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Ardtornish Newsletter

Term 2 - Week 5  3rd June 2022
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No 10

In this issue

  • From the Principal – Celebrating National Reconciliation Week & A-E Grading
  • Canteen Roster
  • Disco’s
  • Nut Aware
  • School Photos
  • School Uniform
  • School Card
  • RAN Training for Volunteers
  • Absences
  • Swimming Dates
  • Ardtornish Children’s Centre Update
  • Paint n Sip
  • What’s been happening in Room 3/4?

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

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​Celebrating National Reconciliation Week

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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.



​Canteen Roster

Tuesday 7th                            Michele S
Wednesday 8th                       Deborah M
Thursday 9th                           Tui M, Deneice P
Friday 10th                              Wei-Wei R, Ling C, Sonoko F
                                                                                                      
Tuesday 14th                          Michele S
Wednesday 15th                     Michele S
Thursday 16th                         Maleah S
Friday 17th                              Jenni F, Sharon D
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QKR Payments for the Disco's have closed, but tickets can still be purchased with cash at the door.

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Nut Aware Policy
Just a reminder to everyone that we are a nut aware school which means:  that you should send foods to school with your child that are free from nuts and nut products.

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Click the link below
School Card Online Applications
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RAN Training Update for all Volunteers
 
As of the 1st January all volunteers will need to update their
RAN Training to be able to volunteer, which is now called Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care. It is called RRHAN-EC for short.
Click this link Plink account for volunteers - RRHAN-EC training
to do the online training update. Once completed please email a copy of certificate to dl.1540.info@schools.sa.edu.au
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Swimming Dates
Junior Primary - Tuesday 28th June – Friday 1st July $30.00 (notes have been given out)
Primary Swimming – Monday 1st August – Friday 5th August. (More information to come.)
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Would you like to volunteer with your child’s class for swimming? Make sure you have your Working with Children Check and have a current RRHAN-EC Certificate. Please contact the front office if you need to apply or to check on your current clearances. ​
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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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Email face@ardps.com to book your table
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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!”
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