UPCOMING EVENTS

Fridays all term Edudance (except 30.05)

Monday 5th May P&C Meeting

Tuesday 6th May Cricket Carnival

Thursday 8th May Assembly—Rm 2

13th—15th May NAPLAN Testing

27th & 29th May Kindy Screening

Friday 30th May Pupil Free Day

Monday 2nd June Western Australia Day

Public Holiday

Thursday 5th June Assembly—Leaders

Tuesday 10th June Class Photos

From the Principal

Welcome Welcome students, staff, parents and community members to Term 2 2014. It was certainly a busy time last term as we continued to strengthen the learning opportunities for our students. I am very much looking forward to the many educational experiences and initiatives planned for this term and beyond aimed at achieving strong learning outcomes for our students. We welcome back Mrs Lisa Miller in Kindergarten from Long Service Leave and are very happy to have successfully retained Ms Rochelle Reeves in Room 4 for the rest of the year. Learning at North Fremantle Primary School – An Update Last term and at our recent Staff Development Day our staff have been involved in analysing data and evidence obtained from student focus groups conducted last term. The aim of the focus groups was to gain an understanding of the extent in which our students can articulate ‘what a good learner is’ and ‘what they're learning and how they will know they have learned it’. In addition to this as a staff we have been consulting educational research conducted by Professor John Hattie into high effect teaching and learning approaches. As a result of this process all our staff from Kindergarten to Year 7 will be implementing a common approach to providing students with explicit learning intentions and success criteria (what they need to demonstrate to achieve the lesson outcome) during learning experiences. You will notice the following acronyms in your children’s classrooms which teachers and students will refer to: WALT: We are learning to WILF: What I am looking for TIB: This is because In addition, as part of our whole school approach to improving spelling, reading and writing, our Kindergar-ten to Year 7 classes will be implementing an explicit phonics flashcards session each day. The session will be a 5 – 8 minute session and will aim to expose students to a variety of phonics concepts. Parent Communication – School Assemblies and Newsletters During this term, assemblies will be held at 8.45am, Thursday mornings in weeks 2, 6, 9. Assemblies will be located in the Music/Art Room. During each assembly, class items, reports and honour certificates are awarded to various children for their efforts and contributions in class. All parents are welcome to attend. Newsletters will be sent out each Thursday fortnight. This terms newsletters will be sent out in Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 via email. Please notify the office to update your email details if necessary. School Website We are currently discussing the possibility of our school website being re-designed. During this time the website will still be updated with important information but may not be fully operational. We thank you for your understanding and direct you to our school newsletter, notices and classroom information in the meantime. Thank you.

Newsletter Issue 6, 16 May 2013

Newsletter Issue 18, 5th December 2013

Our Vision

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

Our Mission

Through partnerships with parents and the local community, we will provide an inclusive environment in which our students can develop the knowledge skills, understandings and confidence to reach their potential. Email the school administration: NorthFremantlePS@education.wa.edu.au

Email Teachers direct: Room? NorthFremantlePS@education.wa.edu.au (Please insert which room # your child is in)

Room 2 - Liz Smith

Welcome back everyone. We’re in for another action-packed and fun-filled term. Our topic will be ‘Wheels, Wings and Other Things’. I’m hoping to arrange several incursions and excursions to extend, enhance and consolidate our learning; once the plans are more concrete I’ll be sure to let you know. The first important thing we have in our calendar is our Class Assembly which will be next Thursday, 8th May at 8.45-9.30am. I would like to encourage as many parents as possible to attend. On Friday, in celebration of Mothers’

Day I would like to invite all the

mothers/grandmothers of the class to

join us for afternoon tea on Friday at

2.30pm.

Room 1 - Lisa Miller

Welcome back to all our families. We hope you had a lovely break. It has been a nice first week back in Kindy. After a wonderful start to the year led by Mrs Slattery and Mrs Preston, the children and I have been spending our time getting to know each other. We are all looking forward to an action packed, fun filled term of busy work and skill learning.

Room 3 - Bev Lane

First week back! We have written about our holidays (of course) and everyone has returned safely except Arlo who is a little bit damaged. We found that most of us have connections to family members who were affected by war and we are all looking forward to our Edudance lessons.

Christian, Lily, Jonathon.

Anna and Charlotte or-

dered numbers to 10 and

matched amounts to

numerals.

Rooms 5 - Brent Snook

Welcome back! From all of us here in Room 5 we hope you had a safe and enjoyable holiday. We are certainly back into the swing of things here and after only two short days have slotted back into our regular routine nicely. Thank you to all students and parents who attended our ANZAC day ceremony and made it such a success. Each class presentation highlighted the students understanding of the significance of Anzac day and what it means to us to be living in Australia. We hope everyone has had a positive start to the term and is enjoying their time back at school.

Room 4 - Rochelle Reeves & Belinda Baldey

Room 7 - Chris John

On Wednesday morning, North Fremantle commemorated the brave and heroic men and women of ANZAC, who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. We were grateful to have Mr Graham Purkiss share with us some of his experiences. Each class presented some of their work explaining why keeping the ANZAC spirit alive for generations to come is very important. Sean Hardy-Atkins Minister for Community Relations

Welcome back! Hopefully everyone’s refreshed and ready to go because it’s shaping up to be another very busy term at North

Freo. Room 7 has hit the ground running in Term 2 having already examined the techniques and structures found in five

different styles of poems. We have analysed the way authors use language, metaphor and imagery to create ideas and meaning

beyond the words on the page and are not far off doing the same in our own work. NAPLAN is only two weeks away so we’re

busy looking at as many practise examples as we can before then. Wish us luck!

Room 4 have had a busy start to the new term. We welcome Miss Lauren Richards, from Notre Dame University, who is with us for 10 weeks. We look forward to some exciting and innovative activities while she is here. Our Anzac Day commemorations were a huge success and the class showed some very thoughtful and insightful ideas about war and sacrifice in our discussions. Suzie, our gorgeous class bunny, is enjoying her

relaxation back on the farm with her babies. Mrs

Baldey managed to visit Suzie on the holidays and

says she misses the children. We still have our class

yabbies, so come in and see them if you get a chance

before they go off to their new home.

Art News — Margie Campbell

We have been very busy creating gift paper and cards. I hope you all enjoy the hard work! If anyone has any old magazines please drop them into the art room.