GILGANDRA PUBLIC SCHOOL GRAPEVINE Success through diversity, participation and care

School Website: www.gilgandra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au P & C President: Libby Carr

15th June, 2016 Term 2

PRINCIPAL: Patricia Howard, Telephone: 6847 2043 Fax: 6847 2304 Email: gilgandra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Update Gilgandra Public School is a proud PBL school. Students are explicitly taught our school-wide expectations to be Safe Respectful Learners. The expectation for all PBL schools is that 80-90% of students consistently display positive behaviour. We are pleased to report that during the month of May, the school exceeded this expectation, with 97% of students receiving only one or no negative behaviour reports. This means that 97% of our students are actively displaying the attributes of Safe Respectful Learners. Well done Gilgandra Public School on following these PBL principles. Cross Country Results of School Carnival: 8/9 Years Girls – Sarah Chandler and Yindi Naden (equal first), Sarah Keogh (third). 8/9 Years Boys – Jace Baker and Jai Ashby (equal first), Ashton Chatfield (third). 10 Years Girls – Skye Doherty, Breanna Woodford, Olivia Amiet. 10 Years Boys – Landon Ashby, Ethan Moody, Cameren Hawke. 11 Years Girls – Jardi Naden, Savanna Bamblett, Isha Aro. 11 Years Boys – Blair Keogh, Tyson Pearson, Jack Chandler. 12/13 Years Girls – Callie Chatfield, Breanna Dann, Jasmine Newman. 12/13 Years Girls – Tyrell Barwick (first), Robert Brown and Jackson Wieland (equal second). Following the School Carnival a team travelled to Geurie to participate in the District Carnival on Wednesday 1st June. The juniors ran 2km and the seniors ran 3km. Congratulations to Landon Ashby who came 2nd in the 10 year boys event, Jai Ashby who came 4th in the 8/9 year boys and Jardi Naden who came 3rd in the 11 year girls event. These students are representing the Dubbo District at the Western Region Cross Country Carnival at Geurie today. Athletics Carnival The School Athletics Carnival will be held on Thursday the 23rd of June. All primary students will spend the day at the oval and infants will come down for a short activity session. If you would like to volunteer there are plenty of jobs time keeping, marshalling and helping in the canteen. Please remember primary students need to pre-order hotdogs by this Friday by returning the order which was sent home separately. Wanted Due to the colder weather an increasing number of children are needing a change of clothes, especially the infants. If you have any trousers or undies or sloppy joes that you no longer require they would be greatly appreciated.

For Your Diary June Thu 16 Life Education Van Fri 17 Life Education Van Excursion Deposits Due Tue 21 Book Club Orders Close Thu 23 Athletics Carnival Fri 24 Give Me 5 For Kids Yr 6 T-Shirt Orders Close

PBL AWARDS Merit Awards: Dolphins: Cordell White, Shane DeBritt; Owls: Domanic Field, Bailey Kaltenbacher ; Kinder Cobras: Mason Fairley, Cooper Anforth, Justin Smith, Makayla Morgan, Brayden Glenn, Skyla Carr; Kinder Meerkats: Lloyd Hammond, Dontae Sandry, Mason Dry, Sophie Carter; 1 Monkeys: Logan Howard, Lilly Field, Treye Iffland-Lummis, Trae Bamblett, Aidan Pearson; 1/2 Foxes: Jessy-Lea Ryan, Isaiah Marchant, Manaaki Diamond, Treye Iffland-Lummis, Trae Bamblett, Aidan Pearson, Bella Townsend, Gus Howard, Maddie Amiet; 2/3 OllieRoos: Cobie Carr, Wyatt Johnson, Lochy Nolan, Josh Louie, Jai Ashby, Ava Duffy; 3/4 Smarties: Halle Smith, Tillie Dezius, Maverick Denniss, Brianna Madgwick, Isaiah Aro, Lori Thurston; 4/5 Goannas: Corey Broom, Jyi Newman, Savanna Bamblett; Ethan Moody, Yindi Carney, Skye Doherty 4/5/6 Warriors: Robert Brown, Isaiah Knox, Ainsley Louie, Sean Crane; 5/6 Brumbies: Callie Chatfield, Kaleb Sutherland, Chloe Mackney, Alicia Byrne, Jackson Wieland. Level 1 Lion Certificates: Zachary Root, Jamaica Newman, Callie Chatfield., Aurora Fairley, Danika Brown, Savanna Bamblett, Kooper Fox, Azariah Iffland. Level 2 Lion Certificates: Gus Howard, Le-Lo Priddis, Maddie Amiet, Adayna Aro, Ruby Lamb, Skyla Carr, Charlie Whiteman, Deklan Kaltenbacher, Indiana Knight, Yindi Naden, Liam Tamsett, Hannah Moody, Lily Gorman, Lloyd Hammond, Shekkylah Millgate, Brayden Glenn.

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4/5/6 Warriors

This term 4/5/6 Warriors have been busy learning in history about a controversial Australian legend and a talented Australian Bush Artist .We commenced our lesson by painting Pro Hart’s impression of Ned Kelly. Then we learnt that Ned Kelly was the son of a convict who was a horse thief. We also now know that Ned Kelly was a man the people of the 1880s either loved or hated.

Pro Hart began his adult life as miner at Broken Hill drawing pictures for the other miners underground. He sold his first paintings from a hotel for 40pounds. Over his life time he has won many accolades for his art. He has an Art Gallery in Broken Hill filled with his paintings. We found these two famous Australians interesting and that history can be fun.

 

Fish Outta Water Performance

On Friday morning we had the Fish Outta Water Performance. The performer Shelly forgot to complete her homework assignment on the history of the Olympics. The very energetic Shelly used drama and gymnastics to demonstrate how the first Olympics started in Greece and how important Cathy Freeman was in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. The show was very interactive.

Our beautiful class has been working hard in all areas and we are extremely proud of their behaviour and work ethic.

In writing we are starting to use creative punctuation such as exclamation marks, question marks and speech marks. We are also using adjectives and paragraphs.

During maths we have been practising our “friends of 10”, counting backwards from 100 and learning about measuring length and mass. Next, we are going to focus on reading time to the half hour and saying the number that comes before numbers up to 100.

We have also been working on our independent computer skills, learning to log onto and navigate around the Mathletics program on the computers and iPads.

During our Wiradjuri lesson Auntie Iris spoke to us about her childhood at Balladoran and brought in some dolls she made. We have decided to make some and display them at NAIDOC day in Term 3. They are still under construction, however we’d like to show you our work to date.

Kind regards, Catherine Dunn and Michelle Leven

1/2 Foxes

The Wise Owls and Dolphins visit the Warrumbungles…

Students from the Wise Owls and Dolphins classes recently had a visit to the Environmental Education Centre at the Warrumbungle National Park. Students from Coonabarabran Public School’s MC Unit also joined the excursion where we went on a bush walk and engaged in learning about the importance of taking care of our environment through maintaining our use of resources. We found clues along our journey which instigated interesting discussions and triggered learning outcomes.

We enjoyed a picnic lunch with our new friends from CPS where we talked all about where we live, who’s in our families and things we like to do in Gilgandra. This was a very worthwhile experience for our students and we aim to continue to further develop these new relationships.

 

Year One Monkeys have been working hard, learning about respecting and helping each other. We read the story ‘Clancy the Courageous Cow’ and discussed that everyone is different and that is OK. We decided to paint our own cow

We’ve been using lots of different materials and objects to learn about length, area and volume which has been really fun.

We have been really enjoying learning Wiradjuri with Aunty Iris. She told us a story using puppet animals and we learnt Wiradjuri names for them.

Year 1 Monkeys

School Debating Team

Is Australia the lucky Country?

Gilgandra Public School presented a convincing debate lastTuesday against Broken Hill Public School ‘that Australia is the Lucky Country’. The team was confident and ready to challenge their opposition in rebuttal and took the win for the day. Well done debaters and thank you to Mrs Lacey for her wonderful adjudication skills.

NAIDOC Public Speaking Challenge

On Wednesday 8th June four students represented our school in Dubbo at the NAIDOC Public Speaking Challenge. The topic was Songlines the Living Narrative of our Nation. Each team consisted of two students and together they created a speech that ran for four minutes. Their speech was about what songlines is and what it means to them. Special guests, Luke Carroll and Allan Hall, were the adjudicator and time keeper respectively. Well done Jack Chandler, Monique Knight, Landon Ashby and Isha Aro. You represented our school with pride and many positive comments were made about your behaviour and dress.