From the Principal

Term 4 Week 3 Friday 1 November 2019

Learning for Life

It is wonderful to be back from my very restful holiday.

I was thrilled to receive photos and updates of the Colour Run and STEM Day, and felt like I missed out on all the fun!

I was very proud of staff and students who showcased their STEM Learning by hosting leaders and teachers from across the State School system. Class Placements for 2020 We are about to begin our student placement process and enrolments are a critical factor in determining; numbers of year levels, straight classes versus multi-age classes, year level locations, space, and staffing.

As with previous years, every effort will be made to maximise single year levels however enrolment numbers at certain year levels makes this incredibly difficult to achieve.

We are mindful of not placing students in multi age classes over two consecutive years. We thank the families for their input to the placement process.

Students will have an opportunity to identify some friends they would like to be with yet we inform you that we guarantee only 1 friend. Once the placement process is complete, there will be no opportunity for moving students from one class to another.

Family Holiday/Travel If a family holiday/travel is planned during term time and including into the commencement of 2020 school year, a student Exemption From School form needs to be collected from the Front Office, completed and returned for Principal approval. Parent Survey 2020 We would like to encourage all parents to complete our school survey.

We value your feedback on our performance as it reinforces our commitment to continuously improving our practices. The link to the survey is https://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/parents19 Survey responses are due Friday 8 November. Recognition of an EAS Student On Friday 25 October Sam Weavers, his family and I were invited to an award ceremony in recognition of his commitment to community service. Sam along with several other school students in primary and secondary schools across all school sectors, was a recipient of a Children’s Week Education Minister’s Award. As a school community we congratulate Sam.

Vicki Stravinski

Dates to Remember

Tuesday 5 November Governing Council meeting at 7.00pm in the staffroom (Parent discussion/vote re 2020 M&S fees at 6.45pm)

Thursday 7 November EAS Fair Committee meeting at 7.00pm in the staffroom Volunteers welcome.

Monday 11 November Remembrance Day Assembly 9.10am hosted by year 5s

Tuesday 19 November K-R Transition

Wednesday 20 November K-R Transition

Monday 25 November Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 26 November K-R Transition

Wednesday 27 November K-R Transition

Thursday 5 December A Disney Christmas End of Year Concert

Address: 57-59 Second Avenue, St Peters SA 5069 Phone: 8362 1622 Absentee Line: 8362 4164 or SMS 0409 965 052 Email: dl.1036.info@schools.sa.edu.au

East Adelaide School Website: www.eas.sa.edu.au Department for Education Website: http://www.education.sa.gov.au

Learning for Life

Page 2

Respect Responsibility Resilience Relationships

OSHC News

2020 Booking Form With this year fast coming to an end, the service is in the process of looking at our numbers and bookings for 2020. To assist with this planning, a 2020 booking form is now available. Similar to previous years, please note that OSHC bookings will not carry over to the new school year and a new booking form will need to be completed. If you require casual bookings, please record this on the form so we are aware. Forms are required before the end of this term – if you are unsure about work for next year this is fine, just let us know. We also require notification of any new siblings who will be beginning at East Adelaide in 2020. If you child will not be requiring OSHC in 2020 please advise.

Fee Increase 2020 Last term, the East Adelaide Governing Council approved a fee increase. Fees are reviewed regularly at the service and are increased from time to time to fund the OSHC program. Commencing January 2020, After School Care fees will increase from the current $16 to $18 per session. Commencing December Vacation Care, the Incursion and Excursion fees will be increased by $5 – i.e. an Incursion will be $60 and an Excursion will now be $65. Basketball/Yoga Term 4 The service is running Basketball (Rec - Year 4) on Thursday afternoons as part of our program from 4.00 to 5.00pm. These sessions are run by the Stay Active company. We are also continuing to offer Yoga on a Wednesday afternoon from 4.00 to 5.00pm. Please contact us if your child is interested in participating. Extra-Curricular Activities Please advise the service if your child is attending an activity during After School Care so we are aware of your child’s location across the afternoon. Benjamin Goudie Director East Adelaide Out of Hours School Care

Road Crossing Monitors

End of Year Concert

Thanks to all parents, caregivers and staff who completed the survey for this year’s end of year concert “A Disney Christmas”. The committee have reviewed the feedback and the evening will be held in the Gym on Thursday 5

December. We will be having a larger stage

set up in front of the glass windows in the gym, to enable extended audience viewing through the roller doors. This year we are dividing the concert into two sessions with the R-2 students performing from 5.00 to 6.00pm and the year 3-7 classes performing from 6:15 to 7:15pm. We will have a whole school practice during the day so all students will have the opportunity to enjoy watching all performances. The children have been rehearsing their items ready for the night and can’t wait to present to their loved ones. We look forward to seeing you all there! Larissa Maher and the Christmas Concert Committee

School Open Morning

Families wishing to enrol children at East Adelaide School in the future are invited to our Parent Information Morning and School Tour on Tuesday 12 November at 9.30am.

Please email dl.1036.info@schools.sa.edu.au or call on 8362 1622 if you are interested in attending.

Week 4

8.30 - 8.50am Georgia Parker Jasper Charlie

3.10 - 3.30pm Leilani Lexi Sammy Damian

Week 5

8.30 - 8.50am Oliver Olivia Hunter Madison

3.10 - 3.30pm Angel M Luca Hannah Eliza

Materials and Services Fees 2020

Parents and caregivers are invited to attend the Governing Council meeting to be held on Tuesday 5 November at 6.45pm for a 15 minute discussion and vote on the recommendation to increase the Materials and Services fees in 2020.

EAS Fair 2020 The Governing Council is organising the 2020 school fair, our major school fundraiser. We are seeking volunteers to join the organisational committee. If you are interested in joining the committee, please attend our first meeting which will be held on Thursday 7 November 2019 at 7.00 pm in the staff room. For more information please email easfaircommittee@gmail.com

Page 3

Respect Responsibility Resilience Relationships

Kids’ Pantry (Canteen) News

Did you know the canteen is actually called “Kids’ Pantry’? The students voted for this name about twelve years ago.

This term, we will be advertising various specials on Konnective, including Salad Combo Packs, Fresh Fruit Salad Jelly and Custard and by popular demand, the Borg Burger. Please keep an eye out for these in coming weeks. We are always looking for new volunteers to assist in the canteen, especially as some families will be leaving the EAS community when their children commence high school next year. The canteen cannot operate without the wonderful support of volunteers, so please email canteen.manager615@schools.sa.edu.au or call us on 8362 5221 if you are able to assist. Lisa and Diane Canteen Managers

Incursion / Excursion dates

Library News

New Book Reviewer Opportunity for Students As new books and resources come in and are catalogued in the library, it is nice to have student reviewers. Christina reviews for our library and for Dymocks. Well done Christina!

Also, I thought I would share this link from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/16/reading-improves-childrens-brains The article is based on the research of Dr Alice Sullivan Director of the 1970 British Cohort Study, Centre for Longitudinal Studies, University of London "Reading for pleasure improves not just literacy but Maths too." Wendy Jeffrey Teacher Librarian

Monday 4 November St Basil’s Aged Care visit Rooms 15 and 16

Tuesday 5 November St Basil’s Aged Care visit Room 6

Thursday 6 November Music workshop - Rooms 22,23 and 28

Thursday 7 November Central Market - Year 6

Friday 8 November Walkerville PS Genius Hour Rooms 3, 5 and 6 St Basil’s Aged Care visit Room 14

Monday 11 November St Basil’s Aged Care visit Rooms 9 and 10 Art Lessons with Maxine Year 2

Tuesday 12 November St Basil’s Aged Care visit Room 5

Wednesday 13 November Bunnings - Rooms 4B and 4W Ground force Dance lessons - Rooms 19 and 21

Thursday 14 November Art Lessons with Maxine Year 2

Friday 15 November St Basil’s Aged Care visit Room 11

Page 4

Respect Responsibility Resilience Relationships

STEM Works Showcase at EAS On Thursday 24 October, we had 30 visiting teachers and leaders from across the state visit our school to see STEM in action.

We were one of 9 schools across the state whom have opened their doors to other educators as part of showcasing high quality, effective pedagogy through STEM.

11 teachers and their classes put their work on show for others to learn about the solution fluency practices we use during STEM learning.

The participants were “blown away” by the high level of student engagement, intellectual challenge, collaborative learning and deep thinking/learning. They witnessed different classes working on their next lesson in a series of lessons focused on the topic of sustainability.

Our teachers and students should be extremely proud of their work. It was a credit to each teacher who volunteered for this, having up to 10 adults observing them, plus a film crew in their room, whilst they facilitated a 45-minute lesson. The day ended with several teachers being part of a Q&A panel to further respond to final questions from the visiting educators.

We would like to acknowledge the students and teachers in rooms 9,10, 12, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28 and Fleur, teacher of Science.

We thank Rob Davies and the film crew from our school community. Rob will be developing the video for future professional development, induction purposes and a shortened promotional snapshot of the School’s STEM practices to be featured on our website.

Belinda Robertson Assistant Principal

Page 5

Respect Responsibility Resilience Relationships

STEM in Year 3 The Year 3 classes are part way through their STEM inquiry journey based upon our whole school theme of ‘sustainability’. The students have been immersed in learning information about sustainability provided by field experts such as architects, environmental scientists and builders as well as through digital media, peer tutorage and reference resources. The students formulated questions of how and why our school carried out certain practices and became quite critical, mindful and reflective regarding everyone’s impact upon sustainability in regard to an individual, family, class, school, state, country as well as planet. Once the students were enlightened with their knowledge about sustainability, they were asked to apply it within the context of a challenge which was to draw upon known sustainable practices around the world to inform their design of a sustainable school. All sustainable features of their designs are required to be justified / explained to demonstrate their understanding. We defined a problem as ‘Many schools today use unsustainable practices and use too many resources. We need to implement ways of being more sustainable and using fewer resources. The students have been guided through the cyclical engineering stages of solution fluency (the 6 Ds) whilst applying scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical dispositions and skills. Examples of scientific knowledge required includes positioning of the sun, insulators and transfer of heat etc.

Examples of technological knowledge required includes use of the internet and programs such as Tinker Cad etc.

Examples of engineering knowledge required includes selection of suitable materials and joining techniques etc. Examples of mathematical knowledge required includes use of scale, sizing and 3-dimensional nets etc. The students have been working on their challenge collaboratively in self-selected groups.

They have been able to refer to their current stage of solution fluency (Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver and Debrief), use effective team work, identify their sustainable features through labelling and explanations as well as think creatively and critically to solve problems.

Page 6

Respect Responsibility Resilience Relationships