Wednesday 16th September, 2020 ISSUE # 16

Frances Primary School Building on Friendship and Knowledge

Diary Dates

Clearing Sale Catering

Thursday 17th September

Sapsasa Softball Trials

Tuesday 22nd September

Assembly

Friday 25th September 1:45pm

Term 3 Concludes

Friday 25th September 2:15pm

Term 4 Commences

Monday 12th October

YELP Visit

Tuesday 13th October

NHS Staff Visit

Thursday 15th October

Student Free Day

Friday 27th November

PO Box 61, Frances, SA 5262 Ph: (08)8765 1034 Fax: (08)8765 1004

Email: dl.0138.info@schools.sa.edu.au www.francesps.sa.edu.au

Dear Families

The warmer weather has been most welcome with greater opportunities to enjoy outside

learning.

There has been much excitement around the school with students enthusiastically

designing a BMX track for Frances as part of the town development plans that the

Lucindale/Naracoorte Council is currently considering. These include a play space, picnic

table and a shelter as part of a “town square”, a place to gather and belong.

A personal link to this year’s parent engagement survey has been sent to all families via

email / text. This Department coordinated survey replaces previous surveys that were

conducted by the school. All families are strongly urged to complete the survey. Please

contact the school if any assistance is required to access the survey link. Thank you.

Planning is continuing for the transition of Year 7s to high school in 2022. The current

Year 5 students will be the first group of students to move to the secondary setting for

Year 7. Canberra trips will be organised by Naracoorte High School for Year 7s.

Senior students were asked this week whether the SA students should be able to

participate in Sapsasa while the Vic students can’t. These are the responses of the

Victorian students:

I personally think that everyone should be able to participate but not everyone can. Just because Vic students are not allowed to participate, doesn’t mean that SA students shouldn’t. Sometimes life isn’t fair for you, but that doesn’t mean life should be unfair for others as well. If you fall off a cliff and break your leg right before a running race, doesn’t mean everyone should cancel. I think SA students should participate.

I think the SA kids should go to give them an experience because even though the Vics are doing it tough why make the SA kids suffer as well.

I think the SA kids should be able to do athletics because just because we can’t doesn’t mean we have to ruin it for them.

I think the SA kids should go to Sapsasa and try and get in.

I think the SA kids should go because they can go anywhere in Adelaide.

SA kids should be allowed to go. It’s just selfish that they shouldn’t get to go because of us Vic kids. It’s not SA’s fault that Corona is in Vic.

The gracious generosity of the students speaks volumes about their compassion, care,

loyalty, maturity and kindness. They are a credit to their families and a credit to our school.

At Monday evening’s meeting, Governing Council endorsed SA student

participation in Sapsasa. Alternative sporting challenges are being planned for everyone.

Tomorrow the Year 7 students will be representing the school at the Clearing Sale,

supporting the school’s fundraising efforts. Thank you to Zoe and Carol for their

coordination. Thank you to Tim for helping with transport, to Kylie, Bridget, Jo, Danielle,

Jess and Brooke for their long hours at the site. Thank you to Loren, Jane, Kylie, Danielle,

Jo, Lisa, Donna Sile, Jacinta, Abbey, Lauren and Rachel who have cooked and provided

food.

We look forward to a positive final week of school and hope everyone has a great holiday

with some further easing of restrictions.

Joyce Dinan Principal

Attendance from

the past fortnight was

89.5%

Our target is 95%

For All Your

Sapsasa Information

including district selections,

state carnivals and state selec-

tions,

go to

www.usesapsasa.org.au

www.eduaction.sa.gov.au/sport

Facebook: Upper South East

Drink Bottles

Glass drink bottles are

dangerous at school.

Please leave them at home.

This term in Science we have been

learning about materials and their

properties as a whole school.

Students have been grouped each

lesson with both Senior and Junior

Class students. Each group has a

Manager (collects materials), Read-

er (reads the question the group

needs to answer), Writer (writes their

collective thoughts down on a mini

whiteboard) and a

Reporter (reports their ideas back to

the class).

Over the term, we have unpacked

a range of scientific vocabulary,

learnt about the different properties

of different materials and how

materials might decompose. For an

experiment, we buried a plastic

container with an apple core and a

piece of fabric in it.

Last Thursday, we dug up the

containers to see what happened

to the materials. Students described

their observations in detail and

many of them had made accurate

predictions!

Español: Quien Soy?

Tiene la boca café y puede ser blanco. Vive en el campo y nos da queso.

Es la cabra. (Evie)

Tiene el pelo blanco, cuatro atas, cuatro pesuñas y boca. Vive en el campo

y el granero. Nos da leche, carne, queso y lana. Es la oveja. (Harvey)

Tiene cuatro pezuñas y el pelo marrón y blanco y vive en el campo y el granero. Nos da

carne y leche y queso. Es la cabra. (Oscar)

Tiene plumas y dos patas naranjas. Vive en el estanque y nos da huevos y carne. (Phoebe)

Tiene la pezuñas y vive en el campo. Nos da leche. Es la vaca. (Poppy)

Tiene cuatro pezuñas y vive en el granero y nos da carne y leche. (Matthew)

Tiene dos patas y plumas blanca vive en el gallinero y el granero. Nos da huevos y carne.

Es la gallina. (George)

Tiene el pelo negro y blanca con cuatro pezuñas. Vive en el campo y el granero. Nos da

carne, leche y queso. Quien soy? Es la vaca. (Ada)

Tiene el pelo blanco y marrón y vive en el granero. Nos da carne, leche, lana y queso. Es la

oveja. (Zahli)

Tiene dos patos. Vive en el gallinero. Nos da huevos y carne. Es la gallina. (Eva)

Tiene plumas. Vive en gallinero y el campo. Nos da huevos y carne. Es la gallina. (Scarlett)

Tiene boca, cuatro pezuñas. Vive en la pocilga y el granero. Nos da carne. Es el cerdo. (Will)

Congratulations and thank you to Jane

Fitzgerald and all of the students who

have participated in and supported Jump

Rope for Heart this year. Flynn Thomas

raised the most money. A combined total of

$1300 has been raised across the school so

far for the National Heart Foundation.

Thank you to families and friends who

have supported this worthwhile cause.

Minecraft Education Edition:

This term, the Senior Class has made the school in

Minecraft. The aim of this project was to teach students

about volume, area and making things to scale. They were

each put in a group and given something to build. Because

everything had to be to scale, the students first made a

fence to mark the outline of the school grounds, then

measured everything. The scale was 1 Minecraft

block=50cm. After building the outsides of the classrooms

and other buildings, the students did some of the inside décor.

They even made Charlie, the school dog! All in all they

agreed that this project was fantastic, and they have

learned a heap. It was great to see everyone working

together.— Ada Hoctor

Thank you to the Frances Folk Gathering Committee for

the very much appreciated donation of a large quantity of

coloured paper, pencils and craft items.

Hello Families

During Community Hour students have been

reflecting on all of the things they are grateful for.

We painted bricks and built a solid wall of

gratitude to remind ourselves about everything in

our lives that we are thankful for. Last week

students created relationship webs, placing all of

the people they are grateful for in their lives into

a web that holds them securely. We will finish the

term thinking about all of the people who are

grateful for us. Next term students will be

learning about hope and courage.

During this Covid year, keeping a focus on

grateful, hopeful and brave, helps to build

resilience.

As this is the last newsletter for the term, I want

to wish you a very happy holiday and look forward

to seeing everyone back for Term 4.

Blessings,

Xandia,

Frances Primary School

Building on Friendship and Knowledge

7th September 2020

Dear Families

This year the Department for Education is centrally coordinating the annual parent satisfaction

survey. The survey is available online via our school’s unique survey link. The Department has

forwarded this link directly to families via text message and/or email.

The survey provides an opportunity for the school to receive valuable insights from families about

various aspects of the school’s culture and operations. The questions invite parents to comment on

what we are doing well, where we can improve and what is really important to you as a parent.

The survey is live from today, Monday 7th September and closes on Friday 25 September 2020.

Every family is strongly encouraged to participate in the survey which should take no longer than

ten minutes to complete.

All responses are confidential and only collated feedback will be provided to the school. The re-

sults of the survey can also be included in our annual report.

Further information is available at: www.education.sa.gov.au/parentsurvey

If you have any further questions, please don’t hesitate to contact the school.

Kind Regards

Joyce Dinan

Principal

Frances Primary’s unique survey link is:

https://educationsa.syd1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eJ3AXNw9lsJQcdL?RID=CGC_n4iLr5Ldeg1Xpl5&Q_CHL=email

Naracoorte and District Little Athletics Association is about to start their 2020/21 season on

Sunday 18th October at 9.30am. Most meets are on Friday nights at 4pm, however there will

be the odd Sunday meet.

Ages range from Tiny Tots (3-5 yo) up to U/17. Age is from 1st January. Eg if you have or are

turning 11 in 2020 you are in U/12.

Anyone wanting to try, you get the first 2 weeks free.

For further information please keep an eye out on our Facebook page or contact: Fiona Miles

0417 820 990

FRANCES PRIMARY SCHOOL TERM 3, 2020

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT SUN

9 Sept 14 Sept 15 Sapsasa

Softball Trials

Sept 16 Jump Rope for

Heart Jump Off

Day

2:00pm

Parent

Information -

sexual health

program

Sept 17

Clearing

Sale

Fundraiser

Sept 18

Sept 19 Sept 20

10 Sept 21 Sept 22 Sapsasa

Softball Trials

Sept 23

Sept 24 Sept 25

Assembly 1:45pm

Term 3 concludes

2:15pm

Sept 26 Sept 27

Hols Sept 28 Sept 29 Sept 30 Oct 1 Oct 2 Oct 3 Oct 4

Hols Oct 5 Oct 6 Oct 7 Oct 8 Oct 9 Oct 10 Oct 11

FRANCES PRIMARY SCHOOL TERM 4, 2020

WEEK MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SAT SUN

1 Oct 12 Oct 13 YELP FPS

visit

Oct 14 Oct 15 NHS staff

visit

Oct 16 SE Cross

Country

CANCELLED

Oct 17 Oct 18

2 Oct 19 Oct 20 Kindy

Transition

Oct 21 Oct 22 Oct 23 Oct 24 Oct 25

3 Oct 26 Governing

Council

6:00pm

Oct 27 Kindy

Transition

Oct 28 Oct 29 Yr 7 tour of

NHS

Oct 30 Oct 31 Nov 1

4 Nov 2 Nov 3 Kindy

Transition

Nov 4 Nov 5 Nov 6 Nov 7 Nov 8

5 Nov 9 Nov 10 Kindy

Transition

Nov 11 Nov 12 Nov 13 Nov 14 Nov 15

6 Nov 16 Nov 17 Kindy

Transition

Yr 7 to NHS

Nov 18 Nov 19 Nov 20 Nov 21 Nov 22