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Term 3 Week 9

Fri 20 Sep Interest Electives

Term 3 Week 10

Thur 26 Sep Kinder Info Session 6pm

Fri 27 Sep Kinder Info Session 10am

Fri 27 Sep Book Week Dress Up

Fri 27 Sep Last Day of Term 3

Term 4 Week 1

Mon 14 Oct Staff & Students Return

Tue 15 Oct Kinder Orientation

2pm – 3:15pm

Thur 17 Oct Life Ed Visit

Fri 18 Oct Life Ed Visit

Term 4 Week 2

Tue 22 Oct Kinder Orientation

2pm – 3:15pm

Fri 25 Oct P&C Meeting

Fri 25 Oct P&C Fete

2019 NAPLAN TEST

RESULTS

NAPLAN test results for students

in Years 3 and 5 who sat for the

National Literacy and Numeracy

tests earlier this year will be sent

home in a sealed envelope with

your child on Monday 23

September. If you would like to

discuss your child’s results please

make an appointment to see

your child’s teacher.

Save the Date!!

Please make a note in the diary

that our Annual Presentation

Night will be held on

Wednesday 11 December 2019.

Trent Barrett Shield

Well done to our Boys Rugby Team and Girls League Tag teams who

recently participated at the Trent Barrett Shield Gala Day held at

Jubilee Oval in Griffith. The Boys won 2 games and lost 2, with Zane

being named best and fairest with 10+ tries, huge effort. Our Girls

with the help of some Yenda PS girls won all their games and are now

off to the Grand Final Day at Parramore Park in Wagga Wagga on

Tuesday 24 September 2019. Just a reminder that the first game starts

at 10:05am so players need to arrive by 9:35am to be changed and

warm up.

School Holidays

With the school holidays approaching, just a reminder to students

that the school grounds are off limits during this period. If anyone

does witness any suspicious activity, please contact the School

Security Hotline on 1300 880 021 or the Police.

School will resume on Monday 14 October.

Term 3 – Week 10 Monday, 23 September 2019

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K/1B

Maggie Burns – fantastic efforts in our draw, talk,

write, share activities. Keep up the good work!

Brady Heath – working hard in independent

activities, especially writing. Well done!

1/2H

Sophie McLean – working hard to complete

independent writing tasks.

Dana Heath – making valuable contributions in

maths discussions.

3/4M

Daniel Wilde – being an amazing team player at

Trent Barrett.

Siena Norris – answering lots of higher order

questions.

5/6G

Joshua Harvison – displaying confidence and

competence when working with decimals and

fractions in Mathematics.

Daneeka Fejsa-Sexton – systematically working

through the ‘Writing Process’ to produce creative

pieces of published work.

Star of Week 9

Reece – K/1B

Reece is our Star of the Week for K/1B. He is a

caring classmate who strives to do his best in all

learning opportunities. He has a great sense of

humour and always offers to help around the

classroom. Reece works hard to achieve his

learning goals and asks for help when needed.

Keep up the great work Reece!

K/1B

Reece Carter – awesome fluency when reading.

Tyler Stevens – fantastic work in Maths when

making patterns.

1/2H

Coby Davies – always getting tasks completed in a

timely manner and to the best of her ability.

Isabella Feltham – working hard to use and practice

new Maths strategies.

3/4M

Dexter Brennan – working very hard to succeed in

all his learning.

River Maxwell – keen participation in class and

better concentration.

5/6G

Dylan Goodsall – working well this week with

decimals and averages in Mathematics.

Angelina Taylor – a great effort with tasks in

‘Literacy Groups’, including Spelling

K/1B – Daniel, Tyler & Reece

1/2H – Dallas, Violet & Coby

3/4M – Dexter, Layne, Rusty, Starlette, Jed, Daniel

& Layla

5/6G – Coopah & Ashley

K/1B – Emma, Kiara, Brady, Kyell & Vanessa

1/2H – Isabella, Dallas, Jharal, Coby, Baxta & Dana

3/4M – Siena, Clancy & Zane

5/6G – Brock, Colita & Daneeka

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Opportunity Class

This year, in the opportunity class our project was

to participate in the CWA Country of Study

Powerpoint Competition. Papua New Guinea is

our country for 2019. We were given the

competition criteria and each member of our

group allocated topics to themselves. There are 3

main topics; History, Geography and Culture,

with lots of subtopics within each of those. We

researched information and put them into our

own words in our books before typing them up

onto the Powerpoint slides. We have 20

completed slides that includes a Bibliography. We

decided on a format for our slides that includes

animations, transitions, background, pictures and

video. We will submit our entry in term 4 and

judging will take place early in 2020.

Semester 2 Public Speaking

It’s that time of the year again! It is time to prepare

for our bi-annual ‘Public Speaking’ competition.

Students will prepare their speeches AT HOME and

bring them to school by the required date. Although

ALL students are REQUIRED to write a speech as part

of their talking/listening assessment, only 3-4 students

from each class will present their speeches at our

school assembly.

The theme for the speeches will be…IF YOU COULD

INVITE ANYONE (EITHER ALIVE, DEAD or

FAMOUS) TO A SPECIAL CELEBRATION (eg

birthday, graduation, wedding), WHO WOULD IT

BE AND WHY?

Students could consider the following: WHAT kind

of celebration would you invite them to? WHO

would you invite and WHY? WHAT is special about

the people you would like to invite? WHERE will

you have your celebration (your place, a restaurant

or somewhere else)? HOW will your guests get

there? WHAT would you be doing/eating etc?

WHAT would you talk about? How would it make

you feel to have them there?

(Students in K/1/2 might talk about inviting 1-3

people, while older students could discuss inviting as

many as 5).

Speeches will NEED to be written before they are

required for assembly. Classes will present at

assembly in the following weeks…

Week 4 - 8 Nov classes 3/4 & 5/6

Week 5 - 15 Nov classes K/1 & 1/2

As usual, students will be scored on their speeches at

assembly and the students with the highest scores will

receive a small trophy for their efforts (hopefully in

week 6 or 7, at assembly).

If parents OR students have any queries, you should

see your class teacher ASAP.

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Special Photos Ordering

Sports & Special photos are available to view and

order online using the online order code or cash

orders can be made at the school.

The photo prices are:

$16.00 each

2 for $30.00

3 for $42.00

4 for $52.00 or

5 for $60.00

You can also view these photos in the school

office.