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Newsletter No 13 9th August, 2019

From the Principal’s Desk

Our Building Communities student parliament team has been working hard in partnership with Way to go to gather data about the transport habits of our students. Around our school we have some significant traffic management issues which require us to come together as a community to design safe solutions. The parliament team are working with our local council and DPTI (Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure) to collect data on how our families get to school. We need our parents to help by clicking on the link below and filling in a short survey to tell us how you get to and from school and to identify any issues you are currently facing. The more answers we receive the better our solutions will be for everyone to come to school safely. Please take the time to answer the survey. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/JDDWF29

As part of our efforts to gather community voice we will be running a community forum day. While we have an active Governing Council, we would like to give an opportunity for the wider community to engage in setting up educational structures to support the needs of our families. The day will be facilitated by Chantelle from our Design Thinking partners No Tosh who are global

experts in helping communities innovate and plan for the future. The day will be open for any interested parents/carers, we will have interpreters available on request. The day will be run in our Gym on Monday 26th August 9:15 am – approx. 3pm Morning tea and lunch will be provided. A link to register will come home via email next week. Please consider attending so we can work together to build an inclusive and supportive school community. Please note the important information contained in today’s newsletter. We have a disco coming up and details of our Book Week Parade.

Last week we had the pleasure of watching our students host 50 visitors from schools in NSW. They explained how student voice has transformed the teaching and learning at Prospect North. The visitors toured all of our classes and they all commented on the incredible learning and engagement throughout the school. They were so impressed by the ability of all our students to articulate what “good learning” looks like and how self-managing their learning has improved their attainment. Well done to all involved we are very proud of you!!

Marg Clark

Term 3, 2019 22nd July – 27th September

August 14th Governing Council Meeting

17th – 23rd Book Week 21st Disco 30th School Closure Day

September 2nd Pupil Free Day

OSHC School Closure, Pupil Free Day The school will be closed on both Friday 30th August, and Monday 2nd September.. OSHC will be closed on the Friday, but will be open on Monday if enough bookings are received to make it viable to open. Please make your booking by contacting OSHC on 83442818, or in person, ASAP.

Art Year 4/5 students from Studios 10 & 13 have taken on the challenge to fold a thousand paper cranes to recognize International Day of Peace on September 21st. Steph has talked with the students about the horrific atomic bombings over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki which took place in August 1945. Sadako Sasaki was a 2 years old girl at the time of the bombings who was diagnosed with leukemia, caused by radiation from the bombs. She passed away when she was 12 years old. Sadako was inspired to fold a thousand paper cranes by the Japanese legend that ‘one who created a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish’. Her wish was simply to live through her disease.

Learning in our Junior Primary Classes Rooms 0, 1 and 2 have been developing understanding in a range of concepts across maths. From weeks 1 through 3, the reception classes have welcomed 3 pre-service teachers. We have welcomed Rani, Angela and Ariel to our learning spaces and have been supporting them to develop their teaching practice. These student teachers have taken on the teaching load for a shape unit in maths. We have been learning about 1D, 2D and now 3D shapes. Activities have been based around finding shapes in our environment, creating shapes using matchsticks and geoboards, sorting and matching shapes, investigating shapes with provocations and also discussing sides and corners In rooms 3, 4 and 4A, students have been learning about column graphs. Column graphs have a title, columns, column labels, a base line and tell us something. Students are saying sentences like “My column graph tells me that …”. They have also learnt to tally in 5s. The pictures show some of the ways students have been learning.

The paper crane (or peace crane) is one of the most widely recognized models in the origami world. Everyone recognizes the paper crane as a symbol of peace and goodwill. Cranes originally symbolized longevity and good health.

SAPSASA Here is another example of one of our Prospect North Primary School students showing excellence in the community. Way to go Jenna!! Between the 17th and 20th of June I represented the North Adelaide District in the SAPSASA State Netball carnival at Priceline Stadium. It was a lot of fun but I was very exhausted by the end of the week. My team and I played 10 full matches of netball across 4 days; we won 5, lost 2, and drew 2. This meant we finished 4th on the ladder overall. I felt extremely privileged to get a week off school doing something I love! By Jenna S

Book Week 2019 The theme for this year’s Book Week is

“Reading is my Secret Power” Book week this year will be held from 17th – 23rd August.

Competitions will be held in the Resource Centre, and students will have the chance to win Scholastic Voucher and books.

Book Week Parade On Friday 23rd August we are encouraging students to come dressed as

their favourite book character or in theme.

We will be holding a special assembly and parade between 9.10-9.45 on the day. Parents are welcome to join us.

This Week in

Studio 13 This term we have been looking at ‘Learning

Powers’ and have paired each one with a creative

task to better understand what these look like in

the classroom. Our most recent Learning Power is

‘Imagination’, which means to creatively explore

possibilities.

We connect what we know to new ideas and

allow the mind to bubble up with possibilities. We

visualise to refine skills or explore consequences

and are intuitive by following the path of thought

or feeling.

With Book Week coming up, we decided to

choose our favourite story characters, and use our

imagination to design a

handmade costume. Our

criteria included a

sustainable perspective, as

we could only use

recyclables or materials that

were already in the

classroom. We have sketched out two designs and

collected sample materials for our final collage –

to show colour and texture.

To ensure our costumes fit properly, we have

applied math concepts, including measurement

and symmetry to create patterns before

beginning.

We are now starting to bring these costumes to

life. We hope to have them finished just in time

for Book Week!