In March, the Year 6 Student Councillor team participated in the ROAR Student Leadership Summit at the Mundaring Arena. Four schools took part in this event: Mundaring, Helena Valley, Gidgegannup, and Parkerville Primary Schools. The students were organised into diverse teams, where they collaborated to address various challenges. Throughout the event, they demonstrated strong leadership by applying critical and higher order thinking to develop strategic solutions and work towards achieving a shared objective. Our Year 6 students: Layla, Jai, Jax, Luka, Piper, and Matilda, embraced these challenges, gaining valuable leadership skills and, most importantly, refining their abilities through hands-on experience and teamwork. We were very proud to have this awesome group of students represent our school.
On Friday 1 August our school hosted the HECSA Group A Cross Country Event.
We finished SECOND out of 5 schools in overall points- a great result!
Year Level Results: Individual Placements:
Year 3 Girls’ Team – THIRD place
Year 4 Girls’ Team – FIRST place Willow B – 1st
Year 4 Boys’ Team – FIRST place Owen K – 1st and Tyler D – 2nd
Year 5 Girls’ Team – (equal) SECOND place
Year 6 Girls’ Team – THIRD place Layla B – 4th
Year 6 Boys’ Team – SECOND Place Luka R – 1st
Congratulations to all our runners!
After being postponed last term, out Lightning Carnival was held on Friday 15 August.
Our students had a great time competing in a number sports including, hockey, AFL, Soccer, Basketball and Netball.
Although the event was not a competition, but a time to enjoy sports with other schools and enhance their skills, Parkerville Primary School was successful in the following events:
- Netball A grade – 1st
- Hockey – 1st
- AFL – 1st
- Basketball and Soccer – 2nd
On Wednesday 20 August year six students Frankie, Archie and Luka competed in the HEC Science Competition against students from eleven other Hills schools. The first task was to complete a laser beam maze and to hit a target. The second task was to unlock a padlock by completing four different scientific challenges or experiments and receiving one digit of the code each task. Students were awarded points based on their teamwork as well as scientific approach to each challenge. Overall Parkerville came third.
By Luka R
On 7 May we celebrated Scarlett’s birthday with a Friendship Day. Students were invited to make friendship bracelets and share them with their friends. We had Taylor Swift music playing as we enjoyed making and sharing. A big thank you to Charlotte Van Der Burgt for working tirelessly to ensure the day was a success.
Parkerville Primary School will continue to celebrate Friendship Day on May 7 in honour of Scarlett.
We held our school public speaking trials on Wednesday 20 May, and the standard was impressively high, so it made the choice very difficult.
Congratulations to Miah T (Senior participant) and Georgia S (Junior participant) who represented our school so fantastically at the HEC Public Speaking Competition, hosted by Wooroloo PS on Wednesday 28 May. We are very proud of their efforts.
Our annual walk to school day combined with our Pirate Day fundraiser for childhood brain cancer was another resounding success. Our students, parents and even smaller siblings made the scariest pirates as they walked from Parkerville Hall to school. Thank you to our P&C, in particular Robyn Renton and Anita Shurlock for coordinating the day. Thank you also to Woolworths Mundaring who provided the students with fruit after the event.
The school raised $287. 00 for the Kids Cancer Project.
Kindy – Year 2s took part in an Ocean Incursion in Term 1. We learnt about lots of living creatures from the ocean, and the art room was transformed into a museum. There were lots of shells, bones and rocks for us to touch. We also got to rub a star fish, and watch a hermit crab scurry around in its shell. We even got to touch a turtle shell, and feel a huge sharks jaw with hundreds of sharp teeth. Lots of fun had by everyone.
