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Compton Primary School Newsletter

Ph: 87251723

Fax: 87250110

Mobile: 0498108539

Web Site: comptonps.sa.edu.au

Shared Values – Respect, Perseverance, Resilience, Kindness

PRINCIPAL – Bec Keeley 87251723 GOVERNING COUNCIL CHAIRPERSON – Nikki O’Dea 87255265

WHAT’S ON

WEDNESDAY: Drinks Day, Hot Lunches, Jr Jack Attack

THURSDAY:

FRIDAY:

MONDAY: Footsteps

TUESDAY: Footsteps

WEDNESDAY: Footsteps, Drinks Day, Hot Lunches,

Jr Jack Attack

THURSDAY: Footsteps

FRIDAY: Footsteps

MONDAY:

TUESDAY:

IMPORTANT DATES

March

Monday 9h

Adelaide Cup

Friday 13th

Relay for Life

Monday 16th

Governing Council

Monday 23th

NAPLAN (practice test)

Monday 30th

Possible Pupil Free Day

April

Friday 3rd

Small School Sports Day

Thursday 9th

End of Term 1, early dismissal 2:25

Friday 10th

Good Friday

Footsteps Next week, the students will be taking part in dance lessons with the Footsteps dance company. Each day, the students will take part in a range of individual, partner and group dances which are both choreographed and imaginative. I really enjoy watching our students participate each year as they all get involved and do a fantastic job whilst undertaking parts of the Australian Dance curriculum. Please make sure students have appropriate, comfortable shoes for these lessons.

Pupil Free Day Please be aware that there is a proposed Pupil Free day scheduled for Monday the 30th of March – week 10. This day will allow teachers to attend a training and development day around Simon Breakspear’s Learning Sprints. This project is a two-year initiative which we committed to last year. It involves teachers developing their skills in teaching so that students have the best chance to grow in their learning. Please pencil this in on your calendars and we will confirm as soon as possible.

COMMUNITY NEWS ATTACHMENTS

Smiles All Round- Growing Resilient Kids

25/02/2020

TERM DATES FOR 2020 Term 1 28th Jan – 9th April Term 2 27th April – 3rd July Term 3 20th Jul – 25th Sept Term 4 12th Oct – 11th Dec

Front Office Please note that the office will be unattended next Thursday morning 5th March. Bett and Vicki will be at a training and development session that is important to their finance role and I will be at my own training for my Simon Breakspear work. Bett and Vicki will be back in the office in the afternoon if you need their assistance.

AGM Thank you to the parents who came to our pizza tea and open classroom night last Monday. The students really like to be able to show off their classroom and the work they have been doing. A big thank you also goes to the parents who attended the AGM and became members of our Governing Council. We really appreciate your time and support – it is really important to have a committed body of community members to help guide and grow the school – to make it a place that we are all proud of.

Relay For Life Just a gentle reminder that the Relay For Life committee sent out a letter asking for some help with some jobs and for as much participation from families on the day as possible. We are walking this year in memory of our wonderful SSO and friend, Kristyn Dawe. Please let Miss Hamilton or the office know whether you are able to help with the tent/s or the banner. Please register and join us! It is a really fantastic cause. https://secure.fundraising.cancer.org.au/site/TR/RelayforLife/CCSA?team_id=67120&fr_id=5642

GIVEN TO STUDENT

NIL

NEWSLETTER ATTACHMENTS

NIL

Steer Fundraiser Our 3 steers have been sold leaving us with a approximately a profit of $2300 as we may still have transport to pay. A big thank you to - Scott O’Dea for purchasing. Hosking family for raising them. Hayley Pettifer for organizing Landmarks involvement. Landmark for selling them and not charging us commission.

Relay Toys at School Please remember that toys, fancy stationery, pets etc are not allowed at school unless specifically organised with a staff member. Too many items have been lost, broken and unfortunately stolen in the past – especially when out in the yard. Please keep them safe at home rather than at school.

After School Pick Up Just a gentle reminder that the Relay For Life committee Please keep in mind that school finishes at 3:25. We often have students (who are not bus kids), who are still on site at nearly 4:00 which is not appropriate or fair on staff. Please make sure you are collecting your child in a timely fashion.

Consents and Policy Information Please be aware that the package of information containing a general student consent form, school policies and procedures was sent out to all families. The policies and procedures are for you to keep at home for your reference. Please keep returning the consents with a yes or no on both sides along with the Cyber Safe Policy (this policy is for all children in your family) and the mobile phone policy, if your child is going to bring a phone or a electronic device to school. Phones and electronic devices are to be turned off before they are on school ground and not turned on until they have left the school ground. All phones and electronic devices must be signed in and handed in first thing into the front office for safe keeping.

MIDDLE PRIMARY 4/5

UPPER PRIMARY 6/7

Sport Day Run Offs Students competed in run offs for the championship events for Sports Day. Please know that if your child was sick/ absent on the day, there will be a challenge day in the near future. Bec Keeley

Our 2019 Yearbook is here!!! If you missed out getting

an order in, we have a few available to be purchased.

They look amazing !!

COMPTON PRIMARY SCHOOL

JNR JACK ATTACK SPORTING SCHOOL ROSTER

Jr Jack Attack started last week and all children had a ball (pun intended ). We will be holding all sessions in Compton Hall. Please ensure you are at school by 4:30pm to collect your children.

Thank you to parents who have volunteered to help supervise. Please see Vicki if you have any queries.

February 26th Nicky Hosking

March 4th Carley Mustart

March 11th Tammy Smith

Pastoral Care News

This year we are continuing working with Kimochis at Compton Primary. Kimochis is Japanese for ‘feelings’, and comes with 7 characters,

Clover, Bella Rose, Cloud, Lovey Dove, Bug, Huggtopus and Cat. Each character experiences different emotions and each have their own personality. These tools are used to give students a focused, safe time to learn to identify and express feelings, work through conflicts, and build the foundations for social and emotional intelligence. Students learn how to manage emotional moments, techniques for managing life’s challenging moments with character and confidence. It is evidence based, professionally developed school program. When students can communicate their feelings effectively, they build confidence, self-esteem, and strong relationships. When students are optimistic and have a caring environment in the classroom in which they feel connected, included and valued, significant learning will occur. Pam Young Pastoral Care Worker

Student Leadership News Welcome to the 2020 school year! We hope everyone had a great Christmas break. We are excited to be your 2020 school captains. We will work as a team to make 2020 your best year yet. So far we have had lunch with all the classes and introduced ourselves. It was great fun and we plan to do more. We are excited to be attending the GRIP Leadership Conference this year at the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre. We are planning many exciting activities and occasions to have this year. Now that Quality Start is finished we will be making plans for the things we would like to do this year. Two things we would like to work on in our drinks day menu and composting.

Drinks Day

On Wednesday we will be selling –

Fruit boxes $1.10c Icy Poles $0.40c Muesli Bars $0.50c Sultanas $0.50c Popcorn $0.50c

Hot Lunches– Every Wednesday Orders can be made via message on Facebook or Email to betty.lennerth10@schools.sa.edu.au then payment can be made on our website. www.comptonps.sa.edu.au if you don’t know your family id just put your family name.

T-Ball For the last 2 Fridays we have played T-Ball at the Blue Lake Sports Park. They were both really good and close matches. It was tricky at the end of both games as the last batter needs to hit a home run to get all the other batters home. My favourite place to play is batting as I can practice and try to hit further to go and be the last batter. My position when fielding is down like a frog because it is easier to get the ball. Scott has taught me how to bat and I am now hitting the ball further that ever before. A Big thank you to Scott for coaching us. Also a big thank you to my Dad (Jade) for coming out and supporting our team and helping Scott. He also holds my glove while I am batting, thanks dad! Paige

Around the Classrooms

We have had a busy start to the year with two weeks of

This week we are wrapping up our Maths topic – Number.

We have learnt about prime and composite numbers,

factor trees and the Lowest Common Multiple. We have

spent the last week looking closely at these and used Art

to create representations of Factor Trees. Below are

some examples of how creative and talented our students

are. The task was to ‘create a factor tree using creativity,

art and possible flowers’.

Mrs Kramins and the 6/7 Class

UPPER PRIMARY 6/7

The Middle Primary Classroom have set ourselves

up for a successful 2020.

The middle primary classrooms learning intentions in

writing this term has been to use descriptive language

and a variety of sentence beginnings when writing

imaginative texts. In class we have been excited to

learn how to use sizzling starts to engage our readers.

Sizzling starts are meant to excite and capture the

readers attention.

This week we spent time working on improving our

sizzling starts through the 5 minute fast starts tasks.

Here are some of the amazing sizzling starts some of

our classmates have written.

Paige:

Ava:

Miss Hamilton and the 4/5 Class

During ‘Quality Start’, our class has brainstormed

behaviours that demonstrate kindness, respect,

perseverance and resilience which are our school

values.

Our visions for 2020 -

“Growing our minds”

In our class we will show we are growing our minds by

having a growth mindset. A mistake is a chance to

learn something new and our golden word is YET!

We will always work hard to create a safe learning

environment as we all know we are responsible for our

own learning and behaviour.

We will take pride in our learning tasks to produce

quality work and achieve our individual goals.

We will work together as a team to follow our school

values.

We will have fun as we learn together. We are going

to be outstanding listeners.

In Maths we have been concentrating on Place Value

and number sequences.

In Word Work we have been working on plurals and

their rules. Mrs D

In Maths we have focussed on improving our

subatising skills with dice. We also started learning

about graphing and data.

In Reading we are playing reading eggs while groups

do guided reading learning specific sounds and how

to blend words together.

We have been working in Handwriting on correct

formation of letters.

In Spelling we have been learning sounds and blends.

In Design and Technology we have continued on with

our unit of work around houses. We created some

wonderful houses for birds.

Miss H and the R/1 Class

JUNIOR PRIMARY R/1

MIDDLE PRIMARY 4/5

JUNIOR PRIMARY 2/3