new novel, ‘Bridge to Terabithia, by award-winning author Katherine Paterson. We are looking forward to sinking our teeth into it over the coming weeks and early next term.

During PATHS sessions, we have revised the strategies we can use to make new friends. We have been testing them out during Peer Support Group (PSG) with the year 7 students. Our confidence is improving with how to approach new people and strike up a conversation.

We have had so much fun in Science. Our favourite experiment has been making ice cream in a bag. Our hands became so cold from the ice, but there is no reward without effort. The results were delicious. It got the tick of approval from all of us.

Our KWS skills to lead the school in an Acknowledgement of Country are improving. We are currently teaching the years 7 and 8 students as well. We have also been sharing Wanjoo, a Noongar Welcome Song, during these sessions.

We look forward to sharing it with you at our upcoming assembly on Monday 28th June and sharing more of our journey with you next term.

The class of 9M

Jessica, Khalid and Sarah making playdough

Sheree and Winston making ice-cream

Dylan and Jayden selling at Market Day

9S

9S students all say a big WANJOO (WELCOME) to you all. These are our term 2 highlights

Indigenous Studies

Students continue to make leaps and bounds with their knowledge and skills in this learning area and have commenced basic Noongar language lessons. Additionally, both year 9 classes share their language knowledge. They have worked with years 7 and 8 students in a very WANJOO (ing) atmosphere, which has been an enormous accomplishment for the year 9 students and in the true spirit of Indigenous cultures; to share rather than teach.

Duke of Edinburgh’s Award

Students are on track with their hours in physical recreation, skills and service, with some students clocking approximately 50 hours in total so far. 9S students are looking forward to continuing with their program and meeting the rigorous requirements of the Duke of Ed and eventually securing their certificate next year.

Peer Support Group (PSG)

PSG continues each week, and the students have developed a great sense of familiarity and trust with their year 7 friends. Our weekly sessions entail some Key Word Sign and Noongar language activities, followed by social games. The benefits of this initiative include creating safe spaces and people and increasing a sense of belonging and wellbeing across the year groups. Some students in our class can name all eighteen years 7 students. What a fabulous achievement!

Cross Country

All 9S students had a go and attempted at least one lap of the 1500 metre course. Participation is more important than winning. Well done, champs!

Congratulations to:

Year 9 Girl 2nd Place – Mandy
Year 9 Boy 4th Place – Dylan

2021 cross country

Market Day

9S students had an opportunity to demonstrate their customer service skills by interacting with our school’s extended community members, including parents and other family members. It was a successful day, and we would like to especially thank our parents/carers for their support and attendance. FRESH by year 9S will continue to operate, and we look forward to your orders.

Market Day preparations

Basketball Carnival

Dylan participated in this event with many other ESC schools and was an excellent role model for the CCESC. Dylan was awarded the Most Valued Player in Division 2.

Dylan at the basketball carnival

And a farewell to one of our members

Mandy is moving house and school, and we all wish her the very best for the remainder of the year and her huge transition. Keep in touch, Mandy!

Boorda (= “SOON” in a similar context to goodbye, but there is no word for goodbye in Noongar because we will always see each other SOON!)

Pat Spadanuda

10J

Basketball Carnival

On Tuesday, 15 June, CCESC took part in the ESSN Basketball Carnival. It was a fantastic day with more than eight schools participating.

Our school had three teams taking part in three divisions. It was great to see how well our students played and represented our school. Congratulations to Jaxon Hay from 10J for winning the best team player award in Division 1.

Many thanks to Mr Griffin and Mr Hussein for all their support and help organising the carnival.

Workright

This term 10J has been busy taking part in the ASDAN Workright program. The program encourages students to learn vital skills that will assist in future workplace learning placements.

Our students are attending GSI – Containers for Change and HDstreetwise. We are very grateful that these industries are helping our students gain such valuable experience.

Workright

Next term, several students will be taking part in WPL and will have the opportunity to spend over half a day at an allocated workplace.

Market Day

On Friday, 18 June, CCESC held their annual Market Day. It was a great success, with many different items and goodies up for sale.

The year 10 cohort opened the ‘In Kahoots Café’ and sold various food items, including sausage rolls, mini quiches, pear muffins, assorted scones, jelly cups and fruit sticks.

It was fantastic to see the students serving many customers along with taking payment and calculating change.

Cross Country

On Monday 14 June, CCESC and CCC participated in this competition, with the course being spread across 2km. Turoa and Jaxon represented 10J, with Jaxon Hay finishing in third place. All students received a participation certificate for taking part in this event. Well done, gents!!

Judi Janes

Cross Country

10W

While this term has been particularly long, it has flown by, nonetheless. We have been busy working on achieving our required hours for our endorsed programs and preparing for Market Day.

Market Day was a huge success. Our class combined with 10J and12H to man the ‘In Kahoots Café’. This enterprise project was a huge success. Year 10 sold over 1000 pieces of food. 10W selected recipes, trialled different ingredients and cooked 75 double-baked scones, 135 pumpkin scones, 115 date scones and 172 plain scones. These were all sold for 50c each. We had four dozen leftover, which was sold to staff in bags of a dozen. When we subtracted our costs, the year 10 students were proud to calculate that we raised $200 in profit after selling over $500 worth of goods. Liam Boyd rates a special mention for his excellent customer service throughout the day! These activities fit well into the Business Management and Enterprise P-Unit that we are required to gain 55 hours of work in.

10W

In Community Service, we have continued to clean our spot with the Adopt-a-Spot program. Initially, we noticed that we were collecting up to five bags of rubbish a week, now when we go to Charles Treasure Park, we are lucky to get one bag of rubbish. We have even had City of Canning workers come and talk to us and tell us what a great job we are doing!

In ASDAN e-Safety, we have learned about different ways to stay safe when participating in online activities. We recently learned about cyber-bullying and the ways that this could take place. More importantly, we learned what we can do about it and who we can go to for help if we encounter cyber-bullying in our own lives.

In Recreational Pursuits this term, we have been going to the Victoria Park Lawn Bowls Club every Wednesday morning for an hour of bowling which has been a fantastic opportunity to represent our school to people of the community. A small group of members stay each week and coach the students for a 40-minute game, followed up with a playoff to find the weekly winner. Special mention goes to Ryan Fennell, who has demonstrated commendable sportsmanship on his playoff in week 6.

This term has seen health groups combine with 10J and then separate into boys and girls. These groups offer the opportunity for each student to learn about health issues and ask questions in a safe environment where the answers are factual. These groups have been supported by community nurse Amy Myles, who has addressed some of the tricky questions as they were raised.

The coming term will see an opportunity for each member of the class to start doing small work placements for ASDAN Workright, which is still in the planning stages and will be finalised by the end of the term.

A basketball tournament was recently held at Ray Owen Oval – this was hosted by Kalamunda Education Support Centre and has become a yearly event. Alando Anderson was selected from our class and came back enthusiastic about basketball and the fun time while participating in the event.

I want to take this opportunity to thank each of you for your support of your student’s learning over this semester. I realise that the year 10 curriculum is quite different from previous years, but each student is proud, and their achievements are to be commended. Please have a wonderful winter break, and I look forward to working with each of you in the second half of the year.

Rhoda Whelan

Liam running the cross country

11LG

Term 2 has been an exciting, busy, exciting and hectic term in 11LG. Some of the highlights this term include doing workplace learning each Wednesday, The Biggest Morning Tea in Week 6, sports activities each Monday afternoon (water polo, table tennis, basketball, soccer, darts, pool, ten pin bowling, badminton, bocce, yoga or dance), the basketball carnival in week 9, working towards Individual Transition Plan goals, learning about the short and long-term effects of legal and illegal drug use, learning about a variety of strategies to assist us to regulate our emotional wellbeing and participating in Market Day in Week 9. The students were thrilled to learn that after the expenses were subtracted from the income at Market Day, $318 profit was made at the 11LG stall.

My favourite part of this term has been:

11G

Term 2 has certainly flown by! Students in 11G have shown tremendous commitment to their work placements this semester, and many are moving to new placements next semester.

Market day was a huge success, and the products made by 11G sold out in record time. A special thanks to Nabillah, Jeremy and Cheyanne for helping man our stall and sell our products.

Preparing for Market Day

Workright students are busy on Thursdays at work and have made a massive difference to the appearance of the gardens at the bowling club

Workright

Have a safe and relaxing holiday. It is well deserved!

Cindi Griffin

12H

Well! We all thought that term 2 would draaaaaag on, being an 11-week term after having a 9-week term 1, but it has flown by. As always, the students have been upholding our school values, Achievement, Independence and Respect. Each student in the year 12 class has demonstrated commitment to their learning and planning for the future, and we are very proud of them. A special mention to Angus Hough, who has completed travel training from school to home and is working towards home to school. Well done, Angus! We would also like to welcome Mrs Jean Reid to our team. Mrs Reid started at the end of May, and we love having her in our class!

Read on to find out what we have been learning in each subject:

English

We completed our Employ Me unit of work and have started to investigate social media and its effects on body image and self-esteem. We have been focused on building subject-specific vocabulary and using correct grammar, specifically capital letters and full stops.

English task

Maths

While completing Key Math diagnostic testing, we completed a unit of work on place value. We are now learning how to create and record a budget using the addition and subtraction of money.

HPE

We have been learning about a very topical subject – communicable diseases. The students produced informative posters about a communicable disease of their choice, including describing the disease, how it is transmitted, symptoms, prevention and treatment.

DFES

Should you have an accident, never fear! The year 12 students have your back! We have learned first aid techniques such as applying an adhesive, applying a pressure bandage, DRSABCD responses, CPR techniques, and calling an ambulance.

ASDAN

In pairs, students researched and presented information reports about the positive and negative effects of going online, which includes online gaming, surfing the internet for information, social media, online shopping etc. We learnt that going online always has consequences, and being aware means you can make an effort to avoid the adverse effects and optimise the positive effects.

Staff and Students of 12H

Pathways H

During ASDAN- Living Independently, the students could research a suburb they would like to live in, consider the cost involved, list the types of facilities available and the furniture they would require. It was positive to see students identify what type of amenities is important to them and sticking to a budget.

Furthermore, a few students identified how to maintain and fix various minor issues around the house. Such as changing a light bulb, washing up, cleaning a microwave, mopping and vacuuming the floor.

Chey and Zac practising how to maintain a house

During ASDAN - careers and experiencing work, the students were given the opportunity to reflect on their previous work placements. The students were able to brainstorm the skills they have acquired throughout their work experience journey. I was undoubtedly pleased that students were able to pause and recognise all the skills they have gained.

The students took part in a Sorry Day presentation. Kayleen Hayward, a teacher at Sevenoaks Senior College, provided an overview of what Sorry Day is all about. It was an excellent opportunity for our students to learn about the past.

Kayleen talking about Sorry Day

Kalability All-Stars Basketball

A few of our students had the opportunity to participate in the annual Kalability All-Stars Basketball Carnival. Many students showed a keen interest to take part in the event, and as a result, we took three teams to the carnival. The students had a great time showcasing their competitiveness, sportsmanship, and friendships with their peers from other schools. We were lucky enough to make it onto the news!

Congratulations to:

Kalability All-Stars Basketball

Biggest Morning Tea

Cannington Community ESC once again hosted the Biggest Morning Tea, which was a fantastic opportunity to bring the community together and raise much-needed funds for the Cancer Council WA. We managed to raise $534.70. Our students did a fantastic job volunteering and making sure the event ran smoothly. We were thrilled to hear positive feedback from customers.

Thank you to all the wonderful staff for their generous contributions.

Mustafa Hussein

Biggest Morning Tea

Pathways G

We have had a busy end to the term and enjoyed majestic weather for a busy Market Day. It was great to see some students handling money, meeting guests, selling plants and hotdogs and enjoying the day. Students had to count our takings, remove the float and deduct our expenses to realise that we made a profit.

Alex on a hill trolley at Market Day

It was fantastic to see Hugo, Zidane and Katie represent the school and competing at the basketball carnival. Some of the students even made the Channel 10 News, and Zidane received a medal for his efforts on the day.

During HPE, we have learnt about the dangers of drug use and effective harm minimisation strategies with assistance from the school nurse. Most of our students enjoyed water polo, indoor soccer and basketball this term and improved their physical skill levels and overall fitness and wellbeing. Students are encouraged to try new activities as we start individual games, including dance/yoga, ten pin bowling, pool, badminton/boccia and gym.

We had reconciliation week this term, and students completed activities and watched videos to increase their awareness and learnt more about Sorry Day from Kayleen Hayward from Sevenoaks. We have also discussed the upcoming NAIDOC week, and hopefully, students can participate in some of the activities we identified during the school holidays.

On a final note, it was pleasing to hear that our students are socialising outside of school. Some of the students have met up for a movie night, had dinner, gone to a party, caught an uber and even went to the pub. As the students transition out of school and into the community, they must continue to develop their social skills and maintain friendships

Dwayne Griffin

Design and Technology

Year 7 Briquette Enterprise

7C has been busy making recycled paper briquettes to sell at Market Day. Students needed to gather data relating to their briquettes performance for their marketing campaign. A fire was lit in the garden, and a heat gun was used to record the temperature. Three briquettes were added, and a start time was recorded. Students watched the heat gun as the temperature of the fire climbed to over 200 degrees. The three briquettes burnt for 45 minutes before the temperature began to drop. This experiment was used to support sales of the briquettes at Market Day, and they sold out!

7C testing their briquettes

Year 7 Woodwork

7M has been busy making two versions of the naughts and crosses game. One version was made to sell at Market Day, and the second version was made to take home. It has been a great example of an exercise to complete a quality project to a set deadline.

Year 8SS Enterprise

8S has been busy making fresh pasta to fill orders placed by staff, and all the orders are nearly completed. It is a busy hour each week, making, weighing, labelling and packaging. The students are keen to take the next lot of orders from any interested parents when orders open again next term.

Year 8JS Enterprise

Year 8J has been completing the weighing and packaging of worm castings to have their product ready for Market Day. Tenisha was responsible for placing the sticker labels on paper bags. It seems she missed the bags a few times!

Tenisha

Year 8 Woodwork

8SS has just finished the Spitfire plane models. This project introduces the process of templating, a skill often used by fixing carpenters and plumbers. Students enjoyed completing the camouflage paint jobs. Some of the planes were painted in colours that would make them hard to see in various environments!

Year 9 Woodwork

The year 9 woodwork students have just finished their money box trucks, which encompasses various production skills. Just before final assembly, Jaimie fitted his truck with his PPE items for a laugh.

Jaimie and his money truck

DFES Cadets

Year 10 DFES Cadet students are working on the unit “Living in the Field”, which has a navigation and map reading section. Students have learned about GPS navigation and the difference between land-based networks and satellite networks used for navigation. Class members helped set up a satellite dish. They locked it into the Optus C1 satellite located in the sky over New Guinea, providing GPS services to the Australian and New Zealand military and the public. The satellite also provides free to air radio and television services. The students were amazed they could stand on our school oval and watch live ABC news from Hobart, Tasmania. Students have been learning about topography and contour lines on maps. This week students used sand and strands of wool to demonstrate that they understood how contour lines could represent the shape of the land.

Tradestart

Students have fitted the last of the wall sheets and completed the new storage area to the woodwork shed. Students found the last day challenging as there was so much to do to get to lock up. It is hard work driving tek screws into steel for four hours straight. Other members of the Tradestart team worked inside to paint some green safety zones on the workshop floor, which took a lot of careful setting out and masking up before painting could begin.

Mark Arrantash

Workplace Learning

The cold weather has hit Perth! It is essential for students to be prepared for cold/wet weather, particularly on their workplace learning days. Even if the placement is working inside, they need to have wet weather gear to protect them when travelling to and from the placement.

We are busy preparing and organising for our Post School Options Event, which will be held Wednesday, 28th July, commencing at 2:45 pm. This year the event will be held at the middle school campus, and there will be a variety of service providers who can offer help and many who will work with you and your NDIS plan. Such a critical information meeting with NDIS now a part of our lives and even more important when your children are close to the end of their school life. We are looking forward to seeing many parents from years 9 – 13.

Carollyn Pears and Vera Edwards

Middle School Camp

Bush dance at camp!

Holiday Ideas

Holidays can be a great time of year, but they can also be challenging. For parents, it’s usually a struggle between finding some engaging activities for your child, making sure there’s enough relaxation time, all while encouraging less screen time and dodging the ever-present “what can I do?” question.

Fortunately, the City of Canning Youth Services Team and Libraries offer various activities and events for young people aged 10-17yrs during the school term holidays.

Check the events out at:

For some relaxation and general wellbeing strategies, this list from Youth Focus of 100 coping strategies could be helpful:

Finally, if you find that you or someone you know needs some support with their mental health, please reach out to your local doctor or call any of the following helplines for some confidential and free support:

Enjoy your holidays, and we look forward to welcoming everyone back for a positive and productive term 3.

Katherine Athanasiou, Student Services Manager

Chaplain’s Chat

Term 2 has come to an end; it’s been a long one but a good one! So much has happened, so many significant events to reflect on! I think week 9 was like my “Highlight Reel” week. After having a week off from not feeling so great, I loved being part of the basketball carnival. All of our competitors did such a terrific job out there, representing our school well. I also believe we hogged all the “air time” when the news came out.

Lawn bowls with the year 10 students was terrific. It has been “unbelievabowl” to be included in this REC pursuits class.

We were also busy “fun-raising and fundraising” at our annual Market Day. It was great to see so many faces lit up with joy with all that was happening throughout the day. Enjoy your holidays. Stay safe, but have fun and be sure to let me know when you get back what you got up to.

Justin Van der Westhuizen

A Word from the School Psychologist

A woolly winter hello,

Can you believe the term is nearly over! I must say, I enjoy the summer months much more than the colder ones - it’s so hard waking up in the winter! Next month (July) is all about resilience and understanding how to build skills that will help us bounce back. We can't always predict or control what life throws at us, but we can build a range of skills and nurture our resources to help us respond flexibly, effectively deal with challenges, recover more quickly and even learn and grow as a result.

Please find the link to the calendar so you can print it out -

I hope everyone has a lovely break and see you back in term 3.

Luwandi Perera

Star Tech

Tax-time, Scam-time

It’s hard to overstate the scale and reliable increase in tax time-related scams. Whether by text message, cold-call, email or some new creative way, there’s always a surge of scams every EOFY!

What to look out for:

• This year there has already been a flood of scams pretending to be from the myGov customer care team, asking people to update their details.
• Don’t trust text messages with a sender name related to ‘ATO’ or ‘myGov’. For the most part, anyone can send messages under any name, called Sender ID.
• Check the URL – just because the website looks right doesn’t mean it is. Always go through google or directly to my.gov.au. Scammers will link to duplicate sites to try to capture your password.

Advice:

• Never use the links or numbers included in the initial message – always look up the contact details on ato.gov.au
• Don’t answer calls from unknown numbers – unless you’re expecting a call, it’s best to let a message be left or to Google an unknown number before calling back. When you answer a telemarketer call, computers on their side log your number as active and will prioritise you in the future.

The ATO keeps a record of the major scams running each year at:

Be safe out there!

Mathew Burnett

A Message from the Community Health Nurse

Colds and Viruses

Upper respiratory tract infections and colds are everywhere, especially in winter, so it is almost impossible to stop children from catching them. Here are some points which may help:

• Teach your child to cover their nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing and wash hands straight afterwards. (sneeze into elbow if unable to wash hands without help).
• Hands should be washed after blowing noses and before eating.
• Use tissues once and then throw them in the bin. (Avoid using handkerchiefs)
• Keep your child home from school if they have a cold/cough/fever/pain.
• Make sure that your children eat a balanced diet of plenty of healthy foods.
• Keep children away from smoke – it irritates their eyes and nasal passages, making it more likely that they will catch a cold.

What to do if your child gets a cold

No treatment will cure a cold or make it go away more quickly, but you can help your child feel more comfortable:

• Rest at home.
• Provide extra drinks: If your child doesn’t want to drink much, try giving lots of small sips of water, milk or juice, or ice blocks to suck for older children.
• Keep your child home from school if they have a cold/cough/fever/pain.

Hand Washing

Washing hands is the easiest way to protect ourselves from contagious diseases like colds, influenza and gastroenteritis. Hands should be washed before and after eating or preparing food, after going to the toilet and after nose blowing. When teaching your child to wash their hands:

• Use clean water and soap, making sure they cover their hands and wrists.
• Use a brush to clean under nails if they’re dirty too.
• Dry hands with something clean like a paper towel.

Alcohol bases sanitisers are helpful when soap and water are not available. Use half a teaspoon of the product and encourage your child to rub their hands together until they’re dry. If you can see dirt on the hands, it is better to use soap and water.

Keeping hands clean is the best way to get rid of germs. Make sure hands are washed often with soap and warm water or an alcohol-based rub (hand sanitiser). Hands should also be washed after blowing noses and before eating. See the below link for the “how to wash your hands” poster.

How to wash your hands (health.wa.gov.au)

Amy Myles, Vanessa Castel and Susan Hawkins
Community Health Nurses

Office Information

Thank you to everyone who has paid their contributions—just a reminder, you can pay your contributions by EFTPOS, direct debit, or payment plan. Please contact the office to arrange a payment plan. All charges for years 11 and 12 students are compulsory. If charges are not paid, the school cannot subside your child’s excursions. Our bank details are BSB 016 270 A/C 340822406 (when using online banking, please remember to state your child’s name in the details box; otherwise, we cannot identify the relevant student).

Middle School Parking

Please note that parking is not permitted in the driveway at the school’s entrance as indicated by the ‘no stopping’ markers and yellow line, as this causes a traffic jam on Wharf Street and is dangerous for students. Your cooperation would be appreciated. Parents are welcome to park down the side of the school near the bus bays. Parents picking up children from the bus bays need to get in early before the buses arrive.

Visiting the School

All visitors must sign in at Reception/Business Centre and receive a yellow visitor label.

Tanya Buchan

Winter Youth Holiday Program

The City of Canning is excited to announce our upcoming Winter Youth Holiday Program!

We welcome all young people aged 10-17 years old to join us for a number of fun activities across the City’s Youth Centres and Libraries. This year, we have a range of exciting and engaging workshops, including Photography, Urban Art and much more! We encourage you to invite young people along to Create, Connect, Chill & Upskill with other like-minded young people!

All bookings can be made here

Please see the flyer attached and pass it on to your networks, young people & parents. Additionally, see attached Facebook & Instagram compatible tiles for sharing on your social media platforms.

If you have any questions regarding the Winter Youth Holiday Program, please direct them to youth.services@canning.wa.gov.au

Families for Change – Invitation to Morning Tea

Friendship

Friendship