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STRADBROKE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Koonga Avenue, Rostrevor, SA 5073

Excellence and Achievement in a Supportive School Environment Principal: Anne Lamont

Telephone: 8337 2861/8337 5349 Student Absence Ph: 8365 5621 Fax: 8337 0041

email: [email protected]

website: www.stradsch.sa.edu.au

Out of School Hours Care: 8365 5677

Director: Rebecca MacQueen

CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A

19th

October, 2017

TERRIFIC KIDS

At the end of last term the winners of the Term 3 Kiwanis Terrific Kids

Award were announced.

A Terrific Kid needs to be:

THOUGHTFUL ENTHUSIASTIC RESPECTFUL

RESPONSIBLE INFLUENTIAL FRIENDLY

IMPECCABLE CARING

These qualities align really closely with the characteristics and attitudes of

the IB Learner Profile. The characteristics we expect IB students to display

are those of a person who is an inquirer, knowledgeable, courageous, a

thinker, a communicator, open minded, balanced, principled, reflective and

caring.

The attitudes supporting these characteristics are appreciation,

commitment, confidence, cooperation, curiosity, creativity, empathy,

enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect and tolerance.

Congratulations to Christian Spera, Sebastian Cole and Anika Younus, they

are outstanding ambassadors for our school and they approach all aspects

of school life in a balanced, considerate and enthusiastic manner.

STAFF NEWS

This term we welcome back Paul Byford in FR6 from long service leave and

we also welcome back Tanya Scanlan. Tanya was in the principal role at

Glen Osmond PS at the end of last term.

The selection process for our 3 permanent teacher positions has been

finalised and we congratulate Heidi Harding, Shae Perilli and Vince Condina

on being appointed as permanent teachers at Stradbroke School.

Congratulations also to Rachel Pontifex on her appointment as the Student

Wellbeing Leader at Stradbroke from 2018-2020.

2017

OCTOBER

Fri 20th

R-2 Assembly

Fri 27th

World Teachers’ Day

Fri 27th

Pupil Free Day

Tues 31st

Principals Tour 9:30am

NOVEMBER

Wed 1st

Last day for class placement letters

from parents

Fri 3rd

R-2 Assembly

Thurs 9th

R-2 Sports Day

Fri 10th

Yr 3-7 Sports Day

Wed 15th

Yr 6/7 Aquatics

Thurs 16th

Yr 6/7 Aquatics

Fri 17th

R-2 Assembly

Fri 24th

Yr 3-7 Assembly

DECEMBER

Fri 1st

R-2 Assembly

Fri 1st

Volunteer RAN Training 9.00-

11.00am

Tues 5th

R-2 Singalong

Mon 11th

Yr 7 Graduation

Governing Council Wed 25

th October 2017, 6.30pm

in the Stradbroke School Staffroom

Public Meeting to discuss Materials and

Services Charge for 2018. Please see

Skoolbag for a copy of the proposed

charges.

Pupil Free Day

Friday 27th

October

World Teachers’ Day is celebrated in

Australia on Friday 27th

October This is a great opportunity for your child/ren

to recognise their class and specialist

teachers with some kind words or a letter.

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CONGRATULATIONS JOANNA

Congratulations to Joanna

Papastamouli - winner of the Tennis

SA under 12 Millswood Silver

Tournament. Joanna also competed

in Canberra over the holidays in the

Tennis SA state team.

STRADBROKE RECYCLED

A Second-hand Uniform Stall will be

held on Friday 3rd

November (week 3)

from 8:30-9:30am in the quadrangle.

Most items are available for a gold-coin

donation, unless otherwise marked.

All proceeds go directly to the school.

Donations of good quality, clean uniform items with logos on

and nametags off are always gratefully received and can be

left in the hamper outside the cashier’s office. Keep the

goodwill going Stradbroke!”

CHESS CLUB

On Wednesday the 27th

of September, 10

Stradbroke students

went to Burnside Primary

School to compete in the

Interschool Chess

Tournament. Each player

competed in 7 rounds,

with 15 minutes on the

clock. Stradbroke came

second out of 5 schools. The students who attended the

tournament were Mikayla Partick, Montien Boey, Arnav

Kothari, Danny Do, Chris Wen, Michael Chen, Lennon Chi,

Sharalan Muraleetharan, Oxford Katakasi and Lanah Baker. Congratulations to Lanah, who received the best and fairest

award!

Mikayla Partick K5

SPEECH AND DRAMA

It was one of those memorable days, almost a festival

atmosphere, when 100 children shared their plays with over

400 parents and friends last Saturday at Drama Day. Various

Speech and Drama groups across Adelaide performed 12

plays and we were even fortunate enough to hear Kelly Bickle

(Stradbroke’s Speech

and Drama teacher)

present a humorous

monologue. We were

fortunate too with the

weather and were

able to enjoy Pedro’s

delicious homemade

icecream in the 2

intervals. Speech and

Drama students from Stradbroke performed well in their 2

plays - ‘The Blind Spot’ and ‘Fresh Air and Sunshine’ and

included Indurani Gupta, Funke Odusanya, Dewmini

Tennakoon, Aaliyah King, Kemi Odusanya, Ali Castello,

Summer Nordmeyer, Ellie Fitzgerald, Ayla Gamtcheff, Lauren

Daly and Charlie Sproule, under the direction of their

teacher, Kelly Bickle.

2018 enrolments are now available on the website

www.speechanddramasa.com.au or the front office.

Lois Brimblecombe

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 2018

Beginner students

Stradbroke School is fortunate to be

able to offer specialist instrumental

music lessons for year 3-7 students.

These 30 minute lessons are

conducted by DECD Instrumental

Music teachers during normal lesson

time. We offer violin, viola and cello

for years 3-7 and classical guitar for

years 5-7 students. We are now

accepting expressions of interest for beginners in 2018. If

your child would like to learn an instrument and will be in

year 3-7 in 2018, please collect a form from Kathy in the Front

Office and return it by Friday 3rd

November. An

audition/interview process (no previous experience

necessary) will be held in early November and available

vacancies allocated. Students who have private lessons for an

instrument are not illegible for IMS lessons for the same

instrument but can be considered for the string ensemble.

Continuing students

By now you would have received an Instrumental Music

Continuing Student form for 2018 sent home at the end of

term 3. If your child would like to continue learning an

instrument in 2018 a form needs to be returned. If you have

not received a form, copies are available from Kathy in the

Front Office.

PLAYGROUP

Playgroup is a fantastic environment for parents and their

young children to learn and have fun together with other

parents and children.

Come and join in on Friday mornings in the Leabrook Activity

Room from 9am-10.30am.

Bring a piece of fruit to share. Everyone is welcome.

Any queries email [email protected]


WATER AID FUNDRAISER

WaterAid Fundraiser - EK Body Care Scrubs

We would like to thank everyone that purchased one of our

homemade body scrubs during last term's fundraiser. Thanks

to generous donations from Foodland Rostrevor, Coles

Newton, Coles Firle and Officeworks Trinity Gardens, we were

able to donate all of the $335.00 we raised to WaterAid. All

jars purchased had a unique number on the top which gave

you an entry into our draw to win a $25.00 Coles

voucher. Using the random number generator on

Random.org we were able to choose a winning jar. The

winner of the $25.00 Coles voucher is jar 50 (Nadina Lenzi-

Bruno). Thank you for supporting us and hope you are

enjoying your body scrubs.

Emma and Katie - Year 7 Students in K8

RESOURCE CENTRE

We have had our first official week of using the new library

management system, Access It. A number of classes explored

the OPAC, learning how to search for, locate and reserve

books using the new software. Thanks to all staff and

students for their patience during this time of change and a

special thanks to Shaun for his assistance with IT.

Thank you to families for returning books that were borrowed

for the holiday break. All books borrowed last term are now

due back and will be marked overdue on the computer

system (as loans are for two weeks only). If you need a title

extended, please bring the book into the Resource Centre so

we can re-scan it for you.

Resource Centre Staff

POWER FAILURES

In the case of a school wide power failure we lose access to

our phone and computer systems. In this situation the only

mechanism we have for communicating to school families is

through the Skoolbag app as we are able to access this

through an iPad and post messages for school families. If you

have not yet downloaded the Skoolbag app to your phone or

tablet we encourage you to do this so that you have access to

the latest information sent from the school.

EARLY MORNING ARRIVAL

There are significant constraints on the ability and capacity

of schools to provide supervision for students outside of

school hours. This constraint exists for DECD schools state-

wide, and is not limited to Stradbroke School.

We take our duty of care to students very seriously, and are

required to take reasonable steps to prevent the foreseeable

harm that may arise for students who are not supervised by

their parents prior to 8:30am.

Yard duty is available for students 20 minutes prior to

lessons beginning. Our school day begins at 8.50am

therefore before school yard duty begins at 8.30am. In

addition to this our before school care program is available

through OSHC for families who need to drop their children at

school prior to 8.30am. Our OSHC staff can assist parents

with bookings, and can facilitate access to child care benefits

and rebates for eligible families.

Students who are unsupervised and on the school grounds

before 8.30am will be taken to Kids’ Zone and families will

be sent an invoice.

CANTEEN

Welcome back to term 4, I hope everyone had a happy and

safe holiday.

MENU: The new Term 4 menu is now

on the schools web site and Skoolbag

App. The main changes are the return

of Fruit Salad $5-00 and Slushies $2-00.

Frozen yoghurt price is now $2-50 due

to a change of suppliers. The winter

foods such as wedges and pasta have been deleted.

FRIDAY LUNCH SPECIAL: Tomorrow, Friday 20th

October we

will be once again offering YIROS (Lamb Yiros, Lettuce and

Tomato) $5-00.

VOLUNTEER ROSTER TERM 4: The following dates are when

we really need help...every Wednesday, Friday 3rd

November

and Friday 1st December. If you are available and would like

to volunteer, please pop into the canteen or leave a message

with the front office.

QkR APP: Later this term the canteen will be launching an

online app called QkR. It will enable parents and staff to

order lunches etc from the menu directly from the app and

pay on the app site. Look out in the newsletter for when this

will begin!

Thank you,

Kate Majewski, Canteen Manager

TRAFFIC MONITORS

Week 2 am Olivia Lepore, Savannah Lyell, Alicia

Marcionni.

pm Jordan Christie, Max Weyland, Leila

Gheisar.

Week 3 am Emma Norris, Bethany Heyer, Jasreet

Mavi.

pm Chelsea Capitano, Alyssa Costanzo, Kristi

O’Donnell.

SAPSASA ATHLETICS

Congratulations to the following students who won medals at

the SAPSASA State Athletics Championships:

Azat Safiullin won gold in the long jump and silver in the high

jump.

Talia Cargin-Rowe won

gold in the 100m and 200m

and silver in the relay.

Pippa Hansen won bronze

in the 100m and silver in

the 200m and the relay.


Oliver Reilly won silver in

the 800m and 1500m.

10 state medals to Stradbroke

athletes, and all four students

have been selected in the State

Sapsasa Athletics team to

compete at the Pacific School

Games in Adelaide, early December. This competition will

attract the best athletes from

Australia and Pacific countries. All

the best for your competition

Talia, Pippa, Oliver and Azat.

SPORTS

BASKETBALL

4/5 Coach: Jacqui Edwards

Stradbroke

Raiders

24 def Cedar Cyclones 22

A nail biting finish and a good team game. Great passing,

defence and work under the ring.

Played on: Wednesday 18th

October

6/7 Coach: George Petropoulos

Stradbroke

Allstars

39 def Cedar 96ers 26

Great effort team

Coach’s award: Grant Catalano

Played on: Monday 11th

September


Stradbroke

Allstars

48 def Sfa Bulls 26

An absolute thumper of a game. Great team effort Coach’s award: Dylan Jones


September


Stradbroke

Allstars

def

An awesome game by the whole team. First half was great

But second half was even better.

Coach’s award: Jamison Bircher


September

NETBALL

Grand Final played on Saturday 23rd

Septmeber

Sub Junior 5 Coach: Simone Bawden

Stradbroke

Sugargliders

9 def by St. Ignatius 10

Bad luck Sugargliders.

Played on: Saturday 23rd

September

TOYOTA LITTLE ATHLETICS PROGRAMS FOR SCHOOLS

On behalf of Little Athletics SA and our proud sponsors

Toyota, we would like to advise that bookings are still

available in Term 4 for the TOYOTA Little Athletics Program

for Schools (LAPS).

TOYOTA LAPS is a FREE program for Primary Schools,

designed to introduce students from Reception – Year 2 to

the basic skills of athletics through a fun promotional Little

Athletics session! The program's aim is to teach students

about what Little Athletics is all about, and to educate them

about the benefits and fun of becoming actively involved at a

centre in their local area.

Availability is running out fast so to ensure Little Athletics SA

can visit your school this year, please click the “Book Here

for Term 4!” hyperlink below to express your interest and we

will be in touch as soon as possible.

BOOK HERE FOR TERM 4!

NOTE: The expression of interest booking online form takes

no more than 5 minutes to complete.

If you require further information, please view the

information below on this email or visit our website at

http://salaa.org.au/Schools/LAPS-Primary-Schools.

Alternatively, feel free to contact the Programs & Events

Manager, Steven Marotti via email on [email protected] or

call 8352 8133.


Placement of Children in Classes for 2018

Planning for next year’s classes will begin soon. In making recommendations about class composition, teachers consider factors such as:

learning needs

gender balance

year level balance

social and emotional maturity

children with special needs and talents

social dynamics (which children to keep together and which to keep apart)

friendship groups

the number of children per class. Parent Information Parents are invited to write a short letter to the Principal if you have specific information about the needs of your child. Please include your child’s name, current year level and each student’s requirements on a separate page (not one family letter). Please do not make requests for a specific teacher. Due to enrolment numbers it is highly likely we will have composite classes, please do not make requests for your child to be or not be in a composite class. Please be aware that not all requests can be met, in past years some letters have included 5-6 specific requests for one child and it is very unlikely that these can all be accommodated. If you do have more than one request please write them in priority order so that we know which aspects of your request are most important to you.

Please place your letter in an envelope addressed to Anne Lamont.

Parent letters are due by 4pm on Wednesday 1st November.

Parent information will be considered along with factors considered by our teachers and those listed above.

Only information based on educational criteria will be considered.

A copy of your letter will be made available to the class teachers who make the placements. Classroom teachers use a range of processes to ask children to nominate friends with whom they wish to be placed. As it’s extremely difficult for us to deal with contradictory information from students and parents, it’s preferable that parents don’t write about friendship requests to us, unless there are serious issues. At this stage class structures are not definite and the final allocation of teachers to classes, which will take place late in the term, is affected by the appointment of teachers. Who makes the final decision? Staff will do their best to meet your child's needs. You can be assured that we spend a great deal of time and effort in accommodating and allocating children to classes. It is the responsibility of the Principal to make the final decision on classes and placement of students. At times it may not be in the child's best interests to be placed according to parent requests and we will discuss this with you wherever possible. When will children and parents know about class placements? If possible, class placement information will be sent home with students in the last week of term. After that date children's class placements will not be changed unless there are extenuating circumstances. If you wish to take advantage of the opportunity to provide information about your child, please ensure that all requests are forwarded to the Principal no later than 4pm on Wednesday 1st November 2017. Kind regards, Anne Lamont Principal

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