For the first time in their history, the Oliphant Science Awards were on display at the Science Alive! event at the Adelaide Showgrounds last weekend.

Mitcham Primary School had 9 entries this year, including 3 Models, 1 Photography, 1 Programming and Robotics, 1 Board Game, 2 Science Writing, and 1 Crystal. Congratulations to all entrants for their hard work over the last few weeks and months. Special congratulations to Chloe Horowitz for her “Highly Commended” result in the Crystal Growing category!

The Mitcham Primary School Quiz Night is back in Term 4! Funds raised on the night will go towards purchasing additions to the new gymnasium.

 See attached flyer for ways you can be involved.

Term 3 is very busy in the library: with Book Week, the Big Read and The Great Book Swap happening in week 5. On Friday 26 August we will be celebrating with a Book Week parade. It would be wonderful to see students come to school dressed as their favourite book characters or dress to the theme Dreaming With Eyes Open.

Hopefully, we have lovely weather so that we can welcome families to attend the parade at 9am on the basketball courts. Unfortunately, if the weather is not favourable we will need to hold the parade inside and families will not be able to join us due to COVID-19 safe event distancing requirements.

We will be hosting a Great Book Swap during Book Week, week 5 of this term, with all funds raised going to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. We ask that you send your child with a book/s to donate to the Great Book Swap. Books are being collected in the library now. During Book Week (week 5) children will have the opportunity to choose a book to take home in return for a $2 donation.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge closes on 9 September. Please encourage your child to complete the Challenge. Forms are available in the library and more information can be found online http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/PRC/  Our display is filling up but there’s still room for every student who completes the challenge to add a shape with their name to the wall.

We are selling Showdown Donuts for the upcoming AFL Showdown between Port Adelaide and the Crows. They are now available to order on Qkr! at $4.00 each, with orders closing at 12 noon on Wednesday 17th August.

Orders will be delivered to the classrooms on Friday 19th August in time for recess. 

If your child has been provided with an emergency lunch order we would appreciate it if you could please pay as soon as possible. Thank you as always to the canteen volunteers, we really appreciate your help. 

Anita Viskic - Canteen Manager

The Australian Girl's Choir will be visiting Mitcham Primary School at 11.30am on Wednesday September 21, week 9, for a 30 minute workshop in the Kurraka building. It is open to all girls from reception to year 6. Flyer attached

I wish you all a relaxing, fun-filled and well-deserved holiday. Our students have worked extremely hard this term and certainly deserve some quality with their friends and families. I will miss being here to welcome the students back to school next term however, I am sure they will all be delighted to have Sue Blight as their principal for the term. I will think of you all as I walk the Alps in Switzerland and sample the local delicacies of Estonia, Norway and Ireland.

As I mentioned in a previous email, I was in the middle of finalising the last leadership position for term 3.  I am delighted to announce that Ms Sue O'Shaughnessy has been successful in her application for the short-term vacancy of Acting Coordinator for the term. This is a promotion for Sue and I wish her well in her new role. Sue will continue to work in N6 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of each week however, she will be based in our front office each Thursday and Friday. I am also delighted to inform you that Ms Kiera Mitchell is returning from maternity leave and will be working with the students of N6 on Thursday and Friday of each week whilst Sue is in the office.

We are still expecting the new gym to be completed and handed over during mid to late August. The builders have done an amazing job in building a gym that our community will be very proud of. We are currently finalising the landscaping which will include extra paving surrounding our current Junior Primary music room and an extension to our running track to ensure we continue to have the 500-metre length of track. 

We are experiencing strong interest from pre-schooler and Year 1 - 6 families looking at enrolling at our school for 2023. The leadership team have conducted many personal tours over the last few months to enable prospective families an insight into the wonderful teaching and learning that we offer here at Mitcham. Many families have been ‘shopping around’ the local schools however, on viewing our facilities have made the decision to enrol here. One parent commented that she’d heard that the school community vibe along with the programmes Mitcham Primary offered was amazing so wanted to see it for herself. Needless to say, she left us very impressed.

If you have a pre-school student who will commence school in 2023, please contact Lucinda at the front office on 8271 2227 for enrolment forms as soon as possible as we will be commencing our 2023 placement process soon.

Once again, I wish you a happy holiday and look forward to seeing you all again in Term 4.

Warm regards, Scott

Please find below some information about the grading you will see on your child’s report, to give you some insight into what each grade represents. Teachers plan, teach, assess and report students’ learning using the Australian Curriculum, which describes the achievement standards for all subjects at each year level.

Teachers use a range of assessment strategies to gather evidence of student achievement across the year.

The following table is a detailed explanation of what is expected in each level of achievement:

Term 3 is always busy in the library with Book Week, the Great Book Swap and completion of the Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Book Week is week 5. On Friday 26 August we will be celebrating Book Week with a dress up day. It would be wonderful to see students come to school dressed as their favourite book character or dress to the theme Dreaming With Eyes Open. If this cold weather keeps up I’ll be pleased to wear my dressing gown that day!!

We will be hosting a Great Book Swap during Term 3 Week 5 with all funds raised going to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. We ask that you send your child with a book/s to donate to the Great Book Swap. Books are being collected in the library now. During the Great Book Swap children can take home a book in return for a gold coin donation.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge closes on 9 September. School holidays are a great time for children to read and it would be appreciated if you could encourage your child to complete the Challenge. Forms are available in the library and more information can be found online http://www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au/PRC/

Yours in reading,

Sophie and Sunyoung 

District State Carnivals

Congratulations to the following students who represented our City South Sapsasa District in state carnivals. Mitcham students trial against other students from across the district to make these teams.

Australian Rules Football - Hugo S, Toby S and Noah T

Netball - Kaitlyn B, Annabelle F, Grace C, Madeline D and Emma M

Hockey - Roscoe M

Soccer - Our boys side played against Colonel Light Gardens and Edwardstown in a day carnival on Tuesday Week 8. The boys fought hard to come away with a 2-0 win first up against Edwardstown. After peppering the goal in their second match against Colonel Light the boys finally put one past the keeper to take a 1-0 win to now move into the second round of matches.