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Issue 6 2018

6 September 2018

In week 4 the year 8 students of KICE attended their camp which was a cultural camp in Adelaide.

We based ourselves at Warradale campsite and then travelled daily into the city.

Our first day included the Botanic Gardens and the Zoo. Day two was the Art Gallery, Museum, Rundle Mall and the Central Markets.

We had a lovely Asian meal at a restaurant on the second evening and then did The Amazing Race around Adelaide on day three.

This is what some of our students had to say:

“ We went to different places we don’t visit often which was fun, exciting and adventurous” Isabelle C.

“I liked the food at the restaurant” Adam K

“ The teachers were great company and it was good to get out and about in the city.” Zahlia C

“ I enjoyed seeing all the plants at the Botanic Gardens and the animals at the Zoo.” Candice W

Upcoming Events

11 Sept Governing Council Meeting

13 Sept KICE Music Showcase 19-21 Sept KICE Year 9 Camp

24-26 Sept Stage 2 Outdoor Ed Camp 27 Sept Global Market @ Kingscote Campus 9-10:30am

28 Sept Early dismissal for end of term 15 Oct Term 4 Commences

From the Principal Dear Parents,

I hope you enjoyed our mid-

newsletter flyer outlining why

KICE was recognized as

Regional School of the Year. I

intentionally put this out to our

community as we sometimes

bypass opportunities to celebrate

and promote what’s going well.

I have a personal goal this year

to further develop public relations, it’s important to

promote the effective teaching and learning

programs we have in place. You can help to be the

billboard for KICE, what you say and how you share

our

achievements can make a big difference to your child

and the wider community. If there is something

about which you are concerned always let us know

so we can work together, aiming for a positive

outcome. Our recent external review further

confirmed we are continually improving. The review

team met with over 100 students, 60 staff and parent

representative groups from all three campuses. The

highlight for me was the strong evidence gathered

around relationships between staff, students and

families. Effective relationships are paramount,

THANK YOU for the role you play in building and

fostering our connections, working together is

making a significant difference.

Maxine

Year 8 Cultural Camp

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Kingscote Campus from Peter Philp

It is now term 3 week 7 and while we are immersed in 2018, we are also intensely planning for 2019. This is highlighted by the 2019 Year 11 and 12 subject selection process which

has started. Students will soon receive face to face information from teachers about possible subjects for 2019. The 2019 Curriculum Guide booklet is currently being produced. There will be parent information sessions followed by the 3-way student, parent and staff interviews to sign off on final subject selections.

I would like to mention and highlight the Learning Band assemblies that are held throughout the term at Kingscote Campus.

The Early Years (R-5) currently have these in weeks 3, 6 & 9; the Middle Years( 6 – 9) hold them every 2 weeks on even weeks of the term and the Senior Years (10- 12) have 2 assemblies a term at varying times.

The above assemblies are a fantastic opportunity for students to share their work and achievements accompanied with some respectful fun situations. These assemblies also develop students’ skills and confidence in public speaking, presenting, adaptability, team work and organisational skills. All these attributes come under what are called “soft skills” which are skills transferable to nearly all jobs and careers.

We have started the finals rounds of Netball and Football and recently I have spoken to the Middle and Senior Years’ students re

being good winners and “losers.” It is important to try doing your best, it is one of the five KICE values. We must also keep in perspective that at the end of the day, community sport is just a game and that we are lucky to have it in our great democratic country, not all countries have this luxury. As adults we need to role model good sporting attitudes as winners and “losers” to our children.

Good luck to all clubs in the current sporting finals.

Peter Philp

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Bookweek

There were pirates, sharks, princesses, crayons, knights and even Andy running around the school last week during Book Week.

The Frog and Pelican classes joined together for a QR code scavenger hunt. We needed to find the clues and scan them to find our next clue. We also drew a map of the playground and designed our own treehouse. One of our stops was to visit Mr Philp to show him our wonderful treehouse designs. The final spot was the library where we met Pirate Rosie for a special treasure. It was a special book mark.

The Primary classes met for an exciting parade at the Rec Centre. There were lots of different characters and it was nearly a book scene for “Where’s Wally”.

By the Frog Class

For Book Week, students in Stage 1 Essential English put their learning into practice in their recent unit of work on the development of early-childhood literacy through sharing stories. Students participated in an excursion to Kangaroo Island Children’s Services to read to the Kangas, sharing a range of picture books. It was a great way to kick-off the week-long celebration of reading and literature.

Claire Mincham-Trowbridge

Last term, Mr Maywald’s Year 8 students and Mr Tilling’s Year 6 classes produced performances of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in Performing Arts with Miss Bell. The students worked to adapt the story from the original book by Roald Dahl, the original and new movies and the current stage musical. Year 8 students played the roles of the children, parents, grandparents and Willy Wonka, while the Year 6 students played the Oompa Loompas and

squirrels.

We were thrilled to have students from Penneshaw campus and Parndana campus join Kingscote students for two packed performances in the Performing Arts Centre! Thank you to everybody who came along to watch.

Year 6 students wrote the following reflection: “Our Year 6 class enjoyed

Charlie And The Chocolate Factory

because of the dances and it was our first

real play. We enjoyed having a real drama

teacher and making all of the props. Putting everything together was really fun

as well. Being Oompa Loompas and

squirrels was really fun. It was good to

have the Year 8s helping us because they

knew what they were doing. The Year 8s had the main parts but the Oompa

Loompas put in lots as well.”

Charlie & The Chocolate Factory

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‘Going Bush’ Excursion

Week 2 was the first week of Middle Years’ lunchtime sports. The first

sport was Basketball. A dominant first game from Harriet defeating Chapman with a score of 17 – 2. Second game was close low scoring

game, with Chapman defeating Cygnet 4 – 3. In the final game it was a

close one with Harriet carrying on with the victory defeating Cygnet,

with a score of 8-4. All the teams played at their best but sadly Cygnet didn’t win a single game. Chapman won one game but Harriet came out

winning two games, in a dominant day. We thank all the people who

came and supported their teams. Week 3 followed up with another convincing day by Harriet who remain undefeated and look to take out

the title of MY Basketball Champions next week. Or can Chapman or

Cygnet provide an unlikely upset?

By Stefan G & Jayden C (year 8)

Kingscote MY Lunchtime Sports Bookweek @ Parndana

On Wednesday the 29th August the year 2 Geckos got lost in the bush.. Ah.. went on an excursion to a bush block at Stokes Bay. We have been learning about different bird species on Kangaroo Island, their life cycles and habitat. It was great to put our learning into action by bird watching and trying to spot the endangered glossy blacks. We also collected data about life in a natural setting and made predictions about the chances of seeing particular wildlife. Sadly we didn’t see any glossy blacks but enjoyed seeing a sleepy koala resting in a tree above. After all these amazing experiences the real highlight

was seeing a ‘baby plover’ back at school.

Jessica Sandeman

At Parndana, we are so excited by book week that we celebrate Book Term. The junior students, enjoy a different book each week, from the CBCA shortlists and an associated activity in their library lessons. The older students have devoured the books from the Older and Younger Reader lists. They have been thrilled by the quality of this year’s lists that the books have barely been returned, when they are gone again. The highlight of activities at Parndana is the book character parade, which is celebrated by all year levels and students and staff alike. It was particularly lovely to have our new Head of Campus, Matt Linn, become so fully immersed in the school’s activities.

Sharlene Noble

National Health & Physical Education Day

On Wednesday Penneshaw Campus celebrated National HPE Day with break time activities for all the students.

Students participated in relay races which involved jumping, throwing, aiming, running and team spirit.

Much fun was had by all.

Louise Snowball

Far Right: Makai P and;

Right: Cedar B enjoy the sack races.

Above: Thomas B, Nash P & Ethan M

Right: Ahlia S, Tigah D, Scarlett R & Stephanie W

It’s been a hustling and bustling last few weeks at Parndana Campus. We’ve had some fantastic learning experiences all round.

Our annual Book Week celebration was a great success with a huge number

of our students and staff getting involved with their “Find Your Treasure” themed outfits and costumes. Our classes across the school have been exploring the book week collections over the last term and have immersed themselves in the opportunity to read and enjoy literature. Week 6 was most certainly the week for dressing up (or down) as we also took part in a Pyjama Day fundraiser run by Scott Milne’s Year 4 Class. Much hilarity was had with our staff and students seeming slightly more snoozy than usual due to their relaxed attire. My cat onesie certainly set the tone for me for the

day.

We’ve had the pleasure of celebrating our Regional School of the Year award through a whole school BBQ. It was fantastic to come together as Campus for lunch and enjoy sharing in KICE’s recognition and achievement.

Kate Watters and our preschool team have been running a ‘Breakfast Buddies’ initiative on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. This initiative allows our R-2

students to come together and play and engage with others in our preschool space before school whilst having a bite of breakfast. It’s a fantastic opportunity for our preschool students to share with our R-2 students and promote a positive early years culture focusing on continuity of learning through Parndana Campus.

Our Year 3 - 10 students across Parndana

Campus have been measuring their learning

through the annual PAT testing process over the past week. PAT testing allows our

students to participate in reading and

mathematics exercises that helps to promote

understanding of their learning growth and development. It’s really exciting to see our

students owning their learning and

positively engaging in their progress, all enjoying the sense of achievement through

the recognition of their hard work through

their positive growth.

Matt

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Year 5/6 Classroom News

Parndana Campus—From Matt Linn

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Teepee Building

Student Leaders from the

Year 4 class – Rianna and Ava – have seen their vision

of a tepee for the primary

students become real. Thanks

to Mr. Westlake and the amazing Civic Construction

team for their really high

quality efforts and care in making this project happen. It

promises to give many

students for years to come a

‘kracken’ good time!

History

This term in Mrs Pattingale’s history class we have been learning about the road to Federation.

From the beginning of the first fleet in 1788 to when we federated in 1901. It has been really interesting and enjoyable.

One of the many highlights was kids-teaching-kids. We were put into groups of three and then we had 40 minutes each to

plan our own lesson. Following this we taught it to our other group members.

Science

This term in Mrs Bradford’s Science class we have been learning about Space. We have been learning about all eight planets and their temperature, size and many other things about the planets. We also learnt about a one way ticket to Mars. What’s going to happen is four people are going to be able to go to Mars for the rest of their life. Every two years after that two people will go.

PE

Last term in PE with Mrs Bradford we

learnt how to play European Handball.

You’re probably all wondering what that

is. Well, it’s basically a mix between Netball, Basketball and Soccer and it’s

really fun. At the end of the term we

were lucky enough to be able to go to

Kingscote to have a mini competition with

the Kingscote Yr 6 students and the Penneshaw Yr 5/6. It was really good to be

able to play competitively. This term we

are learning more about Volleyball and

hope to have an intercampus round robin tournament again.

By Oscar M (year 6)

Warming up for volleyball

Jack, Oscar and Callan researching planet facts

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Penneshaw Campus from Leanne Woods

Out and About

Greetings KICE Community,

You will by now have heard about the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) build that has been progressing smoothly at Penneshaw Campus. This is not a new build but a redevelopment of our old Science lab and the previous 789 home classroom. The plans are on

display in the front office. The build is scheduled for completion early next term, and once we have handover from Dept inspectors, we will be able to move in. That’s where the fun begins…

A new building itself does not bring change, this comes with learning and investigation by educators. Teachers have been working on special STEM projects enhancing our understanding of STEM. Liza Harrington and James Mignone have been working with other teachers across the state and four other KICE Teachers on the STEM 500 project. Their special focus has been mathematics. Katherine Smith and I have been working with Kristie Werner and Lauren Stewart from the Penneshaw Kindy on the STEM Bridge project, which focusses on how STEM learning in the preschool and school can be bridged to support continuous development of creativity and foster curiosity.

The STEM approach to learning and teaching gives students the opportunity to work on challenging problems and projects. Students will experience the STEM subjects and apply their skills in new ways using collaboration, problem-solving and interdisciplinary thinking. Hands on practical activities will help learners to experiment, use technologies, test ideas, and make and create innovative solutions to real and complex problems.

When it is ready, we will hold an open day/evening so that you can help us celebrate this new STEM facility and student learning.

For the remainder of this term I am taking Long Service Leave. Louise Swinney-Snowball will act as Head of Campus during this time. Thank you Louise!

PS the KICE Music Showcase is being held in Kingscote on Thursday evening September 13th. It’s a great opportunity to see the talents of so many of our students as they gather to create music. Please support our young musicians and go along.

Thank you to everyone who has supported the teaching and learning for students this term, here at Penneshaw.

Leanne

The 2/3/4 class have been busy in PE lessons enjoying a clinic from Volleyball SA. The students got to consolidate their skills learnt in PE lessons and refine them with a highly accomplished volleyball player, Patrick. Much fun was had by all and we have some budding volleyball players in our midst.

We also started gymnastics with Jo from KI Gymnastics who will be running a 4 week program with the class. Children worked on their core muscles and had fun whilst completing a skill circuit.

Louise Snowball

For History, we (the Year 6’s) got to choose our assignment; to create a report about an important person in Federation or make a newspaper front cover to convince people to vote YES for Federation in 1901.

In Art, we’re making research cubes about different artists. So far we’ve learned about Henri Matisse and Vincent Van Gogh, and we will learn about Pablo Picasso and Claud Monet. We’re also analysing artworks by these artists and making artworks inspired by the artists. Check out our Matisse inspired collages!

Elyssa Kreher

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Science Week

It has been an exceptionally busy week with lots of activities and student participation from Years R-12.

Students were able to participate in the daily notices quiz and for

Years 6-12 they also had a daily problem solving challenge. Years 3-12 had the opportunity to participate in making oobleck, rainbow milk and lava lamps during breaks in the laboratories. They also could enter the scavenger hunt and the sphero balloon popping competition. Alana Nolan’s 3/4’s learned how to drive the spheros and setup some amazing mazes to drive through.

I would like to thank Rachel Pillar, Samantha Blackmore and Erica Bolto for running activities during break

times. A huge thank you to Jo Griffith for all your help with the setup of these activities and lending a hand during these sessions.. And a big thank you to Sue Lovering who keeps the Quiz questions locked away safely until they are to appear in the daily notices, and Naomi Wallace-Mitchell for keeping Friday’s secure. Thanks Evan Maywald for taking photos. Also, thankyou Care Group teachers for encouraging and supporting your students.

Congratulations to Year 11A (Mr Cuddihy and Mrs Stewart) for winning the Daily Challenge Competition. The daily notices quiz was won by Mrs Kleins Year 1/2s, Ms McPherson’s Year 4/5’s, Mr Maywald’s 7/8’s and Mrs Cockshell’s Year 12’s. Brody F won the sphero balloon popping competition. Still another final to come for some Year 8 contestants.

Thanks everyone for your help and support throughout the week.

Kathy Keenan

Australian Playhouse comes to KICE On Monday 27th August R-12 students across the 3 campuses enjoyed "Shakespeare: As You Write It", a hilarious tribute to the plays of Shakespeare & “Red Robin Riding Hood”, a play challenging students to think about traditional gender roles, bravery and standing up for what's right.

These performances are a wonderful event in the KICE calendar & not to be taken for granted. For many students this is a rare opportunity to enjoy live theatre designed for their age group. Thanks to KICE for the continued support of the vital Expressive Arts program which has been running continuously for at least 30 years!!

Left: Raymond, Connie & Rachel from Australia Playhouse performing Red Rob-in Riding Hood

Below: Middle years ‘roadies’ helping Australia Playhouse pack up the set from their Shakespeare ‘As you Write It’ performance inspired by Ancient Rome, Shrek & ‘Lads’.

R-5’s having a spontaneous wiggle to the funny tunes of Australia Playhouse

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Community Links

Last Thursday, staff from across the three sites, including kindy and preschool, came together to engage in professional development primarily focused on moderation of student work and task design. We were able to work with presenters and service providers who support us regularly with preschool strategies, right through to senior secondary assessment.

Thanks to Parndana Campus for hosting the event, and a special thanks to Lucy’s KI Kitchen for

providing amazing food to keep us going all day.

Crystal Stewart Senior Leader, Learning Improvement Primary

Kangaroo Island Partnership

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Kangaroo Island Community Education

sponsored and supported by

Curriculum Corner

Police Visit

www.kice.sa.edu.au

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On Thursday 23rd August the Reception Caterpillars had a visit from the Police. We learnt about how they help us in our community. Cooper- My favourite thing was going in the police car. Dylan- My favourite thing was pressing the buttons to make the siren go. Rosie- My favourite thing was going in the car. Ivy- My favourite thing was getting in the backseat altogether with Ella, Finn and Ruby. Mason Fr- My favourite thing was pushing the buttons to make the sounds go loud. Ruby- My favourite thing was going outside. Abby- My favourite thing was looking at the back and going in the car. Charlie- My favourite thing the siren.

James- My favourite thing was laying in the back seat. Will- My favourite thing was pushing the siren and going in the police car. Ella- My favourite thing was going in the photo. Maia- My favourite thing was going into the car. Maliah- My favourite thing was being with everybody in the car. Charm- My favourite thing was hearing the siren and looking in the back of the car. Finn- My favourite thing was when we all went in together and I sat with Ivy. Jai- My favourite thing was being with lots of people. Tylor- My favourite thing was hearing the siren and making the different sounds. Poppy- My favourite thing was to hear that the car could go in mud.

Right: Teachers using the ‘Tuning Protocol’ process to modify task design