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Students and staff have been very busy participating in many different class projects happening across the centre, with a number of classes showing great interest in the Commonwealth Games. We have seen some great success stories unfold and I hope you have all enjoyed cheering on the athletes as our classes have. We will be holding our Joondalup Schools Faction Carnival here in Week 7 and I hope all participants will enjoy the event and aim for their personal best.
COVID is currently expected to peak over the next two to three weeks. To prevent and slow the potential reinfection/spread of COVID, we ask that parents please consider wearing a mask when on site and avoid entering school if you are unwell. This is also the case with Cold and Flu signs and symptoms. Student and staff health is of paramount importance to the school and we strongly encourage you to keep your child home if they have any symptoms of a cold/flu (e.g. runny/blocked nose, headaches, body aches, high temperature, coughing/sneezing, fatigue or similar).
We are scheduled to receive a delivery of RATs that are being distributed by the Department of Education. Each child will have an allocation of 20 RATs available for collection by a parent/nominated adult. We will advise you when these are available for collection but if you require any in the meantime, please contact the office and we will arrange some for you.
Upcoming important dates:
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Date |
Event |
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Thursday 18 Aug |
Parent/Teacher Interviews (Lessons suspended for IEP meetings) |
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Thursday 25 Aug |
Book Week Parade (start thinking about your costume) |
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Friday 26 Aug |
Parent morning Tea- Triple P speaker, Brendan Everett |
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Friday 2 Sept |
Faction Carnival |
Parent Morning Tea
Our next morning tea will be held in the staffroom on Friday 26 August at 9am. There will be a presentation by Brendan Everett about the Triple P Positive Parenting Program, with an emphasis on parenting children with disabilities of all ages. I encourage you to attend the morning tea and stay for the discussion. Brendan Everett is a registered School Psychologist with a background in education support and supporting positive behaviour in young people. Please RSVP to Kirsty.harris@education.wa.edu.au for catering purposes.
Parent Teacher Interviews (IEP Meetings) Reminder
Parents will have an opportunity on Thursday 18 August to attend a parent teacher interview (IEP meeting) to discuss individual education goals identified for your child, for Semester Two. We will be suspending lessons from 11.45am, to allow teachers to meet with parents. Interviews will run from 12pm through to the end of the day. All children need to be collected at 11.45 and School Bus Services will be operating (please speak directly to the bus service to confirm your child’s transport on this day).
Our intention is still for these meetings to be face to face but are also prepared to hold phone meetings depending on the COVID advice received from the Department closer to the time. If you would like to request a phone meeting instead of a face-to-face meeting, please contact your child’s teacher.
If you notice any suspicious activity on School Grounds, please contact Security on 9264 4771 or the Police on 131 444.
What an amazing start to Term 3 in Room 21! We were all very excited to be back at school this term and start our new specialist subject, Music Rocks! Our students are made to perform; we have taken turns choosing songs, playing different instruments, and getting up to sing!
Every Friday, we have been working on our cooking skills, encouraging students to apply the knowledge they have and apply it by counting, measuring, following a sequence, following directions and writing step-by-step instructions on what we did. The students love to try the different food and join in on the fun!
We look forward to the rest of the term!
From all of us in Room 21 – Charlotte, Aamiley, Michal, Adhi, Jason, Radhesh, Nikita, Miss Booth, Mrs C and Mrs Mahony
Room 33, Kindy B group have had a fantastic start to Term 3.
Our theme this term is Mini Beasts and we have been reading The Hungry Caterpillar. We have had great fun making caterpillar crowns, painting caterpillars and adding fruit and exploring with musical instruments.
With the completion of the Kindy playground, we have had a brilliant time exploring, playing with the water pump and balancing over the rocks. We have also joined the other junior classes for Fun Friday afternoons and enjoy making, creating and playing with our friends. We are looking forward to more fun times during the term!
Seascape
The students attending Visual Arts this semester worked with the elements of line, shape and value to create an abstract seascape. Different lines were drawn across the page. The students painted the sea blue adding white to create lighter values towards the surface. Silver paint markers were used to embellish the lines and create a sparkling sea. Boats were added with coloured paper.
Mrs Sweet
Kaya Wanjoo – Hello and welcome
The Noongar season is Djilba. A transitional time of the year, Djilba has days that are very cold, some that are rainy and windy and others where the sun comes through. As the days start to warm up, you’ll hear and see the first of the new born animals with their parents providing them with food, shelter and protection from other animals and people. The woodland birds will still be nest bound, hence the swooping behaviour of the Koolbardi (magpie), Djidi Djidi (Willywag tails) and the Chuck-a-luck (wattle birds).
This is the start of the massive flowering explosion in the South West. It begins with yellow flowering plants such as the Acacias. You’ll also notice cream and striking blue coloured flowers. As the season progresses and the temperatures continue to rise, you will see the flower stalks of the Balgas (Grass Tress) emerging in preparation for the coming Kambarang season.
Traditionally, the main food source at this time of the year included many of the land based grazing animals including Yongar (kangaroo), Waiitj (Emu) and the Koomal (possum).
Our small but dedicated group of students, parents and staff come together every Thursday afternoon from 3.15 to 4pm to look after the garden. Our garden beds are in full bloom with many vegetables already being harvested, cooked and tasted.
There are still places left for this term, with spaces limited to 20 students. See attached invite and agenda for the term.Thank you to the Corley family (Nathan & Joshua) for your donation of a new wheelbarrow. You are a wonderful community minded family. Very much appreciated.
Recycling Station
You may have noticed our new community recycling station is up and running at the end of room 34 (near the oval). When dropping recycling to the school please put it into the correct bin. Make sure items are not in a plastic bag and are clean. Our students diligently go through the bins in order to pack and send off for recycling and we don’t want nasty surprises for them. Our focus bin this newsletter is Coffee Pods – they need to be clean, not leaking and not in another bag. These are then packaged and sent to a local TerraCycle Material Recovery Facilities located in the same country in which the waste originates. Once sorted by category, the different material types are cleaned and then sent to third-party partners to process the materials into usable forms.
For example, metals and aluminium are shredded and smelted into metal sheeting, ingots, or bar stock. Glass is crushed and melted to be used in new glass bottles (if clear), or brick, cement, or concrete applications (if coloured). Rubber is generally cryo-milled into a powdered state for flooring applications. Organics are composted or used in industrial and commercial fertilisers.
Plastics are the largest category of material collected. These materials are size-reduced (made smaller by being shredded or ground), then melted and reformatted into pellets, flakes, or a powder format.
After TerraCycle recycle the waste into raw material, it’s sold to manufacturing companies who produce the end product and complete the recycling journey. These end products may include outdoor furniture and decking, plastic shipping pallets, watering cans, storage containers and bins, tubes for construction applications, flooring tiles, playground surface covers, athletic fields, and more!
If you would like to know more about what you can do at home for recycling, go to www.terracycle.com.au
Containers for Change
Continue to bring in your Containers for Change bottles/cans (clean and LIDS removed). Place in the big blue bin near Room 34. Leave your ring pulls on but take your plastic lids off. Alternatively use our school ID number at a community drop off point C10339712
So far we have saved 2793 containers from landfill which has earnt the school $279.30. This money will be used towards a sustainable product for whole school use at the end of the year. Did you know our blue plastic school bench near the front office was made from 15000 600ml water bottles?
Grow Free Cart
Our Grow Free Cart is back up and running thanks to Room 27 who have taken over this responsibility as part of their sustainability lessons. Excess produce grown in our school is placed on this cart, along with seedlings etc. You are encouraged to take what you need and give what you can. So bring your excess lemons, cuttings, gardening/cooking magazines and place them on the cart. A big thank you to our lovely Education Assistant Mrs Galt who designed our poster.
Happy gardening and sustainable thinking,
Sandra Bennett – Science/Sustainability Teacher (JESC). Sustainability Coordinator (Joondalup Schools)
Nerelle Phillips – Science Teacher JPS.
