Dear parents and carers

I would like to welcome back all staff, students, parents and community members to Term 3; I trust that everyone had a relaxing and refreshing holiday.  I would especially like to welcome the new families to Edney and hope that they have enjoyed their first few weeks.

P & C

A huge thank you to our amazing P&C.  Last term out P&C members had many fundraising events including the Mother’s Day stall, Disco and Cookie and Hot Chocolate Day.  Thank you to all parents and carers for supporting these events.  We are always looking for new members.  The P&C meetings in Week 2 and 8 of each term at 6pm on a Wednesday evening in the library.

Toys at School

Just a reminder that toys, including sporting equipment, are not permitted at school. If your child brings in an item to share for class news, it needs to be handed to the teacher at the start of the day and will be returned at the end.

PBS – Focus this term

Edney Primary school is on the path to becoming a WA PBS school. WA PBS provides an operational framework to build a multi-tiered system of supports for staff and students and a whole school community.  The framework focuses on using preventative, educative and restorative principles and develops a consistent whole-school approach to embedding a common language regarding positive behaviour expectations, teaching and learning.

WA PBS utilizes a strength-based lens to identify preventative, proactive strategies and logical consequences that are contextually relevant. The aim is to “redesign the environment, not redesign the individual”. The focus is on Teach and Acknowledge. Teach the expectations and always acknowledge the students in action.

This year we have started teaching explicit behaviours, with a new focus each fortnight. Our current focus is We follow instructions.

Mobile Phones/Wearable Devices 

Parents are asked to read the school’s mobile phone policy, which is available on the school website at https://www.edneyps.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/Mobile-Phone-Policy-2021-Final.pdf

Parents who wish their child to bring a mobile phone or wearable device to school are asked to complete the Parent Permission Form from the school administration or print from the school website.

Our School Board

The Edney Primary School Board is our peak decision making and advisory group, representing the views of parents, staff and the community. Our school board members are:

Rebecca Coslani
Principal

Andrea Rees
Parent/Vice School Board Chair

Julie Varian
Parent

Kellie Gibson
Deputy Principal

Lisa Daniele
Special Needs Education Assistant

Taryn Dyer
Parent

David Balfe
Parent/School Board Chair

De-ana Mitchell
Deputy Principal

Justin Tupper
Parent

Kristy Harrington
Parent

Stacey Brown
Teacher

Stephen Price
Community Member

Staff Updates

I would like to welcome David Yole who will be teaching in Year 4 Room 15 this term and Grace Chan who will be supporting in Kindy Room 9 for the remainder of the year.

Faction Athletics Carnival

Our faction carnivals are on Wednesday 3 September – jumps, throws and distance runs and Friday 5 September – main carnival. Our students are all spending time each week in their factions training for the events. All kindy students are invited to join in the kindy dash at approximately 9am on Friday 30 August.