In Miss Hattons absence our Student Councilors and Sports Captains have taken the opportunity to write the Newsletter.

Year 6 Transition

On Thursday 19 August our Year 6 students went to our first transition day at Belridge Senior High school. Mrs Hutchings was our transition teacher and we enjoyed a walk around the school. We loved the cooking room and wood work room. James’ favourite part of the transition day was seeing his old classmates from Joondalup.

Senior Assembly

The Senior school students are busily practising for their assembly today. The theme for the assembly is the same as this year’s Book Week theme “Old, New and Other worlds”. We can’t wait to show off some great dance moves and fabulous reading! 

Sport

Mr Lee has been helping us practise for this year’s upcoming faction carnival. We have been making sure to have our “butterfly hands” ready for the star relay and have been practising our throwing and catching skills for leader ball and pass ball. We can’t wait to cheer for our factions.

Don’t forget to mark it on your calendar.  The JESC Combined School’s Sports Carnival is happening on Tuesday 7 of September. If you haven’t already done so, please return your permission slips as soon as possible.

Welcome Back Miss Hatton

Finally, we welcome back Miss Hatton from 2 weeks Long service leave. We hope you had a wonderful time in the sunshine up north. The senior students are so excited that you are back in time for their assembly.

Ben, Luke, Jayson and James

Important Dates 

After a wonderful two week holiday in our Kimberly region I am back at school. I flew up to Broome, and travelled with three friends in a big van to Eco Beach, Fitzroy Crossing, Wyndham, Kununurra and Broome. We went to Lake Argyle and had many boat rides on the Ord River and Fitzroy River. I went in a Sea Plane to the Horizontal Falls and saw lots of fresh water crocodiles. It was lovely and warm and we could swim in some water holes and swimming pools.

 

I have shared some photos of my holiday. There is one photo of a small cave. Believe it or not this was used as a classroom between 1957 and 1962. The school was called Gogo Cave School, which is the name of the station in that area.

I really missed everyone and am glad to be back in time for Book Week! Everyone made such an effort to dress up, and students looked amazing!

Natalie Hatton

Principal

We have had a wonderful start to Term 3 in Room 3!

Our topic for Term 3 in HASS is Geography. We are learning about how weather (e.g. rainfall, temperature, sunshine, wind) and seasons vary between places and the terms used to describe them.

Our first lesson was learning about temperature. We made some yummy hot and cold chocolates (with marshmallows and ice-cream of course!).The hot chocolate was a great treat to warm up our cold bodies and was definitely a favourite!

We are learning to identify typical weather by using at least two adjectives to describe each season. We can identify and label the weather by selecting two adjectives represented by pictures to record daily weather conditions. Here we are using sensory bottles to help us label and categorise “hot” and “cold”.

Last week we were lucky enough to catch some beautiful sunshine and warmth one afternoon and were quick to take the opportunity to read some of our favourite books under a tree with our friends.

Room 3 are looking forward to the weather turning hot and sunny, and saying goodbye to the freezing cold!

We ask parents, when attending assembly, to please be seated in the chairs facing the stage and stand behind the seated area.  The bench seats at the sides are used for staff so that they are seated near their classes.

Doughnuts and Fried Eggs

The theme for science week this year was ‘food different by design’.  

In Visual Arts we viewed the work of Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud is well known for his artwork of food.  

The students in the specialist class and rooms 16 & 27 drew doughnuts. The fried eggs were created by the students in rooms 2 & 21. They coloured with oil pastels and worked with the element of value to imply 3D. The students cut them out and pasted them onto black card. 

Helen Sweet

Art Specialist Teacher

If you notice any suspicious activity on School Grounds, please contact Security on 9264 4771 or the Police on 131 444.

Students and staff are encouraged to wear yellow on 9 September to help the Social Justice Committe promote R U OK Day.  No gold coin donation is required.

With the Tokyo Olympic games recently taking place, the students and teachers in Room 28 decided to create their own classroom Olympic events. Students participated in many different games over the week including Straw Javelin, Ping Pong Basketball, Balloon Tennis and Running Races to name a few.

Our students participated with enthusiasm and really enjoyed the opportunity to experience such a great range of activities. Room 28 students kept a keen eye on the medal count, cheering on all our classmates as they tried their best in each event.  We also loved watching the Tokyo Olympic games on the big screen whenever possible and cheering on our home country. Go Australia!

We also created our own potato Olympics! This was an amusing and engaging way for students to explore numeracy and literacy in Olympic events through their potato athlete. Students decorated and created their own athlete which then participated in different challenges. Some of the events include potato shot put, high diving potatoes (we made HUGE splashes), potato ramp sprints and spinning potato gymnastics. We had lots of fun laughing and exploring the many different sports held as part of the Olympics.

This term we have been very excited to follow the Tokyo Olympics.

Each student has represented a country for the two weeks of the games and the corresponding flag was placed on their desk.

We have followed a range of sports and kept tallies on the number of medals won by certain countries. The students have identified their favourite sports and favourite Australian Athletes.

Activities have included daily updating of the medal tally, the creation of individual books filled with pictures of athletes and student comments on the sport they represented. Each student completed a brief athlete profile on an Australian athlete.

Our Olympic celebrations culminated in a Room 9 Olympic day where the students each represented their country and completed a range of games such as bowling and ping pong drop. There were medal presentations and the students all showed good sportsmanship throughout the day.