NEWSLETTER TERM 3 WEEK 4: TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2020 1463 Kyogle Road, Uki, NSW, 2484 Email: [email protected]Ph: 02 6679 5128 Fax: 02 6679 5448 Website: www.uki-p.schools.nsw.edu.au SIGHT WORDS IN KINDERGARTEN; THE FIRST STEP TO READING Sight words are a group of the most common words in English. Children learn to recognise them ‘by sight’ so that they can develop fluency in reading as they don’t have to stop to decode each word. Here’s John proudly displaying his chart which shows he can read all 10 ‘Sight Word’ lists. He’s on his way to being a super reader! COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT Just a reminder that reports for all students will be coming home on Thursday 27 August. The Department of Educaon has allowed extra me for Semester 1 reports to be prepared due to the me away from school because of COVID-19. Each NSW public school has been able to decide when reports are sent home as long as it is before Friday 28 August. In the meanme, please remember that, as always, you are very welcome to contact the school to ask for a phone call with any teacher to discuss how your child is going, or in fact any other issues. Timely communicaon is extremely important to us and we are always more that happy to talk. We’ll soon send out informaon about parent / teacher interviews as well, so stay tuned and stay in touch! CHARACTER PARADE—LOTS OF FUN! We really loved seeing all the different costumes that students wore to our character parade last week. There were certainly some great imaginaons on display and we all enjoyed parading in front of the parents and carers who lined the footpath to look over the fence. Staff members had a great me preparing their crazy invenons to display their “wild minds” - many thanks to Professor Sumner Spiller (AKA Mrs Spiller) who masterminded the theme and helped with many of the crazy (but kind of good and maybe even useful) invenons!
SIGHT WORDS IN KINDERGARTEN; THE FIRST STEP TO READING Sight words are a group of the most common words in English. Children learn to recognise them ‘by sight’ so that they can develop fluency in reading as they don’t have to stop to decode each word. Here’s John proudly displaying his chart which shows he can read all 10 ‘Sight Word’ lists. He’s on his way to being a super reader!
COMMUNICATION IS IMPORTANT Just a reminder that reports for all students will be coming home on Thursday 27 August. The Department of Education has allowed extra time for Semester 1 reports to be prepared due to the time away from school because of COVID-19. Each NSW public school has been able to decide when reports are sent home as long as it is before Friday 28 August. In the meantime, please remember that, as always, you are very welcome to contact the school to ask for a phone call with any teacher to discuss how your child is going, or in fact any other issues. Timely communication is extremely important to us and we are always more that happy to talk. We’ll soon send out information about parent / teacher interviews as well, so stay tuned and stay in touch!
CHARACTER PARADE—LOTS OF FUN! We really loved seeing all the different costumes that students wore to our character parade last week. There were certainly some great imaginations on display and we all enjoyed parading in front of the parents and carers who lined the footpath to look over the fence. Staff members had a great time preparing their crazy inventions to display their “wild minds” - many thanks to Professor Sumner Spiller (AKA Mrs Spiller) who masterminded the theme and helped with many of the crazy (but kind of good and maybe even useful) inventions!
CHECK-IN ASSESSMENT FOR YEAR 3 AND 5 Year 3 and 5 students will soon participate in a new reading and numeracy check-in assessment. The Check-in assessment is a NSW Department of Education online reading and numeracy assessment available to support schools to assess and monitor student learning following the period of learning from home. Students will need their own set of earbuds or head phones. Could you please send these to school in a labelled plastic bag.
The assessments for our Year 5 students are scheduled for Thursday 27 August and Thursday 3 September . The assessments for Year 3 students will be in Term 4. We will advise you of the date closer to the time.
AND IN ANOTHER WORLD FIRST AT UKI….. To our knowledge, never before in the history of the entire world have twin brothers stepped up to take possession of Ernie the Echidna. Ernie is awarded to the class that wins the ‘lines’ awards for the week, and recently, 4/5K was the winning class. Here are twins Zander and Kingston accepting Ernie - definitely a world first!
ENROLLING FOR KINDERGARTEN 2021 If you have a pre-schooler at home who is ready for school, now is the time to start enrolling them for 2021. If you’re not sure whether your young child is ready for school, discuss it with your child’s preschool teacher, or feel free to phone us to ask. Parents are very welcome to book a time for a school tour and chat with me. And don’t forget - our Teddy Bear’s Picnic is on Thursday 20 August.
Rachel Watkins, Principal
CONGRATULATIONS TO RECENT EKIDNA AND WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS! Well done every one who earned awards in Week 3. Congratulations to the Bronze Ekidna Award recipients Zahra, Zander, Amelia H, Marley, Amelia P and Luke and special congratulations to the Silver Ekidna Award recipients Caitlyn, Kingston, Sahana, Ezra and Chelsea M. Great work!
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Current circumstances mean that students are not able to use the school bubblers, but they still need to drink water!
Please ensure your children have a drink bottle from home to use and refill from taps at school. The school office only has plastic cups to use in an emergency.
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