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Scott Creek Primary School
A small dynamic
community school
Newsletter
DATES TO REMEMBER
October
th
26 Sun
Working Bee
th
27 Mon
Book Orders close
28th Tue
Indo Puppet Show
th
30 Thu
Kidstock
31st Fri
World Teachers’ Day
st
31 Fri
Readers’ Cup
November
3–7
Yr 7 Canberra Trip
th
12 Wed. STUDENT FREE DAY
16 Sun
Lego League
16 Sun
Stirling Pageant
25th Tue
Yr 7 Orientation Day
Heathfield High School
26th Wed
UP Aquatics
th
28 Fri
Creative Play Day
28th Fri
All outstanding fees due
December
rd
3 Wed
End of Year Concert
12th Fri
End of Term 4
REMINDERS
TERM
DATES 2014
4
13 Oct-12 Dec
TERM
DATES 2015
1
27Jan-10 April
2
27 April- 3 July
3
20 Jul 0 25 Sep
4
12 Oct – 11 Dec
Scott Creek Progress Association
For bookings of the Scott Creek Hall
contact 08 83882055 or the secretary
on 08 83882297.
Check on the website
http://scottcreek.org.au
Facebook site
24 October 2014
Term 4 Week 2
519 Scott Creek Road,
Scott Creek SA 5153
Tel: 8388 2251
Fax: 8388 2447
[email protected]
www.scps.sa.edu.au
Principal: Sue Zecchin
THE PRINCIPAL
Year 7 Science Careers Day
Bushfire
Season Approaching
Bushfire Action Plan
Is your family’s Bushfire Action Plan up to date? Your plan will be the
main driver of your actions concerning you and your children on days
of high and catastrophic fire danger. Scott Creek Primary has an
extensive bushfire plan to prepare and protect staff and students in
events ranging from a Total Fire Ban announcement through to a
bushfire impacting on our site. We practice our bushfire procedures
regularly during terms 4 and 1 so everyone is aware of their
responsibilities should we find ourselves in a real life bushfire
situation.
A summary copy of our Bushfire plan will come home next week.
Please familiarize yourself with it and keep it handy.
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On a day of Catastrophic Fire Danger, our school will be closed,
buses will be cancelled and no-one will be on site. We will notify you
in advance by note, text, email and phone (if necessary). You will
need to keep your eye on the media for updates and activate your
own action plan.
Signs will be at the front of the school to indicate its closure, a parent
hotline number 1800 000 279 and www.decd.sa.edu.au will also give
you information.
On days of Extreme Fire Danger, Scott Creek Primary may be
closed. Again, we will let you know. Again, activate your own
bushfire action plan. The OSHC may also be closed on these days.
Level 1 alert is a Total Fire Ban day. We will follow procedures such
as cancelling playgroup, posting total fire ban signs and messages,
reviewing excursions, monitoring ABC radio for warnings and
reminding students about our procedures.
Level 2 alert means a Fire in the Local School District. Activate
your bushfire action plan if necessary. We will monitor CFS updates,
parents will be contacted to collect children if safe to do so, buses
will not be able to leave and students will only be dismissed at
3:30pm by approved adults.
At a Level 3 alert, students will move into our Fire Refuge as a Fire
is in the Immediate Vicinity or Impacting on the School.
News
From the Middles
We have been having fun with poetry, reading,
laughing and writing together. Each student has
written a poem based on the poem ‘A Swamp Romp’
by Doug McLead. It is based on rhythm and rhyme
with 2 verses. Please enjoy some of our poems.
Munchy Crunchy Food
Chomp crunch
Chomp munch
Eating all the food
Mush mash
Mash mush
Food! Food! Food!
A Bubble Gum Yum
Squish Squash
Blish Blosh
Stepping In The Ooze
Sticky Gooey
Icky Ooey
Sticking To My Shoes
Pop Smack
Boom Crack
Like A Cracked Egg
Boot Stick
Foot Lick
Not Coming Off My Leg!
Munchy crunchy
Crunchy munchy
Yum! Yum! Yum!
Spicy sweety
Sweety spicy
For my tum tum tum
By Lucinda
Slime Slide
Slip slide
Slippery slime
Slippery gross sewerage
Yucky slime
Slime time
Sewerage in my fridge
Slimy didge
Yucky didge
Fall in the ditch
Slippery slime
Gross slime
Ahhhh! a smelly witch !
By Shannon
By Asher
Feet Freeze
Nice wet
Icy pet
My cat is sneezing
Slippery ice
Not nice
My cat is freezing
Slushy Mushy Worms
Wiggle Jiggle
Surrounded By Pickles
Swimming With Worms
My Body Churns
My Mummy Turns
That’s Not A Worm!
Wet nice
Slippery ice
My cat is licking the ice
Icy pet
All wet
My cat said it was nice.
Slippy Sloppy
Pippy Poppy
Squishing All The Worms,
Lumpy Bumpy
Funky Thumpy
WORMS! WORMS! WORMS!
By Melita
Paddock Hazard
Slipping jumping
Yucky smudging
In some cow poo
Hardly jumping
Tiredly slipping
OH NO MORE POO
By Jaxon
OO yuck
OOZE OOZE
In my shoes
Yuck yuck
MORE YUCKY OOZE
By Lucca
A small dynamic community school
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From the Principal
cheers squad for the evening. A particularly
entertaining aspect of the competition is the
representation of a book as a play, musical
performance, artwork or multimedia presentation. This
year’s presentation book is Cinderella/Alex and the
Glass Slipper by Amanda Graham and we are very
pleased to have Amanda as our guest presenter.
Come along for an entertaining evening.
- continued
At a Level 3 alert, students will move into our Fire
Refuge as a Fire is in the Immediate Vicinity or
Impacting on the School. Extensive procedures are
outlined in our Bushfire Action Plan. Safe collection of
students should have occurred prior to this warning
level if possible. Food and water stores will allow us to
manage the students for a considerable period of time
if necessary. After the fire has passed, students will
only be released to approved adults.
Donations from Bunnings
Bunnings Mt Barker have been overwhelmingly
generous to us. We have ordered the shelving and
crates to re-organise the PE shed and have been
given a 80% discount! Bunnings have also generously
donated various gardening supplies and seedlings as
well as a new gate for the chook house. We gratefully
thank Chris Murphy (Oscar’s dad) who works at
Bunnings, for his contribution to the process and to
Tania Van Dijk from Bunnings Mt Barker for her
generosity.
What are your responsibilities?
 Ensure your contact details at the school are
up to date (mobile and home phone numbers
and email)
 Read and familiarize yourself with the parent
information from our Bushfire Action Plan
coming home by email next week.
 Stay informed about bushfire information and
relevant warnings during the bushfire season,
and especially on days of high, extreme and
catastrophic fire danger.
 Activate your family’s Bushfire Action Plan
when necessary.

Request to have a full copy of our school’s
Working Bee
Don’t forget our working bee this Sunday. A couple of
hours of your time would be greatly appreciated.
Morning tea will be provided.
Parent Survey
Last term, you should have received an email with a
personal link to our Parent Satisfaction Survey. You
still have another week or so to complete the survey.
It should take you no longer than 10 minutes to
complete.
Bushfire Action Plan emailed to you.
Welcome
We warmly welcome Daniel Ferencz (year 3), Thomas
Coates (year 2), Samuel Coates (Rec), Keira Bowden
(year 3), Reilly Bowden (year1) and Telia Sheperdson
(year 5) and their families to our school. I know you
will make them feel a part of our great school
community.
Basket Swing
The new basket swing has been ordered. I will be
installed at the end of the term or during the school
holidays, ready for 2015.
Nut Policy
We will need to re-introduce our Nut Policy now that
Thomas and Samuel are with us again. Please ensure
that NO CASHEWS or PISTASHIOS are on site.
Signs will be up outside each classroom.
Student Free Day
A reminder that our final student free day for the year
is on Wednesday November 12th. Staff will be at a
conference run by Professor Guy Claxton, an
internationally acclaimed, writer, consultant, lecturer
and academic, specialising in creativity, education and
the mind. He has written extensively on subjects from
creative thinking to Buddhism, and the value of
uncertainty in learning and what makes people
effective lifelong learners. Guy is the UK's leading
expert on practical ways of developing young people's
learning and creative capacities, and building learning
power in the classroom.
Lunchtime Music Concert
What a great time we had at the lunchtime music
concert in the last week last term. Community
members and students thoroughly enjoyed an
informal concert of band, ensemble, singing and
ukulele, with much dancing in the mosh pit!
Readers Cup
The Hills Readers’ Cup competition will be held at
Crafers Primary School on Friday October 31 st at 7pm
in the school’s gym. We have a year 6 and a year 7
team competing. I know they would appreciate a
A small dynamic community school
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Wet Snow Stroll
Slish slosh
Water gosh!
Plodding in the cold
Arm shiver
Head quiver
Mold of the icy cold
Term Calendar
This term’s calendar is attached to the newsletter.
Please note important dates, especially the End of
Year Concert.
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Have a great fortnight. Enjoy the spring weather.
Sue Zecchin
From the Middles
Slip slide
Slide glide
Having a ball
Having fun
Come n run
O NO WALL!
continued
Snow In My Toe
Mud, muck
Thud, yuck
Squoshy, slimy snow
Splashy, spicy
Sploshy, icy
How would I know?
By Patrick
Book Club
Scholastic Book Club orders close on Monday 27th
October.
Mud, muck
Sud guck
Mucky, mucky snow
Pooey, gooey
Shoe Ooooooh
Where should I go?
By Chris
Fundraiser
PRICE REDUCTION!!!
Our herb and vegetable kits have been reduced to $4
(Bargain price). So get your garden growing before
these run out! Great for Christmas gifts or Kris Kringle
presents. Please purchase from the front office.
Grassy Grassy Lands
Swirly swishy
Curly squishy
Very green and lumpy
Squishy squashy
Dishy doshy
All a little dirty
From the Community
Information on the following events/activities are
available for persual in the Office.
Credit Union Christmas Pageant – 8/11/14
Friends of Scott Creek Con Park AGM – 13/11/14
Maccelsfield Strawberry Fete – 23/11/14
Living with Toddlers – (free parenting seminar)
24/11/14
2015 Vacswim – 5/1/15 – 13/1/15
Kids Taekwondo – Crafers & Hahndorf
Australia HOPE – Sponsorship form
Somnia Sleep Services
Swirly swishy
Derly dishy
Lots of things are green
Grass grass
Diss darss
Dingy dongy deen
By Reuben S
A small dynamic community school
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TE RM 4, 2014
Week
beg
Wk 1
13/10
Wk 2
20/10
MONDAY
TUESDAY
SIT Mtg 7pm
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
SAT/
SUN
Chess
Mobile Lib
Cricket Clinic 9-10am
Bush Buddies
School Photos
Music exams
Fab Friday
SAT 2pm
Garden Tour
(Kim&Kelle)
Chess
Newsletter MP
Bush Buddies
Fab Friday
SRC
SUN Working
Bee 9-1pm
JP Cooking
Indo Perform 2-3pm
Gov Council
Chess
Mobile Lib
Kidstock
Bush Buddies
Fab Friday
Bandana Day
Readers Cup 7pm
Bushfire Drill
Canberra
CFS Visit
Fab Friday
Electives
SRC
Fab Friday
Electives
Canberra Info UPS7pm JP Cooking
Bushfire Drill
Wk 3
27/10
WEDNESDAY
13 t h Oct -12 t h Dec
Wk 4
3/11
Canberra
Canberra
MP Cooking
JPs to Mylor
Canberra
Chess
Canberra
Newsletter UP
Bush Buddies
Wk 5
10/11
Tailem Town Exc.
(JP & MP)
REMEMBRANCE DAY
& Assembly 2:45pm
STUDENT FREE DAY
Bush Buddies
Wk 6
17/11
UP Cooking
Chess
Mitcham Girls
Transition
HHS Teacher visit
Newsletter JP
Bush Buddies
Fab Friday
Beach Volleyball
Electives
Wk 7
24/11
UP Cooking
H/Field High Transition
Chess
Mobile Lib
Aquatics yrs5-7
Bushfire Drill
Bush Buddies
Fab Friday
Electives
Glenunga Transition
Graduation Dinner
Newsletter MP
Bush Buddies
(Mr Ivan Copley)
School Picnic
Bush Buddies
Fab Friday
SRC
Leaders Day
Creative Play Day
Fab Friday
Reports go out
Wk 8
1/12
Full Dress Rehearsal
Gov Council
Concert,
Yr7 Graduation and
Awards night
Wk 9
8/12
Peter Boggiano
Volunteer Thank you
UrrbraeTransition
Assembly 2:45pm
Mobile Lib
NOTE: Fab Friday – Fabulous Friday
SRC – Student Representative Council
Paula Raymond here on Fridays
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JP- Junior Primary
SUN First
Lego League
AND
Stirling
Pageant
MP – Middle Primary UP – Upper Primary