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Greenwith Primary School Newsletter Issue Number 18 Thursday, 30th October 2014 Address: 1500 Golden Grove Road Greenwith SA 5125 Phone: 08 8289 8100 Fax: 08 8289 7555 Term 4 – Week 3 Email: [email protected] Website: www.greenwith.sa.edu.au Past & Present Principals: Rick Bennallack, Steve Portlock, Bert Michels, Kevin Blake Principal: Deputy Principal: Assistant Principal: Assistant Principal: Governing Council Chair: Class Parent President: Rick Bennallack Lausanne Cheers Robyn McLachlan Jacqui Bowen Renée Seymour Paula Glacken Happy World Teachers Day 31st October 2014 Diary Date Casual Clothes Student Voice Fundraiser (more details to come closer to the date) Thursday, 13th November Supporting Cystic Fibrosis Inside this Issue      Leadership News Around The School News North East District Hiragana Competition DSTA News SA Government Community Services Dates to Remember  31 Oct  3 Nov      4 Nov 7 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 17 Nov    18 Nov 20 Nov 2 Dec Music – Count Us In 12:30pm Science Workshop 406/407/803 Yr 6/7 Choir Excursion Cricket Clinic Yrs 3-7 Kindy Transition 9-11:30am Casual Clothes Fundraiser Christmas Choir Singing @ Viceroy Aged Care Kindy Transition 9-11:30am Music is Fun End of Year Concert Northside Blue Light Final disco of the year:Golden Grove Arts and Recreation Centre Golden Way, Golden Grove Friday 7th November 2014, 7pm – 10pm Ticket $5 – available at the door Disco is fully supervised by Police and Police volunteers Child Safe Environment For children aged 12 – 17 years Disco is a Lock in event Canteen Facilities on site Fun Run Apology In the Week 1 Newsletter we inadvertently recorded an incorrect 2 nd Place winner for Year 1 Girls the winner should have read Imogen Hammer From The Principal Another New Finish Time As you would be aware, we changed our school finishing time this year from 3:05pm to 3:00pm to fall in line with the expectations of the 2012 Enterprise Bargaining Agreement for all government schools regarding the amount of instruction or teaching time. Since then the Department of Education and Child Development (DECD) has again clarified some anomalies with the interpretation that had been occurring with the definition of required break and meal times for staff. As a result of this clarification, Greenwith Primary School will be adjusting our school day again. At the meeting held on October th 16 2014 the Governing Council was advised of the reasons and need for changing the finishing time of the school day. This change will result in a 10 minute increase in play time for students at lunch. Children will have 40 minutes to play rather than the current 30 minutes at lunch. This is in addition to the 10 minutes set aside for eating lunch. As teachers do a yard duty every day, they will now receive at least the required 20 minute lunch break. The amount of instruction time will remain the same. As of Term 1 2015, at Greenwith Primary School students will be dismissed at 3:10pm instead of 3:00pm. The official start time will remain at 8:50am with classrooms opened at 8:45am. A bell will sound at 3:10pm to acknowledge the end of school. Our Lady of Hope Catholic School work under a different Enterprise Bargaining Agreement. They are still deciding whether or not they will also increase their lunch play time and/or adjust their finishing time. Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) supervision will occur as usual. I apologise for another change. Hopefully this is the last one needed for quite a while. Year 4/5 Camp Last week, I had the privilege of attending the biannual 2 day Year 4/5 camp at Mylor. The activities offered by the instructors were really well planned, engaging and fun (especially the flying fox and giant swing that I got to go on with my group). Learning can happen in many settings and thanks to the good will of the teachers involved, I am proud that Greenwith continues to offer camps on a regular basis. Thanks to Nadene Staporski, Dani Schina, Bev Poppleton, Vera Deluca, Mike Stott and Lausanne Cheers for giving up their after hours time and for all their work in making the camp happen. Overall I was really pleased with the attitude and behaviour of the 140 students who attended. They demonstrated all of the CORE values we expect at Greenwith. Kind regards Rick Bennallack 0412 261 231 Happy World Teacher’s Day It takes a special person To teach a child in class To just keep his attention In a world that moves so fast To show a child he is unique With talents deep inside To help to build his confidence So he can beam with pride To show a little patience For a child who's lost his way To a child who feels abandoned Who has seen better days To inspire and to motivate So a child can learn and grow To go into this big wide world That has its highs and lows You are a special person You always give your best And for every child that has your class Their life is truly blessed EARLY YEARS CORE AWARDS 301 Hayley McCabe Madeline C 302 Hannah Davies / Jacqui Bowen Liam C 304 Tina Richardson Ella B 305 Marie Tsaousoglou Ajay V 306 Vicki Cousins Imogen H 309 Helene Komoll / KarynByles Jaxon Y 310 Rosemary Stevens Satine C 404 Sue Nappa / Carolyne Trimboli Ross C 405 Tarn Halliday Georgia G On Tuesday October 21st, Greenwith Primary competed in the North East District Hiragana Competition at Open Access College at Marden. Our team of Thomas N, Sarah F, Phoebe A and Hannah T did a wonderful job, up against very tough competition. Our team was also mostly made up of Year 6s which made it even more outstanding as most schools were primarily Year 7s. Out of the 7 schools, Greenwith came 4th, missing out on joint 3rd by just 1 point. This competition is quite intense with each competitor having to stand up in front of a room of people and compete against a person from another school to be the first one to read and say the Japanese characters and words. Congratulations must also go to Thomas N for winning the tournament round of the KATSU Japanese reading game, based on strategy. He was the last person standing out of the 28 students there. Well done Thomas! At the end of the competition, all students had a snack of sushi and received a small gift and certificate. I am so proud of our students for being confident (even though they were very nervous) and showing off their Japanese reading skills that they have worked so hard on. These students have given up some lunch times as well as taking on extra work at home to get to this competition. They showed the Greenwith pride by having all of our CORE values on display at all time. Awesome work team! Kym Toomey Teacher of Japanese. おめでとう Remembrance Cross Last year I applied to the ANZAC Day Commemoration Fund and won a grant to upgrade our Remembrance Cross. With the funding we purchased especially made pavers engraved with past and current conflicts involving Australian Forces to put around the cross. The cross is located near the ramp leading to the oval. A huge thank you to Sean Matheson from Urban Virons for laying the pavers. We would also like to acknowledge the Government of South Australia for providing the commemorative funding. We are just waiting for the delivery of a bronze statue of a soldier and the garden will be complete. Also many thanks to those families who purchased a paver in memory of their loved ones who served Australia in time of war, armed conflict or in International Peacekeeping operations. The Cross of rosemary and the engraved pavers will forever be visual reminders of the significance of Anzac Day, Remembrance Day and our nation’s military heritage. Deb Thompson Defence School Transition Aide (DSTA) Remembrance Day Assembly Tuesday, 11th November 2014 10:30am Classes 803, Room 17 & Room 18 will be leading the assembly. Some of our Defence family students will be reading poetry. We invite parents, grandparents and friends to attend our Commemorative Assembly. 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