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STRADBROKE SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Koonga Avenue, Rostrevor, SA 5073

Excellence and Achievement in a Supportive School Environment Principal: Tanya Scanlan

Telephone: 8337 2861/8337 5349 Student Absence Ph: 8365 5621

Fax: 8337 0041

email: dl.0923.info@schools.sa.edu.au

website: www.stradsch.sa.edu.au

Out of School Hours Care: 8365 5677

Director: Rebecca MacQueen

CRICOS Provider Number: 00018A

Thursday 3 May 2018

TERRIFIC KIDS TERM 1

At the end of last term the winners of the Term 1 Kiwanis Terrific Kids

Award were announced.

A Terrific Kid needs to be:

THOUGHTFUL ENTHUSIASTIC RESPECTFUL

RESPONSIBLE INFLUENTIAL FRIENDLY

IMPECCABLE CARING

These qualities align closely with the characteristics and attitudes of the IB

Learner Profile. The characteristics we expect IB students to display are

those of a person who is an inquirer, knowledgeable, courageous, a thinker,

a communicator, open minded, balanced, principled, reflective and caring.

The attitudes supporting these characteristics are appreciation,

commitment, confidence, cooperation, curiosity, creativity, empathy,

enthusiasm, independence, integrity, respect and tolerance.

Congratulations to Emily and Harry, they are outstanding ambassadors for

our school and they approach all aspects of school life in a balanced,

considerate and enthusiastic manner.

VOLUNTEERS WEEK 2018

The Education Department has more than 25,000 volunteers who give their

time and talents to help children and young people learn and grow. At

Stradbroke, our volunteers are parents, family, caregivers and people from the

community. They bring their life skills, expertise, knowledge and diversity to

our school. Volunteers Week is celebrated each year in May.

On Thursday 24th May we will be holding a special morning tea to recognise

and thank those people who contribute to our school. If you’re passionate

about education and helping children and you’d like to get involved, please

talk to your child’s class teacher or contact the school for more information.

2018

MAY

Tue 1st – Fri 4th Rec & Yr 1 Swimming – ARC

Tue 8th ICAS: Digital Technologies

Wed 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th Yr 4 Bike Ed

Fri 11th R-2 Assembly 9.00am

Tue 15th – Thu 17th Year 3, 5 and 7 NAPLAN

Fri 18th Yr 3-7 Assembly 9.00am

RAN Training 9.00am-11.00am

Fri 18th Yr 3-7 Assembly 9.00am

Mon 21st Principal’s Tour 9.30am

Wed 23rd Maths Olympiad 1

Thu 24th Volunteers Morning Tea

Fri 25th R-2 Assembly 9.00am

Fri 25th School Disco

Tue 29th ICAS: Science

JUNE

Fri 1st Yr 3-7 Assembly 9.00am

Wed 6th Yr 4 Bike Ed

Fri 8th R-2 Assembly 9.00am

Mon 11th Queen’s Birthday Public

Holiday

Tue 12th Pupil Free Day

Stradbroke School

Volunteers Morning Tea

Thursday 24th May

10.45am – 11.30am

Stradbroke School Staffroom

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NAPLAN

On Tuesday 15th May, Wednesday 16th May and Thursday 17th

May students in Year 3, 5 and 7 will sit the NAPLAN – The

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy tests. It

is important on these days that all Year 3, 5 & 7 students are

in class and ready to begin their tests by 9.00am.

The NAPLAN tests are given Australia wide on the same day

under the same conditions and regulations. If for any reason,

parents/caregivers believe their child needs to be withdrawn

from these tests please contact Greg Johnston.

NAPLAN is made up of tests in the four areas of:

• Reading

• Writing

• Language Conventions (spelling, grammar and

punctuation)

• Numeracy.

A NAPLAN report will be issued later in the year (late term 3

or early term 4). The same report format is used for every

student in Australia.

STRADBROKE SCHOOL PUPIL FREE DAY

On Monday 30th April the Stradbroke Staff were involved in

an intensive training and development day. Glen Pearsall, a

well-respected Victorian Educational Consultant, was the

professional development facilitator. The focus of the

training was around High Level Questioning Techniques-

examining how instructional practice can have a profound

impact on student learning, Formative Assessment–an

exploration of practical strategies for ensuring that students

have a clear understanding of the learning intentions, receive

feedback on their progress and Student Reflection-

encouraging student to take a more active involved role in

the feedback process. Teachers found the training

informative and very relevant to the work they do with

students and were very motivated to apply their learning to

their work with students.

YEAR 7/8 TRANSITION INFORMATION

The DECD ‘Application for Enrolment in Year 8’ was

distributed last term. Please return application forms to the

class room teacher by Friday 18th May.

ENROLMENTS FOR 2019

If you have children already at Stradbroke and you have a

pre-schooler beginning school next year, please contact the

Front Office and collect an enrolment form. Places are only

reserved when an official enrolment form is completed.

MYP SERVICE AND ACTION HOURS

As part of their learning in the MYP, students are encouraged

to demonstrate a personal commitment to service, and act to

make a positive difference to the lives of others and to the

environment. Students are recognised for their service both

at school and in the wider community. At Stradbroke the Year

6 and 7 students will take part in a Community Service

program.

Congratulations to the following students who have

completed their hours for 2018:

Year 6 Year 7

Jasmin Baker

Kostya Nilov

Mila Petashvili

Gintas Pocius

Tara Nanni

Nateisha Bruno

Mercedes Wilson

TRAFFIC MONITORS

Week 2 am Mia Button, Presley Collini, Isabella Di

Marco

pm Jerusha Bhagwat, Guilia Candotti, Angelica

Chia

Week 3 am Callum Dempster, Maya Donato, Lilly Glare

pm Sakitha Guruga, Scarlett Wright, Natasha

Bogdanovic

SOCIAL MEDIA USE – YOUR CHILD’S WELLBEING

We are experiencing occasional issues at school as a result of

children accessing social media out of school hours and using

it to bully and harass each other and also to post

inappropriate content. As a result of this, our classroom

teachers are having conversations with the students in their

classes about these issues and the importance of being

responsible digital citizens. Each parent, who wishes their

child to use ICT at Stradbroke School, would have signed a

Cyber-Safety User Agreement upon enrolling their child.

Within this agreement it states:

I will use the

Internet, e-mail,

mobile phones or

any ICT

equipment only

for positive

purposes, not to

be mean, rude or

offensive, or to

bully, harass, or

in any way harm

anyone else, or

the school itself,

even if it is meant

as a joke.

Consequences will be

given to students who

do use social media,

whether at home or school to harass, bully or offend other

members within our community. Can you please discuss this

Agreement with your child and if they are using forms of

social media please monitor your child’s account.

Our ‘Play Is the Way’ behaviour education concepts are useful

when talking to your children about their social media usage.

• “Treat others as you would like them to treat you.” A

great way for students to reflect on their behaviour.

• “Have reasons for the things you say and do”. Another

way for students to self-reflect on the choices they

make.

• “It takes great strength to be sensible”. If a student sees

a conversation that they think is inappropriate then the

right thing to do is to report to an adult at school or

home.

Please read the attached article by one of Australia’s leading

parenting educators Michael Grose. In the article he details

the important conversations you need to have with your child

regarding their use of social media to prepare them to be

savvy users when you’re not around.

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YEAR 2 COLLABORATION WITH NMHS STUDENTS

On Wednesday 11th April a Year 9 class visited Stradbroke to

work with Sera Smith’s Year 2 students. The Year 9 students

from Norwood Morialta High School are in the process of

developing an android app that will develop hand eye

coordination in Year 1 and Year 2 students. The Year 2

students were the ‘clients’ for the high school students and

were asked about their favourite colour, game, sport, food,

super hero, music, age, characters and movie to determine

the application they will create.

‘They asked us lots of questions so they knew what we would

like – Neil’

‘I am excited to play the game and see how it works – Caitlin’

‘To see if the game has some of this that I said I liked – Olivia’

Norwood Morialta High School students will return in Term 2

to test their applications with the Year 2 students. In the

meantime, we will be working on giving constructive

feedback for the high school students.

CANTEEN

Welcome to Term 2, I hope everyone had an enjoyable school

holidays.

Term 2 menu:

• The new Term 2 menu is now available on the Qkr,

Skoolbag App, and the schools website. Please take

time to review it, there are a number of changes.

• Deleted for winter are fruit salads and Slushies.

• Re-introduced are our popular WEDGES PACKS. Just

Wedges $3.50, 3 Nuggets and Wedges $3.50, 5

Nuggets and Wedges $5.50, Fish Fillet and Wedges

$5.50, Burger and Wedges $6.00.

• Our FRIDAY ONLY menu item this term will be Pasta

with homemade Bolognaise sauce $5.00. We will at

times advertise extra lunch treats in the newsletter

and Qkr.

• COOKIES. I am happy to be able to reduce the price

of cookies back to $1.00.

Showdown Donuts:

• Balfours Crows and Port Power Donuts will be

available on Friday 11 May 2018 for $3.00. Orders

can be made via the Qkr app under "Special Food

Day" or the classroom lunch crates. Please specify

CROWS or PORT POWER and if your child would like

them for LUNCH (delivered in the lunch crates) or

RECESS (students to collect from the canteen). They

will also be available over the counter at recess and

lunch until all sold out.

Wednesday after school ice blocks:

• The canteen will NOT be open afterschool in Terms 2

and 3 due to the winter months. It will reopen in

Term 4 leading up to summer.

Volunteer Roster:

• Please let me know if you are available during Term

2, especially Thursdays and Fridays. As always, we

provide tea/coffee and lunch for all volunteers. It’s

a lovely way to meet new parents and your

children get so excited seeing you at recess and

lunch.

Kate Majewski, Canteen Manager

RESOURCE CENTRE

Thank you to families for returning books that were borrowed

for the holiday break. All books borrowed last term are now

due back and will be marked overdue on the computer

system (as loans are for two weeks only). If you need a title

extended, please bring the book into the Resource Centre so

we can re-scan it for you. We hope you enjoyed some holiday

reading.

Monitors: Year 7 library monitors play

an important role in the smooth

running of the library. They are

trained to use the Access-It Library

System, which allows them to manage

borrowing and returning during lunch

times and before school. Our

monitors also re-shelve books,

support students during lunch time

activities and help with displays. Congratulations to the

following monitors who have completed five duties and have

earned their library monitor’s badge:

Montien, Isaac, Annie, Jasreet, Alannah, Asher, Rayan, Alicia,

Aaditya, Mercedes, Adelaide, Luke, Ayla, Bethany, Mikayla,

Dakota, Oxford, Charlotte and Lily.

Congratulations and thank you to these students.

Resource Centre Staff

SPORTS

Auskick commences at Stradbroke School on

Tuesday 8 May visit play.afl/auskick to

register.

Netball commences on Saturday 5 May 2018.

Football commences Saturday 12 May 2018. The year 2/3

team requires additional team member please see Student

Services for a Registration form.

Soccer commences Saturday 12 May 2018. We have a 9 Year

division and 12+Year division playing in Term 2 and 3. Please

see student services if you would like to join either team.

Tickets will be available from your class teacher from the Monday 14th May and

must be purchased by 9am on Friday 25th May.

Please note: No tickets will be available at the door.

Your ticket gives you:

• Entry into the disco

• A drink (can of soft drink or bottle of water)

Disco items will be available for purchase on the night – priced from $2-$5

The Chez Coffee Van will be selling coffee to parents in the Koonga Quad

from 6.00pm-8.00pm.

We are looking for parents/grandparent volunteers to help sell drinks and

disco items at the R-3 and 4-7 disco sessions. If you are able to help out at

either disco please let Sarah Button know at the Front Office. Thank you.

Friday 25th May 2018

Venue: Rehn Hall

For students at Stradbroke School only

Reception to Year 3: 5.30pm-6.30pm

Year 4 to Year 7: 7.00pm-8.15pm

Tickets $5

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WORDS Michael Grose

© 2015 Michael Grose

Developing your child’s social

media scriptsIt’s important to start conversations with children about using social media

at a young age to prepare them to be savvy users when we’re not around.

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“If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing

well.”

This mantra always pops into mind

whenever I’m about to cut some corners

or do a rushed job in any endeavour. As a

result I double-check every article I write

for mistakes. I over prepare every talk I

give. And I continually edit and re-edit my

books. This message keeps me at the top

of my game.

I can thank, or blame, my mother for

inserting this mantra in my mind as she

repeated it whenever I did a rushed job

as a youngster making my bed, doing

homework or cleaning up my bathroom

mess.

Parents of every generation have always

found ways to frame messages of

safety and success for their children to

remember. Parents of past generations

who only had to contend with the offl ine

or real world intuitively knew that they

needed to teach child important lessons

about safety and manners rather than

assume they’ll be understood.

The same maxim holds true for the world

of social media that children now inhabit

from an increasingly young age. Even

though our children are growing up

with technology as a part of their every

day lives, they will still make plenty of

mistakes while using it. This means we

need to have direct conversations with

our kids about the comments and posts

that are okay to make using social media

of all forms.

As parents we teach our kids to talk

politely and clearly so that they know

how to speak to others when we’re not

around. In eff ect, we give our kids social

scripts to fall back on when they talk to

friends, teachers and relatives. There’s

no guarantee they’ll look an adult in the

eye when they speak to them, but our

discussions, reminders and lessons about

manners will hopefully hold up when

we’re not around.

The same applies to social media. Our

conversations and lessons will prepare

them to be savvy users when we’re not

around. Here are some ideas to get you

started:

1 “Is this worth posting?”

The relatively impersonal nature of

social media means that we can post

information and pictures with relative

immunity. Also its immediacy means

that we can do so without much

thought. This means that kids need to

be very critical about what they see

online. ‘Is this accurate?’ and ‘Is this

worth posting?’ are two valid questions

children can ask when they read posts

placed by others.

2 “Have you taken a big breath?”

A child who blurts out everything that

comes into his mind without thinking

is sure to put plenty of people off side.

‘Think before you speak’ is the type of

message that every child should have

in mind.

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The same applies to social media.

Just because they think something

doesn’t mean they post it. ‘Take a

big breath’ may just about be the

most important message to give

your kids about social media.

3 “Do you want the principal

to see this?!”

An invitation to a teenage birthday

party posted on social media is one

way to get more attendees than

you bargained for! The viral nature

of social media means that kids

should only post messages and

photos that they want to be spread

and read by a large audience.

4 “How does this post make

you feel?”

We need to teach kids that not

every post needs to be commented

upon and not every thought needs

to be shared, particularly when they

are angry. Teaching them to walk

away and then to step back in when

they’ve calmed down is perhaps

the most important communication

lesson of all. It is very relevant to

social media as emotions are often

the last thing on many people’s

minds when they haphazardly post

a message.

5 “How will you fi x this?”

Social media just like any social

space requires kids to behave

ethically and with kindness. When

kids overstep the mark and post

hurtful things then it’s fair that they

fi x their mistakes, and apologise.

It’s reasonable that we teach our

children to act with tolerance

and with empathy online, and if

mean things are posted then they

should be expected to try to repair

relationships through social media,

just as they should offl ine.

I agree with Galit Breen author of

Kindness Wins who says that parents

should have conversations with

children around social media before

they reach the teenage years. Starting

these conversations when they are

younger means that they are more

open to our parenting opinions, as

well as being a little more amenable

to the messages of tolerance, kindness

and empathy that we need to

encourage.

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