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UPCOMING EVENTS

Monday 18th June

Edu Dance catch up

Tuesday 19th June

School photos

Tuesday 19th JuneSchool Council Meeting

Wednesday 20th JuneEdu dance

Thursday 21st June

School Assembly

Friday 22nd June

School Jump rope jump off

Friday 22nd JuneSchool Disco

Wednesday 27th JuneEdu Dance Performance

9:15am

Thursday 28th June

Tuck Shop

Year 1 & 2

Monday 6th AugustBurswood Concert

The next newsletter will be

Friday 29th June

From the Principal - Fiona Kelly

What an unusual week! It was great to see everyone back yesterday after ourforced mid-term break. Im sure the kids were happy to have a mini holiday andthe teachers were quite grateful for the chance to regroup and start writing their

reports. Thank you parents for your understanding and support. If you did nothear about the school closure directly from me or a Regional office staffmember, please email your current contact numbers to me atnorthfremantle.det.wa.edu.au and we will cross reference with those on record.

There are quite a number of incursions, excursions and other events on theschool agenda at the moment. I know that regular notes coming home fromschool can be a little annoying so we would really appreciate if you couldrespond to requests for permission or other information promptly so that we dohave to send out multiple reminders. From our end we will try very hard to keepnotes to a minimum.

Have you had a look at the school website lately?www.northfremantleps.wa.edu.au

Its looking fabulous and reading beautifully thanks to Kindy mum Layla Tucak.Layla has taken on the very important task of maintaining the webpage andwriting the copy for our community newsletter. Thank you Layla-youre doing agreat job.

Dont forget schools photos are next Tuesday school uniforms please.

Would you like a vegie allotment?

Up the back yard beyond the chicken coupe we have a number of vegie gardenallotments we would like to offer (at a small price per annum) for lease. If youare interested, a small patch will be $30 per annum and a larger one $50(donation to the P&C). If we have more families interested than there areallotments available we will draw names from a hat. Allotment holders will havethe option to keep their patch for 2 years before applying again. Allotments areonly available to families with children enrolled at the school.

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Room 1 - Lisa MillerLast week while we were talking about fire fighters as part of our People who work in our community, we learntall about hot colours. These include red, yellow and orange. We made collages using materials and did a coloursort which involved us separating hot and cold counters into bowls. It was fun!We also put together a fire engine by using our copying and patterning skills and then drew ourselves in thedrivers window. It was also a dress up kind of week with some new items being added to our wardrobe from

Miss Lizzie, Thanks.

Room 2- Liz SmithWe have been really enjoying our mini-topic travel and transport.The children demonstrated a range of skills in creating their mixed-media train pictures and workedcooperatively to create an impressive background for their work samples, which we will use to make into a classbook.

Room 3- Bev LaneThis has been an interesting week. We workedin the gloom on Monday and then the childrenstayed home for two days while the stormdissipated. Some of our classmates seemed

not to have noticed the storm, but others sawstorm damage and felt the wind and rain.Lara saw a tree on the road that blocked thecars, Angus saw broken trees too and Samsaid the road around the river was flooded.

Working cooperatively.

Simba, Luc, Abbey adding details.

The finished display. Feel free to come and see it.

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ART NEWS - Margie Campbell

Councillors ReportPre primary to year 7 have been participating in Edu dance and everyone has beentrying so hard to get the dances right. Edu dance will be completed with a whole school performance to show allthe dances we learnt, so keep practising in front of the mirror to get everything spick and span for the big day.Please remember to wear school jackets and leave you bright ones at home for the weekends. It shows you areproud to be part of the school and remember that mittens, beanies and scarves are to been taken off whilst youare in the class room but are allowed to be worn during recess and lunch.

Rooms 4 and 5 have been developing their skills for jump rope for heart to raise money for the Heart Foundationas they will be participating in a jump off on the 22nd June. Everyone has been practising really hard and you cansee the results already.

Room 5 will be starting their fundraiser for their school camp at the end of the year. They will be having aCheesy Tuesdayand they will be selling hot buns with melted cheese on them for only $2during recess.

Room 5- Monica Parkes/Leanne VinciIn Literacy, Room 5 has begun Four Roles of the Reader. Within their readinggroups students are reading the same novel and taking on a different reading roleeach session. These roles are Text Participant, Text User, Code-breaker and TextAnalyst. After students have completed their activity independently, they discusswith their group their role for that session. It is great to see the different ideas andinterpretations of the novel the students have as they are sharing their ideas and itis also great to see the students with their nose constantly stuck in a book! Inmaths the class are developing a further understanding of decimals. The focus atthis point is through decimals in money and measurements. The key point is toremember that decimals are part of the whole.

Room 4- Claire HenneberryWhat a wild and windy week it has been! This week we made pictures of what we saw during the storm, it wasamazing to see some of the things that people encountered. Mr. ODriscoll has been with us full time for thelast 2 weeks and will be teaching in room four for the next two weeks. He has been teaching us about fractionsand lots more interesting things. The projects that were produced about explorers were of a really highstandard, well done!

The BIG kids have collated their portfolios and are making sure that all their fabulousartwork has been completed and they have written short reflections about theirartworks.

The YearThree and Four students havebeen creating beautiful marbled paper.Again using paper construction skills thestudents have made paper fans from themarbled paper.

The Year One and Two students have been using their construction skillsto make paper bag and plate puppets. They have been making up plays

and working with their friends having fun performing.

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P&C Update

Dont forget the School Disco is on Friday 22nd June.Kindy/PP 4:30-5:30 Years 1-7 5:30-7pm (dinner at 5:30)

Uniform ShopYou can collect an order form from the administration office. Please leave payment with your form in the box markeduniform orders and your order will be sent home with your child, otherwise the uniform shop will be available byappointment on a Monday morning and Afternoon.Please contact Pip Sivwright to discuss a suitable time. Ph: 0409 298 118, if no answer please sms and she will get back

to you.

Woolworths Earn and Learn Congratulationsto Glenda Farmerfor winning the School $1000 Woolworths gift card for this years earn and learn program bonus reward

for her poem below.

We're a small school with big ideas,And per capita funding moves us to tears.

We'd love more Modern Teaching AidsTo help our children get good grades.

They're bright and we know they'll reach their goals because their mums prefer Woolies to Coles.

***Please don't forget to bring in your stickers***

Active After-School Sports Communities

A big well done to all of you who have turned up in the rain to do After School Sport!We started Circuit Training yesterday, how much fun was that! A big thanks to the North Fremantle FitnessResults coaches - Brent, Aiden & Leanne. We all got wet, not only by the rain, but also by sweat! We startedoff with a game of ship to shore, and then got into the push-ups, squats, sit-ups & flexes. There were plenty ofpunches and lets not forget the tug of war comp. Great work guys and girls, everyone put in an excellent effortand got into the circuit fun. The coaches gave a special well done sticker to Jake, Charley, Ashley, Lara,Subham & Anthony . Also, special thanks to Anthony for doing a great job helping out in many ways,

particularly signing in the upper school kids. I am looking forward to seeing you all Monday at football .Regards Judy

Ceramics Workshop with Fluer Schell

Well Saturday the 9th June saw a veryexcited team assemble in the artroom for afull day workshop with brilliant NorthFremantle ceramicist Fluer Schell.

The group were entertained all day by Fluersfantastic stories and we now have anenthusiastic team of parents, teachers andeven one of the teacher assistants skilledand ready to support the ceramics programin the school.

The team were taught how to make humidorsand moulds for bowl and platter making.From here we shared a wonderful lunch andthen moved onto creating plates, bowls and

cups.I have been busy buying all the equipment toget the students started and we look forwardto an amazing term of clay work ahead.

Margie Campbell