Newsletter Term 4 Week 6 DATES FOR THE DIARY

THURSDAY 22ND NOVEMBER 2018

Primary Assemblies

Thursdays of Week 6 & 8

At 2.45 pm

Governing Council

7pm 3rd December

Finance Committee

Wednesday 28th Nov 4pm

Yr 7/8 Catering for Mt View Homes Morning Tea

Wednesday 28th November 10am

R/1 Visit Hospital

Wednesday 28th November

Yrs 7/8/9 Storm Boy English Excursion

Thursday 29th November

Emily Ellard’s Round Table

We look to you as parents for support in the wearing of hats during term 1,3 and 4 and during term 2 when the UV rating is 3 and above. The hats need to be broad brimmed or legionnaires, not caps. Our primary students are exceptional at wearing broad brimmed hats, with one stating this week: “We set an example to the older students”. Which they do! Some of our older students perhaps think of it as a teacher baiting game to see if they can “win” in not wearing hats, or prefer to argue with a yard duty teacher when requested to remove the cap and asked to wear their school hat or seek solid shade. It cannot be reiterated enough about sun safety. A broad brimmed hat provides protection for the face, ears and back of the neck. A cap just doesn’t make the grade. If you know if your secondary aged son or daughter is heading off to school without a hat or has a cap, please ensure that a broad brimmed hat is on their head, or in their bag for the bus journey. Melanoma isn’t particularly nice or forgiving cancer if unchecked and doesn’t discriminate in who ends up with it. We announced in an earlier newsletter that Emma Rose had won the Primary Coordinator position from 2019. Sadly, Emma has rescinded her acceptance. However we can now announce that Emma Branson has accepted the role. A letter has gone home to parents of 2019 year 2 primary aged students this week with class/teacher allocation information. I would like to thank members of the community for coming into the school to be part of the ‘Round Table’ presentations made by our year 9 students recently. I was fortunate to witness only three, yet with those three there was great variety, great passion and enthusiasm for their chosen area. Many thanks to Kathy Kupke in the organisation of it this year, congratulations year 9’s on a job well done! Thank you staff who gave of their time to participate too. 10 years of presentations, an amazing feat!

Jenny Stringer,

Principal

Share the Positives:

What a wonderful effort the year 9 students did with their

‘Round Tables’. Thank you to the community for listening to

presentations and staff for their support and organisation of

the event. Well done everyone! Absolute highlight!

Kindy News

After our experiment with celery and food colouring, we decided to use some white flowers to see what would happen. Marianne and Karen were very amazed to see that the roses began to change colour after only one hour! They looked really good, the colours were really strong. Thank you to Maureen Waters for supplying the beautiful roses.

On Tuesday we went for a walk to the Mount View Homes. We read the book 'Have You Ever Seen......?' that we wrote after reading the book of the same name. We sang songs from our song bucket and showed the residents our books about tadpoles that we wrote.

On Thursday we will be sending home a letter regarding our excursion to Jamestown on 4th December to visit the Magic Cave.

Kindy and Rural Care Staff

Primary News

On Wednesday the 28th of November the R-6 students travelled to Orroroo for The Bremen Town Musician’s performance. The performance had a range of different puppets and was based on the Brother Grimm fairy-tale. Thanks again to Jenni Caldwell and Craig Roberts for driving the bus.

Next week, the R/1 class will attend the Hospital’s Christmas party. The students will perform part of their part in ‘The Climb’ (our primary performance).

In Week 8, Monday 3rd, Wednesday 5th and Thursday 6th of December, the Kindergarten students will begin transitioning into Reception for 2019. These visits will help students to become familiar with school routines and surroundings.

In Week 9, Monday 10th, Tuesday 11th and Wednesday 12th of December, R-6 students will be in their 2019 classrooms. Students will be given curriculum packs on Monday which are to be labelled and contacted per each classroom teacher’s request and brought back at the start of next year. More information will come about this in the near future when staffing is finalised.

Monday the 10th December will be our whole school presentation night and all parents and community members are invited to attend and help celebrate our student’s success in 2018.

On Thursday the 13th December the R-6 students will have a Splash Day at the Booleroo Centre Swimming Pool starting at 11.00. We will have a sausage sizzle lunch with a fruit box and ice cream at a cost of $3 per student. Students not involved in the sausage sizzle need to bring their own lunch. Students can be picked up from the pool or will return to school after 2.30pm.

Finally, our next assembly will be held on the 6th of December starting at 2.45pm. We hope to see you there!

Tamara Schmidt,

R-6 Primary Coordinator

Senior News

Scholarship program - The Australian Government’s Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarship program

The second round of the Australian Government’s Rural and Regional Enterprise Scholarship program is now open for applications. The round of applications closes on the 14th December 2018 for students who will commence study in semester 1, 2019.

The program will support up to 1200 undergraduate, postgraduate and Vocational Education and Training (VET) students to undertake a STEM course, in the fields of health and agricultural science. The scholarships are for Certificate IV to PhD courses. STEM fields include the following broad fields of study including; Natural and Physical Sciences, Information Technology, Engineering and Related Technologies, Agriculture, Environmental and Related Studies, Health (except Complementary Therapies)

Scholarship recipients may receive total scholarship funding up to $18,000, based on course length and type of study or training. A further $500 is available to scholarship recipients to support an internship. Further information can be found at: https://www.myskills.gov.au/more/news-events/news/applications-open-for-scholarships-to-support-rural-and-regional-students-to-study-stem/

Year 12 (Stage 2) students Congratulations to the Class of 2018 in completing their assignments and exams (the final one was on last Thursday) for the year.

Thank you to our exam invigilators: Bernadette Cheriton, Nicolle Carey, Sue Clarke and Kirby Chapman.

We were appreciative of the kind invitation of the students to attend their Formal Dinner on Friday. It was a great celebration of the year, and was well hosted by Emily. Thank you for a lovely evening! Thank you also to Mrs Sismey who presented a summary of the funny, interesting and unusual events of the year on behalf of the staff. Mrs Bury’s homilies were also well received!

We hope to see the Year 12 students at the final formal events of the year – Presentation Night and the school formal.

Year 11 Students Year 11 students are working towards completing all assignments by the end of week 7. They have the opportunity to complete Work Experience placements after this time.

Year 9 Roundtable The Year 9 class gave their Roundtable presentations in Week 5. Once again, we were very proud of the efforts and achievement of the individual students. Although some students felt it was a challenging process, they all acknowledge the benefits for them in a range of different ways.

This is the 10th year of this program, and it continues to be a beneficial experience for the students.

The school would like to acknowledge the contributions of the panellists. Special mention goes to Jane Higgins who ran the panels as a mentor teacher during the day. Thank you to the staff members who gave up their time to contribute to a panel.

We are so very grateful to the following community members:

Janet Arbon (who also chaired a panel), Lisa Stewart, Lynette Geerling, Rolf Geerling, Katrina Kumnick, Neil Kupke Nicolle Carey, Barry Zander and Annie Page.

This is a summary of the range of abilities, talents and interests of our wonderful Year 9 students.

Adrian—My presentation was on motorbikes. I learned that time management is important and that I should have done more work so that I had time to practise.

Anna—I presented on my topic of photography. I talked about my skills and other techniques that I learned for the presentation. I learned more time management skills. It was stressful, but it pays off!

Brenton—My presentation was on sheep and I learned that you should write notes in dot points. I would improve by having a lot of practice and using my time well.

Darcy—I did my presentation on summer and winter sports, and I learned to slow down my talking and to speak clearly. I learned that you need to have lots of practice and to use my time well.

Emma—Emma spoke on her topic of Canada. This is of great interest to her personally as she intends to learn more about this country on her travels.

Eliza—My presentation was about dancing and I learnt how to speak properly in front of groups and to work hard on it. I showed persistence in getting it done, and I learned how to speak in front of people.

Emily—My Roundtable presentation was good, letting me ride Spirit and show my passion for horses to everyone in the class was fantastic. I learned how to talk in front of people for a certain time and to work hard.

Ethan—My presentation went decently and definitely helped with social speaking. My topic was beatboxing and I enjoyed being a sort of gateway to a new concept for the panel. I learned how to channel my passion and areas of expertise and improved my outward confidence.

Georgia—I presented my knowledge on writing. I talked about different genres, and the skills required. I learned how to be a bit more confident during presentations and how to use my time more wisely.

Gracie—I did my Roundtable presentation on travelling. I learned a lot about my topic and I enjoyed researching my topic. I learned that I need to use my time wisely and that you need to practise reading it out at least twice.

Hunter—I did my Roundtable on cricket and football – two sports I am passionate of outside of school. Doing the Roundtable improved my talking in front of a crowd and I enjoyed the process of creating the powerpoint and notes.

Jaxon—My Roundtable experience was great, and I really enjoyed it. I hope the panellists enjoyed my presentation on farming. The work pays off, and public speaking is great for confidence. Everyone tried their hardest.

Kodi—I presented my Roundtable on precision agriculture and I learned more that will help improve my knowledge and my future. It was important for me to finish things early, speak clearly and to practise.

Lauren—My Roundtable presentation on dishes from around the world was overall a successful presentation but I still could have had some improvements. I learned how to cook various different dishes, about different cultures and how to research and give a presentation that goes for an extensive amount of time.

Leticia—My Roundtable research was on netball. I learned about my learning style and established my goals. I really enjoyed this task.

Lisa—I chose archery as my research project because I was comfortable with this subject and I could relate to it. Along the way of creating my presentation, I was able to learn new things including that my mum competed in Melbourne. If I had the chance to do this again, I would change the way I wrote my script.

Lucy—My Roundtable presentation was about the places I have been to in Australia. I learnt that I want to do lots more travelling in the future. I enjoyed researching about the places I’ve been to.

Mitchell—My presentation was on farming and I brought a GPS system that ran off a laptop. I learned how to finish things early and to speak clearly.

Roma—I did my Roundtable on German Shepherds because when I was younger, I wanted to be in the police force.

Kathy Kupke,

Senior School Coordinator

School News

Tag Rugby Carnival at Orroroo Area School 2018

This year’s annual Tag Rugby Carnival at Jamestown Community School was cancelled due to a lack of support from the NRL, so Esther McCann from Orroroo Area School (OAS) and I decided to conduct our own carnival. Numerous MNSEC schools had been running Tag Rugby programs as a part of their curriculum for several weeks. It was important for the students to conclude the unit with a carnival, providing them with the opportunity to implement what they had been taught throughout the unit.

We decided to make the carnival a mixed gender carnival, because that is how the sport of Tag Rugby is played. This is different to what we have done at previous carnivals, but it worked extremely well with teamwork on display throughout the day. Each school had 3 teams with every team playing all of the other teams once. The

winner was decided on the win/loss ratio, and if necessary, a count back of which team scored the most tries, as we were trying to promote an attacking style of play.

The students from both schools conducted themselves in an exemplary manner. The sportsmanship was fantastic and the competition was fierce. Thanks to all of the students from OAS who umpired and helped set up the fields, it helped the day run smoothly. Esther McCann did an amazing job organising the draw, shades, water coolers and ice for the warm conditions. OAS

successfully hosted a great event and we are thankful for them doing so.

After the first 3 matches we had one team near the top of the ladder, but the other two teams needed to work hard to get back into contention. To their credit they did and we finished with all 3 of our teams in the top 3 out of the 6 teams that competed. Poppy Pilmore had the most successful team, they remained undefeated and her passion for coaching was exceptional. She is a true leader! Thank you to Ashleigh McCallum and Abby Webb for coaching the other two teams, but Poppy out coached them this time. Dylan Corlett is to be thanked for his umpiring.

Darcy Bastian gave an excellent winner’s speech, he addressed and thanked everyone. He represented himself and the school well. Thank you to Ella Thredgold for providing some extra staff support on the day. Once again Craig Roberts is to be thanked for transporting us to the event and helping on the day. The event was a success and let’s hope that next year the NRL are back and providing the coaching clinics in the lead up to a carnival.

Thanks and well done everyone!

Alby Nicholls

PE Coordinator

Cross Country Results

Congratulations to all students who gave their best effort in the cross country this year, there was some close competition in the leading packs. Thank you to Howard and Toni Bastian for allowing the school to run across their property and thank you to the Booleroo Centre Golf Club for giving us access to their course to run the event. Without the support of both parties the event would not happen.

AGE GROUP RESULTS

Year 7 Girls, First Jaden Carey, Second Sophie Orrock, Third Mia Arthur

Year7 Boys, First George Arthur, Second Cooper Dawson, Third Samuel Simpson

Junior Girls First Teegan Prosser, Second Britt Thomas,Third Bethany Reed

Junior Boys, First Rory Kumnick, Second Alec Whellum, Third Nick Hudson

Inter Girls, First Emma Prestwood, Second Eliza Watkinson, Third Ashleigh McCallum

Inter Boys, First Jaxon Kumnick, Second Paul Webb, Third Kodi Carey

Senior Girls, First Elise Roocke, Second Tara Kumnick, Third Minnesota Cheriton

Senior Boys, First, Cooper Woolford, Second Nathan Hitch

FIRST ACROSS THE LINE RESULTS GIRLS

Elise Roocke 14m23s, Jaden Carey15m45s, Tara Kumnick 15m55s

FIRST ACROSS THE LINE RESULTS BOYS

Jaxon Kumnick 12m.04s, Paul Webb 13m25s, Kodi Carey13m35s

COMBINED HOUSE RESULTS

DUNSTAN - 248 POINTS

ROGERS- 188 POINTS

Week 9 Arrangements

We are holding our Transition Week during Week 9 (10th-14th December), followed by activities to finish off the school year! This will involve a range of different activities and some timetable changes for the week. More information will be sent home with students who are directly involved in Middle School transition, and our Kindy families will also have detailed information for these days.

An overview of the week is below. If you have any questions about these arrangements, please give the school a call!

Kate Seidel, Senior Leader

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Year 6/7s Middle School Transition begins Kindy Transition visits Primary Classes – Transition to 2019 classes Year 8s Combine Modified Timetable 9am Presentation Night Rehearsal 7:00pm Presentation Night

Transition continues

Transition continues

Primary School Pool Day R-6 11-2:30pm 7-10 Activities Day 7-10 Extended Home Group Locker Organisation for 2019

Whole School Yard Clean up Activities Day 6-10 Pool Session 11-12:30 Whole School farewell assembly Early Dismissal Buses leave at 2:20

to attend the annual

Booleroo Centre District School cordially invites

Parents, students and community members

Presentation Night Monday 10th December 7pm

Booleroo Centre District School Gymnasium

For the celebration of student achievements and Year 12 Formal Farewell

Please RSVP to the School by 13th November – 8667 2124

The Vacswim season for 2018/2019 is fast approaching and we're excited to once again be teaching young South Australians water skills, awareness, confidence and safety. Over the past year, South Australia has had zero drownings in Vacswim's age group of 5-12 years old. This is a phenomenal result and something we all want to keep up!

For further information please visit website http://www.vacswimsa.com.au//

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