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Ardtornish NewsletterTerm 3 Week 5 - 26th August 2022
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No 15
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In this issue
Diary Dates
September 8th - Finance Meeting 3.15pm 15th – Choir Festival Theatre 22nd – Track & Field Metro Day 23rd – Netball Carnival Yrs 5/6 29th – Sports Day 30th – Last Day of Term 3 October 17th – Term 4 Begins 19th – 21st - Yr 6 Aquatics Camp 20th – 21st - Year 4/5 SAPSASA Come & Try 
Road Crossing
Monitors Wed 24th Aug – Tue 30th Aug Ella P, Mikayla B, Tammy V Wed 31st Aug – Tue 6th Sep Michael T, Will Mc, Sam J Wed 7th Sep – Tue 13th Sep Lucas D, Kiavash B, Tate W Please arrive by 8.25am |
Acknowledging our Outstanding School Support StaffThis week we formally recognised the wonderful contribution School Support Staff make to our school community. It is a time to celebrate their vital and skilled work in supporting staff and students. Support Staff undertake a wide range of roles in our school, focussed either around administration or curriculum support.
As admin support officers they help to coordinate, plan and run a wide range of school functions e.g. looking after student medications, diabetes management, the grounds, organising special functions, monitoring facilities, tracking our finances, managing our canteen and much, much more, the list is endless. Curriculum support includes keeping our library functioning well, managing our ICT network, running the canteen, providing special needs support and working with large and small groups of students as well as providing one on one tutoring for others. The skills dedication and energy that our Support Staff bring to their work in assisting student learning and wellbeing makes a significant difference to student achievement. Best of all, support staff at Ardtornish work as a collaborative team sharing roles and generously stepping into support each other and staff as the need arises. On behalf of the whole school community we would like to express the appreciation we have for each and everyone of them. Mark & Deb. Absent Rachael Speck – Library, Sallie Rogers and Bonnie Zito – Classroom Support 
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Canteen ROSTERTuesday 30th Michele S
Wednesday 31st Deborah M Thursday 1st Nicole R Friday 2nd Ling C, Tui M, Deneice P Tuesday 6th Michele S Wednesday 7th Michele S Thursday 8th Maleah S, Nicole R Friday 9th Jenni F, Sharon D, Sonoko F-G 
RRHAN-EC Training Update for all Volunteers
As of last year all volunteers will need to update their RRHAN-EC Training, Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care. 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 If you are not sure if you need to do an update please contact the front office and we can check for you. 
Expression of Interest for Enrolment 2023
If there are any siblings due to start school next year, please come into the office and fill in an expression of interest form. If your family is considering moving, or you know of someone moving into our area it is important that you let us know as soon as possible. Enrolment for siblings and families in the APS zone will be guaranteed enrolment. 
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Students who were in a group photo should have received a letter like the one below in their school photo pack .
If you would like to place an order you can go online to the MSP website via this link https://orders.msp.com.au/ordering/access and enter the shootkey , which will then list all the group photos that the child is in. Please note: each student in group photos have individual shootkeys (even if there is 2 children in a family who had group photos , they both have a separate shootkey). Please contact the front office if you need more information. 
Helpful Tips for Parking around schools
Note – Council officers patrol school parking in the morning and afternoon during school terms. Kiss and Drop is the area at the front of the school that you can drop your child off safely and quickly. The intention is that drivers do not wait in these zones and that they stay in their vehicle so queues are minimised.
Never leave children in a vehicle unattended 
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From weeks 3 to 7 this term, we have been lucky enough to have the Emmy and Friends program be implemented in our classroom by Ms Nicole. This program is also being taught across the Foundation and Year 1 classrooms.
The program helps us to understand our feelings, early warning signs, safe and unsafe situations or secrets and public and private body parts – all vitally important components of the Child Protection Curriculum.
‘I like learning to be safe with Emmy’ - Quinn
‘It’s so much fun learning with Ms Nicole’ – Dottie
‘I liked putting the early warning signs on Emmy’ – Ashton
‘You learn to ‘Tell, tell and tell again until someone listens and helps’ – Ben
The program helps us to understand our feelings, early warning signs, safe and unsafe situations or secrets and public and private body parts – all vitally important components of the Child Protection Curriculum.
‘I like learning to be safe with Emmy’ - Quinn
‘It’s so much fun learning with Ms Nicole’ – Dottie
‘I liked putting the early warning signs on Emmy’ – Ashton
‘You learn to ‘Tell, tell and tell again until someone listens and helps’ – Ben
