Candelo Public School 56 William Street Candelo. Ph: 64932236 Fax: 64932035. email: candelo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web address: www.candelo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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Term 4 2019

Library – Wednesday Drama Group – Tue 3:15-4 CIP – Wednesday School Banking - Wed Scripture – Thursday Canteen - Friday Saturday 19 October P&C Trivia Night Tuesday 22 October Kinder Transition session 1 Tuesday 29 October Kinder Transition session 2 Friday 1 November Stg 3 excursion 4 Winds Youth Festival K-6 Disco from 6pm at Candelo Town Hall Sunday 3 November P&C BBQ at Candelo Markets Tuesday 5 November Kinder Transition session 3 Friday 15 November Kinder Transition session 4 Including parent orientation meeting Attachments: 3BJ Excursion to Four Winds Youth Festival permission note.

Dear parents and carers,

Term 4 already! Welcome back, we have enjoyed a fabulous start to Term 4 and look forward to very productive class programs and whole school programs. Teachers and staff have prepared well and with your support will ensure that every child is gaining at least one year’s growth in learning outcomes. P&C Trivia Night 6.30pm this Saturday 19 October come along and win the great prizes thanks to the many donations! Parent and community members are able to ring to register their team of 6 adults (Sherryn 0419775415 or Tim 0429692209). Grab your brains trust and join in the Candelo community spirit. See you there! Thank you to our P&C members for this great initiative. Preschool children and their families will receive their Transition to Kindergarten welcome pack this week. Transition dates with Miss Watchirs include Tuesday 22 October morning session (9:30am – 11:20am. Bring fruit for fruit break); Tuesday 29 October middle session; Tuesday 5 November afternoon session and Friday 15 November parent meeting and student visit from 1.30pm – 3.30pm. Organising uniforms and meeting school personnel and P&C members will be part of the meeting. If we could ask our families to pass this information to families with Kindy age children who are enrolling for 2020.

CANDELO PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Week 1 - Term 4, 14th – 18th October 2019

Eden Area Gym and Pambula Wetlands – a great way to finish Term 3!

Candelo Public School 56 William Street Candelo. Ph: 64932236 Fax: 64932035. email: candelo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web address: www.candelo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Class 3BJ Choral Group have been invited to perform at the Four Winds Youth Festival on Friday 1 November at Bermagui. The children will travel by bus to leave school at 10.30am and return by 3.00pm. A permission note is attached.

Year 4/5/6 Drama Group will rehearse from 3.15 to 4.30 each Tuesday afternoon leading up to the School Drama Shrek (planned for week 8 Friday 6 December -tbc). K/1 and 1/2/3 will rehearse during their performing arts time during school time. Parent helpers who are able to assist with props and costume making (to supplement our existing costumes), please see Mrs Bourke and teachers. STEM project Up the Back Stage 3 will assess the practicality and viability of the ideas this term to develop the garden space with the aim of providing fresh produce for canteen and Market BBQ, an outdoor learning and play space to develop 4Cs – creativity, collaboration, critical thinking and communication. We will work with the P&C and community members to realise the plan for the school STEM project. 2M have a follow up Waste program with Jules from Bournda on Friday 1 November and will work with the School Parliament to develop a plan to manage the recycling of soft plastics. Best wishes to Year 12 (Candelo Class of 2013) who will be sitting the HSC over the coming weeks. Their hard work, focus and commitment to their learning has been commendable to date and will ensure future success. The school was open during the holidays with Share Our Space. Thank you to the families who enjoyed the facilities in a most respectful way. Community members are welcome to continue to share the school space up until 6.00pm. Permission must be requested outside this time. Consideration of our neighbours and respect for public property is always of the upmost importance when visiting the school.

Spanish Classes will resume with Maria in Week 2 for 6 week program for K-6 students. Thank you for encouraging your child to practise at home. The benefits of learning a second language has very positive effects on all aspects of children’s learning. The Tell Them From Me student (Y4 – 6), parent and teacher feedback survey are due by Friday October 25. An email will be sent with the link for the survey. Thank you. More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au FOIM Festival of Instrumental Music 2020 (August 2020) applications are now open for students from Year 3 to Year 6 who have a keen interest in music and who are prepared to practise and learn the repertoire for the concert at the Sydney Opera House. We are so very grateful to Susan and Henry who have once again agreed to tutor the children. It is a marvellous opportunity, please see Mrs Bourke by next Friday. Parents and teachers often ask for advice about how best to support children who have specific challenges and are struggling. Please find an article 7 Top Tips for Supporting School…

Candelo Public School 56 William Street Candelo. Ph: 64932236 Fax: 64932035. email: candelo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web address: www.candelo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

P&C News Thank you to all the parents who contributed to the October markets. Thank-you to Rob, Katie, Christine and Dave for chopping up all the vegies. Thank you to Kathryn (yes your maths was right!!!), Cassie, Jo, Zoe, Christa, Zeta and Tyron for dragging themselves out of bed to cook the BBQ. It was a slow start, but boy did the day finish with a bang!!

The November markets are coming around quickly, if you can help out please let us know. THE TRIVIA NIGHT. The P & C welcome all the families to the Trivia night this Saturday night. Gather a team of 6 and join in the fun!! Contact Tim 0429692209 to book a table. For families who wish to contribute to the fundraiser, is it possible to donate a bag of lollies or something similar for a food hamper please. Thanks so much to all the families who have rounded up a little something. Your contribution is greatly appreciated.

Canteen this Friday: Children should bring a bowl and fork as well as their money to buy food from our Healthy Canteen!! Book Club brochures come home today. Read inside the back page to place your orders via the LOOP system. Please submit orders by Thursday 31 October for free delivery to school.

Applications for student travel in 2020 opened on Friday, 11 October 2019. Students progressing to year 3 and year 7 no longer need to re-apply if they:

are continuing at the same school are residing at the same address have not been sent an expiry notification from

Transport for NSW. Where a student meets the new distance eligibility, the system will automatically update their entitlement. If they do not meet the new eligibility, they will receive an expiry notification via email. Students who have an entitlement approved under a medical condition which is due to expire will receive a notification advising them to re-apply. Term Bus Pass holders will receive a notification to re-apply. If students need to update their information or re-apply, they should go online to https://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails Applications need to be submitted before 31 December 2019 to ensure student entitlements are updated and their current entitlement/card is not cancelled. School Parliament The School Parliament would like to support Eamon as he travels to Sydney in Week 3 for State Athletics. Next Friday each class will be challenged to make the longest line of coins as well as raise the greatest amount with those coins. The winning group will earn themselves a fruit ice block!

Class 1R:

Welcome back everybody! We are looking forward to a very exciting Term 4 with a focus on celebrations and welcoming our 2020 Kinders into our classroom.

In PDPHE K/1 will be focusing on "Healthy Me" and will be looking at ways to keep ourselves safe, happy

-: Canteen Menu Friday 18 October :-

Lunch time menu 11:20am

Pesto Pasta $3:50 Vegetable Quiche $2:50 Raspberry and Pear Muffin $1:00 Quelch Icy-poles (only at 2nd break 1:30pm) $1:00

Free Fruit available

Please include a resealable container

and cutlery for your child.

Candelo Public School 56 William Street Candelo. Ph: 64932236 Fax: 64932035. email: candelo-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web address: www.candelo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

and active. In Visual Arts we are studying Art History and we have started with Cave Art!

The Kinder Orientations will begin next Tuesday with lots of fun activities. Thank you for your continued support with the Home Readers, if your child has misplaced their folder please send a note in so I can make a new folder. Awards This Week: James and Isla: A great start to Term 4. Macy and Peyton T: Working hard in Writing.

Class 2M:

Welcome back to term 4! This term we will be focussing on time, fractions and multiplication in Maths. These three areas are linked because skip counting by 5s is helpful for telling the time, as is a knowledge of quarters and halves.

In Science we will be looking at mixtures, how different ingredients interact and whether they can be separated again or not. This will definitely be messy and fun!

In Literacy we will be learning about paragraphs and applying our new skills to our animal project. This project will be done in class and allows students to choose an animal that they are interested in to research and write about. Over the next few weeks could you please purchase a blank poster sized sheet of cardboard (any colour) for your child to bring into school.

Awards This Week: Natalie: Fantastic start at Candelo Public School. Kelsey: Excellent effort in literacy groups. Layla: Working hard in maths. Saphira: Excellent effort in reading.

Class 3BJ:

A great start to the term, we certainly have an enthusiastic group ready to do some great learning. Welcome back to Mikah and Jasmine, the children have made them feel most welcome.

This term our literacy focus is to develop vocabulary, improve comprehension skills and reading fluency, become awesome during public speaking and further develop confidence in writing - fluently express ideas and edit accurately for spelling, grammar and punctuation. Typing skills should be practised using Typing Tournament to assist with publishing fluency.

In numeracy we are developing greater confidence in mental computation strategies so that effective

problem solving in one step and two step problems involving addition, subtraction, division and multiplication is possible.

Oz Harvest Feast voucher has provided us with 6 electric frypans and a set of kitchen utensils which will be used across the school. We would love some parent helpers to help with the cooking and cookbook development.

Stage 3 will travel to Four Winds Youth Festival near Bermagui on Friday 1 November for a combined choral presentation. (see note attached)

Stage 3 are also planning their project for this term, (Week 2 to Week 5) a small project to demonstrate an area of passion eg design and build a model of a chook pen. One group will continue to work on the combined STEM “Up the Back” project.

The children will present their learning to the class and to parents (who are able to attend), starting in week 5. An adult mentor to assist the children will make it a deep learning experience.

A huge term ahead and with PERMA – PERMA is an acronym for a model of well-being put forth by a pioneer in the field of positive psychology, Martin Seligman. According to Seligman, PERMA makes up five important building blocks of well-being and happiness: 1. Positive emotions – feeling good 2. Engagement – being completely absorbed in activities 3. Relationships – being authentically connected to others 4. Meaning – purposeful existence 5. Achievement – a sense of accomplishment and success. (It is another opportunity to teach children the FISH Philosophy in a different way.

Awards This Week: Jasmine and Mikah: Welcome we love your great attitude to learning. Hayden, Jessica and Eamon: Working consistently to achieve outstanding maths outcomes.