TPS TIMES May 25th, 2018 - Term 2 week 4

CRICOS Provider no. 00018A

Volunteers Week

This week is National Volunteer Week. Although

we do a special thank you and morning tea at

Torrensville at the end of the year, we’d like to

acknowledge our amazing volunteers. As a

volunteer you make a significant difference for our

students.

By you volunteering it can help children:

▪ Develop an enjoyment of learning

▪ Reach their full potential

▪ Gain real-life skills and healthy lifestyle habits

▪ Be curious about the world around them

▪ Build confidence and self worth

▪ Enjoy books and reading

▪ Discover a love for maths and numbers

▪ Have fun and feel happy

Thank you for everything you do - reading, going on camps or excursions,

fundraising, Governing Council or many other ways.

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Child Safety before and after school

As we are starting to see those wet cold mornings

(and doesn’t it always seem to rain just as the 3:10pm

siren sounds!), we thought it important to revisit

what happens before and after school. All of this in-

formation is around the safety of your child and duty

of care at school.

A bell goes at 8:30am and that means a teacher will

be on duty so children can come into the yard. The

exceptions are children booked into OSHC or on

Breakfast club mornings, Tuesday & Wednesday,

(where plenty of food is out at 8:15am).

The yard duty teacher supervises the asphalt area,

play equipment and the oval up to the cricket pitch.

These are the areas children can play until it’s time to

go into class. Please note: the canopy/courtyard area

is not a play area.

Teachers will usually have their classroom doors open

by 8:40am - perhaps earlier if there is inclement

weather. Occasionally there may be before school

meetings which effects the time children can enter

their class before the bell. For duty of care reasons

children are not to be in their classroom without

teacher supervision.

When the bell goes at 8:50am it is the expectation all

children immediately go to class.

The school day ends at 3:10pm, children need to be

collected or attend OSHC at this time. At 3:25pm the

siren sounds to inform everyone that the after school

duty is finishing. Any children yet to be collected by

an adult must present to the front office so we can

phone emergency contacts for collection.

Thank you for your support in these procedures.

Adelaide Cobras FC - JUNIOR FOOTBALL ACADEMY for Boys & Girls The carefully planned sessions will be run by Adelaide Cobras Junior Football Director, Darlington Ogbonna, who holds an AFC B coaching licence and has vast experience in running youth clinics and academies overseas and here in Australia.

Enhance your technical skills and ability with specific skill based training, specially designed to develop your football skills; all whilst learning and having fun!

$150 per each junior for 12 elite training sessions. (Includes an ACFC training top and shorts) The Academy will run every Tuesday night from Tuesday 12 June to Tuesday 28 August.

6:30pm to 8pm at Weigall Oval, Urrbrae Terrace, Plympton

To register please contact Junior Co-ordinator Paul Kanakaris on 0402 900 840 or Vice President Paul Soteriou on 0417 853 310.

Would you like to learn traditional

Aboriginal Weaving?

Now is your chance!

Over 5 weeks I will hold

weaving workshops in the

Nunga room, plenty of time

to create your own

weaving master piece.

Initially a single 2 hour

session is available,

allowing enough time to get your weaving started.

All other sessions will be 1-1/2 hours. All sessions will be on

Mondays from 4pm

Beginning: Monday 28th

May in the Nunga room

First session 4pm-6pm, subsequent sessions 4pm-5:30.

Cost: Minimum weekly donation of three (3) gold coins

per person

All materials are supplied, with tea and coffee available!

Funds raised will go directly into buying resources for the

Nunga room.

For any enquiries see

me in the Nunga

room or at breakfast

club.

Elaine Magias

ACEO

Fractions in our world! In Room 4, the year 2/3 students have been investigating FRACTIONS and

how we use them each day.

‘We use fractions to share with our friends and to tell the time’ – Eli.

We discovered that we use fractions when we play sports, like Football,

when we play 4 equal quarters. We use fractions when we eat food like

pizza and sandwiches and when we are measuring things.

‘We made bath bombs for our mums for Mother’s Day. We measured how

much to put in the mixing bowl using the measuring cups. The cups had

fractions like ½ and ¼ on them. We followed the recipe and needed to use the

right measuring cups’. - Sarah

Students have been using what

they’ve learnt to create art work

using fractions.

‘We made posters using fractions.

We used paper circles and squares

and cut them into fractions. I made a

picture of a Theatre using fractions.

A fraction is a part of a whole’. –

Edward

‘This is my bird sitting on a fence and

there is a sun and a beak and a body. I

used sixths for the fence and a half for

the sun. We’ve been learning about

fractions in maths and this is a maths

picture. I figured out a really easy way to

make sixths out of a rectangle; I made

thirds and then folded it over and then

you have six pieces and they are all

even’. – Heidi

‘We’ve been learning about halves and

quarters. These are called fractions. I made The Very Hungry Caterpillar. For the legs and

antennae, I used sixteenths, for the body I did quarters and halves and for the head I used eighths. It was quite hard because I

didn’t know how to make sixths and make them even, but I figured it out’. – Paige

Heidi Edward

Paige

Governing Council Update

Governing Council met last Tuesday for our first meeting for

Term 2 with a number of issues on the agenda.

At the end of this year John will have been with us for five

years, meaning that the role of principal has to once again be

advertised. Education Director Deb Graham met with Council

to explain the process and get our input into what we value

about Torrensville and what we are looking for in our Principal

going forward.

John provided an update on a number of current issues and

events at the school, including the plans for fixing the drains in

the courtyard as well as dealing with the recent influx of mice in

the school!

Jen McLelland provided Council with an update on the work of

the Sustainability Group who are looking at getting some well

labelled bins for the school yard to help kids (and parents!) put

things in the right bins and reduce our landfill even further!

Our next meeting is Tuesday of Week 8.

Amy Ralphs - GC Secretary

Sports Results - Rounds 1 & 2

Netball

TPS 7 / SAC White 12

TPS 2 / GSPS Warriors 20

Soccer

U6 Red: TPS 4 - Prospect Green 1

TPS 3 Prospect Black 2

U6 Gold: TPS 5 - Mount Carmel 0

TPS 4 Prospect 0

U7: TPS 3 - Rosary Gold 2

U9: TPS 0 - Richmond 3

TPS 0 - St Michaels 6

U11: TPS 7 - Tenison 0

TPS 1 - St Josephs 4

Any reception, year 1 and year 2 students

wishing to join soccer, please collect

registration forms from the office ASAP.

Mark Pannenburg

Governing Council has approved the availability to staff,

students and parents at Torrensville Primary of Office 365. This

means our school community can access a suite of products and

resources for free provided by the Department for Education.

Some of the available products include:

LearnLink Email LearnLink Email provides staff and

students with a unique email address through Microsoft's Office

365. It includes a 50GB mailbox, and enables sending of email

attachments up to 6MB.

OneDrive for Business OneDrive for Business is a cloud

service where staff and students can store, share, sync, and

update files from compatible devices.

Office Online Office Online opens Word, Excel, OneNote,

PowerPoint, and Visio documents in your web browser. This

makes it easier to work and share Office files from anywhere

with an internet connection, from almost any device.

Office 365 ProPlus ProPlus lets Office applications be

downloaded and installed on up to 5 personal devices owned

by staff or students (including parent-owned devices).

Skype for Business Skype for Business is an application

that provides instant messaging, audio and video calls, online

meetings and sharing. It also allows conversations to be

recorded.

For this great opportunity to happen for your child, there needs

to be a new internet user agreement signed by parents.

Watch out for the documents coming home next week. We will

give students a week to return the forms. After that only

students with returned user agreement forms will be able to

access the internet.

Office 365 for our school community!

A couple of

photos of the

U6’s from last

weekends

soccer match.