Paterson Post

02 4938 5114 www.paterson-p.school.nsw.edu.au Term 4

Term 4 Week 2

October 26th

Coming Events

OCTOBER

Tue 30th 2nd Kinder Orientation 9.00 to 11.15am

NOVEMBER

Thu 1st Loop Book Club orders finalised

Fri 2nd Grandparent’s Day

Tue 6th 3rd Kinder Orientation

Tue 13th Kinder Orientation interviews

Mon 19th P & C meeting

DECEMBER

Mon 3rd Swim school begins

Tue 4th Dungog High School Yr 6 Orientation

Tue 11th Presentation Night @ Tocal

Mon 17th Year 6 Farewell

P & C meeting

Wed 19th Last day for students

Notes sent home

Kindergarten performance

Year 6 Fundraisers Year 6 will be selling icy poles for 50 cents at lunchtime on Tuesdays and Thursdays during Term 4.

The money raised will go towards a Year 6 gift to the school. We look forward to your support.

Cake Stall

Tuesday 30th October 50cents to $2.00

Newsletter Week 2, Term 4 International Teachers Day Today marks International Teachers Day around the world. I would like to acknowledge the outstanding work of our teachers at Paterson Public School. I love the way that every teacher knows and values every student and they give so much of their time and energy to build and maintain relationships with our kids and our families. We are very lucky to have such a motivated, caring, and skilled group working at our school. Thank you teachers.

Kindergarten Orientation We very much enjoyed meeting our 2019 kindergarten students and their families on Tuesday this week. We had sixteen lovely children who were very excited about their first visit to ‘big’ school. I think our big buddies were just as excited, they did a wonderful job of making their new friend’s feel welcome and relaxed. Next week and the week after the children will visit the kindergarten classroom again. It’s not too late to join our orientation program so if you know of anyone in our area who has a kindergarten child starting next year please ask them to call the office as soon as possible. If you are not sure whether your child is ready to start school next year, they are very welcome to attend the next two sessions as a trial.

Medical Information Updates Please ensure that any change in a medical condition for your child is communicated to the school as soon as possible. Remember that asthma management plans must be updated annually with your GP and provided to the school.

Grandparents Day Don’t forget that our grandparents day is coming up on Friday, 2nd November. Looking forward to seeing you there.

Gymnastics Program From weeks 4-7, our school will run a gymnastics program run by professionally trained instructors (Gym Matrix) during Friday sport time. There will be no cost to students for this program as it is funded through a school sports grant.

Road Safety Please remember that children will take their cues from your behaviour rather than what you say. When you cross the road in front of our school, make sure that you do so within the crossing boundaries so that our students see you modelling safe behaviour.

With thanks, Sarah-Jane Hazell

ICAS Results 2018 Congratulations to all students who competed this year in the ICAS competitions.

A special congratulations to Cameron who achieved a High Distinction for Science and Nicholas who scored a High Distinction in Mathematics. Well done Cameron & Nicholas!

Mathematics High Distinction - Nicholas

Distinction - Riley K, Cameron

Credit - Holly, Xavier, Charlie

Merit - Aidan, Natasha

Science High Distinction - Cameron

Distinction - Xavier

Credit - August, Holly, Nicholas

Merit - Connor F, Charlie

English Distinction - Gabriel

Credit - Holly, Nicholas, Xavier, Addison C, Emily, Riley K

Merit - Addison C

Spelling Credit - Jacob, Shelby, Stevie-Lee

Digital Technology Distinction - Cameron

Credit - Emily

Writing Distinction - Emily

Paterson Public School Cricket Team Paterson had a successful cricket game against Gres-ford on Thursday 24th October. Paterson scored 4/87 while Gresford were all bowled out for 69 runs. Nate was the leading run scorer with 25 runs and Angus was the leading wicket taker with 3 wickets.

Over all Paterson had an amazing first game. We look forward to playing our next game against Vacy Public School.

by

Nate & Jadon

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Term 4

Assembly Awards

Week 2

Captain’s Award

Ethan C for great sportsmanship in soccer.

Term 4

Week 2

PBL

AWARD

CLASS AWARD

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Kindergarten

Taylor for being a responsible new class member.

Elizabeth for excellent work in reading.

Sarah for a responsible, resilient attitude to learning and an excellent improvement in reading.

Years 1/2

Jayden for taking more responsibility with his learning and attitude.

Zoe for writing a great argument in class.

Madison for displaying all the PBL values.

Year 2/3

Lukin for his continued efforts in taking responsibility for his own learning. Well done Lukin.

Sam for joining our class with a positive attitude and enthusiasm towards trying new things.

Drew for his excellent use of modal verbs in persuasive writing tasks. Well done Drew.

Year 4/5 Sandi for demonstrating resilience in life by adapting to her new school.

Jai for attempting more English work – reading, writing, spelling, talking and listening.

Mikayla for trying hard and showing a strong work ethic in all KLAs.

Years 5/6

Ethan for displaying greater responsibility in all areas.

Angus for great mental computations.

Noah for a structurally sound house design.

02 4938 5114 www.paterson-p.school.nsw.edu.au Term 4

Paterson CBC car park, Duke Street Paterson

1st November,

1.30pm to 4.00pm

Sunday 4th

November The Paterson Public School P & C will be running the BBQ at the Paterson Valley Colour Run on Sunday November 4.

Volunteers are needed for this day and if you are able to help please email Amy Merchant at amymerchant@bigpond.com

All Loop orders for

Book Club need to be

finalised by

Thursday 1st November