Reception / Year 1: Mrs Measday

We have begun our theme of being community minded. Margie sent a video about a lighthouse and it helped us to understand what community means. We have built a lighthouse in our room with people figurines walking along the light beams going out into our school community. We used our art session on Fridays to do lighthouse silhouettes.

We are also very lucky to have Ms. Tasker, a pre-service teacher, coming into our room each Tuesday and then being with us for four weeks. She is helping us learn new skills when she is here.

Reception / Year 1: Katie

Over the past two weeks we have been very excited to be back at school doing face to face learning. This week we started our work with the Kindy. In maths we have started learning about measurement. In literacy we have been learning some new vocabulary words with the story Edward the Emu. As part of Social Studies/Community Mindedness we have been learning about what makes a good friend.

Year 2/3: Stephen

We have been busy learning about factor trees in maths as an extension to our understanding of the times tables (see picture below).

As part of the social sciences, we have been learning about democracy, discovering which countries in the world are the most democratic and which are the least. We are learning of the importance of the democratic process for decision making.

We have also been learning about the Kaurna people: how their environment changed with the arrival of European settlers, how their families were structured and the sorts of things Kaurna children had to learn.

Year 2/3: Kelly

This fortnight we have been focusing on information report writing. The students are busily researching information about an animal of choice. In Maths, we have been looking at how to represent data using different types of graphs: the bar graph and picture graph. It's great to see the students working together to complete the problems. In Health we have been looking at civics and citizenship- focusing on democracy and autocracy. In History our focus is on Aboriginal studies. We are learning about the Kaurna people, which will link well with the school camp later this term.

Year 4/5: Lizzie

This week the year 4/5 and the 6/7 classes went to the South Australian Museum, the Migration Museum and the Centre for Democracy. This was a great trip to the city to see of South Australia's fantastic museums.

In maths we are learning about backtracking and number patterns.

In writing we are working on list and word form poems.

Senior class: Sallie

We have been enjoying our investigation into angles, triangles, quadrilaterals and 3D shapes with Romlea. For Hass and English we have been discovering Indigenous history and culture in preparation for our Flinders Camp. Our tie dye tops are finished and look amazing and it was fun showing them off at assembly.

Next week camp!!! So remember to be at school at 7.30am for 8am departure.

Sallie and Romlea.

Going Local – How a community provides support!

The senior class are going on camp next week (Monday to Friday in the Flinders Ranges) and I just want to tell you about the fabulous support I have received from our community. It is not an easy job buying and preparing food for 31 people because just estimating how much you need of each item can be a nightmare. My first stop was to speak to Tara Cobbledick (Jake and Ella’s mum) because she supplies the fruit and vegetables for our 2 night aquatics camp. I told her what my needs were and she came back with some great ideas. She guided me with quantities, what was in season and what were good buys. She also gave me some good ideas on dinner options and to top it off she is storing everything and bringing it down to the school at 7:30am on Monday, boxed and ready to go. Thank you so much Tara.

Next the meat…of course I had to go to Stirling Variety Meats, where a former Uraidla student works (Zac Pollifrone – Stephanie’s brother). Again, I was guided to make good decisions on quantity (I would have ordered much more than I needed) and they had it packaged ready when I needed it.

For all the other grocery items I went to Romeos where I was greeted by Alicia Gepp (Corey’s sister) and Lili Gadomski Mott (former student) who always make me feel welcome and supported with extra hands when my shopping takes up 2 full trollies (thank goodness for Romlea our preservice teacher who helped me too).

Sticking with locals, Grant Chennells is supplying our eggs, 6 dozen!! To top off my time of feeling supported by our community when I got back to school with my car full of supplies Tyson and Oscar wanted to help Romlea and I unpack. They kept saying that they couldn’t wait to be in Year 6 to go on camp ….what a great feeling!!!

Sallie Griffin

Science: Zac

Since being back at school, all classes have got right back into the routine of science, with our focus switching towards Earth & Space Sciences. Our R/1 classes have been looking at the weather and making connections to what clothes we need to wear for different conditions. The year 2/3s finished up looking at Water and have just begun looking into our Solar System. The year 4/5s have been looking at Natural Disasters, with a particular focus on Floods. Lastly, our senior class have had more of a STEM approach to their learning, linking the Olympics and the construction of a new stadium and all the considerations that need to be made.

P/E: Zac

PE has had a focus on hockey for our 2-7 students and the R/1 classes competed in a Mini Olympics last week where we won 51 gold medals in our modified decathlon event. Our R-3 classes start TriSkills Gymnastics next week and our 4-7 students move onto netball.

Indonesian: Ibu Susan

In the younger classes we have been busy reading about Budi and his animal friends trying to fly using the story Budi Mau Terbang! The older students have been practising the question Mau ke mana? Where are you going? which is a very popular question in Indonesia. This has also shown us how different some things can be in Indonesia, like open-air cinemas, enormous food markets and simple poorly equipped schools.

Gardening: Jo

Our Bee topic continues with the 2/3 classes. Bee Joke: How do you know when bees are happy? Answer: Because they hum while they work!

A fun bee fact: Did you know that bees have 5 eyes and 170 odorant receptors, which means they have one serious sense of smell!

The students planted the next crop of vegetables to look forward to - black Tuscan kale, Heirloom beetroot and leeks. They harvested some purple carrots and some radishes (which were promptly eaten).

Date	Event
16 - 20 August	Senior class Flinders Ranges Camp
Mon 23 August	Year 6/7 Boys' Basketball
Tuesday 24 August	Festival of Music rehearsal 1-4pm (TBC)
23 - 27 August	Book Week
Fri 27 August	Book Week parade

Important dates