NEWS FROM THE PRINCIPAL—Kim Fraser The next few weeks are going to be extremely busy. We have a number of

functions occurring and look forward to sharing these as we celebrate our students’

achievements and active and positive community participation in school events.

Congratulations! To our amazing Debating Team who gained

a Silver medal and a Trophy for their awesome debating skills!

We are so very privileged to have such talented students at

YPS!

A big thank you to Mrs Gibson and Mrs Manning for guiding this

talented team.

School Board Open Meeting

The Yokine Primary School Board comprises of parents, teachers, community members and the

Principal . The Board represents the parent body of YPS in reviewing processes and taking part in

establishing and reviewing the school’s finances, performance against the Business Plan,

objectives, priorities and general policy directions. To engage further the community we would like to

invite interested parents to an Open School Board meeting on Thursday 8th December at 6.00 pm

in Room 9 where you will be able to view the Board in process.

End of Year Celebrations/Assemblies/Graduations Below is an outline of the last 2 weeks of term. We hope that many of you will be able to attend some or all of the events planned.

Friday 2 Dec: 10.45am: Volunteer Morning Tea: Hope all invited guests can make this event to thank you for all your support.

Friday 9 Dec: 9am: Final Assembly: Presentation of Leaders for 2017, Peer Mediators and Lexile Awards. Tuesday 13 Dec 9am : Graduation Assembly Year 6s/Graduation Dinner 6pm Wednesday 14 Dec Family Lunch and Celebration Concert: 1.00 – 1.45: Family Picnic lunch—bring along a picnic lunch to have with your children on the lawn under the trees. 1.50—3.10: Edudance Concert. We hope many of you will join us in celebrating a fantastic 2015!

YPS Newsletter

Respect I Responsibility I Resilience Number 4.4 30th November 2016

T: (08) 9242 2726 F: (08) 9242 4142 info@yokineps.wa.edu.au

www.yokineps.wa.edu.au

Important Events

YOU CAN DO IT! The focus of the You Can Do It Edu-cation Program in Weeks 9 & 10 will

be on the GREEN KEY for GET-TING ALONG

30 November 2-3pm

Talent Show

2 December 9:00am 10:45am 2:00 - 3:00pm

Room 3 Assembly Volunteers’ Morning Tea Pre Primary Infor-mation Afternoon

8 December 6.00 pm

School Board Open Meeting

9 December 9:00am

Final Assembly

12th December Reports Go Home

13 December 9:00am 6:00 - 8:00pm

Graduation Assembly Graduation Dinner

14 December 1:50pm

Family Picnic lunch Edu Dance Concert

15th December Students Last Day

HAVE YOU PAID YOUR VOLUNTARY

CONTRIBUTIONS?

What’s Happening at YPS!

MERIT AWARDS Room 2 Nisha Furtado, Ali Boussi, Chloe Whittaker Room 3 Charlie Bettesworth, Bayan, Nematian, Sebastian Cowan Room 4 Romeo Lyszkowicz Room 5 Bella McGuiness, Edward Lewis Room 6 Annabel Grieve Room 7 Auron Rowe-Anderson, Megan Gobey, Kathlyn Rankin Room 10 Michael McCoy, Lulu Taher, Kyle Chiko Room 11 Arad Mirazaei, Mary Joy Ante LEXILE AWARDS RED - KATHLYN RANKIN, BELLA GILL, AKRAM AHMED, ROMEO LYSZKOWICZ, AKSHATH POLUDASU, LISA CA-FAGNA, CHARLOTTE LEWIS BLUE - NICHOLAS CARVAJAL, RISHI LUMBACCHIYA, CAMERON PICKETT BRONZE - KYE CANDY, JULIA PETRUT

SWIMMING 2017 This is a preliminary notice about In-term Swimming in 2017.These lessons will be held in Term 1, Weeks 7 & 8 (13/3 – 24/3). Information, Parent Consent Forms and Payment Options will be sent home early in 2017. Swimming Coordinator Lorraine Manning

ROOM 11 INTERSCHOOL DEBATING Following on from Gozone Debating sessions held earlier in the year, Yokine PS was invited to take part in an Interschool Debating Final. We entered 2 teams consisting of the following students: Ally Davis, Krish Dubey and Alex Cottle, and the other team: Hayley Barnes, Noah Furtado and Helena Brown. The topics to debate were: That Celebrities should comment on politics and That Australia is a Junk Food Country. Our students were up against very experienced debaters from Loreto Primary School, PLC, and St Hildas. The students researched and prepared in their own time and with the help of Mrs Gibson and Mrs Man-ning. They received a trophy and did the Yokine Primary School and them-selves very proud.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB 2017 I will not be taking orders with cash in 2017. If you would like to order book club, please use the “Loop” at scholastic.com.au

It is a very straight forward process, but if you are not sure I am only too happy to show you. A special thanks to all the parents who have supported book club through the year. it enables us to buy extra resources for the school li-brary. Ms Crosweller Librarian

ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS

As a parent, you are required by the School Education Act 1999 to ensure your child attends school every day that the school is open for instruction. If your child is absent you must notify the school of the reason for the student’s absence. It is important that your child attends school on a regular basis to ensure they are able to keep up with their learning and social emotional development. For students who are not attending on a regular basis or have a high percentage of absences, un-der the School Education Act 1999, I am obligated to imple-ment processes to ensure all children attend school regularly.

In 2017 this will be one of our major focus areas.

Pre Kindy Playgroup We have had a Pre-Kindy group operating in the Hall every Tuesday for the last two years. This has been a great success and has provided the opportunity for parents and children to build some great relationships and also help them to be part of YPS. This year Lee Lai and Sumaiya Rubab have been over-seeing the operations of the group. As their children are mov-ing into Kinday next year there is no one to oversee the group in 2017. Fro the group to continue we need new parents to take this on. If you are interested can you please see me for more information. A big thank you to Lee and Sumaiya for all their efforts with the group.

What’s Happening at YPS!

ARCADIA EXCURSION ROOM 10

On Thursday the 24th November Room 10 travelled by bus to Elizabeth Quay to see the Arcadia.

Arcadia is a spider that is made from recycled military equipment. It blows fire out of its back

and it also shoots lasers out of its eyes at night. When we arrived there were tents with loads of activities such as making spiders out of scarp materials, making spider goo, wearing virtual reality goggles and more. We relaxed on bean bags that had been in the sun so they were hot but very com-fortable and we listened to a talk on LNG – liquid natural gas. LNG is a very cold gas. It weakens metal and the metal is easily broken by a hammer when is has been immersed in LNG. It looks hot but it is very cold. We walked over a bridge on the way back to the bus.

Thank you to the parents who joined us on this amazing experience (Hunter’s

Mum-Jana, Brendan’s Mum – Linda, Megan’s Mum – Jenny and Thomas’ Dad –

Russ)

MUSIC NEWS Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to be part of the School of Instrumental Music programme in 2017, should they choose to accept: Clarinet students: Aimee Atkinson, Lozend Taher, Teddie Lei and Aryan Acharya Flute students: Holly Saliakos, Abigail Awidi, Joseph Ante, Harriet Millar and Harrison McCabe Guitar students: Koorosh Abbasian, James Durkin, Matthew Kikiros, Ethan Budd-Christie and Eddy Yang. Justine Banning Music Teacher

ROOM 2 ASSEMBLY On Friday the 18th of November 2016, the super excited students of Room 2 put on a stunning show at the school assembly. The children brainstormed some ideas for the assembly and decided to do a News Reporting show, based on the work they have been doing in their literacy programme. We en-deavoured to showcase many aspects of our learning programme, like HOTS, Keys to success etc. Snapshots of local, national and sports news punctuated the News Reading which kept the au-dience entertained. The hosts of the show made sure that the proceedings ran smoothly and the each student played their part with true showman spirit. However, an interjection by the FLASHMOB, presented by the fabulous students of Room 10, was a Showstopper and took the students, staff and parents of Yokine by surprise. It was a true showstopper!!! We finished off with more entertainment with the slapstick viral sensation…Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen.

Mrs. Paul is so proud of her students for practicising hard at rehearsals and working as a team

to put on a great show for the school. We’d like to shout out a huge thanks to Mrs Fitzpatrick who helped with the music

and the Mrs. Natasha Hutchings, a parent who volunteered to help with the props and behind the scene matters.

2017 HIGH SCHOOL SPECIAL PLACEMENTS Congratulations to the following Year 6 students for gaining entry to special programs at High School next year. Perth Modern School Academic Program Alex Cottle Jennifer Le Arad Mirzaei Mt Lawley SHS - GAT Language Program Alex Millar Churchlands SHS – Music Program Song Song Wang MLSHS – Music Program Clinton Pham Zakaria Eltoukhi

What’s Happening at YPS!

Friday 2nd December

Ham & Pineapple Pizza

$3.00

LOST PROPERTY Any lost property that remains uncollect-ed by the end of term will be donated to the Uniform Shop If your child's name is on all their be-longings it can then be returned to your child promptly. Please come along and have a look.

FRIENDLY STUDENT AWARD

Charlie won the friendly student award for always demonstrating his getting along skills with a friendly atti-tude to all his fellow peers.

Megan won the friendly student award for displaying all the keys to suc-cess both inside and outside the class-room.

IMPORTANT NOTICE WE ARE A NUT AWARE SCHOOL

Please be aware that some of our students 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.

CELEBRATING OUR CHAMPION Sera participated in the Prime Gymnastics Singapore Meet which was held on November 18th. It was a great experience competing against other international clubs. Although she didn't earn an individual medal she gave it her best shot and most importantly, had a really fun time with her teammates. This is her holding the Starmites Club Trophy (her team) the day after. Her team came third overall - a fantastic effort by the whole team!

CAN YOU HELP? This Christmas I am going to have the company of my 5 year old grandson for 3 weeks, and my daughter in law’s 3 month baby nephew for 2 weeks. I have a lot of the gear I need to make the visit fun and safe, but I was wondering if anyone could lend me a 16” two wheeler for 3 weeks and a car seat suitable for a 3 month old. Please let me know in Room 3 if you can help out. I promise to take good care of things and return them as soon as the families return to East. Wendy Goodwin

UNIFORMS Do you have any school uniforms and hats that don’t fit your children or if you are not returning in 2017 please consider donating uniform items to the Uniform shop. Items that we can’t sell second hand are sent to a charity in South Africa so that nothing is wasted.

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