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A message from Deb …

Thank you, thank you, thank you. For everyone’s contributions to the Biggest Morning Tea on Monday. It was a great success, we

raised $500. I have spoken to Janet, she was thrilled with our support and thanks everyone.

NAPLAN The National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) for students in Years 3, 5, 7 will take place between the 9th – 12th of May. NAPLAN is made up of tests in the four areas of: › reading › writing › language conventions (spelling, grammar

and punctuation) › numeracy. To remove any stress or anxiety we view this as one of many components which make up our teaching and learning cycle. At Goodwood, our philosophy is that NAPLAN is just another day at school. It is a discreet snapshot of a student on a given day.

2015 Fundraising donation I met with Eshantha Ariyadasa last week. He was visiting from Sri Lanka and wanted to send his good wishes to everyone a n d e x p r e s s h i s heartfelt thanks for

our donation to the Orphanage for young girls. He said our $1125 would enable them to put in three rainwater tanks. Their weather is so extreme that during the summer they readily run out of water, while in the winter they often experience floods.

IELC Information Night It was wonderful to meet many of the parents of our Intensive English Language students last Thursday night. We talked about events that happen throughout the year at Goodwood over a light supper. Many thanks to the parents and staff who came along on the night to talk and share their experiences of Goodwood School.

Sports Day I love Sports Day, here I am joining in with the relay event last year … We are looking forward to catching up with as many of you as possible next Wednesday

the 13th of April. Proceedings begin here at 9:05am, Reception to Year 2 children will not be walking down to the Goodwood Oval until 10:15. Congratulations to Mari Ihara-Lim who proposed the creative ideas for our team names which were selected. There is detailed information in this newsletter.

Student Learning Discussions Thank you to all our teachers who have prepared for these discussions this week. These sessions are a great opportunity to become aware of your child's achievements and goals for the future. If you haven’t been able to meet with your child’s teacher this term don’t hesitate to arrange a time early next term.

Have a lovely holiday. See you in Term 2 beginning Monday May 2nd.

Kind regards, Deb Brassington, Principal

REMEMBER SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2:15PM FRIDAY THE 15TH OF APRIL,

THE LAST DAY OF TERM 1.

What is in this edition - A message from Deb - Sports Day Information - Great Achievements at Goodwood! - Football Boot Swap!!!!!!!!!! - The World Through Your Eyes - Public Education Community Meeting - Week 9 Assembly - Southern Cross Cultural Exchange - Traffic Monitors - Mud Festival - Important Dates

SPORTS DAY INFORMATION Wednesday April 13

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Students meet at school in the morning as normal. Classes will gather on the basketball court at 9.05am for the whole school warm up. The Primary Years students will then walk to Goodwood Oval to start their events. The Early Years classes will walk over later. This is our first trial year of having Sports Day at Goodwood Oval during normal school hours.

Clothing Students are to wear…

› appropriate school uniform for physical activity (shorts, t-shirt)

› appropriate footwear (no sandals)

› hair tied up

› sun smart hat (wide brim, bucket or legionnaires – no caps)

Students may wear something of their team colour. For example, hair ribbon, socks, t-shirt, shorts, coloured accessories. If wearing something of their team colour it must be appropriate clothing for physical activity – no dress ups or costumes. If students do not have anything of their team colour, teachers will have a supply of coloured steamers and freeze tape that students can attach to their clothing or hat.

Bring - recess and lunch (R-2 students must bring recess as they will be at school – the canteen will not be open) - food stalls are available - drink bottle - sun smart hat (no caps or visors) - sunscreen - PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR ITEMS ARE CLEARLY NAMED

Championship Sprints and Relays Selection After the lunch break certain students will compete in the Championship Sprints and Relays. Students are timed during PE lessons prior to the day. The 2 fastest boys and 2 fastest girls in each year level from each team colour will compete in the Championship Sprint. The 3

rd fastest will compete in the Championship Relay. The 4

th fastest is selected as a reserve. If students are absent during

these lessons and would like to be considered they must let Alex or Somer know as races are finalised by the end of Week 10. All students will compete in a sprint during their class tabloid.

Changes This year our whole school warm up will be held at school on the basketball court. The year 3-7 students will (including Ria’s year 3’s) walk to Goodwood Oval at 9.15am to start their events at 9.30am. The early years classes will stay at school in their classroom where they will do activities with their classroom teacher. Early years students will have recess at school then walk to Goodwood Oval by 10.45am where the teams will sing their chants. This has been planned to ensure our younger children have the energy to fully participate in their events. This year we have included an optional 800m event for Years 3-7 students. Students will earn points in their team for completing the event. This will also be used to help select SAPSASA participants.

Supervision During the day’s events students are under the classroom teachers/support staffs supervision. It is important that parents/caregivers do not take students during the events to the food stalls etc. as this can cause problems for teachers in terms of organising events and teams. All students have allocated break time to eat so please do not give students food during the events. The teacher would need to be consulted if you were to take your child to the toilet, staff will generally take groups of children to the toilet.

Pick Up The closing ceremony will be held at approximately 2.20pm. Students will walk back with their classroom teachers to school. Students can be collected at normal time 3.15pm. If parents/caregivers would like to collect students at the oval at 2.20pm they MUST report to the teacher and be signed off.

PLEASE DO NOT TAKE STUDENTS WITHOUT SIGNING YOUR CHILD OUT WITH THE CLASSROOM TEACHER.

Help us on Sports Day with some tasty treats to feed the masses!

Goods can be dropped to the canteen the day before (Tuesday 12th April by 3.15pm) or straight to Goodwood oval on the day.

Please keep food colouring to a minimum - colour the packaging instead!

Sports Day Needs You!

Need ideas?

Vanilla cup cakes in coloured patty pans,

…or popcorn in coloured cups

…or treats on coloured napkins…

Great Achievements at Goodwood! Pedal Prix Update….. The 2016 Australian International Pedal Prix season kicked off with a brand new 8hr race at Mt Gambier. In the Roof Rack City Category 1 team, five

Goodwood Year 7 students, Blake, Ethan, Oscar J, Toby and Zac M did a fantastic team effort job to pedal the new "Black Rhino" over the line an outstanding second place in the category! Brilliant. The next race of the season is in Loxton in May.

Out of School Hours Sports and Recreation Activities ... High levels of engagement with Basketball On Wednesday mornings the sound of balls pounding the asphalt certainly wakes us all up. Thanks to a number of parents, Alex Duncan and the coordinator, Tim Fitzgerald, we have a large number of students participating.

Lego Club is off and building…..

Thanks to Caroline and Liam who are running the Lego club at lunch times the children are very engaged and loving the opportunity.

Sports Team Names

Well done Mari on suggesting the Sports Team Names. Mari presented them to the school at our recent assembly.

Purple – Air – Spirit/fighting spirit Personality: kind hearted, trustworthy, positive

Aqua – Water – Teamwork

Personality: compassion, devotion, helpful

Orange – Fire – Resilience/persistence Personality: enthusiastic, courageous, passionate

Lime Green – Earth – Strength

Personality: reliability, ambitious, responsible

Football Boot Swap!!!!!!!!!! Do you have old boots that no longer fit your child? Come along to the plane trees at 2pm Friday April 15th, LAST DAY OF TERM, and again at 3pm Tuesday May 3rd, Week 1 Term 2. You can donate your boots to another family and hopefully find a pair to fit your child!!!!

Great Achievements at Goodwood!

AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST MORNING TEA The community made this happen. It was wonderful to be able to make this event happen at

such short notice. Many thanks to parents and students for all their efforts.

Amount raised……$500.00

Where your money goes…. $500 helps fund the provision of telephone and web-based support groups facilitated by trained peer volunteers and health professionals.

SAPSASA News Congratulations to Saxon for being selected to represent South Australia in the Junior Beach Volleyball Championships. Saxon will compete in this year’s Australian Junior Beach Volleyball Championships held at Glenelg Beach 7-10

th April.

Good luck Saxon!

Congratulations to Zach and Jade for being selected to represent Adelaide South East District Swimming Team. They competed at the Metropolitan Swimming Championship and their District team finished 2nd. Jade's relay team also came 2nd, earning themselves a silver medal. Well done Zach and Jade.

Great Achievements at Goodwood!

Water is precious… let’s make sure our actions help! Bron and Janet’s SA Water Incursion

In March a lady from SA Water visited our classes to talk to the students about how wastewater is treated once it leaves the home. The talk was very informative and gave the students an understanding of the processes that take place. The students learnt that all sorts of things end up at the processing plant. In particular they were shocked by an experiment that demonstrated how quickly toilet paper breaks down in water, as opposed to a wipe that had been in a container of water for over 3 years. It looked exactly the same as when it went in! Even though wipes say they are flushable they don’t break down and this causes an enormous amount of damage to the sewerage pipes. Some of the students were so concerned about this that they wanted to take action so they performed a short play

at last weeks assembly to inform everyone.

Quotes

“I was absolutely amazed that wet wipes were non-breakable and that I will be sure to tell people that amazing fact.” - Hugo

“I think that we could make a change about what people are doing by talking to people.” - Aleeza

“Tissue paper breaks down into little pieces while going down the drain.” - Adi

“It was fascinating when she said that people flush so many engagement rings, wet wipes, toys and all sorts of weird stuff down the toilet!” - Sabrina

“I learnt what happens after you use water at your house. First it goes down into the sewer and through screens that catch any large objects. After it goes into a primary sedimentation tank where all the pieces sink to the bottom etc. At the end you get recycled water that can be used in the garden or toilets.” - Sonya

“Something I learnt was that the recycled water pipes are purple.” - Yannika

“I learnt that chlorine helps water get clean.” - Addison

“I learnt why we have to appreciate what SA Water helps us with or if they didn’t we would not have clean water for South Australia.” - Kaitlin

Making connections with families is a priority across all aspects of Goodwood School and Preschool… The IELP information evening last Thursday night was good one example of this.

Being inclusive of all is an important aspect of people developing a sense of belonging. Thanks to those parents and staff who supported us with this event.

Great Achievements at Goodwood!

Magic at the Art Gallery of SA Two weeks ago, we visited the Art Gallery of SA in the city. You might think ‘Booooooooring!’ – but, it was the opposite to that!

We visited the Magic Object exhibition which showcased contemporary artworks from Australian artists based around the idea of ‘magic’. For the first hour, we took a guided tour of the exhibition. Some of our favourite pieces were sculptures made from blown glass with other characters and animals built into them. The artwork was set up like its own little community. We really enjoyed checking out the ‘portraits’ made from dead rats, mice, feathers and twigs brought to the artists’ door by their cats. A light was then shone on the sculpture and the silhouette of the artists was then able to be seen. Another highlight was seeing ‘The Banksia Men’ which were large costumes built up on frames. They were set up in a dark room and looked really freaky as they had lots of eyes that seemed to follow us around the room. In the second hour, we participated in a workshop in the studio. We created some amazing sculptures out of foam, feathers, pipe-cleaners, straws and wire. We also used ‘spirographs’ to make some groovy geometric designs.

Surprisingly, we had a lot of fun at the Art Gallery! We are now inspired to create our own amazing sculptural masterpieces! Tashfia, Helen, Zoe, Abbey, Emma – Year 7

Week 9 Assembly

Congratulations to 4M and 5M on their assembly last week and to all

those classes who presented.

Splish Splash I was taking a bath!!

3M Problematized situation and a Magic Number quiz.

DON”T USE Wet Ones in the TOILET!!!

Keeping our school clean!!!!!!!! Next term we will start presenting our yard tidy award at

each assembly for classes with the cleanest yard area.

Congratulations to these students who received awards at last weeks assembly….

CONFIDENCE Mia Huang Mackenzie Schranz Navija Kumar

PERSISTENCE Kade Finlay Danylo Mamoshchuk Josh Brook Rajvir Sandhu Riley Carroll Mia Espinosa Paul Kamel Lily Hartwig Joy Li Lilia Zysk-Faulkner Hope Bowles Bianca Pisani Sam Bryan

GETTING ALONG Nayla Henry Archie Spier Lucas Grunert Eva Salvotore Jenu Perera Zara Drazetic Ronan Fox Lila Thilthorpe

ACHIEVEMENT Martina Peham x2 Mitchell Martin Ari Cross Haylee Thilthorpe Non Khangsanthia Cohen McRae Toby Cazzolato Zac Marriage

ORGANISATION Lewis McFarland Aurora Murphy-Eales Jessie Davies Seb Mahony Daniella Bourboulis

Naser Aranna Mahmud

Building Our Nation Through Public Education

Community Meeting Monday 11 April 2016 7pm - 8pm

City of West Torrens – Hamra Centre Library 1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton

(Parking available off Brooker Tce, Hilton)

Why is our public education system so important?

What are the effects of current policy on public schools?

How can our society support and maintain a vibrant and healthy public education system?

Professor Alan Reid from the University of South Australia will discuss his recently launched research paper.

Building Our Nation Through Public Education with opportunities for questions and audience interaction.

Let’s collectively put the public back into public education.

Limited placed available Please RSVP to Bernice Brady bbrady@sappa.com.au by 6 April

Sponsored by

This April, SAYarts is proudly hosting a great school holiday program entitled 'The World Through Your Eyes: Change the World One Story at a Time' for girls and boys aged 8 to 14 years.

'The World Through Your Eyes’ is a three-day event, kicking off on Tuesday 26th April and running till Thursday 28th April 2016 at Goodwood Primary School Performing Arts Space from 9am to 5pm daily. This fun and interactive program is created by acclaimed children's theatre-makers Claire Glenn and Anthony Kelly and will feature an exciting range of activities, including monologue creation, script development and elements of film production. Over three days children will work together to tell amazing stories from their unique perspective and create and perform their own production.

Enrolment is now open for this school holiday activity; the complete cost is $300 full price; $225 for Goodwood Primary Students and $200 for current SAYarts students. To make a booking, please visit TryBooking or https://trybooking.com/190271 If you have a query concerning this event, please contact 0400 202 399 or info@sayarts.com.au.

Important Dates

Monday April 4th - Friday April 8th Student Learning Discussions previously called Parent Teacher Interviews

Tuesday April 12th Fundraising meeting 7pm Wednesday April 13th Sports Day Goodwood Oval

Friday April 15th Last Day of Term 2:15pm finish Saturday April 19th Goody Patch Working Bee

Tuesday May 3rd Fundraising 7pm Wednesday May 4th Assembly Year 7 11C

Thursday May 5th Student Learning & Well Being Committee Monday May 9th Finance 5:30pm

Monday May 9th -12th NAPLAN test Tuesday May 10th Building and Grounds committee 7:30pm

Thursday May 12th 5pm—7pm TAPAS under the Trees Monday May 16th Governing Council 7:30pm

Wednesday May 18th Aleesah Darlinson Writing performance Wednesday May 18th Adelaide Symphony Orchestra R-4 IEL 1 & 2

Friday May 20th Student Free day

Tuesday May 24th Reporting Abuse and Neglect training for new 2016 volunteers in the library 7-9pm

Friday May 27th Parent Tour Sunday May 29th School working bee 9-12 with Pizza lunch!

Traffic Monitors Students have now had training to be crossing monitors. This is a very responsible job and we

thank them for their commitment to this role.

Remember:

› Be at school before 8:30 AM and head out to

the crossing as a group at 8:30 AM. The reserve should

also be at school before 8:30 AM.

› Wear your hats if it is a hat wearing day. Do not take

your bags.

› Stay focussed on your job.

› Stay on duty until 3:30 PM at the end of the day.

Week 10 Alisha R Zara Jesse B

Week 11 Cynthia Violet B Mia

Mud Festival