CHATHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL

STRIVE TO EXCEL

Find us at: 17-19 Chatham Ave, Taree NSW 2430

Ph: 02 6551 1081 Fax: 02 6551 2012 Email: chatham-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Friday 14 December 2012

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

COOPERATION - RESPECT - RESPONSILIBITY - SAFETY PAGE 1

Good afternoon,

The end of another busy year.

As usual it has been a year full of

opportunities for your children.

The year has also seen a huge

change in the business admin-

istration processes of the school

and next year we will be imple-

menting a whole new process of

financial management.

I thank you for your support dur-

ing the year, I understand that

there will always be some deci-

sions that do not make everyone

happy. However we operate on

the premise that any decision

made is for the good of the

whole school, not a minority

group.

Congratulations to our award

recipients from our School

IMPORTANT DATES

FRIDAY 14 DECEMBER (today) Students Reports go home

MONDAY 17 DECEMBER Year 6 Farewell

1T & 1/2F singing at Karingal Gardens

WEDNESDAY 19 DECEMBER Last Day of Term/Year

Concert/Mini Disco/Fete

WEDNESDAY 30TH JANUARY 2013

First day of school for students for 2013

Presentation Assembly yester-

day.

Enjoy your Christmas break, be

safe and I look forward to work-

ing with you throughout next

year.

Regards

Mr Marshall Callow

Term 4 Week 10 Issue 16

Last Day of Term/Year 2012

for students

Wednesday 19 December

UNIFORM DONATIONS

Donations are requested for

uniforms to supplement our

emergency clothing pool. All

sizes would be appreciated.

Thank you

SCHOOL BAND PERFORMANCE

On Wednesday 29th November, the Wahroon-

ga Public School Band visited our school. They

played many great songs and even had the

teachers up playing an instrument and dancing.

First Day of 2013

for students

Wednesday 30th January

(Kinders have their own special date)

THANKS TO CHATHAM NEWSAGENCY, ANDY’S CAKE KITCHEN AND RADIO 2RE

FOR THEIR SUPPORT ONCE AGAIN IN 2012!!

Our School Captains and Vice Captains

for 2013 were announced at our

Presentation Assembly yesterday. Con-

gratulations to Captains Gabrielle Arm-

strong and Kaleb Corbett and Vice Cap-

tains Madison Littlejohns and Jesse

Doran (pictured above)

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PRESENTATION ASSEMBLY 2012

Book Awards

KA Eboney Chapman - Excellence in Literacy Eli Heard - Class Citizen KP Caitlin Sheldon - Excellence in Literacy Nicholas George - Excellence in Numeracy K/1W Damon Budden - Excellent commitment to learning Brady Cross - Excellence in Numeracy 1T Harrison Jobson - Citizenship Award Jacob Smith - An improved effort in class & sport

1/2F Breeanna Kington - Improvement in reading and excellent attitude towards learning Skye Kvist - Academic Excellence across all areas and fantas tic attitude to learning 2H Jade Thomas - Excellence in Numeracy Jessica McFadden - Excellence in Literacy 2/3E Jacobi Shaw - Excellence in all areas Kayne Budden - Academic Excellence 3/4H Rhys McCartney - Excellence in Numeracy Kate Allomes-Fleming - Making a consistent effort in all areas of learning 4G Cooper Hardes - Consistent application in all key learning areas Jesse Allen - Improved attitude to learning 4/5A Jasmine Hardy - Consistent application in all key learni ng areas Cooper Armstrong - Consistent application in all key learn ing areas 5/6G Samara Palmer - Class citizenship and academic achievement Ethan Budden - Academic Achievement 5/6S Damon Lewis - Always putting 100% into his class work Emily Cook - Excelling in Maths and English 5/6M Kaleb Corbett - Academic Excellence Marylyn Sendah - Academic Excellence MC Clayton Smith - Great effort in Maths Stuart Kreidl - Improved effort in handwriting

Certificates KA Rosa-Lei Dowd Ashford - Excellence in Numeracy Taya McKeough - Positive attitude and consistent improve ment KP Taya Bidner - Positive Attitude and consistent improve ment Shaun Martin - Citizenship Award K/1W Tarron Phillips - Citizenship Award Asha McLeod - Excellence in Literacy 1T Will Edmonds - Excellence in Numeracy Toni Dowd - Ashford - Excellence in Literacy 1/2F Ethan Armstrong - Citizenship always being a caring and cooperative class member Tameca Scott - Positive attitude towards learning and con sistent improvement 2H Lachlan Box - Citizenship Levi Doran - Excellent commitment to all learning areas

2/3E Makita Nelson-McIntosh - Wonderful attitude to learning Chloe-Marie Campbell - Fantastic improvement in all areas 3/4H Hayley Cook - Being a helpful and reliable class member Calvin Strybis - Always having a positive attitude towards his work 4G Jade Fowles - Outstanding improvement Zak Lewis - Taking pride in the presentation of his classwork 4/5A Joey DeStefano - Class Citizenship Ashlea Anderson - Class Citizenship 5/6G Maddison Littlejohns - Consistent application in all key learning areas Casey Milne - Academic Achievement 5/6S Taylor Veitch - Taking pride in presentation of her classwork Leo McHarg - An improved effort in class & sport 5/6M Hannah Thompson - Outstanding Improvement Katanya Wisely - A helpful and reliable class member

Major Awards Aboriginal Awards

Early Stage 1 - Chayse Thompson

Stage 1 - Shanequa Clarke

Stage 2 - Alyssa Hay

Stage 3 - Madison Littlejohns

Citizenship Award

Priya Bourke

Dux

Stanley Tan

Bursary Awards

Taylah Wood

Emma Garland

Sportsmanship Trophy

Junior Boy - Liam Phillips

Junior Girl - Charli Muir

Senior Boy - Jesse Doran

Senior Girl - Chloe Hammond

Alan Tickle Award

William Sawyer

Outstanding Achievements in 2012

Priya Bourke (Resilience)

William Sawyer (Spelling)

Chloe Hammond (Athletics)

Jenny Bryant (Ongoing School Support)

Principal’s Award

Trinity Miller

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COMPETITIONS & CHALLENGES

STAGE 3 REPORT

CHRISTMAS TRAIN

On Tuesday 4th December, our School Captain’s Stanley Tan and Milly

Ryan, were invited by Craig Huth (Diceman) from Max FM to partici-

pate in Taree’s Christmas Train. The day was organised to raise funds

for the children’s ward at our local hospital. Many local businesses got

involved, making it a wonderful success. Our School’s P&C kindly do-

nated $100.

Stanley and Milly had a fantastic day. They met at Club Taree with the other invited guests such as Chappo (from the TV show

Bondi Rescue), Morgan Sheather (from X-Factor), Senator John Williams, Dr. David Gillespie, Volunteers Rescue Association

(VRA), Fire Brigade, St.George Dragon, Santa and many more. There were decorated golf carts, motorcycles, buggies and

trucks however our Captains were ushered into a limousine with Morgan. They made their way down Commerce Street, wav-

ing to the crowds, to Manning Base Hospital where they met up with Mike Rabbitt, Paul Lobb, Natasha Beyersdorf and Big

Dog from NBN News, Elizabeth Creasy from Prime and the Manning River Times. It was here that the announcement was

made that over $61,000 was raised by our community for the purchase of an ultrasound machine for our hospital.

Everyone was then taken back to Club Taree for some lunch and a chat with the other guests. They headed to our local nurs-

ing homes - Bishop Tyrell Place, Karingal Gardens and Storm Retirement Village to let them know of the great fundraising

efforts and hand out Christmas presents, sing Christmas carols with Morgan and Santa, hand out

laptops from Noeledge and give out the Christmas cards that our school made. All 260 of them!

A special thank you to Mrs Gay who organised all of those great Christmas cards.

Our school would like to congratulate our community for a wonderful day and for their generous

support.

Maths Competition - Chatham Public School had 85 students compete in the Hunter Region Mathematics Competition

recently. We had a total of 52 students participate in Year 5 test with 5 students (Kaleb Corbett, William Sawyer, Logan Peck,

Stacey Jones and Natasha Waller) awarded with a Distinction and 6 students (Suchanan Sriwongwan, Ashlea Anderson, Jayden

Edmonds, Tyron Campbell, Zac Sheldon and Jakson Collis) awarded a Merit Certificate. There was 33 students in the Year 6

test with 3 students (Reece Ryan, Thomas Kempe and Marylyn Sendah) awarded with a Distinction and 4 students (Daniel El-

liott, Damon Lewis, Teagan Phillips and Taylah Wood) with a Merit Certificate.

Reading Challenge - Congratulations to the 180 students who successfully completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge

this year. The challenge aims to encourage students love of reading for leisure and pleasure, and to enable students to experi-

ence quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely

and runs from February 1st through to September 1st. This was the first year we participated in the challenge at Chatham Pub-

lic School. Special congratulations to Harmony Burton, Chelsea Chapman, Karen Piper and Karlee Felton who received a Gold

Certificate for successful completion for four years having participated at their previous schools.

Only 3 days left until our Year 6 students walk through a tunnel of 330 arms to say good bye to one chapter of their life. Most

students have been here since Kinder and it has been one exciting and enriching journey. On behalf of the students and teach-

ers of Chatham Public School, we want to wish you all the best for next year. A big thank you to Miss Mills, Mrs Goldie, Miss

Anderson and Mr McKenzie for all the work they have put into Stage 3 this year. Congratulations to Kaleb, Gabby, Jesse and

Madi on their success in being awarded the captains/vice captains for 2013.

Our Year 6 Farewell BBQ/Picnic with parents is on this Monday 17th December. It starts at 4.30pm and concludes at 6.00pm.

At 4.30pm will be the BBQ/dinner (you may bring your own food), from 4.45 to 5.15pm photo’s will be taken, a game of crick-

et and some music, at 5.30pm will be the presentation of the Year 6 certificates and awards, 5.45pm will be the Year 6 DVD

and at 6.00pm our Year 6 teachers will have a little farewell surprise!

Mrs Gray - Stage 3 Coordinator

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CHATHAM NEWSAGENCY

OUR NEXT P&C MEETING (AGM)

MONDAY 25th February 2013

7pm IN THE VC ROOM

Kristy Hay P&C President

CANTEEN NEWS

KARINGAL GARDENS EXCURSION

We would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christ-mas and Happy New. Just a reminder that our school canteen will be open on the last day of school (Wednesday) however we will not be taking any lunch or recess orders. We will only be selling items bought over the counter such as drinks and chips.

Thank you to all those wonderful volunteers who have assisted in the canteen this year. Without you, the canteen could not operate.

Mrs Page - Canteen Supervisor

Silver 3.12.12 Ashton Donagher Brady Cross Caitlin Sheldon Chloe-Marie Campbell Jack Hardy Jacob Smith Jade Thomas Jed Brauer Rachael Huntley Ruby Purnell Ryan Dixon Samantha-Jo Gill Sophie Williams Stevie Shevill Hollee Denton (19.11.12)

Gold 3.12.12 Hollee Denton (19.11.12)

Silver 17.12.12 Brock Maurer Hayley Hayward Jason Ross Kaeli Edwards Zoey Smith-Minett

Gold 17.12.12 Joey Stefano

Winners of the P&C raffle

Student Prize - Jason Ross

1st prize - Yvonne Jarosz, 2nd - Brodie Hill, 3rd - Abbie Bry-

ant, 4th - Donna, 5th - Lisa Smith, 6th - B.Harper, 7th - Ter-

ry Theaphanus, 8th - Amali Hay, 9th - Jana Boy, 10th -

Rachael, 11th - L.Basford, 12th - Arwen Griffith, 13th - Taj

McLeod, 14th - James Davey-Machin, 15th - Jodi Ferrari,

16th - Greg Masters, 17th - W.Ross, 18th - Adam Campbell,

19th - Dianne Payne, 20th - Adrian Green, 21st - Natalie

Castles, 22nd - Jayden Patterson, 23rd - M.Glover, 24th -

Tony Griffiths, 25th - Natasha Waller, 26th - Amali Hay,

27th - S.Jones, 28th - Mr Callow, 29th - Lachlan Box, 30th -

June Kirkland, 31st - Joshua McFadden, 32nd - Minetta

Page, 33rd - John Flenning, 34th - Julie DeGruiter.

Congratulations and Thanks to our lucky winners!!

CHRISTMAS CATALOGUE OUT NOW!!

Pick up a copy from our school office

Check out all the great gift ideas for Christmas and

diaries and calendars for 2013!!

Don’t forget to listen to 2RE for what has hap-

pened and what is coming up at our school.

ANDY’S CAKE KITCHEN

We would like to send out a very big thank you to Andy’s Cake

Kitchen for their support of our Breakfast Club in 2012. It is

very much appreciated from the staff and all of our students.

STUDYLADDER

P&C NEWS

AWARDS

CHATHAM PUBLIC SCHOOL PENS FOR SALE AT OFFICE - JUST $2

PARENTING HELPLINE

We all know that parenting is challenging. Every parent strug-

gles from time to time with everyday issues or more complex

ones. We know that because we have spoken to close to

10,000 parents in the last 12 months.

The State Government funded helpline, Parent Line NSW,

provides a free support service to parents across NSW. Highly

skilled professional counsellors are available 24 hours a day 7

days a week to take calls from parents and carers about any

parenting issue, from tips on how to manage the morning

routine, to concerns about distant adolescents to complex

challenges of living in blended families.

Website - www.parentline.org.au

Email - info@parentline.org.au

Phone - 1300 1300 52

Special Holiday Access - At the end of this term all students

will continue to have free access to Studyladder from home.

They can still use their school usernames and will have unlim-

ited home access during school hours (Monday to Friday 9am

to 3pm).

Mrs Drake School Librarian

1T & 1/2F will be going to the Karingal Garden Retirement

Village next Monday 17th December. If you have not re-

turned your child’s permission note could you please ring

the school or return the note as soon as possible.

Miss Faith - Class Teacher