Reynella Primary School Grapevine

Last Tuesday, we had the massive privilege of having two of our wonderful students, Josh H and Charlotte K, represent our school and co-facilitate the Metro Student Summit. They were on stage at the Adelaide Convention Centre in front of an audience of 1000 – consisting of children from years 5 – year 11, teachers, leaders, our Chief Executive Martin Westwell, Minister for Education Blair Boyer and members of the Senior Executive Group (SEG).

The Student Summits are a key part of Martin Westwell’s re-shaping of education in SA by giving our young people a voice about teaching and learning. Seven Summits are happening across the state, including in the APY Lands. All the feedback collected from students will be shared with Principals across the state at next year’s Leaders Day, where a new purpose statement will be developed.

Also attending were Lachie K and Ala T who represented the voices of the students from Reynella PS. They worked alongside other students from across the state to provide input in to the future of education in South Australia.

Bonython Hall on North Terrace was flooded with students from Reynella PS last Tuesday night as the proud families, friends and staff watched them graduate from Children’s University, 2022. This was only our second year participating and we had 69 students graduate, with 63 able to attend the ceremony.

Children’s University is an innovative program that engages children and young people in exciting, out-of-school learning opportunities to increase their chances for educational achievement and rewards them for taking responsibility for their own learning. They work with community and cultural institutions, support the development of school-based clubs and activities, and provide so many opportunities for parents and communities to engage in the education of our young people (because they are our future).

A huge thank you must go to Mrs Fiona Brown and Miss Amy Sheppard who gave up so much of their own time to support our students; particularly when the portal went down! We hope to see many more new faces in 2023.

On Tuesday November 1, 40 primary students performed at The Hopgood Theatre, Noarlunga as part of The Southern Metro Music Festival (SMMF).

The SMMF hosts two evening concerts featuring up to 15 schools from the Southern regions of Adelaide from Darlington to Goolwa. The choral repertoire mirrors that of the Adelaide Festival and provides opportunities for public and independent school students in Years 3 - 6.

Apart from the 21 students who were represented in the choir, we had 18 students perform as part of the dance troupe and our soloist from the Festival choir, Jasmine C, once again had an                                            opportunity to perform her solo.

A huge thank you to Mrs McDonald for all her efforts in supporting our students to perform.

Last Friday was our annual Remembrance Day service run by our Citizenship Action Team.

What all of these children had in common was the respectful and positive manner in which they conducted themselves and represented Reynella Primary school; we are very proud of them all.

Graduation Ceremony is 5:30pm – 7:00pm at Wirreanda Secondary School Performing Arts Centre.

We require all guests to pre-order tickets before 4pm Monday 5 December 2022.

Tickets can be ordered through our online booking service using the following link https://www.trybooking.com/CDUWD

Please have your digital or printed tickets ready to be scanned at the entrance. 

A big thank you to the students and families who supported our recent Scholastic Book Fair. We have earned $1,600 to spend on resources for our school! Many thanks to our student helpers, Dominic & Behtash, our parent helper Barbara and Wolf, our library SSO. All of these people volunteered their time to assist with a smooth-running fair.

Book Club - If you didn’t make it in for the Book Fair, there is still the chance to order online from the last Book Club catalogue for the year. Our school also receives a commission on orders from any of the Book Club orders made throughout the year.

Sharon Priest Teacher/Librarian

Programme

4:45pm – 6pm: PICNIC TEA on Oval. BYO food or purchase from one of the Food Trucks

6:10 pm: All students must meet their class teachers in classrooms when the siren sounds

6:30 pm: CONCERT BEGINS

8:00 pm: approximate finish time of concert (please help with pack up if you can)

Important Things to Remember

·      Monday 5 December is our backup concert date, in case of unsuitable weather on concert night.

·      Class teachers will be in contact with parents regarding clothing/costumes.

·      We need a definite indication of which students will and won’t be attending on the night, so class items and final plans can be made.
Please let us know if your child is or is not attending by returning the tear off slip of the note sent home, which is on Skoolbag or completing the Skoolbag eForm by Friday 18 November.
We need one form for every child please.

Staff are currently trialing a new process for wearing hats this term. Each morning classes will be checking the BOM for the predicted UV rating for the day. If, at any time, the UV rating is going to be over 3, children will need to wear a hat at both recess and lunch time.

Hats, if needing to be worn, must always be worn on the oval – even if it is windy.

If children do not have a hat they must sit under the verandahs near Carew, Kaurna, Morphett and Reynell, or the Cola. 

Did you know you can access information about STEM, student support and wellbeing on our website at any time?

We are regularly updating information on our website so that you can find out more about what we have on offer at Reynella and what's coming up on the calendar!

www.reynellaps.sa.edu.au

Cancelled Lunch Orders

If you child is absent please:

• cancel your lunch order via QKR before 9am

OR

• call the canteen before 9:30am to have the order cancelled. If you cancel an order with the canteen (not through Qkr) they will postpone the order to an alternate day. You will need to let the canteen know what day you want the postponed order.

NB. If the order is not cancelled before 9:30am the order will not be replaced as it has missed the cut off and will have financial implications to the canteen.

The 2022 Reynella PS Basketball season finishes soon and Netball and Soccer finished last term.

Please take the time to thank our 2022 co-ordinators, coaches and managers, without them our kids would not have the opportunity to play sport at Reynella.

Basketball: Cherie Meekins

Netball: Sarah Rogers

Soccer: Courtney Moule

CO-ORDINATORS 2023

We need new volunteer co-ordinator's for both Basketball and Netball for the 2023 season, if you are interested and would like more information about the role, please contact Kay, dl.0379.finance@schools.sa.edu.au

SOCCER TOP REIMBURSEMENT

Soccer tops are now due back, once they are returned, the deposit will be returned to you. If you haven't already returned your child's top, please return it to the Front Office asap.

If you've returned your top, but haven't received your deposit, we do have some in the Front Office, but will contact parents first to ensure it's OK to send them home with students.

Any tops not returned by the end of week 6, will receive a $45 invoice for payment so we can replace it.

Prizes have arrived, but it's a BIG job to sort and distribute them because everyone did such great fundraising!

They will go home next week, please be patient with our sorters.

Materials and Service Charges for 2022 were due to be paid in full by Thursday 14 April 2022. If you still have outstanding fees and have not made arrangements for payment by instalment, your fees are now overdue.

If you are eligible for School Card this year, please apply now (information in this Grapevine).

If you are experiencing financial difficulties, please contact the school to speak with Kay Starczak, Business Manager. You can phone: 8381 1493 or email her at dl.0379.finance@schools.sa.edu.au

GOVERNMENT REBATE

All students enrolled at Reynella PS, with the exception of students approved for School Card 2022, have been credited with a $100 Government Rebate. All families were sent a letter and statement explaining in Term 2. We cannot apply the credit to outstanding fees without parent authorisation.

If you would like your Govt Rebate credit applied to outstanding fees, please send us a text or email authorising that with the wording "please apply Govt Rebate to fees - then list all children names"

There are several options for use of the Rebate, but you can only use the credit to purchase/pay for other items once your School Fees are paid in full:

• ask us to apply it to outstanding fees
• use the credit to pay for future excursions/fundraising
• use the credit to purchase new uniform. This cannot be done on Qkr, you will need to phone or email our Finance Team or come into the Front Office.
• leave the credit on your account to credit toward 2023 fees
  
  

2023 Credit

Parents will also receive another $100 per child in 2023 to use for School Fees, with the exception of 2023 School Card holders.

Low-income families who attend a government school can get financial help with school fees – materials and services charges – through the School Card scheme. Click on this link or speak to Tracey or Kay in our Finance Office for more information.

https://www.sa.gov.au/topics/education-and-learning/financial-help-scholarships-and-grants/school-card-scheme#title2

To ensure you don't miss out on school communication, please ensure you turn Skoolbag notifications on and make sure you are part of your child's year group in addition to their class, this will ensure you are kept up to date will relevant information.

Follow this link for instructions.

https://skoolbaghelp.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000892555-How-to-ensure-you-receive-notifications-from-the-SkoolBag-App 

Click on this link to access Qkr on your computer.

https://qkr.mastercard.com/store/#/merchant/LOC_24279232

55 Concord Drive, Old Reynella, SA 5161

p 08 8381 1493     sms 0416 905 323

administration dl.0379.info@schools.sa.edu.au

finance dl.0379.finance@schools.sa.edu.au

www.reynellablogs.com.au

https://www.facebook.com/Reynella.Primary.School

OSHC - YMCA

p. 0439 432 722

reynellaoshc@ymca.org.au