2 April 2020

Newsletter Articles

Principals Report

Term 1 has started with students and staff getting to know each. We had the Super Circus come into school. Clinton got a chance to show off his unicycle skills while teaching the students lots of fun tricks.

I would like to thank parents for supporting our school in uncertain times. We have made contact with majority of parents in regards to their child’s educational needs. At this stage we are still unsure how Term 2 will look, we will endeavour to let parents and students know via email, SMS or mail of any updates.

Term 1 ends on the 3rd April 2020, the Education Department has developed an educational website which I strongly encourage you all to have a look at. It has online resources that will assist your child to learn at home.

We have added some useful links to assist all the family, such as: Lifeline, Healthy WA, Kids Helpline, Health Department, City of Mandurah, Headspace, Beyond Blue, Black dog Institute, Anglicare, and Foodbank are just a few that you can access – please see bottom of newsletter for all links.

If you need to contact me, please don’t hesitate to call the School Mobile – 0466 209 305. Please stay healthy and safe. Hopefully we will see all students in Term 2.

Tash Hawkins
Principal

Dates to Remember

Classroom News

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Kristin Lucas and Laura Tolomei

Term 1 has got off to an excellent start. Everyone is now familiar with the routines of JTCESC and our classroom expectations. Our students are all young adults and doing their best while learning to operate in an adult learning environment. While we steer our students towards independence and self-regulation we expect them to treat each other and staff respectfully. While doing that we also expect to have a bit of fun while we learn. So far so good.

Mrs Tolomei has been focusing on money for maths using a variety of strategies to count and add money. In literacy the focus is on effective oral communication, we’ve had fun learning how to listen attentively and speak clearly.

On Mondays and Tuesdays with Mrs Lucas we have been preparing for Workplace Learning by completing our Smartmove Safety Certificates and learning about Employability Skills. In mathematics we are working measuring in centimetres and millimetres. In literacy we are keeping current with “Behind the News” a news program aimed at students, and reading and discussing our class novel “The Hate U Give”. In life skills we have been making various foods such as pizza, skillet lasagne and healthy chicken parmesan with sweet potato chips. The students have also started washing, pegging out and folding their sport shirts on Thursdays after sport. Friday afternoons we either work on Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) projects such as colour mixing using various media, or engage in social games such as croquet or two Scandinavian games Finska and Kubb. Daniela has been enjoying her cooking, dancing and hydrotherapy programs and riding horses at RDO. She often joins our class for morning walks before she heads off for her day.

T1

Julie Higham

In T1 we are having a great start to the year. The staff have really enjoyed getting to know our new students and we are looking forward to a fun-filled 2020.

We have started our Lifeskills (cooking) program, and are cooking on alternate (even) weeks. We are learning about kitchen hygiene and knife skills.

Our reading program is well-established and students are enjoying David Walliams’ books, Holes or have individualised reading programs. We are practising our observation, describing and inference skills through “Picture of the day” and learning to say and write our own personal information.

Workplace Learning started this term and students have the opportunity to develop their vocational skills, knowledge and attitudes in the context of real work environments.

Creating Manufacturing

Trish Bradford/ Lorna Craggs/Tess Wyllie

Welcome to Creative Manufacturing 2020

Term 1 has certainly started off as a rollercoaster, but I am so excited to share a new program we are running this year “Creative Manufacturing”.

The students have embraced the new program and have come up with brilliant ideas of items we can make and then donate to various charities. We are currently working alongside Marsupial Just Joey Marsupial Care and the Halo Team.

The students and staff have been making joey pouches for the young, injured and sick joeys as well as wooden stands so bird cages cage be safely secured while the birds recover.

For Halo we have been making chemotherapy bags (Halo will fill these with items for people that are undergoing chemotherapy) and water repellent bags for the homeless.

It has been so lovely to see the students enjoy what they are doing and knowing they are helping others in our community. We are very proud of you all.

Retail

Kristin Lucas/Nat Harris/Jacquie Willcocks

This term we have been busy introducing ourselves to the retail environment and learning the skills that we require when holding our sausage sizzle. We have been able to run a couple of sausage sizzles this term and last week we cooked hamburgers for the other students at our school. We are running and organising the sausage sizzle every 2 weeks and completing paperwork and other activities on the alternate week.

Our “sausage sizzle” morning starts with some paperwork, then we do a stock take of what we need for the sausage sizzle and walk to Woolworths to purchase what we need. Unfortunately, due to being unable to purchase everything we need, we have used this opportunity to teach the students about resilience and the ability to be flexible and modify our plans to suit the circumstances. The students have been amazing in coping with the changes.

Some of our students have continued with us from last year’s Retail group and are providing some leadership to our new students. It is wonderful watching them step up and the group working together as a team to deliver a great sausage sizzle.

At this stage there will be no more sausage sizzles this term but we will still hopefully be able to cook up some lunches for our fellow students and we will continue on with our paperwork and classroom learning.

Construction

Mark Barritt/Peter McClay/Penny Madigan

Students have had a good start to the Construction Skills Set with an emphasis on teamwork and an introduction to Occupational Health and Safety requirements. Students have started to use basic materials and hand skills whilst practicing their brick laying and rendering skills in preparation for their basic construction project later in the course. Students have also been learning how to set up and safely use the cement mixer to mix mortar and to use hand tools such as a brickies trowel and a hawk, plasterers trowel and float.

Workshop

Mark Barritt/Laura Tolomei/Jacquie Willcocks/Charm Guest/Peter McClay/Angie Svedin

Tuesdays Workshop class students have started building their major personal project. Students have chosen to either make a table or a planter box. All of the students are working really well and closely following the safety procedures they have learnt.

Students have also been getting excited and having fun learning how to use the 3D Printer and engaging with our new COZMO Robots.

Emergency Cadet Program

Peter McClay/Nat Harris/Sharan Hegney/Mark Barritt/Julie Higham

Our Cadets started Term 1 by completing their Induction and Recruit Course workbooks and committing to the program by studying and agreeing to the Cadets WA Pledge.

Our next subject in the curriculum was knots. We have studied and are in the process of learning to tie nine different types of knots - the thumb, figure 8, figure 8 on the bight, round turn and two half hitches, clove hitch, reef, sheet bend and bowline knots. Learning all the various knots and their uses is a continual learning process across the entire school year, tying each knot without assistance is the current goal for each Cadet.

Symbology – Cadets have learnt all about Australia and its environment. They have studied the different States and Territories, our National, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flags, and our Flora and Fauna. We focused on WA and the Mandurah region.

Workplace Learning

Marg Bowman

T1 students started with their work experience in the later part of Term 1. All students have been receiving favourable comments from their employers during workplace learning. It is great to see our students are representing our school so well in the community.

JTCESC has had the support of many local businesses for many years. Employers take on our students without payment, their reward being that they are helping students develop skills which will assist them once they leave school.

Thank you to all parents/carers and students for being organised for the work day.

It is unfortunate that with the current situation many of our employers have had to suspend some of our students’ placements. We are in close contact with employers so in time will continue with our work placements.

Art

Laura Tolomei/Jacquie Willocks/Charm Guest/Lorna Craggs

I always tell my students that Friday is the best day of the week because on Friday we have art lessons. So far this year we have been having loads of fun exploring the world of hand building with clay. So far most people have finished their coil pot and awaiting its first firing. It is great to see that all students have learned and used the 3 steps to joining clay … Score, Slip then Smooth.

Health & Phys Ed

Chris Wilton

Term one has seen a focus primarily on cricket in Physical Education. Students have participated in modified games and have been learning correct techniques in various skills related to the game such as bowling, fielding, throwing, catching and batting. This was leading to our school participating in a Rapid Fire Cricket Carnival against other Ed Support schools from around Perth which unfortunately had to be cancelled due to COVID-19.

I am sure our JTCESC students would have represented themselves and the school extremely well as they have displayed fantastic attitudes and a willingness to try their best during Phys Ed.

Breakfast Club

Rebecca Christensen

Here’s a delicious recipe we made this term. Very easy and tastes great.

Quick Vegetable Puff Recipe (Indian Curry Puff)

Ingredients

• 1 Packet Puff Pastry Sheets
• 1 Tsp Butter – melted
• 4 tbsp. milk
• ¼ cup water to seal edges of the puff

Vegetable Filling:

• 3 tbsp. olive oil - any light vegetable oil can be used
• 1 medium onion - thinly chopped
• ½ cup peas - frozen or fresh
• ½ cup carrots – thinly chopped
• ½ cup green beans - thinly chopped
• ½ cup green capsicum – thinly chopped
• 3 medium boiled potatoes - thinly chopped
• 2 tbsp. fresh coriander

Spices: 1 tsp. cumin, ½ tsp. red chilli powder, 1 tsp. curry powder

Instructions

To make the filling:

• Heat a non-stick pan and add oil.
• Now add cumin powder, onions and sauté till onions turn golden brown (takes 2-3 minutes).
• Add all the other vegetables except potatoes and sauté for a minute.
• Cover the vegetables and let them cook for 7 minutes on low heat. (stir every 2 minutes).
• Finally add the boiled potatoes, all the remaining spices and sauté everything together.
• Cook this mix for 2 minutes on the medium-low flame (stir every 1/2 minute).
• Turn off the heat and cool the mixture slightly.
• Preheat the oven 180

In a small bowl, add milk, butter and mix together (keep aside).

Take the thawed but cold puff pastry sheets and cut them into squares

Add 1 tbsp of filling in the centre and fold the remaining side over it (I've created a triangle, rectangle, and open-face).

Brush each wrapped pastry with milk & butter mixture (you can use eggs too) and crimp the edges with a fork. (seal the pastry).

Bake for 15 minutes. Makes 12 curry puffs

Other News

Super Circus

We had Clinton from Super Circus come in this term, a morning of fun, energy and learning circus skills. He performed a variety of circus skills like plate spinning, juggling knives whilst riding a unicycle, balancing acrobatics, diabolo with Sherin as his assistant in a sequined blue vest. All students were trained in juggling with scarves and balls, then how to spin plates and to pass to each other while the plates were still spinning, we also built our own “human pyramids”.

2019 Emergency Services Cadet Corps, DFES

“Instructor Achievement Award”

Congratulations to our very own Peter McClay on winning the 2019 Emergency Services Cadets Corps, Department of Fire and Emergency Service Instructor Achievement Award. The award recognises his commitment to helping JTCESC students join local community groups such as SES, Marine Rescue and Bus Fire Brigade. Mr McClay has been the Cadet Coordinator at JTCESC for over 11 years and with a team consisting of Nat Harris, Sharan Hegney, Mark Barritt and Julie Higham all students have gained valuable life and rescue skills.

Saxon – Ex-student comes back to “Inspire”

Saxon is an ex student who has been very successful since leaving our school and decided that while on holidays he wanted to spend the day with our staff and students and give a little back.

When Saxon was attending our school he was involved with our hospitality program and loved it. From there he enrolled to do the Hospitality TAFE course (Certificate I, II, III and IV) with our assistance and under the continued supervision of Chef Grahame Read and his Mum, Cathy. He started an apprenticeship at the Ravenswood Hotel and worked there for 4 and a half years, then moved to the Mandurah Bowling Club to complete his apprenticeship. Saxon is a qualified Chef and has since bought his own house, got his licence and moved to Queensland.

Saxon had some wonderful words and experiences to share with the students and staff during his visit.

In Saxon’s words - “Don’t be afraid to ask for help! That’s what these teachers are here for. I love this school and without the school’s help I don’t know where I would be, maybe still washing dishes? I couldn’t be more thankful for the staff and school for helping me achieve all I have achieved.”

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