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Principal: Leanne Prior Governing Council Chairperson: Anthony Venning TERM 4 ISSUE 19 27 November 2020

Diary Dates:

November Monday 30 GC executive 6.30pm - Zoom Governing Council 7pm - Zoom

December Tuesday 1 LA1-10, 4-3 & 4-4 excursion to

Warriparinga/Living Kaurna Thursday 3 Celebration of Music concert Tuesday 8 Year 7 Graduation Ceremony Wednesday 9 Year 7 Graduation lunch Moving Up Day Reports & self reflections

available via parent portal Class placement letters go

home Thursday 10 Year 6/7 AquaSplash R-2 Beach Day Friday 11 Assembly hosted by SVE Last day of term 4 Early dismissal 2:05pm

SMS Absence Number 0476 857 224

School Values

Bravery Care Challenge Trust

SA Term Dates for 2021 Term 1 27 Jan to 9 Apr Term 2 27 Apr to 2 Jul Term 3 19 Jul to 24 Sep Term 4 11 Oct to 10 Dec Traffic Monitors Week 8 Morning: Amelie & Olivia S Afternoon: Eddy & Cain

Week 9 Morning: Ebony & Taylor Afternoon: Julia & Kaitlynn

Dear Families,

Well this week was ‘back to normal’ for our staff after a few very unexpected days last week! What I have so admired about our children, staff and families throughout this year is their ability and willingness to be flexible, adaptable and supportive of each other. None of this can be underestimated and has been very much appreciated.

Classes 2021 The number of classes we can create for 2021 is determined by the total enrolment of children. For 2021 we have created 21 mainstream classes from R-7 with the additional class being the District based Speech and Language class. Our class structures and locations have been decided for next year as follows:

2 x Reception; 1 x Reception/Year 1; 2 x Year 1; 1 x Year 1/2; 3 x Year 2; 2 x Year 3; 2 x Year 4; 1 x Year 4/5; 2 x Year 5; 3 x Year 6; 2 x Year 7

In this school community there is a preference for straight year levels, and this has been taken into consideration when determining our structures for 2021 with 18 straight and 3 composite classes. During your child’s time at our school however, they will encounter both straight and composite or multi-level classes. As mentioned previously, research does confirm that there is no discernible difference in academic performance between composite or single year level classes, and that children in multi-age classes may benefit socially and emotionally. For me, what is important, regardless of the organisational structure of classes, is the relationship our educators have with children and the quality of the teaching and learning programs provided for every child, every day, in every class. This is what we focus our attention on as educators at Paringa Park.

We have nearly finalised the class placements, which as you would understand, is extremely complex. Both teachers and site leaders take their responsibilities to all children very seriously. We use our knowledge and expertise of how children engage at school and in classes to make decisions for the benefit of all children. On Wednesday in the last week of school, children will have the opportunity to meet with their new teacher (if all our contract staffing has been confirmed) and class for 2021 and letters will be sent home to families. This has involved many hours of configuring classes, and in consideration of a range of factors including children’s friendships, learning and social needs, teacher professional knowledge and judgement and parent input. I would like to acknowledge the staff for their many hours already spent working on classes for 2021 to ensure the best decision possible for all children.

Our aim is to ensure all children are in an optimal learning situation. We therefore ask for parent support and understanding when you receive your letter. Due to the amount of work that has gone into the final configuration of classes, we will not be in a position to move children.

New Receptions We have just completed the initial part of our Orientation to School program for Receptions starting at PPPS in 2020. Special thanks to our Reception team Bec Martin, Nanette Virgo, Elise Mack and Vicki Hodgson for their commitment to ensuring children and families have been welcomed to our school. Thank you also to Governing Council members who welcomed families at our Welcome to School Family Evening. The program continues in term 1 week 1 next year with a series of workshops for families, as a part of our belief that it is not just children making a transition to school but families also! c/-

Newsletter

Last day of term 4 Friday 11 December

Early Dismissal 2:05pm

Upcoming Payments Due

Preferred payment method is via Qkr! Please contact the front office for other payment

options and for any payment queries.

All school payments are due at 3pm on the last day to pay. Late payments will not be accepted.

AquaSplash Year 6 & 7 $13 due 3pm Thursday 3 December

Year 7 Graduation Ceremony/Lunch $28 due 3pm Thursday 3 December

Staffing update At the end of each year we have the opportunity to acknowledge the careers of those teachers who have decided to retire from our schools and the teaching profession. This year we have 2 staff who are retiring - Nanette Virgo and Jane Davies. We will be formally and respectfully celebrating the contribution and outstanding careers of both Nanette and Jane at the end of this term.

Congratulations to Georgii Staben who has won the internally advertised Technology Coach role for 2021. Kelly Mitchell undertook this role in 2020 and we acknowledge and appreciate all the support that Kelly provided to staff throughout this year.

Murray Oliver will continue his leave next year and we are hoping to finalise the backfilling of this in the next couple of weeks.

Gemma Dupont has won a position at Highgate Primary School as classroom French teacher in their Bilingual Program. Our congratulations to Gemma on this appointment and a huge thank you for her significant contribution and enthusiasm to teaching French to our children throughout 2020.

Jess Shea, the Speech Pathologist in our Speech and Language Class is also leaving us at the end of this year to work fulltime based in the Noarlunga Office. We welcome Grace Neale to the class from the beginning of 2021.

End of Year Reports & Self Relections Over several weeks, teachers have been busy writing end of year reports based on the growth and achievement of learning aligned with the Australian Curriculum. Reports will be available online Wednesday 9 December, using the Parent Portal you used to access the term 2 reports. Please contact our IT Technician if you have any issues with access: Alastair.Taverner19@schools.sa.edu.au. You will also use this same portal to access your child’s reflection on their learning and growth throughout the year. We trust that you will take time to share in your child’s successes and discuss areas for future growth.

Governing Council I would sincerely like to thank all Governing Council members for their involvement, support and advocacy of our school throughout this year. I also extend my sincere thanks to Anthony Venning as Chair, Ali Cameron-Edwards as Secretary and Lisa Richards as Treasurer, for their leadership and undertaking of roles on the GC Executive. A special thank you to Lisa Richards, Jen Slocombe and Julie Brookes who have indicated that they are not continuing in 2021.

Year 7 Graduation In a couple of weeks time we say farewell to our year 7 students (and some families too) who will participate in a Graduation Ceremony on Tuesday 8 December. This is a special time for children, staff and families where we acknowledge and celebrate the participation of all year 7 students who have been a central part of our school community over many years. Due to COVID there is a restriction on numbers for this event, therefore it will be live streamed. Information regarding this will be communicated closer to the event.

Last Day – Early Closure 2.05pm Please don’t forget that we close at 2.05pm on the last day of term – Friday 12 December. The OSHC service is available from this time.

Kind regards, Leanne

Literacy for All This week the Literacy Improvement Lead Team (LILT) presented to all staff our review of the 2020 site improvement plan outlining our achievements and challenges. We examined formative and assessment data as well as perception data from both staff and students. We gathered data from teachers about current evidence based practice, literacy coach support and planning using the Australian Curriculum.

We looked at teacher professional learning sessions this year and structures we had put in place to support differentiated targeted learning opportunities for all children.

We collected data from children to gain a deeper understanding about the achievements and challenges for children to grow as readers and writers.

Here are the questions we asked...

Do you think you have improved in your reading this year? How do you know? What makes you say that?

Do you think you have improved in your writing this year? How do you know? What makes you say that?

Do you talk to your classmates about your learning? What makes you say that?

Do you get to have a say in what you are learning about? What makes you say that?

What do you love learning about the most at school? What things make you want to keep learning and not stop? What makes you say that?

As a Literacy Improvement Lead Team (LILT) we presented a draft site improvement plan for 2021. Staff gave us feedback as to what were our excitements, worries, needs and suggestions for improvement. As a LILT team we will take onboard this feedback to refine our plans for next year. The LILT is keen to build on the work from this year to maintain the high standard of children's growth data. We understand literacy is in the maintenance phase for 2021 but a challenge for us is how do we maintain, build on this year's literacy improvement including pedagogical shifts.

Tracey Bennett Senior Leader – Whole School Literacy

Wellbeing and Engagement 7 Habits of Proactive Parents Justin Coulson is a respected family psychologist and has a podcast called Happy Families Podcast. I have included a link to this below. I have had the pleasure of attending one of his seminars a few years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. He is the father of 6 girls ranging from ages 8 to 19.

I saw his article on the 7 Habits of Positive Parenting and know that this has been a very hard year for many of us as parents to remain positive. I hope you can use a few of these points as I have to strengthen your family unity.

1. Family Motto - In short, what does your family stand for? With your family around the table ask this question. It helps to bring them back to this motto when things fall over.

2. Parent Retreat - This can be hard for some, but if you can get away for a night, a weekend so you can reflect on your families needs and generally get on the same page with ways to move your family forward in a positive way over the next few months. It also needs to service your needs as a couple so you can come back to your kids refreshed and focused.

3. Family Holidays - Get away together, even if just for a weekend. Leave the devices at home and look to develop experiences. It is hard at the start but really pays benefits at the end.

4. Family Dinner - A simple one, but effective. Turn the tv off. Ban devices for everyone and eat at least 4 meals a week together. Open up dialogue that everyone can talk about.

5. Devices away - I have mentioned this a few times already but develop a schedule for the family where devices go away (a central location controlled by parents) and talk or an activity is on the agenda.

6. Weekends - If your weekends are like mine you are getting around to many sports events, however that has slowed down at the moment. Try and find moments to get out and have a family experience- a walk down the beach, in a park with the dog, on a trail, go on a drive somewhere together.

7. Interviews - Sit down with each one of your children and have a conversation with them about what is happening for them, how are they going, what problems do they have, how would they like to be supported. This sounds formal but shows your kids that you consider it important to catch up with them and make time to listen to them.

https://www.happyfamilies.com.au/podcasts/

School Sports in 2021 Coordinators needed URGENTLY!! A big thanks to Lauren and Steve for taking on footy and cricket. They are the new coordinators for these sports next year. We are still looking for a netball and a volleyball coordinator for next year. Without these two positions filled these sports will not go ahead in 2021. This would be devastating for the children at Paringa Park after the year it has been this year. Please have a think about this and if your child is involved in either netball or volleyball please consider putting your hand up for these roles.

A super giant thank you to Christie-Lee Hansberry, Julie Brookes and Maria Welsby for their outstanding contribution as Sports Committee members and Sport Coordinators. They are standing down for next year as coordinators.

One Plan Direction Change by the Department for Education Parents of children with a disability will have received an email by Monday 30 November. This will outline changes that the department and our school have actioned to ensure student plans are useful and easier to interpret. will benefit our children in 2021 and beyond. Please check your emails and if you have any questions please contact me at school.

Jamie Meredith Senior Leader – Wellbeing and Engagement In the Library Loop Library borrowing has officially ended for the year. Thank you to all the children that have returned their books and searched at home for any overdues. We still have over 360 books borrowed by children that need to be returned. We encourage all children to search their classroom and at home and return any items as soon as possible.

Thanking you, Tracey, Anne and Caroline Website Award Winners We are thrilled to announce that our new website has won the EdTechSA award for school website of the year for 2020! We would like to acknowledge Michael and the team at Education Web Solutions who designed and built the new site. We love the new, easy to navigate design and the amazing new features such as the interactive tour. Check it out at www.paringpkps.sa.edu.au

Information Technology This year has seen the development and implementation of support for the Digital Technologies curriculum across our school community. This has involved a range of different actions and accomplishments, including staff support, digital technology tools, student learning and school community information.

Staff Support Setup and support staff with Google Classroom and

Seesaw platforms for learning for term 2 Using technologies in learning, particularly using

robotics as a tool for cross curricular learning Providing staff with support to access and use a

variety of aspects of the Google platform through training and development

Creating and developing resources for staff to support digital technologies learning, including a continuum for Robotics R-7, resources and links to learning ideas and co-teaching with staff.

Digital Technology Tools The purchase of chromebooks to support learning

programs where children have greater access to devices.

An audit of current digital technologies tools, including robotics, Chromebooks, iPads and peripheral devices (microphones, webcams etc)

Student Learning Co-teaching to support student learning in the area of

Digital Technologies, including learning with robotics and stop-motion

Student learning relating to cyber safety and safe internet day

School Community Information Information for families through the school newsletter

and facebook in relation to cyber safety and other digital technology information

Parent Information Session for families about our BYOD program

Cyber Safety - Privacy and your child You can help your child to stay in control of their personal information, online photos and social media identity.

What are the risks?

When your child shares information like their phone number, personal email address, the name of their school, or home address online, there is a risk it could be used in ways they may not have thought about.

Personal information gathered online can be misused and result in things like spam, scams, fraud, unwanted contact and grooming or even identity theft.

For more information about privacy and your child visit the eCommissioner website.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/skills-advice/privacy-child

Kelly Mitchell Technology Coach

Save the Date – Tuesday 1 February 2021 We will be incorporating our annual Acquaintance Night and AGM into one evening next year. There will be an opportunity to catch up with other families at the sausage sizzle and then to meet your children’s teachers. This will be followed by our AGM which all families are invited to attend. Please also note that sports nominations will be completed on this evening.

5pm – 6pm Sausage Sizzle 6pm – 7pm Acquaintance Night 6pm – 6.30pm: R-3 visit specialist teachers 6pm – 6.30pm: 4-7 meet the class teacher 6.30pm – 7pm: R-3 meet the class teacher 6.30pm – 7pm: 4-7 visit specialist teachers

7pm – 7.45pm AGM including introduction of the 2021 Student Voice Executive 5pm – 6.30pm Out of School Hours Sports Nominations A table will be set up for parents to nominate their child for our of school hours sports for 2021. This will be the only opportunity to enrol. ICAS Congratulations to the 9 children who participated in ICAS assessments this year. They were presented with their certificates this week. Well done!

Chromebooks Are you thinking of purchasing a chromebook for your child but are unsure of what model or features you need? Our IT technician, Alastair Taverner, will be happy to answer any questions you may have. He can be

contacted via alastair.taverner19@schools.sa.edu.au Drink Bottles We have closed all of our “bubbler” water fountains for the health and safety of all children. Taps are available for children to refill their drink bottles. Please make sure that your child/ren bring a drink bottle to school every day.

Uniform Update As we approach the end of the school year, our stock of uniforms is reduced. We will continue to take orders via Qkr, but please note that some items may sell out. We will have new stock delivered in January and will have all orders ready for collection on the dates below.

Pre-order and avoid the queues! The front office will be open for uniform sales on Thursday 21 & Friday 22 January from 9am-12pm, however we encourage families to pre-order their uniform needs via Qkr and we will have orders packed and ready for collection on these dates.

Attention year 5 & 6 families! You may be aware that children in year 6 and 7 will have the opportunity to wear a “seniors” polo next year. If your child has outgrown their current shirt and you are thinking of purchasing a new one, you may like to consider the seniors option.

If you didn’t order a seniors jumper for your child there will be another opportunity at the start of next year to purchase. Information will be sent home in week 1. Canteen News During the last week of school, the canteen will be taking lunch orders on Monday and Tuesday only, then open for snacks and ice blocks on Wednesday. The canteen will be closed on Thursday and Friday.

Stocks are running down for end of year so in some instances orders may need to be adjusted.

Please make sure that all debts owed to the canteen are finalised next week. Marketing in LA4-1 & 4-2 We in LA 4-2 and LA 4-1 have done a project based on marketing. We learnt about advertising and in particular as a consumer how do we make choices, how colours represent different emotions and branding. We also learned about how different colours are used to enhance logos and connect to slogans that hook you into buying their product and to remember what they sell. We had an end goal to design our own logos and create one that represents ourselves, then we would screen print them onto t-shirts with the help of our teachers. We really enjoyed creating these and learning about marketing.

By Lily and Devan

Paringa Giving Tree Dear Families,

I hope this finds you well.

This year we will be having a Giving Tree. In past years our school community has generously supported a range of causes at this time. Donations will be given to Anglicare and distributed to local families in need during the Christmas and holiday season.

Donations of non-perishable food would be appreciated: Canned goods, packets of pasta, rice, biscuits, chips, special food items such as chocolates, Christmas pudding or Christmas treats.

Please place any donations under the Giving Tree in the front office. We will be collecting until the end of term.

Thankyou for your kindness.

Anita Trainor Pastoral Care Worker Instrumental Music A reminder for all children who hire a musical instrument from the school: instruments must be returned to school by the end of week 8. Annual maintenance is performed at the end of the year so it is important that ALL instruments are returned, even if you are continuing on next year. Swimming It was unfortunate that the reception to year 5 children were unable to attend the water safety (swimming) lessons this year, however we would like to reassure you that all families that paid will receive a credit on their account which can be used against any expenses next year.

We are also aware that the year 6/7 children missed out on their make up day for aquatics. If any further activities which are paid for are cancelled, you will receive a credit, or we will be in touch with those families who will be leaving Paringa Park at the end of this year.

Thank you for your understanding.

Mathematics MathsCraft Session at Woodcroft College MathsCraft - doing maths like a research mathematician www.mathscraft.org

MathsCraft was a fun event for kids in years 6-9 to work with others and mathematicians from Adelaide University. Ella, Grace and Miles from year 6 attended with Margy. We got to work through problems and learn about different kinds of maths thinking and ways to view problem solving.

Some of the problems we had to solve were:

Top Heavy Pyramid https://nrich.maths.org/1865 We were given 4, 5, 6 and 7 digit combinations to work with. We had to figure out how many different arrangements you could have on the bottom row, and then figure out how many different possible peaks there were by creating addition pyramids.

Stacking Cans We looked at triangular and trapezium numbers and we had to try and stack different numbers of cans. We set rules, you had one less than the one before, you had to have more than one row and no half cans. We looked at what numbers you couldn’t use and discovered that they had the lowest common factor of 2.

Race to the Nugget Game - a fun strategy game we played where you had to make your way across a grid and be first to reach the golden nugget. We explored a range of strategies to win and used maths language to explain our thinking.

By Grace, Ella and Miles

Miles - I enjoyed working with our mathematician Joshua the most because he helped me really understand how to work through complicated problems.

Ella - The problems were interesting but not what I expected. My favourite part was working with our mathematician, Josh. He asked the right questions to help me think about the maths differently.

Grace - I enjoyed working with all the problems even though they were challenging. Josh was great because he explained how we could work things out.

Margy - it was fantastic to see our Paringa Park students challenging themselves, persisting with difficult problems, collaborating with each other and the mathematician, and sharing ideas with the whole group. It was a fun morning of maths, maths and more maths!

Margy Holland Senior Leader Mathematics R-7

Cubby Building We are looking at adding to the loose parts play next year and we need your help!

On International Mud Day we noticed that cubby building was a very engaging and challenging activity. It gave the children an opportunity to use their cooperation and teamwork skills! So we wanted to bring it to Paringa permanently.

We have already sourced some go-karting tyres which form the base of the cubbies. Now we need some sticks to create the teepee sides.

In the holidays when you are out in nature and you spy some long, sturdy branches we ask that you please bring them to school next year.

We look forward to adding to our loose parts play.

Thank you, The Environment Committee SAPSASA It has been busy with a number of events squeezed into this term. We were lucky that most earlier postponed events were able to go ahead.

Basketball – Our year 7 boys team made it to the zone final. They had an amazing day but Woodville were too good at the final match.

Lacrosse – Five teams of year 4-6 players had a successful day at the local carnival. One team finished 3rd, a year 4/5 girls team finished 1st and a year 4/5 boys team also finished 1st.

Softball – Congratulations Mitchell E who represented South West District in the boys softball state carnival. They finished 3rd in Div 1.

Athletics – 46 athletes from years 4-7 competed at SANTOS stadium in the district athletics day. There were a number of personal bests and place getters, and our school finished 2nd overall! Awesome! Six students were selected in the South West District team to compete in the State Championships. Well done to Isaiah, Hazel, Ava K, Ava W, Duncan and Eddie S. Unfortunately they didn’t get to compete as it was cancelled last week!

Beach Volleyball – 11 teams braved cold, wet and windy conditions at Glenelg beach. There were many close matches during the day. 5 teams made it into the finals, with 3 of them progressing to the Grand Finals. Congratulations to the year 6 girls team and year 7 boys team who both won gold!

Michelle Buton PE Teacher

WOW! What a year it has been in PE and SAPSASA this year. We have made many adjustments to activities during lessons, and unfortunately cancelled some things altogether. However, this has built resilience in all of us and I have been proud with the way children have adapted to changes and continued their learning.

Michelle Burton PE Teacher

Adelaide 36ers Visit Our first day back this term was exciting with a visit from the Adelaide 36ers basketball team. LA 4-1 & LA 4-2 had a clinic with the players, followed by the whole school watching and cheering as a year 7 team played against the 36ers. Congratulations to Brooke C who won the poster competition. Every student then received a ‘Game Day’ top and collected autographs from the players. It was a great afternoon!

PE WEEK Be Active Morning

It was great to celebrate PE Week with a whole school ‘Active Morning’.

We started with an assembly, hosted by our House Captains, highlighting our sporting achievements. The skipping team then performed their competition routines. This was followed by a quick whole school workout, including a squat challenge!

The children then had time to choose from a range of activities around the school to stay active for the next hour! They did such a great job, with many of them mixing with different year levels.

We finished with the R-7 Relay, with a challenge from a teacher team. The race was won by the Hove (red) team!