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02 4938 5114 This newsletter & attached forms are available to download at: www.paterson-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Term 2 ~ Week 1 May 3rd 2019 Coming Events

MAY Mon 6th - Robocup

Tue 7th - Focus Group - 5.30pm

Wed 8th - 1/2 Assembly

Thu 9th - Focus Group - 9.00am

Fri 10th - Mother’s Day breakfast 8.00am

- Mother’s Day stall

Tue 14th - NAPLAN to Fri 24th

Thu 16th - TRAIN 4 School 10.am

Sat 18th - Federal Election - Sausage Sizzle

Wed 23 - Interelate from 6.-00pm

- Kinder Assem,bly

NOTES SENT HOME:

Mothers Day Breakfast R.S.V.P.

Canteen Roster and Menu

Newsletter Week 1, Term 2 ~ Principal’s Report

Welcome Back Welcome back to term 2. This is a ten week term, with the last day for students on Friday, 5th July. During the cooler weather, we have a large amount of jumpers and jackets that are left in various places at school. Please check your child’s clothing and ensure that the labels can be clearly seen so that we can make sure they are returned to their owners.

Tocal Field Days We have a large crew of volunteers working at Tocal Field Days today and across the weekend for our major school fundraiser. This is a huge undertaking, and I would like to acknowledge the time, energy and hard work of our amazing community who make this event such a success every year. If you have family and friends visiting Tocal over the weekend please let them know they can purchase some delicious food, cold drinks, and tasty treats at the PPS stall on Eat Street.

Sport this Week Congratulations to our cricket team who had a convincing win against Dungog Public School on Thursday. Our soccer team is due to play today against Vacy and we wish them all the best.

Focus Group Invitation Many thanks to those families who completed their online survey regarding school communication about learning. I am holding two opportunities to continue that conversation more deeply next week. I would love to see you to further discuss what you would like to see in our semester reports. There are two sessions:

Tuesday, 7th May at 5.30pm in the school library. Thursday, 9th May at 9am in the school library.

If you are able to attend, please complete the RSVP form at the bottom of the newsletter.

ANZAC Day It was wonderful to see such a large group of students at the Paterson ANZAC day dawn service in the holidays. Many thanks to the students for their attendance and excellent manners, and the parents for managing to get them out of bed on time.

Earn and Learn We are participating in the Woolworths Earn and Learn promotion again this year. We have collection boxes at Woolworths Pender Place and Rutherford. Stickers can also be dropped in to the office. It would help us if you could mention this to your fami-ly and friends so that we can make the most of the opportunity to access equipment for our school.

Mother’s Day Breakfast and Stall Don’t forget that mothers and carers are invited to our Mother’s Day Breakfast on Friday, 10th May from 8am. We look forward to seeing you there. It would be much appreciated if you could complete the RSVP on the flyer for catering purposes.

Interrelate We will be hosting an Interrelate family night on Wednesday, 23rd May. The first session from 6 – 7pm is ‘Where Did I come From?’, and the second from 7.15pm – 8.15pm is ‘Preparing for Puberty’. Both are suitable for students from year 3 and up with their parents, and are facilitated by an experienced, relaxed, and funny educator from Interrelate. Books to help you tackle these tricky subjects at home with your child will also be available to purchase at the event. The cost is $32 per family for one session or $37 per family for both. A note will come home next week with more details.

Staff Leave in Term 2 Miss Authers is taking long service leave from week 5 until the end of this term (Monday, 27th May to Friday, 5th June). Mrs Hunter will be our Kindergarten teacher during that time. My long service leave commences on Monday, 10th June and I will return to school in week 3, term 3 (Monday, 5th August). The role of relieving principal is advertised today and I will let you know as soon as the appointment has been made.

Robocup Training Day On Monday we have nine students attending a Robocup training day at Dungog High School. They will undertake training in coding Lego Robots as a team to meet a selected challenge. This will prepare our teams for a possible entry in the Robocup competition later in the year. Many thanks to Mr Lowrey for supporting our students in this program.

Uniform Orders.

NEWS FLASH!!

You are now able to pay for uniforms online direct to the P&C (NOT THE SCHOOL, uniform payments made to the online school account will be rejected). The Paterson P&C’s account details are: BSB ~ 062-813 Account No. ~ 00905893 Please use your child’s full name for reference description.

Canteen Roster Monday 6th May CLOSED

Wednesday 8th May Bec Lascelles

Friday 10th May Robyn & Robert Cowan

Monday 13th May Tien Norley

Wednesday 15th May Leah Gale

Any new students wishing to enrol for guitar lessons please contact me on

0419642096 or email: encloimusic@bigpond.com

You can make use of the creative kids voucher of $100 from Service NSW, when

you enrol.

regards, Eric Loi

Focus Group RSVP please tick which session you would like to attend and return to school by Monday 6th May 3.00pm

Name: _________________________________________________________can attend the Focus Group session on:

Tuesday 7th May at 5.30pm in the school library

Thursday 9th May at 9.00am in the school library

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Canteen Update Thank you to all the wonderful people who have been able to volunteer their time in canteen for Term 2. With their help, canteen will again be open for lunch and recess on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays this term, with two volunteers now rostered on our busy Fridays.

Please keep an eye on the newsletter and the canteen Facebook page "Paterson Public School P & C Canteen" for canteen closures as there are a few this term.

Please note that the canteen will be closed this Monday 6th May.

The canteen menu for this term was sent home this week and we are happy to note that we have reduced the price of some of our yummy healthier options. We have also added in some delicious new snacks such as pancakes, bags of Cheerios and Fruity Bites and the Sipaah straws that were so popular last term!

Thank you for supporting our school canteen!

Regards, Leah