NFPS Newsletter Issue 16, 7th Nov, 2013.pdf

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UPCOMING EVENTS

The FremantleFestival Parade is this

weekend!See page 4 for more

information

Save the Dates

Adult Social EventDate change TBA

Year 4 - 7 CampWed 13th - 15th Nov

School SwimmingMonday 2nd DecFriday 13th Dec

End of Year Concert &Graduation

Tuesday 17th Decclass rooms open 5pm

ceremony begins5.30pm

Reports sent homeWednesday 18th Dec

Last day of school for

studentsThursday 19th Dec

TERM DATES 2013

Term 4Wednesday 16th OctThursday 19th Dec

From the PrincipalFremantle FestivalHave you seen our float? It is amazing! Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and childrenwho have spent so much time designing, creating and building it. If you can spare any timetomorrow to help with the finishing touches, Jane will be in the art room from 10.30am .Thank you to Margie Campbell and Jane Barwell the driving forces behind this masterpiece andall the magnificent costumes and props that the children have made in class. I look forward to

seeing you all at the parade on Sunday. 1pm for body painting and costume primping and 3pmfor the parade walk. A note with details was sent home with costumes earlier this week.

Please drive carefullyIt has been noted that a number of parents are speeding along John Street at drop off time in themornings. Please take care around our children and drive as slowly as possible, there are oftenstudents crossing the road to Gilbert Fraser for fitness at this time. Remember the speed limit is40km hour in school zones.

Assemblies will return to Thursdays in 2014

This year we changed our assembly to Wednesday so that our year 7’s could attend specialextension classes at Richmond Primary School with John Curtin CA teachers. We will bechanging it back to Thursday in 2014 so that Mrs Kelly Branch, our Music teacher can attend.Thank you Kelly for coming anyway, on your day off, this year.

Graduation/End of year concertThis is on the evening of Tuesday 17th of December. Classrooms will be open from 5pm with theofficial function commencing at 5.30pm. There will be a BBQ/Picnic celebration afterwards –details to follow from the P&C. Reports will be sent home on Wednesday 18th and students lastday is Thursday 19th December.

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NewsletterIssue 16, 7th November 2013

Our Vision Our Vision Our Vision Our Vision

For all students at North Fremantle Primary School to experience learning that is purposeful, engaging and empowers themto become life long learners.

Our Mission Our Mission Our Mission Our Mission Through partnerships with parents and the local community, we will provide an inclusive environment in which our studentscan develop the knowledge skills, understandings and confidence to reach their potential.

Email the school administration: [email protected]

Email Teachers direct: Room? [email protected] (Please insert which room # your child is in)



Room 2 - Liz Smith

Mrs Slattery took advantage of Melbourne Cup Day to ‘trick’ us in tolearning about the mathematical concept of chance with our own horseraces.

The ‘magic’ beans and seeds in our class are growing at an alarming

rate and we have noticed changes in them every day. We are trackingtheir progress in our Seed Diaries and are remembering that plants needwater – not too much, not too little but juuuust the right amount. We’reso lucky at North Fremantle Primary School to have lots of excitingsettings to retell fairy tales and we’re making our own photo bookstories on computers and iPads.

The children are enjoying the ‘Daily10’ maths we are doing beforemorning fitness so a big thank youfor bringing your children on timeand an even bigger thank you forstaying to help (Lowanna J ).

Room 1 - Lisa Miller

On Wednesday we had a visit from Constable Care. Weexplored the different ways we can get to school, keeping safeas we walk, ride or travel in our car to school and being

responsible for our own safety. It was fun and we learnt a lot.

We have also been busyworking on ourcostumes for theFremantle festivalparade on Sunday.

We are so proud of the

final results. What doyou think?

Room 3 - Bev Lane

We have just been to see Constable Care. We discussed safe and unsafesecrets, the way we feel when we are scared and the people with whom wecan talk when we are worried about something. We are making posters to

remind everyone that we all have a right to feel safe. We thought about whowe could talk to if we had a problem and discussed the ‘olden days’ whenchildren were caned or smacked with a wooden spoon. This poster wasmade by Simba who made a bright and colourful poster.



Room 7 - Monica Parkes & Brent Snook

These last few weeks have been very busy in Room 7 and it has beengreat having Josie Roos, our student teacher, in the room with us.This week we finished our Four Roles of the Reader novels and forour culminating activity we will be making a movie trailer for ournovels using IMovies on the Ipads.

We looked at some trailers of popular movies and discussed thepositive and negative aspects of them and came up with a list ofcriteria that we will need to include in our trailers.

In our groups we began creating a Storyboard of the events we willinclude in our trailer and the sequence that they will shown.The discussions in the groups were amazing with a lot of talk about

who will play the characters, how the events will be depicted, themusic that will be suitable and the narration of the trailer.

Room 4 - Rochelle Reeves

There is a lot of buzz and excitement in and around North Fremantle Primary School this week. The childrenhave been working hard on their fabulous costumes for the Fremantle Festival. Many of our class members

have been coming to the Sunday workshops to help with the float and put finishing touches on their owncostumes. It was amazing to see so many helpers. We can’t wait to see the results on Sunday.

Room 4 has been enjoying our money reward system. Students have been earning rewards for completingwork on-time and paying hire fees for equipment in the classroom. This has created a lot of meaningful andeducationally rich maths work with money exchange and counting in 5’s and 10’s. We have been learningabout income and expenditure. It has been a wonderful way to enrich our class maths program and improvebehavioural outcomes. We have also been enthusiastic about our Ten-A-Day maths challenge. Students havebeen using time before school and during class to complete 10 maths questions. This is boosting our mathsknowledge and application and is engaging more students in the fun of maths.

Room 5 - Chris John

On Monday the 28th of October Pip Sivwright came intoRoom 5 to help us start our Science unit looking atweathering. Pip showed us the millions of years worth ofevidence located at Karijini, where the signs of rocksbreaking down due to wind and rain are everywhere. Wealso looked at forms of chemical weathering by putting

limestone in vinegar, causing it to break down and releasethe air trapped inside. We have also just completed ourresearch posters on countries from Africa and Europe.



Fremantle Festival ParadeFremantle Festival ParadeFremantle Festival ParadeFremantle Festival Parade

Our float is looking incredible and the kids costumes are amazing so make sure you come along and enjoyparticipating in the parade.

Sunday November 10th

Picnic and body painting from 1 pm

Assemble at 3.30 at start point.

Please note: new locations for parade start and finish

Start – at the Roundhouse/Carparks 19 and 19a at the end of High Street.Finish - Car park 20, corner of Marine and Essex

Families may meet on the Round House lawn from 1 pm for a picnic and body painting of students ready forthe parade. Please bring all of your costume to wear.Parents MUST accompany children in the parade.Students please wear black shirt and shorts/pants/ skirts.Parents please wear black and white only and decorate your hats, prams and bodies.

All families must be at the departure bay with our float at 3.30 ready to walk.It can be very hot so remember the sunscreen, water bottles and hats. Parking is always a nightmare so planahead! Catch public transport or the train is usually the easiest.We look forward to seeing you all there. Margie

Music News - Kelly Branch

Last Thursday the students of North Fremantle Primaryall came together and sang the "Keep On" song alongwith some other schools being filmed in Melbourne via

a live feed as part of the Music Count Us In initiative.The support from staff and students was fantastic and itproved to be a nice warm up for the talent show held atlunch time.

Firstly I would like to thank all the students who werepart of the North Freo's Got talent and showed suchconfidence in performing and rehearsing in their owntime. Also thank you to the student mentors whohelped guide and practice with some of the acts, ourcomperes Sean and Woonsen and finally the manyparents who helped bring in instruments, props andeven a performing canine! It was wonderful to see somany parents there so thank you once again for findingthe time to pop in and support the students as it is greatexperience for them to perform for a variety ofdifferent audiences.

Student Councillors ReportThe school managed to raise $135 in donations for World Unicef day. We would like to thank everyone in theschool who donated. Everyone looked their brilliant best in blue!

Cancer Foundation Fundraising Event at the North Fremantle Bowling Club (on Thompson Road) Its fun for the whole family so come along and make a difference!• Sausage sizzle—Face Painting—Bookstore—Silent auction—Polaroid snaps—Cupcakes• Time of the Event 4:00—7:00pm• Friday 8th November 2013

Documents

NFPS Newsletter Issue 16, 7th Nov, 2013.pdf