SANDON PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Week 5, Term 1 - Tuesday 27th February 2018

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

What a fabulous start to the year we have had! We have welcomed our Kindergarten students as well as many new students across all years.

The students who enter Kindergarten in 2018 will spend most of their working life in the second half of the twenty first century. Futurists have predicted that many of the jobs they will be doing have not yet been invented. What we do know is that strong literacy and numeracy skills will be vital. Already Mrs Thomas and Mrs Kitchener are seeing students ready to and wanting to learn.

I attended the Year 6 Leadership Camp at Thalgarrah and was impressed with the maturity and confidence of our Year 6 students. Even though the weather was not helpful to being inside the students participated in the activities with enthusiasm and have gained valuable skills to help them lead Peer Support sessions across the school. Thank you to Mrs Strijland, Ms Etherington and Ms McCulloch for their work in making the camp so successful.

CALENDAR – 2018 Friday 2nd March

Week 5 Newsletter

Friday 2nd March

Whole school assembly

Monday 5th March

P&C AGM - School Office 6pm

Monday 5th March

P&C Meeting - 6.30pm

Monday 5th March

Taronga Zoomobile Visit

Wednesday 14th March – 9am

School Photos

Tuesday 20th March

Life Education Program

Friday 6th April

Whole school assembly

The Year 6 leaders have begun to run club activities during break times and other students are able to choose to join in if interested. Last week students turned up to participate in soccer, dance and science activities.The activities were interesting and very well organised. Congratulations Year 6. The Year 6 Leaders will receive their badges on Monday 5th March at a ceremony that will include them presenting a Sandon School S.H.I.N.E. badge to each of their Kindergarten buddies.

Mrs Bull’s Year 3/4 class is an example of a classroom designed to suit the learning needs of a variety of learning styles. Students do not sit at traditional tables and chairs, they are able to use stools, beanbags,

cushions, chairs, or boxes while they are learning. The students have opportunities to move around the room and use different seating or standing stations as needed.

In Mrs Frizell’s and Ms Lawrence’s Year 3/4 classes students spend their mornings engaging in English activities

that strengthen and build on their literacy skills. Each student has their individual needs catered for within the teaching and learning activities and literacy stations.

Mrs Palfreyman, Mrs Clark and Mrs Debreceny also use literacy stations for students to work in small groups and individually. Students are building their skills and knowledge in English as well as learning how to learn.

Marketing and Promotion. I have asked Kirralee Dwyer to take on the role of Marketing and Promotion. We determined that there are three streams we are currently using to promote and market our school and each serves a different purpose. This newsletter should be about the students, an opportunity to acknowledge what they are doing and to showcase their work, either by work samples or photos. The Schoolbag App should be for parents/carers to gain a range of information about the school. It will include permission notes, changes to routines, visitors and upcoming events. The website and the Facebook page are a combination of

promoting ourselves to the outside community, acknowledging student achievement and general

information related to all aspects of schooling. The website and Facebook page are still undergoing change, although we are adding news stories each week.

So, enjoy the work samples, look at the photos of students engaged in a variety of activities that have occurred over the last five weeks and join me in thanking the dedicated staff who come to work each day prepared to teach and support your child/children to love learning and to S.H.I.N.E.

Denise Smoother Quiet games in the library, at second break, with Mrs Carolyn Gadd are very popular.

Better Buddies Program

Bronze Awardees – Week 5 Term 1

K YELLOW

Chelsea Debrecency

Ruby Bull

Charlee Sweeny

Chase Chaffey

Zeike McCudden

Asha Dornan

Rachel McKay

K/1 RED

Olivia Maxwell

Matilda Polson

Hamish McMillian

Georgia Froome Young

Claire Chiripanyanga

Isiah Lawrence

Ayaan Ahmad

1/2 GOLD

Steph Everett

Roqea Abdullah

Philippe Ruhnke

Samuel Clayton

Riley Webb

Archer Merrick

Peter Samios

Ovindu Chandrasena

1/2 SILVER

Jamelia Smith

Mikayla Andronicos

Charlie Dare

Robbie Brown

Kayla Sinclair

Muriel Campbell-Clulow

Aden Cundy

1/2 PINK

Mahalia Lippuner-Lee

Kazuho Nakayama

Izaak Avagliano

Vicki Gerdnoi

Sara Khan

3/4 CRIMSON

Archie Howarth

Matthew Burgess

Noor Abdullah

Marlene Ruhnke

William Parker

3/4 ORANGE

Jack Clayton

Kevin Du

Navita Maher

Lailani Sinclair

Lola Pancadi

Hayden Smith

Chelsea Webb

Layaleeta Williams- Boney

3/4 RAINBOW

Mackenzie O'Brien-Partridge Ariannna Andronicos Alisa Bjorkander Nyla Chemane Ayla Karsten Georgia Kettlestring Ella Kitchener Abbigail Roberts Hugo Moulynox

5/6 BLUE

Alex Karsten

Emily Benham

Brendan Pearson

Savannah Lawrence

Amity Lawrence

Mae Parkinson

Kearna Smith

Johnathon Irving-Frost

John Harris

5/6 LIME Jade Booth

Lily Bull

Chloe Dawson

Gabe Harris

Gibson Harwood

Bethan Palfreyman

Julie Weatherall-Allen

Charlotte Lott

Emily Parker

PURPLE

Annabelle Johnstone,

Bryce Mendes

Georgie Mendes

Kaden Power

PURPLE/K

Yaraay Munro

Brayden Metcalfe

Andy Sue

Kory Ponsaing