Compton Primary School Newsletter

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Web Site: comptonps.sa.edu.au

Shared Values – Respect, Perseverance, Resilience, Kindness

PRINCIPAL – Bec Keeley 87251723 GOVERNING COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON – Nikki O’Dea 87255265

WHAT’S ON

WEDNESDAY: Drinks Day, Hot Lunches

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY: Bike and Road Safety Afternoon

(R/1,4/5)

MONDAY:

TUESDAY:

WEDNESDAY: Drinks Day, Hot Lunches

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY:

MONDAY:

TUESDAY:

IMPORTANT DATES

June

Monday 8thth

Public Holiday—Queens Birthday

Welcome to week three!

Changes Thank you to all parents who have been very

understanding with the processes we have put in

place at Compton to makes sure all staff and

students are in a safe environment. Classrooms will

continue to open at 9am and close at 3:25pm. We

ask that parents undertake a quick drop off and pick

up and that they do not enter the classrooms at

these times. If you need to speak to a staff member,

please use Class Dojo or make an appointment. If it is

urgent, please see the office staff for assistance. As

restrictions ease, we will make changes to follow suit

– we will keep you informed along the way.

Library The Library will continue to be closed to parents/

caregivers/ family members at this time. Students will

still borrow in their borrowing time with Mrs Roulstone.

Illness Please continue to make sure that your child/ren are

not sick if they are attending school. Any sick child/

ren will be isolated in the office and you will be

asked to collect them immediately.

COMMUNITY NEWS ATTACHMENTS

NIL

12/05/2020

TERM DATES FOR 2020 Term 1 28th Jan – 9th April Term 2 27th April – 3rd July Term 3 20th Jul – 25th Sept Term 4 12th Oct – 11th Dec

Learning at Home Students We ask our home schooling families to please

continue to send in photos of your child’s learning on

Class Dojo every day, so that teachers can see what

they are achieving. You will also continue to receive

phone calls to check in to see how you and your

child/ren are going.

Lunch Day Popcorn If you are noticing strange popcorn kernels in your

child’s lunch box – do not worry! The 6/7s have been

putting drinks day popcorn directly in student’s lunch

boxes. This means no paper bags and it saves the

students from washing up so many plastic cups!

Pastoral Care News

NEWSLETTER ATTACHMENTS

NIL

Happy Mothers Day to all our mums. Being a mum is one of the toughest things we will do and at the same time, one of the most rewarding and important jobs we will ever do. The task is to pick the positives out of the day and focus on them and use the negatives as stepping stones to make any adjustments that need to be made so that next time there is a more positive outcome in any given situation.

Pam Young Pastoral Care Worker

Transparent Jars

Mrs Mules is looking for donations of transparent screw top glass/plastic jars (that can preferably hold 400 ml or more of water). The jars are needed before week 5.

Any donations would be appreciated.

MIDDLE PRIMARY 4/5

UPPER PRIMARY 6/7

Bike and Road Safety Afternoon

This Friday our class along with our buddy class will be

taking part in a Bike and Road Safety Afternoon. We are

asking that your child brings along:

A fully functioning bike or small wheels (scooter,

roller skates, skateboard)

A helmet

The purpose of this afternoon is for students to

demonstrate their understanding of how to be safe on a

bike or small wheels. This term in Buddy Health we have

focused specifically on how to keep ourselves safe whilst

riding a bike and how riding a bike keeps us fit and

healthy.

The activities your child will be taking part in include:

1) Demonstrating how to safely use their small wheels.

2)Watching and observing others ride and identify

actions that promote safety and explore actions that

help make them safe.

3) Labelling parts of a bike.

4)Demonstrating protective behaviours and other

actions that help keep themselves safe by drawing and

labelling items you need to wear to if you are riding a

scooter, bike, skate board or roller-skates.

If you have any questions regarding the Bike and Road

Safety Afternoon, please send a Dojo message and we

will be happy to clarify any questions you have.

Looking forward to seeing your wheels on Friday.

Miss H and Miss Hamilton.

Drinks Day

On Wednesday we will be selling –

Fruit boxes $1.10c Icy Poles $0.40c Muesli Bars $0.50c Sultanas $0.50c Popcorn $0.50c

Hot Lunches – Every Wednesday

Orders can be made via message on Facebook or Email to vicki.telfordgamble545@schools.sa.edu.au then payment can be made on our website. www.comptonps.sa.edu.au If you don’t know your family ID just put your family name. Fried Rice $3.50 Beef Lasagne $3.50 Veg Lasagne $3.50 Twista Pasta $3.50 Pizza Singles $2.50

Around the Classrooms

Last week we finished our Big 4 Holiday Parks.

Students did a fantastic job and put in a lot of effort!

This week for Maths we move onto Fractions. Year

6s will be connecting fractions, decimals and

percentages as different representations of the same

number and solving problems involving the addition

and subtraction of related fractions. Year 7s will be

solving problems involving percentages and all four

operations with fractions and decimals.

In English we had been working on creating story

books. We read the book ‘Mig the Pig’ and students

then needed to create their own story involving an

animal and rhyming words. Students worked really

hard and created some great books!

This is Sienna’s book – Leap the Sheep

Mrs Kramins and the 6/7 Class

UPPER PRIMARY 6/7

Over the past few weeks the Middle Primary class

have been working towards the following learning

intentions:

Reading

Each week we are focusing on a member of the

Pawsome Reading Gang! The Pawsome Reading

Gang is a team of canine characters, whose sole

purpose is to explore the reading content domains

and help our students improve their reading. So far

we have met Victor Vocabulary, Rex the Retriever

and Summarising Sheba.

Writing

In Writing we are learning how to recognise and write

compound and complex sentences. We have been

using fun acronyms like FANBOYS and

ISAWAWBUB to help us remember the co-

ordinating and subordinating conjunctions found in

these types of sentences.

Maths

In Maths we have been learning how to choose

appropriate strategies to solve problems involving the

four operations. We have also been working towards

solving time duration problems and converting

between 12-hour to 24-hour time.

Geography

In Geography we are studying the natural wonders of

the world and where they are located. We have

identified the continents of the world. Can your

family name the 7 continents of the world?

Arts

In Dance we have had lots of fun learning and

comparing different line dances such as the Boot

Scoot and the Nut Bush!

Miss Hamilton and the 4/5 Class

It is wonderful to see you all back for term 2. Even

though things may be different, everyone is happy

and safe at school.

During Maths, children were asked to write down the

numbers in the number plates of staff members cars.

Children worked in groups with assigned leaders.

Children wrote down the numbers and had to say the

numbers, put the numbers from biggest to smallest,

identify if numbers were odd or even and give reasons

why.

Children enjoyed the Challenge Task and Super

Challenge to this learning. Challenge question – Mrs

D could see two cars out her window and the numbers

equalled 253. What two numbers plates were the

cars? Super Challenge – Mrs D noticed another car

pull up and adding the number plates together it

JUNIOR PRIMARY 2/3

MIDDLE PRIMARY 4/5

equalled 2394. Which three number plates did she

see?

In Guided Reading groups are working on a new

Readers Theatre script. Groups choose their own

parts and have started working on their understanding

of text.

Mrs D and the 2/3 Class

Throughout weeks 1 and 2 we have been busy little

learners. In writing we have been focussing on deeply

looking at pictures and answering questions about

pictures to develop our inferential understanding. We

have then been using the same pictures we have a

deep understanding of and that we have noticed

many, many different things in as writing prompts, to

write narratives. Our Maths focus has been around

duration of time for the fortnight. We need to know

the days of the week, months of the year, seasons,

how long things take, order activities and be able to

work with digital and analogue clocks in o’clock and

half past times. We are working on correcting the

formation of our numbers in Handwriting and

evaluating designs in Design and Technology.

Miss H and the R/1 Class

JUNIOR PRIMARY R/1

ANZAC DAY 2020

In the last newsletter we showed some images of how Compton Primary School commemorated Anzac Day

this year, despite the restrictions that resulted from the coronavirus outbreak.

Social distancing requirements meant that our school captains could not attend the dawn service at

Vansittart Park to lay a wreath on Anzac Day as is traditional.

These restrictions also made it impossible for school captains to attend the ceremony at the Boer War

Memorial on Bay Road to lay a floral tribute on behalf of the school community.

Instead, all school captains laid their tributes at Compton School’s newly constructed Garden of

Remembrance at different times during Anzac Day and spent a period of silent reflection.

This week our images showcase the contribution of school captains Will Norman and Olivia White in

honouring and remembering those who have served and are serving in the defence of the nation.

The school would like to thank our four school captains and their wonderful families for taking the time to

continue the school’s long tradition of remembering the individuals who have defended Australia and are

currently serving to protect us and our way of life.

Thank you everyone.

Shirley Roulstone

Olivia – When I laid the flowers I

felt proud to be representing our

school. It was a great honor to

be laying the flowers in our

Remembrance Garden. Thank

you mum for helping make the

flowers.

Will — Whilst I was laying the

flowers I felt sad for the men

and women who sacrificed their

lives for our freedom. This is

when we need to be respecting

the soldiers for who fought in

the war for our lives. Thanks Nan

for the flowers.