11 June 2020

Newsletter Articles

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Hello Swan Reach,

Thank you for your commitment and support regarding COVID-19 restrictions that continue to apply to school and preschool sites. SRAS highly values your adherence to stay off-site unless essential and prearranged. All schools and preschools are still waiting on news regarding easing of current restrictions and SRAS will communicate ALL updates with you ASAP.

We understand that much can and has changed quickly, however we have a reminder update for families outlined below:

• Playgroup, Occasional Care and Parent Child Mother Goose remain suspended
• We ask parents and carers to remain off-site unless essential
• Volunteers are to remain off-site
• Library is open community members after school hours
• Ongoing high personal hygiene for staff and students
• additional cleaning remains in place
• Social distancing remains in place for staff

SCHOOL SUPPORT

SRAS is able to assist you with inquiries regarding local and district support services who may help you, your family, your child(ren) or a friend in need. SRAS has actively sought and connected with Health and Welfare agencies to provide extra care, information and services. Some of the services engaging with our community travel to Swan Reach which is an enormous benefit for busy and families with transport difficulties. The following list shows the main non-departmental providers that students and families are or have engaging with:

• Child Adolescent and Mental Health Services – Murray Bridge (counselling)
• CentaCare – Murray Bridge (counselling)
• Anglican Community Care – Communities for Children Murraylands (activities and events)
• Mid Murray Support Services - Communities for Children, Mannum Hub (Seasons for Growth, Bringing up Great Kids, Parenting under Pressure, Drumbeat)
• Mid Murray Family Connections – Mid Murray Mums (Face Book, sharing concerns, information and ideas)

It is timely for our community to reflect and reach out to those who have gone, going and will go through tough times. A word of encouragement, a random act of kindness, a phone call or visit are just some little ways we can show our support and empathy towards our neighbours - We (all) Matter.

Mr John Robertson
Principal

SAPSASA VIRTUAL CROSS COUNTRY

On Thursday, 4th June, Preschoolto Year 6 have participated in “Virtual Cross Country”. Students ran 500m to 3000m depending on their birth year. The weather was beautiful and all the students did their very best to enjoy running that afternoon. Well done! Special thanks to Mr Coleman, Mrs O’Shaughnessy and Mrs Thomas for helping us run the event. Also a reminder that we will be having a “Jump Off Day” this Friday. Students from Preschool to Year 6 will be participating in different skipping activities. We will take some photos from this event so stay tuned and check the Week 9 newsletter

Mrs Yuka Endersby (Primary PE Teacher)
Mrs Sarah Bolt (SAPSASA Coordinator)

SAPSASA Virtual Cross Country

ASX SCHOOLS SHARE MARKET-GAME 1, 2020

It was a long journey for those Year 9 - 12 students who participated in the well-known ASX Schools Sharemarket Game from 12 March to 20 May. Each student received a virtual $50,000 they could invest over a 10-week period, in 220 companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Throughout the competition, I was pleased to see how active and excited those students became and in particular how confidently they put into practice what they had learnt in Financial Maths.

Big congratulations to Lochlan Hodge who came first in South Australia with a portfolio of $81,844.01. As a result, Lochlan is now $400 richer after receiving a real cash prize.

I also want to acknowledge other outstanding results achieved by Ryan Wiebrecht who came 11th in the state with a portfolio of $72,792.20 and Kai Williams who came 94th in the state with a portfolio of $60,316.62.

Finally, I want to congratulate all those students who took part in the competition. They had a lot of fun doing so and learnt many new skills along the way. I look forward to welcoming more young investors interested in participating in Game 2 of the competition which will begin in August. For more information, visit the link below:

Mr Tun

ASX SHAREMARKET - Students’ Testimony

Initially, I tried to make a quick profit, but I realised that would be too slow. Therefore, I decided to change my strategy to buy and hold. I bought 908 shares of AfterPay at $13, then it shot up to $44 per share at the end of School Share Market Game.

Lochlan Hodge

This term Mr Tun, our Maths teacher, presented the share market game called ASX to the whole class. I was intrigued with the game and wanted to start right away. Once we had been explained how to play the game and what to do I got right into it and invested into a few companies such as WEB (Web Jet) and ANZ (Australian and New Zealand bank). Both of these companies plummeted down and lost me $10,000 in a week. After about half a month stocks started to rise and equalled themselves out. I then started to make money and was about 50th in our state! But I didn’t sell and lost my position. At the end of the game I had secured the 94th position in our state. This game had shown me how easy it is to make money from shares and how to use shares, I highly suggest we do this game every year.

Kai Williams

The stock market game was an interesting yet fun experience. The ability to actually win money increased my interest a lot more, like it would for anyone. But throughout the game I realised it was more than just the money, you can learn real life lessons from this ‘game’ to put into the real world, I’m looking forward to next semester and maybe even continuing after school from what I have learnt.

Kailem Dahmes

Stage 1 Food & Hospitality

As part of their Stage 1 Food and Hospitality Assessment, students were required to research food trends in their local area, following which they had to come up with their own version of a currently fashionable dish. Olivia tackled the classic Italian Tiramisu while Naomi served up her version of the trendy White Chocolate Dome with the surprise elements inside. Well done girls!

Mr Tun

Doorways2Construction

This semester students have been fabricating steel for a carport at “Wombat Ridge”. Students are developing skills in:

• Interpreting drawings and specifications to determine job requirements
• Selecting, cleaning and preparing metal stock
• Cuts marked-out metal sections and shapes using hand tools, flame cutting torches and metal cutting machines
• Shapes and bends metal sections and pipes using hand and machine tools, and by heating and hammering
• Aligns parts to be joined using hand tools and measuring instruments
• Joins metal sections using various welding techniques, bolting and riveting
• Examines welds for width of bead, penetration and precision
• Metal finishing including cleaning, polishing and filing.

Mr Greg Griffiths
Doorways2Construction Instructor

Doorways2Construction

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.

SCHOOL CLEANER - a vacancy will exist from the beginning of July this year.  For all details and further information please contact the front office.  8570 2053

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