The newsletter for Wallabadah Public School and its community “Excellence in Learning” Week 3 Term 1 15 February 2019 Welcome to Week 3! As we finish the end of the third week of term one, we can reflect on how busy we have been, the routines we have put into place and the wonderful learning that is happening in our classrooms. The Primary classroom enjoyed exploring the texture, and feel of carrot seeds in our unit Living World. The students used magnifying glasses to examine the seeds, and write a descriptive article. They have discussed the life cycle of various plants and constructed detailed descriptions of the stages of the cycle. What great fun we have in Science. During our Literacy sessions, writing and constructing different texts has been a focus. This week the Primary have created Autobiographies about themselves and also written imaginative stories about ants. In the Infants classroom, the students have been focusing on informative texts and they have explored a wonderful picture book ‘Baby Elephant’ by Susan Hellard. They have discussed the animal, looked at the habitat and breeding habits of the elephant and explored some interesting facts. In Mathematics, the Kindergarten boys have been focusing on Ordinal numbers and this has been fantastic on the back of the swimming carnival. The stage one children have worked on their addition skills and doubles and near doubles. Great to see every student working hard and with a giant smile on their face whilst doing it, well done! Quirindi Pool: Mr Worley, Principal, Quirindi High School has worked collaboratively with the Liverpool Plains Shire Council to secure a plan for the use of the Quirindi and Werris Creek Pools for the remainder of the 2019 year. This agreement allows all school students from Wallabadah free access to the pool. This will include carnivals, intensive swimming school programs, weekend free time and after school use. Your child will receive an Identity Card. This card will be plastic and will include your child’s name and their school. These will be distributed shortly. If you have any questions about the initiative, please don’t hesitate to ask. This is a wonderful initiative and we would like to thank Mr Worley for his dedication to the children of the partnering schools. Have a lovely week! Johanna Teague Principal “Life is like a swimming pool, you dive in and cannot see what is underneath’’ Dennis Rodman
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The newsletter for Wallabadah Public School and its community
“Excellence in Learning” Week 3 Term 1 15 February 2019
Welcome to Week 3!
As we finish the end of the third week of term one, we can reflect on how busy we have been,
the routines we have put into place and the wonderful learning that is happening in our
classrooms. The Primary classroom enjoyed exploring the texture, and feel of carrot seeds in
our unit Living World. The students used magnifying glasses to examine the seeds, and write a
descriptive article. They have discussed the life cycle of various plants and constructed detailed
descriptions of the stages of the cycle. What great fun we have in Science. During our Literacy
sessions, writing and constructing different texts has been a focus. This week the Primary have
created Autobiographies about themselves and also written imaginative stories about ants.
In the Infants classroom, the students have been focusing on informative texts and they have
explored a wonderful picture book ‘Baby Elephant’ by Susan Hellard. They have discussed the
animal, looked at the habitat and breeding habits of the elephant and explored some
interesting facts. In Mathematics, the Kindergarten boys have been focusing on Ordinal
numbers and this has been fantastic on the back of the swimming carnival. The stage one
children have worked on their addition skills and doubles and near doubles. Great to see every
student working hard and with a giant smile on their face whilst doing it, well done!
Quirindi Pool: Mr Worley, Principal, Quirindi High School has worked collaboratively with the
Liverpool Plains Shire Council to secure a plan for the use of the Quirindi and Werris Creek
Pools for the remainder of the 2019 year. This agreement allows all school students from
Wallabadah free access to the pool. This will include carnivals, intensive swimming school
programs, weekend free time and after school use. Your child will receive an Identity Card.
This card will be plastic and will include your child’s name and their school. These will be
distributed shortly. If you have any questions about the initiative, please don’t hesitate to ask.
This is a wonderful initiative and we would like to thank Mr Worley for his dedication to the
children of the partnering schools.
Have a lovely week!
Johanna Teague
Principal
“Life is like a swimming pool, you dive in and cannot see what is underneath’’ Dennis Rodman
Mrs Teague:
Chloe Dent: For wonderful efforts in the Primary
classroom.
Dean Payne: For fantastic application in
mathematics
Mrs Saunders:
Jensen Lavis: An excellent start to school.
Bodie Walters: For an excellent start to school.
Mrs Cudmore:
Lochlan Cronin: For a wonderful autobiography.
Well done!
STOP -THINK -DO
Rule of the week:
Always include others
in your games. Be
respectful to all your
groups.
Award: Bianca Reedy–
For including others in
your games.
P& C Working Bee– 6th March 2019
P&C AGM-26th March 2019
Cross Country– 12th April 2019
Athletics Carnival- 27th June 2019
Wet Weather Date Athletics Carnival– 4th
July 2019
Chloe, Sophie and Mrs Pursehouse
This week Mrs Pursehouse has been working
with students on their fine motor and gross
motor skills. Students have been working on the
Tucabia Program and working on crawling,
jumping, foot eye and hand eye co-ordination
activities.
Thank you Mrs Pursehouse!
Some beautifully coloured
artwork from Mrs Saunder’s
K-2 class! The student’s
coloured in their names with a
rainbow of colours.
Awards
We would like to congratulate our 2019 Zone Swimming
representatives. Our students will be competing at Werris
Creek Swimming pool today. We wish you all the best of luck
and know you will compete with passion and pride.
Have fun and good luck!
Well done to all the students who were able to make it along
to swimming training with Mrs Saunders.
How fantastic do the 3-6 ‘Scream’ Artworks
look in the Primary Classroom?
The students completed this task with Mrs
Cudmore to accompany their Autobiographies.
They have certainly brightened our classroom
up!
Trey Fletcher
pointing out where
the ‘Baby Elephant’
comes from in the
book they read. Also
shown some great
work by Trey that
also relates to the
book.
K-2 completed some
brilliantly coloured
pigs to celebrate the
year of the Pigs. For
this activity , the
students had to do
some colouring,
cutting and pasting.
RURAL FIRE SERVICE – LIVERPOOL RANGE SUPPORT BRIGADE
Your Local SUPPORT BRIGADE will be holding a recruitment day for anyone interested in volunteering in a Support capacity – Catering, Logistics and Communications.
We will have a marque at the Military Tattoo in Quirindi from 3pm which will be held on 2nd March 2019 at Longfield Park, Henry Street Quirindi.
For any information regarding volunteering please contact Rural Fire Service Fire Con-trol Centre Quirindi 02 6746 5800.
