Hallett Cove East Primary School

25/11/19  Last day for School Banking for 2019

27/11/19  3rd Transition Visit for 2020 Reception Students - 8:40 am - 12:00 pm

26/11/19 7 West Incursion - Indigenous Presenter Micky Barlow running a workshop for 7 West students.  

27 - 29/11/19  Year 6/7 Aquatics

3/12/19  Canteen Christmas Special Lunch

4/12/19  End of Year Concert

4/12/19  Year 7-8 Transition Visit for Mitcham Girls High

5 & 6/12/19  Year 7-8 Transition Visit for Hallett Cove R-12 School

9/12/19  4W, 4E, 5W & 5E Skate and Swim End of Year Excursion Noarlunga Leisure Centre

10/12/19  Volunteers Thank you Breakfast

12/12/19  6E, 6AN & 6AS Radicool Reptile incursion

12/12/19  Year 7 Graduation

13/12/19 Years 5,6,7 Last day excursion to the Marion Aquatic Centre

13/12/19  Last Day of Term - 2:05 pm Early Dismissal

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

PREMIER’S BE ACTIVE CHALLENGE CONGRATULATIONS!

A huge congratulations to Hallett Cove East Primary School which, for the third year in a row, has been selected as one of the 50 highest achieving schools in this year’s Premier’s Be Active Challenge, due to the very high number of students who completed the 10 week challenge. Aaron Charlton and members of our girls state soccer championship team, attended a special function where we received a special award from the Education Minister, as well as $1000 to put towards the school’s PE program and equipment. Well done to everyone who completed the challenge, but in particular those students who completed the full 10 weeks – great effort!

 PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

This year we had 361 students complete the challenge of reading 12 age appropriate books over the first 8 months of the year. As we know the value of developing reading skills can never be underestimated. The 361 students achieved the following:

·         72 1st year certificates

·         63 bronze medals

·         76 silver medals

·         50 gold medals

·         37 Champion medals

·         22 Legend medals

·         33 Hall of Fame medals

·         6 Readers for Life certificates (8 years in challenge)

·         2 Reader for Life certificates (9 years in challenge)

Well done to all 361 students and we look forward to even more students taking on the challenge next year.

VOLUNTEERS THANK YOU BREAKFAST – TUESDAY 10th DECEMBER

By now, volunteers who have supported class, sports and school programs during the year should have received an invitation to a special Thank You Breakfast. We are hoping those of you who are invited, may be able to join us as you drop children off for school. The Breakfast is just our small way of saying a big thank you for all the support you provide our school. We look forward to seeing as many of our volunteers who are able to join us as possible. (If you haven't returned your RSVP please do so as soon as possible.)

END OF YEAR CONCERT – WEDNESDAY 4th DECEMBER

Don’t forget that our End of Year Concert is on Wednesday 4th December at 6pm, being held in the large COLA. There was detailed information in the last newsletter and a separate Skoolbag note will go out with reminder information again, closer to Concert.

STAFFING NEWS

Andrea Hayden has had to take leave for the remainder of the year. Gizella Webb has won the Acting Deputy Principal position in her absence. Zachary Schenkel is the teacher in 6AS for the rest of the term.

SAD NEWS

We were very sad to hear the tragic news of the death of Kieran Modra. Many of you know Kieran as his girls came to our school and he and his wife Kerry were very involved with volunteering. Flowers have been sent to Kerry and her family on behalf of the school community.

Anne Rathjen

Principal

This year our School has been selected as one of the Top 50 highest achieving schools in South Australia in the 2019 Premier’s be active Challenge, this year more than 31500 students completed the challenge.

To celebrate this special effort we were invited to attend the Premier’s be active Challenge reception, where a presentation was made to student representatives. The event was held on Thursday 21 November at Priceline Stadium (Netball SA) at Mile End. The students enjoyed come and try activities, our students participated in the SACA  - South Australian Cricket Association, AFC - Adelaide Football Club, Little Athletics and NRL - National Rugby League activities and concluded the day with the formal reception.

Our Yr 6/7 girls’ soccer team represented our school and the co-captains received the award on behalf of the school from the Premier and Minister.

Regards  

Aaron Charlton

Please find attached details of the Christmas Special Lunch - Orders must be submitted via the Qkr App alternatively orders can be returned to the Administration office NO LATER THAN 9.15am on the 29th November, 2019, thank you. 

Did you know lunch orders can be placed up to 2 weeks in advance.  If you utilize the pre-order process via the Qkr App please be aware that you can also cancel the order prior to 9.15am if your child is going to be absent for the day.  All you need to do is simply login to your app, cancel the order and a credit will be placed on your Qkr App ready for the next time you order. We hope utilizing the pre-order system will alleviate some of the morning rush pressure and mininise the current issue regarding so many students presenting at the office with NO LUNCH, we understand everyone has busy lives and we do our best to accommodate our community by providing a quick and easy  ordering system via the Qkr App. Unfortunately it seems in the morning school rush more and more parents are forgetting to submit their children's lunch orders.  

We respectfully ask all families to please be diligent in regard to checking you have entered the correct order date and please make sure you finalize your order by entering submit.  It would be a great help to the office staff and our canteen manager if all parties can be diligent with the ordering system.  

We appreciate you support with this matter, thank you.

eSafety

Technology is a wonderful thing. It can be useful for education, entertainment, connecting and socialising. However, it can also be misused and cause harm.

 Just this week I took part in some training from the eSafety Commissioner. It reinforced that we need to be talking to children about how to keep themselves safe online. The more we prepare children and keep communication lines open, the more likely they are to talk to us about problems or if they experience something that makes them uncomfortable.

The eSafety website has recently been relaunched including a wonderful section for parents esafety.gov.au/parents. If you have never visited it, or it has been a while I encourage you to take some time to explore it. There is so much helpful information and handy tips just for parents:

• Online Safety Guide – A downloadable guide which offers practical skills and advice about how to tackle the big issues.
• Are they old enough? – When is your child ready for online access, their own smartphone, or social media?
• The hard-to-have conversations – How to talk to your child and give them advice
• eSafety guide – Learn about the latest games, apps and social media, including how to protect your information and report inappropriate content.
• Taming the technology – How to use the parental controls and other tools to maximise online safety/  

Joey,

PASTORAL CARE WORKER

at HCEPS on Wednesdays and Fridays

Joey.Traeger704@schools.sa.edu.au

We have a very dedicated volunteer group of parents who coordinate our secondhand uniform shop.  If you have any uniforms in good condition that are now surplus to your needs our volunteers would appreciate donations.  Donations can be left at the administration office.  Thank you.

Opening hours :-

Wednesday morning 8.30-9.00

Wednesday afternoon 3.00-3.30