IMPORTANT DATES

Term 4 Tuesday Junior Blasters Cricket 3.30 - 4.30pm

16 November Year 12 Graduation - The Commodore

16 November Border Watch Tour - Year 6/7 Class

19 November Holla Fresh Excursion - 9 & 10 Ag

19 November Governing Council Meeting

21 November Presentation Awards Day

23 November White Ribbon Day

26 - 28 November Year 6/7 Aquatics Camp

26-29 November CFS Fire Fighting Module Year 10 Students

30 November Student Free Day - OSHC Available

Principal - Ms Kylie Smith Deputy Principal - Ms Marian Hodson Governing Council Chairperson - Mr Rodney Virgo

Courage Excellence Respect

Term 4 / Week 5 Monday 12 November 2018

Phone : (08) 87387218 Fax : (08) 87387321

Office Hours : 8.30am - 4.00pm Leonie.Feast18@schools.sa.edu.au

Allendale East Area School NEWSLETTER

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Waterfront Playspace

Last term the Year 8 Maths class were given the opportunity to be involved with Stage 2 of the Waterfront development in Port MacDonnell in conjunction with the Grant District Council. Their task was to explore a set space on the foreshore and to develop a design for a new play area that they could present to council.

The students navigated this process by using a STEM ideology/design process. The design process is a series of steps that guides students as they solve problems called solution fluency. The process is described as the 6 D’s: Define, Discover, Dream, Design, Deliver, Debrief.

In the Define stage, the students defined the problem and the criteria set by council. They did this by brainstorming what exists already in the area and by examining the criteria and determining possible ways to address the criteria. For example, the students listed ways to make play areas safer and also ways of making equipment available to all ages and abilities.

The students then went on to research what exists in other play areas. This is the Discover phase. They also went on two excursions; one to the foreshore to measure and explore the space and another to the Mount Gambier Rail lands. This enabled the students to really picture what the space could look like. Also in the discover stage, the students measured the area of the space and were able to calculate scale using ratio.

Next, the students tackled the Dream stage, where they drew thumbnail sketches and annotated them. This was purely a wild brainstorming time - no judgment or criteria, just an explosion of ideas!

From this, the students went to the Design part where they made decisions about what could fit into the space and what met the criteria. They redefined their ideas over a series of drawn to scale ideas on paper. They then went on to produce 1:100 scale models of their ideas.

They Delivered their work in a small oral presentation talking about the parts they thought were successful. As a group they decided what parts should be represented in their final presentation, actually removing parts of each student’s model to put together in one final model to present. Below is the model - each part is labelled to demonstrate the student’s ideas. This is part of the Debrief, as well as talking about how students would write speeches to accompany their PowerPoint .

Finally, last week in Grant District Council’s meeting room, our 11 Year 8 student’s presented their work to an esteemed audience including the CEO Mr David Singe and many others. I have since been given a letter of thanks from Mr Singe, who congratulated and thanked the students for their presentation. We are hoping now our work will be recognised in the final design with actual works to start in 2019.

I think the students will agree that this was an amazing experience to be part of and the learning gained was rich and relevant. I am hoping that in years to come, they will be able to look at the play space in Port MacDonnell and feel a sense of pride and belonging in this community. Julie Murdoch

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Term 4 and Term 1 are No Hat, No Play !

Students will be required to sit in the Canteen Area at recess and lunchtime if they forget their hat.

Reversible bucket hats are available for Primary students. They are navy on one side and the reverse side are Sports Day Colours. Available in small/medium/large sizes. $10.00 each.

AEAS navy caps are available for years 7-12. $10.00 each.

PORT MACDONNELL GOLF CLUB - JUNIOR GOLFERS - Friday night competition for Juniors. Course is now open every Friday. Tee off at 4.00pm. Short Course - Tee off from 150m Marker. 5 Holes. $5 Entry. Prizes to be won each week. All welcome. Information flyers available from the School Front Office. Contact Mandy Coe 0438 675 853. PORT MACDONNELL GOLF CLUB - Course Open. Friday Night competition is back on. Course is now open every Friday. Tee off at 4.00pm. Prizes to be won each week. Bar opens at 5.30pm. Meals from 6.00pm. PORT MACDONNELL FOOTBALL CLUB - Are holding their AGM on Thursday 22 November at 7pm at the clubrooms. All members are urged to attend. Apologies to Sonia on 0439 382 451.

Breakfast Club is available everyday in the School Canteen from 8.30am. All Students are welcome !

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Community Notices

Our School No ‘PROB-LAMA’

2018 AEAS Colour Run

THE BAY MARKETS ARE BACK ! - The Bay Markets are coming back and will be held in the Port MacDonnell Community Hall. If you are a stall holder and interested in being a part of the Bay Markets, please contact : Gill Clayfield on 0408 853 009 or gclayfield57@gmail.com

Ben and Tyler have been working with Ms Smith to name the ‘No PROB-LAMA’.

After collecting and reading through all of the entries, we have decided on -

Leo Lewis Lama

We hope everyone likes this name.

If you would like to request having Leo Lewis Lama in your classroom, please speak with your teacher, you are more than welcome to borrow him.

Thank you for putting in your ideas.

No problem is too big or small to share with Leo.

PS - We might be getting another one to name soon, it will be a girl Lama.

On Wednesday 12 December, our school will be hosting a Colour Run. Information notes and forms were sent home with all students last week.

Please return forms, together with payment by this Wednesday 14 November.

Spare copies available from the School Front Office.

Competitor Pack includes : Colour Run Tshirt, Rainbow Headband, Sunglasses and Wristband - $25.00

Entry is $15.00 per student if you wish to supply your own tshirt. Mark Rumbelow Colour Run Co-ordinator

Included with today’s Newsletter is an insert highlighting exciting class and staff projects.

Included with today’s Newsletter is an insert for a School Quiz Night being held on Saturday 1 December.

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Have you downloaded the Skoolbag App yet ?

Please contact the Front Office if you need help with this.

Reception - Miss Tanielle & Miss Jones - JAY IMPERIAL - For being on task and having a go.

Year 1/2 - Mrs Neu - TYRON HOWARD - Excellent progress in reading.

Year 2/3 - Mrs O’Connor - KANISHA MILLER - For her positive attitude and improvement in Mini-Lit.

Year 4 - Mr O’Connor - CASEY WILSON - Respectful listening and always striving to complete his best work.

Year 5/6 - Mrs Biggins - TIA MOULDEN - For always being a helpful and positive class member.

Year 6/7 - Mrs Murdoch & Mr Pfeiffer - ANGUS MILLARD - For exceling in his grammar, spelling and punctuation.

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Shooting For The Stars - Week 3

Shooting For The Stars Morning Tea with Ms Smith, Ms Hague & Kath

Year 9 & 10 Beach Observations

Shooting For The Stars - Week 4

Reception - Miss Tanielle & Miss Jones - KADE GILMORE - For being a great leader and for respectful behaviour.

Year 1/2 - Mrs Neu - CHASE PERRYMAN - Excellent listening skills.

Year 2/3 - Mrs O’Connor - ZAYLEN SMITH - For being a fantastic role model for the class and completing all set work.

Year 4 - Mr O’Connor - CZARA KUMBHARE - Always finishing her work to a high standard and great active listening skills.

Year 5/6 - Mrs Biggins - THOMAS CONSIDINE - Always using his manners and being helpful in class.

Year 6/7 - Mrs Murdoch & Mr Pfeiffer - NATE WHITEHEAD - Applying his business and economic skills in assignments.

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Music Count Us In

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Safe A Life Australia Visit

Choir Festival Of Music

Allendale celebrated Music Count Us In for the first time on Wednesday 31st October. Music Count Us In is a nationwide incentive to get kids and schools from around Australia participating more in Music by singing the same song, at the same time, on the same day. Last year over 660,000 kids from more than 3000 schools participated. Our celebration involved the whole school coming out to see our Receptions to Year 6 students sing “One Song” together, as well as them dancing, playing ukuleles, glockenspiels and even recorders!

Wednesday 8th November saw Save A Life Australia visit AEAS to deliver a road

awareness program to the 9/10 class. The 50 minute session was based around the use of Australia’s first virtual reality educational driving simulator that is connected to a real car. Points covered included experience of losing a friend, perspective of the Police regarding keeping young drivers safe, consequences of not wearing seatbelts, positive driving, view from the driver’s seat – a look at how so many dangers are hard to see, inattention (particularly the use of mobile phones) and looking after your mates and how to be intelligent passengers. The session was very well received by the students. Three of them were lucky enough to drive the simulator, with everyone else able to get the drivers perspective from a screen, with carefully selected driving reasons for each scenario. “The simulator was cool and it made me think more about driving dangers”

“Lots of helpful and interesting information. I really like the four second rule”

“I learnt a lot of interesting facts about the dangers of driving and how to stay safe on the road. Overall it was a very good session and raised a lot of awareness”

“It was cool and I learnt a couple of things” The four second rule – before getting in a car spend four seconds thinking about how parents will react to seeing a police officer at their door (perhaps in the middle of night), how they would tell siblings, who else parents would need to contact before they read it on social media and how their life would change from that moment on.

Student Quotes

Adrenaline rush when the lights come up and heaps of fun - Madison Gavin

First Choir experience, I liked the lights flashing– Lily Hulse

I liked the lights flashing - Reegan Pelkonen

Seeing Tia and Lillian do their solos - Kate Marra

When the curtains went up it helped the nerves - Erin Sprakel

Earlier this term, our Choir Students sang at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre with other district schools

for the annual Festival of Music Concert.

The whole year with weekly lessons and rehearsals was all worth it to know the songs really well so we could have a great

experience on stage singing with friends - Choir Group