Lobethal Primary School Newsletter

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1 Lobethal Primary School Newsletter Principal's message.. Term 2, Week 7, Thursday 15th June 2017 Phone : Fax : dl.0227.info@schools.sa.edu.au - Learning happens in many ways here at Lobethal Primary School. This edition acknowledges the varied opportunities students have experienced to learn beyond their classroom during Term 2. We are one of the few schools locally who offers The Arts Curriculum with such breadth and expertise. Our specialist teachers Jane Mant, Steve Gallagher and Rhiannon North have written summaries to share with you. Student reporters have also written about the fun and success they have had being involved in a different variety of sports, choir and bands. Please take the time to have read about their personal experiences! Hills Music Festival Thursday 29th June Spring Head Unity College 7:00pm [gold coin donation.] Everyone welcome!! VAC CARE!!! Term 2 school Holiday program will be sent home to families tomorrow! OSHC Director: Esther Flavel OSHC Mobile : FAX: SCHOOL PHONE: Reminders. Monday 19th June SA Museum [Class 1 + 2] Wednesday 21st June Bush School Friday 23rd June Bike Ed [on the road] Wednesday 28th June Nepabunna family information night [7:00pm] Thursday 29th June Hills Music Festival Friday 7th July Last day of Term [2:15 dismissal]

2 ART Jane Mant Art in Term 2 started well with our school being featured in the History Month exhibition at the Lobethal Woollen Mill. Exhibiting our work was a fulfilling and exciting way to connect with the community and to create work for a real world audience. A big thank you to all the class teachers who worked with their classes to produce wonderful history based artworks and artefacts. A special thank you to Beck Reeves who gave up part of her holidays to hang the exhibit with me. It was also great to get help from members of our local h.art Hills Art group, Kirsty Emery, Marrianne Brice and Bronwen Klose. The opening of the exhibition on Pioneer Walk afternoon was a fantastic event and we were excited to share our work with families and the wider community. We are grateful for the support shown by parents, grandparents and community members. This term our focus is on creating art works with a maths connection. We have been making works that use maths concepts such as pattern, shape, symmetry, tessellation and perspective. This builds connections for students and makes learning in both maths and art more meaningful. We will be continuing this thread for the rest of this term so look out for some interesting pieces of optical illusion, abstract and symmetry themed art. Jane Mant Drama Mr Gallagher In drama, Junior Primary students have enjoyed playing many drama games (Mr G's pirate hat has been regularly donned) as well as exploring making drama from poetry and Dreaming's. In middle primary we have looked at the work of Laurel and Hardy and explored slapstick comedy including catchphrase and gesture and the rule of three. We've just begun rehearsals for a performance of 'How the Birds got their Colours'. In Upper Primary drama we've recently started rehearsals for 'Why frogs can only croak'. Watch this space for performance dates and times.

3 Music Mrs North Wow music this year has really taken off! Bands with Simon are well under way, The Instrumental Music Service students and teachers are building up their repertoire of songs, our 44 member choir are madly trying to master 11 songs for performing in just over two weeks at The Hills Music Festival and our classroom music program has started to plan and develop performances for our Term 3 concert! Phew! I just love hearing our students play music on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Our school has such a buzz in the air on these days and I often see students (and adults) have a little dance or peek into the Music room window with excitement when they hear students playing, singing and dancing to their music. All students have been singing, playing, dancing, creating and performing as they extend their understandings and appreciation of music. Some of the highlights of Term 1 and 2 have been: Singing, We Are Australian for Harmony Day as we discussed what it means to be Australian and to belong. Having Ila Zadow spend time with us on Work Experience we loved her trombone playing! Composing and performing an Emotion piece, where students worked in an ensemble and composed a piece of music that represented emotions and practiced and performed this piece. Joining in with the South Australian Children's Festival, Dream Big in Adelaide, where we were filmed singing our song marching across the footbridge to the Festival Centre and participating in some fantastic workshops.

4 Our Patch Lucy Welcome to Winter! As it is getting colder we have noticed things slowing down in the garden. Classes 4, 5 and 6 have been coming out to Garden classes once a fortnight planting out our winter crops, including cauliflower, leeks, carrots, peas, beetroot and broad beans. The last of our summer seeds have been collected and we are already harvesting broccoli and kale. Last term we were busy making signs with Jill Dunn. So even though the garden may be looking a little barer with no leaves on the trees our veggie beds are popping with colour from the new signs. Students from Rooms 4 & 5 have gained their Wheelbarrow Licences while students in Room 6 have been soil testing and charting out our planting schedule for the garden in line with our Friday Foodies menu they planned earlier in the year. The students have also been potting up strawberries, raspberries and other plants from our garden and a very generous member of our community who has kindly donated boxes of plants to donate to residents effected by the Pinery Fires. A Bushfire Garden Revival open day will be held for them in Hamley Bridge this Sunday 18 th June from 10-2pm, where I will take all our donations. If you can help out on the day please contact Lucy on

5 Hi my name is Kiaya. Bands Every Thursday we have bands that is run by Simon Gould. I am a back up singer in one of the bands, the rest of the members are Gemma Toppperwein - bass, Hannah Ward - lead singer, Grace Stanley - lead singer, Billy Germein - keyboard player, Aiden Hartley - drummer, Lilli Sander- guitarist. We hold our bands in our music room which is all so our OSHC room. The reason why I love being in a band is because whenever I sing at home, at school, in the car and even in the shower it calms me down from all the stress I have built up. Before any of us knew we were in a band we had to audition in front of the panel. The panel was Simon Gould, Mrs Burford, Mrs North, Molly Higgins, Lilli Sander and Aiden Hartley. When it was audition day I sang Que Sera, by Justice Crew. Everyone who sang or played a song on audition day did excellent. But after weeks of careful thinking and consideration they finally choose the bands. In our band there were seven but there were many others who got into the other bands. In our first lesson as a band we all had to sit down and think of songs. Some of our suggestions were Running, by Evermore, Hair, by Little Mix and many more different songs. But in the end we ended up having three songs they were Just like fire, by pink Never go back, by Merrell twins and our secret song. After choosing the songs we had to choose what vocal parts us singers were having. Then that's where all the practising happened. Once all the songs and musicians parts had been chosen we got stuck into learning the beginnings of all the songs. We had to go through the parts for the piano, the drums, the Bass, the guitar, the singers and any extra little parts that we needed. The first song we started off with was Just Like Fire, by Pink, it is a upbeat pop song that everyone will absolutely love. We have started a little bit of our secret song and we started a bit of Never Go Back, by the Merrell twins. We have now finished Just Like Fire and ready to power on to a new song. Hannah one of the lead singers in my band thinks that bands are awesome and she loves working on something as a group and then being able to share that learning in front of the community. Gemma the bass player in my band thinks that bands is a great place to learn new things and have fun. Grace the other lead singer thinks that bands is awesome and she loves performing in front of others and working together as a team. I think bands is absolutely great it is a great way to show teamwork and it is great because we get to perform in front of the whole community. I recommend that if you play an instrument like a bass, guitar, drums, trumpet, saxophone, clarinet or even if you sing next year come and try out for the 2018 bands for Lobethal primary school and I'm nearly positive that you will get into the bands for 2018!

6 Choir Eh, Eh Oh, Eh, Eh Oh. The entire choir stood up as the three soloists sing confidently into the microphone, for the first time. I am not going to lie though, the microphone and sound system were pretty bad. On the 1st of June, a group of students from classes 4, 5 and 6, went to Birdwood Primary for a choir rehearsal. We travelled by bus to get there and sang a few warm ups to get started. Now we are here singing Pompeii, Lobethal s solo song. The 3 soloists up the front, (Hannah, Molly and Grace) are doing an amazing job of singing up the front for the first time, in front of the whole choir. They are confident, in time, in tune and well practised. This is the 2nd time that we have got together as a whole choir and everyone is listening and focused well. Lobethal s 4 solo songs are True Colours by Cyndi Lauper, Pompeii by Bastille, Better When I m Dancing by Megan Trainer, Flashlight by Jessie J (yr 6/7 only) and Sea of Flags by Jessica Mauboy which has a soloist from each school singing. Birdwood and Unity College-better known as Springhead Lutheran-also have songs that they are soloing in, including So Long Farewell from the sound of music, Fight Song by Rachel Platten and into a Fantasy from How to Train a Dragon. Everyone's thoughts about it were mostly like that it was loud and everyone was silly and noisy. I would recommend if you go that you be quiet and listen because you get a lot more done because you don t get a lot of time and before you know it, it is time for the concert. Always concentrate but have a good time as well. Everyone is looking forward to the next rehearsal (which is at Unity college). We have the concert in week 9 and everyone is super excited. By Laura Youth Environmental Council Come on, come on, I am muttering under my breath as the computer is loading. I hear a noise that means it has loaded, I open the and Yes, I yell as the pops up with these words. Congratulations, you have been selected in the Youth Environmental Council. Woo hoo I scream and start chanting I got into YEC, I got into YEC. I scroll down and something catches my eye. It is about the first meeting. It says the forum is at the Adelaide Botanical Gardens, One of my favourite places. The very first thing that I did when I got there is collect my name tag. I thought that it would be easy but when I saw the mountain I would have to sort through I was worried. Sure enough mine was the very last one that I looked at. By the time that I had done most of the group had arrived. We played Red Rover all Over and I came 2nd. We also played Stuck in the Mud but I didn t go so well in that. The thing that we did second is split into groups and head off in different areas of the beautiful Botanical Gardens. My group headed of to the Mediterranean garden and our groups main focus was the different plants compared to what we have at our houses. Majority of the differences was the colour of the plants as the plants in the Mediterranean garden had a brownie colour. The forum that I went to was very fun and I learned a lot more than I expected. It was a great experience and one I would recommend to all students who will be in year 7 next year. I have got a lot out of this and I have realised that the environment is so much more than people give it credit for. The YEC forum is an incredible experience and there is so much more to come. There is a camp at Albury Park and there is a presentation at the end of the year. The YEC is awesome and it would be great to have more students from our school attending and I hope they get as much out of it as I have.

7 Cross Country Ready. The starters official man begun. Set. Everyone was getting ready to run..... What the gun didn't fire. Just run. And that s how the race begun On Friday the 19th of may, a group of students went to the Woodside Recreation grounds and represented our school in the hills district Cross Country. There were 20 student years 4-7 from our school and 366 runners in total. On Friday morning at school all 20 of us went to cross country in some parent volunteers cars, ( thanks for driving us.) I went in Kerri Tilbrook s car to the Woodside recreational oval, when we got there around 9:45, we put our tent up and got ready. We all went and walked the track, which included a massive muddy puddle to jump over (half the people didn't make the jump). My race ( 13 year old girls ) was first, we all got ready to run and the official man was about to fire the gun but when he did nothing happened. We all just ran anyway. It was a long tiring 3km race but we all finished it. After I ran my race Rylee and I went to the canteen, then all the year 7 girls went around half way and watched the races from there. It was when Harry Green was running his race that we knew he might have had a chance of getting into states. He was in 8th when he ran past us on his first lap, but on he was second lap he was an incredible 6th and that was also his final score. Harry then got into states. On the last race of the day, there was a young boy running from St Catherine's that we helped run the rest of his 2km race. When we were running with him I jumped and landed straight in the muddy puddle and my shoes were dripping in mud and water. When he finished his race we went back to the tent. After about 10 minutes we went to watch the presentations, unfortunately we did not win anything but we gave it all our best shot. We then went back to school. My favourite thing about cross country was the pride and strength when I crossed the finish line. My favourite part was when I crossed the line and thinking I've done it, Rylee. Running. Josh To sum it up we all did a really good job and I had fun running, watching and going to representing our school and I m sure everyone else did to. Molly

8 Knock out Netball Round 1 I m going down, sang Mackenzie as she went to grab the ball and fell. We re yelling timber, sang Phuong back. On Wednesday the 17th of May week 3, eight year 7 s from Sarah Wright s class went down to Lobethal recreation ground to play knockout netball against Lenswood primary. In our team there was Mackenzie, Grace, Phuong, Gemma, Nadia, Rylee, Shannon, and myself Lindsay. When we got to the courts we warmed up, so we did our stretches which was ran by our wonderful captain Phuong Tran. we did some lunges, side steps, ski jumps, and loads more. By the end of our warm up we all huddled up and our coach Bill gave us a little pep talk and handed out our positions. We finally got on the court and were ready to start our game. I started in GS (goal shooter) which meant I got to shoot lots of goals, well hopefully anyway. We worked really well as a team, we had some good passes, intercepts, and goals and rebounds. Some of the advantages we had was height and speed, we also were all experienced in netball and had been playing for a few years, unlike Lenswood which had two girls who had never played and missing another which meant instead of forfeiting we gave them a player. Our first quarter was really good but I have to say it was very quiet and slow, I think that it was like that because all of us are friends and it wasn t as competitive. First quarter had ended and we were now in our second quarter it had started to rain we had a few swaps of positions and ready to start again, Bill gave us another quick pep talk to get us pumped and ready to win, it was like that for the rest of the quarters. Because most of us have all played together for our local team it had a lot of laughs and giggles which meant it was a very fun game. In the end we won with a score of 28 to 5. How did you feel about getting through to the next round? Grace Soo excited to get through and I m really proud of my team. phuong I felt bad for the other team but happy at the same time. shannon I felt happy and excited and thought it went really well. I like to say a big thanks to Lenswood for participating and playing against us we all had a great time and really enjoy it. Thanks to Bill Weeks for coaching and driving us down there we couldn t of won without you. Thanks to Kerry Tilbrook for putting your hand up to drive some of us girls down there and thanks to Charlie Weeks for umpiring, you did an amazing job. By Lindsay Jenner

9 Knock out Netball - Round 2 Loby on 3, 1, 2, 3, Loby clap clap ha Everyone was so excited and hopeful because last year we didn t get past the first round let alone the second round. On Thursday the 8th of June, Phuong, Laura, Rylee, Nadia, Gemma, Shannon, Lindsay and I went to Uraidla to verse them for our second round of knock out netball because we won our first game against Lenswood. We left school at 9:00 wearing our Lobethal Tigers netball uniform. Bill and Ange drove us to the Uraidla courts. When we arrived at the netball courts Uraidla netball team were warming up. We put our bags under the veranda and went to warm up on the courts. Bill was our coach, she us a pep talk and told us what positions we were playing. To figure out who got centre pass our captain and Uraidla s captain did a coin toss, unfortunately we lost it. I started at GA which is a position were you need to run around a lot and shoot goals. Timer on my whistle, beep The whistle was blown and the game started off with a bang. From quarter 1 to quarter 3 everyone was playing like champions and then Uraidla caught up and our team lost hope. Luckily the whistle was blown and their was one more quarter, once again Bill gave us some feedback and we swapped our positions. Next minute we were on the court again, this quarter everyone was running around, balls were flying past Uraidla straight into our hands. We all did so well and the improvement between round 1 and round 2 was massive, I am so proud of myself and my team for getting this far. Uraidla were great competitors and it was a very tough game. Thank you to Bill for using your time and being a brilliant coach, thank you to Ange Jenner for umpiring and thank you to Kerri Tilbrook for cheering us on from the side lines. Mackenzie

10 SAPSASA Netball As we pushed and shoved to get of the bus everyone was so excited to start the week off with a bang. Unfortunately both the DIV 1 team and the DIV 5 team got smashed. Hi, my name is Grace Stanley and last week I was away representing the Hills in SAPSASA netball along with 20 girls from Year 6 and 7. The positions I played were GK, GD, C and WD. The games we played were all a real challenge and some were quite close. We lost by 6 in one game and then only lost by 2 which was really hard. Every game we lost the more everyone's spirits plummeted. We were losing confidence with every game we lost. It was held at Priceline Stadium in Mile End and we got to play on indoor court number 1 where the Thunderbirds play. Court number 1 had an electronic scoreboard which was awesome. All the games were centrally timed and when the siren went off I kept thinking I had to board my next flight as the airport but then I remembered that I was playing netball. We played 9 games in total. On the drizzly Friday morning we decided to be the bigger team in the Barker back-of-the-bus battle so we all sat up the front as a team. What we really needed was a win to feel like we had done a good job. Everyone tried their hearts out. At the end of the game we went up to our coaches, Charlotte and Mel. Mel had been reading the score card wrong so she told us all that we had lost. We were all heartbroken when Charlotte told us we had actually won. YAY! When we walked onto the bus we were all ecstatic because both teams won their final games. The Teams; Upper South East, South West, Adelaide South East, City South, Airport, Southern Heights, Riverland, Mid South East and Lower Eyre East. I learnt so much and made heaps of new friends who are going to the same high school as me. My coaches were so awesome, understanding and they gave me so many tips to improve my game. We were all super happy that we won a game and everyone had a fantastic week. Well except for those 3 girls on crutches. Grace Stanley Knock out Football Ever wanted to play football for your school? That s what 15 year 6\7s did on may the 30th, Tuesday. But I don t want to tell you just yet. Read on to find out how the game went. When the note came home 15 people bought it back saying that they wanted to go. All the footballers had to wear a Lobethal Tigers Guernsey, which is black and yellow. As well as Lobie Primary Lenswood joined the team. Some people already had a Guernsey because they played for Lobie but some had to borrow Guernseys from the club. We got there by parents who volunteered to take there kids down to the oval. Before the game, we got changed and warmed up in the change rooms, then we got told our spots on the field. The game started at roughly 11:00. After the centre bounce Lobethal kicked a goal in the first 5 minutes. At Half Time we had kicked 7 Goals. I played on the wing the whole game. In the end we won to At half time we went back down to the change rooms to fire ourselves up. In the end we had 3 new players that didn t play footy. (Ailbhe, Biffin, Ashwyn North and Riley Rush). 1 of the players dads was umpiring. Clint's dad umpired the whole game. His name is Mark Zadow.It was a really good experience for everybody. Here are some peoples thoughts: It was different says Ailbhe Biffin. It was fun says Jake Dunstan-Hayward. Billy Germein.

11 PE Mr Gallagher 'It's sport, sport and more sport! The year so far has seen all classes prepare for Sports Day with the middle and upper primary classes preparing for SAPSASA, working specifically on developing technique in Shot Put, Discus and Long Jump. This preparation and training really paid off with many excellent performances at Sports Day. In this term our attention has turned to developing our general fitness with a focus on circuit training and the dreaded beep test! Mid-term 2 the middle and upper primary classes have been lucky enough to have Kay - an orienteering guru, lead us for 4 sessions in all things map related. This has been an excellent series of sessions and all students have engaged in this demanding sport. We've had two sessions at school to learn the basics of reading and orientating a map, including understanding symbols and one very wet session exploring the grounds at Lobethal Lutheran School. Despite the continuous rain, our students showed resilience and applied all the orienteering skills they had learned so far. At the time of writing we have one session remaining, which will likely be an off site local event. Junior Primary have been continuing with lots of fun, team oriented games to develop listening, turn taking, resilience, coordination, fine and gross motor skills and balance. Orienteering For a few weeks we have been doing orienteering with a nice lady called Kay.I didn t know what to do because I have never done it before so she explained it. I am Sophie and I am going to tell you how it went. On the first week Kay mainly told us about orienteering And we watched a few videos of maps and people racing. Then when I went outside and got our own maps and ran around the school looking for control points to poke holes sheets of paper. We get a slip of paper and at every control point a piece of paper with a plastic (A piece of plastic with a number and a hole puncher on it.) We poke a different shaped hole in a paper. The holes are all different shapes so that no one can cheat or then it would be no fun. On the second week we went to Lobethal Lutheran school to do some orienteering. We were given maps and we all went off. It was harder there because we weren't used to their school. But most of us got there in the end. It was really fun to try it at a different school. On the third week we did a challenge where we all had partners and we had to find 19 control points to find and it was a race to get all around the school and back to the tree finding all of the control points, poking the hole in it then getting back in the quickest time possible. I came 5th:) we did the usual orienteering and then Kay told us that we could go to Bushland Park at the end of the year but not yet:( Can t wait!:) Sophie