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Ardtornish Newsletter

Term 3 Week 5 - 21st August 2020
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No 16

In this issue

  • Vex Robotics – Building Students’ STEM Skills
  • Improving the Safe use of the Kiss & Drop & Crossing
  • Excursion/Incursion Update
  • Canteen Roster
  • Ollie’s Place
  • Absences
  • School Sport is Back!
  • Volunteer Online RAN Training Sessions
  • Free Netball Clinic
  • Father’s Day Stall
  • Campbelltown Soccer
  • Principal’s Award
  • Redevelopment Update
  • Pippi Longstocking – By Room 21

Diary Dates
August
28th – Assembly (students and
           staff only)
 
September
2nd - Father’s Day Stall
3rd - SAPSASA Girls Football 
         Carnival
7th – Governing Council 7pm
17th - SAPSASA Boys and Girls
          Soccer Carnival
18th -  Assembly (students and
           staff only)
25th -  Last Day Term 3 – 2.00pm
           Dismissal

Road Crossing
Monitors

 
Wed 26th Aug – Tue 1st Sep
Rylen H, Matthew G, Hayden P
 
Wed 2nd Sep – Tue 8th Sep
Minela S, Cooper T, Sonia D
 
Wed 9th Sep – Tue 15th Sep
Kobe G, Riley B, Tate R
 
Please arrive by 8.25am

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Vex Robotics – Building Students’ STEM Skills

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Throughout Week 5 the year 5, 6 and 7 students have had an opportunity to engage in the VEX Robotics Project. The study of robotics inherently relates to all facets of Science, Technology Engineering and Maths (STEM) and allows students to learn through exploration. Working in teams they were highly motivated and displayed a strong desire to succeed.
The VEX Robotics experience excited them as they undertook a range of ‘cool’ activities and engaged with sophisticated technology. Students had a huge amount of fun as they built and created robots in small groups. Teams worked together to build a robot from scratch that could move horizontally in all directions and complete tasks that involved navigating, moving and stacking objects.
Each group had an opportunity to demonstrate their engineering skills by modifying their robot to complete increasingly more complex tasks as they sought to stack objects higher and higher. This task extended the students as they considered how they could make changes to the mechanics of their robot and adjust the angles of components and their weight distribution.
The VEX Robotics project introduces students to science and engineering principles and provides them with tools which are easy for beginners to master but can also expand their imagination and experience over time. Robotics encourages creativity, teamwork, leadership and problem solving. It allows educators to easily customize projects to meet the level of students’ abilities as they inspire & prepare the STEM problem solvers of tomorrow.
  • Vex is challenging and it really makes you think, especially the engineering challenges. Hayden Nairn
  • It’s fun to work in teams and really cool to control your robot once you’ve built it. Keilah Haldane

​Improving the safe use of the Kiss & Drop & Crossing
The present safety and effectiveness of the Kiss and Drop Area could be greatly improved if parents ensured:
  • Students exited from the car onto the footpath not the road.
  • They only waited in the area for the 2 minute time limit
  • Students exited or entered cars promptly rather than chatting with friends / parents
  • They pulled up behind the last parked car, rather than parking further away and creating a space in front of them that others then attempt to squeeze into
  • They did not sit in their car, after dropping their child off, texting or talking on the phone
  • Were more vigilant about obeying the student held signs as recently some cars have driven through the crossing when the signs were up.



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Canteen ROSTER

Tuesday 25th                         Michele S
Wednesday 26th                    Mary Anne R
Thursday 27th                        Ling C, Natasha H
Friday 28th                             Stacey C, Jenni F
                                                                               
Tuesday 1st                           Michele S
Wednesday 2nd                     Mary-Anne R
Thursday 3rd                         Tui M, Deneice P
Friday 4th                               Kellie F, Mary Anne R​
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Redevelopment Update Temporary Buildings
 
As you can see from the picture below, foundations for five double temporary classrooms are in the midst of being completed. The first two of these buildings should be arriving in Week 6. The other three buildings will however not be available until much later, so our planned move at the end of this term has been rescheduled to about Week 2 of Term 4.
This is actually a good thing as it prevents disruption to classes this term and we can quickly settle in at the beginning of Term 4. In the next week we are having electrical and data cables run through our Eastern carpark and so access will be restricted as this work is undertaken.
​We are happy to report that our new buildings will come complete with new, huge, 86 inch interactive LCD boards to replace our existing Starboards.
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​Want your junior soccer team to continue playing and developing in the off-season? Get them registered for our 7-a-side competition NOW!
WHERE: Campbelltown City Soccer Club, Stradbroke Rd Newton
WHEN: Friday evenings from 9th October to 11th December
WHO: Teams from U/6 through to U/13
REGISTRATIONS NOW OPEN
ENQUIRIES: Phone: Adrian on 0402 418 580 or Email: [email protected]
Don’t have a team? Visit our TEAMS page and we might be able to form teams from the individuals who register with us.
Games will be played on the new synthetic pitch.
Relaxed, family friendly environment with food and drinks available.
Register Here

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Absences
Please remember to always inform the front office or your child’s teacher everyday your child is absent. You can text us on 0447 467 152: name, class and reason for absence, or ring and leave a message on 8264 8099.
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School Sport is Back!
 
We are so excited that school sports have started up again!
During term 3 we have participated in lots of exciting carnivals and knockout games for netball and soccer.
In week 2 the girls won their first game of soccer in the knockout round against Gawler, 8 to 2 and lost the second against McLaren Vale, 3 to 1 and are now out of the competition. We really appreciated the students who came out to support us and watch the games.
In the boys soccer knockout carnival they won the first round against Pulteney Grammar school and Allenby Gardens. The boys are now going on to the second knockout round. We wish them luck as they play their next games.
Well done to the girls and boys who participated in the Knockout netball in week 3 of this term. The girls won the first game against Gleeson, 33 to 13, but sadly lost our second game against Kildare 20 to 26 and are now out of the competition. 
The boys won their first game against Magill 21 to 18, lost their second game against Saint Ignatius 23 to 17, and won their third against Norwood 32 to 10. Despite their excellent results our boys’ team did not move onto the next round.
We are so excited for the girls and boys netball and soccer carnivals, and in the future we are looking at doing footy and basketball. Knockout softball finals will be played in term four, which we have both a girls and boys team competing for the state championship.
We wish all our school teams luck in their upcoming games and are so happy to have school sport back.
 
By Imogen Janicki and Jayde Visser – Year 7 students from room 9
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This term in Room 21, we have started reading Astrid Lindgren’s Pippi Longstocking. The book is 75 years old this year, but it is hardly a dated story. Pippi is strong, clever, optimistic, and not afraid to think outside the square- for these reasons she is similar to a lot of the students in our class. That may be one reason why all the students have been enjoying the story so much.
 
Another enjoyable thing about Pippi Longstocking is she doesn’t take life too seriously. Eli said “My favourite part so far was when she played tag with the police. It was really funny.” Similarly, Indi has been enjoying the book, saying “I think it has stayed so popular because it’s really funny. I like the part where she lifts up the horse.”
 
Besides being humorous, Pippi’s super-human strength is also a popular attribute with our class. Brodie said his favourite thing about Pippi’s character was that “she is incredibly strong and can basically lift any human.” As well as being physically strong, Pippi stands up for her friends and does not tolerate unkindness or disrespect. Amelie said “My favourite part was her standing up to all of the bullies. Usually people get upset when they’re being bullied, but Pippi was strong.”
 
In the book, Pippi is described by Lindgren as having two carrot coloured plaits that stick out the sides of her head, freckles on her nose, a blue and red dress she made herself, two odd coloured stockings, shoes that were too big for her feet, and of course- a wide smile with white teeth. Before the students had seen any of the many covers that have been created for the Pippi Longstocking books over the years, they all designed their own book cover using the book’s description. The result is many bright, beautiful covers that all look very different. We hope you enjoy them!  
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