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Ardtornish NewsletterTerm 2 - Week 5 3rd June 2022
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No 10
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In this issue
Diary Dates
June 3rd – Disco Yrs 2-4 & Yrs 5-6 8th – School Photos 9th – Group Photos 13th – Public Holiday 17th – KO Football Boys 20th – Governing Council Meeting 7pm 21st – Choir Masterclass Visit 27th – 1/7 - JP Swimming August 1st – 5th Primary Swimming Road Crossing
Monitors Wed 1st June – Tue 7th June Jye C, Seth C, Hudson M Wed 8th June – Tue 14th June Abby F, Alexis H, Vera M Wed 15th June – Tue 21st June Amelie C, Isabella G, Caitlin D Please arrive by 8.25am |
Celebrating National Reconciliation Week
During National Reconciliation Week 27th May – 3rd June, all Australians are invited to learn more about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and histories, to share that knowledge and help us grow as a nation.
Ardtornish Primary School celebrated Reconciliation Week this week. Many classes undertook their own activities to assist students to reflect on the meaning of the week “Be Brave. Make Change.” and to acknowledge the way that all Australians need to work to continue to reconcile and come together in friendship. The SRC Executives held some fun and educational activities in the library, which a number of children in the school attended. The activities highlighted the message of the week “Be Brave. Make Change.” We would like to thank Zena Our AECO (Aboriginal Educational Community Officer) for contributing her time to share with students the significance of Reconciliation Week and why it’s so important to her and how it supports aboriginal culture and history. We would also like to thank all of the SRC executives for giving their playtime to help and guide students in the library with the reconciliation activities this week. Staff Trained in the Assignment of A to E levels for student learning Ever wonder what process staff use to assign your child an A-E grade for a particular subject? All subjects taught at school cover the content described in the Australian Curriculum (AC) a national statement on what students should be learning at each level of schooling across the nation in each subject area. The AC is a huge document, which is accessed online by teachers, and its 9th version has just been released and can be viewed here. https://v9.australiancurriculum.edu.au/ Within the AC the broad Achievement Standards are broken down into a series of more detailed descriptors against which teachers design specific assessment tasks to determine the degree to which they were met. On our training day staff examined how these degrees of competence could be expressed and judged. To achieve an A or B grading students have to show a greater understanding of how a concept or skill is used and then carry out tasks that are less routine in nature to show their use of their learning in a broader context. The Department is presently developing new materials to assist all teachers to become more skilled in making these judgments and the staff at Ardtornish are contributing to the development of these resources. |
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Wednesday 8th June
Class and individual photos, in the Gym. Group Photos will be on Thursday 9th June in the Hall. Please note: Family photos will be taken from 8.30 - 9.00am on photo day, if you would like to have a family photo taken you will need to be at school for this time and go straight to the gym. Family photo envelopes are available from the front office. (Cash only) Sibling photographs only apply to children enrolled at the school. Please bring your photo envelope with the money enclosed on the day of the photos. Please use correct money, there is no change given and the front office does not hold change. Cash, cheque and money orders only to be put in the envelope. You can make credit card payments online. Group photos include….Dance, Aerobics, Hip Hop, Cheer, Choir, Music, Pedal Prix, Cricket and Football. Family photo envelopes and spare student photo envelopes are available from the front office. Late fees/additional charges will be applied for purchases after photo day Students who are having group photos please remember to bring with you, your instruments and dance / aerobics costumes and uniforms on the day. 
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In week 3 of this term we had Sovereign’s mum Amy come to our classroom to share her knowledge and do two really awesome demonstrations of sustainability and recycling of single use plastics. Her repurposing business Made by Howie came about during lockdown when Amy and her family wanted to reduce the amount of single-use plastic waste they were contributing to landfill.
Amy demonstrated two ways to reuse two different single use plastics. She took soft plastics which we found out are called Polypropylene (high and low density) and used an iron to fuse them into a beautiful new piece of thicker plastic that could be fashioned like material into many different things. The class saw how Amy had used these to make butterfly wings for a costume, a lampshade, a pencil case, a Chromebook cover, a purse, and many other interesting things. Lachlan from Room 3 commented, “I thought it was cool watching the plastic join together to make a wallet!”
The second single use plastic was hard plastic from the lids of plastic bottles, which cannot be put into recycling bins. We learnt these are called High Density Polyethylene or HPE. Amy had some bottle caps that were cut into small pieces, and the class fed them into a really interesting machine called an Extrusion Machine that used a crank to feed the plastic through hot parts and remelt it into an aluminum mold. There was a mold for a comb and a game piece, which many people in our class had a go at making. Amy had enough combs to give to our class- which we found out was the equivalent of about 200 bottle lids! Molly from Room 4 said “It was really impressive that old plastic can be turned into hard plastic, like the combs.”
We learnt a lot from Amy, like how there are so many different types of plastics, and that some cannot be re-used or recycled. Tania from Room 4 commented “I like how Amy made the game pieces. Whenever you’re bored you could use the games and you don’t have to waste your money on new toys. You can play them by yourself too!”
After Amy had finished the demonstration, Myles from Room 3 proclaimed “This has been such an amazing experience!”
Amy demonstrated two ways to reuse two different single use plastics. She took soft plastics which we found out are called Polypropylene (high and low density) and used an iron to fuse them into a beautiful new piece of thicker plastic that could be fashioned like material into many different things. The class saw how Amy had used these to make butterfly wings for a costume, a lampshade, a pencil case, a Chromebook cover, a purse, and many other interesting things. Lachlan from Room 3 commented, “I thought it was cool watching the plastic join together to make a wallet!”
The second single use plastic was hard plastic from the lids of plastic bottles, which cannot be put into recycling bins. We learnt these are called High Density Polyethylene or HPE. Amy had some bottle caps that were cut into small pieces, and the class fed them into a really interesting machine called an Extrusion Machine that used a crank to feed the plastic through hot parts and remelt it into an aluminum mold. There was a mold for a comb and a game piece, which many people in our class had a go at making. Amy had enough combs to give to our class- which we found out was the equivalent of about 200 bottle lids! Molly from Room 4 said “It was really impressive that old plastic can be turned into hard plastic, like the combs.”
We learnt a lot from Amy, like how there are so many different types of plastics, and that some cannot be re-used or recycled. Tania from Room 4 commented “I like how Amy made the game pieces. Whenever you’re bored you could use the games and you don’t have to waste your money on new toys. You can play them by yourself too!”
After Amy had finished the demonstration, Myles from Room 3 proclaimed “This has been such an amazing experience!”
