Dear Waddington Families,
As we move through Term 2, the learning is really ramping up at Waddington.
Our teaching staff are working with the data platform Elastik. This platform is widely used across schools in the Swan West Network. It enables us to collect data from On Entry, NAPLAN, and assessments from within the program, to provide detailed insights into your child’s learning gaps and support targeted teaching in Maths and English.
Waddington is also keeping up with other schools in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) space, using AI to assess writing skills, maximising teaching time and not marking time.
Outside of the classroom, students are preparing for their first planting of native plants in our Waddington Bush Land. We are proud to be a part of this partnership with the City of Wanneroo, to care for and protect the Land that we share.
The students thoroughly enjoyed the music incursions organised by our music teacher, Mr Longman. We had the pleasure of listening to a String Quartet from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, and an opera version of the story of Goldilocks. Our school offers a rich and diverse learning environment, which provides students with experiences to broaden their horizon and consider the many pathways they may follow.
I have always believed that education is like the Golden Ticket to life. Charlie, the character from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, found his golden ticket for a visit to the Chocolate Factory. Engaging in education is like finding the ticket to life and all of the amazing opportunities that are out there for our students as future adults. Education is not just about academic results, it is about finding out about ourselves, learning how to be responsible, how to solve problems, how to make a mistake and turn it into a learning experience rather than let it hold us back, how to be a person with integrity.
Ask your child what the school values and our motto is? I believe that they will able to tell you; we say them together every lunchtime because they are important to us. These values guide us and our children, and I hope remain with them as they continue on their journey when they leave Waddington.
Wishing you all a safe and happy week,.
Ms Katherine Chivers
Principal
From the Administration Team
Term Planner
Please see below important dates for Term 2 2025. They are subject to change so please keep up-to-date by checking the school website calendar regularly.
Important Dates
9 June 2025 – Newsletter 5 published
17 June 2025 – Planting Bushland (Rooms 1, 4, 5, and 8)
18 June 2025 – Assembly – Room 5
25 June 2025 – Semester 1 2025 Report sent home – Kindy students
27 June 2025 – Semester 1 2025 Report sent home – PP to Year 6 students
27 June 2025 – Lightning Carnival Balga PS – Year 3-6
30 June 2025 – Newsletter 6 published
2 July 2025 – Three Way Interviews 11.15am – 4pm
4 July 2025 – P&C PJ & Pizza Day
4 July 2025 – Term 2 2025 ends
21 July 2025 – Term 3 2025 commences – Staff and Students return
4 August 2025 – Staff Development Day – students do not attend
2026 Kindergarten Enrolments now open!
For Waddington families who have siblings turning 4 years of age on or before June 30 2026, we are accepting applications for Kindergarten next year now.
Applications (with all supporting documents) need to be submitted by Friday July 25 2025.
If you know any families in the local area with children also turning 4 years of age in this time period, please encourage them to contact the front office to obtain an Application for Enrolment form.
Please call on (08) 9462 9500, email waddington.ps@education.wa.edu.au or drop into the front office between 8.30am – 3.30pm for further information.
Sing and Grow at Waddington PS!
We are pleased to announce that Roseworth Child and Parent Centre are running ‘Sing and Grow’ at Waddington on Tuesdays afternoons this term. Please see the flyer below on how register for this fantastic progam.
Free internet for unconnected families with school-aged students
School Student Broadband Initiative provides free home internet for unconnected families with school-aged students until 31 December 2025.
The Australian Government School Student Broadband Initiative (SSBI) is offering free home internet for eligible families with school-aged students until 31 December 2025.
To be eligible, families must:
- have no active broadband service
- have a device capable of accessing the internet
- live in premises where they can access a standard NBN service
- have a child living at home who is enrolled in an Australian school.
The free broadband starts from the day the service is activated with a participating internet provider. Families will not be placed on a paid service by the internet provider at the end of the free service without consent.
For more information and a list of participating internet providers, visit NBN Co School Student Broadband Initiative or call 1800 626 269.
If you think you are eligible and want to self-nominate for the free broadband offer:
- call the National Referral Centre on 1800 954 610 (Monday to Friday, 10 am to 6 pm Australian Eastern Daylight-saving Time)
- visit the School Student Broadband Initiative website.
For technical support in more than 100 regional and remote communities throughout Western Australia, contact your local Community Resource Centre.
Attendance – Everyday counts!
Breakfast Club – Thank you Woolworths Mirrabooka!
We would like to acknowledge with thanks Woolworths Mirrabooka for supporting our schools breakfast club, our students appreciate you!
Room 8 – It’s all about persistence and growth!
The Room 8 students have had a great start to the year. We have had two ECU pre-service teachers joining us on Thursdays, and the students joined them in making three dimensional shapes and adding money. Miss Lowton and Miss Yates will be coming back in November for two weeks and the class is really looking forward to it.
In Literacy, the students have finished the book ‘Off We Go Around Australia’. This was a very unusual book, containing funny images in a ‘Where’s Wally’ style. The class enjoyed searching for interesting hidden jokes in the drawings, which showed how images and pictures can bring extra meaning to a story. We have now started our next book, ‘Yirra and her Deadly Dog Demon’ and are practicing making our sentences more interesting by adding adverbials, vocabulary, and joining sentences with because, but and so. We are hoping to write a class novel by the end of the year with illustrations.
The Room 8 students have also been working hard on their Mathematics. They have greatly improved with using mental strategies for adding and subtracting, and we will be focusing on multiplication and division in the coming weeks.
In Technology, students have been learning how to write code to make characters move using the block method. Some students have found this very challenging, however, their persistence has been amazing, and as a result, they are improving every week. They are also great at collaborating with each other to solve some of the problems that they encounter. It is incredible to see the class working together to help each other achieve their goals, while understanding that everyone learns at different rates and not to judge what others can or can’t do.
We are looking forward to a great rest of the year.
Mrs Cahill and Miss Porch
Community Notices
Saver Plus Program
Please see below for important information regarding the above program.
Roseworth Child and Parent Centre Programs
Please see below flyers for some programs available for families.
WA Rent Relief Program
Please see below a new program created by the WA Government, Anglicare WA and Vinnies. Call 1800 979 777 for further information.
City of Wanneroo Programs
Please see below flyers for various programs and activities around the City of Wanneroo that may be of interest to families.
