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Term 4 - Week 3 Friday 1st November 2019 Principal’s Report We have had a super exciting and productive few weeks

here at Gladstone with all of us being busy and productive in

the classroom and in the playground.

Since our last newsletter we have welcomed Tainui and

Ruby to our school, Tainui is in our Raptors class and Ruby

has joined the Owletes. It has been nice to welcome new

faces to our school! On behalf of our Gladstone School

community I would like to welcome Tainui, Ruby and their

family to our school. We have also welcomed our 2020

Kindergarten students to our school with our Orientation and

transition to school program beginning last week. We have

warmly welcomed Joel, Asher and Willow to Gladstone

Public School and are looking forward to getting to know

them and their family as they begin their school journey with

us here at Gladstone. Sadly we have said farewell Tyson and

his Mum, Lisa this week. We wish them all the very best and

hope that they will stay in touch and visit us often.

Thank you to our SRC and Mrs Scullion for all of their efforts

organizing the Halloween Disco. It was a great afternoon of

fun, dancing and a fantastic fundraising opportunity for our

SRC. Thank you to our parents for coming along and joining

in the fun and helping out with setting up and the cleaning

up! We are very lucky to have such dedicated parents at our

school supporting our students and teachers. Thank you all

very much.

Thank you to all

of our family

members who

were able to join

us for our

assembly last

week. We were

celebrating

National Water

Week were very

lucky to have a

visit from Mrs

Noak from

Cascades

Environmental

Centre, Mr Wes Trotter, Water manager for the Kempsey

Shire Council and Counsellor Andrew Patterson, Deputy

Mayor – Kempsey Shire Council. To present us with our

Waterwise renewal. As always it is great to share some of

the great achievements we have here at Gladstone with our

wider community.

At our assembly this week, it

was my great pleasure to

present our first Silver Awards to

Chace, Mia and Georgia. It is

always wonderful to see so

many of our students making

great choices and working so

well in the classroom.

Congratulations Chace, Mia and Georgia! Our next assembly will be held next Friday 8th November from 2:15pm. We are lucky to have a representative from the

Commonwealth Bank joining us for our assembly to share some exciting news about school banking we hope to see many of our family and community members join us for the afternoon assembly.

Rebecca Smith, Principal

Calendar Term 4 2019

Date

Friday 1st November Kindergarten 2020 Transition Day1 Parent and Student Newsletter

Monday 4th November Stage 3 Sydney Excursion

Tuesday 5th November Stage 3 Sydney Excursion

Wednesday 6th November Stage 3 Sydney Excursion Canteen Swimming

Thursday 7th November Stage 3 Sydney Excursion Kindergarten Transition Day 2

Friday 8th November Assembly 2:15 pm – Information Session: Commonwealth Bank Mrs Smith away – network meeting

Monday 11th November Stage 3 – Smithtown

Wednesday 13th November Kindergarten Transition day 3 MP Pat Conaghan School Visit LMEN Public Speaking Canteen Swimming

Friday 29th November SAVE THE DATE – Infants class afternoon

Friday 13th December SAVE THE DATE – Presentation Night

Term 4 – Week 3

In our classrooms…

Infants Class

Student of the week: Liam Wadwell

Academic Award: Blake Wadwell

Behaviour Award: William Westerman

Week three has come and gone already.

This week during literacy we have been continuing our

research on celebrations around the world. The kids have

been looking at holidays including Ramadan, Chinese

New Year, Winter Solstice and Holi just to name a few.

During numeracy we have been continuing our work on

subtraction along with meaning all about area and

volume.

We started swimming this week and it was great to see

that so many of the kids participated even though the pool

hasn’t completely warmed up yet!

We had a great time with our new 2020 Kindergarten

students last week and thank our Year 5 & 6 friends who

came to help out with our book walk. It was a great

morning, We are all looking forward to the Transition days

throughout the term as we welcome our new friends to

our classroom and to our school.

Miss Atkins

Primary Class

Student of the Week: Chace Senescall Academic Award: Brodie Mundey This term we are working on a unit called Light Shows. The Light shows unit is an ideal way to link science with literacy in the classroom. It provides opportunities for students to explore the properties of light and how it enables us to see. Students’ thinking about light and its role in our lives and our community will be developed using hands-on activities. Through investigations students explain how objects reflect, absorb and refract light, and how we can use light to meet our needs. This term we will be studying Growth and Development. Feelings of self-confidence and self-acceptance and the ability to act in the best interests of themselves and others are fostered by an understanding of the nature of life’s changes and the uniqueness of individual development. Growth and Development involves developing each student’s understanding of their own physical, social, cognitive and emotional development in the context of increasing awareness of changes that occur throughout the cycle of people’s lives. Students participate in activities that increase their confidence and competence to manage change. We will also be looking at Active Lifestyle. Physical activity habits developed in school years are often maintained in later life. Students need to understand the importance of a balanced lifestyle incorporating regular physical activity for health and fitness. Active Lifestyle is concerned with students adopting activity patterns that promote their wellbeing. In this strand, students will examine the components of a balanced lifestyle, explore options for recreation and develop the skills and attitudes necessary for an active lifestyle. Mrs Pugh

Term 4 – Week 3

P&C NEWS Thank you to everyone who was able to join us for our

P&C meeting last week. We will be posting our minutes

on our School App and hope that many of our families

who were unable to join us will take the time out to read

the minutes to see some of the amazing things we have

been upto.

Our Presentation Night has been booked in for Friday

13th December – please save the date

P&C major fundraising

Raffle

Christmas Tree – Santa’s

Visit

Shared Supper

More information will be

handed out closer to the

date.

News from the Garden Our garden has been flourishing after some lovely rain and diligent help from our students who all seem to have green thumbs. Steam and Cedar have been displaying our produce and so far we have received some welcome donations from their customers who love our organic veges. These are also available to parents who might like to trade with a donation which might be help, money, seeds, manure, hay etc. I would also like the community to feel free to come and join us in the pleasurable and productive pastime of gardening. Our new chooks have also settled in to their new home. We are now collecting eggs each day. Thank you Chookies! Mrs Pugh

Tainui with the first eggs from our new chooks!

VIRTUAL REALITY Thanks to our Stem share kit we have had the opportunity to see our world in a new dimenstion!

Looking at our world from a new dimension! We hope to make a virtual world to share with our family and friends later this term!

Term 4 – Week 3

Kindergarten Orientation Day Fun!

We all enjoyed our Hungry Caterpillar Book walk and

morning tea with some of our

2020 Kindergarten Students!