25 km past a stationary school bus—this applies to all traffic in both directions

From the Principal

Bordertown

Primary

School I S S U E 9 ,

8 A U G U S T , 2 0 1 9

Email: dl.0733.info@schools.sa.edu.au www.borderps.sa.edu.au

Dear Families,

Regional Consultation Year 7 to High School The South Australian Government is committed to ensuring the move for Year 7 students into high school supports our world-class ambition by providing the best learning conditions for young adolescents. This will occur by investing significantly in professional learning for a substantial cohort of teachers and leaders, and innovating the delivery of key system activities such as school and workforce planning. In preparation for the transition of Year 7 students into high school in Term 1, 2022, a Regional Consultation session is planned for Bordertown on 14 August. You are welcome to comment on this matter online at: https://yoursay.sa.gov.au/decisions/year7/about

or, register to attend the event at: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/year-7-to-high-school-bordertown-consultation-tickets-63952254916

Regional Consultation – Bordertown Civic Centre, Wednesday 14 August (4.00pm)

Interviews Once again, it was wonderful to welcome so many families to the Parent-Teacher interviews. Thank you to the parents and teachers who made themselves available for this very important activity. As we all know, a written report can only contain a limited amount of specific information regarding your child’s progress and achievements. Having the opportunity to sit down and discuss the reports, provides us all with the opportunity to delve deeper into the results and share additional information regarding your child’s progress. Thank you all for taking the time to make this happen.

Outside School Hours Care As mentioned previously, the Governing Council is investigating the option of establishing an Outside School Hours Care service (OSHC) at Bordertown Primary School. As we are in the initial stages, a survey has been developed for parents to indicate their thoughts on this service. Because of the costs and time involved, the OSHC will only be established if there is sufficient sustainable interest. Eventually (depending on the expression of interest), parents would need to make a commitment in order for the service to be financially viable. Given there is a cost to families wishing to

access the service, parents would need to consider this before making a commitment. At this stage, a survey has been developed to gauge initial interest within the community. If you would consider using an Outside School Hours Care service, please complete the following survey. This information will then be collated and used to determine the next step. The survey can be accessed by following this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/WZWXKTR Access to the survey will end on Friday 23 August. A link to this survey will be added to the school’s facebook page as well as SkoolBag. If you have any questions about this proposed service, please contact the school or members of the Governing Council for more information.

Parent Meetings A reminder to parents and family members that you are always welcome to meet in the Garden Kitchen after our assemblies during the term. This is a great way for us to socialise, introduce and welcome new families to the school and to discuss ideas and opportunities that could help to make our school an even better place. Please contact the school for more information.

Road Traffic Count Data Through an initiative of the Tatiara Road Safety Group, Council was asked to capture traffic data, focusing on the speed of motorists in the 25 km/h zones of each school in the Tatiara. The results of the data indicate that the majority of motorists are complying with the 25 km/h speed limit on South Terrace while the lights are flashing. Some key statistics from the data captured are as follows:

On average 10% of motorists exceed 25 km/h when the lights are flashing each morning

The mean speed of motorists exceeding the speed limit in the morning is 28 km/h

On average 17% of motorists exceed 25 km/h when the lights are flashing each afternoon

The mean speed of motorists exceeding the speed limit in the afternoon is 29 km/h

On behalf of the entire school community and especially the students at Bordertown Primary School, all motorists are asked to monitor their speed while in the vicinity of our school - as well as all other schools in the Tatiara.

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

NEWSLINK

DATES TO

REMEMBER

AUGUST Mon 12th

Pupil Free Day

Fri 16th Sapsasa Golf—

Naracoorte

Mon 19th—Fri 23rd Book Week

Fri 23rd

Parents Coffee & Chat following assembly

Sapsasa Basketball— Mt Gambier

Book Week - Dress Up

29th Aug

Sapsasa Golf—Adelaide

NCCD Information Student Personal Data Assembly Certificates Children’s Book Week Kitchen Garden Well Being from Karen Community Notices Kids’ Voice Disco

REMINDER

Pupil Free Day Monday 12th August

School Closure (Adelaide Show)

Monday 2nd September

Pupil Free Day Monday 14th October

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) The following information is being sent home as an informative process only. Parents are not required to act on this information. We have recently completed the process of collating information for the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). All schools are required to collect information about the numbers of students that they provide adjustments to under the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and Disability Standards of Education (2005). From 2018, this data has been used as the basis for national funding. The NCCD involves the collection of: the number of students receiving adjustments to enable them to participate in education on the same basis

as other students the level of adjustment provided to students student’s type of disability if known Under the model the definition of disability is broad and includes a range of learning difficulties, health and mental health conditions. All identified children are included in the data collection process and the required information has been included in this year’s data census.

Further information can be found at:

http://www.education.gov.au/nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability.

Run-a-thon

This year’s run-a-thon will be conducted on Thursday 19 September. The event is conducted every second year and is a major fund raiser for the school. Funds raised from this event go towards Kids’ Voice to support them with the various activities and resources they plan for and require each year. Kids’ Voice members also have the responsibility to prioritise their proposed purchases. Once again, this year’s run-a-thon will be a great opportunity for the school community to

become involved in. Parents and family members are welcome to come along and join in the fun. More details will be provided closer to the date.

Kind regards Ross McHutcheon

Principal

Parent Coffee &

Chat During Term 3 in Weeks

1 , 5 & 9

9 am assembly

Parents invited to coffee & chat in Garden Kitchen

following assembly.

Student Personal Data All students have been given their Student Personal Data sheet to bring home today. Please mark any changes and return to your child’s class teacher promptly. Please remember to advise the school throughout the year when changes to personal information occur.

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K A T R I N A B R O K U S

Children’s Book Week 2019 Book Week is coming up! In week 5 (19- 23 August), we will be celebrating Children’s Book Week. The theme this year is, “Reading is my secret power!”. Book Week is always an exciting event in our school calendar. It promotes reading and writing as well as appreciation of books. It can also evoke creative responses through art experiences that relate to specific books. Most classes will be creating an artwork during this week. Different activities will be happening for Book Week, including:

On Monday 19th August, we will hold an origami challenge for year 4- 7s in the library at lunchtime. On Tuesday 20th August, the R – 4 classes are going to the Civic Centre to hear from Australian author and

illustrator, Janeen Brian. This will be funded by the Bordertown Public Library. On Wednesday 21st August, we will once again hold our “Story Reading Night” for R – 2 children. Parents can bring

their children to the school library at 6:30 pm to hear stories read by special guest readers. Afterwards, the children will have milo and a biscuit, before going home to bed by 7:30. They can wear their pyjamas and dressing gowns for this cosy occasion.

On Friday 23rd August, children are invited to dress up. They can dress up to show off their “super power”, or as a book character. Old costumes recycled to fit the wide theme, would be less stress!

Each day in the library at lunch time, there will be competitions for all of the children to take part in if they wish.

MS Read-a-thon is back! Children are asked to read as many books in Au-gust as they can. Friends and family can sponsor them to raise money to send children who have a parent affected by Multiple Sclerosis, to a camp with children in similar situations. I would like to do something towards raising money the MS Society through the library. I would like to combine it with Book Week this year and ask for a small donation (gold coin), for the dress up day on Friday of Week 5 (23rd August). If you would like your child to take part in the actual read-a-thon, you can enrol them online at this website: https://www.msreadathon.org.au/parents/parents_info Thankyou for your support.

Robyn McCallum Teacher Librarian

NOT ALL HEROES WEAR CAPES, BUT WE BET THEY ALL LOVE TO

READ!

The Kitchen Garden Program

Year 3s

Making pasta and biscuits

Students made pasta with broccoli , chilli and lemon sauce. Broccoli was enjoyed by (almost) everyone!

The school quadrangle has come alive with tubs of healthy herbs and vegetables!

To go with the pasta, students also made pumpkin and choc chip biscuits, super easy and tasty.

Worry is something that happens to just about everybody. In fact, it’s supposed to

happen. It’s normal. It’s important. It can be helpful. It gets us going, even protects us. Worry

can actually be a safety mechanism – a feature of our brain that goes back to early days

when ‘fear chemicals’ were released if people felt a threat to their survival – often resulting

in fight, flight or freeze reactions. BUT when the unease or discomfort of worry goes into

overdrive, it is no longer useful. Excessive worry, or anxiety, can be crippling and affect us in

ways that impairing our wellbeing and quality of life.

Studies show that I in 4 Australians have anxiety-related conditions that interfere with and

impact their life. Further to this, statistics indicate that as many as 1 in 7 boys and twice as

many girls are likely to develop mild to moderate anxiety in as young as primary school.

There is no doubt that many families and schools are witnessing and experiencing this

increase first hand.

Some of the signs of anxiety in children are dwelling on the ‘what ifs..?’, the inability to ‘let

things go’, constantly expecting the worst and interpreting ‘normal’ or routine situations as

dangerous – such as going to school. Physical symptoms may include lots of tears, feeling

‘sick’, appetite change, jittery movements, inability to sleep and anger. These feelings and

behaviours can even get to the stage where ‘shut down’ or loss of all logical thinking occur.

This is so hard for us as parents/carers and educators. But it can be managed. When we

understand anxiety and worry as an ‘emotion’ and notice when it happens, we can move

one step closer to better handling its effect.

Dr Justin Coulson – a leading parenting expert - recommends starting with noticing our own

responses to anxiety as well as that of our kids. Emotions are contagious. Children can pick

up on and mimic our crazy as well as our calm. We can’t take the worries away but we can

calmly reassure them that they are safe and give them the stability they need to walk along

the ‘balance beam’ of life. Sure they may wobble or even topple, but if we hold their hand

and help them balance again, encourage and support them to take little steps and gently

guide instead of doing the hard work ‘for’

them, this can be an important step in

increasing resilience and techniques to move

forwards.

Some other tools that may be useful are

‘breathing’ deeply and slowly to relax our

brains, imagining our thoughts as clouds

drifting in the breeze – as thoughts come and

go (google ‘pixel thoughts’ for a cool idea),

making a plan of what to do if our worries

take over, and practising calm and brave

actions and thoughts. Play can help too!!

Please note that It is important to seek expert

help if needed.

I have a number of resources and books to

help deal with anxiety which I am all too

happy to share.

Here is a visual that Kylie Staude found which

may be useful too! Feel free to ask us for a

copy!

Take care,

Karen

Flava Dance

Community Notices

Kids’ Voice Disco

The Reception to Year 3 disco will start at 5:30pm to

6:30pm and the Year 4 to 7 disco from 6:45pm to 8:15pm.

All students need to be collected by an adult from inside the gym at the end of each disco.

Children will not be allowed to leave without an adult.

All students will need to bring a labelled drink bottle with water in it.

The Kids’ Voice disco will be held in Week 9

Wednesday 18th September in the school

gym.

The theme is Casual Dress with Crazy Hair.

The cost of the disco is $2 to be paid at the

door.

Kids Time Out Mini Golf

Friday 16th August

Uniting hall 7.00 pm

All children Years 2—7 welcome

Cost $2.00 per child

Enquiries; Ros & John Patterson, phone 0429 405 570