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27 Gladstone Road Prospect SA 5082

Ph: 8344 5696 Fax: 8269 4643 OSHC: 0456966460

Email: dl.0368.info@schools.sa.edu.au Website: www.prospectps.sa.edu.au

RESPECT SUCCESS CREATIVITY DATES TO REMEMBER

From the Principal

ENROLMENTS Thank you to the parents who have registered their younger children as future students of PPS. We now have lists up to 2021. This information helps us considerably with our planning. If you are planning to leave PPS by the end of the year and therefore your child won’t be moving into the next year level in 2019 we would also like to hear from you.

Please contact us via email at dl.0368.info@schools.sa.edu.au

GOVERNING COUNCIL I am delighted to share with you photos of our Governing Council members, refer to page 6. These parents work diligently to ensure your views are heard. Now that you can put a name to face, please don’t hesitate to contact them for information about our school, up-coming events and our future directions. Our Governing Council members have name badges to also identify them easily.

LED LIGHTING As part of the Sustainable Schools program, our primary buildings will have

the halogen lights replaced by more energy efficient LED lights. Work will commence during the July holidays.

MORE IMPROVEMENTS We are just waiting for notification of a commencement date for ramps to be installed around our primary buildings and leading up to our “New playground area”. The $135 k of work will ensure that all of our school will be wheelchair and pram friendly. NEW PLAYGROUND You will see from our Governing Council photo page that we have a newly formed, New Playground committee. Mez Nelson, Nicola Veitch, Denise Butcher, Christie Butler and myself are working closely with Governing Council to create a nature play area to surround the playground used by the older students near the oval (Olive Street side). We are just in the initial stages of getting a design concept plan. Once we have this we will be seeking tenders for the construction.

The playground has been many years in planning after we consulted with the students and community. I’m delighted that we are now starting to move forward with this major improvement.

JUNE

8th Assembly - Rm 1

11th Queen’s Birthday

12th Pupil Free Day

15th SAPSASA Soccer Championship

20th Governing Council 7pm

22nd 2018 Crows Cup

22nd Assembly – Rm 7

29th School Tour

JULY

5th Student Reports

6th Early Dismissal 2.10pm

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DUTY OF CARE We have some parents who believe that they don’t need to pick up their child until 3:30 when the yard duty teacher (there is only one teacher rostered on) finishes their duty. The school bell goes at 3:10pm and parents should be on the school grounds by then. We love seeing our parents/caregivers pick up their child/ren and enjoy the playground under close supervision. Our concerns are seeing many children playing away from adults unsupervised.

All students not picked up at 3:30 are brought to front office and parents/caregivers will be called straight away.

ANOTHER SAFETY REMINDER Please don’t send food or drinks along in glass containers as they inevitably break. Always name all containers (and clothing).

TREE PLANTING Thank you to the Grounds Committee, Trees for Life and the Taylor family for the donation of many plants to further enhance our school grounds. Students enjoyed the experience of planting this week see front page picture. Warm regards

Karen Duval

Design and Digital Technologies

In Design and Digital Technologies, we have been exploring with Makers Empire, a program where you can create prototypes to print out using a 3D printer. Using the Learning Intention, To Design and Construct an area for the local community, students in year 2 and 3 have created their own playground equipment that will be functional for all children in the school. Students have included ramps, sensory areas, mazes, cubby houses and many other creative equipment items. It has been a very exciting time for all students especially when we were able to commence our first print. Below are a few of our designs and explanations from students who created them. – Miss Cam

I made a slide using the 3D printer. It took me three tries to perfect it. On the entrance it has steps you can climb onto so you can go on the bridge and then down the slide. I am very excited and happy that it worked. – Aarush Jain, Room 11

I have made a cubby so that people can climb up and sit and eat with their friends. There is also a hidey hole at the back that you can climb through to get to the ball pit. I think it is really cool, however next time I would add a verandah and make it taller. - Emma Christensen, Room 11

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Gifted and Talented Workshop

Students in the Gifted and Talented Workshop have been learning new painting techniques. They are following a program each Monday that explores different areas of art, this fortnight students have been practising blending with acrylic paint and layering paint to create depth and interesting pieces. Emily has been using the technique of tape reveal to expose blank areas to create letters.

Miss Chae Dawson

Room 3 and 4 Excursion

Since the beginning of the year, students in rooms 3 and 4 have been studying Colonial Australia in the 1800s as part of their H.A.S.S. program. Keen to experience learning in an authentic way and find out information about their inquiry questions, the students visited the Migration Museum and Art Gallery on Friday (Week 3). Despite having to navigate through heavy rain and giant puddles, the students enjoyed their visit and learnt a great deal about some of the history associated with South Australia’s development as a colony.

Migration Museum / Art Gallery Visits

At the Migration Museum there is a room that used to be a school and a hospital. To remember that it was a hospital, it has all the babies’ tags on the roof that represent all the babies that were born there. For the food in the hospital it was dirty water that looked like hot chocolate, soup with veggies (no meat), stale bread and biscuits. On the tags it says their full name and when they were born, some of them have a bit of black at the bottom of them that means they either died in the stomach or were born dead. It was a school for some time, and it has a display of what some things that they would use in class. It linked to some of the HASS that we were working on by it happened in the years the settlement started in South Australia. (Lulu and Cassie)

While we were at the Art Gallery we saw some really interesting artwork. A piece of art we saw had a circle of water and a circle hanging from the ceiling. If you looked up at the circle on the ceiling you could see a man and it looked like he was falling. If you looked at the circle with water from a certain angle you could see the man again. If you listened carefully you could hear the sounds of the rainforest and a heartbeat. The heartbeat will slowly get faster and then it will stop. When it stops if you move away from the circle with water it looks like the man is slowly falling into the water. The whole point of this piece of artwork is that a man is climbing up a statue and he has jumped into the water. (Hazel & Fariha)

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Going to the Migration Museum has helped us learn lots about Colonial Australia and the convicts. In the Migration Museum there was a ridiculously long timeline that reached to the end of the room! On the timeline there were little tags that told you different dates and people who came to Australia for a better life. Some were from China, England and other places. (Areti and Anson)

One of the activities that we did at the Migration Museum was an Immigration Test. There were two black screens. One had a scenario. For example – you are a white British migrant. When you pressed a traffic button in between the screens, the second screen would light up with the answer. The answer for the example was: Welcome to Australia! Others weren’t so lucky and weren’t allowed into Australia. We learnt from this experience that not everyone was accepted into Australia because of their religion, origin or skin colour. (Ingrid and Ruby)

At the Migration Museum, there was a room with a pedestal in the middle. That pedestal span information that was hidden in the floor. Most of Room 3 didn’t notice the spinning in the floor, so they thought that the spinner was there for fun. The information included two sentences and about three pictures and sentences. In the room besides the spinning wheel, there were five wood & glass cabinets, with information in them. They all had sideward drawers. One had a migrates note. Also, the room had a touchscreen whiteboard with the empires of the world. It went from 1490 – 1940. The largest empire was Russia’s empire. England had England and started spreading. In 1490, England didn’t have all of England and hadn’t spread. (Jacob)

While we were at the Migration Museum we went to a building that used to be a school for Aborigines to learn how to read and write English, there was also another building which was a hospital where 1,678 babies were born. In the building we saw a display with 1,678 white tags hanging from the ceiling that symbolised the many babies born, some of the white tags had black strips that show how many of the babies that had sadly pasted away when they were born or were born dead. (Natalie and Tracey)

In the Art Gallery we saw a multimedia rainforest with a man climbing a high cliff. We could hear the sounds of a rainforest such as flies, his heartbeat, birds, crickets, rustling leaves and water trickling. We smelt his sweat and the fresh dirt. Suddenly his heartbeat got faster and faster and his heartbeat stopped as he fell into a river. We were watching up above and it looked like was falling into the water puddle below. It was spectacular. (Jiya & Lauren)

While we were at the Migration Museum, we saw quite a lot of various Aboriginal paintings. There was a large group of different punishments, in forced by the council who were staying with the young Aboriginal children, after being taken away from there Aboriginal parents. The punishments included the mustard punishment, nappy punishment and the potato -sack punishment. These punishments involved: spoonsful of hot mustard, wearing a nappy for an entire day and wearing a potato sack over their head for a day, wearing the sack meant that they could not play games. There was also a collection of meaningful paintings one including (a) salt waves an abstract picture of three ships on top of a wave. The aboriginals were surprised as the ships came into land at Australia and they meant to stay. (Lottie and Milla)

In the migration museum there was an immigration test which decided if people from the early years could immigrate to Australia. The Asian loot was very valuable to the Australian but they didn’t want the Asian people so they got a yellow light which meant that they under strict conditions but still immigrate to Australia. The Asian people who didn’t have any valuables with them were not allowed in Australia at all which means thy got a red light. Some people got a green light which meant that they were allowed in Australia. The British colony only allowed there country people and the people who had fairly good loot and items, which is unfair. The items they wanted were ingots money and money. (Khilav & Zaid)

In the art gallery, we went to the divided world’s exhibition. One of the attractions was called Eel song. The eel video was very interesting but at the same time strange. You would put 3d glasses on then walk into a small cube with black lights around it then you would sit down on a surprisingly comfortable couch. In front, there was a screen with a strange looking stream of water projected on it a few seconds after a weird looking salamander eel came up the stream of water then the video would end. (Hudson and Alex)

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Powerful Learners Project

This semester, Room 4 has been involved in a Powerful Learners Project. Students were given an opportunity to research, construct, teach and or develop a project or program within an area of their interest. Sports, website design, fundraisers and resources have been eagerly developed. As a part of this project, students Olivia Cameron, Harry McDowall and Charlie Rudd showcased a Pop-Up Stall extravaganza to raise money for charities.

Olivia Cameron dedicated many weeks to preparing for her Cancer Council fundraiser. She contacted the Cancer Council, initiated a ‘Go-Fund’ me account and produced a video to promote the stall, with great success

Harry McDowall worked hard to excel in raising money for the World Wildlife Fund. He used effective feedback to make the stall as successful as possible. Harry developed his ICT skills and organisation throughout the event. The wonderful event was successful, due to his persistence and dedication towards the task.

Charlie Rudd displayed a fun disposition towards his stall, which raised money for the RSPCA. With the assistance of teachers and his family, Charlie produced an attractive array of healthy and sweet treats to encourage people to donate to the cause. His shark costume attracted many donations for the wonderful cause.

Thank you to all of the parents, caregivers, SSOs and friends who assisted the students. To the Prospect Primary Community, we would like to say a special thank you for donating and attending our fundraising Pop-Up Stall! We look forward to announcing the winners of the ‘Guess the Lolly Jar’ soon. Finally, congratulations to all 3 students for the successful completion of their Powerful Learners Project!

Miss Brooke Edginton

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Senior Choir

Since the beginning of the year 32 students in years 5, 6, 7 have been very hard working, learning repertoire in preparation for the South Australian Primary School’s Festival of Music Program. These choristers have been learning skills and vocal techniques as well as: choreography, performing etiquette and processes associated with singing and performing as a combined choir.

As well as attending regular choir rehearsals at school, students practise at home each week as part of their quest to be performance ready for their September Festival Theatre concert. The choir was assessed by one of the senior Festival of Music conductors in week 4 and achieved an ‘A’ grade, just one of many aspects of their learning they can be proud of.

We congratulate them on their efforts and commitment so far and wish them well for continued success and an enjoyable concert in term three!

Michelle Hutchens

(Choir Manager)

Prospect Primary School out of School Hours Care (OSHC)

Prospect Primary School Out of School Hours Care (OSHC) has been working hard to assist members of the community

and caregivers with identifying who the OSHC educators are at Prospect Primary School. Working in partnership with

Prospect Primary School we have created OSHC uniforms. The uniforms include a polo t-shirt and a jumper for all OSHC

educators. The uniforms link in with the Prospect Primary School’s design, incorporating black, green and white as well as

including the school’s logo. We are very happy with the final design of the uniforms as they look professional and assist

members of the community and caregivers to easily identify educators within the school and on excursions.

Kelsey Thompson Director of Prospect Primary School OSHC

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Book Fair

During weeks 4 and 5 we held our yearly Book Fair in the JP corridor. I would like to say a HUGE thank you to our school community who supported us. We made $700 from sales at the fair to spend on new school resources. I’d also like to say a BIG thank you to the staff who lent a hand and assisted setting up the fair and supported with the daily running of the fair. Thank you everyone Shelley

Odd Shoe Day for City-Bay!

On Tuesday, the 29th of May there was an Odd Shoe Day held. On odd shoe day students and teachers were allowed to wear two crazy and wacky different shoes if they brought in a gold coin donation. The Odd Shoe Day was held to help raise money to cover the costs of the entrance fees for the year 6/7 student City-Bay runners. Any money that is gained in excess will be donated to a charity of our choice. There are currently 28 year 6/7’s that have agreed to run in the City to Bay – that is a third of our year 6/7 students! What a fantastic commitment!

By Angelina Lugsden

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Shoelace Charms and Bracelets

Supporting the Year 6/7 City-Bay Runners

Written by, Keely O'Keefe and Elise Veitch with help from Mackenzie Rankine

Come and support our year 6/7 City-Bay runners by wearing these super cool shoelace and tags/charms.

The tags/charms include different inspirational quotes with different colours.

All tags are being made here at Prospect Primary with our very own 3D printers, designed and created by our Year 5’s and will be available for sale very soon!

By purchasing a shoelace charm or bracelet, you are helping to raise money to let our Year 6/7’s run or walk 6 or 12 kilometers in the City–Bay run on September 16th!

*Prices to be confirmed – stay tuned!

Get your inspirational quote and put your running shoes on!

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Payment Methods Available

CASH

White envelopes with green print are available at the reception desk or in your student’s classroom.

Write your students name, class number, amount and reason, eg swimming on the envelope.

Put the correct money in the envelope, with consent forms, seal and put the envelope in the silver box at reception or in the payment folder in the class.

Your receipt will be delivered to your student’s classroom with any change needed.

PAY ON LINE

BPoint or Qkr, for links and instructions see our website. Ensure you include your students name, class and

reason. Consent forms need to be signed and given to the teacher.

CREDIT CARD

Pick up a white & green payment envelope at reception or your students classroom.

Write your students name, class number, amount and reason, eg swimming on the envelope.

Either, write your credit card details on the envelope for later processing or present your card at the office for immediate processing.

Please help us to help your students by using payment methods that keep the office free to help students.

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Note to Parents/caregivers

The second season of 13 Reasons Why has now been released on Netflix. As some of you may be aware when 13 Reasons Why Season 1 was released there was significant demand on the mental health sector, and concerns from schools and families across Australia about the show’s content.

The second season content is similar to the first season, including graphic scenes around sexual assault and drug use. Also of concern is the content around self-harm, suicide and gun violence which may be difficult for impressionable minds to watch and process in a healthy way.

The school does not recommend that students watch this series as it conveys disturbing and dangerous messages.

It is essential as a parent to have open and honest conversations with your child particularly if they express interest in this series.

Headspace have developed resources for young people which provides tips on how to safely watch the series, look after themselves and have constructive conversations with their friends and families. The discussion guides for parents will assist them to have safe conversations with young people about the tough and difficult themes depicted in the series.

All of the resources are available at 13reasonswhy.info and the headspace website

Kids helpline: 1800 55 1800

Lifeline: 13 11 14

https://eheadspace.org.au

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