20 October 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principal’s Report

Welcome to the first newsletter for term four, it’s great to see how well our students have settled back into routines and activities. We hope you all had an enjoyable holiday and managed to spend some time outside even though we still had the wintry weather. Term four will as always be a busy term with swimming, sports carnivals, school picnic and various other events. Further information will come out in the following weeks.

I would like to thank all parents at RLPS campus for your assistance with organising your children for swimming lessons on the first day of term. The sessions have gone smoothly and teachers have been well organised to assist with this.

The Placement Panel are meeting this week to review the applications for a place at one of our PLDS sites. Successful applicants will be notified shortly and be invited to attend our Induction Days at Port Kennedy, Rockingham, Pinjarra and Mandurah.

The School Board will be meeting shortly and if you would like to nominate a potential member, please contact the school or fill out and return the attached nomination form.

World Teachers’ day is on the last Friday of the month, the 28th of October. It is a day that we can celebrate and show our appreciation for the hard work, commitment and dedication shown every day by the Teachers, Educational Assistants and Support Staff. Further information to acknowledge our fantastic staff is in this newsletter.

Congratulations to the students at our Bungaree campus who completed the fun run last week. Everyone had lots of fun learning about Australian animals as the theme for the day.

We welcome back the students at our Pinjarra campus who have been designing some very practical popcorn holders and learned the secret to cooking perfect popcorn!

Madurah students will be busy learning about ‘Our Community’ and we hope you enjoy the colourful photos. Hopefully all our Mandurah parents can attend the Book Fair on the 19th, 21st and 26th October.

Marion Chatfield, our Manager of Corporate Services will be taking a well-deserved Long Service Leave break from week three this term. On behalf of the staff and parents at PLDS, I would like to wish Marion a very relaxing and enjoyable break. We will look forward to seeing Marion again at the end of year Christmas morning tea and lunch. Mrs Jenny-Lee Fussell will be relieving for Marion this term and we would like to welcome Jenny-Lee into this challenging role.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to Melanie Dolden who has joined our team at PLDS as a School Officer. You are joining a great team with the Outreach ladies.

Enjoy the fine weather to come on the weekend everyone!

Shelley Collins
Principal

NOMINATION FOR PEEL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT SCHOOL BOARD

We have possible vacant positions for the IPS School Board

The role of the School Board is to:

1. Take part in shaping and monitoring of the school’s objectives, priorities and general policy directions.
2. Take part in the planning of financial arrangements necessary to fund those objectives, priorities and directions.
3. Take part in evaluating the school’s performance in achieving it’s objectives, priorities and general policy directions.
4. Promoting the school in the community.
5. Determine, in consultation, a dress code for students.
6. Approve charges, contributions and fees.

Please send nominations to
Shelley.Collins@education.wa.edu.au
By Thursday 10th November

World Teacher’s Day

World Teachers’ day is on the last Friday of the month, the 28th of October. It is a day that we can celebrate and show our appreciation for the hard work, commitment and dedication shown every day by the Teachers, Educational Assistants and Support Staff.

Please help us to acknowledge and celebrate World Teacher’s day by going on the Skoolbag app and submitting an eform to your chosen staff member or by requesting a paper copy to complete from your child’s class teacher.

All the positive comments will be collated and passed on to the recipient and celebrated as a school.

The forms will need to be received in by Thursday the 27th of October.

RLPS Campus

3.3

For the first few weeks of Term 4, 3.3 have been at swimming lessons at Aqua Jetty. Before we went to swimming lessons we looked at the rules of swimming lessons, the expected behaviour at Aqua Jetty, what we need to bring each day and the reasons why we go swimming lessons. We created a class brain storm of all of these ideas on a huge piece of paper!

Next we drew what we would look like at swimming lessons with our bathers on near the pool. These looked fantastic and were a great visual reminder of what we need to bring each day.

When we finally got on the bus, we were so excited! We are enjoying learning new styles of swimming in the pool, the importance of water safety around the pool and what to do if there is an emergency in the pool.

We have also been looking at a Roller Coaster STEM (combined Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) project and have been working as ‘engineers’ to design a new roller coaster for Perth. We have been looking at kinetic energy, potential energy and inertia as part of our learning and have been exploring BrainPop on the iPads.

We have just started designing our roller coasters on paper and will be creating our roller coasters using recyclable materials next week! Check out our awesome design work – we definitely have some future engineers in 3.3!

Fruit n Veg Picnic

On the last day of term 3, the students at the Rockingham Lakes campus took part in a Fruit n Veg picnic where they were able to try a variety of different fruits and vegetables. The students had a great time eating some delicious, healthy food and everything got eaten!

Crunch & Sip is a set break to eat fruit or salad vegetables and drink water in the classroom. Students re-fuel with fruit or vegetables during the morning or afternoon, assisting physical and mental performance and concentration in the classroom. This gives kids a chance to refuel, a bit like putting petrol in a car.

RLPS Term 4 Dates

Bungaree Campus

Last Wednesday we had a Fun Run at Bungaree to raise money for our school community. This year the theme was Australian animals and our students had a lot of fun learning about various Australian animals such as Koalas, snakes, frogs and birds.

All of our Bungaree classes made their own stalls and we had a great day out in the sun.

Check us out!!

Bungaree Term 4 Dates

Pinjarra Campus

We have had a good start to the term here at Pinjarra. Some exciting times in the holiday with trips away camping, sailing in new boats and visits to family and friends.

Room 28

We started the term with a recount of our holidays and produced some good work. We also made some pictures about how to stop the spread of germs and to use a tissue. A few of us have had colds this winter.

Room 29

Towards the end of term 3 the students in room 29 completed a technology activity, in which they were required to design a popcorn holder. The main criteria for the holder, was that your hand had to be able to fit easily into the holder to retrieve the popcorn.

After completing our Technology we decided to put our technology project of making a popcorn holder to the test. We also decided making popcorn would also be a great way to revise our procedural writing.

The students in room 29 always enjoy procedural writing because there are so many fun ways to do procedural writing. This time we made popcorn; this was an amazing experience with not a popcorn machine in sight!

Our first discovery was finding out that cooking the popcorn in a microwave or hot air popper are not the only ways to cook popcorn. We discovered it is possible to make popcorn in an electric fry pan, amongst lots of laughter and dodging flying popcorn pieces we decided that the frying pan would ideally need a lid if we tried this again. We also learnt that the secret to cooking perfect popcorn in a frying pan is to not add too much popcorn to the pan at one time. If there is too much popcorn, the cooked pieces fill the pan, holding down the un-popped kernels and they burn. After writing our procedure we tested not only our holders but also our yummy popcorn.

Mrs Cudby was away for the first two days and so we drew some pictures of her. This also supported our science from last term about how we grow and change. We wrote some recounts of our holidays and practiced proof reading and editing our work.

Pinjarra Term 4 Dates

Mandurah Campus

Room 10

This term we are busy learning about “Our Community.” We are learning the names of different forms of transport, constructing houses and talking about what we want to be when we grow up. We have been having lots of fun! Here is some of our wonderful work….

A reminder that the book fair is on the 19th, 21st and 26th of October, we hope to see you there! Please see folders for times.

Mandurah Term 4 Dates