Settlers Farm Campus R-7 Term 2, Week 2 , Thursday 12th May 2016

INSIDE THIS

ISSUE

Principal’s News

St Kilda Excursion

Finance News

School Photos

Term Planner

Canteen Price List

COMING EVENTS

TERM 2

NAPLAN Testing

Week 2

Governing Council

Meeting Monday

16th May

School Photos

Friday 27th May

Volunteer Induction/

RAN Training

Monday 23rd May

9am to 11am

&

Monday 30th May

1pm to 3pm

Reconciliation Day

Tuesday 31st May

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Queens Birthday

Monday 13th June

Dear Families/Caregivers,

Welcome back to Term 2. I hope that you had wonderful family time over the school holidays. Happy Mother’s Day to all mums, for last Sunday! Some of the major events this term include; NAPLAN testing in week 2, Photo Day in week 4, Reconciliation Day in week 5, Tri-skills, football clinics and Student Reports coming home in week 10.

NAPLAN testing began on Tuesday for our year 3, 5 and 7 students and will be completed by the end of this week. This year we offered students a snack and a run outside before sitting to do the test. Preparing students to be at their optimal performance for success is our aim. Results for these students and their families are not expected before September. DECD is moving towards all NAPLAN tests being online in 2017 to enable the results to be available earlier for school and student planning. All schools have completed a readiness assessment of their online facilities to enable this to occur.

The Partnership Pupil Free Day that occurred on the first day of term, for classroom teachers and curriculum support staff, was about Maths. The day supported our school’s direction in the explicitness about learning intentions and success criteria for our students. Staff interacted at their year level with staff from 6 primary schools in the partnership. The collegial discussions were rich and fruitful. Our administration support staff attended professional learning in word processing skills and also report that the day added positively to their repertoire of knowledge and skills. Our next scheduled professional learning day is on Wednesday 6th July and is about writing with Sheena Cameron; a renowned educator and facilitator.

Our next Governing Council meeting is Monday week 3. If you have any thoughts about improving our school please write to our info email address that is at the top of this newsletter, and in the subject line put ‘Please forward to SFC Governing Council’. You are welcome to forward your thoughts and feedback at any time. In particular, I would love to know what you would like more information about either through the newsletter or through information evenings.

Information will be coming home separately very soon providing instructions on how to download our new School App. On the front of the app, once downloaded, there will be permanent pins that will give you access to the QKR program, from where you can order from the canteen or pay fees, plus a direct link to our latest newsletter. I am very excited about this added communication tool to build our links with every family. Please download the app once it becomes available as it will provide you with invaluable information about what is happening each week at school.

Extra lunch time activities have been in place in our yard for a couple of years now. Keeping students active during play has had a wonderfully positive impact on yard behaviour. Each term our Student Leaders negotiate with the teachers who supervise these activities as to what activities will be offered and where. They then take responsibility for advertising these activities to other students and place ‘sandwich boards’ out at the designated areas. So far this year we have had Drawing Club, Dance, Fairy Garden, Indoor Activity, Big Games, I pads and School Radio as the extra options.. These activities are very popular and two are offered every day of the week.

Forward planning: Waterworld this year will be on Monday 5th December (week 8). For those families new to our school: Last year we had our first ever whole school excursion. Over 700 students, all staff and many families went to Waterworld for the day and had an absolutely wonderful day. The feedback was so positive that we felt this should be an annual event where possible. We have finally secured this date for this year. Lots of information will come home closer to the time. I encourage you to put the date into your diary now so that you may be able to join us on the day.

Kind Regards, Tanya

Phone: 82806866 Fax: 82806403 School Email: dl.1851.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Tanya Oshinsky

Principal

Jo Sayers Deputy Principal

Students with Special Needs

Briony Bullers-Knight Deputy Principal

Sam Papadopoulos ICT Senior Leader

Jason Saxby

Quality Teaching & Learning

Senior Leader

Maureen Williams

Student Wellbeing

Senior Leader

Paula

Mulholland

Kindergarten Director

Jan Hutchison

OSHC Director

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Volunteer Induction/RAN Training

Parents, relatives and friends are invited to attend Volunteer Induction and RAN training

sessions facilitated by Sam Papadopoulos and Briony Bullers-Knight at Settlers Farm Campus.

The session times are as follows:

Monday 23rd May 9am to 11am

Monday 30th May 1pm to 3pm

Please ring the school on 8280 6866 to confirm your attendance,

for organisational purposes.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Thank you.

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Please note that our BIZGATE system has been decommissioned. You are still able to pay

money to the school with your credit card by ringing the school with your credit card details.

We are currently working on a new system for payments online.

A reminder that school fees were due to be paid by the end of last term. We are currently

working on sending out statements to families who have not made any payment or arrangement to

pay. Included in the statement will be a form to set up a direct debit payment arrangement with

EZIDEBIT. Feedback from families has been that this is a very easy option for school fee

payment. We encourage all families to look at this option.

Danette Oughton

Business Manager

How to subscribe to the

newsletter mailing list for parents

Send an email to the following email address:

listserv@lists.schools.sa.edu.au

The subject and body of the email should be blank apart from adding the following text exactly as written

to the body of the email:

subscribe SFC_PARENTDL

After approximately 5 minutes you should receive an email with instructions to confirm your address by

clicking on the link contained within the email.

The subscription request will then be approved by the school and the parent

will receive a confirmation email once approved.

Canteen – Help Needed!

Our canteen volunteers are currently too few in number and we urgently

need help. If you would like to offer some time (between 8.30am to 2.00pm)

to the canteen on a weekly, fortnightly or casual basis, please

contact Carol or Cheryl in the canteen – they would love to hear from you!

A Criminal History Check is required and you must also attend a

Volunteer Induction Course.

All volunteers will receive a free lunch and tea and coffee.

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G01 B03 B04 & B06

In term 1 G01, B03, B04 and B06 went to St Kilda. We all travelled by bus. It took two buses. When we

arrived it was a quarter to ten. All the teachers set out the rules. Which were very reasonable.

Everyone mostly went to the castle slides, but a lot of G01 went to the big, long, bumpy slide, so it was

very crowded. After the big slide everyone ate their recess. After recess everyone in G01 played

chasey in the pirate ship and on the yellow playground. A boy from G01 won by hiding in the castle slides.

Everyone was puffed, but they were still having fun!! After lunch we went looking for crabs down at the

beach area. Most of the crabs were hiding under rocks. It was very exciting, even though most of us got

our shoes dirty. When we were all cleaned up, a few kids from G01 went on the jungle gym including me,

but I was climbing on the top when they were jumping onto the trampoline area. Sadly we had to leave

and go back to school. It was one of the best excursions anyone has had!!

By Aleshia McFadyn G01

We went to St Kilda. I went on the drop slides and the castle and the zip line. I went crabbing and in the

maze. We went on a bus and then we had recess and then lunch. It was my first time on the drop slides.

It was scary and then the second time it wasn't scary at all. By Blake B04

First we went on the bus, but I don’t know why there was a toilet on the bus? When we got there I went

on the castle and I went on the drop slides. I went in the maze. At first I was doing fine then I got lost

but I found my way out. Then we went home. By Chloe B04

On Wednesday I went on an excursion to St Kilda. First I went to the big climbing thing. Me and Chloe

went there and she climbed to the top of it and I stayed on the bottom holding to bunny that Mikayla had

given Chloe to have on the playground. Me and Chloe were playing a game on there and kept throwing the

bunny up in the hole and Chloe was trying to catch it. Next we went down the spiral slide. Chloe went

first and I went second. By Hayley S B04

“I liked the big tower.

I felt really happy.”

Alysha B06

“Aiden and I went down the fast

slide. It was really fun!”

Connor B06

“It was really good.

I liked going on the bumpy slide”

Riley B06

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Held Thursday 5th May 2016 A successful Mother’s Day stall once again this year run by our

Kookaburra classes. The students enjoyed shopping for their

mum’s and grandma’s.

We hope you enjoyed your special day!

Wednesday 4th May was International Star Wars Day. During recess and lunch students enjoyed watching the Star Wars Lego Droid Tales

movie in Terence’s Arts Room.

The room was packed!

Settlers Farm Campus also enjoyed a special appearance by

Darth Vader (aka Terence) and Jar Jar Binks (aka Mary-Jane!)

“The Force was alive and well at Settlers Farm Campus!”

Terence Higgs - Arts Teacher

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We are very proud of our Students at Settlers Farm Campus. These R-2 Students received Merit Certificates at the Early Years Assembly on the 12th of April for demonstrating our values of “Respect”, “Responsibility” and “Personal Best”.

On Tuesday the 8th of March, 12 Year 7 students went to the Entertainment Centre for the Grip

Leadership conference. Grip Leadership run training for student leaders so that they can lead in

their schools. We had to write an application to be chosen as student leaders and Sarah, Chris

and Jane came to the conference with us.

The conference started at 9:15am and finished at 2:30pm. There were over 1000 students

there from different schools around Adelaide, private and public schools. We played some

games during the day that got us to interact with students from other schools. We had a

session called how to grow as a leader which used a tree as a way to show the different parts of

leadership. The tree roots were core values, the trunk was combine with others, the leaves and

branches were contribute to what is around you and the water was constant input. At 11:10am

we had a Bye Bye Bullying session where we talked about what bullying was and how we could

Spot It Out, Speak Out and Stomp It Out. We had to communicate with people from other

schools and share our ideas about how we could make a difference in our schools. Then we had a

traffic light leadership session to look at setting goals for action. Red light is things that need

to be stopped or changed around the school, amber means areas that need to be slowed down,

green light is for areas that we need to go forward with. We had to think about things in our

school that fitted into these different areas. Everyone enjoyed the conference because there

were lots of interactive activities and games. We all felt that we grew our skills as leaders and

taught us ways to be a positive influence to others. We have lots of great ideas for how to make

a difference in our school and are looking forward to achieving big things this year!

By Sam and Dylan

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Held on Friday 27th May

Master School Portraits will be taking our school photos again this year.

Photo Envelopes were sent home with your child in Week 1.

All envelopes and money for the photos

MUST BE RETURNED ON THE DAY OF THE PHOTOS.

This year the photographers are offering Family Photos.

This will be in the School Hall from 8.30am to 9am.

Please note: late orders will incur a surcharge of $15.00.

Catch-up Photo Day will be held on Wednesday 1st June.

WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY

Friday 20th May

Walking regularly is the best exercise because you can build it into your daily routine.

Treat your kids to a school lunch order.

Every Wednesday is a “Healthy Cooked Meal”,

$5.00 Full Meal and $3.00 1/2 serves

New Canteen Menu attached.

Please order on a lunch bag not an envelope.

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Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea L01 and L02 students celebrated Mother’s

Day by hosting an afternoon tea. Students

baked scones for the occasion and worked

hard practising how to greet and serve

guests as they arrived. They expertly took

scone orders as guests arrived and

concentrated hard to put just the right

amount of jam and cream on each one. It

was wonderful to see so many mums,

grandmothers and special adults attend the

afternoon tea. Students were so excited

and it was fantastic opportunity for them to

share a story and treat with someone

special. Congratulations on all your efforts

students and teachers in Lorikeet.

Student well-being initiatives at Settlers Farm Campus include; informal sessions with our

student counsellors, special programs run through Baptist Care about friendships, self

esteem and emotional expression and social and emotional lessons. Contact us if you would

like more information about your child’s well-being.

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