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P&C Morning Tea19th Feb 8:45

Active After School SportTues 19th CricketThurs 21st Fitness

Assembly

Wednesday 20th FebNational Boardies Day

Friday 22nd FebNew School Year Picnic

Fri 22nd from 5.30Easter Holiday

Fri 29th March - Mon 1st April-(Resume Tues 2nd)

NAPLAN TestingYears 3, 5 & 7

Tuesday 14 - 16 MayWestern Australian Day

3rd June

TERM DATES 2013Term 1

Monday 4th February toFriday 19th April

Term 2Monday 6th May toFriday 5th July 2013

Term3Tuesday 23rd July to

Friday 27th SeptemberTerm 4

Wednesday 16th October toThursday 19th December

School Development Days2013 - (Pupil Free)

Term 2Friday 31st May

Term 3Monday 22nd July

Term 4Monday 14th OctoberTuesday 15th October

From the Principal - Fiona Kelly

Congratulations North Fremantle Primary School community on a great start to the 2013school year. The teachers and students have all settled in well to their class routines and ournew administration is finally open with just a few minor works to be completed.

There has been a few hiccups in our relocation, one of which is that our administration

(computer) server has crashed. Until it has been repaired we have limited access to theinternet and our emails, and no access to our financial or student records. Please bear withus until this issue has been resolved. It is for this reason todays newsletter is both briefand in hardcopy.

Assembly change of day. This year our year seven students have the opportunity tocollaborate with the year seven students at Richmond Primary School to receive tuition fromJohn Curtin College of the Arts specialist Science and History teachers. The co-ordination ofthree schools timetables has been quite tricky and for us to participate in this valuableprogram it has been necessary for us to change our assembly toWednesday mornings.Our first assembly is Wednesday 20th February. Kindergarten students will attend in semes-

Newsletter Issue 1, February 15, 2013

P&C Uniform ShopYou can collect an order form from the administration office. Please leave payment withyour form in the box marked uniform orders or you can now pay via EFT, all details are onthe order form, and your order will be sent home with your child. Alternatively the uniformshop will be available by appointment on a Monday morning and afternoon. If this time isnot suitable please contact Pip Sivwright on 0409 298 118.

Boardies DayFriday 22nd FebWear your board shorts to school and bring

along a gold coin donation to help support theAustralian Surf Lifesaving Foundation.

Eggs

Our chickens are laying eggs and Room 7 will be selling themfrom next week.If you would like to purchase eggs please put your name down onthe form near the lunch orders and they will be delivered to yourchilds classroom as they become available. The cost is $3.00 forsix eggs.It would be greatly appreciated if you could donate any egg car-tons you have to Room 7 to assist us in our egg collection anddelivery.

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-Lis

Room 4- Rochelle ReevesYear 2/3 have had a great start to the year. We have been learning about Australia and its special days. We havelooked at Chinese New Year, Australia Day and we will be looking at other important events and dates through-out the term. We have also been decorating the classroom with our amazing art work. Check out the beautifulportraits hanging in our room

Room 5- Chris JohnRoom 5 is off to a flying start this year as we welcome the Year 4s and 5s back to North Freo. With Australia as our term

focus we have already mapped the states, cities and climate zones of our country in SOSE and begun looking at the bio-

logical systems of different Australian animals in Science. The students have made some fantastic Maths monsters that

they have used to show off their skills in manipulating number sentences. Each student also created a personal jigsaw piece

to fit our puzzle that represents both our individuality and place in the class.

Room 7-Monica Parkes/Brent SnookIt has been a great start to the year in Room 7 and the students are enjoying their new classroom (especially the air condi-tioning!). We began the year by working co-operatively to come up with our classroom rules and then creating posters toillustrate them.This year we are going to be using a variety of Thinking Skills in our learning. We have been discussing the levels ofthinking and have used them to write about our holidays. We first used an Elimination Draw (the Evaluate level of think-ing) to determine our favourite holiday event. We then created a Y-Chart to analyse (another high order thinking skill) theevent before writing about it. It was great to see the students publish their writing in a variety of ways such as recount,

narrative, poster and poetry.

ACTIVE AFTER SCHOOL SPORTSThe Active After School program will be running again this term on Tuesdays and Thursdays, starting on Tuesday February 19th.Greg Turner from the WACA will be running cricket on Tuesdays for 7 weeks starting at 3:20pm, and Brent Hall from Fitness ResultsNorth Fremantle will run 4 sessions on Thursdays starting at 3:10 pm. Afternoon tea will be provided for students as usual.There are only places for 30 students, so please contact Chris John in Room 5 for registration.

Room 3-Bev LaneWelcome to a new year. Weve had a great happy, hard working and HOT two weeks. Everyone is re-membering their hats, water bottles and perhaps some fruit to eat in class for extra energy.

Room 2-Liz SmithWelcome back to school, its wonderful to greet old friends and offer a warm welcome to our new students -Christine Faida and Henry-Peters Frichot - and their families. The children are all settling well to the challengesf Pre-primary and weve had a busy and happy start to the school year. For all parents in our vibrant North Freoommunity, clean and empty cardboard boxes, meat trays, egg cartons, shampoo bottles etc would be gratefullyccepted for the children to reuse in junk modelling my supplies are very low following a big clear out at the end

f last year and the children are clamouring for this popular activity. Off cuts of wood, nails, screws, thick cardwould be very welome as Id like to get our workbench up and running. with many more projects to follow!

Christine has decided to sort herbears by colour.

Henry is writing a sentence in hisnew book.

This picture is of our lovely new studentEdolie.