WOODBRIDGE WORDS Woodbridge School and Marine Discovery Centre

Phone: 03 6267 4667 Fax 03 6267 4808 Email: woodbridge@education.tas.gov.au Web: www.woodbridgeschool.org.au

Dear Parents/Carers, Arts Evening September 14th 2015 Please come along and view the fantastic work completed by students from Kinder to Grade 10. Food will be available from 4.30 with displays of student work open in the Gym from 5 until 5.50. Students will begin performing musical items at 6pm sharp in the Performing Arts building. Primary students will need to meet teachers in the Breakfast Club at 5.45pm. To assist with catering we are asking that you order and pay for food prior to the evening. Forms for food orders were sent home yesterday and need to be returned with your payment to the school by Friday September 4th. We will send home food vouchers by the end of next week. The Penghana has been booked to take Bruny Island families home after the event and there are no longer any tickets available for this. There are also only a few more seats available for the performances – if you haven’t sent along your order for these please make sure you do this soon as they are filling fast. Students who are in the performance also need a ticket – this is so that we can have accurate numbers of people attending on the night. Tickets that have been purchased are being sent home this week – if you don’t have a ticket it is unlikely that you will be able to view the performances. Kindergarten Transition Our second session for children who are turning 5 in 2016 will be held on September 10th from 9.15 until 10.45. If you know of families who have children who are 4 in 2015 and might not have been contacted by us please let us know. In Term 4 there will be four sessions which will be held at the same time on Thursdays in November. Hamish Cunningham Principal

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Woodbridge Outside School Hours Care Week 7 Week beginning 31August - Sports focus, bowling, cricket and ball games Week 8 Week beginning 7th September - We will be looking into how to make computer animations on scratch. Week 8Week beginning 14th September - Make your own musical instruments. Please remember you need to be enrolled to attend we take both casual and permanent bookings, it costs nothing to enrol. Please call Jess for more information on 0499975066 or contact the school office for an enrolment pack. CALVES TO SHINE A LIGHT ON DAIRY CAREERS Calves are helping to shine a light on dairy industry careers through Dairy Australia’s innovative school program, Cows Create Careers – Farm Module. Cows Create Careers - Farm Module is a National Centre for Dairy Education program funded by Dairy Australia and industry sponsors. Cows Create Careers – Farm Module is a six-week program that aims to increase the awareness of dairy industry careers in a very hands-on way. Secondary students are educated by rearing two three-week-old calves at school and the school is provided with dairy industry curriculum for years 7 and 8 and years 9 to 11 at no cost. This year, seven schools in the Hobart TAS region will participate in the program including Bothwell District High School, Glenora District High School, JRLF Middle School Campus (Bridgewater), Woodbridge School, Sorell School, St Virgil’s College and MacKillop College. Since 2006 Dairy Australia has worked with thousands of students, teachers, farmers, industry advocates and communities through its investment into Cows Create Careers – Farm Module. Dairy Australia’s Industry Capability Program Manager, Tracy Lloyd, said the program started in 2004 with dairy farmers in the Strzelecki Lions Club in Victoria and nine Gippsland schools. With support from Dairy Australia, Regional Development Programs, dairy farmers and sponsors, the program has now grown to over 210 schools across Australia with 9,456 students completing the program in 2014. “Cows Create Careers – Farm Module is a program that builds awareness of dairy industry careers – from teaching students about educational and vocational pathways, to profiling the diverse range of professional careers in the dairy industry,” said Ms. Lloyd. “By bringing calves into schools, students have fun learning about the different skills required in the dairy industry.” The program has gained strong support from dairy farmers and advocates across Australia. Last year alone volunteers gave 1,704 hours of their time across 23 Australian dairying regions.

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Locally, the project is funded by DairyTAS and receives additional support across the state from local companies Devondale Murray Goulburn, ProviCo, Genetics Australia, MG Trading and Roberts who have continued to support the program in the Hobart TAS region. “Volunteers play a vital role in encouraging and supporting students and their career decision making,” Ms. Lloyd said. “The program has dedicated volunteers who have knowledge of the industry and links to education and employment sectors.” Upon completion of the program, students and teachers will be recognised at a Presentation Finale where prizes are awarded to the winning schools and students. The Finale will be held on Monday 26th October at Newtown. For more information visit http://www.dairyaustralia.com.au/People-and-

skills/Education-and-careers/Secondary-School-Resources/Cows-Create-Careers/Farm-Module.aspx

This year our calves were Fluffy and Bambi. Over the 3 weeks that we had them they put on between 10 and 16 kg. That is a minimum of 500 grams per day!!!

Book Fair A huge thankyou to all the families who supported the book fair – we sold over

$1000 worth of books and were able to add almost $500 worth of books to our

library.

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Writer of the Week!Writer of the Week!Writer of the Week!Writer of the Week! The Consequences of Urbanisation

Mumbai is the biggest city in India and is located on the west side of India in the Northern hemisphere. Mumbai’s population is around 19 million (not including the peoples in the slums). With Mumbai’s population increasing every day, there are people that come to Mumbai with little money and belongings they are almost forced to live in a slum. Mumbai’s slum is a small city within Mumbai, called Dharavi. Dharavi hundreds of years ago was a home to many fishermen that would going fishing in the swaps and rivers around Dharavi. However over the years, Mumbai grew and in the 1900s Mumbai had completely surrounded Dharavi with buildings.

The rivers dried up and were filled in with leaves, rotten fish, and human waste. Everyone had left Dharavi. But then a new population had begun. The people of the Dharavi slum would wake around and 8a.m and from then on the whole of Dharavi would be noisy with sound of people at shops and market. Dharavi is a very unhygienic unsafe place but the community is very close everyone helps each other, and there is a very low crime rate.

Pollution: Within the piles of rubbish underneath the Dharavi Bridge people had begun to create homes, and as Mumbai’s population grew bigger so did Dharavi’s. Today there are around one million people living in just 2 square kilometres. That means that each individual has 2 square meters to create a home. All the rubbish in Dharavi comes from the city (Mumbai) and with everyone in the slum having very little belongings they use the rubbish and rubble to create their homes. Often around five people would sleep on the hard

ground in just one room. Many of the houses do not have windows. Without the support of the government slums have to provide their own electricity, food, water and warmth. Water pipes in Dharavi are illegally installed connecting to the city’s water mains that flow past the slums, and electricity is also installed the same way. Thick smog pollutes the air from the oil drums that are used as furnaces, and the people in Dharavi only have access to water for two hours in the morning. One member of a family would go and collect enough water for them and their families to last the next twenty-four hours.

Disease: In Dharavi there is a very high disease rate, and around

4000 people catch diseases every day. Many of the diseases are

caused by drinking uncontaminated water due to their poor

water system and open drains. Canals flow all through Dharavi

and are heavily polluted with rubbish, faeces, rats and toxic

waste. On average that about 1440 people share just one toilet.

Many of the jobs are involved with sorting rubbish and this can

also lead to many contagious diseases. The most common

diseases in Dharavi are diphtheria, tuberculosis, and typhoid. Diphtheria is a highly contagious

disease that affects the breathing and swallowing, and can lead to heart failures. Tuberculosis is a

lung disease caused by bacterial infections, and typhoid is often caused by salmonella and will give

you a fever and severe rashes.

Child plays by a canal filled with toxic

Dharavi in Mumbai, India

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Peoples rights: The government of Mumbai refuse to help Dharavi in any way as they believe that it was wrong for the people to of fill in and create homes on, the once river, of Dharavi. The rubbish from Mumbai is all tossed into Dharavi where the people there sort, dispose, or use for themselves. I do believe people shouldn’t build constructions on the river, but that could’ve been stopped if the government had created a homeless shelter, or even a place for them to create homes. Good points: Dharavi might be one of the most polluted areas in the world, and not very hygienic, but slums have very healthy communities. Each person in Dharavi helps each other, and the crime waves are extremely low. In the UK only 23% of their plastic waste is recycled, where as in Dharavi they re-use around 80% of their plastic waste. People that live in slums believe that if they help each other they can all survive, and this is true. The children in slums have so much less than anyone in the city, but they are happy. Dharavi is also very poor, but kids can still go to school for education.

Over all there are probably more disadvantages in having urbanisations then there are benefits of having slums. There are high pollutions, diseases, and they excluded and cut off from the city. I do believe however that the government should be trying to help the people in the slums create a healthier living environment.

Primary Assembly News August 26th 2015

Grade 1/2 organised our Bookweek Assembly for us this week and they did a great job – well done to Stephanie, Ruby, Grace and Tyson! Classes have explored some of the shortlisted Bookweek books and presented some of the work they have done in relation to these books. Kinder/Prep have

read “Snail and Turtle are Friends” They worked in pairs and drew their own illustrations of the story using water colour pencils. Once the pictures were painted with water they looked fantastic! Each pair illustrated a different part of the story so as Ms Scales read us the story the children showed their pictures.

Grade 1/2 explored “A House of Her Own” by Jenny Hughes and Jonathon Bently. The students designed their own tree houses which were stunning! The ideas about things that were included in the tree houses were really interesting – we would like some of those features in our houses too!

Grade 3/4 read “Rivertime” by Trace Balla and completed a comic strip response to the text as a comprehension activity exploring their ‘self to text connection.’ Harrison explained the task and we were really impressed by the quality of the illustrations – everyone had put lots of detail into their illustrations.

School in Dharavi

By Anneliese

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Grade 5/6 read ‘Tea and Sugar Christmas’ which won “Honour Book” in the Eva Pownell Award for Information Books category. Students completed a reading response to the text and then created a plan for an information report based on what they had learnt.

Mrs Randall drew out the names of winners in the Premiers Reading Challenge – all these people won a special key ring. There were 5 more lucky winners who received a multi coloured pencil – Well done to all these people..the more you read the more you learn!! The Secret Teacher this week was Mrs O-B who chose Grade 1/2 – it was really hard to choose the best class but Grade 1/2 were fantastic!

CONTACT DETAILS 3509 Channel Highway, Woodbridge, Tasmania 7162 Ph. (03) 6267 4667 Fax (03)62674808 Email woodbridge@education.tas.gov.au Web www.woodbridgeschool.org.au

Star Students this week were:

Kinder/Prep Tilly, Harry, Ayla

Grade 1/2 Nahi, Henry

Grade 3/4 Harry, Monica

Grade 5/6 Theo, Bradley

Our Values Awards for ‘Including Others’ went to: Kinder/Prep Cooper, Tutia

Grade 1/2 Emilly

Grade 3/4 Kate, Harrison

Grade 5/6 Pera, Lily

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