28 May 2020

Newsletter Articles

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

PRINCIPALS REPORT

Hello Swan Reach,

It is incredible to know that we are half way through the term already. Nearly all students are back at school and have returned to face-to-face teaching routines that are the best for learning and teaching. Whilst South Australia is experiencing lifts to restrictions, SRAS remains under COVID-19 restrictions for non-essential workers and visitors, including parents and carers. We thank you for adhering to this advice by SA Health until further notice. The Department and SA Health classify schools and preschools as ‘controlled’ environments and have provided them with extra cleaning to support ongoing safe hygiene practices such as regular handwashing and use of sanitiser. Importantly, the state has progressed well to have restrictions easing faster than projected. Well done to our community for doing our bit – thank you.

COVID-19

The following extract is the latest advice from the Department for Education

Dear Parents / Carers

It has been pleasing to welcome most of our students back to school. Across our state approximately 90% of our students are now at school.

Our Department for Education now expects all public school students who are well and not considered vulnerable to COVID-19 to attend school or preschool.

Students are required to attend school unless they are:

Feeling unwell

• Have a chronic medical condition or compromised immune system and are not able to attend school on advice from their medical practitioner
• Live in a household with others that are deemed vulnerable to COVID-19 and are not able to attend school on advice of their medical practitioner
• Have been diagnosed with COVID-19 or have been required to self-isolate by SA Health

If your child is in one of these categories and is unable to attend school at this stage, please contact the school on 85702053 so that we can negotiate how to best support their learning.

ICT

It is pleasing to report that the department has upgraded SRAS’ ICT capabilities. We are now connected to the new fibre optics cabling, meaning our internet connections are faster and more reliable. We have upgraded our wireless connectivity and also have new technology that connects our computers to our SMART boards from anywhere in the classroom. Staff recently received new laptops and students will benefit from accessing their older ones. Thank you to Mrs Leanne Griffiths for all her time and commitment to assist this successful and necessary process. Our ICT infrastructure is set to serve us for the foreseeable future.

Mr John Robertson
Principal

YEAR 7-8 HAIKU

In English and Japanese, Y7/8 students learnt about Haiku (a Japanese traditional poetry) and had a go at writing one. Here are some of them. Some students tried writing in Japanese.

Miss Rohie Griffiths and Mrs Yuka Endersby

Year 7-8 Haiku

Japanese Lessons – Mt Fuji Mosaics

In Japanese, the Year 4-5-6 class have been learning about Mr Fuji. Students have created a mosaic art of Mt Fuji as a conclusion to the unit.

Mrs Yuka Endersby
Japanese Teacher

Mt Fuji Mosaics

IMMUNISATION EVIDENCE REQUEST NOTICE

SCHOOL LUNCH ORDERS

We thank the Swan Reach General Store for supplying lunch orders for the school. The menu and ordering details are below. Please note there are no lunch orders available on Wednesdays.

SRAS WEBSITE

The Swan Reach Area School website is where you can find all the school information including the newsletter, forms and polices. Please visit the link below.

NEWSLETTER INFORMATION

Due Date for the next Newsletter is 10:00am, Tuesday June 9th 2020. The newsletter is distributed via the SZApp and school website. Printed copies are still available upon request.

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 library/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.

PLAYGROUP

Playgroup has been suspended until further notice.

P-CMG/Playgroup

Parent Mother Goose and Playgroup sessions have been suspended due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Coming Events 2020

Community Notices

Community Library

Please note, at this stage the Community Library is open to the Community during the following times:

Monday 3pm-4pm
Tuesday 3pm-5pm
Wednesday 3pm-5pm
Thursday 3pm-4pm
Friday 3pm-4pm

It is expected that we will return to normal hours in the not too distant future.

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