SEACLIFF SCHOOL
Volume: 12—2015
Newsletter Date: 27th August 2015
www.seacliff.sa.edu.au
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Seacliff NAPLAN Success Continues!
DIARY DATES 2015
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24-08-15—28-08-15
BOOKWEEK
28-08-15 Friday
Book week Parade
15-09-15 Tuesday
Governing Council
Meeting 7:30pm
21-09-15—25-09-15
SWIMMING WEEK
I would like to thank the whole school community for working together to
support our students in achieving high quality NAPLAN results in all cohorts.
The Reading result for our Year 3 group is the highest for at least 3 years and
will be up with the best in the state! Both the Year 5 and year 7 groups
continued the trend of strong results in
reading over the last five years.
What is more amazing however is a
particularly unique Numeracy result. In my
experience the Reading results are nearly
always higher than Numeracy for all cohorts
in all schools. However at Seacliff PS both the
Year 5 and Year 7 groups achieved a higher
mean score in Numeracy than Reading! This
rarely, if ever happens! Research shows that a student being proficient in
numeracy is the strongest indicator of being successful adults. In that case the
Seacliff school community is certainly giving our kids every chance!
Table showing NAPLAN Mean scores for Seacliff PS in 2015
Reading
Numeracy
Year 3
(any score
around 400-420
is great)
Change
from
previous
year
Year 5
(any score
around 480-500
is great)
Change
from
previous
year
Year 7
(any score
around 540-550
is great)
Change
from
previous
year
451.7
+32
510.7
+7
548.9
395
+6
512.7
+15.5
556.8
-1
+13.6
A change of 14 points is significant and is worth investigating the reasons. As you can see the results for our
cohorts are positive changes. We believe this is due to the emphasis on problem solving and reasoning in
maths lessons as well as the intervention strategies we use for many of our students.
Table showing NAPLAN Mean scores as Proficiency Band for
Seacliff PS in 2015
Year 3
Year 5
Year 7
DECD Target Level= 3
DECD Target Level= 5
DECD Target Level= 6
Reading
5
6
Numeracy
4
6
7
7
DECD set Proficiency level targets for the 3 year levels. As you can see students at Seacliff generally exceed
these targets.
We are very proud of these results and it inspires us to “Aim High and Reach for the Stars!”
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“The Voice” Comes to Seacliff
Renee Pounsett from “Team Maddern” on this year’s “The
Voice” entertained staff and students during last Tuesday’s
lunch break. She performed a 30 minute set of popular songs
including a duet with Ruby singing Jesse J’s, “Flashlight”. She
then visited several of our classes to meet and greet the
students and in the process signed hundreds of autographs.
We thank Renee for sharing her amazing talents with us and
wish her every success in her musical career.
Hats are Back on Tuesday1st September
UV radiation will be on the rise in the coming weeks. Once UV radiation
reaches a level of 3 it is strong enough to damage unprotected skin. So
it’s time to grab your hat and sunscreen and protect your skin. Students
will be required to wear hats at recess, lunch and during outdoor lessons
commencing next week.
Community Support: School Uniforms
Lost Property
Thank you very much to Kerryn Berry for volunteering her time to
reorganise and sort the lost property. Kerryn sorted all of the named lost
property (mainly school jumpers and jackets) into class bundles allowing
these items to be returned to their owners. Unfortunately there is still a
considerable amount of unnamed clothing remaining in lost property.
Some of it has been here for a long time so a decision has been made to
allow families to access it in exchange for a small donation. Kerryn has
washed and folded all of these items so if you are interested please see the
front office staff. Thanks Kerryn – we appreciate your efforts.
Football Jumper/ Soccer Shirt Return
With football and soccer seasons reaching their conclusions it is time to return playing tops. Thank you
to those who returned their tops to their coaches or at the front office. If you haven’t can you please
do so as soon as possible so they can be sorted and stored for use in 2016.
Sport Trophies
With the winter sport seasons coming to an end team trophy orders are now being
finalised. Many families have not however, paid their sport fees. Trophies will only be
provided to students whose fees have been paid so we ask that all payment are finalised
by the end of next week.
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THE EYES HAVE IT!
Last week after recess, Cat Leonard (Patrice’s
mum!) worked with room 0 children. She taught us
how to draw eyes. We used both tracing and
copying techniques.
For the tracing technique, we got some pictures of
eyes, then coloured the back of the picture with oil
pastels. Then we turned over the paper back to
the print side, and traced over the parts that we
needed with a sharp pencil. When we lifted the
picture print off the drawing paper, we saw the
outline of the eye in colour.
Then we used charcoal, oil pastels, and chalk to draw and colour the
detail. We mixed colours to make the colour look like the eye.
A really cool technique was using the erasers to draw over charcoal
and using white chalk to cover charcoal first.
We learned that eyes look real if they have a white speck that makes it
look wet.
By Evette, Patrice and Blake - Room 0
Safety Concerns
It has been noted that some students have been leaving the school grounds prior to
the 8-55am bell to make purchases at the IGA store adjacent to the school. This
behaviour has the potential to cause serious safety issues and recently we had a near
miss. Once at school all children are expected to stay within the school grounds. This
ensures they are properly supervised and safe. Can you please reinforce this with your
children.
SAPSASA VOLLEYBALL
On Monday the 17th of August 12 teams from Seacliff Primary School participated in the indoor SAPSASA volleyball carnival at Marion Leisure Centre.
31
schools from across the state participated in the carnival.
The matches were intense. All of our teams did their best and
played strongly. Four teams from Seacliff Primary School made it
through to the finals. Good luck!
Thankyou Lauren Thomas, Anna Theodosi and Leah Cece for
supporting the teams.
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Room 14 Concert
Last Tuesday night the students in Room 14 bedazzled their audience with an amazing concert.
The concert provided an excellent platform for them to showcase their talents. The acts ranged
from a play called “Macbeth in 5 Minutes” to Nick and Noah performing an Abbott and Costello
comedy classic. We had stilt walkers, dancers, musicians, circus performers, comedians and actors.
The concert was highly entertaining. The audience even got to learn about the beautiful but
endangered native fish that live in the Murray River.
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FINANCE
Lynda processes payments from the front office on Mondays 8.30am11.30am, Wednesdays 12.30pm-3.30pm and Fridays 8.30am-11.30am.
We appreciate you making your face to face payments during these times.
Payments can also be made by providing your credit card details on the payment
section of excursion notes and returning them to the front office.
(After processing your payment the credit card details are shredded in accordance with DECD policy).
An internet transfer is our preferred method of payment:
BSB No. 105-112 - Account No. 408872540
(please REMEMBER to include your child’s initial, surname and details about
what you wish to pay, ie, M&S, volleyball, etc.)
Year 2/3 football: Shark success
The mornings were cold and sometimes wet but nothing
could dampen the spirits of the Year2/3 Seacliff Sharks
football team.
The season began with many new faces and first-time coach
Ben Simpson at the helm. However, it wasn’t long before the
players discovered the art of teamwork and the goals soon
flowed.
From just the first match against Immanuel, the young Sharks
gained the confidence to boot about 10 goals in the second half, kick-starting a highly successful and
enjoyable season.
Highlights included playing brilliantly under lights at Glenelg Oval against Our Lady of Grace, despite
the match going well past the players’ bed time, a great performance away against Westminster and
the season finale in the fog and mud at Sheidow Park.
All players contributed well to the side’s success and improved their skills over the course of the
season, thanks to energetic Tuesday afternoon training sessions.
Thomas and Dylan showed dazzling all-round ability while a fierce attack on the ball was a feature of
Angus and Lachlan’s games.
Taj displayed fantastic marking skills, Robert and Jed were sharp-shooters in front of
goal while Nate, Max and Caleb proved that you don’t have to be the biggest kid on the
team to kick the ball a long way.
Thomas N and Evan used their height to advantage in the ruck while Cooper, Hudson
and Blake showed great promise in the early part of the season.
Special thanks must go to Ben for being an inspirational coach and to all the parents for their support.
CANTEEN NEWS
We would like to send out a huge thanks to the company “Mrs Macs”
for the generous donation of a pie warmer to the canteen. This will be a
very useful appliance .
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FRANKS LAB ON LEGS
FRANKS LAB ON LEGS WAS AMAZING BECAUSE IT TAUGHT
US NEW SCIENCE AND ITS REALY COOL. WE LEARNT ABOUT
CHEMICAL REACTIONS AND WE ALSO LEARNT ABOUT
CONDUCTORS AND INSULATORS (types of materials).
Aleylah Room2
FRANKS LAB ON LEGS is a cool place because you learn stuff
like which colour gets the hottest of them all.
The colours where blue green red. FROM TAJ.
Franks Lab On Legs was amazing because you got to learn new
things. I learnt about Electrical conductors and chemical
reactions. I learnt so many things about Science and our
Environment. Sebastian
FRANKS LAB ON LEGS WAS AWESOME BECAUSE WE GOT TO
DO LOTS OF COOL EXPERIMENTS TO DO WITH
TEMPERATURE. MY FAVOURITE EXPERIMENT WAS THE
COLOUR CAR EXPERIMENT.I LOVE SCIENCE! BY THOMAS.
Frank loves coming to Seacliff because our students behaviour and scientific
knowledge are in the top 10% of schools he visits.
Oliphant Science Success, 2015.
All Seacliff Primary students who submitted Oliphant Science entries experienced their own personal
successes, but special mention must be made of our prize-winners. Nick Vandersteegen and Rhys
Laurenson, (Room14), achieved third place in the Year 6 & 7 Multimedia category for their ‘Seacliff
Primary Environmental Science Projects’ web-site entry. (This can be viewed at http://
rhyslaurenson74.wix.com/seacliffses). Nick and Rhys were also awarded a Sponsorship Prize by the
Nature Foundation of South Australia for the most outstanding Primary School entry with a
conservation theme across all categories!
Kaiji Doubell, (Room 17), secured second place in the Year 3 to 5 Science Writing category for his
entry entitled ‘Pandemics’. He was also awarded third place for his Year 3 to 5 Science Investigations
entry, ‘Global Warming and Oceans’. This is Kaiji’s fourth
consecutive year as a place-getter in the competition.
Kaiji’s sister, Minami Doubell, (Room 4), was Highly Commended
for her game, ‘Marine Rescue’, (Reception to Year 2).
Other award winners from Room 17 were Sava Ogrodowski, (third
place in Reception to Year 2 Science Writing for ‘What Does Light
Mean to You?’), Freddy Ramly-Peck, (Highly Commended for his
Yr 3 to 5 Science Investigation) and Flynn O’Neill, (Highly
Commended for his R to 2 Science Writing entry).
All students who submitted entries will be presented with
certificates at next Friday’s assembly at 9:15 am in the school hall.
Congratulations to all!
The prize-winners will attend a presentation ceremony at the Brighton Secondary School Concert Hall on Friday, September 18th.
As always a big thank you to Brian Schiller for his organisation and enthusiasm.
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Zanshin Freestyle Karate
Kids Self Defence
Learn to defend yourself, gain confidence and have fun.
Get Fit, friendly atmosphere, qualified instructors.
First two lessons FREE.
Seacliff Primary School Gym
Wednesday Nights Kids 6:00pm to 7:00pm Teens & Adults 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Phone Renshi Ant’z on 0422 331 388 www.zanshinfreestylekarate.com.au
YARD STAR
WINNERS
UNIFORM
SHOP
OPEN
Mackenzie - Room 4
Minami - Room 4
Tegan- Room 15
PREMIERS READING CHALLENGE
REMINDER
Please encourage your students to record the
books they have read on their Premier’s Reading
Challenge Form.
Junior Primary Classes will keep the forms in the
class
Forms are due back on the 28th AUGUST,
please hand in to the LIBRARY
Students can check on the website
www.prc.sa.edu.au
to see if the title is on the PRC list.
‘ Just ten minutes a day’
WEDNESDAY
2.45pm - 3.20pm
and
FRIDAY
8.45am - 9.15am
Student Arrival & Pick Up Time
Supervision of the yard and the Brighton Rd
Crossing commences at 8:35am and ceases
at 3:30pm meaning students should not be at
school without a parent prior or after these
times. This is to ensure student safety should an
accident or unforeseen event occur.
If your child is on the school grounds before or
after these times it is your responsibility to
supervise your child.
If you require Out of School Hours Care the
OSHC contact number is
82983742 and they are now
open from 6:45am and close
at 6:15pm.
Keep your kids smiling
Dental care is FREE for most school children and
ALL preschool children at the Marion GP Plus School
All children aged 0-17 are welcome.
Call us now for an appointment on 7425 8400.
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OSHC NEWS
Newsletter Week 6
Our hunt for a new Assistant Director is over! The job has officially been
won by Daniel Brooksby! Daniel has worked with us here at Seacliff
OSHC for 5 years, was a previous Seacliff P.S student and has recently
finished his Diploma in Children Services, and now, he is our new
Assistant Director! We are very happy to have you Dan and the children
and staff are very excited to see what you will bring to the team in your
new role!
Every Wednesday morning, Wendy and the OSHC children make all
sorts of delicious foods. This week it was Yoghurt Berry Bites, yum! Becoming self-sufficient in the
kitchen is a pretty handy skill to have and it is great to see the children get involved and have a say
about what they want to eat for snack!
The Spring Vacation Care Program is out now! Come and grab a hard copy from the OSHC room or
request an electronic version! We are looking forward to taking the group to Inflatable World for the
first time, along with old favourites, Ice Skating, Movies, Kingston Park, bouncy castle day, wheels day and for the first time
we will have 2 hours unlimited at Megazone Noarlunga which
includes Laser Skirmish, Dodgem Cars and Arcade Games!
Book in ASAP to avoid any disappointment.
Adam Panetta
Seacliff OSHC Director
Ph: 8298 3742
Email: [email protected]
SPORTS IN
SCHOOLS
PROGRAM
A big thank you to Sarah
Norris who ran golf skills
sessions for our students.
The funding for this program
came from the Federal
Government Grant - Sports
in Schools.
Fax: 8296 5729
Phone: 8296 1950