PGWA Aboriginal Play and Learning Forum

The 2016 forum reflects on how we can work in ways that value parents and carers as a child’s first teacher.  It looks at the importance of families and their communities in raising healthy confident children and how we need to work and learn together to get children ready for school.  The day will also share the journeys of people who have graduated from Tertiary studies, who currently attend school and who are getting children ready for school. 
 

Harmony Day at Sawyers Valley PS

Yesterday the Early Years team celebrated multiculturalism and difference by asking the children to trace, cut out and decorate their hands. We assembled the hands to make a Harmony Day Tree. The children reflected on how the tree looked so interesting and beautiful because all of the hands were different and were guided to make some parallels with the importance of individuality and difference in groups of people. We brainstormed their responses to the sentence starter "Many different hands make..."

Hills K-2 Educator Network Session

Hills K-2 Educator Network Meeting:
Tuesday 5^th April 2016

You are invited to our Term 1 Network Meeting.

WHEN: Tuesday 5^th April
WHERE: Sawyers Valley Primary School Early Learning Centre
TIME: 3:30 Cuppa and Registration
           3:45/4:00 Session begins.

TOPIC: Early Years Updates and Sharing

We will be sharing some updates on Phase 2 of the WA Curriculum and new resources that are available to support teaching, learning and development in the Early Years.

Bring along a description of a sensory experience or provocation that you have found to be engaging in your learning environment. Please type and print out some copies (10-15) so that everyone can take a resource home with them. A proforma for this can be found in the Library.
 
You can register for this event using the IPL Online Calendar. If you do this it will be recorded for TRB registration purposes. Participants can also sign in on the day.

Hope to see you there!

Our second SHWACC (previously SHACC) workshop for 2016 will be held on :

Date: 31/3/16

Time: 4-5 pm

Venue: Greenmount Primary School (follow the signs to the library)

You can register for this session via the online calendar.Our focus for this session will be on developing school HASS and Science operational plans. Please bring along your school's operational plans (completed or works in progress), suggestions for developing operational plans and any questions you may have.

Nibbles and refreshments provided.

Hope to see you there.

Carey Stewart and Cynthia McGlew
SHWACC Co-ordinators

A reminder that our first SHWACC (previously SHACC) workshop for 2016 will be held next week :

Date: 24/2/16

Time: 4-5 pm

Venue: Greenmount Primary School (follow the signs to the library)

You can register for this session via the online calendar.We will be sharing important WA Curriculum updates and planning our 2016 SHWACC sessions.

Nibbles and refreshments provided.

Hope to see you there.

Carey Stewart and Cynthia McGlew
SHWACC Co-ordinators

 Explore Dirk Hartog’s stories and legacies.

Created by Stephen Powell

Monday, 1 February 2016 @3:13PM

Explore Dirk Hartog’s stories and legacies.

October 25^th Marks the 400^th anniversary of Dirk Hartog’s landing on the Western Australian coast.

A new website is now online and a free resource for Year 3 & 4 is ready to use in WA schools. Secondary and Primary teachers may find the WA Museum website useful when discussing world explorers and trade.

Go to http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/dirk-hartog  to visit the new website.

Go to http://www.htawa.net.au/dirk_hartog to download the free resource.

For more information go to https://www.mediastatements.wa.gov.au/Pages/Barnett/2016/01/New-website-reveals-Hartog-stories-and-legacies.aspx

Kind regards

Stephen Powell

Welcome to 2016!

Welcome to 2016 Everyone!

I hope that you had an enjoyable break and are re-energised and ready to take on the exciting challenges of the new year!

We have some changes to our TDS team here at Sawyers Valley this year. Stephen has joined the Teaching and Learning Services team at Statewide Services and so I am now co-ordinating the TDS program alongside Sharon Humphries, Tonya Wood and Danielle Murphy (the Sawyers Valley TDS Team).  We will do our best to continue with the great work Stephen did in keeping you updated with new information.

Our focus area has also been expanded and we are now a TDS school for HASS (P-6) and Early Childhood (EYLF).

Best wishes for the start of Term 1.

Carey Stewart
TDS Co-ordinator
HASS and Early Childhood
Sawyers Valley Primary School
Email: Carey.Stewart1@education.wa.edu.au