140 Bicentennial Drive

Golden Grove 5125

Phone: 8289 3137

Fax: 8289 3138

Email:

dl.1848_info@schools.

sa.edu.au

Website:

www.goldengps.sa.edu.au

SMS: 0416 906 270

140 Bicentennial Drive Golden Grove 5125

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10/12/18 Year 3, 4 & 5 to Adelaide

Aquatic Centre Governing Council Meeting

Celebration - 6:30pm

11/12/18

JP End of Year Excursion

12/12/18 Class Placements & Reports

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13/12/18 Year 7 Graduation 5:45pm

14/12/18 Year 6 & 7’s to Elizabeth

Aquadome Last day of Term 4

2:10 dismissal

Principal

Wendy Moore

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140 Bicentennial Drive Golden Grove 5125

Phone : 8289 3137

Fax : 8289 3138 Email :

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Website : www.goldengps.sa.edu.au

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Term 4 Week 8, 7th December 2018

Dear Parents, As the 2018 year comes to a close, we thank you

sincerely for supporting our school and for working with us to provide the best opportunities for your

children. We have much to look forward to in 2019. We wish all families a safe and happy summer.

Merry Christmas! Kind regards, Wendy & Staff

Year 7 Graduation This coming Thursday evening we will formally

farewell our Year 7 students who have reached the end of their Primary

schooling. It is always with a sense of sadness that we farewell a group of

students, especially when they have been such a vital part of our school.

We wish all Graduates continuing success and happiness in their

secondary schooling years.

Friday Assembly Our final school assembly will be held this coming

Friday at 9am. This assembly is a special farewell assembly for our Year 7

students. With such limited space for parents in the hall, we ask that only

parents of our Year 7 students attend this assembly.

2019 Classes Students will receive information regarding their 2019

placements with their Reports this coming Wednesday and will have the

opportunity to meet their new teachers next week.

The Class Placement process has been quite complex as the

majority of classes are full for 2019. As such, once class placements are

finalised, it will be very unlikely that we will be able to accommodate any

changes. We appreciated the information provided by parents prior to the

placement exercise. Please remember however that parent requests can

only be met if they align with the requests of other families (if involving

specific children) and with recommendations of current teachers.

Staff Farewells Next week we will farewell Mel Pietrobon and Tyler

Dickie. Both Mel and Tyler were new to our school this year and have been

absolutely wonderful assets to our staff team. We thank them both for their

dedication to their roles this year and wish them all the best in their new

schools. Mel has won much deserved teaching permanency at Magill

Primary School and Tyler will be relocating to Melbourne and will be

teaching at Glenroy Primary School.

We also thank our other 2018 contract teachers for their work this

year: Katie Hoffman, Claudia Brewis, Adam Pritchard, Sophie D’Aloia, Jess

North & Carolyn Moore. At this stage we are awaiting news of contract

teacher appointments for 2019. Staffing updates will be posted on our

website during the holidays.

FOR YOUR CALENDAR - KEY DATES TERM 1, 2019

Monday January 28th - Australia Day Public Holiday

Tuesday January 29th - Term 1 begins

Tuesday February 5th - Acquaintance Evening

Monday February 11th - Annual General Meeting

Week 6 March 4th - 8th Reception to Year 5 Swimming Week

Congratulations to Lachlan S

(HB20) and his fellow Tea Tree

Gully District team mates for

winning the Tennis Division 3

State Carnival undefeated.

Are you a natural optimist or more of a “glass half empty” sort of person? Most of us

recognise our natural inclination to either look on the bright side or constantly see

the worst in life, other people and even ourselves. The Positive Psychology

movement in recent years has been encouraging people to develop more

optimistic tendencies, as research shows us that optimists often have better life

outcomes. The Growth Mindset focus that GGPS has had for the last few years is

based on these theories – reminding our children (and ourselves!) that problems are

solvable, that making mistakes is part of learning and improving and that we can

always be striving to improve.

Learning to look at things in a more positive way has been one of the conversations

I have had regularly with different children this year. We talk about how every

person has a perspective – this means how we see and interpret life. A number of

people can have the same experience but have very different thoughts and

feelings about it, depending on their perspective. I remind the children that there is

a tool we can use to help us when we want to see the world in a positive way – we

can simply put on a pair of perspectacles! “What on earth are perspectacles?!” I

hear you ask. They are magical glasses (or spectacles) that help us with our

perspective. We can put them on anytime we need to see things from an optimistic

perspective. They can help us assume the best about the people around us or the

situations we find ourselves in. We can even combine our perspectacles with a

Growth Mindset! Doing this, we see that even though we experience hard times

and sometimes struggle to figure things out, there are always things we can do to

help ourselves, like using perseverance (not giving up), trying new things,

developing good habits and asking others for help. School holidays are quickly

approaching and many of us are feeling a bit tired and worn out at the end of the

year. Our tempers can be a bit frayed and we don’t cope with challenges as well

as when we’re feeling rested and refreshed. Don’t forget to put on your

perspectacles to maintain an optimistic perspective at those times!

On a personal note, my husband has accepted a temporary position at a church in

Canada beginning in February, 2019 which means I will be away from school for the

first half of next year. We plan to return to Adelaide in Term 3 and I will resume my

Pastoral Care work at GGPS at that time. We are hoping that my position will be

filled by another PCW during the time I’ll be away. Please trust that they will be here

to help support the students, families and staff in my absence.

I hope that the upcoming school holidays are a time of joy, peace and hope for

each member of our Golden Grove Primary School community.

Charlie standing near

the new plaque

dedicated to Military

Working Dogs.

Where in the World is Charlie?

Charlie is currently deployed on Operation

Accordion in the Middle Eastern Region with

Sophie’s Dad.

Operation Accordion’s mission is to support the

sustainment of Australian Defence Force

operations, enable contingency planning and

enhance regional relationships in the Middle

East Region.

Charlie is assisting the Expeditionary Airbase

Operations Unit which is responsible for logistics

and ground support for aircraft assigned in

support of Op ACCORDION, HIGHROAD, OKRA.

Each year, some of our Australian soldiers, sailors and aircrew are deployed overseas, missing out on special occasions with their families. We acknowledge and thank them for their sacrifice, and their family’s sacrifice, during these times. Kerry Mayes (Defence School Transition Aide)

Remembrance Day 2018 (100 year

anniversary since the armistice).

The Cross of Remembrance.

Australian memorial

at Camp Baird.

Christmas Closure

We will be closed from Monday 24th December until Friday 4th January 2019. We will re-open

on Monday 7th January 2019.

Kindy Children

We will be accepting kindy children in 2019 for before and after school care. There will be a

maximum of 10 kindy children bookings available per day.

2019 Booking Forms

Forms will be available to families from Monday 12th November, week 5, term 4. All forms can

be found on our website: www.cobblercreekoshc.com

Please note: we request families only book for the days you need care. We are currently at

full capacity but often have regular cancellations which could free up limited spaces.

Pedare students will no longer be using our care from 29th January 2019 which will also create

more spaces for GGPS families.

New Policy

As required previously, after school cancellations must be received by 9am on the day to

avoid a fee.

Before school cancellations MUST NOW be received by 5pm the day before to avoid a fee.

Bookings for morning care are now required to be made prior to the morning session to ensure

adequate staff ratios can be accommodated.

Cancellations are preferred via text message, phone or the communication book which can

be found at the sign in area.

Kind regards,

The OSHC Team

Cobbler Creek OSHC would like to invite all new families for 2019 to a ‘Meet and

Greet’ session.

This is to be held on Thursday 24th of January 2019 at 2pm (please meet at the front of

the Library).

This session is designed to show parents and children around the facilities and to

provide relevant information about our care.

It is also a great opportunity to meet our staff.

We hope to see you then. No RSVP required.

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