Paterson Post

02 4938 5114 This newsletter & attached forms are available to download at: www.paterson-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Dear Parents and Carers

All the staff at Paterson Public School would like to wish all students and their families an enjoyable school holiday break, with time to spend with each other, returning to school safe on Tuesday 23rd July.

We have had an exciting finish to Term 2 with many wonderful things at Paterson PS, and many more things planned in Term 3.

Reports

All students received their school reports on Wednesday. Reports are a reflection of the past two terms of school during 2019. Accompanying the report was a feedback sheet for parents to complete if they would like to. We love to hear feedback, both positive and negative about how we can continually improve our communication to parents.

Touch Football

Congratulations to our Touch Football team on a game well played on Tuesday against Dungog Public School. Our team, once again, displayed sportsmanship and skill, with the final score 6-1, with Dungog winning the game. Congratulations to Dungog PS.

Debating

I have been thoroughly impressed with our debaters once again! Yesterday we had a mock debate with our two Paterson PS teams, taking on feedback from previous debates and adjudicator feedback. Then our Dominators debated against Dungog PS, with our team having the hardest role, debating against the topic, “That all ads for unhealthy things should be banned”. Our team did an amazing job, improving their rebuttals and their arguments. Well done Dominators for improving on your debating skills.

PBL Rewards Day and STEAM Activities

Today is our PBL Rewards Day. Our Rewards day is a celebration for displaying our values of Respect, Responsibility and Resilience. Today our students participated in STEAM based activities.

Our K-2 Students participated in sessions of: Our 3-6 students participated in sessions of:

* Robiotics with Spyros and Paint * Water Balloon Caterpults

* Volcano making * Balloon Powered Cars

* Sundials and Shadow Puppetry * Tinkercad— 3D Software

Virtual Enrichment Program

Four of our students, Emily F, Makayla W, Annabel B, Xavier K have been participating in excursions and online learning to develop their skills in shadow puppetry performances. All students presented their performance today at Gresford PS in front of parent audience. Well done Emily, Makayla, Annabel and Xavier, you have continuously displayed effort and determination in developing your skills in this area. Once again, thank you for our parents support with transport.

TERM 3 -What is on … NAIDOC Day— We are busy planning our school celebration of NAIDOC Day on the 24th July. Students will participate in lessons and activities that celebrate Aboriginal language, history and culture. The theme for NAIDOC Day is “Voice, Treaty Truth, Lets work together for a shared future”. The Indigenous voice of this country is over 65000 years old, the first words spoken on this continent. NAIDOC Day Theme for this year, is to also remember the power of the voice. Parents are encouraged to look out for celebrations within the community and surrounds during NAIDOC Week from 7th July—14th July.

Beanie for Brain Cancer - Term 3, Week 1 - Friday 26th July - Wear a beanie to school day and donate a gold coin for this very worthy cause.

Education Week—Term 3, Week 3—We will be celebrating Education Week at school. We will have an assembly and open classrooms on Wednesday 7th August with parents and families invited to attend. Stay tuned for more details.

Have a great holiday,

Kind regards,

Miss Noble (Relieving Principal)

Term 2 Week 10 July 5th

Coming Events JULY Mon 22nd - Staff Development Day

Tues 23rd - All students return for Term 3

Frid 26th - Beanie Fundraiser

AUGUST Frid 2nd - Zone Athletics

Wed 7th - Education Day

Thurs 8th - LMG Education Day @ DHS

- Red Cross Choir perform.

Mon 19th - Stage 3 Canberra Exc.

Mon. 26th-30th - Book Week

NOTES SENT HOME:

Stage 3 camp packing

School reports

Canteen volunteering for Term 3

02 4938 5114 www.paterson-p.school.nsw.edu.au Term 2

Term 2 Assembly Awards

Week 10

Captain’s Award

Miss Ernst and Miss Wilson for being great prac teachers.

Term 2

Week 10

PBL

AWARD

CLASS AWARD PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Kindergarten Austin for being a responsible class member.

Vance for great writing about bugs.

Sophie for demonstrating PBL values everyday.

Years 1/2

Alexis for improved resilience in and out of the classroom.

Bruce for trying hard with his writing and sound work.

Tasmin for being a wonderful new class member and for displaying our PBL values.

Years 2/3

Darcy for getting into the habit of self-correcting his writing. Well done on being more responsible!

Gemma for being responsible and resilient during partner work in Maths and English.

Ethan for putting in a huge amount of effort during persuasive writing.

Years 4/5 Nicholas for being a respectful and trustworthy student.

Paige for always being attentive and ready to learn.

Mitchell for always being eager and willing to learn.

Year 6

Ethan for making responsible and conscious efforts to start and finish tasks.

Stevie for an outstanding effort in her persuasive writing and publishing.

Cameron for consistently achieving outstanding results throughout Term 2.

Paterson Public School P & C

Canteen Volunteering

In todays newsletter we are asking for volunteers

to help run the canteen. This year so far the

canteen has been lucky enough to open the

canteen on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. We

would really love to keep the canteen open again

on these three days for Term 3.

If you haven't volunteered before don't worry we

will make sure you are put on with someone who

knows how the canteen works. If you would prefer

to be rostered on with someone you know or have

a preferred day please write it down in your email.

If you are able to volunteer please email Leah Gale

at leah.c.gale@gmail.com.

Year 6

This Term year 6 have not seemed to have a break with the never-ending amount of exciting things happening within Paterson Public School and the community. We have well and truly settled into our new learning space of the library and a lot of students have commented that they don’t remember what it was like before the move. Throughout the past 10 weeks we have had students from our class representing the school at sporting events including, netball, cricket, soccer, touch football and the athletics carnival. Amid these there have been the shadow puppetry program, numerous debates and the upcoming NAIDOC Day attended by our students at Dungog High School.

In class we have been learning about extreme weather conditions and conducting experiments simulating droughts. Students have worked hard on building their skills to persuade readers within their writing and have learnt about Australian parliament, adding to their strong ability to argue about the smallest things. We have been working with length, measurement and position in maths, completing a project on designing their own theme park on the moon.

Week 10 Assembly item saw our students finally show their dramatic skills with their performance of “Red Goes to Grandma’s” demonstrating their theatrical skill in front of the whole school. Great work 6MP.

Next Term will be an exciting one with 6MP moving back into

our updated classroom; the upcoming events of Education

week, Canberra excursion, Book week and much more.

Have a fantastic well earnt break and enjoy the holidays.

Kind regards,

Mr Pommer

NAIDOC DAY

All students who attended the NAIDOC Day at Dungog High School had a wonderful time.

Canteen Roster

Will be closed the first week of Term 3.

Monday 8th July

Flag Raising and Welcome to Country

10am Rotary Park, Lang St. Kurri Kurri

40157000

Tuesday 9th July

Maitland Celebration of Existence March

9am Maitland Court House 9am.

Wednesday 10th July WaNay children Disco.

Mindaribba LALC Hall 6pm-9pm.

Thursday 11th July Coquun Cup Youth Touch Day. Maitland

Park 10.30am pre-register 11am start.

Family Fun Day at Maitland Park

10am - 2pm

Amusement rides for all ages,

entertainment, arts and crafts.

Free lunch supplied.

UNSW ICAS—Assessments ICAS Assessments are now online, a move that

reflects a sector-wide transition to computer-based

assessment. This allows greater accessibility for

students and faster delivery of results.

Payment and Permission Information

Your child is invited to sit ICAS Assessments for

English, Maths, Writing, Spelling Science and Digital

Technologies. ICAS fees are now to be paid online.

Visit the new online Parent Payment System to make

a direct payment to UNSW Global. Online payment

will close on 31 July 2019.

To enrol your child in the assessments please type

into your browser the URL site:

https://pay.unswglobal.com.au/

you will then be asked for the Paterson Public School

unique access code: 7744b0485a to enrol your child

in the chosen assessments for our school.

Torryburn Stud Vacy Village Country Carnival Sunday September 8th, 9am -3pm Gresford Road, Vacy

Escape to the country, if just for the day, to immerse yourself in the

magical charm of Vacy Village Country Carnival.

Only 30 minutes drive north of Maitland, lies the quaint country village of

Vacy, in the picturesque Paterson Valley. The annual fair returns on

September 8th 2019, promising a fun day out for all. There is something for

everyone, including the family dog, with the best small dog races in the

state returning once again, bigger and better each year.

Enjoy a day full of family fun , with the working horse demonstration, whip

cracking , wine, beer, cheese tasting. Traditional children’s novelty races

such as egg and spoon, three legged and sack race will be an entertaining

new feature at this year’s Carnival.

Explore the market stalls with many local artisans trading their wares and

enjoy the endless live entertainment from midday, plus vintage cars and

tractors as well as the ye olde land rover club .

Showcasing food from local produces including, olives, home baked treats

and Mackie’s famous camp oven lamb sandwich, your taste buds are sure to

be spoilt for choice.

With free entry there is no excuse to not call in and see why too much Vacy is never enough.

Find us on Facebook: Vacy Country Carnival

Wear a beanie

for this great fundraiser.

Friday 26th July

Gold coin donation.