St Peters Lutheran School Newsletter

Our mums, some grandmas and our female staff all enjoyed a wonderful breakfast last Friday to honour St Peters mums for Mother’s Day. Thank you so much to our chaplain Alex, class coordinators Mel and Neusa and the parents from 3/4 W for the organisation and preparation. A special mention to Bec Geue who stepped in to take chapel on Friday (for a sick Ps Kevin) and share a Mother’s Day message.  It is a special time for children to be with their mums and together we can say thank you for the amazing gift our mums are to us all.

We were thrilled to see our Saints Girls footy team take the field for the first time last week. The double blue guernseys looked right at home on the hallowed turf of Unley Oval.  Coach Rawinski said the girls acquitted themselves so well and played with great determination and aggression. They won one of their matches and were competitive in the other games. We hope this opens the way for girls to play footy for the Mighty Saints for many years to come! Congratulations Girls.

13 athletes competed in the cross country carnival last Friday at Belair National Park. All the students worked hard and finished strong. One of them exclaimed that they were running so fast they could not feel their legs. We had some amazing results with Josh M, Oska and Issa all finishing within the top 6 and qualifying for the State Championships.

St Peters' athletics team competed in the district carnival on a cold, rainy and windy Thursday. The students did a wonderful job and we had some great results. Unfortunately, not enough to bring home the trophy for a third year in a row. Special mention to Sari who came first in 100m, 200m and long jump and Yolanna who came first in Shot Put. The girls will compete for the district team at state day. Lachlan will also be part of the district relay team after finishing 4th in 100m.

Performances to note:

• Sari 1st 100m, 200m, Long Jump
• Yolanna 1st Shot Put
• Josh 2nd 800m
• Kamryn 3rd Discus
• Lachlan 4th in 100m and 200m
• Levi 4th High Jump

Sustainability

Enough for everyone forever!

Sustainability is an important issue facing our world. As a school we want to do as much as we can to ensure that there is “enough for everyone forever". The PYP theme “Sharing the Planet” is the perfect place to continue thinking about our roles and responsibilities to ensure we take better care of our world.

This term, the R/1/2 students are inquiring into sustainability as part of their work within this transdisciplinary theme.

Central Idea:

People can make choices to support the sustainability of the environment.

Lines of inquiry:

• Our habits around the use of resources.
• Why we need to take responsibility for the sustainability of resources.
• How our management of resources can sustain a healthy planet.
  

The 3/4s are looking at systems and also wanted to look at the way we collect, sort and dispose of waste.

Central Idea:

Systems can be created to solve problems and support communities.

Both the R/1/2 and the 3/4 units prompted some action to be taken! What are we doing about waste? How are we sorting our waste? Do we use our bins well? Is there a system to what we do with waste?

What better way to investigate waste than get some expert opinion! Toby from Groundswell joined us last week and helped us to think through some of these questions by taking whole class workshops and training three Eco-experts from each class. The students selected as Eco-experts will help train the rest of the students as we head towards some sustainability solutions for our school. What a fabulous partnership we’ve made with Ground Swell Education.

From the Strategic Plan:

Partnerships

We will build reciprocal and harmonious relationships committed to enriching learning experiences for students, families and the community

By building alliances with business, industry and universities we will facilitate opportunities for students to connect to authentic real-world experiences.

We will keep you updated on the initiative and systems that we come up with. Looking forward to increasing our awareness around these issues and decreasing the amount of land fill we produce as a school!

Bronwyn Wilson
PYP Coordinator

We are so excited to finally see our community tree up on the wall outside the ELC entrance.  There are already over 130 leaves on the tree, with approximately another 30 more to come in the next couple of weeks.  A big thank you to everyone who has ordered leaves.  It’s not too late to order your own leaf – just pick up an order form from the front office.  New leaves will be added throughout the term.

Thank you to Mel Z and Neusa G and the parents from Room 6 (Mrs Watkins) who organised a lovely Mother’s Day Breakfast last Friday morning.  It was great to see so many of our mums and their kids enjoying the delicious food and special chapel service.  The Mother’s Day Breakfast is proudly supported and funded by the P&F.

Thank you to those who have already put in their order forms for Toasted Sandwich Day, which will be on Friday 24 May.  We are looking for volunteers to help make sandwiches on the day and for the loan of some sandwich presses to make them with.  If you can help, please contact Heather Stevens on 0450 398 729.  The date to get your orders in and drop off sandwich presses is Monday 20 May.