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- Room 22 practise for Cross Country
- Room 3 gave a school holiday presentation.
- Students in Room 1 have had a fantastic start to Term 2!
- Room 35 have been very busy
- P&C Mother's Day Stall
- 2022 Annual Report
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- Art with Ms Thornton
- Garden Club
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- Enrolments are now open for 2024
- Camp Australia
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Kaya families
A warm welcome back to term two. The seasons are changing, and as the weather is getting cooler more students will be wearing jumpers and jackets. Parents please make sure these have names in them, as students tend to take them off when they feel warm, and leave them where ever they have taken them off.
A reminder that school closes early (11:45) on Thursday 11 May. The school bus will not be picking students up at 11:45. Please ensure you have made arrangements to pick your children up. Parents, if your child goes to an out of school care provider, ensure you have made arrangements with them. Camp Australia have advised that they will not be operating after school on this day. The Primary School will be hosting parent/teacher meetings in the afternoon. We will be hosting parent/teacher meetings on the first day of term three.
We have had a change to our school photo days. School photos will now be on Tuesday 16 May and Thursday 18 May. Flyers have been sent home with your unique student number. More information can be found in this newsletter.
Ms Bennett and the WA Scout Group took our containers for change bin to be counted over the holidays. We returned 1,255 containers! What a great effort. These containers have earned the school $125.50, which will go towards our sustainability program.
Congratulations to the P&C on such a successful Easter Raffle! Isla Wilson was the golden ticket winner who walked away with the big prize! There were over 120 prizes given away… total monies raised was $2,607. Thank you to all the families who donated and purchased tickets to support our P&C.
Last week our Student Captains went on a leadership camp with leaders from other Education Support Centres. We had a fantastic time and students challenged themselves to try things they had never done before, such as sleep away from home, try the high ropes, archery and even have a shower rather than a bath. Our leaders have made our school so proud of their achievements.
All our Year Six students will be going on camp later in the year, and everyone is really looking forward to it.
Congratulations to all those who participated by joining in, watching or cheering for our cross country runners last week. It was a very well organised event. Huge thanks to Mrs Smith, Ms Martin and Mr Morrey for all the hard work in organising the day. The interschool event will be held on this Friday – and we have a few students representing both Primary Schools which is an outstanding effort.
Kind regards
Natalie Hatton
If you notice any suspicious activity on School Grounds, please contact Security on 9264 4771 or the Police on 131 444.
There is a new version of SZapp available for Android and IOS Devices. Please ensure that you have updated to this version to assure you receive communications from the school.
If you are using an Android Device, you will need to uninstall the old app and install the new version.
IOS Devices (iPhones) will be able to update without requiring a re-install.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but we are confident that the improvements in the new version will make it worth it.
Please find the guide on how to install and register/login to SZapp here:
If you experience any difficulties with completing this process, please reach out to Schoolzine using support@schoolzine.com. To assist with your query, they ask that you provide a description of the issue you are facing, the email address you are using when facing this issue and a screenshot of the issue.
Dear Parents,
Your school photo day is coming! Approximately two weeks prior to the photo day every student will receive a personalised flyer to bring home from Kapture Photography containing your child’s unique codes for ordering school photos online.
KEEP YOUR FLYER SECURE!
The unique codes contained on the flyer will be issued only once.
Order EARLY for sibling photography
Sibling photos can ONLY be ordered online. Once you receive the personalised flyers for your children, it is imperative that you order your sibling photo early to avoid missing out! There is a physical limit in the school schedule to how many sibling photos can be taken. Once the maximum capacity of sibling orders has been reached, no more sibling orders can be placed.
*Please note that photo's for siblings between the Education Support Centre and Joondalup Primary School will be taken when Joondalup Primary School have their scheduled photo days
If maximum capacity is not reached, sibling orders close 12pm midday sharp, one business day prior to the first photo day.
The school or the photographers cannot accept late orders for sibling photography. Please do not ask as your request simply cannot be accommodated.
Order EARLY for discount photo day prices
Order your photos within 10 calendar days of photo day to receive discount photo day prices. Late orders are handled separately to the school delivery and incur a $30 custom service charge.
Other information
Your school will notify you in a few weeks when team and special group photos are available to view and purchase on the Kapture website. Please note; class, individual and sibling portraits are not available to view online prior to purchase.
Kapture offer a money back guarantee for any parent who is not fully satisfied with their photo package. Should you have any queries before or after photo day, please check the FAQ’s on the Kapture website.
All students will be photographed individually on photo day for school administration records AS WELL as included in their class group presentation available for purchase to all families. Should there be any reason why your child should NOT be included in the photo shoot –please contact the school office.
For the duration of Covid-19 in WA, please be aware that Kapture are following all recommended health guidelines and safe practices. Our photographers are acutely aware of the evolving situation surrounding Covid-19 and abide by each individual school's Covid-19 policies. Where possible, the photographers will use verbal queues and instructions in an effort to uphold our high standard of student presentation. Students may be instructed by photographers to use single use sterile combs, wet wipes or tissues or to fix their own collars, buttons and stray hairs.
Congratulations students of Room 22! We worked super hard on our fitness and learnt the running track in preparation for Cross Country. Our dedication really shined as we all participated and had so much fun - everyone challenged themselves to do their best and should be super proud! We had our own presentation in our class to celebrate our achievements.
It was great to see everyone dressed in their faction colours, and we are all so excited for sports day!
The next big event we are looking forward to is the Week 7 assembly. We will be presenting a special performance. We are busy practising our roles, and we can’t wait to see you all there!
Room 3 have had a fantastic start to Term 2. In the first week the students planned and gave a presentation all about what they did during the school holidays.
It was great to see the students work on their writing skills and recalling all of the exciting things they got up to during the holidays. They then used the app ‘Book Creator’ to put together their presentation.
We have also started our new text this term for Talk for Writing, “Kassim and the Greedy Dragon.”
The students have begun the ‘imitation’ stage of Talk for Writing where they come up with a story map and actions to help memorise the story. The students have been learning about adjectives and wrote a list of adjectives to describe Kassim and the greedy dragon.
This term we will be looking at the narrative, ‘Kassim and the Greedy Dragon’, as part of our Talk for Writing Program. To start the program off we went on a classroom hunt in the sensory playground to look for clues that a greedy dragon had been at our school. We watched a video of a dragon at our school and needed to find evidence of where it could be hiding. During this hunt, we found the dragons footprints as well as a treasure chest full of gems and money. After this we created our very own dragon using tissue paper and patty pans. They all turned out amazing!
In Room 1 this term we will also be focussing on fitness and movement breaks. After completing our morning activities we like to go to K Block for our fitness time. We practice our balancing, running, jumping and social skills. This has helped make us feel energised for the day ahead!
WOW! What a year we are already having, and we are only in Term 2. We have been working super hard in Room 35.
We have been learning about healthy and unhealthy food and got to make our own healthy snacks in class. We have also been getting messy and creative with our artwork. Everyone has been having an absolute ball with learning the Gruffalo story for Talk for Writing sessions. We can even do the whole story with the actions we have learnt.
We have been exploring with different sensory items such as oobleck, playdough, kinaesthetic sand, rice, pasta, lentils and many more. We have created wonderful friendships in our class and have been learning how each of our communication devices work.
Year Six and Rooms 1, 2, and 3 are starting to design and create artwork for the City of Joondalup 25th Anniversary Art competition.
It’s very exciting. The winning art piece will be displayed on the digital tower at Yagan Square, and the competition artwork will be on display at the City of Joondalup libraries. It’s going to be very challenging to choose only six entries.
Check out the pull printmaking backgrounds the students created below:
