BARMERA PRIMARY SCHOOL Newsletter No. 22 23rd July 2014 Our mission is to educate, inspire and assist all children to value and respect differences and achieve their full potential. Principal: Terry Wheeldon 1 Rumbold Drv, Barmera, SA, 5345 | Ph. 08 8588 2198 Governing Council Chairperson : Michael Allder Principal’s Piece Welcome back to Term 3. I hope you were able to make the most of your break in routine. We welcome Martin Barber who has taken over the Science NIT role. Martin has been working in a similar role at Renmark North PS. We also welcome back Julie John from Long Service Leave. Kirby Kingham is on leave for the first 5 weeks of this term. Barmera PS has been selected to conduct NAPLAN trials. This is an exercise involving our Yr 3, 5 and 7 students doing trial tests in Reading and Numeracy so that the level of difficulty can be assessed for next year’s tests. These trials will be run by an independent assessor and will involve Yr 3 and Yr 5 students doing their tests next Monday and Yr 7 students on Wednesday. We returned to school this week to find that the date for the Riverland SAPSASA Athletics Carnival had been changed from Friday week 4 (Aug 15th) to Friday of week 3 (Aug 8th) due to some district administrative reasons. Unfortunately this now clashes with our Yr 3,4,5 camp (which had been purposefully planned to avoid the SAPSASA athletics). Despite our strong objections we now need to deal with this situation. As a result of this we needed to move quickly to finish our selection trials for the 200m, high jump and discus, which we did yesterday. The other events were decided on Sports Day. This now allows us to see exactly which students are affected and negotiate with families how we might manage this. We will be contacting families in the next day or so to look at some options. We do have a “challenge period” where students who were ill, away or didn’t have suitable footwear etc, can challenge for a position in the team. The challenge period will be open until next Wednesday. Pastoral Support: Tammy, Ph. 0427 060 567 Sports day at the end of last term proved to be a fantastic day with excellent weather and strong parent support. Congratulations to all students who competed in great fashion, displaying enormous effort and sportsmanship. Well done to Hawdon (Yellow) on their win. I would particularly like to thank The Gov. Council Sport & Rec Committee, Michael Allder, Lori Sandland and Darrin Warren for their efforts and planning which resulted in a highly successful day. Last of all, congratulations to Sam Mitchell who was awarded the Male Community Member of the Year at the NAIDOC celebrations during the holidays. Well done Sam! Terry Please Note Thurs 24th July Thurs 31st July Wed 6th Aug to Fri 8th Aug Fri 8th Aug Mon 11th Aug School Photo Day Choir Performance at Chaffey Theatre Mr Fletcher, Ms Cooper, Miss Schild & classes on camp SAPSASA Athletics Governing Council 7:00pm TOMORROW Please Note : FAMILY PHOTOS WILL BE TAKEN FROM 8:30AM—9:00AM www.barmeraps.sa.edu.au Next edition of our newsletter will be published on Wednesday 30th July 2014 Please have articles to Joy in the Front Office by Monday 28th July 2014 CENTREPAY If you wish to use your Centrepay to pay for School Camps, Excursions or Uniforms can you please notify the front office. Thank you, Felicity Ziegler (Finance Officer) OSHC NEWS Vacation Care was a huge success this holidays and we had a great group of children in care. I would like to say a big thank you to our bus drivers who helped out :- Lance Gum, Joe Hermanson and David Whitbourne. Also to Heidi Casey who helped out on Party day, very much appreciated. Well Done! If you have any craft materials at home that you do not want, can you please save them and drop them into the OSHC room or to the front office. Buttons, beads, paper towel rolls etc The OSHC building is open from 3pm. Please Note : OSHC will not be available this Friday 25th July. Thankyou. Kirsten Kubank (OSHC Director) NUNGA PLAYGROUP g earnin L d e s lay Ba P arent and P d l i h C e T im nity ommu C g n nnecti Co ture ng Cul ti c e p rs es ucato d E R e r dca d Chil e fi i l a Qu During S chool Te rm Tuesday 9: 00am— 1 1:00am at Barm era Prim ary Scho (look fo ol. r the Ye llow and Blue Ma Also for rquees) Families of surro unding c Enquirie ommun s : 04175 ities 90558 o r 045773 2613 Male Elder of the Year supported by Berri Barmera Council - Rob Agius Female Elder of the Year supported by Berri Barmera Council - Kellie Matthews Male Community Member of the Year supported by Tim Whetstone - Sam Mitchell Female Community Member of the Year supported by Tim Whetstone - Candice Dodson Male Youth of the Year supported by SA Police Austin Karpany Female Youth of the Year supported by Aboriginal Sobriety Group - Eboni Frankel Sportsperson of the Year supported by Premier Sports Berri - Kenny Wright Artist of the Year supported by Country Arts SA - Kat Knuth Primary School Education Achievement Award supported by Barmera Primary School Community Partnerships - Phoebe Subathra-Roberts Secondary School Education Achievement Award supported by Flinders University Rural Clinical School - Ronald Bromley RYT afterschool workshop program for semester 2 Loxton Drama, Mondays, Loxton High Drama Room 4:15pm-6:15pm Renmark Drama, Tuesdays, RYT- Renmark Institute 4:00pm-6:00pm (NEW) Berri Drama, Wednesdays, Riverland Special School 4:00pm-6:00pm Waikerie Drama, Thursdays, Waikerie High School 4:00pm-6:00pm Loxton Dance 1, Mondays, Loxton Primary School 4:00pm-5:00pm Loxton Dance 2, Mondays, Loxton Primary School 5:00pm-6:00pm Renmark Dance, Wednesdays, RYT- Renmark Institute 4:00pm-6:00pm Also we are starting a senior (17+) Belly dancing class on Wednesdays 5:30-7:00pm (for anyone that may be interested) For more info please contact RYT 8586 3437 [email protected]
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