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Kaya everyone!
Congratulations to our junior classes who performed a very professional assembly item last Tuesday. Many hours of rehearsal went into refining the item and we are very proud of the perseverance and efforts shown by the students. Some students even remained in character for the entire show!
Friday was a big day at Joondalup Schools, with both the disco and World Teacher’s Day. Many thanks and recognition to the P&C and the disco committee who organised and coordinated this exciting event. This was the first time we have had a quieter and brighter session and we thank the committee for this inclusive idea. The evening was a great success, with a terrific turn out on the night and some spectacular dance moves!
World Teacher's Day
I would like to recognise our dedicated, professional, hard-working staff, who were thanked on World Teacher’s Day. Aside from the amazing planning and teaching they do, they also engage in a great deal of behind-the-scenes tasks, to ensure your children are getting the best opportunities and learning program, supported by a myriad of creative strategies. Our staff often dip into their own pockets to buy additional resources, reinforcers and rewards for the children, participate in professional learning in their own time, spend the school holidays preparing resources and activities, seek out extra-curricular opportunities that meet a child’s interest, share your child’s successes and achievements as a champion and feel the frustration when challenges arise for you and your child. Our staff are clearly more than just educators, as their skillset, humanity and dedication extends them well beyond this. To all of our staff, thank you!
Helen Sweet- Art Specialist
It is with a balance of sadness, admiration and excitement (for her) that we prepare to farewell Helen Sweet, our wonderfully gifted Art specialist, as she makes the transition to retirement at the end of the year. Helen has a long history of providing an exceptional Visual Art program to the students of Joondalup Schools and has also made her mark on the Social Justice committee and a vast number of other school priorities. Helen’s positive nature and genuine care for our students will be missed. If you see Helen in the coming weeks, please feel free to pass on your congratulations and well wishes.
ACSF
Joondalup ESC has been on a journey of familiarisation and implementation of the Department of Education Aboriginal Cultural Standards Framework (ACSF), which provides the overarching framework to ensuring we are a culturally responsive school, enables us to reflect on our practice and identify ways we can improve. Our Joondalup Schools Reconciliation Action Plan has recently been reviewed and re-published with actions that support the implementation of the ACSF. If you would like to know more about this or are interested in coming on this journey with us, please let me know as we would love to have some parent representation and input in this space.
PPP Parent Morning Tea
I encourage you to sign up for the Triple P session being held here on Friday. It is a safe space for you to get support with changing problem behaviour into positive behaviour. The idea is that therapists are limited to the amount of hours they can work with your child but you are not. If you are equipped with the skills, you are able to expose your child to strategies on a more consistent and ongoing basis. The session is free and you can bring a support worker or any other people who live or work with your child, the more the merrier!
Stepping Stones Triple P (Positive Parenting Program), has a focus on supporting parents who have children with disabilities, of all ages.
We have scheduled the following FREE sessions to occur at Joondalup Schools:
- Changing Problem Behaviour to Positive Behaviour (Friday 4 Nov, 9am)
- Fears and Anxiety (Friday 2 Dec, 9am)
The sessions will be delivered by Brendan Everett, Psychologist and Triple P consultant. Please register your interest via email to Kirsty.harris@education.wa.edu.au
You can read more information on Stepping Stones Triple P here.
Evacuation Practice
Joondalup Schools will be conducting a practice evacuation on Thursday 8 Dec from 2pm. The purpose is to be able to review our processes and identify any gaps in planning that may be evident. The practise allows students and staff to be reminded of what to do in an emergency. Please do not worry when you see this occurring on the day, when you arrive at the end of the day.
Development Day
Our School Development Day for Term 4 is Friday 11 November (next week). The school will be closed for staff to engage in professional learning on this day. Please mark this in your calendar and make alternative arrangements for the day.
Important dates:
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Wednesday 2 November |
Yr 6 Graduation Photos 9am |
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Friday 4 November |
Year 4/5 Football Carnival |
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Tuesday 8 November |
Middle years Assembly |
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Thursday 10 November |
Colour Run |
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Friday 11 November |
School Development Day (No students attend this day) |
If you notice any suspicious activity on School Grounds, please contact Security on 9264 4771 or the Police on 131 444.
This term Room 28 have been exploring the weather and seasons. We have been looking at weather patterns and completing many experiments to investigate different weather conditions. Students enjoyed observing cloud movement and shapes and created an artwork to show what they had seen and imagined. We also used shaving foam to create different types of clouds.
We have also started our new Talk for Writing unit of work which is called “The Rainbow Princess”. To hook our students into the story, we dressed up as princesses and had a party, singing and dancing to all our favourite princess songs. We have enjoyed learning our new class story so far and can’t wait to continue our story journey.
This term we have started our new Talk for Writing text “All Superheroes should have a Sidekick”. Students completed an obstacle course in their chosen outfit. We had so much fun and laughed a lot.
As this is a persuasive text, we are looking forward to our mock debate in class next week!
In Geography last term we were researching the different states and territories of Australia. This term is the start of learning about our neighboring countries. This week we began with Indonesia. Students researched people, climate, food and activities. We have enjoyed cooking some Nasi Goreng.
In HASS we have been learning about the location of Australian states, territories and capital cities and researching some of Australia’s major natural features. The students in Room 21 have been working hard over the past few weeks, identifying where we live on a map and carrying out their own research to find information on each state. The students have been utilising their ICT skills on Book Creator to create their presentation, then printed their work to display their findings and present to the rest of the class!
We have also been getting our Halloween craft on, building up the excitement for spook season!
We are very excited about our upcoming events this term and can’t wait to continue with our hard work and having fun in the final weeks of the year!
Aamiley, Adhi, Charlotte, Jason, Michal, Nikita, Radhesh, Miss Booth, Mrs C and Mrs Mahony J
Day 1
A trip to Fremantle to the Maritime Museum where we saw lots of ships, a submarine and a torpedo.
Then a play at the playground before heading to the Spare Parts Puppet theatre where we made our very own puppets to keep!
Dinner back at the campsite where we all enjoyed our spaghetti bolognaise that we had made. A few games of spotlight in the dark before settling for bed.
A great first day!!
Day 2
We spent the day at Kings Park out in the beautiful sunshine.
Cyril presented a wonderful indigenous story called Chunyart and the Cheeky Parrot. The children were engrossed in the story and got to see and feel a kangaroo skin, a boomerang and some other hand-made tools.
A big play in the playground, a hike up to the DNA tower and a bbq picnic lunch followed. Mr Hamilton organised a great quiz to challenge their general knowledge before heading out to dinner at Grill’d. A fun day 2.
Our final day meant we had to pack up all of our things and clean up our rooms. We enjoyed a morning at Scitech with a Planetarium show before heading back to school. We had pizzas for lunch before our parents came to pick us up. Lots of tired kids and staff but a wonderful camp experience had by all!!
Our lovely Bec is retiring from her role as Treasurer on the Joondalup Schools P&C and we are now looking for someone who has the skillset and interest to take on this valuable position. Please consider if you are in a position to be able to help (training and handover available) and contact jenny@devahasdinpr.com.au. Many thanks to Bec for her work throughout this year, it has been greatly appreciated.
Depending on activities the role is between 2-8 hours PER MONTH. Listed below is a description of the work and our existing treasurer will be available to take you through all systems and hand over a completely up to date record of accounts.
▪️Bookkeeping (recording of financial transactions) for one bank account via Tidy HQ software. As per WACSSO/audit requirements. Maintain digital folders of paperwork.
▪️Paying invoices and reimbursements (as they arise) - via CommBank on a pc/laptop in the company of President.
▪️Authorising payments from accounts as they arise via CommBiz. Some are regular e.g. fortnightly wages.
▪️Bank cash after fundraising events when required. Withdraw cash for floats etc when required.
▪️Prepare and deliver Treasurer Reports for P&C Meetings. Template already exists.
▪️P&C Meeting attendance - monthly.
If you are keen to help our schools and be part of a welcoming volunteer team, or you want a bit more information, please contact Jen on 0403 904 157.
Don't forget to keep fundraising for the Colour Run on Thursday 10 November at 1.45pm on the school oval!
Make sure your child brings a white shirt.
Prizes can be ordered online from 29 October to 4 November.
They’ll call you a Bin Chicken, a foul dumpster diver
But always remember…
You are a Sustainability Advisor!
Throughout 2022, Joondalup Primary Schools have been working toward developing a greater awareness of the sustainability practices that exist within the school. So far, we have actioned:
- A Waste Wise Incursion for K-6
- The Yellow bins are now 10 cent bins only
- The blue bins are general waste
- The Recycling Hub is up and running and we are recycling batteries, coffee pods, writing instruments, dishwashing items, and toiletry items
- We have recycled 25kg of soft plastic bags
- We have recycled 32 kg of plastic bread tags
- We have recycled over 3000 coffee pods
- We have recycled 9kg of batteries
- We have recycled 4kg of writing instruments
- We have recycled 4317 Containers for Change, earning the school $431.70
All these good practices were highlighted in a Year 5 assembly coordinated by Heidi Cobbledick and Kyle Easther.
As a result of this assembly, the idea of a sustainability team has come to fruition! Yes…this is correct, We have offered the students from P-6 the opportunity to become Bin Chickens! Sustainability lessons in Room 34 this week will focus on what this means, with students having the opportunity to practice what can earn them a ‘feather’.
Yes, we could organise a sustainability team, but we wanted recycling/being a Bin Chicken to be open to every student with the aim of it being a natural part of their daily habits.
What does this mean?
Every student is eligible to become a Bin Chicken, but to do so, they need to earn their feathers. Every time a student is observed doing something sustainable, they earn a feather.
What does earning a feather look like?
- Recess and lunchtime, it’s awarding feathers for those students who use the correct bins
- Recess and lunchtime, it’s asking students which bins their rubbish goes into and why?
- It’s watching students in class that use the paper recycling properly
- It’s Room 27 who make sure the recycling bins contain the right things
- It’s Room 29 who recycle their soft plastics used in their lunches
- It’s Charlotte and Kaiden who pick up rubbish on their way to classes
- It’s Room 22 who bring soft plastics to me to recycle
- It’s staff who bring used egg cartons to me to reuse
Where are the feathers?
At this stage, the JPS Science lab will be open for JPS students to trial this venture at lunchtime and students will need to come and make their feathers (we are thinking feathers on a lanyard, hair clip, bracelet, shoelaces). The idea is that students will wear their feathers with pride, and it becomes a visual cue to remind other students to try and earn their own feathers.
Any questions/suggestions, please let me know as this is only a trial. After we have trialled this and ironed out any issue we will offer it to all students.
For the time being please encourage students to be a ‘Bin Chicken’.
PS…teachers can earn their feathers too!
Sandra Bennett – Sustainability Teacher & Nerelle Phillips – JPS Science Teacher
Enrolments for Kindy 2023 are now open. Children born between the 1st July 2018 and 30th June 2019 are eligible to attend Kindy in 2023.
To enrol your child, please collect an Application form from the School Office, or visit Joondalup Education Support Centre (joondalupesc.wa.edu.au)
Variety WA EduKids Grants are NOW OPEN!
Individual & Community grants available
Variety EduKids Grants help WA kids receive an essential education by providing funding for vital ‘back to school’ equipment.
Individuals & Community-Apply now at link below
https://www.variety.org.au/wa/programs/variety-wa-grants/#variety-edukids-grant
Please contact the Kids Support team with any questions at kidssupport@varietywa.org.au or 9355 3655 during office hours.
Application close 27th November 2022