Hi my name is Lachlan Pietrala and I am in year 4 and the things that I like are continuous cricket, dodge ball, tee ball, maths and reading. We had our assembly in week 8 and our assembly item was Fireflies. The things that I dont like are spelling, debating and writing.

Hi my name is Locky Ross I am in year 5. What I like about room 24 is that we get to do sport like dodgeball, softball and continuous cricket every day. It has been a good start to 2015. I dont like the following maths, times tables. We

had our assembly on Friday and it was good, as we sang a song called Fireflies.

Hi, my name is Indi. I am a year 5 in room 24. Some things I like to do in our class are dodge-ball, maths and writing. Weve been making masks, pots and plaques out of clay. Weve also been doing maths, spelling and debating. We do sport nearly every morning (dodge-ball or continuous cricket) and we do relays every second Friday, (Finding countries in Atlass, hammering nails into wood and other things).

Hello my name is Kiara Hinks, Im a year 4 student. In the class I like doing art and craft and my favourite activity is writing, in the class we do

a period of math every day except Friday. We are doing masks and pots. We had our assembly and we sang Fireflies. Every morning except Thursday and every second Friday we do relays. We are starting cooking and wood work. My group for cooking is Indi, me and Tyler.

The things I dont like are. SPORT! Bye.

From Room 24

Yakamia Primary School

Newsletter

Volume 5 2 April 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

Our Assembly R

oom 24

Our class making the film

Correspondent: Lachlan Pietrala

Correspondent: Indi Marwick

Correspondent: Locklan Ross

Correspondent: Kiara Hinks

Term 1 Wow, who can believe that Term 1 is almost over! It has been such a busy and productive term. I have been impressed with the quality teaching and learning programs that teaching and support staff provide for our students. I have had the opportunity to see examples of fine student work and have enjoyed discussing the tasks with students. It has also been terrific to see the high level of involvement of parents and community members in many of the programs run at the school. Yakamia PS is a true credit to the students, staff and parent community. I thank everyone for their wonderful efforts over the term and look forward to being part of the journey that students will be taken on next term. Combined Schools Centenary ANZAC Parade and Service On the first Friday of next term, 24 April, over 2000 students from 32 schools in and around Albany will be involved in a parade and service to commemorate the centenary anniversary of the landings at Gallipoli in 1915. Students will parade down York Street from 10am and then assemble in the ANZAC Peace Park for the service beginning at 10.30am. It is expected that the service will run for just over an hour. Our school will have considerable involvement; one of our Year 6 students Olivia Steel has been chosen to be one of the presenters at the service and all of

our Year 6 and some of our Year 5 students will be involved with the parade and be in attendance at the service. This should be a memorable event to mark this important anniversary. Members of the public are invited, I am hoping that a substantial number of local people will be in attendance. ANZAC ServiceYakamia The Student Councillors will host the school ANZAC assembly on Friday 24 April. The assembly will start at 1.30pm and will be in the Hall. Children are encouraged to bring flowers for the wreaths on this day. We look forward to seeing you there. Assembly A big well done to the Year 4/5 students of Room 24 for hosting the last assembly. It was fabulous to see such a wonderful display of your talented acting and director skills! The next assembly will be hosted by Room 25, in Week 2 of Term 2. We look forward to seeing you all there. Term Dates Term 2 commences for students on Tuesday, 21 April. I hope you all have a safe, happy and enjoyable holiday!

Julie Blythe

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!

Well done to all students who participated in the Interschool Swimming Carnivaland to Lisa Manera who acted as First Place judge on the day. The team showed excellent sportsmanship and behavior throughout the day. Mr Mackenzie was the Team Marshal with the students all day and Mr McFarlane was Referee. Championship Shield results were:

Interschool Swimming Carnival

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Place School Points

1st Albany Primary School 443 2nd Denmark Primary School 425 3rd Little Grove Primary School 296 4th Mount Barker Community College 279 5th Flinders Park Primary School 187 6th Mount Lockyer Primary School 160 7th Yakamia Primary School 158 8th Spencer Park Primary School 104

Tillie Bartley (Right hand side)

Daisy Stewart Morgan (Left hand side)

Liam Buss (2nd Place)

Lachlan Pietrala 1st Place

Lincoln Hird (Left hand side)

Stephen Coyne (2nd Place)

Abbey Turnbull (Centre)

Cameron Petley Gray

Henry Ayres (Left hand side)

Dillan Gadean (Left hand side)

Locklan Ross (Right hand side)

Kaleb Weinert (Right hand side)

World Book Online An Information and Activity Website Yakamia Primary School has a paid up subscription for all Yakamia School Students for World Book Online. This allows students and community members to access this internet website from anywhere in the School and at Home. In the address or Search window you simply type, Yakamiaps.com ..then scroll down to Student Friendly Search Engines and click on World Book online.ID and password are beneath the title. Or you can simply go up to the Address window and type in worldbookonline.com press enter and when the prompt for ID appears type Yakamia and then type online for the password. Of the 5 sites that appear: Early World of Learning is suitable for Pre-

primary through to Year 4, Kids is very suitable for year 2 through to year 5, Student is suitable for year 3 to year 8 and Discovery for year 3 to year 8. The fifth site is presented in Spanish. All sites are based on providing age appropriate information and activities for students ranging from picture and very simple word games, information and short DVDs across a wide range of topics linking student and school interest, story book selections to read and have read back to students which is great for early readers, science experiments for the home, colouring in and maze activities. The whole site has been designed to meet students needs in a fully secure learning environment. If you have any questions please see Max Kosovich in the Library.

Yakamia School Library

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Triple PPositive Parenting Tips Making Friends Having good friends is important to a childs self-esteem but, unfortunately, children do not always know how to look after friends. You can lend a hand by helping your child develop good social skills. Talk to your child about being a good friend and encourage your child to practise skills such as: Looking at and listening when someone is speaking to them, such as a friend telling them a story Taking turns in games and activities Asking what others might like to do rather than assuming that other children will always want

to follow Thinking about others peoples feelings. I wonder how Tom is feeling now. How do you think

you would feel if that happened to you? Helping others Being friendly and welcoming to a new child in class. To help your child make friends, and so your child can practise being a good host, you may like to invite another child to your home for a play. Be prepared to contact the parents to organise this if your child is too shy to ask.

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

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Honour Certificate Recipients27 March 2015

Room Name Room Name

11 Charlotte Jozwiak Robbie Johnston

24 David Mitchell Asher Duff

12 Finn Robinson Joshua Boocock

25 Jemma Carbonell Brooke Clarke

13 Ethan Jones Paula Zimmermann

26 Maya Anning Hayden Joss

14 Marley Idle Hannah Tschabotar

33 Lily Suriani-Castle Mitchell Wrightson

15 Amy-Lee McKeaig Sean Sanderson

34 Hayley Haworth Josh Wallis

16 Ashleigh Sykes Holliday William Timms

35 Isabelle Bemben Ben Weadley

21 Sophie Harness Dylan Master

43 Jason Wenbourne Kaiden Russell

22 Chloe Pietrala Riley Wells

44 Nathaniel Colbung Emma Stokes

23 Jessica Ralston Beck Wrightson

45 Duggan Wilkes Kiara Sundo-Hodge

SCHOOL BANKING EVERY:

TUESDAY IN THE HALL

8.30 9.00am

RECORDER GROUP To all children of Yakamia

WHAT: Learn to play the recorder in fun new group. WHEN: Starting Tuesday lunchtimes in the second week of Term 2.

WHERE: In the Music room next to the Hall. HOW: Come along and try it out (It may drive your parents wild!).

See you there! Michelle Edwards

Term Planner Sent as an attachment with this Newsletter is

the Term Planner for Term 2. Please check to see what is going on next

term.

Community News

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Please note notices appearing below are not necessarily endorsed by the school. We provide this space for community groups to advertise to the school community. It is up to parents to scrutinise the activity and organisers for their child.

From Room 24Yakamia Primary SchoolNewsletterVolume 52 April 2015Principal: Julie BlytheDeputy Principals: Yvonne Height, Helen Walmsley and Tristan MackenziePh: 9841 7533 Fax: 9842 1350Email: Yakamia.PS@education.wa.edu.auFrom the Principals DeskPage #Yakamia Primary SchoolInterschool Swimming CarnivalPage #Yakamia Primary SchoolYakamia School LibraryPage #Yakamia Primary SchoolTriple PPositive Parenting TipsPage #Yakamia Primary SchoolHonour Certificate Recipients27 March 2015Community NewsPage #Yakamia Primary School

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