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MarchMarchMarchMarch

THURSDAY 3rd

Room 6 excursion - Erth’s

Dinosaur Zoo

TUESDAY 8th

Year 7’s - GRIP Leadership

THURSDAY 10th

Room 5 excursion - Erth’s

Prehistoric Aquarium

FRIDAY 14th

ADELAIDE CUP HOLIDAY

THURSDAY 17th

Assembly 2.20pm in Hall

FRIDAY 25th

GOOD FRIDAY

MONDAY 26th

EASTER MONDAY

MONDAY 21st

ELC Advisory Commi1ee

mtg 5pm

First Governing Council mtg

6.30pm

Ph: 8231 3100

Mob: 8231 3188

Email:

dl.1881.admin@schools.sa.

edu.au

Website:

www.sturtstcs.sa.edu.au

Sturt Street Community School

Newsle1er Issue 2 February 2016

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Dear Parents,

In 2016 a major focus across the school and

our partnership is teaching students about

Mindset, metacognition and the functions of

our brain. Last year staff participated in a

series of workshops to learn more about this

important research and we are currently

enrolled in a course from “Mindsetworks” to

build on our knowledge. It is important for you

to be aware of what it is, why it’s important,

and how you can support it!

What is mindset and why is it important?

Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-

renowned Stanford University psychologist

Carol Dweck from decades of research on

achievement and success—a simple idea that

makes all the difference. Her research has

focused on why people succeed and how to

foster success. Dr. Dweck realized that there

are two mindsets: a fixed mindset and a

growth mindset. In a fixed mindset, people

believe their basic qualities, like their

intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits.

They spend their time documenting their

intelligence or talent instead of developing

them. They also believe that talent alone

creates success—without effort. They’re

wrong. In a growth mindset, people believe

that their most basic abilities can be

developed through dedication and hard

work—brains and talent are just the starting

point. This view creates a love of learning and

a resilience that is essential for great

accomplishment. Virtually all people who have

achieved top performance had these qualities.

Research shows that people with this view

reach higher levels of success than people

with fixed mindset beliefs. Teaching a growth

mindset creates motivation and productivity in

the worlds of business, education, and sports.

It enhances relationships, and increases

achievement.

During the year we will be supplying parents

with more information about how you can

support a growth mindset in your children.

You can find out more information about the

fascinating research on growth mindset by

watching the following video from Carol

Dweck or by reading her best-selling book

“Mindset”- How we can learn to fulfil our

potential.

Professor Carol Dweck 'Teaching a growth

mindset' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=QmMJXvUmRh0

Cultivating the Growth Mindset Alongside this students will also be learning

about the latest research on the functions of

the brain by participating in an online

“Brainology” course designed by Carol Dweck

from “Mindsetworks.com”. The goal of the

Brainology® program is to help students

develop a growth mindset so that they think of

their intelligence as something they can

develop through study and learning rather

than as something fixed, so that they thereby

increase their sense of self-efficacy and

motivation to learn. We approach this by

teaching students how the brain functions,

learns, and remembers, and how it changes

in a physical way when we exercise it.

In addition, the program provides a practical

set of skills for tackling academic challenges

by showing students how to apply this

knowledge to their schoolwork.

Structure of the Program The Brainology® program is designed as an

online, challenge-based, interactive,

multimedia, instructional program.

Darrin Briggs - Principal

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SCHOOL NEWS

ELC & PRESCHOOL NEWS

The preschool team have begun working on

their inquiry project – Speech and Language

Sharing (SPLASH). This project has been

designed to further develop a learning

environment that enhances the oral language

and emergent literacy of all children. The DECD

speech pathologist is working alongside the

team to support and develop prac>cal ideas

which support this. Speech and language is

also a focus for our 0-3 team this term.

As a staff team we are also con>nuing our self

reflec>on journey against the Na>onal Quality

Standards (NQS) with the view that we are

likely to assessed against the new standards

some>me this year.

If you are interested in joining the ELC Advisory

Commi1ee, please come and see me. This is a

great opportunity to share ideas and

contribute to the decision making of the

Children’s Centre. Mee>ngs are held monthly

on Mondays at 5.30pm prior to the Governing

Council mee>ng at 6.30pm.

Alison Wells

Early Childhood Director

Sturt Street Children’s Centre

New Students: Khuslen, Vishnu, Daniel, Lyric, Lili, Zachery C, Zachary C-K, Joey, Lime, Krys>n, Jude,

Connor, Jaime and our new Recep>ons.

IMPORTANT PARENT DIARY DATE

Wednesday March 23rd @ 3.30pm – 4.30pm School Hall “Play Is The Way” is a practical methodology for

teaching social and emotional skills using guided play,

classroom activities and an empowering language -

behaviour education using wisdom, not force. This

program is implemented across the school as the

foundation to our behaviour management. The school is

bringing the founder of this program “Wilson McCaskill”

to work with teachers and students and he will be

offering a free parent workshop in the School Hall on

Wednesday March 23rd @ 3.30pm – 4.30pm.

Please take this opportunity to hear from this

inspirational and thought provoking educator. A free

crèche service will be offered through OSHC.

School Closure Days for 2016

The School Council has approved the following closure days for 2016: Term 2 Week 3 Tuesday 17 May - Sheena Cameron professional learning on reading comprehension.

Term 2 Tuesday 14 June - Partnership Day

Term 3 Monday 25 July - Partnership Day

Term 3 Monday 5th September - Royal Show Day

Term 4 Monday 7th November - Site Review Day

Welcome to new students to Sturt

Street Community School

Trish

Young

Room 1

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SCHOOL NEWS

LIBRARY NEWS

Opening Hours

The library is open in the mornings from 8.30-

8.45 for borrowing and returning. Families are

welcome to visit during this >me to browse

and borrow from the collec>on.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

The PRC is a reading program which was

started in 2004 by the Premier of South

Australia to encourage reading in all school

aged children. All students at SSCS are able to

par>cipate in this challenge. The challenge is

to read 12 books before September 9th, 8 of

which must be on the PRC booklist. Class

teacher shave been given the Student Reading

Record Sheets which they will either distribute

to students or keep in the class.

Volunteers

If you have some spare >me and would like to

volunteer in the library please come and visit

us in the library to see how you

can be of assistance.

Sue M and Sue L

The Library Team

School Banking Day Reminder Don’t forget that Friday is School Banking day and students

should bring in their weekly deposit to the Finance Office for

processing.

For every deposit made at school, no ma1er how big or small,

students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students

have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for

an exclusive School Banking reward item in recogni>on of their regular savings habits.

Thank you for suppor>ng the School Banking program at Sturt Street Community School.

ADELAIDE HIGH SCHOOL -

SPECIAL ENTRY

Adelaide High School is South Australia's Special Interest Language School. Each year up to 60 students are accepted into Year 8 through the Special Language Program. These students are committed to study 2 languages other than English at least until the end of Year 10. Students who are part of the Special Language Entry program may select 2 languages from the following languages currently on offer in our cur-riculum: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Manda-

rin

Chinese, Modern Greek, Spanish. Special Language

entry is based on:

• The applicant's most recent school report • A Confidential Primary School Report including

Year 7 and Language teacher comments • Performance in a series of aptitude tests held

on Tuesday, May 3, 2016 • f shortlisted, performance in interview held

form Wednesday, May 17 to Friday, May 19, 2016

Applications forms are available from the Adelaide High School website www.adelaidehs.sa.edu.au OR Adelaide High School OR the Front Office at school and must be to Adelaide High School by WEDNESDAY APRIL 13,

2016.

Payment for Language tes>ng is $60 (GST inc). This is

non-refundable and covers the cost of administering

and marking of ACER tests. (the school is required to

pay ACER for test papers and marking).

More informa>on is available at the Adelaide High

School Open Night, Wednesday March 23, 2016

5.30 pm - 8.00pm

DOLLARMITES

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NEWS FROM ROOM 3 & 4

Room3&4

LearningtogetherR3(Year1)andR4(Year2)learnedabout

theLunarNewYearinweektwo.

WelearnedhowtheVietnameseand

ChinesepeoplecelebratetheirLunarNew

YearandChineseNewYear.

Picturedaresomeexamplesofour

learningexperiencesinwritingnumbers

inMandarin,andmakingcollageforthe

cherryblossomandthedragon'shead.

WeareveryfortunatetohavePreschool

learnerstoshowcasetheirdragondance

inReception,Year1&2classrooms.

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