Early Learning Centre News

 As you know, we are working with The Resilience Project Early Years Wellbeing Program to support children to develop positive mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness.

 As part of the program, we are engaging in a community project Mindful Colouring as a strategy to practise mindfulness.

 At our entrance, we have set up a mindfulness colouring station.

 We invite our families and wider community to visit the ELC and spend some time engaging in mindfulness colouring. Alternatively, you are welcome to take some colouring pages to practise mindful colouring at home. 

 What to do when visiting: 

Choose a Cosy Koala mindfulness colouring page, or a page in one of our colouring books.

 Sit quietly and choose your colouring pencils/textas/crayons.

 Think about what you are doing in the moment instead of thinking about yesterday or tomorrow or what is happening next:

 -Think about the feel of the pencils/textas.

-Think about the noise they make on the paper.

-Think about the detail of the picture.

-Think about how hard or soft you are pressing.

-Think about the colour you are using.

-Think about the way you are colouring. What direction are you going in?

 Support children by asking them to focus on one of the above. Focussing on these things helps us to be in the present moment.

 Why Mindfulness?

 Working on mindfulness gives you opportunities to develop your ability to pay attention to the present moment and your thoughts. Research shows that practising mindfulness can reduce depression, reduce anxiety, improve decision making and your ability to focus. Mindfulness can also improve your physical health by reducing blood pressure. Even just 5 minutes a day can have huge benefits.

The Early Years Team

Occasional Care

We have good news! Our Occasional Care service will be back up and running in Term 4. Occasional Care is available for children aged 2-4 years on Friday mornings, from 8.30am till 12.30pm. The service will be integrated with our preschool session, and will be co-ordinated by our SSO, Mr Roy McKenzie.

As numbers are restricted, families wishing to utilise this service, will need to register their interest by phoning the front office on 85702053. This includes both previously enrolled children and new children. New enrolments also need to fill in an enrolment form and provide birth and immunisation certificates. Roy will then be in contact with confirmation of your booking and further information.

Mrs Trish Horstmann

Y3/4 Hot Shot Carnival

On Tuesday, week 7, a group of Year 3 & 4 students participated in the Hot Shot Tennis Carnival that was held at Mannum Tennis Courts. Students got to play many mini doubles against each other as well as students from Mannum. Congratulations to all the students who participated very well throughout the day. They were on their best behaviour and displayed great sportsmanship. Special mention to Tayte and Emilee for receiving the best Team Players of the day from our school.

Mrs Yuka Endersby
Primary HPE Teacher

This semester, the Year 2-3 and Year 4-5 classes have been learning adjectives and sentence structure to describe anime characters. After completing this activity, the Year 4-5 class are now working on their assessment task which is creating a 'Wanted Poster' of their favourite Japanese anime character. The Year 2-3 class have been learning describing words and are now creating their unique 'Guess Who' game. Most of the students have trialled their game in English and will be playing the game in Japanese next week.

Mrs Yuka Endersby
Japanese Teacher

Attention SRAS Families!

We are pleased to announce that Helen Luke, a Local Area Coordinator from Mission Australia, will be visiting our school on:

? Date: Wednesday, 30th October (Week 3, Term 4)

? Location: Swan Reach Area School

Helen is here to meet with parents and families who would like support with accessing funding from the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Whether you need advice or assistance with NDIS funding for your child/ren, Helen can provide the guidance and information you need. Mission Australia is a funded partner of the NDIS, committed to supporting families in our community. If you are interested in meeting with Helen or need more information, please me at the school.

Mr Jayden Coleman
Special Education Coordinator

The school lunch menu and prices are supplied by the Swan Reach General Store.  We thank them for this service to the school. School lunches are available for order on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.  They are not available on Wednesday.

SCHOOL HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS - 

'Call and Collect' will still be available for your convenience.

SCHOOL TERM TIME OPENING HOURS  - Monday, 8.30am-4:00pm Tuesday, 8.30am-5:00pm Wednesday,8.30am-5:00pm Thursday,8.30am-4:00pm Friday, 8.30am-4:00pm. 'Call and Collect' will still be available for your convenience.

The number is:   0460 366 067

LIBRARY MOBILE APP

 

Well done to all our sporting heroes that made the finals this season. Congratulations to Miss Maxwell on her recent netball grandfinal win! B3 2024 Premiers, defeating Onkaparinga 33 to 28. Well done.  Congratulations also to Mrs Cowland who took out the Murray Valley Netball League A-Grade Best and Fairest award. Good luck to Maliyah Haby who will play her grandfinal at Tintinara this weekend.

REMINDER TO PARENTS/CARERS: Thank you for making sure that ALL your children's belongings (clothes, lunch boxes, drink bottles, etc.) are CLEARLY LABELLED with your child's name. Labelled property can be easily returned to its owner.

At the start of this term a stack of clothing was collected from various places around the school which have not been labelled with any names.  This includes:

School Embroidered Hoodies

1 x Size 10
1 x Size 12
1 x Small
1 x Size 10 Anko Kids zip up jacket
1 x Size 10 Anko Kids Hoodie
1 x Size 7 Anko leggings
2 x Size 8 Anko trackpants (brand new)

If any of these items belong to your child/children, thanks for contacting the school and we can send them home.

Also we are looking for a school embroidered hoodie, size 10 with Axle named on the inside tag. It is possible it may have been picked up accidently by another student, return would be appreciated, no questions asked. 

We would also like to advise that we can also offer an embroidery service if anyone wants to have their child/children's names embroidered on their school clothing for a small fee of $5.00 per garment. If you are interested in this service contact the school.

Mrs Leanne Griffiths

Good health habits and personal hygiene are essential life skills. Children need to learn life skills that are necessary in order to become healthy, confident and responsible adults. In people with poor personal hygiene, the body provides an ideal environment for germs to grow, leaving it vulnerable to infection. On a social level, people may avoid a person with poor personal hygiene, which may result in isolation and loneliness. 

• Showering or bathing every day.
• Washing hands with soap and water often.
• Washing hair regularly.
• Brushing hair every day and getting haircuts when needed.
• Brushing teeth twice a day.
• Changing underwear daily and wearing clean clothes.
• Using personal hygiene products such as deodorant.

Due date for articles in the next Newsletter is 10:00am, 25th September, 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.