Principal’s Message….... 1

Reconciliation

week…………………..….. 2

Reconciliation week

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What’s been

happening in Room 5…. 4

Ingle Farm

Primary School Newsletter

3rd June 2020

Inside this Issue:

Diary Dates:

Monday 8th June

Public Holiday

Queen’s Birthday

Friday 12th June

Student Free Day

Friday 26th June

Room 18 and 20

School sleepover.

Ingle Farm Primary School 2 Belalie Road,

Ingle Farm, SA 5098

Phone: 8262 4864

Fax: 83497837

OSHC Ph: 8262 7208

Absences Ph: 0416 906 278

Email: dl.1162.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Principal: Vanessa Mortimer

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Families

It has been a frosty start to Winter however we tackled it beautifully

with a whole school Pyjama Day for June 1st. Staff and students looked

toasty warm and enjoyed a range of special activities on the day.

I am most grateful for your continued support for drop off and pick up

points at our Belalie Road gate. We acknowledge the challenges with

this and with car parking. Please consider parking in the school visitors’

carpark (now re-opened with fresh line marking), the football club

carpark or the soccer club car park. We are actually quite fortunate

to have so much local, off road, parking. We also have dedicated

and reliable students who manage crossing duty every afternoon. We

encourage all families to use the crossing rather than other parts of the

road for safety. Our number one priority is safety. SAPOL have been

present to support this so I caution families, who choose not to follow

road rules (speeding, parking on yellow lines or in bus areas), to be

mindful of fines. In short please support us with courtesy and safety.

I feel so privileged to be part of our Ingle Farm community and this

was further highlighted to me last week when we celebrated National

Reconciliation Week. Our Deputy Principal Helen Delia has captured

many of our special events, which are featured in the centre spread.

Warm Regards

Department for Education

T/A South Australian

Government Schools

CRICOS Provider

No. 00018A

Respect Honesty Persistence

On Monday the 1st of June we

celebrated the first day of Winter

by dressing up in our pyjamas at

school! We read the story, “We’re

going on a Bear Hunt,” and went

on a teddy bear hunt around the

school with our student teacher

Ron. He took us all around the

school, looking for Ted, a cheeky

teddy bear who went for a walk,

and we found him… in a cave in

Nature Play! But first we had to go

through the wavy grass…

Reconciliation Week

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) 2020, May 2th –

June 3rd, has been a time for our multicultural

community to get together and learn more about

each other, our histories, cultures and achievements

through the theme of “In This Together” with

Aboriginal culture at the forefront. This has

resonated in so many ways this year as we remind

ourselves to be kind to each other in crisis and in

reconciliation.

A major focus has been learning about Aboriginal

first languages, both Kaurna and Pitjantjatjara, in the

reconciliation process.

Our Aboriginal Education Teacher Vanessa Rowe

has introduced these unique languages to our

Middle and Upper Primary students and represented

their learning through artwork, on boomerangs and

in Music lessons with Ruth and Liz Carn.

Students have engaged in robust conversations

answering questions that have been included in our

School’s entry in this year’s multimedia competition:

• Why do you think the theme for NRW 2020

“In this together” is important when we think

about reconciliation?

• What does this (or could this) look like in your

school?

Ninna Marni

(A Kaurna word for Hello, how are you?)

Statement of Acknowledgement

We would like to acknowledge this land that we meet on today is the

traditional lands for Kaurna people and that we respect their spiritual

relationship with their country. We also acknowledge the Kaurna people as the

custodians of the Adelaide region and that their cultural and heritage beliefs

are still as important to living Kaurna people today.

Reconciliation Week

Australian Reconciliation Week Poem

Australia’s Reconciliation with the first Australians will take many more years

Doing this journey together should hold us no fears

True recognition is what the first Australians of this country are wanting

Some mainstream Australians may find this confronting

First Australians have lost so much over hundreds of years

Such losses bring the first Australians into cultural tears

Politicians of the past tried to assimilate us the white Australia way

White Australians seeing us like them is not the right way

Australian politicians believe our votes don’t matter

Over time this will change and those safe seats will scatter

Australia always was, always will be, the first Australians land

Our hearts, souls, spirits are in this land and it goes hand in hand

Our culture, language, dance is still alive and strong

Keeping this in our lives we can’t go wrong

This week I ask you to do a true Reconciliation act

Your actions be seen as a true Reconciliation fact

Moving forward is what Reconciliation is all about

Showing true acts of Reconciliation will take away any doubts.

Olivia Mortimer alongside our students has brought

together our creative entry which can now be viewed on

our Facebook page www.facebook.com/inglefarmps or

on our website www.ifps.sa.edu.au/?p=1859. Have a look

it is amazing! Our students have expressed their ideas and

thoughts about reconciliation in a multicultural

environment.

Our Aboriginal Community Education Officer Annette

Buckskin has worked alongside our Junior Primary Teachers

in sharing her knowledge and experience as being a

respected Aboriginal person through storytelling and art

activities such as “The Kangaroo Rock”.

We have shared some of the learning and artwork with

families by creating a ‘pop up’ mural with all the painted

boomerangs at the front of the school. Ingle farm students

have shared many ideas of how we can continue our

Reconciliation journey together as a whole school family.

What’s been happening in Room 5

On Wednesday the 27th of June it was National Simultaneous Story Time where children

around Australia were reading this year’s story, “Chicken Divas.” This is a story about two

chickens, Whitney and Britney, and their fox friend, Dora Von Dooze. Dora always seems to

find Whitney and Britney sleeping during the day and constantly wondering why they are

so tired. One night Dora goes out disguised to see what Whitney and Britney are doing and

they are performing at Club Sparkle! You will have to read the book to find out more…

In Room 5 and 6 we drew a guided drawing of Whitney and Britney step by step. We then

painted fancy disco balls using our shape knowledge. We hope you like our Whitney and

Britney artwork.

This term we have been learning about writing a description and have been focusing on

animals. We have been looking at giraffes and have been talking about different ways we

can describe their body parts, using colour, size, shape and texture. For this task we drew a

guided drawing of a giraffe and then we matched adjectives to nouns to describe parts of

the giraffe’s body, like long neck and brown spots. We hope you like our giraffes!