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Our Canteen is Open Every Day!
A big welcome to our new canteen manager Amy Daniels. If you haven’t looked at the menu lately check it out! There are some delicious things on the menu, and feedback from students and staff is that the food is delicious.
P&C Mother’s Day Stall
Thank you to our P&C for organising the Mother’s Day staff last week – it completely sold out! Happy Mother’s Day to all those who celebrated on the weekend.
National Reconciliation Week 27 May – 3 June
Joondalup Schools are planning a number of activities and events to promote reconciliation, throughout NRW 2021. Together with our families and the community, we have a number of ideas for meaningful activities and learning, to ensure that Reconciliation is #morethanaword. If you have any feedback or suggestions, or would like to help and take part during this time, please get in touch and let us know.
Junior Assembly
Last week our junior students hosted the assembly with a theme on road safety. Our students were amazing on stage, and performed a very polished song complete with actions, without the support of staff during the performance. Congratulations to all students and staff who put together the assembly, spoke and addressed the audience, and demonstrated examples of transport in action during the performance.
Cross Country
Last Friday Joondalup Schools competed in our school cross country event, at Windemere Oval. Some of our students are more competitive than others, however everyone enjoyed participating through running, walking, partially completing the course and cheering their friends to complete the course. A huge congratulations to Oliver who came second in the event for his year group. He will now represent our schools at an interschool event later in the year.
Our thoughts are with Jacquie Gellel (Barbera) and family
It is with a heavy heart I wish to inform you that Jacquie passed away earlier this week, after a short illness. Jacqui was the Principal here at Joondalup Education Support Centre in 2013, and has been a leader and education advocate for students with disability for many years. This is a great loss to her family, and to those in education support.
School Bus Services
We are in talks with School Bus Services about the service we currently receive. If you are intertested in applying for the school bus or have applied in the past and are waiting for a seat please contact them with your query.Garden of Weedin’
Over the coming weeks our Garden of Weedin’ will be having a makeover to include a space to support our sustainability projects, and to give more space to our trees which are growing too large for where they are now. Watch this space!
Principal
Important Dates
| Term 2 | 21 May - Interschool Cross Country |
| 7 June - Public Holiday - WA Day | |
| 8 - 18 June - Swimming | |
| 11 June WA Day Games and Dress Up | |
| 25 June - Parent Monring Tea | |
| 28 June - 2 July - Naidoc Week | |
| 30 June - Whole School Naidoc Activies | |
| 2 July - Students Last Day |
There are a number of key concerns where driver behaviour is impacting on the safety of our students and members of our school community.
- Please follow the parking rules around the school. It is not safe to stop in the middle of a road or double park along Jolstra Street. Please observe the parking rules at all times.
- The staff carpark at the front of the school is for STAFF ONLY and SCHOOL BUSES. It is not a thoroughfare or overflow parking for parents.
- Currently we do not have traffic wardens at each of the key road crossings so children may need to cross the road without an adult. Remember to drive at 40 km/h during 7.30-9.00am and 2.30 - 4.00pm. Remember that children are unpredictable and can’t judge the speed of the traffic.
It has been a fabulous start to Term 2 in Room 23! We have been straight back into all our wonderful learning experiences and have continued with our shared reading sessions and are still thoroughly enjoying them. So far this term we have been reading some texts about bears which has included ‘Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?’ and ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’. We have been enjoying the adventures the characters take and have been exploring the different places they have been to find a bear, such as through the big dark forest and the deep cold river. We have even had our home corner turn into a Teddy Bear Hospital where we have been learning how to look after and take care of the patients.
We have participated in some other special events this term, including our first School Cross Country event. Room 23 all did an amazing job and all the students made great progress with their running as they have been practicing in sport.
We also have been learning about special celebrations we have in Australia during our History sessions and spent some time discussing what we can do to celebrate Mother’s Day. We created beautiful cards and gifts for our Mums. We hope they all had a wonderful Mother’s Day.
We can’t wait to see what adventures we get up to next, hopefully we can go on our very own bear hunt!
From George, Elnaz, Jasmine, Jaxon, Tommy, Corwin, Ms Spicer, Mrs Granville, Mrs Schwerdt and Mrs Scanlan.
If you notice any suspicious activity on School Grounds, please contact Security on 9264 4771 or the Police on 131 444.
It has been an amazing start to Term 2 Room 3!
We have enjoyed reading lots of ANZAC stories and books in our classroom.Some of our favourites are ANZAC Ted and the ANZAC Day Parade. We enjoyed creating some ANZAC arts and crafts. We made red poppies out of cup-cake cases and paper plates.
We painted a beautiful sky at dawn with water colour. We used the colours purple, yellow and red for the sky.
In Mathematics, we used measurement tools to measure out ingredients for our ANZAC biscuit baking. We learnt how to measure using scales, cups and spoons to measure out our ingredients.
When our ANZAC biscuits were baked, we used our senses to record how our cookies looked, smelt, tasted and felt like.
Our class said they looked giant and golden, smelt like sweet butter, tasted like golden syrup, and felt a mix of soft, crunchy and very very hard!
We loved learning about the importance of ANZAC day in Room 3.
Poppies
After viewing the work of Georgia O'keeffe, the students attending Visual Arts painted a close-up of a poppy. The work was done in acrylic paint. The poppies looked spectacular all pinned together.
Willy Wagtail - Djidi Djidi
The students attending Visual Arts created a willy wagtail - djidi djidi out of clay. The greenware was bisque fired and then the students glazed their work. Once the willy wagtail - djidi djidi was fired again the students added legs with wire and curled the toes onto a branch. They look fantastic hanging on the wall.
Helen Sweet
Art Specialist Teacher
Perth Disability Service Provider and Participant Connection Expo 2021
Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre, Friday 11 June - Saturday 12 June