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Phone: 08 85772277 : 08 85772204
[email protected] website: www.geraniumps.sa.edu.au
Greetings
The Geranium Primary School students, staff and two brave parents experienced the
Whole School Camp to Adelaide from Wednesday to Friday last week. This Newsletter
has the focus on the Camp with the range of activities and learning experiences that
made it a very busy and enjoyable three days.
There is a list of people to say a Big Thank you to for enabling the Camp to be such a
success; Teachers Lorelle Barton, Kathryn Roberts; School Services Officers Sue Jacob
and Michelle Hensel, and the brave parents, Amanda Schmidt and Leigh Oster.
Special thank you goes to every student who was on the Camp. They were great
participants; helping each other, following instructions and generally sleeping when
they were supposed to.
This week is Book Week which this year has the theme; ‘Reading is Our Secret Power’.
Schools all across Australia are getting involved. At Geranium Primary School on
Tuesday 20 August we had an Assembly, everyone dressed in costumes, a morning tea
and lots of reading. It’s extremely important that each child has stories read to them at
home and lots of age appropriate reading material around the home. A love of reading
is a great gift to encourage in your children, and will be of great value to them
throughout their lives.
We are now in the second half of Term 3 so there is a lot of teaching and learning
coming up. Some of the activities coming up are a whole school visit on Tuesday 27
August to Coomandook Area School to visit the classes who are preparing animals for
the upcoming Royal Adelaide Show.
Further on in the term the School Governing Council will be meeting on Wednesday 11
September and in the last week, an Assembly and Genius Fair on Tuesday 24
September.
As always the students and staff of Geranium Primary School value the continued
support and involvement of parents, families and the local community. Together we can
achieve ‘Learning for all, Learning for Life’.
Tim Dunning
Geranium Primary School K-7
Principal: Tim Dunning GERANIUM SA 5301
learning for all, learning for life
Newsletter 12 Term 3 23rd August 2019
Be Gutsy – Get Along – Be Curious – Be Creative – Go for it
Diary Dates
EXCURSION TO C.A.S Tuesday 27TH Aug
PANCAKE DAY Tues 3rd Sept
GOVERNING COUNCIL
GENERAL MEETING Wed 11th Sept
JAMES PARKER VISIT– ARTIST
Fri 20th Sept
ASSEMBLY & GENIUS FAIR Tues 24th Sept
LAST DAY OF TERM
Fri 27th Sept early dismissal @ 2.20pm
TERM 4
SCHOOL PHOTOS Tues 29th Oct
SCHOOL CONCERT Thurs 31st Oct
SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY Fri 1st Nov
Happy Birthday to you!
SEPTEMBER
Jack 11th
Sophie R 27th
Nate 29th
THANK YOU
The HIVE are looking for
some collage supplies
please…boxes, cardboard
rolls etc. for their ‘making
corner’. Thanks in advance
Come in and check out
our camp photo board
in front office over the
next few weeks for lots
more photos!
Phone: 08 85772277 : 08 85772204
[email protected] website: www.geraniumps.sa.edu.au
Writer’s Corner
Site Improvement Plan Goal 1: Improve student achievement in writing, with a focus on vocabulary.
All about Camp…..
Camp was fun. We went to Cirkidz. We had to
do a trust fall. It was so high and scary. The
tramps were fun and at the end of the tramp
we would do a big belly flop and it hurt. The
Marion Aquatic Centre was fun. The bucket
was so big and it hurt when the water hit you.
The water slide was fast for little kids
Tom
It was great. I loved going to Cirkidz. I liked
doing the trust fall and jumping on the
trampoline and doing flips. We also went
to the zoo. I liked learning all about how
lizards have colour in their skin unless they
are albino. It was great to see lots of
animals. I liked seeing the Chameleon . It
was cool to see it change colour. It was the
best school camp I ever went on!
Jack
On camp I liked Cirkidz the best because we got to go on
trampolines and there was a foam pit and a clown bike. The
clown bike was red and it was very small. On the tramps
when we could go in the foam pit I did a back flip into the
foam pit. I also liked the Aquatic Centre because there was
a slide and a bucket that dumped water on you.
Charlie
On camp we went to Cirkidz, Adelaide Zoo, Marion Aquatic Centre
and the Captain’s Cottage Museum in Murray Bridge. My favourite
was the Captain’s Cottage museum because I got to see a lot of old,
cool, historical things. I really loved the old coins that we got to see
on the way out. There were half pennies, pennies, shillings, three
pence and six pence. My second favourite thing was the Adelaide
Zoo. I loved seeing all the different species of animals. My
favourite was the Chameleon, I had never seen one before and it
looked really funny with the little mohawk!. Overall I really loved
camp.
Oscar
On camp the first thing we did was go pack and
get on the bus. On Thursday we got dressed to
go to the zoo. We ate recess and lunch there.
We saw crocodiles, pandas, hippopotamus and
monkeys and also siamangs.
Zeb
On the first day of camp we went
to Cirkidz. We went on trapeze,
trampolines and at the end we
made a human pyramid. On the
second day we went to the zoo.
It was fun and I liked the reptile
house. We saw snakes, lizards,
lions, tigers, serval, fenec fox,
pandas and siamang apes. On the
last day we went to the Captain’s
Cottage at Murray Bridge, there
was lots of farm stuff.
Shianne
On Thursday we went to the
Adelaide Zoo and the JP’s did
an activity about poo and the
MUP’s did an activity about
adaptations. We got to see
meerkats, monkeys, hyenas,
lions, serval, reptiles, pandas
and the tapir. When we were
eating our lunch a raven stole
Gemma’s lunch!
Matilda
The camp beds
were comfortable. I
liked playing Ping-
Pong the best when
we were at the
camp site.
Claire
(A snapshot of a long report!) We left school at
9am, on the bus everyone was excited to get
there but some people just calmed down or
just went to sleep. We had lunch at a local
park and our Cirkidz session started at 12.30,
Cirkidz was basically a centre for doing circus
tricks. We had spaghetti bolognaise and
neapolitan ice cream for tea. At 8pm we
brushed our teeth and went to sleep, the girls
dormitory was reasonably quiet if you don’t
count the little kids snoring or talking in their
sleep!
Tonisha
At camp me and the class put everything in
the trailer and after a minute or a second we
all hopped on the bus. It took an hour or two
to get there. When we got to our camp we
grabbed all our stuff out of the trailer and
made our beds. For dinner we had spaghetti
bolognaise, it was yum. For dessert we had an
ice-cream cone. We played games after
dessert, it was guess the song and questions.
After the game we got into our pj’s and went
to bed.
Sophie R
Phone: 08 85772277 : 08 85772204
[email protected] website: www.geraniumps.sa.edu.au
BOOK WEEK 2019
A big THANK YOU to all our special visitors for
coming along to see us dressed up and
hopefully enjoying a lovely morning of reading.
Thank You
Phone: 08 85772277 : 08 85772204
[email protected] website: www.geraniumps.sa.edu.au
SAVE THE DATE
KIDS PICNIC DAY OUT AT BERLINGS
SUNDAY 29th SEPTEMBER 2019
PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP IF THIS DATE IS NOT
SUITABLE
MARG SMITH PH: 8577 2216 MOB: 0427 877 534
More information coming soon