Dear Parents/Carers

I would like to say a big thank you to the staff who took our Year 6 students to camp last Wednesday through to Friday. The students had a ball doing the many fun activities the staff had organised. Planning a camp takes a great deal of organisation and commitment from the staff involved, across many months. Planning and attention to detail goes into every aspect including accommodation, travel time to and from each activity, meals, healthcare, bookings and confirmations, bus and sleeping arrangements. Thank you!

Colour Run

The P & C annual Colour Run will go ahead this Friday 5 November. All students are encouraged to wear old white or light clothing if they have it (as this looks most effective with the bursts of colour). Please do not buy clothing for this event as it is highly unlikely they will be able to be worn again. The Colour Run will begin at 1:45pm on the school oval and is always a lot of fun!

Junior Assembly

Our junior classes performed a wonderfully musical assembly last Tuesday afternoon. Congratulations to all involved for making this such a successful production!

Adventure Week

Planning for Adventure Week is being finalised and permission notes will be coming home soon. Please keep an eye on SeeSaw and check your child’s bag for the notes. Please make sure notes are signed and returned with payment as soon as possible.  

Parent morning tea

Our Term 4 parent morning tea will be held on 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. Please send your rsvp to kellie.carter@education.wa.edu.au for catering purposes.

School Development Day

Our School Development Day is on Friday 12 November 2021.  No children come to school on that day. The staff will be spending the day using teamwork to build bikes for charity.

2022 Class Planning

Class planning is underway 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.

New Classroom

We have been successful in our submission to obtain another transportable building from the Department of Education. This transportable will become another classroom (Room 35) and will be positioned next to the storage shed in the junior playground, opposite our other junior classes. The existing sandpit will be lost but we are working on a new sandpit going in next to our seesaw. The demountable is expected to be ready for day one next year at this stage.

Year 6 Transition

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

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

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

Welcome Kirsty

We’d like to say a very warm welcome to Kirsty Harris who will be joining us as our new School Officer, starting Monday 8 November 2021. Kirsty has been working at Grandis Primary School since August 2019 and we know she is going to be a wonderful addition to our administration team. Kirsty is known on campus from her previous work during Term 3, and will therefore be a familiar face.

She is replacing Kellie Carter who will be moving into another role at Joondalup ESC focusing on therapy, staff relief and ICT on campus. You will still see Kellie around!

Please make Kirsty welcome as she will be the first point of contact for our parents, students and visitors in the front office.

Anna Eason

Principal

Important Dates 

It has been a fabulous start to Term 4 in Room 23! We had the wonderful opportunity to get up on stage and run the assembly on Tuesday 26 October along with Room 14, 28 and 29. We all practiced extremely hard and had a fantastic time!

We performed a song that we have learned in drumming throughout the year with Mrs Galt called ‘I am the music man.’ We got to play all the instruments in drumming class and on stage we got to play the piano, drums, tambourines, shakers or bells. We even learned to sign some words of the song so we could sign as we sang. As we all looked like rock stars on the stage we even decorated our own guitars.

We are looking forward to enjoying the rest of the term together. It has been such an amazing start to the term with our assembly, we can’t wait to see what we will get up to over the next few weeks!

From George, Elnaz, Jasmine, Jaxon, Tommy, Corwin, Mikayla, Ms Spicer, Mrs Granville, Mrs Schwerdt and Mrs Scanlan.

The students have been learning all about Group Work and the 4 main rules of working together, sharing ideas, listening to others, asking questions, and giving feedback. They have been using the skills they’ve learnt while participating in different activities throughout the week, for instance building a block volcano together.

As part of our HASS program, Room 21 have been joining with Room 22 each Friday to learn about activities that take place in the local community. They all attended the Perth Zoo in term 3 and are now creating a model of a town using recyclable materials. The students have been partnering up and designing something that belongs in a town. They are then using the recyclable materials to build their designs. All the students are super excited to see the end product towards the end of the term.

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

This term we have completed our learning about Australia’s States and Territories. We thoroughly enjoyed learning about all the different attractions you may see when travelling to these amazing destinations. Here is some of our amazing craft work.

We love spending time with our buddies in Room 4. During our first session of term 4 we worked in our groups to make a holiday recount in the shape of a flower. We had to communicate with our buddies and discuss the similarities we had over the holiday break, such as “we all ate ice-cream” or “we all went bike riding”. We then drew and wrote about this in the centre circle. After that we all decorated a petal leaf with the fun activities we each did. We can’t wait to see them next week.

Mikayla said…

Last week on camp I went to Keith Maine Centre. I enjoyed the flying fox, it was fun! I went down and slid onto the sand. Later that day we had our afternoon snack and then dinner. Then we went bowling and I got a strike. Later that night, we went to bed.  On the last day we had Hogs Breath for dinner.

Isabelle said…

On camp I went slept in a room with Mikayla. I liked playing on the swing the most.

David said…

On camp I slept in a room with James. I played with Isabelle and I went high on the flying fox. I waved at Mrs Martin and I ate chicken nuggets at Hogs Breath. I liked sleeping the most.

Jayson said…

On camp I went bowling and I went to sleep. The next morning I had a shower.

James said….

On Wednesday when we go to school, we got on the bus to go to the Swan Valley. I loved the flying Fox. When we go to camp we ate our snacks. Then we went bowling. We got back and got ready for bed. On Thursday we played Mini Golf. When we got back from Mini Golf a man called Jayson showed us Boomerangs. On Friday we went to Scitech and then we went back to school.

Stay tuned for our next newsletter to read about Room 16's recount

Carols by Candlelight

Thursday 2 December 2021

More details to follow

Splat the Cat

During Book Week the students attending Visual Arts enjoyed listening to the story of "Splat the Cat" by Rob Scotton.

The students worked with the elements of shape and texture to paint Splat in black acrylic. The eyes nose and inner ears were cut out and pasted on. Finally, the belly was painted with pink acrylic.

Doughnuts

More great artwork has been completed on the science theme, 'food different by design'. The students viewed work of Wayne Thiebald. Thiebald is well known for his artwork of food. 

The students in the specialist class and rooms 16 & 27 sculpted doughnuts out of clay. The doughnuts were coloured with an underglaze and sealed with a clear glaze. Beads were added to look like sprinkles.

Halloween History

The history of Halloween was presented to the students. 

Jack-O-Lanterns were then created by the students. Orange and red acrylic were used to paint the pumpkin. The mouth eyes and stalk were pasted on to create these cute collages.

The students in the specialist class and rooms 16 & 27 viewed the work of Pablo Picasso. Working in the style of cubism, students created a either a witch, Frankenstein or portrait of a person. Drawing from different viewpoints and using vibrant colours, created very effective abstracts. The work was done in felt pen and oil pastel.

Spooky Castles were created by the students in rooms 2 & 21. Acrylic paint was scraped across the page to make the bright evening sky. Working with the element of shape the students pasted on the silhouette of a castle. Spooky creatures or characters were then cut out by the teachers, as requested by the students and pasted on to complete the artwork.  

Helen Sweet

Art Specialist Teacher

Kapture Photography have advised that all portraits and class group photos taken this year are still available for purchase. 

Please visit www.kapture.com.au using our school code; XWRU8H