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ABSENT SMS: 0427 016 460 SCHOOL DAY: 8.45AM - 3.05PM

RESPECT

EXCELLENCE

HONESTY

RESPONSIBILITY

Thursday 7th February 2019 Term 1, Week 2 Number 1

REMINDER

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome to a new year at Magill School. I hope that your children have settled in well to their new

class. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome new staff, students and families to our school.

I’m sure you have all received a great welcome.

There are 2 events that I’d like to draw your attention to.

Our Acquaintance Night will be held on Wednesday 13th February between 5pm – 7pm. This is a great opportunity for new and existing families to meet the teachers and receive important information about their child’s class.

Our School AGM will be held on Monday 18th February at 7pm in the Resource Centre where we will report on the 2018 year and elect new members to our Governing Council.

Information for both of these events was distributed via SchoolSteam App and Facebook. I’m looking forward to a whole school assembly on Friday Celebrating Chinese New Year. Our Chinese teachers have organised a wonderful celebration for our school community. We will be holding our assembly outdoors under the verandah outside the Ferguson building from 9am. It would be great to see as many parents possible attend. I would like to remind families that we have pupil free day on Monday 18th February. Teachers will be using the day to look at student achievement data and plan their literacy and numeracy work for the year.

Kind regards John Iannunzio Principal

ASSEMBLY Friday 8th February

Whole School Assembly 9.00am

All welcome!

LOST PROPERTY

Please check the lost

property located in the

foyer of the Resource

Centre. Don’t forget to

label everything that

comes to school. At the

end of the school term

unclaimed items will be

disposed of.

MEDICATION

Please ensure your child’s medication is up to date. If

your child has a health care plan, check that it is

current.

MAGILL SCHOOL

OFFICE HOURS:

8:15AM - 3:45PM

CASH OFFICE DAILY:

8:30AM - 9:15AM &

2:45PM - 3:15PM

Acquaintance Night

Wednesday 13th February

Pupil Free Day

Monday 18th February

NEWSLETTER

UNIFORM MANAGEMENT SERVICES

UMS current opening hours are as follows:

Magill School site - Tuesday 2.30pm - 4.00pm

Wednesday 8.00am - 9.30am (School Terms only)

Norwood UMS store - Monday to Friday 9.00am 5.00pm

1/6 Montrose Avenue, Norwood

Online everyday

Norwood store open first Saturday of the month 9.00am -

12:00pm

Contact number: 8363 5255 or 0402 235 384

A reminder to parents ……..Staff car parks are not to be used by parents. This includes Admin carpark (Adelaide street), OSHC car park (Magill road), Penfold carpark (Penfold road) and Dental carpark (Park street). Parents are not to park in these carparks when picking up students from after school activities eg dance classes, sports practice and OSHC. For the safety of our students do not park in any staff car parks, they are for staff only. Students are not permitted to walk through these car parks.

COMMUNICATION WITH TEACHERS /

LEADERSHIP STAFF / FRONT OFFICE

RORY’S SCHOOL LUNCHES

CANTEEN MANAGER - ADELE Hot food is sold at recess.

Garlic bread slice $1.30 each Potato gems $3.50 per cup Mini hash browns 50cents each

Rory’s School Lunches at www.rorys.com.au

Online orders need to be submitted by 8.50am.

Lunch bag orders can also be placed via the class room lunch

box. Canteen is open from 8.50am.

Communication is very important between home and school. We encourage parents to contact teachers, leadership staff or the front office staff (depending on the issue) with any enquiries, concerns or information. All staff are keen to support and be available to discuss and spend quality time with parents. One form of communication is email. All staff are happy to provide their work email address for parent communication. It is important that parents update their email addresses if it has changed.

STUDENT ABSENCE

If your child will be absent due to illness please telephone the front office by 9.00am or SMS 0427 016 460 and give reason. Any absence over three days must have a medical certificate. If your student is to be absent for more than three days due to holiday or family reasons an exemption form must be completed and returned to the front office.

BRINGING ITEMS TO SCHOOL

Please remember all items your child brings to school

including clothing, should have their name on it. Lost property is

located in the foyer of the Resource Centre.

CARPARK SAFETY

The staff and Governing Council are keen to receive your feedback, answer any questions and listen to your concerns.

Please feel free to contact teachers (I believe your child’s class teacher has already provided their school email address). If you wish to contact the leadership team please email us at:

Daphne.Schumacher26@schools.sa.edu.au

J.Iannunzio8@schools.sa.edu.au

Kasey.Thorne941@schools.sa.edu.au

Guy.Walmsley241@schools.sa.edu.au

Jmadler71@gmail.com

ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KNOW?

STUDENT ENROLMENTS

For enrolment queries please email:

enrolment.officer588@schools.sa.edu.au

CHINESE NEW YEAR

WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

9:00AM IN THE GYM

CHILDREN WEAR RED OR GOLD

The Premiers Reading Challenge is a literacy engagement program that was introduced by the Premier in 2004 to encourage students to read more books and develop a love of reading and also to improve literacy levels. For students in the younger year levels the Challenge is about reading books with parents and enjoying that time together and developing a love of different authors, and genres. For students from Year 3 and above the challenge for them is about extending reading and delving deeper into different styles of writing. Reception to Year 7 need to read 8 of these books from the Challenge booklists, available on the Premiers Reading Challenge website, or clearly marked with a sticker in the school Resource Centre and 4 of their own choice. The Challenge is to read 12 books in total and finishes on Friday 6 September. Student reading records are available from your child’s teacher, or from the Resource Centre. Students fill in their student reading records as they read their books, gets them signed off as they go and hand the form in to their teacher or at the Resource Centre. At Magill School our students are extremely keen on reading and a point of interest is that 45,317 books were borrowed out from the Resource Centre last year. Good luck with your reading and enjoy the Challenge!

Magill School Snap Shot

Over the Holiday Break there has been some great action taking place around our school. Break

out learning spaces are bringing the learning environment outside the classroom. The photos

above demonstrate only some of the great spaces being developed in the Penfold, Murray and

Ferguson buildings.

The pictures below show the fantastic effort that has been done over the break to refresh the

Ferguson toilets. The doors have been painted a new colour and positive and inspiring quotes

have been written on the toilet doors, mirrors and walls. A huge thank you is extended to Lucy

Cirocco for her artistic quotes, Gervase and Jess Mallen for painting the doors and Chris Cools for

sanding.

Hopefully these areas will bring a smile to students and offer them a space for quiet reflection.

Notice

Magill School

Annual General Meeting

Monday 18th February

7:00pm in the Resource Centre All parents are invited to the Magill School AGM. The AGM receives and tables reports and elects

Governing Council Members for the 2019 school year. A brief agenda follows:

Welcome: John Iannunzio (Principal)

Apologies:

Minutes of Last A.G.M.

Chairperson’s Report – Jo Adler (Chairperson of Governing Council)

Principal’s Report – Presentation of Annual Report and Financial Statement

Election of Governing Council Members (9 positions at the time of publishing)

If more nominations are received than vacancies available, a poll will be conducted on the night.

A.O.B.

Brief meeting with Governing Council Members to set meeting dates

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Governing Council Elections

Governing Council meets 8 times across the school year on Monday evenings. Councillors are elected for 2

years. Governing Council Members may be involved in a number of committee activities. Members of the

Governing Council represent the interests of all families in the school. They do not represent sectional

interests or the interests of individuals. If you would like to find out more, please contact John Iannunzio

on 83319422.

If you would like to nominate for one of the Governing Council Positions, please return the nomination slip

to the front office by 9am Friday 15th February or email to j.iannunzio8@schools.sa.edu.au

Please note: late nominations will not be accepted unless vacancies still exist.

Acquaintance Night

Wednesday 13th February

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

The staff welcome you to the 2019 school year and to our Parent/Teacher Acquaintance Night which will be held on Wednesday 13th February. The aim of the evening is for classroom teachers and parents to meet on an informal basis and for teachers to provide important information about their structures and processes for the year.

Class teachers are offering two sessions in their classrooms:

5:00pm – 5:40pm Classroom teacher session 1

6:20pm – 7:00pm Classroom teacher session 2 (repeat of session 1)

Information covered will be:

Class expectations Structure and routines Communication processes Homework Behaviour Term Overview Additional teacher information Specialist teachers will be based in the Resource Centre for parents to meet from 5:45pm – 6:15pm

The specialist teachers R-7 team consists of:

Please note: There will not be a crèche or yard supervision during the Acquaintance Night Parents can choose the session that best suits them and attend. No bookings required. We look forward to sharing an informative and enjoyable evening with you. Regards,

John Iannunzio

Principal

Performing Arts Health & PE

Georgea Champion (R-2) Florin Velea (R-2)

Milda Fahey (3-7) Deirdre McClaren (R-2)

Science EALD

Amanda Coad (3-5) Megan Morphett (R-2)

Danielle Bator (5-7) Deirdre McClaren (R-2)

Chinese Mark DeGaris (3-7)

Mai Xie (R-1) Resource Centre

Min Mu (Yr 2) Debbie Knott Librarian (3-7)

Ivy Liu (3-5) Anne Gilligan Librarian (R-2)

Cassie Li (5-7)