Clapham Primary School

On Thursday we held the first of two Orientation Visits for our 2021 Receptions. There were a lot of excited Kindy children. Many thanks to Ms Neuwirth, Mrs Averis, and our senior students for meeting our new parents and for working with the Kindy children; Miss Sorrell and Mr Lashchuk for working with our current Reception students; Mrs Kopias for sharing our website and School TV resource with parents; and also Donna and Vidish from Devon Clothing; and Rory from Let There Be Coffee!  Next year we have 30 new receptions starting, they will visit again on the  26th of November.

A huge thank you to Justine, Annika and Lynne for their comprehensive presentation to parents of reception students in 2021 on the evening of the 3rd of November.  It was lovely to see familiar and new faces!  We are excited that we have 30 new receptions starting next year!

This year during Book Week two library monitors from Room 14 – Molly S, Elizabeth H volunteered to run two competitions:

1.      Find the selected book covers in the Library

2.      Create / design your own curious creature.

Our library monitors were very enthusiastic and did a fantastic job seeing it through to the end. They designed posters to advertise the competitions and displayed them around the school. They also chose the winners, which were announced on Friday, 23rd  October. The winners of the competition then selected a book from the book fair for up to the value of $15 as the prize.

Harrison S - Room 14 was the winner of ‘Find the book Cover’ competition.

Aleena A - Room 10, Ella G - Room 14 and Zara B -Room 3 were the winners of ‘Create / Design a Curious Creature’.

We also celebrated Book Week with a Book Fair from Scholastics, where students and their families had the opportunity to purchase from a large variety of books.  

I would like to thank the parents and staff for their support. From the sales we raised just over $650.00, which was spent on purchasing books for the library.

Helen Krinas

SAPSASA Athletics Event – SA Athletics Stadium – Tuesday 13 October 2020

What a day we had at the SA Athletics Stadium. Clapham students continue to raise the bar with their efforts and year on year we are seeing improvement in participation and also with regards to results in the Southern Heights District, which is a zone consisting of 12 local schools. This SAPSASA event pitched “the best against the best” from schools around the Clapham and Southern District. In this SAPSASA event, the winners of each age group are then selected to represent Southern Heights at the State Metropolitan Athletics Carnival!

SAPSASA has advised the following results:

The School Sport Office are in the process of planning the State Championships program and conditions. As soon as this information is available, I will send more selection information to students. The proposed date is Tuesday, Nov 17th  at the SA Athletics Stadium.

I want to say a big thank you to our helpers on the day, Belinda and Jane. When parents step up to help with sport it demonstrates the value they place on it, and their help is greatly appreciated!! Thanks to all the parents for getting children to and from the event in an orderly fashion too. Great teamwork. Thanks also to Tracy for being flexible and willing to step up when we needed as an extra helper. I won’t forget Sam either who calmly takes in all sports information and does her best on the frontline to make it all run smoothly from the Front office!

Sports Day Clapham Primary – Tuesday 20 October 2020

2020 has been a challenging year, but sometimes the weather does its best to make it all ok and remind many of us how lucky we are to live in Australia – and to have the opportunity to be active. Sports Day 2020 was one such time. To see the students dressed so creatively and giving their best all day was a real boost. The 100m races were an absolute highlight for me and I was so pleased to see all students participating and cheering each other on to the final finish. It really did cap off a big year for the school in which all physical activity, community sport and events throughout SA have been challenged and changed and readjusted at the last minute. But sport, community and participation always prevail, and Sports Day showed that.

Well done to Waite on winning two Sports Days in a row. Well done to our medal winners who join the Clapham Honour Board for Sports Day and PE achievement. They demonstrate all the qualities that we aspire to see in our young students. And for the first time ever we had a tie – Poppy and Genevieve. Who could separate two such positive and inspiring athletes? Not me. They have been a pleasure to teach since I arrived at Clapham. Kasandar also deserves the recognition for always giving his best and always being active with a beaming smile.

Thank you to Harrie and Garry for helping with set up. Thank you to the staff who came in early to help and the House Captains who also pitched in when I needed some support. Thank you to leadership for organising the COVID changes and also for being there at the 100m inspiring the young ones! It all adds up, and even the teachers joining in with the races are great role models for having a go. A special mention must go out to parents who continually help, with set up, pack up or even being 100m stewards. You are great members of an awesome community. Onwards and upwards to all.

Mr L 

Clapham Primary School is excited to announce that we are now subscribing to SchoolTV. This is a wellbeing platform featuring Dr Michael Carr-Gregg.

As we all know it has never been more challenging for parents to raise happy, healthy and resilient children. Like never before, parents need to be informed with clear, fact-based information on the many challenges faced by today’s youth. Topics such as youth anxiety, depression, self-harm, drug and alcohol use, cyberbullying and many others need clear explanation and guidance. SchoolTV is a new ongoing resource that is now available to our parents. Each edition will address a major topic with expert interviews, fact sheets, parent quiz, recommended apps, books and much more. SchoolTV aggregates information from many great resources such as BeyondBlue and ReachOut, amongst others. SchoolTV provides a single stream of independent factual information that saves parents time and confusion of searching online across multiple sites for information.

Our school’s launch site is https://claphamps.sa.schooltv.me You can also access the SchoolTV archive here:

https://claphamps.sa.schooltv.me/category-latest-newsletter

Kindest regards

Cassie Kopias 

This week students across the school celebrated NAIDOC Week by engaging in many activities based on the theme 'Always Was, Always Will Be'.  Laiya, our  Aboriginal and Community Engagement Officer, hosted a morning tea for our ATSI students and parents. Looks like it was fun!       

Our Clapham Colour FUN Run will take place at 1:45pm on Friday 20 November, Week 6 on the soccer oval. Please note change o date is due to late notice of High School transition days by some of our local High Schools.  Students will need to navigate obstacle courses and complete as many laps as possible within the 45 minute time frame. This year we will have ‘colour stations’ to add some fun!

Funds raised will go towards the installation of asphalt activities – rubber markings that will promote physical activity and encourage children to play together. These will be done when our new asphalt is laid.   

Prizes will be given to the top fundraiser, and each student who completes the most laps per class. Information and sponsor forms were sent home last term.