Dear Parents/Carers

Welcome back, I hope you all had a restful and enjoyable holiday break. We have a busy term ahead of us, with a number of special events including our junior assembly, Year 6 Camp, Colour Run, parent morning tea, Adventure Week, Year 6 Graduation and end of year reports. Please keep an eye on the newsletters for information as it arises.

Natalie Hatton has commenced her 15 month leave and I am excited to fill her role during this time. There is planning underway to fill my usual Associate Principal role and this is expected to commence from Week 5.

STEM

Last term we said goodbye and good luck to Mr Notarianni as he and his family are relocating back home to the UK. We thank Mr Not for his hard work and enthusiasm in delivering our STEM program. We are also excited to introduce and welcome Heidi Brough, who has joined us from Bullsbrook, to the role of STEM teacher.

Junior Assembly

Our junior classes have been busy rehearsing for our next assembly, that will go ahead next Tuesday 26 October from 2pm in the undercover area.

Parent Morning Tea

Our Term 4 parent morning tea is scheduled for Friday 26 November at 9am. This will be a chance to discuss ideas for speakers for 2022 and will help us to know what information you would like so we can source the right person/ organisation. Morning tea will be provided and we look forward to seeing you there!

Year 6 transition

​Remaining transition Days for ​2021 will be held on:

Term 4, Week 4, Thursday 4th November 2021, 9:30am – 2:00pm

Term 4, Week 7, Thursday 25th November 2021, 9:30am – 2:00pm

School Development Day

Don’t forget that the School Development Day is on Friday 12 November 2021.  No children come to school on that day.

Year 6 Camp

Next week, our Year 6 students will have the opportunity to attend camp at Keith Maine Centre from Wednesday 27^th to Friday the 29^th October. Activities will include the flying fox, team building games, bowling, mini golf, bushwalking and Scitech. All attending students will be leaving on the bus at 9.30am on Wednesday and returning at approximately 2.00pm on Friday.

2022 Class Planning

Class planning is in the early stages and classroom staff are working collaboratively with Administration to create our class structures for next year. This is a lengthy process that is given a great deal of thought and consultation across staff. Many factors are considered when creating classes, including the learning, physical and social requirements of each student. We expect this process to be completed around Week 8 or 9, ready to share with parents. Although all parent input and requests that have been communicated through teachers will be considered at length, we appreciate your understanding that it may not be possible to meet everyone’s first request. Thank you for your patience while we continue to work on this.

School grounds update

Whilst it is still a few weeks away, the new playground next to the basketball court is attracting a lot of interest!  We are waiting for the softfall to be installed around the base before the fencing comes down. New slides on the bank in Nature Play and a decked seating area around the tree on the oval are also very popular additions. The space between Admin and B Block is being converted into a new seating area with benches and pathways, while keeping the long standing tree for shade. Some smaller landscaping projects are also underway, making our play spaces more appealing.

Anna Eason

Acting Principal

Important Dates 

Reaching the finalist stage of the WA Education Awards is great accomplishment and is something we are very proud of! We are encouraging any messages of support and well wishes to be emailed to waeducationawards.education.wa.edu.au which will be shared on the day of the presentation. Thank you to all of our families, students, community and staff for contributing to our success so far.

Term 4 has started off brilliantly! The students in Room 14 are learning about ‘Under the Sea’ and so far have been extremely engaged in playing in our home corner area. We have noticed that the students are communicating with their peers, recognising sea creatures and engaging in conversations with teachers.

The students have been busy making our ‘Under the Sea’ area bright and colourful. Students have had great pleasure in painting our big Octopus and Submarine and making an ocean scene with sea creatures.

During shared reading students have been viewing ‘The Rainbow Fish’ and learning about the Rainbow Fish’s character traits and how he learnt to share, make friends and be kind. As the Term progresses we will be exploring further books and learning more about ‘Under the Sea’.

During Term 3, students in room 26 were involved in a number of exciting, fun activities.  We were lucky to have Miss Amanda each Wednesday to come and deliver our health lessons.  We learnt about our feelings by naming different feelings and we learnt how to recognise feelings on other people’s faces.  She played games with us and got us showing different feelings through our facial expressions.  We really loved her ‘yes’ and ‘no’ game and requested to play it each week! 

Our Middle school assembly was a huge success.  It coincided with Book Week and it’s theme of “Old Worlds, New Worlds and Other Worlds”.  After weeks of dance rehearsals and costume preparation, we presented our item highlighting events from the “Old World”.  We danced along to the song “Dinosaur Stomp” wearing our costumes that we individually designed with a head, claws and feet to become our own dinosaur.  Well done to Lilly who received a certificate at this assembly.  We welcomed Lexi to our class who jumped right on in to join our assembly presentation.  A big congratulations to all of our class who were very brave to perform and speak at the assembly, and took on the challenge with such a positive attitude and great tenacity.

This semester we get to participate in a Music Rocks session each Wednesday.  Our class absolutely love these music sessions.  They get to choose the songs they play and the instruments to use.  We all get a turn to sing, play the keyboard, drums, or guitars.  One weekend, two of us, Finley and Harrison, performed as part of a bigger Music Rocks concert that involved students from other schools too.  So proud of them for getting up on stage, in front of an audience with a back-up band, stage lighting and all!

Our class was chosen to perform at the Abilities Expo at Crown because we love Music Rocks so much!  We performed “A Little Bit of Love” by Tom Grennan with Lexi, Ashleigh and Ciara on vocals, Finley, Harrison and Jake on drums and Lilly and Charlotte on the keyboard.  The Abilities Expo is a great event to showcase talents and also to have a look at opportunities available for supports and future work.  We enjoyed looking around at the stalls, meeting new people and collecting free items.

My name is Margaret Parker and I have been fortunate enough to be offered a teaching position at Joondalup Education Support Centre in Room 2. I have worked in an education setting for the past 11 years and recently graduated as an Early Childhood Educator, so am very excited to begin my teaching career in such a unique and welcoming environment.   

A little about me… 

I grew up in the South Island of New Zealand, and moved here when I was 18. My husband & I have been married for 20 years in April and have two daughters, Jacqlin (18) and Aimee (17). We also have two rescue cats called Angus and Sadie, who enjoy zooming about the house and generally causing chaos!! When I’m not working I enjoy spending time with my family and friends hiking, camping and Geocaching (a type of scavenger hunt), which often takes us to little hidden places we may not have otherwise found.  Pre-covid we also enjoyed travelling and were lucky enough to visit the USA just before lock-down.  

I look forward to meeting you all, so please say hello if you see me about the school!! 

This week in Room 2 we have been spending time to get to know each other. We have been playing different math games that allow us to practice our social skills, while consolidating our number knowledge at the same time. We have also been doing lots of singing and dancing – apologies to Rooms 1 and 3 for both my singing and our noisy moments!!  

On Wednesday 22 September the School Captains held a Golden Ticket movie afternoon. The purpose of the movie afternoon was to encourage children to be respectful, responsible and safe. The School Captains handed out over 200 Golden Tickets and only 15 students were pulled out of a hat to win those tickets. The winners got to choose one friend to watch the movie with them. All students who attended got to enjoy an ice-cream sundae, popcorn and a juicebox whilst watching the movie Luca.

School Captains.

Garden Club has started and there are still some spaces.  If you would like your child to attend, please complete the form below and return it to your classroom teacher.