Term 1 Reflection

Whilst we have two weeks remaining, with this being the final newsletter for the term, it is timely to take a moment and reflect on the wonderful learning that has taken place. In all classes students have established new routines, been presented with learning opportunities that have required them to think creatively, test theories and have been asked to work collaboratively with new and familiar peers. Learning has been shared with parents through a variety of electronic portfolios and many of you have, or about to, participate in three way interviews, providing further opportunities to hear about your child and their work in the classroom. Thank you to all the staff who work intentionally to design learning tasks that allow children to thrive and develop skills as powerful learners. Thank you also to the many parents who have volunteered in classrooms, the canteen, coached sporting teams, attended meetings and run fundraising events throughout the term. The contribution you make is highly valued by all staff and the whole school com-munity. On behalf of the staff, I wish all families a wonderful and safe holiday break beginning on April 13.

Swimming Carnival

Yesterday year 3-7 students and families assembled at Hazelwood Park swimming pool for the annual school swimming carnival. It was a fabulous day and the weather was perfect for a day at the pool. Students participated in novelty activities in the middle pool, on the grassed area and freestyle, breaststroke and backstroke swim-ming events were run in the 50 metre pool. Children demonstrated teamwork and showed support for each other throughout the carnival, with everyone contributing to the overall team score. At the end of the day the Year 7 House Leaders were presented with the Bev Bentley Shield and delivered a tremendous acceptance speech to the whole school community. Congratulations to Bradman as overall winner for the day. Well done to competing Houses, Stuart, Penfold and Florey who proved to be strong competitors. Thank you to our House Leaders, Casey, Alexandra, Harry, Alex, Daisy, Liana, Jonte, Joey, Jazmine, Abbie, Louis, Cooper, Mia, Jaime for their team support throughout the day. Thank you to Derek Ince, Jaime Will, Tanya Henry, Mark Ashby, Tyler Phillis, Anna Henderson and Abby MacPherson for their won-derful preparation, support and organisation enabling the day to run smoothly. Thank you also to all staff for their support and to the children, for their enthusiasm and wonderful participation throughout the event. Thank you to the many parents who were able to come along and support their child and the event, it was great seeing so many families at the pool.

Farewell to Jen McEvoy and Lee Walker

At the end of this term we farewell two staff members. We wish Jen McEvoy all the very best as she goes on maternity leave and our best wishes go to Lee Walker who has decided to take the opportunity to pursue further study this year. We thank both Jen and Lee for the valuable contribution they have made to student learning during the time they have worked at Burnside.

NAPLAN Testing

The NAPLAN tests will be held in week 3 of next term for all students in Years 3,5 and 7 from Tuesday 15th to Thursday 17th May. Aspects of literacy assessed are reading, writing and language conventions, while numeracy testing includes number, algebra, func-tion and pattern, measurement, chance and data and space. NAPLAN tests are another way of finding out what students can and cannot do along with school based and standardised assessments undertaken through the year. The staff analyse year level and individual responses to compare previous performance and look for further improvement opportu-nities. Parents will receive their child’s NAPLAN results in August/September later this year. Parents/carers may withdraw their child from NAPLAN tests for philosophical or personal reasons. If you wish to withdraw your child, please come into the front office and complete a withdrawal form by 11th May. The test schedule is as follows: Tuesday 15th May - Language Conventions, Wednesday 16th May - Reading and Thursday 17th May - Numeracy. Students who miss one day of testing due to illness may make up the test/s on Friday 18th May. All testing must be completed on this day as tests are then boxed and returned to the Department for marking.

Punctual arrival at school is important for these days as assessments begin promptly at 9:00am.

Susan Copeland - Principal

BPS Governing Council Education Committee keeps parents up to date with current school education. A school priority is to work in partner-ship with our community and to keep you informed of the way in which we develop intellectually-stretched, self-directed, powerful learners. One way we do this is by planning community workshops and keeping you up to date with relevant parent education opportunities. Jodie Benveniste, an international speaker in 'Positive Parenting' has been a previous keynote speaker at Burnside Primary and is a highly engaging speaker whose workshops support parents to develop their children as resilient and confident learners.

Parenting SA, a partnership of the Department for Education and Child Development and the Women's and Children's Health Network provide a number of free workshops. Please click on the link to see if there is anything relevant to you. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/o/parenting-sa-a-partnership-of-the-department-for-education-and-child-development-and-womens-and-childrens-health-network-1372958905

The Governing Council Education Subcommittee

The Junior Primary and Primary SRC’s are vital groups in our school. The Junior Primary SRC will be run with Jo Petch and the Primary SRC will be led by Sami Georgiou. There is an executive of four Year 7 students, Rachel Deng, Camila Madriz-Figueroa, Corey Adams, Laura Pinto Lozano who will be running meetings and leading the group. Congratulations to all Semester 1 Student Representative Council representatives. SRC Executive for 2018! Our Year 7 students prepared written applications to be considered as SRC Executive Leaders in 2018. The SRC Executive are a group of highly organised students, who run weekly SRC meetings, give important speeches at school events and manage the Values Cup reward system across the school. Executive members must demonstrate the following qualities at all times:

Organisation, initiative and responsibility.

Confidence in communication.

Collaborative

Effective time -management

Demonstration of the school values of RESPECT, COOPERATION and HIGH QUALITY LEARNING at all times.

After a careful selection process involving Leadership and the Year 7 teachers, we would like to congratulate our Executive Team for their successful applications. We wish them well this

year! The KidsMatter Team

PRIMARY SRC Reps Term 1 and 2 2018

Year Rm Representative Representative

3 31 Sienna Darch Oliver Earle

3 6 Aleki Tillman Annabelle Harria

3 5 George MacDonald Lyla Macpherson

3 4 Matthias Rajan Sari Wainscott

3 32 Dylan Franklin Natalie Wilton

4 14 Kiko Tillman Alice Coombs

4 33 Felipe Arrua

4 15 Jed Watson Elodie De Wit

4 16 Fin Ryan Esther Elliott

5 34 Riley Francis Daisy Bennett

5 29 Lola Hannon - Tan Jackson Pfitzner

5 30 Zane Bament Lucy Scinto

5 33 Amani Moffa

6 8 Tiernan Fanning Amelia Boulden

6 9 Parham Permeh Stella Kardasova

6 7 Jeff Davis Alana Madriz Figueroa

7 12 Xavier Bursill Laura Pinto Lozano

7 10 Payton Lawton Angus Scrymgour

7 11 Dylan Hirons Antonia Flower

Junior PRIMARY SRC Reps Term 1 and 2 2018

Year Rm Representative Representative

2 4 Daisy Stolle Armin Taheriasnaashari

2 17 Carina Kelly-Moyle William Gee

2 18 Nikita Koo Zak Moffa

2 19 Annie Bowran Tobey Gameau

2 20 Mia Duthy Ollie Baker

1 25 Charlotte Thomas Oscar Cramp

1 26 India McIntyre Pranav Kalia

1 27 Chloe Field Lucas Clayton

1 28 Daisy Cameron Viliami Tillman

R 21 Maya Heggie Henry Hughes

R 22 Lainey Staritski Jayden Mukundu

R 23 Georgia Ketteridge Liam Mudge

R 24 Minul Jayasinghe Arachchi

Add Neeft

We welcomed Ms Yue Xu from Shenzhen Futian Meilin school, Professor Zhang Yan from

the School of Public administration, Quandong Teachers College of Foreign Language and

Arts, Mr Yao Yanhuan from Guangzhou Tianhe Changle Primary school and Ms Li Tong from

Shenzhen Futian Nanhua Primary School. An interpreter accompanied them during their

four days at BPS as they visited all year levels and specialist classrooms, attended assembly,

and met with school leaders.

Some of our Chinese speaking students did a superb job in conducting a school tour for

them. Thank you to Joy and Jodie for speaking with them as representatives of parents at

our school. They were very appreciative of the opportunities to meet with many members

of our school community and learn about many facets of our education system and school life.

The educators presented Ms Copeland with some gifts at

assembly and she impressed everyone with her welcome to

them in Mandarin. The visitors were in awe of our indoor

and outdoor space, as some of their schools have 2700 stu-

dents in multi-storey buildings with around fifty students

per class. They gave very positive feedback about the quali-

ty of the teaching and the skill and dedication of our teach-

ers in learning design.

It was a pleasure to showcase our school to them and we

thank everyone for their hospitality and warm wel-

come during their time here.

Angela Elkin - Deputy Principal

Coordinated by DECD

International Exchange

services, we were one of four

schools in the state to host

educators from Quandong

province in China from

March 21st – 24th, 2018.

HARMONY DAY Harmony Day highlights and celebrates DIVERSITY by inviting people to explore the cultures, experiences and stories of others. Mandalas have been used for thousands of years as a way to tell stories, by representing the

world and universe through the use of textures, colour and form. They reflect influences found in nature such as flowers, planets, fruits, logs, the sun, the moon, clouds, shadows etc.

Room 28 and 31 came together for Harmony Day to create a shared mandala, as a way of offering a unifying ex-perience where students could express themselves individually while still working within a unified construct.

Jillian Dennis - Year 1 & Teresa Johnson - Year 3 - Buddy Classes