Term 2 Week 9 22nd June 2020

Class Stars of the Week

Year 5/6

Year 3/4

Kindergarten

Year 1/2

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE School Operations

Students are well and truly back in the full swing of

onsite learning. It has been a very successful and

smooth transition back to normal face to face

lessons.

Last week we saw the recommencement of music

lessons and the opportunity to return to presenting

awards at assemblies, as well as singing the

anthem and happy birthday at Monday morning

assemblies.

From the start of Term 3 an increased number of

activities will be permitted at school if NSW Health

recommendations remain the same. These

activities include Gathering (with no parents/

visitors), using school oval for sports, events,

Scripture lessons, school banking and P and C

meetings limited to numbers and space.

Parents will still not be permitted on site and will

continue to drop off and pick up their children from

the school gate.

All approved external visitors to our school must

now complete and sign an External Visitors to

School Site form before they are allowed onto the

school site.

Reports

Teachers have been extra busy writing student

reports for this semester. They will be sent home

with the oldest child in the family this Friday, 26th

June. The Semester One report will be in a

modified format given the different circumstances

we have had this year.

We are not able to schedule face to face meetings

at present with current restrictions and will be able

to arrange phone interviews for parents wishing to

discuss their child’s report with teachers. The class

mobile phone numbers can be used to message

teachers to arrange a time for discussion on

phone, Skype or Zoom.

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 – Cameron and Teiarla

1/2 – Lincoln and Leszayliah

3/4 – Colin and Kiarli

5/6 – Lilly and Ayham

Transition

Our Transition class is planned to commence next

term each Thursday, from 23rd July. If you know of

any family interested or a child eligible to attend,

please ask them to contact the school for more

details and so we know who to expect next term!

Building Improvements

Our classrooms are even more comfortable now in

any weather with the brilliant air-conditioning that

was installed during the last school vacation. The

classrooms are much warmer at present and

provide a much better climate for learning.

It also means we no longer rely on gas for heating

and are able to use the solar power we generate

every day from the large 15kw solar system

installed on the 3/4 classroom roof.

Our other improvement project, the nature play

area, has been delayed with the weather and we

are confident that the earthworks, foundations and

retaining walls will be completed in time for final fit

out and use at the start of Term 3.

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: Jazayah and

Caeden.

These ‘keys’ are instant rewards given daily to

encourage use of the ‘5 keys to success’-

persistence, resilience, 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

News From 3/4

The 3/4 excursion to Coffs Harbour in Term 4 is

creeping up on us. Thank you to those parents that

have paid their $50 deposit. If you have not done

so, and would like your child to be part of this

exciting opportunity, PLEASE make this a priority

before the end of the term.

If you need another copy of the excursion letter

that has all of the details, please send us a

message on Seesaw, our class phone or call the

office.

News from 1/2 Year 1/2 have been writing information reports about

Stingrays. Here are two writing samples from our

class.

Stingrays

Stingrays can camouflage in

sand and have rainbow and

poisonous tails.

Stingrays eat clams and shrimp

and they are predators.

Stingrays live in the ocean and

they lay eggs.

They are poisonous and have

no bones.

Lincoln

Stingrays

Did you know that stingrays can

catch their prey by laying on the

sand?

Stingrays eat little fish, clams,

shrimp and crabs.

The mother stingray gives birth

to live babies.

Stingrays are great animals to

learn about.

Chloe

Kindergarten News

Kindergarten students have had fun working on their Humpty Dumpty fabric collages as part of their Art les-sons this term.

We are very proud of the work students in Kindergarten have been producing this term. In English they have been learning to write simple sentences about the stories they have been reading.

News from 5/6 Out of line!!

5/6 have been studying the artistic element of

lines. They have created several artworks but the

latest has also included a lot of mathematics!

Watch this space for their final productions!!

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.

Important Dates

• Semester 1 reports sent home- 26th June

• Kindergarten Field Trip- 29th June

• Living history visit- 29th June

• 5/6 Field Trip- 1st July

• Term 2 concludes- 3rd July

Happy Birthday

June

Isabella- 22nd

Chloe- 24th

Braydon- 28th

School Banking will resume in Term 3.

Starting on Monday 27th July.

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.

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique.

Just like everyone else.”

~ Margaret Mead