Celebrating Success

This week we held our 2019 Kindergarten information session. Mrs Turner wowed

19 brand new students in the kindergarten room while their parents and carers

took part in an information session in the hall. It is always great to see how

quickly the students take to learning. Mrs Turner’s craft activity was a royal hit.

Transition Programs

Next week our senior students will be participating in Buddy Training to help

them prepare to be Buddy’s to our Kindergarten students next week. On

Wednesday, the Buddy’s will meet and greet their new Kindergarten friends at

their first Little Learners.

On Wednesday 7 November our Year 5 students will attend Newcastle High

School for some taster lessons. The following Wednesday, some of our Year 6

students will begin their official transition to high school with ongoing weekly

visits.

New faces

You may have noticed some new faces amongst our staff this term. Mrs Trish

Meissner is working in our classes supporting students T-Fr. Mrs Fiona Burke is

working in our office on Wednesday supporting our end of year administration

tasks. Mrs Jane Chapman supports students on Friday’s both in class and at

sport. I am sure you will make them feel welcome at our school when you see

them.

Mufti Day

Please be aware that there is a mufti day on Monday. Students are allowed to

wear casual clothes. Please ensure that students are suitably attired; enclosed

shoes are essential (no thongs), no singlet or midriff tops. A hat will be required

for playtimes.

School Photos

Tuesday 6 November is school photo day. All students are to wear full school

uniform and arrive to school on time. Please return the envelopes that were

supplied to each child if you are intending to purchase photos. All students will

have an individual photo on this day. To celebrate our great school, we have

organised for a whole school photo, which will be on display in our foyer. If your

child does not have permission to publish, they will not be part of the whole

school photo, nor their class photo.

P & C News

Carrington Public School P & C Association is currently seeking a

volunteer Canteen Supervisor for 2019. If you are interested please contact Fran

on 0418 541 328 for more details.

Congratulations on a successful Games Night last week. With over $1500 raised

this event was a sure hit. Thank you to Ms April Brown for organising this great

event.

James McGill

Carrington Public School W: http://www.carrington-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

E: Carrington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

88 Young Street Carrington, NSW 2294

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T E R M 4

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DATES TO

REMEMBER

Term 4 Week 4 Tuesday Dadee

Program 5.00-7.30pm

School Photos Wednesday K2019 Little

Learners Friday

Assembly 1/2C Week 5 Monday

Strength for Boys

Shine for Girls 5/6D

Remembrance Day Celebration

2.30pm Tuesday

Smart Start Dadee

Program 5.00-7.30pm Wednesday

NHS7UP GATS Orientation

9.00-11.30am K2019 Little

Learners Friday

KT Assembly Week 6 Tuesday Dadee

Program 5.00-7.30pm Wednesday

NHS 7UP GATS Orientation 9-11.30am

NHS Transition Meeting

2.00-3.00pm Thursday

NHS Aboriginal Student Family

Tour Friday

3/4 Assembly

P A G E 2

KT Tigers In mathematics we are learning to make equal groups.

The Tigers were provided a collection of pop sticks and a collection of plastic smarties. Boys and girls

made a triangle using three sticks. I asked the students to then place a smartie on each of the corners of

the triangle. The students then counted the number of smarties on the triangle.

We repeated the process for a second triangle. The students counted the total number of smarties placed

on the two triangles. What if I made a third triangle? Lots of counting on today. Yipee!

In Literacy students explore the themes of 'Everybody is different' and 'Persistence' as well as adjectives

and the concept of 'opposites'

Introducing “Where is the Green Sheep” has also allowed us to do an Author study on Mem Fox. Mem Fox

is an Australian Author who has written many family favourites, including “Time for Bed”, “Koala Lou”, ‘The

Magic Hat” and “Possum Magic”.

Making connections with the Author has motivated students in their reading. The next time students paid a

visit to our classroom book shelf, within minutes they ran back to me with Mem Fox books in their hands!

They were so excited that her

books were in our room on our

shelf!

Mrs Turner

5/6D Term 4 is the busiest term in the 5/6 classroom! The calendar is quickly filling up; high school transition, Shine

and Strength programs, Remembrance Day, Presentation Day, Year 6 Farewell… and there’s more to

come! Soon enough we will be preparing for our 20c Fair, raising money for the Year 6 gift to the school. It

is a very busy term filled with fun, team building activities.

This term we have been reading a novel called ‘How To Bee’ written by Andy MacDibble. The book is set in

the future in a world where bees are extinct and the job of the bees (pollinating) must be done by humans

instead. The main character, Peony, really wants to be a bee. She uses a special pollinating stick that she’s

made, attaching feathers on the end. She dips the stick into a bag of pollen that has been collected and

uses the stick to pollinate the apple trees.

This week we were amazed to see photographs of a county in China called Hanyuan County. This place is

the pear capital of the world, and as a result of pesticide use the bees here are so few in numbers that

pear production was greatly reduced. And so humans have begun doing the job of bees, hand pollinat-

ing the pear flowers, just as Peony does in our novel. It made us sad to realise that bee extinction is a po-

tential reality and the effects of this could be huge. Mrs Deards

The Tigers were provided a collection of pop sticks and a collection of plastic smarties. Boys and girls

made a triangle using three sticks. I asked the students to then place a smartie on each of the corners of

We repeated the process for a second triangle. The students counted the total number of smarties placed

In Literacy students explore the themes of 'Everybody is different' and 'Persistence' as well as adjectives

Introducing “Where is the Green Sheep” has also allowed us to do an Author study on Mem Fox. Mem Fox

is an Australian Author who has written many family favourites, including “Time for Bed”, “Koala Lou”, ‘The

Making connections with the Author has motivated students in their reading. The next time students paid a

visit to our classroom book shelf, within minutes they ran back to me with Mem Fox books in their hands!

1/2D Dragonflies Welcome back to Term 4! It’s hard to believe there is only 7 weeks of school left this year. This term

will be another busy term with lots of things happening including presentation day, the swimming

carnival, weekly sporting activities and ‘Carrington’s Got Talent’ so be sure you check the newsletter calendar

and keep the dates free.

This week we have been looking at Aboriginal culture and dreamtime stories in our ‘Celebrating

Differences’ unit. We have also been looking at Aboriginal art and some of the symbols that are

used in Aboriginal paintings. Over the course of the unit we will be looking at a number of different

cultures including Italian, Nigerian, Chinese and Indian. If any parents or carers have any family

heritage from these cultures and would like to share it with our class, please contact Mrs Durie. We

would love you to come and visit our classroom and share your family history and culture with us.

We have been focussing on long and short vowel sounds in literacy as well as the initial consonant

blends ‘ch’, ‘sh’, and ‘wh’. We hoped you liked our magic ‘e’ song we sang at assembly this morning.

Our next assembly will be in week 8 on Friday, 7th December.

Thank you Mrs Durie

1/2C Caterpillars Over the first few weeks of school 1-2 have been looking at the con-

cept of diversity. We viewed the picture book Elmer written by David

McKee in order to explore difference.

Elmer is a colourful, patchwork elephant. One day, he decides that

he wants to look like all the other elephants, and paints himself grey

in order to 'blend in'. Once painted, his friends no longer recognise

him until he lifts his trunk and, at the top of his voice, shouts "Boo!". The

other elephants immediately realise that the grey elephant must be

Elmer and applaud him for his best joke ever. When it begins to rain,

the grey paint that Elmer has covered himself with starts to disap-

pear, and Elmer's "true colours" are revealed, much to the delight of his friends, who preferred his

multicoloured and fun loving personality. Following their happy reunion, the elephants reassure

Elmer that they love him because of his differences, and not in spite of them, and they celebrate

by painting themselves in multi-coloured paint in recognition of Elmer's unique appearance and

personality.

We decorated our own Elmer’s in the colours and pictures that represent our unique personalities

and backgrounds. They will be hanging in our room soon for you to have a look at. Mrs Cunningham

Sports Report Term 4 sports rotations started last week. Students had a wonderful time

participating in golf, lawn bowls, tennis, beach sports and sailing. Kin-

dergarten was lucky enough to be the first class to try out sailing and

had a lot of fun cruising around Carrington Foreshore in their Tacker din-

ghies. Sport rotations will continue for the rest of the term on a Friday

morning.

Last Friday Stage 2 and 3 attended the league tag gala day. Students

had a great time and showed a lot of sportsmanship. They improved

with each game and learnt new skills along the way.

P A G E 4

3/4 M

Welcome back to term 4. This term is shaping up to be an exciting one with lots of fun activities

planned. Term 4 sport kicked off last week with 3/4M showcasing their tennis skills. We are par-

ticularly looking forward to sailing this term as well as beach sports. Last Friday 3/4M attended

the NRL League Tag Gala Day along with 5/6D. Students had a lot of fun learning new skills in a

modified game that combined rugby league with oztag.

In history this term with will be concluding our unit on First Contact where students have been

learning about the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders before European settlement

and the reasons for the journey of the first fleet. With Mr McGill, 3/4M is learning about social

justice issues experienced by people with disabilities.

There are a few important dates to remember. School photos are in week 4 and our annual

swimming carnival will be held in week 7. End of term 4 is always a busy time with presentation

day, Carro’s Got Talent and our end of year activities.

I look forward to finishing off the year with everyone in what will no doubt be a busy

but rewarding term.

Mrs McQueen

Remembrance Day Carrington Public School invites you to attend our 2018 Remembrance Day Cer-

emony.

Where: Carrington School Hall

When: Monday 12th November 2018, 2:30pm

Lest we Forget