4 April 2019 Term 1, Week 10 Newsletter PRESCOTT COLLEGE SOUTHERN 140 Pimpala Rd, Morphett Vale SA 5162 PH: (08) 8381 4290 Email: [email protected] Website: www.prescottcollegesouthern.com.au Contents • From the Principal ..............................1 • Upcoming Events ...............................2 • From the Office ...................................2 • From the Community .......................3 • Primary School News.........................3 • Whole School News...........................9 • Secondary School News...................9 From the Principal The end of the term is fast approaching, and it concludes a a student or students stay with them from June 9-15. Please note busy but enjoyable time for the staff and students at Prescott. that on the Monday June 10, which is Queen’s Birthday holiday, It has been great to see the students engaged in their learning the students will be going on an excursion organised by their and progressing well along their own pathways. Thank you for group coordinator. This school are happy for families to have two your involvement in the school and support of the programs students stay at the same address. The payment is $40 per night throughout the term. We trust it has been a positive term for your per student. If you would like to host a student for the 6 nights, child/ren. please contact Jane Lee on [email protected]. This term has seen a number of parents volunteering in the school As we come to the end of the term, I would like to wish all families and supporting the various staff with events and classroom a relaxing school holiday and a Happy Easter. As we take the time activities. As a school we are required by law for every volunteer to celebrate Easter with family and friends may we also take the to have a Screening to Work with Children. Previously the school time to acknowledge the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for all so we can only funded parents going on camp for the DCSI certificate. have a hope for the future. May God be with you this Easter. However, the government now is funding for all people who volunteer with children to complete a DHS Screening rather than Christine Clark a Police Clearance. If you are planning to volunteer, please make sure you complete the form available from the front office to arrange a screening. Our Year 7-12 students will have their school camps next week and no doubt this will be an adventurous time for all involved. Our Year 7 group leave for Canberra early Sunday morning and we wish them a safe trip. Please note that there will be no staff in the secondary school when their camps are on. Next term we will have a group of Year 6 students from Korea who will be coming to our school for one week to experience school in Australia. For their school, Daegang Primary School, this is the first time they have brought a group of children to Australia and are keen to set it up as an ongoing program. We are currently looking for homestay families who are able to have PCS NEWSLETTER 1 FROM THE OFFICE Mother's Day Market Stall We are currently planning for our Mother’s Day Market Stall to be held in Week 2 of next term. If you have any items that you would like to donate to the stall, please bring them to the front office within the next couple of weeks. We also are in need of parents/ caregivers who may be able to assist with serving on the stall in the mornings from 8.15-9.00am. If you are able please email office@prescottsouthern. sa.edu.au so we can arrange a roster. We appreciate your support of this fundraising event. Entertainment Book Fundraiser Entertainment Books are coming in Term 2! UPCOMING EVENTS Pre-Purchase your Entertainment Book before 5th April to receive Early Bird Bonus Offers Term 1 you can use straight away. Cost is only $70. It has fantastic offers available for the whole family. The School receives $14 for every book or digital copy sold. Week 11: See flyer in handouts for details. 7/4-12/4 Year 7 Canberra Camp 10/4-12/4 Year 8 Glenhaven Camp Woolworths Earn & Learn 2019 10/4-12/4 Year 9 Deep Creek Camp We are excited to once again be taking part in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. You 10/4-12/4 Year 10 Woodhouse Camp can help our school by collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Points. Just collect Woolworths 10/4-12/4 Year 11 Sun & Surf Camp Earn & Learn Points when you shop at Woolworths between 1st May and 25 June. We will 10/4-12/4 Year 12 West Beach Resort Camp redeem these for awesome educational resources for our school. 12/4 Last Day of Term 1 - Casual Clothes Gold Coin Donation Simply pop them onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Points Sheet and once it’s completed, just UPCOMING EVENTS drop it into the collection box in primary student receptionThe more we collect, the more we can redeem. Term 2 There are thousands of products available through the Woolworths Earn & Learn program, Week 1: and we’d like to get lots of new gear! Products in the range include resources for ICT, science, 29/4 PUPIL FREE DAY sports, mathematics, arts and crafts and more. 30/4 First Day of Term 2 We are grateful for your support and look forward to a successful program. Winter Uniform 1/5 Secondary Athletics Carnival Uniform Shop Holiday Hours 3/5 SACSA Primary Athletics The Uniform shop will be open on the following days during the School Holidays: Week 2: Friday, April 26 6/5-10/5 Mother's Day Market 9.00am - 1.00pm 8/5 Yr 11 & 12 Immunisations 9/5 Primary Sports Day Monday, April 29 Week 3: No Events yet 9.00am - 1.00pm & 2.00pm - 4.00pm Week 4: 20/5 PUPIL FREE DAY Pupil Free Day Reminder 21/5 Prescott Council Meeting - 7pm 23/5 SACSA Touch Football Yr 4/5 23/5 SACSA Touch Football Yr 6/7 Pupil Free Day - 29th April Week 5: First Day of Term 2 - 30th April 27/5 SACSA Touch Football Yr 8/9 28/5 Primary School Photos Students to wear winter uniform 28/5 SACSA Touch Football Opens 30/5 Primary Fun Run From Morphett Vale SDA Church Week 6: Special Pre-Easter Service. 3/6 SACSA Cross Country 4/6 OPEN DAY The church on our campus, Morphett Vale Adventist Church, is holding a special pre-ester 5/6 Secondary School Photos service on Saturday April 13 at 11.30am. Re-live through drama, music and the Word the & Family Photos story of Easter through eyewitness accounts, and find out what this story means for us today. All welcome. 2 PCS NEWSLETTER FROM THE PRIMARY SCHOOL Primary Sports Day After School Sport THURSDAY, MAY 9 Prescott College Southern receives funding from the ‘Sporting Schools’ programme to run After School Sport clinics. ‘Sporting This year’s Primary School Sports Day is to be held on Thursday, Schools’ offer a range of features to connect schools with their May 9 (Week 2 Term 2) at the Santos Stadium, Railway Terrace, Mile local sporting community to deliver quality sporting experiences End, from 10.00am – 2.30pm. to students. LUNCH ORDERS The After School sports programme in Term 2 will run on Tuesday A Student Lunch Order Form went home in communication afternoons from 3.15-4.30pm for 6 weeks of the term. This is a books last week, additional forms are also attached in the Prescott skills based clinic for Reception to Year 6 students and each term Handouts section of this Newsletter. Please note you are required different sports are offered. Endorsed coaches run the programme to complete one order form per student as each classroom in conjunction with our OSHC staff. Students meet OSHC staff teacher is collating their room’s orders. Students must pre-order outside Classroom 10 at 3.15pm. their lunch or bring their own food/drinks/snacks for the day. A canteen is available on the day for parents to buy lunch and This term the sport offered isNetball . We are running Netball drinks. Orders need to be returned to school no later than again this term as there were some issues securing a coach in Term Wednesday, May 1 (Week 1 Term 2). This deadline is essential 1. However, there will also be a soccer program running this term in order to submit orders to SANTOS therefor we cannot accept on Wednesday afternoons (more details below). Netball will begin orders after this date. in week 3 and will continue until week 8. Forms are available from Student Reception and are attached to the Newsletter in “Prescott TRANSPORT Handouts”. Students are welcome to travel to and/or from Sports Day with their parents. As a school we arrange a number of buses to We also have the opportunity next term to participate in the transport students who are not travelling with their parents to “Football in Schools” soccer clinics. It will run on Wednesdays Sports Day. This year we will not be requiring that you let us know after school from 3:30 to 4:30 from week 2 until week 10 of what your travel arrangements are. All students who are at school Term 2. by 8.45am will be transported by bus. If you are travelling by car, please meet us at Santos Stadium ready for a 10.00am start. This program is FREE for participants if they register (using the form attached in Prescott Handouts) with the Office for Recreation, VOLUNTEERS Sport & Racing Sports Voucher – this will include the 8-week To make our day a success we need Parent Volunteers to assist program and a participant pack (bag, ball, drink bottle, shin guards with the running of the program between 10.15am – 12.40pm.