Term 2 Week 10 21st June 2021

Class Stars of the Week

Year 5/6

Year 3/4

Kindergarten

Year 1/2

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Semester 1 Reports

Semester 1 reports on progress and achievements

this year were sent home on Friday last week.

Reports are a ‘point in time’ judgement on how your

child is performing according to state wide

standards for their particular stage of schooling.

Interview times will be available to parents next

term to discuss your child’s progress with their

teacher/s and update their goals set in Term 1. You

are welcome to phone teachers to discuss report or

arrange a convenient meeting time sooner if you

wish.

NAIDOC Week

This week we recognise NAIDOC Week with a

number of activities based on the theme for 2021 –

Heal Country! The theme calls for all of us to

continue to seek greater protections for the lands,

waters, sacred sites and cultural heritage. NAIDOC

week is an opportunity for all Australians to come

together to celebrate the rich history, diverse

cultures and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres

Strait Islander peoples.

On Thursday 24th our P and C will host a ‘Big

Breakfast’ and we invite our school community to

join us for a delicious bacon and egg roll and a tea/

coffee/hot chocolate for breakfast. Breakfast will be

served from 8:15am – 9:00am.

The SRC and Ms Winsor have organised a K-2

colouring and 3-6 poster competition based on

Healing Country theme. We look forward to seeing

the masterpieces created by our students.

Straight after the breakfast we will have our NAIDOC

Week performance at 9:00am in the hall. A display

of work completed this week to recognise NAIDOC

Week can be viewed and we will be treated to a

performance from the Aboriginal Dance group from

Armidale Secondary College.

We look forward to having many parents and

friends join us this Thursday.

P and C

A huge thanks to our P&C for hosting a fundraising

BBQ at Bunnings on Saturday. Jo, Nancy, Julie, Helen

and Inge helped with the supermarket run, cooking

and serving at the BBQ to raise money for the

benefit of all our students.

Their efforts in the freezing weather raised $372

that will go towards additional resources and

activities at our school.

Raffle tickets for the P&C firewood raffle are due

back this week. Winners will be drawn on 25th June.

Have a Safe and Happy School Vacation

This Friday 25th is the final day for Term 2. Students

return to school on Tuesday 13th July.

We wish all our families a safe and happy school

vacation period.

We hope that all our students have plenty of fun, as

well as some rest so they come back rejuvenated

and ready for plenty more learning activities in the

second half of year.

Star Awards

“You’re a Star Award” certificates are presented at

our Monday morning assembly to students who

have been using the You Can Do It keys to success

and demonstrating persistence, resilience,

organisation, getting along and confidence.

Congratulations to our recipients this morning:

Jocelyn, Elwyn, Isaac, Aaliyah, Hailee, Tomas and

Kiesha.

These ‘keys’ are instant rewards given daily to

encourage use of the ‘5 keys to success’-

persistence, resilience, organisation, getting along

and confidence.

Principal

Murray Cox

3/4 News

This week in 3/4 we have been continuing our work with our favourite animals. Our posters look beautiful and are ready to be displayed at our learning exhibition on Thursday. We have also been working on some artworks to go with our informative posters. For these artworks we were given half a photo of our animal of choice. We then got to use special sketching pencils to draw the other half. It was challenging but we are really proud of how they turned out. Have a look at our efforts below

Have a safe and happy school holidays, we will see you in term 3!

1/2 News As part of our PDHPE unit ‘Vegetable Safari’, we explored different flavours that our taste buds can taste. We had four solutions; sweet, salty, sour and bitter. We dipped our cotton bud in and tasted the solution—we had to guess which of the four tastes we tried. This week we are going to match up some vegetables to the different taste types. (Note: cotton buds were discarded after each use so no double dipping occurred!)

5/6 News Holes...

What a terrible book! You know a book is bad when you read it to a class and they keep telling you "No!" and groaning at you….. Oh- except that was every time we went to STOP reading the book!!! 5/6 have investigated the story of Stanley Yelnats and his experiences of being accused for a crime he did not commit and being sentenced to a juvenile detention facility. We explored the struggles, challenges, friendships and triumphs that Stanley and the other Group D inmates faced. Students had in depth and mature discussions about "right" and "wrong" around racism and the changing laws over time. A book that engages EVERY SINGLE CHILD, every time it is brought up is rare... it has been a wonderful experience to share. Reminders from 5/6: Lake Ainsworth details will come out in the first week of next term- costs and dates. Parents are welcome to come and start making payments now as the expected cost for the week will be approximately $400. Happy Holidays!

Kindergarten News It’s been a busy and productive term for the Kindergarten

class. We wish all our students and their families a safe and

restful break and look forward to more amazing

opportunities in Term 3.

Here are just some of the activities the wonderful

Kindergarten students engaged in throughout the week.

Transition News

Our Transition children really ARE "Little Stars" this year! They are learning to hold a pencil right (with their 'bossy fingers') and practicing their cutting skills. We have finished our Circus theme and want to say a special "THANK YOU" to the Stage 3 boys pictured, who gave up their play time at lunch to construct our cardboard "big tops". We will spend the last week and first week of next term on NAIDOC activities. Next term we will have 2 changes to note: 1) we will be lining up with the "big kids" at the end of the day. Parents can pick up children from the bus stop. 2) halfway through the term we will start our second day of Transition. Beginning on Friday 20th August we will have Transition 2 days a week, on both Thursday AND Friday.

SRC News NAIDOC Week Competition The SRC are running a colouring in competition for students in K-2 and a poster design competition in 3-6 for NAIDOC week. 3-6 poster designs must include the theme “Heal Country” and are due Tuesday 22nd June, Week 10. To submit your entry please give your creation to Miss Winsor with your name clearly marked. Good luck!

Hot chocolate morning! 3/4 will be raising money for our

Coffs Harbour Excursion by selling hot chocolates for $1 on Wednesday 23rd June before school. Each hot

chocolate comes with marshmallows! Perfect for these cold and

frosty mornings!

NAIDOC Cupcakes!

3/4 will be raising money for our Coffs Harbour Excursion by selling decorated cupcakes at our NAIDOC

breakfast on Thursday morning.

$2 each

5/6 Chocolate Fundraising

Chocolate money is now overdue, please return your money to the office before last day of term. EFTPOS payments can also be made over the phone. All funds raised by your child will subsidise the total cost of our Term 4 excursion.

Thank you for supporting us in our efforts.

This year Newling is participating in the Wonder Bread Bags Recycling Program.

Please send in all your empty bread bags and bread tags. They can be any sort of bread bags. There will be pink Collection Bins in the office and classrooms for your children to recycle them in.

Happy Birthday

June Isabella- 22nd

Leszayliah- 26th Jaikarrah-27th Braydon- 28th

July Xavier- 1st Hunter- 1st Tajian- 3rd

Quentin- 4th Dante- 6th

P & C Notices

P& C are raffling two loads of firewood.

The draw will be for two prizes of a trailer load of firewood!

Both trailer loads have been donated by local supporters of our school, David Knight and Wayne Bishop. We thank them for their generosity and for helping our school.

Please return all raffle tickets by this Thursday. The raffle will be drawn at 12pm on Friday 25th June.

Important Dates

• PSSA Touch Football Gala Day– Tuesday 22nd June

• NAIDOC Week Big Breakfast– Thursday 24th June

• Firewood raffle drawn– Friday 25th June

• Last day of Term 2– Friday 25th June

• Students return for Term 3– Tuesday 13th July

ABSENTEE NOTE

(To be returned to Classroom Teacher first day back after absence)

STUDENT’S NAME……………………………………... …… Class ………….. Date of Absence/s ……………………

Reason for Absence

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………

Quote of the week.

“The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.”

~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.