Granville east public school

Term 2- Week 6 Thursday 6th June 2019

TERM 2 CALENDAR

Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Monday 10 June

P & C Meeting Wednesday 19 June 9am

PJ Day Wednesday 26 June

Term 2 - 2019

Tuesday 30 April to

Friday 5th July

Week 6—my the term is flying! It’s hard to believe we are almost half way through the year! So much has happened over the last 2 weeks—both inside classrooms and beyond. Here are some highlights…

A new P&C Executive

Due to some vacancies, we have some new P&C officer bearers:

• President: Manal Hadid-Charif

• Vice President: Mona Alahmad

• Assistant VP: Ana Vukovinski

• Secretaries: Salehah Mubeen and

Janet Pritchard-Pelasio

• Treasurer: Rabiha Hadid

• Canteen manager: Amale Yassin

Thank you to these parents. We had a very productive P&C meeting with P&C contributing half of the funds towards our new soap dispensers and fragrance machines in the student toilets; as well as funds dedicated to classroom supplies and playground equipment .

We have an Earn and Learn box in the office—please put your Woolies stickers in there. And the P&C are supporting a plastic bottle recycling program.

One of the Community Warriors also spoke to the P&C about their donations drive for The House Of Welcome. Please donate toiletries...

Our Learning Conversations are famous!

Last week Mrs Delvecchio was asked to present to a conference of Stage 3 teachers about our student-led Learning Conversations. About 100 teachers across Sydney gathered at the Centre for Professional Learning in Surry Hills to hear what Mrs Delvecchio had to say about the way we develop student independence in sharing their learning with families. She received great feedback—and did us proud!

Also—we had a visit from the Fair Education Team (part of Australian Schools Plus) to help us document our Learning Conversations initiative. They were very impressed with our progress and data. We will present this at another conference in August!

We have a new

school App!!

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SchoolStream

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Visual Literacy alive! Students in Stage 2 and 3 have been learning about the impact that images can have on a reader/viewer. They’ve been studying the elements that composers use to try and position us (to make us think, feel or act on something). Very powerful stuff, indeed!

Students investigating texts...

AND… teachers have also been working hard.

Yesterday, a team of 10 staff worked together on analysing student writing samples. They examined writing books, looking for student skills and understandings that represent being “on track” for achieving at their stage.

We have developed a bank of writing samples, with notes to support high-quality, consistent teacher judgement. Very impressive!!

Finally—students have been learning about Reconciliation Week and about the ways in which we can share truths and walk together with courage. Ask your child about what they’ve learned.

Eid Mubarak!

Louise Reynolds, Principal

This term KEora have been learning about their own history of their family. The unit allowed students opportunities to extend their learning by incorporating historical understanding and skills into real-life situations, routines and teachable moments. Students read stories and viewed pictures from other cultures and parts of the world. From this, students listened, discussed and recalled stories about their family. Students brought in a family photo and completed drawings to identify the family members and the uniqueness of their family structure. Students compared similarities and differences among each other’s families and discussed the important ways in which family provides the basic needs of love, food, shelter, clothing, companionship, and protection to their members. Ms E and Ms Sayan

Teachers at GEPS work really hard to help our students develop social awareness skills, relationship skills, responsible decision making and self-management strategies.

We do this to assist students in explaining and understanding their feelings, know how their actions could make someone else feel and to develop strategies in dealing with their different emotions.

There are things that you can do at home to help your child think deeper about their day at school and to share their feelings. One way is asking good questions.

Here are 10 questions to ask your child instead of “How was your day?”

1. What was the best thing that happened at school today?

2. What was the hardest thing you had to do today?

3. Tell me something that made you laugh today.

4. Tell me about what you read in class today. What did your teacher read you today?

5. What part of school is your favourite?

6. What are you looking forward to at school tomorrow?

7. What subject do you like the best? Why?

8. Did anyone do something nice for you today?

9. Did you do something nice for someone?

10. If you were the teacher, what would you do with the class tomorrow?

I would love to hear your childs’ responses.

Please send responses to Mrs Mellish through the school email address or write them out and put them onto her desk.

Thank you to all the classes and the community warriors that helped with the

garden.

We would also like to thank everyone who took care of the worms. Also a big

thanks to the parents that purchased our fresh produce!

Many parents made healthy meals and sent us photos of their hard work. The winners of the

competition are Roman and Eden however it was really hard to choose the winner.

We hope everyone will continue cooking healthy meals at home.

Pritchard P dinner made with GEPS eggplant and spring onions …. yummmmmm

Each newsletter we’ll be having a problem of the week. Families can work together to solve this problem. Solve the problem in multiple ways and submit your answer to Ms Beede’s box in the office. We look forward to seeing your results!

School Fair Necklaces (from: nrich.maths.org/9692) Rob and Jennie were making necklaces to sell at the school fair. They decided to make them very mathematical. Each necklace was to have eight beads, four of one colour and four of another. And each had to be symmetrical similar to the one in the picture.

How many different necklaces could they make?

Can you find them all? How do you know there aren't any others?

What if they had 9 beads, five of one colour and four of another?

GEPS-CONNECTSA Granville East Public School Strategy

2019

Why Learning Conversations? We believe that all members of our community are learners and that we learn best together. What are they?

* a 3-way conversation (teacher–student–families);* half an hour, twice a year;* includes personalised tips for help at home.

* all voices are heard;* focused on your child’s learning; . . . Impact!

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