Thank you for your support! The Angle Vale Primary School Silver Coin Drive raised $720.35.

The funds will be allocated for the continual upgrade to our play spaces.

If anyone is interested in donating for the raffle for Family Fun Night please bring items in to the Front Office as soon as possible. Thank you.

Principal’s MessageDiary DatesDiary Dates

Out of School Hours Care

OSHC phone number: 0450 265 054

Monday 5th November

Children’s University

Graduation

Friday 16th November

SAPSASA Summer Carnival

Thursday 22nd November

Family Fun Night 5-7pm

Friday 23rd November

PUPIL FREE DAY

Monday 26th November

Governing Council

Friday 14th December

Last day of Term 4

Issue 10 • 1st November 2018Honesty • Respect • Confidence • Resilience

Dear families,

Welcome back to Term 4. I hope the holidays were an enjoyable break from the school routine and that you found some time to have fun with your children. Included in this newsletter are some important dates for this term. The term includes, school visits for children starting with us as Receptions in 2019, Year 7 transition visits to high schools, Family Fun night plus end of year celebrations. Term 4 also brings a return to hats as part of school uniform requirements. Hats can be purchased from the school: $8.25 for a bucket hat, $10.00 for a slouch hat.

Planning for 2019 This term staff will spend a considerable amount of time planning for 2019. Class placement is a big part of this work. If your child is in Reception-Year 6 and is not returning to Angle Vale next year, please let your child’s class teacher know and also provide us with written confirmation via email or a letter.

When we place students into classes we take into consideration learning needs, people they work well with and people they don’t work well with, gender balance, special needs, friendship groups, class size, previous class placement and special circumstances. Class teachers have a major role in class placement as they know students in the school setting very well. If you think that your child has some exceptional circumstances that class teachers may not already be aware of, please first discuss this with the class teacher and then confirm in writing to the Front Office by Friday 9th November. We do not accept requests for specific teachers.

Family Fun Night Plans for Family Fun Night are now well underway. The evening will take place on Thursday November 22nd from 5:00-7:00pm. We encourage you to bring your family and friends along to what is always a great night. Each class will have a stall along with a number of stalls run by community groups. Please note however, students are NOT to wait at the school until the evening begins. All students must go home at 3:15pm and return at 5:00pm with their families who will be responsible for them as staff will not be on duty to provide supervision during this time. Any students on site between 3:30pm and 5:00pm will be sent to OSHC.

Pupil Free Day Please remember that Friday 23rd November is a Pupil Free Day. Staff will review and further develop our schools Site Improvement Plan with a focus on Literacy and Numeracy for 2019. OSHC will be available for families on this day if minimum numbers are met. Please make your bookings directly with our Camp Australia by calling 0450 265 054.

Kind regards, Sharon Rich

Silver Coin DriveRaffle Donations

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- 2.2 % 2.2 %3.7 %1.7 %

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- 6.2 %- 4.9 %- 0.4 %- 2.5 %- 2.6 %

0.3 %- 6.15 %- 0.4 %4.85 %

4.8 %-9.2 %-3.7 %

ClassR ARNOLDR SMITHR LEWISR/1 REED1 ELLAND1 MAZZAFERRO1 SMITH2 LAING1/2 LAWERENCE2 THANAWATHIK2/3 HALL3 MATHEWS3/4 KEENIHAN4 MALONEY4/5 MALCOLM4/5 CONROY5/6 BARR5/6 TILL6/7 ATTEWELL6/7 NOTO

Play Is The Way - Leadership AwardsCongratulations to the following award recipients for Week 3, Term 4:

Miss Smith Rec Bentley

Mrs Arnold Rec Zarah

Mr Lewis Rec Paul

Mrs Reed Rec / Yr 1 Nathan

Ms Elland Yr 1 Nicholas

Mrs Smith Yr 1 Sienna

Miss Thanawathik Yr 1 Crystal

Mr Mazzaferro Yr 1 / 2 Anabell

Miss Lawrence Yr 1/2 Dylan

Mrs Laing Yr 2 Sienna

Miss Hall Yr 2/3 Anna-Leah

Mrs Mathews Yr 3 Asher

Miss Keenihan Yr 3 /4 Katie

Mrs Conroy Yr 4 / 5 Cameron

Miss Barr Yr 5 / 6 Mason

Mrs Attewell Yr 6/7 Kiana

Attendance

Let’s continue to work together for 93% attendance. (Determined from the most available data. )

School Average: 90.6% -1.11%

Term 3, Weeks 9-10

Inaugarul Aboriginal Flag Raising Ceremony at AVPSOn Thursday September 20th Angle Vale PS community were proud to celebrate the inaugural Aboriginal Flag Raising ceremony. In attendance were all of our Aboriginal and Torres Strait students and their families, our SGC reps from each class as well as Leadership staff.

Melissa Babic introduced Jay to open the ceremony with the Kaurna Welcoming. This was followed by Aboriginal students talking about the history of the Aboriginal flag which had been first flown in Victoria Square Adelaide in July 1971. The students involved in this presentation were Jay, Kelsi, Shikira, Chloe, Shaquan, Marlee and Bella.

Lisa Francis was honoured to raise the Aboriginal flag while we sang Jessica Mauboy’s version of I am Australian. This song added emotion to the ceremony, especially when everyone joined in with the chorus “I am, you are, we are Australian” and all eyes were on the flag as it was raised.

Melissa spoke briefly about the process over the last 3 years for this special occasion to eventuate and gave mention of Lisa and Maxine’s contribution to their roles as ACEO and AET in supporting our Aboriginal students’ education.

The SGC reps from every class in the school took information about the Aboriginal flag back to share with their classes, and photos of the ceremony with Jessica Mauboy’s song were shared with all classes as well.

Average Improvement

New Aboriginal Mural at Angle Vale Primary SchoolBy now everyone would have seen the new Aboriginal Art Mural on the northern wall of the Acacia building at AVPS.

The SGC instigated and financed this project under the guidance of Jo Sachse, Melissa Babic and Lisa Francis. They discussed the possibility of contacting Scott Rathman from “Rusted Tin Contemporary Art” to implement this project. Scott Rathman was able to paint this the amazing mural in Week 2 of this term.

This beautiful mural reflects the many learning journeys taken to this place of learning, with young and old meeting in the middle and sharing and learning together.

A plaque will be added to the wall to explain the meaning of this mural.

Many thanks to the SGC for their role in instigating this project, and to the talented artist Scott Rathman from “Rusted Tin Contemporary Art” for this amazing mural. This mural has lifted an ordinary wall into a beautiful feature wall.

Lisa Francis and Maxine Barnet

M1 - PoetryIn M1 we have been learning about Poetry this Term. We have experimented with water colour paints to create a spooooooky haunted house. We then used this as inspiration to write some poems about our haunted houses. These are some snippets of what we created.

We’ll go to this house,That stands on a hill.They have amazing decorations,And leave treats on the windowsill.By Jasmine

On October 31st is Halloween.

Dress ups and candy, it’s all a bit spooky.Zombies and witches heroes and clowns,With all the sugar it’s all a bit coo-key.By Anna

On Wednesday I went trick or treating,And I went to someone’s house.They gave me lots of candy,And even a chocolate mouse!By Josh

Sports Report

C4 Retirement Village Guide Dogs visit

SAPSASA Sports The past three terms have been extremely busy especially for SAPSASA. In Term 1 we had SAPSASA district swimming while during Term 2 we had the Winter Carnival, District Basketball Carnival and Knockout Sports (Netball and Soccer). During this time we have also had students that have represented the Playford District in both Football and Soccer.

Knockout Sports Term 2 saw the beginning of our knockout sport competitions. Students that trialled and that were selected competed in Netball, Boys’ Soccer or Girls’ Soccer. The netball team played very well against Gawler East Primary in the first round at South Gawler Netball Club but were unable to advance to the second round. The boys’ soccer team did a fantastic job but were knocked out early this term in their 4th match against St Columba College while the girls who also played were narrowly knocked out in their second match against John Hartley school.

Results:

Girls’ Netball: Round 1- AVPS defeated by GEPS 10-35

Boys’ Soccer: Round 1- AVPS Year 7’s defeated AVPS Year 6’s Round 2 - AVPS defeated Gawler East Primary School 3-2 Round 3 - AVPS defeated Elizabeth North 4-2 Round 4 - AVPS defeated by St Columba College 1-6

Girls’ Soccer: Round 1- AVPS defeated Gawler East Primary School 4-3 Round 2- AVPS defeated by John Hartley 1-4.

District Sport This year in District Sport we have had 3 students represent Playford at their respective sports. Harry for swimming and football, Shaquan for football and Jaylah for soccer. Congratulations to these students who have represented the District brilliantly and displayed exceptional sporting skill in order to be selected for these teams. Special congratulations must go to Harry for his performance in the district swimming carnival during Term 1. Harry competed in 4 events in total and medalled in all of his individual events. He was even able to record his first Gold at this particular carnival in the 100m freestyle. It was fantastic to see Harry swim and shows the amount of hard work and determination that he puts into his swimming.

Local Sport In local sport we would also like to congratulate Shaquan for winning the association medal for the Angle Vale Owls Football club for the second consecutive year. Shaquan won the under 12’s Division 2 SANFL juniors medal after polling 29 points. Well done Shaquan on another extraordinary achievement in your young football career.

In Term 3 students from C4 (Jess and Mr Mazzaferro’s class) visited the Angle Vale Gardens Retirement Estate. This was a fantastic learning opportunity. Students were given a presentation from The Royal Society for the Blind (RSB) about the role of Guide Dogs in our community.

What students learned: • Guide Dogs are retired after about 20 years • Guide Dogs always walk on a person’s left side • Guide Dogs are welcomed into restaurants and public transport • Guide Dogs are given a special blanket when going to live with a client- the blanket smells like the pup’s mother • Guide Dogs are amazing creatures who help people that are vision impaired

Students were very well behaved and we are welcome to visit the Retirement Village again for future events.

The girls’ basketball team competing at the district basketball carnival.

The Boys’ knockout soccer team competing in their final round against St Columba College

On Left- Harry with Shaquan competing at the District Football Carnival.

On Right- Harry with his medals after competing in the District Swimming Carnival.

Shaquan shortly after being presented his association award.

AVPS Family Fun Night StallExpression of Interest Form

DUE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9th 2018

This form enables community stall holders to express an interest in selling products at the Angle Vale Primary School Family Fun Night. It is not a confirmation until processed and accepted by the Committee. This is to enable a good variety of stalls and to organise the logistics of the event.

Stall holders will be selected on a first come, first served basis provided the products do not cause a conflict of interest with other stall holders, including class stalls.

Potential stall holders will be contacted one week prior to the event. If successful, a $20 payment will be due to the Front Office before the night. All other proceeds may be kept by the stall holder, or if desired, donated to the school.

Please return the completed details to the Front Office no later than Friday, 9th November. We will be in touch with you to confirm by November 15th.

Thank you,

Family Fun Night Committee

Name Contact Number Stall Idea

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