18 March 2016

Newsletter Articles

From the Principal’s Desk

Welcome to our first newsletter for 2016. I offer a special welcome to parents and care givers who are new to the Kent Street community. Term one is traditionally the time when we reflect upon past achievements so that we can set suitable targets for the new school year. I am pleased to acknowledge some very fine achievements of our graduating class of 2015, especially Rohan Khanna and Taige Lui who each gain a place in our prestigious 95+ Club for their suitably high ATAR scores. Similarly, I would like to acknowledge our VET Dux, Nyawal Deng, who fared extremely well in our Flexible Learning Program last year.

Attendance Matters

Earlier this term, I met with each of the Heads of Learning Area who have reviewed their achievement data and set specific goals to assist our young people to achieve to their potential. A common theme was an issue of attendance as a determinant of success. Those students who attend regularly set themselves up for success simply by engaging in the learning process. It would be appreciate if you could impress upon your children the value of attending school on a regular basis. A good rule of thumb is that if they are well enough to not need a doctor, they are probably well enough to come to school. Of course, sharing their head cold is never a good idea but staying home because they feel a bit tired is not going to help them achieve.

SEQTA

As more students embrace the ‘bring your own technology’ policy, teachers are putting more and more information on SEQTA so that you, too, can be part of your child’s learning journey. We appreciate that there have been some setbacks with log on details this year. We aim to improve upon this and invite you to contact the school via email if SEQTA continues to be an issue for you. Emailing kentstreet.shs@education.wa.edu.au would be appreciated as we can be of best assistance when we know what the issues are.

School Canteen

Information on Flexi-schools has been included in this newsletter. Once registered with Flexi-schools, students can have funds placed on their Smart Rider (through the Flexi-school account) and use it like an EFTPOS card at our school canteen. EFTPOS and cash are also accepted. Please encourage your child to take advantage of this service and note that leaving the school grounds to purchase food from nearby shops is not allowed. Any parents or care givers who can spare some time to assist in the school canteen on occasion can contact the manager, Tracy Ellis, on 9262 0553.

PBS

In 2015, the staff at Kent Street elected to become a Positive Behaviour Support school. PBS provides a framework so that a consistent approach to social and learning behaviours can be encouraged. Our first step was to determine our priorities for PBS and we have settled upon the following:

Respect for learning
Resilience to achieve
Responsibility to our school and community

Expect to hear more about PBS as the year continues.

Mrs Kath Ward
Principal

Interschool Swimming Carnival

From our school swimming carnival which was held in week four, our best swimmers were selected to represent Kent Street at the Interschool Carnival. The team of 45 students from Year 7 - 12 travelled to HBF Stadium to test their abilities against students from other schools in Western Australia. All students represented Kent Street exceptionally well by helping their teammates out and giving their best effort in every race. Kent Street finished in fifth place out of eight schools, which means we remain in division C next year.

Cameron Fawcett from Year 8 received Champion Boy from his age group after winning all his individual events, while James Fox from Year 9 received Runner up Champion for his age group. Well done to everyone who represented the school.

Health & PE Department

Year 8 Champion Boy, Cameron Fawcett

Year 7 Fashion Workshop

Friday March 4th 2016 - This is a day to remember for our new Year 7 Fashion girls – it was the day students and teachers got to know each other a little better, as well as celebrating the commencement of our journey of construction and creativity!

We spent from lunch to 6pm together. Our workshop began in the art room with Mrs Kelly dying fabric by spraying various shades of green! Then after a little drying time, painting and decorating with green foliage. The beautiful green photos show how every student was able to create an individual design using the same paint and instruments, inspired by the theme of Rio as the countdown to the Olympics continues. In a few weeks these stunning designs will be transformed into wearable pieces of art – to be paraded with pride at the end of the year at the annual Fashion Showcase!

The fun did not stop here. A delicious and colourful afternoon tea was catered by the Hospitality students while the girls could choose to enjoy the school pool. The favourite event was jumping in as a team!

To end our evening, we returned to the fashion room to play “get to know you” games led by Mrs Turton (aka Celine Celery)

Finally, it was just a delight to welcome all parents to our fashion room where hellos were exchanged and work justifiably shown off!

This was a wonderful start to our 2016 Fashion year, thank you to all involved - especially the girls!

Mrs Ingrid Hills
Fashion & Design Department

Aviation graduate flies sky high

2015 Kent Street Senior High School graduate Rohan Khanna is destined to reach great heights.

Rohan has been accepted in to the Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA) as a Royal Australian Air Force Pilot after a gruelling 18 month recruitment process.

2015 Graduate Rohan Khanna

“The screening was long and demanding,” he said.

“I had to do multiple interviews, medical examinations, computer based tests and psychological interviews.

“Lastly I had to do a two week course in Tamworth, New South Wales where I was examined for my flying abilities, group and team based activities, discussions and speeches and another interview with a tri-services panel.”

Rohan’s love of flying was sparked by Kent Street Senior High School’s Approved Specialist Program in Aviation, which he joined in Year 8.

“My teachers simplified the content by making lots of hands on models which furthered my conceptual understanding,” he said.

“We also had special guest speakers and opportunities to go for flights at Jandakot Airport and apply what we learnt in class to practical scenario.

“The aspect of being able to fly at high speeds was quite fascinating to me.”

Rohan achieved an ATAR of 95.8 and a number of awards including DUX of the School and the Aviation Program, Best and Brightest, Kentian Academic Scholarship and the Jock Bremner Science Award in Years 10 and 11.

Rohan said his success didn’t come down to luck.

“My biggest technique was being prepared and ready in advance. I never left things to the last minute. I would write myself deadlines and use different text books to get as much practice as possible, so I didn’t face a question I hadn’t seen before,” he said.

“Being named DUX of the school at the end of Year 12 was definitely my biggest highlight.”

“The award represented all the hard work I had completed in the last five years at school.”

Rohan will study a Bachelor of Technology (Aeronautical Engineering) with the University of New South Wales at the ADFA Canberra Campus.

Aviation Department

News from CoRE

Kent Street CoRE is STEAMing Full STEAM ahead, towards a brighter future. A contemporary and unique learning platform, exclusive to Kent Street and a first for Western Australia, it is guiding and preparing students for careers beyond 2020. Student feedback is supportive of its teaching and learning experiences, where students not only share their accomplishments within their teams, but proudly across the other CoRE year groups.

Technology has already formed a key foundation within the Project Based Learning system.

Year 7 CoRE students

Year 8 CoRE students

Students from Year 7 - 10 are coding, building websites and using engineering based platforms to explore, relevant, modern investigative science, supported by maths and communicated through artistic mediums.

The success of the program is founded on collaboration, inclusivity and embracing the diverse talents and intelligences that are evident within each team. This facilitates creativity and the development and growth of each individual’s problem solving mind-set. Within this environment, learning to think outside the box and build the confidence to challenge curiosity, pushes the achievement of outcomes beyond the realms of the traditional classroom.

CoRE is creating awareness of the real world soft and technical skills required for successful career pathways. The Age of Digital Disruption is creating a new domain of technological based careers which require data scientists to operate in 4D environments. CoRE students, through their contextually set projects are exposed to these developing industry requirements.

Since November 2015, plans and projects have been instigated that will see CoRE go global over the next year. Building international links with New York based STEAM Corporation, We Connect the Dots, CoRE students will have the opportunity to engage with likeminded students and professionals through the Yammer Network. Similarly, with We Connect the Dots Australia, Kent Street students will be invited to undertake hackathons, a coding initiative supported by Microsoft.

The inaugural event undertaken in January this year saw four Kent Street students achieve first place. The CoRE team are passionately involved in this association to ensure that the students are at the forefront of meaningful education opportunities!

The CoRE Team!

Year 9 CoRE students

Year 10 CoRE students

Kent Street takes on Perth Wildcats

On the 10th of December, term 4 last year our Indigenous cohort were offered an incredible opportunity to play at halftime of the Perth Wildcats VS Melbourne NBL game courtesy of Hawaiian. We had two teams of six play who were all indigenous and we also had a year 7 female in each team!! This opportunity came as a reward for our indigenous students being very well engaged and well-mannered when the Wildcats held a 1 hour skills clinic in the schools gym. The opportunity also gave teachers a well-earned reward with an abundance of tickets being released to the school. Every member of staff assistance and encouragement on the night was greatly appreciated. The parents are also to be congratulated for giving permission to their children on such short notice. It was a fantastic event and gives a scope on what can be on offer when our students are well behaved and engaged in our programs.

Lennon Marlin
AIEO

Back L - R Cassius Loo, Jason Warrell, Mark Mogridge

Front L - R Tyler McMiles, Clayton Nundle, Nala Graham, Courtney Woods, Jaylen Garlett, Dominic Roe, Darrell Kyle, Kye Galby

Chambers of Minerals & Energy Women in Resources Awards

On Friday 4th of March I took part in The Chambers of Minerals & Energy Women in Resources Awards & Inspiring girls mentoring session. Four female students were selected to take part in this event (Vino, Peta, Ruth and Navirnyaa). The main aim is to inspire greater numbers of female students to follow in the footsteps of women in resources awards winners. We were given an opportunity to interact with industry representatives and reinforce key industry messages around women in resources. We also got an opportunity to interact with company representative to learn more about the companies and the broader career opportunities in the Western Australia resources sector. This amazing event included the presentation of the six women in Resources Awards and a panel discussion facilitated by Annabel Crabb (One of the Australia’s most popular political commentators) on diversity in the workplace. During the inspiring girls mentoring session, we talked to many women in mining industry and heard their story of success. The reason I’m saying this is because, not all women who are successful in this industry started off very smoothly with everything. They had to go through a lot of hard work and consequences to deserve their place in the mining industry.

There were total of 6 women in resources awards which were:

Outstanding Company initiative – BHP Billiton Nickel West Job Sharing in Senior Leadership
Outstanding operator/ technician/ trade woman- Suzan Drake-Brockman
Outstanding Young Woman in Resources- Megan Kline
Outstanding Woman in Resources- Claire Negus
Woman in resources Champion- Michael Schoch
Lifetime Achievement Award- Mrs. Gina Rinehart

Key points learned from the Inspiring Girls mentoring session:

I learned that nothing can be done right without putting your 100% hard work to the project we are doing.

I learned that good networking skills are very important for a company.

I learned that hard work, diversity in workplace and commitment is the most important key to success.

I learned that balancing our personal life and our work life is mandatory to follow when we are in a workaholic position.

I learned that not only men can be very successful in handling big projects, women can be more successful than we could imagine.

I learned that there are a wide range of opportunities in different types of careers out there.

I learned that being confident and taking the lead committing to something is an excellent thing to do when you have a good career.

I learned that not only experienced people can be a part of a resource industry. You will have a lot more opportunities to join the resource industry as an apprentice and have a good progression on that.

I have learned that being in a resource industry either working as a health and safety manager or an environmentalist, it can never be easy as we think.

Vino Vigneswaran
Year 10 Kent Street student

From the Manager Corporate Services

PAYMENT OF CONTRIBUTIONS AND CHARGES

Thank you to those families who have paid their 2016 Voluntary Contributions and Charges.

The school is offering an incentive prize draw for families who pay their contributions and charges by 8 April 2016 – a signed basketball by the Perth Wildcats.

School Contributions enable the school to purchase essential resources to assist in the best possible educational outcomes for our students.

Statements were sent out to families in February. If your child has changed subjects and it is not reflected on the statement, please contact the school office.

Senior School Charges (Year 11 and 12), Specialist Program Charges (Year 7 to 12) and Elective Charges (Year 9 and 10) are compulsory as per Department of Education Policy.

Charges must be paid by the end of term 1, 2016 unless a payment plan has been arranged.

All students with debts in excess of $300 for previous years’ compulsory charges have been referred to NCML Debt Collection Agency. They will be in contact with families in the near future to arrange payment of outstanding charges. Students with debts less than $300 for previous years compulsory charges are still required to pay and this can be arranged through the school as per normal payment methods.

The school offers a variety of payment options:

1. Cash, cheque, EFTPOS including credit card facilities (credit card payments are also able to be phoned through).
2. Direct deposit to our bank account: BSB: 066128 A/C No: 00900195
   (Please ensure that the following format is adhered to, this will ensure the correct account is credited: (EG: If you are paying contributions & charges please enter Joe Smith Yr 8 CC)
3. BPay: Code and reference are listed on account statements
4. Arrange a payment plan

If you have any queries or would like to set up a payment plan, please contact the Finance Officer – Bev Davis on 9262 0500.

Yilgarn Craton Field Trip 2016

On the Labour Day long weekend, the Year 12 Earth Science students accompanied by 5 staff undertook a 1800 km geological and environmental field trip around the Yilgarn Craton. From Meckering to Hopetoun, through Southern Cross and out to Forrestania, students were engaged in #therealclassroom learning experiences. Academic, technical and soft skilling was greatly enhanced over the 5 day period. Camping on Bev’s Farm, in the Fitzgerald River National Park and at Wave Rock was accompanied by 2 excellent visits to Evolution’s Edna May Goldmine and Western Area’s Flying Fox and Spotted Quoll Nickel Mines. In between, there was numerous roadside ‘sponty’s’ which focused on mapping, vermin control and dry land salinity.

Thank you to the Kent Street staff who gave of their time to attend - Frank Cardenia, Kathleen Booth, Kerry Hardes and Heike Behrbohm. Thank you to Wave Rock Caravan Park who lifted their Public Liability so that we could stay the night at the base of the rock. Thank you to the staff of both Edna May Goldmine and Flying Fox/Spotted Quoll Nickel mines who offered their intellectual property and time to expose the students to mine site operations. Finally, a huge thank you to Australian Institute of Geoscientists and Earth Sciences Western Australia for their financial support.

Proudly, this has been my 38th field trip since 2006. Without a doubt, I consider field trips to be the most valuable of learning experiences. In the 5 day period, the students were exposed to the whole Year 12 curriculum, observing theoretical concepts and processes in a series of real world contexts. In the field or at the mine sites, they developed an understanding of the minerals value train, evolved an appreciation for conservation and sustainability aspects and embraced the use of technology in the field to gather information and record data. Mine personnel were very impressed with our students engagement in discussions, the many high order questions they asked and the strategies they employed to use technology in the field.

This field trip, is one of seven that is going to be run by the CoRE Program in 2016. Our next one is to Shark Bay in 6 weeks time and for the first time, our lower school CoRE classes will undertake their field trips in Terms 2, 3 & 4.

Below is student feedback from the field trip.

“The Yilgarn Craton Field trip that I attended, helped me to consolidate concepts that were learned in class. It gave me a real understanding of the major concepts learnt at school and I also learnt how to make some good Butter Chicken.”

“The Yilgarn Craton Field Trip was the best EES field trip that I have been on. It wasn’t a jam packed field trip but it was very informative and educational. Through this field trip I was able to have a better understanding of what metamorphic rocks are. It was fascinating to see how the grading of the metamorphic rocks changes as we move further east only about 2km difference between the beaches. It was surprising to learn that there was an intraplate earthquake in Australia. The field trip was a fun packed, informative and educational trip where all students interacted and learned new things.”

“This field trip has provided an insight and understanding of the creation and formation of the Yilgarn Craton and surrounding areas, that a text book could never give. The geology of this area is truly amazing, in both its diversity and uniqueness and these can only truly be appreciated when seen and felt in person. #therealclassroom.”

“The Yilgarn Craton field trip was a very fun and educational experience. We learnt a lot of important topics both for our education and our social life. We learnt metamorphic rocks have a vast variety of features, it was very eye opening. Our relationships with each other have also grown and I hope we stay in contact and remember the time we had together.” Paul Grigor

“Its always good to go camping or go to the beach in your own time, but until you go on an Urby field trip you don’t understand the significance of your surroundings. And not only do you learn about the Earth, but you get to know everyone so much easier than you would at school. These field trips are what I’m going to miss most after graduation.” Anna Stauborg

“The field trip was eye opening, to live with people for a week that I would not usually live with. The geology aspect was above what I expected.”

“I personally have never been on an overnight field trip/actual camping adventure, so this was definitely an experience. I had the most amazing time, bonding with everyone, and really getting to know each and everyone on camp. I was able to get out of the classroom, and view real life, geological situations, that really increased my knowledge and understanding of the geological environment that I live in. It was definitely one of the most amazing experiences of my life and I would recommend it!” Nadia Chilwan

“The field trip was both exciting and challenging; the two ingredients to create a fun experience. I was excited about getting a first hand insight on mining operations (which was pretty cool). I was excited to test my pre-existing knowledge on metamorphism. But then the challenging part was no shower, which was quite minimal in the scheme of things. So, in brief summary, the field trip was another EES unique experience.” Gladella Ulep

“Being out there in the real world, seeing the processes happening is a much better experience than sitting in a classroom and listening to a 50 minute lecture. The Yilgarn Craton Field Trip is the best field trip I’ve been on, in terms of experience, knowledge, naturally occurring examples of processes, this field trip has taught me so much. Not to mention the networking I was ably to accomplish through meeting the professionals at work in their field. An amazing experience.” Josh Sabio

“Although it was smaller than the Year 11 field trip, I’ve been in, it was a lot more compact and all it allowed me to be more engaged. I felt like I’ve made a real strong bond with my peers as well as my teachers.”

“The Yilgarn Craton field trip was an invaluable tool that helped immensely in my science understanding of the concepts learned in class. The real life experiences of integrating the concepts from school to an outcrop, rock face or environmental plain brings everything into perspective and allows a better understanding and clearer view.” Andrew Stok

“The field trip to the Yilgarn Craton was incredibly helpful. I am confident that if I pass EES, it will be heavily due to the understanding I gained on this trip.”

“The Yilgarn was very helpful for me, mostly because I could easily see what I was learning about using real life examples which I could interact with making the learning experience more engaging. Metamorphic rocks have bee a harder topic than usual for me and the trip cleared up a lot of things I didn’t understand. Also showing how geology connects in with the human life and how we work with it to further our living standard.” Jordan Zyla

“The field trip was very beneficial and we have learnt most of what we did in the class but I an now able to understand it much better now. There were many great moments that I will remember, Ms Urbaniak made every moment truly memorable and made every moment a learning experience.” Daniel Knight

“As a group of Kent St students and as an individual geotourist I thoroughly enjoyed our extensive and in depth field trip. We were all blessed and lucky to be welcomed into Edna May Gold Mine, Spotted Quoll and Flying Fox Nickel Mines and the various stop overs in between. For 5 days we were all in the best classroom possible.” Jaydon Ward

#therealclassroom or #KentStCoRE on Twitter to find out more

Suzy Urbaniak
CoRE Coordinator

Pinks Stumps Day

Thursday 3 March 2016 saw us host our third annual Pink Stumps Day in support of the McGrath Foundation for breast care nurses across Australia. The initiative is driven by the cricket staff and students, however, it has evolved into a fabulous event that the whole school has embraced. For a gold coin donation, all staff and students were encouraged to wear some form of pink with their school uniform for the day, be it hats, socks, ribbons, scarfs or dyed hair. Throughout the day there was a sales stall manned by the SPOCK parents that sold pink accessories, as well as hot dogs and soft drinks that had been kindly donated. The student support of this stall was over-whelming, with the SPOCK crew run off their feet keeping up with sales. In addition to this a silent auction of a signed Fremantle Dockers jumper amongst staff and parents raised over $500.

On the cricket field with bright pink stumps at each end of the pitch, a new format got under way, with six students from each of the Years 7 – 10 cricket program joining forces to play in a fun and inclusive game to get things rolling. Captains Jordan Gargett and Nicholas Edwards ensured the Year 7 boys were welcomed onto the big stage of our home ground in style with a hard fought and enjoyable match.

The main event was a mouth-watering affair, with a hand-picked line-up of staff and former students to take on the current upper school cricket cohort. The star studded staff and ex-student team consisted of Australian U/19’s representative Brooke Guest, Fremantle DCC first grade star and former star of Foxtel’s cricket superstar Chris Chellow, last year’s Len Pavey Medalist and first XI captain Dave Roberts, as well as amazing staff cameos from the regulars plus Murray Green from maths, Jill Sheehan from the library and the girls from the PE department.

Set an imposing 180 off 24 overs by the current students, the staff had their work cut out to chase the score down. With big crowds cheering on the students at recess and lunch it was a hostile environment for the staff and ex-student batsman. The students were even able to call upon the tactical services of Alcohol Think Again Western Warrior’s vice-captain Michael Klinger as he walked the sidelines and signed autographs for the fans.

All this, however, was not enough as the staff were guided gracefully home by Roberts, Chellow, Aldridge and Guest. By the end of the day cricket was the winner, a great spectacle had been put on, and the school had managed to raise in excess of $2,200 for the McGrath Foundation. A mighty effort by all involved.

Mr Verco
Cricket Department

Hackathon

A first for Western Australia, and in collaboration with a New York based non-for-profit educational company known as We Connect the Dots (WCTD) and WA’s Iluka Resources, six Kent Street students participated in the Back to School Hackathon. Working on real world problems, the students worked in teams to code programs to problem solve a sequence of situations pertaining to a humanitarian issue.

This is a CoRE learning experience, moving student learning forward through the Age of Digital Disruption and ensuring that coding literacy is foundation to student CoRE learning and that CoRE students are career aware of future career opportunities. CoRE’s coordinator is working with WCTD New York to develop curriculum to further enhance everyday STEAM learning and is a director of WCTD Australia, and involved in building the educational system here in Perth. CoRE students are a part of the global learning classroom. They are part of the WCTD Yammer Community and are able to access professional information when required.

Kent Street Hackathon students with CoRE Patron – Former Chief Scientist of WA and Western Australian of the Year 2015 Professor Lyn Beazley AO FTSE

We Connect the Dots – Back to School Hackathon

January 2016 – A CoRE Learning Experience

By Year 10 student – Abigail King

The 2016 coding Hackathon was an amazing event held by We Connect the Dots in association with Iluka Resources WA. Iluka generously offered their floor in the AMP building to host the event over 48 hours, on the weekend of January 8th-10th. A coding Hackathon is specifically designed to teach students how to make a sustainable website using tools and knowledge gained from attending the conference. The Hackathon ran students through the basics of HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript, this allowed each team to work collaboratively to create their own website.

We started off learning HTML 5 under the guidance of mentors from industries, universities and IT companies. Once we learnt the ropes of HTML, we moved onto CSS. CSS is used in conjunction with HTML to stylise the website (add colour, margins and many other magical tools to change the website's look) and add details.

During the event, the students were able to talk to industry experts in Microsoft, Lateral and many different students including those in a diverse range of university courses. This helped to expand the student’s previous knowledge of IT jobs that are available in Perth. It also changed their perspective on how the computer science employees operate and what their jobs actually entail. Computer science employees work together in teams and collaborate with other areas, such as marketing and engineering. They talk to each other constantly to make sure their code interacts together properly. They also solve complex software problems by creating solutions.

Once the 48 hours were over, it was time to decide the winners of the event. Lyn Beazley, a neuroscientist, educator and science ambassador, Mark Shelton, founder of Bloom were just two of the amazing judges of the day. The judges collaboratively worked together to pick the winners of the day. After a while of deliberating, the judges had finally found the winner. Team Hydrosphere, which was made up of 3 Kent Street SHS students had won first place. Team Hydrosphere had won a Microsoft pro 3, which was generously donated by Microsoft. And along with the third place winners, they had won the opportunity to have a development day to further their website with the help of Bloom and Lateral.

By Year 10 student - Zahra Nur Salsabila

The Back-To-School Hackathon event started off with speeches from important people such as Ms Cynthia Griffin, the U.S Consulate General Perth, Kashif Saleem, the CEO from Track’em, and a few people from Microsoft. After that, we did cool team building activities before we got into coding. We started the coding activity with lessons from Khan Academy about HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The activity went for a few hours to get us familiar with coding and we got help from a lot of mentors and volunteers during the activity and throughout the event. Our project was to present a global issue with the solution on a website. We started our project for a few hours before we went to sleep.

We woke up at 5am to do yoga on the Central Park. After yoga, we got ready to connect to Darby and Brooklyn via Skype to share our ideas and gave them feedback about their project and website on Yammer, then breakfast. We carried on our project until the end of the day, we were also introduced into GitHub, Microsoft Azure and boilerplate to help us with our project. In the afternoon, we did a Real Life Minecraft activity, we had to build something that is related to our project. We went to sleep a little bit early on the 2nd day because we were close to finishing our project.

The next day which was the last day, it was our chance to pitch our design. We were given a few tips for pitching our design from Mark Shelton, the CEO of Bloom. After lunch, before the parents came, we had to make a timeline on the wall about what we did during the weekend. Then we did our presentation in front of parents that came. After the presentation, we had about 30 mins break for the judges to decide and announce the winners.

Even though I didn’t win, I feel grateful for participating in the event and it was a pleasant experience. I got to learn new skills and met new people. Also a big thank you to the mentors and volunteers who were willing to spend their weekend with us.

Telephone contacts for Pastoral Care Team Members

From the commencement of the 2016 school year members for the Pastoral care team have changed offices. Listed below are the telephone contact numbers.

Deputy Principal – Student Services - Mr Craig Lynch 9262 0524

Pastoral Care Coordinator Years 7/8 - Mrs Nadira Naidoo 9262 0551

Pastoral Care Coordinator Years 9/10 - Mr Chris Broom 9262 0547

Pastoral Care Coordinator Years 11/12 - Mrs Susan Lees 9262 0527

Absence Hotline

Call 9262 0556 to explain your child’s absence from school. Early notification on the day of the absence would assist us immensely.

School Canteen News

Placing orders

Encourage your child to place orders for their recess and lunch foods. Not only does this help them ensure they get the food they want it also means the collection queue is much shorter.

Paying for purchases

Students can use any of the following methods of paying for their purchases;

1. Cash
2. EFTPOS
3. Flexischools – an oline ordering and payment facility you just need to register with by going to www.flexischool.com.au

News from the Library

Opening times

Monday to Friday 7.15 am – 3.15 pm

Book Borrowing

Students may borrow up to 6 of the following items for a 2 week period:

• Ficton
• Non-Fiction
• Magazines
• Graphic Novels
• Comics

Borrowing is not permissible if previously loaned books are overdue.

Library Mission Statement

Our mission is to create a library which provides a nurturing environment in which students can successfully find information and ideas for their educational, informational, and recreational needs. The library seeks to promote reading and research skills enabling students to interpret meaning from various sources as they become lifelong independent readers and learners.

We Provide

• Qualified staff to assist students
• Print resources
• Computer/Internet access
• Online databases
• BYOD assistance
• Private Study
• After school study

After school study is offered to all Kent Street students from 3pm - 4pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Research and assignment assistance available from teachers and a light afternoon tea is provided

Students - do you need help logging onto the school wifi from your Kent Street approved BYOD device? Mr Cottrell is available to assist you in the Library on Wednesday and Friday between 8:15am - 8:45am.

Please come to the desk and let us know you need help.

Upcoming Events

For further details contact Suzy Ubaniak on 9262 0518 or email; suzy.urbaniak@education.wa.edu.au