Nature Play Area

We are pleased to announce that the Nature Play Area that is planned for the area of the School north of the primary playground will be fully developed this year. There is a concept design for the area on display in the Front Office. If you have any natural materials that would be suited to this area that you are willing to donate please contact the School. We are particularly looking for large straight logs, over 1 meter long and 10 cm or more thick.

Coin Race

Thanks to all those who donated coins and helped out with the Coin Race. It was a fun event and raised significant money towards installing 2 more cold water drinking fountains in the School. A special thanks to Cherylynn Jurgens, Taryn Hughes, Lisa Aplin and Kylie Evans who made cupcakes to sell on the day. The race was won by Room 22 with a line of coins that was 21.3 meters long! This will be a challenging record to beat in future years.

Mid-Year Reports

On Thursday your child will bring home their mid-year school report. Please read it carefully as it has a lot of information about how well your child is achieving this year. In week 3 of next term you will be offered a family-teacher interview. This is an opportunity to discuss the report with your child’s class teacher.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

FRIDAY 3 JULY

LAST DAY OF TERM 2

SCHOOL ENDS AT 2.00PM

HAVE A HAPPY HOLIDAY!

ELIZABETH EAST PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Inside this issue:

Friday, 26th June 2015

Respect Responsibility

Excellence

DATES TO REMEMBER

26/6‐3/7: Prim 

Swimming all week   1/7: 2.30 Assembly 

Rooms 6&23  2/7:Term 2 reports home to families 

 3/7: Last day term 2 

2.00 finish  20/7: First Day of 

term 3  21/7: Port Adelaide Community Youth program Rooms 6, 

13, 14 

Principal: Helen Tunney Deputy Principal: Lillian Murphy Counsellor: Allison Whaley

From the Principal

1

Principal Awards 2

Term Planner 3

Korfball Carnival

4

Ausdance SA

Class Power Names and

Dance Stars of the Week

5 6

OSHC news 7

Community News

8

Phone: 82552262 Fax: 8287 0239 dl.0943.info@schools.sa.edu.au

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Room 4 Aleigha for excellent scores in spelling this term Bree for continued enthusiasm in dance Room 5 Montana for having resilience during tough times Koby for making positive choices with his behaviour Room 6 Kane for participation in Maths Tarni for great history work Room 13 Taila for persevering in making positive choices towards her learning Catherine for an astonishing term of spelling Room 14/15 Tayla for responsible learning Coby for magnificent model making in Maths/Technology Ms Jan for organising a great excursion to Keswick Barracks Room 16 Sasha for fantastic structure in her sentence writing Samuel for settling in beautifully to his new school and uses outstanding manners Room 17 Jessica for being focussed and creative in dance Justen for amazing progress in reading Room 18 Deklyn for excellent effort in maths Doakaleena for great persistence in all tasks Room 19 Michael for improved dedication to learning his sight words MacKenzie for improved willingness to have a go during lesson times Room 22 Muhammad for amazing progress in reading and spelling Emma for exceptional effort and persistence with all learning tasks Room 23 Izack for superb thinking during mathematics Jason for confident and positive and start to learning at Elizabeth East

PRINCIPAL AWARDS

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Term  Planner Term  3 2015 

 

Week  Monday  Tuesday   Wednesday  Thursday   Friday 

1 Newsletter 

20/7 First Day of term  3   

21/7 Port Adelaide  Community Youth program  Rooms 6, 13, 14   

22/7 2.10 SRC  

23/7  24/7 

2  27/7  

28/7 9.00 Uniform  Committee   2.10 Fundraising Committee  

29/7 Port Adelaide  Community Youth program  Rooms 6, 13, 14   2.30 Assembly  Rooms 6 &  17  

30/7  31/7 9.00 Finance Committee  

3 Newsletter  Family‐Teacher interviews 

3/8   

4/8 Port Adelaide  Community Youth program  Rooms 6, 13, 14   

5/8  2.10 SRC  

6/8  7/8 2.10 Canteen  Committee  

4  10/8 3.20 Governing Council  

11/8  12/8 2.30 Assembly  Rooms 13 &  22  

13/8   14/8  

5 Newsletter 

17/8  

18/8   19/8 9.00 OSHC Committee   2.10 SRC  

20/8  21/8 

6  BOOK WEEK 

24/8  

25/8   26/8 Book Week Parade and breakfast  2.30 Assembly  Rooms 19  &  14  

27/8  28/8 

7 LITERACY AND  NUMERACY WEEK  Newsletter 

31/8   2.10 Canteen Committee 

1/9   2/9  COMMUNITY MATHS DAY  Sausage sizzle lunch   2.10 Maths Assembly  

3/9   4/9   Royal Adelaide Show  begins   

8 Show  Week   7/9 School closure day 

8/9  Pupil‐free day  

9/9 2.30 Assembly  Science 

10/9   11/9  CASUAL CLOTHES DAY   9.00 Finance Committee  

9  Newsletter 

14/9  3.20 Governing Council  

15/9  2.10 Garden Committee  

16/9 2.10 SRC  

17/9  18/9 

10  21/9   

22/9   23/9  9.00 OSHC Committee   2.30 Assembly  Rooms 14 &  16 

24/9   25/9  Last day of term  3 

Other 2015 Dates Term  4: 12/10‐11/12  Public Holidays (* in  school holidays) *5 October Labour Day Pupil‐Free days ‐12 October 

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Korfball Carnival

On Friday 19th June, Year 6 and 7 students represented our school in

a Korfball Carnival with North & North Eastern schools. 

We fielded 3 teams and Teams 1 and 2 were undefeated and Team 3

tied one game and won the rest.   

Once again, Mr Butler did an outstanding  job  to get us  trained and

ready for the competition. 

We  got  to make new  friends  and  caught up with  friends  from  our

sport clubs. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At least it didn’t rain! 

 

     

 

 

 

      The last game was the most competitive! 

 

 

 

 

 

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DANCE Term 2 “Creativity now is as important as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.” (Sir Ken Robinson) Welcome to the new students that have joined us this term! Over the past 9 weeks the students and I have continued our Arts rich learning through dance. Building on from term one, we have been learning about Body (Anatomy and form), Relationships (building bridges, relating with others and positive qualities of a healthy relationship), and Literacy (writing stories). We have started our own ‘Flash Mob’ dance (Spontaneous positive group dance). The whole school is involved so look out for it coming your way soon. Some EEPS staff and myself attended the Come Out Festival, (Adelaide Children’s Festival) Professional Learning events and some classes were involved in workshops or seeing a performance. We hope to create more opportunities like this later in the year. As part of problem solving in the ‘Habits of mind’ each class now has their own ‘Power name’. Well done students and teachers! This has been a process of truly working together for a unified outcome. The students were encouraged to agree, disagree, discuss and decide each class’s unique positive qualities. Please see the ‘Stars of the week’ and class ‘Power names’ in the newsletter. If you walk past our Creative Arts space you will see our huge positivity ‘wall of images’ growing every week. Building on our learning of ‘Positive thinking, positive action’ for the ‘Habits of Mind’. Please celebrate with your child their achievements as students take great pride in being able to select a picture for this wall if they are ‘Star of the week’ for their class. It’s not about being the best dancer but demonstrating various skills in co-operation, team work, participation, enthusiasm, listening, creative thinking and more. Alongside the students learning of the Arts through a dance focus, the EEPS teachers have begun facilitating parts of the dance sessions. This will continue throughout the year and build the skills for teachers to continue this Arts rich teaching and learning beyond 2015. Dance and movement is wonderful for the physical, social, emotional and cognitive development of each and every student at EEPS. I look forward to sharing more learning with the students throughout term 3 and showing you some of our achievements in a presentation at the end of the year. Are you curious as to what leaning in and through the Arts has to offer you child? Check out some truly inspirational work by Sir Ken Robinson, a leading advocate for Arts Education and creativity. http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity?language=en To see some of the skills the students have been developing through the Arts Curriculum look at the webpage http://www.australiancurriculum.edu.au/the-arts/introduction Or to see some of my work look at the webpage http://www.billiecookmovement.com Best wishes Billie Cook Artist in residence EEPS

CLASS POWER NAMES AND DANCE STARS OF THE WEEK

Term 1 week 11 and Term 2 Congratulations to all the dance stars, you are awesome!

‘Awesome gold groover’s’ Room 2 Zander, Jacob, Jasmine, Tayla, Tyson, Jean, Anthony, Alanah, Tyler, Shaye ‘Ice white neon champs’ Room 4 Shane, Samantha, Dion, Nikita, Angeth, John, Adelaide, Seb ‘Electro five’ Room 5 Miriam, Madison, Faith, Koby, Janielle, Curtice, Lilly ‘Next golden step dancers’ Room 6 Liam, Toby, Dylan, Tarni, Mathew, Jack, Madi, Jordan, Ethan ‘Blue electric free style crew’ Room 13 Krystle, Kyle, Jordan, Aaron, Alex, Ayme, Catherine, Imogen ‘Extreme green fifteen’ Room 15 Billie, Tyrone, Riley, Elly, Alex, Kayla ‘Incredible blue spinners’ Room 16 Kai, Georgia, Aden, Dana, Tyrone, Zeke, Tarl, Samuel ‘Scrummy yummy fizzy whizzy gold twisters’ Room 17 Justin, Zoie, Yvette, Aidan, Amir, Joshua, Monique, Kelsey ‘Amazing red ninjas’ Room 18 Izzy, Doaky, Jasmine, Kody, Allyson, Brodie, Lachlan, Ethan, Deklyn ‘Incredible blue spinners’ Room 19 Dean, Micheal, Dakotah, Anthony, Mackenzie ‘Phenomenal electric blue fire dancers’ Room 22 Dannika, Aidden, Emma, Maddison, Talia, Ryan, Nate, Akout ‘Golden speedy rock stars’ Room 23 Farzad, Tyler, Nayha, Sohail, Lieesha, Amity, Shine, Ajith, Aubrie

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We are OPEN! Come and Have Fun with us! 

Hi Families, 

The children Neil and I have had a fantastic couple of weeks 

getting to know each other. We have been exploring all of our 

new resources with the board games being the most popular 

activities amongst the group at this stage.  The children have 

settled in really well and are excited when a new family visits 

and they can show the children around our space.  

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