PBL focusing on SAFE Expectations when using the

bubblers

PBL Award Ruby Rule, Chelsii Williams, Piper Hamer, Chloe Cannon,

Dailen Radmore, Deakan Keven-Faulkner,

Darcy Harris and Naomi Maybury

Important Dates to Remember Term 3 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 3 Week 9 Wednesday 18th September 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 19th Sept - Blast Cricket - Stage 3 Thursday 19th Sept - P & C Movie Night Monday 23rd Sept - Playgroup Tuesday 24th Sept - Parent/Teacher Interviews Wednesday 25th Sept - Kindy 2020 Come and Try 1:30pm Thursday 26th Sept - Assembly by K/1M, item KL at 2:15pm Friday 27th Sept - Last day of Term 3 Monday 14th Sept - Student return to school for Term 4 Monday 14th Sept - Playgroup

Merit Ayisha Mason Fernando

Gold Award Edward Sipple

and Angus Hamer

Silver Award Charlie Hogg,

Isabelle Marsh, Edward Sipple,

Madeline McKelvie, Phoebe Capel and

Angus Hamer

Uniform Awards Billy Simmonds, Ashton Trow, Lilly Cook, Phillipa Cracknell, Mia Smith, Tyler Robinson, Jace Nash, Emma Jarrett, Indi Maher, Jaiden Cox,

Ryan Hatton, Kara Johnson, Nicholas Holliday, Connor Hilton, Robert Merry and Coby Hobden

* 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

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

As the end of term is approaching, please ensure ALL LIBRARY BOOKS ARE RETURNED. Overdue library books and accounts will be sent home prior to the end of next week. Thank you Mrs Dunn and Mrs Chegwyn

Regardt Janse van Rensburg - Improved number identification and counting skillsIndi Maher - Improved effort and skills in writing Billy Simmonds - Improved effort to produce longer more detailed written text Lara Hambly - Improved effort during literacy groups Harriett Bell - Contributing to class discussions Koby-Jay Lang - Working well during Mathematics Xavier Rankin - Developing confidence to share thoughts during class discussions Frankie Barber - Working hard to edit writing Owen Radmore - Enthusiastically engaging in learning about money Ruby Rakus - Amazing speed test results Brady Moses - Improvement in handwriting Dustyn Swadling - Working hard towards his term 3 spelling goal Raymond Sydenham - His fantastic ‘character map’ in novel studies Nicholas Holliday - Excellent work with tricky number patterns Lachlan Watts - Demonstrating greater maturity in class and showing he is an effective learner Zayden Barnes - Persevering with all learning tasks. Keep up the great effort. Emily Barwick-Taylor - Demonstrating perseverance in learning Joshua Thompson - Working well during multiplication and long division lessons Luke Wilson - Creative application during coding lessons Angus Frewen - Positive contributions during The Water Tower and R U OK day activities Emma Jarrett - Determination and work ethic Brenden Thompson - Determination and kindness Jayden Rankin - Bravery

Breakfast Club is again providing toast and juice to all students in 2019. It operates 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

School Banking Thursday

Weekly Awards

Message from the Front Office

Weekly Bronze Awards

Library News

Breakfast Club

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

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

This week, Kootingal Public School received the NAPLAN results for years 3 and 5 for our families. These results will go home today.

Today, our students in Year 5 received notification outlining the timeline for the process of the election of the 2020 School Captains. All students in Year 5 are encouraged to nominate to become a part of this process. It is important to note that this is an election for School Captains and the Vice Captains only. The election of the Student Representative Council (SRC) members occurs in 2020.

All students K-6 attended the World of Maths workshops held at school on Tuesday. Thank you to the Kootingal Public School P&C for their continued generous support in subsidising the workshops and to our parent and family helpers. Our students enjoyed the workshops engaging with the various stations and learning just how mathematics is used every day.

Also on Tuesday, myself, Mrs Chegwyn and Miss Kelly met with the panel for External Validation. This discussion with the panel was an opportunity to demonstrate the work of our students and staff. We are pleased to announce the panel validated our judgements as to how the school is going when judged against the criteria of the School Excellence Framework. As a part of this process, the school decided on three future directions. The executive, along with the staff, will formulate a plan for the future directions and communicate this is the coming term.

The alternate summer uniform for girls is coming closer. Our working party will soon meet to examine the alternatives with communication to the broader school community following this. Thank you to Mrs Dunn for sourcing samples of the alternate summer uniform.

Good luck to our students participating in the Blast Cricket days this week from years 3-6. Thank you Mrs Blinman for organising this opportunity and to our families for assisting in the transportation of our children.

Thank you to our families who were able to attend the first week of our Parent Teacher Interviews this week. As I’m currently on class, I enjoyed the opportunity to talk with families about the progress of their children and where the class is headed to next.

Please remember our interviews continue next week on Tuesday 24th September between 4 and 6pm. Interviews are o n l y m a d e u s i n g t h e w e b s i t e a d d r e s s www.schoolinterviews.com.au and the event code ns369. This will allow families to see the available appointment times for their child’s teacher.

The achievements of our students never cease to amaze. During this term, we’ve had students not only achieving their goals in their academic studies but also achieving in the areas of the creative and performing arts and sport. Arian Hope of Year 5 this week participated in NSW Arts Department ballet workshop in Sydney. Menno Wallace recently participated in the New England Instrumental Camp playing his trumpet. Luke Sydenham of Year 6 was a member of the North West Boys Softball team that competed in Tamworth last week in the PSSA carnival. Damikah Barwick-Taylor, Jordan Byrne, Ethan Walker, Emma Jarrett and Kaitlyn Watts competed in the North West Athletics carnival last Friday in their respective events. Damikah was successful in selection to the North West team to compete in Sydney next term in the senior girls 800m. Next week, Kootingal Public School will have Damikah Barwick-Taylor, Emma Jarrett and Jessie Johnson in the North West Girls Softball team competing in Sydney at the PSSA carnival. Fabulous work Kootingal Public School!

This week the focus for PBL is our expectations when using the bubblers. These expectations are underpinned by the core value Safe.

The PBL lesson this week was assisted by the students of 3/4T. The students of 3/4T wrote the script for the video that was used to demonstrate the expected behaviours of students when using the bubblers. If you’d like to view this video, please use this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgqMJjaARlY

The students of 3/4T enjoyed making this video for the school’s PBL program.

Mrs Cracknell’s Message

PBL News

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