Newsletter 28 June 2024

End of Term Two

As we approach the end of another fulfilling semester it is a pleasure to reflect on the wonderful accomplishments and growth we have witnessed among our students. This semester has been filled with quality learning, creativity, wonderful achievements and experiences and our students should be very proud of their growth and accomplishments.

Education Management System update

We continue to transition across to the Education Management System (EMS). As new elements come onboard we are highlighting some of the key changes to be aware of. The following modules are currently in operation:

EDSMART

Provides a platform for digital permission slips, excursion and incursion information forms, reducing paper usage. Any forms sent through this email platform will come from forms@edsmart.com titled EdSmart Eden Hills Primary School - (subject title). You are able to digitally sign and submit permission forms through this platform.

Finance

School finance invoices (eg. excursions/incursions, school fees, sporting fees) are now emailed through the EMS and you receive an email from noreply@schools.sa.edu.au . Payment of invoices can still be made through QKR (preferred option) as well as EFTPOS and BPOINT.

SMS

As of term 3 we will have a new number for school absences and SMS updates. You will receive a SMS Monday 22 July (Pupil Free Day) from 0428 260 571. Please save this contact to your phone to enable you to submit or reply to absences and receive any whole school communication. You can continue to use the Schoolzine app or phone the school to submit absences as an alternative. 

We will continue to use Schoolzine to communicate any updates as well as our School Newsletter. Thank you all for your support through this transition. If you have any questions, please contact our Front Office Admin team.

Thank you to our students, staff and community for all your contributions and efforts throughout this semester. We hope the holidays provide an opportunity for you and your families to relax and spend some quality time together. We look forward to seeing everyone back when we return on Tuesday 23 July. 

Warm regards,
Andrew

Reports

A written report will be sent home in the last week of this term. This is a mid year report so the information included will be a summary of the evidence of learning collected for each child. The grades will be for the work completed up to this point of the year and reflect the level the child is working at towards the final outcome of the curriculum area.  

Monarto Zoo

All the year ones went to Monarto Zoo on the 17th of June. First we went to Monarto Zoo on the bus. Secondly we had a bus tour to see all the animals. I like the cheetahs best. Then I saw meerkats. We went on a bush walk to learn about habitats. Then we went home on the bus.                Kelsey S.

On the 17th of June Room 5 and 6 went to Monarto Zoo on a bus. My favourite was the ostrich and then we went for a bush walk and saw rock wallabies.                        Myla R.

We had a tour of Monarto Zoo on a bus. We had a bush walk and looked for hollows. We saw the chimpanzees.                                                                                           Angus S.

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Museum Excursion - Shadow Initiation

This excursion was fun because we had to use so many different skills to do a fun problem-solving thing at a cool place and going against other teams made me and my team go as fast as we could. All the challenges were well designed and really challenging, they would have fit a lot of year levels needs. There was one challenge that was so cool it led to a secret door, and you had to find a code and behind the door there was a jewel that looked like a goat, so cool. Just know that the tech was a bit funny and it was annoying for the people that had bad tech. This was a great activity, and it was a great experience, I would recommend this to lots of people, it is so fun you need to try it out.

By Hugh.

As I arrived at school and entered the classroom there was a buzz of excitement and joy. We were going to an escape room. What was it going to be like? Are we really going to be locked in the room? Where will we eat in the rain? Will it rain on the walk? Everyone was wondering and thinking but it was time to go. As we walked down to the train station everyone was ecstatic. We got to the train station and waited and waited and the train came chugging down the track. We got to the museum the excitement was real. We were here, we got into the museum got a small explanation and we were off! We named our group the slay girlies and we slayed! but when we tried to answer the question and it froze… oh no I ran down the stairs, got a new iPad and we started again. We answered the question and…It worked! But we had no time to spare we cleared the room by answering a few more questions we worked as a great team! We went to the next room and the next and the next we had never felt so alive! Until uh oh which one is it? Is it here of here or here oh no 5…umm…4 this…3one this one we guessed it nooo..2 it was wrong uh THIS ONE correct YES I leaped into the air and again we cleared another room until no it’s not scanning try here or here or oh no the time for this room, we only have 20 seconds come on we must do this. The time was ticking our brains where burning TAKE A PICTURE 5...4...3 NOW 2... click ...1 proceed to the next room we got it the sighs were so loud! And we went to the next couple of rooms until we got to the end the hardest one oh no, will we do it? The question was one of these taxidermies where stolen… it lives in more than one region and was ridden by an intoxicated naked man who does that! Anyway I had to be big enough to ride um tiger? No only one region we only had one chance 10…9…8…7 MOOSE …CORECT YES. we showed the person the photo we got forty points and we came second. That was a crazy day, bye until another crazy day.                                                                                              

By Alice.

The graduate class went on an excursion to the Adelaide Museum Shadow Initiation Escape Room. We were put into groups of four and each group had a tablet full of questions, riddles and information about the exhibits. Each group demonstrated collaboration, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and a growth mindset to answer each question to beat the clock.

We all adored the escape room because the riddles and questions weren’t too hard, weren’t too easy and were in everybody’s range. I liked how the questions made you work as a team and really think.

Something I personally enjoyed but wasn’t part of the museum was the walk to the museum from the train station and back. I like this because we walked past lots and LOTS of trees, we saw lots of birds which scared Ainslie, saw lots of important buildings, and walked in our groups so we could get to know each other and prepare for the excursion.

Something the year sixes didn’t really enjoy about the escape room was the technology. The tablets were glitching, they weren’t scanning and were troubling everyone, but we all managed to get through it. Another thing some of us didn’t enjoy was the fact that it wasn’t an escape room, it only had a bunch of questions that had to be answered in a short amount of time, but I think we didn’t like that bit because we expected it to be an escape room, but I personally still found it quite enjoyable.

By Stella

I loved this excursion because it was challenging and extremely fun because of all the different tasks. My favourite task was the task that included the code on the door because I thought that it was cool, it was hard and quite interesting. I think they could have made it better by upgrading the tech because it was faulty for some groups. This is definitely a great team building activity for 4-5 people and even more because of all the different tasks and all the different types of ways to figure them out. Overall, this excursion was amazing, super fun activities, some problems with tech but still an amazing excursion. I absolutely recommend going and doing this in your spare time.

By Tenz.

Two weeks ago, on Friday, room 12 (year 6s) went into the South Australian Museum to do the Shadow Initiation.

The Shadow Initiation is when you are in groups of 4 and the group has a tablet with the time limit and the questions, your group must race against the clock to collect information to answer each question. It takes you through the whole museum. The aim of the game is to collect as many points as you can – the harder the question the more points you get – you only have a certain amount of time in each area, so you must be able to work quick, efficiently and as a team. If you get stuck on a question you have hints, but they cost you points!!

The Shadow Initiation is not as easy as a walk, but it isn’t so hard that you start stressing and want to give up on the first question, because that would be horrible. All the year 6s got placed into groups with an adult but they weren’t allowed to help, I love the fact that you can choose which ever questions you want and don’t need to do them in order. It was so fun because we got to work with different people that we might not normally work with. I would 1000% do this again and definitely recommend doing this.

The shadow initiation is really fun because you get to see things that you wouldn’t normally see, you get to unlock secret doors and look at things a lot deeper. The game is designed to be part-escape room and part-scavenger hunt, it lets you test your teamwork skills, which I find really cool because you get to do learning in such a fun way.

By Lulu.

The Shadow Initiation is where you’re in groups of four with a tablet and you have one hour to solve as many challenges as possible. You and your group race against the clock to find objects or information to answer the questions you are given. There are multiple questions for each area of the museum that you are in. In each area you have a given amount of time to complete as many questions as you can, before moving on to another area. For each question you answer, you get given points. The number of points you get vary, depending on the difficulty of the question.

The year sixes all worked collaboratively together as groups to compete to be the team with the most points.

After the challenge everyone went off in their groups and did a self-guided tour and looked at the things that they wanted to see.

At the end of the day everyone enjoyed the Shadow Initiation and had some people wanting to go do it again. I highly recommend going and doing the Shadow Initiation because it’s challenging, but not too challenging, and it’s a good way to spend a rainy day since it’s indoors.

By Sophie.

SAPSASA

State Cross Country

Congratulations to Aiden & Jess who both represented our school in the Southern Heights Cross Country Team. It was held in chilly conditions at Oakbank Racecourse on Thursday 6 June. Well done to both of you for being selected.

State Netball Carnival

On the 19-21 June Chelsea represented our school in the Southern Heights netball team. She was selected through a 3-trial process. Overall, the team finished equal 4^th out of 10 teams! Well done to all involved!

Knockout Soccer

On Monday 17 June, we had a team of 11 boys represent Eden Hills at the Knockout Soccer Carnival at Barrett Reserve, West Beach. It was a perfect day for soccer, and we ended up with three wins and two losses. This meant that overall, we finished third out of eight teams. A fantastic effort by all the boys! A special mention to Adrian Brown who coached the boys on the day and gave up his Saturday mornings to train them. Thankyou.

Congratulations to Tilo, Henry, Mobin, Thomas, Wilfred, Alfie, Hugh, Adam, Kai, Liam and Tenzin.

DONATIONS, DONATIONS, DONATIONS, DONATIONS!

Room 12 is having a Market Day and we would really like your help!

Our SMASH STALL needs things to break.

Do you have any broken, chipped, or unwanted crockery? If so, please bring it to school by week 2 of term 3. You can have a clean out over the holidays!

Drop off: Donations can be left in the box provided by the lost property near the front office.

Thank you from Liam, Kai, Alfred and Angus on behalf of Room 12.

Our Terrarium Stall needs jars of any size.

They do not need lids.

If so, please bring them to school by Friday 5^th July (week 10 ).

Drop off: Donations can be left in the box provided by the lost property near the front office.

Thank you, Iris and Harper, on behalf of room 12.

Breakfast Club

Our Breakfast Club is thriving at Eden Hills Primary School, with many of our students dropping by on Wednesdays for a piece of toast or a Milo before the morning bell. We are fortunate to have the continuous support of Kickstart for Kids, who provide us with a weekly volunteer and supplies of milk, bread, and other breakfast items.

We are currently seeking donations of honey, Milo, apricot jam, and gluten-free bread. If you are able to help, please drop off any items at the front office or bring them to Breakfast Club on Wednesday morning.

SRC Fundraiser

On Friday 5  July, our school is having a dress up day to raise funds for our sponsor child, Martin.

The theme is PJ Day.

If able, please bring in a gold coin donation.

*Remember to wear school appropriate shoes and pj clothing*

SRC Executive

Change of Clothes

We have increasing numbers of students needing a change of clothes for various reasons.

Our stocks of pants are very low, we ask that parents wash and return borrowed clothing to the office promptly. Packing a spare change of clothes in your child’s bag, especially those with younger children, is a good practice.

Sickness

Just a reminder, please do not send your child to school if they are unwell. All students and staff who are unwell with fever and/or respiratory infection should remain at home until symptom free. In the case of gastro like symptoms they should remain at home until there has been no vomiting or diarrhoea for 24 hours.

By staying at home, the spread of illness can hopefully be contained, which then causes less disruption and risk to students and staff.

The Department of Health have a great link to ‘Exclusion from childcare, preschool, school and work’, which lists multiple illnesses/medical conditions and explains details like definitions, incubation and infectious periods as well as treatments, preventions and whether your child needs to be or how long they should be excluded from school until recovered.

Last Day Term 2

Reminder that the Last Day of Term 2 is an Early Dismissal
2:10pm Friday 7 July

Vacation Care Holiday & Pupil Free Day Program

Languages Alive

As part of the government’s Languages in Schools initiative, the School of Languages has expanded the across-sector R-6 Languages Alive! program. The July 2024 program will provide students with interactive language learning opportunities in a range of languages, including Auslan, Chinese, German, Hindi, Japanese & Spanish.

WHEN/WHERE:               Tuesday 9 & Wednesday 10 July at School of Languages (West Croydon)
                                          Thursday 11 July at Stirling East Primary School
                                           Friday 12 July at Alberton Primary School
                                           Tuesday 16 July at Belair Primary School

COST:                                 $10 per student per day; School Card/Health Care Card Holders: FREE

To register for tickets go to:

First Day Term 3

Reminder that the first day of Term 3 is a Pupil Free Day
Students return to school Tuesday 23 July

2025 Enrolment Procedures

If your child turns 5 before 1 May, they will start their schooling at the beginning of Term 1, 2025. If your child turns 5 from 1 May to 31 October, they will start school through the mid-year intake at the start of Term 3, 2025.

To assist the school with class structures and staffing we need the names of any students who will be eligible to start school at the beginning of the new 2025 school year.

Please click the link below to access a Registration of Interest Form and return the completed form to the office.

Department for Infrastructure

The T2D Project is the final 10.5km section of the North-South Corridor, and will complete 78km of non-stop, traffic light-free motorway between Gawler and Old Noarlunga. Drivers will be able to bypass 21 sets of traffic lights as they travel through two separate tunnels, connected by an open motorway.

For Further information Please follow the link 

Community Notices