PBL focusing on Accepting consequences

PBL Awards Madison Bennett, Grace Hamer, Joshua Holliday, Lilly Cook,

Katiana Reid, Annika Cayzer, Lily Shiels and Liam Jarrett

Important Dates to Remember Term 2 2020

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 9 Wednesday 24th June 2020

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

Friday 3rd July - Last day of Term 2

Gold Award Jessie Johnson and Meika Haak

Silver Awards Jacynta Flemming, Elloise Sharpham,

Mikyla Phillpott, Jacob Cayzer, Frankie Barber and Meika Haak

Uniform Awards Rylie Sheumack, Seth Gorman, Angus Hamer, Zac Pollard,

Ayva Elliott, Makayla Edwards, Chloe Smith and Layla Wilton

* 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 contribution fees can be paid at the front office or online. They are $50 per year per student.

Library Borrowing Days KL - Mrs Lawrence - Thursday K/1M - Miss Magann - Thursday 1/2B - Miss Booby - Friday 1/2S - Miss Semmler - Friday 3/4L - Mrs Lulham - Tuesday 3/4W - Miss Warden - Tuesday 4/5B - Miss Bennett - Wednesday 5/6K - Miss Kelly - Wednesday All students must have a library bag to borrow books to take home.

Thank you Mrs Dunn and Mrs Chegwyn

Brooklyn-Grace Furney - Improved knowledge of sounds Neveah Bridge - Knowledge of single sounds and numbers to ten Chaise Bridge - Beginning to represent 2 digit numbers in groups of tens and ones Lovayah Wightman - Improvement in counting Lara Hambly - Working hard to complete all set tasks Lacey Felsman - Enthusiastically engaging in all creative arts activities Tom Chegwyn - Working hard to create equal groups and skip count in Mathematics Xavier Siemsen - Effort during discus in sport Ella Dwyer - Creative writing and neat handwriting Billy Simmonds - Use of onomatopoeia in writing tasks Jack Gee - Showing persistence in Mathematics Kara Johnson - Impressive Mathematics assessment results Clayton Ford - Accurate summarising Jeremy Nash and James Sharpham - Achieving a great result in Mathematics assessment Abby Corbett - An excellent effort in her Mathematics assessment Chloe Smith - Working hard on reading and interpreting analog time Kahliah Day - Great work with perimeter and area in Mathematics Arian Hope - An innovative approach to classroom presentations Naomi Maybury - Outstanding portrait of Banjo Patterson Layla Wilton - Excellent application during length and area lessons

Weekly Awards

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

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

Weekly Bronze Awards

Library News

Messages from the Front Office

This week, Kootingal Public School has had a number of new signs installed across the school. We saw the commencement of the installation of our permanent PBL signage with the poles of the COLA area covered in a vinyl wrap illustrating our core values and our logo placed on our front fence. We also had the top of our electronic sign updated to include our school’s crest and PBL logo. The Year 6 cohort of 2019 donated to the school a new sign for placement on the weatherboard building at the front of the school. It stands out as an attractive addition to the front of our school. We have more signs to be installed across the school so there’s still a lot of work to complete.

Our school staff are settling into the demands of the end of the first semester. Our reports are well underway with our timeline set for distribution to families during week 3 of Term 3. This report is a simplified version of our traditional report. In this simplified version, only English, Mathematics and a general comment will make up the written component of the report. While it is simplified, there are still some late nights ahead for classroom teachers when writing reports.

Our text messaging service has been out of order now for over a week. This is due to a cut over to new internet security for the Department. We are working hard, both with our provider and the department, to resolve this issue. While our text messaging service is out of action, we are using email to obtain explanations for student absences. Please ensure you are checking your emails daily for information from the school. Alternatively, families can still call, email or inbox on Facebook their child’s explanations for absences.

This week our PBL focus is the fourth of our five whole school expectations and it is accepting consequences.

For anyone, student or adult, it is sometimes difficult to accept the consequences of our actions. It’s always an important lesson to learn that with actions come consequences, both positive and negative, and it is when we learn from our mistakes that we show we are an effective learner.

This week has been exciting at Kootingal Public School as we’ve had the installation of some of our PBL signage. The way our new signs transform the COLA area is unbelievable. We can’t wait for them all to be finished.

Below is the scope and sequence for the teaching of PBL expectations this term.

Principal’s Messages

Week 9 Five Whole School Expectations - Accept consequences

Week 10 Five Whole School Expectations - Show concern for others

PBL News

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Dear parents, guardians and carers

Re: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD)

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes: • year of schooling • category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional • level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice,

supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to: • formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools • consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools • develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve

educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

Kind regards

Cara Cracknell Principal