CLARENCE TOWN PUBLIC SCHOOL

82 Queen Street, Clarence Town NSW 2321 Phone: 4996 4156 Fax: 4996 4392 Email: clarenceto-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.clarenceto-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Kindness Honesty Effort

Term 4, Week 6 Student of the week: Sophie

Sophie is an enthusiastic student. She is always ready to express her ideas and thoughts into class discussions. She enjoys the company of her friends and displays our school values of Safety, Respect and Learning. Sophie loves group activities and gets on well with her peers and teachers. Sophie will make a fine student of the week. Student Achievement A huge thank you and congratulations to all students K-6 for

their respectful, safe, ready to learn approach to last week,

amid multiple changes and inside play. The students were fine

examples of respect and safety during our inside play and

reduced movement around the school.

A special mention to staff and parents who took action where

necessary regarding fire danger ratings and poor air quality.

We continue on alert this week.

Diary Dates 2019

18 November-29 November

Intensive Swimming Scheme

This program is FULL

19 November

P & C Meeting 7pm

Book Fair

19 November, 20 November,

26 November, 27 November

20 November

Grandparents Day

3 December

DHS Yr 7 2020 Orientation

4 December

Presentation Day

5 December

Yr 6 Farewell Dinner

11 December

Surf Fun Day

17 December

Party Day

Principal’s News

Welcome to Week 6 and the week ahead I fear will be repeated many times across the

Spring/Summer 2019/2020 as sever and above fire dangers and bushfires spreading smoke and

destruction in the current dry conditions. It will be a challenging time again this week with severe

fire dangers and smoke haze affecting air quality. This morning we managed some outside play

and throughout this week we will monitor air quality and smoke haze conditions closely and try

and have some outside play time if it is safe to do so. Similarly with Intensive Swimming and

Swimming for Sport, we will monitor the conditions each day and the children will walk to the pool

for lessons if it is safe to do so. If you have concerns for your child’s health and wellbeing please

contact the school for support and if you would like to leave instructions for managing health

conditions at school, this can be done through the Notification to First Aide Officer forms – these

forms are available at the office and on the Skoolbag App.

There are many stories of sadness and heroics and many of our family, friends and loved ones

still in the thick of the fire areas or as part of the RFS and SES fighting the fires and supporting

communities. Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone affected.

Meanwhile in class we are maintaining learning as normal to ensure students are kept in routine

and are feeling safe and secure. In the office it is business as usual. Last week we had our audit

– our school audit consists of two facets, our school finance and budget and health and safety. I

am pleased to inform you that we were found satisfactory on every level and passed the audit

with flying colours. I would like to thank all staff for their part in ensuring all paperwork and

mandatory requirements were met. A special thank you to Mr Lofts, Mrs Price and Mrs Allen who

gave up their own time to ensure all was perfect for the audit. With the number of disruptions in

the office each day, working out of hours was required to avoid interruption and to stay focused

to ensure we didn’t miss anything. A great job Clarence Town Public School staff.

These extreme events do increase the workload for myself and the office staff and we thank you

for your patience during this time. I will continue to have regular contact with local RFS and DoE

personnel to monitor the situation. At this point in time Clarence Town Public School is still under

a watch and act alert and Steve Lowe, our local RFS Captain, has been given an update on the

school and how many people we have onsite each day. All other information remains the same

as last week’s notes and Skoolbag notices.

This week at Clarence Town Public School we have: Smoke Haze Warnings all week. Intensive Swimming every day this week Monday – 2020 Kinder visit – last one! Monday – Nominations for Student Leaders for 2020 Tuesday – Book Fair Tuesday - P&C meeting 7pm Wednesday – Grandparents Day Wednesday – Book Fair Wednesday – Assembly 2:15 Thursday – Drum Corp for Stage 3 Friday – Swimming for Sport Friday - Dungog Youth Services at CTPS 9-12

Stay safe and don’t hesitate to email me at louise.blakemore@det.nsw.edu.au or phone the school on 49964156 if you have any questions, concerns or require support. It is a very busy week and I will be out of school with Ms Kelson and Mrs Oldfield tomorrow for External Validation training, Wednesday I will be at Maitland Office as the PPA Principal representative on the placement panel and Friday afternoon I will be attending the Term 4 D&DCoS Local Management Group meeting. Tuesday morning Mr Lofts will be acting Principal and Miss Ellis acting Assistant Principal, Wednesday and Friday afternoon Mrs Oldfield will be acting Principal and Mr Lofts acting Assistant Principal. We are now half way through the term and the coming weeks are very busy, so please stay abreast of What’s On and if you need to please contact school for information.

Our new Tawny PBL Mascot is going well. PBL stands for Positive

Behaviours For Learning and is the basis of our Student Wellbeing Program

in the school.

We are constantly reminding students of our PBL Values and school motto along with our Tawny 5 Rules and I would also encourage parents to use

these words when celebrating positive behaviour and discussing negative choices with your child. The Tawny 5 Rules:

I can listen

I can put up my hand and wait

I can work quietly

I can follow instructions

I can control what I do and Say The School motto:

Kindness Honesty Effort The Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Values:

Learning Safety Respect Through working together we create the best opportunities and learning experiences for all our students. Have a great week. Louise Blakemore Principal

School Security - IMPORTANT Over the weekend we had some teenagers and late one night last week in the school grounds – this occurred on Sunday and 4 teenagers were spotted by our neighbours who contacted the Police. On being informed, I also contacted School Security who sent a patrol. The teenagers, all appeared to be male, were riding scooters in the grounds and were hanging around the buildings. On Monday several cigarette butts were found under the trees in the corner of the Library and Computer Lab and under the tree near the netball court. If you see anyone in the school grounds or any suspicious behaviour out of hours or over the weekends please contact school security on 1800 00 88 21. Thank you for looking out for our school.

Our next assembly will be held on Wednesday 20 November at 2.15pm. All parents and friends

are invited to attend.

Dungog & District Community of Schools – News Update for 2019

Next on the agenda for the D&DCoS is:

Purchase of mini bots to support our GATS and technology initiatives across the CoS

Further Writing Professional Learning for staff

STEM T4L at Dungog PS Term 4

Planning a 2020 Wellbeing joint Staff Development Day

Planning a K-12 Drug Education Program

Launching a D&DCoS Facebook page So lots on the agenda for Term 4! Clarence Town Public School will host the next D&DCoS STEAM Focus Group meeting on Tuesday 19 November from 3:30-5:00pm in in Library. Mrs Welsh is our school representative for this project, which plans and coordinates a variety of STEM and STEAM focused projects across our Community of Schools. The Term 4 D&DCoS LMG is this Friday, with a busy agenda discussing 2019 evaluations and 2020 directions. Reminder:

School Uniform for Term 4 is:

Green shorts/skorts with yellow piping

Green and yellow/red Unisex shirt

Green broad brimmed hat

School shoes/Joggers, preferably black

White socks

Remember we are still in our transition period so the check summer dress for girls and grey

shorts/green school polo shirt for boys, are still acceptable. However, bike shorts and white shirts

are not a part of the uniform at CTPS. Year 6 students are able to wear their Year 6 T-shirt on

Monday’s and Friday’s.

Assembly Merit Awards – 13 November 2019 ES1E Matilda Beynon, Mali Metham, Ashley Ryan ES1L Levi Bancroft, Scarlet Rumph, Brooklyn Wright S1W Lucas Atcheson, Savannah Bancroft, Elouise Grills S1/2K Jemima Hicks, Ava Jones-Clark, Patrick Zuber S2/3B Logan Burgess, Nash Jeffery, Anne Wright

S3MW Shyanna Driessen, Aurora Greenaway, Noah Wade

You are invited to attend Clarence Town Public School’s 2019 Grandparents Day…Wednesday 20 November 2019

12:30-1:30pm

Open Classrooms – come along and see our students in action

1:30-2:10pm Book Fair and free Devonshire Tea in Library for all visitors

2:10-3:00pm

Celebration Assembly

Viral Gastroenteritis

A reminder that Viral Gastroenteritis is

currently active in the school and

community. Please see the attached

factsheet for more information.

Clarence Town P.S.

A reminder that due to the new

money handling policies in

schools, all money from

students is to be handed into

the office.

Thank You

Stage 3 Public Speaking 2019 This week will be Semi-Final No 2 for Public Speaking. It will be held on Wednesday 20 November. Our speakers will be Shyanna Driessen, Xavier Hicks, Beth West, Charlie Hanmer and Aurora Greenaway. The topic will be “My greatest achievements at primary school”. Good luck students. Our winners from last week were Chloe Flannery and Claire Bagnall, who will now progress to the Grand Final. Congratulations!!!

Presentation Day – Wednesday 4 December 2019

Our annual Presentation Day will be held on Wednesday 4 December at 9.15am in our school

hall. All parents and families are invited to attend and celebrate our students’ achievements in

2019.

Year 6 Farewell – Thursday 5 December 2019

Our Year 6 Farewell will be held in our school hall on Thursday 5 December from 6.00pm –

8.30pm. The cost for catering is $30 per person which includes drinks, nibbles, dinner and cake

for dessert. The RSVP and money for this event were due back last week. If you haven’t returned

your money yet please do so ASAP.

Year 6 Farewell – Slide Show

All Year 6 students received a note today asking for a baby photo and a kindy photo of your child,

if they did not attend Kindergarten at Clarence Town Public School. These are to be returned by

Friday 22 November.

Stage 2 & 3 – Surf Fun Day

This event has been rescheduled and will now be held on Wednesday 11 December 2019. All

students will need to complete and return the permission note which they were given today.

Payments for this will be carried forward to the new date. Any money owing and the new

permission note must be returned by Friday 22 November.

NRL League Touch Day

If your child was given a note today regarding this event which will be held on Friday 29 November

at Lakeside Sporting Complex, please complete the permission note and medical consent form

and return to the office by this Friday 22 November.

Kinder Enrolments 2020 To assist with our planning for 2020 and Kinder Orientation sessions, if you or someone you know has a child intending to start Kindergarten at Clarence Town Public School next year could you please contact the office to register your child. Tawny Awards

As part of our PBL we have a Tawny Award process where students are recognised for consistent

positive behaviour. Students can bring in there Merit Awards and Happy Notes to receive Tawny

Awards, as follows:

Three Merit Awards or Happy Notes or any combination of each = White Tawny Award

Three White Tawny Awards = Gold Tawny Award

Three Gold Tawny Awards = Tawny Badge

Library Ready for Book Fair – Welcome

Opening Hours

8:30-9, 12-12:30, 1:30-2, 3:00-3:30

Tuesday & Wednesday

Canteen Roster – Term 4

Week Monday Wednesday Friday

Week 6

Katie Bagnall Alana Hammond

Lisa Ziliotto Kershia Jones-Clark

Bek Auer Alana Hammond

Week 7 Kelly Ryan Shannon Keighran

Katie Bagnall Wendy Sellers

Amy Berends Alana Hammond

Week 8 Katie Bagnall Wendy Sellers

Kerrie Salter Linda Anderson

Alana Hammond Bek Auer

Week 9 Alana Hammond Rina Rocco

Lisa Ziliotto Kelly Ryan

Kershia Jones-Clark Wendy Sellers

Week 10 Canteen CLOSED Canteen CLOSED