Fathers Day is fast approaching and kindergarten students have been busy preparing for our annual Big Boys Breakfast. This year we have decided to really go big and added a few eggs and slices of bacon on the BBQ to our breakfast menu. Your son will have, by now, brought home an invitation for this special event. Please note that due to our change in menu we do require RSVP's and also ask that children bring only one special guest (Dad or a significant other in his absence) Unfortunately this year we will have to ask Granddad's to visit us the following day for tea and scones at Grandies Day instead.
We have also made a request for a photo of Dad's and their Little Prince and for the completion of a survey that we would like to share on the day. Please pass these back to your child's teacher.
Date: Wednesday 3rd September
Time: 7.30am
RSVP: asap to class teacher or mbishop@pac.edu.au
Friday, August 22, 2008
Soft Spots for Grandies
We have a soft spot for Grandies at Kindergarten and are eagerly looking forward to welcoming all the children's grandparents to Kindergarten on the 4th of September.
By now you will have received invitations, reply slips and hearts in an envelope from Miss Trish for Grandies Day. Please forward these specially illustrated invitation to your child's grandparents (please forgive us any spelling mistakes on grandies names, they can be difficult to decipher!) along with the hearts that were in the envelopes. Please ask your child's grandparents to pen a special little message on there for your child (don't forget to put the child's name on the back so we know who they belong to!) and send them back to Kindergarten along with their reply slips.
Thank you
Kindergarten Staff
By now you will have received invitations, reply slips and hearts in an envelope from Miss Trish for Grandies Day. Please forward these specially illustrated invitation to your child's grandparents (please forgive us any spelling mistakes on grandies names, they can be difficult to decipher!) along with the hearts that were in the envelopes. Please ask your child's grandparents to pen a special little message on there for your child (don't forget to put the child's name on the back so we know who they belong to!) and send them back to Kindergarten along with their reply slips.
Thank you
Kindergarten Staff
Little Big Shots in the Holidays
Perfect for families and kids aged 2 to 18, Little Big Shots is Australia's major annual travelling children's film festival. It's also an inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival of the best in local and international children's features, shorts, animations, documentaries and amazingly, child-produced films.
The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, language, cultural diversity, emotion and intelligence and human values. We guarantee it will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create.
Now in it's fourth year, Little Big Shots takes to the road each year with a new program, bringing great films from around the globe, so go on, pick a session and join us for a juicy bunch of screen adventures for kids, by kids, about kids, to amaze and delight kids. Find our program booklet in your child's locker at Little Princes.
Where: Space Theatre
9th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 2 to 5 year olds
10th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 2 to 5 year olds
11th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 3 - 7 year olds
Duration: each session has at least 6 short films and runs for 50 - 60 minutes
Price: $9.00 per person (under 12 months is free on lap)
Bookings Online: go to www.bass.net.au and choose Little Big Shots
Bookings at BASS Box Offices: Open at the Festival Theatre foyer from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday
Booking by Phone: 131 246
Group Tickets: $7 per session if you purchase 10 or more tickets and must 82052220
Thank you
Adelaide Festival Centre
The films screening in Little Big Shots inspire discussion of world cultures, language, cultural diversity, emotion and intelligence and human values. We guarantee it will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create.
Now in it's fourth year, Little Big Shots takes to the road each year with a new program, bringing great films from around the globe, so go on, pick a session and join us for a juicy bunch of screen adventures for kids, by kids, about kids, to amaze and delight kids. Find our program booklet in your child's locker at Little Princes.
Where: Space Theatre
9th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 2 to 5 year olds
10th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 2 to 5 year olds
11th October Session: 9.30 - 10.30 for 3 - 7 year olds
Duration: each session has at least 6 short films and runs for 50 - 60 minutes
Price: $9.00 per person (under 12 months is free on lap)
Bookings Online: go to www.bass.net.au and choose Little Big Shots
Bookings at BASS Box Offices: Open at the Festival Theatre foyer from 9am to 6pm Monday to Friday
Booking by Phone: 131 246
Group Tickets: $7 per session if you purchase 10 or more tickets and must 82052220
Thank you
Adelaide Festival Centre
Chalk and Parent Direct Fundraiser
Dear parents,
The Chalk and Parent Direct catalogues are a wonderful way to purchase your Christmas presents without a lot of fuss and bother. It also helps us, with a percentage of all sales going to the Kindergarten to purchase additional resources.
The cut off date for ordering educational toys for Christmas will be October 17th. This is Friday Week 1 Term 4. The orders take three to four weeks to be delivered and this way we can assure you they will be here before Christmas.
Please either pay by using credit card or with a cheque as it makes it a lot easier for us to process.
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to speak to me
Thank you
Mrs Pip Cooper
The Chalk and Parent Direct catalogues are a wonderful way to purchase your Christmas presents without a lot of fuss and bother. It also helps us, with a percentage of all sales going to the Kindergarten to purchase additional resources.
The cut off date for ordering educational toys for Christmas will be October 17th. This is Friday Week 1 Term 4. The orders take three to four weeks to be delivered and this way we can assure you they will be here before Christmas.
Please either pay by using credit card or with a cheque as it makes it a lot easier for us to process.
If you have any queries please don't hesitate to speak to me
Thank you
Mrs Pip Cooper
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Changes to Assesment and Reporting
Dear parents,
we have recently made subtle changes to the style of our assessment of Kindergarten aged children. We have made these changes for three reasons. Firstly to allow assessments to more accurately reflect a child's individual learning path, secondly to ensure that our assessment is developmentally aimed at 3 and 4 year olds specifically and lastly to be able to allow assessment to reflect our social constructivist philosophy.
You will notice some changes firstly in our reporting timetable
we have recently made subtle changes to the style of our assessment of Kindergarten aged children. We have made these changes for three reasons. Firstly to allow assessments to more accurately reflect a child's individual learning path, secondly to ensure that our assessment is developmentally aimed at 3 and 4 year olds specifically and lastly to be able to allow assessment to reflect our social constructivist philosophy.
You will notice some changes firstly in our reporting timetable
- Children will receive a full written report in the final term of their time in the Pirie Room and then again in the final term of their time in the Flinders Room
- Teachers will offer parent teacher interviews more regularly and to a wider cohort of families each time.
We have also made changes to our Portfolios. We are hoping for this document to become more of a living book of experiences that both students and staff can add to.
- Portfolios will now go home only at the end of each academic year. They are available to borrowed over weekends and are always available to be viewed in the classroom at any time (you will notice our new parent nooks where portfolios are stored)
- We are now reporting on your child's special experiences and progress through learning stories. When your child has a new learning story in their portfolios you will receive an invitation to view it through your child's pocket or pigeon hole.
Please feel free to contact me at the college if you have any concerns or quiries about these changes.
Mel Bishop
Director
Thankyou
Thank you to all the parents who attended our Wine and Cheese night last Thursday. We had a great time chatting over a glass of wine, finding out more about the changes to assessment and reporting in the Kindergarten and creating some wonderful buildings from clay.
The Opera House Begins!!
Cape Canaveral and the Eiffel Tower... how ambitious!
The Great Wall, complete with Olympic Rings and.... rabbits!
Getting ready to build
The Opera House Begins!!Cape Canaveral and the Eiffel Tower... how ambitious!The Great Wall, complete with Olympic Rings and.... rabbits!Come into the class room as see our wonderful creations
Trip to the Odeon Theatre
Dear Parents of Tuesday Students,
By now you will have received a permission slip in regards to our trip to the Odeon Theatre to see "Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff". Can you please complete this permission slip and return it to your child's class teacher as soon as possible.
Thank you
Kindergarten Team
By now you will have received a permission slip in regards to our trip to the Odeon Theatre to see "Pigs, Bears and Billy Goats Gruff". Can you please complete this permission slip and return it to your child's class teacher as soon as possible.
Thank you
Kindergarten Team
Cyber Saftey for Children
Dear Parents,
It is a fact of modern day life that our children are going to be exposed to the Internet at home, at school and elsewhere. Many of us did not have Internet access in our homes when we were very young and so the issue of appropriately dealing with net usage by children is a new conundrum for parents. Although it is mainly children above the age of 7 years investigating independently on the net, our young Kindergarten students will be only a few short years away from this. As parents it is wise to have an agreed approach as to how to assist your young child learn about using the Internet properly and safely. As such, a Parent Workshop has been arranged for parents from the Preparatory School on Tuesday 9 September at 7pm. The evening will involve a presentation about Cyber Safety by members of the Cyber Safety Task Group within the Police force. It promises to be a very worthwhile evening full of important information about how to handle and monitor net usage by your child. Please watch this space for an update about the venue.
Thank you
Mel Bishop
It is a fact of modern day life that our children are going to be exposed to the Internet at home, at school and elsewhere. Many of us did not have Internet access in our homes when we were very young and so the issue of appropriately dealing with net usage by children is a new conundrum for parents. Although it is mainly children above the age of 7 years investigating independently on the net, our young Kindergarten students will be only a few short years away from this. As parents it is wise to have an agreed approach as to how to assist your young child learn about using the Internet properly and safely. As such, a Parent Workshop has been arranged for parents from the Preparatory School on Tuesday 9 September at 7pm. The evening will involve a presentation about Cyber Safety by members of the Cyber Safety Task Group within the Police force. It promises to be a very worthwhile evening full of important information about how to handle and monitor net usage by your child. Please watch this space for an update about the venue.
Thank you
Mel Bishop
A Free Community Forum for Asthma Week
Are you pregnant?
Do you have asthma?
Poorly controlled asthma increases the risk of low birth weight, premature labour and lack of oxygen. The risk of pre-eclampsia is also higher in women with asthma. Asthma is serious, especially when you are pregnant.
Come to our free community forum presented by Dr Vicki Clifton
Where: Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre, Womens and Childrens Hospital
When: Wednesday 3rd September 7.30 to 8.30pm
Refreshments provided
Booking Essential: email forum@asthmasa.org.au or call 8238 9300
Thankyou
The Asthma Foundation SA
Do you have asthma?
Poorly controlled asthma increases the risk of low birth weight, premature labour and lack of oxygen. The risk of pre-eclampsia is also higher in women with asthma. Asthma is serious, especially when you are pregnant.
Come to our free community forum presented by Dr Vicki Clifton
Where: Queen Victoria Lecture Theatre, Womens and Childrens Hospital
When: Wednesday 3rd September 7.30 to 8.30pm
Refreshments provided
Booking Essential: email forum@asthmasa.org.au or call 8238 9300
Thankyou
The Asthma Foundation SA
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Book Week Dress Up Day
Reading together is great fun and learning to read on your own is even better. At Kindergarten we love to read stories, tell stories, act out stories and even illustrate our own stories.
Every year the Children’s Book Council of Australia reads and reviews recently published children’s books in different categories. This year in the category Book of the Year: Early Childhood 600 books were narrowed down to 6 potential winners. Although only one book can win the prestigious award, all six books are excellent examples of good Australian Early Childhood literature and would be a good addition to your son’s bookshelf. Below we have listed the stories that we will be focusing on in class:
Every year the Children’s Book Council of Australia reads and reviews recently published children’s books in different categories. This year in the category Book of the Year: Early Childhood 600 books were narrowed down to 6 potential winners. Although only one book can win the prestigious award, all six books are excellent examples of good Australian Early Childhood literature and would be a good addition to your son’s bookshelf. Below we have listed the stories that we will be focusing on in class:
Shhhh! Little Mouse - Pamela Allen
Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley - Aaron Blabey
Cat - Mike Dumbleton
Lucy Goosey - Margaret Wild
Parsley Rabbits Book About Books - Frances Watts
We will be celebrating Book Week in the Kindergarten next week. Children will be involved in creating shared books, sharing the Book Week award books, illustrating our own books and dressing up on Friday as our favourite book character. Non Friday boys are welcome to briefly join us with their parent at 9.00am for our parade in the school gym. Please remember that superheros are not regarded as book characters. Please do not allow or encourage your child to dress as a superhero. Pirie Room students may like to dress as a character from the favourite book they have shared with their peers over the last two weeks.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Are you Coming?
Thanks to all those parents who have RSVP'd for Thursday night. If you have not let us know your intentions yet please send us a quick e-mail at mbishop@pac.edu.au It promises to be a pleasant evening.
Cheers
Mel Bishop
Cheers
Mel Bishop
Whole School Photograph
Dear Parents,
Some students will receive a whole school photographer in their pigeon holes today. One photo per family has been supplied. If you would like to purchase this photo for $60 all you have to do is keep the photo and the appropriate charge will be added to your child's account. If you do not wish to purchase the photo simply return it to the Prep School Office in it's original tube before Friday August 22nd.
If you would prefer a mounted copy of this photo for $110 simply return the unmounted photo to the Prep School Office and make a request for a mounted copy. Again the charge will be added to your child's school account.
Some students will receive a whole school photographer in their pigeon holes today. One photo per family has been supplied. If you would like to purchase this photo for $60 all you have to do is keep the photo and the appropriate charge will be added to your child's account. If you do not wish to purchase the photo simply return it to the Prep School Office in it's original tube before Friday August 22nd.
If you would prefer a mounted copy of this photo for $110 simply return the unmounted photo to the Prep School Office and make a request for a mounted copy. Again the charge will be added to your child's school account.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
Can We Fill Your Glass??
Dear Parents,
we would like to invite you to join us for an evening of chat and enjoyable company (as well as some valuable information about assessment and reporting in your child's kindergarten!) on Thursday the 14th of August. We will start at 7.30pm to allow people to put children to bed before we begin. We will provide the glasses and some yummy cheese and nibbles and would love you to bring a bottle of your favourite drop to share. Please let your son's teacher know if you are able to join us or RSVP on mbishop@pac.edu.au We are really looking forward to seeing you all then.
Mel, Amanda, Bron, Pip Trish, Bel, Bec and Nicola
we would like to invite you to join us for an evening of chat and enjoyable company (as well as some valuable information about assessment and reporting in your child's kindergarten!) on Thursday the 14th of August. We will start at 7.30pm to allow people to put children to bed before we begin. We will provide the glasses and some yummy cheese and nibbles and would love you to bring a bottle of your favourite drop to share. Please let your son's teacher know if you are able to join us or RSVP on mbishop@pac.edu.au We are really looking forward to seeing you all then.
Mel, Amanda, Bron, Pip Trish, Bel, Bec and Nicola
Sharing Time in the Pirie Room - Week Four and Five
Dear Parents of Pirie Room Students,
Please be aware that in week four and five we are planning to use the pictures of our houses during sharing/ show and tell time as a catalyst for further exploration of buildings and how they are made. This means that children should not bring other items for sharing during these two weeks. We will explain this to the students but would ask that you support us by not encouraging other types of share for this fortnight and also by ensuring that your child has brought their picture of their house to school.
Thank you
Pirie Room Staff
Please be aware that in week four and five we are planning to use the pictures of our houses during sharing/ show and tell time as a catalyst for further exploration of buildings and how they are made. This means that children should not bring other items for sharing during these two weeks. We will explain this to the students but would ask that you support us by not encouraging other types of share for this fortnight and also by ensuring that your child has brought their picture of their house to school.
Thank you
Pirie Room Staff
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