Newsletter

Term 3 has been very busy with carnivals, community events, excursions and Pop Up Shops. One of the highlights of the term was the athletics carnival in week 8. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the students demonstrating our USTAR values and behaviours, looking amazing in their bright House colours and participating with enthusiasm. A big thank you to Ms Allomes, Ms Pereira and Ms Hawkes for your excellent organisation, the carnival ran very smoothly, students had smiles on their faces and enjoyed the day.

Next term will be a busy one for our year 12 students with their final assembly with their mainstream peers on Friday 15^th October and the ESC assembly on the 8^th November. Year 12 students will enjoy their graduation dinner and celebration on Thursday 25^th November. I would like to congratulate all of our year 12 students who have been working very hard to achieve their goals, with a number of students starting their transition into employment and post school programs.

The School Board will be hosting the Annual Open Meeting on Monday 8^th November 9:15am – 10:30am. This will be an opportunity to showcase our 2021 achievements and discuss future directions through our school Business Plan. All families are welcome to attend. There will be more information provided early next term and we look forward to seeing you there.

Sadly, we have lost a long serving staff member, Mr Caddy this term.  I would like to thank staff, students and the school community for support provided during this very sad and difficult time. Mr Caddy was a very special, respected and loved staff member who will be greatly missed by everyone. Thank you Tarkin Barker for writing a lovely speech for this newsletter, acknowledging the positive impact Mr Caddy had during his time at Leeming SHS ESC.

Thank you Leeming SHS ESC staff, you have continued to provide positive and engaging learning experiences for our students this term. Visitors coming into the school often comment on the high level of care and support you provide students.

Enjoy reading this newsletter, which reflects the positive community spirit at Leeming SHS ESC.

I hope you had a wonderful relaxing break, and I look forward to an exciting Term 4.

Keran Davies

The Leeming SHS ESC School Board is seeking nominations for two parent/family representatives to start in Term 4 2021. The role of the Board is to enable parents and members of the community to engage in activities that are in the best interest of students and enhance the education provided by the school. The Board meets twice a term on a Monday afternoon between 1:00pm – 3:00pm. If you are interested in joining our very collaborative and productive School Board please complete a Nomination Form attached and return it to leeming.shsesc.admin@education.wa.edu.au or hand into the office by Thursday 21st October. An election will be held if the number of nominations exceeds the 2 positions. If you require any further information about the process or role of a parent representative, please contact on 9237 6870.

The School Board met on Monday 6th September. We had a discussion with Nicki Howe, Education, Industry and Training Liaison, South Metropolitan Education Regional Office. Nikki explained the many pathways on offer from TAFE and other providers and we look forward to exploring these opportunities. 

We also had further discussions on the composition of the Board and will continue our work to ensure full representation of both parent and community representatives.

The Board undertook a survey of our performance through a self reflection of our activities and we discussed the outcomes and will take the matters forward that require our further attention.

Other matters on our agenda included the School Development days for 2022, review of a Parent Information Book for new incoming families, capital works and finance.

The Board acknowledged the sad passing of Leigh Caddy, a much respected and valued member of staff. 

The Annual General Meeting of the School Board will be held on Monday 8th November at 9.15am. This is an open meeting to all our families and we invite you to attend.

More details will be released soon in regards to the venue.

Digby Claydon

Chair

Leeming ESC School Board

Tarkin Barker 16/09/2021

Ladies & gentlemen, parents, staff & students, my name is Tarkin Barker. I am a student in the Year 13 class of ESC15. When I started at Leeming SHS ESC I was 13 years old. My earliest memories of Mr Caddy was seeing him around the school as back then I was shy but even when I got to know him I was still quite quiet.

He was mainly the main driver for so many camps for myself and my peers. He meant a lot to me as he is a travelling expert and he is possibly the most popular staff member around the Leeming Community. Most of the time as I went to the sports carnivals for school he used to drive us to the location. I introduced to him to my family members as I grew up through my school years. Some of my favourite memories with him was when he came with me to become independent catching public transport from home to school in March and April of 2019. He also supported me to my workplaces and Tafe throughout my independence training. I showed him how to play my favourite card game Rummy which my grandparents taught me at Camp Leschenaultia in November of 2020. He also taught me and a few peers of mine how to change the gear to connect the trailer with the school bus during that time.

During my time at Leeming SHS ESC, he has impacted my life and meant a lot to me as he got to support me throughout these past 5 years. I am grateful that he has helped the school and I won't know what I would do without him. Over the years, he taught a few staff members how to drive the school bus and to assist him as a travel training teacher. I cannot believe that he has gone already and deserved a longer life.

I know how much he will be missed particularly by his family who has lost a son, husband and father. But all with the wonderful memories, he will always be alive in our hearts.

Thank you Mr Caddy, we love you and we'll always remember you and all about the good things, good memories and good times.

The Leeming SHS uniform shop is open Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday between 10.15am and 1.45pm and is run by P&C members.

Junior School shirts are years 7, 8 and 9. Senior School shirts are years 10, 11 and 12.

Direct phone is 92376858

School Development Days:

Term 4 Monday 11th October & Friday 17th December

The total amount payable for Years 7 to 12 is $300.

Credit card payment is available using our bPoint banking facility via our school website (Leemingesc.wa.edu/payments). Please be sure you are on the Leeming ESC website and not the mainstream high school website.

Click on the 'Parent Information' tab then 'Payments', click 'Online Payments' then ‘make an online payment’ and enter the requested details. 

BPoint can also be used to pay for camps and excursions.  Ensure the event the payment is for is clearly stated in the detail area of the payment screen.

Please note we do not have EFTPOS facilities on site but payment can be made either by cash, cheque, bPoint or alternatively you can pay directly into the school bank account.  State the students name / fees or event as your reference.

BSB Number        066040

Account               19900866

Name                  Leeming SHS ESC

The private Facebook group is a safe space to help parents and carers connect with one another, offer and receive support, share information, experiences and resources, and foster social connections between students out of school hours. The group is administered by the parent representatives on the LESC Board - Dawn Barker, Joss Morgan and Fran Robb. The Facebook group can be found at the link below where you can request to join. For more information, contact Fran on 0409102556 or email francesca_robb@hotmail.com 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/377265386625078

On Tuesday 31^st August Leeming SHS ESC held our annual Pop-Up shops.  Due to the inclement weather we changed venue this year and held the event in our undercover area.  This did not stop the visitors and we enjoyed record crowd attendance from the Leeming Senior High School, West Leeming Primary School, invited guests, parents and community members. 

Students and staff had worked hard and were extremely creative to make a wonderful array of class enterprises.  Calendars, key rings, candles, upcycled gnomes, silly putty, stress balls, muffins, bee magnets, Hippie Hair and spices to name a few, were all on sale.  Displays were eye catching and customer feedback on the atmosphere and range of products available was positive.  

Classes also research and decide upon a charity they would like to donate a minimum of 50% of their class takings.  This year a huge $3000 went to charity – that’s a record!  Nominated charities included Pan Care, Perth Children’s Hospital, Telethon, Kararakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre, Kahoots, Save the Children, NF2, Bee the Cure, Pet Rescue, Animal Protection and Variety.  There is a lovely acknowledgement of year 12 classes and presentation of their cheque on the Pet Rescue website  https://www.petrescue.com.au/library/articles/the-petrescue-team-visits-leeming-shs

Every year our staff and students produce high quality enterprise products and I am very proud of their 2021 achievements and how everyone conducted themselves on the day.  Thank you to all staff and students for their efforts and help.

Last Sunday night Mikail Tanriver attended his soccer windup. Mikail plays for Lynwood United Football Club division 2 and sometimes he fills in for division 1.

For the 2021 season Mikail won The Coaches Award, The Golden Boot and The Equal Football Golden Medal.

We are all very proud of MIkail and his effort this year.  Well done Mikail!

Dear parents and carers

As you may have heard, all Western Australians aged 12 to 15 are now eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine. The Department of Health has also announced it is offering allocated times for school students aged 16 years and over and school-based staff to access WA Health clinics.

More information about clinic locations can be found on the HealthyWA website.

Please find attached a letter from the Chief Health Officer, providing details about the clinics, including information about consent.

If you have any questions or concerns about vaccinating your child, please visit the HealthyWA website.

Thank you for your support in keeping our students, staff and community safe.

Keran Davies

Term 3 has been an incredibly busy term with so many exciting initiatives for us all! Firstly, we want to acknowledge a hugely successful turnout to the Leeming ESC Pop Up Shop. The boys have been working flat out to put together some barbeque rubs, herbs and spices to sell and thanks to the large turnout were able to sell all of their products! They will be back at it next term in preparation for the ESSN Market Day in term 4.

We have also been finishing up our work experience program at Striker Recreation Centre. We would all like to acknowledge Glenda and the team down there for being so supportive and helping us prepare for future work placements. Fortunately, we won’t have to wait long as we start our first formal work experience placements next term! A huge thank you to the WPL team for their work in finding a diverse range of opportunities for us to take part in.

As the holidays draw near, I would like to wish all of our students and families a safe and restful break. We look forward to seeing you all again in term 4! Finally a huge thank you to Kylee Long, Leanne Carter, Coralyn Lester-Smith and Melissa Randall for their hard work this term. I would like to specifically acknowledge Melissa for fitting in seamlessly to our classroom. We have loved having you here and welcome back Danielle Brennan next term after completing her teaching practicum.

Wow! What a busy term we have had in Term 3! Our students and staff are very much ready for a well earnt break in the school holidays. At the start of this term we settled on our Business Enterprise for the upcoming Pop-Up Shop Day later in the term. We were busily making lots of stress balls every Friday ready for our stall in week 7. We thought we might make a few sales, but we would have never guessed that we would sell almost 150 of them! We were all so proud of our efforts and even prouder of the amount of money that we were able to raise for Perth Children’s Hospital.

Once Pop-Up Shops were done, our attention quickly turned to the upcoming sports carnivals! At the end of week 7, our Year 11 class, along with students from Year 10 & 12, attended the ESSN AFL Carnival. All of our students worked together as a team, shared the ball and kicks around as much as they could to make sure everyone was involved. Because of their teamwork and fun that they had, our team successfully won our respective division! Well done team!

As we come to the end of term 3, we can look back on an amazing term in ESC3! We really enjoyed Pop Up Shop Day, where we sold our cards and reusable bags. We were also so impressed at the stalls that other classes ran, and enjoyed browsing at all the products. We made over 100 R U OK cards to hand out to all the staff and classes for R U OK day, and have been learning about looking after our mental health. We encouraged the members of our school to practice gratitude, and loved hearing about what they were grateful for. Our footy tipping competition has come to a close, with Aidan being our winner – Well Done Aidan! We also enjoyed our own participation in sport during our sports carnival, which was a great day for all, and in the Notre Dame sports program, going into Fremantle each Friday. We also all got ice cream cake on Miss Blackburn’s birthday, which was delicious! We have had a great term and are all looking forward to starting our first work placements next term!

Mathematics: The Year 10 students have been learning about the probability of events occurring under the Statistics and Probability strand. They familiarised themselves with the common terms associated with probability such as ‘likely’, ‘unlikely’, ‘impossible’, ‘certain’ and ‘even chances’. Students brainstormed different events, drew the probability scale and used it to evaluate given events and scenarios to determine the likelihood of their occurrences on the scale. Additional activities (such as rolling a die) were provided to further extend students’ knowledge of statistics and probability. While undertaking these learning activities, they learned to tally, analyse and plot graphs to make meaning of the data generated. Under the Number and Algebra strand, students have also undertaken a wide range of tasks to further their knowledge of fractions, multiplication and division. A few have advanced their skills to solving simple algebraic expressions, substituting letters to solve for the unknown variables.  Our Community Based Learning (CBL) has always been a favourite as students looked forward to ordering their lunches and demonstrating to staff that they are capable of reading a menu and making accurate payments for their lunch orders. CBL provides a different context from the classroom to learn money and life skills in an authentic learning environment. Observing our students’ applying the money skills they have learned at school in the community creates moments of bliss and satisfaction for me and other members of my instructional team.

English:

My Year 10 students have been having great fun brainstorming, discovering and learning about homophones. This social intersection resulted in a rich and valuable exchange of ideas, particularly with regard to the words volunteered and their meanings. The lessons on homophones expanded beyond merely making a catalogue of words with the same pronunciation but having different meanings. They included spelling activities and learning to use the homophones in their construction of sentences. Students also participated in opinion writing and some of the topics covered included “Do you like Skittles or M & M’s?”, “Do you like shark or dolphin?” and so on. It has been great to see the overwhelming number of students radiating great enthusiasm as they engaged in their opinion writing activities. Even the most reluctant writers amongst them were fully engaged because they found opinion writing fun and purposeful. In harmony with the philosophy of “you learn to write by writing” and “you learn to read by reading” students have also had frequent opportunities to immerse themselves in reading texts that enhance their comprehension skills and broaden their horizon of different genre in writing.

Bush Rangers:

They Year 10 students have been learning about parks, reserves and landscape managements. They have completed various activities, who cares for parks, and the role cadets play in caring for parks. Students also researched different kinds of parks and reserves (including Kings Park and Botanic Garden, the Great Barrier Reef and so on).  As part of their conservation project, they used different materials (E.g., straws, cardboard boxes, twigs, dried leaves and many other environment-friendly materials) to build bird nests to protect the school native birds. Being hands-on and purposeful, students participated in the activities with tremendous enthusiasm.

Wanjoo! We acknowledge the Whadjuk people of the Noongar nation as the traditional custodians of the land and its waters and pay respect to their elders, past, present and emerging.

ESC 5 have had another busy term and have enjoyed the support of an amazing volunteer, Henry Counsel (Willetton SHS student) and Adam Di Biase (TAFE) student. We appreciate all the time and efforts that they have put into working with the students and staff in ESC 5.

This term the students showcased their amazing learning of ‘threatened species’ and made a substantial profit of $179.00 at the Pop Up Shop stall selling class made cards, bookmarks and Noongar Six Season calendars. We still have a few calendars for a great price of $10.00 available. The students proudly attended a Private Tour at ‘Kaarakin Black Cockatoo Conservation Centre’ to share the money they raised. Outstanding achievement!

The sun shined for the school’s annual ‘Sports Carnival’ and all the students are to be commended on displaying the school ‘Positive behaviour USTAR Values, ‘Unity, Self-Responsibility, Team Work, Achievement and Respect’. The class showcased videos of Team Work and Respect at the assembly they jointly hosted. Tremendous talent, skills and knowledge of these incredible students is just amazing and heart-warming. Many very proud moments shared and acknowledged from the wonderful staff in ESC5. Thank you!!

Mrs Vann, Ms Palma, Mrs Blacklock and Miss Chatfield. 

Term 3 has come to an end, and what another fabulous term it was! In week 5 ESC6 began preparation for the annual Pop-Up Shops. We worked extremely hard and started the production process of two products this year, Silly Putty and Plant Propagation! We demonstrated fantastic teamwork and work skills by preparing the chalk paint jars for our plants, bringing in plant cut-offs from home, following a recipe to make the putty, keeping track of our products using an inventory and packaging the products appropriately and attaching the labels. We marketed and advertised our products, leading up to the event, by making and displaying our own posters around the centre.

In week 7 the Pop-Up Shops arrived, and we all looked so professional in our Silly Putty t-shirts. Our stalls looked awesome, and everyone did a fantastic job at following a work schedule to know when we were on stall duty and when we had shopping time at the other awesome stalls! We kept track of our selling products using an inventory, and handled money and gave our customers their change when necessary.
It was a HUGE success and our stalls were very popular, especially with the Primary School students who visited. Altogether we made a profit of $217.50 and donated half of the profit to Pancare Foundation on behalf of Mr Caddy. We will use the other half towards an end of year excursion to celebrate all of our achievements. Well done ESC 6!

While our three girls, Star, Izzie and Goldie enjoyed the Girls Bush Ranger Camp in week 8, the rest of us enjoyed the Leeming SHS Athletics Carnival. It was a great day with lots of achievements and USTAR values displayed.

Happy holidays everyone! We will see you in term 4.

Miss Gage.

Term 3 has come to an end, and what a busy term it has been! It has been lovely having Michelle Smith join us this term, and she has settled in well with us. We had pop up shops in week 7, which was a great success. The students spent weeks making items to sell, including candles, loom bands, birdseed feeders and bag charms. All the hard work paid off as they made over $171! With proceeds going to Cahoots Camps and Pancare Foundation. The students worked hard on the day, taking turns serving customers and keeping track of inventory.

This term, we went on CBL to the Leeming Forum to practise our social skills while in the shops. The students have been fantastic when walking around IGA and ordering items for their lunch (mainly hot chips!).

In week 8, Aisha and Katherleen went on the girl's Bush Ranger camp with Ms Smith, and there was also the Sports Carnival. At the Sports carnival, all the students gave their best and did a great job! A special shout out goes to Cristian and Walter, who ran both the 100m and the 50m with big smiles on their faces. It was a fantastic day, and the students did our class proud; well done!

Ms Chambers, Ms Smith, Mrs Pillay, Mrs Chamberlain

This term has been quite eventful with Pop-up shops and CBL. The pop up shop was a great success. We donated some of our profits to Save the Children and Pancare Foundation. We had a good time making items and selling them.  Special thanks to Miss Patterson for helping us make the items and also assisting us on the day.

We also enjoyed going out to Leeming Forum for CBL this term. We have been practising road crossing skills as we walk to the shopping centre. The most favourite part of CBL is buying and eating hot chips!

In Science, we made models of the heart and lung and we are continuing to learn why we need them.

Please enjoy the pictures below.

Mrs Varghese, Mrs McCarthy, Ms Soares, Mrs Harvey

We have had a brilliant and fast term 3 in ESC9! What they say is true- time flies when you’re having fun! It has been a very busy time for students. We started our program on Fridays at Notre Dame, went on CBL to Fremantle, an excursion to Kaarakin, sports carnivals, pop up shops and a visit to Murdoch University. We can’t believe there is only one more term left of the year. Staff and students are looking forward to term 4… and some warmer weather!

Excursion to Kaarakin

On Monday the 6^th of September, ESC9 and ESC5 went to Kaarakin Cockatoo Sanctuary for a day trip. The first activity of the day was meeting the dingoes. Their names are Alex and Amy. They were very tame, but stayed on the lead close to their handlers. We were lucky enough to give them a pat.

The second activity of the day consisted of making a food gift for the cockatoos. We filled cardboard rolls with seeds and nuts then stuffed it with paper.  The birds enjoy opening their gifts and finding the food.

After lunch, we went for a walk and saw lots of different animals, including emu’s, kangaroos, more dingos, red tail cockatoos, baudins cockatoo’s, carnaby cockatoo and pink and grey galahs. We were allowed to feed the kangaroo’s rosemary leaves. The kangaroo loved being fed and it snatched the leaves off everyone.

For our last activity, we were lucky enough to go inside the cockatoo enclosure and feed them the gifts we made. This was very exciting and fun, as the cockatoo’s were flying all around us. When they noticed we had food, they landed on our heads, shoulders and arms. This experience was awesome because it was the first time we have had birds land on us. They were friendly and loved to eat the gifts we made.

Overall, we had a very interesting day, learning about all the rescued animals. We were very inspired by the work they do at Kaarakin, so we donated our raised money from the pop up shop, to them.

Written by Patrick Robb

ESC 11 has had a productive term three. All class members actively contributed to the pop up shop stall, where they sold 6 dozen muffins as well as grandpa beard hanging planters. Profits were contributes to both PanCare and Lion Heart. Over the term Esc 11 students have also continued to sell and deliver weekly muffins to staff members and this class initiative will continue throughout term four. The students enjoy taking part in the class business enterprise where they learn transferable life skills such as appropriate behaviours, speaking and following instructions.

In class your child has been learning to access and develop confidence in the digital platform, Microsoft Office 365 and Teams, where they have the ability to complete worksheets, chat and access resources.

Thank you to the class staff for their input and hard work during term 3.

Enjoy the holidays

Angelique Dinning

The end of another term is here! We have had a lot of activities and learning going on.

We worked together to create our items with a bee theme for Pop Up Shops.The students learnt how to make bees wax wraps, honey scrub, cards and bee magnets and did an amazing job. We raised funds for BEE-The-Cure to help with the health of our Bees and donated a portion towards the Pancare Foundation in honour of Mr Caddy. We had a fabulous day selling our wares and buying up from the other fantastic stalls.

While Fatima was on her girls Bush Rangers camp we were busy working hard in the classroom and then trying our best in the school athletics carnival.  Congratulations to all participants. You showed our USTAR values in action with your teamwork, attitude and participation. I am very proud of all of you.

We have had our regular visits to Fremantle this term continuing with our Notre Dame Sports program. It has been a great program with our kids working with their buddies to better their sporting skills and have some fun while doing so.

Thank you to Ms Sutherland and Ms Hamel for their efforts this term and thank you for the support of our families. Have a restful holiday, keep safe and I look forward to seeing our beautiful kids next term.

Ms Scarle

Term 3 has been an incredibly busy term.  Students have been busy working on their resumes, sharpening their skills in reading time and also fine tuning their manual handling skills.   

The highlight for this term has been the annual Pop Up Shops.  We have been making scented rose and lavender water, dog biscuits and personalised aprons.  Throughout the whole term, students have been learning to budget, calculate cost and profit and demonstrated works skills by packaging the products and delivering them. We marketed and advertised our products, leading up to the event, by making and displaying their posters.  We are pleased to say we made $700. The funds raised went to Pet Rescue and Pancare Foundation.

We also invited the GM of Pet Rescue, Patima and her gorgeous rescue dog, Tia to share with the students the plight of animals who were either given up or abandoned by their owners.   These are some response from our students:

Lauren Robinson: When Pet Rescue came to visit the school I was very excited because I have a pet dog. The lady that came was explaining about all the dogs that have been hurt and fostered. I felt sorry for all of the different animals that got fostered because it’s not nice to see these animals getting injured. After she spoke she let us pat the dog and so many of my friends hugged the dog. They thought it was a very cute dog. Before the dog left everyone said thank you for coming to visit, it was an amazing time. I enjoyed seeing Tia, the dog.

Luka: When Patima and Tia came to visit I was nervous because of the rescue dog. After giving the dog a biscuit I was not nervous anymore. We gave Patima a cheque and dog biscuits which we made and sold for the Pop up Shop.

Tania: When Patima and Tia came to visit our classroom I felt happy because the dog was here. Patima explained why people leave their dogs there. Our class presented them with dog biscuits and the money we raised. The visit changed my idea of Pet rescue groups. I hope more people foster pets from them.

Thomas: Tia was well behaved and listened to Patima. I hope he enjoyed the biscuits we bake for him.

We were also featured on their website:  https://www.petrescue.com.au/library/articles/the-petrescue-team-visits-leeming-shs

 From Ms Parwani, Mrs Hales, Mrs Cox, Mrs Smithson and Mrs Johnson

As we come to the end of a busy term, there were many exciting activities that students enjoyed being involved in, and represented our school in the community.

As part of a successful business enterprise, students chose to go bowling as their leisure activity. They also practised their purchasing skills, buying some delicious lunch while they were there. The other half of the money raised from the sale of their products went to The Animal Protection Society of WA.

Pop Up Shops were held on the 31^st August, with many schools visiting and purchasing our products and raffle tickets. Half of the funds raised went to The Pancare Foundation, while the remaining money will be spent on a class party at the end of the year.

Well done to students that participated at the yearly Sports Carnival. It was great to see everyone contributing, showing teamwork and good sportsmanship by congratulating their peers on their successes.

Graduation preparations are well underway, with students creating presentations to showcase on the night. We can’t wait to celebrate the students’ learning journeys with them next term.

Watch this space! 

From Miss Megrail and team.

The second half of Term 3 has once again been a fun, active, busy and social time during our Leeming Link program.

Recesses and lunches have been packed full with various activities, competitions and games.

This is some of what we have been doing and making:

Human Piñata, Chat Ball, Minute to Win It, Father’s Day Rocks, Handball Net, Pikelets,

Yoga for R U OK DAY, Quoits, Rainbow Rice, Soccer Goals, Giant Connect 4, and we finished off the term with Movies.

Our Term 4 Leeming Link Timetable has been planned. There are many exciting activities which students can be involved in, and opportunities for students to build on their social skills.

Leeming Link runs 3 days a week- Mondays, Tuesdays & Thursdays, during recess and lunch.

We look forward to seeing you at Leeming Link in term 4.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

Kind regards,

Mrs Cathy Houden & Ms Vangi Evangeli 

Athletics Carnival

Leeming ESC participated in the annual Athletics Carnival last week with the high school. Arriving in their colours of Grady (blue), Ramsdale (green), Aulberry (yellow) and Findlay (red) the students and staff came fired up to win some points for their house groups.  The weather held off for most of the day and was lovely soaking up the sunshine. The students worked well in their team events of leaderball, under and over, tunnel ball and passball, but the highlight was the tug of war events. We then entered the running events with students choosing to participate in either the 100m or 50m sprints. They all had a go at hurdles and relays with their house peers. We finished off the day with a staff versus students relay which provided many laughs and smiles from everyone.

We introduced a USTAR House Competition, with students winning tokens throughout the day for positive behaviour. Our inaugural champions for 2021 was Ramsdale who were presented with the shield at assembly. Big congratulations to everyone involved for a very successful day!

It was a pleasure to award Reid Parfitt with the workplace learning Employee of the Month. Reid has done an amazing job with all of the sorting tasks at the Good Sammy warehouse. He has maintained an enthusiastic and positive approach to his work each week. We wish Reid all the very best with his Good Sammy employment and life skills programs next term.

It has been great working with the year 10 students in preparation for their first work experience placements, which will be commencing in term 4.

A special mention to Nathan Natoli who has attended Activ Osborne Park during weeks 9 and 10 of this term. Nathan has toured the new working environment, been shown the tasks that he will be engaging in and other important workplace procedures such as signing in and out, safety requirements in the workplace and he has been part of the morning tea routine with the other employees. Well done to Nathan.

Finally congratulations to Eve Morgan who is now attending Rocky Bay and Community Access Squad two days per week as part of her post school transition. Eve is now going directly from home to engage in these programs with external support on Wednesdays and Fridays. Way to go Eve!

During term 3 the afterschool Bush Ranger cadets have been busy learning about the environment and participating in a number of worthwhile activities with a weekly rotation between Cockburn City Council and SERCUL.

As part of the Keep Australia Beautiful Program, Adpot a Spot, Leeming ESC Bush Ranger Cadets adopted three parks in the local area, Classen, Brandwood and Heatherlea Reserve. Each fortnight cadets were transported to Brandwood Reserve, Heatherlea or Classon Park to learn the correct procedure and PPE equipment required to clear areas of introduced weeds. The cadets where taught to disinfect their shoes before entering the natural bush to eradicate the chance of transferring dieback to the area.

Alternate weeks the cadets assisted in planting over 200 seedlings at SERCUL in Beckenham revegetating swam land to encourage wildlife into the area. The cadets also learn a variety of things including what pollutes the waterways, introduced weeds and about bush tucker plants for survival.

Not only have the cadets enjoyed the excursions immensely, they learnt and achieved a number of Bush Ranger program outcomes.

Bush Ranger Commitee

"During term 3, the after school Bush Rangers went to Brandwood Reserve in Leeming. We helped to remove weeds such as Cape Dandelion. We also participated in a experiment with various pollutants in to the water basin. I enjoy the after hour Bush Ranger program. I like to plant the seedlings and we went to SERCUL to learn about bush tucker."

Branden McCaw 

U nity
S elf-responsibility
T eamwork
A chievement
R espect

This term the school community have continued to embrace our USTAR app, developed by Mr Lewis, and the number of USTAR tokens awarded on the app are growing and growing! The Lucky Draw feature was used again at our week 10 ESC assembly this term and here are the student winners!
Xavier West and Oscar Cuff-Cain

Next term the Lucky Draw feature will be used to draw teachers who have been displaying the USTAR values too! Stay tuned!

This term the PBS team implemented a USTAR token system at the week 8 Leeming SHS Athletics Carnival. Coloured tokens were awarded throughout the day to students displaying Unity, Self-Responsibility, Teamwork, Achievement and Respect. The tokens went into a collector box and the house group with the most USTAR tokens won the first ever USTAR House Group Shield! Congratulations to Ramsdale!
Jackson Sheppard accepting the USTAR House Group Shield on behalf of Ramsdale.

Classroom teachers have started implementing explicit PBS lessons, with support from the PBS team, and we are excited to continue with this next semester.

The PBS Team.
Catherine Houden, Jenna Allomes, Keran Davies, Dylan Geiles, Emma Gage, Lorraine Vann, Lachlan Frewer, Angie Close, Deborah Brayne and Prudence Harcourt.