Respect—Organisation—Commitment—Kindness—Safety

Term 3 Week 4

14 August 2020

www.jerrysplan-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

27-31 Doyle Street, Jerrys Plains NSW 2330 Phone: 6576 4018

Email: jerrysplain-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal: Michael Frith

Jerrys Journal

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

04/09 Fathers Day Raffle

Drawn

21/09 School photo day

Michael Frith Principal.

Congratulations Mrs Holt

After many months of hard work, Mrs Holt has gained her Proficient Teacher accreditation. Achieving Proficient Teacher

accreditation involves developing and demonstrating an understanding of the level of knowledge, practice and professional

engagement identified by the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Congratulations Mrs Holt.

New Library

After lots of hard work, our new library is almost complete. We are currently waiting on some furniture to arrive, but the

shelves are up, the books are in place, and our students can easily access the books whenever they need them. Best of all,

the cupboards that were being used as computer desks are finally gone. Many thanks to Kath, Megan, Jim and all of the

students for your help.

K-2 Classroom

Miss Renneberg & Miss Schreiber

Our little ones are very much enjoying writing this term and they are getting very good at it! In K-2 the focus is encouraging students to write independently. We don't always get every word correct, but 'having a go' is better than sitting and writing nothing just because we don't know how to spell a word correctly. Our students are really improving on doing this.

Some of the strategies we are encouraged to use in our writing are:

-say the word slowly and write down the sounds that you hear

-clap the syllables in a word to break it down into smaller parts

-does the word sound like a word that you know? You might be able to use a rhyming word to help you.

-is it on a Butterfly card or on our word wall?

-is it in a book that you have read?

3-6 Classroom

Mrs Holt

Take a peek at our week

Celebrity of the week

James stands proud as our celebrity

of the week.

This week we have been exploring the element of

mass within the measurement strand in mathematics.

Students completed activities that focussed esti-

mating, measuring, recording and converting be-

tween grams, kilograms and tonnes.

3-6 Classroom

Brought to you by Kaye Care

Welcome to another newsletter. This past few weeks have found Kayecare continuing our safe hygiene practices and positive approach to our everyday learning. The older kids have been focusing on direction, pencil grip, balancing, shapes and colours and spatial awareness, all in preparation for the big school next year which won't be that far away. Our afternoons have found us reflecting on our environment. This week we found baby snails

to study. How exciting to see where their little eyes are! The kids eyes lit up when they actually found them . The kids chased each other's shadows attempting to jump on their feet. Elise said her shadow wouldn't stay still

when she ran away ✨You just love their amazing imagination. We have 10 days to go till mumma duck hatches her babies, this is certainly raising some excitement. Kids are counting down the days on their calendar. Once again we have welcomed some beautiful rain. We collected water in buckets and measured out the mls then discussed why we need the rain and how our precious planet wouldn't survive without it. Kaye asked the kids to contribute to the newsletter with a story of their favourite thing. Here are some of their re-

sponses - Jayden says Spider-Man is my special character cause he has a web in his hand

Elise says my favourite person is Lexie baby cause she stands up now

Kiara says I love chickens they lay eggs I like eggs

David says I love my LuLu she is white and my friend is hoot

Zarli says I love to go to nannies house and sleep in a big bed

Lilly says I like riding my pony Lucy she goes fast Have a wonderful weekend ahead. Take care of each other, be kind to yourselves and stay safe. Until next time,

take care. Kaye

CAKE RAFFLE

Purchase a 50c ticket to be in our draw for the

weekly cake raffle.

A beautiful cake is donated by Easy Bake Cakes

each Friday.

Tickets on sale all week at the school office or

Denman Post Office.

Everyone is welcome to buy.

The lucky winner will be drawn each Friday at

the school assembly.

Fathers Day Raffle

Tickets for the Jerrys Plains Public School P&C Fathers Day raffle will be sent home next

week.

Raffle will be drawn on 4 September.

Great prizes on offer to be won.