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Seaford K-7 NEWS Wednesday 21st November - Term 4, Week 6, 2018

Seaford K-7 School, 39 Jane Street, Port Noarlunga South, SA 5167 Phone: 8386 1197 Fax: 8386 3745

Email: dl.1207.info@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.seafordps.sa.edu.au

Diary Dates

NOVEMBER 22 SRC Meeting & Lunch UP Unit Open Night 3 – 4pm 23 9.00-12.00pm New Reception Transition

9.10am Assembly 10.30am Volunteer Morning Tea 26 Year 6/7 Transition to Seaford Secondary College Year 4/5 Swimming & Aquatics 27 Year 6/7 Aquatics 29 5.00pm Governing Council Meeting DECEMBER 6 Graduation Ceremony & Celebration at Moana SLSC 12 Reports to go home 13 Students transition to 2019 classes 14 9.10 -End of Year Celebration 2.00pm Early dismissal

Don’t Forget – Volunteers Morning Tea Friday 23rd November @ 10:30 in the library

Staffing News After many years of teaching and with the last eleven years at Seaford K-7, Ann McLoughlin will be retiring at the end of the term. We thank her for all her work and effort here over the years and wish her an enjoyable and relaxing retirement. We wish Jess Tietgen, one of our R/1 class teachers all the best as she goes on long service leave and welcome Bronwyn Alexander and Rosa Luppino who will be in her class until the end of the year. Michelle Dohnt has started her maternity leave in preparation for the birth of her third child. She will have a years’ leave so we will see her again in 2020! We will be internally advertising a leadership positon to replace her for 2019.

2018 Seaford K-7 Parent Survey Each year as a school site we are required to seek feedback from our parent community. We also believe that this is an effective way to gather information to assist us to make changes and perform better as a school. Please either complete the anonymous and confidential survey online using the link provided below or the hard copy sent home with your youngest child by Friday 7th December. Thank you for your cooperation with this as it is important. https://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/SeafordK7Parents Students from years 3-7 will also be participating in an online survey in classes to assist us with improvements and as part of our annual report. These too are anonymous and confidential.

Kickstart for Kids Fundraiser Our casual clothes day last Friday raised $176.45 for Kickstart for Kids. Thanks!!!!!

Whole School Attendance Update Our attendance rate is still 92% and below our 95% attendance target. Thank you to parents and carer’s who call, message or dojo their child’s absence reasons to us. Every Day Counts! So please support your child/ren’s attendance to support us achieving our goal at the end of the term!

From Deputy Principal

Premiers’ Reading Challenge 2018

The Premier's Reading Challenge is a literacy engagement program designed to:

encourage students to read more books and enjoy reading improve literacy levels.

The challenge requires students to read 12 books between the beginning of the school year and early September. This can be done in class and at home. This year 229 students completed the challenge. The awards were given out in class last week. Congratulations to all who completed the challenge and we look forward to 2019 with new books to read!

Student2Student Reading Program Letters went home with selected students last week about this fantastic reading program by The Smith Family designed to support your child to enjoy reading and improve their reading level. Children who have been on the program in previous years have made great improvements in their reading which in turn has increased their confidence and thus wellbeing at school. Please return any signed letter to the front office by Friday 23rd November

NAPLAN Online Students in Years 3 - 6 will be trialling the NAPLAN Online platform this week in readiness for the online test next year. No results will be collected as it is testing our ICT capabilities.

End of Year Assembly

Parents/carers are invited to attend our final assembly for the year on Friday 14th December beginning at 9:10 am in the gym. We will be celebrating the 2018 school year, farewelling staff and students who are leaving and drawing the Fundraising Committee’s Christmas Raffle. We look forward to seeing you

there.

Assembly Awards – Well Done

Anthony

Jasper For demonstrating Success for writing short recounts

and trying hard to use correct grammar

Hunter For demonstrating Success & Responsibility for

participating in spelling and reading every day

Jenny

&

Mrs

Alexander

Zayne For demonstrating Success for making a great effort

during bookmaking

Savannah YCDI Award for Getting Along for learning to co-

operate and be a responsible member of our class

Mrs Moro

Oscar For demonstrating Success for being brilliant &

hardworking in all of his subjects!

Lilly YCDI Award for Persistence for fantastic progress

with her reading and writing!

Jess

&

Mrs

Alexander

Natasha For demonstrating Success for trying your best with

your sight words

Jordan YCDI Award for Getting Along for being a kind and

helpful class member

Miss Ray Maylee For demonstrating Success for a wonderful effort in

your book making

Waqas YCDI Award for Persistence for continuing to try and

learning the Oxford Words with your Buddy.

Bec &

Mrs Taylor

Emily For demonstrating Respect to all class members and

school staff

Jayce For demonstrating Respect to all class members and

school staff

Mrs Zammit Xavier YCDI Award for Persistence for improvement in your

writing

Lily YCDI Award for Confidence for her improved

confidence in reading and maths

Levi YCDI Award for Getting Along for being a great

friend

Mrs

McLoughlin

& Ms Bladon

Thanwa For demonstrating Success by improving your

narrative writing skills. Well done!

Madison YCDI Award for Persistence for persisting to learn

multiplication facts

Abigail Oliver YCDI Award for Persistence to produce 5 star work in

maths

Thomas For demonstrating Success by moving up 2 reading

levels

Mrs Hart Bella YCDI Award for demonstrating Persistence for

persisting with her maths assignment Will

YCDI Award for demonstrating Persistence for

persisting with his maths assignment

Mrs Haddy James For demonstrating Success with your explanations of

maths working out

Ms Amato

The Arts

Jamal For demonstrating the school values in the Arts by

showing confidence and always having a go. Well

done!

Anthony’s class For demonstrating the school values in the Arts by

getting along. Well done!

Tania Sensei

Japanese

Jamal & Riley For demonstrating the school values in Japanese by

succeeding to complete all Japanese alphabet

tests

Mr Paulovich

PE

Marley YCDI Award for Organisation for exceptional

organisation and leadership when presenting a new

game to the class

Zayne YCDI Award for Confidence for showing great

confidence when trying new gymnastics

movements

Congratulations to the following students for their success

in: Quick-smart Numeracy: Will, Acacia, Bella & Lily PASM (Phonological Awareness Skills Mapping): Landern, Liam & Makayla.

SRC Christmas Appeal

SRC appreciate the donations made to the Christmas Appeal so far. Just a reminder that this includes canned foods, and non-perishable goods as well as new/unused toys. We will be collecting until Friday 23rd November in the Front Office.

Thank you for your generosity!

Returning Library Books Families are asked to return any library books to school by Monday 3rd December for stocktaking. If you have any books on loan please return them to the library before this date. Overdue notices will be sent before this time. Remember to check your book shelf at home, under your child’s bed and even in the car! Thankyou!

Early Years Farm Excursion This term the Early Years classes have been learning about farms and farm animals. Last week all 3 classes went on a farm excursion to Mrs Moro’s farm. We all had lots of fun and participated in activities such as horse grooming, a farm walk, bush art and bush cooking, water races, egg and spoon race and rob the nest game. We had a sausage sizzle lunch and an ice block afterwards. We saw horses, cows, dogs, sheep and bales of wheat on our journey to the farm. Here are some comments from the students…. “I like the cute dog, his name was Obi”, Bodhi “I liked the marshmallows we had around the campfire”, Abby “We got to feed Danny the pony some carrots”, Mac “The farm trip was fun and I really like Shameer the white pony”, Lilly

“We ate marshmallows at the farm and brushed the horsie”, Leigh “I got to brush the white horse, it made me feel happy”, Makayla

Southern Table Tennis Centre & Wilfred Taylor Reserve PE Excursion

On Thursday, November 8th week 4, 49 students from Bec/Ms Taylor’s, Abigail’s, Mrs Hart’s and Ms Haddy’s classes went on an excursion to the

Southern Table Tennis Centre and Wilfred Taylor Reserve. Despite a late start due to heavy traffic, students got the opportunity to

participate in table tennis, basketball and netball across the facilities near the reserve. It was great to see students working in groups with students from other classes and to see them enthusiastically participate in all of the activities. Lunch at Wilfred Taylor Reserve and a play on the playground was a nice way for everyone to finish the day before our return to school. A big thank you to all of the teachers and SSO’s who attended the excursion and helped with activities on the day. Also a big thank you to Maurice and Max from Southern Table Tennis who not only helped with organising the excursion, but also delivered Sporting Schools coaching in Term 3 and ran a lunchtime Table Tennis Tournament in Week 2 this term.

Please remember that these sorts of days are a great way for students of all ability levels to be involved in sport and the more students that attend, the more opportunities we have for these types of excursions. Also it would be great to see more parents/carers complete their volunteer training as it is great to have helpers for these days and we will definitely need your support for future SAPSASA events! Thanks for your support everyone! Steve Paulovich

Outdoor Classroom Day

Abigail’s class started the day with Daily 5 outside. Many students choose to sit in spots on the playground. We also did our Maths lesson outside creating a human pie-chart and our Science investigation with Ms Taylor’s class looking at solids. Mrs Hart’s class went to the beach to explore the tide. We enjoyed writing poems to the soothing sounds of the waves. We also did some Maths learning outside using fractions and percentages in real life scenarios

Mrs Zammit’s class spent the morning outside doing Daily 5 and book making. We also did a measurement lesson outside as well.

Christmas Raffle Once again our Fundraising Committee are organising an End of Year Raffle. Raffle books have gone home and we are asking families to buy/sell a raffle book worth $5. Tickets are $1.00 each. Please return money and ticket stubs to school by Friday 7th December. The committee have organised a cardboard box for each class and we would love families to provide goodies, either listed below or of your choice (up the value of $5.00) for the box situated in your child’s classroom (s). Families may wish to donate goodies for:

Jess’s class Beach Fun

Jenny’s class Chocolate

Mrs Moro’s class Cooking

Anthony’s class Sweets/Chocolate

Marg’s class Stationery/Office

Ms Zammit’s class Kids Toys/Crafts

Ms Bladon & Mrs McLoughlin Coffee/Tea Break

Bec & Ms Taylor Christmas

Abigail’s class Savoury

Mrs Hart’s class Gardening/Homewares

Ms Haddy’s class Body Care/Beauty