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NEWSLETTER ISSUE 07 TERM 2, WEEK 6 4th June, 2020

DIARY DATES

TERM 2 Friday 5th June

Family Photos of

Playford siblings

Only families with

orders will be

photographed.

Monday 8th June

Public Holiday

Friday 3rd July

Last day of Term 3

2.10 Dismissal

Text your child’s

absence to:

0416 906 281 Full Name / Class / Reason

Rory’s Canteen

Lunches

Order online before

8.30am via Qkr App

216-220 Adams Road, Craigmore SA 5114

Phone: 08 8284 3065 Email: dl.1879.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Fax: 08 8284 3061 Website: playfordr7.sa.edu.au

Dear Parents / Carers,

Week 6, Term 2..... how quickly has that rolled around! Only 4 more weeks and it will be holidays again. This week we had school photos. All classes (and students) did a great job, making it a relatively simple process. No easy feat with over 700 students! We look forward to seeing the finished photos in the near future. This week, and last week, we celebrated Reconciliation Week. Classes talked about what it means and our ATSI (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students) have started to trace their cultural backgrounds by working out where, in what parts of Australia, their families came from. We look forward to sharing this information at a later stage. We thank our Intervention / AET teachers and our ACEO, Michael Gollan, for assisting in making this happen. Thursday after school pick ups seem to be becoming more and more problematic, with many high school students waiting for siblings in our school yard. We ask that all parents, who have older siblings that collect younger children from our school, reinforce our expectations to ensure the safety, well being and academic successes of our students is not compromised. Any high school student, collecting a sibling, is asked to wait in the area just out side our administration area (the nature area - near Mr Clark’s memorial bench) until 3.05pm. Once 3.05pm rolls around, older siblings can make their way to classes to wait for the younger students. Whilst we appreciate and validate the importance of the older students collecting the younger students, we can’t justify having many older students wandering around our school yard, and at times, interfering with lessons still being delivered to our students. Therefore, we are asking that all high school students wait in the designated spot until such time as they can move to collect their brothers or sisters. We are hoping that parents of both primary age and high school students can reinforce this message at home and support us in keeping your children safe and on task. We have also been working with outside agencies to try and have the Grevillea block toilets upgraded. Whilst this remains early days still, and a somewhat slow process, if you, as a parent or caregiver, have some concerns (past or present) over these toilets, we ask that you email the school and make your concerns known.

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We are also in the process of starting to plan a staged approach to upgrading some of the internal garden beds within the school, to make them more user friendly and aesthetically pleasing. The amount of leaf litter is extraordinary. We hope to replace these trees with perennial ones that don’t create such an exhausting amount of work for our Groundsperson Dave to try and keep under control. This will entail removing some trees, creating garden beds and under planting designated areas. This will very much be a staged and slow process as we make our way around the school, establishing and finishing one area, before we progress to the next area. Now that Winter has finally arrived, we hope that you stay dry, stay warm and continue practising social distancing measures to ensure that our school (and the state of SA) remain COVID 19 free, so that restrictions in place continue to be lifted. Once again, if you have any queries, concerns or issues to raise, we encourage you to raise this with a member of school leadership so that we are made aware, and can try and address the items raised. We don’t have a crystal ball and can at least attempt to do things (whether it be behind the scenes or in a more visible manner) if we are aware of the concerns, after all, we are all in this together!

Stay Healthy!

Kind regards, Jason, Vicky, Matt, Elizabeth, James, Lauren and Alison Playford Primary Leadership Team

SCHOOL FEES

Thank you to all our families who have finalised their 2020 School Fees, arranged an instalment plan or have lodged a School Card Application. Statements will be sent home soon to those families who have outstanding accounts. If you need to lodge a School Card Application please do so as soon as possible. These need to be done each year and can be completed online at:

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/education-and-learning/financial-help-scholarships-and-grants/school-card-scheme

Renee Bennett - Business Manager

FINANCE NEWS

PARKING INFORMATION

Parking restrictions at schools are for the safety of your children. City of Playford Council impose a variety of parking

restrictions at and near schools to achieve a safer environment for your children. Please take note of the following rules:

NO PARKING (Left sign in the photo.): You may drop off and pick up in this zone during the

designated times. You cannot leave your vehicle during this time and there is a two-minute limit.

NO STOPPING (Right sign in the photo.) You must not stop in this zone at any time.

DOUBLE PARKING: You must not stop where any part of your vehicle is between the centre of

the road and a car parked at the side of the road.

Fines apply for failure to comply with these restrictions.

For further information on parking restrictions, please visit the City of Playford’s website:

https://www.playford.sa.gov.au/explore/getting-around/parking

STUDENT SHOWCASE - EUCALYPT EAST

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In Eucalypt East we have been creating a range of different text types. Read what each of our classes have been doing during our writing lessons.

E05 Within writing this term, E05 have been learning all

about Narratives and their structure.

Our class has loved being creative and focusing on forming strong sentences that help the reader feel

that they were in the story.

For the final piece, E05 has written an adventure/mystery story based around a cave.

How did it get there? What is inside? What secrets does the cave withhold?

Have a look at some of the stories we wrote...

E07 E07 have been focussing on Procedure writing with

E03. Here are 2 students who completed their Procedure writing with lots of effort.

E06 Last term in E06 many students were concerned about the

recent bushfires and the impact they had on koalas. As a class the students focused on their inquiry question, ‘How can we

support koalas in South Australia?’

We focused on researching the impacts the bushfires had on the koalas; habitat, diet and health.

From our research, we wrote a Persuasive text and had to convince Miss Connelly toward why our class should adopt a koala. We used our research facts to support each of our

arguments. Here are some photos of the process undertaken to research information and our Persuasive text. We also were pleasantly

surprised with our WWF adoption certificate.

E08 E08 has used digital technology to turn their Narrative texts

into comic books this term. We have been guided by our inquiry question, ‘What makes a good book?’

GETTING TO KNOW US

Introducing

Leadership Team

Members

What is your favourite colour? Depends what it’s for…. I love Silver. Blue

Do you have any pets and what

is your favourite animal?

I don’t have any pets at the moment. I have 2 dogs, a Kelpie named Cooper and a Staffy

called Duke. I love all animals (except sharks!).

Creatures that lurk in the ocean scare me.

What kind of music do you like? I like all music, Rag and Bone, Chris Stapleton,

Caro Emerald.

Anything I can dance and sing along to.

Where would you go for a

dream holiday?

Back to Europe, Ireland and Finland. I would love to go back to New Zealand as an adult and

visit family/see the sights. I enjoy getting to the river or

the beach.

How do you relax? Going to the beach. Making craft, watching Netflix, spending time with

family and friends, eating yummy food.

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Staff Member Grant Pepper - E08 Georgi Menz - E07 Rosie Connelly - E06 Tori Goodman - E05

What is your

favourite colour?

Yellow Green Pink I’ve always loved soft, pastel colours. There is too many to choose from!

Do you have any

pets and what is

your favourite

animal?

I own 1 white Shih Tzu named Milky and 1 galah called Daisy. My favourite animal is a dog. They make great door bells!

I have a mini Lop Eared Rabbit called Midnight.

I have no pets, however I find small dogs very cute, specifically Cavoodles.

Right now I do not have any

pets, however I have always

grown up with birds or a rabbit.

My favourite animal is a wolf.

What kind of

music do you like?

80s and 90s. My favourite bands are Modern Talking and Tears for Fears.

Popular, country and classical.

I love listening to top 40 music.

It depends on my mood and the

weather, but generally

anything upbeat.

Where would you

go for a dream

holiday?

Most likely any Australian coastal area. I would like to revisit Hong Kong and some day visit Las Vegas.

A round the world trip for 12 months.

I would love to go somewhere near the snow.

Greece or anywhere tropical

and warm!

How do you relax? Music playing while on my iPad, with a cheeky drink on the side.

Reading, scrapbooking, hanging with friends.

I love going to the gym and going on hikes.

I enjoy going for a hike with

friends or watching Netflix

curled up in a blanket.

Introducing our

Eucalypt East

Teachers

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Liz Mullins

Assistant

Principal

Left to right: Grant Pepper,

Georgi Menz, Felicity Booth (E07

Fridays), Rosie Connelly and

Tori Goodman

Felicity also teaches in E04 and

was featured in our Term 1 Week 4 Newsletter.

Lauren Knight

Wellbeing

Coordinator

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NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK

To acknowledge & learn more about National Reconciliation Week, many

classes held discussions and did art activities to commemorate this important

Australian event. Below are some student responses about what

Reconciliation Week means to them:

“Reconciliation Week is about saying sorry to the Aboriginal people and to make relationships friendly again.”

By Jake, Year 3 (Indigenous Student)

“Reconciliation week means when we remember the protest for indigenous peoples’ rights and reconciliation. Reconciliation

means getting along and working together. In 2000, 250,000 people both non-indigenous and indigenous walked over

Sydney Harbour Bridge to show the indigenous people that they care and wanted equal rights.”

By Arabella, Yr6 (Indigenous Student)

“To me Reconciliation Week is about forgiveness and healing between all people across Australia. Reconciliation Week starts on the 27th of May because it marks the anniversary of the Referendum that was done to amend two parts of the constitution that excluded Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. This date to me is important because it shows growth and unity within our Australian community. We acknowledged Reconciliation Week in our classroom by researching and educating ourselves about the past and how we can use those past experiences to come together as a community.”

By Nikita, Yr 7 (Non-Indigenous)

Students from E03 with their

“In This Together” Feet

A06 dot painting

Reconciliation Colouring

with Yr 6

Tiddalick the Frog Puppets

with A06 Students from E06 with their

“In This Together” Feet

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NATIONAL RECONCILIATION WEEK

Here are our Aboriginal and

Torres Strait Islander

students having a hot chip

lunch during Reconciliation

Week. This was a reward for

all the hard work they have

put in during reconciliation

week. We are all in this

together at Playford

Primary School.

“In This Together”

feet on the

Arts Building.

Students drew

pictures and

designs on each

foot to represent

shared histories

and cultures.

E04’s Rainbow Serpent

B07 Aboriginal Art

G01 Reconciliation Hands

Boomerangs from E05

Year 7

Reconciliation

Week Posters

‘What

Reconciliation

means’

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RESOURCE CENTRE NEWS

CANTEEN NEWS As of Term 3 the Canteen will no longer accept lunch orders via the classrooms. All orders from the beginning of Term 3 will need to be placed online via the Qkr App. Cut off time for online orders is 8.30am on the day required. For menus and details on the app, including how to order online, please visit our website:

https://rorys.com.au/information-for-parents/

We have also developed a parent support line to help deal with forgotten lunches, Qkr problem solving, students that have gone home sick, and all other general canteen related enquires. The phone is staffed from 9.30am-5.00pm and is equipped with message bank for enquires outside these hours. If you have an early morning Qkr App issue a team member will preference your enquiry to ensure a suitable solution can be put in place. Please leave your contact name and number with a brief message. Parent Support Line: 0413 575 800 For those that prefer to email, an email can be sent directly to: reception@rorys.com.au Rory’s team will deal with emergencies from 9.30am and will respond to all other enquiries within 24 hours.

Rory’s utilises its’ Facebook page as an informational point for parents, not as a support mechanism for lunch enquiries.

Please note: Canteen no longer stocks Zooper Doopers or Ice Minis - the cheapest ice block is now $1.50. Minimum spend for the Canteen is $1.00. Kind regards, Rory’s School Lunches

On Wednesday 27th May at 11am students across our whole Campus took part in the 2020 National Simultaneous Storytime along with thousands of children around Australia. The book chosen for this year’s sharing was “Whitney & Britney Chicken Divas” by Lucinda Gifford. While we couldn’t get all the kids together in one space this year, our Teacher Librarian Di Scott recorded reading the story in her friend’s chook yard for an entertaining version to be enjoyed in class. Lunchtimes in the library that week was a sparkly affair with Chicken Diva arts and crafts for the children to do.

Now we have turned our focus to Reconciliation Week stories and activities. The library has a comprehensive selection of dreaming stories, books by indigenous authors and illustrators, and books that showcase the diversity of our beautiful country through the lives of Aboriginal people and their long history with the land. As part of our Premier’s Reading Challenge, children are encouraged to read one of these books to help build a greater understanding of the richness of Aboriginal culture in Australia.

Thank you to all the families who have returned library books from last term. We are thoroughly cleaning all the books as they are returned which is breathing new life into our collection. If ever you have an issue with a lost or damaged library book, please contact us as soon as possible. If your child receives an overdue notice, please help them locate and return the books before it becomes an issue. Loans are for two weeks at a time and can be renewed once for a two week extension if needed. Making time to read every day is a valuable practice to help improve reading skills and stamina.

Di Scott - Teacher Librarian

CHESS CLUB

Our Playford Primary Chess Club commenced this term and it has been great to see students

getting involved at lunchtimes on Thursdays. Every week has been a ‘full house’ and it’s

been wonderful to have some of our older students helping younger students learn the

game. A big shout-out needs to go to Mrs Farnworth & Mr Clapton for helping out.

Mike Webb - Year 2/3 Intervention & Support Teacher

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