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VacSwim
Primary School
Enrolments are now open for VacSwim swimming lessons during the summer school holidays. VacSwim offers fun lessons at beach or pool locations. They are a great school holiday activity and they teach valuable safety skills to help keep your child safe in the water.
Secondary School
If your child has turned 14 years old, or will be turning 14 years in the same calendar year of the course, you can enrol them in VacSwim so they can get their Bronze Medallion during the summer school holidays. They’ll learn advanced survival, rescue and resuscitation skills to help keep them and others safe in the water.
Enrol now at: education.wa.edu.au/vacswim
Enrolments for the CLOSE for the Early Start and January Programs:
- Early Start Program: Thursday 12 October 2023
- January Program: Thursday 26 October 2023
School Dental Therapy Centre
Please note that the School Dental Therapy Centre has reopened in their Northam Centre, located on the Northam Primary School campus.
If any students require Dental Care please contact us at the following:
Northam Dental Therapy Centre
c/- Northam Primary School
entry via Duke Street
0458 644 530
NorthamDTC@dental.health.wa.gov.au
Better Health Program
The Better Health Program is a free, 10-week healthy lifestyle program for you and your child run during each school term. Weekly discussions include topics such as good nutrition, forming positive habits, becoming a healthier family and being physically active.
The program is available online and face-to-face formats. Both versions include a bunch of great freebies and a reward at the end!
Visit at Betterhealth
Phone 1300 822 953
WA Female Football Academy
At the West Australian Female Football Academy, our aim is to help female footballers evolve their football knowledge and abilities at all levels of the game with programs designed to assist in the development of female footballers from beginners to elite level.
Registration is now open for our Future Stars 2-day Super Clinic which will be running during the September school holidays. This time we’ll also be at the home of the West Coast Eagles!
Our participants have the opportunity to be coached and learn AFL skills firsthand from some of the West Coast Eagles AFLW coaches and players including; Jess Sedunary, Jaide Britton, Shanae Davison, Charlie Thomas, Krstel Petrevski and Lauren Wakfer!
Registration Link:https://www.waffa.com.au/future-stars-super-clinic-september-holidays-metro
Springtime Stargazing
Spring is the perfect time to get out under dark country skies and be in awe of the sparkling stars and planets overhead. But that’s not all, let’s throw in a close encounter between Saturn and the Moon, the Spring Equinox AND Scorpio!
The Spring Equinox is on 23 September and marks the transition from winter in the southern hemisphere. The number of hours of daylight will almost equal darkness!
Spring is a great time to find the constellation Scorpio! It’s a large constellation that forms the shape of a scorpion! It is currently visible throughout the evening, lying directly overhead at around 8.00pm. Look for a reddish star called Antares that lies in the centre of the constellation. See if you can find the curve of Scorpio’s body and the sting in its tail stretching across the sky!
Something interesting: Antares is a super-giant red star several hundred times the diameter of our Sun and is about 600 light-years from Earth.
When to look: after 8.00pm during spring.
Which direction to look: Directly overhead.
For some fun stargazing, the full Moon makes a close approach to brilliant Saturn on 27 September and the pair will look stunning together. For those with telescopes or high-powered binoculars, check out the beautiful ring system of Saturn.
Donna Vanzetti and Carol Redford, Astrotourism WA