"Excellence and Care"

www.shps.sa.edu.au

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9 Ward Street, Salisbury Heights, SA 5109 Phone: 08 8258 7299 Fax: 08 8281 5861 Email: dl.1177.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Friday 29th

November Principal: Katherine Holman Deputy Principal: Terry Minos

Diary Dates 2019

From the Principal – Katherine Holman

Reports

End of Year Reports will be going home on Friday

the 6th of December. Due to the current AEU

industrial action, reports will not include

comments. Reception to year 7 reports will include

information regarding student personal

development. Year 1 to 7 reports will also include

a grade for achievement and effort in each

learning area.

Please remember that a ‘C’ grade is the expected

achievement at your child’s year level.

As has been the case throughout the year, if you

ever wish to discuss your child’s progress in more

detail, a mutually convenient time can be made

with your child’s teacher/s.

Students will do a visit to their new class next

Friday morning. Class placements will come home

with reports. All classes are at or close to capacity

and any movement is highly unlikely.

In 2020 we will have 438 students and 16 classes:

2 Reception classes

1 Reception / Year 1

2 Year 1 / 2 classes

1 Year 2 class

2 Year 2 / 3 classes

2 Year 3 / 4 classes

1 Year 4 / 5 class

2 Year 5 / 6 class

3 Year 6 / 7 classes

We hope you enjoy the celebrations over the next

two weeks including the Christmas Concert and

Graduation.

United Christmas Lunch Each year, Salisbury City Rotaract Club and

Parafield Gardens Community Club collaborate to

hold a FREE Community Christmas Lunch. The

event this year will be held at the Parafield Gardens

Community Club on Christmas Day at 12pm until

3pm. The idea is to bring people together who may

not have anywhere to go on the day for a shared

lunch with other members of the community. Book

by calling 8182 3444.

Dec 2nd Year 7 Orientation Day at Salisbury High School

Dec 3rd Governing Council

Dec 4th New Reception Transition

Dec 4th Academic Excellence Awards

Dec 4th Year 7 Transition Visit at Golden Grove High School

Dec 5th Year 2-7 ATSI Students at Bowling Excursion

Dec 6th Visit to new classes / Reports to go home

Dec 9th Year 7 Transition Day at Salisbury East High School

Dec 10th Christmas Concert

Dec 11th Graduation

Dec 13th Rm 26, 28 & 31 at Elizabeth Aquadome Excursion

Dec 13th End of Term 4- Early Dismissal at 2pm

Assembly Class Items for your Diary

Term 4

8 4th Dec Awards/ Concert Seating

9 13th Dec No Item/ Assembly on Friday to Farewell Yr 7’s

"Excellence and Care"

New JP Playground Development

We are very excited to announce the construction of

our new playground is about to take shape.

Temporary fencing is going up on Friday 29th of

November and from Monday 2n of December

ground preparation will commence and demolition

of the old playground will occur. On Monday 9th of

December the construction of the new playground

will commence. Completion of the playground is

estimated by Thursday 12th of December then the

soft fall will go in after that. Please be mindful that

trucks will be on site and moving during the day, so

it’s important to keep safe and follow directions

when required and stay behind the safety fencing.

The area will be ready for use when you return in

2020.

QKR: New online App for School and Canteen.

We are currently in the process of implementing

this Application so you can make payments online

for School M&S Fees, Uniform Orders and

Excursions. It will also allow online ordering of

lunches etc from the Canteen. It works as an

immediate debit from your credit card. We are

hoping to have this up and running for the

beginning of 2020 and will send home the

information you will need to download the app and

enter your details. Stay tuned, further details to

follow.

Canteen News- Mandie & Lynette

There will not be any Bi – Weekly Special for the

weeks 8 & 9. Come by the Canteen to see what

we have at a discount price.

Salad of the week - $4.50

Week 8 – Tomato, Olive & Haloumi

Week 9 – No salad of the week available

BBQ End of Year Concert

We are still in need of volunteers for the end of year

BBQ on Tuesday 10th of December. Please come

and see us if you can help for 45 minutes on the

night.

Social Responsibility Awards

It was terrific to celebrate our students who

received awards for Social Responsibility at Week

8 assembly.

These awards recognise children who use all their

Program Achieve Keys and Habits of the Mind.

These children are reliable and we can depend on

them to be an asset to the classroom and show

‘Excellence and Care’ towards their class mates

and school. The children who received this award

were very excited.

Congratulations to…..

Jett Rider Stirling Edwards Ruby Petherick

Lily Daw Holly Stewart Nikolaos Tsalamangos

Grace Bird Saidie Manson Emmerson Entwistle

David Macie Annabelle Gatti Angelo Tsalamangos

Chloe Dawson Jake Green Lincoln Mychajliw

Michell Zimmermann

Academic Improvement Awards

Congratulations to those students that received

Academic Improvement Awards in this weeks

assembly they are….

Commonwealth Student Banking Award Winner

Week 6: Room: 35

Week 7: Room: 32

Banking day is Thursday. Joining up is easy to do

online or you can talk to our wonderful volunteers

in the library on Thursday mornings from 9:00am

Crossing Monitors- Term 4

Yaseen Khorami Zach Spartley Tahana Chantrelle

Logan Boothey Austin Lang Rhys Gow-Smith

LJ Pepper Wil Shirley Charli Stribling

Jay Smith Joshua Grant Anabelle Pilkington

Amelia Adamson Hope Davies Lakyn Barrett-Ware

Piper Gallagher Joshua Westlake

Week 8: Zane Luckhurst & Blake Richardson

Week 9: Ryder Freer & Vincent Kennison

"Excellence and Care"

Vacation Care- Carly Hendry

The Vacation Care Program is out now and OSHC

are now taking bookings. Please note that the last

day to make cancellations without incurring the

same days fee is by 6pm on Friday the 6th

December.

Come and join the fun we have plenty of in-

house activities including a Tie Dying workshop

where children make their own T-shirt or pillow

case (sorry the pencil case wraps are not available

now). Three amazing challenge days brought to us

by Jump Easy, with inflatables, water game 'Bust a

balloon', bowling, slam dunk castle and light up

physical interaction games that keep score, come

and challenge a friend! We also have Carnival

Knights visiting with a performance of 'The

Unicorn and the Dragon', and Magic Mike with his

popular Magic workshop and the all new Laser tag

at OSHC.

There will also be a great day focusing on

sustainable practices and Bees, with a visit from

Hanni Bee, and our local Hayes Honey family here

to teach us of the importance of bees and about the

process of making honey. Children will then be able

to make their own Bees Wax sandwich wrap to take

home and Hayes Honey products will be available

for sale to families on the day.

Excursions include, The Beachouse, Tunz of Fun,

Adelaide Aquatic Centre, Gawler Cinema to see

'Spies in Disguise', Xtreme Inflatables now with

Water slide and to two separate productions from

the Australian Classical Youth Ballet, performing

'The Wizard of OZ' & 'Seussical Jr' (a Dr Seuss

production).

Get your program from OSHC and make your

bookings on the booking form, or call OSHC if you

require any further information on 8281 1700.

Community News

"Excellence and Care"

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While learning about Life Cycles in STEM, we were very lucky to observe and study fifteen

chickens “hands-on”.

We followed their growth and development with interest from when they hatched in the

incubator until they were taken to their new homes at 1-2 weeks of age.

This experience was much enjoyed by all of us in rooms 11 and 7.

Room 11

“HENNY PENNY HATCHINGS

"Excellence and Care"

CINQUAIN POEMS - REFLECTIONS OF 2019 by ROOM 11

CELEBRATIONS

Halloween and Christmas

Spooky, pretty, scary

We love to celebrate having fun and

with presents

Special Days.

By Alera, Jada and Josie

SWIMMING

Floaties, water

Swim, dive, float

Safety so you don’t drown

Water Confidence!

By Chase G, Cooper and Oscar.

BTN

News, information

Exciting, sad, happy

Makes us think and want to talk

about it

Current Events.

By Josh, Kiera and Sophia.

THE PLANETARIUM

Planets, constellations

Orbiting, shining, rotating

Our amazing Solar System, part of

the Milky Way

The Universe.

By Cameron, Filip and Jett.

CHICKS

Fluffy, soft

Flapping, chirping, loving

We feel happy that the chicks feel

safe

Chickens!

By April, Jake and Lily.

SPELLING

Sentences, handwriting

Better, neater and quicker

Neater handwriting, better spelling

Completed.

By Ben, Caleb, Kai and Lucas.

REFLECTION

Excursion, Life Cycles

Space, chickens, interactive

All exciting, fun and amazing

Happy.

By Brody and Nikita.

LEARNING

Fun, enjoying

Reading, writing, challenging

Work hard and be rewarded

School.

By Josiah and Oliver

POSITIVES

Growth Mindset, Program Achieve

Thinking, believing, progressing

Feeling good about learning

Success.

By Adam, Chase. H., Dakota and Jesse.

"Excellence and Care"

3D Printing Competition Winners

During Book Week this year students were invited to enter a 3D printing competition to create their

own learning super hero. Here are the winning entries a long with the print which was created in Makers Empire and printed using

our 3D printer.

"Excellence and Care"

Parents of Students in Year 7 in 2020 ACER Test

The Assessment Day for the Ignite Test is Saturday 22nd February 2020

Is your son or daughter gifted? The Ignite Program is a selective entry program for gifted students entering Year 8 at The Heights School. Within the Ignite program there are opportunities for students to be accelerated, and participate in a range of enrichment activities to extend and stimulate their adept minds. They study, and form friendships with other like-minded peers, in a caring and nurturing environment.

We continue to be one of the leading schools across the Northern Region, with outstanding SACE results. In 2016 our students achieved the highest SACE scores across the Northern Region. In 2017, 20% of our Stage 2 students received an ATAR score of over 80. 11% of these students scored above 90, with our highest achieving an ATAR score of 98.8. In 2018, 98% of students who applied for university positions were offered their first or second preference. In 2019, The Heights School staff are mentoring a student who is currently studying first year University (through the Headstart program at Adelaide University) whilst completing their SACE on campus at The Heights.

If you believe your child would thrive and benefit from the Ignite program, please complete an expression of interest form for your child to sit the ACER test conducted at The Heights School

Expression of Interest Forms are now available on online via http://www.theheights.sa.edu.au/ignite.html Additional enquiries can be directed to Michelle Crush (Ignite Services) at The Heights School on 82636244 or via email: Michelle.Crush23@schools.sa.edu.au

Please note that students can only sit the test once. If a student sits for the assessment then he/she cannot re-sit the test the following year

so we strongly recommend only sitting the test as a Year 7 student