Lake Windemere B-7 School

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Principal's report Welcome back to school for Term 2. Welcome back to the

following sta�: Senora Ebbony Darkins - Spanish (M,T,Th,F),

Molly Evans - Student Wellbeing leader, Angela Crespin -

Spanish (wed) and Room 22 (Th,Fr). 

Congratulations to Mel Cato on the safe arrival of her baby

girl.

Sara Barwell, one of our most experienced educators is

taking Room 35. Also congratulations to Jess Morelli on the

safe arrival of her baby boy. 

It has been amazing to hold our �rst assemblies since the

beginning of 2020. Thank you to all of the families who

attended either the Primary or the Junior Primary

assemblies. 

Term 2 Week 3

Lake Windemere B-7 SchoolThe nature of learning

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We were able to acknowledge the powerful learning and

fantastic attendance through a range of awards. Student

Voice hosted the assemblies and shared their vision

around how the students can inform the decisions around

yard equipment and yard processes. They will be gathering

feedback from students as to what reward can be put in

place once the accomplishment jar is full. Currently

individual students get an accomplishment card to take

home.  

Student Voice are also looking at unit rewards for the least

yard violence incidents. Students were keen to be a part of

this and had lots of ideas to submit. 

We also had some fabulous demonstrations of Skipping

and classroom work. 

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Governing Council ReportGoverning Council met on Wednesday evening this week

to support the school with a range of decisions. 

Council approved the school budget and discussed areas

of possible expenditure from our saving account. We

discussed sta�ng changes at the school and how the year

6/7 to HS will impact on both of these. 

This year the school will advertise  a Deputy Principal

position which is a shift from our current 3 Band 3 Senior

Leaders. A Leader position will also be advertised for

classroom support and engagement. The school will

reduce in numbers by approximately 60-70 students which

Assemblies are back! Congratulations to ouraward recipients and Thank you to our

presenters.

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will impact on levels of funding, number of classes etc. The

school has been carefully planning for the transition and is

in a good position for the move. 

Council also discussed fundraising and have approved the

following school and outside charity fundraisers. Further

information will be sent out during the year around these. 

Term 2: Jump Rope for Heart, Story Dogs: Pyjama Day

Term 3: Colour Run, SIDS: Casual Clothes' Day

Term 4: School Disco

Council also approved the ongoing sale of some ice blocks

throughout the year instead of just term 1 & 4 and also a

donut day as the Red food day for term 2. Money raised

from these supports the school to maintain a school run

canteen. 

Council also approved two policies. One is the Sunsmart

policy which has had little change from previous policies. It

is attached below for your reference and is available on

the school's website.

The second policy is the new Device use policy. This has

been a Departmental approved policy directly linked to the

new legislation around Mobile Device use in Primary

school settings. School sta� will work with students

around what the changes mean. Please familiarise yourself

with the device policy so you can support your child with

the correct use of mobile devices (phones, smart watches

etc.)

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Sun Smart PolicyDownload

Personal Devices PolicyDownload

Happy Volunteer WeekEvery year we acknowledge the valuable work that our volunteers do for our community. This

year it is no di�erent. From working in our canteen, to serving on the Governing Council we

appreciate it all. As we still navigate Covid sites are still having to follow DfE procedures

regarding volunteers being on site. We hope to be able to allow class reading, helping in the

Library and the Kitchen/Garden soon. We thank you for your continued support. 

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Old Scholars - Success at Nationals

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SAPSASA District TeamSuccessCongratulations to the following students for their

successful selection for the following Para District SAPSASA

teams. 

Maliah Finnie - Yr 6 District Netball team

Lachlan Spencer Yr 6 District team

Will Whitehouse Yr 7 Football District team.

We would like to wish them all the best for their

upcoming games. 

Congratulations to two of our past students who have been representing South Australia at The

Nationals in Sydney.

Lachlan U17 competed in : 

•5kg Hammer - 44.36kg overall 11th, with a massive 5mt pb !!

•5kg Shotput - 11.74mt overall 11th, with a 30cm pb !!

•1.5kg Discus - 37.58mt overall 13th.

  Excellent Results for Lachlan, he had some extremely tough competition!!

 Noah U15 competed in :

•4kg Hammer - 52.89kg  overall 1st  (Gold Medal)

•4kg shotput  - 13.55mt overall  6th

•1kg Discus - 58.22mt overall 1st  (Gold Medal)

 Excellent Results for Noah ! He also had some tough competition. 

 The overall placement is also their Ranking in Australia for that speci�c age bracket. 

The boys had a fantastic time and learnt a lot. This was Lachlan's �rst major competition

representing South Australia and this was Noah's 4th. This was the �rst time to Nationals

though, so we are very proud of their achievements. Next year is in Perth !! 👍😉

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Student VoiceI would like to introduce our new Student Voice Team for 2021, our team is made up of two

representatives from each unit. It will be their job to help lead improvements in our school,

representing the thoughts and opinions of all students. Student Voice Representatives have

already been in classes encouraging teachers to send home Achievement Postcards as well as

giving out Accomplishment Cards to help �ll our Accomplishment Jar in the front o�ce! Student

Voice will be speaking to their classes about how we will celebrate when the Accomplishment

Jar is �lled to the top.

Their �rst duty was running our �rst Years 4-7 Assembly and they did a great job! They will also

be leading the R – 3 Assembly on Friday.

Please see the names and a photo of our Student Voice team below.

Blackwood

Charli Ricketts Rm 22

Tony Nyemar Rm 28

Jade Mibus Rm 26

 Lotus

Nathan Glover Rm 17

Grace Ince Rm 19

 Grevillea

Thomas Henry Rm 4

Charlotte Hill Rm 5

 Acacia

Storm Karnage Rm 12

Marshall Brown Rm 10

 The Lily Unit is represented by Tony and Jade as our senior leaders.  

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Room 2This term, Room 2 has been learning about Measurement. We used di�erent informal units

such as Uni�x cubes, pop sticks etc. to estimate and measure the length of di�erent objects

around the classroom. Students recorded their �ndings and re�ected on their estimation and

actual measurement. Below are students re�ections: " I have learned that my sharpener is

6 uni�x cubes long." "It was fun learning with uni�x cubes.

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Room 9 have been focussing on descriptionwriting using words of colour, shape, number,

texture and size. We have had fun describing ourown designed Mr Potato-Head, our very ownMonster and ourselves. We have also been

focussing on Narratives and we came up with aninteresting class story using a narrative web.

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Choir NewsOn Tuesday our Festival of Music Choir students had an assessment visit from the choir

director, Robyn Filmer. Robyn listened to the choir sing through several songs from this year's

program and gave feedback on our progress. She was very impressed with the behaviour and

presentation of the choir and enjoyed listening to us sing some of our favourite pieces. Well

done everyone.

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SAPSASA NewsOur �rst SAPSASA Carnival for the year was Boys Football and Girls Netball, which took place

last term at Argana Park, on Thursday 1st April. The weather was perfect and plenty of

supporting parents were there on the day cheering on our students. Mr. Slack was the coach of

the Boys Football team which ended up equal winners for the day, narrowly losing only one

match. Nevertheless, they ended up joint winners.

Miss Grist coached the Girls Netball team and Kerry Williams helped out the Girls, while also

working hard by umpiring several games throughout the day. The Girls skillfully eased through

all of their games as victors, except for one really close game. Our Girls lost marginally to the

winning School for the day. The Girls Netball team came Runners Up.

It was an awesome day all round, Congratulations and well done to the following Students:

Boys Football-Farin Wanganeen, Bailey Shepherd, Tyler Stacey, Jake Dudley, Seth Michaux, Jake

Perrin, Lachlan Cairns, Kelvin Bozan, Declan Gutte, Yawar Abbas, Mason Davies, Isaiah Bennett,

Tyrell Calyun, Will Whitehouse, Aiden Walkusk and Lachlan Spencer.

Girls Netball- Izzabell Fidock, Matilda Walkuski, Maliah Finnie, Bianca Fisher, Acacia Barre, Grace

Zarazinski, Blaze Reihana, Alicia Cook, Ella Flowers and Laticia Bellman.

We look forward to the next Boys Netball and Girls Soccer SAPSASA Carnival which will be held

on the 28th May, again held at Argana Park.

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SAPSASA Boys Football

SAPSASA Girls Netball

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Basketball with Shaq

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Year 7 to High School - Important information

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Jump Rope for Heart

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Donut Day- Notes were sent home on last Friday

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Breakfast ClubR-7 students are welcome to attend Breakfast Club.

Breakfast Club is located in Room 1 - Our Kitchen, located

in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden area. We are

fortunate to have SSOs and teachers provide their own

time to run our breakfast club. Kickstart for Kids

generously donate all of the food supplies. 

Breakfast Club is available every day from 8am to 8:20am.

(Any student who enters the school before 8:20am must

be in the Breakfast Club room) 

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Skoolbag instructions

Canteen PricelistPlease see below the updated pricelist for the canteen for term 2. Please make sure that you

send correct money in for the lunch orders and please be aware that the front o�ce does not

have change for the canteen. 

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Learning Everyday English and Maths

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Learning practical skills to �nd work

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Learning to write with con�dence

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Kids Taekwondo Classes

Lego Club at Burton Community Centre

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Enabling Independence

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Term dates for 2021Term 1 - Wednesday 27th January - Friday 9th April

Term 2 - Tuesday 27th April - Friday 2nd July

Term 3  -Monday 19th July - Friday 24th September

Term 4  -Monday 11th October - Friday 10th December

Term 2 Grasshopper Soccer

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School Fees and Schoolcardfor 2021- Fees are nowoverdue.School Fees for 2021 are $246-00 each student for the

year. Fees were payable by Friday 9th of April. Fees are

now overdue and the process to send families to Debt

Collection will commence shortly. Please apply for

Schoolcard online or pay your fees. If you applied for

Schoolcard last year you should have received an email to

apply again in 2021. DfE now has the preference that all

applications are to be completed online. 

Applying for Schoolcard online instructions

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Important Diary Dates

7th May Primary Assembly

12th May Governing Council 7pm

13th-19th May NAPLAN testing

14th May JP Assembly

17th to 23rd May National Volunteer Week 2021

25th May 6/7 Aquatics 

27th May- 3rd June Reconciliation Week

28th May Sapsasa Carnival

31st May 6/7 Aquatics Rm 21,22 and 29

8th June Donut Day

10th June School Photos

11th June Pupil Free Day

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14th June Queen's Birthday Public Holiday

15th June Photo make up day

16th June Governing Council 7pm

18th June Primary Assembly

23rd June Jump o� Day

25th June JP Assembly

1st July Reports go home

2nd July Early dismissal 2pm End of Term 2

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Lake Windemere B-7 School

17 Uraidla Avenue

Salisbury North SA 5108

08 8258 0666

[email protected].

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