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

QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL

CALENDAR

JULY

5 Spelling Bee (9:30am)

Goal celebrations (mufti day)

Last day of Term 2.

22 Staff Development Day

23 Students return for Term 3

AUGUST

1 Combined recorder concert

(at the Opera House)

7 P&C Meeting (6pm)

16 Zone Athletics Carnival

Phone: 02 6493 8213 Email: [email protected]

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

Dear Parents and Carers,

Share our Space Program Our school playground is open for public use this holiday under the NSW Governments share our space program. NAIDOC Week celebrations Quaama PS has celebrated NAIDOC Week in a variety of ways. The Bega High School Junior AECG students hosted an indigenous games tabloid session for surrounding schools on Monday. Our students who identify as Aboriginal attended and had a most enjoyable morning playing tabloid games with students from Tathra PS and Mumbulla schools. The high school students did a tremendous job and I will be borrowing some of their game ideas back at our school. My thanks to Lauren for helping with transport.

Our Kindergarten, Year 1 and 2 students enjoyed many activities provided by Mrs Hobbis. Activities included: making Johnny cakes, face painting, friendship bracelets.

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



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



Class News: TERM 2, WEEK 10 - 4th July, 2019

Award Winners — Week 8

Congratulations to Term 2, Week 8 Student award recipients. Well Done!

For more Athletics Carnival photos see

the school website:

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



Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 students travelled by bus to Jigamy Farm to be involved in a day of activities which students thoroughly enjoyed.




Mufti Movie Day this Friday This Friday students may come out of uniform for a gold coin donation (to go towards school camp fundraising). The theme is black and white or come in your favourite team colours.

Their will be popcorn on sale for the movie afternoon for 50c a bag.

Kick-a-Goal Day Students will celebrate the goals they have achieved for this term on Friday before the movie afternoon.

All the staff wish students and their families an

enjoyable holidays. Students will return for

Term 3 on Tuesday 30th July.

Hello from the 4/5/6 classroom,

As always, we have been very busy in the

4/5/6 classroom. Students spent several

sessions a week practising track and field

events for last week’s Athletics Carnival with

Tilba Public School. Well done to all the kids

who put in an enormous effort during the

school athletics trials and congratulations to

those who went on to represent the school at

the combined carnival.

4/5/6 Classroom News

Students try traditional dance

Students try traditional music techniques



4/5/6 Tennis sessions with James finished on

Tuesday. We had seven fantastic sessions, in

which the kids learned and practiced a great

deal of skills. James and I were both

impressed with the overall great attitude and

willingness to have a go that most students

exhibited throughout the term.

In History, we have been continuing to

explore early colonial times and the impact on

individual groups within Australia. In Week 8,

students were given a project that they have

been working on over the remaining three

weeks of the term. Working in pairs, they




have chosen a significant event that they will

research in depth. Some topics include;

Bushrangers, Eureka Stockade, Cobb and Co,

the introduction of rail and the expansion of

farming. These will be presented today in the

form of a PowerPoint presentation and a

poster summarising what they have learned.

In English, we are continuing to experiment

with different types of texts. Over the last few

weeks, we will explore varieties of poetry,

reading and recreating famous poems and

writing our own. So far, we have looked at the

structure of acrostic and haiku poetry. Below

are some student’s work for you to enjoy.

Acrostic poem

‘Summer’ by Ruby Whitby

Sun shines over the ocean.

Umbrella up in the sun.

Moving through the hot sand.

Multiple ice-creams melting.

Eating ice-cream all the time.

Resting in the sun.

Haiku poems

‘Autumn’ by Tane

Leaves changing colours,

Leaves falling onto the green grass.

Autumn has begun.

‘Spring’ by Harry

Deer munch on lush grass,

Willow trees flood across river banks,

Birds tweet in green trees.



Have a safe and happy holiday, See you all

next term.

Mrs Ferris

2/3 students have had a very enjoyable

fortnight in the classroom! They have been

experimenting in science with melting and

freezing items learning how to make

predictions for the outcome if a frozen item is

left out in the warmth for too long. 2/3 were

fortunate to see this happen using ice cream!

Very messy but fun lesson.

In history we have been learning about life of

children in the 1800s and comparing it to the

life we have now. I think students are grateful

to be living in society now and not in the

1800s.

In Mathematics students have been learning

about the time, especially how to tell the time

on digital and analogue clocks. If possible try

and assist your child to tell you the time at

home especially quarter past and quarter to.

We are extremely pleased and excited to see

so many students taking home new readers




each week! Reading is an important skill and

taking a small amount of time each day to read

a book is beneficial to our learning. We still do

it as adults! Our only ask is that we would like

to see the books returned back to the

classroom so others can enjoy it after you

have finished with it.

From all of 2/3 and the teachers we wish you

all a lovely and relaxing break and look

forward to the coming semester!

Mr Sul and Mrs Murray

2/3 Classroom News



Hello everyone from our classroom, where we are busy fishing off all the end of the term things. This term we have worked hard and achieved a lot – well done to all of Kinder and Year 1!

We have been talking about healthy lunches and ‘nude food,’ in an attempt to cut down our waste at school. Look at these healthy lunch boxes! There are lots of great ideas for school lunches on the “Live Life well at School” website.

Our tennis sessions with James are lots of fun. We had our final session on Tuesday. We have all learned a lot and improved so much! We look forward to our next Sporting Schools activity in Term 3!

On Tuesday, we also celebrated NAIDOC week at school, participating in a variety of activities including making a plaited friendship




bracelet, face painting, colouring and cooking Johnny Cakes. We all enjoyed ourselves, especially eating our cooked Johnny Cakes. Thank you to Julie Grieves and Lori Sadler for staying and helping.

Congratulations to our latest fantastic home readers. Well done to Akiva for 120, Zalia for 130, Zoe for 140, Mikaelah for 170, Maddison, Dylan, Lily and Lexi for 220, Braedyn for 350 and Velvet for 360 amazing home readers! Well done everyone – keep on reading over the holidays!

Congratulations also to our award winners for the last three weeks!

Our three children to receive special awards for week 8 were:

Lexi – Successful Learner (for producing quality work in English);

Kallum – Confident and Creative Student (for being positive and showing initiative); and

Mikaelah – Active and Informed Citizen (for accepting others and always following our rules).


Lexi - Successful Learner (for completing tasks and setting realistic goals);

Brookelynn – Confident and Creative Student (for always being positive and being a good friend); and

K/1 Classroom News



Dom – Active and Informed Citizen (for participating happily in all school activities).


Zalia - Successful Learner (for quality work in writing);

Dylan – Confident and Creative Student (for always being a positive learner); and

Samuel – Active and Informed Citizen (for participating happily in all school activities).

Have a safe and happy holiday, everyone. Stay safe on the roads and share some special times with your wonderful children!

Kind regards, Mrs Hobbis, Mrs Summers, Kinder and Year 1.

Thank you to everyone who helped

make the Pyjama Dance Party a

great time.

Another successful P&C event for Quaama PS.

More photos to follow in the next newsletter.




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QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL€¦ · Small School with a Big Heart — every student, every day QUAAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL CALENDAR JULY space program. 5 Spelling Bee (9:30am) Goal celebrations