ARGENTON PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Montgomery Street, Argenton 2284 Phone: 02 4958 1805

Fax: 02 4958 2032 www.argenton‐p.schools.nsw.edu.au

argenton‐p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 3

This Newsletter brings us to the end of Week 3 Welcome back to Term 3. We have packed loads into these last few weeks. We have begun our 5 weeks of Bowling for sport this term. The kids enjoyed the first session and are looking forward to heading back for more fun next week. We also went to Glendale High School where 4 of our students received Excellence Awards. Congratulations Declan, Makaysha, Tithi and Isabella. Miss Johnson was also one of 4 wonderful teachers recognised for their dedication to the teaching profession. Congratulations Miss Johnson. Our amazing singing group performed for the first time in front of an audience other than family, friends and school mates. They did a fantastic job and we were the talk of the assembly thanks to a wonderful performance where the kids showed their personalities singing A Million Dreams.

Soon we will begin our Kindergarten Transition Program for 2020. We have a Parent Information session on Monday 27 August here in our Library. If you have friends or family in the area who have children ready to start school in 2020 or 2021 please let them know as we would be happy to have them along and answer any questions they may have about the beginning of their child’s formal education journey.

Mr Dunn

We have introduced a new literacy program Minilit. The program involves at least four lessons a week of up to 60 minutes per day, and includes regular curriculum based measures to monitor students

progress. Minilit is a balanced reading program that across carefully structured & sequenced lessons, covers sight words, letter sound correspondence, blending, segmenting and reading connected text. Our students love attending and have fun while learning. Students have improved immensely in their literacy skills and we are very proud.

Miss McDonald

REQUEST FOR ALL SCHOOL MAINTENANCE LOCAL TRADES PROVIDERS AND SUPPLIERS The NSW Government has committed the largest investment in planned maintenance at public schools in the history of NSW. A

record $1.3 billion is being spent on an ambitious delivery program, focused on employing local businesses and contractors across

the state. To assist in addressing regional school maintenance issues and at the same time provide work for local trade’s persons

and suppliers across the Hunter / Central Coast regions, over $100 million is being invested to upgrade and maintain our school

infrastructure. Given this record spend by School Infrastructure NSW, you are invited to an Asset Management Unit industry

breakfast briefing. This will provide information to existing and new contractors on how you can get involved. To find out more by

attending our Industry breakfast register at h ps://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/industry‐engagement‐informa on‐session‐

ckets-65766578607 or contact your Asset Management Unit on 4088 3500.

Upcoming Events Mondays ‐ K/1 Library Day

Tuesdays ‐ Bowling@ Warners Bay Super Strike Wednesdays ‐ 2‐6 Library Day

Fridays ‐ SPINS Thursday 22 August ‐ Book Week Activities

Monday 26 August ‐ Father’s Day Breakfast and Stall Tuesday 27 August ‐ 6pm ‐ Kindergarten 2020 Parent Info Session Wednesday 28 August ‐ Dubbo Excursion (return on Friday 30/8)

P&C News Meeting ‐ 6pm Monday 19 August 2019

Miss Johnson’s K/1 Class How exciting - Term 3 already!! and what a busy term we have planned already. Lots of fun exciting things in the classroom, school excursions being planned, sports outings and school visits just to name a few. The children have all come back to school for Term 3 eager and ready to learn which is great to see. I can also see lots of children have been practicing their magic 100 and home reading in the holidays. In K/1 we have begun to incorporate more technology into our curriculum with all children have opportunities each week to use our new laptop computers. We have focused on logging on to their school account and our Maths online program. Everyone is very excited to have their own laptop to use in these sessions.

Our literacy program is in full swing again with an increased focus this term on building our writing skills and identifying the different sounds vowels can make. We have been making our sight words and writing short sentences using our letter sound knowledge. During the first week we read 'Piranha's Don't Like Bananas' and this led the children to work on their own project where they decided to make felt Piranha's to retell the story to each other. This was a completely child-led project with a great deal of discussion and negotiation taking place to produce some wonderful works. Looking forward to a fantastic term.

Library this term will be changing to a Monday afternoon due to our Bowling sporting program now running on Tuesday - so please continue to bring Library bags in but now on a Monday. Any questions don't hesitate to catch me during the term.

Miss Lindi Johnson

We welcome back everyone to a fun filled Term 3. We finished up the end of Term 2 with our NAIDOC day celebrations which saw our students working with students from Glendale High School in a variety of activities. The last day of Term saw us celebrating 100 days of school this year. All the students enjoyed dressing up and participating in a range of activities centred around the number 100. We have started this term with the Year 4 students going to Glendale High School to participate in a STEM challenge with other year 4 students from local primary schools. The kids had to work in teams to complete challenges that included making a catapult out of paddlepop sticks , plastic spoons and masking tape and then they had to create a working model of a hand using a glove, straws and string. Maths lessons have been about 3D and 2D shapes. We have enjoyed being able to make 3D shapes out of nets and toothpicks and bluetak. We are excited for our STEM challenge Fridays. The teachers have been busy collecting cardboard boxes and egg cartons. These will be used for a variety of activities including making structures for a specific purposes. Fridays will also incorporate some coding on the computers to learn how to code the robots that we have.

Miss Carter

Miss Carter’s 2‐6 Class

Stay in the Loop with Skoolbag App

For those of you who don’t

yet know about Skoolbag, it is an app on your phone that

allows you to see notifications of upcoming

school events, updates about school excursions and other communications from your child’s classroom teachers, the Principal and the Office.

All you need to do is follow

the instructions

Once the App is on your phone you can also use it to

notify us of absences.

If you have any questions regarding Skoolbag App

please don’t hesitate to call and speak to Miss Bartlett.