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Seaford K-7 NEWS Wednesday 12th September - Term 3 Week 8

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

SEPTEMBER 13 Yr 6/7 Excursion to Parliament House 9.30am Finance Meeting 3.15pm Governing Council Meeting 17-18 Zoo Snooze – Year 4/5 Abigail’s Class Botanic Gardens Excursion 19 Special Classes’ Theatre Excursion 25 Japanese Restaurant Excursion 27 Unit Newsletters home to families 28 9.10am Assembly 2.00pm Early dismissal

From Deputy Principal

Reading - Have Fun - Read Together As simple as it sounds, ten minutes a day of quality time having fun with a book can make the difference between someone who struggles with reading and someone who discovers the love and joy of reading. The ten minutes spent with your child and a book should be the best ten minutes of your child’s day. It is not about reading today but about coming back to read again tomorrow and the day after. Eliminate the stress and anxiety of reading together. If you always sit in the same place to do home reading, vary the location. Go outside and read under a tree, take the book to the coffee shop, or simply sit on the lounge room floor. Children sense your anxiety. Reading is about trust. Readers (especially struggling readers) are vulnerable. Parents' expectations often get in the way if they experience anxiety and fear around reading. Alleviate the stress by doing shared reading or echo reading. Laugh. Lighten up. Children learn when they are having fun. If your child insists on reading his favourite book for the 55th time, read it with pleasure and then say “I noticed this book on your shelf, I would like to read that to you when we finish.” Reading a book is an invitation and children need to be given the opportunity to choose. Extract taken from Read 4 Success website www.read4success.com.au Nikki Garner Deputy Principal

PAT Maths & Reading Assessments

In the next few weeks students in Year 3-7 will be taking part in PAT Maths and Reading assessments. The Year 2 students will be doing the PAT Maths this year too. These are done online and are completed yearly all over South Australia. Teachers will use the results to analyse and evaluate progress to guide classroom learning programs.

Leadership Team - Professional Learning

Throughout the year with colleagues from the River Hub Partnership, our leadership team has been involved in a professional learning program called Agile Leadership with Dr Simon Breakspear. This has provided the opportunity for us to develop together an agile approach to lead implementation of improvement. These days have been specifically designed to enable us to have the time and frameworks to review evidence of impact, learn new approaches and plan for focussed action. Our focus has been on improving reading outcomes for our students and in our final sessions this week we will be looking forward to

Analysing our current evidence of impact and refine our improvement strategies

Developing the capacity to AMPLIFY our change initiatives across our sites in order to spread and sustain impact beyond a small pocket

Learning how to connect long term strategic directions for improvement with short term cycles of iterative work

Considering how to embed the routines and tools necessary for high performance agile teamwork into 2019 and beyond.

Belinda Adams Principal

Staff Professional Learning

On our Pupil Free Day, staff were involved in developing their professional knowledge and understanding in a variety a ways. All staff attended an information session presented by Support Services about “Interoception” and how this 8th sense is a tool to support students’ wellbeing. Teachers also worked together on scaling and moderating students’ writing samples as part of the Bright Path Writing and on the development of the Seaford K-7 Numeracy Agreement. SSOs in the afternoon had an opportunity to visit the Special Education Resource Unit (SERU), at Fulham Gardens, where they saw the library of resources available to borrow to support the learning of students with a disability. It was a fruitful day with us all appreciating the time to work on our professional learning.

Updating Contact Information

A reminder to parents and carers to please let us know if you have changed any of your contact information such as your address or home or mobile phone numbers or if your emergency contacts have changed at all. It is vital that in an emergency we are able to contact you or your nominated emergency contact. This helps us to provide the best possible care for your child as well as helping to alleviate your child’s anxiety if they are hurt or injured at any time.

NEW Volunteer Process

This year Michelle has been working on implementing the department’s NEW Volunteer Policy at our site. An overview for our site has been sent as an attachment with this newsletter. This procedure has changed considerably and all parents/carers need to be aware of the NEW expectations and requirements volunteers NEED to have before they can volunteer their time with us. These are in the policy but the main changes are below and need to be done before an onsite induction with Michelle can be arranged- 1. DSCI screening, called the ‘Relevant History Screening’, which is a requirement by the Department for Education for anyone working with children 2. online RAN EC training for volunteers (90 minutes) and the online Volunteers in DECD Induction (20 minutes). So if you are wanting to volunteer to go on an excursion or camp from now on you need to ensure this process is completed. Please ask at the Front Office for the Volunteer Pack so you can begin the process as the DSCI screenings can take considerable time to be approved. Thank you for your assistance with this! Belinda Adams Principal.

Buddy Classes

In Week 5, Penny and Bec’s Year 4/5 class showed Naomi’s Year 1/2 buddies the learning they have been doing in digital technology. The Year 4/5’s have spent four weeks learning to create dynamic PowerPoint presentations. We began by inserting images and text, then adding transitions to each page. We created PowerPoint games using hyperlinks.

Casual Clothes Day - Last Day of Term 3

The SRC are holding a Casual Clothes Day fundraiser on the last day of this term with students able to wear sensible, casual clothes and make a gold coin donation which will go towards ‘Hampers for Hay’ to help support our farmers.

Student Leader’s Day

On Thursday the 30th of August our four School Leaders represented Seaford at the annual Student Leadership Day. This day is hosted by Labor MP for Kingston, Amanda Rishworth and included inspirational speakers. This year we heard from the Adelaide Strikers General Manager, Bronwyn Klei who spoke about her role as a leader. She had 5 tips about leadership which she shared in an interesting slideshow. We also heard from Young Australian of the Year, Kyron Dixon. He spoke about his journey as a representative of young indigenous males, a sportsman and as a survivor of

cancer. The Captain of the Thunderbirds, Leana de Bruin and Detective Chief Inspector of SAPOL, Scott Fitzgerald also shared about their leadership journeys and roles. The School Leaders

listened intently, taking notes and discussing what advice each leader had to share. They were able to ask questions and took some time to think about their own role as a leader in our school community. Here are their take-away messages from the day: Bella: ‘Never give up. If you have a dream go for it and be confident in yourself’. Riley: ‘You are not a born leader, you become one’. Elliott: ‘Listening to the speakers, learning from their leadership and being able to ask questions’. Kaeleigh: ‘Be confident in yourself as a school leader and if you have a problem it is better off shared so it can be worked on’. It was a pleasure to be at the event with them, thank you to families for supporting the day. Michelle.

Scholastic Book Club

Flyers went home this week and orders are due back by Friday 14th September. Online ordering ONLY for Seaford Primary School.

Community News

Port Noarlunga Cricket Club requires boys and girls for Under 10s, 12s and 14s. We also have junior and master blasters for 5-9 year olds. Training and registration is on 16th of September at 10am at the Port Noarlunga Oval Email - portnoarlungacc@gmail.com for details

Our class was given a wonderful opportunity to go ‘behind the scenes’ and learn about how a grocery store operates through Woolworth's Food Discovery Tour. We were welcomed by an awesome guide, Melissa who ensured everyone wore hairnets, aprons (for hygiene) and a carrot crown (for fun).

The tour began in the bakery and we got to see how all the yummy breads and desserts are made. We even got to sample a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. Next we investigated the deli where students got to go into the freezer. They saw where the trucks are loaded. We learnt about heathy eating, different kinds of fruits and vegetables and how they are grown. Students had lots of questions!!

Students got to try many delicious samples. We ended the tour by choosing our own piece of fruit and everyone received an activity pack to take home.

What a great experience! Mrs. Zammit

I got to learn about olden day stuff. I learned how to make butter from cream.

By Chace

I liked horse riding and learning how the blacksmith made horse shoes.

By Daniel

We learned to ride horses. I know you have to stop the horse by pulling up on the reins. To go you tap both feet on the side of the horse. To go left or right you pull the reins in that direction.

By Cooper

Year 2, 2/3 and 3/4

I learnt how to make butter. You need full cream milk then it goes into a metal machine that

separates the milk into buttermilk and cream.

By Alex.

I learnt for a chick to hatch from the egg it needs the right

humidity and it needs to be rotated.

By Carter

Kit-Kat the farm cat who loves

eating raw eggs!

The farrier needed wood to make a fire but the blacksmith at Narnu farm used pinecones. In the olden days farmers used

horses to help them plough.

By Nate.

I enjoyed doing horse riding because my horse listened to me and it did what I said.

By Molly

At the camp I learnt that a horses’ back is really bumpy and I saw how to make a

horse shoe. By Sam

Fun at Narnu Farm...

We cuddled animals....

We rode horses...

We went on a history trail and learnt about farm machinery used on farms

from the 1800’s.

We fed carrots to Blue and Sally, seeds to the

hens and milk to the

calves and lambs

We saw a blacksmith making a

horse shoe.

We saw how butter was made by using an old style separator and

churn.

We used the butter on our scones for morning tea.