Term 2 Week 8 15th June 2020

Class Stars of the Week

Year 5/6

Year 3/4 Kindergarten

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Changes to Restrictions

New guidelines have been provided to schools

with comprehensive advice of what can take place

in schools as restrictions are eased. It is important

you are familiar with these and remember the

rules for schools are specific to the school

circumstances and sometimes different to those as

general public advice.

From Monday 15th June, the following will be

permitted:

• All curricular or extra-curricular programs or

services delivered by Department of Education

staff can recommence

• Library borrowing, only when outstanding books

have been returned

• Choirs and performing arts at school within

school only, and with safety protocols

• Some activities which involve students visiting

other schools

• Most community use activities that run in the hall

out of school hours.

• School assemblies (limited to 15 minutes and no

external visitors)

• Choirs and performing arts at school, with safety

protocols in place

• Incursions and external providers can provide

activities that support delivery of curriculum

(e.g. music tutors, sport skills programs, science

demonstrations)

All going well we are expecting from Term 3,

schools will be able to resume:

• All school sport and activities including

competition aligned with current health advice

• Inter-school student events and competitions

• Volunteers for Breakfast Club, Kids Hope

mentoring and Canteen

A limited number of activities remain under

consideration and for now these events must

remain on hold, these include school camps or

extended excursions. We are hoping by Term 4

these will go ahead.

School students do not need to follow strict adult

physical distancing guidelines but continue to

follow good hygiene practices like:

• regularly washing hands and using hand

sanitisers upon entry to school and rooms

• avoiding sharing equipment or resources

• coughing or sneezing into your elbow, or using a

tissue which should be discarded immediately

• drinking from water bottles rather than using the

bubblers.

School Attendance

All students should be at school unless they have a

medical certificate which states that they are unable

to return to school due to an ongoing medical

condition and the expected timeframe or they are

currently unwell. There is no provision for ‘learning

at home’.

School site usage

School-based activities can start to recommence as

long as the following measures are observed:

• all visitors and external to school providers must

adhere to relevant hygiene, distancing and safety

protocols and completing relevant forms

• principals may continue to restrict, limit or prohibit

activities if they are seen as contrary to the current

health advice

• non-essential adults are still not permitted on

school grounds or at school events – this

includes parents/carers - unless specifically invited

or approved by the Principal.

Pick up and drop off will still remain at front gate.

Reports

Teachers have been hard at work finalising any in

class assessments. These add to the student work

samples and observations to inform of student

progress at school and during time learning from

home this semester. These results will help form

your child’s Semester One Report which will be in a

modified format.

Reports will be sent home with students on Friday

26th June.

Colder Weather

The cooler winter weather has arrived, and most

students are coming dressed to cope with the cold

but there are a few still arriving at school without

jumpers or jackets. It is important that students have

their warmer clothes with them as they may require

them throughout the day. If you require additional

jumpers there are supplies in the clothing pool.

Our lost property is forever growing and any items

with names on them get sent to the student. Please

make sure that your child's jumpers, jackets and

hats are labelled with their name so they can be

returned.

CANTEEN CLOSED until

further notice.

BREAKFAST CLUB

CLOSED until further

notice.

Uniform Pool The uniform pool is in urgent need

of boys and girls clothing.

Especially sizes 4, 6 and 8.

Donations of uniform items can

be left at the office.

Merit Awards

Congratulations to the children who were recognised

with a Merit Award on Friday for making an extra effort

in the past week and achieving success at school.

While we are not able to hold Gathering’s, we will be

presenting Merit Awards on Friday mornings to our high

achieving students.

K – Melody and Dion

1/2 – Brielle and Sophie

3/4 – Kayalanna and Kiarli

5/6 – Jaylee and Darnell

Transition

At this point we are expecting our Transition class to

commence next term each Thursday, from 23rd July. If

you know of any family interested or a child eligible to

attend, please encourage them to contact the school

for more details.

Star Awards

“You’re a Star Award” certificates were presented this

morning to students who have been using the You Can

Do It keys to success and demonstrating persistence,

resilience, organisation, getting along and confidence.

Congratulations to our recipients: Xayarna, Lincoln,

Declan and Hayden.

These ‘keys’ are instant rewards given daily to encour-

age use of the ‘5 keys to success’- persistence, resili-

ence, organisation, getting along and confidence.

While the Star Room is temporarily non-operational, the

children receiving Star Awards get priority to use our

mini golf course each day.

Murray Cox

Principal

Important Dates

Semester 1 reports sent home- 26th June

Term 2 concludes– 3rd July

News From 3/4 We love learning when it involves working

cooperatively with our friends…

During spelling this week, we have been playing a

game that helps us to recognise and identify

missing graphemes. There has been a lot of

‘healthy’ competition happening, and some

excellent discussions around our spelling patterns

and list words.

Sometimes activities are so much fun, we forget

we are actually doing school work!!

In the 3/4 class, one of our greatest strengths (and

we have many!!) is how well we work together and

support each other. If you came to visit us during

the day, you would see how calm, settled and

focused we are – spelling this week was just

another example of the high-quality learning

happening every day.

News from 1/2

Year 1/2 have been very busy again this week.

We are increasing our reading stamina each day!

We are up to 10 minutes of silent reading.

Just a reminder it is important to listen to your

child/children read each night.

Kindergarten News

Last Tuesday, Kindergarten had a visit from Thalgarrah Environmental Education Centre. We read ‘The Ugly Bug’ with Mr McKenzie and Mrs French and they brought a leaf insect with them which we thought was very interesting.

We also looked at patterns in nature and we made our own nature designs. We used rocks, sticks, leaves and other items from outdoors to create our own nature pictures.

News from 5/6 Dear Duncan…

5/6 have been studying persuasive writing based

around the book ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ by

Drew DeWalt. One task was to jointly construct a

sample letter to one of the crayons… Here are

some samples we were very proud of– and these

are only the first draft!!

Rising Salt!

In Science, 5/6

have been

studying the

effects salinity

has on plants

and their growth. We have some

definite results already!

ABSENTEE NOTE

(To be returned to Classroom Teacher first day back after absence)

STUDENT’S NAME……………………………………... …… Class ………….. Date of Absence/s ……………………

Reason for Absence

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Quote of the week.

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act

creates a ripple with no logical end.”

~ Scott Adams