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Term 2 Week 3 15 May 2020

Calendar

At this stage, events which have been cancelled or postponed are indicated. You will understand that the current situation is changing rapidly. We will, of course, keep you fully informed as soon as possible.

MayWednesday 20 Canteen Meeting (in the Library)

New Time- 5:45pm

Wednesday 20 P&C Meeting (in the Library)New Time: 6:00pm

Thursday 21 Games n Grub - The Fathering Project5:30pm-7:00pm -Postponed until further notice

Friday 29 Zone Cross CountryPostponed until further notice

JuneWednesday 17 Canteen Meeting (in the Library)

New Time- 5:45pm

Wednesday 17 P&C Meeting (in the Library)New Time: 6:00pm

All School Assemblies have been cancelled until further notice

Excursion DepositsIf you would like your child/children to participate in any of the Major yearly excursions, please return the signed excursion permission notes to the front office to secure their place if the excursions are to go ahead. The notes will be passed onto the appropriate excursion coordinators.

Excursion deposits will be accepted at the front office but please do not panic about paying your excursion deposits at this time.

A final decision regarding excursions will be made towards the end of June when we have a clearer idea of how society is travelling managing COVID-19.

In the event that the Major excursions are cancelled, your payments can be reimbursed or can be left as a future credit on your child's account.

Exciting things happening in the classroomsthis week

Mr Bailey with Stage 2 students

having fun in there libraryactivity rock, scissors and

paper.( whole body

version)

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Leonie Byrne, Principal

Welcome back! We are so pleased to see children returning to school. To see them engaging with their teachers and their friends as well as to hear them playing and moving around the school is just wonderful. Schools just aren’t the same with out them here.

Our staggered return has been going well. Teachers are directing children to wash their hands regularly, we are applying hand sanitiser at the gates, staggering our breaks and having enhanced cleaning procedures implemented. During the school day our cleaner, Richard, is cleaning the toilets after each break, wiping down hand rails and work spaces as appropriate.

We are grateful for your cooperation, dropping your children at the gate, practising social distancing and only coming onto our school site when absolutely necessary.

Please remember to send a drink bottle with your child as our bubblers are still turned off. The refill station is still available at the canteen.

Parents/carers have been doing a great job supporting their children by teaching our remote learning packs at home. We will continue to prepare these packs until schools return to their usual routines and children are required to come to school 5 days a week. These packs are also taught at school so please send them to school as we do not want to print unnecessarily. If you have returned completed packs they will be marked but this will take some time as there is a lot of work for teachers to mark whilst also preparing new remote learning packs.

There is a great deal of talk in the media around the education of our children and the impact of covid-19. As a community you have clearly demonstrated to your children, through your commitment to delivering remote learning at home, that you support the school and value the learning that takes place here. This will be a life long lesson for some children. I would compare it to the child who loves a particular NRL team just because their father does or the child who loves Holdens over Ford because that’s what the family drives.

At Tamworth South, once we are back to business as usual we will be clearly focusing on bringing the children up to speed in literacy and numeracy. Yes, we always do this but we may have to drill down our lessons to perhaps having two literacy or numeracy sessions a day. Whatever it takes our teachers are qualified and well and truly up to the task.

I look forward to the next few weeks when all our children return. Please keep an eye on the school Facebook page for the most up to date information.

Support Unit Mother's Day Gifts

H Blockand

I Block

Special Ed had a wonderful day making their Mother's Day gifts.

Their mothers received special pots decorated with beautiful assorted buttons shaped in hearts. Each studentplanted a strawberry plant in their pots.

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Classroom activitiesmaking rainbows

Year 2

Year 2 students working with Mrs Brown and Mrs Toomey.

They had lots of fun making rainbows on Wednesday afternoon.

Year 2 students working with Mrs Tanner.

Creating beautiful rainbows.

Year 2 students working with Mrs Swain and Mrs Turnbull.

Students created beautiful rainbows.

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Stage 2 Visual Artsbackyard scavenger hunt

Budding architects

Tall towers

KindergartenLunchtime fun in the sun with some budding

engineers!

Build it high, build it tall.

Build it strong and it won't fall.

Mr Van Pragg and Year 2 students doing excerise activities before heading back to class.

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Blended Families Webinar

Karalee Katsambanis draws on her experience as ajournalist and stepparent to provide answers, strategies and solutions for your blended family.

Details:

As a stepparent, Karalee searched for some guidance.Guess what - there was none, so she drew on her experience and wrote a book for stepparents.

Karalee will lead a panel discussion, helping you to navigate the best path for you, your parenting partners and your kids.

She will share real experiences of entering the world of step parenting/blended families, and provide invaluable insights and advice to those beginning or already on their journey.

All webinars are recorded and uploaded to The Fathering Channel.

Online only

Combined Kindergarten classesStudents happily learning about giraffes.

Students creating wonderful artwork

Stage 3

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Thank you for keeping our school clean!Kathy and Richard

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Parents and CitizensOur P&C meetings are held in the Library on the third Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm (new time).

All Parents, Grandparents and Guardians are welcome to attend. We welcome new volunteers and members.

Next P&C Meeting Wednesday 17 June 2020 in the Library at 6:00pm.

We hope that you are able to join us and become part of our P&C team. Everyone is Welcome!

P&C Clothing PoolThe school clothing pool will now be open from Tuesday to Friday each week. Opening time 8:45am - 9:10am.

In you would like to know more information please connect us on tspspandc@gmail.com or you can leave a message at the office and it will be passed on to the Clothing Pool.

Canteen NewsLate lunch ordersDue to large numbers of late lunch orders and emergency lunches, the Canteen Committee has decided that any orders after 9:30am will be sandwiches ONLY NO exceptions.

NO Phone Orders Accepted:Unfortunately due to the large numbers of lunch orders the Canteen is unable to process anymore phone orders. All orders are to be placed at the Canteen.Canteen Meeting- Wednesday 17 June 2020 in the Library at 5:45pm (new time).

Clothing PoolWe are stocked for winter

Long sleeve white and grey shirts - $5.00 eachLong grey and green pants - $5.00 eachGreen jumpers - $5.00each Second hand jackets - $25.00 eachTies - $5.00 eachBrand new grey double knee pants - $20.00 each

Boyd Kenny

Year 5

The following items are available from the Canteen

Brand new ties - $15.00Brand new sports shirts - $20.00Brand new jackets - small, medium - $55.00 - large - 14, 16 - $60.00Brand new hats - $10.00

Tamworth South's Canteen is now online!Our canteen is now set up for online ordering through the Flexischools App.

This will be available from Monday 18 May 2020.

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