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Ulladulla Public School Newsletter Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity, Success, Strong Values

Principal: Mrs Sandra Bradley Term 2 Week 6, 2017

Deputy Principal: Mr Trent Burns www.ulladulla-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Deputy Principal: Mr Justin Stanton Learn to Live, Live to Learn

Dear Parents and Carers,

Congratulations to our choir who performed last week at the

Eisteddfod, gaining second place. Special thanks to Miss

Sadler and Viliami for their hard work, and thank you to the

parents who were able to assist on the day. This week sees

our drumming group perform, led by Mr Johnson. Good luck

to them.

Many of our parents with students in Years 2 down to

Kindergarten will no doubt be hearing their children talk using

a range of words they may not be used to. This year the

school has introduced a program called ‘Synthetic Phonics’

and as part of the program students are taught the correct

metalanguage in relation to this.

Instead of using the words letter and sounds, students will talk

about phonemes and graphemes. They may also talk about

diagraphs or quadgraphs or even schwa.

A phoneme is the smallest sound that comes out of your

mouth when you say a word. Graphemes are the letters or

letter combinations that represent that sound. We all know

about vowels, a, e, i, o, u, and consonants, all the other letters

of the alphabet. A diagraph is just 2 letters together that

make a sound, such as bl. A quadgraph is four letters that

make a sound, for example ough in cough. A schwa relates to

the change in speech patterns and pronunciation over time,

such as the er at the end of mother. When we speak we say it

as an ‘a’ not an ‘er’.

So you may ask why we have changed our program. Research

evidence states that “explicit phonics instruction” is the

foundation of reading.

In the first 3 years of reading all children learn best with an

integrated approach to reading. Teachers need to teach:

Phonemic awareness: the ability to hear and

manipulate the sounds in the oral language

Phonics: the relationship between phonemes and

graphemes

Fluency: the ability to read quickly and naturally,

recognising words automatically, and grouping words

quickly

Vocabulary knowledge: new words and what they

mean

Text comprehension: understanding what is being read

and developing higher order thinking.

Some ways for parents to help with this progress in reading

are to teach children nursery rhymes or talk about words that

rhyme such as run, fun, sun. Allowing children to try and

write, finding words that start the same as their name and

other games.

Once a child has begun to read, listen to them read. Let them

practice the page and see if they can get quicker at reading

the text, making them more fluent.

Vocabulary is essential for students in all subject areas. Don’t

be afraid to challenge their understanding of words they use,

you use or they may hear. Many children think they know

what a word means but unless their understanding is checked

they may continue to use it in an inappropriate context.

Challenge the family and learn a word a day.

Comprehension is not just being able to retell the story. That

is the first step, but being able to discuss if the story is factual

or not, why did the author write the story? Predicating what

might happen on the next page and talking about character

development, how do you know that person is mean, scary,

kind. Discuss what the author means, but doesn’t say, what

are they inferring.

This may all sound daunting but can happen whilst you are

driving, cooking or eating dinner and will support your child’s

reading from Kindergarten to Year 12. Reading is the key to

the world as it allows you to take on new subjects and inter-

ests throughout your life. Praise your children's efforts. Read

to them, visit the library. We are all learners and like to know

we are growing.

Kind regards

Sandra

Sandra Bradley

Principal

Learn to Live, Live to Learn

Snack Shack News

CANTEEN ROSTER Term 2 Week 7 IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO DO CANTEEN, PLEASE CONTACT JENNY OR MEL ON 4455 1649.

THIS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATEDED. THANK YOU.

Monday 5th June

Tuesday 6th June

Wednesday 7th June

Thursday 8th June

Friday 9th June

Matt Upson

Victoria Simpson

Lauren Neven

Rebecca Clark

Debbie Phillips

Paulette McNamara

Karyn

Judy Carr

Jodie Heness

Cherie Fallshaw

Carrie Jansma-Smith

RECOGNITION OF EXCELLENCE – WEEK 6

Kindy Pippi S.—KO—For working hard to achieve excellence with

her writing.

Year 1 Ezekiel D.—1M—Excellent effort and improvement in reading.

Year 2 Avah L.—2S—Excellent effort in all areas.

Year 3 Brock S.—3T—Excellent effort and achievement in Speaking and

Listening.

Year 4 Tara L.—4M—Excellence in all aspects of school.

Year 5 Kiara T.—5C—Excellent behaviour and work practices.

Year 6 Bella B.—6C—Excellent attitude and behaviour at all times.

Beanies and /or Onesies for the Ocean DayBeanies and /or Onesies for the Ocean DayBeanies and /or Onesies for the Ocean Day

NEXT WEEK

Week 7, Thursday 8th June.

To recognise World Oceans Day and the importance of keeping our catchment clean, the Ulladulla Forest

Ferals will be running a gold coin donation fundraiser. We hope to raise funds and awareness to help

maintain our beautiful school environment including seeds, seedlings, trees, shrubs and mulch etc. We

will also be ordering stencils to mark our playground drains. This will help the children understand that

what goes down our drains at school ends up in Millards Creek and eventually the

ocean. We only want water down our drains not litter.

Class prizes will be awarded for the ‘Best Beanie and/or Onesie’ as voted by each

class

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Friday 2nd

June Group A Assembly –3/4J

Monday 5th

June

Talent Expo Lunch Heats

Yrs 2 & 3

Tuesday 6th

June Talent Expo Lunch Heats Yr 4

Wednesday 7th

June Talent Expo Lunch Heats Yr 5

Thursday 8th

June

Talent Expo Lunch Heats Yr 6

Beanies & Onesies for World

Ocean Day

Friday 9th

June Group B Assembly—3T

Monday 12th

June Public Holiday

Friday 16th

June Primary Athletics Carnival

Thursday 22nd

June Talent Expo Concert

Friday 23rd

June

Group B Assembly—3S

Primary Athletics Carnival back

up date

Monday 26th

June

NAIDOC Week—Stage 3

Activities

Tuesday 27th

June

NAIDOC Week—Stage 2

Activities

Wednesday

28th June

NAIDOC Week—Stage 1

Activities

Thursday 29th

June

NAIDOC Week—Early Stage 1

Activities

Friday 30th

June

NAIDOC Assembly

Last day of term

Dough Raiser with Bakers Delight Ulladulla

A friendly reminder to Parents, Grandparents, Aunts & Uncles that if you

purchase your bread from Bakers Delight please mention Ulladulla Public

School.

Bakers Delight will donate 5% of your purchase directly back to the

school, and is another way the school receives their fundraising.

Last year the school received $370, and we would love to push it up to

$400 this year.

Mollymook Golf Club

Thank you to Mollymook Golf Club for the Free Fruit Club Grant. The stu-

dents receive free fruit every Tuesday and Thursday morning, and there

are a lot of responsible students that deliver trays of fruit around the

school.

Learn to Live, Live to Learn

Choir — Shoalhaven Eisteddfod

Congratulations to our Infants Choir on being awarded 2nd place

at the Shoalhaven Eisteddfod last Thursday. The choir performed

beautifully on stage at the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre, led

by Miss Sadler and accompanied by Viliami on the piano. It was

such a wonderful experience for all the students and their

behaviour was exceptional. Thank you to all the parents for your

transport and support on the day.

Bec’s Tupperware will be hosting a

party on 11th June at 1pm. If you

would like more details, or to host

your own party contact her via the

facebook page for details.