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Choir trip to Berri
On 25 to 26 August, the Prescott Primary Northern school choir went on an overnight trip to Berri in the Riverland. We travelled up by bus and presented our musical ‘The Runaway’ for the members at the Berri SDA Church. The students did very well and we received some positive comments about how loud and clear their words were in the songs. The Church members put on a delicious lunch for us which we enjoyed before we headed off to a playground in Barmera. The weather was perfect as the students explored the interesting equipment and went for a walk along the lake. After our evening meal, Mr Davis organized a fun games night for everyone. It was great to have some of the local church members join us.
We woke up Sunday morning ‘reasonably’ well rested to a cold, foggy day. Everyone was keen to have our yummy breakfast and then we packed up ready to drive to the Monash playground. The Maze and Big Swing were popular activities, even some of the teachers got to have a turn before we travelled to Renmark for lunch.
It was a great weekend. A big thank you to Mr Borresen, Mr Davis, Mr Mackay, Mrs Stackelroth, Mrs Howard and Casey Wood for all of their help.
Dianne Jose
(Choir Coordinator)
Year 6 Visits to Prescott College
Year 6 students have been regularly attending Prescott College to be extended in the areas of Design and Technology, Mathematics and Science by specialist teachers and high school facilities. This will continue throughout this term, to enable all students to design and produce a pot stand, investigate chemical and physical changes in the laboratories and be challenged in mathematics.
Year 6 - Poetry in Action
Last week Year 6 students, with the College Drama and English students, attended an enthusiastic performance by the theatre company ‘Poetry in Action’ at Prescott College. The students thoroughly enjoyed learning about the power of language through poetry.
Year 7 Excursion to Lochiel Park and Lightsview
On Tuesday, the Year 7's visited Lochiel Park and Lightsview to explore and investigate the innovative and sustainable design decisions that had been made to create a modern livable space. We compared these relatively new suburbs to our own suburbs and saw the ways in which people are planning spaces to protect the environment, encourage community and reduce waste and pollution. The Year 7's will use this experience to develop their own future city ideas.
"I enjoyed learning about how you can use the natural environment to help filter the wastewater" -Youssef
"I liked how the public spaces encouraged to exercise." -Birthday girl, Caitlin
"I was surprised at how many playgrounds were available at Lightsview" - Ava
"I liked how the public toilet played music." - Lula
"I liked how the new playgrounds had fun and interactive equipment." - Amber
This weekend it’s Father’s Day and I would like us to celebrate good fatherhood. With the wave of advertising and information that is now hitting our children, we need to ensure we present them with role models that encapsulate the good and honourable things they need to see and know, to be able to emulate and also be secure around. This also means examples in work habits, resiliency and learning. I think of my own dad who continues to do this for me. I think of learning attitudes. Dad is in his eighties now and still reads widely and has even taken to the web to spread his horizons. I love the way he is not afraid to have a go at new things, like what he calls "The Facebook” so he can keep in touch with what is happening in the lives of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. So here’s to good fathering, may there be much more of it – for our children’s sakes. Proverbs 20:7 “The godly walk with integrity; blessed are their children who follow them.”
Please enjoy and share the article below from Michael Grose on the importance of fathers of integrity.
“Kids need good men in their lives
While rummaging through my bookshelves at home recently I stumbled across Romulus, My Father by Raimond Gaita, a book that had a huge impact on me as a father.
Romulus, My Father is a lovingly told memoir of a hard-working father who remained faithful to his family and friends despite his wife’s affairs, her mental illness and dealing with the hardships of earning a living in 1950s and '60s rural Australia. It’s a tale of love, friendship and character.
One line in the book, “I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father,” struck an instant chord with me. It was a reminder that kids need to have close experiences with men who have real depth of character and strength if they are to adopt those qualities themselves and also look for them in partners.
Role models of quality
Sadly, children and young people are less likely to see these qualities in many of our current political leaders and other public figures. Self-interest and shallowness of character, at least in a public sense, seems to be standard fare at present.
Like Gaita, I had the good fortune to have a father who was also a good man. He wasn’t wealthy, famous or ambitious. Rather he was kind, considerate and generous. He had experienced an unhappy and – I suspect though he never spoke of it – abusive childhood but he was determined that his children would never experience the same treatment that he received.
As a disciplinarian he was soft but that didn’t mean he was a pushover. He’d stand his ground with his children over issues that really mattered, such as how we siblings treated each other, displays of dishonesty and disrespect, and taking shortcuts in our studies or with work. He was a community-minded man who, through his example, taught his children the importance of serving and giving to those who didn’t have the same serving of luck that we did. He was also an involved father who, despite being busy, always had time to play cricket and football after work with my brother and me. He was never too busy for his children.
A compass and a map
Significantly, my father gave me my moral compass in the form of the value system that he lived by. His many sayings including his most popular mantra: “If you can’t say a good word about anyone don’t say anything at all”. That still rattles around in my head today. Through his active community involvement, his devotion to family and his propensity to have a good laugh, he gave me a map to follow on how to live a good life.
I don't have a monopoly on being raised by a good man. If you were raised by a good man then count your blessings because you had a wonderful head start in life. Your task is to make sure your father's legacy lives on in your own children. You’ll do that by being a man of strength and character, and by being a wise, loving presence in your children’s lives whatever their age.
If, through whatever circumstance, you didn’t have a good man close to you in your life as a child, then start the process with your own kids. Many men who have gone before you weren’t close to their own fathers, or had fathers who were ineffectual, but they became great fathers despite their circumstances.
With public life increasingly producing male role models of dubious quality, it's up to dads and other significant males in the lives of children and young people to be good men, strong men and men of honour.
That's the legacy that we leave.
Happy Father’s Day!” (Grose, 2018)
Have a great week with your kids,
Mark B
The Ultimate Dad!
Wade Boggs once said “Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.”
Fathers have the opportunity to play such a huge role in their children’s lives. They are an example to their children, they show their sons how to treat others and their daughters how they should expect to be treated. But there is one thing that for me, will always determine the difference between a Father and a Dad.
That one thing is simply love.
When it comes to God, this is something I have found easy to forget. Despite the song, “Yes, Jesus loves me… the Bible tells me so”, that I must have sung a hundred times. I easily manage to fall back into that mindset, where I think that God is with me, but He is currently holding this thing that I did against me, so He can’t possibly love me today, He can’t possibly want to be near me today.
But as parents, you would know that no mistake your child has made, could possibly stop you from loving them. You may not be impressed with them, but you love them more than they realise. Likewise, 1 John 3:1 says “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!” God loves us more than we can imagine too!
God doesn’t hold grudges, He loves us and wants the best for us. But when I say He loves us, I want you to know that it isn’t the flawed love that humans show, God’s love is perfect! In 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, it explains love is. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
Now I don’t know about you, but having someone I can trust, having someone who is always patient with me, having a God who doesn’t hold my mistakes against me, a God who is kind, who looks out for me, and is as patient with me as I need. That is a God, that I always want around. When I wake up, knowing that even though He is God and literally knows everything about me. He still chooses to love me, to forgive me, and to never give up on me.
No matter what I have done or what I will do, He doesn’t give up. He doesn’t stop loving me, and He hasn’t and won’t ever stop loving you!
How incredible is it that we can know completely, we can whole heartedly trust that God isn’t simply waiting for us to make a mistake to say “I told you so”. Instead He is there ready with arms open wide to accept you and to love you UNCONDITIONALLY!
I couldn’t ask for a better God, a better heavenly Dad. He is definitely the ultimate, and loves you and accepts you no matter what.
Hope Born, Chaplain
Last week, we talked about "Service (Home)" and this week we honoured several students from all the classes in our school for demonstrating this value.
Our values program this year is focused on RESPECT, INTEGRITY, SERVICE, and EXCELLENCE shown through His children and people at Prescott Northern. “Up, Up and Away says it all because with God’s values… we will rise!!!
“Rise up and shine, for your light has come.
The shining greatness of the Lord has risen upon you."
Isaiah 60:1
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Welcome to the world, Elise Josephine Harder
On Thursday the 23rd of August, Mrs Harder and her family welcomed their beautiful baby girl, Elise Josephine Harder, into the world. Our Prescott Community wishes Mrs Harder and her family all the very best as they enjoy this new chapter in their lives!
Tough Times Together 
You may have noticed a new option in flexischools when going to order lunches or uniforms.
We’ve all been through challenging times (or at least I have). And for me, it would have meant so much to have the support of a community when I did go through that. The Tough Times Together initiative was created for exactly that, to enable us as a school community to come together and support families when they are going through tough times. If you would like to contribute you are welcome to do so through flexischools, it will go towards food, travel and other expenses for families needing the support during a challenging time.
If you have any questions, you can contact me at hopeborn@ppn.sa.edu.au
Hope Born
School Chaplain
Missing Apple Air Pods
A pair of our student’s personal “Apple Air Pods” went missing at school at the end of last term and still have not been located. These are quite valuable items and obviously missed by the owner. If they have been mistakenly picked up and taken home, we would really appreciate that they be returned to the Front Office so we can pass them on to the correct owner.
Is Your Child Well Enough to be at School Today?
Absentee
If your child is unwell, please inform the Front Office either in person, by sms 0429 557 989 or by email reception@ppn.sa.edu.au (please note that the sms service does not allow us to respond).
If your child is unwell for 3 or more days, please provide the Front Office with a Sickness Certificate.
If you are planning for your child to have 3 or more days off for any reason, please complete an Exemption Form (available from the Front Office or download from Schoolzine website or app).
It is a government requirement that we know why your child is absent from school.
Book Week Thank You Messages
Thank you to all the parents and family members who put in such an enormous effort with our Book Week celebrations this year! The parade on Friday was a lot of fun and filled with colour.
I feel very proud of our students with the manner in which they participated. We are almost too big to fit in the hall anymore! Well done students of Prescott Primary Northern.
The Book Week Snack Shop was also a great success. I would like to thank all the students for their patience when waiting to be served. I would especially like to thank Ella H, Erika I and Mia W for their amazing help and ability to think quickly in our busy sales lunchtime.
Mrs. Heidik was an amazing help with putting away library books ALL WEEK to help me keep up! Thank you. She also helped to sort our Mrs. Wegener’s spare costumes for students who did not get one organized. Thank you to Mrs Sam Hann also for helping with the costumes. There are so many kind people in our school.
I would also like to give a huge thank you to Pr. Braden and Miss Born for their help before the Book Week Dress Up Parade began. They helped to get the hall ready for us all. Pr. Matt also helped to put up the letters “Find Your Treasure” because he is very tall!
The Book Fair was visited by many families and we sold almost $2,300 worth or books and stationary. Thank you. Our school gets 30% of that back in new books for our library collection.
Competitions
The lolly guessing jars were won by Charlie W (Foundation/1), Jackson B (Year 2/3), Allaire B (Year 4/5), and Ellie W with Garima S (Year 6/7).
Darcee V and Kim L shared the prize for guessing the right amount of gold coins in the jar, (106). They guessed 108! They shared a voucher for spending at the Book Fair.
Premier’s Reading Challenge
ALL reading challenges are due to Mrs. Wegener by next Friday, September 7th.
Plastic Bags
Mrs. Wegener needs more plastic bags for the spare bag bin. Thank you
Author and Illustrator, Mandy Foot, visited our school on August 21st
PPN Basketball 
RED PANDAS stung by Hornets
Prescott’s newly-renamed Red Pandas started well against Highbury’s Hornets last week.
Early on in the game, the Red Pandas trailed by only 3 points, but, too often gave up easy shots, and soon slipped further behind. They were unable to challenge the swarming Hornets on the scoreboard for the rest of the game.
The first half saw Seth pull his socks up and, in what may be his signature move, weave through the entire opposition, dribbling the ball from one end to the other - and talk about a notable pair of socks, Seth was sporting an awesome looking, team-inspiring red and white striped pair. Zukiah, arriving after ball-up, took to the court and, along with Scout were the only two first-half Red Panda scorers.
Otherwise, the Red Pandas seemed infested by the Hornets, struggling, at times, to clear the half way line.
Farid managed some rebounds and a steal, while Seth, Jonah and Zukiah all scored in the second half. Alanna, defending strong, notched up 4 fouls by game’s end, but the Red Pandas, minus Simon, failed to find any real rhythm throughout.
This week’s game is at 5:15 on Court-1.
Coach HATCHARD
CEC
Pathfinders
Ingle Farm Little Athletics
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