Goulburn Regional Conservatorium P&C MEETING WEDNESDAY 20 MARCH 2019 6.00 pm K – 2 having their group music lesson with Mrs J RESPECT – RESPONSIBILITY - EXCELLENCE Jack is having his weekly guitar lesson with Miss A & Mrs J Inside this Newsletter: A Word from the Principal P & C Meeting Positive Behaviour for Learning Berry School Camp Peace Run Upcoming Dates What’s happening in K – 2 What’s happening in 3 – 6 Attachments: P & C Minutes 05/02/2019 Goulburn Comic Con Flyer Windellama Public School Plan Scholastic Book Club Brochure Our year 6 students went off to GRIP leadership at Goulburn Workers Club on Monday 4 th March. Our students were able to meet up with other students across the Goulburn district. They all had a great day. Windellama Public School Friday 15 March 2019 Term 1 Week 7
Jack is having his weekly guitar lesson with Miss A & Mrs J
Inside this Newsletter:
A Word from the Principal
P & C Meeting
Positive Behaviour for Learning
Berry School Camp
Peace Run
Upcoming Dates
What’s happening in K – 2
What’s happening in 3 – 6
Attachments: P & C Minutes 05/02/2019
Goulburn Comic Con Flyer
Windellama Public School Plan
Scholastic Book Club Brochure
Our year 6 students went off to GRIP leadership at Goulburn Workers Club on Monday 4th March. Our students were able to meet up with other students across the Goulburn district. They all had a great day.
Two of our students, Mardi and Shkeira, have gone to Tirranna today to attend a debating workshop. I’m sure they will bring back invaluable skills to share with the other students. Our playground and classroom behaviour program is off to a good start. A few students are still coming to terms with expectations, but most have taken on board the values of our school; respect, responsibility and excellence. From next week, if your child receives 5 mentions in a week on either the playground behaviour sheet or the classroom sheet, you will receive an email. We need your assistance in supporting our P & C. Please come along to the meeting next Wednesday and find out how you can help support our school community.
Book club brochure has been enclosed, please have all orders completed by Thursday 21st March 2019.
P&C MEETING Parent and Citizen (P&C) meeting next meeting will be Monday 20th March, 2019. The P & C will be again trying to fill the 3 positions, being President, Secretary and Treasurer. Anyone who would be interested in taking on a position and continuing on the great work that the P & C has done over a very long time, please come along to this meeting.
Parents, grandparents and community are encouraged to come along. Everyone, including children are welcome to join us.
PBL UPDATE As part of our positive behaviour for learning (PBL) program, we have begun giving out assembly and playground tokens. These tokens are given to students who display our three core school values of respect, responsibility and excellence on the playground or when returning to lines after play. The tokens are then collected and included in a weekly raffle drawn on a Thursday morning. The winners of the raffle receive a $1.50 voucher to use at the school canteen for recess buy-up. The following students have already been lucky winners, and have used their voucher at recess buy-up:
Week 5: Jeremy (K-2) Week 6: Lacey (K-2) and Adelaide (3-6) Week 7: Samuel (K-2) and Jack (3-6) Congratulations to those students.
Berry Sport & Recreation Camp will be in Term 4 week 1, being from Monday 14th October, returning Friday 18th October, 2019.
Once costings have been finalised a payment plan will be organised and forwarded out soon.
HOT LUNCHES
A very big thank you to Karen Scarfi for providing the entire school with a spagetti bolognaise and a chocolate chip muffin.
The students and teachers enjoyed every mouthful.
Every year the Peace Run visits countless schools in more than 100 countries around the world. Students get to meet the runners, hold the torch and express their own hopes and dreams for a more harmonious world.
What’s Happening in 3 – 6 We have welcomed Charlie to our room for maths and reading groups this week. Our 3 – 6 students have been very supportive. Our students are enjoying the challenge of our maths problem solving activities, they certainly test our brain power.
What’s Happening in K – 2 K-2 were excited to welcome our newest class member to the class this week. Valerie is from Western Australia and was excited to start Kindergarten at Windellama. Welcome Valerie!
We have been focusing on learning our ‘Friends of Ten’ and ‘Friends of Twenty’ in Mathematics. Students have been using ten/twenty frames and counters to determine how many more they would need to make ten/twenty and then using these facts to find the missing number when solving problems, for example, 3 + __ = 10 or 13 + __ = 20. It was great to see Year One and Two students noticing patterns when adding to ten or twenty. Kindergarten have also been learning how to represent and form numbers correctly and have been having some great success while doing so.
