Lipson Avenue WALLAROO MINES KADINA SA 5554 Ph: (08) 8821 1988

PRIMARY SCHOOL Fax: (08) 8821 2979 Principal: Adele Keleher NEWSLETTER General Inquiries:  Term 1 [email protected] Website: http://walminesps.sa.edu.au/ 12th April 2018

Relationships Understanding Communication Trust Collaboration

From the Principal…

Some reminders for when you return after the break: Uniforms: The cooler weather is coming in so please ensure that all students have correct uniform: Our Uniform { Navy blue short/long sleeved top trimmed with gold featuring the school logo { Plain navy blue shorts or track pants { Navy blue polar fleece jumper featuring the school logo { Navy Blue zip jacket { Blue/white checked school dress { Long sleeved under shirt – navy blue, gold or white. { Shoes suitable for a range of activities – flat and closed in { Bucket Hat* featuring school logo – provided each year. The following are not uniform: { Denim shorts or jeans { Black or grey pants or shorts { Singlets or sleeveless tops { Brightly coloured under shirts { Hooded jackets in non-uniform colours { Thongs/heels/gumboots { style caps { Excessive jewellery (watch, Medic Alert allowed) { Inappropriate skirt or short length { Make-up and nail polish Adele Keleher

Have a great holiday everyone.

WellbeingFind us on Facebook Values Award Winners

Room 6 Room 5 Cody, Shayla, Archie, Jake Dakoda, Phoebe, Lexi, Hamish and Riley and Mitchell

Room 3 Harrison, Mason, Sasha, Room 2 Tequayla and Ryan William, Riley, Tyson, Alley and Jasmine (absent)

Room 3 Room 1 Mathilda, Emily, Skye, Matilda, Emily, Caitlin, Marley Annabel and Hugh and Anton

House Captains

Congratulations to our house captains for 2018.

End of Term Assembly

Breakfast Club

We’re looking for volunteers on a Monday or Friday morning for half an hour to help cater breakfast for students. Starting from 8:15 -8:45am. If you are interested please come in and see Mika at the start of the term to be rostered on. Room 1

Lightning and Carnival

Most of our class participated in the knock-out netball and football carnival on Monday Week 8, to get selected for the SAPSASA teams.

We were lucky enough to have one girl from our class, Emily Flowers, make it through to the second round for netball! Well Done Emily!

Science and Design & Tech During Science, we haveNew been Staff learning about filtration and distillation techniques. In groups, we made our own filters and solar sills. We made the filters by putting a coffee filter in a funnel and pouring dirty water into the funnel, which came out in a plastic cup. In the end, we had clean water.

We made the solar sills with an aluminium tray in a shoe box. Then we got an aluminium bowl and put that in the middle of the tray. We poured some salted water in the tray. We covered the top of the shoe box with gladwrap and put a rock directly in the middle of the gladwrap. The water was supposed to evaporate and hit the gladwrap and trail down under the rock, then drip into the cup and leave the salt on the tray. In the end, this experiment failed. Now we are designing and constructing our own water filters for Design and Tech that will hopefully produce clean water. Written by Matilda Cox

Future Dates

30/04 01/05 02/05 03/05 04/05 Phil Cummings Visit World Maths

07/05 08/05 09/05 10/05 11/05

12/05 13/05 14/05 15/05 16/05 NAPLAN NAPLAN NAPLAN

Early Closure 2.00pm

Room 4

This year, Room 4 have been working hard with our Japanese teacher, Mio Sensei, learning about a whole range of different topics. Once a week we meet with Mio online for a lesson over the internet. It is interesting to be able to see and hear Mio while she shares her knowledge of Japan by sharing a slideshow with songs and videos. We also have one follow-up lesson where we complete some extra work to show how much we have learnt from our online lesson. The main topics we have learnt about with Mio so far include how to greet someone in Japanese, names of shapes, names and flags of countries, names of colours, and nationalities.

Shape robot by Maddison Shape robot by Tequayla Greetings by Flynn

Flags by Indy Kaeding