Term 3 Week 4

16th August 2017

ASSEMBLY DATES Friday 11

th August

Friday 25th

August @ 9:15am (Book Week)

Friday 22nd

September

Principal

Ali Colbeck

Deputy Principal

Karen Matthews

Assistant Principal

Lisa Gray

Business Manager

Michelle Collins

OSHC Program

Director: Belinda Filkin

Bookings: 0438 761 656

DIARY DATES

August/September 17

th August

23A/23E Museum Excursion

21st

-25th

August

Book Week

23rd

-25th

August

Book Fair

30th

September

Pizza Day

1st

September

School Closure Day

8th September PRC Finishes

12th September

Governing Council 7pm

17th

September

Choir Performance AEC

WILLUNGA PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Where Tradition and the Future Meet

Website: www.willungaps.sa.edu.au Email: dl.0744.info@schools.sa.edu.au

247 Main Road Willunga 5172 Telephone: 08 8556 2234 Fax: 08 8556 2398

Out of School Hours Care Redevelopment I hesitate to get excited as we have had so many delays… BUT… we have had approval for

the scope of works, and a tentative date set for removal in the school holidays. This may

mean a limited service for Vacation Care and we will let you know as soon as we hear any

further information. The project looks fantastic and will provide us not only with a

purpose built space, but also allow us to regain the use of our drama room!

Play Rules We have recently undertaken whole school collaboration around yard rules. Students,

teachers, SSO’s and Leadership all contributed to a document to ensure we all know the

rules for the yard and can follow them to play safely and successfully. One of the rules

we are having the most difficulty with is no food on the oval. We are looking at ways to

minimise rubbish including updating our recycling and collections. When we talk to

children about the rules we reinforce the message that:

Children at Willunga Primary School play in a safe and courteous manner with respect for

other people in the play space. If they see a problem, they report it to the yard duty

teacher.

At times, some children find these rules difficult to follow. We then use logical

consequences to support them to make informed choices i.e. loss of play privileges,

supervised play, asked to sit out, walk with a teacher or follow another logical

consequence. When talking to your child at home about yard behaviour, it is helpful to

support them to make sure they are ‘following the rules’ and the above code of conduct.

All behaviour is a learning opportunity for our children before they are old enough to

learn difficult lessons in society.

School Uniform We are also collaborating with parents, students and staff around uniform across our

site. Currently we are noticing quite a few children not in full Willunga uniform. Although

we understand that it is a difficult time of year to be getting jumpers dry, we do need to

maintain our uniform standard. Classes are discussing why we need to wear a uniform

and looking at how we can make sure that all students are in uniform. This includes

looking at the use of SAPSASA or sporting jumpers (which are not part of our school

uniforms should not be worn to school). Parent Connection Committee are also

committed to supporting full uniform implementation and considering “Swap a Top”

uniform tops for students who come to school out of uniform. We will update you on

this process as it unfolds but please talk to your child about wearing full uniform (hard at

times in winter we know!!) and speak to a Leader if you need support with this

Ali Colbeck

Principal

SMS Absence: TEXT ONLY

0408 727 632

Must include student’s

name, date, reason, class

Sue Camack’s News

MasterChef: This year we were

lucky

enough

to have

Samuel

Whitehead to present our

winners with their prize.

Samuel was in this year’s

Masterchef. Our winners

were Hermoine, Charlette

and Maya from team ‘Just

Keep Cooking’. We really

appreciate Samuel giving

up his time to do this. He

also stayed around to sign

many autographs for some very excited students!

Samuel has a stall at Willunga Farmer’s Market selling

delicious probiotic rich food & drinks and if you

checkout the website

www.gutfeelingfermentation.com it will show you

how you can look into some hands on fermentation

workshops. Thanks again Samuel and well done girls,

keep up the great cooking!

Lots of students have joined up for Willunga’s Got

Talent. Students have up unto the 18th of August to

sign up. Performances will start in week 5. Whilst we

do have winners in the following categories: Most

Entertaining, Encouragement, Rising Talent, People’s

Choice Junior and People’s Choice Senior we aim to

also emphasise that it is about participating and giving

it a go.

Some time back I went to a training day and the

presenter asked us for 3mins to write down what

comes to mind when you hear the word Mental

Health. Most people wrote down words like

depression, anxiety, low self-esteem etc. There were

only a few people who wrote things down that were

related to Good Mental Health and aiming to have

Good Mental Health. In the busyness of life we can

tend to neglect fostering our own Good Mental

Health. Over the next few newsletters we will look at

a few things we can all do that will help keep us in

Good Mental Health.

Governing Council Meeting 15th August

Grounds Committee:

Nature Play Space: Education for staff,

parents, students, Nature Play SA

presentation. Newsletter article. Contact

Nature Play SA for presentation.

Sustainable Practice: Through

Onkaparinga Council Waste Management

increase recycling. 5 yellow bins available

for regular roadside pickup. Education

Program with council through waste audit

Learning Committee:

WHITS survey (What is Happening in this School). This survey was administered last term years 3/7. The committee examined the data from the WHITS survey, noting questions and suggestions. The purpose of this discussion will be to address any concerns or select an area if focus.

OSHC:

iPads to be purchased for use in the service

Finance:

Approval for a further $70,000 commitment to ICT development on site.

Parent Connection:

Approval for ‘swap a top’ process to assist students to be in uniform, students without a Willunga Primary t-shirt or jumper will swap their home jumper for a borrowed jumper for the day.

Business Arising:

Leon Bignell visited the meeting and we spoke to

him about the lack of support services in the

community to assist those in need who currently

access support through the school.

Leon highlighted a community grant application

that could be accessed by people in the

community for a variety of uses. More

information is available at:

fundmyneighbourhood.sa.gov.au

We also spoke to him about the school toilets and

how we are not happy with their suitability to cater

efficiently to our school community. Ali will follow

this up with an email to Leon.

SAPSASA NEWS

On Wednesday 9th August students participated in the SAPSASA State Basketball Competition held at

Morphett Vale Stadium.

Last Wednesday we participated in SAPSASA State Basketball. We won 2 games, drew 1 and lost 3.

The day was very challenging and we faced some hard teams. Our team was the Willunga Wildcats.

Thank you to Petrina for coaching us.

Alex b and Ryan K

Last Wednesday we participated in the SAPSASA Girls Basketball. Although our team didn’t win any of

our six games, we persisted and tried our best out on the court. Willunga’s team name was the

Wildcats and we wore black, red and white uniforms.

Shout out to Hannah who had to leave early due to a wrist injury.

All up it was a great day and a good experience, we had lots of fun.

A big thank you to Petrina K for coaching us.

Hannah W, Shari P, Ruby L.

Bakery Lunch Success A huge thank you to the group of parent helpers that came along to manage the

bakery lunch last week. Along with being delicious and supporting the local bakery, we raised nearly $700 for our school.

Students Doing Great Things

The last week of term 2 I travelled to Mackay in

Queensland for 9 days to compete in the Australian

National Indoor Cricket Competition for South Australia

along with 9 other girls.

We won 3 games against QLD, ACT and NSW BLUE but

unfortunately lost 5 so we just missed out on the finals.

I still had the best time ever and we made history by

being the first South Australian Girls 14 and under team

to compete and represent the state!!!

I got 8 wickets overall in the games I played and I will

be working very hard to play for South Australia again

next year.

Well Done Lilly!

BOOK WEEK

How are your costume ideas going?

Remember we are looking for some good recycling / making do options this year. Come as a book character, or even a book!

Think about where you can escape to with books - a pirate ship, a space ship, under the sea, another country, another time ... there's lots of possibilities!

A reminder for hats this term.

As per the Sunsmart policy, all students are

required to wear hats in terms 1, 3 and 4.

Hats are available from the office for $10-

$12.

Please ensure that your child has

their hat daily for outside play.

Accelerated Reader

Correction to your child's login details if you are trying to access the results address at home https://auhosted1.renlearn.com.au/1454824/

homeconnect

user name = first initial and last name eg

tsmith password = date of birth ddmmyyyy

Just a reminder - if you are supporting your child undertaking this challenge at home, the last day to return the completed record sheet to the school library is FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER. Please speak to your child’s teacher or see Ms James in the library if you have any questions.

OSHC NEWS

School Closure Day Reminder! 1st September OSHC IS CLOSED!

It is a school closure day, OSHC staff use this time to catch up on training/planning. Our program focus at the moment is about our pets. Children who attend OSHC are welcome to bring in a photo of their pet/s or favourite animal. We are encouraging children to write or draw about this also. These are being displayed on the wall in the OSHC room. Over the last couple of weeks, we have welcomed Ga Hyuan Lee (Olivia) from South Korea into OSHC. Olivia has been teaching us some Korean words, numbers and games. We have looked at the South Korean flag and a world map to see how far away South Korea is from Australia and the size difference of both countries. Belinda Filkin OSHC Director

FINANCE NEWS

Thank you to all families who have made

arrangements or finalised payment of their School

Fees. It is an expectation that all school fees be

finalised and as a school we endeavour to work

with families to ensure that all Fees are paid. The

parent contribution of School Fees is extremely

important to ensuring we can purchase equipment

and materials to support student learning.

Excursion/Camp Due Dates:

2A & 2B Arbury Park Camp – Due 22nd September

REMINDER

School

Closure Day

Friday

1st

September

No OSHC

Available

Congratulation to the follow students who have been awarded 5 house points for demonstration of

Stretch and Stamina in their learning and in their classrooms.

JARBADA

Morgan O

Sam P

Summer T

Charli R

Skye R

Mollie CB

BASSETT

Riley P

Evan C

Amaliah H

Nicolas S

Tia A

Jackson R

Jorja A

Zeke D

Gabor T

Noah G

ATKINSON

Georgia M

Brock S

Emma S

Jasmine K

Sage J

Shanika R Y

Eddie L

BAXENDALE

Tayla C

Liam C

Ameya A

Charli L

Archie M

Olivia W

Lennon R

Erika A

Garden Working Bee

Calling all gardeners and nature appreciators!! Now is an excellent time to pull out the weeds that are attempting to take over our school gardens. The ground is soft and the weeds are slipping out easily (no need for resorting to poisons) It’s time to spread some mulch and get our garden beds prepped for Summer. Time: 9am – 11am Date: Thursday 24 August

Place: Meet at the Garden Shed in the vegetable compound on the Western side of the school What to bring: Tools, barrows and buckets are at the shed, so just bring your own creature comforts –

e.g. Gloves, hat, water bottle, jacket. Little hands welcome – the more the merrier

For more information call Meredith on 0438 633 100.

***A huge thank you to the rogue gardener who has weeded near the

North Eastern car park - Love your work! *** We’ve booked in some sun but if it’s raining we’ll postpone it to the following week via the ‘Skoolbag

App’. So weather permitting, we look forward to seeing you then. Happy grubbing, Grounds Committee