Term 1 ~ Week 7

13th March Coming Events

MARCH Mon 16th - Cricket v Karuah @ Paterson

- P&C meeting 7pm

Wed 18th - Responsible Pet visit

- Book Club Loop orders close

Fri 20th - Bullying No Way & - Harmony Day

Wed 25th - 3/4 Assembly

Fri 27th - Cross Country Carnival

APRIL Wed 1st - School Photos

Thu 2nd - Parent Teacher Interviews

Fri 3rd - Parent Teacher Interviews

Wed 8th - 5/6 Assembly

Thu 9th - Easter Hat Parade & activities

- Last day of Term 1

Mon 27th - Staff Development Day

Tue 28th - All students return

NOTES SENT HOME: Harmony Day

Welcome to 2/3 news for term one… We have started the 2020 year off well, learning to become more organised and conscious of the clock! We realise that we don’t have all the time in the world to complete our work and are becoming faster at finishing and producing quality work. We have a particular emphasis on reading in our space - reading, peer reading, guided reading groups amongst reading activities. In English, we have been practising story writing - planning for 5 minutes, writing for 20 minutes and then editing for 5 minutes. We love writing which we do twice a week and we can see how much better we are getting each time. We also are regularly practising our handwriting so we can clearly write down our knowledge.

In maths we do 10 mentals every day which stretches our brain as we only get to write the answer down. We love our maths frantic frenzies which is where we practice our addition facts; we are trying to complete 100 addition facts to 20 in 5 minutes and we already have 6 peers doing this….we love this activity because we only have to get better by one correct answer every day to see that we are improving!

In science we are looking at the world’s resources and in health we have been discussing relationships with an emphasis on building positive relationships. This is supported by our PBL value of respect-treating others how we would like to be treated and participating in Harmony Day and “Bullying, No Way” Day. In sport we are also practising sportsmanship when we play kick-it. In PE we are practising for cross country, an upcoming event in a couple of weeks.

We continue with singing in CAPA and choir as well as guitar for those who are

learning it. We also have completed a lot of art. In History we are learning about

‘Past and Present Families’ and in geography we have been learning about

Australia. Our assembly item was about the facts we know about Australia and we

sang the Australian National anthem.

YEAR 6 EASTER RAFFLE

Year 6 are running an Easter raffle to raise

funds for the end of year gift to the school.

We are seeking donations to use as raffle

prizes. These donations could include but are

not limited to Easter eggs, Easter rabbits and

plush toys. The donations can be handed

into the office.

Raffle tickets will be on sale at lunch time at

a cost of $1 per ticket or 3 for $2. The raffle

will be drawn on Thursday 9/4/20 during our

Easter Hat Parade.

Thanks for your support.

Regards, Matt Lowrey and Year 6

Principal’s Report

Term 1, Newsletter Week 7

School Cross Country Carnival

All students are participating in cross country carnival on Friday, 27th March. Our students are training three mornings a week, from Monday – Wednesday. Our plan is to run the carnival at around 9.15am, unless the weather prevents us from doing so. All families are very welcome to attend and if you are able to assist on the course, please leave your name at the office.

Cricket Team

All the best to our cricket team, who play against Karuah next Monday at Paterson.

Dr David Gillespie Visit

We had a special visitor at our assembly this week. Thank you to Dr David Gillespie, Federal Member for Lyne, who visited our school. He shared the news that we have been successful in receiving a Schools Community Fund grant of $5000 to continue our Future Kids program. This will be used to purchase more technology so that all students have ready access to devices as tools for classroom learning. Dr Gillespie also presented us with three new flags: the Australian ensign, the Aboriginal flag, and the Torres Strait Island flag, and all three will he proudly flown tomorrow.

Responsible Pet Visit

Next Wednesday our K-2 students will participate in a Responsible Pet session. They will learn how to look after their pets and how to interact with dogs and other animals when in the community. Thank you to Mrs Manderson for organising this visit.

Bullying No Way Day & Harmony Day

On Friday, 20th March the whole school will participate in lessons and activities to mark Bullying No Way Day and Harmony Day. Students are welcome to dress in something orange for the day.

P&C AGM Next Week

We would love to see you at the P&C AGM and general meeting next Monday, 16th March. We had a record number of attendees last month, it would be fantastic to see even more there. Children of all ages are very welcome to attend.

NAPLAN 2020

This year the National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) will take place in weeks 3 and 4 of term 2. All

students in year 3 and year 5 will participate. Once again we are using the online platform for all tests apart from year 3

writing. Further information will come home with more detail for families of children in year 3 and 5, but please feel free to

speak to me if you have any questions at all.

With thanks,

Mrs Hazell

STEAMFEST /TOCAL NOTE

Could all Steamfest/Tocal notes be returned asap so we can work out our roster.

Please give some thought in helping us as this is our only major fundraiser for the year.

Term 1

Assembly Awards

Week 7

Captain’s Award Kaleb M doing good at cross country practice.

Term 1

Week 7

PBL

AWARD

CLASS AWARD

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Kindergarten Rylan for being a responsible learner.

Pearce for effort and application in guided reading. Pearce is really confident with using his crisp pointing finger

Noah for always giving 100% to all learning

Years 1/2 Taj for taking more responsibility with his learning and focus.

Liam for excellent effort with his homework and for trying hard with his class work.

Lucy for excellent application in all areas.

Year 2/3 Ruby for beginning to develop more resilience at school.

Taylor for interesting adjectives in story writing, remembering to ‘pack the noun’ and learning to use paragraphs.

Zoe for an amazing effort with addition frantic frenzy-100% correct, four days in a row!

Year 3/4 Finn for showing responsibility with completing his homework.

Archie M for creative thinking with making his times tables games.

Holly for great work in maths and giving 100% effort in all tasks.

Years 5/6 Coby for being resilient during challenging times.

Archer for displaying improved initiative in all areas.

Xavier for being organised and displaying leadership.

P & C Meeting

and Annual General

meeting

Monday

16th March

7.00pm All positions vacant

Please come along and support your school.

All welcome!

Canteen Roster

Monday 16th March - Kerri Hicks

Wednesday 18th March - Leah Gale

Friday 20th March - Bec Lascelles & Jacky Keena

Monday 23th March - Anita Whitehorn

Wednesday 25th March - Gen Fitzgerald

Friday 27th March - Robyn & Robert Cowan

Monday 30th March - Danielle Cowled

Wednesday 1st April - Leah Gale

Friday 3rd April - Bec Lascelles & Anita Whitehorn

Please keep an eye out in the newsletter and the P & C Facebook page (Paterson Public School P & C Canteen) for any canteen closures. We are fully run by volunteers and sometimes the canteen has to close, sometimes with little notice, due to volunteers being unavailable. If you are able to volunteer time in the canteen, please get in touch! You can message our Facebook page or let the office know and we will help you get started. Even if it's only one day a term, that is a huge help!

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Book Club Loop Orders

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Wednesday 18th March