Term 4 Plunkett Street News Week 6, 2016 · for the Netball tournament coming up. I have been impressed with some of the kid’s netball skills especially considering they have never

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Plunkett Street News

Term 4 Week 6, 2016

Dates for the Calendar

Term 4, 2016

November 24th Centennial Park - Preschool

25th Assembly - Preschool

30th Pups Smelly Adventure - Preschool

December 1st Kindergarten transition

2nd Kindergarten transition

3rd Woolloomooloo Block Party

5th TOPS Excursion - Uluru

9th Books In Homes Assembly

9th K-6 Netball Afternoon

12th Presentation Day Assembly

14th Macquarie Bank Christmas Party

16th K-6 Talent Quest

16th Last day of school P-6 for 2016

We are already half way through term four and

things are getting very busy. There are many

exciting activities happening over the next few

weeks.

On Saturday the 3rd of December, Plunkett St

students will be dancing at the Woolloomooloo

Block Party at approximately 12:30. Students are

asked to be at the basketball courts from midday.

We will be decorating the area with student made

Christmas decorations and performing a dance that

the students have learnt this term with Maya our

dance teacher. This is an open invitation to all

families and community members to celebrate the

creativity of our students. I will send out more

information when I receive it.

Thanks to the Kings Cross Police, the students in

years 3-6 will be travelling by bus on December the

5th to TOPS at Stanwell Park. During the day the

students will take part in fun and engaging activities

that are both challenging and engaging. Permission

notes will be handed out to the students next week.

Friday the 9th of December is our Books In Homes

Assembly from 9:30 am. Children’s author Lindy

Batchelor will be talking about her experiences and

working at Taronga Zoo and her books. At 1:30 we

will be having a pizza lunch and then from 2pm

students will take part in a netball competition –

Banara Vs. Pemul. Please join us.

Finally, our Presentation Day Assembly will take

place at 9:30 on Monday 12th December. Please join

us in celebrating the achievements of 2016.

Juliet Sonter

Our school rules

Be Safe

Be Respectful

Be an Active Learner

It has been a busy two weeks in Kakadu. Dance has started again and the children have done some excellent dancing with their dance teacher Maya. We have also been having lots of fun in Science…making explosions! The children were amazed when they made a foaming potion and discovered how they could make it change colour. This week we made an erupting volcano and investigated why it erupted and if we could get it to erupt again! We have been learning about pattern in maths and have made lots of repeating patterns and counting number patterns. Our wonderful Story Factory Buddies have working with us to create poems about our senses. The children have been working really hard and we can’t wait to share them with you.

Term 4 is going very quickly and we have all been keeping busy. All the

students have been working really hard on their individual research

projects where they have picked an animal and are making a mini

information book on that animal. They are all starting to look great. We

have also been learning and practicing netball skills so that we are ready

for the Netball tournament coming up. I have been impressed with some of

the kid’s netball skills especially considering they have never played

before. We also welcomed in the year 2 students to our class for the

morning. They all got straight to work and joined in with the activities.

Preschool have been very creative over the last two weeks. They have been dancing to music. We have learned quite a few little dancing games. We are going to perform one for you next week at Assembly. It’s called the Bondi Boogie. The dance teacher, Maya who comes in each week, has shown us some really professional moves for it. Besides dancing we have been performing music to play to you later for Christmas….clapsticks, drums and bells. There has been very creative activity both at the playdough table and with the collage materials. Some wonderful paintings were made too. I have included one collage and two paintings for you to see. One is Inara’s painting of her family in the park getting their photograph taken and the other is Eric’s very dramatic painting of the “non” supermoon….he went to the beach to see it and there were only a few stars to see the cloud was over the moon.

KidsMatter Primary is a mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention

initiative for Australian primary schools. The Australian Government funded KidsMatter

Primary to be rolled out to a total of 2000 schools by June 2014.

KidsMatter Primary aims to help:

· improve the mental health and wellbeing of primary school students;

· reduce mental health problems in students; and

· achieve greater support for students with mental health problems and their

families.

On Monday 14th November all staff stayed at school to complete three hours of

Kidsmatter professional learning. We began the session relooking at the achievements

we have made developing our positive school culture and implementing social and

emotional learning programs across the school P-6. Then we worked through

Component 3 – Working with parents and carers. I believe Plunkett St Public School staff

work very closely with parents and carers to ensure the best educational outcomes for

our students. The positive relationships we have developed have an enormous impact

on the well-being of all of our students. I would like to congratulate the parents and

carers of Plunkett St students on their commitment to their child’s school and education.

If you would like any further information, please let me know.

The KidsMatter website can be found at http://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/primary.

Positive Behaviour for Learning is an evidence based, whole school process to improve

learning outcomes for all students.

This term, classroom teachers have been writing and implementing a series of lessons

that explicitly teach expected behaviours in all settings across the school. On Monday

19th December all staff will participate in professional learning to ensure the successful

implementation of Positive Behaviour for Learning in 2017. Carla de Englis will lead the

professional learning and the staff will continue to improve specific practices for Plunkett

St. Public School. If you would like any more information, please see Juliet. Just a

reminder, our expected behaviours are:

Be Safe

Be respectful

Be an Active Learner

POSITIVE BEHAVIOR FOR LEARNING

SPORT Information

Please Note: we are holding our Plunkett Street Netball Afternoon on Friday 9th

December from 2pm at the courts behind the school. Families are invited to join

us for a $2 pizza lunch at 1:30 at school and then to watch the netball.

Community Message - Special Needs Football ( Soccer) Program

This program allows boys & girls of ages 5- 16 the opportunity to play football in the

mainstream environment during the SGFA Competition. We have enjoyed great success on &

off field with skills, social interaction & many fantastic football opportunities at both local &

special event levels.

We are having an open afternoon on Friday Nov 25 & Dec 2nd at Parkside Drive Carss Park.

Please fill in the attached survey or make enquiries at: warriors@ sgfa.com.au / Penny 0425

296 917. We look forward to hearing from families as soon as possible in order to make plans

for 2017. https://form.jotform.co/63010377595861

Our gates are locked for the safety of our whole school community. The Dowling

Street entrance is locked at 9:30 and re opens at 2:30 each day. Please enter

the school by the Forbes Street entrance at any other time of the day.

A BIG thank you to Rebecca Grunsell (Levi’s mum) for organising the delivery of

a fresh fruit box every week for the Breakfast Club. Thank you to Ooooby as well!