QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL...23-27 Royal Far West visit The highlight of last week had to be the book 23 Kinder Orientation (9:30-12:00) character parade. So many students came to 27 Swimming

Small School with a Big Heart — every student, every day

QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL

CALENDAR

NOVEMBER

20 Swimming for Sport

23-27 Royal Far West visit

23 Kinder Orientation (9:30-12:00)


30 Bega High School Transition (Year 6)

DECEMBER

1 NRL visit


7 Parliament

8 Kinder Orientation (9:30-12:00)

Parent info session at 9:30

Phone: 02 6493 8213 Email: [email protected]

website: https://quaama-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Dear Parents and Carers,

The highlight of last week had to be the book

character parade. So many students came to

school looking awesome in their outfits. Well

done to those crafty parents who supported

their kids to look so good. Thank you Mrs

Summers for your continued enthusiasm to

support this event.

Mrs Summers chatting to the students in K

Year 6

From the Principal’s desk: TERM 1, WEEK 1 31st January, 2019



From the Principal’s desk: TERM 1, WEEK 1 31st January, 2019



Newsletter: TERM 4, WEEK 6 – 19th November, 2020

Principal’s Message

Award Winners — Term 4

Congratulations Week 6 award recipients.



Thank you to the parents and carers who

supported the book fair last week. Big thanks

to Mrs Summers and Jody for their efforts in

organising a great event under less than ideal

conditions.

Year 2-6 had a visit from Senior Constable

Matt Berry, Youth Liaison Officer on

Wednesday. Matt spoke to the students

about being responsible citizens, bullying and

clarified what it means to assault another

person. He will be back later this term for a

follow up visit.

Thank you to all the parents who continue to

adhere to the departmental guidelines and

avoid being on school grounds. Your support

is appreciated. We are all looking forward to

when we can move freely on school grounds

again soon.

We are looking forward to the visit from RFW

next week. Don’t forget the parent information

session is on Wednesday afternoon. The

clinicians are very keen to make contact with

as many parents as possible to answer your

questions and discuss how they can support

your children during their visit and beyond.

Quaama PS had a visit from the Department

of Education Executive Director Kathy

Powzun last week. She wanted to see the

school and speak to staff to get a deeper




understanding of our context. She was very

grateful for the honest feedback from all staff

that helped her understand the depth of

complexity and she is adamant she will

advocate for needs into the future.

Our federal member Kristy McBain has

confirmed she will be at presentation day this

year. We are still making arrangements for a

live feed and a recording of the event and how

many people can attend.

Thanks again to Bek for OzHarvest donations

during the outdoor education activities During

Week 3. Kids loved the bacon and egg rolls

and sandwiches for breakfast.

Regards,

Daniel Roe

It is certainly getting to the busy end of the

year. Last week students undertook a range of

assessments, from story writing to maths,

spelling and comprehension. The results of

these assessments will assist in producing

data for reports. We also had a Book Parade

with an impressive line up of characters.

Swimming for Sport

Last Friday was our second session in the

pool. Two groups of sixteen students each

have forty-five minutes in the pool with Jim,

4/5/6 Classroom News

Barb, Ashton, myself and one other teacher

providing lessons. The teacher to student

ratio is very low so there is lots of learning

happening. Last Friday we welcomed the

assistance of Mrs Lendstrom, a very

experienced swimming teacher. She will be

running the program this Friday as I will be

attending a course. Those students who do

not attend the lessons have been enjoying

some creative Art sessions with Miss Harding.

Space Topic

The 456 class has been learning more about

Space. They have been researching and

presenting projects on diverse topics such as

Galaxies, Nebulae, Space Vehicles, Probes

and Comets. This week we focused on the

Origins of the Universe. Students physically

demonstrated the enormous changes that

occurred after the Big Bang as matter

changed into protons and neutrons, then into

Hydrogen atoms and eventually into stars,

planets and moons.

Photos – Explaining the Origins of the

Universe

The very small black dot represented what was

there before the Big Bang.






Four students being Matter and Anti-Matter in the

first few seconds after the explosion.

As the Universe expanded, protons and neutrons

appear.

Hydrogen and Helium atoms – 98% of the atoms in

the Universe.

The current extent of the known universe.

Year 2/3/4 recognised NAIDOC Week by

exploring Indigenous symbols and discussing

how Indigenous stories are handed down to

each new generation by sharing verbal stories

as well as symbols that we can see in many

Indigenous artworks. We drew Indigenous

symbols onto the Aboriginal flag and created a

class artwork display including all our hands in

the classroom.

Remembrance Day 11/11

Remembrance Day falls on the 11th of

November each year. On the 11th hour of the

11th day of the 11th month, a minutes’ silence

is observed and dedicated to those soldiers

who died fighting to protect the nation. We

commemorate the loss of Australian lives from

all wars and conflicts on Remembrance Day.

At Quaama Public School we acknowledged

Remembrance Day with a whole-school

ceremony at the front of our school that

included our national flags at half mast, a

minute silence and the last post and rouse.

We were excited to learn that Quaama is one

of the schools chosen to grow some seeds

that will spend six months in space. The

astronauts that will look after these seeds

arrived at the International Space Station on

Tuesday night and the cargo flight will be

launched in early December. We have also

been watching footage of this week’s amazing

meteor shower – the Leonid Shower – that is

the brightest and most frequent of the year.

There’s always something happening in the

world of Space.

Captains’ Speeches

On Monday many of the Year 5 students

delivered their pitch to be chosen as one of

the Quaama School Captains for 2021. All of

the students and staff receive two votes to

cast for who they think will be responsible and

helpful members of the school. The speeches

are available to watch online Captain’s

Speeches. The results will be announced

during our Presentation Day event in the last

week of Term.

Matthew Farran

NAIDOC Week

NAIDOC Week celebrations are held across

Australia to celebrate the history, culture and

achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander peoples. NAIDOC is celebrated not

only in Indigenous communities, but by

Australians from all walks of life. The week is

a great opportunity to participate in a range of

activities and to support our local Aboriginal

and Torres Strait Islander community.






2/3/4 Classroom News

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Students created red poppy’s as a part of

their learning about the importance of the day.

In Year 2/3/4 we listened to the book “Alfred’s

War,” by Samantha Fry. Alfred’s War is a

powerful story that unmasks the lack of

recognition given to Australian Indigenous

servicemen who returned from WW1 battle

lines. This poignant narrative opens our

hearts to the sacrifice and contribution that

Indigenous people have made to Australia’s

war efforts.

You can listen to the story and discussion

about Alfred’s War online here: Alfred's War

Book Character Parade

Wow! There were some interesting characters

that came to school last week as part of the

Book Character Parade! Instead of regular

students, we had Matilda, Moana, Wizard,

Ash from Pokemon, Joker from Suicide

Squad, Andy and Jill from the Treehouse

Series, Murder the Clown, A soldier from Toy

Story, Malificent’s daughter Mau, Ninja Kid,

Pikachu, Billy B. Brown, Rapunzel, Claudia

from the Baby Sitters Club. Instead of regular

teachers, we had Miss Harding as Little Red

Riding Hood and Di was the Big Bad Wolf!

Here is the link to the fun and festivities: Book

Week Slideshow

Antarctica and Global Warming

This term in Geography we are learning about

the 7 continents of the world as well as the

effects of Global Warming on our environment,

plants and animals. This past week we have

focused on the continent of Antarctica and the

effects of Global Warming on the penguin

population.

Did you know that Global Warming increases

melting of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, causing sea

levels to rise? Scientists state that increased

loss of sea ice would also impact Antarctic

species which rely on it to reproduce.

We created artworks of penguins to

complement our learning in Geography.






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Playing Minecraft is a new option for

lunchtime activities

As the weather is starting to warm up and the

UV ratings are also climbing, the students

have an option to play Minecraft in the Year

2/3/4 classroom for half of their lunch times.

This option can also help to alleviate some of

the behaviour incidents that can occur in the

playground, particularly on very hot days. To

qualify to play Minecraft at lunchtimes,

students must first have a short break outside

to eat their food and enjoy the fresh air before

coming indoors. It has been great watching

the students learn more about coding and

cooperate with each other through their

journeys in the Minecraft worlds.

Thank you to all of the Quaama families who

made so much effort again this year with

costurmes for our book character parade. The

students and staff always have a fun day.

This year we combined our character parade

and book fair. Many excited students visited

the Library to choose books to take home and

enjoy. Thank you for all of your support, in less

than favourable circumstances. Thank you to

families who donated a book to our Library,

Jody will get these books ready for these

students to borrow first. We were able to

purchase books to the value of $450.00 and

look forward to displaying them in the Library.

Mrs Summers

Library News






Hello from the Kinder and Year 1 classroom,

where we are all busy completing assessment

tasks for our December reports. The end of

the year is drawing close – we can’t believe

how quickly the term is disappearing! Every

week lots of great things happen in our

classroom and in our school and what a busy

day we had last week with our excursion to

Potoroo Palace and our Book Character

Parade!

On Wednesday, Year 2 came to Potoroo

Palace with us and we were very lucky to be

the only students there! Our guide, Maree,

taught us many interesting facts about the

creatures there. Then on Thursday, it was our

Book Character Parade. What a fantastic

range of costumes we had. A big thank you to

everyone for going to so much trouble!

K/1 Classroom News

Today we had our cross country run and

tomorrow we have our third session of

swimming. On top of everything else we do

during the week, no wonder we are so tired by

Friday afternoons!

Special congratulations to our terrific award

winners for the last two weeks! Our three

children to receive special awards in week 5

were:

Maddison - Successful Learner, (for always asking

for help when needed),

Brookelynn - Confident and Creative Student, (for

being a good friend to the other students), and

Will – Active and Informed Citizen, (for being a

responsible user of technology).

Our three children to receive special awards in

week 6 were:

Lorenzo - Successful Learner, (for completing

tasks and asking for help when needed);

Mikaelah – Confident and Creative Student, (for

being a kind, good friend to the other students),

and

Braedyn – Active and Informed Citizen, (for bring a

responsible user of technology).

Congratulations also to our latest fantastic

home readers. Well done to Golda and Dylan

for 70, Eve for 150, Maddison for 260, Lorenzo






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for 330 and Braedyn for 390 great home

readers. Terrific work! Keep on reading and

practising everyone.

We have lots of things to look forward to in

the coming week, including practising for our

production of “The Little Red Hen,” Swimming

for Sport tomorrow, music with Ms Alex on

Monday, Japanese with Mayumi on

Wednesday and library with Mrs Summers on

Thursday.

Have a great week everyone. Remember, any

problems or queries, please see me.

Kind regards, Mrs Hobbis, Kinder and Year










Newsletter: TERM 4, WEEK 2 – 22nd October, 2020

Includes parent information session.

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QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL...23-27 Royal Far West visit The highlight of last week had to be the book 23 Kinder Orientation (9:30-12:00) character parade. So many students came to 27 Swimming