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Cook’s Log Issue No 10– 27th June Principal’s Report I want to start our final newsletter for Term Two 2019, by highlighting the caring and supportive

community that we are, here at James Cook Primary School. Many of you will be aware of the accident

that occurred last Wednesday at the Amalfi Drive roundabout. What a wonderful team effort was shown

by a group of concerned parents who sprang into action, to assist the injured mother and child. A special

thanks especially to the parent who drove them to the Dandenong Hospital. The family are most grateful

to everyone who assisted.

Our SRC have finally seen some of their efforts come to fruition.

Much of their fundraising, over the past two years, has been aiming

towards the installation of some new outdoor furniture. This was

realised at the beginning of last week to add some colour and

comfort to our outside spaces. Thanks to everyone for your support

of our Student Representative Council.

The winners of our House Competition for Term Two was Correa.

The mystery reward for the members of Correa was a trip to the

movies to see, ‘The Secret Life of Pets 2’. The recipients of the

Principal’s Treat this term also tagged along with them.

I have been visited by a number of students, proudly showing off the results of their creativity and hard

work in the art room with Mrs Tidey. Maddison, Van, Ivona and Isodora finished beautiful needle-work

pictures. Aleisha and Gunnu are equally as proud of their personalised clay tiles.

When we return in Term Three we swing into ‘musical mode’. The script, ‘Once Upon a Where…?’ was a

collaboration between some of our Year Six students, Mr McPherson and Mr Wende. Auditions have

been happening with Mr McPherson, with speaking parts being allocated at the beginning of Term Three.

Save the date – Wednesday 11th September 2019.

Mrs Patmore will be returning from leave next term. Mrs Schwarz will be on leave for all of Term Three.

A number of staff will be stepping in to cover her role in her absence – Mrs Eddy, Mrs Tidey, Mrs Knight

and Mr Clement. Mrs Hutchinson will be stepping back in to the full time role as teacher of 2A, due to

Mrs Eddy’s additional duties and impending leave in Term Four. Mrs Hutchinson will also be on leave for

the first four weeks of the term. Cheryl Pollock will be a welcome return to cover her leave.

A replacement teacher will taking on the Physical Education role.

Anne

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured

by the compassionate actions of its members."

– (Coretta Scott King)

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Assistant Principal’s Report

Term 3 Diary Date

Tuesday 6th August.

More details to follow next term

Students still have the opportunity to select a 6” Sub, dessert and drink

for $6.00. The number of student orders have declined recently. We may need to reconsider if

we continue to provide this service in the future. Forms should be placed in the mailbox inside

the office door prior to 9am on Wednesday

Year 2 students recently had a visit from scientists from Thermo Fisher Scientific. Our future scientists engaged in an experiment of Borax, Glue and Water.

What was the end product? …. SLIME….. Many thanks go to the staff at Thermo Fisher for volunteering their time to offer our students an opportunity to engage in a STEM activity.

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CRAZY HAT DAY

DATES TO REMEMBER

JUNE Fri 28th END OF TERM 2 – 2.30 FINISH JULY Mon 15th TERM 3 COMMENCES Wed 17th Yr 5 & 6 Hoop time AUGUST Mon 5th Hot Dog Lunch Tue 6th School Photos Wed 7th Disco Tue 13th School Council 6.30pm

AUGUST Mon 19th District Athletics Fri 23rd Prep Puppet Show Mon 26th Pie Lunch Fri 30th Father’s Day Stall and breakfast SAVE THE DATE Sep 11th School Musical

STUDENT OF THE WEEK 3rd June – 7th June

STUDENT OF THE WEEK 10th June – 14th June

STUDENT OF THE WEEK 17th June – 21st June

PB Taliyah PB Mohaddisa PB Hania

1A Tilly 1A Seher 1A Savannah

1C Mehdia 1C Eliana 1C Devna

2A Aydan 2A Varchas 2A

2B Andrew M 2B Isidora 2B Mackenzie

3A Danilo 3A Murtaza 3A Dexter

4A Areejh 4A Lachlan 4A Leroy

5A Vladimir 5A Risha 5A Oudom

6A Wajiha H 6A Mustafa 6A Cody

Mandarin Emilio Art Phoenix

P.E Kauri Mandarin Alek

Music Kevin

P.E Areejh

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In Module Four this term, students have been busy learning about natural disasters as part of our Inquiry

topic. They have been researching, discussing and explaining the effects of natural disasters on many

people’s lives and the environment.

In Term 2, we’ve been studying natural disasters in our inquiry learning. We have been learning about how natural disasters occur and what causes them to happen. Also, we learnt about the damage they cause to the environment and us humans.

As part of our project, we made a shelter, explaining how we can prepare for a natural disaster.

Hiba and Briana

This term, we have been learning about natural disasters and how they occur, the damage that it causes and what causes them to happen.

We have learnt that disasters can lead to different stages of destruction and each one of them can happen anytime and anywhere.

We have been working on a project on the natural disaster, flood. We made a 3D model shelter, explaining how we can prepare for a flood.

Ann and Ghaniya

I enjoyed the actual findings of past and present events of volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes and floods that have occurred, and how they happened. I have also learnt about how deadly they can be and how much damage they can cause. The State Emergency Service (SES) visited us and taught us about natural disasters across the state and how they help. Austen

This term I have enjoyed making dioramas and researching natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and many more. We also had an incursion where these awesome guys from the SES showed us the dangerous things that can end up in flood water and the reasons why we should never play in flood water.

Uros

We have been learning about natural disasters and how they occur. There are so many different kinds of natural disasters and each one has different impact on the environment and people. We learnt where each natural disaster most likely to occur around the world and ones that had massive effect to the place, like the 2004 tsunami, where it effected different countries, causing lot of damage to the environment and the people. Also, we learnt some natural disasters can be dangerous and some are just minor.

We have been working on a project about a certain natural disaster and making shelter to prepare for it.

Claire and Tahlia

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Mandarin In Term 2, Prep students have learned numbers up to 10 in Mandarin.

Chinese songs have been introduced to them.

Year 1 and 2 students have

learned two-digit numbers

in Mandarin while they are

learning initials and finals

of Pinyin which is the

sound system of

Mandarin. Bravo!

Year 3 and 4 students

have learned the

structure of Mandarin

characters and

sentences. The months

and seasons in Mandarin

have been introduced to

them. They have done

excellent work.

Year 5 and 6 students have

learned and modified Chinese

poems. They have also made

Chinese paper craft to reflect

on their understanding of

Dragon Boat Festival.

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Envision On Monday 17th June, Sean Teer from Envision visited our school to

collect the bottle caps we had been collecting all year. Sean showed us

some of the prosthetic arms and hands that he and his organisation had

created with recycled plastic bottle caps. These prosthetic limbs get sent

to children in need, all over the world.

Together we collected 2685 bottle caps. Well done to James Cook

students, staff and wider community. Let’s keep collecting for another

huge donation at the end of the year.

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Teddy bear picnic complete with healthy snacks

Indoor volley stars and outdoor kick to kick sports

Hot potato and free play

Colouring competitions

End of Term party including a game of twister

The Extend Superstars are Ella and Lucas who showed initiative in starting meditation and encouraging the whole group to join breathing exercises with meditation music playing.

What’s Been Happening? We have been very musical! We danced to Just Dance with our favourite songs and tried karaoke! We had a go at baking our very own homemade banana bread from scratch! We used wholemeal flour and cut banana up nice and thin, and added all the ingredients and baked it in our little oven! Let it cool and enjoyed our baking. Yummy.

5A students helping to count our total number of bottle caps.

Year 6 captains holding some prosthetic limbs made from recycled bottle caps. Students from 5A with the 2685 caps we collected across the school.