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In this week’s newsletter…….
* Colour Run Thankyous
* Awards
*Principal’s Message
Upcoming events
Friday 20th May—Walk Safely to School day
16-20 May—Book Fair in Library
23 May– School selections for Multicultural Perspectives
Public Speaking Competition
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Grafton Public School A Tradition of Excellence
Term 2 Week 4: Monday 16th May 2016
Locked Bag 9024 Grafton 2460 PHONE: Primary - 66421000 Infants - 66422286
Email: [email protected]
This Friday, on “Walk Safely to
School Day” we are asking our
children to walk to school wearing
their brightly coloured socks and
joggers. School uniform as usual.
(No money involved)
What a success! We had so much fun and raised a lot of money for our school. The Grafton Public School P & C
Colour Run has been finalised with a grand total of $12,837.55 raised. This money will be directly used for more
resources in your child’s classroom. A HUGE thankyou to students, parents, families and friends for supporting the
event.
Congratulations to a very excited Kalobe Bateman from 2-6LJ (pictured below) who has won a new bike for being
the highest fundraiser across the entire school. Charlie Cutts from 5KR was the lucky winner of the IPOD Shuffle
when his name was drawn from the box containing names of all children who participated. 1SM and 4/5SL were the
winners of the highest fundraising class and earned themselves a pizza party for lunch. 4JD and KP were runners-
up and will enjoy yummy recess treats of cake and donuts. 5/6KG has won an icecream party one afternoon for
being the class with the most participants to return sponsorship.
Congratulations to our many, many, incentive prize winners who loved their vouchers and gifts, and also our grade
winners (some pictured below) who each have each won a Big W voucher: Kinder – Logan Mawson KP, Year 1 –
Nathanial Lasker 1SM, Year 2 – Jesse Brown 2/3GT, Year 3 – Jordan Durrington 3NC, Year 4 – Anicka Peters
4/5SL, Year 5 – Charlie Cutts 5KR, Year 6 – Madison Carlton 5/6KG and Support Unit – Sammy Gleeson 2-6NF.
The P & C are sincerely grateful to all concerned and have asked us to pass in their appreciation:
This event wouldn’t have been possible without the support from the school community. A big thank you to the
volunteers on the day, all the spectators that came along to cheer on the students, Gary Reardon from the Grafton
Fire Brigade for supplying us with water and the office staff for collecting and counting the money each and every
day.
Local businesses that also supported the event included:
Saraton Theatre
I-Scream
Network Videos
Red Hot Hair
Coles King Street
SusTaine Fitness
Kye Art Cooee Screenprinting
From the P&C Committee thank you again for supporting this event!!! It was a fantastic day and the smiles on the
kids faces said it all!!
Colour Run
Awards
As you would have read in recent newsletters, we have upgraded our awards system to a new computer program. Not
only will this make it easier for teachers to acknowledge students efforts, it allows us to offer more awards as totals
can accumulate electronically throughout a student's infants/primary school years (hence our new bronze/silver/gold
and platinum awards).
We are seeking your help in trying to update the new program as much as we can. If your child has any "old" awards
(dated 2013/2014/2015) which are NOT STAMPED ON THE BACK as being previously used towards a DP Award,
please send them in to the office either in an envelope or grouped together, so we can bring your child's records up to
date on the new award system.
We will progressively make our way through inputting the "old" cards and then return them to you. Once we have input
all of these "old" cards, the computer program will automatically advise when a student is eligible for an award.
We will no doubt have a few teething problems at the start of the new awards process so we appreciate your patience
and understanding; however, it is very exciting as we know we already have two students who have qualified for the
new Bronze Award and they will receive a bronze badge at the award ceremony next week and they look FABULOUS!!
Canteen
Infants Roster
17/5/16 Alysha Wall, Jewelanne Petrie
18/5/16 Kelly James
19/5/16 Dannielle Chamberlain, Dale Simpson
20/5/16 Paula and Ingrid
23/5/16 Kelly James
Primary Roster
17/5/16 Help Needed
18/5/16 Help Needed
19/5/16 Help needed
20/5/16 Roxie Collettt
23/5/16 Kate Kratz
Issue 3 of Book Club is due back no later than this Friday 20th May, Week 4.
This week, we have the Scholastic Book Fair in the Library, providing your child with the opportunity to purchase a
book to take home. All sales bring money back to Grafton Public School to provide more resources for your child’s use
and enjoyment.
With every purchase of a book, your child receives an entry into the ‘Lucky Draw’. Winners of this draw receive a
book prize!
Please come and visit and purchase a book for your child. Payment can be by cash, cheque or EFTPOS (No cash out).
Book Fair opening times will be:
Monday 16/5- 8.20-8.40am, 1.40-2pm, 2.50-5pm
Tuesday 17/5- 8.20-8.40am, 1.40-2pm, 2.50-5pm
Wednesday 18/5- 8.20-8.40am, 1.40-2pm, 2.50-5pm
Thursday 19/5- 8.20-8.40am, 1.40-2pm, 2.50-5pm
Friday 20/5- 8.20-8.40am, 1.40-2pm, 2.50-3pm
Library News
Dear Parents and Carers,
We had a well-attended, 18 people, P & C meeting last Tuesday evening in our library, with many topics being
canvassed and discussed. These included varying the times of the meeting to allow parents of toddlers to attend
during the day or straight after school. The P & C will survey the parent body soon in relation to the timing of the
meetings. Other topics included the canteen’s steady and positive growth with the option of surveying the parent
body regarding meal options and meal deals. Again, this will be forthcoming in the near future. The other main item
included the discussion regarding the school uniform and its pricing. The executive are reviewing the supplier
contracts with regard to this and will report back at the next meeting. I also briefly discussed the NAPLAN tests.
Currently we are reviewing our school’s performance against the state’s School Excellence Framework (SEF). The
SEF states that, ‘in the early years, it means having confidence that each child will be known and understood, and their individual potential developed’. As students progress, it means knowing that they are well supported as
increasingly self-motivated learners – confident and creative individuals, with the personal resources for future
success and wellbeing.’ In this review we had three domains to judge progress within, these being: “Excelling in
Learning; Excelling in Teaching; and Excelling in Leading.” Within teaching and learning there were five elements
and within the leadership there were four elements.
We were required to make a judgment against three standards – Delivering; Sustaining and Growing; and Excelling.
One has to be objective in making these assessments as evidence and data are necessary in making the judgment,
along with interpreting the language of each elements descriptors. The final judgments is recorded against your
weakest link point, irrespective of the peripheral blurring effect as the real vision reveals many descriptors above
the level being met, yet, you can only mark against your weakest link given the descriptors language. In all five of
the Learning domain’s elements we judged ourselves to be ‘delivering’ with many descriptors in the ‘sustaining and
growing’ also being met. In the Teaching domain, we were delivering in three and ‘sustaining and growing’ in two. In
the Leading domain, we were delivering in two elements and ‘sustaining and growing’ in the other two.
Where to from here? We are now matching our results against our school’s yearly development plan and ensuring
that our ‘milestones’, a revised term for targets, are being met. We are doing this with discrete teams trying to
avoid the removal of teachers from classes whilst staying within the budgets appropriated to schools for teaching
and learning.
Overall – we are doing well, and delivering some very positive outcomes – well above expectation. One example being
our NAPALN growth from Year 3 to Year 5 for students – we have aggregated over the past three years above the
state growth giving us an ‘excelling’ marker in this learning descriptor. We are quite happy with this.
During this week, eight of our Stage 3 Aboriginal students have been selected to join Ms Deborah Cheetham,
Opera Australia lead singer, to participate in the ‘Short Black Opera’ productions between 9 am and midday at the
Clarence Valley Conservatorium. Ms Cheetham was here two years ago and I know she demands a very high standard
with the students – and attains it! It is a very rewarding and positive experience – a great opportunity. Mrs
Robertson and I will be transporting the students to and from the rehearsals.
Here at school we have our BOOK FAIR. What is the world without printed text???? It provides for communication
allowing both writer and reader to interpret and create. I had a preview of the offerings – something for everyone.
I do hope you can find time to make it. My sincere thanks to Mrs Avery for co-ordinating this as well as keeping the
doors open through to 5 or 6 in the evening.
Last week we raised money to assist Will Wallace who heads to Darwin shortly, representing NSW in swimming at
the National titles. These are costly exercises for families who support their children in their growth and
development.
On Friday, we “WALK TO SCHOOL” in our colourful socks and joggers – helping us to keep fit and healthy.
Have a great week,
Will Randall
Principal
From the Principal
* We are seeking the assistance of parents to help us out in the mornings at the Infants Campus. As it is now Term 2,
we are trying to build up independence in our littlies and morning classroom routines are changing slightly to reflect
this and help build this necessary life skill. We are asking parents to please consider “kiss and drop” mornings. Walk
your child to the gate like you usually do, give them a kiss and wave goodbye. Encourage them to put their schoolbag
away and then go to play in the playground with their friends. Although the first couple of mornings may be hard, your
child’s self confidence will grow and blossom.
Brief But Important
Sporting News
* Netball News: Well done to all of the girls who tried out for the district team last week. Congratulations to Sophie
Rowe who has progressed through and we wish her the best of luck for the Mid North Coast trials at Woolgoolga
today.
Our Grafton Public School team is playing Gillwinga Public School in the PSSA State Knockout Competition tomorrow,
Tuesday 17th May, at 1.30pm at Westward Park. We would appreciate some support if anyone would like to come along
to cheer us on. GOOOOO GPS!!!!
Bike Bus
Last week's winner of the $20 voucher courtesy of Grafton City Cycles was Octavius Corcoran. Occy has been
regularly riding his bike to and from school for quite some time. Well done!
Community Notices
Each week we will try to acknowledge the children who received awards at their grade assemblies in the previous
week. Congratulations to the following students who received awards last week:
Kinder: Jazmine Shelton, Roseanna Marsh, Joseph Lloyd, Alva Eastwood, Olive Pereira, Layla Chard, Logan Mawson,
Kobie Morgan, Sienna Whatley, Cherise Tonna, Andrew Bultitude, Scarlett Cope, Blake Penfold, Keoni James, Romey
Castle, Lilly Childs
Year 1: Addison Menzies, Chelsea Farquar, Lachlan Tweedie, Matari Holten, Aleaha Hoggan, Riley Tobin
Year 2: Kai Abrahams, Harvey Watts, Mersaydie Morgan, Sonny Jones, Teven West, Tiana Ryan Thornton, Mikayla
Gray, Lilly-Rose Johnson
Year 3: Sienna Caple, Cara Cookson, Paige Cole, Makaya Dendle-Gadd, Ryan Stout, Aiden Smith, Jordan Baker,
Charlie Schlenert, Kiki Tan, Silvio Carr, Jaxon Sullivan, Mikayla Armstrong
Year 4: Charlotte Ada, Emmit Austen, Liam Cooper, Summer Loadsman, Willem Clark, Jackson Duroux, Charlie
Beadman
Year 5: Chelsea Scott, Grayson Reimer, Bailey Chard, Larina Hollier, Megan Smith, Selina Leslie, Jenavieve Kearns
Year 6:
Support Unit:
Assembly Awards
Community Notices
Some great courses coming up at CRANES in Grafton
