July Term Two Commences

Sport

Kick It Skills Soccer Clinic

Yesterday over 60 students par=cipated in the Football West: ‘Kick It Skills’ 4-week soccer program. It was amazing to see so many students enjoying their soccer and having fun with their peers. I am looking forward to seeing all our children playing soccer on the oval next week!

East Perth Football Clinic

As part of the WA Spor=ng Schools Funding Program, the Year 4-6 students have been taking part in a 4week Football clinic conducted by Aidan Lynch from the East Perth Football Club.

The students have been learning the different styles of kicking: torpedo, snap, banana and drop punt and taking part in some goal kicking challenges. Next week is our last week and we can’t wait for another fun week!

Music

Music Classes

In music, we have been busy exploring pitch and form all across the years.

In Pre-Primary, we have been listening and moving to to songs like ‘Supercalifragils@cexpialidocious’ and ‘Faeries and Giants’ to explore form. The students in Years 1 and 2 have been composing their own music using tapping s@cks, bells and tambourines in both binary and ternary form. The students in Year 3 are focussing mainly on ternary form and adding their the sounds of the recorder in their composi@ons.

Whilst playing instruments and reading music, our students in Year 4 and Year 6 have been learning the C chord and Am chord. This week, the students in Year 6 will learn the F chord. They have been playing through with chord warm-ups and have enjoyed doing so with their classmates.

In Year 5, we have been focussing on ‘rondo form’ using the xylophones and Garageband. Students compose their 4 bar rhythm and added notes in a rondo form to make their own music composi@on.

i-Perform

i-Perform

The most recent i-Perform was held in the hall on the 4th June 2021. Students chosen this round acted, danced and sung their way in the ‘Infant Jesus Zoo’.

The Year 1 students began their performance with a Chinese song called “Liang Zi Lao Hu” and acted out the story of ‘How the Lion got his Stripes”. They then finished off with a dance by Katy Perry’s “Roar”.

In Year 2, students started off with a Chinese song called “Xiao Bai Tu”, which translates to small li^le rabbit. They then performed the story “The Clever Rabbit” with lots of fun ac@ons and ended with an Irish style Jig called the “Sweets of May”.

The students in Year 3 ended i-Perform on a high note as elephants as they sung and acted in “How Elephant got Its Trunk” using props of the elephant and crocodile. They finished off their act with a song called “Do the Monkey”.

Health

Infant Jesus students have delved deeper within themselves to discover who they are. The Year One students have wri=en and acted out how best to react to their feelings. The Year Two students have showcased their inclusive nature by helping those who are le@ out. The Year Three students have experienced a trust obstacle course to discover what makes a trusted person, so they can idenDfy their trusted network people. The Year Four students have found out how to be an ‘Upstander’ and help those that are being teased. The Year Five students have creaDvely presented their personal idenDty.

In Year Six Health, students have analysed their weekly physical acDvity, and have discovered whether they need to increase or maintain their physical acDvity level in order to meet the Australian Government’s Physical AcDvity and Sedentary Behaviour Guidelines. It is recommended that children aged between 5-17 years should complete 60 minutes of physical ac3vity a day to reap the health benefits. The Year 6 students have designed, starred, and produced exercise videos to help all students to ‘Find 60’.

My goal is to complete at least 3 days of strengthening acDviDes a week. This will include push ups, sit ups and Russian twists - Asher Jupp (6B)

Science

The Year One students started the term by using their knowledge of defensive and a<acking external features to create ‘dino shields’. They then switched science gears to discover how everyday objects can be physically changed. They cut, scrunched, twisted, bent, squished, and folded everyday objects such as balloons, rubber bands, paper, rocks, paper clips, paper plates and jelly snakes.

Students also completed many experiments like, stretching different brands of jelly snakes to discover that Coles jelly snakes are the most elasGc. This experiment proved to be challenging because the snakes kept on disappearing…

Science

Year Two Science program has seen the students recreate the water cycle in a simple experiment which was conducted last week. The process demonstrated water from Earth’s surface being evaporated, condensing, falling back down (precipitaCon / rain) and being collected.

Year Three Science finally had a day of sunshine allowing them to conduct the invesCgaCon to answer the quesCons of “What happens to a shadows height as the day goes by?” Their data was then presented using digital technology and shared with others.

Year Four ScienCsts explored the local environment for evidence of weathering and erosion. These two processes conCnually change the Earth’s surface over Cme.

Year Five Science took to the open spaces near Peter’s Place to measure out scaled back distances between each planet in our solar system. This spanned over 96 meters!

Year Six earthquake explorers have been taken back to their early years of playing with playdough. RecreaCng the tectonic plate movements that cause geological acCvity.

Chinese 中⽂

Dragon Boat Fes-val 端午节

In the last two weeks of Chinese, the students have been learning about the Dragon Boat Fes:val, which is one of the most celebrated events in China.

Most students came into the lesson with prior knowledge on dragon boat races, and le@ the lesson with an understanding on the famous poet Chu Yuan and his sacrifices. They learnt the importance of the Chinese Emperor and iden:fied the differences from the past to present in our lifestyles. We also watched a video on the process of making the tradi:onal food 种籽- zhong zhi (s:cky rice dumplings) in China. Many students wanted to go home and try make it a@erwards! Students were excited to learn a cultural song “⼩ 种籽” liQle s:cky rice dumpling, and they enjoyed typing up their retell of the famous poet in Chinese.

Safe School Framework

The person of each individual human being, in his or her material and spiritual needs, is at the heart of Christ’s teaching: that is why the promo?on of the human person is the goal of the Catholic school. Congrega?on for Catholic Educa?on 1997, par 9.

The Child Safe Framework and the Code of Conduct are clearly linked as both focus on the safety and well-being of our children.

At Infant Jesus School the purpose of the Code of Conduct is to describe minimum standards of conduct in all behaviour and decision making to ensure the safety and well-being of students.

The Code applies to staff, students, volunteers, parents and guardians and all who come to our school. The term ‘parents’ includes guardians. Infant Jesus School has a Code of Conduct in place, and as parents, you sign this and agree to this. All staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct.

Conduct Statement 8:

You support all members of the school community in making informed decisions about students. Staff Example of Specific Behaviours, but not limited to: • Parent/Teacher interviews to be documented and sent to the

Principal. Parents Example of Specific Behaviours, but not limited to: • Speak to the classroom teacher first about any issues, concerns, etc. If not resolved then see the Leadership Team. • Parents to provide medical plans, medical informa?on, etc. regarding their child. • Parents to aSend Informa?on Nights – classroom based, presented by social worker, curriculum, etc. • Parents to aSend Parent/Teacher mee?ngs as requested by the teacher. Students Example of Specific Behaviours, but not limited to: • Students to accept and act on feedback provided by staff. Volunteers Example of Specific Behaviours, but not limited to: • Volunteers to be respecWul towards staff, students and parents. Visitors Example of Specific Behaviours, but not limited to: • Visitors to be respecWul towards staff, students and parents.

InformaHon Technology

The Owl and the PussyCat

The Year Three students looked at the poem, The Owl and the PussyCat and were given the challenge to create a boat that could hold: •a small cat figurine •a small owl figurine •a jar of honey •some money. The boat also had to float, and be able to move forward without someone pushing it.

AEer researching sails and paddles the students designed their own boats.

Some floated, some sunk, some went far and some didn’t move at all, but all students had a great Hme applying their knowledge of science, maths and engineering to create something.

Perhaps on the holidays your child would be interested in applying their STEM skills to a real world problem.

50 fun STEM acHviHes can be found here:

h1ps:// thestemlaboratory.com/ stem-ac<vi<es-for-kids/

On Tuesday the Year Four students had a very interesHng STEM excursion to the Perth ConvenHon Centre.

When we got there we had to wait a few minutes unHl they were ready for us. AEer a few minutes they led us to the entry and we got into our groups and were given a liQle blue bag to put our items in. We visited lots of different stalls to learn about different ways people use science, technology, engineering and maths in their real world jobs. Some of the Infant Jesus children got to be on TV and some people even won a Channel Seven hat!

We saw some famous people there, including Premier Mark McGowan, Fat Cat and some Freo Dockers players.

The Year Fours had a very interesHng day exploring the world of Science.

-Adrian and Aaron

STEM in the Real World

When we first arrived at the huge ConvenHon Centre, we felt nervous, but when we stepped inside we felt excited. When we entered there was lots of robots and and VR goggles. We really liked the VR goggles because we got to see a ship that they built. We learnt a lot about how robots and drones are used on mining sites. We also saw the Premier Mark McGowan, Fat Cat and the Health Minister, Roger Cook!

- Kahlan and Stella