2-28 FOREST STREET, PO Box 83 TUMUT NSW 2720

Phone: (02) 6947 1533 Fax: (02) 6947 1377

franklin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.franklin-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

FRANKLIN NEWSLETTER

TERM 4 | Monday 3rd December 2018 | ISSUE 38

Week 8

Monday 3rd December

Swim School

Proud and Deadly

Awards @ 5 p.m.

Tuesday 4th December

Swim School

Choir @ Valmar

Christmas Party @

12pm

Wednesday 5th Dec

Swim School

Thursday 6th Dec

Swim School

Friday 7th Dec

Swim School

Year 6 Farewell

Dinner RSVP closes

Week 9

Monday 10th Dec

Swim School

Tuesday 11th Dec

Swim School

Year 6 Farewell

Dinner

Wednesday 12th Dec

Swim School

Thursday 13th Dec

Last day of Swim

School

Family Fun Night

TOGETHER WE LEARN

Preparing Our Students For Their Futures! Franklin Public School would be one of the few schools in NSW if not Australia, where

technology is embedded across the entire school with the ratio of devices to students

close to 1:1. Students are fortunate enough to use iPads, laptops and Chromebooks to

support them in their learning. In addition to these wonderful devices, Stage 3 have

begun a rollout of Robotics’ spearheaded by Mr Roddy.

Students have the opportunity to program their devices to follow commands and

codes. This new technology ensures students at Franklin Public School have an

immense and enriched experience as well as developing problem solving and

collaboration skills.

Carols by Candlelight

What: All Franklin students are encouraged to represent our school by singing

in the Carols by Candlelight.

When: Sunday 9th of December. Students are asked to meet Franklin staff at

the side of the stage at 6:50 p.m.

Where: Richmond Park

Attire: Students are encouraged to wear Christmas clothes and a

Santa hat.

CELEBRATING FRANKLIN!

TOGETHER WE LEARN

Franklin Public School is now enrolling for 2019! To meet a friendly staff member for a school tour please enquire through our school office on (02) 6947 1533.

Franklin Visits Little Possums!

Last week a group of Kindergarten students visited the pre-school children at Little Possums. They were the

official panel in a “Kindergarten Forum”. The pre-school children were able to ask a variety of questions for the

Kindergarten students to answer regarding their impeding start to school in 2019. The Franklin Kindergarten

students were able to discuss what ‘big school’ is like and what they should anticipate in their first few weeks at

school.

While the students were visiting, they were also able to showcase the ‘Dot Talks’ they have been involved in in

their classrooms under the Building Numeracy Leadership Initiative. A group of carefully arranged dots were

quickly shown and the students were able to state how many dots were on the card by subitising. Subitising is the

ability to immediately recognise the quantity of a small number of objects without counting. This is an important

skill in developing number sense, where the students are learning to verbalise their thinking and realise that there

are multiple solutions to a problem.

We are very proud at Franklin of the gains that the Kindergarten students are making as they become efficient mathematicians who persevere when solving a problem, even if they reach the point where they have developed a ‘sweaty brain’!

Swimming School starts on Monday 3rd

December, 2018.

Your child will need to bring these items to school each day.

CHECKLIST

1. swimmers

2. towel

3. sunscreen (no coloured zinc please)

4. T- shirt / sun top to wear in the water

5. plastic bag for wet gear

6. brush or comb

7. swimming goggles (optional)

8. a bag to carry it all in

Please make sure that children do not wear their swimmers to school under their uni-form. Time is provided to change before and after the lessons.

Please label all gear so it doesn’t get lost.

TOGETHER WE LEARN

CANTEEN ROSTER

Mon - 03.12 P. Martin, K. Cobden

Tue - 04.12 T. Halpin

Wed - 05.12 T. Halpin, L. Oxley

Thur - 06.12 J. Hilly, K. Lubke, T. Halpin

Fri - 07.12 B. McNally, L. Johnson

Mon - 10.12 M. McCallum, R. Waterhouse

Tue - 11.12 N. Withers

Wed - 12.12 L. Oxley, R. Fields

Thur - 13.12 T. Halpin, J. Hodges, T. Potter

Fri - 14.12 J. Hilly

FREE TODDLER/BABY SWIMMING LESSONS

COME ALONG AND TRY DAY

DECEMBER 8TH & 15TH

10AM & 11AM

0-2 YEARS

PHONE THE POOL TO ENROL

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Christmas Pantry Appeal

Franklin Public School will be

collecting non-perishable items to

help support the Tumut Community

Pantry.

Students and staff can bring in items

to leave in the basket at the school

office.

Tumut School’s As Community Centre

It’s our favourite time of the year, its Christmas time!! So naturally this week we’ll be exploring everything Christ-mas. We’ll be writing letters to Santa, developing our fine-motor skills and coordination by decorating the

‘belonging Tree’ and discovering sparkling Play Doh. We’ll get crafty making Christmas decora-tions and painting with our finger tips, hands and feet to create magical Christmas prints.

Hope to see you there. All of our playgroups are free :

Students are asked

to meet outside

Smarts Jewellery

Store at 4:30pm

FRANKLIN STARS — Week 8 Students who follow our PBL school values of:

RESPECT ~ ACHIEVEMENT ~ SAFETY

Mitchell Duncombe

Bass

Zac Withers

Wentworth

Isobel Jackson

Macarthur

FRIENDS OF FRANKLIN

TOGETHER WE LEARN

Bass in Action!

Claim the Date

The next few weeks at Franklin Public School will be full of

great learning opportunities and exciting activities!

A reminder of upcoming events:

Proud and Deadly Awards - Monday 3rd of

December. Award winners are asked to be at Bila

Park by 5 p.m. for presentations.

Carols by Candlelight – Sunday 9th of December in

Richmond Park. All Franklin students are invited to

sing in our school item. Please meet at the side of the

stage at 6:50 p.m. Students are encouraged to wear

Christmas clothes and a Santa hat.

Year 6 Farwell Dinner - Tuesday 11th of December.

Christmas Carols - Thursday 13th at 4:30 p.m. All

Franklin students are encouraged to sing Christmas

carols in the main street. Meet Franklin staff outside

the jewellers at 4:30pm

Presentation Day – Friday 14th of December.

Infants presentations will take place from 9:30 a.m.—

10:30 a.m. while Primary presentations will take

place between 11:30 a.m.—12:30 p.m. in the Miles

Franklin Hall. Please remember full summer school

uniform, including white socks and black shoes.

Thank You Morning Tea - Friday 14th of December

between Infants and Primary presentation ceremonies.

Last day of Canteen— Friday 14th of December

PBL Reward Day — Monday 17th of December

Bike, Scooter day.

Infants Christmas Carols - Tuesday 18th of

December. Students are encouraged to wear a

Christmas hat or headband.

Christmas Parties – Tuesday 18th of December.

Last day of Term 4 – Wednesday 19th of December.

First day of 2019 for Years 1– 6: 30th of January

First day for Kindergarten 2019: Monday 4th of

February.

Maths action in Bass sees the students solving problems,

interacting with each other and using a variety of hands

on materials to work mathematically

Lliam and Alasdair test the size of the queen’s bed from the story ‘How long is a foot?’

Madison and Sophie solve a problem together

Alejandra

and Kahlan

measure

area