NURIOOTPA PRIMARY

SCHOOL

15 Buna Tce, Nuriootpa SA 5355 Phone: 85621040 Fax: 85621958

Email: dl.0318.admin@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.nurips.sa.edu.au

OUR VALUES

RESPECT

RESPONSIBILITY

ACHEIVEMENT

PERSISTENCE

OUR PURPOSE

We key into excellence by developing engaged and

independent lifelong learners who demonstrate respect and responsibility within our school

and wider community.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

PRINCIPAL: JILL HESS Jill.Hess949@schools.sa.edu.au

DEPUTY: ANN-MARIE ELLIS

14th January 2019

TERM 1 WEEK 3

IMPORTANT DATES

11-15/2/19

Parent Information

Meetings

25/2/19 to 1/3/19

Swimming R-5

11/3/19

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

12/3/19

PUPIL FREE DAY

15/3/19

Crazy Hair Day

11/4/19

Grandparents Visit

Star of Success

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

WELCOME

What a wonderful start to our year. The first day was

very calm, students remembered which class they were going to and

were happy to move off with their new teacher. The classes were

settled within the first few minutes of our new school year. We are

seeing very settled classes still and students are in routine and

engaged in their learning. The new Reception students are doing very

well and are managing their new environment and have transitioned

into school life quickly and are also very engaged in new learning.

We have many new families join our school community, welcome and we

hope you will enjoy being a part of the Nuriootpa School Community as

much as I do. If you have any concerns about your child(ren) please do

not hesitate to contact their teacher, Ann-Marie (Deputy) or myself.

We are all here to work with you to bring about the most positive

learning experiences for your child(ren).

WELCOME TO OUR NEW STUDENTS AND FAMILIES

OUR STAFF

We have had a few staffing changes over the holidays. Unfortunately Rebecca Desmond has

left us because she found a position at a school much closer to her home. Deb Wilson has also

left to find new employment. We wish them both well. Emma Lukong has replaced Rebecca and

is working across three classes, she is doing amazing work and our children have responded to

her well. Jayde Sherriff has replaced Deb and she is already showing she has excellent skills

and is developing positive relationships with families and staff.

THIS YEARS CLASS TEACHERS

Julie Hall

Rec/ Yr 1

Helen Henschke

Rec/ Yr 1

Mandy Wild

Yr 1/ 2

Haylie Cooke

Yr 2/3 & German

Jac Rich

Yr 3/4

Anne Thomas

Yr 3/4 & Well Being

Kirsty Stokoe

Yr 1/2

Emma Lukong

Yr 3/4, 4/5, 6/7

Michael Rostig

Yr 4/5

Kylie Murray

Yr 4/5

Sarah Powell

Yr 5/6

Sally Keane

Yr 6/7

Emilie Mazis

Yr 6/7

Catherine O’Neil

Yr 6/7

Courtney Adams

Yr 6/7

David Murray

PE/ Health

Angus Bugeja

The Arts

Also joining our staff is Angus Bugeja who is working with the R-7’s in the area of Performing

Arts – music focus. Some of you would have already received information from Angus about hiring

musical instruments so your child can participate in our school band. Angus has already started

working with our junior choir, and our senior choir will begin work within the next couple of weeks.

We are very excited about this new focus in our school and we are hoping to develop music across

the school to provide new and enriching experiences for our students.

THIS YEARS SCHOOL SUPPORT OFFICERS

Jayde Sherriff

Finance & Business

Manager

Karen Brook

Front Office/

Classroom Support

Renee Switala

Front Office/

Classroom Support

Karen Norton

Library/ ICT/

WHS

Michelle Rose

LAP/ Classroom

Support

Emily Schultz

Classroom Support

Lynne Ford

Classroom Support

Tammy Whitford

Classroom Support

Jackie Dellar

Classroom Support

Anne-Marie

Wells

Classroom Support

Warren Ihms

Grounds Keeper

Jess Baker

Pastoral Care Worker

This week we continued the process for nominating a Well Being Co-ordinator (Counsellor) for

the school. Anne Thomas won this position for 2019 and will be working on Thursday and

Fridays in this role. On one day she will be working in classes on a new programme called Bounce

Back which helps students to become more resilient. The other day will be spent in more of a

counselling role. While Anne is doing this role Emma Lukong will be in the classroom.

BOSHC NEWS

During the holidays a panel was formed to go through a formal process of selecting a provider

for our Out of School Hours Care. This process developed over the last few years for sites like

ours who have third party providers. This was an involved process where the panel reviewed all

applications, scored the evidence according to the Departments criteria and then made a

recommendation. Happy Haven was the successful applicant and we welcome them to our

fabulous site. In saying that we have been very fortunate to have BOSHC as our third party

providers over many years. The personnel at BOSHC have been wonderful to work with and the

programmes they have offered have certainly been of a high standard. Although we expect to

see some minor changes to our before and after school care programme, we hope these will be

minimal. It has been Happy Havens practice to offer current personnel employment, so we are

hoping our current staffing will remain the same. For all of those who have supported BOSHC

over the last many years, thank you for your work and offering our site such an excellent

service.

PARENT INFORMATION SHARING MEETINGS

I hope all parents have taken the opportunity to meet with their child(rens) teacher over this

week. We decided to trial this format this year as opposed to our traditional Open Night

because we want to hear from each of you about your child and find out as much about them as

we can. Formal interviews will be held later in the term where teachers will be sharing with you

your child’s academic progress.

GOVERNING COUNCIL

I hope you will be able to join us at our Governing Council AGM on Monday 18TH February. We

will meet at 7.00p.m. in the staffroom. Thank you to the Governing Council members who have

supported the school to further develop in 2018.

Those members who are retiring this year are Alex Stokoe, Rita Galas, Sahara Rosenzweig and

Stephen Garrett while Jenny Doecke, Robyn Salfischberger, Shannon Ellard and Garry Pentland.

Janine Gladigau and Anne Thomas will continue for another year. I hope those who are retiring

will consider another term on Governing Council. There is always room for new people to join

this group who support the school through ensuring our money is being spent appropriately and

to our budget, whilst monitoring the implementation of the Site Improvement Plan.

From Governing Council we develop some sub committees to oversee the development of our

grounds and work with our OSCH services to make sure it is meeting our family’s needs. We are

very sorry to see Sahar has finished her time on Governing Council because all of her children

are now at the High School. Sahar has been a wonderful member of GC for many years and held

office positions and been a positive GC member who has always worked to improve our site for

our students. Below is the nomination form, can you please complete and return to school by

Monday .

Students who are on school grounds before 8.30am and after 3.30pm are not supervised

and the school is not able to take responsibility for them. Before 8.30am students need to

wait under the shelter near the staffroom and after 3.30pm they are asked to come to

the office so we can contact families.

NEW LUNCH CLUBS

To provide our students with more options during lunch play time we have 5 different clubs

meeting during the week. These are open to all students and we encourage them to come along

and try something new. On Monday we have Chess in the library; Tuesday Lego and toy cars in

the STEM area; Wednesday beading in the Stem area; Thursday Belong Club with Jess in the

Well-being room and card games and puzzles in the STEM area and Friday Origami and paper

crafts. Also Junior Choir will be held on Wednesday and Friday lunchtimes in the Music Room.

SAPSASA STATE SELECTION

School Sport – SAPSASA- State Team Nominations – 12 and under.

Students enrolled in affiliated schools are eligible to nominate for 12 and under state teams. Not all state

carnivals or championships are used as selection for these teams.

Parents are required to nominate their child via the school sport website.

www.education.sa.gov.au/teaching/sport/sports-and-competitions/interstate-nomination-process.

Click on the sport and you will be able to access the dates when trials will be held and the due date of the

nominations.

NEWSLETTER

Our newsletter is published every 3 weeks. We can forward the newsletter to you via

Skoolbag or a hard copy. The information about the Skoolbag app is enclosed. Please complete

the form below to let us know how you would like your newsletter to forwarded to you.

NEWSLETTER DISTRIBUTION

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I want my newsletter as a hard copy.

Skoolbag only

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FROM THE OFFICE

OUR PREFFERED METHOD OF NOTICE FOR STUDENT ABSENCES

If your child(ren) will be absent or late, please notify us as soon as possible

using one of the following options:

Skoolbag App (on menu go to E-Form—Absentee Form)

Phone call to the office on 8562 1040 by 8.30am

Diary note (for prior notice)

Please note any children arriving late or leaving early must sign in at the front office.

Please speak to our office staff if you require any assistance

Instructions for Skoolbag and QKR apps are available from the front office

CANTEEN NEWS

QKR APP NEWS

As we start a new year with new classes, can you please be ensure

in your profile you chose your child's new class teacher when plac-

ing a lunch order on the QKR app. We have had some orders come

through with last years teachers. Thanks for your assistance with this matter.

Should your child be unwell on the day and you have already placed a lunch order,

please go into your order on the QKR app and hit the red circle. This will give you the

option to cancel and this credit will then be held for your next order. This must be

done before 8:45am on the day of the order.

Please see over for QKR instructions. If you have any questions about the please ask

at the front office.

OTHER NEWS

Please note we have sold out of butter chicken, this is no longer available to order.

If you have any spare time to help in the canteen we would love to speak to you. Any

volunteers must obtain a police check and complete the RAN Online training before

commencing. The front office can help you with this if you need assistance.

PASTORAL CARE WORKER

LAP NEWS

Hello Families,

Getting back into the rhythm of a new school year can often be a bittersweet time for

us as parents, but also our children! New classes, old routines, new jobs, old friends –

whatever your situation I am sure you have some new experiences and some old ones to

navigate. Some of these experiences we will enjoy more than others, as you continue

this new year I encourage you to incorporate a ‘Daily Family Check List’ that you can use

to help keep your family home a positive and loving one. You could do this over dinner

time or spread it throughout your day. It might look something like this:

EVERY DAY AS A FAMILY HAVE WE:

Had a laugh together?

Said “I Love you”?

Shared a positive moment about your day?

Given a hug?

Done something kind?

“We may not have it all together, but together we have it all”

I will be working at Nuriootpa Primary School on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s with my

office located next to the community centre/breakfast club building. I am available to

give family support if needed and can be contacted via the front office. Look forward to

seeing many of you in the coming weeks!

Jess Baker

Hi everyone,

I am happy to report that this year

LAP is situated in the STEM area, so

there are no stairs to navigate. I would

love to have more parents ,

grandparents and friends of the school

becoming mentors this year. We always

have children needing this program. I

would love to have mentors for all my

children this year. Please contact me

at the school for more info.

Thankyou,

Michelle Rose (LAP Coordinator)

AROUND THE SCHOOL

GILBERT RACING VISITED US ON

FRIDAY IN THE FIRST WEEK OF

SCHOOL WITH THE MONSTER

TRUCK “WICKED”

OUR STUDENTS HAD SOME

BRILLIANT QUESTIONS FOR

OUR HOSTS AND LEARNED

SOME INTERESTING

INFORMATION ABOUT

DRIVING AND SAFETY.

GERMAN NEWS

COMMUNITY NOTICES

The following community notices are up on our community notice board at the

front office and also our Skoolbag app

BOSHC NEWS

Piano Lessons

Nuriootpa High School Open Day for potential

year 8’s in 2020 - 18.3.18 5-7pm

Dyslexia SA Free Parent workshop 27.2.19 (part

1) and 6.3.19 (part 2)

Red Cross Mobile Donor Centre 4-8 march

Evanston School Dental Service

School of Languages—Nuriootpa High School…….

Learn Japanese Tuesdays 4.00-6.30pm

Toolbox Parenting Group, Hand in Hand Family

Centre. Tuesdays 5thMarch to 9th April.

Hand in Hand Family Centre “Connect and Play”

Thursday mornings 10-2

Barossa Spielgruppe—German Playgroup Tuesday

mornings 10-11.30

Barossa Triathlon @ Nuri Pool, Various dates til

15th March

COFFEE CLUB GUEST SPEAKER

We have Cathy Jones from the Carers and Ability link board of management ,coming to speak at

coffee club on March 14th.

“I am a mum of 2, my 17 year old son, and 12 year old daughter. I have always lived in South Australia however moved to Kapunda 3 years ago, preferring the country lifestyle to that of Adelaide. My daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy 6 years ago following a spontaneous seizure at after school care. Prior to this I had not ever seen anybody have a seizure or had experi-ence knowing someone with epilepsy. Epilepsy is largely misunderstood and I have had to do a lot of learning, and continue to learn new things about epilepsy. Please join us to learn about what is epilepsy, the types of seizures, what to do if someone has a seizure, and how we manage everyday as an epilepsy family.” We hope to see you there!

COMMUNITY NOTICES

CANTEEN OPENING TIMES

Wednesday to Friday

Lunch orders can be placed online via

the QKR app before 8.45am

Or by cash via the classrooms box

UNIFORM SHOP

OPENING TIMES

Wednesday and Friday

8.45am to 9.15am

Uniform orders can also be placed

online via the QKR app.

BREAKFAST CLUB

Monday and Thursdays

8.30am to 8.45am

Students are welcome to sit down for breakfast in the

Community Building. We will have a range of breakfast

options available for students to enjoy.

TOAST TUESDAY

Tuesdays 8.30am to 8.45am

Toast available from the Community Building window.

Any donations or volunteers for breakfast club will be greatly

appreciated

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3 11/2

Parent Infor-

mation meetings

12/2

13/2 14/2 15/2

4 18/2

Governing Council

AGM 7pm

19/2 20/2 21/2 22/2

5 25/2

Swimming R-5

26/2 27/2 28/2 1/3

District Swimming

6 4/3 5/3 6/3 7/3 8/3

ASSEMBLY

7 11/3

PUBLIC

HOLIDAY

12/3

PUPIL FREE DAY

13/3 14/3 15/3

Crazy Hair Day

8 18/3 19/3 20/3 21/3 22/3

District Athletics

9 25/3 26/3 27/3 28/3 29/3

State Swimming

10 1/4 2/4 3/4 5/4

6/4

ASSEMBLY

11 8/4

State Softball

9/4 10/4 11/4

STAR OF SUCCESS

Grandparents visit

12/4

TERM 4

CALENDAR