WA Day

This week is WA week! Students have celebrated by taking a whole campus photo in the shape of WA. On Thursday we dressed up as our favourite WA team or something that represents WA. We had a number of tabloid games which we did together as a whole campus. It has been a great week. Stay tuned for photos in our next newsletter!

Joondalup Kid Award

Joanne, Room 13

Joanne has lit up the room ever since she became a member of our class. She is caring, considerate, well-mannered and always repsectful. Joanne has impeccable work habits and shares her vast knowledge with her peers and teachers. Every class should have a Joanne. You are a truly wonderful Joondalup Kid Joanne.

Maths Award

Indiana, Room 4

Indiana is a very enthusiastic mathematician. She enjoys the challenge new concepts bring and is keen to share her problem solving strategies with her peers. Her passion for mathematics is exciting to watch. Keep up the fantastic work Indiana!

Play and Learn 2020

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Professional Development Day 

Last Friday the staff participated in a full day of Professional Development on Friendly Schools. Friendly Schools is a multi-component, evidence-based initiative involving the whole-school community to build social skills, create supportive environments and significantly reduce bullying in school communities. All the teachers now have their own resource books to assist them to teach some of the strategies around social and emotional competencies. Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary to understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

Did you know that Bullying is defined as;

Win a Night for two at Joondalup Resort

Simply pay your Voluntary Contributions before the 3^rd of July 2019 and go into the draw to win an overnight stay in a Deluxe room including Breakfast for two at Joondalup Resort. This wonderful prize is valued at  $250 and has kindly been donated by our Local Labour MP Mark Folkard. All families that have paid their Voluntary Contributions prior to this date will automatically go into the draw.

Cross Country

Congratulations to all of the students that participated in the Cross Country last Thursday. All of the students were enthusiastic and gave it their best, it was great to see students encouraging each other to the finishing line. Thank you to Mr. Lee for coordinating this fabulous event and to all staff for ensuring the schedule ran smoothly. Thank you to the parents for cheering the students to the end. Selected students are looking forward to participating in the interschool cross country in Term Three.

Farewell Marie and Steve

On behalf of the everyone at Joondalup Schools and the school community we would like to thank Marie, campus cleaner and Steve, campus gardener for their commitment and their fabulous work during the time they have been with us. We would like to wish them all the best on their next chapter.

Reporting to the Office

It has come to my attention that there are a number of parents who enter the school grounds during our school day and do not report to the office. This poses a huge work, health and safety risk for us as a school. Should there be an emergency, we need to know who is on site so that we can make sure that everyone, including parents are safe. To this end, could I ask that if you are coming into the school grounds during the school day that you sign in at the School Office to obtain a visitor’s pass and then sign back out at the Office as you leave. This is standard practice in any school and is a requirement of the Department of Education.

Reports

Semester One reports will be emailed to parents on Thursday 4th July. Please take the time to read this semester's report with your child, celebrating achievements no matter how small. If you have any concerns, please contact your child's teacher as soon as possible to make an appointment to discuss. Your child's report will only be able to be downloaded for the four (4) weeks.

Medication at School

If your child needs to take medication at school, whether temporary or ongoing, your first stop is the School Office for the appropriate form to be completed. The School has very specific processes in place to ensure the safe storage and administration of medications.

SCHOOL PHOTO DAY IS COMING!

Kindy to Year 6 - Tuesday 18th June and Thursday 20th June

Have a great weekend!

Educational Rewards for JPS Scientists

Throughout Term One and Term Two, a group of nominated students from Year 5 and Year 6 were invited to participate in a Science Enrichment Program after school. The program took students on a scientific journey exploring the endless and exciting possibilities of science through a variety of hands-on inquiry based investigations. To further enhance and extend the Science Enrichment Program, the students were invited to attend an excursion to Belridge Secondary College (BSC) Science Laboratory, where Mr Brett Crosbie (BSC Head of Science Teacher) and Mrs Hudson (BSC Lab Technician) welcomed and opened up the Science Laboratory to JPS junior scientists on Wednesday 29th May 2019.

The aim of the excursion was to provide students with learning experiences that challenge and build higher level Inquiry Science skills as detailed in the Australian Curriculum. Mr Crosbie set the challenge for JPS students to explore the basic physics of bridges. The students were provided with the opportunity to develop an understanding through experimentation of which shapes are the most structurally strong, and that many factors are taken into account in the engineering and building of bridges. The investigation provided the students with a practical application of physics to a real-world context. As a science teacher, it was extremely rewarding to be able to observe the JPS scientists embrace the challenge and use their inquiry skills to be able to design, discuss and control variables, and make and test their bridges throughout this practical investigation.

Congratulations to Elizabeth, Adeena, Jaxson, Jude, Flynn, Rachel and Annabella from Year 6 and to Amelia, Linde, Angus, Cloe, Wes, David, Jai, Kaylea, Fajri, Imogen and Harvey from Year 5 who attended the excursion. A big thank you to Mr Crosbie and Mrs Hudson for the time and effort that went into co-ordinating this day and to volunteer scientist Lisa for attending the excursion.

Nerelle Phillips

Science Teacher

The results are in from the Faction Cross Country Carnival held at Winderemere Oval on Thursday 30^th May. Since the beginning of Term 2 the students have been training for the event during Physical Education classes.

The day started at 9:15am with the Pre-Primary’s completing a 640m course and ended with the Year 6’s finishing a 2250m track.

Thank you to all the staff that helped the day run smoothly and to all the students for their inspiring efforts at training, Physical Education class and at the event. A big thank you to the parents who came down and supported the school and the students. It was great to see a consistent amount of supporters for the event throughout the entire day.

If you or your child enjoyed Cross Country a reminder that we still have Running Club happening this term on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at 8:15am-8:40am on the school oval for Year 3-6 students.

Alternatively, Joondalup Little Athletics is a great place for Cross Country training. For more information please e-mail admin@jlac.org.au or contact Sue Jolliffe on 0434 446 954.

Now for the results. Every runner received a point and the1st place runner got 10 points for their faction 2nd 6 points, 3rd 4 points and 4th 2 points for their faction.

1st place Red with 192 points
2nd place Blue with 158 points
3rd place Gold with 140 points
4th place Green with 125 points

Congratulations Red Faction.

Robert Lee
Joondalup Primary School
Physical Education Specialist

Prints

Working with texture

Printed using a gel press.

Acrylic

Mrs Sweet

Art Teacher

Below are some dates to remember for Term 2.

TRADING HOURS

Carolyn will be taking long service leave from the 24th June until the 6th August.

The canteen will remain open with a slightly modified menu on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays & closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Normal trading hours will resume on Monday 5th August.

If you have any queries please contact canteen on 9233 5818.

The Canteen would also like to say a big Thankyou to parent Harry Gillooly for giving his time to check out their Canteen Freezer.

The P&C Meetings are held every third Wednesday of the month and take place in the School Library at 7.00pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Please see the table for the P&C dates for this year.

We are currently taking applications for our 2020 Kindergarten Program. If your child turns 4 before June 30th 2020 they are eligible to apply for enrolment. 

For an application form please click on the PDF below or please see our Website www.joondalup.wa.edu.au and see the 'Quicklinks' page, or you can visit us in the office.

Please ensure you provide the supporting documentation including your child's birth certificate, proof of address and Immunisation certificate. 

The School Banking day is on Thursday mornings at 8.15am in the B Block Wet Area.

Thank you for your support.