West Lakes Shore School StudentExcellence Newsletter

Term 4, Week 3 2019 - 1 November 2019

PRINCIPAL CORNER

Dear Families,

What an outstanding Open Evening showcasing the school STEAM approach and our exceptional Art

Exhibition.  A huge thanks to all staff for their effort, especially Ms Lisa Zappia and all the parent and

family volunteers for their help to set up the gym for the night.

Enjoy our student excellence edition showcasing some of the outstanding exhibitions and interactive

teaching and learning displays from classrooms.

FAMILY FEEDBACK

During the Open Evening we held a feedback station so families could look at improvements that had

been put in place since last years family feedback. I attach a copy of a powerpoint show so you can

see a snapshot of some of the things you fed back, what the school did and what we intend to do

for our next steps of improvement. We also invited families to �ll out our annual school

questionnaire. If you haven't had the chance to do so please CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY and provide

your feedback. The questionnaire link will close on 8/11/2019 AT 11:59PM

CLASS STRUCTURE 2020

Changes in enrolment numbers can signi�cantly alter a class structure for the 2020 school year. We

are currently underway with �nal decisions on this structure based on current enrolments. If you

know your child may be leaving our school please let us know immediately so we can consider this

and minimise any impact on having to reorganise 2020 classes. Thank you for your support and

understanding with this complex process.

STAFFING

This semester we welcomed Lucas Brenen to teach Japanese on Fridays for our Year 4 and Year 7

classes. As we could not �nd an additional Japanese teacher our Year 5 and 6 classes and SD6 will be

attending an additional Performing Arts lesson each Thursday. These classes will be working on

performances for our end of year concert items. We are currently recruiting a 2020 Japanese Teacher

for two days a week to teach Upper Primary classes. 

Kind regards

Carol Press

Principal

FAMILY FEEDBACK POWERPOINTDownload

OPEN EVENING ART EXHIBITION & CLASSROOM DISPLAYS

INTERACTIVE ART EXHIBITION - THE WHITE ROOM

A blank canvas ready for some dotty colour

INTERACTIVE ART - FACE IN A FAMOUS PAINTING

Hard at work creating masterpieces

SILENT AUCTION ART CANVASES

STUDENT ARTWORK DISPLAY

THANK YOU!!A huge thank you to the students and parents that helped with all of the painting, the setting up and

taking down of the Art Exhibition last week. It was a huge process and it could not have been

achieved without all of the assistance!

Thanks to the following parent and grandparent helpers: Kevin and Rosemary Tully, Lynley and

Margaret Zeitz, Mary Stewart, Eva Varga, Nicole Kelly, Karyn Remphrey, Linda Doulos, Jaime Sayers, Bree

Kelly, Sarah Zarko, Joanne Statton, Elizabeth Ray, Jodie Melville and Gail Hall.

Thanks to the following student helpers:

SD1 - Sahara, Taliya

SD2 - Harper, Jennifer

SD3 - Sarah, Lucy

SD4 - Alexia, Madison, Alisha, Emma, Rihanna, Maddison, Lilah, Isla D, Isla E, Abbi, Sophia, Celine,

Amelia, Brydie, Trishaa

SD6 - Liliana,

SD7 - Ashlee, Chloe, Scarlett, Helen, Emma

SD8 - Ruby, Sam

CLASSROOM OPEN EVENING LEARNING

SPORTS CORNERSPORTS CORNER

ADELAIDE CROWS CUP STATE CARNIVALAfter winning the Crows Cup for our district back in term two, our Year 6/7 girls were invited to

participate in the Crows Cup State Carnival. Twenty-four teams participated from all over the state,

including teams from as far away as Port Augusta and Burra. After our �rst three games, West Lakes

Shore was categorised into Division One, playing against the �ve other best teams in the state. We

�nished �fth overall and defeated schools along the way such as Westminster and Gleeson College,

which was a fantastic achievement.

The Division One �nal was played with Trinity Gardens defeating Henley Beach in a close affair.

For participating in the carnival, the school was awarded a signed AFLW Adelaide Crows Sherrin

football.

CAMP CORNER

YEAR 4 ARBURY PARK CAMP REFLECTION“Sniff sniff, cough cough.” I was wide awake staring at a wall listening to people sniff and cough. I

wasn’t sure what time it was but I knew I wanted more sleep. I closed my eyes and �nally fell asleep.

It was pitch black (not really but with my eyes closed it was.) and I heard some whispers so I woke

up and I saw 3 people awake: Olympia, Kiera and Stephanie. Kiera and Olympia were the ones talking.

When Olympia and Kiera got loud Mrs Marcos came out and said it was 4:50am. Then she went back

into her room and Kiera went into Olympias bed. Then I fell asleep.

It was morning and I woke up to Lily’s face. Everyone was talking loudly so it was hard to fall back to

sleep. I was standing by the bed and I was getting dressed when Mrs Marcos said there was going to

be a surprise inspection. Lily helped me do my bed and I helped her do hers. So when Ms Rozika got

there I was ready. Here’s what happened: Ms Rozika entered the dorm. She went to the other side.

She came to our side. She gave Lily’s bed a tick. She gave my bed a tick.

When I was outside everyone started heading to the playground for a play. I didn’t, I went to see Lila

by the seats. Lila and I went for a walk around and then we went back to the playground.

We were walking inside the tyres on the playground, it started off easy but then it got harder and on

the last layer it was so thin!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then the bell went at 7:45am for breakfast. After breakfast we were

choosing what activity we wanted to do for electives in the afternoon. The choices were: earth art,

earth walk, orienteering or a hike. I chose to do the earth walk.

When we �nished breakfast and choosing our elective we went to the meeting area. In the meeting

area we were told that we were going to split into our groups. I was in group D so my �rst activity

was team challenges on the tennis courts.

We walked over to the tennis courts where we started our �rst challenge. The aim of the challenge

was to not step on the cones while wearing a blind fold and being given instructions by a partner

and getting to the other side. My partner was Lily. The next activity was to move 3 balls using a

hoop into a lake. Our next challenge was called octopus and we had to stack buckets using another

bucket with ropes attached to it. The �nal challenge was where we had 5 pieces of felt and we had to

use these to get to the other side.

When we got back it was morning tea, for morning tea we had a wrap. After morning tea, we went off

to our next activity. My next activity was camp �re cooking. We had to re-start a �re that the

previous group had lit and then we started to cook damper on a stick.

When we got back it was lunch. For lunch we had a roll. In my roll I had pineapple. After lunch was

free time on the playground. At free time 2 dorms went for showers.

After free time we were doing the activity we chose to do. Suyin said that we could go to an activity

we didn’t choose so I went to earth art instead with Ashlynn and Lila We made a big �ower using

we didn t choose so I went to earth art instead with Ashlynn and Lila. We made a big �ower using

materials that we could �nd outside.

For dinner, we had honey soy chicken, potatoes and a couple sides. I didn’t eat the chicken. Then for

dessert, we had vanilla sundae. After dessert, the rest of the dorms went for a shower. After the

shower we went back into the dining room for quiz night. Once this �nished we went back to our

dorms and went to sleep.

It was the BEST CAMP!

By Leah H P2

ARBURY PARK CAMP IMAGES

CLASSROOM CORNERCLASSROOM CORNER

6D STEM PROJECTIn SD1 and SD2, we did a STEM project in which we all created a house. That house has to withstand

a natural disaster, for example a volcanic eruption. We used the 6Ds of Solution Fluency as the design

process and the six stages are:

1)      De�ne – the problem…we had to design a house that could withstand a catastrophic event on a

chosen natural disaster.

2)      Discover- natural disaster report. In which the learning intension was that know how your

speci�c natural disaster occurs, is measured and predicted and what engineering already exists

around the world to combat these disasters.

3)      Dream - brainstorm what new, future or possible technologies that meet a design brief is

money and resources are not an issue.

4)      Design – the learning intention was to create a multi-view technical drawing that incorporated

our research and ideas into a house design.

5)      Deliver – Prototype building. We built our designs using recycled materials that re�ected the

materials we would have used in real life. Our success was measured by how close it matched our

drawn design.

6)      Debrief – we �nished off by critiquing our model and the design process. We also self- and

peer-assessed the complete projects as part of the process.

We enjoyed this project because we had a chance to be creative, we had to research, design the

house and build it on our own and we had to explore new technologies and think about different

designs. It was really fun to learn about natural disasters and the damage they can do.

HYDRATION IS THE KEY.... TO HEALTHY PEE!As part of Health, P2 and P4 students have been learning about why it is important to stay hydrated.

They were given the task to ‘design a poster to encourage students in our school to drink water’.

As you can see, their posters are very persuasive! Their fabulously, informative posters will be

displayed around the school, with the hope of educating students (and adults) to aim for clear pee!

PEE POSTERS

IMPORTANT FAMILY INFORMATIONIMPORTANT FAMILY INFORMATION

YEAR 7 TO HIGH SCHOOL UPDATEThe Department has been releasing information pertaining to the move of Year 7 to HighSchool in 2022.  We will keep you updated with any new information that we receive.  Pleasevisit - https://www.education.sa.gov.au/sites-and-facilities/year-7-high-school/year-7-high-school-information-parents for more information

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VOLUNTEERING AT WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOLFACE TO FACE RAN-EC TRAINING AVAILABLE - RECOMMENDED FOR NEW FAMILIES TO WLSS / FIRST

TIME VOLUNTEERS

Responding to Abuse and Neglect-Education and Care (RAN-EC) training is a mandatory requirement

to volunteer at WLSS, as is a current Working with Children Check or valid DCSI clearance. 

To be eligible for any volunteering at our site you must complete all department requirements.  This

includes -  Induction, RAN-EC, DCSI / WWCC Clearance, and associated volunteer compliance forms.

Click HERE to be taken to our online volunteer application forms.  Hard copy forms are available on

request from the front of�ce.

This training can now be completed online, however if you would prefer, this term we are offering a

face to face session to be held on Friday 8th November 2019 at 9:30am-11:30am in the school

gymnasium.

Please register your interest by emailing michelle.fearne570@schools.sa.edu.au by Thursday 7th

November 2019, or for any enquiries as to your volunteer status.

Don't Forget - PUPIL FREE DAY - Wednesday, 20th NovemberDon't Forget - PUPIL FREE DAY - Wednesday, 20th November20192019

WEST LAKES SHORE SCHOOL WEBSITE

Information about West Lakes Shore School R-7

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