2021, term one issue #1 - felixcs.sa.edu.au
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2021 School Times
Before School Care
7.30am (must book)
Gates opened
8.30am
School Starts
8.50am
School finishes
3.10pm
Gates & building locked
3.30pm
After School Care
3.10 – 6.00pm (must book)
School Communication
We use the ‘School Star’ App as
our main way of communicating
with families.
Please download the app to your
phone and ask for support if
needed.
All newsletters are also available
online or in hard copy by request.
Hello Families and Friends, Welcome back everyone to 2021! We are looking forward to another great year at Felixstow! This year we have our External School Review in Week 7 term 1 (please read further information later in the newsletter). Our previous School Review was in 2017 so this is a great opportunity for us to reflect on our journey as a school over the last 3-4 years. I look back with pride in the way that our community has worked through all the challenges of change to make sure our school an amazing place for our children to be. We have an amazing, highly professional and dedicated team of educators, passionate and considerate families and engaged students, who all genuinely care about each other and the learning community we create for each other. Learning We started this year, as we do each year with a four week focus on our values, community, expectations, building relationships and ensuring students and staff are ready for learning. In week 3 we begin to reintroduce our more formal learning structures such as literacy and numeracy along with home groups and creative arts. In week 4 we hope to have identified any students or groups that require intervention and programs such as MiniLit, Too Smart and speech support start up again. In week 5 we will launch into our first inquiry for the year. We have not yet finalised the Inquiry central idea, but we are planning for a Science focus in the area of Earth and Space Sciences. We always know that students get very excited when we start learning about ‘space’ so we are looking forward to getting started with them.
COVID and Planning With the continuing recommendations and ever-changing guidelines around the management of Covid-19 we continue to be advised regarding access to onsite spaces. Unfortunately our space is limited in the building and this minimizes the number of adults we are able to have in the building at any one time. This requires a lot of additional thinking and planning to ensure we meet the guidelines and are helping to keep everyone safe. Each event or plan as we move forward will be carefully considered to ensure maximum connection with families. While it still might not be quite what we would like, we do appreciate everyone’s cooperation and consideration. Please keep an eye on any information sent home about how each upcoming event will be managed. RSVPS, QR check ins and sign ins will now be a necessity for any school event. We are currently looking at ways to accommodate our volunteer programs and will be sending information home to our approved volunteers over the next few weeks about ways that we can work together with them. It has been a wonderful, smooth start to the year and we are excited about the year of learning ahead of us. Please check the last page for important diary dates! Cheers Skye
Principal: Skye van Heusden
5-11 Briar Rd, FELIXSTOW SA 5070
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2021, Term One
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Felixstow Notices Welcome Back!
We are so excited to be back at school for 2021! We are looking forward to getting to
know our new students and welcoming them into our community.
School clothing
If you are interested in purchasing a
school top or hat or one of our new jack-
ets or windcheaters , please contact the
school or speak to someone at the front
office to get an order form.
Hats are available - $10.
Felixstow School Top - $36
Green or Orange Felixstow Polo - $20
Crew Neck Windcheater -
$25
Black Jacket -
$50
Stay up to Date
Stay up to date with news, events and up-
dates about the school and students on
School Star
Seesaw
In 2018 Felixstow Community School
started working with KickStart For Kids.
KickStart is a not-for-profit organisation that
helps school children in South Australia
achieve positive educational outcomes
and increased self-esteem through school
breakfast and lunch programs, mentoring
programs and school holiday programs.
KickStart for Kids currently serves around
50,000 breakfasts per week in 350 SA
schools.
Thanks to Kickstart for Kids the Felixstow
Breakfast Club has started again for the
year. It is held every morning and is free to
all students who would like to attend, no
booking is required.
Location – The Kitchen
Time – 8:30 – 8:45am
Cost – FREE sponsored by Kickstart for Kids
Students are required to stay in the kitchen
while they are eating. Unfortunately, at this
time parents are not able to come into the
kitchen.
The Breakfast Club Menu can include:
- Toast with jam or vegemite
- Weet-bix
- Fresh or tinned fruit
- Milk
School materials and services invoices
have been posted to your home. If you
have not received this please let Gillian
know. Payments can be made via direct
deposit, eftpos, over the phone, or cash.
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Get To Know The Felixstow Staff These are a few of my favourite things...
Skye Principal
Purple
Coffee
Adelaide Crows
Tuula Juniors Teacher
Blue
Tea
AFLW
Laura Primary Teacher
Green
Coffee
Adelaide Crows
Nicole Juniors Teacher
Green
Tea
Port Power
Lauren Primary Teacher
Pink
Hot Chocolate
Adelaide Crows
Chantal Wellbeing Teacher
Blue
Peppermint Tea
Port Power
Camille Art Teacher
Green
Tea
Kamal P.E. Teacher
Light Blue
Chilli Dark Hot Choc
Adelaide Crows
Gillian Business Manager
Red
Coffee
Netflix
Di SSO
Red
Coffee
Jenny SSO
Yellow
Coffee
Adelaide Crows
Kelly SSO
Turquoise
Hot Chocolate
Adelaide Crows
Shaun SSO
Green
Coffee
Essendon
Marissa SSO
Green
Coffee
Maddi SSO
Green
Coffee
Adelaide Crows
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External School Review (ESR) As part of our continuous school improvement process, we will be involved in an external school review with a Department for Education review panel.
The purpose of external school reviews is to support us to raise achievement, sustain high performance and pro-vide quality assurance to build public confidence in government schools.
All government schools are externally reviewed every 3 years.
The focus of the external school review is to evaluate our school’s performance. The review panel includes a re-view officer and a trained review principal.
Our school review will occur on Tuesday March 9th and Wednesday March 10th.
The review panel will identify aspects of our school’s improvement that have been verified through the review processes, as well as the improvements that we need to make in the future.
During the external school review, some students, parents, governing council members and staff will be asked to provide information to the review panel in a number of ways. These include:
• individual interviews with staff
• group discussions (with students or staff or parents)
• meetings (governing council, staff meeting)
• visits into classrooms.
We appreciate everyone’s support and time in helping us with this external school review process.
Please let us know via email if you do not want your child to participate in these discussions.
SCHOOL JACKETS AND WINDCHEATERS
After many inquiries over the last couple of years we now have a school jacket and
top for sale!
Jackets and Windcheaters will not be kept in stock at school and will need to
be placed in bulk orders.
Orders will be placed twice a term at this point.
Staff will contact you once your order has arrived.
Please consider this when ordering.
Order Forms available at the front office
Please note the first opportunity to order requires forms in by
Friday 26th February 2021
Order dates will then be advertised via the newsletter regularly.
Second opportunity to order this term requires forms in by: :
26th March 2021
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Events
Meet and Greet
Felixstow staff and families enjoyed our meet and greet session on Tuesday. Students
were able to show their families around their learning spaces and families had the op-
portunity to meet our team and people in our community. We had our new jackets on
display and a book sale for some of our old books. Thankyou to all the families who at-
tended.
Premier’s Be Active Challenge 2021
This year, our school is again taking part in the Premier’s be active challenge. The
challenge for students is to do at least 60 minutes of physical activity on at least 5 days
of the week for at least 4 weeks. Students have been provided with a recording booklet
to take home and record their progress. The booklet provides many examples of
activities for the students to be physically active at home. Once completed, please
hand out the booklet to Felixstow reception. Kamal will hand out more booklets as the
year goes on. We are hoping for maximum participation this year.
Chess Club
Don’t forget Chess club is back on
Wednesday’s at lunch! Learn the game
and strategies, while playing with friends.
Be sure to sign up if you’re interested.
Children’s University is back this year and
we are very excited to have our students
be a part of this amazing program.
Please see Di or Jenny if you are interest-
ed in participating
Applications are now available for renew-
ing and new members at the front desk.
These need to be returned by the 26th
March. When you collect the application
you will be provided with a Challenge
which if returned with your application will
equate to 30 minutes on your passport.
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The Resource Hub Welcome
The Resource Hub staff, Kelly and Marissa, would like to extend a warm welcome to our
returning and new students and their families. We hope you all had a restful and happy
summer holiday. It has been wonderful to see the students back at school, ready to
learn and full of energy.
Over the holiday period the RH has undergone a change of layout in preparation for
what we intend to be an eventful and exciting year. We have quite a few new activities
and events planned. Some are outlined in this newsletter and more will be revealed over
the coming weeks. So please watch this space!
Borrowing
Please ensure your child returns their book(s) by the due date as they will not be able to
borrow anymore books if they have overdue books. Returning books on time also en-
sures other children who may be waiting to read the borrowed book are able to do so.
T h a n k y o u f o r y o u r c o - o p e r a t i o n i n t h i s m a t t e r .
Resource Hub Class Times
Upcoming events
Years Number of books Duration
R-2 2 books 2 weeks
3-4 4 books 2 weeks
5-7 6 books 2 weeks
Class Day Time
Tuula’s class Friday Morning
Nicole’s class Friday Afternoon
Lauren’s class Tuesdays Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, (11)
Laura’s class Mondays Weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, (11)
Event Week Date
Pokemon Day 5 Friday 26th February
Dr Suess Day 6 Tuesday 2nd March
Harmony Day & International Poetry Day 8 Friday 19th March
Easter Fun Fund Raiser & Raffle 10 Wednesday 31st March
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Primary Learning
Primary 2020
Students in the primary class have had a marvellous start to Term 1. We have familiar-
ised ourselves with some changes to the classroom environment and have begun get-
ting to know each other and ourselves as learners. It has been fantastic to have some
new students join us and we would like to say a big Niina Marni our new students Eva,
Luka and Indi and their families.
Students created some super artwork for our meet and greet on Tuesday 9th February
which will gives an insight into their interests and their characteristics. Highlights for our
first weeks together include maths games, investigations, and values exploration.
Please follow your child's Seesaw account for news from the primary room.
Luka
Eva
Indi
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Juniors Learning Juniors 2020
Hello from the Juniors!
In the Juniors we have been busy getting to know the new Receptions and settling into
school routines. All children have a Junior buddy to support them at school and when
we go on excursions. We have been doing some buddy reading and learning about our
school values together.
In Tuula’s group we have been enjoying our learning through play sessions in Investiga-
tion, learning about all the resources in our room and meeting staff and students across
the school. The new Receptions are James, Louie, Nicolas, Adelaide, Tori, Archie, Hugo,
Charlotte, Maggie, Harvey, Anastasia, Austin, Leah, Elizabeth, Manav, Evie, Dakoda and
Ethan.
In Nicole’s group we have been discussing our school values and representing them
through role plays. We have drawn ourselves as super heroes and written about our
super powers and how we got them. As a group we have come up with a list of jobs we
need to do in our class and the year two students are learning how to upload their work
onto See saw.
We are looking forward to a great year of learning together!
Tuula and Nicole
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Upcoming Events
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Upcoming Events
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How we learn at Felixstow Community School Over the past 2-3 years we have been developing our practice in how we teach and
learn at Felixstow. We are very proud of the way that we work together to learn and
the success in our students results, thinking and the way they can talk about them-
selves as learners and the way they learn.
Below is a visual representation we have been developing over the last few months
that captures this. Both staff and Governing Council have now approved this as a
publishable school document that supports everyone to better understand what
learning looks like at Felixstow.
Our recent learning as staff around the ‘New Pedagogies for Deep Learning’ has reso-
nated strongly with what we believe about education and how ‘school’ should look
for students. Our goal in everything we do is to focus on developing the 6 Global
Competencies of Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Creativity, Charac-
ter and Citizenship.
Students will be learning more deeply what these competencies are and how we de-
velop these skills through our learning and daily interactions.
We are excited to share this visual with you and to further develop our understand-
ing as a community about developing deep learning opportunities and outcomes for
our students.
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Term One
Wednesday 27 January First Day Term One
Tuesday 9 February Meet and Greet Evening
Thursday 18 February A.G.M.—6.15pm to 6.45 (please RSVP via Front office)
Thursday 25 February Whole School Excursion—Woodhouse activity centre
Monday 8 March Public Holiday (Adelaide Cup)
Thursday 1 April Pupil Free Day (No School)
Friday 2 April Public Holiday (Good Friday)
Monday 5 April Public Holiday (Easter Monday)
Friday 9 April Last Day Term One
Important Dates
Out of school hours care (OSHC)
OSHC is available to families for be-
fore (BSC) and after school care
(ASC).
BSC opens at 7.30am
ASC 3.10 – 6.00pm.
Hannah Gustard is our OSHC director
and can be contacted on
0456 471 388
for the fridge
Updated: February 2021
2021 Pupil Free Days At Governing Council in week 2 the Pupil Free Days and Closure days for the year were approved. Please put these dates in your diary:
Thursday 1st April (Pupil Free Day) Whole staff undertaking final Berry St Education
Model training
Friday 30th July (Pupil Free Day) Curriculum development and Site Improvement
Planning and review
Friday 10th September (School Closure Day) Royal Adelaide Show
Friday 26th November (Pupil Free Day) Site Improvement Plan review and curriculum
planning for 2022
REMINDER: A.G.M Thursday 18th February 6.15—6.45 in the Resource Hub
Please RSVP via the front office by Wed 17th Feb