What's Happening

Better Buddies 

The year sixes have been helping the current year ones learn how to type on the Macbook's. They are teaching them how to type on dance mat and learn how to memorize the layout of the keys. We have been paired with our buddies and are encouraging, supervising, and helping them learn how to type. We had a zoom call at the start of the year with our buddies and our friendship has only grown over the weeks. Helping our buddies is a wonderful way for us to connect and relax and for typing you really do need a one-on-one lesson, so this is a perfect opportunity for us to help them grow. So far, this year the year ones have been doing an excellent job. We opened a word/Canva document, and they typed up a page about themselves and us. This helps us learn about our buddies and our buddies learn about us. With Covid19 around we have not seen our buddies that much, but the teachers and the staff have been arranging more activities for the year sixes and their buddies. 

Written by Dot and Jasmine.

Your Move

Students from year 6 who are our ‘Your Move’ team for 2022 joined year five students who recently travelled to Maylands and the Constable Care Road Traffic Centre. There they participated in a series of lessons around bike and pedestrian safety before venturing out onto a purpose-built road and rail set up complete with working traffic lights, boom gates, roads and other signage to practice their skills riding bikes supplied by the Centre.

Italian News

Are you a hidden treasure?          

Calling all parents, relatives, friends of the White Gum Valley PS community!

• Do you have a talent, skill, interest or experience you’d be willing to share with our Italian classes?                                                                                                   
• Are you a whiz at making your own pasta, passata, sausages, Italian biscuits or gelato? 
• Do you play soccer, bocce or Italian card games?
• Can you sing/dance/ play an instrument Italian-style? (Opera, tarantella, piano accordion…)
• Have you ever lived in or visited Italy?
• Do you own a Vespa or a classic Italian car?

Then, please, don’t be shy!                                                                                                                        If you do or have ANYTHING to enrich our students’ learning experience and help make the Italian lifestyle and culture come alive, please contact me with a short description of what you can offer and times which best suit you. (FYI -Italian classes take place on Thursdays and Fridays at our school)

Grazie! The students and I look forward to welcoming you to our classes!

Lina Hawke (Languages Specialist, SeniorTeacher)

Lina.Hawke@education.wa.edu.au

Chaplains Chat - June Issue

This term we challenge you to crunch the rainbow for Crunch&Sip® by making a rainbow in your classroom. Eating different coloured fruits and vegetables provides lots of different vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. Which is why crunching on a rainbow will help kids get the right balance of nutrients they need for a healthy body.