Hallett Cove East Primary School

• Friday October 29th - World Teachers' Day
  
• Monday November 1st - Pupil Free Day

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

PUPIL FREE DAY TERM 4 – MONDAY NOVEMBER 1st  

Governing Council has endorsed a Pupil Free Day for Monday November 1st, Week 4 in Term 4. This is for staff to undertake a brief but mandatory site hazard inspection and then moderate curriculum with colleagues in preparation for report writing. OSHC will be available for care on the day so please book in with Sally on 8381 7577 if you require care.

SPORTS DAY

Well, the weather was absolutely perfect for Sports Day and it was a really great day! Lots of fun was had by all with a lot of different outdoors, indoors and undercover activities. I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Ellie Burford for all the work she put into preparation for Sports Day. Thank you also to the other staff members who helped Ellie prepare both before and on the day and to all staff for helping children have the excellent day they had! Thank you also to the Yr 6/7 Physical Activity leaders who helped throughout the day.

The results for the competition were as follows:

SPORTS DAY CHAMPIONS SHIELD                FAIR PLAY SHIELD

Tate                1150                                           Kaurna           1191

Kaurna           1095                                           Hallett             1158

Perry-Barr      1040                                           Perry-Barr      1147

Hallett             1015                                           Tate                1106

EVACUATION/INVACUATION PRACTICES

If you live near the school and happen to be home during the day, you may have heard the evacuation and/or invacuation bells ring on 3 different days over the last week. Don’t worry, we were not in the middle of emergencies!!! These were rung so we could practise our response processes to 3 different types of emergencies and is normal procedure in schools at regular times during the year. Please ask your children to see if they can tell you what we did and why.

HIGHLIGHTS OF TERM 3

We have had another busy and successful term. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all staff for their commitment to the education and support of your children and associated administrative processes in the school. Your children are certainly most fortunate to receive the level of learning, support and care experience and expertise that we enjoy in our school from teachers to SSOs to support personnel and Andrea Hayden and Naomi Pudney. Students have also worked very hard and should be acknowledged for their work and efforts. Despite some early restrictions on some excursion and incursion options around lockdown time, there have still been a number of highlights aside from our routine learning programs including:

• Student Voice in Learning program
• Yr 6/7 student leaders programs
• Genki Kids program
• RAA Street Smart Program
• SAPSASA Volleyball, Soccer and Athletics
• Yrs 5-7 Mission to Mars excursions
• Belair cubby building excursions
• Science Week incursion and other activities
• Baseball Clinics
• Splash Theatre
• Book Week activities including a Book Week parade
• Yrs 5-7 Market Day
• Sports Day
• Assemblies
• Camps to Arbury Park and Narnu Farm
• Introduction of the Kimochis program in EY
• National Support Staff Week

STAFFING NEWS

Congratulations to Aaron Charlton who has won the permanent PE/Science/R-6 classroom teaching vacancy from 2022 onwards.

The permanent Groundsperson vacancy was advertised yesterday and will close on 21st October. The panel process will commence thereafter and the outcome should be known late next term.

REMINDER FROM WEEK 8 NEWSLETTER FOR VOLUNTEERS

RESPONDING TO RISKS OF HARM, ABUSE AND NEGLECT TRAINING

On July 1st a new Responding to Abuse and Neglect training was released. The new training is called Responding to Risks of Harm, Abuse and Neglect – Education and Care. We call it RRHAN-EC for short. The Department for Education has asked that all current volunteers with the older certificates that expire on December 31st 2021 please undertake the new training to receive a new certificate before December 31st. The new certificate expiry date will be December 31st 2024. This new certificate will be required to continue volunteering in 2022. It will also be the required training for new applicants undertaking applications to become volunteers from now on. Please use the link from last newsletter article to access the training.

SCHOOL SECURITY IN THE HOLIDAYS

To help prevent vandalism and other crime in the school during the holidays, we seek your support to please report any suspicious behaviour you may observe in and around the school to Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or direct to Police on 131 444. I thank you in advance for doing so.

.... AND FINALLY

May your children all enjoy a safe holiday. We look forward to having everyone return safely to school on Monday October 11th.

COMING EVENTS

WORLD TEACHERS’ DAY AUSTRALIA – FRIDAY 29th OCTOBER

PUPIL FREE DAY TERM 4 – MONDAY 1st NOVEMBER  

With regards

Anne Rathjen

Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Issues Online

Last week we received the following message in an email from Senior Constable Hodge of the Southern District Community Engagement Section of SAPOL.

Please find below a link to an article from the Australian Federal Police regarding a growing online child abuse trend.  I encourage you to share this with parents and students if you are able. 

https://www.afp.gov.au/news-media/media-releases/afp-warn-about-fast-growing-online-child-abuse-trend?fbclid=IwAR05_tBV7BD9MXdoNJGMXshxWJ-FXnOOqHKiT71nU88DjI6jSYKhzqB9jlE

I personally found the article quite confronting and ask that you take the time to read it. This article refers to the website “ThinkUKnow” which is excellent for suggestions for parents concerned with online child sexual exploitation.

It is suggested that for information about general online safety, including cyberbullying, everyone should visit http://www.esafety.gov.au. This is the Australian Government website of the eSafety Commissioner. This website is excellent as it has sections for Educators, Parents, Kids, Young People, Women, Seniors and Diverse Groups. I would strongly advise all members of our community to visit this website and follow the tips.

On the page for young people about cyberbullying it tells us that “Cyberbullying is the use of technology to bully a person with the intent to hurt or intimidate them. One in five young people have been bullied online.”  This is followed by examples and what to do if this has happened.

Thank you

Inside the fence we have tried to keep school functioning as normally as possible. We have kept the key focus on our students and, although our parents were unable to come to sports day, the students had a great day. We look forward to being able to have all of our school community at events when we can.

Thank you to our school community for their support during these trying times.

Thank you to our wonderful students who show our school values every day in so many ways.

Thank you to our amazing classroom and specialist teachers.

Thank you to our fabulous support staff.

Thank you to our principal for the inspirational way she leads our school.

Now we are all looking forward to our two week break. Hopefully the weather will be delightful and our students will get lots of time enjoying themselves outdoors.

Kind Regards,

Andrea Hayden

Deputy Principal

2021 Materials and Services charge will be presented at the governing council meeting scheduled for Monday the 25th of October.

An invitation is extended to the whole school community.

Please click this link to view the Governing Council invitation to Community.   

To view the 2021 Materials and Service charge please click this link.   

REMINDER -  teaching staff are busy planning incursions, excursions and camps for the remainder of the year.  Please ensure you have paid your $60 levy to avoid students not being able to participate.

If you are yet to pay your 2021 Materials and Services fees we remind families to clear all outstanding accounts, final notices have been issued.   If no contact has been made with the business manager or finance officer debt collection will commence at the end of this month.

If you believe you qualify for the 2021 School Card Scheme and you have not submitted your application as yet please be advise the last date for new applications to be accepted for the 2021 school year is 19th November 2021.

To determine eligibility for School Card please click on this link 

If you are experiencing financial difficulties we ask you contact the Business Manager via email dl.1053.finance@schools.sa.edu.au 

Imelda Jolly

Business Manager

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Volunteers Wanted !!

Volunteers are important to our school community. Our canteen relies on help from volunteers to deliver a meal service to our pupils.

To enable us to provide a varied recess and lunch menu offer to our pupils we really do need your help.   

If you have a spare hour or more we would welcome your support.

Not registered with the school as a volunteer?  Volunteer application packs are available from the front office containing all the information you need to submit your registration as a volunteer...... WE NEED YOU

If you have any uniform items 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.

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Wednesday morning 8.30-9.00

Wednesday afternoon 3.00-3.30

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