Science Week

We have had a blast this week celebrating Science Week. Activities were happening all around the school throughout the week as we ventured into space. We even had a “meteor” land at school which had students intrigued. Mr Critchley’s classroom had transformed into a headquarters for astronauts and students learned all about space.

 

Book Week

Next week Joondalup Schools will be celebrating Book Week. There will be activities available during recess and lunch times and students will be engaging with a theme in their classroom throughout the week. We will end the week with our senior students hosting the campus assembly, and all students will be able to dress as their favourite book character next Friday! Be sure to mark it in your diary for next Friday.

Family Morning Tea

Save the date! The next family morning tea will be held at 9:00am on Friday the  30^th of August. Please let Kellie in the front office know if you will be attending for catering purposes. Parents will have the opportunity to talk with each other and debrief about the successes and struggles of services, and strategies for our students.

Leadership Day at Belridge

On Tuesday three Year 5 students were invited to Belridge and join other Year 5 students from other schools. The day consisted of leadership activities and learning how to be a leader. Twelve schools were involved in this day, and students had a wonderful time meeting each other and learning from each other.

North Metro Interschool Carnival

Permission notes have gone home about this event. It will be held at Beldon Education Support Centre on Tuesday the 10^th of September. All students who attend on Tuesdays will be participating in a day of tabloid sports, team games and races again other students from EducationSsupport settings.

Information for the Combined Sports Carnival

Interschool Cross Country

Last Wednesday the Joondalup Interschool Cross Country Team competed against a number of other schools. Overall Joondalup came second, which is an amazing effort as Joondalup Schools was smaller than other schools competing. Congratulations to Karan and Malachi who were part of this team.

Natalie Hatton

Principal

Room 2 have had a fantastic start to the Term. We have been exploring the children’s interest in camping and have completed many activities and tasks to extend upon this idea.

As a class we worked out what things we might need to take camping, created a list and then collected the items we required. We spent an afternoon setting up a tent outside, gathering materials to make a pretend fire and even made s’mores with marshmallows and melted chocolate which we ate around our campfire!

I think it’s safe to say, the children have thoroughly enjoyed this topic and are now expert campers!

The first few weeks of Term 3 have seen us experimenting with lots of different ways of writing. We are signing in to class, creating morning messages for the class and we've even published some class books. We love writing in Room 21!

This week saw Joondalup Schools celebrate National Science Week 2019. The theme of this year’s event was ‘Destination Moon’. Students arrived at School Monday morning to find a meteorite had struck the school grounds. This had been cordoned off by the authorities, but students from all classes were allowed to investigate the site as part of the week’s festivities. 

All students from our School had the opportunity to visit Joondalup Astronaut Training Centre’, a facility which had mysteriously appeared where our STEM classroom was previously found in J Block. When students arrived for their training session, they were greeted by Astronaut Critchley, who explained the various tasks that they would find inside. Before entering the facility, students had to pass through a decontamination unit. Once inside, they were able to complete a set of 7 training tasks, all designed to showcase various elements of astronaut life. 

At Station 1, students recreated a moon walk by dressing in an astronaut costume and using the green screen to simulate the lunar surface.

At Station 2, students used the NASA selfie app to put themselves inside an astronaut helmet and choose a galaxy or nebular for their backdrop.

At Station 3, students investigated what happens when astronauts eat food in zero or low gravity environment, and taste tested freeze dried food similar to that which the Apollo programs astronauts would have eaten.

At Station 4, students used virtual reality equipment to simulate a lunar landing and investigate the lunar surface.

At Station 5, students used a range of materials to build their own rocket.

At Station 6, students created slides that could be used in a planetarium show.

To conclude the training session, students investigated how a chemical reaction can create energy to launch a plastic rocket.

Students and staff did a fantastic job of getting into character and putting themselves through the training program. The staff of the Joondalup Astronaut Training Centre were very impressed with their efforts!

Rory Critchley

Science and Technologies Teacher

Maker Space & Coder Dojo Champion

Term 3 2019

The School Development Days for 2020 have been confirmed as

Cameron has received his red belt in Tai Kwon Do.  Well done Cameron!

Next week families will receive permission notes for Adventure Week in Term 4.  We are aware that Term 4 can be an expensive time for families so if you would like to start making interim payments to get ahead please let us know.  Payments can be made via internet banking or EFTPOS in the front office.

Antoinette Vorster

Manager Corporate Services

Pop Art

Students have been learning about Pop Art

Hearts

Students in Rooms 2,3 and 25 have viewed the artwork of Romero Britto and then created these great pieces of art. 

The artwork began by revising the primary colours and using short brush strokes they painted the page. The students then created their own heart stencil. After stencilling on the heart, lots of bright colours were added including glitter paint. 

People & Music

Students in Rooms 9 and 27 have viewed the artwork of Keith Haring and then created these great acrylic paintings

Helen Sweet

Art Specialist Teacher

Interschool Cross Country

This year the effort of the Joondalup students was nothing short of run-derful. August 7^th saw students from Joondalup Primary Schools race against Springfield Primary School, Edgewater Primary School and Currumbine Primary School at the Interschool Cross Country with our schools finishing second overall.

 Karan and Malachi joined the Running Club and were involved in lunch time training at the school. This was a magnificent effort by the boys and demonstrated their great commitment skills. As a result, Karan made the Interschool team as a competitor and Malachi was a reserve.

Thank you to all the parents and guardians that came down to support the students. It is always fantastic to have great supporters to create a positive atmosphere for the students to compete in.

A special mention to Rebecca Carstairs and Mrs Egan for your wonderful work on the day and training the students leading up to the event. Running Club has been a big step in the right direction for the Cross Country preparation and your efforts in helping the students have been nothing short of amazing. Thank you.

Running Club will now be two times a week, Monday and Thursday from 8:15am-8:45am. If you are in Year 3,4,5 or 6 then you know it is never too late to join in the fun. All students are welcome to attend.

If you would like to compete in more cross country events, please contact the Joondalup Little Athletics Centre on 0424 068 141, via e-mail admin@jlac.org.au or by visiting their website at http://www.jlac.org.au/.

Mr Robert Lee

Physical Education Specialistts Teacher

Whole School Dress Up: Australian Theme

We hope that those families who went to Circus Quirkus enjoyed the event.  This event would not be possible without the sponsorship and support from the local communities. The organisers of the event, Police Community & Youth Centres would like to thank the following sponsors;