1 May 2017 Term 2, Week 1

Elliston Area School

Dates to Remember

4th May SAPSASA Netball and

Football Trials

8th May Surf Competition

9-11th May

NAPLAN

25th May Biggest Morning Tea

5th to 9th June

SAPSASA

12th June Public Holiday

Contact Details

Postal:

Flinders Highway, Elliston SA 5670

Phone: (08) 86879167

Fax: (08) 86879057

Website:

www.ellistonas.sa.edu.au

Email:

news.letter347@schools.sa.edu.au

From the Principal’s desk… I trust you all enjoyed the holiday break. Congratulations to all Award Recipients from last term’s assembly. Reception / Year 1 Jai Pickett, Milla Gardiner, Owen Richards, Grant Wright, Poppy Weetra, Willow Nunan. Year 2/3 Jade Tesselaar, James Jervis, Colin Dolphin, Amy Thompson. Year 4/5 Amelie Henderson, Kiana Tonkin, Benjamin Wandel, Rebecca Wright. Year 6/7– Brock Nuske, Brodie Callaghan, Harvey Fleming, Aleysha Penna. Year 8/9 /10 Skylar Agars, Joshua Nuske, Zali Newton, Chloe Thompson. Congratulations to Chloe Thompson and Marli Ryan on their fantastic efforts in Athletics in Adelaide last term. Both girls competed in Division B in the State Secondary Schools South Australia. Chloe came 3rd in 100m, 4th in 400m and 4th in relay. Marli came 3rd in 1500m, 4th in relay and 7th in hurdles.

Easter Thursday was a stunning day for our students and staff to walk or ride to school. PLEASE NOTE: INTERVIEW TIMES MAY HAVE CHANGED Parent/Caregiver Interviews—with class teachers are this week: Tuesday, May 2nd and Wednesday, May 3rd Please note: interview times may have changed from last term. Please ensure all families have checked the new times printed on yellow sheets that were sent home today (Monday). If you haven’t seen the form and would like an interview please contact the front office. Good luck to the students trying out for SAPSASA Netball and Football at Lock Area School on Thursday. You will have noticed that our tuarts have been severely trimmed during the holiday break. This was due to a tree audit undertaken by DTEI, who manage our facilities and DECD as part of Bushfire preparedness. I’m sure over time the canopies will grow, thus providing more shade. Accompanying this newsletter is a brochure from the Australian Curriculum Assessment and Reporting Authority—ACARA. This is a curriculum fact sheet for parent caregivers to inform about what children are learning at school. There is also further information available on the website. I will be on leave the first week and Chad Fleming will be acting Principal. Anna Bascomb will be TRT backfilling lessons this week. Enjoy the first week.

Cynthia

Birthdays

May 3rd Zara Jacobs 11th Taja Pryor

11th Jennifer Wright 14th Amy Thompson

31st Skylar Agars

SCHOOL FEES A reminder to parents that school fees are overdue. These fees support the school and enable us to deliver a variety of programs for our students. Paying in instalments is an option so please talk with Julie Custance or Cynthia O’Neil regarding this. Statements were recently given to all families with amounts outstanding. Some of these were simply reminders for amounts invoiced since the start of the year e.g uniforms, which parents may have overlooked paying. The 3 options to pay these amounts are: 1. Payment by Cash, Cheque or Online Payment to the School’s Bank Account (BSB and Account details can be obtained by contacting the school or are at the bottom of your invoice) 2. Enter into an Instalment Agreement with the school to pay in manageable amounts, weekly, fortnightly or monthly. 3. Contact Julie at the school to begin instalments by Cash, cheque or online payment. If families have difficulty paying they may be eligible for School Card.

SPORTING SCHOOLS—Active After school Time: 3.30 til 4.30 this Thursday What: Football Where: Town Oval Minis ages Please bring your hat and a drink.

CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations to Mia Schlink for winning the Easter Colouring Competition - Infant section at the Newspower Newsagency

ELLISTON RSL MEMORIAL CHILDREN’S CENTRE NEWS Welcome back to Term 2, I am sure everyone had a wonderful

holiday with the beautiful weather that we experienced. Now it can rain!!

Another very successful ANZAC commemoration was held during the holidays. There were several visitors to the service as well as over 100 local people. It is a very important event for our Centre and I would like to thank Caroline and Kym Gillett, Nigel and Debbie May, Jeffrey Allen, Cynthia for the loan of the PA system, and everyone else who helped set up, pack up, do dishes, cook breakfast, lay wreaths, be part of the service and contributed to this very worthwhile and important service.

Thank you to Larissa Carter for making sure the garden and grounds continue to look fantastic.

Big thanks to Teresa for getting all the RSL items ready for ANZAC Day.

In addition, a big thankyou to Jane McDougall for covering an enormous pile of new books, these will be available for the children to borrow this week.

DON’T FORGET: This week is Tuesday and Wednesday only. Teresa and I are off to the Nature Play International Conference on Thursday. We are both very excited about this opportunity.

This week we are discovering the letter H, the colour orange and what makes a rectangle.

Have a fantastic week! Regards Annie, Teresa, Julie, Lari, Karen & Ayesha

Community News HAVE YOU HAD YOUR FLU JAB? We are holding a flu vaccine clinic day for those whose are eligible for a free flu jab. You are eligible for the free flu vaccine if you are;

65 years and older

Pregnant

Aboriginal children aged 6 months to less than 5 years of age

Aboriginal persons aged 15 years and older

Medical at risk persons aged 6 months and older. This includes chronic diseases such as congestive heart failure, cystic fibrosis,

severe asthma, neurological conditions, asplenia, diabetes, chronic renal failure, etc.

You can contact staff at the Elliston Medical Practice to see if you are eligible. We will be holding a flu vaccine clinic day on Tuesday 9th May from 8:30am – 5pm. Booking is essential for the vaccine clinic day. Please call Sam Agars or Ella Jurek at the clinic on 8687 9110. Keep you and your loved ones safe this flu season. ELLA JUREK

PRACTICE NURSE

Mid Eyre Medical Elliston Address: Elliston Health Centre, Memorial Drive, Elliston SA 5670 Phone: 8687 9110

ELLISTON COMMUNITY HEALTH PHYSIOTHERAPY DIETICIAN,SPEECH, OT PODIATRY COMMUNITY NURSE Elliston – Monday and Thursday For all Allied Health appointments and enquiries please contact Robyn on 8687 9012

ELLISTON SPORTS CENTRE TEA ROSTER MAY 6TH WEST COAST HAWKS 4.00 - 6.30 Deb Hurrell Mishel Henderson Gaye Eason Jen Calderwood 6.30 - 9.00 Annie Williams Tristan Ryan Frank Kenny Scott Bascomb Reece Pryor

Cooks: Bobby and Larry

Roster for Secondary School

Sports Centre Football Lunch Vs Hawks 6thMay

9:00-11:00

Jenny Calderwood, Tannille Fleming, Kristy Newton,

Merle Weetra

11:00-1:00

Jo Penna, Cathy Hull, Sonia Ryan, Mandy Kelly, Reyah

Agars

1:00-3:00

Michelle Nuske, Reece Pryor, Karen Dolphin,

Robyn Callaghan, Pim Tree

3:00- 4:30

Chad Fleming, Ian Dudley

Fundraising from the lunch will go towards camp.

If you cannot do your shift please arrange your own swap.

Thanks everybody for helping out, your contribution is

greatly appreciated!

WALK FOR MND & THE ELLISTON HOSPITAL On Friday May 12th, there will be a town walk starting from the town gazebo by the War Memorial, at 10am. All monies received will be donated equally to MND SA ,The Pines and the Elliston Hospital. There will be a coffee at the Kindy after the walk. Everyone Welcome.

ANNUAL ROYAL FLYING DOCTOR SERVICE BADGE DAY This Friday, 5th May, is the Annual RFDS Badge Day. Volunteers will be outside the Elliston Supermarket collecting donations for the RFDS. Please come by and support this amazing organisation.

ELLISTON NETBALL CLUB Mothers Day Raffle - We are asking all families to make a small

donation to our basket for the Mothers Day Raffle. A big thanks to Ebony for donating a voucher to the raffle.

Rooster bags are here and ready for payment and pickup.

Netball and Football players auction this Saturday night.

Elliston vs Wudinna United 13th May - Pink Ribbon Day.

Elliston vs Central Eyre 27th May - The Bundy Incident.

Subs are now due - Seniors $60, Juniors $50

ATTENTION—Celebration 2018 2018 marks the 50th year of our Football and Netball Clubs. What an achievement! Do you want to be involved in organising the celebrations? A meeting has been called for Thursday May 11th, 8.00pm at the Sports Centre to start making arrangements for the celebrations. Please call Kaye at the Hotel to let me know if you want to be involved or put forward your ideas if you can’t make the meeting. Hope to see you there! Kaye and Annie

Official Opening

Elliston Coastal Trail

7 May 2017

10.30am – 1pm

Elliston Foreshore Area

Beach Terrace ELLISTON

Please join the Chairman and Councillors of the

District Council of Elliston in

celebrating the official opening of the

Elliston Coastal Trail by the Member for Grey

Mr Rowan Ramsey MP The ceremony will be held on the trail at the Elliston

Foreshore BBQ area on Beach terrace, sea end of the

street.

Please RSVP ajohnstone@elliston.sa.gov.au

8687 9177

By COB Tuesday May 2nd

Newsletter Email address : news.letter347@schools.sa.edu.au Disclaimer: The opinions in this newsletter do not necessarily reflect those of the Department of Education and Child Development or Elliston Area School.

His Excellency Hieu Van Le and Mrs Len Le visiting classrooms at Elliston Area School

Brighton High School students having a game of volley ball with Elliston students

Charlie Sampson showing some

great ball skills

Jacob Newton enjoying the experience

participating with other students

Anxious Bay Boating Facilities - Community Consultation

The Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure has commissioned a study to investigate alternative locations and

concept schemes for a boat ramp suitable for commercial and recreational users, in an area not exceeding a 7km radius from

the existing boat ramp at Anxious Bay.

The investigation will include an assessment of the existing location, consideration of alternative locations, community

consultation, concept schemes and cost estimates, factoring social, environmental and economic measures.

Community consultation will be a key element of this assessment. The primary purpose of the community consultation process

is to identify the key priorities and needs of the stakeholders that may be affected or have an interest in boat launching

facilities in the Anxious Bay area. In addition to this, the community consultation process provides you with the opportunity to

be informed, be involved and have active participation in the decision making process for the proposed works.

There are two ways to get involved in the consultation process:

Complete the survey

Hard copy surveys are available for you to complete at the Council offices, the supermarket, the library and service station.

The survey can also be found online at www.surveymonkey.com/r/anxiousbay, or alternatively it can be emailed

upon request. The content of the survey can be discussed further in a one on one meeting (see below), or if

completed can be returned to the Council offices or emailed to ASandery@wga.com.au by COB Friday 7th May

2017.

Face to face consultation

One-on-one meetings will be run over the course of two days (10th-11th May 2017) at the Elliston Information Centre,

conducted by WGA who have been commissioned to undertake the study. The purpose of these meetings are to hear

your concerns and needs with regards to the boating facility.

If you would like to request a meeting time, a copy of the survey or have any other questions regarding the study please don’t

hesitate to contact Phil Cameron (Elliston Council, 08 8687 9177) or Annabel Sandery (ASandery@wga.com.au).