Hahndor f Primar y School and Preschool

Term 2 Week 8 22nd June 2017

The Room 3 Report!!

Room 3’s main focus is everything really, mainly literacy and maths. To reinforce these focuses they have spelling and maths groups. This helps by having some people that are good at maths and/or spelling, and some that are not quite at that level, because the people that are not as strong in maths/spelling can get help from the people that are stronger in maths/spelling. They are all at the level that they should be at for their age. They practise other subjects by doing lots of activities.

Room 3 has thoroughly enjoyed the long walk. The reasons that they have enjoyed the long walk shall be further explained. They have enjoyed the long walk because it shall keep you fit, many of the students enjoy walking, and the final reason is that they enjoyed climbing over the fences. In ‘Play is the Way’ Room 3 has been working on resilience and teamwork. They have been working through these by playing these games; Islands, Pegasauraus and Gift Ball. With their buddy class (Room 9) they have been making puppets, tri-arama’s, and kites, as well as playing outside together. Something unique about Room 3 is that they have had a bird fly into their classroom five times.

By Brad and Jake

Room 4 Alison and Lindy

Room 4’s main focuses are: art, science, gardening, english and history. In art they have been doing one point perspectives of roads leading into green pine forests and mountain ranges. Crazy, abstract and normal self portraits. During science, Room 4 have been making different types of slime, and vinegar rockets that popped off their hands. Across the road from Hahndorf Primary School there is a school garden, most classes have their own garden bed,

and Room 4 have been weeding the gardens and planting broccoli, onions and cucumber. During garden sessions they have been picking and selling fresh strawberries. In english, Room 4 have been working on hand writing skills and how grammar changes sentences.

By Fynn, Callum and Lucy

What’s up in room 6?

In term 2, Room 6 has been up to a lot of hard work with their growth mindset posters and their STEM problems. Room 6 has also been doing some work on their Daily 5, by reading to self,

reading to someone else and writing a story.

STEM In STEM Room 6 have been working on this problem. The

problem is that Ms Moehle needs to know the time so she’s not late for school. There is no power or batteries and there’s no power in the town. She also doesn’t have time to walk, what

could she do? Can you work it out? Growth Mindset

In the growth mindset Room 6 have been setting goals and are trying to achieve them in the near future.

Here are some of them, I am not good at my multiplication facts yet but with practise I

will be. By Devon I am not great at setting my goals but I will get better.

By Eloise.

By Amy-Lee, Monique and Ruby

This term, Room 8 has been working on their maths and spelling.

In spelling they have especially been working on their comprehension and they have been learning to write book reviews. Eli and Matt enjoy learning new words every week with their reading groups and Alison likes writing sentences with their weekly words. Room 8 has also started a 40 book reading challenge that they are working towards finishing it before the end of the term.

In their maths class, they have been focusing on learning measurement and area. They have been measuring daily objects in their classroom and using grid paper to calculate area. Room 8 has also been working on a times table challenge where they need to learn a specific table and if their class is successful they get to watch a movie!

Room 8 has been working on some fabulous Aboriginal themed artwork displayed in their class. They have made paper snakes and boomerangs decorated with Aboriginal designs.

Some comments students made were;

My favourite thing I have done this year is trying to reduce plastic in the school with the Green Team. – Radha My favourite thing I learnt is new times tables. - Alex I’m looking forward to learning more about Indigenous culture.

By Abbey, Leo P and Holly

Room 8 Miss Gleeson

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Room 9 Alison Marsh

Room 9s major focus this term is the Olyphant Awards in the subject STEM, all the kids in Room 9 have been enjoying stem and constructing their Olyphant Awards. This Olyphant Award was made and constructed by Lewis, Matilda and Oskar. They all enjoyed making this.

Long walk

Room 9 liked the long walk and I’m sure the other classes did too. The year sevens from Room S7 and the year sixes from Room 5 enjoyed it because it was enjoyable and they all got to see their friends and walk with them for a day and have lots of fun.

Play is the way

Room 9 have been doing Play is the Way. The students favourite game to play is space ships and aliens. They liked it because they had to work in pairs and tell the other person to come towards you and direct them from the obstacles blind folded.

By Alan, Zoe and Fergus

Room 5’s Main Learning Projects In this week’s newsletter we are visiting classrooms to find their main focus for this term. We have been chosen to interview Room 5 which is our classroom. Our classroom’s main focus is literacy.

The Room 5 students have recently finished a project to improve their literacy and vocabulary skills. The task was to finish a whole page of descriptive writing based on a picture that they had drawn.

It had to be exactly a page and have lots of interesting words that they’d not usually use in their everyday writing. The reason for the activity was to expand their vocabulary and think more about the amount of words to use in certain tasks. This activity also helps with the ability to describe an image.

Room 5 has also worked on an ANZAC day art/ writing project. They had to write a poem on war as well as a paragraph on what they thought ANZAC Day was about. Then they got a photo copy of a soldier In front of a lined background and had to draw patterns and drawings about ANZAC Day and wars. In doing this the students learned a bit more about ANZAC Day and they also had to complete their work by a certain time period.

By Felix and Sharmia

S7 class - Mrs Rixon

By Tahnee & Sterre In the S7 class they have been learning about the long walk. The year 6/7’s have also done a long walk play at assembly that you may have seen. We have been interviewing some students about the play and the long walk.

The S7 class have been respecting the pioneer women that walked to the markets in Adelaide and back twice a week, bare foot in bad conditions, carrying bricks and goods.

We interviewed James from Room S7, about Sean Choolburra. James said he was very entertaining, very enjoyable, he had a funny personality and he involved everyone. We enjoyed Juju On That Beat and Gammin Style and his groovy dance moves and music. We also loved his dragonfly dance and we loved learning about his culture.

SAPSASA Netball

Congratulations to the team on their first round win against St Michael’s. They now progress to the second round playing Lobethal Primary School on Thursday 6th July. We wish them all the best.

District Representatives

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected for Barker District sports.

Netball: Nicola

Football: Baxter, Kurt, Ethan, Cooper

Soccer : Amy-Lee, Sterre, Zoe, Anna

Hockey: Trinity

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Sunday 18th June at Victoria Park was the first Pedal Prix race for 2017. We have one team of 9 students riding in a new look Red Baron. The students rode very well and it was a great day. Thank you for the amazing effort to each and every rider and also to the managers and parents for a wonderful day. Great team work!

Pedal Prix was fabulous. I got to go last and finish the race. The atmosphere was crazy in a good way and I would recommend it for other people. Cameron, Rm 5

Pedal Prix is a great experience and is loads of fun. I liked the challenge. Amy-Lee, Rm 5

On Sunday I completed in the Victoria Park 6 hour Pedal Prix race. I was really excited and proud of my efforts when we came 172th overall. Abbey, Rm 5

I arrived at the race a little nervous but full of excitement. When the race started, a girl crashed right in front of our tent which made me even more nervous. When I was in the car, all I thought about was catching the person in front of me. I loved sitting in the corner watching all the crashes happen. I came out of the day with many memories and many more challenges to come my way. Cooper, Rm S7

HAHNDORF NETBALL CLUB

NetSetGo Program Netball skills for 5 to 7 year olds

Starts 1st August 2017 (Tues week 2)

From 3.30pm for a 6 week program

At Hahndorf Primary School courts

Run in corporation with Netball SA

Email lauren.nitschke@hotmail.com for link to register

Enquires: call Lauren on 0433 875 023

FOR SALE

The school no longer requires this TV/Video Recorder/DVD Video

player.

If you would like it, please come and make an offer. Jenni would love to hear

from you.

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Term 2 Week 8 22nd June 2017

IMPORTANT DATES

Tuesday 26th June Red Group Dress Up Day

Friday 30th June Blue Group African Drumming Performance

Tuesday 4th July Red Group Assembly

Friday 7th July Last Day of Term 2pm Finish

Monday 24th July Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 25th July First Day of Term

“Look at my pattern. It goes blue, green, red, yellow, blue, green, red, yellow” Freya

“We went to the big school. There is a big rocky bridge. We climbed a huge tyre” Mason

“I liked going on the vegetable hunt. We went through the cubby houses, across the bridge, over the tyre and balanced on the logs. There are lots of vegetables in the school garden. I ate spinach!” Edith

“I can smell the mint on my fingers” Sadie

“I made a robot with different shapes” Henry

“I made a dinosaur. It has a long neck and spikes” William

Thank you to the parents who attended an interview last week. It was a fantastic opportunity to discuss our learning framework and the children’s wellbeing.

On Friday 30th June, the African Drumming Team will be coming to perform at the school. The Preschool children (Blue Group) will also be watching the performance. Please ensure that consent forms are returned to the front office ASAP.

On Tuesday 4th July, the Red Group will be joining their buddies to host the school assembly. We will be singing a song and showing some artwork. Please join us in the school gym at 2:25pm.

It would be great to have donations of cardboard boxes and clean recycling items for the children to be able to use for ‘making’. Please do not send any toilet rolls or anything that has contained nuts.