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Issue

THREE

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Leschenaultia

1.4.2021

IMPORTANT DATES Thursday, 1 April - Last day of Term 1

Friday, 2 April – Good Friday Pulblic Holiday

Monday, 19 April – Staff Development Day

Tuesday, 20 April – First Day of Term 2

and School Photo Catch Up Day

95 Chittering Road Bullsbrook WA 6084 T +61 8 9501 7600 W bullsbrook-college.wa.edu.au E bullsbrook.college@education.wa.edu.au

Our Photo Catch Up Day that was

cancelled recently has now been

rescheduled to

Tuesday, 20 April 2021 Any students and/or siblings that have

not yet had their school photo taken can

do so on this day.

School Photos will take place between

8:00 am to 2:00 pm in the

DANCE HALL (not the Sports Hall)

School Photo Catch Up Day

RESCHEDULED

YEAR 8 AND 9 STUDENTS

Excelling in STEM On Thursday, 25 March, nine Year 8 and 9 students were invited to attend a STEM

challenge at Hale School along with other schools from across Western Australia. Students were allocated a

group and given two tasks:

first a decoding mapping

activity and the second task

to construct an observation

platform that scientists

could use to monitor the

growth of the Wollemi

Pines in north east Sydney.

Their structure needed to

have three platforms and

stand at a total height of

1.5m. The groups across

the room came up with a

range of well built and

creative designs with Lexi

Burnett’s (Year 8) group

coming in at first place.

The evening was a great

success with the students

engaging in the activity and

building strong team work

skills.

A very big thank you to

Design and Technology

teacher, Mr Jasinski for

organising this event and

to Miss Outtrim for

stepping in at the last

minute and travelling with

the group.

See information later in

this issue regarding a

STEM Club for Year 7 to

9s next term.

Welcome to our 2021 Student Leadership Team

Environmental Captain Arts Captain Civics & Citizenship

Captain Sports Captain

Aidan Bennett Jorja Shemeld Kelly Frost Tahlia Matinca

Environmental Ambassadors

Arts Ambassadors Civics & Citizenship

Ambassadors Sports Ambassadors

MJ Anderson Sebastian Jennings Kaitlyn O'Donnell-

Dodds Adonis Ramirez

Konrad Breese Jayden Heelan Zoe Jolley William Valdrez

Tara Jones Maddison Smith Jordan Williams Camryn Bennett

Merryn Hodgson Abby Burnett Jade Hills Ayden Fonte

Jack Low Aleina Dela Cruz Darcy Steward Buckley Eddy

Skye Cox Emily Farrell Jasmine Hunt Temiah Wren

Isabella Robertson Abigail Sorensen Isabella Astone Jayden Bennett

Logan Udy Oliver Burnett Nicola Jordan Noah Green

Brooke Seuren Morgan Cordery Lexi Burnett Cassidy Hayes

Ella-Rose Jurkovic Zachary Cornelius Megan Walsh Jasmine McAuliffe

Madison Wyatt

School Captains

Joshua Steward

Tiarna Vivian

Our 2021 Student Leadership

Team was announced at two

assemblies held yesterday.

Congratulations to all of our

School Captains and Primary and

Secondary Ambassadors

Thank you to all the staff involved

in this process and all students

who applied.

Primary Ambassadors

Arts Sports Civics Environment

Breeanna Aquilina Damon Bennett Rylee Dawe Aleesha Howe Hannah Potter Mia Jurkovic Zarina Vicedo Kara Michelutti

Grace Bairamis Blake Main Amalia Kohler Ella Owen

Poppy Burns Bailey Sharp Ruby Cole Alexii Doney

Olivia West Isabella Green Izak Portelli Jordyn Gledhill

Year 6 Science – Chemical Energy

As part of their Physical Science, Year 6 students were learning

about how a battery works involving electrons, kinetic and

chemical energy. They completed the unit of work by making a

circuit to make a light globe work and demonstrated their learning

via a annotated diagram

Blake Main and Tarkyn Diver Tiana Puki

School Captains:Tahlia Matinca, Aidan Bennett, Tiarna Vivian, Joshua Steward and Kelly Frost (Jorja Shemeld, absent)

KINDY EASTER CELEBRATIONS

The Easter Bunny has been to Kindergarten….

Our Kindy groups have been

getting into the spirit of Easter.

They have been making Easter bonnets

and collecting eggs from their Easter

egg hunt while practicing positional

language to hunt around the

playground.

Our Kindy A group is pictured below

wearing their creations.

Primary Art Club

Time flies when you’re having fun and we have had some fun this term in Art

Club.

Art Club is proving to be very popular among the students with attendance

growing by the week. So far, the students have been busy using their artistic

flair to design and create bookmarks with woollen tassels, a collaborative

mural for Harmony Week and most recently, salt dough Easter decorations.

Mrs Lee has been extremely impressed with the dedication, attitudes and

overall behaviour of all members who attend Art Club and I am looking

forward to more fun and creativity in the coming terms.

Each year hundreds of schools across

Australia create Story-Dances for Wakakirri

that reflect student’s thoughts, ideas and

inspirations. This year, Year 3/4 teachers,

Miss De Gouw and Mrs Nell are preparing

approximately 30 Year 3, 4 and 5 students to

perform a 3-7 minute item. Students currently

practice once per week during a break time

and will start to enhance this with after-school

practice soon.

More information will be communicated

soon. You can find out more about Wakakirri

at www.wakakirri.com.

Each student from Rooms 5.2, 5.3 and

5.4 designed a scarecrow as part of our

Design Technology unit for Term 1.

Students had to decide on the equipment

they would use to design their

scarecrow and ensure it was sustainable.

Once complete, students participated in

a gallery walk to determine the people’s

choice, which was then designed by

three students (Cruiz Page, Lucas

Dumbleton and Isabella Cooper,

pictured above). The Scarecrow was

then entered into the Bullsbrook

Community Fair Scarecrow

Competition on Sunday, 28 March.

Well done to all of our Scarecrow

Designers.

Scarecrow Competition

Primary Dance Lessons are Coming!!! As communicated at parent information sessions at

the start of this year, all Primary students will

participate in an eight-week series of dance lessons

in either Term 2, 3 or 4.

This is part of our Movement and Physical Exercise program

and participation is compulsory. Humphreys Dance Studio

give us a very generous discount for these lessons – costs

will remain the same as last year at $36 per student. This

year there are discounts available so that no family will be

required to pay for any more than two children. Invoices will

be issued at the beginning of each term.

Year 11 ATAR Biology

Students from the Year 11 ATAR Biology class went to Rottnest Island last week on a three day camp. This A Class wildlife reserve and marine sanctuary gave the students the opportunity to observe the unique wildlife and conservation and land management programs used on the island. Highlights from the camp where the quokkas and the stunning pink lake found in the centre of the island, which contains a wild population of brine shrimp known as red sea monkeys.

We would like to acknowledge two of our Year 6

students who are seeing some great results

through their commitment and dedication to

their chosen sports.

Doing Us Proud!

SPORTING SUCCESSES

Chilli Broughton (pictured right)

recently competed in the 2021

WA Little Athletics State

Championship Qualifiers

Competition achieving a first in

discus, third in javelin, fifth in

shot put and a place in long jump.

Chilli then competed in the 2021

WA Little Athletics Track and

Field Championships last

weekend where she came second

in discus and third in shot put

with personal bests and placing

sixth in javelin. Well done Chilli!

Damon Bennett has been selected by School

Sport WA to represent his Rugby League club

and Bullsbrook College in the NRL 2021 Junior

State Championships competition from 9 – 11

April during the school holidays. Damon will be

compelting in the Under 12s division, which is

the next grade up from his

normal grade. Congratuations Damon.

It was a hot, dusty and busy day with an estimated 16,000 attendees coming

out to see what our community had on display.

It is the Centenary of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and the local

RAAF base Pearce had a PC21 flyover, static military display, a Cadets

Marching Band, rescue helicopter and many more attractions.

There were lots of free events for the local community including a Dunk Tank

where Mr Cocliff was mercilessly “dunked”.

2021 Bullsbrook Country Fair

A big thank you to our

student helpers on the day;

Leoj Dela Cruz, Kelly

Frost, Adonis Ramirez,

Ruth McDermott, Kylah

Williams, Carla Vicedo

and Dustyn Page and

teachers; Rebecca

Sajtinac, Troy Sage, Ricki

Cocliff, Dean Robbins and

Trevor Hazelden.

Thank you also to all the

volunteers on the day and

the Bullsbrook Country

Fair Committee for

organising another

brilliant event.

Bright and early on Sunday, 28 March, the

Certificate III in Music Industry (sound

production) and Beyond Bullsbrook students met

at the fair ground to set up the stage for the live

music on the day. The Beyond Bullsbrook stall

included games, selling slime and woodwork

projects.

STEM CLUB Coming in Term 2…..

Next term Design and Technology teacher, Mr

Jasinski will run the ‘First Lego League

Challenge’ STEM Club during second break on

Mondays and first break on Tuesdays.

This club is aimed at interested Year 7 to 9

students and depending on it’s success, may be

expanded to other cohorts later in the year.

The First Lego League Challenge is a friendly

competition where teams of students engage in

research, problem-solving, coding and

engineering. They will build and program a

Lego robot that navigates the missions of a robot

game.

Students are encouraged to speak with Mr

Jasinski if they would like any further

information regarding the STEM Club.