Guess what? The School Captains have taken over this week’s newsletter. This week we wrote the newsletter and included everything that we saw that was happening around our amazing school. 

Year 2 Pyjama Day

On Tuesday 12 August the Year 2s had a pyjama day because they had filled their sparkle jar to the top. They did lots of activities like reading books, playing with teddies, drinking hot chocolate and eating popcorn. Benjamin from Room 19 said that his favourite things about the day were drinking hot chocolate and reading his Goosebumps book. Javier said that he enjoyed eating popcorn around the virtual fire and reading his Pokémon book. It was obvious that all of the Year 2s had so much fun.

Science Week

Last week was National Science Week. Our school had chosen to celebrate it by having Mrs Phillips organise fun activities for all of us so that we could explore this year’s theme ‘Food: Different by Design’. It honours the International Year of Fruits and Vegetables as well as the time and effort it is taken to get harvest from farms to forks. Some of the School Captains were honoured to help Mrs Phillips in running activities in the science lab. A few activities that we did were planting potatoes up in the nature play, milking cows, and egg on a spoon races. We would also like to thank Mrs Phillips for the time and effort she has put into organising all of the incursions, excursions and events she has put together so far this year. We are so lucky to have such a passionate science teacher who is willing to go above and beyond to engage us all in Science.

Faction School Sport

Everyone at Joondalup Schools are busy preparing for the faction carnival, which will be held on Friday 17^th September. This year there is a new trophy that the factions can win by showing good sportsmanship and cheering for our factions. We can’t wait to see which faction will be the first to win this trophy!  Important dates for the faction carnival:

• Monday 13 September – Long jumps – Year 3-6
• Tuesday 14 September – Distance Throws – Year 3-6
• Friday 17 September – Faction Athletics – PP-Year 6

All events commence 8.50am.  Families are welcome to spectate and schedule for the events will be sent home in the coming weeks.

Choir One Big Voice Performance

The choir attended the One Big Voice performance at RAC arena on the 20 August 2021. There were 65 school choirs attending this event. We performed 10 songs in total, including ‘Jigsaw Family’ and Sia’s ‘Unstoppable’. There were seven amazing members of our school staff that attended, and we thank them for helping make our participation possible. It was very fun to be out in the city on a Friday night showing off our amazing singing talents. We would like to say a big thank you to Miss O’Connor and Mrs Butler for organising all of this for our exceptional school choir. We are so lucky to such a fabulous music teacher and education assistant.

Year 6 Camp Donations

We would like to say thank you to the P&C for your donations for our Year 6 camp. All the Year 6s are very excited for the camp and appreciate the donation to ensure that all students have the opportunity to attend.

Book Week

Joondalup Schools are currently celebrating Book Week. The Book Week dress up was today and we all loved seeing everyone dress up as their favourite character from a book. The Senior ESC students had their assembly today and it was a really excellent assembly; and it was clear that everyone by the audience. More photos to come next week!

School Captains

Joondalup Primary School

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From the Principal

Congratulations to the School Captains for an amazing school newsletter.  I really appreciate the effort and time they have given to tell the school’s stories for the past fortnight.  Thank you also to Miss Mercer who has been editor in chief!  This is so good that I might have done myself out of a job.  I wonder if I can delegate financial management to the Captains!!