Karoonda Area School North Terrace

KAROONDA SA 5307

Principal: Daniel Rankine

Phone: (08) 85781120 Courier: Murray Mallee

Facsimile: (08) 85781078 E-mail: dl.0756.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Number: 22/2017

Monday 31st July 2017

Dear Parents and Community Members

KAS Facebook Page is Up and Running As many of you may be aware the school’s Facebook page went live last week, thank you to Caroline Phillips for the time and effort she has put into setting up the page and teaching us how to use it effectively. Below are the KAS Facebook Guidelines to ensure the page is used in a positive and effective way.

KAS Facebook User Guidelines Karoonda Area School uses social media (Facebook) to communicate and share the activities and achievements of our school. Education is a fun, friendly and welcoming industry and we ask that our social media users adopt this style when posting comments. We respectfully ask everyone to honour the following guidelines when commenting/posting on our social media pages.

No foul, discriminatory, defamatory, libelous or threatening language or imagery No invasion of privacy, no racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language Do not post material in violation of trademark or copyright laws or other laws No attacked that identify individuals, companies, unions or other organisations No spam, flaming, flooding, advertisements or solicitations Comments should be relevant to the posts

Karoonda Area School reserves the right to delete posts that do not follow the above guidelines. Repeated failure to adhere to these guidelines will result in being blocked from posting on Karoonda Area School’s social media pages. Thank you for your cooperation.

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In conjunction with the above guidelines it is very important to remember that if you do have an issue or concern involving the school that needs to be resolved, please follow the agreed grievance procedure (see graphic below), which involves these basic steps:

1. Raise the complaint with the staff member it directly involves first

2. If it is not resolved contact the principal to help resolve the complaint

3. If it is still unable to be resolved contact the Education Complaint Unit on 1800 677 435

4. If still unresolved contact the SA Ombudsman

As indicated last term once the Facebook page is up and running effectively we will be transitioning to a fortnightly newsletter. We will notify everyone before the new fortnightly cycle begins.

Loller Children Feature on TV On Thursday 27th July, the Loller children had a wonderful experience featuring on the Channel Eleven Science Program, Scope. Please click on the link below to view the footage or if you have the tenplay app, search Scope Season 4 Episode 6. https://tenplay.com.au/channel-eleven/scope/season-4/episode-6 This is a great program for school age children to expose them to a wide variety of scientific concepts and this particular program featured the Loller children talking about Agriculture.

DANEL RANKINE (Principal)

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School Photos – this Thursday 3rd

August 2017 This Thursday 3

rd August 2017, is the school’s Photo Day. Please take the

time to ensure your child is wearing correct school uniform, which includes

black bottoms, the tri-colour polo shirt and hair accessories of green, black or

white in colour.

If your child is involved in the Ag Show Program or represented the district

in SAPSASA, please bring along the appropriate jumper which can be worn for the photo.

Photo forms MIUST BE RETURNED BEFORE THURSDAY. If you would like a family

photo, please contact the Front office for the appropriate ordering envelope.

Please note: If you are not ordering photos, the envelope still needs to be returned to the

school. JENNY GREGORY School Photo Organiser

This Week’s Canteen Reminder Monday 31/7 CLOSED

Tuesday 1/8 Jezzimay Tomkinson

Wednesday 2 CLOSED

Thursday 3 Leanne Bakonyi

Friday 4 Tracey Clothier

Monday 7 CLOSED

Tuesday 8 Marie Hoare

Woolworths Earn & Learn We are excited to be taking part in the 2017 Woolworths Earn & Learn program.

During the previous campaign, we were able to purchase some great resources with the points we earned, thanks to you.

From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September2017, you can collect stickers at Woolworths that go towards Earn & Learn points. For every $10 you spend at Woolworths (excluding the purchase of tobacco, liquor and gift cards), you will receive a sticker. These stickers can then be given to your children to collect on a special sticker card. These are available at school or on the website woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn.

Once it is completed, they can simply bring it back here to school or you can drop them into your local Woolworths collection box.

The more points we earn, the more we can redeem from a choice of over 10,000 educational resources including mathematics and English resources, art & crafts materials and much, much more!

We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program. If you have any questions, please ask at School.

JENNY GREGORY (Organiser)

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Sausage Sizzle Fundraising For Our

New Swimming Pool When: Wednesday 16

th August 2017 (Week 4)

Where: Karoonda Area School Canteen

Time: Lunch Time - 1:00 pm

Price: $2.50 a Sausage in bread

$5.00 Steak Sandwich with coleslaw

50 cents for a Soft Drink in a cup

$1.00 for a Fruit Box

Sauce and Onion available for free

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Reception/Year One Update Written by Julie Boughen We had a great week one, once we all got back into the swing of the school routine. We began new topics in History, Science and The Technologies.

Within The Technologies this term we are dividing into two groups and over two week periods both groups will experience Design and Tech tasks and Digital Tech activities. Last week and this week the children will make a lizard mainly out of paper plates. It will be like a pressure test from Master Chef. They will have the prototype to refer to and they have to make it all by themselves. Although it is good to have the end product looking as close to the prototype as possible, the process is most important. Later this term we will extend this to

creatively designing and making their own product. Meanwhile the other group will rotate through a coding board game, designing your own playground kit and use an electrical kit. Within Science we began an ‘On the Move’ Science Connections topic. The first lesson involved observing partners moving while playing Musical Statues, Simon Says and the Mirror game. Some involvement in discussion and questioning also occurred. This was a great way to begin a topic with young students who love to be on the move. During History we looked at what the study of History would be about and many of the Year Ones could remember what we had studied with Miss Boughen during 2016. We will be studying History during terms 3 and 4. We studied Geography in terms 1 and 2. We talked about the terminologies past, present and future and made up a movement game together to try and help us remember one from another. We will revisit this from time to time. We also brainstormed some events that our families, community and country celebrate that are historically significant and why all people do not celebrate all events we mentioned. This is to be continued.

In Maths we began studying time, which is a much broader topic than just learning to tell the time. Last week we made a list of different amounts of time, beginning with a century and ending with a second. We played some games to help us gain awareness of the length of a minute and a second. The Receptions did some work on Days of the Week and the Ones matched analogue, digital and written time words in a game for O’clock.

Just a reminder to return your photo forms to school before Thursday, as school photo day is this Thursday the 3rd of August.

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KAS’s Handy Work Over the last term I worked on all students tracing and cutting out one hand from Preschool to Year 12. I also included ALL staff. This amounted to just under 200 hands – WOW that’s a few!! They are displayed in the secondary building, starting at Jaslyn’s office and continuing down the corridor. As I was searching for ‘handy’ quotes, I came across one that I would like to think we can instil in our young people. ‘You have two hands, one to help yourself, the second to help others’ Sometimes, this world can make us selfish and self-centered and we just need to remember that the small things we do can add value to someone else’s day. Not everyone is like this though. So start today by opening a door for someone, asking how they are, and just giving a smile. It can be that easy! Enjoy your week!

KAREN NORMAN (PCW)

Mallee Medical Practice Karoonda Phone: 85791122 or alternatively ring 85690222

August Wed 2nd, Fri 4th

Tues 8th, Wed 9th Wed 16th, Thurs 17th, Fri 18th

Wed 23rd, Thurs 24th Wed 30th, Thurs 31st, Fri 1st Sept

Closed Lunch: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Surgery Hours: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Optometrist Thursday 24th August Thursday 21st September

Thursday 26th October Thursday 23rd November Thursday 21st December

Podiatrist Wednesday 16th August

Wednesday 21st September

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Karoonda Area School Calendar Term 3, 2017

Week 2 Thursday 3rd August School Photos

Week 3 Thursday 10th August SAPSASA Golf Trials

Week 4 Tuesday 15th August Governing Council meeting

Week 6 Thursday 26th August SAPSASA Athletics Trial Day

Week 7 Tues 5th – Thurs 7th Sept Adelaide Show Program Friday 8th September School Closure Day

Week 8 Tuesday 12th September Governing Council meeting Friday 15th September Pupil Free Day - Partnerships

Week 10 Monday 25th September SAPSASA Athletics – Adelaide Tuesday 26th September USE 5-a-side Soccer Wednesday 27th September SAPSASA Tennis/Cricket Trials Friday 29th September End of Term 3 – School closes 2:15 pm

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