Thank you

Once again the term has flown by. I would like to take this opportunity to thank our enthusiastic, passionate and professional staff for another industrious and positive term. I am continuously impressed with the amount of time and energy the staff at JPS puts into making sure all students at Joondalup are successful The term has been busy with numerous events and activities such as Cross Country, Book Week, Swimming for Pre-primary - Year 5Students, Coding Club, Maker Space and Science Enrichment Program. Congratulations to students and staff for a great term and thank you parents for supporting your school. We look forward to seeing all your smiling faces back at school on Monday 22^nd July.

Joondalup Kid Award

Stella is a courageous young lady who always has a smile on her face. Her resilience is admirable. Well done Stella you are a sensational role model and a great Joondalup Student.

Maths Award

For consistently working to the best of her ability in Mathematics. Emily constantly strives to grasp new mathematical concepts and thrives on the challenges offered. She is truly a quiet achiever. Well done Emily.

Staffing News

The JPS Principal position was not filled through the merit selection process and the North Metro’ Regional Education Office will conduct a new process next term as a priority. I have agreed to continue as Acting Principal until such time as the permanent position is filled.

• Mrs Young will continue in the Acting Associate Principal role and Mrs Cobble-Dick will continue teaching the Year 2/3 students in Room 20.
• Mr Easther will be teaching full time in Year 6, Room 11 until the end of the year.
• Mrs Mason will continue her role on Friday until the end of the year in Year 4/5, Room 13.
• Miss Chaplain Amanda will be on campus every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in Term Three.

New Online Permission Forms- Term Three

The Department of Education has recently reviewed the Online Policies for students. As part of this process children and/or their parents/care givers need to complete an Online Services Acceptable Use Agreement. There is a form for students in Kindergarten to Year Two which sets out the rules for students using online environments and a different form for students in Year Three to Six. The forms create an opportunity for parents to reinforce the behaviours that ensure children are safe online. Forms will be sent home with the children next term.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data

The NCCD (Nationally Consistent Collection of Data) is an annual collection of information about Australian school students with disability. The NCCD enables schools, education authorities and governments to better understand the needs of students with disability and how they can be best supported at school. Please see the attached letter for additional information on the NCCD and where to find further information.

Fact Sheet NCCD 2019

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Holiday Works

We have 10 new split system air conditioning units being installed over the holidays. This means all of our classrooms will now have a split system air conditioner in place. The existing units will also be serviced over the holidays.

Winter Carnival

Students from Years 4-6 enjoyed participating in the Lightning Carnival at the Arena on Thursday 20^th June. Thank you to staff and parents for supporting the netball, soccer and football teams. I was very proud to hear staff feedback on the positive behaviour of our students who represented Joondalup. What a fabulous group of students!

Mathletics Renewal

Good news, we have renewed our Mathletics subscription for another three years! This Mathematics program is a fantastic way to improve your child’s Mathematics progress, while they enjoy the use of the computer and competing against other children from around the world. If you don’t have your child’s log in details, please see your child’s classroom teacher. The Mathletics password also allows the children to access the on-line program Rainforest Maths at www.rainforestmaths.com

Pizza

Congratulations to the students who had their names drawn out for Pizza with Staff, they are wonderful Joondalup Students. The students are exemplary role models following the school’s code of conduct, for being safe, responsible and respectful. They enjoyed pizza with their nominating teacher and/or education assistant. It is great to see so many students being pro-active and progressive role models to their peers.

P&C

Our Parents & Citizens aim is to support the school to provide a standard of education and facilities to your children that would otherwise not be available if we were to rely solely on Government funding. P&C meetings are held on a monthly basis throughout the year for a maximum duration of 90 minutes and are advertised at least seven days in advance. Newcomers are welcome. In the past the P&C have provided much needed funds to the school which has enabled us to purchase end of year book awards, essential education resources and subsidise the Year 6 camp & much more.  They have recently approved the following requests from staff, installation of an outdoor sink in the garden club area value of $650,  greenhouse and work bench for after school garden club (contribution of $1000 towards the total amount), new worm farm value of $850 and two play kitchens value of $600. Thank you for all of your support, you are all fabulous individuals and as a team, you are sensational.

Have a fantastic holiday with you children.

Term 3 will commence on Monday 22nd July.

These students have produced some amazing work and we would love to share them with you.

A big Congratulations to our Merit Award Winners from the Assembly held on Friday 21st June.

Below are some dates to remember for Term 3

Winter Lightning Carnival

Good players inspire themselves, great players inspire others. If you were fortunate enough to be a spectator at the Winter Lightning Carnival, you would have found the Joondalup Primary School students to be inspirational.

Shortly after Cross Country, selected Yr 4, 5 and 6 students switched their focus to Netball, Soccer and AFL. They trained at lunch time and after school to sharpen their skills in each sport and build team comradery.

HBF Arena was the site where Joondalup Primary School met with Currumbine Primary School and Edgewater Primary School to engage in a day full of sporting fun.

Even though Joondalup Primary School performed well, most notable was the way students conducted themselves during the day. The feedback from the staff, parents, umpires and organisers was Joondalup has a sensational sense of sportsmanship.

This sportsmanship was highlighted in many ways however an outstanding story comes from the boys soccer. The boys were not in the final however they did console the losing school after their penalty loss. It is moments like this that make us extremely proud of the students and how they represent the community. Well done boys.

Behind the students, are the parents and guardians. Thank you for your help in adjusting your time to picking up the students after school and being there on the day. It is very uplifting for the students to see so many familiar faces to support them.

Special thanks goes to Bec and Bev for sending through so many photos of the day. Matt, Liz and Danielle for giving up their time and coaching the netball. Rob and Sean for fully engaging the students and building a great AFL team. Your efforts were very well reflected in the success of the students.

Thank you very much to the staff, who helped organise the event and supervised or coached on the day. It was a very big day and your support was more than welcomed.

The results:

• AFL: 2^nd
• Netball Division One: 1^st and 4^th
• Netball Division Two: 1^st
• Soccer Boys: 4^th
• Soccer Girls: 3^rd

Congratulations to the AFL team for getting into the grand final. Congratulations also to the Netball A team and the Netball C team for winning their divisions. 

If you would like to continue sport
Netball, Indoor Soccer, Indoor Cricket – Bouncer Indoor Sports Centre
Netball, Basketball, Soccer – HBF Arena
AFL – Joondalup Kinross Junior Football Club (Windermere Oval)

AFL

AFL, a sport with many exciting opportunities for young men and women. With this in mind and in preparation for the Winter Lightning Carnival, Joondalup Primary School invited the West Perth Falcons to swoop in and take over Physical Education classes, leaving the students flying high on the excitement of the game.

West Perth Football club came to Joondalup and taught students the many lessons associated with team sports and the fundamental movement skills and tactics specific to AFL. The goal of the visit was to maximise the enjoyment of the students and they successfully achieved this outcome.

The students were provided with a safe, fun and fair environment to develop their skills and were taught about fairness, equality, respect, teamwork and encouragement. A great opportunity to continue learning in this setting outside of school hours is at the Joondalup Kinross Junior Football Club. They have many close ties with the Joondalup school community and train at Windermere Oval, directly across from the school.

The following are details about their programs:

Auskick is for children wanting to learn all the skills of AFL. Children aged 5 – 7 years (Pre-Primary to Year 2) are eligible to play Auskick.
Games are played on Saturday morning at the Windermere oval in Joondalup.

Modified AFL is for children aged 8 and above (Year 3 to Year 6).
The games are played at various local grounds against local teams on Sundays.
Game times vary depending on the age groups. Times start from 8:30 am.

Open Rules is for children in Years 7 – 12. The games are played at various local grounds against local teams.

Girl’s AFL is a 15 week program for girls in Year 4 – 12.  This is a Friday night program played under lights.

Starkick was introduced to the club in 2016 and allows children with special needs to enjoy football.

If you are interested in AFL, the Joondalup Kinross Junior Football Club can be contacted via phone 0450 013 320, e-mail registar@jetsjfc.com.au or by visiting their website at https://www.jetsjfc.com.au/.

Circus Skills with Mr Lee

Roll up, roll up to the greatest show on earth. The school has been transformed into a circus where the sport's shed is sideshow alley and the undercover area is the big top, encompassing the main arena where you will find the stars of the show, the students.

The long history Joondalup Primary School shares with circus activities allows for young children to have fun and explore opportunities not commonly found at other schools.

Circus skills uses the essence of circus, that is, fun, playfulness, skills and teamwork, to help participants embrace being active, cooperative and creative. It is about harnessing the excitement that people feel when they have been to a circus and using that excitement to fully engage students in physical challenges.

Circus activities draws on human skills such as balancing, manipulation of the body, dexterity and our need to be children, to pretend and to play games that challenge our minds and bodies while having fun.

Circus at any level also requires participants to be great team players. It helps students to develop their skills and appreciation of communication, cooperation and care of self and others.

Robert Lee
Physical Education Specialist

Dragons

The students in Rooms 10 & 11 created these amazing dragons. They were given a limited choice of mediums including, felt pen, ink, watercolour pencils and paints.

Fish with Feelings

The Pre- Primary students worked with line to describe emotions. A variety of techniques and mediums were then used to create the collages.

Bees

The students in Rooms 18, 19 & 20 have been studying bees. They did an observed drawing of a bee from a photograph and then used felt pen and ink to add colour. The bee hive was printed with the focus on tessellation.

Abstract Landscape

The students in Rooms 12 & 13 worked with the element of value to create these simple landscapes. The work was embellished with silver or gold paint marker.

Flowers and Snails

The Year 1 students created these floral sculptures after viewing the work of Georgia O’Keeffe.

The snails were created using a clay coil, which was then fired and glazed.

Mrs Sweet

Art Teacher

The 3 Little Pigs

The 3 Little Pigs…was the brick house really the strongest?

Throughout Term Two, the students in Pre-Primary have been using their senses to explore, identify and compare the properties of a variety of materials around the school grounds. To further build upon these experiences, the students read the story of The 3 Little Pigs and explored the materials that each little pig had chosen to build its house…a house of straw, a house of sticks and a house of bricks. The students were given the challenge to find out if the brick house was really the strongest out of the three houses. 

The students used their science skills to come up with a plan to find the materials needed to build the three houses. Together they collected straw from the Garden of Weedin, sticks from the Nature Play Area and bricks from the Tinker Space. In groups they explored and described the property of each of the materials and designed and built the 3 Little Pig’s houses. 

With a visit from the Big Bad Wolf and a fan of strong fresh air, the houses were tested…and just like the students had predicted the house of bricks was definitely the strongest because ‘bricks are heavy and strong, rectangular which means you can stack them and there are no gaps in between them for the wind to blow them down.’

Connecting Joondalup Primary School to Life changing Science.

In the Science Laboratory throughout Term Two, students from Room 10 and Room 11 have been involved in a variety scientific investigations that have explored the molecular structure of solids, liquids and gases through the manipulation of materials. As part of building real life experiences beyond the laboratory, an hour skype call was held with Biophysicist, Dr Donna Whelan from La Trobe University on Wednesday 5 July.

Dr Donna Whelan is a Bruce Stone Fellow in Chemical Biology based in Bendigo as a part of the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science. She is currently building a new, next-generation single molecule microscope, and exploring DNA damage and repair pathways. Her collaborations include research into the underlying mechanisms of host-virus interactions, neurodegeneration, and proteolysis.

Prior to starting her own lab in Bendigo, Donna completed her PhD at Monash University, developing advanced microscopic and spectroscopic techniques for applications in biophysical research. During her PhD she constructed cutting-edge single molecule super-resolution microscopes and made extensive use of the Australian Synchrotron. Following this, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship in New York University’s School of Medicine under the supervision of Dr Eli Rothenberg, focusing on applying super resolution imaging to map the cellular repair pathway of DNA double strand breaks.

Dr Donna Whelan and the microsope

Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN

Donna took students on her scientific journey from birth right to her current position at La Trobe University where she has built a highly specialised microscope that is 1000 times more powerful than a regular fluorescence microscope – assisting into her research into fundamental biology, and DNA damaging diseases such as cancer.

As a result of this amazing opportunity, the JPS scientists have witnessed how important science is in our future and how they too can become life changing scientists

Nerelle Phillips

Science Teacher

What an exciting term it has been. The Music room has been buzzing with activity, with the junior levels exploring the instruments of the orchestra, the middle school singing and playing on the instruments and the senior students continuing with their ukulele skills.  As the term has come to an end, the students have had fun playing on the boomwhackers.

Ocean Reef Senior High School Music student Visit
On Monday 1^st July the Year 11 and 12 students from Ocean Reef Senior High performed for the Year 4, 5 and 6 students of Joondalup Schools. The students showcased a range of instruments, such as a violin and guitar duo, solo saxophone and a guitar ensemble. The students finished by performing two songs with the Year 11/12 Rock Band. This was just a small showcase of the music opportunities that students have in high school and we were very grateful for the visit from Ocean Reef Senior High School!

The Choir has been hard at work this term preparing for their assembly and for Arts Night. Once again I would like to thank the students and families for your ongoing support of the Joondalup Choir. We have a wonderful bunch of dedicated students and Mrs Butler and I really appreciate the Tuesday early morning drop offs and continual support.  We hope everyone has a great break and we will see you when Choir commences on Tuesday 30^th July, week 2, term 3.

Save the date:
Choir assembly Friday 27^th September, Week 10, Term 3. 

Miss O'Connor

Music Teacher

Animal Dress Up Day

This week students came dressed as their favourite animal in support of SAFE Perth. SAFE is a local not for profit organisation dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of pets. We raised $295.20 and these proceeds will be donated to SAFE. Well done everyone.

Dear Parents,

Please be aware that the Joondalup Dental Therapy Centre will be attending the school to do our annual dental screening on Thurs 8 Aug, in the morning.

We will be screening all Pre-Primary, Year 3 and Year 6 children that are currently enrolled with our service. Should you prefer for your child not to be screened or withdraw from the service please contact the Dental Therapy Centre directly by calling in or ringing 9300 0125. 

The dental screening is a quick assessment of needs, growth and development, but does not replace your child's thorough dental examination at the clinic, which will be booked with you later in the year.

If any children are not enrolled with our service, and would like to be, please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are looking forward to seeing you.

Your friendly Joondalup Dental Therapy Centre Team 

Joondalup DTC

c/- Joondalup Primary School

Ph: 9300 0125

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.

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

Thank you for your support.