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Room 3 have been super busy all term!

Throughout the term the students have done an unbelievable job when participating in learning all about how the colonial development and settlement impacted Australia’s First Peoples. As a whole class they researched how Indigenous Australians lived prior to settlement and then discovered the changes that were made once the settlers arrived. The students consolidated their learning by creating dioramas that depicted both pre and post colonisation.

Room 3 have been lucky to attend Cooking lessons at Beldon Education Support Centre every Monday where we have cooked delicious healthy foods and smoothies/juices. The students have each kept a logbook of the recipes, written about their experiences, and rated the food and drinks out of 10.

During Talk for Writing the class enjoyed completing their own story maps and writing individualised versions of the story 'The Papaya that Spoke'. Once they had written their stories, they typed final copies and edited them with the teachers. They managed to even include Minecraft into Talk for Writing by creating a world that included all the characters and settings from the story.

During Literacy each child chose a topic of interest to research. They have been working hard to fact check their research and have created awesome PowerPoints to support the presentations that they will be finishing this week. They are looking forward to all practicing their speaking and listening skills while presenting and also while being the best audiences ever.

Room 28 has had such a fun term learning and exploring together. We have completed a Talk for Writing unit of work on Goldilocks and the Three Bears where children engaged with many hands on story telling activities. We acted the story out using props such as puppets and story stones and then we constructed whole class and independent stories changing characters from the three bears to fairies, monkeys, caterpillars and more to make them our own.

Every Friday afternoon this term, we have joined up with Rooms 23 and 29 for some ‘Fun Friday’ activities. The children have all loved completing activities collaboratively and have developed many social skills along the way. We love our Fun Fridays playing with new friends!

Room 28 has explored many dramatic play areas in our classroom linking to some of the learning we have been completing. From vets to baby clinics and hair dressing salons, the children have absolutely loved the pretend play area developing social interaction, language and communication skills, problem solving and opportunities to express themselves in different ways.

This term as part of Talk For Writing program we have read “The Magic Porridge Pot”.

At the start of the topic we made and ate porridge. Everyone stirred and described their porridge.

We created a story map and wrote about it and practised reciting elements of the story using the pot and story stones in our tray.

During one lesson we recited words from the story. To make our porridge grow bigger and bigger we added porridge, sugar (bicarbonate of soda) and water (vinegar) and our porridge bubbled and grew.

Everyone has enjoyed and had fun with this story.

On Tuesday, it was our Year 6 assembly.  All of the Year 6 students from the ESC and Primary school joined together for a “Country Western Hoe-down”.  We all danced on stage to some country songs dressed up as cow-girls, cow-tomboys and cow-boys, wearing check shirts, jeans, hats and boots. The crowd clapped and tapped along to our boot-scooting and joined in with some dancing too.

Ashleigh loved throwing our hats in the air at the end and when everyone joined in together.

Jacinta got up on stage and introduced the principals to present merit certificates.

Lily tapped her tambourine and loved stomping and kicking her feet to the music. She also used her device to speak at the microphone in front of the audience.

Jackson looked fabulous in his red country shirt, standing at his hay bale. 

We congratulate Jacinta and Jackson who have been working hard all term and earned themselves a merit certificate.

Everyone (including the staff) have had a great time with the storytellers, with plenty of things to see, smell, touch, taste and hear.

JESC has had a great ongoing relationship with Sensorium Theatre for several years and we always enjoy learning through their stories.

Which Block bagged the most dough…

The results are in!

Block C:    collected 5kg of soft plastic and earned $500.

Block D:    collected 10 kg of soft plastic and earned $1000.

Block H:    collected 10kg of soft plastic and earned $1000.

Admin:      collected 0kg of soft plastic but may have been persuaded to donate to other blocks!

A massive congratulations to every student and the Joondalup community who have been extremely proactive in collecting and recycling bread bags.

I have posted close to 3 kg of soft plastic bread bags to RedCycle over the past 8 weeks, and the school has now earned $2000 from RHS Sports and $500 is being deposited this week, giving us a total of $2500. Students will be using their reward earnings to purchase equipment for their classrooms.

We have now finished the Wonder Rewards Program, but this does not mean we stop looking after our environment. If students wish to continue to bring in soft plastic bread bags, as a school we will happily reduce our ecological footprint for the future and recycle them.

Nerelle Phillips

Wanjoo to Winter. The Noongar season is Makuru.  Makaru sees the coldest and wettest time of the year come into full swing. Traditionally, this was a good time of the year to move back inland from the coast as the winds turned to the west and south bringing the cold weather, rains and occasionally snow on the peaks of the Stirling and Porongurup Ranges.

As the waterways and catchments started to fill, people were able to move about their country with ease and thus their food sources changed from sea, estuarine and lake foods to those of the lands in particular the grazing animals such as the kangaroo. As well as a food source, animals provided people with many other things. For example, 'Yongar' or kangaroos not only provided meat but also 'bookas' (animal skin cloaks that were used as the nights became much cooler). Nothing was left; even the bones and sinews were used in the manufacturing of bookas and for hunting tools such as spears.

Makuru is also a time for a lot of animals to be pairing up in preparation for breeding in the coming season. If you look carefully, you might now see pairs of 'Wardongs' (ravens) flying together. You also notice these pairs not making the usual 'ark ark arrrrrk' that these birds are well known for when flying solo. Upon the lakes and rivers of the South West, you'll also start to see a large influx of the Black Swan or 'Mali' as they too prepare to nest and breed.

Flowers that will start to emerge include the blues and purples of the Blueberry Lilly (Dianella revoluta) and the Purple Flags (Patersonia occidentalis). As the season comes to a close, you should also start to notice the white flowers of the weeping peppermint (Agonis flexuosa) as the blues start to make way for the white and cream flowers of Djilba.

A big thank you to all the students, parents and staff who turn up each week to nurture, learn and share a love of sustainable gardening. Week 9 was the final week for the term and we celebrated our community togetherness with an afternoon tea.

Term 3 invite will go out in the first week, with spaces limited to 20 students.

SUEZ Incursion

All Joondalup Primary Students have had the opportunity to participate in a recycling incursion in preparation for changes to our bin system. This will allow the students to place their rubbish in the correct bin for recycling or general waste.  Joondalup ESC students will have their excursion next term. 

Finally, have a wonderful holiday and get out into the wonderful outdoors to explore the amazing biodiversity