64Balm oral TERM 4 No. 1 3 Friday Friday November July 25th21st 2014 2014 OUR PURPOSE: To work together to educate and skill our future global citizens OUR PURPOSE: To work together to educate and skill our future global citizens Diary Dates Instrumental Music Every Tuesday Assemblies Fridays November 21st and December 12th Music Spectacular Tuesday November 25th at 7pm In the hall A night of entertainment from our Music students from Year 3 to 7! Canteen Special Wednesday November 26th Thai or Honey Soy Chicken Governing Council Monday December 1st Volunteer’s Morning tea Thursday December 4th Basketball & Netball breakup Monday December 8th Primary Years Pool Excursion Tuesday December 9th Early Years Leisure Centre Excursion Wednesday December 10th Middle Years Pool Excursion Wednesday December 10th Year 7 Graduation Thursday December 11th Whole School Assembly Friday December 12th 2014 School Year concludes Friday December 12th at 2:05pm School reopens for business in 2015 Monday January 19th Term 1 2015 commences Tuesday January 27th School News Suddenly we are in the last half of the term and busily engaged in end of year activities. Next week we start with our end of year celebrations with our very first Music Spectacular. This is a celebration of a year’s work in our exciting music program. All of our music students from Year 3 to 7 will be performing at the Spectacular with a grand finale of all students. It promises to be a wonderful night. Please check out the diary dates to see what end of year events you or your child may be involved in. Fundraising The Woodville community has a long history of giving generously. In previous years we have given to World Vision through the 40 Hour Famine and to St Vincent DePaul through the CEO Sleep-out. This year we participated in Jump Rope for Heart for the Heart Foundation. $2747.20 was raised. Seven children were awarded Mystery Prizes for their fantastic individual efforts. Charlise Culf raised $550 and Clare Shimeld $200. We also participated in Canteen Bandanna Day. We sold 210 raising $840 for CanTeen – The Australian Organisation for Young People Living with Cancer. Quiz Night Our school quiz night was held last Friday. 70 enthusiastic competitors battled it out over six rounds of questions and several novelty rounds. When all the counting was done, the Mad Hatters (pictured) had won and they took home wine and chocolates as their first prize. The final fundraising total was $1300, which was made up of ticket sales, raffles and games, and auction sales. The money will go towards buying tablet computers for next year. The Governing Council wishes to thank all of the local businesses and school community members who generously donated prizes for the evening. It would also like to thank Andy Constantinides who put together the questions and games and sought out many of the donations. Staffing We have nearly completed our staffing for 2015. Leaving us are Zina Kenny, who is retiring, Urszula Kudra, who is transferring to Nailsworth Primary and Alex Lovegrove who has won a position at Mawson Lakes School. We welcome Olivia O’Halloran who joins us in the Early Years from Streaky Bay Area School. We are also delighted to announce that Irene Lynch has won the position of Student Counsellor for a further twelve months. We expect to retain all other staff members, both teaching and support staff. We will be making a further appointment in the Early Years at the end of the year. Many of you will also be interested to learn that our longest serving staff member, Carol Day, has been on the sick list. Carol is resting at home after a serious operation. She is expected to make a full recovery but we don’t expect her back until next year. We have sent Carol our best wishes and look forward to her returning to us in 2015. Graeme Charlton – Principal Zina Kenny Zina is retiring from teaching at the end of the year. She has been an Early Years teacher for 37 years. Many hundreds of children have had the benefit of Zina’s care and professionalism in that time, including about 200 at Woodville. There are many, many children who can thank Zina for teaching them skills they have used for their whole lives! Zina has seen many changes in education over that time. She began her career in an openplanned Early Year school in the eastern region, where there were no walls between classes. She soon learnt to adapt her teaching skills in co-operative team teaching situations. During her career she has worked at Paralowie School, Para Hills Junior Primary, Redwood Park Primary and Ridgehaven Primary. For the last seven years she has been at Woodville. Zina has always had an interest in multi-culturalism and loves working with children from a variety of cultures. Her professional interests include Literacy, Science and the Arts. When Zina retires she will renew her love of gardens, crafts and travel. And she would like to take up new hobbies of photography and Drawing. Premier's Reading Challenge 2014 Students that have read the most books in their class. Sahana Meenachi Sundaram - R17 - 132 books, Jessica Buzzerio - R18 - 120 books Kevin Pham - R7 - 96 books, Santhosh Meenachi Sundaram - R8 - 84 books Kara Alexander - R16 - 72 books, Kassie Nasane - R9 - 72 books, Massimo Dibrino - R15 - 60 books, Josh Elliott - R3 - 48 books, Shivansh Bisht - R4 - 48 books, Mitchell Ryan – R11 - 24 books Jasnoor Raina - R11 - 24 books Students receiving their “Readers for Life 8” certificate Angelina Bone - R13, Mason Clutton - R13, James Magor - R13, Jack Clark - R14 Students receiving their Hall Of Fame medal Jessica Cox – R11, Angelina Rajic - R11, Mitchell Ryan - R11, Ryan Williams - R11, Travis Glasgow - R13, Rhiannon Knight - R13, Maddison Lasscock - R14, Jasmine Lelliott - R14, Angus Tiboldo - R14, Brendon Bone – R15 Students that are receiving their Legend medal Daniella Buzzerio - R11, Jasnoor Raina - R11, Matthew Davies - R13, Hachal Baskar - R15 Georgia Brand - R15, Connor Clark - R15, Riley Clutton - R16, Caleb Robinson - R16 Students that are receiving their Champion medal Erin Brecht - R15, Charlize Culf - R15, William Jarrett - R15, Alyssa Lasscock - R15, Emelia Oliver - R15, Kara Alexander - R16, Emily Hart - R16, Kara Davies - R16, Jobie Wright - R16, Jasmine Maetze - R17, Mikayla Milosevic - R17, Natasha Bone - R18 162 students participated in the Premier’s Reading Challenge this year. Apart from the students named above students were awarded: st 31 Certificates for 1 time PRC participants, 30 Bronze Medals, 35 Silver Medals and 29 Gold Medals. The Challenge is successful because we have many children who love reading and love books. This is a really good thing for now and for their future lives. Thank you to Deb Pedersen who manages the challenge – organising the books, collating the lists, encouraging the readers, managing the awards and everything else! From Miss Irene - Student Counsellor News From the Student Action Team Message from The Senior Student Action Team………………. This year the Student Action Team have been working hard to raise money for several charities. We chose to support the CANTEEN charity-young children living with cancer. We sold Bandannas at school and raised a total of $840. We then chose to support World Vision by sponsoring an eight year old girl from Africa, Senegal called Aminata Sane. We hope to follow the progress that she makes with our yearly donations. To fundraise for World Vision we held an ice cream and ice block day. All the students enjoyed buying these items to sponsor the young girl. To add to our fundraising Mr Nicholls’ class held a cup cake day which was very successful. The end of term 3 saw all the representatives of the Student Action Teams participate in various roles in the very successful “Woodville’s Got Talent”. This term we had two representatives attend a staff meeting where they put forward some very strong ideas to hold a trial for three weeks where junior classes work together with senior classes as buddies. We are hoping for some very positive feedback so that it can be a regular whole school activity in 2015. A future project that we are also trialling for the next three weeks will be to give younger students another option besides staff members to seek support for small issues such as, being lost, having a fight with a friend, needing a friend to talk to or just having someone they can chat to in the yard. These SAT members will be identified in the yard by the badges that they will be wearing. The Senior SAT Team - Miriam, Matthew, Aislinn, Anzoa, Jessica and Lucas