This school is a Nut Free Zone. We now have several children attending our school who have a life threatening allergy to nuts. Thank you for your support.

12 Church Street , HAHNDORF, 5245. Ph: 8388 7058 Email: dl.0163.info@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.hahndorfps.sa.edu.au

MONDAY 17/09/18 Peace Run

TUESDAY 18/09/18 7.00 Governing Council meeting

FRIDAY 21/09/18 STUDENT FREE DAY

SAT 22/09/18 AND SUN 23/09/18 24 hour Pedal Prix race

THURSDAY 27/09/18 Festival Choir performance

FRIDAY 28/09/18 Last day Term 3 2.15 dismissal

MONDAY 15/10/18 First Day of Term 4

FRIDAY 19/10/18 STUDENT FREE DAY

TUESDAY 23/10/18 School Photos Preschool Red Group photos

THURSDAY 25/10/18 Preschool Blue Group photos

Start of school supervision begins at 8.30am. Please contact OSHC on 8388 7420 if you

need to book before school care.

TERM 3 WEEK 8 13th September 2018

SLEEP OVER AND EXCURSION Congratulations to the Room 2, 4, 8 and 9 children and teachers, who were involved in an excursion plus sleep over last Friday. My highlight was our impromptu disco in the gym and I am sure the children all had a fantastic time with many personal highlights.

PEDAL PRIX Best of luck to our Pedal Prix team who will be involved in the 24 hour race at Murray Bridge on Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd September. This is a world class event, and the team would love to be supported by our school community.

CHOIR In a few weeks our Choir will be performing at the Festival Theatre as part of the Primary School Music Festival. These students have been rehearsing every week since the beginning of the year, having to learn a number of songs as either an Alto or Soprano. Once again thank you to Sharon Raymond and Joy Wildman, our choir teachers, who have worked tirelessly all year. We look forward to the senior choir performing at our Grandparents Day ceremony and end of year picnic.

Part of our reporting process includes offering parents the opportunity to meet with their child’s class teacher.

You are welcome to make a time during the first two weeks of term four. Please contact your child’s teacher if needed.

2019 CLASS PLACEMENTS

We are currently in the process of developing our 2019 class structure and will be looking at class placements during term 4.

To best support students, we take into account friendship groups, gender balance, learning abilities, behavioural and social needs.

We achieve this by consulting the students, staff and parents. Parents are invited to contribute to the class placement process in writing. This is not a forum for choosing a teacher but rather an opportunity for parents to voice particular educational, social and emotional needs.

Please respond via email with the title “2019 class placements” to:

dl.0163_info@schools.sa.edu.au or by written note to the front office

2019 ENROLMENTS

We are experiencing a large number of families expressing interest in enrolling at Hahndorf School and Preschool. To assist our planning for 2019 please let us know if your child/ren will not be attending our school next year (excluding current Year 7 students). Please contact Jenny Chapman at the front office as soon as possible.

Also if you are aware of any families whose children are interesting in enrolling at our school or preschool next year, please encourage them to also contact Jenny as soon as possible.

by Friday 3rd November

Parents and Hahndorf School Community

We would like to give a very big thank you to everyone for helping us with our soup day. To all the S7 parents that donated soup, sent crock pots of pumpkin soup and helped make the 300 cup cakes or muffins, we are all extremely grateful. We couldn’t have made such a difference to help the farmers without all of your support.

Some students donated $5, $10 and $20 for soup, cakes and some just as a generous donation. Due to all your help, we raised an amazing $1,070 for the farmers.

We also have to acknowledge Coles at Bridgewater who gave us a $60 donation that covered most of the cost of the rolls for the soup. Thank you Coles, we really appreciate your support and help to increase our overall total.

Our class is proud of our efforts, achievements as well as our teamwork. We all put in our best and everyone in the school community made a small difference for a very worthwhile cause.

Again one big thank you!

Year 7 Students

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Term 3 Week 8 13th September 2018

From the OSHC Hive… Our Vacation Care program is out

and boo k i ng s a re be in g accepted. Some days are capped, so to avoid disappoint-ment book as soon as possible.

We will be sending our parent/

caregiver survey home for you to have your say. We value your h e l p f u l f e e d b a c k a n d suggestions. These help us shape our service to suit the future needs of our children and families in the community. Any stakeholder may have their say so

please return our survey to OSHC or the school front office before the end of week 1, term 4.

Please book quickly for the Pupil

Free Day next Friday 21st Sept. Due to staffing restrictions spaces are limited. It’s a popular “Games Day” again, so with parental permission, children may bring in a game, book, DVD or device if they choose.

Sheryle Joseph Director, Hahndorf Primary School OSHC

Ph: 8388 7420

Term 3 2018 Recycling Challenge

With seven weeks of the School’s Term 3 Recycling Challenge completed, 4,799 containers have now been brought in.

There are three weeks remaining till the end of term to reach our target of 5,900 containers.

Your continued support would be greatly appreciated.

Niecy and the Recyclables

READERS’ CUP This year, we had two teams entered in the

Adelaide Readers’ Cup competition.

The students had a limited time to read 5

specific novels, “specialising” in 2 of them. At

the end of term 2, we all went to Nairne

Primary and competed against 17 teams from

other hills schools. We answered challenging

questions that really tested our knowledge of

each book. For example, we

had to draw a map of the

journey in the book “Rowan

of Rin”. It was hard but fun –

we had snacks on our tables

to help us through the quiz.

Then we were given a book

of poems called Big Silly,

Little Sensible by Mike Lu-

cas. We had to invent our

own creative presentation based on a favourite poem. Team

1 chose a fairytale poem that ended with a luncheon. They

acted out what might have happened to Cinderella - she was

the lunch! We did well to perform in front of such a large

audience. To make it even more fun, we performed in front of

the author, Mike Lucas. He then presented prizes to the

winners and runners-up. His speech was hilarious!

We thank Matilda Book shop for sponsoring the event and

donating the book vouchers for all the students in winning

teams. We did score well, but didn’t quite make a winning

team! Maybe next year!

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE (PRC) Congratulations to everyone who read 12 books – (and a lot

more since!) and passed in their completed sheets.

Congratulations to Room 4 and Room S7 – who worked as a

whole team to help each other all finish their reading and

record sheets. Well done! Now we just have to wait while

they make all the certificates and medals. Hopefully by early

November.

BOOK WEEK A fun week in the Resource Centre! Classes shared the

picture books that were judged the best in Australia, and

created lots of interesting works of art around the book

themes. We are still voting to decide Hahndorf’s favourite.

We engaged in Pirate activities and treasure hunts. We also

had a competition to guess treasured books – Each day a

student or teacher nominated their most treasured book. We

gave a clue for the book, and then winners who guessed

correctly were awarded a book prize.

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Term 3 Week 8 13th September 2018

On the 31st of August rooms 2, 4, 8 and 9 went on an excursion to Adelaide zoo.

We went to the “Meeting Spot where we learnt about animal’s adaptations and life cycles. Adaptations are things that all animals have that enable them to survive in the wild. Life cycles are the different stages in an animal’s life.

After that we went into the “Envirodome” to look at animals and watch a performance with different animals.

When the show was over we split up into groups and walked around the zoo with our adult. We saw lots of animals like alligators, baboons, gibbons, birds meerkats and more.

On the way back, we went to Morialta playground and stopped for a quick play. When we went back to school we ate pizza for dinner, watched a magic show by the magician Magic Mike, we watched a movie in our sleeping bags then went to sleep at school. We had such a fun time!

By Adele and Ryder.

IMPORTANT DATES

Friday 21st

September Student Free Day BLUE GROUP

Tuesday 25th

September School Assembly, 2:25pm RED GROUP

Friday 28th

September End of Term 4, 2pm Dismissal BLUE GROUP

The children are still buzzing from the Dad’s Morning, Dad’s Night and the Bunnings Visit. The Red Group had their morning on Tuesday 28

th August and the Blue Group on

Friday 31st August. Dads and Grandpas enjoyed a morning

of preschool activities, playing their child’s favourite activity. Hats are needed again this term. Please ensure that a wide brimmed hat is packed each day. Please make sure that it is named and that the cords have been cut off. Sun cream will be applied during the day. Please see staff if you have any concerns. On Tuesday 25

th

September, the Red Group will be presenting an item at the school Assembly. The assembly starts at 2:25pm. Please meet us in the school gym. Please continue to bring clean 10c recycling containers to Preschool. We would like to meet our Recycling Challenge of 400 containers/bottles! We are currently at 81!!

Hahndor f Primar y School and Preschool

Term 3 Week 8 13th September 2018