CHATHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Find us at: 17-19 Chatham Ave, Taree NSW 2430

Ph: 02 6551 1081 Fax: 02 6551 2012 Email: chatham-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

UPCOMING EVENTS Friday 31 Oct WORLD TEACHERS DAY

Monday 3 Nov P&C /Canteen Meeting 3pm Tuesday 4 Nov Out of Uniform Day Monday 17 Nov Kinder Orientation & Parent Info Session World Teachers Day is tomorrow. Lets all recognise them by thanking them for playing such an important role in your child’s learning.

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION I have thoroughly enjoyed meeting and talking with our 2014 kindergarten students and their parents at our orienta-tion visits so far this term. Our final kindergarten orientation visit for 2014 will be on Monday 17 November from 12.00am - 3.00pm. At this ses-sion 2015 kindergarten students will be introduced to their year 5 buddies. A parent information session will take place from 2.00pm - 3.00pm on the day. Content to be discussed at the session will include, school readiness, school banking, school uni-form, canteen, the role of the P&C, points of contact and a Q and A session with our infants assistant principal and 2015 kindergarten teachers. I would like to formally welcome all of our 2015 kindergar-ten orientation families to our school community.

STUDENT / PARENT CONCERNS Communication is essential to any partnership. Occasionally concerns can arise, I encourage all parents to ask their child to speak with a staff member about any concerns they may have at school. Structures are in place to ensure that any concerns are addressed. In the event that this is not possible I encourage parents to speak with their child's class teacher, the assistant principal on the stage or myself. As teachers and parents we are all striving for the same goal which is the best outcomes for every child/student in our care. I would like to remind parents/carers that under no circum-stances should they approach anyone elses child in an attempt to resolve concerns. Our Assistant Principals are, Mrs Narelle Drake, Kinder, Year 1 and 2, Ms Heidi Anderson, Year 3 and 4 and Mr Steve McCLeary, Year 5 and 6.

AUSSIE BUSH CAMP I have heard that students and teachers are having a great time at camp. I would like to thank the accompanying staff,

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Term 4 Week 4 Issue 17 Thursday 30 October 2014 STRIVE TO EXCEL

we are very fortunate to have such energetic and motivated teachers who consistently go above and beyond what is ex-pected to create opportunities for our students.

PSSA GIRLS TOUCH FOOTBALL STATE FINAL Ms Heidi Anderson and our Chatham Public School Girls Touch Football team has done it again. Our team accompa-nied by Ms Heidi Anderson and Ms Lynn Brettle travelled to Penrith on Monday to contest the state final. Please see Ms Anderson's report in this newsletter for further details. I would like to thank our families who transported the girls to the event and our accompanying teachers. As always our Chatham Public School students represented their school with pride. Well done Girls!

GRANDPARENTS DAY It was fabulous to welcome our grandparents into our school last Friday, with over 150 of our grandparents visiting our school. Students enjoyed reading their favourite book with their grandparents and showing their quality work. Our morning tea was well attended and scrumptious. Mrs Drake and myself would like to thank our SLSO's for co-ordinating the morning tea and to all staff for providing it. Thank you to all students who performed on the day and to our stage 3 students for sharing their writing tasks on, "Why my grand-parent is special!"

RETIREMENT We would like to wish Mrs Debra Ashwell (pictured below with student Nathaniel Burnes) all the best on her retirement which commences next week. Mrs Ashwell began teaching in 1978 and at Chatham Public School in 1999. Her last few years have been spent coordinating our Reading Recovery Program, assisting many students with extra literacy support. Thank you and good luck on your new ventures.

Mr Matthew Royan School Principal

Chatham Public School is

proud to be a part of

the ACMF Program.

TAREE SHOW SUCCESS

We had many entries in the Taree Show this year with

so many students awarded for their efforts. Pictured

below (top photo) our Stage 2 Kids showing off their

awards and (bottom photo) is Stage 3 displaying theirs.

SPEAKERS OF THE FUTURE

I would like to say congratulations to everyone who par-ticipated in the school public speaking competition. Your speeches were entertaining and well prepared! The students that will be representing Chatham Public School are: Kalani Cross in Year 6, Liam Phillips Year 5, Sky Kvist Year 4 and Brady Cross Year 3.

Mrs Goldie Public Speaking Coordinator

TOUCH GALA DAY On Friday the 24th of October we took a girls, boys and

a mixed team to the Manning PSSA Touch Gala Day. All

teams played extremely well and represented the

school fantastically with a great display of skill and

sportsmanship. Congratulations to all the students and

thank you to Miss Fiona and Miss Anderson for coaching

the teams, with a special thank you to Gary Brauer for

his coaching expertise.

Mr Murray

Touch Coordinator

AWARDS

Silver 20.10.14

Gold 13.10.14

HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR DETAILS?

Please notify the school office as soon as possible if

your child’s details have changed. This includes ad-

dress, phone numbers, health related matters and

emergency contacts. It is vital that this information is

kept up to date for your child’s well being and safety.

CHANGE OF CLOTHES

Please supply your child with a change of school

clothes in their school bag if your child is prone to

toileting accidents. This would be of benefit to your

child as it would minimise the disruption to their

class time and would benefit parents/caregivers as

they would not have to come to the school with the

spare clothing. Parents will always be informed of

any accidents of this nature.

STUDENT ABSENCES

It is a Department of Education requirement that any

absence from school is explained. This can be done in

writing to the class teacher or by phone to the school

office on 6551 1081. If your child is absent for 2 or

more consecutive days and the school has not been

notified, the Department of Education also require us

to contact the parent/caregiver of the absent stu-

dent for an explanation.

Absences can also be explained on our School App.

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Sam Field Liam Boynton

Charli Muir Chris Jones

Evan Wagener Connor McGlinchy

Faith Ingham Shanai Hardy

Brock Maurer Joey DeStefano

William Sawyer

Chris Jones

KINDERGARTEN TRANSITION Yesterday we held another Kinder Orientation visit and again we had a great turn out. The students for 2015 did some activities in the classroom and a music session with our ACMF teacher, Mick Eyb. Parents and caregivers then had the opportunity to have a morning tea. Our final Orientation visit will be on Monday 17 Novem-ber, 2014. Details are in the Principals Report on the front page.

STAGE 3 NEWS

Fifty two of our Stage 3 students are currently on their

school camp to the Great Aussie Bush Camp. They left

for their adventure yesterday and will return tomorrow.

Reports so far indicate they have been having a great

time with many more action packed activities to go. A

full report will be in our next newsletter.

THIRD IN THE STATE

Our Girls Touch Football Team competed in the PSSA

State Final last Monday in St.Marys, Sydney. Coach Miss

Anderson and Ms Brettle both accompanied the girls on

their big trip.

Their first game was against Bletchington Public School

and our girls played some outstanding touch football to

come out victorious 7-2. They then faced Berkeley Vale

Public School, unfortunately going down with Berkeley

Vale being the eventual winners.

The girls were so successful that they have featured on

Prime News and in the Manning River Times.

Congratulations to the girls on this fantastic achieve-

ment. Pictured below is the team of (L to R) Kalani Cross,

Ashlee Smith, Jordan Moscatt, Charli Muir, Jade Fowles,

Rachel Noonan, Lizzy Saunders and Kasey Muir.

K-2 NEWS

HOME READING CHAMPIONS

Well done to Ethan Cai, Kirra Ramsay, Justine Longworth

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and Breanna Ramsay for reading 100 books for Home

Reading. Fantastic Effort!

SPORT

As the weather is rapidly warming up we will be mov-

ing our Friday sport time to the morning session.

Could you please try to make sure that your child has

a hat, and extra bottle of water and some sport

shoes.

ASSEMBLY

All classes from Kindergarten to Year 2 are beginning

to practise their item for the K-2 Christmas Concert to

be held in a few weeks time. This means that there

will be not items presented at our fortnightly assem-

blies for the next few weeks. We are looking forward

to seeing everyone come along to our concert in

Week 9. Look out in the next newsletter for infor-

mation about date and time.

Mrs Drake

Assistant Principal

GRANDPARENTS DAY

Grandparents Day was a great success with over 150

grandparents visiting us at school. Pictured below is

Luke Shevill with his grandmother doing some class

reading.

LABELLING OF ITEMS We urge all parents/caregivers to please label all of their children’s clothing and other items brought to school. Our lost property continues to have items such as hats and lunch boxes handed in without a name. If the items are labelled, this then allows the school to return the lost items to their rightful owner.

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The Chatham Public School Team

Take CARE

Everyone CO-OPERATE

Always be RESPONSIBLE and

Make our school SAFE

Don’t forget to listen to 2RE for

what has happened and what is

coming up at our school.

CHRISTMAS IS 8 WEEKS AWAY!! Check out all the great gifts at Chatham Newsagency!!

PHONE APP

Don’t forget our school has our own Skoolbag iPhone and Android App to help us communicate more effectively with our parent/caregiver/student community. You can also notify the school of reasons for your child’s absences. We are asking parents/caregivers/students to install our Skoolbag School App. To install it, just search for our school name “Chatham Public School” in either the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

THIS IS A FREE APP AND IS A GREAT WAY TO GET A RE-MINDER OF WHAT IS COMING UP AT SCHOOL

P&C NEWS OUR NEXT P&C MEETING

MONDAY 3 NOVEMBER, 2014 2.30PM

IN THE OLD HALL (VC ROOM) A CANTEEN MEETING

ONLINE SURVEY We are asking parents/caregivers to complete an online

school survey on Learning and Culture at Chatham Public School. The survey will assist us with our school plan to be implemented, evaluated and monitored over the next 3 to 5 years. The staff at Chatham PS believe that it is very im-portant to have parent input and consultation to help us with our planning. Please take some time to com-plete the survey and no names are required. The links for the surveys are: Parent Survey about Learning http://bit.ly/1rwVL98 Parent Survey about School Culture http://bit.ly/ZFYyGS Thankyou for sharing your views. If you have any ques-tions about the survey please contact me during school hours. Ms Lynn Brettle Learning and Support Teacher

Thanks to Andy’s Cake Kitchen for their generous donation of bread for our Breakfast Club.

ARTISTIC FLAIR Midcoast Water recently held a colouring-in competi-tion for students in Kinder to Year 4 and a poster com-petition for Years 4-6. Students showed some artistic flair with over 40 students winning some great prizes such as pencil cases and colouring-in books. Pictured below is Alyssa Hay, Nikita Fisher, Tina McCar-thy, Willow Christianson, Aimee Medcalf and Hayley Cook.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR Girl Guides - Meet at the Guide Hall in Doug-

las St, Taree. Pre-Junior & Junior (5-9yrs) meet Fridays 4-5.30pm. Guides (9-14yrs) meet 5.30pm-7.30pm. Contact Rachel Hall (District Manager) on 6551 7572.

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