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From the Principal Term 2 Issue 3
Newsletter
St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood
Principal: Mr Mark Rathjen
God in all things
The Spaces Between
Fire by Judy Brown
What makes a fire burn is space between the logs, a breathing space.
Too much of a good thing, too many logs packed in too tight can douse the flames
almost as surely as a pail of water would.
So building fires requires attention to the spaces in between, as much as to the wood.
When we are able to build open spaces in the same way we have learned to pile on
the logs, then we can come to see how it is fuel, and absence of the fuel together, that
make fire possible.
We only need to lay a log lightly from time to time.
A fire grows simply because the space is there, with openings in which the flame that
knows just how it wants to burn can find its way.
I recently attended a conference, which was mostly about well-being and
resilience for a busy and time poor age. Our theme was ‘Keep the Fires
Burning’. The poem by Judy Brown speaks simply and eloquently of that need
to find space in our lives, space to breathe. Space to find peace and joy and
meaning in our otherwise frantic lives. We were encouraged to ensure that we
give ourselves some space whenever and wherever we can. Not just finding
space, but using those spaces in ways that enhance our well-being. Those spaces
for me are; exercise, prayer and daily devotion, enough sleep, good nutrition,
socialising with friends, quality time with my wife and kids, regular church
attendance and a need to laugh (just a few things to attend to). I find that when
those things are missing or out of balance, my fire sputters and smokes and I’m
no good to me or anyone else.
How are the spaces in your life and lives of your children?
Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not
even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves
to a quiet place and get some rest.” So they went away by themselves in
a boat to a solitary place. Mark 6: 31-32
Mark Rathjen
Principal
Inside this issue... Page Parents and Friends ........ 2 Cake Stall ......................... 2
Community Worship ..... 2 PYP .................................... 3 Entertainment Books ..... 3
It’s a Girl ........................... 4 and...It’s a Girl ................. 4 Parking Control .............. 4
Year 4/5 Art Request ..... 4 Welcome .......................... 4 Working Bee ................... 4 Quality Schools Survey .. 4
LLL Banking ...................... 4 School Musical Dates ..... 4 Year 2/3 Art Request ..... 4
Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day .................. 5
School AGM .................... 5
SPLOSHC News ............. 5 Lost Property .................. 5 School Enrolment
Policy .............................. 5 Medication Administration .............. 6 Asthma Policy .................. 6
Library News ................... 6 Thank You from ALWS 6 OSH Sport News ........... 7
Sporting Super Stars ...... 7 Church News .................. 8 Diary Dates ...................... 8
Dried Apricots ................ 8 Novar Music .................... 8
Attachment City of Mitcham Brochure
re Children Schools and
Traffic
Special points of
interest:
Friday 3/6 Cake Stall (Room B) Special Food Day (GP Day)
Orders due!
Sunday 5/6 Community Worship
(Rooms 5 & 6) Friday 10/6 Grandparents’ and Special
Friends’ Day
Monday 13/6 Queens’ Birthday Public
Holiday
Tuesday 14/6 P&F Meeting—7pm
Next Friday 10 June is Grandparents’ Day.
We are asking all families to bring a plate of food for the grandparents and special friends to share for morning
tea.
If your surname begins with A-O, please bring in a savoury plate eg sandwiches, frozen pastries,
mini quiches, crackers & cheese.
If your surname begins with P-Z, please bring in a sweet plate eg cakes, biscuits and slices.
We still need lots more willing helpers on the day.
We also need some cut flowers and green foliage to help decorate the room.
If you are able to help please contact Narelle Adams on 0408089947 or at [email protected].
Orders for the Grandparents Day Special Food Lunch are
DUE TOMORROW (Friday 3 June).
Please place all orders in an envelope with the correct money and place
in the class box or to the front desk.
Please remember to write your child’s name and room number on every order. A separate order form is
required for each child although payment may be combined over multiple orders.
Please note, late orders may not be accepted.
Parents and Friends
Tomorrow will be the turn of our Room B families to organise and host the Cake Stall. As
always, we look forward to seeing what yummy treats are available for us to purchase!
In two weeks’ time, it will be our Room 10 families (Miss Schutz/Miss Zimmermann’s class)
hosting our third cake stall for the year.
Cake Stall
Room 1 families are preparing for the first St Peters Lutheran Blackwood Student Disco
to be held on Friday 12 August after school (Term 3, Week 3).
All suggestions for this exciting event are welcome and any volunteers willing to help coordinate the night,
please contact the Room 1 class support coordinators Anissa Tothill, Nona Gregory or Monique Gray.
Save the date and stay tuned for more details on this highly anticipated night.
The next St Peters Lutheran Parents and Friends Association meeting will be on Tuesday 14 June at 7pm
at the school. All welcome!
Community Worship—Sunday 5 June 2016 Everyone is warmly invited to attend Sunday’s Community Worship (at 10am) where Rooms 5 and 6
(Mr Burmeister’s and Miss Snares’ classes) will have special involvement.
Page 3
IB Learners strive to be Inquirers Knowledgeable Thinkers Communicators Principled Open-minded Caring Risk-takers Balanced Reflective IB Learner Profile
On the first two days of term, the staff
took part in a PYP in school workshop
on “Inquiry Learning”. As a school we
are committed to Inquiry learning as we
believe students thrive and learn best
when learning is relevant, has real life
applications, engages the learner with
questions and requires the student to
take responsibility. It is the process
initiated by the teacher or student that
moves the student from their current
level of understanding to a new and
deeper level of understanding.
Over the holidays I was able to read some of Kath Murdoch’s new book ‘The Power of
Inquiry.” Kath Murdoch is an expert on Inquiry and her new book is a ‘go to’ for anyone
that wants to understand more about Inquiry Learning.
Kath’s book and our professional development inspired me to do a unit on Inquiry in the
Resource Centre with the Year 2-5’s. It is important that we teach children how to inquire
and what inquiry looks like as some children are not naturally curious or wanting to solve
problems.
At the moment we are in the midst of coming up with our own essential agreement for
Inquiry, looking at various models of the Inquiry cycle and designing our own and defining
the term ‘inquiry’ in a way that we can all understand.
Later on in the term and into next term, the children will use this knowledge to complete
a ‘Passion Project’ - an inquiry into an area that they are passionate about. They are so
excited about starting iTime (inquiry Time) in the RC and having the chance to inquire into
an area of choice. Stay tuned for more information!
Bronwyn Wilson
PYP Coordinator / Teacher in the RC
Primary Years Programme (PYP) Passion Projects!
Entertainment Books 2016/2017
The 2016/17 Entertainment Book is $65 per book and, again, is full of great restaurants,
entertainment, accommodation and the list goes on—or you may like to have a digital
copy on your phone. Books are available NOW at the school office.
The Entertainment Book is a great GIFT IDEA. Ask your friends, relatives, work
colleagues, neighbours etc etc. If you have a 2015/16 Entertainment Book, this will run out
on 1 June 2016. When you buy your new book, you can use it straight away. Olive Fairclough 0414794704 or Liz Laynes 0417874632
Quality Schools Survey Thanks to everyone who completed the
recent Quality Schools survey. This has now closed
and we wait for the results.
School Council will consider the report and will
share with our families in due course.
Welcome Last Wednesday, we were delighted to welcome
Annabelle M to Mrs Derrington’s Year 1 class and
Madeleine M to Mrs Low’s and Mrs Fox’s Year 3
class. Annabelle and Maddie join their sisters at St
Peters and we hope they are already feeling very
much at home here in our community.
Working Bee
THANK YOU to the families who were able to
come along to last Saturday’s working bee. We
very much appreciate your commitment to our
school and sincerely value the work you do at these
working bees.
Parking Control
City of Mitcham has forwarded to us some
information regarding their enforcement of parking
restrictions around schools and kindergartens.
To provide for student safety around
roadways at school drop off and pick
up times, any breaches of the
Australian Road Rules observed by
compliance officers may result in the
issue of an expiation notice.
Attached to this newsletter is a
brochure provided by the City of
M i t ch am re g a rd i n g p a rk i n g
regulations.
LLL Banking
If you have not already done so, please send your
child/ren’s LLL Banking passbooks to the office, so
they can be sent off to the LLL office in North
Adelaide to have interest added.
CONGRATULATIONS
to Kathryn and Greg Watkins
on the safe arrival
of their baby daughter,
Elizabeth (Eliza) Anne Watkins
on Saturday 28 May.
CONGRATULATIONS
also
to Natalie and Corey Morris
on the safe arrival
of their baby daughter,
Aurora Adele Morris
on Saturday 28 May.
School Musical Dates
2016
Our school musical is set to return once again this
year.
The dates for the Musical are to be Tuesday 6
September and Thursday 8 September (Term
3, week 7). These dates are different from what
some may have been told previously.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused by
this. In Art this term the year 4/5 classrooms are
inquiring into recycled and upcycled sculptures.
Students are planning their designs based around
materials that they can bring into school or could
possibly be collected from our school families. If
you have any recycled materials such as plastic
bottles, bottle tops etc that you could spare, the
students would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
Ms Lauran Clayton
Can you help? The Year 2 and 3 class are beginning a unit of
inquiry on Art (Art can express ideas, values and
beliefs). We are keen to hear from any artists who
would like to come and share their artwork and
skills with our classes. Art comprises visual arts,
music, drama and dance.
Petria, Belinda and Abby (Rooms 9 and 10).
SPLOSHC News
Wow, this term is flying by! We have been busy
introducing new foods to our snack range, a
homework group and activities for the children.
In line with NAIDOC week we will be doing dot
paintings and ATSI flag painting.
Sandwiches and chicken wings have been big hits
so far, with the kids requesting these again and
again.
We have almost finalised our vacation care
program which we are really thrilled with. There
will be some old favourites in our program, as
well as some new exciting incursions and
excursions. Vacation care program will be out
towards the end of this term.
Keep your booking forms coming in, casual
bookings welcomed. If you need to contact
SPLOSHC please ring 0450 499 550.
Grandparents’ and
Special Friends’ Day
The timetable for next Friday 10 June, our annual
Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day, is as
follows:
8.50am Chapel
9.15am Welcome and Class Visits, including
Coding 9.20am - 10.30am in
Resource Centre
Choir 9.50am - 10.10am in
Resource Centre or
Amphitheatre (weather
permitting)
Nature Play 10.00am - 10.30am
outside in Wodli space
10.30am Morning Tea in MFP
11.10am Whole School Presentation
12noon Lunch—a sausage sizzle will be
available for Grandparents and
students (order forms from students
due tomorrow Friday 3 June).
Grandparents and Special Friends are also very
welcome to visit our Book Fair in the Resource
Centre.
As in previous years, because of limited space,
we are asking that unless needed to support frail
grandparents, parents do not attend next
Friday. We thank you for understanding with
this.
Please note—additional car parking will be
available for our visitors across the road at the
Blackwood Football Oval.
We look forward to what is always a special day
on our school calendar and thank you in advance
for your contribution to our morning tea (see
P&F news on page 2 of today's newsletter).
The Annual General Meeting of the school was
held last Sunday immediately following our
regular worship service. The agenda included
reports from the Chairperson of School Council
and the Principal, and acceptance of the audited
financial statements for the year ended 31
December 2015.
School AGM Lost Property Two of our students have reported the following
lost items recently:
Brand new (un-named as yet) Size 10 Sports
Jacket—left in Hall on Tuesday
Small opal cross (from chain).
If you find either of these items, please kindly
return to the school office.
School Enrolment Policy A reminder that our School enrolment policy states: “Where a student is to be withdrawn from the school,
parents are required to give the Principal one term’s notice, in writing, before the withdrawal date, otherwise
parents will be liable for an additional term’s fees”. If you would ever like to discuss your child/ren’s future
enrolment situation, please contact the Principal.
Asthma Policy Current recommendations from the Asthma
Council advised that:
Infection control guidelines indicate that spacers and
masks should be used by one person only.
Therefore the use of non-disposable spacers and
masks cannot be used between students. We have
purchased alternative disposable spacers.
The issuing of school supply disposable spacers is
unlikely as students with asthma have their ventolin
and spacer in their own backpack or stored in the
first aid room. However, if students require ventolin
administration and do not have their own spacer
and mask, the school disposable spacers will be used
and parents invoiced the replacement cost.
Students are encouraged to have their own reliever
medication and spacer kept either in their backpacks
or in the first aid room.
Medication Administration If your child requires analgesics whilst at
school..
Analgesics and other medications which can be
purchased over the counter without a prescription
(eg panadol) must be prescribed by a doctor if
school staff members are asked to supervise
administration. It is a requirement that the doctor
completes a Medication authority form. These
medications should also be provided on an ‘as
needs’ basis and kept on school premises only for
the duration of requirement.
The required Medication authority form is available
on the St Peters school website (found under Parent
Information / Forms).
Student self administration of ventolin whilst
at school…
Older students can often, on the advice of the
parent/guardian and doctor, carry and manage their
own medication. If your child is able to self
administer their medication please ensure that the
front office has a copy of the asthma plan with
parental or doctor consent that self administration
is appropriate.
It is important that:
the medication is in the original pharmacy-labelled
container;
your child is advised to report to the supervising
teacher if their medication is ineffective or requires
repeated use; and
the medication is stored where younger students are
not able to gain access.
Information on medication administration…
Other than medications for the treatment of asthma
or anaphylaxis; medications should only be stored at
school for the period of time specified for use. This
ensures the medication is medically warranted. All
medications provided must be prescribed by a
health professional. The instructions must match
those on the pharmacy label of the container.
For your information regarding storage of
medication at school…
Safe storage of medication requires as a minimum
standard that the medication is:
Prescribed by a doctor.
Provided by the parent or guardian.
Delivered to front reception as a daily supply (or
week’s supply at the most, except in long-term
continuous care arrangements eg asthma, anaphylaxis).
This might require you to organize a second labelled
container from the pharmacy for safe storage at home.
Provided with written instructions from the parent,
guardian or doctor. These must match those printed
on the product packaging.
Library News LIBRARY BOOKS and READERS
REQUIRING REPAIR Parents—please note: If students have any school
books that are in need of repair please do not
attempt it yourselves. We prefer to repair them in
the library to aid in their longevity. For example:
sticky tape not only can damages the pages when
being removed but over time goes yellow and can
impede any future repair.
The Book Fair is on its way to St Peters next week and, therefore, we
are not sending home Issue 4 catalogues
for the Book Club.
If there are any families who are unable to
come in to the Book Fair, please email
Sharon at
and she will send home a catalogue.
The BOOK FAIR OPENING DAYS are
Thursday 9 June to Tuesday 14 June.
It will be open before and after school each day with
extended opening hours during Grandparents’ Day.
SEE YOU THERE!!
Thank you to all from the ALWS! A donation of $660.60 was recently forwarded to
ALWS, raised from Term 4 2015 and Term 1 2016
Chapel offerings. The offering from Term 4 2015
has been allocated to where it is needed most –
South Sudan, and the Term 1 donations to the East
Africa Hunger Appeal. Thank you all for your
support of the ALWS’ very important work.
PARENTS: Please email [email protected]
with ANY OSH Sport questions, news items, etc.
St Peters Out of School Hours Sport News
Term 2/3 OSH Sport Fees The following fees will be applied to family’s school fees account.
Netball - $50 per player
Basketball - $15 per player (for the use of the school supplied basketball tops).
If you have already paid the once off fee of $25 for Basketball (in Term 1) PLEASE ensure that Sharon is
notified at the above email address.
OSH Sport Housekeeping We understand that there will always be late nominations for Out of School Hours Sport. However,
parents must come through the correct channels. Please ensure you speak to or email Sharon, even if
you speak to the coach ([email protected]).
We need to take in to consideration that:
Some teams may be at their player limit.
Some associations may have age restrictions.
We miss out on the opportunity of nominating more than one team per sport or age group
(more players means greater opportunity).
This leads to less game time for everyone on the team.
If you feel that there is action to be taken regarding any issues, even team numbers, please speak to your
coach and Sharon before taking any action. If further action is to be taken, we will discuss as an OSH
Sport Committee and get back to you as soon as possible.
Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram—
for all the latest on what’s happening around St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood
St Peters Lutheran @StPBlackwood stpetersblackwood
School Blackwood
If you’re sharing something about us, please remember to use the hashtag #stpetersblackwood or tag us
@stpetersblackwood with your photos.
St Peters Sporting Super Stars
Basketball We won. Jake, me, Lachlan and Jett played
really well. Our team put up a lot of shots and I
did a good block.
Tom
Netball 2/3 We played against a college. Davina, me, Jessy
and Sammy played well. Our team got 6 and the
other team got 7.
Alicia
Netball 4/5 We won. I think we played against Craigburn.
The score was 11-9. Holly and Eden scored
most of our goals and Stella was making really
good leads in centre.
Lucy
Basketball 4/5 We played a really good game. Everyone played
well and we were really good at defending and
getting the ball down our end. Everyone was
really good at moving the ball and talking to
each other.
Mia
Netball We got thrashed. I think Zoe did a good job.
We were leading well and Olivia was good at
using her voice.
Sarah and Trinity
St Peters Lutheran School,
where the message of Jesus Christ
is communicated and celebrated,
is a caring, supportive learning
community
that encourages global
consciousness, responsible action
and life-long learning.
Diary Dates Term 2
(for your calendar!)
71 Cumming Street
BLACKWOOD SA 5051
St Peters Lutheran School Blackwood
Week 5 (Monday 30/5)
Fri 3/6 Cake Stall (Room B)
Sun 5/6 Community Worship (Rooms 5 & 6)
Week 6 (Monday 6/6)
Fri 10/6 Grandparents’ and Special Friends’ Day
Week 7 (Monday 13/6)
Mon 13/6 Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday
Tue 14/6 P&F Meeting (7pm)
Fri 17/6 Cake Stall (Room 10)
Week 8 (Monday 20/6)
Sun 26/6 Community Worship (Rooms 7 & 8)
Week 9 (Monday 27/6)
Fri 1/7 Cake Stall (Room 9)
Week 10 (Monday 4/7)
Thu 7/7 Last Day of Term 2
Fri 8/7 Staff PD
Phone: 8278 0800
Fax: 8370 0414
Email:
We’re on the web… www.stpeterslutheran.sa.edu.au
These dates are subject to change so please make sure you check them each week.
St Peters Lutheran Church
Services each Sunday at 10.00am
ALL WELCOME
Coming up…
5/6 Community Worship service 10am followed
by sausage sizzle
6/6 Confirmation parent night 4:45pm
Any enquiries please contact Pastor Ben:
0402825173 or [email protected]
The Psalmist writes ‘Tears may flow in the night,
but joy comes in the morning’
(Psalm 30:6)
St Peters Lutheran Church again have
Dried Apricots available for purchase.
$12 for a 500g pack. As in 2015, proceeds
from the sales will be forwarded to ministries
in Cambodia and Tonga, via the SA Lutheran
Riverland Congregations.
Please note, no sprays have been used on
these products - all natural.
St Peters Lutheran School
Lessons available NOW on Piano, Violin, Voice and Guitar!
Lessons available after-school and on-campus!
Lessons are for beginners through to advanced students and are available to both students of St Peters and members
of the St Peters community.
On-campus, convenient, individual music tuition.
To enquire contact Carly McDonald on
0413853490 or at [email protected]
Visit us at www.novarmusic.com