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Issue 4 17

th May 2018

Principal’s Message

Welcome back to Term 2. The school term started with the release of GONSKI, the report that will set the direction for education in Australia (see “report on a page” in this newsletter) and NAPLAN. You may have heard about the report in the press and the comments that NAPLAN may not be so relevant. This reflects the GONSKI focus on more ‘in class’ data monitoring of student growth more regularly. Currently NAPLAN is still an important test to inform schools where their students are at and where to focus the learning, however if the report’s recommendation of an online, on demand student assessment tool is developed teachers will have access to learning data more easily and frequently.

The report identifies three priorities around student growth, creative and connected learners and an innovative and continuously improving system. Feedback from our external review held in week 1 was around improving monitoring and tracking of student growth. Teachers will continue our improvement work with this focus. In the junior school this will be around a common reading approach with a consistent leveling process, in the middle and senior school, this will focus on timely and relevant feedback for students to use to improve their achievement.

The report also calls for increased prominence of the General Capabilities, the overarching capabilities that are vital for students to succeed in a rapidly changing world. Listed below on the left are the seven capabilities and on the right are some phrases the SACE board have used to describe the capabilities in plain language.

Seven General

capabilities:

SACE descriptions of capabilities:

Literacy I can understand, and be understood

Numeracy I can talk in the universal language

Personal and social I can discover who I am, who I want to be

Critical and creative thinking I can live in possibility, rather than limitation

Intercultural understanding I can walk in another person’s shoes

Ethical understanding I can set the right standard

Information and communication

technology

I can be part of the next big thing

Yorketown Area School

Growing Minds, Shaping Hearts, Changing Lives

Diary Dates

May

18th School Surfing Round 2

21st Governing Council

22nd 8/9 Football 9 aside

28th STUDENT FREE DAY

June

4th School Surfing Round 3

6th Open Boys & Girls Basketball

7th Newsletter

11th QUEENS BIRTHDAY Public Holiday

14th 8/9 Netball

15th SEMESTER 1 Ends

WK 8 Activities Week Middle School Camp Careers Week

25th SEMESTER 2 Begins Governing Council

July

6th Last day of term Reports Home (R-12)

School finishes 2.10pm

CANTEEN ROSTER

18th Louise Taheny 25th Julie Page 1st Liz Curnow

8th Tina Russell


These capabilities are incorporated into all teaching and learning but are also explicitly investigated in subjects such as the Personal Learning Plan (PLP), Research Practices and Research Project. Developing these capabilities helps students to understand and develop solutions to complex problems. Middle School students are currently working on a Problem Based Learning task looking at the Hillside Mine on the Yorke Peninsula. Students will learn about the mine through research and presentations from Rex Minerals and the Yorke Peninsula Landholders Group and then develop opinions and solutions to the issues. The most important learning for students is that there are many ways to look at issues and many answers, generally there is no simple solution. Year 9 students have also being working hard to prepare entries for the ANZAC Award. Students have researched soldiers and presented their learning. The work of five students has been selected to be sent off to vie for a trip to Vietnam to experience the history of the Vietnam War. Congratulations Koby Poulton, Indilee Pedler, Harper Davison, Sally Page and Zoe Bland for being selected and we hope that one of you will follow in Jess Timms tracks and win a place on this amazing tour. I also had the pleasure of spending time with the Year 12 Physical Education class at Port Vincent. Students completed their practical components in poor conditions without any complaints. Students were enthusiastic in their learning achieving very good results and had fun cooking for each other with no complaints about cleaning up.

We also launched ‘Smiling Minds’ this week, a mindfulness program used by thousands of students. It has been pleasing how open students have been to trying something new to them. Students will have three sessions a week (each session is between 2 and 6 minutes) with some short introductions and debriefs. The app is free and easily downloaded. Teachers are working hard to plan and assess learning. A number of staff are involved in ongoing professional learning:

‘STEM500’ – a primary program to increase Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – Erin

Rose and Andrew Hayman

‘Thinking Mathematics’ a year 5-8 program to develop problem solving in mathematics – Andrew

Hayman and Simon Mott

I am proud of the commitment shown by staff to improve practice and the willingness of students to take up the challenges put to them. Thank you to the families who have attended interviews, it is great to share progress with you and we know that students are proud to share their learning with you. The next opportunity will be the ‘Learning Expo’ at the end of Term 3 for Reception to year 11.

Fiona Haselgrove Principal


GONSKI – REPORT ON A PAGE

Three priorities…


From the Senior School

Senior school Activities Week

In Week 8, our senior school students in year 10 and 11 will engage in work skills development activities. Leigh Rothe and the year 10s will participate in the Careers trip to Adelaide and visit tertiary institutions such as University of Adelaide, Uni SA, TAFE SA. Year 11 students will complete a week of work experience, supported by Alex Flynn. It is strongly encouraged that students consider a work placement in Adelaide to broaden their opportunities.

The year 12s will engage in Study Week, with practice exams and catch up sessions with teachers. It's also the week we farewell Katie Mack for her maternity leave and acknowledge the end of Research Project.

Forms and further information are being distributed to students and we thank our families for their support in activities that enhance our student's capabilities. If you have any questions, please contact home group teachers at the school.

Elouise Fehring Senior School Coordinator


Year 12 Kayaking Camp

As part of the year 12 PE course, students are required to undertake 3 physical practical activities in which they are assessed. From the 9th- 11th of May, the year 12 PE class went to Pt Vincent. Due to gale force winds and storms forecast, instead of the planned sailing the group had a last minute change to kayaking.

Despite the poor conditions and cold waters, the class put in their best effort to apply the skills most of them learned on their camp last year as well as learn new skills in their kayaks. The class also were able to play a number of games in the kayaks including kayak polo, tag and a capsizing challenge. All students had a great time on one of their last school camps and achieved some exceptional results which will put them in good stead towards achieving a good end of year grade for the subject.

Tom Buckerfield Year 12 PE teacher

Visual Art Trip

On Friday the 6th of April, 9 Visual Arts students from years 10, 11 and 12 travelled to Adelaide to visit the Art Gallery of South Australia and the SACE Art show. Students attended an exhibition showcasing some of the best work from year 12s across the state. At the Art Gallery of South Australia, students attended a forum around how to create a successful folio and practical for Stage 1 and 2 SACE Visual Art and Design. Four former Visual Arts students from across the state presented to outline their experience with Visual Art in year 12. They broke down some difficult terminology and emphasised the importance of idea development, being inspired by those around you, time management and balance in year 12. Students came back from the trip having more direction with their work, feeling inspired and overflowing with ideas. Stage 1 and 2 students are now well underway developing ideas for their major artworks.

Alex Flynn Visual Art Teacher


From the Middle School The Middle School is currently a vibrant learning place where student’s thinking is constantly being challenged. We have begun our Problem Based Learning topic on the Hillside Mine and students are working towards developing a question to which they can propose a range of solutions. These solutions will be presented at the Learning Expo in week 10 next term. Other things being worked on in classes across the sub-school include topics such as The Vikings, Child Slavery and other impacts of the Industrial Revolution, Inside the atom, Geology, Graphing and Statistics. Teachers have been involved in Parent-Teacher interviews for the last few weeks and these have proved to be beneficial in connecting home and school and improving learning outcomes for students. If you have not yet had the opportunity to meet with your child’s teacher and still wish to make an appointment please do not hesitate to contact the school and teachers will arrange to meet with you in the near future. Planning is well underway for the Middle School Camp. This year we are venturing to Melrose from the 20th to 22nd June where we will be participating in a range of activities including developing team work skills, resilience and growth mindsets. It is pleasing to see so many students planning to attend. Further information about this camp will come out in Week 5. There are some students who do not have access to swags so if you have a swag that you would be prepared to loan please talk to myself or Emily Pritchard.

Beth Walsh Middle School Coordinator

STEM Student Ambassador Connection Day

On Wednesday the 4th of April, Lucy Warren, Ryleigh Verrall and Miss Pritchard attended a STEM Student Ambassador Connection Day at the Clare Golf Course. The STEM Student Ambassadors Project is a STEM Learning Strategy project organised by Department for Education. The aim of the project is to position young people as co-leaders of change and to drive learning improvement in STEM across South Australia. Lucy and Ryleigh are the ambassadors representing the Southern Yorke Peninsula Partnership. They met with students from different South Australian partnerships to discuss ways that STEM teaching and learning can be improved in schools. They also participated in a variety of interactive activities, such as designing water filtration systems. In the coming weeks, Lucy and Ryleigh will be focussing on recruiting a STEM Action Team. Members of the Action Team will participate in future Connection Days and work with the STEM Ambassadors to improve STEM teaching and learning. It is likely that the Action Team will include students from Warooka Primary School and Stansbury Primary School. If you are interested in joining the Action Team, please see Miss Pritchard.

Lucy Warren and Ryleigh Verrall enjoying the sunshine after a busy day of discussing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.

Lucy and Ryleigh working with students from Kapunda and Port Pirie to design a way of transporting a golf ball across the car park (without it touching the ground), using only pipes.


From the Junior School Junior School Reminders The first of our assemblies for the term will be on Friday May 25th. Assemblies are a great opportunity for students to share their work. We welcome and encourage parents and family to attend these. We hope to see you there.

Invoices have been sent home for Footlights Dance which is starting in week 5. Please return payment to the front office as soon possible.

Lessons begin at 8:50. Please make sure that students are arriving in time to be unpacked and organised for the day, before the first lesson begins.

Please make sure that all items are clearly labelled with your child’s name. A lot of jumpers have been left in classrooms and it is much easier for students to locate lost items when they are labelled.

Primary Combined Sports Day At the end of last term 28 students from Reception to year 7 travelled to Maitland to compete in the Southern Yorke Peninsula Primary Combined Sports Day. Thank you to the parents for supporting us by bringing students, encouraging our competitors, and assisting on events. Your support makes these events possible. Our students put in a fantastic effort and showed tremendous sportsmanship on the day. They put in 100 per cent all day and some terrific results were achieved. Yorketown students competed in 13 of the track finals, making for an exciting end to the day. Congratulations to Bailey Warren for winning the 11 year old boys 100m sprint and also to Shineah Goody for winning the 13 year old girls long jump and high jump. Bailey and Shineah will go on to represent Southern Yorke Peninsula in Adelaide later in the year.

Erin Rose Junior School Coordinator

Sporting News Secondary Interschool Athletics Week 9, Monday (26/03/18), YAS entered 21 competitors in the SYP Interschool Sports Day held at Central Yorke Area School. The day started early in the freezing cold with our long distance runners and ended with the most competitive team event, wheel and ball. We had successful placings from the students allowing us to place 5th overall. Everyone had a positive attitude towards there competitors and performed to their best ability which we were proud to see and hear. Congratulations to Tom Davies (1st in Hurdles –OPEN BOYS), Charlie Hoile (1st in Hurdles & Javelin – UNDER 14 BOYS), Josh Savage (1st in Triple Jump – UNDER 14 BOYS), Wes Goldsmith (1st 1500m – UNDER 15 BOYS), Indilee Pedler (1st in 400m & 800m – UNDER 15 GIRLS), Jessie East (1st Hurdles – OPEN GIRLS), Shanai Hart (1st Javelin – OPEN GIRLS), Julia Warren (1st Hurdles – UNDER 15 GIRLS).

Thank you to Ms Walsh, Julie Johnson and Mr Hutchings for being our awesome support crew and Matt Drewer and Max Bland for MCing for the day. From this day YAS had 11 students selected in the combined Yorke Peninsula team to compete in Adelaide on the 11th of April. Congratulations to Tom Davies (2nd in Triple Jump, Relay & 3rd in 100m Hurdles), Jessie East (1st in 100m, 100m Hurdles, 200m), Josh Savage (2nd in 1500m & 800m), , Sally Page (3rd in Discus), Gemma Rudduck (3rd in Triple Jump & Long Jump), Indilee Pedler (3rd in 400m), Charlee Boord, Jen Eisner, Julia Warren, Emily Lloyd and Wes Goldsmith. Special mention to Jessie East whose time in the 100m (13.23s) made the standard time which places her at the top end of all competitors her age running the event. All competed and represented both Yorketown Area School and the Yorke Peninsula team very well. Congratulations!


YP Art Exhibition This year Yorketown Area School entered 11 works of art in the student section of the Yorke Peninsula Art Exhibition. Works were entered from students from year 5 to 12. There were a large number of entries from students across the Yorke Peninsula at a very high standard. Tori Haywood in year 11 received an honourable mention from judges for her black and white photograph titled “Grannie’s Garden”. The exhibition was held over the Easter long weekend and was very well received by the public. All students involved should be very proud of their efforts.

Alex Flynn Visual Art Teacher

Tori Haywood - Year 11 Grannie’s Garden Digital Photograph

Chloe Barlow - Year 12 Girl With Horse Digital Photograph


From the Library Find yourself in a Library Photo Competition

Public Libraries South Australia is running a photo competition to celebrate Library & Information Week (21-27 May 2018).

The photo competition is open from 14 May – 18 June 2018 and invites library customers to take a photo with a book or other library resource “anywhere you find yourself in (or out of) a library”.

There are six $100 Booktopia gift certificate prizes to be won across 3 age divisions:

11 and under

Ages 12-25

Over 25

To enter, submit a photo of yourself with any library item or resource, which can be taken anywhere, anytime, in (or out) of your public library. Entries can be submitted via https://bit.ly/2riDRAI

For further information, please see library staff, or go to https://www.libraries.sa.gov.au/findyourself

Premier’s Reading Challenge Indonesian Competition 2018

As part of an ongoing cultural and business

exchange with West Java, Indonesia, students are invited to participate in the Premier’s

Reading Challenge Indonesian Competition 2018.

Follow these steps to enter: 1. Read a book about Indonesia or in

Indonesian (this can count towards your

12 PRC books!)

2. Write a review about that book using one

of the templates provided (see Ms Stagg

or download from

http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.e

du.au/PRC/)

3. Submit your review to Miss Stagg by

August 17th 2018 (Friday Week 4 term 3)

You could win an Indonesian Leader’s Reading Challenge medal (one will be awarded to each of

the 150 best reviews).

For more information,

see Ms Stagg in the library.

http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/PRC/

http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/PRC/

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