Prescott Primary Northern eNewsletter

Space Jam

Year 4 Excursion to Morialta Nature Playground

On Friday 18th October, the Year 4's went on an excursion to Morialta Nature Playground. The purpose for the Excursion was to teach the students safe play and to make them aware that they can use their local community to engage in physical activity.

Robogals

Robogals is an initiative by Adelaide University to encourage more students (girls in particular) to consider careers in Engineering, Computer Science and Robotics. On Tuesday, ROBOGALS visited the Year 4/5 STEM Enrichment groups for an incursion about robotics. The students had lots of fun learning how to code their EV3 Lego robots to do simple tasks like move in a square. By the end of the day, the students had developed more complex coding skills, so their robots could be involved in team sumo battles. At the end of the day, Rudra, Dhrupad and Sean and their robot named Glados were the clear victors!
Mrs. Vice

Drive Through Update

North Wing Update

I hope I never really grow up. Just saying . . . . For many years I have been around kids – at work and at home and there is something contagious about their love for life and learning, being involved, and generally just getting into life. As a high school teacher for a couple of decades I have often reflected on how we, as a community, a family, an education system, a society, somehow squeeze so much of that child-like playfulness out of our children. It may be that we “have” to lose some of it as we mature, control our emotions and interact carefully with others. However, I think the eagerness to learn, willingness to have a go and just enjoy life is something I am really keen to keep alive in the school experience of our kids.

This week, we are celebrating Science Week here at Prescott Northern and there are all sorts of activities for the kids with rocket making competitions, space-themed treasure hunts, photo booth with pictures on the moon, STEM Club rocket launches at lunchtime and a mobile planetarium, to name a few. Watching and listening to the excitement of the children as they are involved in the learning, I have again been reminded of how important it is that I never really grow up. I am reminded how I need to keep that love of learning, that excitement in finding something new, that is so evident in the young ones – the joy of learning and life.

It also reminds me of something Jesus once said to some adults he was talking to. Matthew chapter 18 says, “He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” What a powerful lesson for me. I need to treasure and cultivate my child-like faith, my joyful, child-like heart, humility and easily aroused sense of wonder.

There we go. . . . It’s happened again. . . . The children have taught me another lesson . . . . Thanks, students!

Have a great week with your kids,

Mark B

Community Connections

Carol McCloud wrote a book called, “Have You Filled a Bucket Today?”

This book encourages positive behaviour as children see how very easy and rewarding it is to express kindness, appreciation and love daily.

Connecting with community allows our Student Chaplains to show appreciation to different services in the community and it was decided that the Holden Hill Police Command would be a great place to start.

The student chaplains took a BIG box of apples and small chocolates down to Holden Hill Police Command last Friday. Senior Sergeant Coen and Sergeant Ben were ecstatic and kept thanking the students for dropping in. They said that most people just come to the police station to complain. The Sergeant’s spent time with the student chaplains asking questions and even took a group photo that was used in the Police News.

The bus was abuzz on the way back to school as the students were also excited about the response that they had received from the Police Sergeants. It was a great Community Connecting event where everyone’s buckets were filled.

Try encouraging someone today and experiencing firsthand joys of bucket filling.

Have a good week,

Chaplain Phil

Last week, we talked about Resilience and this week we honoured several students from all the classes in our school for demonstrating this value.

Ryan, Lucas, Atong, Lucas H, Grithik, Ruby, Nurleen, Finley, Xavian, Amelia, Rian, Harnoor, Harroop, Kareem, Taneesha, Navya, Anantpreet and Mia (absent)

Sophia, Sairitesh, Ekam, Jaskaran, Saicharan, Chloe, Hasini, Charlie, Nicholas, Cameron, Eva, Gabrielle, Daniel, Isabel, Blake, Morgan, Henry (absent) and Asha (absent)

2020 Year Level Teachers

Planning for 2020 has been underway for quite some and we have now finalised classroom teachers for next year. There have been some changes as you will see in the list below. We will no longer have a Year 7 class here at Prescott Primary Northern, but we will have 3 classes per year level up to, and including, Year 3 in 2020. We will put some info in about new staff members over the coming weeks.

Foundation
Mr Matt Mackay
Mrs Chrissi Alexopoulos and Mrs Chantel Hann
Mrs Chelsea Daian and Mrs Chantel Hann

Year 1
Ms Ruth Acuna
Mrs Lisa McGrath and Mrs Emily Primer
Mrs Rebecca Bell and Mrs Emily Primer

Year 2
Miss Sharney Truscott
Mrs Angela Watson
Mrs Kelly Pridmore and Mrs Colleen Hodgkin

Year 3
Mr Walter Fabello
Mrs Karen Frear
Mrs Siobhain West and Mrs Dianne Jose

Year 4
Mr Glendon Harris
Miss Shaina Walsh

Year 5
Mrs Kerri Charity
Mrs Sarah White and Mrs Abby Davis

Year 6
Mrs Shelley Charleson & Mrs Melissa Isaac
Mr Sam Blackeby

Summer Uniform

From Monday 29th October full Summer uniform is required. Please note our Summer uniform policy:

GIRLS UNIFORM

Regulation Summer Dress
White ankle school socks or knee high socks
Black lace up or buckled polished school shoes or Brown School Sandals (Optional)
Royal Blue V-neck school jumper with school logo
School Hat with school logo
Blue or white hair ties, scrunchies, ribbons or hairclips.

BOYS UNIFORM

Blue short sleeve shirt with school logo
School grey shorts (Cargo shorts are not permitted)
School grey trousers
Grey ankle or knee high socks
Black lace-up polished school shoes or
Brown school sandals (optional)
Royal blue V-neck school jumper with school logo
School Hat with school logo

GIRLS & BOYS SPORTS UNIFORM

Navy polo short sleeve T-shirt with school logo
Navy rugby knit shorts
Track & field sports jacket with school logo
White sports socks
Sports shoes (sneakers)
School Hat with school logo

School hats are to be worn all year round for all outside activities and play.

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will be closed this Friday 25th October. Orders can still be made through flexischools.com.au

Fun Run

Donations towards the Fun Run can now be made through flexischools.com.au

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Bus Requirements for 2020

If you are requiring the bus service for your child in 2020, please complete the online form below to register your interest. Demand is very high for our bus service and many of the routes have been full this year so it is very important that you register your interest as soon as possible to secure a spot on our buses.

Full time bus fees per term: $290 per child
Part time bus fees per term: $195 per child (part time is one way, either to school each day or from school each day)

PPN Bus Application Form 2020