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Assembly Review

Our class would love to tell you all about our assembly item. We have been practising a dance called

the Continental Drift for five weeks and we were excited to present it to the whole school. Everyone

was included in our film and with a lot of help from Mr McLean, we created an awesome movie for

the school to enjoy. We practised nearly every day and we hope everyone enjoyed our assembly item

as much as we did.

The Year 6 Students from Room 22

From Room 22

Yakamia Primary School

Newsletter

Volume 8

22 May 2015

Principal: Julie Blythe

Deputy Principals: Yvonne Height, Helen Walmsley and Tristan Mackenzie

Ph: 9841 7533 Fax: 9842 1350

Email: [email protected]

The 2015 Voluntary Contributions are: Money payable to office or by Direct Debit

Kindergarten $50 Direct Debit Details:

PP to Yr 6 Children $60 BSB 016-510 Account no: 3408 23089

Please note childs name in full if different from parent

Student Safety

We would like to remind all parents and

guardians to slow down in our car parks and be

careful of children crossing in car parks and

across roads.

Now winter is around, the car park is becoming

very busy, please slow down and watch out for the

safety of children. Parents also need to make

sure children are being supervised when crossing

the road.

Assembly

Well done to the Year 6 students from Room 22 on

a super assembly last Friday. What super

dancers and film makers you all are! Well done to

Mr Pooley and Mrs Johnson too.

Next Fridays assembly will be hosted by the

students of Room 26. The school looks forward to

all family and friends attending.

WA Day Public Holiday

Monday 1 June is the WA Day public holiday and

school will be closed. WA Day recognises the

founding of Western Australia by English settlers

on 1 June 1829.

School Voluntary Contributions

Schools Voluntary Contributions play an

importance part in funding various resources and

programs around the school to support classes

with educational projects.

The outstanding amount is a massive $19 350

dollars!

That could buy for students approximately:

1000 reading books or

25 iPads or

850 calculators or

16 laptops

Julie Blythe

Principal

Recorder Group

How lovely it has been to hear you all! Next week

the Recorder Group will be held on Thursday in

the Italian Room, Room 32, at lunch time.

Michelle Edwards

From the Principals Desk

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Can YOU help? Yakamia PS is creating a unique play experience for our students using scrap materials. It is

designed to help students use their creativity and explore their imagination.

How can you help? Well it is simple; provide us with your unwanted items.

We are after donations of the following items:

tarps, overalls, safety helmets, big pieces of fabric, off cuts of carpets or mats, barrels,

wheels, crates, fishing nets or large nets, PVC pipe, bins and lids, walking frames, bits of foam e.g. pool noodles,

tubes

Please contact the school office (9841 7533) if you can help!

Disabled Parking Bay

Please respect the use of the disabled car parking bays in the school car parks. Please

leave them for use by families at our school, who need them. It becomes very difficult for

them if they have to find alternate parking. We appreciate your support in this matter.


A Message from NASHS

School Nurse

Move More, Sit Less

How much sitting is too much?

Even if children are very physically active, they will still benefit from limiting the amount of time

that they spend sitting or lying down (except when sleeping) in as many ways as possible.

Use of electronic media for entertainment should be limited to no less than 2 hours per day.

Parents can

Give gifts like skipping ropes, balls or kites to encourage active play

Set a no screen time rule at dinner time and before school

Make your childs bedroom a TV and computer free zone

Reward your children with a trip to the park, instead of TV or computer time

There are many opportunities to sit in our daily lives. The key is to find opportunities to move.

What will you do?

Modified from Does your child get 60 minutes of physical activity every day?

Other healthy living resources available on www.health.gov.au

Transition to High School

In the week beginning 1 June, Mr Harrison (Student Services Coordinator), Ben Wyatt and Jennie

Small (NASHS Chaplains) and/or Mr Simpson, (Deputy Principal), will be visiting your school and

the Year 6 students. The students will be provided with information on subjects, teachers and events

to look forward to in the future. They will also be provided with an enrolment package containing

lots of information about Year 7 in 2016. It would be appreciated if you could complete and return

the forms in the package to your childs teacher by Friday, 26 June 2015.

On Tuesday, 16 June we will be holding a Parent Information Night for Year 6 to 7 from 5.30pm to

7.30pm. For more information please refer to the flyer inside the enrolment package. We look

forward to seeing parents of Year 6 students.

If you have any further queries regarding the Year 6 to 7 transition program, please feel free to

contact Glenn Simpson (Lower School Deputy Principal) on 9892 0611.

Free Dress Day

Thursday 25 June

Gold coin donation

Supporting

Give Me 5 for Kids


Nature Play Track

It was great to see all the happy faces when we opened another part of our Early Childhood Nature-

based Playground!!

Thank you so much to the P&C and Committee for all their

fabulous work. These pictures show why it is all worthwhile!


Honour Certificate Recipients15 May 2015

Room Name Room Name

11 Liam Cash

Archie Clarke

24 Mitchell Russ

Thomas Brooks

12 Nyree Holland

Georgia Franey

25 Chris Winmar

Leif Wright

13 Madeline ONeill

Aiden Brown

26 Chloe Whitfort

Samuel Whittle

14 Luke Dawson

Brodie Childs

33 Jez Wakefield

Maddison Barradeen

15 Ella Smith

Exavier Milne

34 Riley Brown

Millah Tompsitt

16 Zohar Amigo

Brodie Armstrong

35 Zaine Belfield

Hannah Whitfort

21 Levi James Wallace

Tyresha Penny

43 Lockie Adeley-Doig

Xanthe Gardiner

22 Trinity Thornton

Olivia Steel

44 Cody Colmer

Zoe Lyon

23 Zach Cash

Billy Young

45 Eugene Eades

Sitara Dale

Shield Results

1st Blue 509 points

2nd Gold 416 points

3rd Green 398 points

4th Red 392 points

Faction Cross Country

The Interschool Cross Country is being hosted by Denmark Primary and will be held in Week 10

Only Years 3-6 compete at the Interschool. The first five placegetters in each year level, for boys and

girls, will be competing for Yakamia. Well done to all students who participated at the Faction Cross

Country.


Library News

SCHOOL BANKING EVERY: TUESDAY IN THE HALL SCHOOL BANKING EVERY: TUESDAY IN THE HALL SCHOOL BANKING EVERY: TUESDAY IN THE HALL SCHOOL BANKING EVERY: TUESDAY IN THE HALL

8.30 9.00am

Room 21

Room 14

Chloe Hill

Ebony Belfield

Jade Walker

Sienna Pearce

Brodie Childs

Room 22 Blake Childs Tillie Bartley

Trinity Thornton Jaime Sanford

Olivia Steel Kaila Bellotti

Sharni Ralston

Honour Certificates: Mr KosovichLibrary for helping with the Bookfair

Yakamia Library Bookfair Report

Wow! What a fantastic result.

Our School community; students, mums, dads, grandparents, guardians and

teachers spent a total of $4300.00 on books at the recent Yakamia Library Book-

fair.

From this amount our School Library received approximately $750.00 in cash.

This money is already being allocated to book titles nominated by our students.

The first book request was for the Mighty Robots Series by Dav Pilkey, thank you

Tyler.

Thank you all from your School Library.

To our incredibly hardworking Yakamia Bookfair Helpers:

This year we had Mrs Liz Childs, and her two children, plus a wonderful group of Year 6 students,

all of which have received honour certificates. We do appreciate all your hard work. A special thank

you to Mrs Sandilands, who worked tirelessly over the five days of the Bookfair.

Once again thank you all very much.

See you at the next Bookfair.

Yakamia Library

To ensure that all children are accounted for and safe please remember:

BE ON TIME to collect your child at the end of their session

COME IN TO COLLECT your child from the Hall (they cant meet you in the car park)

EXIT BY THE GATE near the dentist (you have to walk through the hall to the outside)

ONLY YPS Students to attend. Other children wanting to come will need to register their name

with the front admin prior to the Disco.

VOLUNTEERING

It will be necessary for there to be enough parent volunteers to help supervise the Junior and

Disco. Once again, this is a prerequisite. We require volunteers for the Canteen, Ticket Sales and

General Supervision (inside, outside and toilets)

OTHER INFORMATION

The cost of tickets will be $5.00/child and available for purchase at the school admin in the

weeks leading up to the disco. Councillors may also sell tickets in the Hall before school

Drinks, Snacks and a Sausage Sizzle will be available for purchase on the night

Parents will be called and asked to come and pick up their child if their child goes outside of the

fenced areas

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