Pelican Flat Public School Ph: 02 4971 1543 Fax: 02 4972 1380 Email: pelicanflt-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Karog Street, Pelican NSW 2281 Principal: Miss Crystal McGuigan Principals Message Education Spectacular We would like to invite you all to our Education Spectacular Day on Wednesday next week. The day will go as follows: 10am Open classrooms (including some STEM activities) 11am Morning Tea 11:30 NAIDOC activities 1pm BBQ lunch (supplied by the school) 2pm Book Week assembly It will be a fantastic day and we look forward to seeing all of our parents, families and school community there. The Rumpus Room Child Centre Exciting news: The Rumpus Room Long Day Care Centre is opening next year, just behind our school. Their design theme is based on a favourite children s story called Where the Wild Things Are. For enquiries please visit their website: https://www.therumpusroom.com.au/pelican-2/ or call (02) 4940 8686 Hunter Inter-schools (Zone) Public Speaking competition We would like to wish Mia, Josh, Edie, Kirra, Harlee and Isis, who are representing our school at the Hunter Inter-Schools Public Speaking competition next week, all the very best. English Stage 3/4 Programming and Assessment Project Miss Shannon is in Sydney on Thursday and Friday attending a 2 day conference for the English Stage 3 and 4 Programming and Assessment Project. This is a project, which the Galgabba schools are able to participate in, due to a successful grant application. We look forward to working with the other schools to strengthen our students literacy skills in Stage 3 and 4. P&C meeting I look forward to seeing you at the P&C meeting on Monday evening at 6pm. Geography Walk On Tuesday next week the Infants students (K/1/2) will be going on a walk around our community to identify and look at the natural and man-made items in our community. We will leave at 1:30pm and parents will be picking students up from the Pelican foreshore. Please ensure permission notes are returned ASAP. Term 3 - Week 3 Galgabba SDD After school on Wednesday next week Miss Mac will be heading to Swansea Public School for a meeting to finalise our Galgabba Staff Development Day afternoon on the 5 th September from 3:30-6:30pm. These evenings are attended in lieu of the 2 staff development days at the end of the year. Galgabba debating Best wishes to Cherron, Jack, Jade, Josh and Molly who are participating in the Galgabba Debating competition next week. Miss Shannon will be preparing the students and taking them to the event. Please return your permission notes ASAP. LEAD Principals day On Friday 17 th August I will be attending the LEAD Principal Network meeting all day. This is a day where all Principals in the Glenrock and Lake Macquarie East, West, North regions come together for professional learning. 5/6 Camp Some of our Year 5 and 6 students are off to camp with Blacksmiths students in week 6. We hope they have a wonderful time. STEM expo Our 4/5/6 students have been working so very hard on their STEM projects for the upcoming STEM expo and they will have the opportunity to share these projects with their family and friends during or open classrooms on Wednesday. AECG meeting The next Aboriginal Education Consultative Group (AECG) meeting is at Blacksmith Public School on Tuesday 21 st August at 6pm. Newcastle Permanent Maths Competition Students in Year 5 and 6 will be participating in the Newcastle Permanent Maths competition on Thursday 21 st August. The school has paid for the students to participate. Crystal McGuigan Principal
Term 3 Calendar Week 3 Galgabba Cos meeting (Miss Mac) Garden Club 11am-2pm Thursday 9 th August Tuesday 7 th August Week 4 Zone Athletics (Miss Mac) Stage 3/4 English Conference (Miss Shannon) Mrs Webb in Stage 3/4 English Conference (Miss Shannon) Mrs Webb in Meeting Caves Beach PS 10-11am (Miss Mac) Week 7 Monday 3 rd September Wednesday 5 th September Thursday 6 th September Miss Shannon away Mrs Webb in Miss Shannon away all week Mrs Webb in P&C meeting 6pm Galgabba SDD 3:30-6:30pm (all staff) Monday 13 th August Zone Public Speaking (5/6) P&C meeting 6pm Tuesday 14 th August Zone Public Speaking (3/4) Wednesday 15 th August Thursday 16 th August Infants Geography walk Education Spectacular Galgabba SDD Working Party meeting 3:30pm (Miss Mac) Galgabba Debating competition Friday 17 th August Zone Public Speaking (1/2) Week 5 Mon 20 th Wed 22 nd Aug Monday 20 th August Tuesday 21 st August Wednesday 22 nd August Thursday 23 rd August Friday 24 th August School Counsellor in LEAD Principal s professional learning 5/6 camp with Blacksmiths PS Mr Agnew away Mrs Badman in Mr Agnew away Mrs Badman in STEM expo 5-7pm Swansea HS AECG meeting 6pm (Miss Mac) Mr Agnew away Mrs Badman in Newcastle Permanent maths competition (5/6) Sport - AFL Finance Training (Miss Mac) Week 8 Monday 10 th September Tuesday 11 th September Thursday 13 th September Friday 14 th September Sunday 16 th September Week 9 Tuesday 18 th September Thursday 20 th September Week 10 Monday 24 th September Wednesday 26 th September Thursday 27 th September Miss Shannon away all week Mrs Webb in Assembly 2:15pm (4/5/6 item) Bubbles and Supa Squirt water saving show 2pm Sport Rugby League School counsellor in Caves Beach school fair Year 6 Sydney trip Sport Rugby League School Website training (Miss Mac) Assembly 2:15pm (K/1 item) Year 5 GATs day Swansea HS Sport Rugby League Friday 28 th September Last Day Term 3 School counsellor in Garden Club 11am-2pm Week 6 Monday 27 th August Tuesday 28 th August Thursday 30 th August Friday 31 st August Assembly 2:15pm (2/3 item) K-4 excursion (tentative) School Counsellor in
K/1 with Mrs Simm We are doing some great learning in our class. Sight word lists have been sent home and it is hoped that each child will be able to recognise all words by the end of K/1. We are all on our way which is exciting. Most students are involved in home reading, please see me if books are not being changed regularly. We are looking forward to our Geography excursion next Tuesday. In Science we looked at how water can be destructive in a fascinating experiment. Please see photos. Life Education visited our school and we looked at Body Matters and met Harold. He was a bit naughty but we had lots of fun. Keep up the great work K/1. You make me so proud!!!!
up in such a way. In Science, we tested our packaged goods and dropped them from heights of up to two metres! Congratulations to Hamish, Blaze and Naomi for successfully packing their china bowl so that it didn t break from any time after repeated drops. We have started a new topic called Light Shows! We were lucky to have Life Education visit our class to talk about Relate, Respect and Connect. We spoke about building safe and respectful relationships and the importance of positivity when interacting with other people. Year six students, Jade, Josh and Molly, also had the opportunity to say goodbye to Harold. 2/3 with Mr Agnew Students have been continuing to understand informative texts and how they go to together. They are grasping the importance of topic sentences and hooks to get the reader in. Maths has been all about addition this fortnight, with some students progressing onto adding with decimals. Well done to Baylie and William who were awarded most improved at their times tables the last two weeks. In the pictures below students were enjoying learning about safety in the Life Education van which came on Tuesday. Chase correctly pointed out some parts of the anatomy and William put some vital safety equipment into the camping bag Olivia is holding. Sport Our first week of AFL has started and we went through some basic skills with handling the ball and kicking from the ground. Good luck to all the students who are competing in the Zone Athletics carnival, Wednesday and Thursday of this week. Miss Shannon 4/5/6 with Miss Shannon In English, the students have started their informative texts. They have chosen a topic of their choice and have been busy researching and selecting information to suit their subheadings. In Maths, they have been working hard on their patterns and algebra and they are working out timetables and calendars to do with the topic of time. In Geography, they have studied the world map and identified the continents and the equator and have discussed why the continents were divided
P&C News The last P&C meeting was postponed until Monday 13 th August 6pm, everyone is welcome. A big thank you to the Pelican RSL. Pelican RSL is a major supporter of Pelican Flat PS, once again they have been very kind with the annual Club Grant. This money will go to towards 2 new bbqs and a new gazebo with the school logo for sporting events. Thank you to everyone who supported the pie drive. We are happy to announce the P&C made $400. Canteen News Don t forget to purchase your reusable lunch order bag from the office $10 each. We are currently working on the best way to order with these bags, so please bare with us. Currently if you could please write your fruit break, recess & lunch on a separate piece of paper and remember to write your name on each. We have had a few concerns that this way is wasting paper, so why not write your orders out at home and use recycled paper from used envelops, school note or any scrap paper. Gardening Club Term 3 Dates (from 11am): 31 st August 28 th September If you would like to make a donation towards this toiletries drive please drop off your donation to the front office. We will collect items until Week 5 this Term. For any questions please see Felicity (Zoey s Mum).