On Thursday your invoice for the 2023 Materials & Services and 2023 Excursion Levy were posted .

On the invoice you will notice the $100 rebate from the Government in the brackets, this is your credit note. The balance due is at the bottom.

Preferred payments are via internet banking. BSB and Account number are on the Business Card inside the envelope.

        BSB: 105 010

        Acct #: 115 989 440

Please read instructions if you are eligible to apply for School Card. Once you have applied it does take a few weeks to process and receive notification if you are eligible or not. If you need any assistance with this process please do not hesitate to contact me. If eligible for school card the $100 rebate does not apply and you do not need to pay the M & S charge, only the $85 excursion levy will be outstanding.

If you have not received this in the post please let me know asap.

Thank you

Gillian

This year we have welcomed Emma to our teaching team.

"My name is Emma, I am the Health and Physical Education teacher on a Tuesday and Thursday, and the R/1 teacher on a Friday during 2023. I am new to Felixstow Primary School, with this year being my 4th year of teaching. Previously I have taught PE and worked as a Kindergarten teacher. My favourite colour is purple and favourite food is sushi. I enjoy spending time with family and friends and playing soccer for Adelaide Comets Football Club. I believe in implementing the Game Sense approach where students engage in fun and active games to develop the skills and tactics of the game through incorporating the Playing for Life Philosophy.

During term 1, the Health and Physical Education program aims to:

· Provide students with opportunities to explore and develop Fundamental Movement Skills in new movement situations (Gymnastics - TriSkills) and cooperative games, while developing fair play, awareness, and inclusion during competitive games.

· Support students to describe ways to include others to make them feel they belong.

· Provide opportunities for students to explore identity and how one’s identity can be influenced by others

This program is designed to support a successful start for students and is focused on building positive relationships and team environment, therefore, creating a successful start to the year. To achieve this, a range of group games, discussions, and socializing activities have been created to support students’ interactions and relationships in their new learning communities."

Students' have been getting back into our routines and having some fun along the way. One of our most enjoyable routines is our morning nurture group.

Our morning group time is a great opportunity to welcome each other with respectful greetings, go through the timetable, share announcement’s, choose our values for the day and take part in a positive primer.

A positive primer encourages the flow of positive emotions and gets our brains and bodies ready for learning. Some positive primers we have tried are the alphabet game, ballon keepy uppy, sharing jokes and finding awe and wonder in the everyday.

During our inquiry sessions we have been exploring the brain, how they work and why we need them. We have modelled the brain using plasticine and have begun a deep dive into how the neurons work and why creating pathways in our brains is so important to our learning. Following on from this, we are learning how to create a growth mindset with our work, instead of a fixed one. We are also working on developing problem solving tools we can use when we have problems we haven’t been able to solve, yet! Students are working on creating learning goals they wish to work on in Literacy, Maths and Social and Emotional Wellbeing.

These first few weeks in Tuula and Emma's class have been a lot of fun with our new reception students' learning and adjusting to the school routine. 

Investigation time has definitely been a stand-out as it has given the receptions a chance to interact with their Year 1 peers through play-based learning.

In Nicole's juniors we have been looking at the zones of regulation. The zones are divided into colours which match the moods we might be in during the day.  As a class, then with a partner we came up with strategies of things we can do when we are in each zone which can help us to get back into the green zone and ready to learn again.