From the Leadership Team - Dora, Anita and Lindy

Respect

Creativity

Excellence

Resilience

Issue 10– August 14 2019

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Diary Dates

Week 5 19/8-23/8 Book Week

Monday 19/8 9.15am Parent Tour

Friday 23/8 9.00am Book Week Assembly &

Parade

Friday 30/8 7.15am Fathers’ Day Breakfast

Monday 2/9 SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY

Thursday 12/9 3.30pm-4.30pm Numeracy Expo

71 Stradbroke Rd Athelstone SA 5076 Phone: 8337 2050

OSHC Phone: 0421 618 856 Principal Dora Iuliano Governing Council Chairperson Natalie Johnson

Governing Council Sub-committee meetings

Tues 27/8 5.15pm Canteen; 5.45pm OSHC

Tues 3/9 5.15pm Finance

Tues 10/9 7.00pm Governing Council

Road Crossing Monitors

Week 5 Mon 19/8-Fri 23/8 Neypier C, Sienna C, Ruby Z

Week 6 Mon 26/8- Fri 30/8 Lisa H, Madeleine R, Liam K

Week 7 Tues 3/9-Fri 6/9 Vittoria G, Alessia G, Tyler E

Canteen Roster

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

19/8

Kim

Sarah

20/8

Sarah

Yr 7

21/8

Jason

Stella

22/8

Nikala

Yr 7

23/8

Narelle

Taryn

26/8

Kim

Sarah

27/8

Tania O

Yr 7

28/8

Stella

Victoria

29/8

Beck R

Nicole

30/8

Narelle

Maria

2/9

Closed

3/9

Sarah

Yr 7

4/9

Jason

Stella

5/9

Nikala

Yr 7

6/9

Narelle

Taryn

Pupil Free Day

Our leadership team leads the educational

professionals in our school and inspires students, staff

and members of the community to continually

enhance the learning of all and to secure the best

possible learning outcomes and wellbeing of all

students. Our school values underpin our quality

inclusive practices, high expectations and the

promotion of positive partnerships between school and

home.

At our Pupil Free Day on August 2nd, our staff engaged

in designing differentiated teaching, learning and

assessment tasks focused on improving student

learning outcomes in Literacy and Numeracy. We

explored the Australian Curriculum Progressions that

are used to inform our students’ SMART goals in Oral

Language and Mathematics and we reviewed our

student evidence/assessment folders. Our professional

reading and discussions centred on Best Advice

Numeracy papers: Beliefs and Attitudes about

Mathematics and Conceptual Understanding –

Number and Algebra. This term’s site improvement

plan focus is Numeracy – designing rich assessment

tasks which will be moderated for increased

consistency of teacher judgement across the site and

developing our students’ ability to confidently use

mathematical language to problem-solve and to seek

a range of creative solutions.

Numeracy Expo

Our students invite families to attend our Numeracy

Expo on Thursday 12 September 3.30-4.30pm. Being

held in classrooms and specialist teaching and

learning areas, students will showcase their learning

and teachers will demonstrate research-based and

diverse ways of teaching Mathematics and Numeracy

across the curriculum. Our students are keen to share

their learning with you, so save the date!

Planning for 2020

Term 3 is the time we begin planning for the

following year. Enrolments are critical to our

staffing formulae so in order to support forward

planning, please contact Julie via email

Julie.Powell951@schools.sa.edu.au or ring the

school office on 8337 2050 to inform us if you

will be leaving our school community next

year. It would be most helpful if we received

this information by Wednesday 4 September.

Class placements forms for 2020 help to inform

our decisions regarding next year’s class

configurations along with the student, teacher

and leadership input. These are attached to

this newsletter.

Book Week and Book Fair-

Reading is my secret power

During Book Week, our students will celebrate

their learning in a variety of ways which will

allow them to enjoy a range of CBCA

(Children’s Book Council of Australia) shortlisted

books. Teachers will share their favourite stories

with other classes and engage in daily reading

and book reviews of Book Week Picture books.

Our Ambassadors are organising some

lunchtime activities for the younger students

including making paper capes and drawing

self portraits. On Friday, students are invited to

dress up as their favourite book character or in

a costume that supports the theme Reading is

my Secret Power. We look forward to seeing

families attend our parade during assembly at

9:00am next Friday.

We are also holding a Book Fair during Book

Week. It will be held in the Thiele Building and

books can be purchased during the hours

below. Come along and have a look at the

great titles available.

Opening Times

Monday 19/8—Friday 23/8 3:10-4:00pm

Tuesday 20/8-Friday 23/8 8:30-9:00am

Denise

Fathers’ Day Breakfast

It’s the time of the year where we like to

acknowledge our Dads, Grandpas and

other special men who support our

students. Fathers’ Day Breakfast will again

be held in our gym on Friday

August 30 from 7.15-8.30am.

Gold coin donation is

appreciated. Please return

the RSVP slip on the attached flyer. We look

forward to seeing everyone there.

Sushi Special Lunch

On Tuesday 3 September, the canteen is hosting a

sushi lunch. Students can order a choice of 3

flavours and this will be

delivered to the classroom at

lunch time. Each sushi roll will

cost $3 with all orders needing

to be placed by 4.00pm on Wednesday 28 August.

Please see the attached flyer for the Order Form

and further details.

Pastoral Care Worker Review

Tim Wells has been working as the

Pastoral Care Worker (PCW) at

Thorndon Park Primary School for 6 years. The

Schools Ministry Group will shortly be

conducting a review of this role. Gaining

feedback from parents is an important part of

the review.

The information gained from this survey will be:

Read by the Review Panel, including the

Pastoral Care Worker. The panel consists

of representatives from the school, local

churches and Schools Ministry Group

Used to assess and improve the

effectiveness of the Chaplaincy Service in

the school

Attached is a brief survey which we ask families

to complete and return to the office by

Tuesday 27 August. We appreciate your input

and feedback.

New digital newsletter

format coming soon.

Looking forward to sharing

our school and community

news in a different way.

Schnitzel Fundraiser at the Tower Hotel

Gather up your family and friends and join

the TPPS community for dinner at the Tower

Hotel (621 Magill Rd, Magill) on Monday

19th August to help raise money for our

school.

$5 from every standard sized schnitzel will

be donated to Thorndon Park PS to help

purchase new sports’

uniforms.

Looking forward to seeing

you there!

SAPSASA News

In week 10 Term 2, our school competed in the second round of the SAPSASA Knockout

Soccer Competition. A group of year 5/6/7

boys played two matches against Westport PS

and St Josephs. We finished the day winning 1 –

nil against St Josephs before being beaten by

Westport, who eventually progressed to the

next round. I was extremely proud of the efforts

of the boys and the game was played in great

spirits. Well done Arian on scoring our only goal.

Week 1 of this term saw our students

participating in the SAPSASA Basketball

Carnival at Hillcrest Stadium. We entered a

boys and girls team and played in a round

robin competition against 6 other schools. Unfortunately we didn’t have a great deal of

success on the scoreboard throughout the day, however there was significant growth and

improvement from both teams, especially since

many hadn’t played competitive basketball

before. The boy’s team secured a tie and the

girl’s team achieved a win which were

highlights for the teams. It’s really positive to

see the amount of time the students who

competed are now spending at break times

honing their skills and playing basketball

together.

Thank you to all volunteers who made the day

possible.

Swimming

During week 3, students in Reception to Year 5 attended Water Safety lessons at the

ARC at Campbelltown. These lessons are part of the Health and PE curriculum and

teach students familiarity, safety and other basic techniques. Some of the skills the

students practised included :

floating

diving for objects in the water

safe entry to the pool

jumping into deep water safely

the survival stroke

using a Personal Flotation Device

(PFD)

compact landings

treading water

rescuing others using a PFD

survival techniques wearing

heavy clothing

pin drops

What a great week everyone had with some fabulous learning as a

result.

Maths Learning—Mr Spence’s Class

The Year 5 and 6 students in Room 15 spent

Term 2 learning about fractions, decimals

and percentages. They learnt how these

could be used to describe chance, how to

convert between them and how to add and

subtract them. This learning culminated with

the students working in groups to create a Maths board game. Students came up with

the design and rules of the game and created the questions themselves. These questions

needed to be related to the maths learning about fractions,

decimals and percentages. Pictured are

some of the games that the students

created. We are looking forward to

sharing these during the Numeracy Expo

in Week 8.