Edney Primary School in Perth, Western Australia | State school

Edney Primary School

Locality: Perth, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9454 8377

Address: 204 Newburn Road, High Wycombe WA 6057 Perth, WA, Australia

Website: http://www.edneyps.wa.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Congratulations to De-ana Mitchell for your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. De-ana is a passionate and dedicated teacher who ensures that she implements teaching and learning programs that address the needs of her students. She has particularly worked hard to ensure that students who require additional support are provided with the opportunity to participate in learning programs and puts in place strategies to support those students. De-ana also pr...ovides targeted teaching for all of her students using her in-depth knowledge of what her students need to develop her teaching programs. She sets herself goals to continually improve her teaching through professional learning. Honouring our excellent staff and community members, these awards were held over from Term 1 and quietly presented at school today. Now is a great time to both honour these recipients and acknowledge the staff and community members who have helped the Edney community through these times. Nominate today forms are on the school website.

25.01.2022 Congratulations to Donna Schwinkowksi on your Edney Primary School Board Award for Building a Strong Community. Donna has been a positive, supportive and valued contributor to Edney Primary School over countless years. Both in formal roles as the Treasurer of the Edney P&C, to serving on successive graduation committees, assisting as a parent helper with swimming lessons each year, helping at P&C events, classroom help and coming along on countless excursions, Donna has made an incredible impact for countless students and is a shining example of community support.

25.01.2022 Congratulations to Maureen Wignell for your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Mrs Wignell is an amazing, patient and kind teacher. She treats all her students as individuals, recognises their differences and uniqueness and teaches them accordingly. She is very nurturing, warm and understanding exactly how a Kindy teacher should be. She always makes time for parents and treats them with respect and understanding. The first year of school is so important because it sets up the love of school and learning. Thanks for helping our child thrive this year and giving her the love of education to want to come to Kindy every day. It will be a sad day for Edney the day Mrs Wignell retires! She deserves every award there is!

24.01.2022 Congratulations Lana Wallace on your School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Lana is acknowledged for her dedication, commitment and care for her class and students with additional needs, ensuring that they feel safe and valued and providing the reassurance of a teacher who is truly invested in the school vision of children at the heart of the school.

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Martyn Cresswell on your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Martyn is an outstanding Senior Teacher. For the better part of three decades, he has been a leader at Edney in the areas of behaviour management, peer mentoring, union leadership, and teaching and learning in Years 5, 6 and 7. You can always rely on Martyn for collegial support and advice.

24.01.2022 Congratulations to Amanda Quinn for your School Board Award for Excellence in Building a Strong Community. As well as years of service as a P&C member, volunteer, executive and now Vice-President, Amanda is honoured for organising and fulfilling her commitment to providing awesome and inspiration artworks in the toilet blocks at school. Honouring our excellent staff and community members, these awards were held over from Term 1 and quietly presented at school today. Now is a great time to both honour these recipients and acknowledge the staff and community members who have helped the Edney community through these times. Nominate today forms are on the school website.

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Teresa Woosnam, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Teresa is acknowledged for her transformational leadership of the English, Arts and Languages Learning Community, leading to impactful change for the students at Edney, and opening opportunities for further progress, based on evidence and best practice. Teresa is able to model these excellent practices, and they are evident anywhere you look in her classroom or her teaching practice.

23.01.2022 Congratulations to Jan Cresswell on your School Board Award for excellence in Building a Strong Community, Jan has been an integral part of the Edney community for many years. Her work in the canteen is a prime example of professionalisms, and her tireless, unwavering focus in her role has been to the benefit of hundreds of Edney students over many years.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Margaret O’Sullivan, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Margaret has a direct impact on the ability of students to achieve their potential. She provides targeted support and intervention for students from Year 1 to Year 6, working in every classroom in the school to enable students to access the curriculum. Communicating with classroom teachers, parents and the student services team, Margaret is skillful in making a difference for countless Edney students.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Jodie Van Der Zwan, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Jodie is recognised for her outstanding leadership of the Early Childhood Team at Edney Primary School over countless years. Jodie has worked with the team to build an approach to teaching and learning that is held up as the gold standard in play based pedagogy in schools across WA. She is highly organised, efficient and ensured that Edney remained at the cutting edge of best practice, while keeping the needs of students and a nurturing environment firmly in focus.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to Lisa Lema, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Lisa Lema has been a true asset at our school this year. She has very high standards of cleaning and is thorough during a time where this is very much needed. She goes above and beyond. Lisa displays respect and excellence at all times, along with her lovely smile.

21.01.2022 We can count on our P&C. Proud to launch the inaugural P&C Day WA at Edney Primary School with our amazing choir - they sound even better than they look!

21.01.2022 Edney Primary School

20.01.2022 Congratulations to Lisa Withers, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Building a Strong Community. In ten years of involvement at Edney Primary School, Lisa has worked in partnership with the school to ensure the best possible outcomes for all students, and has tirelessly supported the P&C and classrooms. Her volunteering for P&C events and fundraisers, discos, and world-class decorating skills have ensured that graduations have been truly memorable occasions for all.

20.01.2022 Congratulations to Glen Seiler on your Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Glen is an outstanding volunteer who provides and contributes to the social and emotional wellbeing of students through ensuring stewardship of the School Breakfast Program which is completed in addition to his duties as a teacher. Glen sought to ensure continuity of learning and stability for upper primary students and is a great support person to sporting events and initiatives as well as ensuring smooth transition in the upper primary cohort of the school.

19.01.2022 Congratulations to Lesley West for your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Our room would love to acknowledge the work Mrs West does with our class and as part of her role as one of our amazing school deputies. Mrs West looks out for us, she is kind and a really good deputy principal; she is amazing! She helps and cares for everyone. Big or small, mean or nice, human or animal! Because she cheers everyone up. She brings a positive, thoughtful attitude to the school and brings that positive attitude to every class she has ever taught. She is a good person who is caring because she gives up her time for us. She is outstanding with what she does, she is very organised. She solves any problems at any time and solves conflict in different ways. Thanks Mrs West for being awesome.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to Cathy Heyes for your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Cathy has been an enthusiastic, skilled and inspirational adopter of the Talk for Writing program at Edney. It is entirely evident Cathy is achieving success in teaching her class with the Talk for Writing program and her transition from Physical Education teacher to Classroom Teacher, shows her excellence in many areas of teaching. Congratulations Cathy to you and your class. Honouring our excellent staff and community members, these awards were held over from Term 1 and quietly presented at school today. Now is a great time to both honour these recipients and acknowledge the staff and community members who have helped the Edney community through these times. Nominate today forms are on the school website.

16.01.2022 Congratulations to Jodie Van Der Zwan on your Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Jodie is an outstanding early childhood educator and has made significant contributions to the health and wellbeing of our school community. Her work in developing the new health and wellbeing plan and social and emotional learning file is outstanding. Due to her dedication and commitment to excellence with the files, teachers in our school can more easily deliver targeted social and emotional learning and protective behaviours lessons.

16.01.2022 Today we take a moment to celebrate our incredible P&C! Check out our video below for just some of the immense contributions this powerhouse of volunteers contribute to our school and students. We're so proud and thankful. Join us in acknowledging the Edney P&C this #PANDCDAYWA

15.01.2022 Congratulations Tonya McGlew on your School Board Award for Excellence in Leading Innovation and Sustainability. Tonya is a positive and humble teacher. Tonya has set up the groups in her class in a highly organised way that allows students to collaborate and cooperate with changing group members but skilfully maintaining group dynamics socially and academically to stay the same. Tonya puts in extra time discussing issues among students to model and teach conflict resolution skills. When doing this, she treats students with the utmost respect and allows students to take social responsibility for their actions. She is exceptional at integrating technology and teaches lessons where students need to think critically about latest news items while learning cyber safety.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to Deb Scanlan on your School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Mrs Scanlan has such a positive attitude and approach to providing ongoing care and support to the positive wellbeing of not only the students at Edney who may be under her care, but also, and so importantly, to the amazing staff at Edney Primary School. Her genuine care and concern for her colleagues is highly commendable.

14.01.2022 Congratulations to Erica Moore, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Building a Strong Community. Erica has been a member of the Edney Primary School Community and assisted for over 8 years with volunteering in the classroom, helping out in the canteen, at too many sausage sizzles to count, as well as being the P&C President and a founding member of the Edney Fair Committee that successfully raised around $25,000 for the school and helped to establi...sh the Nature Playground. Erica used to head the Safety House Committee in the P&C, as well as leading the school banking for an extended period of time. She has shown respect in her relationships and dealings with the school community as well as, excellence, innovation and she really has put her hand up so many times to help make Edney the school that it is today. Her contributions have been considerable. See more

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Toni Williamson for your School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Having spent some time in the classroom it is quite evident that Mrs Williamson dedicates her time not only to our child but to every child in the room. Every day we have seen her she always has the broadest, welcoming smile and is always positive about her day. This positive can-do attitude can only have a beneficial impact on all the children in the room.

12.01.2022 Congratulations to Corrina Forbes for your School Board Award for Excellence in Building a Strong Community. Our room would love to acknowledge the work Mrs Forbes does at Edney Primary School. She is hardworking every day. Even the one day when she was sick, Mrs Forbes still came in to help students and staff. She asks if you are ok. She helps people when they are hurt, especially when I fell out of a trolley. Mrs Forbes is caring for all students when they need help like pr...oviding icepacks, finding and loaning spare hats, issuing late notes and more. She helps out the with medication. She comforts people when they are injured or sick. Mrs Forbes will ring home for us when we forget things or if we are just not feeling well enough to stay at school. She helps in the office when people are needing to talk to a teacher. Or if you are hurt at recess or lunch. Mrs Forbes is a kind, caring staff member and cares about everyone. Mrs Forbes always allows kids to come and help out the office is always smiling. Actually we don’t think she has ever stopped smiling. Thanks Mrs Forbes, you are awesome! See more

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Rachael Gearing, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Rachael is a professional, nurturing and knowledgeable staff member who provides expert support for students with special needs, on an individual basis as well as working with small groups to ensure that each student can reach their potential. She adapts activities, develops resources and works seamlessly with class teachers, outside agencies and the student support team to maximise student achievement. In addition, she has played a vital role in preparing our student teams for the First Lego League Challenge.

11.01.2022 Congratulations to Rachelle Cook for your School Board Award for Excellence in Leading Innovation and Sustainability. Our room would love to acknowledge the extra work and extra effort Mrs Cook has provided to our classroom. Mrs Cook always gives us the best opportunities to improve. Mrs Cook is a book wizard, she just loves books and loves spending extra time sharing all the new books with us. Mrs Cook is very caring and kind towards everyone. She is a very good librarian an...d loves the books, if the books are damaged, she doesn’t get upset if you are honest. Not only is she a Star Wars fan, Harry Potter fan but Mrs Cook is a Lego Freak. She kindly volunteered her time to help our class code for our competition. Mrs Cook spent a lot of time with our class to help us learn to code the EV3’s and WeDo’s, set up the Lego tubs and build the structures for our competition. See more

11.01.2022 Today, we celebrate P&C Day WA and the sensational contribution of the Edney P&C to our school and students. Have a look at just some of the ways the Edney P&C have made our school a better place. Thank you!

09.01.2022 Congratulations to Rachelle Cook on your Edney Primary School Board Award for Leading Innovation and Sustainability. Rachelle has transformed and continues to innovate in our school library, making it a welcoming and exciting resource for students and staff alike. Her speed in making new resources available for use ensures that everything on offer has the maximum impact on student learning. She supports teachers to access resources, providing advice and guidance, and integrates with teaching and learning plans, offering her own amazing ideas, and giving her support to school-wide initiatives. She keeps the displays in the library constantly up to date and changing to ensure that there is always something new and interesting for the Edney community to discover.

08.01.2022 Congratulations to Adam Batt, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Adam is highly organised, an effective communicator and absolutely dedicated to delivering the highest quality, most engaging Health and Physical Education experiences for all of the students at Edney. Adam has worked for the past twelve months to completely overhaul the Faction Athletics Carnival, getting all staff on board and designing a day that preserves traditions, while boldly moving forward to ensure maximum participation and engagement for students.

08.01.2022 Congratulations Lesley West for your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Lesley has consistently been an outstanding role model for both her students and peers. By continuing to be a caring and compassionate leader in excellence for the past 30+ years, her support and guidance has enhanced the lives of so many. Her teaching practices and knowledge of both the curriculum and the Edney 2020 school plan engages students to achieve their highest standards. Likewise, her enthusiasm towards her role as a mentor to student teachers uplifts and upholds the school spirit of nurturing all of those around her.

07.01.2022 Congratulations Steve Rapps on your School Board Awards for Excellence in Building a Strong Community. Steve has been an active member of the Edney community for many, many years. He has been involved with the P&C, canteen, as a gardener, with the school fair and fete, as well as volunteering as Classroom Dad on numerous occasions. His contribution to building the garden beds in the circle garden is just one small physical example of his efforts. This year he is also involved with the efforts in organising the Year 6 graduation fundraising events.

07.01.2022 Congratulations to Rachelle Cook, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Leading Innovation and Sustainability. Even through the challenges of 2020, Rachelle has managed to maintain and grow the library as an inspiring, wondrous place to truly engage and build a love of reading and learning for students. From single-handedly pulling off the amazing Arctic Adventures Book Fair, to the NAIDOC Display, Remembrance Day and looking forward to Christmas, there is always something new and interesting to find in the library. On top of this, Rachelle’s support and expertise in preparing our First Lego League teams, including giving up countless lunchtimes and additional hours before and after school does not go unnoticed.

06.01.2022 Thank you to High Wycombe SUPA IGA - The Village and our local community for your wonderful and generous support.

05.01.2022 Congratulations to Kate Lynch for your School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Take a moment to view the world through the eyes of a young child, coming from a diverse background, trying to fit in just like a square peg into a round hole. So, what do we have in place at Edney to support our children? Kate Lynch! coordinating amazing levels of support for all of Edney’s children. Connecting students to assistants, providing collegial support for teachers, ...developing suitable learning programs and ensuring student wellbeing is a priority. Honouring our excellent staff and community members, these awards were held over from Term 1 and quietly presented at school today. Now is a great time to both honour these recipients and acknowledge the staff and community members who have helped the Edney community through these times. Nominate today forms are on the school website.

05.01.2022 Congratulations to the staff of Edney Primary School, all 57 of whom were honoured to receive School Board Awards today. As well as a whole staff nomination received from the P&C on behalf of the parent community, each staff member received an individual nomination, detailing their personal contribution to the success of the Edney community in coming together. Every single member of the staff from our cleaners, education assistants, front office, student support, teaching and administration staff have gone above and beyond during the past semester. The Board today acknowledged their excellence. Deserving winners, all.

04.01.2022 Congratulations to Glen Seiler, winner of an Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Mr Seiler is someone I admire. He’s my Year 6 teacher (also Year 5). I think that Mr Seiler’s been a good teacher and always makes things fun and he is really funny. I like how he’s unique and he’s a bit strict, but not too strict. He’s always cheered me up when I’m down or sad. The way Mr Seiler teaches is in a way I understand and is easiest to learn.

03.01.2022 Congratulations to Kate Lynch on your Edney Primary School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Kate puts significant effort into nurturing and caring for the wellbeing of both students and staff. She writes frequent wisdom memos to staff and runs staff mindfulness workshops. Kate uses restorative practices when dealing with student incidents and ensures that all parties are heard. She supports staff to manage difficult students, providing strategies to be employed or trialled.

03.01.2022 Everyone agrees, Grace is an incredible girl. In 2017, we asked the public for ideas on what we should name a Tunnel Boring Machine which would create one of th...e tunnels for the METRONET Forrestfield-Airport Link. Grace’s classmates at Edney Primary School thought it should be named after their brave friend. It was a great idea. Grace was nominated in 2017 while she was undergoing treatment for leukaemia. Her classmates said she was the toughest person they knew, exactly what the TBM needed to be to bore through the earth. Looking back now, it would be difficult to think of a more suitable name. TBM Grace went through some hard places. But inch by inch, metre by metre - TBM Grace kept moving forward. And just last month, after years of toil, TBM Grace emerged into the light at Bayswater. Conquering a truly epic journey. TBM Grace has proven herself worthy of the name Grace.

03.01.2022 Congratulations to EJ Woolfey for your School Board Award for Excellence in Leading Innovation and Sustainability. EJ has made a significant contribution towards the Edney 2020 Plan in the area of Innovation. She has implemented an exciting hands-on Science program in our Science laboratory, for the Year 1 students, and regularly utilises the Science Lab and its resources for her Room 15 students. EJ also regularly uses digital technologies to enhance her students learning wi...thin the Science Lab. She connects curriculum programs, contributing to creating active and considerate citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills for success in the 21st Century. Honouring our excellent staff and community members, these awards were held over from Term 1 and quietly presented at school today. Now is a great time to both honour these recipients and acknowledge the staff and community members who have helped the Edney community through these times. Nominate today forms are on the school website.

02.01.2022 Congratulations to Adam Batt on your School Board Award for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. Adam displays genuine care and considerable detail with his planning, preparation and adapting required for Senior Sport activities. Nothing is too much for Adam! He keeps in regular contact with all staff, school leaders and individual students. He is willing to listen to recommendations, suggestions or really weird ideas. Adam has set up Connect pages for the school leaders, allowing him to keep the school leaders informed with what is expected without interrupting classes. Adam provides regular information to allow me to pass onto my class. Our Faction Athletics Training sessions have equipment ready and markers set up and Adam will regularly check up on how our faction is going. Adam is seriously great value for Edney.

01.01.2022 Congratulations Deb Scanlan on your School Board Award for Excellence in Nurturing the Future. Deb is supporting classroom teachers by utilising her expertise in working with students with special needs. She has ensured students are using visual aids, calming techniques, brain breaks and completes detailed documentation, with classroom teacher input. She is happily flexible in her role to go to areas of the school in most need for example when a relief teacher has a class she offers to check in on students with high support needs. Deb spends hours outside of the normal school hours to complete extra duties and support teachers.