YAS-News Term 4 Week 4 2023
A Note from The Principal
Hi everyone and week four is running away from us so quickly. At the beginning of the term I asked all staff to send me what extra curriculum activities they are planning for our students this term. My thinking was to make sure there were no cross overs and also being aware of the pressures on staff and our students in this final term.
WELL the amount of extra activities and learning planned this term for our students are huge! This week we enjoyed some First Nations people sharing their culture with us through dance and song. The Lions club offered free eye tests for our students and our Cockatoo café was a buzz. We have students tree climbing, visiting city cafes and generally enjoying wonderful learning experiences. If you get a chance over the next couple of weeks just tap one of our staff on the shoulder and say a little thank you for all they do.
Haley and I are working today with our Partnership principals unpacking our Departments new strategy. Its exciting, very inclusive and inspirational and leave me with so much hope for what the future brings for our young people. We will be delivering some of this information back to staff as part of our student free day on Monday.
Governing Council met last Monday evening and looked at the budget and the submissions for 2024. The council appreciated the work of the school in opting into the Departments new Digital Strategy. We have begun this journey by purchasing laptops for all our year 5 and 6 students for 2024 and like I said this is going to be a very exciting roll out.
Have a happy week everyone and enjoy our changing weather.
Christine Bell
$20 Boss- Middle School Market Day 15th November!
The GLA students from the four classes have been extremely busy designing and making products to sell on Wednesday the 15th of November (Week 5). This has been an extremely long process whereby the students have created their own businesses from scratch, including business logos and packaging!
Some examples of the products that the students will be selling are dog treats (see attached photo), jewellery, slime, skateboard wax, baked goods and drinks.
We are encouraging all students and the community to support our businesses by purchasing our products! We can only accept cash on the day. We will be setting up stalls on the oval, in the GLA and in the new undercover area from 12:30pm-2:30pm.
This is the first time Yankalilla has participated in the $20 Boss program and I know that the GLA teachers and students are looking forward to this super exciting event!
Please help us promote Market Day around the school and we hope to see you all there!
Kind regards,
Jade Barry
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Hallet Cove International Students and Japanese Tour group Visit.
Yankalilla and the Amaroo farm once again hosted international students from Hallet Cove.
Our hosts, Lilly, Chayse, Ruby and Ella did a fabulous job getting the students around to the different classes to talk about their home countries and to teach us a few phrases.
Once again, Ms Braithwaite's baby roos were very popular, with multiple selfie and other photo opportunities. Sharyn shared how she raises the babies and continues to look after them even when they are fully grown, as re-release is not an option in South Australia.
The Japanese tour group were very impressed with the information shared by our year 10 speakers, Georgie, Cherell and Tiffany, who confidently shared information about aspects of the farm.
They even wanted a photograph with our notes in it!
The International students tour information was done by Lilly, Chayse, Ella and Ruby. Blake and Tadhg adlibbed without notes, sharing information about the Edible Kitchen Garden and the yabbies. Very brave!
Thank you to Graham and his helpful cooks, who made sure that the BBQ was ready once the farm tours were completed - the food was very popular and proclaimed as delicious!
Thanks to Sharyn for sharing her cute as ever kangaroo joeys and a big thank you to the classes who listened intently to the presentations and asked really interesting questions.
A massive thank you to our hosts, Lilly, Chayse, Ella and Ruby - who kept program going by ensuring that speakers were in the correct class and shared information about our fantastic farm and some history of our school and area. Well done.
We look forward to our next International visit in 2024.
Hello Halloween
Hello Halloween!
It was a ghastly, ghostly greeting on the steps of the schools this morning. Pictured are our spooky students joining Mrs Williams and Mrs Bell.
What a wonderful ,witchy welcoming committee it .
Rotation Drama
This week we went to a royal ball, pool party and Halloween special in Drama warm ups, allowing us to create characters and dialogue while avoiding the wink murderer!
We also explored the stories of Tiddalick the frog and Maui and the Sun using simple scripts. We worked in groups and performed in a round theatre. A round is a stage where the audience sits on all sides of the stage. A great example of a round theatre is the Colosseum in Rome.
We reflected that the round theatre was tricky, as you needed to keep moving, so your back wasn't always shown to one section of the audience.
Amaroo Farm Barn Dance
YeeHaw!! The Barn dance at our school farm was a rip-roaring success, with folks from all over the community boot scootin' and hootin'. The staff are already getting ready to make next years dance even bigger and better.
