Week 7

13 June 2019

Term 2: 29 Apr – 5 July

Telephone 08 8645 8685

Office Hours 8.00am to 4.00pm Principal: Pam Peters Deputy Principal: Ben Harris-Jones

Senior Leader: Sally Rowe

Finance: Phillip Datson

Secretary: Catherine Worby

Admin Assistant: Margaret Dawson

Student Wellbeing Leader: Cynthia Spangenberg

Diary Dates

Boys Basketball Carnival 14th June

Girls Basketball Carnival 28th June

Bike Ed Year 5 24 June – 5th July

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Community Members,

Helping keep children safe through new screening laws Stronger, more effective and transparent screening laws for people working or volunteering with children have been introduced in South Australia. The new screening laws were recommended as part of federal and South Australian royal commissions, to help keep children safe in our communities. The new laws mean that from 1 July 2019 everyone working or volunteering with children must have a valid child-related check. Also changing from 1 July 2019 is the state’s current system for child-related employment screenings, which will be replaced with a Working With Children Check (WWCC). This new check is coming in to better protect your children and make sure that people working or volunteering with children are suitable. It does this through a monitored and more robust assessment of a person’s eligibility to work or volunteer with children. Because the check is monitored, immediate action can be taken if a person is charged with a concerning offence. The new check covers a person’s national criminal history including all spent convictions, pending and non-conviction charges, and other disciplinary and child protection information. A WWCC is valid for five years and is portable across roles and organisations throughout South Australia. Current, valid child-related employment screening checks done by DHS/DCSI will be recognised as a WWCC until they expire. There is also a 12 month transition period for anyone with a National Police Certificate assessed by their organisation, with the certificate valid till 1 July 2020. For most people, this means they don’t need to do anything to be ready for the new law starting on 1 July 2019. For more information about the new check visit the DHS website.

Netball Carnival

On May 31st, a group of year 6/7 students attended the Interschool Netball Carnival. Although it was a freezing day, the Nicolson teams heated up the court with their impressive netball skills! Throughout the day the girls showed great enthusiasm and team spirit. In the 7th game of the day the two Nicolson teams had a play off, which was a lot of fun to be a part of.

It was great to see the girls engage in some friendly competition. Overall, our teams came 5th and 7th and scored highly for their positive attitude! It was a great day to be a part of and the girls should be very proud of their efforts.

Point Lowly Camps In Week 5 the students and teachers in Room 17, 18, 19 and 20 attended camp at Point Lowly. During their stay the students explored the seaside environment, partook in team building activities and managed to look after themselves without the support of family. Much fun was had by all and it was a wonderful opportunity for everyone to get to know each other better in a relaxed

setting. Pam Peters

RESPECT TEAMWORK INTEGRITY RESILIENCE RESPONSIBILITY

Aboriginal Education News Every Wednesday this term Room's 6 and 7 have been spending lesson time in the Aboriginal Education room with Mrs Cowan and Mrs Sutton. In Week 6 students had to use their problem solving skills while they designed and constructed their own traditional shelters. Students were only able to use string, match sticks, pop sticks and a small amount of clay. Students were very imaginative and the shelters looked fantastic.

Premiers Be Active Challenge

This week the students have begun participating in the Premiers Be Active Challenge. This challenge requires students to do 60 minutes of physical activity every day for at least 5 days each week for 10 weeks. During the school day, students are provided with a variety of physical activities including, Daily PA, Physical Education lessons and lunch play times. Each time students participate in such activities they will be asked to record it in their Activity Log. To assist your child in completing their goal, please record any physical activities your child participates in outside of school hours and the time in which they spend on these activities in your child’s diary/communication book. For example, if your child rides their bike or jumps on the trampoline for 10 minutes, make a note of this. This enables your child to keep an accurate log of their activity.

Any further questions concerning the Premiers Be Active Challenge, please do not hesitate to ask.

Patrick McArthur Physical Education Teacher

QKR - Tips

Want a lunch order but have no cash! No problem!

Order and pay online!! Through “QKR”

You may order and pay in advance for lunch orders – please note that the cut off time for ordering on the day is 8.50am. No orders can be processed after this cut off time.

You can also visit: https://qkr.mastercard.com/store/#/home This new system will apply to lunch order items. All ‘over the counter items’ will still be paid at the counter with cash only.

Here is another fact sheet that may be of use.

Remember the canteen is only open each Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Assembly Roster Term 2

Week 8 Room 21 & Room 15

Week 10 Room 16 & Room 7