DATES TO ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR Wed 3rd August Hub Footy

Principal: Sheree Mader
Phone: 8847 4227
Fax: 8847 4003
www.saddleps.sa.edu.au
Newsletter No 12
Tuesday 26th July, 2016
QUALITY
RELATIONSHIPS
DIVERSITY
ACHIEVEMENT
DATES TO ADD TO YOUR CALENDAR
Wed 3rd August
Hub Footy/Basketball—
Balaklava
Thur 4th August Assembly
Mon 8th August Governing Council 7pm
Thurs 11th August YEL
Fri 19th August
PUPIL FREE DAY
ENJOYMENT
SECURITY
Dear Parents, Carers and friends,
Welcome to Term 3. I trust you had some
enjoyable quality family time with your children,
family and friends.
It’s been great to hear some of the stories the
children shared about their holidays.
A goal for this term is to raise the attendance
percentage across our school. I hope that last
term you took the time to read through our
attendance policy plus the supporting documents.
If you didn’t get the opportunity, these are
available on our school website and schoolstream
app under ‘Policies.’
Staff Milestones
At the end of last term we were fortunate to
celebrate some important career milestones for
our dedicated teachers who have had an impact on
many of the children at Saddleworth over the
years. Congratulations are in order and must go to
Jenny Shepherd and Kathy Cutting who have
achieved 30 years of teaching in South Australia
and Joyleen Kenny who reached the 40 year
milestone.
Your passion and dedication towards the
education of children is to be commended.
Congratulations!
growth mindsets amongst ourselves and our
students, and how to successfully manage failure
to improve learning outcomes and resilience.
NAPLAN Online – Getting ready for 2017
The Australian Government is committed to
delivering NAPLAN online from 2017, with all
schools across the nation transitioning over a 2 to
3 year period.
This change will provide each child with a more
personalised learning experience and a better
assessment. It also means that the results will be
returned to you and your child’s teachers within a
few weeks, rather than several months.
Our school will be participating in a trial of the
new online system in August 2016. This trial is not
a ‘test’ of content: it is a test of how the new
online system will work in a real-life classroom
environment. You may hear this trial referred to
as the NAPLAN Online Readiness Trial.
As party of the trial, students in Years 3, 5, 7 and
9 will undertake 2 online readiness tests. Each
test will take approximately 45 minutes to
complete and this will occur in Week 4.
It is important that we participate in this trial
before the system is officially in use in 2017 to
enable familiarisation with the system in a
classroom setting. Participation will allow us to
confirm that every school is ready and that our
teachers are confident that their students will be
able to participate fully.
This trial will help our site to be well prepared to
complete NAPLAN online in 2017 and provide
feedback into final changes at a state wide level.
Please refer to the parent information sheet
Term Planner
Please find attached our Term 3 Planner. Please
attached.
Clare and Gilbert Valley Council
On behalf of the Governing Council and the school
dates and events that pop up.
community I’d like to acknowledge and thank the
Pupil Free Day
Clare and Gilbert Valley Council for some generous
Please be informed that Governing Council has
donations to our school.
th
approved a Pupil Free Day for Friday, 19
We have been extremely fortunate to have
received a $500 donation to go towards our 50th
August (Week 4). The Lower Mid North
Partnership and staff will be combining with sites Birthday Celebrations which will occur on Friday
28th October.
from Birth to Year 12 to listen to Professor
refer to fortnightly newsletters for any extra
Martin Westwell on aspects including developing
We also received a donation of bitumen for the
asphalt area outside the JP area and the council
also let us use their vibrating plate.
On behalf of the Governing Council and school
community, our special thanks for your assistance!
SAPSASA
Our students have had some success during last
terms Burra Hub Football and Netball Carnival at
Blyth. The boys played 3 round-robin games
against the Balaklava Hub, Clare 1 and Clare 2
teams, winning each of them. That placed the
Burra Hub into the Grand Final match against
Clare 2.
They were successful in this game, 4-3 to 2-2.
Congratulations to all players, particularly Taaj
Nicholls, Jake Noble, Jack Roocke, Henry Elson
and Damien Lockwood.
The Saddleworth girls comprising of Makenzie
Schoenberg, Imogen Nourse and Georgia Condon
had two teams with Makenzie and Imogen
representing in one and Georgia in the other. Both
teams played against the same areas as the
football, with the girls playing against each other
in the Grand Final. The Burra Hub team with
Makenzie and Imogen just beat Georgia’s side.
Congratulations on a brilliant effort and
achievement!
SAPSASA State Netball and Football Carnival
Congratulations and good luck to Taaj Nicholls,
Jack Roocke and Makenzie Schoenberg who have
won selection in the Mid North Teams to compete
in the State Carnival in Adelaide in Week 4.
Visible Learning – What Makes a Good Teacher?
At the end of last term we interviewed some
students from each year level and asked them the
question, ‘What do you think makes a good
teacher’? And for the older students, ‘How can
teachers support kids to be better learners?’
Staff will collectively go through the responses
together this week however the responses show
that the visible learning focus has started to be
embedded in teacher practice and that students
are identifying the key characteristics of what
makes a good learner. Below are some of the
responses:
My teacher encourages me and does their job
carefully. My teacher gives me lots of work
that helps me learn a lot. I like learning
things that are interesting and real to me.
(Year 1 student)
A good teacher is someone that explains
things well; they make kids understand new
topics and makes kids have fun so they enjoy
school. They try to be the best teacher they
can even when they get frustrated with us.
My teacher explains things in a clear voice
and shows it on the white board and it then
gets in your brain so you can understand
more. If you need help my teacher helps me
or I know to get help from other people.
(Year 7 student)
A good teacher listens when you have
problems,
explains things well and has things organised.
If I am not understanding something or
concentrating, the teacher will help me out.
I like learning through games like in Spanish
we play Bang and it is fun. (Year 6 student)
A good teacher gives you feedback, sets
challenges and helps you out. They all help me
with my work, they make sure I know what I
am doing then they let me go on my own. I
like to learn on Studdyladder and use
different strategies. (Year 4 student)
WALT and WILF from the Middle Primary
Class
Check out what the MP students are focussing
on in maths this fortnight with Mrs Schmaal
and Mrs Nichols!
Parent Surveys
In coming weeks, the parents who have provided
their email address will be emailed a link to
complete the Parent Opinion Surveys online. This
is an informative way that we, as a school, can
receive feedback about our school and to work on
future directions. Please remember that the
surveys are confidential. Parents who do not
have an email address or are unable to complete
the survey from home are encouraged to contact
the Front Office where you can complete the
survey on a school computer. This should only take
10 minutes of your time. Thank you in advance.
SRC
Thank you to the SRC who ran a fun Mini Olympics
day on the last day of the term. The soccer goals
that the SRC purchased through their fundraising
efforts were utilised on this day. I look forward
to working with a newly elected SRC this term.
The SRC for this term is Reception - Jack Vandeleur
Year 1 - Zac Hadley
Year 2 - Peta Macguire
Year 3 - Madeleine Naughton
Year 4 - Michael Hean
Year 5 - Mikayla Hadley
Year 6 - Jack Roocke
Year 7 - Ambrose Condon
Parent Brochure
DECD have released a brochure for Parents and
Caregivers explaining how schools and parents can
support young children if they are involved in
incidents of problem sexualised behaviour. Also in
this brochure is a sexual behaviour guide for
Birth to 9 years which explains age appropriate,
concerning and serious behaviours. The brochures
are available where all pamphlets are located in
the Front Office. Please see me if you have any
queries.
Attendance
Week 9 attendance – 90.3%
Week 10 attendance – 78.6%
Please be reminded that the target for DECD is
95%. Our Week 10 attendance rate was our
lowest recorded. While I understand that illness
was a major contributor to low attendance in
Term 2, we need to work together to increase
our attendance for the benefit of our children
and their learning. Please also be reminded that
when students are away for 3 or more days, it is
reasonable for a doctor’s certificate to be
requested.
Thank You
We’ve had quite a few productive days these
past few weeks and there lots of families to
which the school community owe a very big
thanks.
Election Day Fundraiser – Matt Goodfellow,
Janine and Ben Naughton, Kym and Grace
Herrmann, Renae Plueckhahn, Bruce and Michelle
Miller, Shaun Noble, Gavin Noble, Katie I’Anson
and Simone Miller for cooking throughout day
and donating goods for the trading table. I’d like
to especially thank Jeannine as she spent the
entire day at the school and opened and closed
the school early in the morning and late at night
(saved me an extra trip from Burra)! Thank you.
Asphalt area around JP – Zac Dixon, Bruce
Miller, David Miller and Shaun Noble giving up a
their Sunday to lay the asphalt next to the JP
class.
Timer System for school garden – Shaun Noble
for setting up the school timing system for the
fruit trees and vegetable patch.
Pat Ablett – Keeping our school chooks alive,
healthy and well fed over the holiday period.
Science - Making edible meteors, asteroids and
comets with Year 5 students – Grace and Sarah
Herrmann.
Sincere apologies if I have missed any families.
With kind regards,
Mrs Sheree Mader
UP Science Baking
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
READING AWARDS
FOR SALE
We have some old maths and spelling books
for sale at the front office for $3.00 each,
also old novels for sale $1.00 each
New and improved JP area!
The YEL children taught the
JP class all about soil.
SADDLEWORTH PRIMARY SCHOOL
Calendar Term 3 2016
25/7/16
Week
1
26/7/16
27/7/16
28/7/16
29/7/16
PCW Conference/
Chris Schmaal
PCW Conference/
Chris Schmaal
3/8/16
4/8/16
5/8/16
Hub Basketball/
Balaklava
Assembly
10/8/16
11/8/16
Newsletter
1/7/16
2/7/16
Week
2
Week
3
8/8/16
9/8/16
Governing
Council Meeting/
7:00PM
15/8/16
Newsletter
16/8/16
Week
4
Week
5
YEL
Program
17/8/16
18/8/16
19/8/16
Assembly
PUPIL
FREE
DAY
25/8/16
26/8/16
1/9/16
2/9/16
Assembly
Burn Safe Program
8/9/16
9/9/16
15/9/16
Assembly
16/9/16
LEADERS DAY
21/9/16
22/9/16
23/9/16
28/9/16
29/9/16
30/9/16
SADDLEWORTH
SPORTS DAY
National Science
Week
SAPSASA
Netball/ Football
22/8/16
23/8/16
24/8/16
ERRAPPA
School captains
ERRAPPA
School captains
Newsletter
ERRAPPA
School captains
29/8/16
30/8/16
Magic Millions/
Choir
31/8/16
6/9/16
7/9/16
Newsletter
Think U Know
Internet Safety
Kids/Parents
Seminar
Week
6
5/9/16
Week
7
12/8/16
LEADERS DAY
ROYAL ADELAIDE
SHOW
12/9/16
13/9/16
14/9/16
Week
8
19/9/16
Week
9
20/9/16
Festival Of
Music/ Choir
Newsletter
26/9/16
Week
10
27/9/16
Assembly
Last Day of Term