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School Closure Day Friday 26th November Diary Dates November 15th – KO Boys & Girls Softball 17th – Crossing Training Staff Training 19th – Assembly 22nd – A Gift of Gratitude Presentation 26th – School Closure Day Xmas Market Ladies night 6pm – late 30th – Governing Council 7pm Choir to City all day December 1st – Xmas Stall Road Crossing
Monitors Wed 10th Nov – Tue 16th Nov Jade O, Maddison H, Tilly-Rose P Wed 17th Nov – Tue 23rd Nov Zoey E, Samuel P, Tammy V Wed 24th Nov – Tue 30th Nov Maddison H, India S, Siana D Please arrive by 8.25am |
Vex Robotics - Building Students’ STEM SkillsThroughout Week 4 the year 5, 6 and 7 students engaged in the VEX Robotics Project. 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 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 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 developers of tomorrow. Vex is a lot of fun but also really challenging, especially when you have to design a modification to meet a challenge. Kobe Green We had so much fun building and then we got to control our robot once we had built it. - Hudson Geier. On Friday 5th November, the Premier Steven Marshall, at a ceremony held at the Convention Centre, presented Liana McCurry with the Primary Teacher of the Year Award. Liana was one of three finalists from amongst many state-wide contenders. The award recognises Liana’s commitment to her ongoing professional development and enthusiasm for using emerging research based approaches to teaching mathematics. These approaches are not presently common practice in most schools, but are proving to be highly effective in developing students’ mathematical concepts.
As a member of the school’s Mathematics Committee Liana is sharing her knowledge with her colleagues and in 2022 the school is making a commitment, through our School Improvement Plan, to explore some of the techniques Liana has become skilled in using. Liana thanked her teaching partner Lisa Bradshaw for her support, as their two classes seamlessly work together, every day, to foster mathematical learning. We are all very proud of her achievement. |
Canteen RosterTuesday 16th Michele S
Wednesday 17th Mary-Anne R Thursday 18th Ling C, Chris G Friday 19th Wei-Wei R, Sonoko F-G, Natasha H, Trish R Tuesday 23rd Michele S Wednesday 24th Mary-Anne R Thursday 25th Tui M, Deneice P Friday 26th SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY |
To ensure the timely closure of the 2021 School Card Scheme the last date for new forms to be accepted is 22nd November 2021. No new applications will be accepted after this date.
Please check that you have received confirmation from the School Card section? If not, please contact the front office to check the status of your application. If you have not applied, and meet the eligibility criteria below, please complete the online form or collect a paper copy from the front office. Eligibility for School Card assistance is dependent upon the combined family gross income for the 2020-2021 financial year within the following School Card income limits. Applicants who apply for School Card assistance via an ED003A - Income Audit application form are able to apply via an online application form. The online application form is available at www.sa.gov.au under the heading Education, Skills and Learning.
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Outdoor Classroom Day Rm 4A & 4B
Last Friday was an outdoor classroom day for rooms 4A and 4B. We went outside for our art lesson. The task was to make an art piece or sculpture piece using natural materials that the children found in the yard.
Here are some of the things that they came up with:
Here are some of the things that they came up with: