Dear Parents and Friends, We know how busy everyone is and how easy it is to overlook events coming up at school. PLEASE check the planner each week to help keep track. I know how easy it is to double book myself or miss something. Congratulations to Marie Noll on being appointed Playcentre Leader this year. We are all loving working with Marie. Playcentre is a lot of fun and a great morning escape from home routines. We hope you can join us on Friday mornings from 9am. Fundraising: Many thanks to everyone for your kind donations towards our Easter raffle. Tickets are selling well and we appreciate your support. Charlotte has organised a fortnightly soup day– special lunch to help raise money towards Canberra camp later in the year. She will send home a note fortnightly for orders. Could you please return money with your order if your children would like a cup of soup for lunch. BYO bread and butter. Literacy Summit and State Leaders’ Conference. ‘WOW’, pretty much sums up how good the key note address by Dr Maryanne Wolf was at the Literacy Summit. She spoke about how the reading brain teaches us to teach, predict and intervene. Reading represents the amazing capacity of the brain to change itself in order to learn something new. To read, the human brain rearranges connections to create a new circuitry, transforming the mind and life of each reader. Dr Wolf is a neuroscientist and she presented a new understanding of reading development in typical and diverse learners, with a particular focus on children with dyslexia and the implications and demands for best teaching practices. As soon as the video of her presentation is available I will share the link with you. As I shared on our Facebook page, I learnt that there is a 39 million word difference for children who are exposed to great oral language and reading from when they are babies until they are 4 years of age. That just cannot be caught up! It is so important, that you read to and talk to your babies; that you tell them stories, make up rhyming games, sing songs, tell nursery rhymes and continue to do so until they start school. Literacy is not just school business, it starts from birth and at home! This has made us consider what we can do to help you and to support young children learning to be literate? As a start, we are working on adding some story telling resources to our school library for families to borrow. Let me know if you’d like to help us set these up. Also, if you have any good young children’s books that you no longer need, we will put them to good use in story packs. Student Free Days Approved by Governing Council Thursday 29th March (day before Good Friday)- Staff PD Student portfolios and moderating the curriculum. Tuesday 12th June (day after Queen’s Birthday): Assessment, Moderation and Student Feedback Friday 16th November—Data Review and Planning.

Please check the planner for Governing Council and Fundraising meeting dates

Anne Heinrich

Booborowie Primary School Achieving and Learning for Life

Term 1, 2018 Week 5 Newsletter South Terrace, Booborowie, 5417 08 8893 2241 Email: dl.0600_info@schools.sa.edu.au

PLANNER UPDATE

Week 5 February/March Mon 26 Tues 27 GC Meeting 6pm Wed 28 Staff training at Clare pm

Thurs 1 Charlotte working

Fri 2 Anne- retention leave Fiona out—NO LIBRARY TODAY Playcentre

Week 6 March Mon 5 Anne- retention leave

Tues 6 Assembly 3pm

Wed 7

Thurs 8 Staff meeting Charlotte working

Fri 9 Annual Report Due Playcentre

Week 7 March Mon 12 Adelaide Cup Holiday

Tues 13 Staff meeting GC Fundraising Meeting

Wed 14

Thurs 15 Charlotte working

Fri 16 Playcentre

Sat 17 Voting—State Election at Boob Hall

Week 8 March

Mon 19

Tues 20 Assembly

Wed 21

Thurs 22 Staff meeting YEL meeting Charlotte out- Finance meeting

Fri 23 Easter Raffle ticket returned Sarah & Julia @ Sue Larky Adel TRT

Week 9 March

Mon 26 Parent Teacher Interviews this week

Tues 27 Anne- Ignite Leadership conf Adel

Wed 28 Anne- Ignite Leadership conf Adel

Thurs 29 Charlotte working Anne mtg w ED Neil White @ 11:30am Student Free Day

Fri 30 Good Friday

Week 10 April

Mon 2 Easter Monday

Tues 3 Staff meeting

Wed 4

Thurs 5 Charlotte working

Fri 6 Fiona off

Week 11 April

Mon 9

Tues 10 Governing Council Meeting 6pm Assembly

Wed 11

Thurs 12 Charlotte working Staff meeting

Fri 13 Newsletter Send Mother’s Day Raffle tickets home Fiona working

Booborowie Community News

St Dymphna Catholic Church, Booborowie, will be de-commissioned by the Bishop at a Final Mass on Sunday 8th April at 1:30pm.

The Church has been a place of worship since March 1903.

Afternoon Tea will follow the Mass at Booborowie Town Hall

Parishioners are invited to attend.

Catering will be done by the Booborowie Community Ladies, which includes all the ladies of the district.

A plate of AFTERNOON TEA would be appreciated.

Thank you

Shirl M

and Maxine B

Strawberry Jam for Sale

only $4 Available from front office.

Chicken Nuggets This recipe is from a fantastic cookbook I found at Kmart last week! Lunch Box by Pete Evans contains some great recipes for healthy meals, snacks and treats on the go and contains dairy free, gluten free, nut free and refined-sugar free recipes. I think I’ll work my way through the book– I love every recipe!!!

Ingredients Makes 30

500g chicken mince

1 small carrot, grated

1 small zucchini, grated

2 gloves garlic, finely chopped

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.

80ml coconut oil or good quality fat.

Method

Place ingredients in a food processor bowl and pulse until finely chopped and combined. Season with salt and pepper Roll 1 tablespoon of chicken mixture in a ball then flatten slightly to form a nugget. Heat oil or fat in a large non-stick frying pan over medium heat. Add the chicken nuggets in batches and fry for 2 1/2 minutes on each side or until golden and cooked through. Drain on paper towel. Season with a little more salt if desired. Serve with mayonnaise and cherry tomatoes or with some veggie sticks if you prefer.

Help Wanted

Is there anybody out there who

could help us make a batch of

paint smocks out of shower

curtain fabric to suit upper pri-

mary students? We will supply

materials and a shirt that you

can use to help make a pattern.

Pop tops

on sale at school at

recess & lunch

Only $1.20 each

6 pack $6 each

Week 5 Upper Primary News

with Mrs Drew and Mrs Heinrich

English

We have read chapter 1 of Colin Thiele’s novel, ‘Storm Boy’ and have discussed what type

of text it is, the author’s purpose for writing this novel and focussed on new vocabu-

lary and answering questions about the first chapter.

We have begun learning about Step 1 of the seven main steps or techniques writers use

and are applying these techniques to persuasive writing. We have brainstormed the

topic, “Country living is better than city living’.

We have completed Sound Waves spelling units focussing on the ‘a’ and ‘b/bb’ graphemes.

Maths

We are learning about money. Some groups have been adding amounts of money, some groups have

been looking at equivalent values of money and using strategies to find change, while some groups

have been learning about budgets and how to use calculators to find discounts. We are also working

on number facts activities and solving problems related to money.

We are designing an extension to our kitchen garden that involves accurately measuring to a metre

and to exactly 1 mm and are making a scale model of our plans. We plan to work on the calendars and

months when we investigate planting guides to plan when we will plant veges at different

times of the year.

Science

We are learning about how plants and animals adapt to desert environments. We have compared the surface area

of mulga tree leaves and oak tree leaves and carried out an investigation to find out whether having leaves

with small surface areas helps plants to retain water for longer.

HASS

We have viewed several types of flags used in Australia and viewed the DVD ‘Our Na-

tional Flag since 1901’. The video looked at flags as symbols, National Flag Day, the

history of our national flag and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags.

Arts and Design

We have started learning some great new songs and a very old scout song from the 1920s. Singing is a lot of fun

and helps us with our reading and also fitness because we dance too.

In visual arts we have been exploring pattern making to create covers for our profile books, sketching and draw-

ing dogs for Year of the Dog and in Design, we are creating a soft toy. We have painted our designs onto

fabric then last week we learnt to sew on buttons for eyes. Next week, we are learning to use a sewing ma-

chine to join the edges before we can stuff our toys.

Literacy in Focus– Let’s Argue About This….

Being able to argue or persuade someone is a skill that we focus on at school regularly. Being able to express our point of view effectively is an important life skill needed at home, work and at play. You are already famil-iar with how good children are at arguing and expressing their wants and feelings from when they were very young. When they get to school, we help them get even better at persuading!

In reception, we teach children to write about what they like and dislike. Children in year 1, begin to explain more about their feelings and opinions and in year 2, they begin to compare and evaluate people and things. (I really like…..; I hate……; I like this better than ….. Because….). We do this both verbally and in writing at school. As children move through upper primary, they learn to consider other peoples views so they can coun-ter them with their argument points, to use emotion and other persuasive skills.

At home, you can help children develop this skill by regularly discussing age appropriate things that are topical with your children. Encourage them to think about what other people might believe and teach them ways to help convince other people that their ideas are better. Congratulate them when they come up with a good argument!

I’m sure you already have lots of topics to argue about at home, but if you’re after some more, here’s some to get you started on a good argument with your children...

Is it right to bully a bully? This is a topic that allows children to peek into another world where good and bad exist but the lines are not so clear.

Is being scared of nothing worse than being scared of everything? Or, are some things to be scared of worse than others? Is being scared a good or bad thing in the first place?

Is it OK to purchase any items you want with your pocket money? Supposedly it’s theirs but most parents say it should be put aside for something special rather than spend it on trivial things. Would a new school bag bring the same joy and happiness as a new game? Hardly.

Booborowie Primary School– Camps and Excursions 2018

Governing Council is considering options and cost implications for camps and excursions this year. One of the great

things about our school has been annual camps in the past however, we are aware this impacts of families' budgets

and it’s a good time to get your feedback. We are looking at annual camps versus one every two years.

Would you please return the following slip to let us know your preferences by next Friday. This will help Governing

Council and the school decide our best options to suit ALL families. Please remember, some families have two or three

children so whilst something may be affordable for you, we also need to consider others.

Wizard Of Oz Excursion: Proposal to go to the Wizard Of Oz at the Adelaide Festival Theatre; probably on a Thursday later this term;

Cost: tickets all $59.95 each (adults and children)

Travel: Bus included in ticket price for students ($1000 from school); All other people joining us, user pays share of bus

travel of approx $20 per person. (If parents wanted to come too and transport in their own cars or car pool, that could

help reduce the cost for families).

Warm Fuzzy Excursion– term 4: We hope to have another excursion to celebrate students’ outstanding achievements in term 4. (Bus paid by school

approx $800)

2018 Camp Options: Already agreed commitment: Canberra Camp for year 7s in term 4. This will cost $200 per child (plus students are

working together to raise approximately $1500 towards their camp costs and the school contributing another $1500).

Other Camp Options: expected cost approx $100 per child (plus school expense of approximately $1,400 for a bus)

Lake Bonney at Barmera in term 1, 2019—(aquatics program plus Loxton Historic Village, Monash, possibly Monarto

Zoo)

Warradale Urban Camp in Adelaide—this year or next year (focus on Culture, practice using public transport, free muse-

ums, galleries, Bike Safety program at Thebarton)

Arbury Park Environment Camp—must join with another small school- this year or next year

IF you prefer students participate in all of these options, the school budget for camps and excursions needs to increase to

at least $5,000 and cost to families could be as high as $680 (if they have 3 children and with one in year 7) on top of

M&S fees.

Camps and Excursions Feedback

Please tick all that apply and feel free to add comments.

Yes to Wizard Of Oz at $59.95 per person. I intend ordering ……….. Tickets. I prefer to transport by car/travel by bus

No whole school camp this year. I would prefer children went on whole school camp every second year.

Yes for whole school camp this year. My preference is for

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