inside this issue from the principal
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Issue 19, 24 July 2015
St Peter’s Woodlands Grammar School Inc. A Co-educational Anglican Primary School ABN 93 863 669 897
39 Partridge Street, Glenelg SA 5045 [email protected] www.spw.sa.edu.au
Telephone (08) 8295 4317 Facsimile (08) 8295 2820 Absentee Line (08) 7221 6221
OSHC 0411 298 878 Camp Australia Admissions (08) 7221 6217 Feedback to the Principal [email protected]
From the Principal Let me begin with a hearty welcome back to all returning students, with a special welcome for commencing students at SPW. I am looking forward to seeing the term unfold and the weather warming up. During the recent three week holiday period there has been much further activity onsite, with particular emphasis on the development of a Design and Technology Laboratory in what was the third Art room. In addition there has been some work done to upgrade the two current Art rooms and the storage and office areas within. On the staffing front, there have been a number of changes which I will summarise below:
Mrs Bek Jarrett has commenced in RLS (Lisa Statham having first baby) Ms Silvana Gerges has commenced in 3SF (Shelda Foulis has retired) Ms Amelia Talbot has assumed responsibility for Art during Term 3 (Liezel Till,
Long Service Leave, Term 3) Ms Emiko Allum will be replacing Skye Baldacchino as our Japanese teacher
from the commencement of Week 8, whilst Ms Alice Blieschke will teach Year 6DK on Wednesdays in the place of Skye Baldacchino (maternity leave for Skye)
Mrs Eleanor Blight will be replaced from Week 6 by Mrs Georgia Ktanis (maternity leave for Eleanor)
Ms Heidi Kerr has replaced Mrs Meredith Williams during Semester 2 in The Pines (Meredith on leave from Week 6)
Mrs Paula Hanna and Miss Hannah Carroll have commenced in the Preparatory class (new class commencing Semester 2).
Shortly you may be surprised, but hopefully delighted, to see Mrs Karen Whelan accompanied by a Guide Dog puppy that is in training. Karen has registered with the relevant Association and offered to bring the puppy to school as part of a trial to see whether having a dog onsite would value-add to the experience children get at SPW. There will be some guidelines that will be put in place to ensure the safety of children, adults and pets, along with appropriate training, whilst the opportunity will also be provided for children who are anxious, or indeed allergic, to be accommodated. Whilst the dog will always be on a lead and guidelines put in place, I do understand that there may be some persons who wish to raise particular concerns in relation to this trial. If you are one such person, please feel free to email me or indeed pop in and see me.
Christopher Prance
Japanese Student Exchange We welcome to our school five Japanese students and three Japanese teachers from Seibo School in Osaka Japan. The Japanese students and their teachers will be at SPW for all of the coming week, home-staying with Year 6 families and integrating in an Australian school life experience with 6MR. We are very excited to be establishing a friendship with a Primary school in Japan. This opportunity will allow our students to make authentic connections with Japan. Thank you to all those involved in this international student program at SPW.
Skye Baldacchino Japanese Teacher
Inside this issue From the Principal
Japanese Student Exchange
Optional Student / Parent / Teacher Conferences
Sports News
Camps & Camp Information Sessions
SPW School Camp Week
The Arts
Canteen
Chaplain’s Chat
PFA News
Woolworths Earn & Learn 2015
SRC Whole School Events
Hutt Street Centre - Crazy Socks Order
Data Collection on Students with Disability
The Week Ahead
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Optional Student—Parent—Teacher Conferences Earlier this week, all families were sent a letter regarding the upcoming optional Conferences. These are able to be booked through the online PTO website, using the individual login information in your letter. If you chose to book an interview time, please return the slip on the letter to your teacher/s. To access PTO, please click on the link below. https://bookings.parentteacheronline.com.au/Logon2.aspx?school=53435 Sports News DISTRICT ATHLETICS TEAM TRIALS AND SELECTION The SAPSASA District Athletics Championships are on Thursday 27 August (Week 6, Term 3) at SA Athletics Stadium. ATHLETICS PRACTICES FOR SCHOOL TEAM There are a number of Athletics Practices and Trials occurring regularly over the next few weeks (Weeks 2-5). Please ensure your child is aware of when they are required. Students in SAPSASA years, born 2005, 2004, 2003 and 2003) are encouraged to try out and attend the following practices: WEEKS 2-5 Monday Lunchtimes High Jump Baddams Gym Throws, 12 (2003) & 13 (2002) year olds Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval Please note that your child should notify me if they wish to attend both Wednesday Before School (8.15-8.45am) Run Club: 100m, 200m, 800m, relay runners (all other runners from Years 3 to 7 are welcome to attend) Throws, 10 (2005) & 11 (2004) year olds Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval Please note that your child should notify me if they wish to attend both Friday Lunchtime High Jump Baddams Gym Beach Run: 100m, 200m , 800m & Relay Teams Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval (All other runners from Years 3 to 7 are welcome to attend) Please note that your child should notify me if they wish to attend both. SAPSASA BASKETBALL TRIALS AND PRACTICE Year 6 and 7 boys and girls. Practices will be held at Friday lunchtime on the Giles Avenue courts. Please note that your child should notify me if they wish to attend Athletics practices as well. SANFL GAME—TICKETS AVAILABLE I have 40+ ‘free entry’ passes for this weekend’s Glenelg Vs Eagles game at Gliderol stadium (Sunday, 2.10pm). Please notify me for tickets. I will also provide some to the Kelly Sports coaches for Saturday sport. PE STAFF As was mentioned in the last Weekly, I will be taking responsibility for Sports Administration as well as Physical Education from the commencement of Term 3 for the remainder of the school year. This means that Karen Whelan will be picking up some of my teaching duties whilst also maintaining some of her sport supervision role. Please note therefore that I will be the go-to person in relation to all matters of extra- and co-curricular sport.
Huw Bowen Sports & PE Coordinator
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Huw Bowen [email protected] 0413 244 539
Camps & Camp Information Sessions Camps & Camp Information Sessions All students in Years 3-7 received a letter regarding the exciting camps coming up in Week 8 this term. Parents/caregivers are asked to read this letter carefully and take note of the specific information for each camp. This year, parents are asked to complete the medical information and risk acknowledgement via an online portal rather than the paper-based forms of previous years. The letter contains the web address for the portal. Please note that for any student who has a medical plan (eg for allergy, asthma) a doctor’s plan must be uploaded (as a .pdf document). We suggest parents attention this online registration as soon as possible. If you have any questions about the online system, please contact Wilderness Escape Outdoor Adventures on 8165 2022. Registration is due by 11 August. In addition, each student is asked to return the parent/caregiver permission slip on the bottom of the letter. Parent Camp Information Sessions are scheduled for next week, and all parents/caregivers in the relevant year levels are welcome to attend. These sessions are run by WEOA and SPW together and take place in the Chapel. Tuesday 28 July 6.00-6.40pm Year 3 Wednesday 29 July 6.00-6.30pm Years 4 & 5 Wednesday 29 July 6.40-7.10pm Years 6 & 7 SPW School Camp Week Please find below the dates and venues for the 2015 Camps. Year 2 Sleepover at SPW Friday 11 September Year 3 Woodhouse Monday 7-Wednesday 9 September Year 4 Douglas Scrub Monday 7-Wednesday 9 September Year 5 Roonka, Blanchetown Wednesday 9-Friday 11 September Year 6 Flinders - Melrose Wednesday 9–Friday 11 September Year 7 Hindmarsh Island Tuesday 8–Friday 11 September Information about the Year 2 sleepover will be distributed later this term.
Simon Theel Deputy Principal
The Arts TERM 3 SENIOR MUSICAL REHEARSAL SCHEDULE—’JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT’ From next week, Tuesday afternoon rehearsals have been extended to a 5.30pm finish; there will also be two Sunday rehearsals. Students will need to bring an ‘easy to eat’ snack and water to rehearsals, and will need to bring their lunch to Sunday rehearsals. If children are unable to attend a rehearsal, please email me directly at [email protected]. Thank you.
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SPW Wk Date Who is required Time Venue
2 July 28 Entire cast & crew (Years 4-7) 3.15-5.30pm Chapel
2 August 2 Entire cast & crew (Years 4-7) 10.00am-4.00pm Chapel
3 August 4 Entire cast & crew (Years 4-7) 3.15-5.30pm Chapel
3 August 9 Entire cast & crew (Years 4-7) 10.00am-4.00pm Chapel
4 August 11 Entire cast & crew (Years 4-7) 3.15-5.00pm Chapel
4 August 11 Entire cast & band (Years 4-7) 7.00-8.30pm Chapel
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TICKET SALES FOR ’JOSEPH AND THE AMAZING TECHNICOLOR DREAMCOAT’ There will be three performances for you to choose to attend:
Thursday 20 August, 7.30pm Friday 21 August, 10.00am Friday 21 August, 7.30pm
The musical is being held at Walford Anglican School for Girls, 316 Unley Road, Hyde Park, in the Helen Reid Hall. Ticket sales will be available via trybooking from early next week. Please keep a look out on the SPW website for further details. We look forward to seeing you at the 2015 Senior Musical.
Mark DeLaine The Arts Coordinator
Canteen With these chilly days upon us, don’t forget to organise a lovely lunch or your child/ren. We provide a range of warm, healthy and delicious items on our menu for those wintery days. Using our Qkr! app will assist with your ordering.
Rosie Elphick Canteen Manager
Chaplain’s Chat At this week’s Chapel we explored the theme “Acts of kindness can change the world.” The students were then presented with a challenge to do an unexpected act of kindness for someone during the coming week. What a great thing to consider as we commence a new term together. This theme ties in neatly with the Year 5 students undertaking Peer Support Leadership training. During this term pairs of Year 5 students will be Peer Support Leaders to a group of about six Junior Primary students. They will have six sessions together doing a range of social skills and friendship activities. The younger students love this interaction with the Year 5 students, and the Year 5 students grow in confidence and leadership skills. It’s another way to promote kindness and service in our school. Next week’s Communion Service will continue a similar theme for International Friendship Day. 8.45am Thursday 30 July. All Welcome.
Fr Andrew Mintern School Chaplain
PFA A friendly reminder to all Reception – Year 2 parents to book your tickets to the Imagination Kidz event on Friday 14th August. Tickets are selling fast and numbers are limited. The trybooking link is http://www.trybooking.com/IFGR Woolworths Earn & Learn 2015 This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school/early learning centre – and all we need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths. From Monday 27 July to Tuesday 8 September, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths.
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At the end of the promotion, we will be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit www.woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn SRC Whole School Event
No person who is homeless should feel like they’re walking alone.
At 1.30pm on Friday 7 August, all children at SPW, from Reception to Year 7, will take part in a ‘Walk a Mile in my Boots’ event. This is a key event for the Hutt Street Centre and takes places at various places across Adelaide. In order that the whole school community can take part, we have decided to hold our own event at school. Children and staff will walk from the school, down Pier Street to the Esplanade and then along to Moseley Square before returning to school. The procession will be led by the SRC who will carry banners advertising the purpose of our walk. Classes will also carry placards bearing key messages about homelessness. We would love it if as many parents as possible were able to join us for this important walk. If you do plan to join us, please let your class teacher know in advance, and please meet your class at the Pier Street Gates at 1.30pm. To make our event as fun as possible, children, staff and parents are encouraged to walk in ‘crazy coloured socks’. These socks can be bought from school using the order form. All orders should be placed by Tuesday 28 July. No orders after this date will be accepted. All children who purchase socks through this method will be entered into a prize draw to win exciting goodies kindly donated by Activesocks. Any money raised by the sale of socks will go directly to the Hutt Street Centre. It would be fantastic if all members of the school community, children, staff and parents, united by wearing these socks and showing their support of the Hutt Street Centre. As well as walking the mile, we would like to go the extra mile for people experiencing homelessness in South Australia by fundraising. Children are encouraged to seek donations from family, friends and neighbours. The attached sponsor pledge form can be used and donations should be brought on the day and given to class teachers. Alternatively donations can be made directly on the SPW fundraising page by following the link below:
http://huttstcentre.gofundraise.com.au/page/SPWSRC
This event will be a fantastic opportunity for the SPW community to stand together and show their support for a cause, which is an important message for our children. It is hoped that ‘Walk a Mile in my Boots’ will give everyone a better insight into what people who are vulnerable and experiencing homelessness face each cold winter morning – walking the streets to get breakfast, a cup of tea and a hot shower – by experiencing a tiny part of that life for one hour, walking one mile. We very much hope that you are able to join us for what will no doubt prove to be a fun filled afternoon. If you have any questions about this event or any of the work of the SRC please do not hesitate to contact Kerry Ramsay, [email protected] or Barbara Saunderson, [email protected].
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Canteen
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School
Uniform Shop Hours 8.15am—9.00am 2.30pm—4.00pm
Seibo Students Sausage Sizzle—12 noon to 1.00pm
Uniform Shop Hours 8.15am—9.00am 2.30pm—4.00pm
ICAS English—8.50am (Library Seminar Room)
SAPSASA Knockout Netball Vs Concordia—1.30pm at SPW
Whole School Assembly (Chapel) - 2.30pm
Year 3 Camp Parent Information Session—6.00pm (Chapel)
Uniform Shop Hours 8.15am—9.00am 2.30pm—4.00pm
Year 4 & 5 Camp Parent Information Session - 6.00pm (Chapel)
Year 6 & 7 Camp Parent Information Session—6.40pm (Chapel)
Uniform Shop Hours 8.15am—9.00am 2.30pm—4.00pm
Chapel Service—Communion—8.45 am ((St Margaret’s Chapel)
Excursion—Seibo and SPW Host Students—9.30am—1.00pm (Central Markets)
Afternoon Tea for Seibo students and host families—2.00pm (Nutter Thomas)
Extra & Co C
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District Athletics Team Trials—Lunchtime—High Jump (Baddams), Throws 12 (2003) & 13 (2002) year olds (Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval)
Games Club R-7—12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Soccer School of Excellence Training—Girls (lunch time)
MP & JP Activities Year 6/7 Football,
Soccer, Netball Training—3.30-4.30pm
SPW Band—8.15-8.55am (Music Suite)
Chapel Choir—12.50-1.30pm (Chapel)
Junior Choir—12.50-1.30pm (Music Suite)
Knitting Club—12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Lego Technic/Construction Club (Yrs 4-7) -12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Yoga Yrs 3-7—12.50-1.30pm (Baddams Hall)
‘Joseph’ Rehearsals—3.15-5.30pm (Chapel & Music Suite)
Run Club—8.15-8.55am (Mackenzie Oval) District Athletics Team Trials 100, 200, 800m, relay runners, Throws, 10 (2005) & 11 (2004) year olds, Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval
Chess Club—12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Show Choir—12.50-1.30pm (Music Suite)
Year 5-7 Netball Matches (various)
Chapel Choir & Band—8.15-8.45am (Chapel)
Comic Writing Club - 12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Flute Ensemble—12.50-1.30pm (Chapel)
Lego Construction Club (Rec-Yr7)—12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
Percussion Ensemble—12.50-1.30pm (Music Suite)
Debating Practice, 3.30-4.30pm (Library Seminar)
Tournament of Minds, 3.30-4.30pm (Library)
Year 3-4 Netball (various)
Year 6-7 Co-curricular Activities 8.15-8.55am (Various)
Games Club—12.50-1.30pm (The Hub)
District Athletics Team Trials—lunchtime—High jump (Baddams), Beach Run: 100m, 200m, 800m & relay teams (Sports Shed, McKenzie Oval)
SAPSASA Basketball Trials and Practice - lunchtime (Giles Avenue courts)
_______________________________ SATURDAY MORNING Years 3-7 Soccer matches Year 3 Football matches Year 4-5 Football matches ______________________________ SUNDAY Musical rehearsal (Chapel) - 10.00am to 4.00pm
PFA
PFA Sports BBQ, 3.15-4.pm SATURDAY PFA Sports BBQ, 8.30-12noon
2015 Term 3 Week 2 Monday 27 July to Friday 1 August
The Week Ahead Contact Us Front Office 8295 4317 [email protected]
Student Absentees 7221 6221 [email protected] OSHC 0411 298 878 Camp Australia Finance Office 7221 6229 [email protected] Canteen 7221 6216 Rosy Elphick, Manager [email protected] Website spw.sa.edu.au
St Peter’s Woodlands Grammar School Inc 39 Partridge Street Glenelg SA 5045 A Co-educational Anglican Primary School
St Peter’s Woodlands is an IB World School
accredited in the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Program (PYP)