Teacher Professional Learning – ‘Engagement Norms’

Our Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) Team spent last Wednesday, in our Professional Learning Meeting, modelling an EDI lesson whilst unpacking the ‘Engagement Norms’. Our parent helpers, who are assisting our students, may notice the changes happening in our classroom with much of our work now being completed on mini whiteboards. Using whiteboards, students are happy to attempt more challenging tasks as errors are so easily erased and fixed. Using whiteboards in classrooms ensures that students receive individual feedback at their point of need.

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August 21, 2017 - Term 3 Week 6

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Spotlight Preparations Underway

Our teachers spent their Saturday building props for this year’s Spotlight and Year 6 Production performances. Thank you to Rodney James from Insane Signs for once again supporting our wonderful school in producing such amazing props!

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NAPLAN Online School Readiness Test This term from 14 August to 22 September schools across NSW will be participating in the NAPLAN Online school readiness test. The school readiness test is a ‘practice run’ designed to help schools assess their technical and administrative readiness for the transition to NAPLAN Online.

Eleebana students in Years 3 and 5 will be participating in the readiness test between Monday 18 September and Friday 22 September 2017 (Week 10).

The readiness test will involve students in Year 3, 5, 7 and 9 sitting two, 40-minute assessments, a writing test and a combined numeracy/literacy test. (Year 3 students will not participate in the writing test). Student participation in the readiness test is an opportunity for them to become familiar with the NAPLAN Online test format. It is not an assessment of student ability and there will be no reporting of student results. It is important to note that participation in the school readiness test has no effect on students’ NAPLAN results from the paper-based tests students sat in May.

For more information, visit the department’s NAPLAN Online website: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-andlearning/student-assessment/naplan-online

Week 6 Week 7

August 21 Cyber Safety Education P&C meeting

August 28 Book Fair – all week Water Safety Program

August 22 PSSA Knockout Netball August 23 The Newcastle Permanent Maths

Competition Father’s Day Stall -infants

August 29 Year 6 Production Rehearsals

August 24 Father’s Day Stall -primary August 30 Book Week Parade 11:45am PSSA Soccer Knockout

August 25 Father’s Day Stall –catch up School Author and Illustrator Visit

Sept 1 Community PE – Dads and Sons 7:45am

Week 8 Week 9

Sept 5 Band Succession Concert Spotlight Photos Science & Engineering Discovery Day

Sept 11 SPOTLIGHT

Sept 6 Kinder 2018 – Parent Info Night Sept 12 SPOTLIGHT

Sept 8 Community PE – Mums & Daughters

Spotlight Tickets are on sale NOW

A reminder that Spotlight tickets went on sale last Friday night. Tickets are $17 (with a 30c booking fee) and are selling fast.

For those who are yet to purchase tickets, please follow the link:

https://www.trybooking.com/RBRY

We look forward to another fantastic show!!

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Library News

Book Week Below are the planned celebrations for Book Week this year. We are really going all out, celebrating Book Week over two weeks! Week 6 (this week) Tuesday – Scholastic Book Talk in the hall for Stage 2 at 12:00pm and Stage 3 at 12.30pm. Our Scholastic representative will be generating excitement about the wonderful books available for purchase at our upcoming book fair. Friday – Author and illustrator visit. The talented Juliette MacIver and Sarah Davis will be giving an inspiring hour-long talk, which will provide an insight into the world of children’s books and publishing. Don’t miss out! Please remember that in order to attend each student needs to hand their permission note to their class teacher. The timetable of our Author and Illustrator visit as below: 9:00am-10:00am – Stage 3 in hall 10:00am-11:00am – Stage 2 in hall 11.10am (lunchtime) – book signing in library 12:00pm-1:00pm – Kindergarten and Stage 1 in hall Week 7 Tuesday – Book Fair open before school 8:00am-8:50am, lunchtime 11.10am – 11.30am and after school 3:00pm-3:30pm Wednesday – Book Fair open before school 8:00am-8:50am and lunchtime 11.10am – 11.30am Book parade – 11:45am – 12:15pm. We are embracing the book week theme ‘Escape to Everywhere’ by asking staff and students to dress up as a character or place from a children’s book that they have ‘escaped’ into. Please come along to witness our fabulous students dressed up as their favourite book characters. Students from K-2 will be parading and showing off their amazing costumes. Students in 3-6 will be showing off their costumes in a seated position as part of the audience. Prizes for dressing up will be handed out for students and teachers who have gone to the trouble of dressing up. The $15 book fair vouchers will also be handed out for the winning Book Fair poster entries. Please remember that you do not have to spend a lot of money to buy costumes. There are many creative ideas online for costumes that can be easily made. Thursday - Book Fair open before school 8:00am-8:50am Book Fair Poster Competition We are running a competition for students to design a poster promoting our book fair. There will be four winners, one from each stage, each receiving a $15 voucher to use at our book fair in Week 7. Poster requirements: * A3 size (or large cardboard) * You can use materials of your choosing * Design a poster to promote our book fair which will operate from Tuesday 29 August - Thursday 31 August in Week 7. See above for book fair opening hours, which you could add to your poster. Your aim is to appeal to students, making them desperate to buy books at the fair. Some of the reasons why students should attend the book fair are:

A portion of all money spent at the book fair is goes to our school library

Reading is fun!

YOU choose the books you would like to read and keep

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* Poster entries are due to the library by Friday 25 August in Week 6. Winners will be announced after the book parade on Wednesday Week 7. Get started now on your amazing posters! We cannot wait to see them. Premier's Reading Challenge The 2017 Premier's Reading Challenge will close this Friday 25 August. Congratulations to these fantastic readers who have completed it for this year - Lachlan KS, Hunter 1/2M, Olivia 2O, Rory 2O, Lucas 2G, April 3L, Isabelle 3L, Laura 6H, Ruby 6H, Eleanor 3C, Sophie 2H, Heather 1M, Amber 3C, Ella 3L, Taylah 4B and Peter 4TH. In Early Stage 1 KB and KC are coming equal first, in Stage 1 2O is leading, in Stage 2 it's 3JE and in Stage 3

it's 6M. 3JE are the overall leaders. Catch them if you can by the end of the week!

Thank you, Mrs Candice Gibson and Mrs Dorin Suciu

Nature Walk

Nature walk is offered to the students as a Friday afternoon sport choice. A team of twenty students walks

down to the foreshore every week and takes in the beauty of the area. Each alternate week we also take

along drawing materials and sketch scenery. The students then have the opportunity to paint the

scenery with water colours.

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Canteen News You may have noticed some interesting changes to our Kookaburra Café Canteen menu. All school canteens must be compliant by 2020 and we are moving towards providing more healthy food choices under the new guidelines. Included in these changes will be a selection of gluten free foods, such as nuggets, chicken tenders, chicken patties, wraps, buns, abbots bread, english muffins and crackers. We look forward to an exciting term 4 with our new specials commencing. These foods choices will only be available on the days specified Monday - Oriental Day

Dumplings

Fried rice

Stir fry

Taco Tuesday

Beef mince Taco GF

Crunchy or soft

Chicken or ham Quesadilla

Thursday - Sushi Day

Fresh sushi various flavours

Chicken rice paper rolls

Chicken rice bowl

Friday - pie & sausage roll day

*only available Friday’s, starting next term

OOSH NEWS This week we are hosting a Cup Cake Day where will be raising funds to support the RSPCA. Please check out

our Facebook page for the link for tax deductable online donations and there is a donation box will be on the

sign in desk starting this week. A representative of the RSPCA will be visiting the service next week to give a

Week 6 Monday Tracey P Tuesday Peta L Wednesday Penny B, Faye N Thursday Cara S, Judy B, Rae R Friday Nicole S, Annie D, Kris B

Week 7 Monday YiLing H, Kris B Tuesday Rachel R, Julie S Wednesday Nicole Ke, Kim I, Karen J Thursday Angela S, Mandy M Friday Nicole S, Lisa H

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talk to the children on dog safety and caring for pets. We are also collecting donations of pet food, blankets,

toys, leashes etc to donate to Dog Rescue Newcastle.

There are a large number of items in our lost property bin. Please check this for any hats, jumpers or drink

bottles that may be missing from your home.

A big thank you to all of our families who are using the My Family Lounge App to notify us of children’s

absences. If you are cancelling care 2 weeks in advance to not be charged please send this through as an

email. You can also notify us of absences via text message or voice mail. Please remember that it is important

to let us know if your children will not be attending in the afternoon as it takes time to call families and look

for children and the safety of your children is our greatest concern. We appreciate your help with this.

The next Committee Meeting will be held on 29 August 2017 at 6:30pm in the OOSH Room and all families

are welcome to attend this meeting.

For enquiries or further information about the OOSH please phone our Coordinator Kate on

0400 880011 or visit us between 7-9am or 2:30-3pm (please avoid after 3:00pm as this is our busiest time of

the day and our priority is taking care of the children).

P&C NEWS Eleebana P&C meeting tonight 6:30pm in the staff room Please come along for the meeting to discuss and vote on ideas for our revamped spring fair, updates from our principal on our uniform, band payments, canteen purchases and more. We would love your input into our community and school, so please come along and discuss these with us. See you there tonight! Spring Fair Planning is underway for the revamped Eleebana Public School Spring Fair to be held on the 28 October this

year.

This year some exciting changes will be implemented and some fantastic new products, stalls and displays

will be held on the day.

“Our school needs your help”!! It is the parent’s support that makes our school so great. If you can help in

any way ie. coordinate a stall, volunteer for an hour on the day, perhaps a business donation or if you have a

special talent to offer, it could see our Spring Fair exceed expectations.

All profits generated from the day go back into our school to help our children. A certificate of Appreciation

Awards ceremony will be held at the school after the event, whereupon your

child will collect and return the certificate to you as thanks for your help.

To be involved or for any questions please call

Kristina Bircsak on 0419342637.

Thank you

Eleebana Spring Fair Committee

School Uniforms are now available through your local Lowes store or online by

clicking the link

http://www.lowes.com.au/CampusCategories.aspx?depid=518

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