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ANZ Saver Plus
Many families are experiencing cost of living challenges as well as increased education costs.
Saver Plus supports eligible families to take some control of their finances by offering a matched savings incentive and financial education workshops.
If parents commit to saving up to $50 a month for 10 months, ANZ will match their savings up to $500 for families to put towards school uniforms, stationary, camps, laptops, sports fees and music lessons. Now extended until the end of March.
Information from the School Nurse
Personal hygiene
Ensuring children have good hygiene is one way to prevent illness. Here are some tips for helping children maintain good hygiene:
- Wash hands before and after touching food, and after going to the toilet, touching animals or being around someone who is coughing or has a cold.
- Wash body daily and keep hair clean.
- To prevent body odors, change clothes regularly and use deodorant if necessary.
- Change underwear and socks daily, and leave shoes outside to dry.
- To prevent bad breath, brush and floss teeth and visit the dentist regularly.
- If ill, try not to cough or sneeze on others, clean things that you touch, and throw away things with germs on them (like tissues).
Body image - tips for helping your child have a healthy body weight and a healthy body image
- Be a positive role model and encourage healthy eating and physical activity, by providing healthy meals and snacks and getting active.
- Organise fun, family activities which encourage everyone to be active.
- Help children to see ‘treat’ foods, such as lollies, biscuits, chips, cakes and ice cream, as food which should be eaten only occasionally – not every day.
- Help your children to understand that there is no such thing as an ideal body shape and that ‘healthy’ people come in many shapes and sizes.
- Help your children feel special about themselves. Provide rewards and treats which are not food.
- Teach children that a person’s value is not determined by how they look.
- Avoid making comments about body weight. Focus on growth, not on scales.
- Don’t focus on weight and food restriction – focus on improved health, fitness and having fun.
Should you require further information about hygiene or body image, go to http://raisingchildren.net.au. Alternatively please contact your School Health Nurse, Aimee Leeson on 0400 182 654.
School Dental Therapy Centre
Please note that the School Dental Therapy Centre is available to see school-aged children from Pre-Primary to 16 years of age at 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
This year Auskick will be kicking off from Friday 3 May to 21 June for 8 consecutive sessions. Our Friday afternoon sessions will run from 4:30pm - 5:30pm at the Pool end of Jubilee Oval at the Northam Recreation Centre.
We are looking for a new Auskick coordinator, if you are interested in this role, please contact us asap. The role comes with one season of mentoring by previous coordinator.
Auskick is for boys and girls from 5 to 8 years. It helps build ball skills, hand and eye coordination and teamwork, giving kids a basic understanding of team sports preparing them for later in life.
It is a requirement that you register online and to secure your place, Kids sport vouchers are available at https://kidsport.dlgsc.wa.gov.au/kidsport/apply-for-kidsport-1/. We strongly suggest that your register early so that your child receives their Auskick pack before commencement of program. Cost is $75 per player.
To register visit https://www.playhq.com/afl/register/608b64. should you have any issues please contact aflauskick@afl.com.au or contact the temporary coordinator.
Please keep in mind that this program is only possible with parent support and each family will be required to assist at least once over the course of the 8 weeks. If you can consistently assist by running groups, please contact Angela at northamjuniorfootball@gmail.com and I will make sure that you have all the required information. For up-to-date information, please like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077340198010
Northam Hockey Club
Early registrations for the 2024 season open on 16 March. Please see the flyer below for more information.
Anyone interested in joining a new Touch Football competition, please contact Brett Inglis on northamtouchfootball@gmail.com for more information.
There will be a Touch Football Clinic for 5 to 17 Year-olds on Thursday 4 April at Jubilee Oval. Please see the attached flyer below for more information or to register.
1, 2, 3 Magic
1,2,3 magic sessions for parents will be running on Tuesdays for 3 weeks on 16, 23 and 30 April. Sessions will take place at WANSLEA’s Northam office, 20 Gairdner St, from 9:30am-11:30am.
Bookings are essential, register by calling 0447 622 736 or online at WheatbeltPCWA@wanslea.org.au.
