NURIOOTPA PRIMARY SCHOOL

LEADERSHIP TEAM: PRINCIPAL: JILL HESS - Jill.Hess949@schools.sa.edu.au

DEPUTY: DAVID MURRAY

OUR PURPOSE: We key into excellence by developing engaged and independent lifelong learners who

demonstrate respect and responsibility within our school and wider community.

DATE: 22nd February 2018

TERM: 1

OUR VALUES

RESPECT

RESPONSIBILITY

EXCELLENCE

Buna Terrace, Nuriootpa SA 5355 Ph.: (08) 85621040 Fax: (08) 85621958

dl.0318_info@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.nurips.sa.edu.au

KEY INTO EXCELLENCE

IMPORTANT

DATES

District

Swimming

23.2.18

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Adelaide Cup

No School

12.3.18

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Easter Break

30.3.18 to 2.4.18

SWIMMING LESSONS

R-5 students have finished their week of swimming

lessons. The lessons went very well and students were

engaged in learning new skills. Thank you all for your

understanding about the change in dates. The change was

out of our control and we needed to adjust very quickly.

Thank you to David, staff and parents who adapted and

moved forward even though it was difficult.

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAYS

The School Closure and Pupil Free Days have been set for

the year. We are not anticipating any changes to the

dates below. These dates have been set with Nuriootpa

High School and other Partnership schools.

Monday May 21st Pupil Free Day

Monday June 25th Pupil Free Day

Thursday September 6th Pupil Free Day

Friday September 7th School Closure Day

Monday November 26th Pupil Free Day.

The Pupil Free Days are used by staff for development.

Eve Little

Joshua Davis

Eve Nash

GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING

We had a great turn out to our Governing Council AGM last Monday. This is the

largest GC we have formed in many years.

We welcome to the Governing Council: Janine Gladigau, Jodie Kurtz, Gary

Pentland, Maree Reid and Anne Thomas. Also for a return of tenure Robyn

Salfischberger, Jenny Doecke and Shannon Ellard.

Continuing members are Alex Stokoe, Rita Gallas, Sahar Rosenzweig, Stephen

Garrett and Roena Saegenschnitter. Kelli Howlett and Taryn Butler will attend

meetings as appropriate.

Office bearers are:

Stephen Garrett – Chairperson

Sahar Rosenzweig – Vice Chairperson

Secretary – Robyn Salfischberger

Treasurer – Jenny Doecke

Other lead committee members are:

Grounds – Sahar

BOSCH – Stephen and Sahar

Canteen - Roena,

Uniforms - Shannon

Fundraising Roena with Taryn Butler’s help.

You will agree that we have a wonderful representation of our school community in

our Governing Council. I look forward to working closely with this new team.

CHOIR

Choir began last Tuesday with Lydia, our Hourly Paid Instructor, who is directing

students. I will be supervising students during this time because Lydia is not a

teacher. She does however have all of the appropriate clearances. We have

several very keen students who enjoyed the first practice.

LATE ARRIVALS AND EARLY DEPARTURES

If your child arrives late to school or needs to leave early, they will need to be

signed IN or OUT at the front office. Can you please remind your child of the

importance of doing this to keep the roll books accurate and to keep them safe.

Nuriootpa Primary School

Governing Council

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL AND PASTORAL CARE POSITIONS

Applications for the Deputy Principal’s role close next Thursday. We hope that this

process will result in a Deputy being appointed for 5 years. This is a very complex

process and the panel look for a person who they think meets the criteria and will

work well in our school with parents, students and staff members. Sometimes

panels make their recommendation and the candidate takes another position so the

panel has to be run again. So you can see, this isn’t a cut and dry situation.

The applications for the Pastoral Care Worker’s role also close next Thursday.

Once again, we are hoping the right person will be amongst the candidates and we

will have a new PCW starting in Term 2.

In both of these cases it is important that the panel is thorough, and finds the

“best” person for the role. The “best” person isn’t always the person with the

highest qualifications or the most experience; it is the person who will fit well into

our school. Panels also check with referees about the quality of candidates; we

don’t want just anyone in these critical roles in our school.

I am pleased that David Murray is going to be the school representative on the

Deputy Principal’s panel and Roena Sagenschnitter will be the parent

representative on the Pastoral Car Worker panel.

LIFE LINE CONTACT NUMBERS FOR OUR STUDENTS

There are times when our children need to talk to someone

but not necessarily family or staff members. At school we

encourage students to call the Kids Help Line so they can

have some free, confidential counselling.

This is a 24 hour service, 7 days a week, so you may wish

to allow your child to access this number from home if

they are feeling particularly upset. There is also an option

for parents to ring this number for some assistance.

The number for Kids Helpline is 1800 55 1800.

STEM UPDATE

Our STEM building is coming along and the classrooms have been built. We are now

in the process of covering the floors. We hope the building will be completed in the

next few weeks and we will be able to move during the last week of term. There will

be several weeks between building completion and our moving in because we need to

go through an extensive checklist to make sure the building meets all building codes.

Congratulations to our new SEG members. What a fabulous group to be leading our students this year.

Mrs Galouzis/

Ms Desmond

Representatives

Tyler Felix

Proxy Members

Keely Imogen

MISS SALLY

Representatives

Ruby Kyle

Proxy Members

Mila Isaak

MRS O’NEIL/

MS MILLINGTON

Representatives

Indianna Talan

Proxy Members

Hayley

MRS MURRAY/

MRS SPENCER

Representatives

Lily Kali

Proxy Members

Zahlia Cooper Jade

MS MOUKACHAR

Representatives

Jaimee Hunter

Proxy Members

Ava Sarah Pacific

MISS POWELL

Representatives

Shelley Anne Riley

Proxy Members

Michael Roxy

MS THOMAS

Representatives

Jett Pippa

Proxy Members

Chloe Tyla

MRS RICH

Representatives

Eve Sid

Proxy Members

Eamon Teghan

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Last week I spent 2 days in Adelaide training with other leaders. One of the BIG

messages being shared was the importance of children’s vocabulary in the reading

process. It is so very important for us to talk with, and read to, our children to

help them gain a good vocabulary which helps them understand the world of words

and helps them to understand written text.

INVOICING AND FAMILY/ STUDENT INFORMATION UPDATE

On Friday we will be sending home forms for you to check that our information is

current and up to date. It is extremely important that ALL of these forms are

returned to the school.

Invoices will be included in your family pack. There is also a brochure on how to

use the new payment app QKR which is now up and running. If you do use QKR for

your payments, please still send in the paperwork for your invoice/ fundraiser etc.,

with “PAID QKR” marked on it.

Many thanks,

Deb Wilson, Business Manager.

COMMUNITY NOTICE BOARD

We have many, many emails from community groups requesting a spot in our

fortnightly newsletter, and unfortunately sometimes there is not enough space to

include them. We will establish a notice board in the front window of the office

and put a brief note in the newsletter to alert you. We will also post these notices

to our Skoolbag app.

Piano Lessons

Barossa United Soccer registrations (Boys & Girls under 15-18)

Henley High School Tennis Invitational 2018.

Netsetgo. Netball clinics

Reconciliation Barossa community events

Australian Red Cross Blood Service. Mobile Blood Donor Centre dates

Tanunda CFS Cadet interest

The Great Revival Shop Inc. Tanunda Half price sale 26th Feb to 17th March

Students who are on school grounds before 8.30am and after 3.30pm are not supervised

and the school is not able to take responsibility for them. Before 8.30am students need to

wait under the shelter near the staffroom and after 3.30pm they are asked to come to

the office so we can contact families.

TERM DATES 2018

TERM 1 Monday 29th January to Friday 13th April

TERM 2 Monday 30th April to Friday 6th July

TERM 3 Monday 23rd July to 28th September

TERM 4 Monday 15th October to Friday 14th December

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

4 19/2 •AGM 7pm •Swimming lessons

20/2 21/2 22/2 23/2 •District Swimming •ASSEMBLY

5 26/2 27/2 28/2 1/3 2/3

6 5/3 6/3 7/3 8/3 9/3

7 12/3 Adelaide Cup

13/3 14/3 15/3 16/3

8 19/3 20/3 21/3 Harmony Day

22/3 23/3 •State Swimming •ASSEMBLY

9 26/3 27/3 28/3 29/3 •Significant other morning

30/3 Good Friday

10 2/4 Easter Monday

3/4 4/4 5/4 6/4

11 9/3 10/3 11/3 12/3 13/3 State Softball

Term 1 2018