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Forest Street, Tumut NSW 2720 PO BOX 83

Ph: 6947 1533 Fax: 6947 1377

Email: franklin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Monday 20 October 2014 Edition 33 Week 3 Term 3

UPCOMING EVENTS

WEEK 3

Mon 20th October Grandparents Day

10:30am to 11:15am

Tues 21st October Recycling Performance

Montreal Theatre

Bus $1.50

Not FranklinCovered

P & C Meeting 7pm

Wed 22nd

October THS transition Yr6

K- Yr 2 Sports day

Fri 24th October Community Sport Yr3-6

1C Assembly – 12:30pm

WEEK 4

Tue 21st October Breakfast program 8:30 – 9am

Wed 29th

October McAuley concert - 11am

Bus $1.50, $3.00 performance

Not FranklinCovered

Kinder Orientation Day

Ghana Beat my Drum

Performance

Non FranklinCovered $4.40

Fri 31st October National Bandanna Day

Community sport Yr 3 - 6

4W Assembly – 12:30pm

It was wonderful today to see so many parents and

grandparents at school. All family members play a

significant role in the growth of a young person. Please

value your life experiences, memories and skills so you

can share them with the youth of today.

I thank you all for attending today. Please continue to be

part of our school community in upcoming school events.

TODAY

RECYCLING PERFORMANCE

TUESDAY 21 OCTOBER

MONTREAL THEATRE

BUS $1.50 NOT FRANKLINCOVERED

ROLL OF HONOUR – WEEK 1 TERM 4 and WEEK 2 TERM 4 Teachers recognise and acknowledge the positive endeavours and personal

achievements of students in a variety of ways. One such way is the presentation of

Honours and Student of the Week certificates and Positive Behaviour for Learning

(PBL) awards at the whole school assembly.

This segment of the newsletter lists those who received Student of the Week and

Honours Certificates and PBL awards. Congratulations go to:

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Class Week 1 Term 4 Week 2 Term 4 Class Week 1 Term 4 Week 2 Term 4

3H Coen Power Emily Clark 4/5R Lilly Giddings Will Atherton

3/4A Brandan Paton Brenden White 5G Jade Bellchambers Erin Williams

4W Logan Klaus Matilda Symons 6G Jorja Muir Gabbie Davis

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR for LEARNING AWARD

SAFETY RESPECT ACHIEVEMENT

Kyah Driscoll Trinity Davies Amberlena Lake

Brandon Paton Brayden Whiting Abby Skein

HONOURS 3H Lekeisha Potter, Taryn Stuckey, Jacob Connelly, Seth Bellchambers

3/4A Grace Whiting, Katherine Oakes, Brayden Patey, Lachlan Klaus

4W Coleby Duck, Jaiden Smith, Clayton Crane, Tikirah Douglas

4/5R Jack Lee, Blake Webb, Sophie Day, Owen Jackson

5G Molly Curll, Shae Hayes, Elijah Harris, Hunter Lee

6G Ethan Dutton, Laura Rapley, Jack O’Malley, Maddison Sutton

ICAS COMPETITION

Franklin students achieved pleasing results in the 2014 ICAS

Writing, Spelling, Maths, and English Competitions

For their pleasing efforts certificates were awarded to

Distinction: Kade Knight (Maths)

Credit: Kade Knight (Spelling and English),

Jayde Randall (Spelling, Maths),

Jeane van der Merwe (Spelling)

Participation: Sophie Day, Coleby Duck, Sharni Ireland, Josh

Kell, Brodie Sly, Leith Turner, Jean van der Merwe.

SCHOOL SWIMMING SCHEME PERMISSION

NOTES WILL BE SENT HOME THURSDAY

23RD OCTOBER FOR YEAR 2 – 6

SCHOOL AS COMMUNITY CENTRE NEWS Come along, have a coffee, all welcome and all free, please see times below…

Call Krystle on 6947 6961 or come to the SaCC building to find out more! If you can, please bring along a piece of fruit for fruit time!!

TERM 4 WEEK 3 - 2014 TERM 4 WEEK 4 2014

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Mon – 20.10.14 N. Williams, N. Coe Mon – 27.10.14 K. Regan, J. Baker

Tue –21.10.14 CLOSED Tue – 28.10.14 CLOSED

Wed – 22.10.14 M. Loneragan, B. Baker Wed – 29.10.14 K. Knight, T. Byrne, T. Bye

Thu – 23.10.14 CLOSED Thu – 30.10.14 CLOSED

Fri – 24.10.14 T. Pascoe, S. Dawson Fri - 31.10.14 P. Martin, K. Cobden

SCHOOL BANKING

Wednesday

Bank books to office before school.

P & C ARE HOLDING A STREET STALL ON Thursday 23rd October

Volunteers are needed to help run the street stall. If you could spare an hour please call the school

office on 6947 1533 or Kylie on 0417 682 810

Your time is much appreciated.

HAMPER FOR STREET STALL We are asking every student to bring in an item for

the Hamper to be raffled at the street stall on Thursday 23rd October. There will be a special

reward for the class that brings in the most items. Your child has received a note with details about

what we would like you to send in. Please send items to your child’s class so the

teacher can tally the points for the items. Please send in items by Wednesday 22nd October.

P & C MEETING Tuesday 21 October

Staffroom

All welcome to attend

FRANKLIN RADIO NEWS

FM 96.3

Thursday at 10.30am

with Craig & Laura

CHOOSING THE RIGHT SCHOOL SHOES

Can those school shoes last...one...more...term.....? And are the expensive ones REALLY better for your

child’s feet? Find out more:

http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing/health/choosing-the-right-school-shoes

CREATIVE READING

If your child is full of great ideas, share these

22 slides to help them tell their stories.

Pixar's 22 rules for great creative writing are

brilliant! http://bit.ly/1fyxNK3

Tuesday: 9.30-11.30 – Baby Ccino Wednesday: 9.30-11.30 – Paint and Play 12.30-2 - Gurinya Thursday: 9.30-11.30 – Paint and Play 12.30-2 - Batlow Paint and Play

FRANKLIN FIVE - Week 3 At school every day OR providing an absence note on first

day back at school

On time for lessons – 9.10am

In uniform – including black shoes and school hat/cap

Home learning and Home reading completed

Positive behaviour in class/playground

Summer – 1C Rubin – 3H Emily- 4/5R

Tumut Locksmith Friends NRMA Tumut

Stubbs Backhoe of Pie in the Sky

Outdoor Power Centre Franklin Randall Irrigations & Pump Service

Tumut Toyota G & L Turner Mechanical Repairs

Dayinstalls Antennas & Communications S & M Glazing

Ghana Beat My Drum

incorporates audience

participation, singing, dancing

and drumming to leave audiences

feeling exhilarated and inspired

as well as enlightened in the ways

and culture of Africa and more

particularly Ghana. Jonas teaches students words from the

local languages, Ga Tui Mzema and Effutu and with their

newly learnt words Jonas gets the entire audience

participating in traditional call and response songs.

FranklinCovered, Non FranklinCover cost $4.40

Wednesday 29 October in school hall

Our COGS unit this term is called, ‘Local Places’. We will be studying natural, built and heritage environments. Our Science unit is called, ‘Build It Up’. We will be investigating how built environments are designed for specific purposes. We have also begun reading our Accelerated Literacy text ‘Ark in the Park’ by Wendy Orr and Kerry Millard.

Kayden, Chloe and Jaya are enjoying

reading ‘Ark in the Park’

Zac B and Alex M are

completing some

reading activities.

Levi, Aston, Seth

and Shiloh are

showing photos

from our local area

that depict natural,

built and heritage

environments.

Callum and Byron are

showing some natural

environment artworks.

Kaitlin, Jaime and Zac C are

reading about Sophie who lives in a top floor flat in the city.