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CLEVE AREA SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Diary Dates TERM 3 2019

WEEK 5 Thursday 22/8 and Friday 23/8 - RST livestock feeding Friday 23/8 - Book Week Dress up day WEEK 6 Monday 26/8 - Sims Farm Shearing week Thursday 29/8 - R-7 Cricket Clinic WEEK 7 Monday 2/9 to Friday 6/9 - Royal Adelaide Show Saturday 7/9 & Sunday 8/9 EXEAT weekend for Boarders WEEK 8 Tuesday 10/9 - Governing Council Meeting Thursday 12/9 - RST Crop Agronomy Friday 13/9 - SRC Footy Colours day and Popcorn and Milkshake day WEEK 9 Tuesday 17/9 to Thursday 19/9 - TAFE Cert 3 Livestock Wednesday 18/9 - Open Girls Football Friday 20/9 - Junior Primary Sports Day

21st August 2019 Term 3 Week 5

Hello Everyone

This term is proving to be another very busy period and we are moving through it at an

incredible speed.

Royal Adelaide Show

The Royal Adelaide Show is fast approaching and presents us with the opportunity to showcase some of our students’ work. Mr Suljagic and a group of Year ten students are working on our show entry for 2019. The group will be going to Adelaide with Mr. Suljagic & Mrs Wetherall during week 7.

School Lunches

Our school canteen committee are working hard to find a solution to reopen our school canteen. Please see the letter from Emma Nield and her committee in this newsletter. I wish to acknowledge and thank our front office and teaching staff for their assistance and patience with coordinating the lunch order baskets for pick up and delivery. One of the challenges of no longer having a canteen is facilitating missed orders. We do have some students who are forgetting to present their order in the mornings. Please ensure you remind your child, especially young students, on days they have a lunch order, as many don’t discover it until the open their lunch box at lunch time. We are still looking to open the canteen possibly a couple of days a week. If you know of anyone who would be interested in doing this (possibly for a fundraiser or their own business) please let Emma Nield, a committee member or myself know.

Working Together

At Cleve Area School we are always looking for ways to improve our educational service to our local community. We have found that the best way to support and help our students to be successful at school is for parents and staff to work together in a positive partnership. I invite you to talk to your child’s teachers and us, the leaders at Cleve so we can further improve the educational service we provide to the community. If you are thinking about future options, being at Cleve or other schools please speak to us. We want you to help us to make the changes that will enable your children to succeed in Cleve or any other school. I want to thank the couple of families who have notified us that they are choosing to send their child away for the senior years of schooling. I appreciate parents communicating with me their decisions and reasons behind the choice of schooling and I am pleased to hear that it is not because of the quality of the education that we are providing at Cleve. I also thank these parents for choosing us to deliver the learning to their children, in the formative years of schooling. Cleve Area School is a great and safe place to learn! Tell your friends; tell your family and keep providing feedback to us. I thank the parents and friends who continue to support us by enrolling children at our school. Ray Marino, Principal

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Headspace Presentation

Last week, students in Years 6-12 attended Health and Well being presentations by Headspace. This

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Presenter, John provided ‘real life examples’ to

assist students to understand the challenges of

teenage health and well being. In this balloon

challenge task, Ashton had to juggle a number

of stresses (balloons) in her life eg. Homework,

siblings, peer dramas, illness. Fortunately,

friends (Elke and Mr Marino) stepped in to

provide support.

session provided meaningful information to students to raise awareness of mental health, ways to maintain positive health and how to support others. Many thanks to Mr Ray Marino and Mr Trevor McDonough for coordinating this opportunity for our students.

University Teachers

Last week we farewelled Jessica Deer who completed a teaching practicum with Georgina Stutley and the secondary Humanities staff. We thank Miss Deer for her contributions to our school and student learning. This week we welcome Miss Olivia Sly from Uni SA who will be working in Mrs Olivia Crosby and Mrs Fiona Millard’s class. Miss Sly is visiting and observing over the next few days in preparation for her Practicum to start next week. In week 7, Tyler Wilkinson joins our staff for a practicum in Mrs Mikaela Irwin’s R/1 classroom We hope Miss Sly and Miss Wilkinson both enjoy their time within our school community.

JP Sports Day

Friday 20th September

Planning and practises for this year’s JP Sports Day has begun. Many thanks to the parents who have offered assistance for timing/scoring events. We still need more offers to enable all events to be run. Please return the attached slip or let Fiona Evans in the front office know if you are able to help. Bookweek

Dress up day is this Friday 23/8 Please see information in the library section of this newsletter regarding Bookweek activities this week. The week culminates with a parade at the back of the library at 10:30am. Many thanks to Joanne Turner for her organisation

of this event.

Excursion

Wednesday, 21st August Today Mrs Natasha Agars and Mrs Sheri Fischer took Miss Roach’s Year 3/4 class to

Wangaraleednie Road to view the memorials of Cleve’s first farmers, the McKechnie Brothers. The

3/4 class have been learning about Australian History and explorers of our country and enjoyed the

opportunity to visit the site of our town’s first settlers.

R-7 Cricket

Week 6 Next week, Mr Byrnes has coordinated a cricket coaching clinic for R-7 students. Brayden Frost (SACA Zone Rep) is conducting the clinics with primary classes on Thursday 29th August (Wk 6). The program is: 9.00-9.45 R/1 Agnew and R/1 Irwin 9.45-10.30 Year 1/2 Quinn/Elson and Yr 2/3 Millard/Crosby 10.30-11.10 Year 3/4 Roach and Yr 4/5 Williamson 11.30-12.15 Year 6/7 Kenny and Yr6/7 Wight/Stutley Assembly

Friday, 30th August Our next primary assembly will be hosted by Miss Renee Roach’s Year ¾ class.

On Friday, 30th August In School Gym

At 9:45am Deputy Principal Natasha Agars

JP SPORTS DAY HELPERS – Friday 20th September Attention: N Agars I am able / unable to assist with Tabloid or running events in the morning. I am able / unable to assist with running events after recess. Name: ______________________________________________________Signed:_________________________________

Mrs Judy Kraehe

speaking to the Year 3/4 class

NEWS FROM THE AGRICULTURE FACULTY

Shearing week starts on Monday, 26th of August with Year 11 Agriculture students undertaking the farm’s shearing. Our shearing team comprising Daniel Smart, Craig Blieschke, Cameron Tomney, Nathan Peters, Ellie Williams, Gavin Harvie, Zakirra Simpson and Ben Turner will be instructed by Mr Josh Sneath from TAFESA. We look forward to a busy and productive time of the year. Year 8 and 9 students have again successfully raised and sold their batch of laying hens, lead by their teacher Annie Richter. Year 11 Ag students attended Glenville’s Ram sales where we bought 2 replacement rams. Many thanks to Glenville stud for again sponsoring our ram purchases and provid-ing hogget classing and support towards our sheep enterprise. Year 10 Ag students will attend the Uralba White Suffolk Ram sale despite us not requiring a ram this year. Year 12 Agriculture Production students Mackenley Harradine, Sophie Nuske and Ethan Tomney, supported by the Year 12 Ag Practical class have recently weighed and fat scored the Farm’s prime lamb flock. Despite a very challenging year, we have managed to turn out some impressive first cross lambs at 465kgs average live weight and fat score 3. You may have seen the Year 10’s and the Royal Show wethers getting some exercise around town. We have made our final selection of 6 merino wethers, with on average live weight of 97.5kgs and our heaviest at 110kgs is still a lamb. The team of Riley Evans, Renae Coulter, Chad Alcock, Taylah Haire, Courtney Grigg, James Nield, Britney Crosby and Hugh Hammat will leave Cleve on Tuesday 3rd of September with judging on the following day. This year, the Interschool Merino Wether Competition will be the feature breed and promises to be a spectacular and hard fought event. The entire Year 10 Ag class have done a sterling job of preparing the sheep team and deserve encouragement and best wishes for the show. Many thanks for the help and support of Robert Norris and Klay, Daryl and Barry Smith throughout this year long project. We extend our best wishes for a successful showing effort to Year 11 and 12 Agriculture students—Lauren Ferme and Sophie Nuske who will compete at the Royal Adelaide Show Rural youth Judging Competition. They will be competing in sheep, cattle and fleece judging disciplines. It’s good to see you ‘having a go’ and representing the school and its agriculture course.

Mr Aleks Suljagic Agriculture/Ag VET Co-ordinator

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Rowan Ramsey MP Award Rowan Ramsey (Federal MP for Grey) has advised the Governing Council that he is once again offering his Rowan Ramsey School Community Award. Nominations are open to staff, parents or community members who have ‘gone above and beyond’ dedicating and volunteering their time and skills for the school. These nominations are to be received by Friday 6th September and forwarded to the Front Office. A nomination form is attached to this newsletter.

NEWS FROM THE CANTEEN COMMITTEE... Dear Parents, Firstly, thank you for your patience with the restructuring of the school canteen. Change is frustrating but it’s necessary in getting a better outcome for our school community. Why a healthy canteen? Unfortunately, too many children do not have a healthy diet, and this has a negative effect on their growth, weight, development and learning. Food provided at school has a considerable influence on the development of children’s long-term eating habits, food preferences and attitudes towards food. The canteen plays a vital role in promoting healthy foods and creating a school culture of healthy eating. The school curriculum teaches healthy eating so it’s vital that the school leads by example. Good nutrition is also linked to a better academic performance and we all want that! The school have so many rules and regulations to abide by. In 2008 specific standards for South Australian schools banned the sale of unhealthy foods and drinks in SA schools and a set of guidelines (Right Bite Strategy) was introduced to help schools implement this. Being a small school with limited staff to introduce this, the CAS has to get the help of volunteers to implement programs like this successfully. The recently formed CAS Canteen Committee have looked closely into the guidelines and have worked hard to develop a policy and introduce the necessary changes. I would like to thank this group of passionate parents, teachers and students who have worked extremely well together to achieve this. A special thank you to Georgie Nagel for putting her hand up as Secretary. This Committee put out two surveys, one to parents and one to students to get their feedback and suggestions. Thank you to the large number of parents and students for filling out a survey. The feedback was vital and helped us make necessary decisions. We have the Cleve Bakery on board providing a delicious selection of healthy foods and drinks. This is only available via a lunch order. For the older students who don’t like filling in a lunch order the school are looking to introduce a lunch order app, so orders can be placed online before school starts. We have a funky new menu thank you to Kelly Morrow from Figtree designs for volunteering her time to do this. A thank you must also go to the Front Office staff and Teachers for their patience and understanding during these changes. We are still looking to open the canteen possibly a couple of days a week. If you know of anyone who would be interested in doing this (possibly for a fundraiser or their own business) please let Ray Marino or myself know. We will trial the new system until the next Governing Council meeting and we are open to your feedback and suggestions. Kind regards, Emma Nield Chairperson CAS Canteen Committee

Some photos of the students who participated in

the Operation Flinders Program from

30th July to 6th August.

Chad Alcock, Lenny McDonough, Lachie Jones,

Renae Coulter and Mr Trevor McDonough

RENAE COULTER

CHAD ALCOCK

LENNY MCDONOUGH

LACHIE JONES

MR MAC

Information for Parents and Students from the Carly Ryan Foundation.

More to come over the next few newsletters.

70th Birthday Fair!

Friday October 18th

A wonderful event to celebrate this milestone

Music Jumping Castle Delicious Food

Traditional games and stalls School History/Memorabilia

More details to come.. .

SCHOOL MAGAZINES CAN YOU HELP?? The committee are collating the school

magazines and are missing the following years: 1940-1950, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978 & 1979

Also, we are looking for old uniforms and photos. THANK YOU

CLEVE

DRIVER REVIVER Meeting

Wednesday 28th

August

Cleve Hotel 7.30pm

All Welcome