Assembly This term we have been practising a heap for our Room 26 Assembly. We chose the theme ‘Kid President”. We did quotes in Club Smash Posters. We also sang two songs, Titanium and Say Something, and a poem by Kid President called Keep Going Keep Going Keep Going. It was really cool a the end as we got all of the school to get up and danced to the Minion version of Happy by Pherell Williams. We loved Kid President because he tells everybody to be ‘Awesome’ and says a lot more but my favourite is “Don’t stop believing unless your dream is stupid!”.

Annabel L Animations When Mrs McIntosh showed the class a 450 slide animation all of the class loved it and the class got to do an animation.. I thought of an idea to make a sun rise and make it go down and then at the end it pops up with a scary face and show everyone. Animations take a while to make because you have to move a tiny bit at a time. Also Peter and I are planning a movie in slides.

Carson Journaling This year we have been doing journaling on a Friday, which is my favourite day of the week!! We are allowed to use edicol dye, paint and pencils to do works of art in our journal, with or without stencils. Today I am going to ask Miss Bunney if I can collect leaves and spray edicol over them. It will look awesome. Back to journaling, it is fun, exciting and creative, and I LOVELOVELOVELOVE it!!

Liam F

From Room 26

Yakamia Primary School

Newsletter

Volume 9

5 June 2015

Principal: Julie Blythe

Deputy Principals: Yvonne Height, Helen Walmsley and Tristan Mackenzie

Ph: 9841 7533 Fax: 9842 1350

Email: Yakamia.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Stranger Danger

Parents / Carers please remember to be vigilant when your children are out and about in the community and reinforce the key messages with your children in relation to stranger danger.

School Assembly

Congratulations to Room 26 for an AWESOME Assembly that was full of fun and surprises and included: Working hard as an awesome team; Some awesome lifelong messages for everyone; Awesome uniforms; Singing difficult but awesome songs; Reciting an awesome poem; Using the word awesome in an awesome amount of ways; Making everyone dance an awesome dance; Having an awesome time together entertaining everyone. Room 26 You are truly Awesome!

The next assembly is on Friday 12June at 9.00 am and will be hosted by Room 15 Year 3. All family and friends are invited to attend.

K – P Nature Playground

Thank you to the small group of parents and teachers who banded

together to develop our very sparse ECE playground into a wonderful

dynamic nature playground that boasts bumpy roads to ride bikes and

scooters on, bridges to ride over, shops to stop and buy from, a dry creek

bed (wet when it rains) to jump over, a water tank to supply the creek of

course, rocks to balance on or leap over, outside blackboards to write on,

a pirate ship to plunder and plants to add colour and greenery to the mix.

It has been a pleasure to watch our K – P students explore, discover and

play in this exciting new setting. Behind the scenes we have that amazing

Nature Playground Committee coming up with a wonderful array of fund

raising ideas from writing grant submissions to BBQ’s at Bunnings to a

very successful High Tea.. Thanks for the fun and the funds—they are

most appreciated by the whole school community.

Disco

Last night the P&C ran a very successful Denim Disco Night using a new

format K—6. A great time was had by all. Thanks must go to the

organising P&C Committee, Chaplain Steve Fisher (Music, Smoke

Machine, general ambiance), Mr Steve Freeman (BBQ) who all did their

bit to make this an very enjoyable event for all our Yakamia disco

dancers! Thanks a million.

Councillors

Kudos must go to our great team of Councillors and Faction Captains that

have set up and run a great soccer competition for the Year 4, 5 and 6

students over the last few weeks. They have been true leaders and we

commend them for their initiative. We also thank those students who have

spent their own time in making sure that each class

sports equipment allocations are in good order and in

the right classroom. Well done!

From the Principal’s Desk

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Spotlight on Block 1 Block 1 (Yrs 2, 3 and some Yr 4 students) at Yakamia have been very

busy indeed over the last six weeks. They have been busily learning

about adjectives and writing compound sentences using adjectives they

have discovered resulting in some amazing writing. Rm 11 : Have been

writing about their favourite weather day and season to practice their

compound sentences and adjectives. Gwenith wrote. I love Spring

because it doesn’t rain. Spring has beautiful trees everywhere and has

lots of flowers and birds.Rm 12: Have been exploring Picture of the

Week. So far they have done some outstanding work on celebrations,

pets and face painting and are soon to launch into Australian animals. Rm

12 parents have also enjoyed helping with these activities. Along with Rm

13, Rm 12 have entered an art competition called “Families Working

Together”. Rm 13: Have been investigating the Life Cycle of Frogs and

are soon to welcome some baby tadpoles into the classroom. They have

been concentrating on Persuasive Writing and have done some stunning

boab tree art work as part of study on reconciliation. Rm 14: Have been

working hard with Mr Fisher particularly on ‘Sentence of the Day’ and

answering reading questions in full sentences. Hint: Did you know about

border punctuation? Protect your sentence with a capital and a full stop.

(border) They have also been studying Countries of the world starting with

Italy and Ireland. Rm 15: Have been playing the ‘Silly Sentence Game’

where each person selects four cards from a noun (objects), adjective,

verb, Noun (animals/people) pile and use each word to make a sentence.

Then they join their sentence with a partner to make a silly compound

sentence. Room 16: Drew a symmetrical picture of a face in art and then

used adjectives in simple and compound sentences to describe the new

face. They also wrote a journal identifying and using nouns, adjectives,

verbs and adverbs. Mrs MacIntosh showed Rm 16 students how to match

appropriate nouns to adjectives using the iPad ‘Seesaw’ app.

School News

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Honour Certificate Recipients—29 May 2015

Room Name Room Name

11 Liam Cash

Jake White

24 Kiara Hinks

Katie Munro

12 Jesse Owens

Charlotte Maguire

25 Meah Hovell-Mitchell

Kobi Smith

13 Emily-Rose Clapp

Scott Williams

26 Tiana Bird

Ryan Lazar

14 Riley O’Brien

Gabby Allen

33 Madi Belfield

Nicole Atienza

15 Mikayla Keys

Scott Hawkins

34 Caleb Ellett

Cassie Stephenson

16 Tyler Saunders

Eliza Lockyer

35 Sebastian Xepapas

Aisha Coyne

21 Reece Whittington

Jack Ditchburn

43 Ryder Elliott

Luella Edwards

22 Liam Buss

Kellie Linn

44 Violet Walker

Charmelle Umali

23 Dylan Hawkins

Ryder Coleman

45 Griff Dwyer

Shiloh Stone

Yakamia PS Nature Playground High Tea

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The YPS Nature Playgrounds Committee invite you to check out the 'photo album' from the recent High Tea & Expo -

head to the P&C Facebook page, and share with your friends

Funds raised from this event will go toward further Nature Playground Projects throughout the whole school.

Massive thanks once again to all involved for their support and community spirit!

Community News

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Community News

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school. We provide this space for community groups to advertise to the

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