A new website has been designed to help parents and community members better understand the Western Australian school curriculum. The new website developed by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority, can be accessed by visiting www.scsa.wa.edu.au and...

Harmony Week celebrations were a huge success. Children participated in stall activities conducted from Monday 18 to Thursday 21 March, as well as dress-up day on 21 March.  The stalls featured blue meringues (representing the 'clean water' theme), biscuits and slices...

All our Year 3 - 6 students have access this year to a Typing resource called Typing Tournament. Typing Tournament Online is simple and fun to use yet powerful and sophisticated. It uses a unique combination of mastery learning, teaching sequences and games to...

Coolbinia PS is continuing to invest in an annual school subscription to a Coding website called Grok Learning for 2019. https://groklearning.com/ About Grok Learning Grok (verb): to understand intuitively or by empathy. Grok Learning is a team of educators and...

Friendship Day! Term 1 is all about making new friends. For many children, starting school may also involve starting Outside School Hours Care. This major milestone is an exciting time for many children and their families, but we also acknowledge that it can also be...

SIM instrumental lessons will begin this week on the following days: Tuesday - Double Bass (9.45am - 10.15am) Wednesday - Cello (11.00am - 12.30pm tbc) Friday - Violin/viola (9.00am - 1.50pm) Instrumental lessons will be in the Camp Australia Room (old music room)....

The last date to order for an online delivery this year will be Tuesday 11 December.  The Uniform Shop will open before school goes back on Thursday 31 January and Friday 1 February from 9.00am - 10.30am. Avoid the queues on these days by ordering in advance here.

Last Wednesday our Year 5 girls received a special 2 hour robotics workshop from Robogals, a student run organisation that aims to engage schoolgirls in engineering topics from a young age. Research shows that in Years 5 and 6, girls’ perception of STEM (Science,...

Over the holidays the Kiss and Drive was constructed to be ready for business on day one. A big thank you to Kayne Wardrope who coordinated the works on behalf of the P&C. By now you would have received information on how to make use of this initiative. We had a...

UWA's Engineers Without Borders believe that technology plays a vital role in humanitarian development within local communities across the world.   Five UWA engineers visited Coolbinia Year 5 students this week, as part of a STEAM project about clean water.  Our...

Last Thursday 20 Year 6 River Rangers attended the Kids Teaching Kids Conference in Mandurah.  The students conducted two workshops at the conference on various environmental issues they had studied this year.  The title of their workshop was:  Using digital...

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 Inspire students who during Term 3 participated with more than 20,000 students from around the world in the Grok Learning NCSS Challenge 2018. They competed for 5 weeks, learning to code by solving interesting and engaging problems....

Our Coolbinia Chess club recently participated in the Annual Interschool Haydn Barber Chess Tournament. 30 members of the chess club attended the competition and even though we did not win any medals on either days, our teams displayed the schools values of strive,...

In 2016 Coolbinia Primary implemented a whole school STEAM (Science, Technologies, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) butterfly program to support the conservation of local butterfly species.  Students watched the life cycle of butterflies in their classrooms, and...

... From Garden Bed to Kwobadarn Tables! Coolbinia's Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program is deeply linked with other learning areas.  For example, this term students have been learning in: Humanities and Social Sciences - farming and tools (Year 3), Science...

Congratulations to the Coolbinia Netball Club on yet another fantastic winter competition. The club attracted over 35 players this season who represented teams from Year 3 through to Year 6. The club are proud to advise that two of their teams finished on top of their...