Dear Families,
It has been a busy few weeks with the students being involved in many extra-curricula activities, community involvement and leadership opportunities.
Tree Planting
The students from SLC were invited by the Barossa Council to take part in the project ‘Increasing the canopy in the Barossa.’ The council was awarded a small grant from the Australian Government to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee. This year our school was invited to help plant tube stock at Stockwell Wastewater Treatment Plant on Carrara Hill Road. The students worked diligently to plant, guard and mulch the young plants, planting a total of 195 in a few short hours! Their participation will support the improvement of the biodiversity and connectivity of native vegetation and provide additional food resources and habitat for the local fauna, which includes several species of threatened birds and small mammals. The council staff were impressed with the students’ work ethic and team work with older students helping younger students. There was an impressive amount of singing from the older students too!
“READ - GROW – INSPIRE”
Thank you for your support of Book Week 2023.
We had a wonderful week of activities, culminating in the dress-up parade of very creative book characters on display.
The participation of students in our Recess and Lunchtime activities created a buzz all around the school throughout Book Week. We celebrated books and the theme of ‘Read, Grow, Inspire’ every day. Our students had a great time earning raffle tickets for Book Week prizes. Thank you to the staff who gave their time to run these activities at break times.
It was such a beautiful day for our parade and we thoroughly enjoyed sharing it with the many families who came along. A huge thank you needs to go to our school families who took the time to create fun costumes. Your support of the parade also demonstrates your support of books and reading. It is very much appreciated.
As Librarian, my mind is already spinning on the possibilities for next year’s theme - “Reading is Magic” J
Nicole Taylor
Teacher Librarian
In week 4, the 5th to 12th of August Ruby Hughes and Mr Bradley travelled to Albury NSW for the 12 and Under National Football Championships where they represented South Australia. It was an incredible week for them both as the SA girls brought home a bronze medal. The girls won 4 out of their 6 games. A lot of time, effort and work went into the experience for them both with 3 days of trials in the term 1 holidays to travelling down Adelaide every Friday night for trainings over a couple of months. Then of course the week long carnival in Albury. Ruby has taken a lot out of the journey and experience not only further developing her football skills and knowledge but growing as a person working on leadership, communication and life skills. Mr Bradley has said that it was a huge honour and privilege for them both and especially having coached Ruby at every possible pathway level of football, from school/club, district at state level to the national level. Everyone at Angaston PS is incredibly proud of them both for their outstanding efforts in representing South Australia on the national stage well done and congratulations Ruby and Mr Bradley.
During week 4, Year 6 students Amelie Thorn and Pippa Brassil represented the Barossa and Light Sapsasa District Girls Soccer team in the State Soccer Carnival held at Gepps Cross.
It was a soccer festival across the 3 days with the team playing 8 games. The girls had a brilliant week and learnt so much while having the best fun representing the district at the top level. Well done girls on your efforts fantastic work.
Yours in Sport Mr. Bradley Health/PE Teacher
It’s the most exciting part of the year for choir! We just had our rehearsal at Magic Millions with various schools around S.A. This helped us get a glimpse of how this year’s repertoire will be brought to life with the orchestra, troupe, soloists and choreography leaders, making this year’s Festival series very entertaining and something to look forward to. All choir members displayed excellent behavior and concentration, working hard to perfect song words, parts and choreography.
We now have two more weeks to practice then we will be off to our final rehearsal and performance at the Festival Theatre on Monday 18th September. I would like to congratulate all choir members for their hard work and dedication. We will be Row 1 which means everything needs to be of a high standard. We also need to congratulate Tilly B and Claire D as they will be the choreography leaders for our concert. These two girls showed great courage at our rehearsal and their audition and we wish them luck and bravery for our final performance. If you haven’t purchased tickets yet, please do so has seats are selling fast. Please come along to our school assemblies if you would like to hear and support our school choir. We look forward to a successful performance.
Mrs Argent
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