Sunflowers 

The students in Rooms 18, 19, 20, 30 and 31 viewed the Sunflowers work of Vincent Van Gogh which he thought symbolised gratitude.

A variety of painting techniques were used to paint the different parts of the sunflower collage and working with the element of line and the principle of movement, the students used oil pastels and a dye wash to create a background. A table was painted on a separate piece of paper using cardboard and this was then pasted on. The students worked with symmetry to create the vase and with a little help from their teacher the painted paper flowers were cut out. 

Landscape

The students in Rooms 4,5,6,7 and 8 worked with soft pastels to create a landscape where the focus was on the elements of space and value. 

Emu

After viewing the artwork of Wendy Binks the students in Rooms 4,5,6,7 and 8 created an emu in soft pastels. 

Kaya Wanjoo – Hello and welcome

The Noongar season is Djilba. A transitional time of the year, Djilba has days that are very cold, some that are rainy and windy and others where the sun comes through. As the days start to warm up, you’ll hear and see the first of the new born animals with their parents providing them with food, shelter and protection from other animals and people. The woodland birds will still be nest bound, hence the swooping behaviour of the Koolbardi (magpie), Djidi Djidi (Willywag tails) and the Chuck-a-luck (wattle birds).

This is the start of the massive flowering explosion in the South West. It begins with yellow flowering plants such as the Acacias. You’ll also notice cream and striking blue coloured flowers. As the season progresses and the temperatures continue to rise, you will see the flower stalks of the Balgas (Grass Tress) emerging in preparation for the coming Kambarang season.

Traditionally, the main food source at this time of the year included many of the land based grazing animals including Yongar (kangaroo), Waiitj (Emu) and the Koomal (possum).

Garden Club invite

Thank you to the Corley family (Nathan & Joshua) for your donation of a new wheelbarrow. You are a wonderful community minded family. Very much appreciated.

Recycling Station  

You may have noticed our new community recycling station is up and running at the end of Room 34 (near the oval).  When dropping recycling to the school please put it into the correct bin. Make sure items are not in a plastic bag and are clean. Our students diligently go through the bins in order to pack and send off for recycling and we don’t want nasty surprises for them. Our focus bin this newsletter is Coffee Pods – the need to be clean, not leaking and not in another bag. These are then packaged and sent to a local TerraCycle Material Recovery Facilities located in the same country in which the waste originates. Once sorted by category, the different material types are cleaned and then sent to third-party partners to process the materials into usable forms.

For example, metals and aluminium are shredded and smelted into metal sheeting, ingots, or bar stock. Glass is crushed and melted to be used in new glass bottles (if clear), or brick, cement, or concrete applications (if coloured). Rubber is generally cryo-milled into a powdered state for flooring applications. Organics are composted or used in industrial and commercial fertilisers.
Plastics are the largest category of material collected.  These materials are size-reduced (made smaller by being shredded or ground), then melted and reformatted into pellets, flakes, or a powder format.

After TerraCycle recycle the waste into raw material, it’s sold to manufacturing companies who produce the end product and complete the recycling journey. These end products may include outdoor furniture and decking, plastic shipping pallets, watering cans, storage containers and bins, tubes for construction applications, flooring tiles, playground surface covers, athletic fields, and more!

If you would like to know more about what you can do at home for recycling, go to www.terracycle.com.au

Containers for Change

Continue to bring in your Containers for Change bottles/cans (clean and LIDS removed). Place in the big blue bin near room 34. Leave your ring pulls on but take your plastic lids off. Alternatively use our school ID number at a community drop off point C10339712

So far we have saved 2 793 containers from landfill which has earnt the school $279.30. This money will be towards a sustainable product for whole school use at the end of the year. Did you know our blue plastic school bench near the front office was made from 15000 600ml water bottles?

Grow Free Cart  

Our Grow Free Cart is back up and running thanks to Room 27 who have taken over this responsibility as part of their sustainability lessons. Excess produce grown in our school is placed on this cart, along with seedlings etc. You are encouraged to take what you need and give what you can. So bring your excess lemons, cuttings, gardening/cooking magazines and place them on the cart. A big thank you to our lovely Education Assistant Mrs Gault who designed our poster.

Happy gardening and sustainable thinking,

Sandra Bennett – Science/Sustainability Teacher (JESC). Sustainability Coordinator (Joondalup Schools)                                     

Nerelle Phillips – Science Teacher JPS. 

If you know that your child is moving schools at the end of this year, please complete the form below or visit the school office to provide information.

Camp Australia are excited to be partnering with Joondalup Schools to provide your Outside School Hours Care service. Please take a look at our information provided in the link below.