PRINCIPALS REPORT

Hello Swan Reach,

It was terrific to connect with families again and having you join our end of term 1 assembly. With so many children and students coming by bus, which is a wonderful assistance for families, we tend to have less opportunities to connect and share our

core business of teaching and learning. Whenever SRAS and families have created opportunities for genuine and authentic connections with community, the staff, children, students and parents / carers are positively engaged and rewarded by the experiences. Some of our previous bigger events, such as the WeMatter and MMOT events were fun and seeing the community come together is always so positive and enriching.

In a similar, but on a smaller scale, the mid-term, end of term assemblies and presentation evenings also provide our community with opportunities for authentic connection to school and preschool. All authentic connections tend to have the following traits:

• Vulnerability
• Imperfection
• Passion

Your children and our students certainly demonstrate all these qualities when performing, as they open themselves to share their learning stories with us. Thank you for making time to witness them sharing their journeys, as the children continue to enrich our teaching & supporting, parenting and caring.

THE RESILIENCE PROJECT (TRP)

SRAS is using the $30,000 DfE Wellbeing grant for long-term investment on students, staff and families through an ongoing commitment to TRP. The wellbeing support for parents and carers is provided in the following ways:

Part A – live webinars for parents / carers  

Leah and our TRP Team are so looking forward to your upcoming Digital Wellbeing for Families Webinar with other schools on Wednesday 15th May from 6:30 to 7:30pm AEST

What you can expect.

This 60-minute presentation gives parents/carers the opportunity to reflect on their family’s digital wellbeing. They will explore practical tips and strategies to create healthy habits around screen time to positively impact relationships and strengthen connections within the home. Throughout this presentation parents and carers will:

Gain insight into the latest research around family screen time and its impact on individual and collective wellbeing in the home.

Be provided with ideas strategies to enhance their own digital wellbeing to role model for their family.

Feel equipped to support their children’s device usage with practical strategies without screen shaming, banning or removing devices.

Accessing the webinar

Use the following link to register for the webinar.

https://au01web.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Aoc-mqrD0sHddLA_gAKbVQFS5CVMzpb64K

The webinar will be recorded, and sent to SRAS for circulation to anyone who cannot make it or would like a recap.

The Connected Parenting (Webinar) is scheduled for Monday, 22 July 2024 06:30PM. For a preview of the content and the presenter click on the link below.

https://youtu.be/1S-qOX7_L9Y?feature=shared

Part B- Parent Carer Hub

SRAS will provide more details about this resource in next newsletter but the link below is for anyone who wishes to get started or reconnect, as this resource was also available last year.

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/2023-parent-carer-hub-inspire-martin/

Kind regards,

Mr John Robertson

Principal

One of our yr.2 students has been exploring mathematical concepts at home with nature. She was very excited to share her new learning with the class. As part of the children's voice, we discussed taking our math's studies outside. We all collected dry leaves and used these to build an array. An array is a group of objects that can be used to represent groups of something. We used the leaves to make these arrays. 

Mrs Bonnie Harmer
Year 2-4 Class

Mrs E’s Japanese Corner

Welcome back to term 2, I hope you all had a great school holiday.

In Japanese this term, the primary classes have started by celebrating the Japanese Children’s Day that was on 5^th of May. Students have learnt or revisit what the day is for and have created very colourful Carp Streamer, one of the decorations, to be part of the celebration. Carps in Chinese/ Japanese traditional stories represent success, so by decorating the carp, it wishes the children’s success in their life.

This term R/1 class will be continue learning about Japanese and their identity through the language and the culture.

Y2-4 will be continue be learning through the unit of “The Hungry Caterpillar” They will be able to form some simple sentences in Japanese.

Y5/6 will be continue learning the topic “weather”. This term, as a part of their assessment task, students will be creating a video clip of weather forecast in Japanese using a green screen.

Y7/8 will be continue exploring their identity going through the unit of work from DfE “Identity”. In this unit, students have learnt the greetings and self-introduction in Japanese, but we also have explored the difference with our culture. This term we will be learning a few more sentences and phrases that express our identity in Japanese as we revisit our identities.

I am hoping to share our learning through the newsletter so please stay tuned.

Japanese Teacher

Mrs Yuka Endersby

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The library has a mobile phone for communication.  Please let me know if you would like to be included on the message list to receive notifications, holiday and opening hours etc.

The number is:   0460 366 067

LIBRARY MOBILE APP

Programmes available from the library.

Due date for articles in the next Newsletter is 10:00am, 23rd May, 2024.  The newsletter is distributed via the SZApp and school website.  

Articles can be emailed to dl.0423.info@schools.sa.edu.au  clearly marked in the subject box as Newsletter, faxed to 8570 2325 or delivered to the front office. Due to the way the Newsletter is now being set up, not all photos are included in the print copy, however there are several photo galleries included online and via the SZApp. Apple devices: open the App store and search and download SZapp, on Android devices open the Play store and search and download SZappa; select the Asia Pacific region and search for Swan Reach Area School.  Follow the prompts to register using an email address and create a password to access the online newsletter. Contact the school should you require any assistance.