Cross Country

We managed to dodge the showers to complete the Cross-Country carnival. Congratulations to Shae Lyne and Benjamin from Room 15, who placed in the top four.

Book Week

On Friday, Week 6, Students enjoyed dressing up as their favourite book character for the Book Week Parade. Please enjoy the pictures below showing our class marching with our buddy class. As part of our work for Book Week students have been completing various tasks about their favourite books and characters. We made a poster to promote the location of their book using their ICT skills and presented a speech about a character.

Aboriginal retell of Dreamtime Stories

As part of our work on Australian history we read Aboriginal Dreamtime stories. The students then had to retell the story in their own words and draw a picture based on the story using traditional colours and designs.

  

  

BUZ (Build Up Zone) Together Life Skills Program

We are running a new Health program this term with the assistance of our School Chaplain, Mrs Bennett. The BUZ program focuses on the development of social skills. The program will help the students build and maintain successful relationships, cooperate with each other and solve problems. We would like to thank Mrs Bennett for her work in supporting the students learning in our classroom.



Last week the students had to cooperate with each other to stand up whilst linked back to back. We like a challenge in our class. This was a very popular activity which stressed the need of working together.

Tyriq and Jack managed to stand up the quickest. Working together they stood up in under 5 seconds. They weren't as fast for the repeat performance

Year Six Kalgoorlie Camp Powerpoint 2017

This the Camp Information Powerpoint shown at the parent meeting held on Monday 14th August.

NAIDOC Day

NAIDOC Day is normally celebrated on the first week in July, which fell on the school holidays. We celebrated Aboriginal culture during Week 2, reading 'Dreamtime' stories and retelling events during Big Write. We have drawn pictures to reflect our stories using Aboriginal styles and colours. On Friday we made damper in the morning and then participated in a range of activities to find out more about the Aboriginal culture.

    

The finished damper

 

Decorating boomerangs

My School Rules

In Week One the students were tested on their general knowledge to see who would represent our school at the 'My School Rules' competition. Students completed a written test and mock competition to see who was quickest on the buzzer. Congratulations to Afnan, Shae Lyne and Benjamin from Room 15 who made it into the team. The first round against the other schools starts in Week 5.

Student Representative Term 3

Congratulations to Rishitha, Afnan, Jasmine, Beelinda, Aldrich, Shaine, Diamond and Alex on being selected as Student Representatives for Term 3. A big thank you to the Term 2 Student Reps. who did a terrific job around the school. I look forward to working with these students as they take on more leadership roles.

Nature Playground

  

Some fabulous news to start Term 3 was the opening of the Nature Playground. A lucky family was chosen to try out the playground on the day, and the winning family included Tyriq from our class.

  

The students are all excited to try out the new features and on Thursday we went over as a class to check it out. We're all looking forward to playing there on our rostered days. A big thank you to the P&C for all their fundraising for this fabulous new playground.

Winter Interschools Carnival

Last Friday, Year Five and Six students participated in the Darling Range Community Sports Carnival. We took several teams of soccer and netball and a team of football. The rain mostly stayed away, just some drizzle to remind us these are winter sports. Everyone had a great day and the carnival was well organised. Congratulations to all participants and thank you to the staff and parents for coaching and supporting the teams.

Netball A 

The day was all about good sportsmanship but as a bonus the Netball A won their division and the Netball B were runners up in their division.

Netball B

Netball B2

Soccer A

The Soccer A won their division and Soccer B were runners up as well. Congratulation to the football team who played well and enjoyed the day.

Soccer B

Football

Asian Animals

As part of our inquiry learning about Asia students researched and wrote about an animal found in Asia. Students did a fabulous job with their written reports including very informative facts about the animals. Please enjoy some examples by clicking on the picture below.

High School Transition

 The Year Sixes went up to Lesmurdie Senior High School as part of their transition to high school. Students had a look at a Physical Education, Home Economics, drama and Design & Technology. It was a great experience to see how students move from one session to another using their timetable and map. We really enjoyed the Design & Technology area, especially trying to light the arc welder. Thank you to the staff and previous Wattle Grove PS students who looked after us.

Yusuf in DT with the welder

Darling Range Learning Community network visit

The Darling Range Learning Community coordinator visited us at the end of Term 2 to talk about our Citizenship Portfolios and share some ideas. This should have helped students who were still unsure as to what was needed for their portfolio. Students were also encouraged to think about a community project to be completed as part of their work on citizenship.