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Fulham Gardens Primary School
Principal: Tony Varbaro
DIARY DATES 2020
TERM DATES
TERM 1 28 Jan – 9 April
TERM 2 27 April – 3 July
TERM 3 20 July – 25 Sept
TERM 4 12 Oct – 11 Dec
TERM 4 DIARY DATES
SPORTS DAY FRIDAY 23RD OCTOBER
PREMIER’S READING
CHALLENGE ASSEMBLY MONDAY 16TH NOVEMBER
YEAR 7 GRADUATION
THURSDAY 10TH DECEMBER
CULTURAL DIVERSITY
Fulham Gardens Primary school exploded into colour with craft,
sounds, tastes, customs and traditions and celebrated the diverse
cultural flavours of the students and families enrolled at our
school. The diversity adds life, authenticity and excitement to our
daily lives and we are privileged to be able to share this through
our recent Cultural learning experiences, underpinned by RESPECT
and INCLUSIVITY.
Jack Buckskin performed and entertained us with an
acknowledgement of country and deep insight into the playing of the
didgeridoo.
Celebrating Community Cultural Week (CCCW) at Fulham Gardens
hosted many special visitors throughout the week, and explored
Italian, Japanese, African, Australian and Indian food, dance, art,
songs and stories. Parents were invited to share something from
their culture with our students which led to dancing in the PAC
with Jaclyn T, doing the ‘Jerusalema’ and finding out some fun
facts about South Africa.
“The best part of our learning was cooking minestrone, zippoli
and cannelloni. We also learnt to dance the spider dance known as
the tarantella”. Helena
NEWSLETTER 1 ~ TERM 4 2020 Aiming for Excellence. Powerful &
Engaged Learning for Life.
successful learning** including others **responsibility**
honesty** respect
Phone: 8356 3726 Fax: 8235 1249 E-mail:
[email protected]
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CULTURAL CELEBRATION - Following are the many cultures our
families identify with.
Australian, English, Greek, South African, Sudanese, Latvian,
Indian, Aboriginal, Scottish, Italian, Korean, Bangladeshi,
Brazilian, Punjabi, Filipino, Norwegian, Afrikaner, Iranian,
Jordanian, Syrian, Sikh, Albanian, Russian, Chinese,Thailand, New
Zealand
Cooking in the kitchen where Rod and Maria and SAK program
delivered Bobtie, Homemade spinach and ricotta cannelloni,
Samosa’s, Meat Pies and Pasties and Lamingtons. Room 9 were lucky
enough to explore Middle Eastern cuisine. Ms Maria Maieli, shared
her secret Zeppole’s recipe as did Jealime B with her Melk Tert’s,
all were delicious.
Japanese Lanterns filled the PAC, students learnt digital
imaging skills and built landscapes of the Sahara Desert.
Japanese kites were made and Carniva’le masks painted.
CULTURAL CELEBRATION
WELCOME TO COUNTRY WITH JACK BUCKSKIN The culmination of
learning was celebrated at a school assembly. Jack Buckskin a
respected member of the Kaurna Community opened the assembly with a
captivating welcome. We were guided in the importance of culture
and schooled on how to play a digeridoo. Jack welcomed us to
country and our students displayed their new skills in singing and
music, guided by the collaborative work of our teachers.
Students voices were heard, they all played a part in
contributing to the music by playing a variety of instruments from
boom whackers, to Ukuleles to homemade bush instruments. The PAC
was humming with rhythm, song and pride for their own culture and
the culture they had been immersed in for the term.
COOKING KEBABS Mona M volunteered to come and cook up some
traditional Kebabs. This cultural focus provided opportunities for
creativity and critical thinking skills, as well as strong
curriculum knowledge.
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CULTURAL CELEBRATION Research shows that sharing and learning
with peers is a good motivator to higher order thinking. With
everyone involved, the opportunity to work within different
learning areas and with buddy classes created an environment of
respect and acceptance.
This project included not only all our students but involved
parents and our community, which was challenging in these COVID
times and we would like to thank all parents that volunteered.
We were lucky enough to have Rinnah G, and Meenu S, come and
share mehndi and many of us offered our hands and arms as canvases
to their lovely designs. To finish off our Indian Art focus
students in Room 5 and Room 6 decorated the garden with chalk
Mandela’s.
BOOK WEEK DRESS UP PARADE
TUESDAY OCT 20TH
DRESS UP AS A
CURIOUS CREATURE
CULTURAL WEEK CELEBRATIONS The raptors explored Australian
Bushband instruments. These included tea chest base, lagerphones
and washboards. In music we learnt waltzing matilda. The koalas
focussed on the Middle East, studying migration and in turn looked
at their own family trees. Cooking involved making some traditional
dishes such as Mutabuq, rice dishes and turkey mince as well as
tasting some traditional Persian foods.
The pandas explored Africa, the famous deserts, mountains,
rivers and cooked traditional south African dishes. Thank you to
Jealine Brink. We also learnt a dance called the Jerusalema thanks
to Jaclyn Turley.
ROOM 3 AND 7 BUDDIES Room 3 + 7 buddy program Pizza making in
the SAK and learning how to use the microscopes on the
computers
Rm 3 students love their buddies. It’s a great opportunity for
building inclusive experiences and understanding. Room 7 are very
patient with our kids and it’s great to see the relationships
forming.
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FPGS SPORTS DAY Sports Day this year will be held on Friday 23rd
of October Week 2.
The day will consist of a whole school morning warm up, team
chants with activities throughout the day including football
kicking to targets, high jump,
hurdles, basketball, javelin, egg and spoon race, dragon race
and finishing off with a tug-of-war!
Due to current COVID-19 restrictions, unfortunately we are not
allowed to welcome
families and spectators on site. We will post many photos
through our class Seesaw, Facebook and in the newsletter.
Sports Day Cake Sale
The Student Governing
Council will be holding a Cake Sale during recess
time on Sports Day.
The school will be supplying the cakes and lolly bags to sell.
Due to COVID -19 restrictions we cannot allow students to bring
food items
into school.
All money raised will go towards our END OF YEAR
celebrations!
Be ready to HAVE FUN and make sure to WEAR YOUR TEAMS
COLOURS!
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