PBL focusing on SAFE Safe play on the oval

PBL Award Akeera Young, Noah Saunders, Braxton Aworth, Oscar Wallace, Nicholas Holliday, Jack Gosbell,

Angus Frewen and Isabella Cannon

Important Dates to Remember Term 2 2019

Kootingal Public School

STAR NEWSLETTER “Caring, Learning and Achieving Together.”

Phone: 02 6760 3332 Email: kootingal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: https://kootingal-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 2 Week 2 Wednesday 8th May 2019

Executive Team - Principal - Cara Cracknell Assistant Principal - (Kinder to Year 2) - Nicole Chegwyn Assistant Principal (Yr 3 to 6) - Casey Kelly

P & C Executive President: Rebecca Pollard Vice President - Vanessa Johnson Secretary: Tina Sipple Treasurer: Scott Cracknell

Thursday 9th May - Mothers Day Stall, $5 per gift Monday 13th May - Playgroup Tuesday 14th to Thursday 16th May - NAPLAN Friday 17th May - Book Club Orders due Monday 20th May - Playgroup Monday 20th May - Rugby League KO and Gala Day Tuesday 21st May - P & C Meeting, 6pm to 8pm Wednesday 22nd May - National Simultaneous Storytime Thursday 23rd May - Boys Softball Gala Day

Gold Awards Luke Wilson and Owen Radmore

Silver Award Darcy Harris, Jessie Johnson,

Benjamin Lulham, Phoebe Vernon, Georgia Ford,

Kaitlin Wilson, Luke Wilson, Dustyn Swadling, Arla Dines, Keith Sichter, Robert Merry,

Dailen Radmore and Owen Radmore

Uniform Awards Charlie Wilton,

Hunter Bennett, Ella Wadwell, Alijah Siemsen, Charli Hogg,

Deklan Martin, Callym McKelvie and Brenden Thompson

* Parents are able to make payments online by going to our website www.kootingal-p.schools.nsw.gov.au and then clicking on make a payment (located on front page). Please email or send into the office a copy of the online receipt. If payments are made online signed permission notes must still be returned to the front office.

* Voluntary contributions fees can be paid at the front office or online. They are $45 per year per student.

* Kindergarten Sound textbook, cost $14, are now available from the school office.

* Maths textbooks from Kinder to Year 6, cost $15 are now available from the school office.

* The Twits - Thursday 15th August 2019, cost $12 per student. Classes attending 3/4B, 3/4T, 5/6K and 5/6M. Permission note and money need to be returned to the front office by Thursday 4th July.

Indi Maher - Being able to identify all numbers to ten Bonnie-Jean Sutton - Spacing out her words well and presenting her written work neatly Abby Hogg - An improved knowledge of sounds Jaiden Cox - Reading number words to 20 Lara Hambly and Hamish Green - Working well during guided reading with teachers Phoebe Capel and Lily Cook - Being a cooperative and respectful team member in sport Ryan Hatton - Working hard to use new strategies in Mathematics Annika Cayzer - Attempting to use paragraphs in her writing Greysen Elliott - Fantastic results in his spelling assessment Jeremy Nash - Sharing his persuasive arguments, way to go! Joshua Corbett - Great work ‘inferring’ in reading and working hard to complete all set tasks Jacob Cayzer - Great work skimming, scanning and summarising in comprehension activities Charli Hogg - Great work with tens of thousands in Mathematics Lincoln Jobson - Demonstrating excellent manners Connor Hilton - Outstanding improvement in reading fluency Joseph Lulham - Working well in class Ayisha Mason Fernando - Improvement in reading and spelling Darcy Harris - His keen interest and participation in history lessons Natalie Baker - Persistence and improvement in her fundamental movement skills Ty Allen, Elloise Sharpham and Zoe Reid - Outstanding participation in yoga and meditation Brenden Thompson - Excellent reasoning and problem solving in Mathematics

This week our focus for PBL are our expectations of behaviour while playing on the oval. These expectations are underpinned by the core value Safe.

During our Monday afternoon assembly, our students demonstrated little difficulty in explaining the expectations, particularly areas of the playground that are out of bounds due to restrictions in visibility.

Next week our focus is on the expectations of behaviour when using the verandahs. Our focus is based on our latest data set from the end of Term 1.

School Banking Thursday

Weekly Awards

Message from the Front

Weekly Bronze Awards

Clothing Pool will only be open on: Tuesday and Wednesday mornings

9am to 9:30am Please come to the office.

PBL

We’ve definitely hit the ground running this term with so many extra curricular activities on our calendar. At times it appears a little hard to catch up and keep abreast of all the events. Please keep yourself abreast of all coming dates either through our weekly newsletter publication, our Facebook page, text messages and electronic school sign.

This Thursday is our annual P&C Mother’s Day stall in Mrs Chegwyn's classroom. Students will purchase during the first session. All items are $5 each. Students will purchase one item first then, when all classes have purchased, additional items will be available. To view the selection of gifts available, please go to our school’s Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pg/kootingalpublicschool to view the Mother’s Day photo album.

The Federal election is set for Saturday 18th May. Regardless of the outcome and who we vote for, Kootingal Public School’s P&C is hosting a cake stall. Donations of cakes, slices, biscuits and anything sweet can be made on Friday 17th May prior to the end of the school day. Donations are also gladly accepted early Saturday morning. Our P&C are also looking for volunteers to help ‘man’ the stall on the day. More hands make light work. If you can assist, please contact the school.

Saturday 1st June, the P&C are hosting a Trivia Night. This fantastic night is scheduled to commence at 6.30pm for a 7pm start of trivia rounds. Tickets are $15 per person with a maximum of 8 per table. Tickets are available from our school’s front office and can be purchased individually. All proceeds are going towards furthering the opportunities of all students at Kootingal Public School.

Our students in Year 3 are continuing their Drumbeat program with the Tamworth Aboriginal Medical Service on Fridays. I know our students enjoy this program immensely and can’t wait for their turn.

This week trials for the Open Soccer teams will occur on Friday. Our winter sporting program is hotting up with trials already conducted for the respective softball and rugby league teams. Our students must ensure they are aware of when trials are taking place and see the respective teachers if absent. Our teams are hotly contested for selection.

This week our students in Year 2 commenced at Djembe program with the Tamworth Conservatorium. Our Year 2 students are exceptionally fortunate for this program as it is completely free for them. Our students enjoyed their first taste of the djembe drum and are looking forward to it next week. Also as a part of this program, we have six Stage 3 young men participating in a didgeridoo program. While I could hear our students playing the didgeridoo, unfortunately I didn’t get any photos this week. Look out for next week’s newsletter and Facebook post.

Good luck to Miss Magann and Miss Booby as they take our 3/4 and 5/6 netball teams to the NSW Netball Cup. In 2018, we have a very successful carnival and we are envisaging the same type of success, along with a lot of fun for our children. Our teams have been actively training throughout the break times with and without teacher assistance. It just goes to show you that everyone enjoys the game of netball and can’t wait to have a go. Well done Kooty!

Today Kootingal Public School supported the Department of Education’s Adopt a Farmer initiative. This initiative was held nationally this Wednesday. Students dressed in casual clothes with a gold coin donation with all proceeds going to Rural Aid. We raised just under $200. Thank you everyone for your support.

Mrs Cracknell’s Message

Breakfast Club wil l again be providing toast and juice to all students in 2019. It will operate on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Thank you to Baker’s Delight for supplying our bread and the many families who have made donations.

Mrs Jan Morrish Breakfast Club Organiser

Please make sure all Library books that were borrowed for the holidays are returned during your child’s library lessons this week.

Library Borrowing days are: KL (Mrs Lawrence) - Thursday K/1M (Miss Magann) - Thursday 1/2B (Miss Booby) - Friday 2L (Mrs Lulham) - Friday 3/4B (Miss Bennett) - Wednesday 3/4T (Mrs Tobin) - Wednesday 5/6K (Mrs Kelly) - Tuesday 5/6M (Mrs Morrish) - Tuesday

All students must have a library bag for home borrowing. If you need a library bag, the Library is selling them for $2, which will be spent on purchasing more books for the Library.

Library News

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Brainstorm ideas, then write and draw your story in the empty panels below.

Once you are done, enter the competition to win Book Club dollars for your classroom!

The winning artwork will appear in Issue 6 Book Club.

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SPOTLIGHT ISSUE 3 2019

AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT • Dav was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD

as a child and was so disruptive in class that his teachers made him sit out in the hall every day.

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AGES 6+ Get ready, get set and race! Matilda and Olivia have a super-amazing idea for Recycling Week at their school! They get their whole class to make box cars so they can race each other! But why hasn’t Bethany made a box car?

AGES 10+ The story of my life! One day Greg will be rich and famous, and everyone will want to know his life’s story. But is Rowley really the right person to be writing Greg’s biography? What could go wrong?

AGES 7+ Can Dog Man answer the call of duty? When Greg the police dog and his cop companion are injured on the job, a life-saving surgery changes the course of history, and Dog Man is born. With the head of a dog and the body of a human, this heroic hound has a real nose for justice.

AGES 3+Are penguins always polite? Penguins are always polite, they always wait their turn and they always say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. But Polly decides that being polite is boring! Will Polly learn the importance of manners?

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Instruction for schools The following sample can be used by schools to draft a letter to parents, alternatively, relevant parts can be cut and pasted into a school newsletter, school intranet or school letterhead.

Dear Parent or Carer During May 2019, students at our school in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9 (delete as required) will sit the NAPLAN paper assessments. The schedule for tests is as follows:

Tuesday 14 May Wednesday 15 May Thursday 16 May

Language Conventions test

(spelling, grammar and

punctuation)

Writing test

Reading test

Numeracy test

On Friday 17 May, a ‘catch-up’ day is scheduled for students who missed a test. Students may be exempt from the NAPLAN tests if they:

x are newly arrived in Australia (less than one year before the test) and with a language background other than English, or

x have significant intellectual disability and/or significant co-existing conditions which severely limit their capacity to participate in the tests.

All other students are expected to participate in the tests. Disability adjustments which reflect the student’s normal level of support in the classroom may be provided. Large print, braille, coloured paper versions and electronic tests are also available to meet the needs of individual students. Access to disability adjustments or exemption from the tests must be discussed with the school principal and a parent or carer consent form must be signed. Students may be withdrawn from NAPLAN by their parent or carer after consultation with the school principal. To withdraw your child from NAPLAN, a parent or carer consent form must be signed. Please make an appointment with your child’s teacher if you need to discuss your child’s participation in NAPLAN. Any questions? Contact the NAPLAN team on 1300 119 556 or naplan.nsw@nesa.nsw.edu.au. For further information about NAPLAN, visit the NESA website.

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