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STRADBROKE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Koonga Avenue, Rostrevor, SA 5073

Excellence and Achievement in a Supportive School Environment Principal: Tanya Scanlan

Telephone: 8337 2861/8337 5349 Student Absence Ph: 8365 5621

Fax: 8337 0041

email: dl.0923.info@schools.sa.edu.au

website: www.stradsch.sa.edu.au

Out of School Hours Care: 8365 5677

Director: Rebecca MacQueen

CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A

17 October 2019

FESTIVAL OF MUSIC

On Saturday 21 September we were very proud to watch 39 of our students

performing on stage at the Adelaide Festival Theatre as part of the Public

Primary Schools’ Festival of Music.

This performance comes at the end of three

terms of rehearsal and home practice for our

Year 6 and 7 students and we would like to pay

tribute to the effort they have all put in. Along

the way we entertained the school in

assembly, sang in the parklands for Walk a

Mile in My Shoes, sang to the residents of

Leabrook Lodge and sang at Music Night and

Open Day.

Well done to these students:

Handre Naude Felicity Cuba Chiem

Samantha Michalitsianos Grace Veremu

Jerusha Bhagwat Amy Changez

Siwoo Sung Haifa Muhammad Rahim

Aaliyah King Jennifer Daly

Hannah Rice Sofia Orrico

Ella Smith Clarissa Viernes

Ava Rose Graves Isabella Marino

Evie Chalken Jamieson Zwarts

Emma Nilsson Bethany Toh

Gabrielle de Rosa Kiana Watson-Woods

Amelia Effingham Isabella Di Marco

Funke Odusanya Liliana Berlingeri

Eugena Kim Hayley Goddard

Eva Matern Nia Tungaraza

Amelie Heyer Bilal Al Naemi

Hannah Polglase Eleina Elham

Chelsea Christie Sebastian Torchio

Harry Jiang Sara Corradini

Kayla Ranger

In term one next year we start the

whole process again. It is a great

experience and all year 6 and 7 students

are welcome to join. We are looking

forward to meeting the choir of 2020

next February!

Penny Kitchen and Morgan May

Choir Teachers

2019

OCTOBER

Fri 18th Year 3-7 Assembly (FR6) 9.00am

Wed 23rd Principal’s Tour

Governing Council

Fri 25th Pupil Free Day

World Teachers’ Day

NOVEMBER

Fri 1st R-2 Assembly (L9, L10) 9.00am

Wed 6th R-2 Sports Day

Fri 8th Year 3-7 Sports Day

Fri 15th Year 3-7 Assembly (L4) 9.00am

2020 Reception Orientation Visit

Wed 20th Governing Council

Fri 22nd R-2 Assembly (F4, F5, F7) 9.00am

Fri 29th Year 3-7 Assembly (K7) 9.00am

RAN Volunteer Training

Mon 25th – Fri 29th Year 4 Swimming, Payneham Pool

DECEMBER

Mon 2nd – Fri 6th Year 5 Swimming, Payneham Pool

Tue 3rd R-2 Sing-a-long

Fri 6th R-2 Assembly (OU1, OU4) 9.00am

Yr 1-7 Orientation visit for new

2020 students

Mon 9th Year 7 Graduation

Wed 11th Semester 2 reports sent home

Fri 13th R-7 Assembly 11.30am

Term 4 concludes

Governing Council Wednesday 23

October 2019, 6.30pm in the

Stradbroke School Staffroom.

Public Meeting to discuss Materials and

Services Charge for 2020.

A copy of the proposed changes are

included in this newsletter.

Pupil Free Day

Friday 25 October 2019

Judy, our accompanist, with

Morgan. Special thanks to Judy

who is retiring from PSMF after

playing for many schools over

the years.

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2019 WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY

World Teachers’ Day is celebrated in over 100 countries. In

Australia it is celebrated on Friday 25 October. World Teachers’

Day acknowledges the efforts of teachers in an increasingly

complex, multicultural and technological society. It is a day on

which students, parents and community members can

demonstrate their appreciation for the contributions that

teachers have made to their community, maybe with some

kind words, a gesture or a letter.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to the Stradbroke Koalas Sub Junior Netball

Team for their Grand Final win on Saturday 21 September

2019.

Congratulations to Dana Glasson who competed in the SA

State Gymnastics Team - competition in Victoria.

During Term 3 our Year 5 Italian students worked on and

entered the Da Vinci 21st Century competition sponsored by

the Italian Teacher’s Association and the Dante Alighieri

Society in the Year 3 -5 category – Modelling Da Vinci, to

celebrated 500 years of Leonardo Da Vinci’s work. Our

students created and designed modern machines linking ideas

to Leonardo’s works. Our students won First Prize in this

category. Congratulations.

TRAFFIC MONITORS

Week 2 am Dana Glasson, Emerson Warren, Maddie

Stubber

pm Hugh Yik, Callum Dempster, David

Capitano

Week 3 am Celia Mason, Gloria Kalulwa, Isobel Short

pm Liam Calicchia, Asenath Horrigan,

Francisco Porini Gonzalez

TERM 2 CASUAL DAY DONATIONS

$762.00 was raised and donated to Steptember, an initiative

for people living with Cerebral Palsy.

OU4 challenged themselves to reach 10,000 steps each day

during September and the money raised from Casual Day will

be added to OU4's fundraising.

OU4 together with Jake's family raised $1,276. Bringing the

total to over $2,000.

Thank you to everyone who made a donation.

STRADBROKE RECYCLED

A Second-hand Uniform Stall will be held on Friday 18 October

from 8.30am – 9.00am in the Koonga Quad.

Most items are available for a gold-coin donation, except for:

• polar fleece jumpers with school logo and two-tone school

tops ($5)

• school bags ($5)

• two-tone track jackets ($10)

All proceeds go directly to the school.

UMS UNIFORM SHOP

UMS Uniform Shop has moved to 8/254

Hampstead Road, Clearview. 0431 771 156

Trading hours are:

Monday, Tuesday and Thursday 9.00am to

4.30pm

Wednesday 10.30am – 4.30pm

Friday 10.30am – 4.00pm

UMS will continue at Stradbroke School, trading on

Wednesday and Friday mornings 8.30am – 9.30am.

MYP SERVICE AND ACTION HOURS

As part of their learning in the MYP, students are encouraged

to demonstrate a personal commitment to service and act to

make a positive difference to the lives of others and to the

environment. Students are recognised for their service both at

school and in the wider community. At Stradbroke the Year 6

and 7 students take part in a Community Service program.

Congratulations to the following students who have

completed their hours for 2019:

Year 6

Eva Matern

Grace Veremu

Francisco Porini Gonzalez

Emerson Warren

Joshua Lepore

Baasil Umar

Funke Odusanya

Tomas Porini Gonzalez

CANTEEN

Welcome back to Term 4, I hope everyone had an enjoyable

break from the normal routine of school!

TERM 4 MENU: As we head into the warmer months, we are

replacing our winter wedges packs with fruit salad $4.00,

which is a combination of seasonal fruit. Time permitting, we

will try to provide smaller fruit salads over the counter, or

selections of cut up fruit or fresh squeezed juices. This term we

will also reintroduce the very popular Slushies $2.00 per cup.

The flavours will be "Pine Lime" and "Sour Grape". The Granita

slushy mix that we use is 99% apple juice. Students can order

a combination of the two flavours if they wish.

FRIDAYS SPECIALS: This Friday 18 October, we will be finishing

the Yiros and Pasta from Term 3. We have limited amounts of

both, so depending on demand, we may contact your child for

an alternative choice. As next Friday 25 October is a Pupil Free

Day, we will advertise future Friday lunch specials in the next

newsletter and update Qkr accordingly.

WEDNESDAY AFTER SCHOOL ICE BLOCK SALES: The Canteen

will once again be open afterschool on Wednesday afternoons

until 3.30pm to buy ice blocks and slushies. I would appreciate

any help with serving during this time.

Kate Majewski

Canteen Manager

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LIBRARY

We are excited to trial a

subscription for Wheelers

ePlatform – an audio book and

ebook platform that allows

Year 3-7 Stradbroke students

and staff access to ebooks

online both at school and at

home. This is not intended to

replace our children accessing

physical books, but to extend

their options and the way they access reading material. The

possibilities are endless including listening to books during

eating times, while drawing or building, to sample books

before borrowing or to support students to access books

outside of their reading ability (audio books are great for this).

There are also settings that support dyslexia (we suggest these

settings for everyone) and the ability to save notes or highlight

sections of the text.

Using Wheelers at home is optional and will use home internet

data, so please consider and monitor your child's access to this

resource. Like accessing physical books, we recommend that

you are aware of the texts your child is choosing to read or

listen to and consider their suitability. There are restrictions

per year level, but book choice is personal and may look

different for each family.

The website is:

https://stradsch.eplatform.co/ or you can download the app

'ePlatform' and search for Stradbroke School. Student login

and password is the same as their school computer login and

password.

Happy Reading!

Stradbroke School Library Staff

INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC 2020

Beginner students

Stradbroke School is fortunate to be able to

offer specialist instrumental music lessons

for Year 3-7 students. These 30 minute

lessons are conducted by DECD Instrumental

Music teachers during normal lesson time.

These lessons are available to students not

receiving tuition privately. We offer violin, viola and cello for

Years 3-7 and classical guitar for Years 5-7 students. We are

now accepting expressions of interest for beginners in 2020. If

your child would like to learn an instrument and will be in Year

3-7 in 2020, please collect a form from Kathy in the Front Office

and return it by Friday 11th November. An audition/interview

process (no previous experience necessary) will be held in late

November/early December and available vacancies allocated.

Students who have private lessons for an instrument are not

eligible for IMS lessons for the same instrument but can be

considered for the string ensemble.

Continuing students

By now you would have received an Instrumental Music

Continuing Student form for 2020 sent home this week. If your

child would like to continue learning an instrument in 2020 a

completed form needs to be submitted giving parental

consent. If you have not received a form, copies are available

from Kathy in the Front Office. If your child does not want to

continue in 2020, please advise Kathy via email at

dl.0923.info@schools.sa.edu.au with Instrumental Music 2020

as the subject line.

IB PYP EVALUATION 2020 – PARENT SURVEY

In June 2020 Stradbroke will be undergoing an evaluation of

our Primary Years Programme. The aim of an evaluation is to

evaluate the extent to which the school is meeting the

International Baccalaureate standards and practise. The

process helps us to improve implementation by identifying

strengths and weaknesses, and determining areas for future

focus. The self-study process begins in the year prior to the

evaluation. During that time all community members will

reflect on the programme implementation at Stradbroke

considering where we excel, where we have shown growth and

what needs additional attention. This is based on the

perspectives of teachers, school leaders, SSOs, students,

parents and community members.

A survey has been designed to gain feedback from the parents

of our community. We would appreciate you taking the time

to fill it out. This will be used, along with other evidence

gathered, to rate the

implementation of

each practice. Surveys

have been emailed out

randomly to families –

if you did not receive a

link but would like to

give feedback please

use the QR code– this

survey can be

completed on a phone

or tablet.

If you have any questions about the survey or the evaluation

please contact Sarah Button, IB senior leader.

SPORT

BASKETBALL

Year 4/5 Coach: Jacqui and John

Edwards

Stradbroke

Scorchers

22 Def Athelstone Sharks 18

Game Played: Wednesday 11 September

Year 4/5 Coach: Jacqui and John

Edwards

Stradbroke

Scorchers

7 Def by Demons 25

Game Played: Wednesday 25 September

Year 4/5 Coach: Jacqui and John

Edwards

Stradbroke

Scorchers

20 Def by Stradbroke

Scorpions

27

A great Stradbroke Showdown with both sides really

competitive and enjoying playing against their friends.

Game Played: Wednesday 11 September

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Placement of Children

in Classes for 2020

Planning for next year’s classes will begin soon. In making recommendations about class composition, teachers consider

factors such as:

• learning needs

• gender balance

• year level balance

• social and emotional maturity

• children with special needs and talents

• social dynamics (which children to keep together and

which to keep apart)

• friendship groups

• the number of children per class.

Parent Information

Parents are invited to write a short letter to the Principal if you have specific information about the needs of your child.

Please include your child’s name, current year level and each student’s requirements on a separate page (not one family

letter).

Please do not make requests for a specific teacher. Due to enrolment numbers it is highly likely we will have composite

classes, please do not make requests for your child to be or not be in a composite class. Please be aware that not all requests

can be met, in past years some letters have included 5-6 specific requests for one child and it is very unlikely that these can

all be accommodated. If you do have more than one request please write them in priority order so that we know which

aspects of your request are most important to you.

• Please place your letter in an envelope addressed to Tanya Scanlan.

• Parent letters are due by 4pm on Wednesday 30th October.

• Parent information will be considered along with factors considered by our teachers and those listed above.

• Only information based on educational criteria will be considered.

• A copy of your letter will be made available to the class teachers who make the placements.

Classroom teachers use a range of processes to ask children to nominate friends with whom they wish to be placed. As it’s

extremely difficult for us to deal with contradictory information from students and parents, it’s preferable that parents don’t

write about friendship requests to us, unless there are serious issues.

At this stage class structures are not definite and the final allocation of teachers to classes, which will take place late in the

term, is affected by the appointment of teachers.

Who makes the final decision?

Staff will do their best to meet your child's needs. You can be assured that we spend a great deal of time and effort in

accommodating and allocating children to classes.

It is the responsibility of the Principal to make the final decision on classes and placement of students.

At times it may not be in the child's best interests to be placed according to parent requests and

we will discuss this with you wherever possible.

When will children and parents know about class placements?

If possible, class placement information will be sent home with students in the last week of term.

After that date children's class placements will not be changed unless there are extenuating circumstances.

If you wish to take advantage of the opportunity to provide information about your child, please ensure that all requests are

forwarded to the Principal no later than 4pm on Wednesday 30th October 2019.

Kind regards,

Tanya Scanlan

Principal

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STRADBROKE Koonga Avenue Principal:

SCHOOL Rostrevor SA 5073 Tanya Scanlan

Tel: 08 8337 2861

Fax: 08 8337 0041

Email: dl.0923.info@schools.sa.edu.au

Website: www.stradsch.sa.edu.au

Dear Parents and Families,

Information about Materials and Services Charge 2020

Overleaf you will find the notice advising of the composition of the Materials and

Services Charge for 2020.

We are proud of the learning facilities and the exceptional programmes we provide for

our students at Stradbroke School. In order to maintain and continuously improve what

we offer, we rely on the financial support of our families. The annual Materials and

Services Charge contributes to the funds available to support your stude ts’ lear i g.

The Charge is intended to cover the costs of those essential items and services

used or consumed by individual students during the course of their study.

The level of the Materials and Services Charge must reflect the actual cost of the

goods and services provided for the Charge.

The invoice for the Materials and Services Charge must match the notice by

showing the composition and associated cost of the total Charge.

We believe that the annual Materials and Services Charge represents excellent value for

the year’s educatio al progra .

Please note that the School Card grant covers the first $244.00 of the fees in 2020, and

the scheme for payment of fees by instalments will be available as in previous years.

More information about these facilities will be available when fees are invoiced.

If you have any questions about the charge please contact the School Finance Officer, by

phoning 8337 2861.

Parents are invited to attend the next Governing Council meeting (details below) at

which the Material and Services Charge will be discussed and set for 2020. This meeting

is a normal Governing Council meeting and we are required to advise you about it under

Section 106A of the Education Act (1972).

GOVERNING COUNCIL MEETING

TO BE HELD ON

WEDNESDAY 23 October 2019

6:30 PM

IN

THE STAFFROOM

Stradbroke School - 0923

Notice of Materials and Services Charges for 2020

Notice of Charges for All Students

ITEMS AND SERVICES COST ($)HEADING

Printed and electronic materials related to the educational program and which are provided for the student

Workbooks $45.00

Text Book Hire / E-Book Access $5.00

SUBTOTAL (ZPREM ) $87.00

Stationery items that are provided for the student

Stationery Items $64.50

SUBTOTAL (ZSTAT) $64.50

$0.00

$0.00

Other [please Specify]

Other [please Specify]

Materials and Services that are provided by the school for the student to consume or use the materials or take ownership of a finished article produced by the student with the materials

Access to Student Information Technology

$112.00

Access to Machinery $0.00

SUBTOTAL (ZACMS) $239.00

Access to Equipment $27.00

Curriculum/Subject Supplies and Services

$100.00

$0.00Other [please Specify]

Materials for inclusion in the school library and to enable use by the student

Library resources including access to borrowing library resources

$39.50

SUBTOTAL (ZACLI) $39.50

Total Materials and Services Charge (excluding Subject Charges) $430.00

These subject charges are in addition to the Materials and Services Charge above for those students undertaking the following subjects.

Subject Description Cost ($)

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00

$0.00Other [please Specify]

Photocopied Material $37.00

2019 Stradbroke School Sports’ Days Fundraising

Whole school gelati treat and BBQ lunch.

In 2019 we will be using Qkr as the orderi g syste for the Sports’ Day BBQ a d Gelati treats.

For families who are unable to download the Qkr app, please use the order form below and submit this with

your money directly to the Canteen.

Orders and payments will NOT be accepted after 9.30am Wednesday 30th October as we need to pre-order

the food. Thank you.

Gelista Gelati Order 2019: Wednesday 6th November.

ALL STUDENTS (R-7) ARE INVITED TO ORDER a Gelati treat for the R–2 SPORTS’ DAY Wednesday 6th

November.

Gelati is being provided by Gelista, an Australian company, this year. There are 3 flavours- Coconut and

raspberry swirl (dairy and egg free), vanilla and chocolate. ALL three gelati flavours are gluten free and made

without nuts but may contain traces of nuts. Please contact the school or Canteen for further information.

The containers, lids and spoons are recyclable.

BBQ Order 2019: Friday 8th November.

ALL STUDENTS (R-7) ARE INVITED TO ORDER a BBQ lunch for the Year 3 -7 SPORTS’ DAY on Friday 8th

November. Children can order a sausage or veggie patty; parents and caregivers are welcome to order

a sausage or patty as well. The BBQ lunch will be delivered to each classroom. (The Canteen will NOT

be providing alternative lunch orders on this day.)

______________________________________________________________________________________

Please only complete if not using Qkr.

Orders will NOT be accepted after 9.30am Wednesday 30th October 2019.

STUDENT ORDER FORM (please use one form per child)

(Please complete one form per student and put into the classroom Canteen crate)

Child’s a e___________________________________________ Class_______________

Please

Gelista Gelati treat order (only) $3.30

Coconut and raspberry swirl (dairy, egg free and gluten free)

Vanilla (gluten free)

Chocolate (gluten free)

Child’s a e___________________________________________ Class_______________

Please

BBQ Order (sauce provided on the day)

1 Sausage with bread - $2.00 Number required _____

1 Veggie patty with bread - $3.00. Number required _____

Total money enclosed: $____________