Our Stories

2021

SPORTS DAY

A great day at Hawker Area School on Friday 18 June as over 100 students participated in our Sports Day. Students from Leigh Creek Area School, Marree Aboriginal School, Oodnadatta Aboriginal School and SOTA attended. A highlight for our students was the magnificent house shirts which were funded by our Parents and Friends.

WHOLE SCHOOL CAMP GALLERY - ERRAPPA 2021

QUORN SWIMMING CARNIVAL

LEIGH CREEK SWIMMING CARNIVAL

2020

Autism Awareness Day

HAS Sports Day 2020

3-5 Aquatics Port Augusta

Design and Technology

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

Sports Day in Quorn

2019

Arbury Park Whole School Camp

Quorn Swimming Carnival

Naidoc Week

SAKG Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

2018

Hawker Area School Sports Day

Operation Flinders

Aristocats End of Year Performance

Latest News

SRC Car Wash

01 Dec 2021

Dear Parents and Caregivers

The SRC for it's last fundraiser for the year will be running a Car Wash this Friday December 3rd from 9.30am to 2.30pm.

Details below:

Bookings can be made by contacting the Front Office on 86484003.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

SRC Car Wash

26 Nov 2021

Dear Parents and Caregivers

The SRC for it's last fundraiser for the year will be running a Car Wash next Friday December 3rd from 9.30am to 2.30pm.

Details below:

Bookings can be made by contacting the Front Office on 86484003.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

Headspace Visit

23 Nov 2021

Headspace will be visiting today and tomorrow to work with our Year 6 - 12 students, covering a variety of mental health topics. They will arrive this afternoon and work with the class from 2pm until the end of the day.

Tonight, in the Multipurpose Room a session for parents and carers of any child in our community can attend a session from 6.30pm until 8pm. We have some bookings for this, with sufficient numbers attending this will dictate the content that can be presented. Any member of the community can attend, booking by contacting the school on 86484003 to confirm this will assist the presenters.

Tomorrow morning the Headspace Team will have their final session with our students.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

Pupil Free Day Reminder

19 Nov 2021

Just a reminder that next Monday November 22nd is a Pupil Free Day at Hawker Area School. Enjoy the chance for a Long Weekend!

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

Headspace Visit Student and Parent Workshops

15 Nov 2021

An education team from Headspace will be visiting Hawker Area School next week on Tuesday and Wednesday November 23rd and 24th to workshop with our Year 6 - 12 students on issues focusing on understanding Mental Health issues and exploring ways to cope. This event is not on our calendar at the moment as it has been only recently confirmed.

A workshop is also available focusing on Supporting Young People, this will be available to any parent or adult in our community who considers themselves to be a carer of young people in our community. The schedule for the visit will be:

Tuesday 2 - 3 pm: Session 1 with our Year 6 - 12 students.
Tuesday 6.30 - 8pm: Session for parents and others in the community in the Library.
Wednesday 9 - 10am: Session 2 with our Year 6 - 12 students.

To help in planning parents or members of the community are encouraged to contact the school on 86484003 to confirm attendance on Tuesday night this will assist the presenters as numbers attending will dictate the content that would be presented. Regardless of this all are welcome, late attenders included.

Any questions can be directed to the front office on 86484003.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

Remembrance Day Ceremony

10 Nov 2021

With the expected inclement weather tomorrow there may be changes to our Remembrance Day ceremony. We will be looking at the weather tomorrow morning and depending on the situation one of three situations could happen:

the event remains at the Memorial.
we move the ceremony to Hawker Area School.
the ceremony is cancelled.

Please keep an eye on the Hawker Out and About Facebook page tomorrow morning for further updates.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

Congratulations Jimmy!

10 Nov 2021

Congratulations to Jimmy Morgan, one of our Year 5 students at Hawker Area School who has won the Space to Dream Challenge design competition as part of the Commissioner's Digital Challenge. Jimmy's design for a NEW AND IMPROVED FIX BOT was recognised as the top rated 3D design for 2021 across South Australia. Jimmy completed this task as part of the Digital Literacy class where he is taught by Ailsa Green. First prize for Jimmy's impressive work is a 3D Printer, donated to the school by Makers Empire.

As part of the design brief Children and young people were challenged to design a toy or gadget for someone their age who is ‘moving to Mars’ using a design-thinking process.

Jimmy in his entry stated:

My object is called Fix Bot. This is a new and improved version of the design I created last year. Fix Bot fixes things. It has a parachute, iron filings for making screws, electric screwdriver and drill, a battery charger, laser eyes, welding tongue, paint to put where you want Fix Bot to weld or cut and a screen for programming. The Fix Bot is controlled by a remote control with three buttons, one to come to the owner, one to go back to its charger and one to power off. The Fix Bot is designed to fix spacecrafts.

By Jimmy, Year 5, Hawker Area School

The Space to Dream exhibition will be travelling to various regional locations throughout South Australia next year, including the Hawker School Library during April and May! Details of the locations to be visited can be found at https://commissionersdigitalchallenge.net.au/exhibition/ .

Jimmy’s design has been 3D printed at a larger scale and is now on display in the front window of the Australian Space Discovery Centre along North Terrace as a way of attracting visitors to come inside. The smaller scale version sits along with the other 20 top-rated designs as part of the Exhibition in the Space Discovery Centre’s Endeavour Room. The exhibition runs through until 31 January next year.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au

TERM 4 School Calendar

08 Nov 2021

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

FYI - TERM 4 School Calendar - EDIT PRESENTATION NIGHT is the 7th not the 6th.

Hawker Area School Calendar Term 4

Regards,
Admin

November 3 Newsletter

03 Nov 2021

Click here to view the November 3 Schoolzine eNewsletter!

Pupil Free Day Tomorrow

31 Oct 2021

Just a reminder that tomorrow is a Pupil Free Day at Hawker Area School. We also have another Pupil Free Day on Monday November 22nd.

Regards,
Daren O'Neill
Principal
daren.oneill253@schools.sa.edu.au