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Term 1
LEADERSHIP DAY 1 February All 41 Year 7 students were active participants in a day of skill development and awareness based around their role in the school as "leaders and role models." They looked at their own skills and saw how these could be used to support other students and themselves. They were challenged to think and work beyond their own comfort zone and to learn from others they normally would not have much to do with. They took part in a number of simulated games and exercises and whilst having a lot of fun and laughs, they learnt a lot about themselves. The day will also lead to some students applying for Leadership positions as part of the School Captain tradition here at Fulham North.
LIFE EDUCATION VAN VISIT The Life Education Van visited our school in Week 2. All classes attended a session based around awareness and the impact of different drugs on our bodies. The sessions were fun and interactive and the mobile classroom (the Van) certainly made the sessions very interesting. Parents were able to look at the van and speak with Nina, out visiting teacher, about the program each morning and afternoon. This has been an annual visit and the programs are rotated to ensure they are new to each class of students. Students completed follow up work after their session in the van.
SCHOOL CAPTAINS ANNOUNCED In Week 4, after an exhaustive selection process, our 4 School Captains were announced at a "special assembly" to mark the occasion. There are two boy captains and two girl captains for the year. Our male School Captain is Dominic Ventra and the Vice Captain is Jett Connor. Our female School Captain is Casey Simmons and the Vice Captain is Vivienne Webb. The school has a very proud tradition of using School Captains and the successful students are a credit to the school. We look forward to an exciting and fulfilling year for our Captains.
STAFF TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT in NUMBER The school is part of a pilot scheme based around teaching and learning aspects of NUMBER. The first session for staff starts this week. Staff will be involved in 6 three hour sessions after hours over the first 6 months of the year. The course has been designed to improve teacher understanding and then teachers will work with their classes in between sessions to test our what we have learnt. There are only 6 schools in the state involved in the pilot scheme and once we have finished, the course will be modified according to our feedback before being offered to other schools in the state.
YOUNG DIRECTORS AWARDS QUIT SA Students from Room 11 last year entered in a film making competition run by Quit SA with a focus on an advert based around encouraging young people not to smoke. On Wednesday 19 March (World Youth Tobacco Day), the school attended the screenings and awards night. The school won the most Outstanding Primary School award as well as two other section awards (Best Scriptwriting and Best Editing.) The event was attended by students from Room 11 in 2007 along with their parents. It was a very exciting night and Mr Mowling is to be congratulated for his guidance in the film making and the students really did a great job. The ads are able to be seen on the following website. www.myspace.com/theeighty
Years 4-7 ATHLETICS DAY FRIDAY 28 MARCH In a major upset, the Yellow Team blitzed the opposition with some wonderful personal bests, to achieve an outright and convincing win on the day. Yellow has not been a strong athletics team for many years and the turn around was quite stunning. Participation levels were very high and the spirit of the day was what you would expect from Fulham North students. Our thanks are extended to the Henley Little Athletics Club for their amazing support before, during and after the Athletics Day. The school's District Athletics Team will now be selected to compete at District Day in the last week of term.
Term 2
POLICE TATTOO EXCURSION On Thursday 1 May, 5 classes from our school attended the dress rehearsal of the Police Tattoo at the Entertainment Centre. We had 152 people attend from our school and so it was a big job to get us there and back. It was an exciting excursion with lots of performers and lots happening on the stage at any one time. It was a different experience too as the stage was on the ground and the seating was up higher so that everyone could see. There were lots of other schools and students there too. We believe there were 4,800 students there on the day. It was a great experience for our students. NATIONAL WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY On Friday 2 May, our school was involved in the National Walk Safely to School Day. When families got to school there was a very big and healthy breakfast snack available. This was provided by Adelaide Fresh Producers and it was a welcome treat for families that had been "active" in coming to school. Room 16 had planned and managed the day as part of the school's Community Service Projects. Each class will take on a Community Service project across the year as part of their learning about how to organise and deliver an event that supports others. Room 16 has collected and collated data about how students got to school on the day and have made certificates of involvement for all other classes. It was perfect weather and a very exciting start to our day. Radio Station Triple M visits Fulham North. What a great morning we had. Thanks to Kym, Ali and Dzelde's Back to School Friday. Triple M certainly made our day. May 9 2008 AUSTRALIA'S BIGGEST MORNING TEA 30 MAY Room 18 planned and hosted Australia's Biggest Morning Tea on Friday 30 May. A huge crowd of local people attended the event held in the Hall and students provided the "hospitality service" for the event. Room 18 took on this event as part of their "class community service" where they get to plan and participate in a big event and to learn what is required to manage a function. These are Life Long Learning skills. The event held raffles on the day and so a number of people attending went home with prizes. Congratulations to Room 18 on a job well done! INDONESIAN DAY FRIDAY 6 JUNE All students participated in a day of activities based around Indonesian Culture as part of our Indonesian Language course. Each class circulated through a number of different activities that highlighted aspects of Indonesian language and culture. Lunch was prepared by the Upper Primary classes. The classes prepared Indonesian type foodstuffs for others to enjoy. A slideshow and a video are being produced by students to show highlights from the day. It was very exciting and hugely successful. RAP, RHYTHM AND RHYME..... VERSE SPEAKING The annual Verse Speaking Evening has had a little shake up this year and it is now a Rap, Rhythm and Rhyme evening. On the evening we showcased student oral language talent and students got to present and perform a poem of their own or one written by someone else. Students went through a selection process to get a "spot on the night" so the performance was fully rehearsed and polished. The night for the big oral language showcase was Wednesday, June 11 at 7pm. There were 60 presenters across the 3 Learning Teams. It was a very successful night with some excellent performances. Special comments came from Mr Rob McLaren, Assistant Principal of Henely High School. Mr McLaren was impressed with the way in which the young people had learnt to use and manipulate language to get their messages across. It was his first experience at a poetry based night. DUNE CARE... 16 JUNE On Monday 16 June Rooms 8 and 4 went to Henley Beach to plant native plants. It was an excellent day and students worked with Rata from Charles Sturt Council and about 12 parents. While we were there we removed over 200 weeds and replanted a variety of coastal natives. Many thanks to all the parents for driving and transporting the children, without this valuable assistance the activity would not have been possible. MUSICAL EVENING.... 25 JUNE Over 100 students performed for an appreciative audience on Wednesday 25 June at the Henley Fulham Uniting Church Hall. The evening included instrumental performances, Choirs, small groups of singers and the first public performance ever from the Boy's Singing Group. It was an excellent evening showcasing the talents and abilities of the Fulham North students. The evening was devised by Mrs Marian Woodlands and she was supported by our Instrumental Teacher, Mrs Anne Rodda. With nearly a third of the school performing, the crowd filled the Hall. Music is alive and well at Fulham North! "MATHS MONSTER" IN ROOM 2 A Take Home Maths Monster is learning all about the Maths that people do in their everyday lives. He goes home each night with someone new and together they look at the things they do and the maths that is involved. Together they keep a Maths Journal that allows them to share these experiences with other students in the class . No longer do you get the class budgie to look after, now you get a "real Maths Monster."
Term 3 FESTIVAL THEATRE PERFORMANCE ... What a treat! Our students performed at Festival Theatre on Thursday 11 September. It will be a night to remember for the students involved as they performed in front of a full house. Our soloists, Mim Harding and Jessica Johns were sensational with very strong and confident performances. Our students were a pleasure to listen to and to be with, as their behaviour was exemplary. Well done to the Choir and to Mrs Woodlands and Mrs Lake. MATHS WEEK "TALLY UP THE FUN!" The focus for Maths Week was around making and creating tallies of numbers to reflect the Chance and Data strand in Maths. Our students played chance and data games and we recorded our results so that we could feed into a big event Australia wide. Classes had heaps of fun trying to land a coin on a specially designed target. Other classes conducted Maths Trails around the school where they looked at everyday items and examined the Maths associated in and around those items. Children made discoveries like the soccer goals are wider than the footy goals, the pattern on the basketball court fence was the same as the boundary fence and a range of other very important maths facts. Our "Family Challenges" have really taken off with some very complicated Maths Formulas coming back in last week. It is great to see families getting involved in our challenges each fortnight. Our thanks are extended to Mrs Rowe for all of her work in the lead up and during the Maths Week. A small group of students supported Mrs Rowe during Maths Week by holding Maths Games and Activities during lunch times last week. the students researched, planned and organised the games. BOOK WEEK CELEBRATIONS Our focus was on the Book Week theme of Fuel Your Mind and students were engaged in a number of activities that gave them a chance to think a little deeper about things. On Friday 22 August, students toured the school looking at the Decorated Doors that other classes had made. Students had to guess the book that the door had been decorated around and also collect a piece of a puzzle that would enable them to solve a problem. The doors were very colourful with a great deal of thought and effort in each one. The school also hosted a BOOK FAIR across the week with many parents and students visiting to look at good quality books available at reasonable prices. The final sales figures are not available yet but the volume of people visiting the display would indicate that it was well worthwhile. A number of classes also visited the Charles Sturt Library at Henley Beach. The staff there took each class through some Book Week activities that were aimed at stretching the children's thinking. It was terrific to work with other local community members to celebrate Australia wide activities. OLYMPICS AT LUNCHTIME For the two weeks of the Olympics we held "Have a go Olympics" at Lunchtime. Students from different year levels were able to have a go at a few or a lot of different activities based on Olympic events. The older students provided the activities for younger ones to be involved in. The Olympic Days were Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Healthy Lunch Box program continues this week. The program started on Friday 1/8 with the first lunch box check following a launch on Thursday. The program will run for 4 weeks with students who achieve 15 stickers across the possible 20 days, getting a special sample bag of healthy items. Last week this week. Assistant Principals named. The Assistant Principal will be Ms Anne Rowe in Term 3 and Mr Peter Hutton in Term 4. Congratulations to both staff members and as this is an internal position until the end of the year, there will be a reshuffle to their respective classes. FULHAM NORTH WINS $500 WORTH OF SPORTING EQUIPMENT At the Assembly on Thursday 24 July, Mr Ian Andrews, the State Manager of the Commonwealth Bank, presented Brittany Cavey with $500 worth of sports equipment. Brittany started a new account with school banking during a special period directly after the Police Tattoo early last term. Her name was selected from all of the new accounts and Fulham North Primary got the benefit. She was able to be considered because our school attended the Police Tattoo and the Commonwealth Bank were the major sponsors of the Police Tattoo. ROAD SAFETY IS THE FOCUS During the first week back in Term 3, our school focus was on Road Safety and in particular, pedestrian safety. At our Assembly on 24 July, we had a special guest Police Officer who spoke about being safe when walking on or near roads and about wearing your helmets when on a bike and on skateboards. National Schools Tree Planting Day 25 July Bunnings Sponsorship On Friday 25 July, Bunnings Hardware Store supported the school by coming along and providing us with a number of native shrubs and grasses to plant around the new amphitheatre area. This was part of Bunnings commitment to community projects and 24 of our students really got involved in the hands on planting. We are very grateful to Bunnings for their sponsorship and support with developing our school grounds. HEALTHY LUNCH BOX PROGRAM LAUNCH Over four weeks, starting 1 August, the students will participate in a daily check of lunch boxes to see if they have packed a "Healthy Lunch Box" following lunch ideas sent home by our Well Being Committee. Each day a healthy lunch box is produced, students earn a sticker, working towards a healthy sample bag that can be taken home and shared. To achieve the sample bag, students must have 15 stickers from a possible 20 over the four weeks. The official launch was conducted with support from an Adelaide 36's Basketball team player, Jacob Holmes. The aims of the program are to achieve a good understanding of what goes in your lunchbox and how healthy it is as well as getting children involved in making food choices for their own lunches.