Kaya!

Welcome to the midway point in the term. It has been interesting and challenging at times, with many changes and adjustments to the way we normally operate. I thank you all for your support. I would like to make a special mention of our amazing School Officers, who work tirelessly to address the enormous number of queries we have had from our parent community. Kirsty Harris, Jessica Barrett and Marie Earley work collaboratively to support all of our students, parents and visitors and do this with positivity, care and extensive knowledge and experience. Thank you!

Ride to School Day and Harmony Week celebrations

A fantastic day is planned for Friday 25 March 2022. The attached information will help your child to plan to decorate their wheels for the big display on the oval.

Don’t forget to wear something orange.

COVID19

Although education support students are exempt from wearing masks while in the school environment, we are happy for you to encourage them to wear one if they would like to. You can supply a mask for your child if you would like to but this is optional and not required when at school. 

I thank you all for your understanding and patience in regards to restrictions and operating guidelines that are currently in place. We continue to take direction from the Department of Education and the Department of Health when we have a student or staff member test positive to COVID-19.

Although we may hear directly from a family that a student has tested positive through a RAT (Rapid Antigen Test), we are required to wait for confirmation from the Department of Health and to follow their directions. If your child is unwell, we encourage you to keep them home and get tested. If a student becomes unwell while at school, we will contact you to collect them.

Each case is treated with confidentiality and although names of staff and students will be kept private, we will let you know which classrooms may be impacted. I thank you for understanding that the amount of information we are able to share is reliant on the information we receive from the Department of Health.

School Development Days 2022

Please mark your calendar with the following School Development Days for 2022:

• Term 2 - Friday 3 June
• Term 3 – Monday 18 July
• Term 4 – Friday 11 November
• Term 4 – Friday 16 December

Faction Cross Country

Our Faction Cross Country will be held on Friday 18 March for Pre-Primary to Year 6 children. Mr Lee has included information in this newsletter. If you are attending, please observe the current physical distancing recommendations and wear a mask when you are in close proximity to others.

P&C News

We will be holding the Easter raffle before the school holidays in April, so please start buying Easter egg donations/non chocolate donations. More information will be coming home with your child soon. 

Annual AGM

The Annual General Meeting will be held via Microsoft Teams on 16 March at 7pm. The P&C are seeking to appoint a new Treasurer among other agenda items. Please see the attached flyer, with a link to the AGM.

Canteen Update

We are very grateful to see the canteen return to five days per week. Thank you to Nicole, Marlene and Sandra who have continued to work extremely hard to get us back in this position.

The Canteen will only be taking online orders for the foreseeable future. Please see leaflet included in the newsletter for further information. 

Anna Eason

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

Dear Families,

On Friday 25 March, Joondalup Schools will be celebrating: 

As part of the Joondalup Schools Harmony Day activities, all students and staff are encouraged to wear orange – to celebrate Australian multiculturalism, inclusiveness, respect and sense of belonging for everyone.

Together with Harmony Day we will also be celebrating National Ride2School Day which is Australia’s biggest celebration of active travel. Students, families and teachers are encouraged to walk and/or wheel their way to school to discover the joy of riding and kick-starting healthy habits for the future. Wheels could include a bike, scooter, wheelchair, or skateboard, all of which encourage physical activity.

From 8:00am–8:30am there will be a staff member at nominated school gates (see map attached) and students will receive:

• a raffle ticket if they walked/wheeled their way to school
• an additional raffle ticket for decorating their wheels

Hold on to your raffle tickets as these will go to your classroom teacher and will go in to a Ride2School prize draw.

Students with wheels will be guided to a secured area on the oval where all bikes/scooters will be kept together in classroom groups for the day. Students are to take their own helmets back to their classroom (please label your child’s bike helmet and wheels for identification).

It will be great to see everyone wearing orange, decorating their wheels, joining in physical activity, and supporting both these events united together.

Regards,

Carol Selley & Anna Eason

Joondalup Schools

It has been a busy start to the year in Room 21! We have been spending time getting to know our new friends, finding out what we have been doing over the school holidays and working on our social skills. We are all having a fantastic time and love dancing and singing together to our morning and goodbye songs.

Valentine’s Day

In week 3, we used our English, Maths and Creative skills to make some yummy Valentine’s Day biscuits to take home for our families! We read and followed the recipe, measured out our ingredients, and decorated our biscuits with buttercream icing and sprinkles!

We can’t wait for the rest of the term!

From Room 21 – Aamiley, Adhi, Charlotte, Kieran, Michal, Nikita, Radhesh, Miss Booth, Mrs C and Mrs Mahony

This term we have been enjoying getting to know our new teachers and friends within our class. We have started our first Talk for Writing text, ‘The Somethingosaur’. We enjoyed going on a dinosaur hunt, following footprints and completing activities we found in eggs. We have drawn dinosaur pictures and used adjectives to describe them. We have now put actions to the text to help us remember it all and we are now completing our story map. We can’t wait to innovate the text and make our own stories.

We were excited to meet our buddies this term, and had so much fun. Unfortunately, we are unable to complete sessions together for the time being, so we worked really hard and had a video call together. We are working on a surprise to show everyone and can’t wait to show you all.

Year 2/3 Video call

As part of our history program we (all year 2/3 classes) have been learning about significant people and places. On Wednesday 2 March we were lucky enough to be able to hold a video call with Sergeant Ange and Holly. They spoke with us about what they do in their job role, uniform, transport and equipment and how they have changed over time. We all really enjoyed the session and learnt lots. We then had a blast getting to role play in some police gear.

In 2021, students from Rooms 1 and 26, teamed up to make a contribution to the City of Joondalup’s hArt project. The students were invited to do a drawing, painting or collage of something that is important to them in the City of Joondalup.

The students gathered together to brainstorm some ideas of places that were significant and had a special meaning for them. Many students chose to draw, with some adding an additional medium such as popsticks, or paper layers.

Some great ideas were showcased in their artwork including our schools own sensory rooms and sensory garden, our new playground, their own homes, Latitude, Zone Bowling, ECU and Neil Hawkins park, just to name a few. 

Lisa Estrano, one of the event organisers, gave the following feedback:

"On behalf of the City of Joondalup, I would like to thank each and every artist who has created an artwork and contributed to this exciting project.  Also, a big thankyou also to all teachers involved! We wouldn’t be able to do this without you and hope you found the project easy to partake in and also beneficial to the students involved"

The art work will be on display as part of a bigger exhibition at the Hillary’s Boat Harbour and runs from Friday 11 March until Saturday 2 April.  There will be a free Family Fun Weekend event on 12-13 March to launch the event.  I am sure the students would love to see their artwork on display if you are able to attend.

Here is the official website link to Joondalup Festival 2022. https://www.joondalupfestival.com.au/

Congratulations to all of our students for their amazing ideas and effort into their artwork.  We are so proud of you for representing our school with your creativity and passion. 

Warm and Cool Colours

Warm colours are red, orange, and yellow. They are bright and pop out. They create energy and excitement in an artwork and are associated with happy, joyful emotions. Blue and green are cool colours. They tend to recede and create a calming energy.  They may be used to express sad, calm, and tranquil emotions. Violet/purple can be both warm and cool depending on how much red or how much blue is in the violet.

Warm Colour Landscape

The students created a warm and cool landscape. Tree trunks were drawn with felt pen and ink was sprayed on for the foliage.

We are VERY EGG-cited to announce we have gone LIVE with our first online Easter Raffle! Everything remains the same as previous years but tickets are now purchased online. All info and important dates are below with flyers coming home soon. As always this raffle relies on donations from parents PLEASE. Get in quick to win the 10KG bar of Cadbury chocolate - ONLY 100 GOLDEN TICKETS AVAILABLE!  Link here for tix - https://joondalupschoolspandc.org.au