Two Wells Primary School Newsletter- Term 1, Week 7 2024.

Principal's Welcome

Dear families,

I do hope you are recovering from our recent hot spell and enjoying the cooler weather. Thank you to all parents who have raised concerns about the air conditioners in some classrooms, we appreciate your support as we work with the Department to improve conditions for our children. We also thank parents for their constructive feedback in terms of staffing in Room 16, Paula Napper will be absent next week and the timetable on Class Dojo is accurate, we will provide an update for next Thursday and Friday.

In our last newsletter we discussed the reviewed school values, Respect, Courage, Growth Mindset and Compassion into our feedback to staff and students. Our work is around building strong relationships, high expectations and positive classroom tone. Part of our work this year is to construct a social and emotional curriculum to ensure we promote excellent behaviour, which is a combination of skills, habits, inclinations, values and knowledge.

These can be taught in partnership with home, as we are finding that many staff have to deal with low level behaviors on a daily basis because students do not follow basic school expectations. For example, no jewellery in school, no hat, no play and eating while standing up. Staff often have to deal with poor behaviour for giving simple and reasonable instructions. There is another, sombre side to all of this, well managed, well behaved school spaces are essential for all student's happiness and safety. It also provides job satisfaction for the highly accomplished professionals in our team.

As such many of our rules are published in our enrolment packs and documented on our website, please ensure you are familiar with these because we often find that parents are not aware of school expectations and this can lead to unnecessary misunderstandings, particularly when we suspend their child, after all we are on the same page, all our families want their children to have friends, feel successful and be happy during their 12 years at school. Better behaviour is essential to good learning and takes constant shared effort and feedback for improvement.

At our school positive behavior is a set of habits which help students to flourish as a learner and a human. This is much more than compliance, this is the ability to know how to conduct ourselves in a group situation, use of language, eye contact, tone of voice and body language, how to argue sensibly, how to behave in an unfamiliar social situation, how to have courage to forgive some one when we argue with friends and how to control our temper by developing self awareness; particularly when we make a mistake. In our classrooms that means we can track the speaker (students and adults), we speak with care and kindness, we ask for help if we need it, we ensure we are prepared and on time, we are prepared to improve our social and emotional skills by using the strategies we are explicitly taught to support regulation and self management and we wear our uniform and stay in the classroom for learning time. One of the characteristics of our school is that this is a cornerstone in our curriculum and we are empowering students to expand their emotional literacy. Most importantly we follow the instructions of the adults who have duty of care and use our words to solve our problems.

Governing Council
Thank you to parents who have stepped up to continue supporting the school, as a Governing Council member your voice is valued and it is an opportunity to work within the Departments Governance Framework. In particular supporting and contributing to our improvement planning and budget.

Thank you: 

Pauline Faulkner - Nominated as Chair for 2024. Pauline has 2 children in our school. She is the Governing Council member who supports our work with Happy Haven.

Kyra Urkko - Has served on Governing Council for 2 years and has accepted a renomination. Kyra has two children attending our site.

Angela Moore  - Staff rep

We would like to welcome new members

Michelle Phillips  - Currently 2 children attending our site.

Kelly Kidd - Currently has two children attending our school.

We still have a vacancy, please let me know if you are interested and we will organise a school visit. Our Constitution was reviewed in 2023, traditionally a member of Parents and Friends is also a Governing Council member

Decodable readers
We would like to thank Amber in our library for completing the mammoth task of organising all our decodable readers using the Literacy Guarantee Scope and Sequence. We have ordered a number of books to ensure all stages are covered. We will be sending books out shortly and running some sessions for parents to support at home. Our focus this year is to build confidence and automaticity in phonics and fluency.

Sports Day & Colour Run

Who is going to take the 2024 Sporting and Outstanding Sportmanship awards for our annual Sports Day?

Will it be the Reeves Green Machines? Or potentially the Fiery Redbanks? What about the Lightest of Light - team Blue? You can't forget about the Lightening Fast Yellow team, Korunye. It's going to be an event of the year. 

Keep practicing your chants and especially the health hustle - The Sid Shuffle. 

School Fun Run

Two Wells Primary School are once again participating in the extravagant Colour Run on Friday 12th of April! We are fundraising for important areas of our school that support students learning and social and emotional development. Our target is $15, 000 - let's work hard and see what we can do! To start, all you need to do is create a profile on the link embedded below and start your challenge. 

How are YOU going to fundraise for your school? We can't wait to see. 

Harmony Day

Cultural identity is an important aspect into how students learn, and at Two Wells Primary we value and appreciate fostering and nurturing students individual identities and connection to culture. 

Harmony Day is a time in which we come together and celebrate the cultural diversity present within our classrooms, and take the time to acknowledge and respect this through various learning experiences/activities. 

What are we up to? GARDENING!

Have a look to see what some of our passionate stduents at TWPS have been up to. This program has been constructed and lead by our Positve Behaviour for learning SSO's, and gives students the oppurtunity to immerse themsleves in collaborative learning based tasks that support emotional regulation, social skills, resilience and learning development. Our goal is to create and develop empathetic and informed students that can apply learnt skills and strategies to overcome their obstacles in life.

Well done everyone involved. 

Thank You- From us to you!

We would like to acknowledge and value how kind and supportive our community is in Two Wells. It is these donations that support our students at TWPS in many aspects of their well-being and learning, and we thank ALL the business listed below for their support. 

Two Wells Melodrama group - "There Goes My Hero"

You won't want to miss this performance by our very own Two Wells Melodrama group. This performance has various dates to attend, and as well has dinner course options available. 

For information on purchasing tickets see flyer below. 

Happy Haven OSHC - Two Wells

Are the Pupil Free Days coming up faster than expected? Have you not made plans yet?

Look no further then our very own Happy Haven OSHC at Two Wells for a day of Easter EGG-stravaganza and Crazy hair/Dress ups. Now that sounds like FUN!

AusKick 2024

Calling all future footy stars! The NAB Auskick registrations are now open, with the first session being held on Sunday the 5th of May 9:30am-10:30am. 

If this sparks your interest scan the QR code below. 

Noorla Yo-Long - SA Bluelight

Are you looking for an adventure or to expand your skills? Then Noorla Yo-Long Outdoor Adventure might be for you! 

Have a browse through their brochure and pricing options as shown below. 

Peaceful Kids Program

EOI for Governing Council

Governing councils are bodies that govern a school or preschool. They work with the site leader (principal) to help set and monitor the direction of a site. 

At Two Wells Primary School we value the support and ideas from our community and parents toward creating a positive, safe and engaging environment for our students. 

If this sounds of interest to you, contact us by Monday the 18th of March on 8520 2277. 

Important Dates

End of term is fast approaching, and we have some important dates coming up. 

March 21 (Thursday) - Harmony Day (Wear ORANGE)

March 28 (Thursday) - Pupil Free Day

March 29 (Friday) - Public Holiday

April 1 (Monday) - Public Holiday

April 2 (Tuesday) - Pupil Free Day

April 12 (Friday) - Sports Day/Colour Run