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Bordertown Primary School Inspire ~ Challenge ~ Achieve

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ISSUE 12, 24th July, 2020

INSIDE THIS

ISSUE

JULY

27th & 28th External School Review

27th Governing Council Meeting

30th Sapsasa Hockey/Soccer Trials

AUGUST

5th Sapsasa Basketball - Boys

6th Sapsasa Basketball - Girls

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.borderps.sa.edu.au

Mr Saxby explains the importance of respecting our national

anthem and showing great audience manners at our first

assembly since COVID-19 restrictions have been lifted. Then

we did a little dance!

PG. 2 Principal’s Report

PG. 3 NCCD

PG. 4 P.C.W. News

PG. 5 Classroom Learning

Dates to Remember

PG. 6 Term 3 Timeline

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Principal’s Report

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Dear Families,

Welcome back to Bordertown Primary School as we begin term three 2020. We are looking forward to another term of celebrating student achievement at our school! We have had a great start with a number of new students and families joining the school community. A warm welcome to them. Our school keeps growing and we are proud of the great work we are accomplishing. Word is getting out. Bordertown Primary School is the place to be!

I hope your family have had opportunities to relax and spend time together. Talking to a parent on our first day back, she spoke of some great family time yet was also looking forward to a quiet cuppa. We sincerely hope you also got that rest you deserved now our school term has begun.

Whilst it was timely that the holiday provided children with a chance to reenergise, many of our staff attended school throughout the last two weeks to get together and collaboratively plan, ensuring that excellent learning opportunities continue for our students. We also achieved lots of jobs on our list of things that needed taking care of throughout the school. A huge thank you to members of Governing Council and teachers who cleaned up sections of our school grounds including the Natanda Garden area. In the coming weeks there will be more information about how you can be involved in our school to support us in maintaining the wonderful areas we have available to us.

Attention to our playgrounds also meant that we rejuvenated the soft fall (bark chips) under our play equipment and

also replenished the sand in every sand pit across the school. So look out for shoes filled with sand! No need to return

it as one parent joked…”I must have half the sandpit in my lounge room!”

Also benefiting from a revamp is our front office. We have a long and proud history here at Bordertown Primary

School and the new display cabinets allow us to show our hard won trophies. We also have a selection of year books

and great black and white/coloured photographs from days gone by. Please feel free to visit and read some of the

memorabilia which includes invites to the school’s opening at it’s current site in 1971. Pictures of past staff and

students also a past Prime Minister visiting our school, not to mention the schools‘ behaviour record from 1977! Some

may be more interested than others in the recording with one entry detailing whistling bullet cartridges and the

amount of ruler smacks received. Makes for fascinating reading. Please feel free to come in and have a look. You

never know, you may find your picture amongst our memorabilia as one Mum recently discovered.

Our much awaited school review takes place next week. We are excited to show our progress and the way in which

we constantly strive to provide the best education for the children here at Bordertown Primary. We are immensely

proud of our school and have much to celebrate. The external review will be an opportunity to validate this work and

gain perspective of future directions we need to take to ensure continuous improvement is sustained and achieved.

The outcome will be published in future Newslink articles.

Finally, I’m so pleased to report we had our first whole school assembly this week. Whilst it was a practise run for our

assembly held next Friday the 31st of July, it was great to finally meet as a whole school and have some fun. We even

did a little dance to celebrate!

Have a great term everyone

Kindest Regards

Jason Saxby Principal

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Nationally Consistent Collection of Data

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data

Dear parents, guardians and carers

Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with

Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about

supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination

Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

year of schooling

category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional

level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial

or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools

consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools

develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for

students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of

students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy). Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

Kind regards

Jason Saxby

Principal

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P.C.W. News

P.C.W. News

Welcome back to school for Term 3! Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to head over yet. The border

restrictions have become tighter and I’m staying put in my part of the world for a little longer!

I’m wondering if any of you have started off the term like this. You pick your child up from school and ask

“How was your day?”

Your child - “Good.”

You - “What did you do?”

Your child - “Nothing.”

Now you know this isn’t true. You’re pretty confident they didn’t do NOTHING! But getting more from them

is like getting water from a stone! Many families find this a common scenario - mine included! How can we

do this differently?

Donna Broadhurst - counsellor and play therapist - says that when we come together with our child at the

end of the day, focus on the reunion, because more often than not, our kids have missed us. Starting with

something like “There you are! It’s so nice to see you. I’ve missed you”, can help children relax back into

their relationship with you and ease the transition from school or kindy into the family again. Questions such

as ‘How was your day? Where is your bag? Who’d you play with?’ can be like an interrogation. This puts a lot

of pressure on kids and they don’t always know how to respond. ‘What if you were thinking they might play

with Joe and they didn’t play with Joe? Are they going to be in trouble? What’s the right answer?’ It can feel

overwhelming! Instead, give them a couple of minutes to reconnect with you and then ask about their day.

If you still get little response, tell them about your day!

Modelling how to have that conversation can help. For example “Let me tell you a bit about my day. I had

lunch with Auntie Jenny, then I took the dog for a walk and saw some ducks at the lake…” Or even “I got

turned back at the border today.”

Adopting these strategies can potentially enhance the reunion and the conversations. Of course I had to try

this out! And you know what?! I actually heard about my kids’ days! My son played Octopus at lunchtime

and was the last man standing. My daughter swung on the monkey bars and now has blisters on her hands.

Families who have tried these ideas have commented to Donna about the difference this has made.

So if you’re struggling to get information or conversation out of your kids at the end of the day, try this!! Let

me know how you go!

Karen Prenzler P.C.W.

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Classroom Learning

Classroom Learning

Miss Hinge’s

Year 4/5 Class

In Visual Art we have been exploring

colours and in particular warm and

cool colours with our tree artworks.

We have also been playing with the

effects that lines can have visually

within our hand illusion art works.

Miss Hinge�

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Term 3 Timeline 2020

Wk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

1 20 July 21 July 22 July 23 July 24 July 25 July 26 July

Sapsasa Hockey &

Soccer Trials

2 27 Jul 28 Jul 29 Jul 30 Jul 31 Jul 1 Aug 2 Aug

External School Review

Sapsasa Hockey & Soccer Trials

Assembly

3 3 Aug 4 Aug 5 Aug 6 Aug 7 Aug 8 Aug 9 Aug

Sapsasa Basketball USE District Day - Boys

Governing Council meeting

Sapsasa Basketball USE District Day - Girls


Student Free Day

Parent/Carer/Teacher Interviews

Sapsasa Netball & Football USE Trial Day

Assembly


Science Week


Sapsasa State Hockey & Soccer boys & girls

Carnivals

Assembly

Sapsasa Regional Basketball

7 31 Aug 1 Sep 2 Sep 3 Sep 4 Sep 5 Sep 6 Sep

Book Fair in Library

Sapsasa USE Golf TBC

8 7 Sep 8 Sep 9 Sep 10 Sep 11 Sep 12 Sep 13 Sep

Sapsasa State Netball & Football Carnivals

Governing Council meeting

R – 3 and 4 – 7 Kids’ Voice Discos (evening)

Sapsasa Regional Cross Country - Naracoorte

Student Free Day


Proposed Sapsasa Softball Trials


Proposed Sapsasa Softball Trials

Choir local schools performance in Bordertown

Major Fundraiser

Last day of Term 2.25 dismissal Assembly

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