Student Wellbeing Leader News

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Week 9, Term 1 www.longstps.sa.edu.au dl.1133_info@schools.sa.edu.au

MARCH

Friday 29th Sports Day

2.10pm finish

APRIL

Friday 12th Last day of Term 1

2.10 finish

Monday 29th First day of Term 2

MAY

15/5-23/5 Book Fair

15/5-24/5 NAPLAN

Friday 24th Netball

27/5 Reconciliation Week

JUNE

Monday 10th Queens Birthday

Public Holiday

Friday 14th Boys Basketball

Friday 28th Girls Basketball

Please SMS us on 0499 444 438 if your child is going to be absent. You need to include your child’s name, room

number and the reason for their absence (eg. family or illness).

As we near the end of Term 1 I would like to reflect on what has been a great start to the year. We have seen an improvement in student engagement and behaviour, developed important relationships between home and school and we have begun, and continued, to implement successful programs to assist student learning. I would like to take this opportunity to discuss how important it is to build relationships in our school community. We want our families to be happy and feel comfortable about sending their children to school every day. When we have parents on side our children show success. Students show the most success when their teachers and family are on the same page. They can tell when their teacher and family work together and are striving for the same goals. We hope that through our Community Event earlier this year and the recent Goal Setting Meetings, we have managed to build relationships and that they continue to strengthen over the remainder of the year. Jodie Turpin Senor Leader

Scott Darlow entertaining the staff and students

Senior Leader News

This week I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Student Wellbeing Leaders Conference at Adelaide Oval. The day was full of exciting ideas and new resources for schools to use. The biggest thing that was spoken about is the Department’s ‘Wellbeing for Learning’; a whole school approach, and the Student Wellbeing Ambassador toolkit. I am excited to feed them back to staff and start to implement some of the ideas through classroom and SRC initiatives. In other exciting news, our classroom SRC Representatives have now been chosen and our first meeting will be this Thursday after assembly. Congratulations to all who have been voted in! Executive Group Taiah Davidson, Monique Morris, Hayden Morris, Lily Evans, Jake Haigh and Georgia Baird-Scheide

Classroom Representatives Room 1 Ava Schooling & Liam Misan Room 2 Sophia Butson & Braxton Jeromin Room 3 Brooklyn Watkinson & Seth Lapham Room 4 Maci Turner & Deylan Kemp Room 5 Charlotte Edwards & Riley Misan Room 6 Sarah Camplin & Kaiden Templeton Room 10 Caitlin Woolford & Isaiah Edwards Room 11 Alison Agius & Ryan Jordison Room 12 Tiannah Edwards & Blake Francis Room 13 Hannah Dunbar & Seth Coulter As always, if you have any questions or concerns about your child’s social and/or emotional wellbeing, or issues surrounding attendance, please do not hesitate to make an appointment to see me. Kind Regards, Rhiannon Day

Mr Wilkinson year 5/6, Room 10

How long have you been teaching? 2 and a half years What is your favourite subject to teach? Maths Can you speak any other languages? Yes! 7. Italian, Indonesian, German, French, Maltese, Afrikaans and Spanish If you could travel anywhere in the world, where would it be and why? Bora Bora, because it isn't somewhere a lot of people go and it looks really tropical.

SRC Executive 2019 Photographs taken by Angela Marsland

Please note the early finish time of 2.10pm on Sports Day (Fri 29/3) and last day of Term 1 (Fri 12/4).

News from the Principal

I would like to congratulate and thank all those who submitted their application for student leadership. This is a very brave decision by these students and one that needs to be showcased and celebrated. Congratulations to all students who voluntarily went through this process. Sports day is fast approaching. I would like to acknowledge Mr Yeates for his hard work in preparing this year’s event and look forward to seeing as many people as we can supporting the students on Friday 29th March. A reminder that Governing Council will be selling cakes to

support fundraising efforts for the school canteen. This is always a very popular part of the day. Please bring your loose change and support the stall which will be located in the STEM learning outdoor covered area. BBQ sausages and drinks will also be available for purchase throughout the day. Thankyou to staff and volunteers for preparing and selling these items. Other canteen items will also be on sale throughout the event. On April 9th and 10th, as part of our continuous school improvement process, the

school will be involved in an external school review with the Department for Education review panel. The purpose of the review is to support us to raise achievement, sustain high performance and provide quality assurance to build public confidence in government schools. The focus of the external review is to evaluate our school’s performance. The review panel consists of a Review Officer from central office and a trained Peer Principal. We look forward to this process. Bryan Rotherham, Principal

Week 6 Award Winners

Room 1 Maddison Manfield Hailie Hewitt-Smith Room 2 Connor Ebdell Sophia Butson Room 3 Lily Upton Tanner Marshall Room 4 Caden Dalziel Maci Turner Room 5 Summa Hewitt-Williams Amelia Whitlock

Room 6 Zoe Lee Eli Preiss Room 11 Tyrone Woodland Savannah Murphy-Harris Room 12 Georgia Baird-Scheide Callum Dell’Oste

Sports Day

What’s Happening in Room 4?

After a great start to the term, Room 4 are settled into their new routines and doing some fantastic learning. One of our topics in Maths, has been to create and identify symmetry. After sorting objects as either symmetrical or asymmetrical, students completed a symme-tree which is on display in the classroom. With a focus on Indigenous Perspectives in our lessons the students had the opportunity to view Indigenous art and discuss the colours and patterns. They were also asked to identify whether or not the art was symmetrical. The students then created their own symmetrical Aboriginal dot painting.

Tomorrow is Sports Day! The day begins like any other school day with children expected in class at 8.50am. Children may wear their team colours; either red, blue, yellow or green. All students must have a wide-brimmed hat and will not be allowed to participate without one. Any coloured hair spray must be applied at home, it is not permitted on school grounds (including the car park). Sports Day is part of our curriculum and children are expected to attend and participate. We invite all parents and caregivers to attend on the day and cheer our students on. The day finishes early at 2.10pm.

Community Information

SPORTS DAY SPECIAL

ICE CREAM SUNDAES

$2.00

SPORTS DAY MENU PLEASE NOTE: NORMAL CANTEEN LUNCH ORDERS ARE NOT AVAILABLE ON THIS DAY.

Sausages: $2.00 Cans of Soft Drink: $2.00 Cakes/Slices/Cookies .50c-$1.00 Water: $2.00 Jelly Cups: $1.00 Just Juice Box: $2.00 Frog in Pond Jelly Cups: $1.50 Tea/Coffee/Hot Choc: $2.00 Icy: $1.00 Slushies: $2.00 Zooper Doopers: $ .70 Ice Cream Sundaes: $2.00