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Golden Grove Primary School
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Term 2 Week 2, 7th May 2015
Inside this issue
Principal News
Sports News
Award Winners
GGPS Disco
School Captain Update
Coming events
Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school for Term 2. This term we welcome seven new students
to our school. Welcome to Nathan, Charlotte, Kleo, Soren, Mattias, Damian
and Brock.
We also welcome Ms Priscilla Harris to our staff team. Priscilla was appointed
following the retirement of Mrs Jan Griffin at the end of Term 1 and will teach in
Homebase 25 Wed-Fri for the remainder of the year.
We wish our new students and Priscilla a happy and productive time at our
school.
08/05/15
Mother’s Day Stall
Assembly - HB 5
11/05/15
Governing Council Meeting
7pm
12/05/15 -14/05/15
ANZAC DAY CEREMONY
Congratulations to Homebase 1 students, Mrs
Nicholas and Kerry Mayes for the wonderful
Anzac Day assembly presented on the last day
of Term 1. We had an extensive list of invited
guests who joined us to mark the centenary of
the Anzac landing and to honour people who
have served Australia in the past and those
currently serving.
NAPLAN Yrs 3, 5 & 7
15/05/15
SAPSASA Cross Country
18/05/15
SAPSASA Boys Soccer
19/05/15
ICAS Computer Competition
22/05/15
School Disco
Principal
Wendy Moore
NAPLAN TESTING
On Tuesday 12, Wednesday 13 and Thursday 14
May, students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 will take part
in the National Assessment Program – Literacy
and Numeracy, or NAPLAN, as it is commonly
known.
Skills that will be tested include: reading, writing, spelling, grammar and
punctuation, and numeracy.
These tests are done here at school and are considered part of the curriculum.
It is important for you and your child to know that NAPLAN is not a pass/fail test.
It simply looks at what level students are achieving in literacy and numeracy
against National Standards and compared with student peers throughout
Australia.
NAPLAN cannot be studied for and students are not expected to do so. The
best way you can help your child prepare for NAPLAN is to let them know that it
is just a routine part of their school program, and to urge them to do the best
they can on the day.
140 Bicentennial Drive
Golden Grove 5125
Phone: 8289 3137
Fax: 8289 3138
Email:
dl.1848_info@schools.
sa.edu.au
Website:
www.goldengps.sa.edu.au
SMS: 0416 906 270
Later in the year we will send parents an individual student NAPLAN report that
you can use to view and monitor how your child is progressing.
All students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 are expected to participate in NAPLAN testing.
If you would like to discuss your child’s participation or withdraw your child for
personal or philosophical reasons, please contact Wendy Moore or Barbie
Rankin (Office).
More information is available on the NAPLAN website. www.nap.edu.au
Kind regards, Wendy Moore
Sports News
SAPSASA Athletics Carnival
Congratulations to all Athletics students who attended the carnival at Pertaringa Oval on 27th
March. Our team competed exceptionally well with 56% of students finishing in the top three.
Special congratulations to Emilaya Ellis who recorded a District record for the Long Jump and
to Emilaya, Sarah Fry, James Upton and James White who won a first ribbon in their respective
event(s).
Thank you to the many parents who helped with transport and supported the students during
the day.
Little Athletics National Championships
Emilaya Ellis recently represented SA in the National Little Athletics Championships in WA. She
was most successful in the Triple Jump coming 4th and jumping a personal best by 3cm. In
fact, there was only 10cm between first place and fourth place. Emilaya also made the 200m
final (coming 8th) and she came 8th in the Long Jump.
These are huge achievements Emilaya . Congratulations!
School Captain Update
During Term 1, much of our time was taken up helping to organise our very successful Sports
Day. We particularly enjoyed learning and practising the warm up, leading our teams in the
march, watching and cheering for our teams in the sprints and organising the Middle School
students into teams for their team games (we enjoyed bossing them around).
This term we are planning to try to build stronger connections with the younger students
(Reception) in our school. We are going to start by planning a fitness circuit for them which we
will run on a Friday after assembly. We really hope they will enjoy it and that they will get to
know us better.
We are also going to be sharing some information about our World Vision Sponsor child and
we are planning a gold coin donation “dress up” later in the term.
Abbey, Piper, Emilaya, Sam, Jacob, Austin, Daniel, Alana, Daniel and Hollly.
During the recent school holidays, a number of
our Performing Arts students represented our
school at 3 different performances.
On Tuesday 14th April, twenty of our Primary
Voices students sang at The Stables Woolworths
opening ceremony. After only a short amount of
practice time, the students were exceptional.
They were extremely professional and performed
to a high standard. As reward for their work,
Woolworths donated $1,000 to our school which
will be used to support students going on tour in
2016.
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of
the ANZACs and as such, the
Festival of Music has a number of
songs recognising this event. On
Saturday 25th April, six of our Senior
Voices students joined with students
from five other neighbouring
schools to perform a series of songs
at the Tea Tree Gully dawn service.
These students did our school proud
even at the insanely early hour of
5:45am. It was truly a life
experience these students
will never forget.
Later that day, thirteen of our Senior
Voices students also performed
ANZAC Day songs in Rundle Mall. They
were joined by students from many
different SA public schools to attempt
a flash mob singing. Although the
flash mob was not as successful as first
planned, the students did a great job
at representing our school.
Thank you to all the parents for their support through these performances.
Michael McConnochie
During 2014, we began using Edmodo as an online communication tool between
teachers, parents and students. Some classes posted information about and photos
of the learning that was happening in the class. Others used it as a discussion forum
for students to ask questions of and share with each other homework and other
learning. Newsletters and term overviews were also shared using Edmodo. Our
specialist teachers created their own groups to allow choirs, bands, sports teams and
students involved in specific programs to share information also. With Edmodo,
anything that students see, you as parents can access by logging on using your
unique parent code.
To make the ongoing use of Edmodo easier to manage as a school, we have just
completed a re-registration process for students and are now ready for parents to log
on and join the Homebase groups. Please find your child’s logon details in their
communication book/diary along with your parent code. Use this code to register as
a parent at www.edmodo.com or if you have registered previously, logon and opt to
join a new group using this code.
We look forward to extending the use of Edmodo and sharing some fabulous learning
with you.
The event will be well supervised and, for safety reasons, parents are asked to drop their children at the gate near the canteen and then return to pick them up from the hall 15 minutes prior
to the end of the disco.
Golden Grove Primary School
Award Winners
This weeks awards were given for
all our School Values