School Dental Service

SCHOOL DENTAL SERVICE

All babies, children and young people under 18 years are welcome to attend the School Dental Service. Dental care is FREE for most children.

 

SA Dental Service participates in the Child Dental Benefits Schedule. A small fee may apply for children who are not eligible for the Child Dental Benefits Schedule.

 

All dental care provided is FREE for preschool children.

 

To locate your local School Dental Clinic, or for more information about the Child Dental Benefits Schedule, please visit www.sadental.sa.gov.au

 

Chapple

It was great to finally meet most of the wonderful Chapple children. They were full of enthusiasm for the new year ahead. We are really looking forward to meeting the rest of the children next week. We have started to work on routines and expectations, now they are the big children in the centre and they are keen to rise to the challenge.

Chapple Team

 

Cooper

Hello Cooper friends and families

Welcome to Term 1! This week we have spent time talking about our holidays  during Morning Meeting. We have been focussing on all the exciting things we did with our family. These discussions have been promoting the children’s listening, speaking and turn taking capabilities. We also welcomed two new friends to the Cooper Room, Napoleon and Luke. All of the children were very excited to meet our new friends and were quite eager to show them around the ELC.

Important information:

·         Library is now on Wednesday at 9.25am. Please remember to pack a named library bag as your child requires one to borrow.

·         Chinese is on Tuesday & Thursday at 10.30am in the Cooper Room.

·         PE is on Friday at 8.55am. This means we will be leaving the Cooper Room at 8.45am to walk up to the Prep gym.

 

Have a great weekend!

Jain & Cris

 

Langley

Dear Langley  Families,

This week, we have had a lot of fun welcoming all of our new friends into the Langley Room. We have spent some time singing name songs together to help everyone learn each other’s names but mostly we have just let the children explore their new environment, they have been enjoying time in the sandpit, building with the Lego blocks, reading stories and creating music, painting and gluing masterpieces. The children have loved meeting our little class frogs, Billy and Edmond! We have watched them hop around and eat their dinner.

The children who have been at the ELC since last year were very kind when welcoming their new friends, offering hugs when needed and supportive words such as “mummy and daddy always come back” – so sweet!

We have been very impressed with how brave you have all been (children and parents J), we are looking forward to spending more time with you next week, have a lovely weekend.

Lots of Love,

Miss Brooke, Miss Emily, Miss Renee and Miss Sarah.

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins families,

We have had a lovely week exploring our new environment and building new friendships. We are happy to welcome the new Wilkins children.

During the first week back we have been learning about our class routine. This includes the morning meeting, discussing the weather and the day of the week. As well as the basic routines of washing our hands before and after meal times.

During this week, we have been speaking about some bones in our bodies. If you have noticed in the class we currently have out some animal x-rays on the light table. Some of the children have been tracing over these whilst talking about the different bones in our bodies.

We look forward to the next term with our new children and all the exciting upcoming activities.

 

Mead

Dear Mead Families,

It is the end of your child’s time in the Mead class room, and as I am sure that you’ve have noticed, your child’s growth has exceeded over the year. Over the last couple of weeks we looked at how we have changed or grown since we have started at PAC ELC. We have recorded our height and plotted that on a big chart that will follow the children the Chappel Room.

This week the Mead Children also did some pizza making. We had a practice with making pizza dough on Tuesday which was interesting to see that again by Wednesday morning the dough had expanded again over night and squeezed out its container. That prompted a very interesting conversation with the children about yeast how it will activate and expand in a warm place

Friday was our last day all together in the Mead Room we had a fabulous last day together, our pizza turned out deliciously successful and we also enjoyed an ice block with the teachers on Friday.

Good Luck our special Mead friends, we will wish you well in the Chapple Room and we will miss you greatly.

Love Mrs Neville and Ms Kendall   x

Angwin, Chapple & Edgerley

Dear Angwin, Chapple and Eagerly families and friends

 

The last two weeks of the holidays have been fun packed for our friends.

We have spent a lot of time going on adventures around our PAC Campus especially the rainbow playground, science courtyard, RED centre, boarding house garden and having races on the oval.

Outdoors, the children enjoyed engaging in water play, building with loose parts and even doing cooking shows in the sandpit preparing meatballs and spaghetti with special herbs. If only you could taste Gabby's and Toby's cooking!

The children were also very keen on learning how to make paper planes and spent a lot of time testing their work outdoors.

For cooking activities, we steamed some fresh sweet corn and baked banana choc muffins sparked by our discussions during our meal times.

Indoors, the children showed their knacks on building amazing structures with blocks and awesome creations with mobile, mekano and duplo. It was pleasing to see the children displaying their creativity and problem solving skills as they tackle discussions on sharing resources and taking turns. Our afternoon Cosmic Kids Yoga sessions have been a great hit too.

Last Thursday, as we gathered at the back oval to have races, the children noticed piles of barks coming off the gum trees and decided to make a camp fire. Off they went gathering barks and hunting for wild animals. Together, the children shared their ideas on how to make fire and shared stories about some of their camping trips.

We also said our goodbyes to our Angwin and Chapple friends and wished them good luck in their new BIG adventure as Reception boys and girls.

We are looking forward to the start of the Term and have the rest of our teachers back.

The four year old staff

 

Cooper

Dear Cooper Room Families and Friends,

We are coming to an end of the school holiday summer program and what a blast it’s been!

This week we continued visiting the Library, Rainbow Playground, Red Centre, Tennis court, exploring the school grounds, the children made orange play dough, we painted some beautiful large bark chips Oscar brought in to share. The highlight and the most popular experience was our floating and sinking fun science concept for children to explore. Setting up a floating and sinking trough invites children to play, experiment and explore how and why different objects float and sink when placed into water. We added food colour to water and watched as clouds of colour swirled around in the clear liquid to discover the colour change. A few objects used to set this experience up was a rock, sea shell, peg, pop stick, leaf, foam, bottle tops, and dinosaurs. We discussed why certain objects sank and others didn’t, the weight, size and the material the object is made of and how this influences the floating ability. This was a positive learning opportunity – the kids absolutely love to play with water!

I hope you have a fabulous long weekend and see you all next week.

Love Miss C

Mattingley

Dear friends and families,

The last two weeks the children have become scientists. They have been making predictions, observations and reflecting on the experiments that we have carried out. We have made slime, stretchy slime! We have made colourful snakes using a cardboard tube covered with a sock and dipping them in bubble mix. We have even tried a variety of mints and mentos mixed with cola.

"Coke and mints will make an explosion!"said Leon

"Na, I think a dinosaur will come out" said Aiden

"No, just mess" said Amelia

"Ha ha it went all over you Miss Bowden, now you're sticky!" said Angelina

It has been a fun way to end the summer program in the Mattingley room. From myself, Kim and all the educators in threes we hope your child continues to have fun in learning as their journey begins in the Angwin class starting Tuesday 27th January. A big goodbye to Jaanav who will be starting a new adventure at his big brother's school. It has been a pleasure for the educators past and present getting to know you since the Langley room.

 

I leave you with this "Don't cry because you are leaving, smile because you were there."

Love Miss Bowden

 

Wilkins

Dear Wilkins families,

We have had a busy week welcoming our new children into the room. We look forward to exploring the room and school with you all next week.

We are fortunate that the weather has been nice and warm this week. We have had plenty of water play during our outdoor and indoor time. This increases the child’s sensory and also increases their skills to interact with one another.

The Wilkins children have enjoyed playing ‘dress ups’ and learning about the different types of clothing to wear for different types of events or for different types of weathers.

We wish all the best for our students moving up to the Mead Room for now and the near future. We look forward to watching them grow in their new chapter of their lives. We also welcome the new families into the Wilkins room.

Enjoy your long weekend.

We will see you all Tuesday!

Wilkins Team J

Langley

Dear Langley Families

This week we spent lots of time outside enjoying water play in the sun and exploring in our new garden area. The children love looking after the plants and joined in on some dramatic play in amongst the bushes and hay bundles.

We celebrated Phoenix’s birthday this week, we all sang a big happy birthday to her and shared some delicious cupcakes she brought in for us.

Dressing up was a lot of fun, we had fairies, police officers, basketballers, cowboys and more.

For some children this is their last week in the Langley room as they will be moving to the Mattingley room next week. We made the most of our last week together with dancing, singing, painting and lots more.

We welcomed our new friends as they came in for visits throughout the week and showed them around their new classroom.

We have had a wonderful start to the New Year and look forward to meeting our new friends and families and saying goodbye to our mattingley friends as they move onto their next adventure.

Miss Emily, Miss Brooke and Miss Ellen.

Mead

Dear Mead Families,

Welcome back, I hope you all enjoyed a well-earned rest spent with family and friends, full of laughter and happiness.

The fun from the Christmas break has been a huge talking point, with many stories and thrilling information about presents from Santa to the celebration of a birthday. There was an abundance of fantastic excitement coming from all directions and I would love to see some photos, therefore please feel free to bringing one in to share with the class.

The weather this week really could not make its mind up, from hot and muggy to raining and thunderstorms, it was such an inconvenience as the children wanted to play outside. Thankfully there were moments where the we had the chance to be free and roam around the yard, playing in the water and kicking the footy. When we weren’t able to go outside we enjoyed our time in the class room, building amazing structures out of blocks like “a wall to keep Mrs Neville out”.

Mr Potato Head was another huge hit with the most outrageous outfits and funny faces, it was hilarious to see the children crack up laughing at what they had produced. Also I’m just letting you all know that if you are ever in need of a hairstylist there are some children who are very talented and will make your hairdressing experience very enjoyable, they are extremely professional!

During next week we will be having transition visits to the new class room to help the children become familiar with their new surroundings. Soon there are going to be some pretty big changes in your child’s life, and to support them in their development, we have started to focus on the different changes that have happened in their lives. Over the next couple of weeks we will be discussing how they have changed from a baby to pre-schooler, so please provide a picture of your child when they were a baby, and we can look at the changes that have happened.  

Have a lovely weekend.

From Mrs Neville and Miss Kendall

 

Cooper

Dear Cooper Families

 

Our week in the Cooper room started with a visit to the Preparatory School. It was nice to have a change of scenery for the afternoon as we played on the Preparatroy School Playground. As a class we enjoyed sharing adventures of what we did during the Christmas break which included activities such as decorating the Christmas Tree with decorations, visiting the beach, going camping and just enjoying some time spent with our mums and dads. David also shared his exciting time at the botanical garden where his family had a picnic. We enjoyed making 'summer garden art' throughout the afternoon.

Today we focused on our summer holiday activities and reminisced about visits to the beach. During the morning we made healthy fruit smoothies by cutting up the fruit and adding milk to enjoy a cool, refreshing drink. We read the story 'The Magic Beach' and enjoyed revisiting this through the sand box and the light table experiences. We also took part in water play to escape the hot weather during the morning. In the afternoon we again had a change of scenery as we explored the fun activities set up in the Angwin Room.

As the middle of the week approached we decided to go on a 'Teddy Bears Picnic'. We took a cuddly friend along with us to have morning tea on the oval. We read story books including 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt' and 'Where is my teddy?' Throughout the day children also enjoyed pretend play with their cuddly friends. Whilst we were on our morning adventure we found some bark that had fallen from the gum trees in the hot weather. We decided to bring it back to the classroom and turn it into a fun art experience. Children had fun first setting up the activity by breaking the bark into smaller parts and then gluing them down to make their own special creation. We spent some of our time inside to escape from the heat but still enjoyed some outside water play in the morning.

On Thursday unfortunately the weather stopped us from our visit to the Red Centre so we watched ‘Frozen’ with the Mead room instead. We revisited some of the activities from earlier in the week and had a go at painting the planets of the solar system which many of the children have shown an interest in.

Other popular activities this week have included building and construction with blocks, Duplo and tracks. We have also enjoyed sand-pit play when the weather was cool enough to visit the outside environment.

On Friday we are looking forward to a cooking experience with Miss Moir and Miss Renee. We are also looking forward to exploring parts of the Preparatory, Senior School and of course, the ELC.

Have a great weekend from the Cooper Room, Miss Emma, Miss Renee and Miss Moir.