Term 2 Week 10 Newsletter 2016 - Lake Windemere B

Lake Windemere B-7 School
Uraidla Ave Salisbury North 5108
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www.lakewindemere.sa.edu.au
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Term 2 Week 10 2016
From the Principal’s Desk
Thank you!
Things to be proud of at
our school
 Animal Welfare
League messaging
the school to say
how wonderful our
children were on
excursion
I would like to thank everyone for their support on
Saturday at the Election
sausage sizzle. It was great
being able to meet families
and raise funds for the
school. The parents and
staff who volunteered their
time made the day such a
wonderful experience.
 All of the staff and
student award
winners.
Congratulations!!
DECD Staff Recognition
Congratulations to staff who
received 10, 20 and 30
year Service Recognition
awards. An amazing contribution to education.
Diary Dates
Term 2 starts
Monday 25th
July 2016
More term dates
on the enclosed
calendar
National Excellence
Awards
World of Maths
Congratulations to Kathryn
Mitchel, Ann Bansemer and
Michelle Lennox on receiving your SA Public Teaching
awards.
Students have b een
thoroughly engaged in
practical hands on Maths
over the week. Challenging
activities have been worked
through by groups of
students with a buzz of
excitement.
Staffing changes Term 3
Next term we welcome back
Skye Miller and Kate Argue
(Wed) to Rm 18. Also
welcome back Carmine
Cafasso, a big thankyou to
Rachel Black and Melissa
Mills who stepped up behind him for the term.
Thankyou to Nicole
Whinnett, Alex Page and
Kendall Vivian who have
worked tirelessly, we hope
to see you again soon.
Jenna Hutton who has
worked in Rm 18 will be
working in Rm 3 for 8
weeks while Mr Johnson is
on leave. We would like to
wish all the best to Helen
Koppan on her retirement.
Michelle Lennox
Principal
Rms 10 & 12
Brain dissecting
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Lake Windemere B-7 School
Year 7 Mentors
This term we have been involved in a footy clinic with
junior primary students. They
were, Levi, Jake, Seb and
Quinny. We have been helping
them with their skills in marking, hand-passing and kicking.
On Wednesday the 5th of
July the children from
Rooms 10 and 12 completed an inquiry unit on the
brain by dissecting a sheep’s
brain. We had many parents
come and join us for this
part of our learning. Ms.
Our mentor Ms. Rose had a
ball and she also learnt some
basic footy skills. We hope to
have another clinic soon.
Tyrese, Dale & Louis
Brains!
Molloy guided us through the
process of dissecting the brain
into the parts we had been
studying. Children who did not
wish to participate made a model of the brain from plasticene.
When I was cutting the brain it
was gross!
by Cory
It was so much fun cutting up the sheep's brain
we saw all the Myelin in
the brain.
by Zahlia
Thank you from RSPCA
Mini Paws walk
Well that’s a wrap! The Mini
Paws Walk season has now
come to an end and it was a
big success. Thank you to all
the teachers, students, parents and the Children’s
University for being involved.
With the help from you and
all the other Mini Paws Walk
schools an amazing $3,128
was raised, which is
PAWsome! This is enough
money to help desex 15
kittens waiting adoption,
and heat 15 kennels during
the cold winter months.
The 2,000ish students who
were engaged with the program have truly made a big
difference to the animals’
lives at the shelter.
On behalf of all creatures
great and small thank you for
all your hard work, we hope
you have enjoyed the
experience and will join us
again
next
year.
Kind Regards
The Mini Paws Walk Team
Room 28
Our class had a visit from a
representative of a bank.
Her name was Emily. She
came to talk to us about
earning and saving money
as well as the best place to
save it to keep it save and
harder to spend. We had
done some work on what
an
income is with Ms
Sweet’s class and found
lots of ways that we can
earn money now.
The motto is See it, Earn it
and Save it.
Priscilla M
Children’s University
In Children’s University we
have been doing a puppet
play for the young kids. It
was about a town called
Hopetopea where four people have given up hope and
a princess and a clown
need to save it by giving
them jobs. It’s all about giving people hope. The progress of making the puppets was the fun bit. We
had to choose a spoon or a
fork to make our puppets.
The materials we used to
make them were string,
some other craft stuff and
some fabric. You can make
your own but it took us all
term 2 to make it. The journey along the way was fun.
Anyone from 3 to 5 years can
do it. Thank you for listening
and remember
NEVER GIVE UP HOPE.
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Term 2 Week 10
Footsteps
Assembly awards
own, some were progressive and we also did choreography.
We had a teacher named
Jenna, she taught us progressive dancing and it was
a little awkward at first but
During this term on Friday
mornings at 9.30 there was
a group of us that went to
Footsteps. Some of the
dances were done on our
we got used to it. We also
did solo dancing and our
song that we danced to
was Thriller by Michael
Jackson.
Superstitchers & Kimochis
‘Kimochi’ is the Japanese
word for ‘feelings’.
The Kimochi Program is
aimed at equipping students
with an emotional language.
Soft toys are used to tell
stories and encourage
students to share their feelings – this has been found
to help with school learning
and behaviour issues.
Chris Brown has been using
the Kimochi characters in
drama classes and I often
use them when having pastoral conversations with a
student. They are an incredibly useful tool.
But we have a limited supply
of the smaller Kimochis, so I
asked the ladies from the
Salisbury Lutheran Church
to help out. They run a
Children’s University group,
Super Stitchers, and this
seemed an ideal project for
them and the children to be
involved in.
Each child
picked an emotion to make
and the ladies helped make
even more. We ended up
with two complete sets and
these will be used in an
ongoing way in the school.
If you want to find out more
about Kimochis and how
you can help your child develop an emotional language then please feel free
to contact me.
A huge thanks to the ladies
and students of the Super
Stitchers group!
Mark Underwood
Front (L to R) –
Cathy Hamilton,
Debra Bradke, Sonya Flynn
Rear (L to R ) Vanessa Stuchbury,
Betty Williams
Samples of writing
Here are a few samples of
the Term 2 project: Expositional writing in Advertising.
Each student was required
to write an exposition
paper
for
an advertisement, based on
a product they created.
It was fo ll o w ed b y
the design of a magazine
print ad for their product.
Next term we will be focusing on using Figurative Language in narratives.
Robbie Fowler
Crystal Clear Dishwashing Soap is by Ryza in Room 28
Children’s University
Just a reminder to all
students who have been
selected to attend the CU
Holiday excursion on
Tuesday 12th July , to be at
school promptly at 9.00am
for departure to the city.
Bring a cut lunch , wear neat
casual clothing and a warm
jacket.
Mrs Wise.
Community Notices
School Holiday Fun at
Burton Community
Centre
Turning Point Dance
School
Mon & Fri first week of
school holidays
COME & TRY
$15 per session
Call Burton Community
Centre on 8280 8843
for more information
A riddle:
Q: Why did the computer
go to the doctor?
A: Because it had a virus
Breakfast Club
Come along to Room 1
every morning from 8.008.30am.
Enjoy a healthy breakfast
so that you are ready to
start your day!
Student Banking
with the
Commonwealth
Bank is Thursday
Learning Together
At Playgroup this week we had ‘BUGS N SLUGS’ out
to visit us. The children enjoyed a hands on session
getting close to a number of different invertebrates
(animals without backbones)- beetles, spiders,
leaf insects, larvae, slugs and a giant cockroach.
We also watched a snail race and saw one of the
largest worms ever!