QKR APP IS COMING TO

HENDON

HENDON AUSKICK CENTRE

DATES: Every Tuesday starting 13th Feb until 10th April

WHERE: Hendon Primary School TIME: 3:15 – 4:15pm

COST: $75* paid to AFL via online registration. Register online: www.play.afl/auskick

Contact: Scott Prebble – SANFL Development Coordinator 0400634457

*The cost of the program is just $25.00, with use of government

sportsvouchers. See www.sportsvouchers.sa.gov.au for info. Cov-

ering all coaching sessions, your very own benefits pack jammed

full of awesome goodies, plus other great offers throughout the

season!

For further information visit www.play.afl/auskick or contact Scott

Prebble at the Woodville-West Torrens Football Club on 8347 2444

Wishing all our families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

Hendon Link Cedar Avenue, Royal Park 5014 Phone: 83453190 Fax: 84451493

Email: dl.0670.info@schools.sa.edu.au Principal: Sue Mittiga Deputy Principal: Nick Papadopoulos

Hendon Primary School Newsletter 13th December 2017

DECEMBER

13th Year 7 Graduation 14th Casual Day Yr 7 Day Out Preschool Graduation 15th Last Day Term 4 2pm dismissal

JANUARY 29th 1st day term 1 2018

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2 pm Early Dismissal Last Day 15th December

C hoirs Our School choirs have been performing at West Lakes shopping Centre and Acacia Court Retirement Home entertaining audiences with a

wonderful repertoire of music and Christmas songs. Congratulations to all our performers for their outstanding efforts and a huge thank you to Maria and Eleni for their incredible enthusiasm and hard work.

S chool Christmas Concert What a fabulous evening. Our students were amazing – their performances and behaviour were outstanding. Thanks to all our staff in particular Maria

for organisation and creative talents, our volunteers that supported the BBQ and sold drinks and ice creams on the night, our parents who organised the raffle, Mr Crossley and Ms Petrov for the backdrops. An amazing night!

S tudent Farewells We would like to farewell all the students and families that are leaving our school and in particular our year seven students and families who have completed their schooling at Hendon.

Our year 7s have had a very successful year utilising their keys to success –Their getting along, organization, persistence, resilience and confidence skills to enable them to be successful leaders across our school. They have represented and supported our school in numerous ways including peer tutoring, lunch play leaders, in SAPSASA events, house leaders, assembly comperes, as traffic monitors, in choir, on camp, as SRC reps, SRC Exec and as school monitors. They have been fabulous role models for others. We would like to wish them the very best for their futures.

S taff Farewells We would like to acknowledge and farewell several staff who have now officially retired from teaching - Lil Weston, Nicky Popierinskas and

Robin Johnson. They have made enormous contr ibutions to teaching young people at Hendon and we wish them the very best for their retirement. We also farewell and thank many contract staff including Larissa Svanbaeck, Alison Hepple, Greg Hurnall, Laura Woods and Barb Thredgold. Chris Elliott is also retir ing at the end of this year . Her contr ibutions to the Hendon School Community have been outstanding. She is an inspirational member of staff giving amazing support to our students and their families over many years with their learning and emotional and social wellbeing. Chris will be missed across the whole school community; she has mentored, coached, supported and inspired students, parents and staff over many years and will be an enormous loss to our school. We wish her a wonderful and well deserved retirement.

O ccasional Care Enrolments We are excited to again be running Occasional Care in the Preschool in 2018. If you have a child aged between 2-4 you are eligible to attend. Please see Preschool staff to register as soon

as possible.

V olunteers Morning Tea We held a morning tea this term to say thank you to our Volunteers for their amazing support throughout the year! Congratulations to Tracey Doherty for receiving the Volunteer Award for

2017 for outstanding service from DECD.

Have a relaxing and fun Christmas break everyone! Sue Mittiga

Christmas Raffle Winners: 1st K Chamings 2nd D Plane 3rd J Mclaren 4th K Rowe 5th K Severe 6th J McAvaney Student Prize: 1st James Rm 14 2nd Braedan Rm 19 Congratulations and thank you to all our families for their continued support.

In Week 1 this term the year 7 students along with staff attended a three day Aquatics camp in Port Vincent.

The activities, all led by professional aquatics instructors, included Windsurfing, Knee boarding, Sailing and Canoeing. The students had an amazing time.

By the end of the camp their water skills, confidence and persistence had greatly improved.

Hendon Peer Mediators and Play at Lunchtime students had a great day celebrating at the Mt. Thebarton Ice Arena as a reward for all their commitment and contributions during the

year.