Term dates
Annual Report
Site Learning Plan
Context Statement
Current Newsletter
Term Calendar
Gilles Street Primary School Staff 2008
Bizgate - Make online payments to the school
Garage Sale & Fete
Numeracy Week
Sports Day
Triple A Award
Investigating Identity and Power Relations
Book Week
Premier's Reading Challenge
Come Out
Media Studies
Spiny Leaf Insects

TERM DATES | Top

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 | Top
To view the 2007 Annual Report, please click here (342kB)

SITE LEARNING PLAN 2006 | Top
To view the 2006 Site Learning Plan, please click here (38kB)

CONTEXT STATEMENT | Top
To view the School Context Statement, please click here (33kB)

CURRENT NEWSLETTER | Top
To view our current newsletter, please click here (1513kB)

TERM CALENDAR | Top
To view the term calendar, please click here (46kB)

GILLES STREET PRIMARY SCHOOL STAFF 2008 | Top

Principal Deb O'Neill

Deputy Principal Maxine McSherry

Assistant Principal New Arrivals Program Marina Carrick

Teacher Librarian: Spanish: ESL Support: Visual Arts:	Alison Hicks Gyllian Godfrey Helen Grant Christine Lawrence
NAP R/1: NAP R/1: MS R: MS R/1: MS 1/2: NAP 1/2: MS 2: NAP 2/4: MS 3: NAP 3/4: MS 3/4: MS 4/5: NAP 4/6: MS 5/6: NAP 6/7: MS 6/7: MS 6/7:	Julie Neale Ann Papadopoulos Judy Krivickas Cathy Bawden Pat Brown/Sally Jarvis Karen McCluskey Chris Bailey Mary Dellis Angela Plew Kate Byron-Scott Greg Cousins Marg Dowling Claudia Sychold/Vivian Scott Valarie Zogopoulos Janice Berry Marg McClure Gay Collins
School Support Officers:	Jannette Collins Anthea Butcher Rod McGuiness Owen Hicks Vicki Kennewell Tracy Neale
Bilingual School Support Officers:	Grace De Zolt Italian, Spanish Noriko Hills Japanese Sarou Theav Khmer Valerie Vuong Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese Tedros Yohannes Amharic, Arabic Yun Taek Lee Korean Afsaneh Paymai Dari, Persian, Farsi
Out of School Hours Care:	Mira Lisichin Director Wendy Simmons
School Council Chairperson:	Andrew Crocker

BIZGATE - PAY ONLINE | Top
We have recently implemented an online payment system, known as Bizgate. This application has been developed to provide parents/caregivers with the option to make school payments over the web, using their credit card (Visa, Bankcard and Mastercard only). Any fees can be paid using Bizgate, including materials and services charges, excursion fees and voluntary payments. Please ensure that once the transaction is complete that a copy of the receipt or the transaction number is recorded for your records.

Instructions - How to use Bizgate

Click Here To Pay Your Invoice Online Now

GARAGE SALE & FETE | Top
The Garage Sale and fete was a huge success and a wonderful community event. This year the majority of classes were involved in running stalls or activities which resulted in a real community atmosphere on the day. The fundraising committee and staff worked tirelessly to organise the event and the overall money raised was fantastic. We raised $ 3,700 from the fete, $1,300 from the raffle and $250 for J Rock. Rotary raised $2,700 from the garage sale. The money raised will go towards our new shade covers over the playground. We look forward to this becoming an annual event for the school.

NUMERACY WEEK | Top
During Numeracy Week students from Reception to Year 7 participated in a whole school numeracy activity. Year 6 & 7 students calculated how much space each student should have to play in the yard during break times. Classes marked the space for each student using chalk and children then drew anything to do with matematics in the space. "Mathematics in the Environment" was the theme of a special display of class work in the hall.

SPORTS DAY | Top
The atmosphere was wonderful and the hard work of the sports day committee paid off with everyone having a very exciting day.
The Year 6/7 students developed, taught and lead the whole school in a very active Health Hustle for our first event.
The team chants led by the House leaders followed and then the children moved to the Parklands for the Tabloid Events.
It was pleasing to see the sportsmanship, teamwork, enthusiasm and skill shown by the children during their events.
The Program Achieve keys of Getting Along, Organisation, Emotional Resilience, Persistence and Confidence were seen in the positive attitude of the children.
Before lunch “The Tug of War” was keenly contested by the four House teams selected from the Upper Primary students.
We also had some very strong parents who enjoyed being part of their own “Tug of War” event.
After lunch the children participated in the Whole School Relay which was a fantastic spectacle accompanied by energetic music.
The Sprints for each year level completed the program. The final result was very close and congratulations go to the winning team – Blue.
It was great to see their team’s excitement when the result was announced.

TRIPLE A AWARD | Top
Congratulations to Mira Lisichin our Out of School Hours Care Director. Mira recently won the prestigious Triple A Award for acknowledgement, achievement and advocacy for Out of Hours School Care. It is wonderful that Mira has received this external award for her tireless work and commitment over many years. Well Done Mira.

INVESTIGATING IDENTITY AND POWER RELATIONS | Top
Helen Grant has published a research project she conducted with a colleague, Catherine Walsh, on the South Australian Literacy and Numeracy web site. "Investigating Identity and Power Relations", which was funded by The Spencer Foundation, Chicago , USA , explores theories through units of work around critical literacy and multiliteracies.

Click here to view Helen’s work.

 
BOOK WEEK | Top
The school celebrated Book Week with a special assembly run by the SRC. As well as special performances the whole school read "Chatterbox", voted our favourite Book Week title; and enjoyed a quiet reading time together in "The Great Big Read In".

PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE | Top
Many children have successfully completed this years Premier's Reading Challenge by reading 12 or more books. A picture gallery of those who took the challenge is in the library. 

COME OUT | Top
Despite the weather our launch of the Come Out celebrations and playground opening were an outstanding success.
The theme of Universal Values and the Universal Story resulted in the children being involved in designing banners throughout last term. During the opening ceremony 8 large banners reproduced by Christine Lawrence were paraded through the school. These banners will be on display in the hall . Rainbow inspired flags with shared values written on them were also paraded and will be flying over our playground for the next few weeks.
The official ceremony started with the first performance of our Taiko training group followed by the performing team. The Honourable Lord Mayor , the Lord Mayor of Adelaide Michael Harbison then officially opened the playground. Tony Possingham the Chairperson of the Gilles Street School Council opened our  Come Out celebrations. Children were then treated to a wide variety of workshops and performances which will continue for the next few weeks. A special thank you to Christine Lawrence, Val Zogopoulos, Helen Grant, Tracey Neale and John Elliot  for working so hard to make the day possible.

MEDIA STUDIES | Top
Students study a range of printed and visual texts as part of media studies. Through printed mass media, claymation and film making students explore issues in their school and their world. Film projects have won Young Film-makers Awards and are available from the school at a cost of $20 (inc GST).
Film titles include:
· Hidden Treasures of Adelaide
· Sudan
· Cooking Afghani Style
· About Being Me
Contact Helen Grant for further information.

SPINY LEAF INSECTS | Top
Spiny leaf insects are a very low maintenance and gentle creature, making them an ideal choice for a classroom or home pet. Their appearance, behaviour and relatively short life span offer an excellent opportunity for studying camouflage and life cycles. Overseas visitors to the school are especially impressed by the insects and take the opportunity of a “photo shoot” to take home as a momento. Many schools around the state have purchased our insects for their classrooms.

Insects are available for sale from the school. Contact Alison Hicks in the Library for further information.