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Newsletter No. 4.2
www.yokineps.wa.edu.au
An Independent Public School
Important Events
Week 4
Thur 6 Nov
Fri 7 Nov
Choir Excursion—West
Coast Song Fest,
Joondalup
Assembly—Room 4
Last day for Jump Rope
for Heart money and
forms
P&C Disco
6:30—8:30 p.m.
Week 5
Tue 11 Nov
Parent Workshop—
Rm 8
9:00—10:00 Workshop
10:00—10:50 View
Senior Maths Support
Program in action
Week 7
27 Nov
School Board Open
Meeting. 6pm
Tel: 9242 2726 Fax: 9242 4142
39 Woodrow Avenue
YOKINE WA 6060
www.yokineps.wa.edu.au
NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL
The Year 6 and 7 students attended camp in Week 2. The camp was a great
success with many weary bodies returning Friday afternoon, especially Ms
Pynes and Miss Macaskill! The camp’s focus was on team and resilience
building where the students participated in many activities like climbing,
archery and water survival. The highlights? Ms Pynes and her fabulous feat
of ‘rock’ climbing and dangling from a great height, the disco and yummy food!
I enjoyed a day with the kids as they explored many of the great activities
presented.
Enormous thanks need to go to Ms Pynes, Mrs Manning and Miss Macaskill
for all the organising and a very generous thanks to Mr Cockroft for being the
male chaperon.
Congratulations to the Mount Lawley SHS GAT/SVAPA scholarship
recipients for 2015. An awesome effort!
Year 6 : GAT - Ethan Nixon
Year 7 : SVAPA – Georgia Dixon
GAT Jennifer Tran
National School Survey
As part of a mandatory national initiative all government schools in WA have
opened a survey to provide the opportunity for parents and staff to contribute
opinions of their school. I encourage all parents to participate in this short
survey as we value greatly your views. Information gained provides us with
important information to ensure the positive future growth of our school.
All survey results will be made available to the whole school community at the
conclusion of the survey. The survey closes on 4th December 2014.
Please click on this link to access the survey http://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/
s/NYjjbK9Y
Please do not hesitate to see me if you require further information.
Parent Contributions.
We endeavour to ensure our parents have the opportunity to participate in
school discussions and encourage all parents to come along to the P & C
meetings to be able to actively engage in school happenings. We have an
active School Board which is the voice for our parent community. We have a
positive working relationship as we work towards common goals for our
students and school as a whole. It is also important that parents are able to communicate issues or concerns and I
encourage you to discuss these with me so that we are able to support a positive outcome.
Community Celebration
We will once again celebrate our wonderful community on Thursday 18th December. We will begin with a whole school
concert before lunch, parents and family members are then invited to come along and have a picnic lunch with their
children. After lunch we have organised the Mucky Duck Bush Band for some music and dance. We hope you will place
this in your diaries and come along and enjoy the events planned.
Kim Fraser
Principal
Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing. Rollo May
VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
The funds collected are used to
purchase additional support,
playground equipment, reading,
maths, science, history, sport and
t e c h n o lo g y e q u i p me n t a n d
resources. These resources benefit
all students and allow our school to
provide the very best learning
opportunities for all students.
Many thanks to the parents and
carers who have paid these
contributions which are accepted at
any time of the year at our front
office.
So far we have only collected just
over 50% of our contributions.
Yokine Primary School’s
contributions are $60:00 per child.
A breakdown of 2014 expected Voluntary Contributions are
below:
Kindergarten: $2340:00 received: $1420:00
Pre-Primary: $2580:00 received: $2080:00
Primary:
$12,400:00 received:
$7670:00
PARENT WORKSHOP
We will once again run a parent workshop on Tuesday 11th
November 9:00 a.m. in Room 8.
This is a hands on workshop where parents will experience
being a student in today’s classroom. They will engage in
cooperative learning work with open ended tasks and
develop a sense of what current evidence based curriculum
and delivery looks like for their children at Yokine Primary.
Please let the front office now if you wish to attend.
SCHOOL BOARD OPEN MEETING
As part of our Terms of Reference one ‘Annual public
meeting’ is to be held. All parents and community members
are invited to attend as observers. An Agenda will be posted
on our webpage next week. The meeting will be on
Thursday 27th November at 6pm in Room 8.
SUN SUMMIT
The Year 6&7 students, again participated in the Sun
Summit held at Carmel School yesterday. This is a joint
venture with a number of local religious and non-religious
schools. It is a day where all the students get together to
share the day gaining important knowledge and
understanding of cultural diversity; and that even though we
are all different, in many ways we are similar.
YEAR 6&7 CAMP
Well, I survived camp! We had a delightful time with a great
group of students of whom we should all be very proud.
It takes a team and many months of work to organise a
camp; my sincere gratitude to the following:
Mrs Fraser – In addition to providing administrative support,
she liked it so much that she returned in the evening with Mr
Fraser. We were hoping to catch her moves on the dance
floor but she had a very good excuse for not staying –
another little granddaughter arrived safely on Thursday
evening.
Miss Macaskill – it’s easier to list what Miss Macaskill
didn’t do before camp and on camp. She was Wonder
Woman with very and interesting entertaining disco moves.
However, her quiz night questions were definitely different
e.g. What is my favourite number? What are my favourite
colours?
Mr Cockroft – our token male chaperon who did not sleep
at all. Possibly the disco music rendered him shocked; or
maybe not being able to answer some of the quiz night
questions worried him e.g. Who are the members of One
Direction?
Ms Tatam – was kept very busy being a supervisor, nurse,
photographer, archer etc.; and helping the Old Fogeys team
maintain its dignity during the Quiz Night. She earned her
Pyjama Day.
Mrs Cockroft – braved the afternoon traffic to respond to
our IT emergency call and displayed a disturbing knowledge
of the current teeny bopper music trends during the Quiz
Night.
Olivia Cockroft – compiled the soundtrack for the disco
from all the tracks requested by the students.
She
managed my concerns regarding appropriate songs and
language content with great diplomacy and not even one
eye roll.
Mrs Manning – before taking Long Service Leave Mrs
Manning attended to camp administrative matters such as
bookings, catering, financials, legal documentation, camp
program...
Mrs Stenhouse – provided admin support and was my
sounding (sobbing) board.
Ms Stott – collated all the legal documentation, the
Excursion file and medications bag.
Mrs Goodwin – provided admin support and picked up all
the balls I dropped.
A special thank you to Mr Kevin Fraser for the
technological support he provided on Thursday night; a
disaster was averted and we had sound for the disco.
I sincerely hope I have not forgotten anyone; any lapse in
memory is definitely camp related.
Helen Pynes
BOOK FAIR
Thank you to everyone who purchased books during the
YOKINE’S SCHOOL CHOIR
recent Book Fair. Due to your kind generosity we made
Yokine’s School Choir will be performing at the West Coast $949 in commission to spend on more books for the school
SongFest, HBF Arena (formerly known as the Joondalup library. It was the best fair that we have had yet!
Arena) on Thursday 6th November (Term 4, Week 4) at Thank you all again.
12:30pm. We look forward to seeing you on the day!
What’s Happening at YPS!
A special thank you to Kaya Lacey and her family for kindly Julia Crosweller
donating a generous box of new percussion instruments to Library
the music room instead of money for the Lapathon. I was
really surprised and grateful. We are all looking forward to
playing the new guiros,
maracas and the cabasa.
Thank you from all our
students and me.
Justine Banning
Music Teacher
SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCES
Deb Flintoff is a parent of Yokine Primary alumni students
and a passionate advocate for children on the autistic
spectrum and their families. Deb’s extensive personal
experience, with son Josh, and knowledge of systemic
procedures and policies, has allowed her to positively
engage and empower other families to navigate through
their daily lives and plan for the future. She has kindly
dropped off copies of the Autism World Magazine and
Autism Parents’ Handbook which can be found in our
front office.
2015 STUDENT LEADERSHIP ELECTIONS
Student Election speeches will be held at a special
assembly on Wednesday 12th November at 8:50 a.m. and
the election will be held on Thursday 13th November at
12:10 p.m. Students from Years 4-7 will listen to the
speeches and vote the following day.
Deb is a gifted writer who is a regular contributor to Autism
World Magazine. You can subscribe to Autism World
Magazine and download an app to your portable device
using this link http://www.autismworldmagazine.com/
subscribe.html
The election will be run by the WA Electoral Education
Centre staff who will provide the polling booths and the
printed voting forms. They collate the data and send the
school a print out of the results.
All Year 5 students are encouraged to nominate for at least
one position.
INDONESIAN
If you and your family would like to explore more about the
culture and tastes of the Indonesian Language you are
learning, why not come along to:
THE PERTH FESTIVAL OF INDONESIAN ART & CULTURE
2014
Helen Pynes
A/Deputy Principal
JUMP ROPE FOR HEART
The jump off was held last Friday and much fun was had by
all. Congratulations to Mr Lunardi for organising this
awesome event.
It would be appreciated if parents could assist in this
important fundraising event and make a donation by
completing the sponsorship form or online at the web
address: https://jumprope2014-yokineprimaryschool108821.everydayhero.com/au/mr-lunardi
Donations Due/Finalised: Friday, 14th November
WHEN:
WHERE:
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Saturday 15 November 10am to 4pm
MADDINGTON COMMUNITY HALL
19 Alcock Street, Maddington
Music & Traditional Dancers, Handicrafts Stall, Batik
Workshop, Food…Glorious Food!
Chance to win 2 Return Perth to Bali flights with
Garuda Indonesia and other door prizes.
FREE ENTRY
Ayo, mari ikut!
Ibu Abdullah LOTE
2014 CAMP
OLÉ SOCCER
Olé Soccer will be running an After School Soccer Club
during Term 4 which will be held at Yokine Primary School
every Monday at 3.30pm and Saturday at 9 & 10 a.m. We
will be running an 8 week program where we will teach the
children new skills, develop their game playing abilities and
have loads of fun playing small sided games with our
inflatables. Our program is designed for children aged 3-12
and suits all abilities.
There will also be a new cricket club held every
Wednesday.
For more information, please visit www.olesoccer.com.au
or call 0449858598.
My vision is to grow the centre to capacity of 39 children for
each session i.e. Before School, After School and Vacation
Care. I see Kosy Kids not only as a business that needs to
be sustainable but equally a resource and support to the
families of Yokine Primary School and then the surrounding
community.
In order to achieve my vision I need to include the vision of
our families and school and ensure that the team that cares
for your children are of the calibre required to grow and
support our community.
I am available on 0410 317 811 for anyone wishing to set
up a time to meet to discuss your needs.
KOSY KIDS
What a roller coaster ride the last fortnight has been! By the Kindest regards,
end of next fortnight I should be on top of everything. Jeanne Hannivig-Jones
Meeting old friends, getting to know our current families and
remembering how much I love being with the children.
I just wanted to update everyone on staffing at the centre.
Me! Jeanne Hannivig-Jones – Ngala trained Mothercraft
nurse with a background in working with families with sleep,
feeding and behaviour issues. I am the licensee and now
operator of Kosy Kids. I have owned the centre from 2000.
Tanya Williams – at this stage it is uncertain if Tanya will
return. It is my wish that she does so, once she is ready.
Brodie (Dee) McCutcheon – Brodie has a Certificate III in
Disability as well as experience working with children at risk
through DCP. Brodie will be commencing a traineeship with
Kosy Kids in November for her Diploma in Children’s
Services.
Taylah Scala – Taylah holds a Certificate III in Disability and
Educational Support however even more exciting is that she
teaches dance! From November Taylah will be at the centre
from 7am to 9am, and running dance class from 7.30 to
8.30 am. These classes are included in our fees.
Speaking of fees!
I have reviewed these and our before school and after
school fees are on par with the community centres, at $25
and $28 respectively. However, there is great discrepancy
in PFD and vacation care fees. We have been $55 for as
long as I can remember and our competition is all around
WE ARE A NUT AWARE SCHOOL
$80 to $85 per day, some plus excursion fees. As of
IMPORTANT NOTICE
December school holidays our Vacation Care prices will be
set at $75. I am currently reviewing the content of the
program and welcome input. It is very important to meet the Please be aware that some of our students
interests of users.
Also under review are our opening times and age of
attendees to Kosy Kids. These have still to be approved by
licencing, but are along the lines of opening at 6.30 am to
meet our community needs and the possibility of 4 year olds
(Kindergarten) having access to the service.
have a SEVERE allergic reaction to peanuts /
nuts and peanut / nut products.
It would be appreciated if you could ensure
that food brought to school for playtime and
lunch does not contain any peanuts or
peanut / nut products.