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Reception to Year 5 Swimming Week 8 - 18 - 22 March 2019

Parent helpers welcome for Rec - Yr 2

From the Principal

Term 1 Week 7 Newsletter No. 04

15 March 2019

Principal : Mary Ttikirou Deputy: Maria Appelt

Dear Families,

Composite classes

At Modbury School we have

composite classes. There have been

some misconceptions about

composite classes (when two year

levels are taught by the one teacher)

within our community. Some of the

questions being asked stem from the

preconception of education today.

We draw on what we know from our

own experiences at primary school.

Education for today’s digital learner is

much different; our curriculum is much

broader and emphasis is on the ability

to transfer skills and understandings

into different contexts, enhancing

metacognition and individualized

learning.

There seems to be preference by

parents to have their child in a

“straight” year level class, however if

we compare our classes, be they

composite or straight and regardless

of age differences, there is often very

little difference in the student cohort

learning needs or scope of the

curriculum needed to be taught. For

example; a year 3 class could have

individual students that still require

access to year one curriculum (say in

Maths and Writing) while others may

require extension in number and

algebra from the year 5 curriculum.

We know that not all children learn at

the same rate or have the same level

of skills in all areas of the curriculum

therefore giving all students exactly

the same task at the same time is

futile.

Having a task however with multi entry

points, where feedback is given during

the task process, and assessments

done on completion, enables students

to work to their full potential.

Fortunately, as we engage our

inquisitive and innovative learners, we

always look for your child’s prior

learning at the start of any new

learning and then ascertain the next

developmental steps needed to be

explicitly taught. Through inquiry,

students can then take the explicitly

taught skills and understandings to

their own personal level. Importantly it

should be noted that at all times

students are closely monitored. Data is

continually being collected as

evidence that the individual student’s

learning outcomes are being

achieved.

Originally, as a means to combat

funding restraints, the practice of

combining multiple aged students into

composite classes has remained over

many decades. The advantages for

our students not just academically but

socially, emotionally and physically

have been realised and well

researched.

Composite classes have therefore

become a common practice in most

schools across Australia.

Parent Engagement

In the last newsletter I looked at Parent engagement in education. It basically

is about parents and carers, schools and communities working together to

ensure that every parent can play a positive role in their child's learning,

school community, sport and social life.

Parents and families play a very important role in supporting their child's

education. Research has shown that when schools and families work together,

children do better, stay in school longer, are more engaged with their school

work, go to school more regularly, behave better, and have better social

skills.

Parent engagement also results in longer term economic, social and

emotional benefits. The Australian Government has many initiatives and

resources to help parents, schools and communities work together to improve

their child's learning.

To help your child develop their literacy and numeracy skills a website, funded

by the Australian Government Department of Education and Training has

been developed to provide activities that reinforce and build on the

concepts and skills your child will encounter in the classroom.

We encourage you to visit the website (link below) which supports the

Australian Curriculum for primary school and is child (and parent) friendly. You

may browse by your child's year level, or search a topic and the website will

suggest ideas, activities, games and videos you can use to support your

child's learning. Alternatively, download the free app

Learning Potential Resources Website

Learning Potential FREE app

Shared Partnership in Embracing Reading

Recently, I had the opportunity to attend the State Literacy Summit and

Leaders’ days. A key message was the importance of reading at home every

day.

The results are astounding; those children who read at home for 20 minutes a

day were far more likely to succeed at school. They scored in the top 10% of

readers (90th percentile), learning 180,000 words a year. By comparison, those

children who read 5 minutes/day dropped to the 50th percentile learning

approximately 28,200 words.

Reading at home is not teaching children to read but importantly gives

children valuable opportunity to practise the skills they are taught during the

day.

For our Reception children who are developing early reading skills, the

importance of reading to your child everyday supports the enjoyment of

reading and developing the habits of being a successful reader.

Mary Ttikirou

Principal

MODBURY SCHOOL

COMMUNITY GROUP NEWS

Sports Day BBQ - 1 April Order forms for students and families to pre-order for sports day have been sent home with families this week. Please get your orders in by Monday 25 March 2019. Each student will need their own order as lunches will be sent to class rooms. Families can order theirs together on the family order form.

If you have time to volunteer on the day or donate baked items to sell it would be very appreciated.

Easter Raffle Modbury School Community Group will be holding an Easter raffle this term.

Keep an eye out for raffle books which will be sent home later this term.

MODBURY SCHOOL PHOTOS

“Say Cheese”

School Photo Day is

Tuesday, 30 April 2019 ………………………………….

Have your child’s school

memories captured forever.

Photo envelopes will be sent home soon.

Wednesday 20 March

HOW DOES OUR SCHOOL CANTEEN WORK?

Our school canteen is open on Monday (lunch only), Wednesday and Fridays

(recess and lunch) and offers a variety of foods including vegetarian, vegan,

gluten free and halal options).

HOW DO I PLACE A LUNCH ORDER FOR MY CHILD?

Written order via classroom

We recommend your child’s order is either written on a brown paper bag

(available at your local supermarket in the glad wrap/alfoil isle) or on note paper

inside a snap lock bag enclosing the correct change. Please write your child’s

name and room number on their order.

Students should take their lunch order to class and place in the class lunch order

basket. Each class has a lunch monitor who will collect and take the orders to

the canteen and collect orders at lunch time.

Online Orders

Online orders can be placed via the school website https://www.modburyp7.sa.edu.au/parent-info/

canteen/ To use online ordering a bank transfer can be made in advance to have your canteen

account in credit, or a cash payment at the office can also be made.

Please note - Canteen payments can not be made via EFTPOS in the front office.

Special Orders

Our canteen holds special orders several times each term. These are special promotions offering

different foods that our students identified during a recent student survey.

This term we have been working

with Ms Delsar to develop our use of verbs in our oral language and

our writing.

There are three types of verbs that we have been exploring. They are:

action verbs (jump, hop, run)

saying verbs (shout, whisper, talk)

sensing verbs (feeling, remember,

contemplate)

We are learning to use a wider range of verbs accurately when speaking and writing and to put these verbs in past and present

tense.

The learning has allowed us to learn new concepts

such as music and Neuroscience.

We have been applying

our learning to other areas such as writing,

morning talks and bookmaking.

News from Learning Community A Rm’s 12 & 14

“Even neurons move which means they create verbs like ‘think’.”

-Shilah

“We are learning messages that come through the body are like magic. These are sensing verbs.”

-Ethan & Mitesh

“I like doing the actions when we are learning verbs.”

- Cadence

“I am using different verbs in my learning.”

-Dristi

“I liked when we used the guitar.”

- Isabella

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2019 SCHOOL FEES

Payment of full school fees are now overdue. If you

have not made a payment plan to ensure your fees

are paid by the end of Term 2 (5 July) please see the

office to arrange payment / payment plan.

Payments can be made at the front office by cash,

eftpos, credit card. Payments can also be made via

direct deposit or the website.

Payments by instalments can be arranged either by

paying in person at the front office or by direct debit

from your bank account or credit card.

School card forms must be completed every year.

Forms are available from the front office for eligible

families whose combined family income (from your

2017/18 tax return) is under the following limits:

No. of children Annual income Weekly income

1 $59,432 $1,143

2 $60,493 $1,164

3 $61,554 $1,185

4 $62,615 $1,206

5 $63,676 $1,227

Each additional

child

$1,061 $21

MODBURY

SCHOOL

Monday 1 April 2019

Go teams!!

Warto (Blue)

Kuula (Green)

Nantu (Yellow)

2019 Sports Captains

At the beginning of the year, Year 6/7 students had

an opportunity to present a speech to their house for

the role of Sports Captain and Vice Captains. Thank

you to all students who took the time and effort to

apply. We wish to congratulate our 2019 School

Captains and Vice Captains:

Warto (Blue)

Sarah H & Jacob S (Captains)

Nikki S & William S (Vice Captains)

Kuula (Green)

Jaxon S & Ellouise (Captains)

Arthur L & Emily G (Vice Captains)

Nantu (Yellow)

Veronica V & Prashan G (Captains)

Frankie O & Tasha W (Vice Captains)

Our School Captains are involved in:

Organising and running activities for the whole school

Promoting, supporting and managing whole school sport events

Create and practice the sports day chants

Demonstrate excellent leadership skills

Supporting the positive culture of our school—in class and in the

yard.

Canteen Hot Dog

Special - Thank you

Thank you to our school

community for supporting our

school canteen hot dog

special.

Our canteen relies on family

support to be able to continue

providing this service.

Special thank you to Olena

who volunteered in our

canteen to support Nicola

prepare orders today.

CALENDAR REMINDERS

MARCH

18-22 Rec to Year 5 Swimming

18-22 Harmony Week (21/3 Harmony Day)

18 Governing Council Meeting 6pm

28 EALD Morning Tea

APRIL

1 Sports Day

4 SAPSASA Athletics

10 School Assembly 9am

12 Last Day Term 1 - 2.05pm dismissal

WAKWAKURNA

Modbury School has a strong commitment to developing

authentic Student Voice. Class representatives, two from

each class make up what is known as ‘Wakwakurnas’ (which

means ‘kids’ in Kaurna).

Wakwakurnas create opportunities for students to come

together and make decisions. They communicate the

thoughts and opinions of their peers which improves our

school community.

Wakwakurna Executive

Four senior students are ‘Executive members’ who lead four

working parties in the areas of Education, Marketing,

Environmental and Sports. Executive members in 2019 are

Nikki S, Aiden W, Veronica V, Damien W. Congratulations to

all our students who are part of Wakwakurna this year.

Classroom

Student Voice is an important aspect to the daily running of

classrooms where they:

Design and discuss what they learn, how they learn and

their learning environment

Give and receive feedback from peers and teachers to

challenge their thinking and learning

Run class meetings and identify areas that can be

discussed at a whole school level at Wakwakurna

meetings.

International

Women’s Day

Friday 8 March

Frances Bedford MP (State Member for

Florey) hosted a the 1st Florey International

Women’s Day Breakfast at Valley View High

School on Thursday 7 March to celebrate

International Women’s Day.

Nikki S and Veronica V (Wakwakurna

Executive student members) attended the

morning along with Principal Mary Ttikirou.

Frances spoke about SA Women and

Suffrage milestones eg. when women first

voted in SA, Indigenous voting and

important women in history.

MODBURY OSHC APRIL HOLIDAY PROGRAM 2019

Bookings for any of these fun activities can be made by phoning OSHC on 8396 3148, Mobile 0423 023 537, or Email: Nicola.evans716@schools.sa.edu.au

Monday 15th April Incursion

Tuesday 16th April

In day

Wednesday 17th April

In day

Thursday 18th April

In day

Friday 19th April

Closed

PUMPT BIKE TRACK

Come and have fun riding your bikes up and down the bike track being brought to

us by PUMPT.

You will need to bring your own

Bike or Scooter and

MUST bring a Helmet

(no helmet will result in no riding)

What to bring, Recess, Lunch, Water, Hat.

Cost for the day $60.00

KITE DAY

Make and decorate a kite and watch it fly high in the sky.

Whose kite will fly the highest?

What to bring, Recess, lunch, Water, hat.

Cost for the day $55.00

ANGRY BIRDS DAY

Can you get as angry as an

Angry Bird and get rid of

the bad pigs?

Join us as we stop the Pigs

from taking over the OSHC.

What to bring,

Recess, lunch, Water, hat Cost for the day $55.00

EASTER CRAFTS AND EGG HUNT

Decorate eggs and bunny’s with bright colours and

patterns before you make a basket to help us find the all the eggs hidden around the

OSHC.

What to bring, Recess, lunch, Water, hat.

Cost for the day $55.00

CLOSED FOR GOOD FRIDAY

MODBURY OSHC APRIL HOLIDAY PROGRAM 2019

Bookings for any of these fun activities can be made by phoning OSHC on 8396 3148, Mobile 0423 023 537, or Email: Nicola.evans716@schools.sa.edu.au

Monday 22nd April

Closed

Tuesday 23rd April

In day

Wednesday 24th April

In day

Thursday 25th April

Closed

Friday 26th April Excursion

CLOSED FOR EASTER

MONDAY

‘D’ Day

Celebrate the letter ‘D’ and all the Delightful, Delicious,

Diversity it brings us.

See how fast you can eat a Doughnut as it dangles in mid-

air from a piece of string.

What to bring, Recess, lunch, Water, hat Cost for the day $55.00

ANZAC DAY

Join us as we celebrate ANZAC day by making poppies, cooking yummy ANZAC

biscuits and more.

What to bring Recess, lunch, Water, hat Cost for the day $55.00

CLOSED FOR ANZAC DAY

(PUBLIC HOLIDAY)

MOVIES AT T.T.P.

Join us on an excursion as we walk over to Tea Tree Plaza and watch a movie on the

big screen. Movie to be advised at a later

date.

Children MUST arrive at OSHC by 8:30 am.

The excursion will only occur if weather permitted for walking.

What to bring, Recess, lunch, Water, hat.

Cost for the day $60.00