School Disco Information

Our next fundraising event is a School Disco – Friday 16^th June.

Casual Day Fundraiser - Friday 30^th June

This term our SRC casual day will be raising funds for Heart Kids, which is an Australian charity dedicated to supporting families impacted by congenital or childhood acquired heart disease. We have several Heart Kids in our school community.

On the day we’ll mix it up with our dress theme - Kids dress up as teachers and teachers dress as kids! 

Please see below the upcoming important dates and school events for Term 2 2023

Throughout Terms 1 and 2, Year 1 students have been identifying similarities and differences between family life in the past to their lives today.

On Monday 29^th May, Year 1 students participated in a Toy workshop conducted by the Australian Museum of Childhood. The visit links in with our history learning, as well as our science focus on push and pull forces.

In small groups, students explored a range of toys from the past - including puzzles, push and pull along toys, colonial games and musical instruments. Through persistence and perseverance, students investigated how the toys worked and then had fun using them. They also explored what materials and joining techniques were used to make them and discussed how this has changed over time.

For the rest of the term, students will engage in the STEM design process and design their own toy and be able to explain or even demonstrate how it works.

Here are some highlights from the visit:

T2 – "The jack in the box jumped up really slowly and it scared us a little bit."

"There was a horseshoe and a ring, and you had to get the ring off."

"I liked the challenging bits - like throwing the ring on the clown."

T4 – “Some of the games were challenging.”

“The Jack in the box made us jump.”

“The woodpecker bird that wobbled down the spring was amazing.”

 T7 – “Alan showed us some toys from the olden days.”

“We loved trying things that we had never seen or used before.”

“It was lots of fun.”

T8 – “There were SO many toys!”

“We loved hearing about toys from the past. The woodpecker and snake were awesome!”

I have had a lot of fun introducing our Reception students to Kimochis; a family of cuddly critters and a big bowl of emotions.

Kimochi means “feeling” in Japanese, Kimochis are toys with feelings, designed to help children feel happy, safe, confident, compassionate, and successful, help them establish and sustain strong friendships, help them get along with each other, and become resilient.

Kimochis are a proven system for helping students grow and transform by dealing skilfully with their feelings. Research documents that when instruction in building social, emotional, and behavioural skills is provided at a young age, there is a positive effect on how children problem-solve and interact with their peers later in life. Our Reception students have been learning how to recognise and manage emotions, demonstrate care and concern for others, establish positive relationships, make responsible decisions, and handle challenging situations constructively.  Each week I introduced a new Kimochis character and a story, we played games to help us understand that all feelings are okay.  We also learnt how the characters supported and helped each other and learnt some strategies for regulating our emotions.

In the next week or so students will be presented with Kimochis certificates which I am sure they will be proud to share with you.

Below is information on each of the characters so you can talk to your children about which Kimochis character they are most like and also which character you are like.

If you have any questions or comments about this program, please contact the school office on 8271 2227.

Julie Asher-Ellis

Parents and carers of children and young people with disability are invited to a free parent forum on Monday 19th June 2023.

In this forum, you will have the opportunity to hear about Special Options processes and managing transition changes.

For more information go to http://web.seru.sa.edu.au/parent-forum/ OR to register your attendance click on the link provided. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/parent-forum-19-june-2023-registration-645097533087

National Simultaneous Storytime

On Wednesday 24^th May, classes participated in National Simultaneous Storytime. This is an annual event where children across the globe read the same story at the same time. This year’s book was The Speedy Sloth by Rebecca Young, and it was read by over 2 million kids around the world.

Some classes listened to Rebecca read it live from the Sydney Zoo and followed an art activity, while others watched a recording of the staff at Singapore Zoo read it to their resident sloths Indigo and Bubba. After reading the story, classes participated in a number of activities.

Collage Competition

 -We ran a school-wide competition with students creating collages or drawings of animals running a race, and we received many great entries! Mr Greenshields had the tough job of choosing four winners. The lucky students were: Jacob from M3, Chloe B from G1, Frankie from G7 and Zoe from N7. Thank you to all the students who participated!

Yours in reading,

Vasi and Sunyoung

The Uniform Shop is located next to SA Dental on the south side of the school and has changed it's opening times commencing Week 5 Term 2 2023.

Shop opening times are as follows :

Tuesday mornings - 8:30am to 9:30am

Wednesday mornings - 3:00pm to 4:00pm

Mitcham Primary School uniform orders can be placed anytime via the Qkr! app and items purchased will be delivered to your child's classroom. Images of our school uniform items are available for you to view on the QKR app. Please refer to the Mitcham Primary School Dress Code for more information.

QKR! (pronounced "quicker") has been set up for you to easily make online payments to Mitcham Primary School. To download the Qkr! app, visit the App Store on your mobile device.

For more information on using Qkr! on your device, refer to the Guide to Qkr! 

Children’s oral health is important. Unfortunately, dental decay is still a significant problem for many South Australian children. Dental decay can affect a child’s wellbeing and quality of life. It can lead to pain and many lost hours at school – however it is also a preventable disease.

All children from 0-18 are welcome to attend SA Dental and there are no out-of-pocket costs for most families. However, current data reflects only 45% of eligible children are accessing dental care and many families are unaware that SA Dental is available to them. Please see attached information. 

LAP-A-THON 2023 with a Splash of Colour!

In week 1, students participated in the Lap-a-thon with a Splash of Colour fundraiser. Students began the day in their clean, white t-shirts before running through the water and colour stations completing as many laps as possible. By the end of their laps their t-shirts were no longer white, but instead a rainbow of vibrant colours. The weather held off for us and a fun day was had by all!!! Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to help on the day.

We are putting out a last call for any donations and sponsorship forms from our Lap-a-thon with a Splash of Colour. We’d love to have all donations, big or small, via Qkr! or returned to school ASAP. Prizes for the class with the most money raised and our top 10 individual prize winners will be announced at our next whole school assembly.

Mother’s Day Stall

Last Friday, we held our annual Mother’s Day Stall. Thank you to all the families who purchased gifts from this year’s stall. The students were very careful when trying to select your special Mother’s Day gifts.  We hope you loved them!

Thanks to the wonderful parents and Year 6 leaders who were able to help out with selling presents on the day. 

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School Disco

Our next fundraising event is a School Disco – Friday 16^th June. Click on the link for more information.

Fundraising Achievement

Last year our school community raised a massive $43,212 from our many successful fundraising events. Your support has enabled us to reach our target and portable staging has now been purchased for our Gymnasium.

We thank the Mitcham Primary School community for your continuing support of all our fundraising events this year, which will enable us to purchase additional play equipment and outdoor seating. We are looking forward to our next fundraiser – School Disco happening soon!

Fundraising Committee

Please see below the upcoming important dates and school events for Term 2 2023