School Announcements

WHOLE SCHOOL MUSEUM EXCURSION

In Week 4 all PP-Yr6 students will be visiting the Boola Bardip WA Museum, an online permission form will be sent out via Connect shortly. This excursion will be held over two days, please see the schedule below for your child’s excursion date:

YEAR 6 EXCURSION

Yr6 Students will be going to Parliament house on Friday 12 November. Please complete this online permission form.

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

SHARING A HILLS’ CHRISTMAS

Each year GHPS makes a valuable contribution to Sharing a Hills’ Christmas through voluntary food and gift collection. Please read the attached flyer.

SCHOOL BANKING

We have been advised by Commonwealth Bank that the CommBank School Banking program will not be returning to schools beyond 2021. The last banking day at GHPS will be Wednesday 15 December.

ARE YOU ATTENDING GHPS IN 2022?

If you know that your family (other than those students currently in Year 6) will not be attending GHPS in 2022, please let the school know by email (GooseberryHill.PS@education.wa.edu.au) or letter marked “Confidential” to Matthew Snell, Principal as soon as possible.

SPREAD THE WARMTH

Families who wish to donate warm items including blankets, jumpers, gloves, pants, socks and beanies can do so by placing them in the box in the front office.

GRANDPARENTS MORNING TEA

TERM DATE CHANGES

P&C Run4Fun – moved to Fri 3 Dec (previously Thur 16 Dec)

WHAT’S BEEN HAPPENING?

Room 9

The Year 4s were very fortunate to have Mr Brian Gould come along and work with us doing a “Plant Inventory” of the nearby bushland. Mr Gould put together a catalogue of plant pictures, with the scientific as well as common names we were likely to come across. As groups we worked in 3 x 3 metre grids and mapped, counted, and identified all the plants in the grid. It was challenging as there is such a rich diversity and variety of plants in our area. We also learned about plant adaptations and how our specific conditions in WA have strongly influenced the structure, size, and ability of plants to reproduce in dry hot conditions. We would like to thank Mr Gould as it was a great session for all our budding botanists in Year 4.