camps and excursions

“Dancify” dance lessons

YEAR LEVEL: Reception & Year 1
ROOMS: 1, 2, 3, 4B, 4W, 5, 6

LOCATION: East Adelaide School gym
DAY/DATE: Wednesdays (16/10, 23/10, 30/10, 6/11, 13/11)

START TIME: 8.50 – 9.30am, 9.30 -10.10am, 10.10 -10.50am, 11.10 – 11.50am (1 session)

COST: $10.70 (GST FREE) PAID BY EXCURSION LEVY
TEACHERS INVOLVED: Anita Matern, Jasmin Gerace, Lisa Groote, Vicki Angel, Pip Souter, Natalie Diglio, Hayley Combe

ACTIVITIES: The children will be involved in dance lessons with a trained instructor. The sessions will be held each Wednesday from Weeks 1-5 in our school gym. The children will learn a number of dance forms and develop their gross motor, coordination, and cooperation skills.

Visit to St Basil’s St Peters Aged Care

YEAR LEVEL: Reception, 1, 2, 3, 4
TIME: 11:10am – 12:00pm
DESTINATION: St Basil’s Aged Care, St Peters

St Peters War Memorial Visit

YEAR LEVEL: 5
ROOMS: 22, 23, 24 and 28

DATE: Friday 9 November
TIME: 11:10am-2:30pm

Art Lessons with Maxine Cavaggion

YEAR LEVEL: 2
ROOMS: 8, 9, 10, 15 and 16
COST: $30.00 GST FREE (PAID BY EXCURSION LEVY)

ACTIVITIES:
The children will be involved in art lessons with trained art instructor Maxine Cavaggion. The students will explore ways to use and apply visual conventions, such as line, shape, colour and texture. The students will become aware of visual conventions and learn to notice visual detail whilst producing their own piece of canvas artwork.

BUNNINGS BIRD BOX WORKSHOPS

YEAR LEVEL: Reception/ Year 1
ROOM: Rooms 1 and 2
DESTINATION: Bunnings, Kent Town
DAY/DATE: Monday 18 November 2019

Room 1
DEPARTURE TIME: 8.50am
RETURN TIME: 10.15am

Room 2
DEPARTURE TIME: 9.40am
RETURN TIME: 11.00am

COST: $3.00 GST FREE (PAID BY EXCURSION LEVY)
MODE TRANSPORT: Bus
TEACHERS INVOLVED: Vicki Angel and Lisa Groote
ACTIVITIES / OUTCOMES: As part of STEM, students will explore materials, tools and equipment to construct a bird box.

Kick n Box Fitness Studio

YEAR LEVEL: 5-6
DESTINATION: 11 Henry Street, Stepney

Franks Lab on Legs

YEAR LEVEL: 5
ROOMS: 22, 23, 28
LOCATION: Wet area outside Room 22
DAY/DATE: Friday, 22nd November 2019

START TIME: 9am
FINISH TIME: 3PM
COST: $6 (PAID THROUGH EXCURSION LEVY)
TEACHERS INVOLVED: BELINDA ALTSCHWAGER, KATE ARGUE, SAM HUTTON

ACTIVITIES: Each class will participate in a 90-minute hands-on program throughout the day. Students will investigate light and heat transformations. They will look at light transforming to heat- transferring to liquids, light transforming to heat -transferring to Solids, Lasers & Reflection and Rainbows & Refraction.

Please return the attached consent form to the class teacher by 15 November 2019.

Parliament House

YEAR LEVEL: Year 6
ROOM (S): 20
DESTINATION: North Terrace
DAY/DATE: Wednesday 27 November 2019

DEPARTURE TIME: 11:00am
RETURN TIME: 1:35pm
COST: $10.95
MODE TRANSPORT: Bus
TEACHERS INVOLVED: Christopher Byrne

ACTIVITIES / OUTCOMES:
Parliament House Tour – Civics and Citizenship

Nature Play and Colonial History Immersive

YEAR LEVEL: Year 5
ROOM (S): 22, 23, 28
DESTINATION: Morialta Conservation Park and Handorf Academy
DAY/DATE: 28 November 2019

DEPARTURE TIME: 9:00am
RETURN TIME: 3:00pm
COST: $14.50 GST Free (PAID BY EXCURSION LEVY) MODE TRANSPORT: BUS
TEACHERS INVOLVED: Kate Argue, Samantha Hutton, Belinda Altschwager

ACTIVITIES / OUTCOMES:
This term the Year 5 cohort has focused on Colonial History from the early 19th Century. They have also been considering the effect of sustainable and unsustainable practises on the world around us. To provide students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in crown land that has been set aside for sustainable conservation and to promote student engagement with nature, the Year 5s will be driven by bus to Morialta Conservation Park and interact with a range of natural materials. This will be followed by another bus ride to the early colonial settlement of Handorf to explore the way of life of early settlers in South Australia, specifically the German immigrants. The bus ride to and from Handorf will provide students with an understanding of the 35 km distance that the early German women regularly walked to sell their produce.