Over the last couple of weeks we have been shortlisting and going through the interview process to determine who our new associate principal/s would be…

Congratulations Sean!

Sean has won the position of substantive Associate Principal here at Joondalup Education Support Centre. Sean commences as substantive next term, and we can now officially congratulate him permanently into the Joondalup Family. Congratulations Sean.

Congratulations Louise!

More good news! Louise has officially accepted a substantive 0.2 (Wednesdays) position of Associate Principal. Louise and Jan will now be working in tandem with each other. This is great news for our school, Congratulations Louise

We have a two new students who have joined us over the past week or so, and one more starting with us on Monday.

• Tobias Giles-Tepas Kindy B (started on Wednesday)
• Marcus Conran year 1 Room 28 (starts on Monday)
• Eva Ward year 3 Room 25 (started last week – doing a slow transition into schooling)

Next Friday all staff/students are encouraged to come in their favourite teams colours. We will be asking for a gold coin donation – and funds will be raised for our sister school Srang, in Cambodia. Please send a message home to families on SeeSaw. It will be the West Coast Eagles vs Dockers derby that weekend, and many might be sporting these colours!

On Monday we have 4 North Metro TAFE students starting with us. They are all studying their CERT IV. They will be with us full time for the rest of the term and then back next term on Fridays followed by a three week prac.

Please make them feel welcome, and give as much advice and support as you can. Please give me any feedback – if you think they have fab potential let me know, and we will try and add them to our relief books. Below are the names of the people coming in, and which room they will be working in.

• Constance Allen – Room 24 HASS
• Ingar Bodeker – Room 33 Kindy
• Nikita Francis – Room 35 PP
• Nurul Rusman – Room 3 yr 4/5

Jade will be running a stretch and release session before school on THIS THURSDAY at 7.15am for 45 minutes if anyone would like to join. The focus will be on self management strategies for back, shoulder and neck pain. Please bring a yoga mat, drink bottle, foam roller/trigger point ball if you have one. If you don't, Jade will have some that you can borrow. 

In the event anyone wants to have a shower/get changed etc. after the session there are a number of showers around the school you are more than welcome to use.

This Week for AAC we have the last three PODD focus sheets for new staff and staff who would like a refresher.

The topics on this week’s PODD Focus are I have an idea, I want to show you something and Let’s Go.  These PODD sessions are on a Tuesday and Thursday morning between 8.15am- 8.30am in the drumming room.

I will send out a reminder on the messenger group when these are about to start.