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Inspiring Excellence through PRIDE Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460
T: 02 6642 3388 F:02 6643 [email protected]
In the next few weeks our school will be involved in a number of excellent initiatives. In Week 6 on Wednesday 26th August we will be holding two Performing Arts concerts for our Infants and Primary campuses. Our Performing Arts program is truly outstanding and we are looking forward to this showcase. We welcome back Mr Tapp this week and he will be organising these concerts for our school. All students participating will be also involved in a full dress rehearsal practise on Monday 24th August. Our school will be videoing and taking photos of these concerts which will be highlighted on our school Facebook page as unfortunately due to NSW DEC guidelines parents can not attend. The video component will be snippets of each performance.
In Week 7 on Tuesday 1st September we will be holding our bi-annual Book Character Parade. The organisation for this parade is currently taking place which unfortunately will not involve our school community but we will definitely be highlighting this occasion on Facebook for our families. All students who participate will be expected to stay at school for the whole day. We will hold a parade on both campuses to abide by NSW DEC guidelines. Our school will be holding a Book Fair which will open on Monday 24th August information will be distributed to our community next week. Our thanks to Mrs Heyman for organising our Book Character Parade and Book Fair.
Yesterday we had two Rugby League teams participate in a Gala Day with Grafton PS at McKittrick Park. All of our students had a fun day and showed great team spirit and sportsmanship. Our thanks to Mr Duroux for his coaching and Mr Kelly and Mrs Dougherty who supported these teams on the day.
Today our Prefects were involved in their second leadership development day which was held at our school and led by Mrs McIntyre and Mr Zacek. The students are working on some initiatives to further improve their understanding of our school PRIDE values.
ENROLLING NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2021
Please complete your enrolment forms and lodge with either office to help us with our planning for 2021. Its
very important we have a very good idea of our numbers as our staffing is decided each year on school numbers
which have to be processed by November.
South Grafton Public School NewsletterWe acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work
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Term 3 Week 4 - Thursday 13th August 2020
Inspiring Excellence through PRIDE Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460
T: 02 6642 3388 F:02 6643 [email protected]
Please remember to practise social distancing whenpicking up and dropping off your children, particularly on our Infants campus. We would appreciate parents drop and go during these times. No parents should be in the corridors. Parents should only be visiting the school through the office for essential reasons. Please ensure your child has a drink bottle as our bubblers are closed for individual drinking.
I have received confirmation Ms Carmel Small will be continuing her relieving position as the Learning and Wellbeing Officer at Coffs Harbour for the remainder of the term. Mrs Wendy Jones will continue in her roll teaching our EI students and supporting our Infants classes and Miss Wendy Cotten will continue in her relieving Special Education Assistant Principal role.
Have a great week Mr Peter Hickey - PrincipalBook Fair and Book Character Parade
BOOK FAIR Dates: Friday 21st August - Thursday 3rd SeptemberBook Fair opens Friday 21 August (Week 5) and students will be able to browse and write a Wish List from that day.Due to COVID-19 restrictions purchasing will be a little different this year.Information is available at https://sites.google.com/a/education.nsw.gov.au/librarywithmrsheyman/book-fair-2020 . A note with all of these details will also come home with students along with a Book Fair catalogue on the day that their class visits the Library. Parents can purchase online for their students and books can be collected at the Book Fair, or students can purchase directly from Book Fair using cash only.
BOOK CHARACTER PARADEOn Tuesday 1st September we will host our Book Character Parade so get your thinking caps on to work out which character you will come dressed as this year. We love to see imaginative and creative costumes, not really expensive ones. There will be book prizes awarded to the most fantastic costumes!Due to COVID-19 restrictions, our Book Character Parade will also be a little different this year. We will host one parade per campus, and we are unable to invite family members to school to watch our fantastic parades this year. Infants parade will be at 9.30am and the Primary parade will be at 11.30am.
Tell Them From Me Parent SurveyThis Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school’s support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements. The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will open on Tuesday 11th August and close on Friday 28th August. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated. To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/sgps2061
Marvellous Maths with Mrs McGrathRecently the school has purchased a number of books that have mathematics embedded within them. This term we will be looking at using these texts to unpack the mathematical problems to understand more about place value, fractions and all things mathematical. One Grain of Rice is a lovely story about the power of doubling and how easy it is to count to a billion once you can count to 10! I wonder how many books you have at home that also explore mathematics in this way?
Mrs Melissa McGrathInstructional Leader
Inspiring Excellence through PRIDE Principal: Mr Peter Hickey Vere Street South Grafton NSW 2460
T: 02 6642 3388 F:02 6643 [email protected]
AwardsStudents of the Week AwardKRB Liena Brown KMS Harrison SaccoKCK Tye Bailey KET Flynn Hewitt1SM Annabelle Brooks 1AO Skylah Williams1KR Lachlan Stephens1KD Rosalie Skinner1/2KW Connor Worthy 2SB Yiirrili Williams2LB Iylah-Mae Green 2LS Caleb Lolic3JD Zyrah Pinote 3KG Isabella Houlihan
3DR Angel Eyles 3JR Ashley Higgins4MA Ruby Elliott 4ES Kayne O’Neill4TB Nate Pohlmann 5KR Eli Whitney5/6TC Mia Bathgate 5DH Lily Vercoe5/6ER Ella Redman 6TM Cadence Wilkinson-Byrnes6LG Saphira Sinclair 6SD Ella McNee
Principal AwardsSeth Sandoz, Nash Wall, Valin Skerry, Jack Gudz, Drain Skinner, Taejahna Gibson-Davis, Isabella Bailey, Georgie Salmon, Ayden Nacinovic, Grace McIntyre, Jorja Lawrence.Blue RibbonsSeth Sandoz, Valin Skerry, Jak Gudz, Seinna DaveyPride AwardsOllie Rodda, Hailey Firth, Keiron Johnson-Heron, Chloe West, Reck Sinclair, Sheamus Prosser, Clayton Buchanan, Isabella Hunt, Paige Robinson, Franklin McConnell, Evie Bowles-Golden, Leo Catterall, Jardyn Close, Heidi Wren-Hanson, Lewis Woodley-Walker, Ella Smidt, Harvey Brown, Poppy Katon, Banda Elliott, Phoenix De Bono, Hendrix McMahon, Lacey Polsen, William Patterson, Amelia Sheather, Heath Gilmore, Isabella Taylor, Sami Zacek, Nythanuel Wyse, Thomas Patterson, Sammi King, Thea Mason, Liam Slater, Rose Corrigan, Darcy Scott, Liara Gipp, Cooper Watson, Lacey Carlino, Myla Richards, Quinn Tattis, Tahlia Connelly, Emmie Lolic, Coby McDonald, Tashiah Woodley-Walker, Braithen De Bono, Tamika Van Doorn, Skye Brennand, Jaxon Martin, Cienna Barker, Kendra Bard, Roxy Walker, Analah Colley, Allyrah Dodd, Charlie Rouse, Evie Wilson, Layla Knight, Samuel Morrow, Violet Cox, Seinna Davey, Ezra Morrison, Isla Vercoe, Jessica Zomer, Thomas Palmer, Khyrin Walker Martin, Sierra Menzies, Kayleb Adams, Mary-Grace Ballis, Emily Loy, Lacey Lawrie, Sasha Lawrence, Pheobe Burke, Mitchell Brigham, Blake Gavin, Cody Clydesdale, Mikayla Crapp, Leila Horstman, Jaylin Mundine, Abigail Kellaway Small, Zoe Rayward, Jonny Stander-Forbes, Ryli Britton, Ally Graham, Jordan Pritchard, Taylah Berry, Donavan Bailey, Jesse Really, Zahlee Kilduff, Ayisha Brown, Chloe Brown, Samuel Finlay, Izabella Campling, Hope Bullock, Aila Giggins, Izaac Christian, Archie McDonald.
Upcoming Events
Friday 21st Aug Book FairTuesday 25th Aug Hockey girls and boysWednesday 26th Aug Performing Arts Concert no parentsTuesday 1st Sept Book Character Parade no parentsFriday 4th Sept Multicultural Public Speaking School FinalsTuesday 8th Sept Soccer girls and boys Wednesday 9th Sept Infants Silver Badge MTTuesday 15th Sept Primary Silver Badge MTFriday 18th Sept Infants sport carnival no parentsTuesday 22nd Sept NetballThursday 24th Sept Primary Athletics carnivalFriday 25th Sept Last day of TermMonday 12th Oct First day of Term 4
Canteen PRIMARYMonday Suellen Davies, HELP NEEDEDTuesday Bronwen Brown, HELP NEEDEDWednesday Suellen Davies, HELP NEEDEDThursday Belinda Wormald, HELP NEEDEDFriday Norma Purnell, Suellen Davies INFANTSMonday Rhonda King, HELP NEEDEDTuesday Jasmin Wyse, HELP NEEDEDWednesday Jodie Carter, Rebecca MilliganThursday Rebecca Milligan, Phoebe CampbellFriday Jody Tapp, Rebecca Milligan
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