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Dear Families,
Acquaintance Night
It was great to see so many of our families attend our Acquaintance Night on Tuesday. No doubt the Zooper Doopers were an added incentive for the students to visit various teachers and say hi to Leah, Jeanette and myself in the Front Office area.
If you would like to discuss your child’s learning please make contact with the class teacher and arrange a mutually suitable appointment time.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
When: Tuesday 5th March
Time: 6.00pm - 7.00pm
Where: Staff Room - Building 1
The Governing Council for Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School must comprise of 8 elected parents of the school.
- We have 3 vacancies available for nomination. Should there be more nominations than the number of vacancies to be filled, ballot conditions apply.
Tenures are for a maximum of 2 years.
If you are interested in being a member of our Governing Council, please see the front office for a Nomination Form.
Looking forward to seeing you on the night.
Visitors to School
It is very important that if you are collecting your child early, volunteering or coming into school at a time that is not the beginning or end of a day, that you enter through the front office and sign in. We have an electronic sign in process in the front office on arrival. All visitors in the school should display a green visitors sticker.
Children who need to leave early will be sent to the front office.
Thank you for your co-operation.
Diary Dates
Monday 26th February - Wednesday 28th February: Yr 6 Mylor Camp
Friday 1st March: Student Free Day
Tuesday 5th March: SAPSASA Swimming
Monday 11th March: Adelaide Cup Public Holiday
Thursday 21st March: Harmony Day
Monday 25th March - Thursday 28th March - Parent-Teacher Interviews
Friday 29th March: Good Friday
Monday 1st April: Easter Monday
Thursday 4th April: SAPSASA District Athletics Carnival
Wednesday 3rd April – Friday 5th April: Year 4/5 Arbury Park Camp
Sincerely,
Bob
Ninna Marni (Hello, How are you? Kaurna Language)
We would like to introduce ourselves, we are your ACEO and AET at Le Fevre Peninsula Primary School. Our names are Kelly-Anne Koncz, Bayden Campbell and Jess Searle. As ACEO and AET we are here to support Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and their families to achieve great things at Le Fevre PS. We are located in Room 2 near the front office. We have enjoyed meeting students and family members but if we haven’t met you, come have a yarn and say hello. We are happy to catch up at school or have a home visit if you would like. We are passionate about seeing your children reach their full potential and we are honoured to be a part of that journey.
Ngaityala (Thank you in Kaurna)
Bostyn is currently undefeated in Australia in his weight and age category in Muay Thai, which earnt him an invite to compete with the Australian team in Bangkok at the WBC Muay Thai world games.
He ended up coming home with a silver medal for the country. Congratulations Bostyn!
In Term 1, all classes are participating in a program called 'Rock and Water'. The 'Rock and Water' program focuses on students body, emotional and self-awareness. The development of body awareness and the ability to control their physical state, comes before developing emotional awareness. Students develop self-awareness and the ability to link together their environment, emotions and thoughts. Each class participate in a 50-minute lesson once a week. The program runs until the end of the term.
National Apology Day is observed on February 13th every year. It marks the anniversary of the 2008 National Apology to the Stolen Generations, who suffered trauma because of past government policies of forced child removal.
To commemorate this day the local council organises a walk of awareness in Port Adelaide followed by a Smoking Ceremony, Kaurna welcome and a morning tea.
The Aboriginal Education Team along with classroom teachers selected a small group of students from our 5/6 classes to represent our school on this important day.
At Le Fevre Primary, we as a whole staff committed to train in the Berry Street Education Model. This supports all students in building strong connections and to become the best learner they can be. In the first 2 weeks of school, we ran the 'Striving for Success' program which is designed to help set up strong expectations and routines and incorporate different elements from the Berry Street Model.
One element that all classes have implemented is a tool called a ‘Ready to Learn Scale’. These scales help students to manage and identify their emotions and feelings and use learnt strategies to help get back into a ‘ready to learn state’.
In Indonesian we have been talking a lot about ourselves and our feelings. At the beginning of every class we are checking in and asking "Apa kabar?" - How are you feeling? Here you can see some work across the years.
We have also looked at out ready to learn scale which in Indonesian is the flag. We use it every time we come into the Indonesian room because it helps us to understand how we're feeling and what we need to do to get ourselves into the zone for learning. Sometimes we might need to sit in a certain spot to focus, or use a tool to help us concentrate or even make a time to chat to the teacher to help us sort out a problem. Here Ryder is demonstrating where he is on the ready to learn scale.
Room 14 have been learning about mathematical mindsets. We know that everyone can be a mathematician. Mathematicians learn from their mistakes and stick at it when it gets tough. Mathematicians also think deeply about a problem and re-check their work.
We have hit the ground running with maths in the last few weeks! We are loving exploring number through the CPA (concrete, pictorial, abstract) model. We use hands on materials to create and build as well as whiteboards and workbooks to draw and record our thinking and working.
So far we have learnt properties of prime and composite numbers, square, cubed and triangular numbers, multiples and factors, as well as consolidated our knowledge of place value.
The year 5/6's from Room 20 are big buddies to the year 1's in Room 9. Over the last couple of weeks, the classes have being coming together to do some fun activities. In week 1, we made pancakes together. Last week we did some Valentines Day craft. We made friendship bracelets, collage cards and did word searches together. We had so much fun getting to know each other and the year 1s love having another friendly face out in the yard who can support them!
I am very excited to be continuing the Children’s University Program at Le Fevre Primary for 2024. Children’s University engages students in exciting out-of-school learning opportunities. The program hosted by the University of Adelaide, aims to increase the likelihood of educational achievement, and reward children for taking their learning into their own hands.
Children’s University will be offered for students in years 3-6. If your child is interested in participating in Children’s University for the first time or would like to continue, please visit me in Room 7 for a registration code. Registrations close 22nd March.