Term 2 Week 10 2023

Hello Friends

Well, here we are at the end of the first semester of the school year. Our school term finishes at 3.10pm Friday 7 July. I wish our families and community members a safe and relaxing holiday break.

Lost Property
There are just a few items of lost property on display for collection on a table outside the drink fountain area. Please check this table for any items that have been misplaced during the school term.

Pupil Free Day – 24 July
I remind families that students return to school on 25 July and our staff return to school on 24 July for Professional Development opportunities.

School Board Talk -  June Meeting
On behalf of the school board and the school community, I wish to thank Damien Partridge for his many years of service to the School Board and to the school community. Thank you Damien, for your support of our school.

"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behaviour”.
William Glasser

Thanks and blessings
Matt Perry

Last week as a community we spent a week looking at our Wellbeing.  We spent time being creative, talking about how we look after our wellbeing and engaged in activities to develop our understanding of what wellbeing is.

Wellbeing is important for all and in recent years its value has been realised. To have a feeling of self-worth is key to our wellbeing . God gives us this value in many ways. This piece of scripture calls to us.

Arise, shine, for your light has come,  and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1

God is a constant source of our worth and our value. Being able to see the worth of others is a beautiful gift, being able to see the worth of others and to to nourish them is an even greater gift. Being recognised by others feeds our self-worth each time someone takes time to notice it in us.

One of the activities during last week was completed by the Year 4 class. They discussed how the adults in our school support the students wellbeing. They started with the obvious- ‘My teacher looks after me’, ‘My teacher teaches me new stuff’ etc. However, they drilled down to the many things that take place in our school that supports their wellbeing. Gradually the discussion moved around to – having a full sandpit to play in gives me a time to be happy, having climbing trees makes me feel free, a library full of books to read, having someone who looks after me when I’m sick or frightened makes me feel safe, paying the bills so we have an air conditioner and clean water to drink helps us to be healthy. The students came up with something that every adult in our school does to maintain their wellbeing. The students decorated a hand for each staff member and presented it during the week. The staff all had wide smiles and where touched, even better to see was the look of joy on the Year 4 student’s faces as they realised how they had built up the wellbeing of a grown up.

Wellbeing week was a wonderful time for personal growth in some obvious ways but more importantly in the lifelong learning of us all involved.

Vinnies Winter Appeal
The reasons to donate are all around us. With your support, Vinnies can provide much-needed assistance to the people in our community that need it most. Together, we can do something about it, and the school holidays are a great time for a sort out. Each family received a bag to use to gather items no longer needed by the family. The donated items will go straight to Vinnies for sorting and distribution. This year Vinnie’s needs clean, good condition clothing. However, Vinnies never refuses donations of warm blankets, coats, sleeping bags or adult clothing if you have some to donate.

Please  return the bag after the school holidays. We will deliver the bags to Vinnies 31^st July.

Community Mass - Friday 7^th July 9am
Fr Michael and the Yr2 class will lead us in our community mass. All members of the community, extended family and friends are invited to our parish mass each 1^st Friday of the month

Teresa Pascoe
Assistant Principal – Religious Identity and Mission

Premiers Reading Challenge closes this Friday
All forms need to have been submitted by this Friday. The tub in the classroom is the best place to deposit forms to make sure they are submitted on time. A special Presentation Assembly is held in Term 4 for all medal and certificate recipients. A date and time will be advertised in Term 4.

Holdfast Bay Holiday Activities 
The Holdfast Bay is offering a wide variety of activities during the upcoming holidays.

• Techtime for kids
• Silly Songs and Magic Fun
• Teddy Bear Hospital
• Lego Play
• Guide Dog talk
• Make your own Mini Terrarium.

Booking and more info at the following link.
https://www.holdfast.sa.gov.au/discover-our-place/whats-on?display=list&topic=play-at-the-bay&audience=&when=&from=&to=&venues=&keywords=

Adelaide Planetarium Holiday Program
The Adelaide Planetarium at Mawson Lakes runs some truly mind-expanding events. These events sell out quickly but many are still available as we print the newsletter. Ages are catered from 5-18 with the majority for upper primary students. The link below will lead you to more info and booking details.
https://www.unisa.edu.au/connect/galleries-museums-and-centres/adelaide-planetarium/explore/school-holiday-programs/

Teresa Pascoe
Teacher/Librarian

Long Service Leave
I will be taking long service leave from week 1 – 4 in Term 3. If you require any support with learning or inclusive education matters, please see your child’s class teacher or a member of the leadership team.

NAPLAN results
It is anticipated that Individual Student Reports will be delivered to schools from week 1 of Term 3. As soon as these reports are delivered to us we will send a copy home to parents.

Parent Library
The Parent Library in the front office is continually having new resources/books added for parents to borrow. If you currently have a book from the library can you please return it by the end of term so that the resources can be sorted.

Maths Focus at CTK
This term we have been working with educational consultant Anne Bayetto who is guiding us through a whole school analysis of our student’s Number knowledge in Maths. We have completed initial screening and have a daily focus in all year levels on spending 5-10min a day further developing every student’s number knowledge. This includes estimation activities, number talks, picture prompts, place value tasks and dice activities. These focuses work alongside our everyday Maths lessons and will support students to develop greater automaticity when working with number facts.

The holidays is a great time to do some further practice at home. Activities include –

• Estimating amounts – jars of items, groups of things
• Dice games – counting on, counting backwards, number patterns, numbers before and after
• Comparing numbers and rounding up and down
• Using playing cards – sequence, create numbers, adding numbers
• See more activites below.

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday break.

Emma Heinrich
Leader of Learning and Inclusion

Number Activities

As part of our “Creating Communities” Art learning this semester, the Year 4 class watched a video of two artists who asked a variety of people to design and create their future home out of cardboard. Hundreds of these houses were then put together to create villages which went on display.

We worked in small groups to design our own houses and buildings in order to create our own Year 4 village. We worked together to combine our finished products into our village which we displayed in our classroom for school tour visitors to see.  

Scholastics - Look out for Issue 5

Chess Club - Term 3
Term 3 enrolments are now open for Thursday morning chess classes with Chess Mates!  Please use the following QR code or link at the bottom of the flyer below to enrol new students and to re-enrol students from Term 2 wishing to continue with their chess.

Uniform Shop
Long sleeve shirts size 6 & 8 are back in stock.  Please see Renee if you would like to order.
Uniform Shop Opening Hours
Tuesday afternoons 2.30pm - 3.30pm and Friday mornings 8.30am - 9.30am during school term.  Outside of these hours please order at http://www.belgraviaapparelschools.com/collections/christ-the-king-school