11th February, 2015 Principal’s Report FORTHCOMING EVENTS Friday 20 February th Year 6-12 Sports Day Friday 27 February th R-5 Sports Day Monday 2nd March R-5 Assembly in Amphitheatre 2.30pm Start WCIAC – Ceduna Area School th Wednesday 4 March th Monday 9 March th Tuesday 10 & th Wednesday 11 March th Wednesday 11 & th Friday 13 March th Monday 16 March th Tuesday 17 to th Thursday 19 March Monday 23rd March th Wednesday 25 March rd Friday 3 April th Monday 6 April th Friday 10 April th Monday 27 April Last Monday we held our Acquaintance Breakfast for each section of the school. It was pleasing to see a number of parents and caregivers making the effort to come in to meet their child/ren’s teacher for 2015. Parents, caregivers and friends were invited into their child/ren’s classrooms and to share breakfast. Adelaide Cup Holiday Parent\Teacher Interviews Year 5 Errappa Class Camp WASSAC - Ceduna Area School Year 4 class camps to Pt Augusta R-5 Assembly in Amphitheatre 2.30pm Start Student Free Day Good Friday Easter Monday Last Day of Term 1 Term 2 Begins Reminder CAS is a ‘NUT AWARE’ site. We ask that no Nut Products be brought on site. We have students who are highly allergic to nuts and can suffer an anaphylactic reaction. A strong partnership between the home and the school where we all work together is the best way to support your child’s learning. Parents who speak or act positively towards school in the presence of their children, attend school events, often instil in them the importance of education and ensure the best learning outcomes occur. 6-12 Swimming Carnival – Sinclair Triumphs Congratulations to all involved in this year’s Swimming Carnival held during perfect weather, despite the prediction of extreme temperatures last Friday in our school pool. Thank you to so many parents and friends who attended to support the students on the day. Well done to those students who fully participated on the day, and for their great level of teamwork and good sportsmanship. Thank you to Mr Green and Mr King who were the chief organisers of the day, and all staff and parents that assisted with the preparation and organisation to make it such a successful Swimming Carnival. Well done to Sinclair who won the trophy this year, by the narrowest of margins. It just goes to show how every contribution and participation by an individual counts. FOR SALE Smoked Perch Fillets $30.00 kg & Smoked Barra $35.00kg (READY NOW PICK UP FROM OFFICE-TODAY) Available in approx. 100-150gm packs Contact Ceduna Area School on 86252030 to place an order today. Can also be purchased at Ceduna Meat Service. Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 2015 Term Dates 27th April – 3rd July 20th July – 25th September 12th October – 11th December Final Scores: • • • Sinclair – 676 points Davenport – 656 points Murat – 653 points Well done to victorious Sinclair House captains, Chloe Sleep and Dale Shipard and all of the other House Captains for their hard work organising competitors throughout the day. to university studies. Well done to both Emily and Maddie. Some Key dates for 2015 th Our First Student Free Day will be held on Wednesday 25 March Week 9. This will be a Partnership day where all staff from other Partnership schools and sites will be here for training. Well done to all Under Age Winners and Runners Up as well as the fabulous efforts by those that set new records. Congratulations to Reyner Clarke, Adele Lynch, Demi Lynch and Tyson Lynch for being selected in the SSSSA Far West Swimming Team to compete at the SA Aquatic rd and Leisure Centre in Adelaide on Tuesday 3 March Week 6. Good luck to these students! Premier’s Reading Challenge - is your son or daughter up to the Challenge in 2015? The Premier's Reading Challenge is a literacy engagement program that was introduced by the Premier in 2004 to: • • Encourage students to read more books and enjoy reading Improve literacy levels. The Challenge requires students to read 12 books between the beginning of the school year and early September: • • • Reception to Year 7: 8 of these books are to be from the Challenge Booklists, available on the Premier’s Reading Challenge website and 4 of their own choice. These can include novels and research texts. Year 8 and 9: Students read 4 books from the Challenge lists and 8 of their own choice. These can include prescribed texts, research texts and any other texts from their studies. Year 10 to 12: Students read 12 books of their own choice. These can include prescribed texts, research texts and any other texts from their studies. Ms Stevens and Ms Kloeden will be managing this programme through the Library and will be informing students of how to enter. WASSAC will also be run here this year which will involve representative Athletics teams from Port Lincoln, Whyalla, Port Augusta and as far away as Roxby Downs. For this day to be run efficiently our Years 6 to 12 sub school will need to close for the day and have all staff on deck to run the programme. Regards Jim Michalanney Principal Middle School’s Report A belated welcome to the 2015 school year from Middle School staff and students. We are really pleased with the start that has been made across the section. Students have returned from holidays ready to learn, and the preparatory work of teachers has paid off; with classes running smoothly and getting straight into their learning. With the upcoming ANZAC Centenary, the Year 9s are beginning the year with their WW1 depth study. The Year 8s are tackling the cheery, but fascinating topic of The Black Death. In Year 7, students are studying the much loved Paul Jennings text Nails, and the Year 6 classes are settling well into the Middle School routines. Well done to everyone involved in the smooth running of the 6-12 Swimming Carnival, which was held on Friday. The weather was kind to us, and we were able to complete the day’s program. Behaviour at the carnival was exemplary, with competitors demonstrating great skill, and more importantly, great sportsmanship and participation. Those not swimming were vocal and positive supporters, which is also fantastic to see. Congratulations to Sinclair on their victory, and also to Davenport and Murat, as it was the closest score in many years; with only 20 points separating first and third. It’s a great thing to have the Carnival so early in the year, as it is a fantastic way for students and staff to develop relationships outside the classroom. University of Adelaide Principal’s Scholarship Congratulations to Emily Kavanagh and Maddie Smart who were nominated by the school for a University of Adelaide Scholarship. These girls met all the criteria that were set by the University and we recently received a letter advising of their success. The scholarship is designed to assist country students make the transition Other important relationships, of course, are with parents and our Acquaintance breakfast is a great way to catch up with new and ‘old’ parents, and we thank those parents, grandparents, aunties and uncles who were able to pop in on Monday morning for brekky and a chat. Coming into school can become more difficult as students get older and more independent, but strong relationships between kids and their parents, and teachers and parents are critical all the way through schooling. We understand that not everyone can make the morning, but please, always feel free to call the school to make a time to talk to your child’s teacher, use the diaries or email to communicate or pop in when you can. Term 1 is always busy – aren’t they all? – and we still have a whole lot of athletic events in the coming weeks, and the Middle School Aquatics program to look forward to at the end of the term. Not to mention a full curriculum inside the classroom! We were lucky to have our Curriculum Implementation Officers here last week, and were able to make the most of the opportunity to continue our staff learning in the area of literacy, with a focus on writing, and looking for ways that we can strengthen our students’ writing from Reception to Year 12. Our Whole School focus on Reading, and more recently Numeracy, has shown improvements in a range of data – including NAPLAN - and so we can see that the hard work of teachers and students is paying off. Thanks to our dedicated staff for continuing to strive for the best results for our students. This year Shelly and I have taken on the role as Davenport’s captains. Together our aim is to get as many people as we can to be involved and to work together as a team. We encourage everyone to have a go and to remember that it is not about being the best it’s about giving it your all. Hope to see you all out there wearing blue and with fire in your bellies. GO DAVENPORT!! Shelly Fricker & Cayley Baldwin We are the 2015 house captains for Sinclair this year, we encourage everyone in our team to attend and participate. As captains we want everyone in our team to be competing or supporting their peers and just have fun. Thank you. GO SINCLAIR!! Regards Jo Blackham Middle School Coordinator Teaching & Learning TEAM CAPTAINS FOR 2015 Kade and I will be taking on the role of house captains for our team Murat this year. Being house captains to us means showing great leadership and encouragement to our team, we will cheer everyone to strive for their best but most importantly make sure everyone is having fun. We look forward to mentoring the members of our side and seeing what our team will provide. Thank you. GO MURAT!! Brianna Partington & Dale Shipard AQUAINT AQUAINTANCE INTANCE MORNING 9TH FEBRUARY 2015 Kade Halbert & Hollie Watkins Tania Uzzell, Jo Skinner and teacher Rachael McEvoy Irene and Lance McWaters with Aaron, Evie and Sarah Hoffrichter Senior School staff Mark Prince, Adam Bennett and Michael Scheffler Corbin and Melissa Ballard Meesha Dunn, Gabbi Xanthopoulos & Zoe Fricker Welcome back! No doubt families are slowly settling back into the school routine after the holidays. The earlier mornings have certainly been a bit of a shock to the system! I am pleased to say we have had a great start to 2015 in the Senior School. I was lucky enough to go on the Year 12 Retreat last week to Port Lincoln. This trip gave our students the opportunity to work together as a cohort, set some personal goals and identify strategies and support people that can help them throughout the year. There was great engagement and participation from all, especially in the very competitive ‘Bubble Soccer!” There was certainly a lot of collisions and not a real lot of goal scoring but plenty of laughter! The Year 12 students are using their Study Room time very wisely and it is great to see them knuckling down from day one. The guidance from teachers providing assistance with the supervision is very much appreciated. I look forward to a great year supporting your child in the Senior school and if you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact any of the relevant teachers or leadership from our section. As a parent with a child doing Year 12, I found Kirrilee Smout’s article below insightful in regard to studying with music. Check out her website and facebook page, she has some excellent articles. Listening to Music While Studying: Good Motivator or Just a Distraction? Most students listen to music while studying. With either ipod in ears, itunes through the computer or even “old fashioned” DVD player going, students across Australia tonight are listening to anything from Beyonce to Good Charlotte to LMFAO (don’t ask) while they do their homework. And inevitably parents in these houses walk past, wondering: “can they really concentrate with that going on in their ears?” Charmane Fricker and Frew Halbert The truth is that there are significant advantages of listening to music while studying First, most students say listening to music helps them study for longer. This makes sense: homework can be boring. If something can make it slightly less boring, students are slightly more likely to keep doing it for longer. Advantage number two: listening to music has been found to be LESS distracting than listening to random office/household noise. So if the noise of the house is high, then having music to block that out can help students concentrate. Finally: research shows music usually puts students in a better mood. This is helpful because the better mood we are in, the longer we persist on hard tasks and the better we do at difficult tasks: good news for students. So with all of that, what’s the problem with listening to music while studying? Research shows that compared to being in complete silence, people are less able to do difficult tasks while listening to music. Almost every study in this area shows that if you give people a problem solving task and then compare people who do it in silence compared to people doing in while listening to music, those working in silence do the task better and quicker than those listening to music. It seems that music interferes with our attention and cognitive skills. This is especially true for music with lyrics, music that is unpredictable and interestingly, it is also especially distracting for introverts compared to extroverts. So there are upsides, and downsides. Here are the recommendations I give students about this issue: Junior School News Some of you may have noticed we have a new bench in the yard. The purpose of the bench is to develop friendship and kindness in all. This is our friendship, or buddy bench. The way this works is if you feel lonely in the playground and have nothing to do, you can go to the bench. Another student can then come to the bench and ask if you want to play or talk. Or, if two people are sitting at the bench, they could ask each other if they want to play. The bench is a great way to help other kids who might feel lonely or left out from time to time. It is hoped that students who are playing at recess will go to the bench and ask the children who are sitting there to playor talk - with them. The bench will show that you care about others by asking them to join in games or activities or to just walk and talk … who knows how many new friendships will be made with the support of the bench… Thanks to many students the bench was transformed from an old, unused bench to a colourful and inviting place to sit. Welcome back to school! Mrs Riddle Before … Listen to music when you feel like you really “have to” – when you are bored, in a bad mood or are tempted to prematurely stop (or can’t start) homework. Listen to music if your house/study environment is quite noisy and you can’t shut out this (usually unpredictable) noise any other way. BUT recognise that you will not be doing your absolutely best work when listening to music. Therefore try to do three things: 1. 2. 3. Turn the music off when you are doing something quite hard (eg revising for a test or trying to understand difficult concepts) Listen to music without lyrics if you can (eg classical, electronica), music that has a predictable beat/tune or music that is very familiar to you. Turn the music down a couple of notches compared to the volume you listen to it normally. I hope this helps. Like most issues, it's not black and white - but these recommendations can help parents and teens find some constructive middle ground. http://developingminds.net.au/ Frew-ann Halbert Senior School Counsellor After… Canteen News The canteen online ordering system is going well. It is very user friendly and easy to use. We would like to encourage more parents to join up and use the system. Go to http://www.school24.com.au/register. The school ID is 25105963 Follow prompts, set up your account and your children. Top up your account either by credit card (funds available straight away and you can order straight away) OR by Direct Credit Transfer (funds will take 2-3 days to clear and you cannot order until funds are clear). Then place an order. Orders must be made by 9:00 am in the morning but may be made in advance also. Recurring orders may also be set up. We will be phasing out printed bags over time so now is a good time to start using the online system to get used to it. If you need help, the school24 people are able to answer any questions on 02 89010398 or see Erica at the canteen. Community Notices Ceduna Community Library News The library will be running a Book Club again this year. The dates are: nd th th April 2 , June 4 , August 6 , October st rd 1 , Dec 3 The Book Club is held in the library on a Thursday evening from 7pm until 9pm. Westies Netball Club AGM Thursday, 26th February 7:00pm At the Westies Netball/Football Club All interested coaches, interested players, players & supporters urged to attend Private Music Lessons Piano\Voice\Guitar Nationally-recognised study, exams and certificates in music Optional*Condition Apply Please Phone Shanna Pedler 0428472000 cedunamusic.com Do you need to do the full day of training on Reporting to Abuse & Neglect? Are you working or volunteering on a DECD site? RAN TRAINING AVAILABLE Friday 27th February 2015 8.45am registration to 4.30pm at the Port Linbcoln Education Office Presenters: Pam Roach & Candice Behrndt Reminder: Participants need to attend for the entire session to meet the training requirements Port Lincoln Education Office 3/7, Mortlock Terrace Gold Coin donation for Tea & Coffee, BYO Lunch! REGISTRATION BY FAX TO: 86825348 OR BY EMAIL TO: [email protected] BY Tuesday 24th February 2015 PHONE QUERIES TO 86820700 Tech Collect FREE ee-recycling Sat 21 Feb, 2015 Ceduna Overnight Freight Depot – 20 Murat Terrace 10.0010.00-2.00 Drop off: TVs, computers, hard drives, keyboards, laptops, mouse, cords NO: set top boxes, irons, microwaves
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