CHATHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Find us at: 17-19 Chatham Ave, Taree NSW 2430

Ph: 02 6551 1081 Fax: 02 6551 2012 Email: chatham-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES

Tomorrow 1 July Last Day of Term 2 Tues 19 July First day of Term 3 Monday 25 July P&C Meeting Wed 27 July Parent/Teacher Interviews Friday 19 Aug NAIDOC Thurs 25 Aug Book Week Parade Monday 5 Sept Intensive Swim begins Friday 16 Sept Intensive Swim concludes Wed 2 Nov Stage 3 Excursion begins Friday 4 Nov Stage Excursion concludes

KINGS OF HOME READING Congratulations to Joseph, Jacob and Bailey (picture below) on their effort and commitment to the Home Reading Program. These three students are the first students in the entire school to read 100 home read-ers . Thank you to our local Officeworks for their generous donation of the many gifts towards our Home Reading program.

Please continue the home reading with your children over the school holidays as this will greatly benefit your child/ren.

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Term 2 Week 10 Issue 10 Thursday 30 June 2016

STRIVE TO EXCEL

VISIT BY SENIOR CONSTABLE DAVE RUSSELL Senior Constable Dave Russell visited our school yester-day with some very important messages on cyber safe-ty. His message included: All profiles have a minimum age requirement.

Please check this as you must be at least 13 years of age for any of them.

Be very careful identifying yourself on social me-dia. Eg all personal details, photos of yourself in a uniform etc

Turn your location off your iphone settings so you cannot be tracked.

Thank you Senior Constable Dave Russell for this very informative session with our students.

LAST DAY OF THIS TERM

TOMORROW, FRIDAY 1 JULY, 2016

FIRST DAY OF NEXT TERM

TUESDAY 19 JULY, 2016

Mr Matthew Royan

School Principal

The PaTCH program has been specifically developed to enable parents and carers as volunteers within a school, to support students in their classrooms with their daily learning. The course provides volunteers with a deeper understanding of Literacy, how speaking, reading and writing are connected and how the stepping stones of learning follow on one from the other. Discussions around numeracy and its importance in everyday situa-tions help volunteers understand why the language of mathematics is so important for early learners. The graduation for our 2016 PaTCH participants will be held on Wednesday 20 July at 9:30am in the Old Hall. Mr David Willard our Director of Public Schools will be in attendance.

APEEL (A PARTNERSHIP ENCOURAGING EFFECTIVE LEARNING) Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 students will be partici-pating in a social skills program as part of the Personal Development Health and PE (PDHPE) curriculum. An invitation will be extended to parents and carers to attend a series of four workshops where topics such as communicating with your child, strategies encouraging responsible behaviour for your child and setting limits. These areas correspond with the social skills program the students will be covering in their classrooms. I look forward to your involvement in this program.

Alison Clifton Instructional Leader

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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

SCHOOL REPORTS

All reports were issued on Wednesday. Mrs Narelle

Drake has made arrangements for interviews to occur

in week 2 of next term.

P&C MEETING

Our next P&C Meeting is on Monday 25 July. All school

community members are welcome to attend.

KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION PROGRAM

Our Kindergarten Orientation program is underway.

Further details can be found on our school facebook

page. If you haven't already liked our page, find us at

https://www.facebook.com/ChathamPS/

HOLIDAYS

Thank you to our school community for a great term!

We rely on our community to be our eyes and ears dur-

ing the holiday period. Community members are en-

couraged to report any school security concerns to Ta-

ree Police on 6552 0399 or the Department of Educa-

tion School Safety and Security Unit on 1300 880 021.

SCHOOL RETURN DATE

Students return to school on Tuesday 19 July, 2016.

Enjoy the well deserved break with your families!

PaTCH (PARENTS AS TEACHERS AND CLASSROOM HELPERS) A huge congratulations must go to all participants in our recent Parents as Teachers and Classroom Helpers (PaTCH) volunteer program. This course has now fin-ished with all remaining participants being ticked off on learning and in- class tasks. Thank you to our class teachers Mrs Wells, Mrs Ross, Mr Murray and Mrs Grieve for the support they have extended to our vol-unteers, in particular, helping them through their re-quired class tasks.

RESPECT

RESPONSIBILITY

ENDEAVOUR

YEAR 6 STUDENTS WENT TO UNI

Last Friday, Year 6 students travelled to Newcastle Uni-

versity with Mr Muller, Mr McCleary and Mrs Muir and

parent/carers of some of the students, to see what

“uni life” is all about.

We all had a great day which started with a very excited

bus trip down. We had a very busy day visiting many

different aspects of the university.

Some of the places we visited were the “Lecture Thea-

tre” where we met with some university leaders and

they spoke about what they were studying. ‘Brain Illu-

sions” was another activity we did where we looked at

pictures and through movement they seemed distorted

but created different illusions. We also learnt some as-

pects of how our bodies work with a visit to the

“Physiotherapy Room”.

Jayden was very excited with the uni excursion com-

menting “The uni is like its own city. It has it’s own

postcode, bank, café, lolly shop, restaurant, hospital,

shopping mall and lots more.

Jasmyn said “It was a very busy place and seemed to

have everything you would need”.

The trip home was also fun, stopping at McDonalds and

having a chance to chat with our friends about our day.

Jayden and Jasmyn

Year 6 students

Pictured below are some of the Year 6 students experi-

encing the “uni-life”.

WHO’S WHO IN CHATHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL’S

LEARNING SUPPORT TEAM

(pictured above is the LaST team of (L to R) Beth Pres-land, Kim East, Alison Clifton, Kristy Hay and Annette Gleeson)

Alison Clifton – Instructional Leader “I see my role as a link between the classroom and the learning and support team. Knowing our students' needs enables me to support the classroom teachers' as they plan forward for their students”.

Beth Presland – Learning and Support teacher “I see my role as an advocate for students who have learning differences in accessing the curriculum. I link teachers with programs and outside agencies as a fur-ther support for our students with a particular focus in literacy”.

Annette Gleeson – Learning and Support Teacher “I am working this year to complement and support the existing team members. I look at how we support our students, teachers and families, and help the team to do things better”.

Kim East – Primary Curriculum Leader “My role in the LST is to provide guidance and support for teachers when applying curriculum and syllabus out-comes to meet the learning needs of our students”.

Kristy Hay – Learning and Support Teacher “My role in the LST is to liaise with staff, students and the wider school community in supporting the behav-iour and well-being needs of our students”.

Gayle Bowman - Learning and Support Teacher “My role is to support reading in Stage 2 with Reading Recovery and in class reading groups. I work collabora-tively with Miss Tyrie in the Reading Recovery Program and encourage students to do their home readers on a daily basis. It’s most rewarding to have students ask if they can come and read with me.

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KINDER ORIENTATION & TRANSITION FOR 2017

Do you know or do you have a child

starting Kindergarten in 2017?

We invite all Kindergarten students for 2017 and their

parents/carers to the Orientation Visits, Parent Infor-

mation Expo’s and Transition Visits which will occur in

our School Hall.

Below shows all the dates for these visits for both Term

3 and Term 4.

Kinder Enrolment Packs are now available from the

school office. For more details contact our school office

on 6551 1081 or visit our Facebook page Chatham Pub-

lic School Taree.

INFANTS NOVELTY DAY

On Friday 17 June, 2016, the infants held their Novelty

Day. There were smiles all round as students ran,

skipped, jumped, tossed and threw in a variety of

events such as sack races, chicken relays, the egg and

spoon race, tunnel ball (pictured below) , beanbag toss-

ing and the game rob the nest.

Pictured above are students participating in the relay

race and below are some very clever students doing a

great balancing act in the egg and spoon race.

LET’S TACKLE HEADLICE OVER THE HOLIDAYS

There has been evidence of head lice at our school. We

ask that all parent/carers please make the most of the

time over the school holidays to check their child’s hair.

If there is evidence of head lice please treat appropri-

ately. Your local pharmacy will be able to assist you

with the correct treatment.

LABELLING OF ITEMS We urge all parents/caregivers to please label all of their children’s clothing and other items brought to school. Our lost property continues to have items such as hats, jumpers and lunch boxes handed in without a name. If the items are labelled, this then allows the school to return the lost items to their rightful owner.

Listen to 2RE for what has hap-

pened and what is coming up at

Chatham Public School

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TERM 3: Orientation Visits and Parent

Information Expo

Monday 29 August 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Monday 5 September 2:00pm to 3:00pm

Monday 12 September 2:00pm to 3:00pm

(*No Parent Info Expo on Monday 12th September - Orientation

Visit only)

TERM 4: Transition Visits

Monday 21 November 10:00am to 2:00pm

Monday 28 November 10:00am to 2:00pm

Monday 5 December 10:00am to 2:00pm

WONDERFUL LEARNING IN SEMESTER 1

Students in Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 are to be com-

mended on the wonderful learning they have achieved

this semester. I thank all students for the hard work

and effort that they have displayed and look forward to

seeing their future learning achievements next semes-

ter. I wish students a happy and safe holiday. I am

grateful for the ongoing support from our parents/

carers, we are a part of a wonderful community. Finally

thank you to our teachers and support staff who have

worked tirelessly to achieve the best outcomes for our

students.

Mrs Grieve

Assistant Principal

Pictured below is Year 1 student Ishaan working on his

whiteboard while listening to a storybook.

MAKING PAYMENTS ONLINE

The Department of Education have launched a new

online payment portal linked to our school’s website to

make it easier for you to pay for school related pay-

ments. This is a secure payment page hosted by West-

pac.

Payments can be made for the voluntary school contri-

bution, excursions and other events that occur at our

school. (payments for P&C and canteen cannot be ac-

cepted online - this includes uniforms).

To make a payment online just go to our school website

(google Chatham Public School) and click on “make a

payment” (appears above the photo on the homep-

age). Follow the prompts to make the payment via Visa

or Mastercard.

Please clearly identify who the payment is for and what

the payment is for, for processing at the school office.

REWARDED FOR HARD WORK

Congratulations to 4M student Tyrone (pictured below)

on the hard work he has produced and for the continu-

al display of our school’s core values of respect, respon-

sibility and endeavour.

Thank you to our local newsagency “Chatham Newsa-

gency “ for their generous donation of the gift baskets.

AWARDS 27.6.16

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SILVER

Caitlin 4M

Amelia 3A

Chris 5/6M

Cobi 2M

Emily 2M

Zane 3A

Will 2/3G

GOLD

Kashaya 4/5C

Kashaya 4/5C

Abygale 1R

Aleana 1R

Brock 1F

Violet 1R

Blake 2M

Chloe 5/6M

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KINDER PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Our parent/teacher interviews for Kinder students

were held on Tuesday. There was a great response by

our Kindergarten parent/carers who made the most of

this opportunity to discuss the academic progress of

their children.

Pictured below are Kindergarten teachers (L to R) Miss

Welch, Mrs Wells and Mrs Wykes.

CANTEEN NEWS

ROSTER

Tues 19 July Nicole Barber

Wed 20 July Fay Van Vegchel, Simon Morse,

Jen McLeod

Thurs 21 July Rebecca Muir, Cath Keelan

Fri 22 July Rebecca Muir, Louise Bussey

Mon 25 July Fay Van Vegchel, Jen McLeod

Tues 26 July Nicole Barber

Wed 27 July Fay Van Vegchel, Simon Morse,

Jen McLeod

Thurs 28 July Rebecca Muir, Louise Martin

Fri 29 July Rebecca Muir, Jess Murray

VOLUNTEERS URGENTLY REQUIRED

If anyone is interested in helping the canteen, any

amount of time would be appreciated, please visit our

school canteen or phone 6552 3024.

NEW MENU

A new canteen menu will be going home with this

newsletter.

PROGRESS ON PLAYGROUND

Our infant’s playground is progressing nicely. It should

be ready for use next term.

Pictured below are 2M students Cobi and La-Shay

showing how wonderful this new playground will be.