Monday Memos Week 3 2023
Thankyou for responding to the call for intention to participate in Canberra Camp. It will help greatly to continue the camp planning.
Year 6 have the opportunity to do a fund raiser for Canberra by making pizzas at the Immanuel Extravaganza upcoming on March 4.
Keeping Safe Lesson
Today’s lesson was to explore the idea of What safe looks like, feels like and sounds like to individuals and that it may mean different things depending on experiences.
IT Agreements
There are some IT agreements that have not been returned. Please attend to your Operoo forms as soon as possible.
Spelling
Looking at words with the prefix meaning of three: tri - trilogy, tricorn, triathlon
Important to not that we are still working on a couple new aspects in our Year 6 spelling program, ie morphology. With this in mind we are still teaching students how to do this and refining our expectations on it. While this is happening our only expectation with morphology is that they give it a go for 3-5 of their words per week. (If they choose to do more, they are welcome to)
Mathletics
Throughout last week, multiple students in our class finished not only in the top 100 students lists for Australia, but also in the WORLD. There have been some fantastic efforts. With many students pitching in it has also meant that last week, our class finished 10th in Australia and 27th in the World. Given that there are over 2300 schools in Australia and over 14000 schools in the world that subscribe to Mathletics, that is a huge milestone. Well done everyone.
Term 1 Week 3 Whole School Update…
Rhythm Kids 2023
- Mondays 9am to 9.30am in Music Room with Mr Hueppauff
- For all 3-5 year old children and their parents. Its free!
- No need to register, just sign in at the office and go to the Music Room click here
Volunteer Training
We really appreciate parents and caregivers helping at Immanuel, however people who volunteer in a school need to have
- ‘Valuing Safe Communities’ (VSC) training.
Training is this Wednesday 15 February 2022 at 2.30pm or at 6.30pm in the Admin Building with Daryl Trigg.
(Please RSVP by emailing jennyj@ilsg.sa.edu.au) - Working with Children Check (WWCC)
This can be obtained by contacting Jenny in the office. There is no charge if you are volunteering in a school.
More info can be found at https://screening.sa.gov.au/
If you will have an interest to attend an excursion or camp, help in the classroom, kitchen or garden this year, please ensure you have the above paperwork in place.
Open Morning
- Thursday 16 February starting at 9.30am
- For new families looking at schools and wanting a tour of Immanuel
Enrolments 2024
- If you have a sibling due to start in 2024 please ensure you have submitted an enrolment form to the office. Letters of offer will be sent home soon
Scholastic Book Orders
· Issue 1 catalogues went home in week 1
· Orders due back this Friday 17 February (order and pay online or return the form and cash to the office)
Worship and Praise
- Friday 17 February starting at 10.30am led by Mr Wundersitz
Parents and friends are welcome to join us
W&P Friday 10 February
- Please
click here to watch last week’s W&P which included installation of staff, students captains and distribution of bibles to year 2 students.
Coffee B4 Worship & Praise
· This year Gawler Lutheran Church volunteers will be offering “Coffee B4 Worship & Praise” from 9.45am in Taikondi
· We welcome any school parents, kindy parents and friends to join us for this prior to the Worship & Praise
Subway Lunches
· Orders due into the office on a Wednesday by 3.30pm for lunch on a Friday.
· Please write clearly on the order form the student name and teacher name.
· Please place in a clear zip bag so we can see order form or insert money in an envelope and stick the order form on the front.
· Please have correct cash per student as this goes direct to Subway for counting.
· Order forms can be obtained in the office, on our website click here and some have been sent home today
Parent / Teacher Conferences:
- ILP (Individual Learning Plan) Conferences will be held between Mon 20 Feb to Fri 3 March (week 4 & 5) for applicable students (those who have learning plans).
Teachers will be in contact with the applicable families asking them to book an ILP Conference
- Learning Conferences will be held Tues 7 March, Thurs 9 March, Weds 15 March (week 6 & 7) for all other students.
Instructions on how to book a Learning Conference will be sent home via Operoo soon.
Both types of Conferences will be face to face, although there is an option of meeting via Zoom if you would prefer.
Both types of Conferences are a time for teachers to meet parents (with their children in some year levels) and discuss learning plans for 2023 and answer any questions.
Extravaganza
- Saturday March 4pm to 9pm
- Save the Date for a Fun Family Event at Immanuel to kick start the year.
- BBQ, Dessert Pizzas, Bouncy Castle, Petting Zoo, Face Painting
- Coordinated by P&F along with Immanuel School Gawler.
- If you can volunteer on the day please give your name to the office.
- Stay tuned for more details.
Parents & Friends (P&F)
- Congratulations and welcome to our new P&F Chairperson Amanda and Secretary Alex. These 2 parents were voted into these positions at last weeks AGM.
- P&F welcome new members to come onto the committee and help and support the school with fundraising and event coordinating. Their next meeting is Mon 20 March at 7pm.
Carers Group
- The Carers Group first meeting for 2023 will be Friday 3 March at 9am
- Thank you to those who have registered their interest to assist as a Class Carer (and other offers) this year. The meeting will enable everyone to meet and discuss things to do during 2023.
Lyndoch Road Crossing Monitors
· Lyndoch Rd is a busy road for children to cross. Selected year 5 and 6 students have now been placed on roster as lolly pop volunteers along with an adult volunteer or staff member. Please be patient and vigilant when crossing Lyndoch Road.
Daly Street Car Park and School Lane Car Park
· If you need to head up School Lane, enter via the Daly Street Car park entrance – go around the Kiss and Drop drive through - and then turn left at the end.
(That first section of School Lane is too narrow to have cars going both ways!)
· If you are using the car park in School Lane (or along School Lane) make sure you head out up to East Terrace through the school house yard driveway.
· You can not head back down School Lane towards Daly Street from the top car parks. (There is a sign there that says ‘STOP’)
School Uniform Shop Purchases
· Please see the office staff for sales assistance and we can help you accordingly.
Second Hand Uniform Shop Stall
· Is open Monday mornings 8.30-9am and Friday afternoons 3.10-3.40pm.
School Uniform
- All items must be purchased through the school.
- Hats are required to be worn by all students whilst outside during term 1. Please ensure hats are clearly name labelled.
Nut Aware
· As a ‘Nut Aware’ school we do not prohibit ‘nuts’ across the school. However, when there is a student in a certain year level who has a nut (or another food) allergy, that classroom / cluster may become a ‘nut (etc) free zone’. Classroom teachers will inform families on this.
Operoo – Reminders
- Operoo is an online App to manage excursions, camps, consent forms and other events. It is helpful to download the Operoo APP to your Phone in order to access the Operoo system easily and quickly. We are using Operoo as a paperless method of sharing information and parents/caregivers giving their consent.
- Please ensure sure all of your childs medical details and action plans are uploaded into Operoo and kept up to date as this system is used on school camps and excursions.
Upcoming Events Term 1
- Shrove Tuesday (pancakes for Brekky) Tuesday 21 February
- Swimming for Yr 2, 3 & 4 students (T1 W7)
- Naplan for Yr 3 and 5 students (March 15 to 24)
- Camp for Yr 3 students (T1 W8 and 9)
- Camp for Yr 5 students (T1 W10)
iGOSH
Bags / Signing in
- A reminder that iGOSH children in the mornings need to hang their bags in the iGOSH area. Please don’t walk around the school and hang your bags near classrooms. We also require all children to be sighted on arrival in the mornings. Your help with this is appreciated.
Homework
- We offer Homework time from 3.45 to 4.15pm each afternoon. This is supervised by iGOSH staff. If you would like your child to be reminded and encouraged to do their homework during this time, please record their name and days required on the list at the iGOSH front desk. We will then remind children to do their homework, if they choose not to then we will let you know. Please have the conversations at home if you would like your children to do homework while at iGOSH.
Term 1 Bookings
- Bookings close 2pm each Friday for the week ahead
- Any bookings needed after this need to be emailed / text / phone call to Katrina. Please don’t make the bookings for the week of on carebookings as we won’t have them in our booking folder, which we download and print at 2pm each Friday.
Updates
- All families would have received information via Seesaw about our Star Helpers System and Observations. We look forward to sharing these with you.
