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Issue 7 - Term 2 - Week 7 Friday 12th June 2020

Principal’s Report

We have had another productive fortnight here at

Gladstone, with our students prepared for learning

each day! Our classrooms have been a hive of

activity with our students completing work tasks and

teachers preparing for end of term assessments.

We have had a few cooler starts and some very wet

days here at school, families are reminded to

carefully label their school clothes including school

hat to ensure that when they are taken off and not

being used they can be quickly returned to their

owners. It is important that where possible our

students attend school in their full school uniform,

we do have a number of items including school

jumpers and long pants in our clothing pool if your

child does not have correct uniform items, please let

us know in the office.

Our school photos are being held on Monday,

please be sure to send photo order envelopes back

to school. All students will be photographed on photo

day even if you are not ordering a portrait pack.

Please see the attached information for details on

the new social distancing policies and arrangements

by the photographers.

As our term progresses we are being updated with

easing restrictions amongst our communities and

our schools, with the easing of these restrictions our

school will begin participating in more activities

including inter school activities as of next term. We

need to continue to maintain our social distancing

policy and our site is still closed to non-essential

visitors. If you do need to enter the school please

come directly to the office, if there is no one at the

office please phone us and a staff member will come

to greet you. All visitors to our site must sign in our

visitor sign in book as well as site and sign our safety

briefing. Thank you all for your patience and

understanding. A full guide to the operation of our

NSW Schools is available to download.

Please follow the link to the guide for parents and

carers – A guide to NSW school students returning

to face-to-face learning. If you wish to view a hard

copy of the guide, please contact us in the office and

we will send one home.

As our assembly this fortnight it was my great

pleasure to present our first Bronze awards for 2020.

It is great to see so many of our students striving to

be the best students they can be!

These awards do not come easy and our students

have had to demonstrate their commitment to

learning along with being Fair, Safe and Respectful

Learners and friends in the classroom and

playground. Congratulations, William, Chace, Hugo,

Ashlee, Mia, William, Lilly and Lincoln on receiving

our first Bronze awards for 2020! Keep up the great

work!

Have a great week,

Rebecca Smith,

Principal

Issue 5 - Term 2 – Week 3

In our classrooms… Infants Class

Student of the week: Asher Taylor Academic Award: Jessie Delaforce – for her amazing efforts in writing. Behaviour Award: Willow Swan for always being a great helper in the classroom and a kind friend to her peers. What an amazing and productive fortnight we have had… we are all working on our new writing task and have created characters for our new stories based on the adventures we have read in the well-known Pamela Allen story, ‘Alexander’s Outing.’ Alexander explored parts of Sydney and found himself in quite the predicament, we are excited to see what kind of adventure our characters find themselves on! We hope to share these at our next assembly and on our Class Dojo! Our maths lessons have been incredibly creative with all of us exploring fractions, we have been working together to solve some very tricky problems involving sharing whole objects as well as groups of objects evenly. We are learning that our number facts are important and are helping us workout some of our fractions problems. Mrs Smith Check out our musical genius as we learn how to hold notes for more than one beat and follow along as we learn some new songs with Mr Heath

Primary Class

Behaviour - Cale Reardon-Buckland

Academic - Hugo Jones

Student of the week - Bailey Donnelly The journey of recycling continues. In reading, we're learning about pollution to better understand the importance of recycling and sustainability. In writing, we've been pretending we are something made of plastic, recycled and reused for three lives to understand the way we use plastic in our everyday lives. In geography, we've been recycling Miss Marion's shredded paper into paper bowls to give the paper a new life!! Everywhere we look, we're integrating our Material World Unit!! We are hoping that each student could bring in an old piece of clothing they no longer need - a shirt that doesn't fit, pants with a hole, etc. We have big plans for them!! Mrs Scullion

Issue 5 - Term 2 – Week 3

SRC News The SRC have worked really hard in preparation for our meal deal next week. Instead of deciding what would be on the menu, we surveyed all the students with a few options to see what they wanted. Out of all the yummy choices such as nachos, beef stroganoff and spaghetti bolognaise, they have chosen chicken nuggets, pies and sausage rolls. It seems they really miss their canteen food, so these will be the choices we provide for next week's meal deal. Next week's deal will be served with a side of either popcorn or Grainwaves and a drink. All that for $5!! Orders need to be in by Tuesday 16th June. The SRC have decided to use a portion of their funds to purchase some bowls and plates to use for our meal deals. Each week we have been purchasing single use dinnerware and, when studying pollution and recycling, it isn't a great choice to continue doing this for our environment. All meals from here on in will be provided on purchased dinner ware that will be washed and dried after each meal deal by the SRC. How exciting to be spending our funds and saving the environment at the same time!! Mrs Scullion and the SRC

P&C News Our P&C are raffling off a generously donated load of wood. Perfect for this time of year! Raffle tickets have been handed out to each family, if you require more tickets please contact us in the office, we will send them home with your child.

Jump Rope for Heart We have “Skip” started our Jump Roper for Heart Campaign this week! Each morning we are skipping our hearts out learning new tricks and participating in challenges… Student have the opportunity to build their skill, their physical fitness, learn about their own heart health and the important work of the Hear Foundation as well as raise money for the Heart Foundation all at the same time! We have started with some simple tricks and hope to extend our challenges to our parents as well! Check out the JRFH YouTube Channel with lots of information, hints, tips and awesome skipping challenges!

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Jump Rope for Heart teaches school

children how to keep fit and healthy.

Conducted by teachers, children learn

physical activities to improve their

strength, gain confidence and stamina.

Students have lots of fun with their peers.

They also learn about helping save

Australian lives by asking family and

friends to sponsor them. All funds go

towards research to help the fight against

heart disease and stroke in Australia.

Issue 5 - Term 2 – Week 3

Gladstone Public School Photo Day is

Monday 15th June 2020

There’s no denying that COVID-19 is affecting our day-to-day at a rapid rate. At MSP Photography, we are taking an active approach to the situation, and aim to keep you as informed as possible concerning the direction we are taking.

Our priority is to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our schools and their students, our employees and the wider community.

Mindful of the current situation, MSP Photography will be initiating a new process for the taking of school photos while the COVID-19 health crisis continues. This new process has been designed in accordance with the most recent guidelines currently issued by the relevant Health Authorities, which are being monitored daily.

Additional Protocols Include:

Students will move in and out of the portrait studio area individually.

The area will be set up in such a way as to ensure that each individual student will maintain the recommended social distancing guidelines of 1.5m from other students and the photographer.

MSP Photography staff will provide instructions to each class upon entry to the photography area.

Hygiene and cleaning guidelines used by MSP Photography staff are in accordance with the information distributed by the relevant Health Authorities.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to call your local MSP

Photography team. We’re here to answer any questions you may have.

02 6583 1968 We thank you for your understanding

and patience during these trying times

Please note: there will be no sibling photos taken this year – families who have already paid for their photos will receive a refund (online payments) for cash payments, families can come to the school and collect their payments. ALL photo envelopes need to be returned to school by Monday 15th June.