Grange Primary School Newsletter

School Activities

Year 2 

Last term the Year 2 classes studied Australian Animals. Glenn Shuttleworth, a volunteer from Monarto Zoo came to share information about the endangered Tasmanian Devils and some interesting facts about South Australian Zoos. 

We enjoyed great sessions with Glenn and the classes raised over $100 to donate to the Monarto Zoo Tasmanian Devils Program.

 

District Basketball - Week 1

On Wednesday, the 24th of July, both girls and boys from year 6 and 7 competed in a district wide basketball tournament at Port Adelaide Recreation Centre. During the tournament the girls played 6 games and the boys played 5 games. Both Grange teams won every game played, putting them both through to the state finals in week 9. While playing all students represented Grange by showing the school values. The boys team won every game leading up to the final where they versed Pennington, winning by upwards of 10 points. The girls team convincingly won every game but did not have a final due to a lack of teams. At the end of the day, everyone was worn out and ready to head home and start thinking about the next round. A big thanks to the two coaches, John Mastropaolo and Trudy Sheffield and to all the spectators and supporters who made it possible. 

 

By Sergio Barone, on behalf of the boys and girls basketball team.

The Primary Schools Festival of Music

The Primary Schools Festival of Music season is fast approaching. Our Festival of Music choir is preparing for their performance in September. Parents, please continue to encourage your Year 5 child to memorise lyrics and melodies in readiness for the performance!

Here are those important dates:

Tuesday 20th August - Year 5 Choir attend Magic Millions for a rehearsal.

Students meet teachers at 8am in Lawson Hall.

Wednesday 11th September -  Year 5 Choir attend a rehearsal at Adelaide Festival Centre. 

Students meet teachers at 8.30am in Lawson Hall. 

Wednesday 11th September - Year 5 Choir attend performance at Adelaide Festival Centre. 

Students meet teachers at 6pm at Grange PS. 

Grange choir is in Row 8, 9 and 10. 

Tickets can now be purchased on line from www.bass.net.au or at Bass Outlets.

Room 32

Congratulations to Room 32 for winning a Mayoral Make A Book award for their class book titled, 'Don't let the seagull eat my chips’.

Room 32 also needs to be congratulated for winning a Motivated Class Award for Numerical Acumen, which is an online maths competition based in South Australia. Four students in the class received individual awards, these were:

- Maggie Joyes who received a trophy for Exceptional Student and medal for the Casio Achievement Award

- Josh Delaney who received a plaque for being a runner up in the Exceptional student award and medal for the Casio Achievement Award

- James McManus who received a trophy for Exceptional Student and medal for the Casio Achievement Award

- Isaac Lacquiere who received a medal for the Casio Achievement Award

Where's the Maths in Swimming

By Room 12

During our week of swimming Ms Abela asked us to find the maths in swimming. We listed as many as we could and here are some of them.

  • There are about 4 to 5 swimming groups in our session
  • There are 5 lifeguards
  • If you did 10 laps of the 25m lap pool you would’ve swam 250 metres
  • Adelaide Aquatic Centre’s phone number is 8203 7665
  • The depth of the leisure pool is 0.9 metres
  • The Adelaide Aquatic Centre has a 4-star rating.
  • The opening hours are 6:00am to 9:00pm
  • The price for an adult to enter is $8.50
  • Swimming lessons start from 6 months old
  • The temperature of the lap pool is approximately 27 degrees Celsius
  • It takes 20 minutes to 30 minutes to get to swimming from Grange
  • It takes approximately 10 minutes to get in the pool after arriving
  • The deep pool’s depth is 2.5 metres to 5 metres
  • The lap pool is 1.1 metres to 2 metres deep
  • It takes approximately 5 seconds to go down the slide
  • If you jump from the 10-metre diving board to the bottom of the deep pool you would’ve travelled 15 metres
  • We left the pool at 11:25am each day
  • It’s open 7 days a week
  • You pay $4 to get a locker for a day
  • On public holidays the opening hours are 7:00am to 7:00pm
  • It takes approximately 12 minutes to get dressed
  • We were there for 2 hours a day

Collated by Jessica Curtin and Gabriel Fernandez-Fico

Ryley's Haircut for a Good Coarse 

At the beginning of the year, after watching both her Nonna and her Nanna lose their hair to cancer treatment, Ryley Jae came to me and asked if she could donate her hair to make a wig. We popped on the internet to research how we’d go about that and discovered her hair wasn’t quite long enough to meet the Australian standard.  Ryley has quietly spent the past 6-7 months growing her hair and yesterday, when we went to have a trim, discovered her hair had finally reach the required length, so she bravely went for the full chop! (with a few tears from her and I both. haha).  We are sending the beautiful locks off to ‘Wigs For Kids’ this weekend.

I think you could agree, Ryley looks great and SO grown up! 

Ryley's Mum,

Nikki

Room 34 and Room 21 Planting Day

On the 19th of June Room 34 and their cat buddies Room 21, went into the awesome Charles Sturt community to plant trees and bushes with Charles Sturt Council. They got to plant all different varieties of plants but mainly Australian native plants and bushes.

We would like to thank Charles Sturt Council for helping us plant trees and bushes. Planting trees and bushes not only helps parks and properties look nicer but also it helps our environment.

Thank you.