Tuart Hill PS....a good school!

The real estate section of the Sunday Times did a two page spread on Joondanna. Our school received a positive review with Joondanna being promoted as a '...great place to raise children, not only because of its safe and open nature, but because it was in a catchment area with good schools, including Tuart Hill Primary..." This is another indication that our school is highly valued and well respected within the local community. This is great news!!

Anglicare WA Christmas Giving 2012

 This year Tuart Hill Primary School will be acting as a collection point for Anglicare’s Christmas Giving food hamper appeal.  To support this important community initiative, please feel free to donate non-perishable food and other essential items to the front office. Required items include pasta, pasta sauce, tinned tuna, rice, long life milk, tea, coffee, vegemite or even something sweet with a long use-by-date.

Operation Christmas Child

Once again this year we will be supporting the ‘Operation Christmas Child’ appeal which is run by Samaritan’s Purse, an organisation working in over 100 countries around the world. The focus of the Australian and New Zealand project is to work with partners in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands.

Samaritan’s Purse has three main areas of focus:

• Giving children, their families and communities a message of hope, love and joy during the Christmas season through Operation Christmas Child.
• Bringing disaster relief to victims of natural disaster, war, disease and famine. They offer food, water, medical assistance, hygiene items and temporary shelter to give people the opportunity to rebuild their lives.
• Empowering communities through building schools, providing wells, installing water filters, initiating programs that promote nutrition, health and education, improving sanitation to prevent disease and offering vocational training and income generating programs to help people break the cycle of poverty, giving them hope for a better tomorrow.

The most common way that people get involved with Samaritan’s Purse is to fill a shoe box with gifts for a child in need as part of the Operation Christmas Child appeal. Every year over 8.5 million children in over 100 countries across the globe open up a shoe box from someone who has participated in Operation Christmas Child.

Last year the appeal was a great success at our school. We are inviting interested families to become involved in this wonderful appeal by packing a shoe box full of gifts. Attached to this letter is a page that explains the process including information on what kind of gifts can be included in the box.

The school has purchased 100 pre-printed shoeboxes which parents can obtain through the school office (there are only 100 so be early). Alternatively, parents can use any shoebox that they have at home. Families with extra shoeboxes that they are not using are invited to drop them at the school so that we can give them to families without a box.

If you cannot fill a box but would like to help pay for the shipping costs you can donate cash to the school office. It costs $9.00 to send each box.

All boxes need to be dropped at the school by no later than Monday November 5.

We look forward to our school community supporting this wonderful appeal once again this year.

VIDEO to watch: Love in a Box

Term 4 Returns

Welcome back to school for Term 4. Our first newsletter will go out tomorrow. It will be brief as it is only the first week of term. Our website is currently being updated with the latest Term 4 planner for you to refer to.

This term is jam packed with activities leading up to the Christmas Holidays. Events planned for the term include:

• Spelling Bee, school and interschool competition
• Wastewise workshops
• Junior Primary Cricket clinic
• Jump Rope for Heart
• Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal
• Shockproof clinics
• Melbourne Cup (for staff)
• Year 7 Rottnest Island excursion
• Choir Christmas excursion
• Carols by Candlelight night
• Graduation dinner and ceremony
• Staff 'silly' assembly
• Year 7 sailing excursion

We will provide more details on these events as they draw nearer. Please check our fortnightly newsletters, our website or this blog for more information.