Principal’s Message Welcome back to term 1 2020, I am looking forward to hearing about everyone’s holidays over the coming weeks. The theme for term 1 will be ‘Australia’s First People’. We will be looking at the evolution of the world from the ice age to today. We have also attached an updated Term 1 calendar. I have scheduled a parent information session for the 20/2/20 at 9.30am. This will just be a chance for you to ask any questions you have and to find out about scheduled events for the year. Regards, Mr Southwell 3-6 News Now that the holidays are over, school is back on track. Today we had fun colouring in the book covers for our maths, English and Spelling Journal. We added some extra drawings on our book covers as well as colouring in the picture on the cover. We also made our tote tray nametags. We started making a powerpoint about our holidays and we each got one slide to decorate with things about our holidays. By Jessica During the first week we made covers for our books. On Friday we had a Swimming Carnival. By Klara On Friday we went to the Swimming carnival. Our school won lots of ribbons. It was tons of amazing fun! By Kipling We are learning about Australian history. We have been learning about when the Aboriginal people came to Australia thousands of years ago. We made Aboriginal flags we saw the evidence that Aboriginals have been in Australia for 65 thousand years. We saw Mungo man’s remains. By Oliver Dear readers, this week in the 3-6 classroom, we have been doing some poems and this is the start of mine: The bird song is very long I lay down and put the aircond on The icy pole keeps me cold By Elka Glenquarry Public School Newsletter - Issue 1– Thursday 6 February 2020 ________________________________________________________________________________________________ ‘Valuing The Future’ 3 to 6 Student of the week Levi For contributing to discussions in a positive manner and completing all class work on time.
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Principal’s Message
Welcome back to term 1 2020, I am looking forward to hearing about everyone’s holidays over the coming weeks.
The theme for term 1 will be ‘Australia’s First People’. We will be looking at the evolution of the world from the ice age to today.
We have also attached an updated Term 1 calendar.
I have scheduled a parent information session for the 20/2/20 at 9.30am. This will just be a chance for you to ask any questions you have and to find out about scheduled events for the year.
Regards,
Mr Southwell
3-6 News
Now that the holidays are over, school is back on track. Today we had fun colouring in the book covers for our maths, English and Spelling Journal. We added some extra drawings on our book covers as well as colouring in the picture on the cover. We also made our tote tray nametags. We started making a powerpoint about our holidays and we each got one slide to decorate with things about our holidays. By Jessica
During the first week we made covers for our books. On Friday we had a Swimming Carnival. By Klara
On Friday we went to the Swimming carnival. Our school won lots of ribbons. It was tons of amazing fun! By Kipling
We are learning about Australian history. We have been learning about when the Aboriginal people came to Australia thousands of years ago. We made Aboriginal flags we saw the evidence that Aboriginals have been in Australia for 65 thousand years. We saw Mungo man’s remains. By Oliver
Dear readers, this week in the 3-6 classroom, we have been doing some poems and this is the start of mine:
The bird song is very long
I lay down and put the aircond on
The icy pole keeps me cold
By Elka
Glenquarry Public School Newsletter - Issue 1– Thursday 6 February 2020
For contributing to discussions in a positive manner and completing all
class work on time.
K– 2 News What a fantastic start to the year we have had! Our new kindergarten students are a delight and are settling in to the rhythms and routines of daily school life. Year 2 has stepped into their role of class leaders beautifully, by showing how to apply themselves to their learning during class time and enjoy themselves thoroughly during breaks.
I was so proud of everyone who attended the swimming carnival last Friday, not just for how they conducted themselves throughout the day, but how they tried their best whether in the big pool, the medium or the wading pool. I was also very proud of Mrs Leighton Daly and Mrs Southwell for competing in the parent teacher race with such good spirit - they were awesome weren't they!
In literacy we have started (as always) with a recount
of our holiday. This will serve as the baseline for the
students to see how much they've improved over the
year as they compare their holiday recounts to this
one for the next three terms. We have adopted a new
whole of school spelling and synthetic phonics
program which we have heard has had great results
in multistage classrooms. We have been reading in
the classroom each day and our home reader
program will start next week. We have also adopted a
new whole of school maths program focussing on
problem solving skills and strategies that can be
applied in a variety of situations (as I always tell the
children - maths is everywhere!). Our history unit this
term is Australia's First Peoples and we have had a
great first week looking at the migration of humans
across the world from over 250,000 years before
present in Africa to 65,000 years before present in
Australia. We will spend the next few weeks looking
at early life and culture of Aboriginal Peoples,
including the environment and megafauna when they
first arrived, before then focussing on the local
Gundungurra people and culture.
I asked our new kindergarten students what they liked about school so far...Judd has been away so I shall provide his answers in the next newsletter.
In the classroom
Reading our readers each day (Lily)
Watching the ice melt to see what happened to the land when the ice age ended (Cora)
Colouring in our sound pictures (Jensen)
In the playground
Playing horses with Emery, Lily, Ella and Elka (Cora)
Playing in the sandpit (Jensen)
Playing with my friends (Lily)
Glenquarry Public School Newsletter - Issue 1– Thursday 6 February 2020
Week 1: There was no behaviour focus for the first week back.
Week 2: Waiting quietly and standing still in lines.
Next Fortnight Week 3: Students arrive to class and lines on time.
Week 4: Be courteous in the playground.
Outline Students earn a school behaviour reward card if they model being a respectful, resilient and safe learner. Each week the school leaders introduce a new expected behaviour during their peer support lesson. Once a combined tally of 100 reward cards has been achieved the school leaders will decide on a whole school reward.
Resilience
Reminder
Resilience Reminder – If you are feeling angry in the playground please remember to ‘STEP BACK’ and then ‘BOUNCE BACK. Remind yourself to step back and take a breath, think about the situation, walk away to a quiet spot, seek assistance from a school leader and then bounce back in a positive manner.
Glenquarry Public School Newsletter - Issue 1– Thursday 6 February 2020
