Art Fever

Sorry about not getting more info on the sports carnival, we're still waiting for more photos. In the mean time, Miss Alligator and her little artists have been very busy lately. The topic for the art room at the moment is insects, and this is a sneak peak of some of their work:

A display of the amazing ladybird paintings by artistic WPIPS students

Hugh's amazing ladybird painting (Australia)

 Great ladybird by Tiffany (Hong Kong)

Wonderful artwork by Aya (Japan)

Dragonfly - another masterpiece by Aya (Japan)

The whole school has put lots of effort into this (yet-to-be-completed) artwork now on display in the Admin

A few months ago we got crafty amking some bunting and promised a picture of the finished result - so here it is!

A closer view of the bunting, which looked great at the Sports Carnival

         Before the District Directors visit, we got the school looking great by putting our artistic skills to work - here is a glimpse of the pavers out the front of the school that we painted in a sea of rainbow colours

We finally finished the beautiful artwork in the hallway

A closer view of the mural

And finally, Aya (Japan), hard at work!

We'd love a visit from you, so if your around, pop in and see these artistic masterpieces for real, plus our Administration now looks great!

Sports Carnival Part 1

Yesterday was the perfect day for our first ever... drumroll... WPIPS Sports Carnival! The weather was great, a bit windy, but really sunny and lots of fun was had by all! The oval looked great with the bunting we made and some balloons in the colours of the 3 teams - gold, pearl and lilac. It was great that everyone could make it and join in on the fun, and it's only thanks to the awesome parent helpers that the day turned out as good as it was... After the long jump, beanbag throw, running races, skipping races, flag races and team games, everyone was pretty much exhausted so it was very inviting to sing Happy Birthday to WPIPS and enjoy a piece of delicious birthday cake (thanks Pat), despite the bird footprints (full story on that later). Presentations and speeches were made after we sang the school song and everyone took home a medal and certificate plus spectators and helpers were not left out because there was even an award from the person who cheered the most - Caro! And a small present was also given to each family who've helped throughout the year... and then it was time to pack up again! I suppose I should also mention the winning team?? Well, that was very close and Lilac ended up taking home the 1st place title after being in 3rd place before the team games. Gold also did exceptionally well and were in 1st place most of the way, and as for Pearl- their performance was too commendable, in fact, I think everyone were winners! And the most important thing, isn't the fact that a particular team lost or won, but that we all had lots of fun! Here are just some pictures, more pictures and info coming soon, so watch this space!

 Division 2 Long Jump, in 1st place (from Gold)... Brendon Gooding, 2nd (from Pearl)... Hugh Telfer, and Georgia Kelly (also from Pearl) took home 3rd place.

 This is the lovely birthday cake made by Pat, after someone turned their back for just a few seconds and the magpies made the most of the delightful treat and decided to leave their mark (perfect footprints, you think?) Another corner was slightly nibbled too...

 The Beanbag Throw!

Our fantastic helpers, Roger and Michelle. Michelle was chief recorder for the day and Roger was in charge of various different jobs including timing, measuring, raking and holding the ribbon for competitors to run through at the end of the race, not to mention, first aid volunteer. Fortunately, he was only needed once with a bee sting.

(Lots) more info and photos coming soon...

Project Bunting

With preparations for our sports carnival in full swing, we've set to work making some pretty bunting in the colours of our 3 factions - gold, pearl and lilac.
Here we have a tutorial on how to make some bunting. You don't have to use your bunting for a carnival, it would look great as decoration inside a house or wherever you choose!

Step 1 - Collect the materials!

You will need: thin carboard (we used cereal boxes), stickytape, a ruler, a pencil, gluestick, scissors, string and coloured/patterned paper (square is best).

Step 2 - Cut out the triangles

If your paper is already square, that's great, but if not cut it to a square shape and then fold it in half so that the back of the paper is facing outwards. You will then need to draw lines like the ones above. Our paper was 30cm squared and we drew lines at 0cm, 10cm, 20cm and 30cm on the top and at 5cm, 15cm and 25cm on the bottom. Once you've drawn the lines (remember to use a ruler and a pencil in case you make a mistake) cut out the triangles.

Step 3 - Glue the triangles onto cardboard

This is a pretty simple step, but remember to glue the back of the triangles to the patterned side of the cardboard so that then the backs of the triangles look nice and neat! Another handy tip is to glue the triangles nice and close together so that not so much cardboard is wasted.

Step 4 - Cut the triangles out of cardboard

Step 5 - String the triangles

Above is what our triangles looked like before they were hung. To make the hanging process easier, we taped a piece of string from one side of the room to the other (a bit like a washing line) and then stickytaped the triangles onto the string. It doesn't matter if the backs look a bit bad, the front should be that striking that no-one is going to worry about the back and if the bunting is hung on a wall, you're not going to see it anyhow. If you wanted, you could put 2 triangles back to back.

The finished product will be revealed tomorrow, so watch this space!

WPIPS Catch-Up Corner

The WPIPS Catch-Up Corner is our school newsletter and is published every 2 weeks (most of the time!) We just released our 3rd edition and you can check it out via our website. If you're interested have a go at the puzzle of the week or put something in the next newsletter, plus comment on this post if you're interested in being interviewed for the Sports & I column coming for the first time next fortnight.

District Directors Visit

Last Sunday, Miss Hooper and Miss Pearce came out to check out the school. It was a great afternoon that included a tour of the school (by Deputy and Principal - Miss Putland and Miss Telfer), a little bit of information about how we got to be here, what we hope for the future and last but not least an afternoon tea and small performance (we sang the school song) in the library. It was so much fun that we now think back and ask, why were we screaming our heads off with nerves as they were driving down the driveway? Thanks and a big well done to everyone involved! Here some photos (they can tell the rest of the story)...

Most of the people involved with WPIPS

Hugh and Jesse playing with playdough

Singing the school song

Puzzles and games in the Early Childhood classroom

The classrooms looked great

Hugh and Jesse modelling the school uniform

Tiffany in the art room (also wearing school uniform)

In the library afterwards

The Ivory Rose

 

Each week, we buy Tuesday's West Australian newspaper and from the ED! section enter the book competition for the chance to win an interesting book for our school library. We've done this for quite some time, each time hoping "maybe this time", but it wasn't until this afternoon we received a package... from ED! And inside was the novel The Ivory Rose! It was such a surprise because even though every time we hope, we didn't ever think it would happen! We now have another book to join our school library... :)

'at' words

Today in the Early Childhood Classroom at WPIPS we were learning about words that end in 'at'. We all tried to think of words ending with 'at' and in the end we came up with 11 words! These were: bat, cat, sat, fat, mat, pat, hat, rat and even some words with 4 letters: chat, that and flat. Then we wrote the words onto balloons and had lots of fun playing with them and sounding them out. We put them into groups - if it is something you can touch or if it is something you can do. Our touching words (nouns) were: mat, hat, rat, bat and cat. Our doing words (verbs) were: pat, sat and chat. Then there were some left over, we learnt that these were describing words (adjectives). "that' was a very tricky word though and didn't fit into any of these groups! We had lots of fun!

Do you know some more 'at' words? We'd love you to comment with your ideas!