Term 4 Week 2

27th October 2016

TERM 4

WEEK 3

31/10/16 Tri Skills

1/11/16 Tri Skills

2/11/16 Year 7 Footsteps

3/11/16 Rooms 20 & 26 Road Safety

3/11/16 PHOTOS 10:00am Change of date

Year 7, Band & Captains

WEEK 4

7/11/16 Tri Skills

8/11/16 Tri Skills

8/11/16 Governing Council Meeting @ 7:30pm

9/11/16 Instrumental Night @ 6:00pm

9/11/16 Year 7 Footsteps

11/11/16 School Closure Day – Local Day of Significance

Assembly Roster

Week 2 Rooms 14 & 21

Week 3 Rooms 23 & 3

Hello everyone,

I would like to say thank you to all the students, staff and families and friends of East Para Primary School who have made me feel so welcome.

During my first week I have visited all classrooms and learning spaces. I have met with the Chairperson of the Governing Council, the E.P.P.S. Leadership Team and begun meetings with all staff.

I have heard and read about exciting and engaging school programs such as the Pedal Prix, the School Choir, the Instrumental Music Program, and the school’s sporting teams. I have spent time at O.S.H.C. and heard from Joel about the school’s much valued and supported O.S.H.C. service.

I was also very fortunate to attend the final school concert on Tuesday 18th

October. It was great to see the strong community support of our students. The concert show-cased the strength and importance of Performing Arts at EPPS.

I have seen and observed the school ‘RITCHR’ values in action, from before school, in the classrooms and at recess and lunch.

I commend all who have contributed to the outstanding school and community at EPPS and extend to everyone ‘an open’ door to meet and talk with me.

I look forward to working with our students, staff and parents to continue to build a community focussed on successful outcomes for all our students. Warm regards, Ros

Please see below a resource specifically targeted at parents. As the SAPOL presentation was postponed until early 2017, I thought you may be interested in visiting the site below. It is the most recent Government publication regarding Cyber-safety.

Please feel free to make a time to meet with your child’s teacher or myself if you do have any concerns regarding their use of the internet or more specifically social media.

Regards, Aaron McPherson

Welcome to iParent—where parents can learn about the digital environment and keep updated on their children’s technology use.

Here you can find guidance for using safety settings on your family’s web-connected devices, tips for choosing movies and games and strategies for keeping young people safe online.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent

Welcome back to an exciting Term 4. On behalf of the school community, I would like to welcome Ros to East Para Primary School.

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, Jodie Mickel, Teresa Norsworthy and I attended our final Quick Smart training sessions. We have been privileged to attend 6 sessions over the last three terms enabling us to become Quick Smart Facilitators.

Quick Smart is a Numeracy Intervention Program which promotes automaticity with number facts. Automaticity frees up working memory allowing students to concentrate on other areas of Maths such as Problem Solving. In Term 2, 12 Year 5 students were selected to participated in our Quick Smart Program and throughout the year they have worked steadily and enthusiastically to improve their retention of number facts.

Jodie and Teresa have reported that all students have made significant improvement in their addition and subtraction facts and have displayed an increase in their number fact confidence.

Regards, Deb Gustainis

At EPPS, our RITCHR values are very important and are the

basis for how we work and behave as a school community.

Daily we see students at EPPS use Respect, Integrity, Trust,

Caring, Honesty and Responsibility, so at assembly each

week, we will acknowledge students who use these values

consistently. Week 1 Term 4 Week 1

Term 4 Week 2

Amber Kailee Roberta Term 4 Week 3

Aden Natalie Cian

Name Rm Award

Room 15 15 Responsibility

Malachi Cook 3 Responsibility

Jordan Oushoorn 21 Respect

Ellah Catchpole 20 Responsibility

Taylor Baker 12 Trust

Lathaniel Hapuku 12 Responsibility

Blake Oudshoorn 14 Integrity

Teyana West 14 Responsibility

Joshua Poole 25 Honesty

Josh Lucas 26 Responsibility

Ilhan Sohairudin 12 Caring

Addison Kruss 15 Caring

Corey Daly 12 Caring

Paige Del Vescovo 32 Integrity

Blake Oudshorn 14 Integrity

Teyana West 14 Integrity

Shae Mustard 26 Responsibility

Chloe Florance 21 Respect

Sean Watson 25 Respect

Soneya Shaikh-Siddiqui 20 Responsibility

Owen Tompkins 11 Caring

Netta 2 St Joseph Mem def EPPS 10-5

Good Try everyone. Netta 4 EPPS def St Joseph Mem 19-9

Fantastic high scoring game. Netta 7 EPPS def Wildy 7-2

First game for all players, well done. Primary 6 Rose Park def EPPS 10-5

Gelled well as a team. Primary 8 Stradbroke def EPPS

Good try with a reduced team. Sub Junior 2 EPPS def Comets 22-11

Awsome first game together. Sub Junior 5 Had a bye

Please be reminded if your child can not play, to contact the coach or netball co-ordinator as soon as possible so a replacement can be found. Marie Moores – Coordinator - 0407197417

SCHOOL PARKING REMINDER: STAFF CAR PARK: The bitumen area behind the

school is reserved for staff parking.

PARKING: If you are wanting to come into the school

with your child in the morning the car park for parents to use is the dirt area at the back of the school, just on from the staff car park. This is the safest place on school grounds to park and come into the school.

Please be aware of our children’s safety at all times.

Only 5 email addresses out of 30 have re-registered for Newsletters to go to their email address.

If you want an email copy of the Newsletter and did not receive this Newsletter on your email, please go to the school website www.epps.sa.edu.au and re-register for email on the Skoolbag Communication Centre.

All notices on the App will then also be sent to your email address.

Kaylee from Miss Cresswell’s class performed in the “King and I” in October at the Arts Theatre as one of the Kings Princesses. The photo shows Kaylee being presented to Anna, who came to Siam as a school teacher to the royal court in the 1860’s. Kaylee had many months of rehearsals and did a very professional performance.

All parent / caregivers are invited to the Governing Council Meeting on Tuesday 8

th November 2016

7:30pm in the Staffroom For discussion and proposal on 2017 Material & Service Charges.

On Saturday the 22nd of October the Year 4/5 Football Presentations were held. The day included a review of the season, the handing out of individual player trophies and the announcement of the Best and Fairest and the Integrity Award Winners. To conclude we all enjoyed a bbq lunch and kick of the football. Thank you to Ben Simcock for coaching the Year 4/5 Team this season. Thank you to Claire M and Natalie C for completing their duties as Team Manager.

2016 Year 4/5 Team with their player trophies

2016 Year 4/5 Team 2016 Year 4/5 Team Iron Man Award Winners

Best and Fairest Player Integrity Award Winner Students who played every game

Chris Taylor Jack Clausen this season

Year 2/3 Presentation

this Saturday 29th

October

Starting at 10am in the

School Hall

PHOTOS – Change of date: Thursday 3rd November

Year 7, Band and Captains

Room 11, 20 and 23, have begun the Term in PE using Pedometers. Students have explored how they work and what readings the pedometer can display. Each lesson students record how many steps they take and the type of activity. Over 1200 steps is the average step count for a student in a lesson.

Congratulations to Tyrin from Room 23 who recorded a school record for Week 1 of 3393 steps! He was really moving!

During lunchtimes on Thursday and Friday this term, students are welcome into Room 2 to participate in board games and use the schools exercise bikes. These sessions started in Week 1 with an enthusiastic crowd.

Thank you to TRYSPORT which have begun running lunchtime clinics at our

school. The FREE program will run for the next three weeks on Wednesday’s and Thursday’s. These clinics will give our students another chance to practise their skills in basketball and offer a

pathway into the game through Modbury’s Basketball Program.