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and social skills through innovative practice.

Empowering students to become indeperdependent successful lifelong learners.

Issue #3

Contents Class Suarez & Nanda 2

Class Pauschmann & Grenfell 3

Class Allen & Akuete 4

Class Hamilton & Barrett 5

Class Parke & Daughton 6

Class Hawthorne & Gardener 7

Class Cartledge & Photocopier Sale 8

Community Announcements 9-12

Principal Report Dear Parents and Caregivers, Once again we are having a very busy term with a number of activities happening in the school. Students are currently accessing Ingelburn PS to engage in Ballroom Dancing lessons with a performance later this year as part of our integration with IPS. Other students are engaging in immersion programs with IPS students to build on their communication and social skill development. Our high support students have begun attending ten pin bowling activities at Revesby Worker’s Club and will participate in touraments with RSAC later this term.

We will once again have a number of students representing the school in this years ‘Schools Spectacular’ and ‘Shining Stars’ performances and thank you to those parents who have agreed to support their child to attend rehearsals for both these special occasions.

The school continues to undergo refurbishment with a number of rooms located in the Administration wing receiving a makeover. The front

classroom is now a Library for students to access as part of their daily timetable and the rear classroom has been designated a meeting room to be utilised by staff and parents for workshop presentations, café style morning teas and other social occasions. The photocopy room has had a complete makeover and now provides a more relaxed atmosphere to support teachers on RFF and whilst writing reports. Thank you to Assistant Principal, Marina Pauschmann for her support of these much needed initiatives.

Education Week will be celebrated from August 1st and will be combined with Science Week this year. There will be a number of activities linked to both these important occasions so please lookout for details coming home soon.

Our annual Sports Carnival will be held on Thursday, 18th August. We look forward to welcoming parents to attend this event to cheer on students. Permission notes and venue details will be forwarded home shortly.

Karen McDonell

Dates for your Diary

13/6/2016 – Public Holiday. No school

1/7/2016 – Last Day of Term 2

Term 3 Dates

To be advised

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Class Nanda

Class Suarez

Class Platypus Nanda

Looking after our Environment

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Class Grenfell

Money matters and time waits for no one!

Students are learning how to match Australian coins and notes before

attending the healthy canteen. This term they are learning how to tell

the time using a variety of resources and personal visual

timetables.

Class Pauschmann

Echidna Class keeps busy with lots of activities. Alisha is doing

integration at Ingleburn Public School, Adam is working on his co-

ordination on the spinner, Christiana and Aaliyah are

improving their swimming skills and becoming more confident in the

deep end. Well done



CLASS ALLEN

SHOPPING

CRAFT

COOKING

Class Akuete

Getting ready for Mothers Day.

Akuete’s class have been participating during music therapy with Mr Tommy. The aim is to use music to actively support the students to improve their health, functioning and wellbeing. The students are encouraged to actively explore, engage with, and experience the instruments such as drum and guitar and listen to the songs sung by Tommy.



Class Hamilton

Senior Barrett has continued to enjoy our music therapy lessons. In our last lesson we listened to classical music and had the opportunity to look at and sound a violin. Anna unfortunately was away on the day of our classical lesson but she was previously seen playing an island drum. Well done everybody!

The first of our Year 12 Graduation Ceremonies was marked last week. Our Year 12 students were presented with their Graduation Jersey at Assembly, followed by morning tea served by Class Hamilton.

Mother’s Day Stall Thank you P&C Representatives for putting on the Mothers Day stall. Many of our students accessed the stall where they practiced their money/purchasing skills.



Infants Parke

Kookaburra Parke have been keeping fit and practicing fundamental movement skills during sports sessions. Students have also been trying delicious fruit and vegetables each day at Crunch and Sip. During our cooking program we make healthy recipes such as fruit kebabs. The Kookaburra’s have welcomed a new student Andrea to the class.

Class Daughton

Class Daughton made some artworks with various media,

applying glue and choosing paints and glitters to enhance their work. The class have also been happily

participating to produce some chicken burgers to enjoy, the

perfect snack. Yum!



Class Hawthorne

Hawthorne’s class participated in designing and making a decorative cup for Mother’s Day. The students observed a comparison of paint or a nail polish mix in a wash to create a decorative pattern or a marbled effect without it wiping off the cup. The students observed that the nail polish wash was the most durable. Student chose colours to use in the mix and assisted filling the cup with sweets and wrapping the cup in cellophane. The paint was utilised to create a card and attached to the gift.

Class Gardener To start term 2 off, Class Gardener has been

investigating STEAM projects in class. STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics and is focused on students participating in lessons that include many of their curriculum areas. To begin the process we investigated how boats float? What can they be made of? What designs could we use? And how do they move across water? Over the course of several lessons students were involved in the construction, testing and racing of boats they built. All students enjoyed the process and tried to make their boats as colourful, reliable and fast as possible.



Class Cartledge

After many years of faithful service we have replaced our main photocopier machine with a new one to provide more functionality to staff and administration staff in the school.

For that reason we are advertising the sale of our previous photocopier to the community. Whilst being 6 years old it would be perfect for a small business or office space and comes with included black drum and colour cartrtidges. The unit is ready to be sold. If you are interested can you please call the school office on 0297 731255 and ask for Mary for further details.



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