Term 3, Week 4 15 August 2018

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A Message from Deb… We have many important community activities this term. We look forward to seeing as many people as possible at our events. Farewell Event for Catherine Murch

Please keep Tuesday 25 September 2:30-5pm free!!!

There will be an assembly at 2:30pm. Students, parents and staff will celebrate Catherine’s wonderful contributions to Goodwood Primary School over the past 9 years. After the assembly

an afternoon tea will held for Catherine in the PAC. A notice will be sent home soon asking people to RSVP so we can cater for the event.

Next Wednesday we have a Book Sale of preloved books outside the PAC before and

after school and at play times. Please send along any books you have at home that could be used at this sale. All money raised will go towards a community library being created at the Goody Patch.

We have special guests from SAPOL coming to discuss current and emerging issues around eSafety at 6:15pm on Thursday the 23rd of August in the PAC. We would love to have as many families attend this important and useful

information night. A movie has been organised by the student leaders for children in the gym. Children will need to arrive at 5:45pm for a 6:00pm start. Light refreshments will be provided. It is essential that you RSVP with the number of adults and children (if any) attending. Please click on this link if you are attending. Next Friday is our annual Book Week Parade when children and adults alike can get creative, dressing up for the parade at 9am.

You do not need to buy costumes. Children can use their imagination to create something at home. Goody Patch Friday Coffee Group I am on the Goody Patch Management committee and once a fortnight parents of the school and community gardeners get together over a coffee and work in the garden. Currently the team are potting plants in preparation for their big PLANT SALE

fundraising event in September. Many hands make light work so if you have some spare time after the Book Week parade, August 24, drop on down to the Goody Patch with your gardening gloves for a coffee.

Thursday August 30 we have our Open Night where family members can come to the school and visit all classes to celebrate the learning our wonderful children are involved in. 5:30pm feel free to visit the Preschool and from 6pm onwards come across to the school. Friday August 30 is a SCHOOL CLOSURE If you need child care please book into the OSHC. SALA on Saturday August 25 As part of our Communication Audit, back in 2013, it was recommended to develop a

relationship with the Goodwood Road Business Association. I have taken this role on over the past 4 years and as a result we have been involved in local community events and the Fence Art has received a state wide award. The next event we encourage everyone to attend is the SALA celebration on Saturday August 25 between 10:30 and 4pm.

Thanks to Natasha Schranz Natasha Schranz has had to

resign from the Governing Council. Natasha has said she hopes to nominate again in a few years when her time permits. The Governing Council and I wish to thank Natasha Schranz for her work on the Governing Council over the past 2 1/2 years. During

this time Natasha has been the convenor for the Student Learning and Well Being committee and she also took on the

secretary role for one and a half years. Natasha’s organisation and commitment to these roles has been excellent. Positions available on the Governing Council until the end of 2018 Currently we have three vacancies on the Governing Council for parents of students at the school. We also have places for two community members who do not have to be parents of the school but can be volunteers who contribute to the school or local people who contribute to the

Goodwood Community in other ways e.g. business owners, community workers in the area. The community members on Governing Council can also be parents. New members who start during the school year are elected onto Governing Council by the Council until the end of that year.

Important Dates Friday 17 August Crazy Hair Day

Week 5—Book Week Wednesday August 22 Book Sale and Friday August 24 Book Week Parade Wednesday 22 August 8M/19E on excursion

Thursday 23 August eSafety Parent Workshop & Movie Night

SATURDAY August 25 SALA on Saturday on Goodwood Road Monday 27 August School Photos—don’t forget your child’s envelope

Monday 27 August OSHC Management Meeting 6pm Tuesday 28 August 4M/5M excursion to Unley Museum

Wednesday 29 August 1M assembly 2.30pm

OSHC NEWS

Important dates and Vacation Care opening times December/January 2019

Friday 14 December: last day of term 4, early dismissal 2.15pm, OSHC OPEN Monday 17 December - Friday 21 December Vacation Care OPEN

Monday 24 December - Friday 28 December - Vacation Care CLOSED Monday 31 December - Friday 4 January 2019 Vacation Care CLOSED Monday 7 January 2019 - Friday 25 January 2019 - Vacation Care OPEN Monday 28 January - Public Holiday Tuesday 29 January 2019—Term 1 commences For bookings email MaryAnn.Milne14@schools.sa.edu.au or phone 8373 5302

Our choir performance this year is the matinee performance on Sat 22nd. Congratulations to Katie and all our fabulous singers on your work so far this year. Special congratulations goes to Cohen McRae for being selected as the soloist at our schools concert.

Festival of Music Choir

To continue into the following year these members would need to nominate and be voted in by the community at the AGM. If you are interested in joining the Governing Council until the end of this year, please email Dan Kuss at

dan@dankuss.com. School Photos—Monday 27 August Earlier this week envelopes were sent home with every student. Please ensure you read the information and follow the instructions on the envelopes. No money is to be sent to school prior to the day. The school does not collect the money, it goes directly to MSP Photography. Please keep your envelopes at home until the actual day photos are taken (Monday 27 August). Correct money must be sealed in the envelopes as no change is given. Why not give ONLINE ORDERING a go… it’s quick and

easy. Family envelopes are available from the Front Office. An added incentive for families this year is that MSP now offers a 10% discount for all family orders above $90.00 a family. Preschool Transition and 2019 Class Placements Students starting Reception next year have been notified of a placement and advised of their first transition visit dates. The Preschool, Junior Primary Staff and Leadership have worked very closely together to ensure this exciting and maybe daunting time is a very positive one for these

young chi ldren.

Communications Over the years our parent Governing Council Communications committees have been instrumental in making a huge difference to communication efficiencies. For example, since an audit lead by parents in 2013 we have established a new website format; introduced Flexi Buzz, an instant app communication medium; begun using electronic forms to gain responses for events and

surveys and supported our class parents in their role. The introduction of QKR was also driven by this group. This year our Communications Governing Council sub-committee have been involved in a range of projects, for example: reviewing our website—we have a new website layout organised and plan to go online with this later this year and ensuring that all families are accessing information whether through paper, Flexibuzz or email. Currently our work is concentrating on our strategy to gain feedback from the community and how we can build on the community engagement Goodwood

Primary is famous for. Should you be interested in working with the Communications team, please don’t hesitate to email me on deb.brassington72@schools.sa.edu.au Play Ground Redevelopment The Building and Grounds team, students and Nikki have been working long hours meeting with the company drawing up plans for the playground. It won’t be long now and we will be able to have a community information morning where you will be able to come along have a look at the plans and give us feedback.

This sub-committee of Governing Council is also spending huge amounts of time supporting me with the planning for our 16th class building work and classroom redevelopment we hope to have started before the end of the year. August 25 … The Wallace Family are holding a Song

Bazaar to raise money for Beyond Blue. It sounds like it will be a great night to raise money for a good cause and connect with your community. See page 7 for the advert. Research and engineering starts at an early age...

I had an unexpected visit the other day from children in 17N who shared with me their models of the school they had created.

Their detail and attention to scale was exce l l ent . Some children even had

under ground water systems. I plan to recruit them onto our building and ground s committee! Kind regards Deb Brassington Principal

Community Library

Student News

CLUB TENNIS - PLAYERS WANTED (All Ages) Hope Ward Tennis Club (an ANZ Hot Shots Club) has

vacancies for Junior & Senior members of all standards, for the Summer 2018/19 Season (commencing mid October). A family friendly club offering social and competitive tennis. Interested…then come along to our Open Day:- OPEN DAY - SUNDAY 26/8 10.30am to 1.30pm (includes free sausage sizzle from 12 noon) Junior enquiries to Lyn Pettman - 0418 851 873 Senior enquiries to Madeline Hill - 8277 3937 Hope Ward Tennis Club, Tweed St., Cumberland Park www.hwtc.com.au

KIDS TAEKWOND O

Resilience, Confidence, Discipline, Respect. TERM 3 enrolments open now New beginners classes starting now.

Fitness, self-defence, discipline and leadership skills. Experienced, qualified, DCSI approved Instructors. Olympic Sport & traditional martial arts. Enquiries Ph: 0412 909 500 or 0412 965 905 Email: info@worldtaekwondo.com.au

Community News

Chinese Chess Club Wednesdays …. proving to be a popular choice!! Thanks to Grace, our Mandarin teacher, who donates who her own time at lunch times on Wednesdays, to

facilitate this club. Deb wandered through the other day and the concentration and strategic conversations about where to move next were interesting to eaves drop in on!

Great Achievements

Great Achievements

Term 3 Week 2 Assembly

Many thanks to 12C who facilitated our week 3 assembly. During this assembly 1M shared how our identity affects the decisions we make. Also students from 6 M introduced their proposal to stop using straws. Their research into how such a small plastic item can impact on the environment certainly provided us with an excellent argument to take up the challenge and make a difference. Their proposal will be taken to the canteen committee for consideration.

Congratulations to these students who received awards.

ACHIEVEMENT

Roman B

Leela S

Will T

Lyn C

Ethan M

Advitya K

CONFIDENCE

Junlong L

Sophie K

Olivia N

Lucy P

Marlo W

Jamie S

GETTING ALONG

Frankee P

Sam K

PERSISTANCE

Sebastian D

Eddie S

Aafreen B

Reuben VDK

Archie S

Sylvie O

Eliza M

Home Learning Trial and Feedback

At the start of the year the Student Learning and Wellbeing Committee asked Parents and Students what they thought about home work (what we now know as home learning) so we could evaluate the effectiveness and impact of a new home learning model that is being trialled this year.

We received 142 and 130 responses from parents and students respectively which was fantastic but it meant that we

had a lot of responses to go through and interpret. Below are the insights we have obtained from the survey responses:

The majority (over half) of both parents and students said that homework was something that allowed students to

progress or consolidate learning commenced in classroom; improve and build on skills taught in the classroom; and finish work that might not get done at school.

Parents thought homework was important for their child because it helped them for later years when homework

would become more of a priority; it helped them build on skills learnt in the classroom; and gave them (as parents) an insight into what their child was doing at school. Students however said homework was important to improve their skills learnt in the classroom; allowed for teacher and student-led learning; and made them a better student.

The types of homework activities valued by parents (the most) were reading, literacy or math/numeracy activities;

and activities that encouraged Inquiry or were self-guided. Students also valued the same activities as parents however students also listed practical (physical or mental), project based or life skills activities as ones they valued.

Parents valued the activities they listed as they developed key skills for life and allowed their child to explore their

abilities beyond the curriculum and taught them soft skills such as time management and independence. Students also

valued the activities as they developed key skills for life but they also said that the activities they valued were interesting or engaging. The majority of students (over half) said that homework had no or minimal impact on their life outside of school. Parent responses were mixed however with some saying that homework had no or minimal impact but others saying that it made their life busier with less time to fit in other activities and it was stressful. We would like to again thank everyone who completed the survey at the start of the year and let you know that at the start of Term 4 we will be sending out the same survey (with a few differences) to see how the responses have changed (if at all) after experiencing the new home learning model. Student Learning and Wellbeing Committee

Community Notices

Farewell gift for Catherine Murch from GPS students and their families. Dear students and families of Goodwood Primary School. As you are aware from school emails, Catherine Murch ("Ms Murch"), has taken up a new position within the De-

partment for Education for the remainder of 2018. As a parent who has known and worked closely with Cathe-rine for many of her 9 years at Goodwood Primary School I would like to organise a farewell gift for her on behalf of all students and families of GPS, both past and present. This it to thank her for the substantial contributions she made towards the teaching and well-being of all students including her time as a classroom teacher, a playground yard-duty confidante, and more recently as a member of the school leadership who worked closely with every classroom teacher and all students during their Inquiry-

Based-Learning (IBL) activities, and who also was the staff member on the Governing Council's Student Learning and Well-Being Subcommittee. If you would like to contribute to Catherine's farewell gift please email rebeccaanderson07@gmail.com to gain elec-tronic bank details, find me in the GPS gym on most Fri-day mornings between 8-9am during hockey training, or place cash in a clearly marked and sealed envelope and leave it in the GPS front office. Please include the names and messages you'd like included on the card or if you

would prefer to remain anonymous. No indication will be made as to the size of any donation! Suggestions of gift ideas are welcome. The gift will be presented to Catherine at the farewell event that the school is going to organise for later during this term. Kind regards, Bec Anderson (Zoe, year 6, Mia now in yr 8).

The Wallace family are members of our community. This will be a great opportunity to raise money for a great cause and connect with your community.

Community Notices

Saraswati Community School, an Ethnic School regis-tered with DECD, is now offering Indian classical

dance classes.

The teacher is a Scientist with Department of Defence

and is also an expert in Bharatanatyam, one of the old-est classical dance forms in India. She has been

teaching her art in Australia for more than 20 years.

You are welcome to join the Bharatanatyam classes which are open for everyone and require no previ-

ous knowledge or experience.

There will be a nominal fee of $50 per term and stu-dents will learn Sanskrit language and dance side by

side, while getting a glimpse of Indian culture.

Where: Goodwood Primary School Gym

When: Every Sunday Children: 11 am to 12 noon

Adults: 12 noon to 1 pm

Contact: Divya on 0469 570 186; Deepti on

0428 174 699 or write to Dayawati.Pandey@vhp.org.au