MINERVA SCHOOL · 2019. 10. 14. · MINERVA SCHOOL Minerva students meet the Prime Minister Last...
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Week 5 Term 4 2018
DATES TO
REMEMBER
November
Wednesday
21st Kindergarten
Orientation
Friday 23rd
KLA Open Day
Wednesday
28th Kindergarten
Orientation
December
Wednesday 5th Kindergarten
Orientation Day
Friday 7th Rotary Xmas
BBQ
Wednesday
12th Presentation Day
and Year 12
Graduation
Learning for Life
66 Eton St, SUTHERLAND NSW 2232 T 02 9521 3433 F 02 9545 3316 E [email protected] www.minerva-s.schools.nsw.edu.au
MINERVA SCHOOL
Minerva students meet the
Prime Minister
Last Friday our senior students had the pleasure of
meeting our Prime Minister, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP.
The students were taking part in a Surf Awareness
program at South Cronulla beach.
The students were very excited and we thank our Prime
Minister for taking the time to speak with our students and
have some photos taken.
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PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
Dear parents/carers,
Each week I have the absolute pleasure of attending our Friday morning
assemblies. This whole school event provides me with the opportunity to share
the amazing achievements made by all students. Students have been working
hard in all Key Learning Areas, further developed their friendships and worked
extremely hard at regulating their emotions using the zones of regulation. It is
such an honour to acknowledge these efforts and to provide the students with
their certificates and medals. I have been able to witness first-hand the hard
work and dedication while I have conducted my walk-through to each of the
classes. It has been amazing to see hands-on practical Maths lessons, creative
and innovative art activities, interesting science experiments and high
intensity PE lessons with Ms Margot.
On the 23rd November we will be celebrating our final KLA day where parents,
carers and family members are invited to share in the education of their child.
This day will hold special significance as we have combined the KLA (CAPA) day
with a fundraising event with the support of the Lions club. All funds raised on
this day will be directly donated to the Children’s hospital and to research into
childhood related diseases and illnesses. Your attendance and support for this
special day is greatly appreciated.
Throughout this term, staff have been actively involved in ongoing professional
development. Combined with Bates Drive, staff have attended 3 twilight
sessions delivered by Carl Warren a behaviour expert who runs ‘Beyond
Behaviour’. These sessions have provided staff with in-depth and up to date
research around student behaviours, emotion regulation, trauma informed
approaches and building positive relationships. The collegial nature of the
experience has forged positive relations with Bates Drive and provided staff
with opportunities to ensure their practice is current and relevant.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parent community for
their ongoing support and involvement in the Learning for Life project. The
school based team have worked tirelessly to ensure the project has been
imbedded across the entire school and ensured that each student has been
provided with their own individualised ‘tool box’. Earlier this term we held an
informal questioning session for parents/carers.
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The ‘Crunch n Sip’ project is being utilised each day and has seen an increase in
students consuming healthy fruits and vegetables and also drinking water. It
has been great to hear students having discussions amongst themselves around
the healthy snacks they have been consuming.
Students across the school have also had the amazing opportunity to attend
Sailing (Kogarah Bay) and Surf Awareness at Cronulla. All students should be
commended on their behaviour and application while attending these events.
It has been a great start to term 4 and I look forward to the remainder of
the year and the many events to come.
Dates for your Diary:
23rd November KLA Day/Fundraiser (CAPA)
7th December Scripture
12th December Presentation Day & Formal
19th December Last day of the Year!
I hope everyone has a great remainder to term 4 and thank you for your in-
volvement and support.
John Mazzitelli
HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the following students for the
month of November
Flynn, Perry and Ethan.
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Out and about with
Class Bottlebrush.
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Perry loves to check the mailbox in his
classroom to see if he has received a
letter.
We are expecting letters from Sesame
Street and from Santa.
Perry enjoys practising his typing skills
as he replies to his letters. He posts
them and waits for his next letter to
arrive.
Class Protea has mail
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WORK EXPERIENCE Our Work Experience students attended the IDF Chocolate Factory at
Kogarah. The students have been hard at work packing chocolates,
muesli bars and cereal for delivery to Cosco.
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Class Eucalyptus had a fantastic time
sailing
Congratulations to Billy for earning
Minerva medallion
We have been
planting carrots
and parsnips and
practising our
beat and tempo
during Music
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Happy Birthday to the following students for the
month of May,
Martin, Luke and
Preston
Class Waratah
We can’t believe it’s already half way through
Term 4. Class Waratah has again been busy
learning and having lots of fun. We have been
learning about Asian culture through “Sadako and
the Thousand Paper Cranes”, two and three
dimensional shapes and our day at Sailing was just
perfect. We are just beginning the filming of our
stop animation short films which fingers crossed
should be ready for viewing just in time for the
end of term. Everybody is excited about the
Christmas holidays but we still have so much to
do….
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LEARNING FOR LIFE
Hello Carers and Families, OT Christine here.
Term 4 has flown by and we have been busy working on the Learning
for Life project across the school. Every student should have
brought home a copy of their individualised Zones of Regulation
TOOLBOX with pictures of the various sensory tools they are using
at school to help them stay in the green zone. We hope that having a
copy of your student’s toolbox might be an opportunity for you to
experiment with some sensory tools at home.
Also- your opinions matter to us so we have written a short survey to
gather some feedback. I would invite you to spend 5 minutes or so to
complete the paper survey (sent home with your child) or follow the
online survey monkey link — https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LYVQXJY
Finally, as always, if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback or
comments-
I would love to hear from you on [email protected].
Week 5 Term 4 2018
The students had a great time creating wreaths made of poppies for
Remembrance Day. We now have these wreaths displayed at the front
of the library.
LIBRARY NEWS
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Spring has sprung in Class Wattle. We have been busy learning about what happens in
springtime and making spring time displays for our parents to see when you visit us for
the KLA day this term.
We have also been picking mulberries from our sensory garden to turn into jam with our
wonderful SLSO Miss Peta. This can be purchased on presentation day along with other
produce from our school kitchen garden. Wattle students have been trying out yoga as a
sensory break. Check out our downward dog and cat poses. We also loved going sailing with
Sailability.