Week 5 Term 4 2018

DATES TO

REMEMBER

November

Wednesday

21st Kindergarten

Orientation

Friday 23rd

KLA Open Day

Wednesday

28th Kindergarten

Orientation

December

Wednesday 5th Kindergarten

Orientation Day

Friday 7th Rotary Xmas

BBQ

Wednesday

12th Presentation Day

and Year 12

Graduation

Learning for Life

66 Eton St, SUTHERLAND NSW 2232 T 02 9521 3433 F 02 9545 3316 E minerva-s.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.minerva-s.schools.nsw.edu.au

MINERVA SCHOOL

Minerva students meet the

Prime Minister

Last Friday our senior students had the pleasure of

meeting our Prime Minister, the Hon. Scott Morrison MP.

The students were taking part in a Surf Awareness

program at South Cronulla beach.

The students were very excited and we thank our Prime

Minister for taking the time to speak with our students and

have some photos taken.

Week 5 Term 4 2018

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Dear parents/carers,

Each week I have the absolute pleasure of attending our Friday morning

assemblies. This whole school event provides me with the opportunity to share

the amazing achievements made by all students. Students have been working

hard in all Key Learning Areas, further developed their friendships and worked

extremely hard at regulating their emotions using the zones of regulation. It is

such an honour to acknowledge these efforts and to provide the students with

their certificates and medals. I have been able to witness first-hand the hard

work and dedication while I have conducted my walk-through to each of the

classes. It has been amazing to see hands-on practical Maths lessons, creative

and innovative art activities, interesting science experiments and high

intensity PE lessons with Ms Margot.

On the 23rd November we will be celebrating our final KLA day where parents,

carers and family members are invited to share in the education of their child.

This day will hold special significance as we have combined the KLA (CAPA) day

with a fundraising event with the support of the Lions club. All funds raised on

this day will be directly donated to the Children’s hospital and to research into

childhood related diseases and illnesses. Your attendance and support for this

special day is greatly appreciated.

Throughout this term, staff have been actively involved in ongoing professional

development. Combined with Bates Drive, staff have attended 3 twilight

sessions delivered by Carl Warren a behaviour expert who runs ‘Beyond

Behaviour’. These sessions have provided staff with in-depth and up to date

research around student behaviours, emotion regulation, trauma informed

approaches and building positive relationships. The collegial nature of the

experience has forged positive relations with Bates Drive and provided staff

with opportunities to ensure their practice is current and relevant.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the parent community for

their ongoing support and involvement in the Learning for Life project. The

school based team have worked tirelessly to ensure the project has been

imbedded across the entire school and ensured that each student has been

provided with their own individualised ‘tool box’. Earlier this term we held an

informal questioning session for parents/carers.

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The ‘Crunch n Sip’ project is being utilised each day and has seen an increase in

students consuming healthy fruits and vegetables and also drinking water. It

has been great to hear students having discussions amongst themselves around

the healthy snacks they have been consuming.

Students across the school have also had the amazing opportunity to attend

Sailing (Kogarah Bay) and Surf Awareness at Cronulla. All students should be

commended on their behaviour and application while attending these events.

It has been a great start to term 4 and I look forward to the remainder of

the year and the many events to come.

Dates for your Diary:

23rd November KLA Day/Fundraiser (CAPA)

7th December Scripture

12th December Presentation Day & Formal

19th December Last day of the Year!

I hope everyone has a great remainder to term 4 and thank you for your in-

volvement and support.

John Mazzitelli

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the following students for the

month of November

Flynn, Perry and Ethan.

Week 5 Term 4 2018

Out and about with

Class Bottlebrush.

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Perry loves to check the mailbox in his

classroom to see if he has received a

letter.

We are expecting letters from Sesame

Street and from Santa.

Perry enjoys practising his typing skills

as he replies to his letters. He posts

them and waits for his next letter to

arrive.

Class Protea has mail

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WORK EXPERIENCE Our Work Experience students attended the IDF Chocolate Factory at

Kogarah. The students have been hard at work packing chocolates,

muesli bars and cereal for delivery to Cosco.

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Class Eucalyptus had a fantastic time

sailing

Congratulations to Billy for earning

Minerva medallion

We have been

planting carrots

and parsnips and

practising our

beat and tempo

during Music

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Happy Birthday to the following students for the

month of May,

Martin, Luke and

Preston

Class Waratah

We can’t believe it’s already half way through

Term 4. Class Waratah has again been busy

learning and having lots of fun. We have been

learning about Asian culture through “Sadako and

the Thousand Paper Cranes”, two and three

dimensional shapes and our day at Sailing was just

perfect. We are just beginning the filming of our

stop animation short films which fingers crossed

should be ready for viewing just in time for the

end of term. Everybody is excited about the

Christmas holidays but we still have so much to

do….

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LEARNING FOR LIFE

Hello Carers and Families, OT Christine here.

Term 4 has flown by and we have been busy working on the Learning

for Life project across the school. Every student should have

brought home a copy of their individualised Zones of Regulation

TOOLBOX with pictures of the various sensory tools they are using

at school to help them stay in the green zone. We hope that having a

copy of your student’s toolbox might be an opportunity for you to

experiment with some sensory tools at home.

Also- your opinions matter to us so we have written a short survey to

gather some feedback. I would invite you to spend 5 minutes or so to

complete the paper survey (sent home with your child) or follow the

online survey monkey link — https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LYVQXJY

Finally, as always, if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback or

comments-

I would love to hear from you on christinemcmordieot@gmail.com.

Week 5 Term 4 2018

The students had a great time creating wreaths made of poppies for

Remembrance Day. We now have these wreaths displayed at the front

of the library.

LIBRARY NEWS

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Spring has sprung in Class Wattle. We have been busy learning about what happens in

springtime and making spring time displays for our parents to see when you visit us for

the KLA day this term.

We have also been picking mulberries from our sensory garden to turn into jam with our

wonderful SLSO Miss Peta. This can be purchased on presentation day along with other

produce from our school kitchen garden. Wattle students have been trying out yoga as a

sensory break. Check out our downward dog and cat poses. We also loved going sailing with

Sailability.