Yakamia Primary School in Albany, Western Australia | Education

Yakamia Primary School

Locality: Albany, Western Australia

Phone: +61 8 9892 5500

Address: 28 Beaufort Rd 6330 Albany, WA, Australia

Website: http://yakamiaps.wa.edu.au

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24.01.2022 Busy Bee at YPS - Saturday 21 September from 9am - 12pm in the Junior playground. If you able to give an hour or two to help we would be very appreciative! Sausage sizzle will be provided. We will be: Building a jetty near our 'new' boat... Planting and mulching Oiling the wooden playground areas around the school. Some tools required if you have them: Shovels, rakes, paint brushes, empty containers to put decking oil in, gloves. All welcome! Thank you, from the YPS Nature Play Committee (photo: example of what we are building )

22.01.2022 Our first Faction Footy game today, managed by our Yr 6 faction captains and supported by WAFC - Great Southern and our awesome teachers! A great game

22.01.2022 Dear Families, welcome back! The following notice is important information from the Department of Education regarding the Novel corona virus. This will also be emailed to all of our families. (Letter updated)

21.01.2022 Waste Free Wednesdays at Yakamia. Another great poster from one of our students

21.01.2022 Dear Families, have a fantastic holiday break. Students return Tuesday 13 Oct. Dear Families, have a fantastic holiday break. Students return Tuesday 13 Oct.

20.01.2022 Jogathon tomorrow, 15 Nov, please remember to bring in sponsor sheets so we can record the number of laps completed Jogathon tomorrow, 15 Nov, please remember to bring in sponsor sheets so we can record the number of laps completed

18.01.2022 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS 2021 Applications for children born between 1 July 2016 30 June 2017 are now being taken for our 2021 intake of Kindergarten. Please complete an Application for Enrolment form at the Administration desk along with providing your childs Birth Certificate, Immunisation History Statement and documentation with your current address.... Applications close on Friday 24 July 2020. If you know of any prospective families who have a child ready for Kindergarten next year, please advise them to call into the office.

18.01.2022 ALAC October holidays program.

17.01.2022 EXCITEMENT at YAKAMIA TODAY! Today when students arrived at school they found themselves in an exciting situation with a meteor landing, strange footprints, and a nest of giant eggs in the library. We have had investigators in to solve our mystery, take samples and ensure our school is safe. The experience was to engage students in writing, providing an opportunity to use their imaginations and get excited about the possibilities of what could have happened. :-)

16.01.2022 Reminder: The Athletics Carnival has been postponed until Wednesday 6 November, due to poor weather predicted tomorrow. Sausage Sizzle orders will be provided on the day of the Carnival. All families are welcome to attend!

16.01.2022 They didnt warn me that I needed hearing protection! Just a little bit excited?

16.01.2022 Congratulations to our Eagles Cup Team. Awesome effort! Thanks to everyone who supported our students and helped out throughout the year.

15.01.2022 Today we had a wonderful surprise waiting for our students and school community. Over the weekend artist Sobrane, created a gorgeous mural of our three new Houses: Kardar, Quenda, Karrak. Students were very excited with the new addition of art work in our school. Thank you Sobrane, it looks great!

14.01.2022 Book Week at YPS is next week Please see note emailed to families today for more details.

14.01.2022 Rugby League in Albany this school holidays! Includes free come and try rugby league clinic

14.01.2022 Yakamia Primary School will soon be celebrating 50 years. We invite our community, past and present, to join us in commemorating this wonderful achievement. Over the coming months we will post photos and articles relating to the last 50 years at Yakamia P.S. We welcome you to share our page with your friends, and the people who have attended or worked at Yakamia P.S. over that time.

13.01.2022 To support our community Aged Care Homes in commemorating ANZAC Day 2020 our Year 6 students created and filmed an ANZAC service at the end of last term. A section of this film has been played today on the ABC's Behind The News. If you follow the link you will see our amazing students from approximately 2.45mins into the clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY00N8pgqKo They will also be on the ABC 7pm news tonight. Well done to these students and the staff who helped create this commemorative service for our ANZAC Day. We will share the full service with students when Term 2 commences. "Lest We Forget"

13.01.2022 We hope you have had a great holiday break! Students commence Term 3 on Tuesday 23 July. We hope you have had a great holiday break! Students commence Term 3 on Tuesday 23 July.

12.01.2022 Students loving the back-flips on bikes at school today.

12.01.2022 Another exciting day at Yakamia PS today! We were very fortunate to have the ambassadors for this weekends Southern Peaks Mountain Bike Festival visit our school and show us some tricks. Todd Meyn, international BMX star, and Jordan Prochyra, world class Mountain Biker, came to our school and demonstrated a range of tricks including back-flips on their bikes. Thanks to Todd, Jordan, Southern Peaks MTB Festival, Department of Local Government - Sport and Cultural Industries, for providing this wonderful opportunity for our students!

11.01.2022 CHANGE OF DATE: Due to poor weather at the end of the week we have changed the date of Wheely Fun Day to WEDNESDAY 26 JUNE. There may be some rain on Wednesday but it's looking better than Friday and won't be as muddy! We are celebrating with a whole school reward day for reaching 5000 Turtle Tickets. This is halfway to our goal of 10 000 tickets. We are having a 'Wheely Fun Day' and students can bring their bike, scooter, skateboard, roller skates etc to ride at recess and lunch. Helmets are requred. (Kindy B group are to bring thier wheels on Thursdy 27 June).

11.01.2022 House Shirts - If you would like to purchase a new house shirt please return your GREEN ORDER FORM and money to the front office by Thursday 24 September so the order can be placed. Shirts available to try on at the front office.

11.01.2022 Reminder: Our Athletics Carnival has been rescheduled to Tuesday 17 Nov. We are looking forward to a great day in our new Houses - Kardar, Quenda and Karrak Reminder: Our Athletics Carnival has been rescheduled to Tuesday 17 Nov. We are looking forward to a great day in our new Houses - Kardar, Quenda and Karrak

10.01.2022 Bring a can of food to donate for 'Free Dress Day for Foodbank'. We are having a free dress day on Friday 9 August to help support Foodbank Albany. We ask all students who dress in free dress to bring a can of food to donate. Albany Foodbank are most in need of cans of spaghetti and baked beans, however cans of vegetables, soup, fruit and processed meats are also very much appreciated. Thanks for your support!

10.01.2022 Welcome back Yakamia families to a new school year! We are looking forward to seeing all of our students and meeting our new students and families next week! Students commence on Monday 3 February. Class lists will be available to view from 4pm Friday 31 January, and will be in the Science Room window in Block 3. We ask that you please do not take photos of lists and place on social media to respect the privacy of others.... The administration office is now open and we welcome any enquiries or new enrolments. If you are needing a stationary list, these can be found can be found on our website under 'Resources' - Booklists 2020. http://yakamiaps.wa.edu.au/ The uniform shop will be open on Thursday 30 January from 8:30am10:30am and Friday 31 January from 3:30pm5:30pm for parents to purchase new uniforms for the 2020 school year. A reminder that our uniform consists of a red polo shirt and green shorts, pants, skort or skirt, and a green school bucket hat.

09.01.2022 At Yakamia PS we are encouraging our families to consider different ways of reducing the use of plastic in daily life. Taking reusable containers to school is one way to reduce our use of plastic. In Week 2, from Monday to Wednesday, we are asking all families who would like to participate to cut single use plastic from lunchboxes and be part of Plastic Free July. Students who have single use plastic free lunchboxes next week, will receive an extra turtle ticket. These posters about Plastic Free July at Yakamia were made by some of our awesome Year 3 students

09.01.2022 Does anybody remember this view of Yakamia? It's the administration building prior to our rebuild in 2012. What a different look!

09.01.2022 ABC Perth published our ANZAC service on their Facebook page. If you would like to view it, please see the link below. Well done to all students and staff for your efforts with this commemoration service.

08.01.2022 We were very fortunate today to have a visit from Sue Ellery MLC - Minister for Education and Training, to officially open our new Science laboratory. Our Year 6 leaders and Mr Beard did a wonderful job showing Minister Ellery our fantastic new lab.

08.01.2022 We will be celebrating our students' achievements so far this year with our Learning Journey next week, Wednesday 18 September, 4-6pm. All family members are invited to come along with their children to see the fantastic things they have been doing in their classes and specialist areas. The P&C will have a sausage sizzle, drinks and cakes available for purchase. We look forward to seeing all families at this special event.

08.01.2022 ANZAC Day 2021 - Lest we forget. Yakamia PS students marched with great respect today to remember and honour all people who have served and died for our country in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.

06.01.2022 Our PBS Reward Day yesterday was lots of fun! Our amazing teachers made cupcakes for all the students and even Yakka made a special visit, joining in the fun!

06.01.2022 Waste Free Wednesdays Starting Week 2 we will be doing Waste Free Wednesdays at Yakamia. We are hoping to encourage children to take a role in protecting the environment and helping plan their lunchboxes to REDUCE waste. On Waste Free Wednesdays, students are encouraged to put together a lunchbox that has no rubbish for the bin (except food waste like apple cores). This can be achieved by using partitioned lunchboxes, putting food into reusable containers, sandwich keepers, ...or using something like waxiwraps. REFUSE the rubbish. Waste Free Wednesday is not compulsory and does not require parents to purchase new lunchboxes. For those who want to participate we ask students to REUSE containers that are in the cupboard and say no to gladwrap and zip lock bags. Aim for a day without food in packets maybe the kids could make pikelets to take the next day, maybe a piece of fruit. Get the kids involved in making their lunch and helping the environment. Some of our students have been creating digital posters to promote Waste Free Wednesday and we look forward to sharing these with you in the coming week. Hope you are as enthusiastic to try it as we are. Working towards a better school and community environment. Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Yakamia Sustainability Committee

06.01.2022 P&C Whole School Disco Thursday 4 July! Entry is $5 and sausage sizzle and glow products will be available to buy. Tickets will be on sale from Monday 1 July to Thursday 4 July in the hall before school. (Parent attendance is required for Kindy and Pre-Primary students)

06.01.2022 Thank you to everyone who came to our special 50th celebration yesterday. It was a great afternoon and was so wonderful to see so many past and present students, families and staff. (Photos to come soon). Our P&C are still selling personalised paver bricks for all past and present people from our school community. These will be used to create a memorial path in our school. Orders due 31 March. If you would like an order form please contact the office

04.01.2022 Another awesome pic from 1972 and then 10 years later the 1982 student councillors

04.01.2022 Book Week is here! We are celebrating Book Week at Yakamia this week. Friday 6 September will be our annual Book Week Dress Up Day and Parade. There will be a special assembly from 9am in the hall for all K-6 students to parade their book character costumes. We will also be awarding special prizes to the winning Book Cover posters, which our whole school have been busily working on. All parents are welcome to attend this assembly.

03.01.2022 Tuesday is our PBS reward day! Students will be rewarded with a range of activities including bouncy castles and water slides. Students are to bring a change of clothes, sun screen, and towel. It will be free dress for all students :-)

03.01.2022 Please support our P&C! This is the last week to purchase tickets for our P&C’s amazing 50th anniversary raffle. Tickets will be on sale from 2.30-3.10pm outside the Pre-Primary gate and from the admin office all day. Money raised will be used for our new nature play area. Thank you to all the wonderful people and businesses who supported this raffle

02.01.2022 Our students have reached 5000 Turtle Tickets! To celebrate, we are having a Wheely Fun Day for all students on Friday 3 July. Students to bring their bikes, scooters or skates and helmets on this day.

02.01.2022 Not long now until our 50th celebration! Here’s some great pics from 1972

01.01.2022 Book Week 2019 Book Cover Competition at Yakamia Primary School. This years Book Cover Competition provided a great display of student art work representing each childs favourite book. We would like to thank the following local business for their generous prize donations: Albany Tenpin Bowling, Tumble Jam and Orana Cinemas.