Thiele Primary School Newsletter

Campus Drive,  

Aberfoyle Park

SA 5159

Ph:  8270 4222  Fax:  8270 4773   

ABSENTEE LINE: 8270 4222                  ABSENTEE SMS : 0416 906 283

Acting Principal:  Mrs Sharon Willoughby

Acting Deputy Principal:  Mrs Lisa Horton

Coordinator Student Wellbeing & Engagement:   Ms Carly Nash

Email Address: dl.1664_info@schools.sa.edu.au

Congratulations!

• Jordan B for competing in the national BMX Titles at Shepparton
  
• Brodie W, Bethany K, Jamie L for being accepted into the Ignite Program at Aberfoyle Park High School.
• Oscar K for being selected to attend the 2 day Aboriginal STEM Congress at the Convention Centre

On Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th, I participated in the STEM Aboriginal Student Congress at the Adelaide Convention Centre, themed ‘Living in Two Worlds.’ The aim of this STEM learning initiative is to increase the number of young Aboriginal people choosing to study and pursue careers in STEM subjects.

This congress was a high expectations event where every Aboriginal student is a powerful learner and lead thinker. We were involved in the following workshops:

• Embedded Cultural Design: in this workshop we learnt what cultural design is and what it could look like for our communities and cities. We investigated how we can create infrastructure to help reconnect relationships between country and people. We planned how a segment of Adelaide behind the River Torrens including both the Adelaide Entertainment Centre and Adelaide Convention Centre would look when adding traditional Aboriginal Meaning to the design of the infrastructure, spatially, its surfaces and through soundscape design.
• Archaeologists and Indigenous Knowledge: In this workshop we learnt how to continue ancestors’ traditions of passing down knowledge whilst looking at how it is represented in archaeology. This workshop was based on a real archaeological study from Adnyamathanha country, piecing together various artefacts from different types of data to solve the story.
• Artificial intelligence and traditional knowledge: in this workshop we joined experts from the Australian Institute of Machine Learning to better understand the importance of diversity in coding and how we can use technologies to solve problems that are important to us. This required us to think deeply about how we can best use artificial intelligence and new technologies. During this session we were also lucky enough to see a robotic arm sketch various portraits and landscapes and also picking up rubbish and putting it in the bin, all by code.

• Traditional Fire Making Techniques: In this workshop we learnt how our ancestors used to make fire, experimenting with different fire lighting techniques and the science behind traditional fire making. 

On Wednesday 29th May students from T1, T2, T4, T5 and T8 had a visit from Living Safely with Pets organisation. They delivered the Responsible Pet Education program, which focused on teaching the students how to be safe around dogs as well as responsible pet ownership. On the day the students were lucky enough to meet Teddy, the Poodle, and were shown how to keep themselves safe around aggressive dogs as well as how to appropriately approach a dog which they may wish to pat. The students really enjoyed the session and learnt some catchy songs to help them remember the new skills.

On the Friday 31st May, Thiele’s Year 6/7 SAPSASA knockout football team travelled to Happy Valley Primary School for the first game of the season. The boys were very successful in doing so and won the game by 56 points.

The boys flew out of the blocks in the first quarter to take a 25 point quarter time lead. Their dominance continued in the 2nd quarter, taking a 46 point lead into the main break. The 3rd quarter was an arm wrestle with 3 late goals giving us a handy lead heading into the last quarter. We piled on a further 3 goals to 1 in the last quarter to run out 56 point winners.

Best Players: Flynn C, Macklin H, Jake P, Jacob B, Lachlan A, Seth R, Jayson R, Milan R, David M & Luke C.

Goal scorers: Jake P, Macklin H, Milan R, Lachlan A, Flynn C, Caiden L, David M, Jacob R & Jacob B.

Please arrange travel and other arrangements with your child before they leave home in the morning. Messages to students during the day need to be kept to a minimum. 

Messages may not be able to be passed on to your child if received after 1.00 pm.  We would be very grateful for your help in this matter.

We would appreciate it if arrangements for children attending OSHC are made in the morning prior to school, as it can be difficult to get messages to students when they are moving around the school for lessons. 

With the colder weather now upon us, a lot of students are falling ill, and although they may be well enough to attend school with the help of antibiotics or medication please note the following.

It is the policy of the Department for Education that no staff member can administer antibiotics or any medication without an authorised medical plan from the student’s doctor. 

It is recommended that students requiring 3 doses of antibiotics in a day receive the first dose in the morning before school, the second dose after school and a final dose at bedtime.

All medications (including asthma puffers) are to be kept at the office not in the student's school bag.

In Science/STEM we are regularly participating in hands-on STEM projects that require using recycled materials to design and make a particular product. There are a vast variety of materials we are seeking for our class projects this year and I am wondering whether any of these things could be recycled in your family homes for use in our STEM lessons. The materials we are in need of include the following:

• Wool, silk, ribbon, cotton fabric, felt, cloths, any old clothing made from lycra, leather, silk, plastic, string, twine
• Shoeboxes, cardboard boxes, tissue boxes, foam meat trays
• Gladwrap, alfoil, paper towel tubes, PVC pipe lengths,
• Plastic bottles especially 600ml and 2L, empty yoghurt containers, empty glass jars with lids if possible, plastic lids, ice cream containers, corks, small takeaway containers, plastic shopping bags, newspaper, seedlings

If you are able to donate any of these useful materials please drop your items to the Science/STEM room in the Spence Building. If I am not present in the room, please leave your donations at my classroom door or drop them to Jayne at the Front Office. 

Danni Gericke

Science/STEM Teacher

My name is Mr G-no-me. I like to spend my time in the class that takes care in keeping their yard area clean and tidy. this supports our school value of Integrity.

Congratulations!

T1 - Miss Curyer's class

G-no-me was presented to T for keeping their area tidy and litter free.

Mr G-no-me will be in T1 for two weeks. 

My name is “Palmy” I am an orang-utan. I enjoy spending my time with the class who recycles the most recyclable 10c containers because this supports our school value of sustainability.

Congratulations!

T5 - Mr Sharp's class

 collected the most recyclables

and won the opportunity to have Palmy in the classroom for the following two weeks. 

• Use your Bees Wax Wraps made at Green Day Community event to wrap your lunches

Students are to wear hats in terms 1, 3 & 4 or whenever the UV Index is 3 or above.

Please download the SunSmart Safety App to be informed of daily readings.

Have you downloaded the Skoolbag App yet?

It is available for various applications - iPhone, Android & Microsoft, you can may download to your phone, tablet or computer. Just go to your app store and download the Thiele Primary School - Skoolbag App for your device. You will then receive newsletters, notifications, alerts and much more.

• Junior Primary classes - Grandparents Day information (T1, T2, T4 & T5)

On Wednesday evening of Week 5 our Campus celebrated Campus Instrumental Music Night. The evening was a great success, with a full house providing a very supportive audience to our talented instrumental students and their wonderful teachers. Our sincere congratulations to everyone who participated, and our thanks to the parents, students and staff who made the evening possible.

Photography is by the talented Mr Andrew Harris. 

It’s coming up to that time of year again! Campus Performing Arts Showcase will be held in on Thursday 15th August (Week 4 of Term 3). As per previous years, there will be a Matinee (1.30 pm) and an Evening (6.30 pm) Performance – forms will be sent home in Week 1 of next term with all the details, ticket orders, permission slips for participating students, etc., so please keep an eye out for this.

 Auditions for individual and small group acts will be held in Performing Arts lessons during Week 8 – students wanting to audition will need to bring everything they would need to perform (costumes, backing tracks, smaller instruments, etc) and are expected to have practiced their act to a high standard.

We look forward to sharing this exciting event with you next term!

A huge thank you to the Campus SLT students and staff who volunteered their time on Wednesday after school to provide the activities in and around the gym on the evening of Wednesday June 5. Approximately 100 people attended the event and enjoyed BBQ sausages, rock painting, games provided by Thiele SRC students, making Bee Hotels, Bees Wax Wraps, experiencing snorkelling through 3D vision goggles, toasting damper around the fire pits and watching our school’s 3D printer in action producing student designs.

Throughout the afternoon all classes participated in planting activities to revegetate areas within the Campus grounds. These areas included replanting mixed grasses in the fire hydrant area by the nativity students, replanting grasses to match the existing grasses near the stairs leading to the Pilgrim office and adding butterfly attracting plants to the Frog Pond. Thiele students planted plants used by the Kuarna people in the garden area south of the COLA. These areas have now been bunted off and are out of bounds to ensure the tiny plants can grow.

The Campus Student Leadership students worked tirelessly during their recess times to organise and prepare these activities. Thank you Sarah G and Ben S from Pilgrim, Leani V, Maddi D, Oscar F, Bethany K from Thiele for your time and dedication in preparing these activities.

Friday 28th June

Campus Gym

Rec to Yr.4 ~ 6:30pm to 7:30pm and Yr.4 to Yr.7 ~ 7:45pm to 9:30pm

Tickets $5 each with lucky door prize

Please note: Year 4 students who would like to attend both sessions must purchase two tickets.

In the canteen: Lollies (50c), Chips (50c), Drinks ($2) and Glow Sticks (from 50c)

There will be many fun games and prizes so come along and support your Campus Pedal Prix Team

Thank you to the wonderful parents/caregivers who have volunteered to cook the BBQ on home games. the money raised from these BBQ’s supports Campus programs and over the past few years have provided the netball shelters, cricket pitch cover, permanent soccer goals on the top oval, football goals on the middle oval, removed the sport shed and built the new soccer shed on the oval with power. Money raised improves the resources for all students and families.

Every Tuesday and Friday morning the Campus Play Café operates in the Geoff Simpson Hall.  This program caters for children aged between birth and 5 years old, with age appropriate, educational play activities in a parent supervised environment. 

This job requires setting up the room and equipment in readiness for pre school activities, 

making and serving coffee and snacks, communicating and interacting with young children and their Caregivers.

If you are interested in volunteering in the Play Café, please send an email to Jo.Hicks915@schools.sa.edu.au by Friday July 5, expressing your interest including the names of two referees.  Please remember that to volunteer on the Campus you will need a DCSI clearance or a willingness to get one.

Between May 1st and June 25th collect as many stickers as you can and drop them into the boxes provided at the Thiele Front Office. The stickers can be used to purchase equipment for the Campus across many categories including ICT, Science, Sports, Mathematics, Arts & Crafts and more.

Sticker sheets are available at the front office.

• Respect others 

• Respect yourself

• Respect our place
• Sitting while eating
• Walking on pavers
• Keeping out of garden areas, Courtyard/grass area is a quiet play space
• No hat no play
• Being a Nude Food Dude and bringing Litter Free lunch

Reading tips from Mem Fox

1.    Spend at least ten wildly happy minutes every single day reading aloud. From birth!

2.    Read at least three stories a day: it may be the same story three times. Children need to hear a thousand stories before they can begin to learn to read. Or the same story a thousand times!

3.    Read aloud with animation. Listen to your own voice and don’t be dull, or flat, or boring. Hang loose and be loud, have fun and laugh a lot.

4.    Read with joy and enjoyment: real enjoyment for yourself and great joy for the listeners

5.    Read the stories that your child loves, over and over, and over again, and always read in the same ‘tune’ for each book: i.e. with the same intonations and volume and speed, on each page, each time.

6.    Let children hear lots of language by talking to them constantly about the pictures, or anything else connected to the book; or sing any old song that you can remember; or say nursery rhymes in a bouncy way; or be noisy together doing clapping games

7.    Look for rhyme, rhythm or repetition in books for young children, and make sure the books are really short.

8.    Play games with the things that you and the child can see on the page, such as letting kids finish rhymes, and finding the letters that start the child’s name and yours, remembering that it’s never work, it’s always a fabulous game.

9.    Never ever teach reading, or get tense around books.

10. Please read aloud every day because you just adore being with your child, not because it’s the right thing to do.

The Campus Uniform Shop is open on:

KEEP YOUR KIDS SMILING

Dental care is FREE for ALL babies, preschool and most children under 18 years

at School Dental Service clinics.

The School Dental Service is a Child Dental Benefits Schedule provider.

Call us now for an appointment!

Your local clinic is: Noarlunga GP Plus Dental Clinic

Phone: 8384 9244

www.sahealth.sa.gov.au/sadental

Driving the Power of Purple through Education and Awareness

Certificate of Recognition

Thiele Primary School

are now

Epilepsy Aware

Training completed on January 24, 2019