Term 2 Week 8 – 14th June, 2016

Term

High Quality Education for Future Success

CALENDAR WEEK 8

Monday 13

th June

∙Public Holiday

Tuesday 14th

June ∙ICAS Writing competition

∙Stage 2 Hockey Clinic ∙NO Canteen

Wednesday 15

th June

Circus @ CPAHS Parents workshop:Habits of Mind

Thursday 16

th June

ICAS Spelling Competition ∙Playgroup

School Banking

Friday 17th

June ∙Assembly: 5/6S. All Welcome!

WEEK 9 Tuesday 21

st June

∙NO Canteen ∙Stage 2 Hockey Clinic

Thursday 23

rd June

∙Playgroup School Banking

Dear Parents, While Mrs Wilson is on holidays I have been enjoying my role as

Relieving Principal. Mrs Wilson returns to school on Wednesday, 22nd

June.

Teachers have been busy writing Semester 1 reports which will be sent

home with students next Wednesday, 22nd

June. The report will also

contain an invitation to all parents/carers to attend parent teacher

interviews the following week. Please read your child’s report carefully

and talk with them about it. Any questions or concerns you have about

your child’s progress can be discussed during the interviews. We look

forward to meeting with ALL parents.

Also, a friendly reminder to send your child to

school in the morning wearing a jumper. The cool/cold weather has

finally arrived and many students are still coming to school without a

warm jumper on.

Included with this Informer is information about “Learning Social Skills

through Sport”, a new program that will be running at The Grange next

term. The P&C and the school will be subsidising the cost of this very

worthwhile program.

Lesley Nauta

Relieving Principal

Benham Rd Minto NSW 2566 Ph 9603 2655, 9603 3766 Fax 9820 3005 www.thegrange-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity, Success

Lasses for 2011

Principal’s Awards

Claire Lee Katelyn Bostock

Jeshua Prakasham Reya Lamsal

Grange Achievement Award

Aydin Hossen

Jeshua Prakasham

P&C Award

Momen Tajwar Mia Innes

Ibrahim Basher

Bronze Award

Zain-Ul-Abideen Alivia Catt

Manha Hossen

Silver Award

Tyra Innes

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2017

Any child turning 5 before 31st July 2017 is able to apply for

enrolment for kindergarten 2017.

If your child is eligible to enrol, please notify the office and call

in to pick up an enrolment form as soon as possible.

Please bring with you your child’s

o Birth certificate or passport

o Immunisation certificate.

Growth Mindset

Teachers have engaged in training around the

Growth Mindset.

When we have a growth mindset, we believe

that our own and others’ intelligence can be

grown or developed with persistence, effort

and a focus on learning. An educator with a

growth mindset believes that with effort and

hard work from the learner, all students can

experience significant growth and therefore, all

learners deserve opportunities for challenging

learning experiences. A teacher armed with

instructions that cater to all students’ needs

and instructions that promote critical and

creative thinking, holds the recipe for optimal

student learning.

When developing students’ Habits of Mind

over the coming years, students’ growth

mindset will encourage each Habit to be grown

and extended.

The growth mindset training supports Strategic

Direction 1: Developing Successful 21st Century

Learners.

LOST PROPERTY

Our lost property bins are overflowing!

Please come and check for any items of

clothing that you have lost.

Habits Of Minds…

Find out what it’s all about on Wednesday 15th June.

Where: Library

When: 9am

Week 7:

“What is a HABIT?”

Week 8:

“What are the 16 Habits of Mind”

Week 9

“Persisting” and “Managing Impulsivity”

Week 10

“Thinking Flexibly” and “Creating, Imagining and Innovating”

Week 1 Term 3:

“ Questioning and Posing Problems” and “Gathering Data Through All Senses”

Week 2:

“ Striving for Accuracy” and “Responding with Wonder and Awe”

Week 3:

“Finding Humour” and “Taking Responsible Risks”

Week 4:

“Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations” and “Thinking About Your Thinking”

Week 5:

“Thinking Interdependently” and “Metacognition-Thinking about Your Thinking”

Week 6:

“Listening with Understanding and Empathy” and “Remaining Open to Continuous Learning”

PARENT SOCIAL GROUP

Come and join us in our quest this winter to create some nice and warm rag rugs.

What You’ll Need: (Rug Making) source: INHABITAT

Long strips of fabric (old sheets and curtains are ideal, and far easier to work with than t-shirt scraps

sewn together to make them longer)

Sewing scissors

A ruler

Pins

Safety pins

Sewing needle(s)

Thread in a colour that’s neutral to the fabrics you’re working with

Braided rag rugs have been around for centuries, and with good cause: they’re an ideal use of upcycled

fabric, and they’re so sturdy that they can last a really long time. Since you’ll likely be staring at yours for

years to come, it’s important to use colours that you won’t mind staring at for the next few decades. You

may be completely enamoured by rainbows now, but you might not have the same passion for them down

the line, so it may be best to either go with more neutral shades, or at the very least, a monochromatic

palette.

You can often find some great deals on cloth at large fabric stores: if they only have a yard or two of a

particular fabric left, they’ll often mark it down like crazy, and you can score some beautiful colours at 1/2

to 1/4 their original price. If you’re in love with a particular cloth, but they only have a single yard of it, get

it anyway! You can sew the cut strips end-to-end to make one long one, and it’ll add a lovely vibrance to the

carpet you’re creating.

Parents are meeting at school to give support for this quest every Tuesday (9:15-9:45am) or Thursday

(3:15-3:45pm) at Kindy/Playgroup room.

See you there!

DID YOU KNOW….

QUICK SANDWICH FILLERS

cheese with celery or sliced cucumber

grated cheese and carrot

cheese and lettuce

canned salmon with lemon juice, lettuce or spring onions

sweet corn with lettuce

avocado, low-fat cottage cheese or hummus as a healthy spread on sandwiches.

Be healthy – be active

Children and adults need physical activity every day. Activity helps build better bones,

muscles, joints and helps maintain a healthy weight. Physical activity can also reduce the

risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes and some cancers. Get active anyway you can -

walking, riding, swimming, and playing active games such as Duck, Duck, Goose or Bull

Rush.

How can I help my child at home with Maths?

Younger students:

Identify and explain visual patterns on clothing, wrapping paper and furniture.

Encourage your child to draw, create and describe their own patterns. Use them for borders

or greeting cards or on material.

Build a tower of blocks that is taller than a favourite toy. Ask your child to count the total

blocks to measure the height of the tower.

Use a wall measuring chart to measure the height of people in your family.

Older students:

How does your favourite sport tally the score? What maths is presented on the tally?

How do other sports tally the score, for example, tennis, golf, cricket, netball, football?

Can you identify your starting point on a bus/train timetable?

What is the earliest and latest time to travel on this route? What is the difference?

How long does it take to travel the entire route?

Chess Club News

Chess Club has been running for 5 weeks of Term 2. We would like to thank Mrs Wilson for the 7 new chess sets that the school purchased. Now everyone can have a proper set to play on. There are 2 player levels - a beginner and a more experienced player level. Sometimes, the more experienced players will help the beginner players by playing games with them and teaching them the rules about the game. It is after school on Thursdays from 3-4pm. Parents cannot stay but they can come at 4pm to pick up their child. It is a great experience and fun because you can make new friends and learn new skills.

By Jessica, Alfred and Brandon