Tintinara Area School Page 1 26 th February 2018 DIARY DATES Dates can be subject to change; please check each newsletter issue to ensure you have current information. 2018 February 28 th SAPSASA Swimming Tryouts March 5 th SSSSA Swimming 8 th TAS Sports Day 12 th Adelaide Cup Public Holiday 13 th Student Free Day Next Newsletter 21 st Student Leaders Induction 26 th Next Newsletter 27 th USE Athletics at Meningie 30 th Good Friday Holiday April 2 nd Easter Monday Holiday 4 th SAPSASA Football/Netball Tryouts 9 th SSSA Athletics Next Newsletter 10 th Choir Visit 13 th Last day Term 1 Term 1 Issue 3 26 th February 2018 Principal’’s Musings School of the Air visit Recently we had a visit from three School of the Air students; Bailey (9 years old), Matilda and Toby (both 6 years old). They came from Lilla Creek Station in the Northern Territory and were excited to visit and spend an afternoon with our classes. Thanks to everyone for making them feel welcome (and Alice for bringing them down). This was also an opportunity for our students to acknowledge that some children have to learn differently due to their location. Upper South East Swimming Carnival Thanks for all your hard work, apparently our parent volunteers were kept extremely busy and ensured the event was successful. SRC Induction Our SRC induction assembly will be held on Wednesday 21 st March. Congratulations to our elected student representatives. I’ve already heard they have some good ideas for me! Student Free Days 2018: Governing Council ratified our whole staff training student free days as follows; Tuesday 13 th March – Numeracy Focus, Monday 14 th May – Partnership, Tuesday 12 th June – Focus TBC, Monday 10 th September – Partnership. Our school closure day will be 16 th November to avoid local sporting commitments and the Royal Adelaide Show. Please make a note of these dates in your diaries. Attendance No matter how good our teachers, our education programs or our students we need bums on seats! Looking at our attendance data this is an area we can still improve (and will lead to improved learning outcomes). I understand for the most part your child's absences are necessary however we ask that you consider the lost educational benefit when keeping your child at home. One day a fortnight does not seem a lot however that is one week of lost learning per term. Of course if your child is ill we are grateful you do not send them to school while contagious (especially that last round of gastro) as this will result in more lost learning for more students! Library Assistant With our increased focus on intervention programs during term one we have identified an opportunity to invite expressions of interest for “community library hours” during the remainder of this term and the school holidays. This role would be 6 hours per week during term one (day/s to be negotiated) and up to 18 hours per week during the term 1 school holidays. Currently this is a short term position. As I have no suitably qualified staff on file I’d appreciate expressions of interest emailed to [email protected]by close of business Thursday 2 March. Please include a CV and 2 referees. This is also a great time to have yourself added to our internal register if you’re interested in other positions. Of course you will need to meet DECD employment criteria prior to commencing a position. More information can be found at https://jobs.decd.sa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160&windowUID=0&AdvertID=5823. Mike Sadleir Tintinara Area School Together Achieve Success www.tas.sa.edu.au Email: [email protected]Principal: Mr Mike Sadleir Address: 37 Wendt Tce, Tintinara SA 5266 Postal: PO Box 1596 Tintinara SA 5266 Phone: (08) 8757 2120 Fax: (08) 8757 2187 Governing Council Chairperson: Steve Manning
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Tintinara Area School Page 1 26th February 2018
DIARY DATES Dates can be subject to change; please check each
newsletter issue to ensure you have current information.
2018 February 28th SAPSASA Swimming Tryouts March 5th SSSSA Swimming 8th TAS Sports Day 12th Adelaide Cup Public Holiday 13th Student Free Day Next Newsletter 21st Student Leaders Induction 26th Next Newsletter 27th USE Athletics at Meningie 30th Good Friday Holiday April 2nd Easter Monday Holiday 4th SAPSASA Football/Netball
Tryouts 9th SSSA Athletics Next Newsletter 10th Choir Visit 13th Last day Term 1
Term 1 Issue 3 26th February 2018
Principal’’s Musings
School of the Air visit Recently we had a visit from three School of the Air students; Bailey (9 years old), Matilda and Toby (both 6 years old). They came from Lilla Creek Station in the Northern Territory and were excited to visit and spend an afternoon with our classes. Thanks to everyone for making them feel welcome (and Alice for bringing them down). This was also an opportunity for our students to acknowledge that some children have to learn differently due to their location.
Upper South East Swimming Carnival Thanks for all your hard work, apparently our parent volunteers were kept extremely busy and ensured the event was successful.
SRC Induction Our SRC induction assembly will be held on Wednesday 21st March. Congratulations to our elected student representatives. I’ve already heard they have some good ideas for me!
Student Free Days 2018: Governing Council ratified our whole staff training student free days as follows; Tuesday 13th March – Numeracy Focus, Monday 14th May – Partnership, Tuesday 12th June – Focus TBC, Monday 10th September – Partnership. Our school closure day will be 16th November to avoid local sporting commitments and the Royal Adelaide Show. Please make a note of these dates in your diaries.
Attendance No matter how good our teachers, our education programs or our students we need bums on seats! Looking at our attendance data this is an area we can still improve (and will lead to improved learning outcomes). I understand for the most part your child's absences are necessary however we ask that you consider the lost educational benefit when keeping your child at home. One day a fortnight does not seem a lot however that is one week of lost learning per term. Of course if your child is ill we are grateful you do not send them to school while contagious (especially that last round of gastro) as this will result in more lost learning for more students!
Library Assistant With our increased focus on intervention programs during term one we have identified an opportunity to invite expressions of interest for “community library hours” during the remainder of this term and the school holidays. This role would be 6 hours per week during term one (day/s to be negotiated) and up to 18 hours per week during the term 1 school holidays. Currently this is a short term position. As I have no suitably qualified staff on file I’d appreciate expressions of interest emailed to [email protected] by close of business Thursday 2 March. Please include a CV and 2 referees. This is also a great time to have yourself added to our internal register if you’re interested in other positions. Of course you will need to meet DECD employment criteria prior to commencing a position. More information can be found at https://jobs.decd.sa.gov.au/page.php?pageID=160&windowUID=0&AdvertID=5823.
Mike Sadleir
Tintinara Area School Together Achieve Success www.tas.sa.edu.au Email: [email protected] Principal: Mr Mike Sadleir
Address: 37 Wendt Tce, Tintinara SA 5266 Postal: PO Box 1596 Tintinara SA 5266
Hello. My name is Linny Mpandambula. I am excited to be teaching a preschool for this term. I was born
in Zambia, which is in Central Africa. I graduated as a Primary
School teacher in 1999 from Kitwe Teachers Training College in
Zambia. I moved to New Zealand in 2004 where I completed a
Bachelors Degree in teaching (Early Childhood) in 2006 from
Dunedin College of Education. I have enjoyed working with
children in various early childhood settings in New Zealand in the
last 10 years. My family moved to Tintinara in 2016. I look
forward to sharing my teaching experiences with the children
here at Tintinara Preschool. I enjoy spending time with my family,
travelling and playing musical instruments.
2018 has been off to a busy start! With Mrs D on leave, we welcome Mrs Linny Mpandamabula (Mrs M) to our Preschool team,
and welcome back Mrs Tracey Leske back as preschool support.
Hello. My name is Tracey Leske. I am very excited to be at Tintinara Preschool as Preschool Support
this year. I have been regularly supporting the preschool team since
2016, and spent much of 2017 as a support staff member at
Keith Area School. I have completed my Certificate III in Early
Childhood Education and Care, and am currently studying to complete
my Diploma. I am loving getting to know all of the preschoolers, and look forward to
supporting their growth and preschool journey this year.
Our 2018 class has been busy exploring their new space, making new
friendships and are quickly building confidence and a sense of belonging in
their preschool.
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Ag committee meeting Thank you to those people who made themselves available for the Ag committee meeting in week 3. The school has since received five sheep and eight goats to take to the Royal Adelaide Show later this year. If anyone else would like to be involved with the Ag committee or is willing to help out with Ag in any way, please feel free to contact me. Email: [email protected] Thanks Emma Brands
A visit from SA Police on Monday 19th March was organised to bring awareness among students
about a range of safety issues. Students were involved in sessions on depending on their year
level.
Emergencies – how to access
help, including a sit in the police
car!
Cyber Safety
Sexual Assault
Cyber safety is an area even very young students and their families must be aware of. Please find
below, a link to access resources from the cyber safety session.
ThinkUKnow Australia is a partnership between the Australian Federal Police (AFP) and other
Australian companies which aims to raise awareness amount parents, cares and teachers of how
young people are using technology, the challenges they may face and how to help them
navigate these challenges in a sage and ethical way.
The ThinkUKnow website provides addition resources including fact sheets, booklets, and e-
newsletter and practical tips and resources on protecting your family online. A parent session on
this issue will be planned in future. Stay tuned, but in the meantime….
On Thursday 22nd of February, 30 students from Tintinara participated in the annual Upper South East Interschool Swimming Carnival held at Coonalpyn. The swimmers had almost perfect conditions to be in the water. All of our participants did a great job representing the school, giving their best efforts and supporting each other throughout the day. It was particularly pleasing to see swimmers competing in higher age groups in order to fill events. This showed a great team spirit. We are still waiting on the results for the team to be chosen to go to Adelaide but we are hopeful some of our students are chosen to represent our school and the Upper South East in a few weeks’ time. We struggled to be competitive in some of the junior and intermediate age groups for the girls as we could not enter a swimmer in many races which affected our overall positioning on the day. We were fortunate enough to finish 2nd in the Senior Pennant on the day. Thank you to all of the staff and parents who helped out with the duties allocated to us as a school. Thank you to all of the parents, friends and family who came along to support our swimmers. Dylan Carter Sports Coordinator
OVERALL SHIELD RESULTS
School Points Place
Keith 1739 1st
Coomandook 1613 2nd
Meningie 1156 3rd
Tintinara 1011 4th
HANDICAP SHIELD RESULTS
School Points Place
Keith 1739 2nd
Coomandook 1903 1st
Meningie 1668 3rd
Tintinara 1556 4th
OVERALL PENNANT WINNERS: Sub Junior: Coomandook, Keith, Meningie, Tintinara Junior: Coomandook, Keith, Meningie, Tintinara Intermediate: Meningie, Keith Coomandook, Tintinara Senior Coomandook, Tintinara, Meningie, Keith
Wanted for Technology Design
Please save any useful items for Technology Design projects. Students use these continually to make models of their designed projects and solutions. They spend on general a minimum of 2 lessons refining their work. Items such as:
cardboard boxes, (cereal, tea and other food)
cardboard rolls such as Gladwrap but please no toilet rolls
clean packaging from biscuits, cake, meat etc
clean plastic containers such as yoghurt, cream or icecream
old wrapping paper, cards etc
anything that can be used for design work
Items can be left in the Home Economics room or the Front Office. Thank you for your help with this! Julianne Wandel Technology Design teacher
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Lewis: The water is salt and vinegar. I like getting the sinkers
Tansu: I love it. I like paying Sharks and Fish
Emily: We got to play with sinkers
Jack: The noodle race I liked
Cooper: Swimming in the swimming pool was fun
Grace: I think its fun. I like playing on the ‘magic carpet’
Jason: I like doing the noodle race.
Alyssa I like getting the sinkers.
Tessa: I like playing games.
Frankie: I like playing and I like blowing bubbles
Zev: I like Shark and Fish game and the noodle race.
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Adult Fiction The tattooist of Auschwitz Heather MORRIS The drifter Anthea HODGSON The country girl Cathryn HEIN Still me JoJo MOYES Fall from grace Danielle STEEL The chalk man C.J. TUDOR Anatomy of a scandal Sarah VAUGHAN If I die before I wake Emily KOCH Life of crime Kimberley CHAMBERS Hell to pay Rachel AMPHLETT Promise not to tell Jayne Ann KRENTZ Life support Nicki EDWARDS The innocent wife Amy LLOYD Sunday silence Nicci FRENCH The red dirt road Alissa CALLEN The wife Alafair BURKE Redemption Point Candice FOX
Large Print: Look for me Lisa GARDNER Blood sisters Jane CORRY Six ways to Sunday Karly LANE Moment of truth Mandy MAGRO The greatest gift Rachael JOHNS Prodigal daughter Jane CARTER Sometimes they die Tony GLEESON By the currawong’s call Welton MARSLAND Willow Tree Bend Kaye DOBBIE
Audio Books: Seven ancient wonders Matthew REILLY Dark corners Ruth RENDELL
Non-Fiction: English Language: Make grammar great again: crimes against the English language in 140 characters Meredith FORRESTER Diet: The longevity diet: discover the new science to slow ageing, fight disease and manage your weight Dr. Valter LONGO
Low-Carb, healthy fat: the simplest way to achieve + maintain a healthy weight. With more than 130 Low-Carb, Keto-friendly recipes Pete EVANS Cookery: 100 recipes you’ll make forever Better Homes & Gardens Biographies: Shine like it does: the life of Michael Hutchence Toby CRESWELL
Teenage Fiction: The six Mark ALPERT Booked Kwame ALEXANDER The eye of the minds James DASHNER
Children’s Fiction: The I’m not scared book Todd PARR The playground is like a jungle Shona INNES
Children’s Picture Books: Cinderella and the furry slippers Cali DAVIDE Board Book: Who says woof? Kat CHADWICK Who says moo? Kat CHADWICK Hello birds what do you say?
Children’s Non-fiction: Bugopedia: the complete guide to everything insect plus other creepy crawlies DISCOVERY
DVDs: Classification: G Caillou: Caillou’s sea adventure Rolie Polie Olie. Volume 1 Bob the Builder: Put it together Fireman Sam: Danger by the double ABC Story time ABC for kids: Favourites 1 ABC for kids: Favourites 2 Busy Buses. Series 2 Thomas & Friends: Thomas’ trusty friends Thomas & Friends: Little engines big days out The Princess Diaries 2 Classification: PG Fantastic 4 Belle The Prince and me Confessions of a shopaholic Just like heaven Message in a bottle National treasure Sydney White Raise your voice Classification M: Identity thief SAS: the search for warriors Tracks Brothers Catch and release Rumour has it 127 hours Flag of our fathers
Date of Absence/s: On / / or up to and including / /
Reason for Absence:
Parent/Caregiver name: Date: / /
Parent Signature: [Teacher Signature: ] Please fill in and return to the school with your child/ren prior to absence or on their return to class.
If there is a planned absence of a period which is of more than two school days, please obtain an ED175 (Application for Exemption) form from the Front Office to be filled in prior to leave happening. Thank you.
BUS TRAVEL ABSENCE NOTIFICATION Please fill in and return to the school Front Office when changes to normal travel arrangements are made.
Student/s Name/s: ______ _____ Bus Route:
Date of absence/s: _____/_____/______ to: ____/____/____ AM PM BOTH (please circle relevant time)
Parents/Caregivers please note: Bus Drivers will need to be notified directly of morning absences as well.
Changes to normal travel (eg different bus route, travelling with another student, etc):
For students that wouldn’t normally utilise buses (eg live under 5km from School) and have a need to use one of the routes throughout the year (eg
sleepovers, sporting commitments etc) permission will need to be sought from the Principal PRIOR to travel taking place.
Date of Absence/s: On / / or up to and including / /
Reason for Absence:
Parent/Caregiver name: Date: / /
Parent Signature: [Teacher Signature: ] Please fill in and return to the school with your child/ren prior to absence or on their return to class.
If there is a planned absence of a period which is of more than two school days, please obtain an ED175 (Application for Exemption) form from the Front Office to be filled in prior to leave happening. Thank you.
