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As we begin an exciting term 4 that features a number of extra-curricular events, such as:
- Pink Stumps Day
- Pevan & Sarah Concert
- Monarto Zoo Camp
- SRC Fair
- Burra and Kapunda Mines Camp
- Whole School Transition Days
It is timely to reminisce how these activities often stand out, above the academic learning. Most students graduating year 6 (year 7 in the past) and 12, usually include camps and excursions in their schooling highlights. The real-life learning opportunities they elicit are usually positive and long lasting.
Wishing staff, parents / carers and students the best for this term and we look forward to seeing families join us throughout the term (check out the SRAS calendar at the back of newsletter for upcoming event dates).
WELCOME
SRAS welcome Mrs Louise Haby to our ancillary and staff team. Her knowledge of our schooling community and past experiences with SRAS, along with her skillsets gained in other professions, will be an asset to SRAS and for children, students and colleagues.
PURNONG BUS SAFETY
50% of our children and students travel on this bus route daily. Whilst most adhere to the ‘Code of Behaviour on the School Bus’, unfortunately there are increasingly UNSAFE behaviours by some, putting themselves and ALL at risk.
The driver and school’s care of duty is to ensure the safety of ALL onboard. Governing Council strongly endorses SRAS to remind all students and families about the ‘Code of Behaviour on the School Bus’ and in particular the following:
- Students are reminded that the school’s Behaviour Code continues to operate on the bus. Travelling on a school bus is a privilege. Inappropriate behaviour may mean using the school bus is denied (full copy of code is attached with this newsletter)
To assist students to remember this expectation, SRAS will apply the following over the next few weeks:
- Principal and staff members to occasionally travel on bus
- Principal to conduct a meeting with all Purnong Bus students, where they will share UNSAFE behaviours witnessed - not naming students but identifying the UNSAFE behaviours that need to cease
- Letter to families to share outcomes from the meeting and to advise the need to apply logical consequence of ‘loss of bus privilege’ if UNSAFE behaviour continues
Mr John Robertson
THE RESILIENCE PROJECT (TRP)
Part 5: Summary
In the final part of The Resilience Project's parent series, Hugh shares an important message about allowing our children to experience adversity.
The key to building resilience in our children is allowing them to experience failure, hardship, disappointment etc. As parents, we can be too quick to resolve our children's challenges which can deprive our children of enormous growth opportunities. These typically happen when we experience failure and uncertainty. As parents we should be there for our children when they fail, but not fight their battles for them.
View Part 5 of the series here:
Part 5 - Summary: https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2023-parent-carer-hub-inspire-hugh/
Thank you for participating in this Parent and Carer Digital Presentation series.
You can re-watch the videos and access activities and resources anytime via the Parent & Carer Hub.
You can also stay up to date with The Resilience Project news and events by signing up to their Newsletter.
MID MURRAY OUR TOWN (MMOT), ATSI & SRAS MURAL
Check our newest mural located on the front of the administration building. A massive thanks to MMOT, Sam, Ivy and family, and SRAS staff, students and community for this great addition that was completed late last year. Sitting beside the 2017 mural, the new one compliments it well and makes the face of the school so much more attractive.
At the Early Learning Centre we too are learning all about GEM + EM (Gratitude, Empathy, Mindfulness and Emotional Literacy), with the help of The Resilience Project. We recognise that families are children’s first and most important educators. The Resilience Project recognise this too, so as well as all the activities we do at kindy, they have given us a Koala named ‘Cozy Koala’, to help families engage in GEM activities at home.
Cozy Koala gets to go home, in his special backpack with his special journal, with a different child each Friday. He joins in with family activities and adventures and helps to guide families to practise GEM during their time together. Families have been practising some of the GEM activities such as making a list of how they like to spend time together, what they do to change their mood, going on a gratitude walk, doing acts of kindness and sharing with each other things that went well each day, things that made them smile and things that they are looking forward to doing the next day.
These are some of the adventures Cozy Koala has had with our families so far:
- Going to the Murray Bridge Bunyip, playing footy and sitting in the ambulance with Kove.
- Going on a big loader and drawing portraits with Lulu.
- Going out for lunch and playing on the swings with Phoebe
- Jumping on wool bales, sitting in the wool and keeping an eye on the sheep in the shearing shed with Jack.
- Cuddling and sleeping with Archie.
- Riding a skateboard and playing with cousins with April.
- Playing, joining in with family tea and icecream with Ruby.
- Swinging on the swings outside with Sebastian.
- Riding in the car in his very own booster seat, getting up close to a pet sheep and going to the post office with Meika.
At the end of his visit, families fill in a page in Cozy’s ‘Gem Adventures Journal’. They then bring him back to kindy to share the adventures they had with Cosy, with their peers and educators.
We look forward to sharing more of Cozy Koala’s adventures in another newsletter before the end of the year.
Mrs Trish Horstmann
HI SRAS community,
Welcome to term 4.
Over my next few newsletter articles, I would like to give you a few snippets of the information that is in a new brochure from my employer, SMG (Schools Ministry Group), about PCWs (Pastoral Care Workers) in South Australian schools. This will explain a little bit about our wellbeing role in schools.
Here is the first snippet:
The Wellbeing Need
“The need for continued and ever-sharpening focus on Australia’s children and young people, as rates of social isolation and rising mental health and wellbeing challenges increase, is clear. Amid a backdrop of bushfires, COVID-19 related disruptions, flooding and falling participation rates in community organisations and associations, schools are increasingly playing a role in wellbeing.”
Evaluation of the National School Chaplaincy Program – dandolopartners Nov. 2022, commissioned by the Australian Government
Have a great week,
Mrs Julie Maxwell, PCW
| 2nd - 3rd November | R-2 Camp |
| 6th November | Student Free Day |
| 15th - 17th November | Year 3-6 Camp |
| 17th November | Mid Term Assembly |
| 1st December | Yr 7-10 Immunisations |
| 12th December | Presentation Evening |
| 15th December | Term 4 Ends |
SCHOOL OPENING HOURS
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Due date for articles in the next Newsletter is 10:00am, Wednesday 8th November, 2023. The newsletter is distributed via the SZApp and school website.
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