From the Principal’s Desk potential. This week’s Art Beat features the Instrumental Showcase, while a full report Performing Arts on the Music is Fun Band and Festival It has been an exciting time for our R-12 Theatre choir performance will be students and staff with major Performing published in next term’s newsletter. Arts events providing a rich musical and educational experience. Year 12 Count Down From the Instrumental Showcase where 76 To our Year 12 students I ask they spend students performed at the Kadina Town considerable time studying and getting Hall, the R-6 Music is Fun production last ready for exams starting Week 3 next term. week, to the choir singing at the Festival Your break should come after your exams Theatre on Friday night and senior drama and when final study commitments are students performing their plays this week. over. Each event is the culmination of many hours of explicit teaching, students committed to Good luck, hard work now will pay with practising at home and family support. better results. These rich and diverse experiences provide students with an opportunity to explore END OF TERM 3 their talent, develop skills, challenge themselves creatively, cognitively, socially THIS FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER, and of course physically, exercising their EARLY DISMISSAL IS AT 2.10PM brains and fine motorskills to play a musical instrument or perform in front of peers. TERM 4 COMMENCES MONDAY Thank you to our Performing Arts 17 OCTOBER, 8.30AM Coordinator Mrs Jo Hurrell and her team for their amazing work in coordinating and ENJOY YOUR TWO-WEEK BREAK encouraging our students to reach their Principal’s report continued: Here’s a thought In keeping with my last circular to families about phone Year 12 Farewell Assembly use and the importance of our students getting a good The Year 12 Farewell Assembly will be held at the night’s sleep, I would like to share an interesting Daily Copper Coast Sport and Leisure Centre on Friday 4 Mail article: November at 9.15am. All Year 12 students and their ‘The smelliness of a teenager's bedroom plays an families have been formally invited to this event. Please important role in their sleep deprivation, which also hits RSVP to Paula McKay by phoning 8821 0172 or email their exam results. Professor of Sleep Medicine Colin [email protected]. Espie at Oxford University said young people never Governor of South Australia Visit open their windows, their rooms are never ventilated. Senior KMSC Captain Paris Schilling and Representative They need to be taught to open bedroom windows and Ben Abraham visited the Governor of South Australia’s turn heating down to improve their sleep. The smelly residence last week. bedroom is a by-product of the fact that the room is full This is an annual invitation providing student leaders an of rebreathed air, which is low in oxygen and high in opportunity to network with peers across the State and nitrogen. If you keep on rebreathing the same air in a meet the Governor, His Excellency the Honourable Hieu small bedroom that is hot and not ventilated you will Van Le AC and Mrs Le. wake up with a headache after a poor night's sleep. Both Paris and Ben reported it to be a privilege to meet They should get rid of smartphones and iPads, which His Excellency, tour some of the official halls and meet emit light that suppresses the normal night-time other students. release of melatonin - a crucial hormone in the body's clock and make their bedrooms as dark as possible and make sure rooms are tidy and not smelly.’ Holiday Reading Holidays are a great time to share reading with your children. Often there are opportunities to read with uncles, aunties and grandparents as well as incidental moments. When travelling read signs, books and other tourist information. Whether you are staying at home to relax or are away the message is the same: ‘CONTINUE TO READ EVERY DAY’. Here are some tips to encourage your child’s reading: • Show you value reading by reading whenever you can • Encourage a positive attitude to books. Student Reports and Interviews • Provide a variety of texts for your child to read Thank you to the R-6 parents who took the opportunity to you, e.g. stories, comics, poems, plays, to meet with their child’s teacher recently. cartoons, reference books, magazines, Parent/teacher interviews are a great way for families children’s recipe books and teachers to keep the lines of communication open • Encourage your child to borrow books from and ensure we work together to support the education the school and local library and wellbeing needs of your child. • Point out words on street signs, packets and If you were unable to come in for an interview, please labels contact your child’s teacher to arrange a time for a • Encourage your child to predict what a book is meeting or a phone call to discuss their progress. about from the cover and illustrations. Year 7-12 Reports have been sent home today, Thursday • Talk about illustrations and diagrams in books 29 September, with the KMS newsletter. and discuss how they add meaning to the text. Reminder: Hats on in Term 4 • Re-read favourite books. • Talk about the different purposes for reading a A reminder that from day one, Monday 17 October, next picture book, a novel, a television guide, a term all R-12 students are required to wear an approved newspaper, a telephone directory, a recipe hat at all times whilst out in the sun. Students will need book, an encyclopaedia. reminding of this routine to observe correct sun smart • Point out different size and shape of words. behaviour having gone through Terms 2 and 3 not • Point out the first sound of a word and required to wear a hat. Thank you for your support to encourage your child to think of other words ensure students come prepared at the start of Term 4. that begin with the same sound. • Encourage your child to read books for fun Principal’s Report continued: Reading Tips: Encourage your child to talk about characters and events in texts. Encourage your child to make sound effects for Improving our communications the characters and events. Skoolbag: Ask your child to think of possible beginnings Kadina Memorial School will be using an exciting and endings for stories read and heard. communication tool called Skoolbag, starting from next term. ‘Sound out’ difficult words and/or give clues to the meaning of difficult words. This free app can be downloaded at the following: Praise your child when they are reading, e.g. For iPhone and iPad users ’well done — that was a difficult word’. 1. Click the "App Store" icon on your Apple device. Encourage your child to have a go at reading 2. Type ‘Kadina Memorial School’ in the search, and words that are unfamiliar. follow the prompts. Ask your child to read on past the unknown For Android users word to gain clues from the rest of the You must first have signed up with a Google Account sentence. before installing the app. Show your child how to find the meanings of 1. Click the "Play Store" button on your Android Device unfamiliar words in dictionaries. 2. Click the magnifying glass icon at the top and type in Encourage your child to watch films and videos Kadina Memorial School and follow the prompts. of books they have read. For Windows 8.1 Phone and Windows 8.1 or 10 device Talk about the ways in which a film version of a users book compares with the print version. 1. Go to the Windows Store on your 8.1 Windows If your child is having difficulty with reading, or Phone or Windows 8.1/10 Device not enjoying reading, ask your child’s teacher 2. Search for "Skoolbag" in the keyword app search, for help. then Kadina Memorial School. Parent Club Brunch A comprehensive downloading fact sheet, supplied Parent Club enjoyed a delicious brunch last Tuesday by the Skoolbag website, is included with today’s catered by our Yr 12 Food and Hospitality students as newsletter. one of their group tasks. We believe Skoolbag will improve key From Eggs Benedict, smashed avocado on toasted communications to families and, ultimately, reduce turkish bread, to roasted mushrooms the event provided our fortnightly newsletter costs. The school an ideal ‘real’ catering opportunity for our students. calendar and our new website will also be linked to Next term Parent Club will host a book launch with local this app. author Tricia Stringer in the KMS library on Wednesday 26 October at 9.30am. A dinner celebration will be held I encourage families to download Kadina Memorial’s at the Highway Restaurant on Wednesday 16 November Skoolbag app during the holidays as we move into at 7pm. Please email Chairperson Narelle Koch to this new phase of communications. We would attend: [email protected]. All Welcome. appreciate your feedback during this introductory stage. Enjoy your two-week break. Kind regards, Dean Angus KMS Principal Right, Peas in a Pod at the ‘Music is Fun’ morning. Sub School News R-6 Corner: Big Ideas in Number It was great to see many families attend the recent Year 3-6 Maths Morning. Students showcased games and activities they are using to be powerful mathematical learners during the 50 minute lesson. Games allow students the opportunity to practise maths concepts repeatedly in a safe and productive way. Staff maths learning this year has included the Big Ideas in Number.