Principal’s Report Term 2 - Week 5 ~ 21.05.2021

Attendance

Regular attendance at school is vital for success in education. School attendance rate targets

are embedded in our School Improvement Plan as having our students at school makes a

difference to academic, social and wellbeing achievement. From this week, I will report our

percentage of students attending, and the percentage of students attending at above 90% of

school days per term. A 90% attendance rate means that your child has missed 20 days of

school (four full weeks in total) across the year. It has been a very difficult time recently with

various illnesses and of course we would not want any sick students to attend school, but if

they cannot attend for any reason

please let us know as soon as possible.

If you need any support in getting your

children to school on time, please let

us know as we are available to support.

Please see our current attendance rates against targets to date.

P&C Meeting

Many thanks to the trusty crew of families who attended the P&C meeting on Monday night. In very exciting news, the Tocal Committee was able to report a profit from the Field Days Fundraiser of just over $24,000. This is the result of a huge amount of planning and sheer hard work and I am sure many much bigger schools would struggle to make such a significant contribution through fundraising. After some discussion, it was decided to allocate a large amount of those funds to a playground equipment upgrade and I am currently seeking some options and estimates.

Check-In Assessment Results

In 2020 a new optional online assessment was introduced to assist schools to gather data on reading and numeracy for year 3 and 5

students as NAPLAN did not take place last year. We opted to participate, and as a comparison we administered the same assessment to

year 4 and 6 students this year to track progress. There are some very pleasing results, which are summarised in the table. The data from

2020 informed school planning and resourcing

and the data indicates that our programs have

had a significant impact, although there is still

some work to do. Ongoing data analysis of the

2021 results, paired with additional data sets,

will give us rich information about how to

continue to grow our academic results. SSSG

refers to schools with similar profiles to us in

terms of socio-economic status and some other

factors.

Learning Boost Program

Our Learning Boost program has started Phase 2. This program is for students who are achieving at expected level in the classroom and

who would benefit from a ‘Boost’ in certain areas to assist them to reach their full potential. Students are identified through classroom

data. In Phase 1 leading up to this point, the focus was on reading and there were some outstanding results. We have moved our focus to

numeracy this term. All participating students will bring home a letter outlining the program in more detail in the next few days.

Upcoming Events

All the best to our soccer team who will play two games in a gala day on Monday, and to our debating teams who will participated in a hotly contested debate on Tuesday – Paterson PS year 5 vs Paterson PS year 6. Thank you to our teachers for their organisation.

Semester 1 Academic Reports

Our semester 1 academic reports will come home to students on the Tuesday of the final week of school prior to the holidays. There are

no formal parent teacher interviews this term, but please feel free to contact your child’s teacher to discuss any aspect of the report.

With thanks,

Mrs Hazell

Term 2 - 2021

Coming Events JUNE Wed 2nd - StarStruck rehearsal

Mon 14th - Public Holiday

Wed 16th - Starstruck rehearsal

Thu 17th - STEAM Day

Fri 18th - StarStruck Matinee

Sat 19th - StarStruck Night Perf

Mon 21st - - Athletics Carnival

(Please note change of date)

- P&C meeting 7pm

Fri 25th - Last day for Term 2

JULY Mon 12th - Staff Development Day

Tue 13th - All students return for Term 3

Current Target

Overall Attendance 93.7% 98%

Attending Above 90% 78.8% 85%

Year 3 Reading 2020 4.7% below SSSG 6.4% below state

Year 4 Reading 2021 5.9% above SSSG 4.2% above state

Year 5 Reading 2020 5.4% above SSSG 6% above state

Year 6 Reading 2021 5.6% above SSSG 6.2% above state

Year 3 Numeracy 2020 6.4% below SSSG 8.1% below state

Year 4 Numeracy 2021 2.1% below SSSG 2.4% below state

Year 5 Numeracy 2020 1.4% above SSSG 1.5% above state

Year 6 Numeracy 2021 4.3% above SSSG 4.7% above state

What’s New In 2/3! 2/3 have started a new novel study this week “Fantastic Mr Fox” by Roald Dahl. Students have loved listening to the first few chapters and have enjoyed learning how Mr.Fox outwits his farmer neighbours to steal their food from right under their noses.

We will be completing many literacy and numeracy lessons linking to the novel over the next few weeks. Our first activity asked students to research some interesting facts about foxes to give us some background knowledge about the main character, Mr Fox.

Paterson Public School

Athletics Carnival

(Please note change of date)

Monday 21st June

at

Paterson Oval

9.30am

Canteen available

Bring a chair, blanket and your cheering voice.

If you are willing to assist on the day with field events and time keeping please phone the school on 4938 5114

or let Mr Lowrey know.

WK 2 26th April

Cass Baxter

28th April

Leah Gale

30th April

CLOSED TOCAL

WK 3 3rd May

CLOSED TOCAL

CLEAN UP

5th May

Jess Presland

7th May

Jacky Keena & Rhianna Gorfine

WK 4 10th May

Volunteer needed

12th May

Leah Gale

14th May

Jacky Keena & Rhianna Gorfine

WK 5 17th May

Volunteer needed

19th May

Rhianna Gorfine

21st May

Linda Wood &

Danielle Cowled

WK 6 24th May

Karen Ford

26th May

Leah Gale

28th May

Robyn Cowan &

Gen Fitzgerald

WK 7 31st May

Ann-Maree Ure

2nd June

Kristie Cridland

4th June

Rhianna Gorfine &

Heidi Barker

WK 8 7th June

Cass Baxter

9th June

Leah Gale

11th June

Robyn Cowan &

Gen Fitzgerald

WK 9 14th June

Public Holiday

16th June

Heidi Barker

18th June

Nicole Paterson &

Danielle Crebert

WK 10 21st June

Kerri Hicks

23rd June

Leah Gale

Monday Wednesday Friday

Term 2

Canteen Roster

This is a limited time offer and it ends Monday, May 31 at 11.59pm AEST, so be quick!

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