Term 4 Week 1 Monday October 14th 2019

CONFIDENCE RESPONSIBILITY INCLUSION RESPECT DOING YOUR BEST

October

25 School Closure Day

22-23 JP Camp—Naracoorte

November

6 Assembly

18 Student Free Day

25-29 Swimming Week

December

13 Last Day Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4. As always the final term of the year promises to be a busy one with preparations for the Junior Primary Camp, swimming lessons, final YELP and YEC presentations, Lego League and various SAPSASA events, sure to keep us on our toes as we speed towards our concert night and other end of the year celebrations.

External Review

The school has received the final report from our recent External Review and it will be posted on our website by the end of the week. The report gives the school advice and directions to continue our work to strive for high expectations for every student, through shared targets, collaboration across our classes, and the use of formative assessment. All schools are reviewed at least every three years and our school will again be reviewed in 2022.

Purple Orange

Under the sponsorship of the Purple Orange inclusion project, Julie Childs and I were privileged to travel to Townsville last week on a study tour to observe 3 schools implementing inclusive education programs. We had some key questions around the way we implement intervention programs, and utilise our much valued SSO’s. It was most valuable to see a variety of programs in operation that provide intervention and learning support within classrooms, rather than outside the class. This was possible through the flexible use of space and staffing. While our site is very different to those we visited, we discovered many of the inclusive practices we are familiar with, replicated in these schools, in very different contexts. However we also came away with many ideas to extend and enhance the learning in our school.

Needs Analysis Survey

Families are reminded that the Needs Analysis Survey for Out of School Hours Care is due back by the end of

this week. Feel free to contact the school if you need another copy of the survey.

Wax Wraps

As a part of our YELP and YEC groups environmental focus this year we have continued to seek and raise awareness to reduce waste in our school, particularly plastic waste. At the end of last term our students worked together to make wax wraps to sell to our community for use in lunchboxes or at home to replace the plastic bags and cling wrap. After an initial trial recipe we discovered that the wraps would be more successful with an alternate recipe, and we are very pleased with the results. Our Wax wraps will be available at the front office until sold out. See the photo and details on page two of this newsletter.

Principal: Lyn Houlihan Governing Council Chairperson: Adam Price Phone: 87394309 Fax: 87394077 Website: www.glencoeps.sa.edu.au Email: dl.1217_info@schools.sa.edu.au

Term 4 Week 1 Monday October 14th 2019

CONFIDENCE RESPONSIBILITY INCLUSION RESPECT DOING YOUR BEST

No Hat No Play

A reminder to all families that Term 1 & 4 are “No

Hat No Play” terms. All students are required to

wear a wide brimmed school hat. Students not

wearing hats will have to play in the undercover

area. Hats are available to purchase from the

Front Office for $13.20 (GST Inc)

JP Camp

Next Tuesday and Wednesday the Junior Primary

class will be attending an overnight camp at the

Naracoorte Caves. A reminder to families that all

forms and payments need to be finalised by

Monday for students to attend as approved by

Governing Council. Any students requiring any

medication require a medication plan signed by a

doctor and medication needs to be handed in to

the Front Office prior to departure. Students

need to be at school at 8.45am to leave by 9am.

We also ask that students bring along their recess,

lunch, water bottle and a hat. Feel free to come in

and speak to Angela if you have any questions.

SAPSASA Tennis

Congratulations to the following 8 students who

have been selected for SAPSASA Tennis: Patrick ,

Elly, Kaleb, Montana, Alisha, Shae, Marcus and

Natalia . This is a brilliant effort with 8 of the 12

participants coming from our school. Competition

will be in Adelaide in Week 4 this term.

School Closure and Student Free Days

Next Friday October 25th will be a School Closure

day for the Mt Gambier Show and no staff will be

on site. On Monday November 18th we will be

having our final Student Free Day for staff to work

on our Site Improvement Plan for 2020.

Term 3 School Values Morning Tea

In Week 10 last term, the following students were

invited to a morning tea for displaying the school

values: Brodie, Connor, Kallan, Luke, Jasmine, Zoe,

Emma, Shelby, Charlotte, Chris, Jorja, Mackenzie,

Ella, Shae, Alyssa, Montana, Peyton, Casper, Tyler

and Rachael. All staff have the opportunity to rec-

ognise students throughout the term when they

are displaying the school values of—Respect, Re-

sponsibility, Inclusiveness, Confidence and Do-

ing Their Best.