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DiaryDates
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:
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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