Newbery Park Primary School · 2020. 12. 3. · SMS Attendance 0434 077 091 FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear parents and caregivers, Today we held our ‘in school’ end of year concert for

BERY PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

We are a Learning Community that values…

PRIDE ~ INTEGRITY ~ RESILIENCE

Newbery Park Primary School Principal

Sam Currie

Term 4, Week 8

3rd December, 2020

Web www.newberypkps.sa.edu.au

Email [email protected]

Phone (08) 8733 2864

Fax (08) 8733 2377

SMS Attendance 0434 077 091

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear parents and caregivers,

Today we held our ‘in school’ end of year concert for 2020. While it is disappointing that

we could not hold our concert as originally planned, the students put in great energy,

were in their full costumes and the event went extremely well.

As with all whole school events, there are many peoples’ efforts that contribute to it being

a successful experience: a special thank you is extended to Sarah Fewster for working

with each class with their preparation throughout the year and to Jessica Pitcher for

supporting our SRC throughout the year to conduct our assemblies and special events.

2020 End of Year Reports

Your child’s end of year report which details their achievement against the Australian

Curriculum will be sent home on Thursday the 10th of December. If you have any queries

about the information provided in the report, please contact your child’s class teacher

to discuss.

Staffing News

In 2020, we are fortunate enough to have our entire classroom teaching staff

returning. This is an extremely positive step forward for our school and will provide a more

consistent start to 2020.

Andi Zerk has done numerous relief days for us throughout the year and at short notice

took on a role in teaching PE for the second half of this year.

Andi is a very valued member of our school community and I would like to thank her for

her hard work and contribution to our school. I’m sure we will be seeing her within our

school next year and beyond in different capacities.

I would like to pass on my thanks to the entire Newbery Park school community. This year

has proven to be a challenging year for all and being the principal at Newbery Park is a

fantastic privilege and the opportunity that I have to work with students, families and staff

is something that I greatly value.

I would also like to acknowledge our staff, teachers and SSOs, for their hard work and

tireless efforts throughout the year. We have an outstanding staff team here who support

each other, families and students on a daily basis and go above and beyond.

With one week to go, on behalf of all staff, we hope everyone has an enjoyable and safe

Christmas and holiday break.

Sam Currie Principal

DATES TO

REMEMBER

2020

Friday 4th Dec &

Monday 7th Dec

Year 7 Transition to

Millicent High

Tuesday 8th Dec

Miss Dyson & Miss

Fox Class Excursion

to Lake Mac

9th December

Year 7 Graduation

11th December

Early Dismissal 2pm

TERM DATES 2020

TERM 1

28th Jan – 9th April

TERM 2

27th April – 3rd July

TERM 3

20th July – 25th Sept

TERM 4

12th Oct – 11th Dec.

Congratulations Leanne Shawyer – Recipient of

our 2020 Volunteer of the Year Award.

“Over a period of 10+ years, Leanne has support Newbery Park in many ways. From being a member of the Governing Council, uniform committee and finance committee, to running our Parents and Friends committee that involves numerous fundraising successes, as well as working with students in programs such as Rocket Reading. Leanne has proven to be a dedicated parent and community member of Newbery Park Primary School”.

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PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL We are a Learning Community that values…


Congratulations

Dear Families,

Students should keep reading for at least 10 minutes a day over the school holidays to set themselves

up for a great start to the new school year. It will keep their brains active, develop overall reading

skills and their love of reading. To help families keep their reading momentum rolling over the holidays,

Scholastic are releasing some resources at the end of term, including

Fun competitions & reading challenges

Reading games for car trips

Author & illustrator tutorials

Book recommendations

Extra special book sales & promotions

Reading tips & more!

Go to www.scholastic.com.au/summer

Happy summer reading!

Congratulations Josh Bennier – Recipient of our 2020 Environmentalist of the Year Award! “It is with the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo project that Josh has really stood out. He has been an eager participant on seed collection and seed planting excursions, and has retained huge amounts of information from Bronwyn about the Red-Tailed Black Cockatoo. He has a long history exploring and working in our school garden. No job is too big or too small, and he will tackle any task. He is also a budding “Masterchef” on Wednesday’s, which is cooking day in the garden!”

Congratulations Becky Davis – Recipient of our 2020 Excellence in Music Award! “This award goes to a student who consistently demonstrates a commitment to learning music, and who has developed outstanding technical skill and musical knowledge. Becky is a reflective learner who identifies and solves problems when she plays, and is always dedicated to practicing regularly. She is a valued member of the musical team and is always cooperative, responsible and reliable.”

http://www.scholastic.com.au/summer




Room 6 Cooking!

For most of this year I have had the pleasure of working in Room 6 every

Friday. Luckily for me, we decided to try out some cooking, nothing too hard,

using produce from the garden and so it began. The students have embraced

cooking and over the last few months their skills, creativity and confidence

have grown. They have learnt about food safety, knife safety, grating,

chopping, and various cooking techniques. The cleaning up of the work area is

not popular but they all put in to help with minimal complaining.

Last week I demonstrated marshmallows while the students cooked cheesy

herb scones, pumpkin scones and fruit rolls.

Thanks Room 6 for making my Friday’s fun - By Ang




Earlier this term we celebrated the culture, history and achievements of our Indigenous people as part of National NAIDOC Week celebrations which ran from 8-15th of November. NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across Australia each July (postponed this year due to Covid 19) to celebrate the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

NAIDOC Week is celebrated not only in Indigenous communities, but by Australians from all walks of life in the spirit of reconciliation and support. NAIDOC Week presents a great opportunity to participate in a range of activities and to support the process of reconciliation. We had a fabulous and fun NAIDOC week this year at Newbery Park which was jam packed for the students.

Classes had an opportunity to cook and eat a different variety of dampers that were cooked with different cooking methods. These included; Vegemite and cheese damper, cheese and chive, pizza and wattle seed damper. It was a mixed reaction with each child but we managed to successfully not burn any of them!

On the Thursday Newbery Park welcomed Uncle Doug Nicholls, a local Aboriginal Elder from Teeluk (Kingston) to Newbery Park. Doug worked with each class discussing topics such as the locally developed six season’s calendar, plant and water sustainability, native animal furs; he displayed and described a range of artefacts, played musical instruments and gave the kids an opportunity to make fire with the traditional indigenous tools. At the end of the session came the highlight for most of the children as they had a chance to test their and throw a boomerang, it was a little windy but majority of the children had a successful throw and no injuries!




fruit Salad

Wow…it is hard to believe

that it is nearly the end of the

year! In room 1 we have been

doing many exciting things. In

Design and Technology, we

have been looking at how

food is grown and where it

comes from. We designed our

own our own fruit salads and

then had a fantastic time

making them ourselves. They

tasted so good!




Over the last five

Wednesdays we have had 13

kindy kids have their

transition visits to school. We

had lots of fun together as we

did many different activities

and got used to the routines

at school. Some of the

exciting things we did were:

singing songs, playing games,

reading with ‘big buddies’,

create some art, reading

stories and helping Ange in

the garden! We look forward

to when they join us full time

next year as brand new

Foundation students!




STARFISH

This term in Starfish we have been

using community and real-world

activities to inform our literacy and

communication learning. We have

focused on our writing and

communication skills through the

examination and creation of

procedural texts.

On each Monday our group has the

job of feeding the chooks and we

wondered what would happen if we

weren’t here or the job needed to be

done by someone else next year. So

we have begun to create a book

detailing the equipment and procedure

for the important job of feeding the

chooks. Together we brainstormed

what was needed and communicated

the steps involved. We also began

creating supportive illustrations and

are working to include photos in our

texts.

Everyone has been able to contribute

to the book using their own level of

literacy skills and we look forward to

its completion.




Sustainability Project 2020

This year we have had a small group of volunteers and students working throughout lunchtime sessions on a ‘small’ sustainability project.

Throughout the year we have collected donations of materials and other sewing materials which we have been repurposing into reusable material shopping bags. Students have worked through each step of the process - guided and taught by Emelia Tidy, Brooke Parry and Jay Watson - including cutting the material using patterns, pinning, ironing and finally sewing!

Next week we will be delivering our first load of shopping bags to Fosters Foodland where members of our Millicent community will be given some reusable bags instead of plastic bags - saving the environment, one reusable shopping bag at a time!

Next year we will again be running our Sustainability Project, and will be on the lookout for more community members to volunteer their time and join us during lunchtimes to support our students in sewing more bags. Also, any donations of materials and sewing equipment are always greatly appreciated!

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact Jess Herrewyn or the front office.

Keep your eyes peeled for our bags as they begin to appear in the Millicent community!




LIBRARY BOOKS Please have a look under beds, in closets and

around the house for any school library books. If

you happen to find a book or a few please

return them to the school by the end of term.

REMINDER - TIME TO RETURN SCHOOL READERS

It’s that time of year again when we ask that all school readers be

returned. Could you please check your children bags, bedrooms, toy

boxes, book shelves, the car and couch and see if there are any books

with the school barcode on them.

Books need to be returned by

Monday 7th December.

Thank you

CHROME BOOKS

All Chrome Books and

Chargers are to be returned to the School by

Monday

7th December

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Newbery Park Primary School · 2020. 12. 3. · SMS Attendance 0434 077 091 FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear parents and caregivers, Today we held our ‘in school’ end of year concert for