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RICHMOND PRIMARY SCHOOL

‘Learning & Caring for Life’

Term 3 No. 2 August 10 2018 Principal: Tracey Davies

Successful Sausage Sizzle 2

Cake Sale 17/8/18 2

Oliphant Science Awards 3

SAPSASA Basketball 3

Book Week Assembly 4

Science Open Day 4

Science Show Program 5

Year 2/3 Excursion 6/7

STEM Matters 8

Inside this Issue

Points of Interest

13/8/18—14/8/18

Book Fair

13/8/18—17/8/18

Book Week

TUESDAY 14/8/18

ICAS Maths

WEDNESDAY 15/8/18

Author’s Visit

Phil Cummings

FRIDAY 17/8/18

Book Week Assembly

WEDNESDAY 22/8/18

Choir Rehearsal

THURSDAY 23/8/18

Principal’s Tour 9.30a.m.

Dear families,

We trust our students had an enjoyable extended weekend. Our recent

Pupil Free Day was spent with neighbouring schools; Plympton, Plympton

International College and Cowandilla with a focus on formative assessment.

Put simply, formative assessment refers to a wide variety of methods that

teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension,

learning needs and academic progress.

This professional development is one part of LDAM, the Learning Design

Assessment and Moderation process, which every school in South Australia

is committed to. "If we create a culture where every teacher believes they need

to improve, not because they are good enough, but because they can be even bet-

ter, there is no limit to what we can achieve," Dylan Williams, University of Lon-

don

Learning intentions and success criteria are an important part of the teach-

ing and learning process. To help explain this we asked two of our students

for their own definitions;

“A learning intention can be checking to see if we are using a strategy like multi-

plying by 2 or 5” Jimi, Year 3

“Success criteria helps to show you how to be better at something” Hollie, Year 4

Our Intensive English Program teachers met with Cowandilla IELP staff and

discussed a range of educational matters including managing effective group

work, oral language, auditory processing, informal and formal language, nar-

rative genre , STEM learning and scientific language

days.

Today’s STEM Opening did not disappoint. After more than 2 years of plan-

ning, preparing and producing our school community and invited dignitaries

and guests were able to see the benefits of receiving STEM Works funding.

Across SA, there are 139 schools involved with 75,000 students benefitting

(45% of student population). Overall, it has been a state-wide $250m in-

vestment and we feel very fortunate to be one of the recipients.

We heard various speeches, watched the SU2 movie, were able to join

STEM activities with our stu-

dents and enjoyed a morning tea

together as a community. Hon

John Gardner MP, Minister for

Education was impressed with

our facilities and felt privileged

to be a part of the celebrations.

He also mentioned the high cali-

bre of teaching and learning at

Richmond PS; particularly our

recent 3D Printing Expo.

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CAKE SALE On Friday, the 17th of August, Week 4, the Year 6/7 and 5/6 class are fundrais-ing to reduce the cost of camp this year. We will be selling our goods at lunchtime and at the end of the day next to the Junior Primary classes, available for all of the Richmond community to purchase. Alana Dales & Chris Tertipis.

Saturday’s Successful Sausage Sizzle

Thank you to Sarah and Richard Piro for putting together such a smooth

running event. The “Piros”, who were aptly named the BBQ Bosses, oversaw

the preparation and entire day and we are incredibly grateful for the time

and energy.

This successful community effort and fundraiser will contribute over $2000 to

our school’s funds.

Thank you for donating your time; Thuy, Kati,

Shannon, Danny, Diana, Huda, Moham-

med, Jodi, Chris T, Rob , Luda, Narelle, Alan-

na, Sherie Lou, Tracey, Jane Stinston, Louise,

Koon, Stephanie, Elliot, Belinda, Stephanie,

Jo, Lara, Scout, Ella, Emma and Renie.

Many hands make light work.

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Recent staffing news. Clare MacDonald has recently been offered and accepted a finance

role at a northern school, closer to home, and sadly will not be returning to Richmond

PS. Emma Voigt will be in the role of student wellbeing coordinator for three days each

week and we welcome Mr Jamie Battista who will teach Year 1 and 2 for these three

days.

Looking ahead, next week will be Book Week with much planned in each classroom in-

cluding our Book Fair and a visit from Phil Cummings for some classes. A special Book

Week/Dress up Assembly will be held on Friday 18th August. More details are in this

newsletter.

Kind regards, Ella and Tracey

Our school’s Oliphant Science Award Game Entries

Games are fun to play and fun to make, but they can have a serious point too. Create some fun

and tell the world about science by making and award-winning game.

Congratulations Naisha, Sarah,Lemar, Jaagriti and Priyal. These powerful learners have

been practising as scientists during our last school holidays and have produced some

quality Oliphant Science Games. We hope they do well!

SAPSASA Basketball Newsletter

The SAPSASA Year 6/7 Basketball Cham-

pionships were held recently at Wayville

Stadium and a group of boys proudly

represented Richmond Primary School.

Over the past term, Henry, Jackson,

Isaac, Awhi, Jason, Harper, Owen and

Brayden were highly motivated and dedi-

cated to practicing their skills during

lunchtime trainings. The boys have shown

tremendous growth in their develop-

ment, which resulted in competing at a

high level and achieving 2 wins against

some tough competition. Thank you for

such terrific parent support, including

Luke Hutchinson’s scoring responsibili-

ties.

Well-done boys on a great carnival!

Daniel Nguyen

“Not every school has awesome PE teacher like Mr Nguyen. He is a positive person and has helped us im-

prove our skills and work as a team. Thanks Mr Nguyen. We loved every minute of it” From the boys in your

team.

Book Week Assembly Friday 17th August 2pm

A wonderful event to finish off our Book Week activities

with the author Phil Cumming’s visit on Wednesday and our

Scholastic Book Fair being some of the highlights. Students

are encouraged to dress up as a character from a book or

wear something that reflects the Book Week theme of “Find Your

Treasure” or wear their traditional clothes. Some classes will be

performing events linked to Book Week activities. Parents

are very welcome.

Last Friday Miss Angela’s Year 2/3 class went on an excit-

ing excursion to the Adelaide Zoo. In science we had been

learning about living things and how they grow, change and

have offspring similar to ourselves. To extend our under-

standing we attended a life cycle session at the zoo pre-

sented by a conservation educator. After we had lots of fun

learning all about different animal life cycles we explored all

the different animal exhibits in the zoo.