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Regular school attendanceOur series of information on school attendance continues. We hope you have found these articles useful.Keeping the school informedIf your child has to be absent from school, it is important to tell the school and provide a reason for the absence. To explain an absence parents and carers may:■ sendanote,faxoremailtotheschool■ telephonetheschool,or■ visittheschool.Whenever possible, parents and carers are encouraged to provide an explanation for absences before the absences occur.The principal of the school has the right to question parents’ requests for their child to be absent from school. They may also question an explanation given for a child’s absence from school.HolidaysParents and carers are encouraged not to withdraw their children from school for family holidays. If this is necessary parents should discuss these absences with the principal and mayberequestedtoapplyforaCertificateofExemption from attendance at school. This will ensure that these absences are not permanently recordedasunjustified.
Tweed Heads South Public School
● Vibrant● Caring ● Successful
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●Heffron Street, Tweed Heads South NSW 2486
●T: 07 5524 3408 F: 07 5524 3466
●W: tweedhdest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY• Wednesday, 3 December
Year 6 Orientation Day Tweed River High School Preschool Christmas Party & Concert 4:30pm
• Thursday, 4 December Fundraiser - Mater Hospital Mufti Day Combined Scripture Service Family Portraits at Snapper Rocks 3:30pm-7pm
• Friday, 5 December Excellence Assembly and Rewards Day Volunteers Morning Tea
• Tuesday, 9 December Photo Booth Fundraiser
• Wednesday, 10 December Presentation Day Student Reports Home Last day for Blue Whales
• Thursday, 11 December Year 6 Farwell Dinner
• Friday, 12 December Whole School Movie & Picnic Day
• Wednesday, 17 December Last Day for students 2014
Arrival on timeArriving at school and class on time:■ ensuresthatstudentsdon’tmissoutontheimportant learning activities scheduled early in the day when the students are most alert■ helpsstudentslearntheimportanceofpunctuality and routine■ givesstudentstimetogreettheirfriendsbefore class and therefore,■ reducestheopportunityforclassroomdisruption.Lateness is recorded as partial absence and must be explained by parents or carers in the same way as other forms of absence.
Must my child attend all activities, including sport? YES. Sport and other physical activities help the healthy physical and mental development of children. Sports and sports carnivals are normal school activities and students must attend.
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JorjaShining Star
WesleyMaths
SHININg STAR AWARDSTerm 4 Week 8Shining Star Award Jorja 4-5FReaching for the Stars Isabelle 2-3GCitizenship Kiara 1-2NSportsmanship Angel 3-4DThe Arts Franklyn K-1WEnglish Ethan 3-4DMaths Wesley 1-2NScience and Environment Jaxon 4-5TH.S.I.E Chantelle 5-6TMusic Luka 4-5F
It’s Showtime! Stage 3 Interactive Timeline Showcase Success
Students in 5-6B & 5-6T (and their teachers) are extremely proud of the highly successful showcase of their interactive timeline, ‘My Place’, Australian history through the decades, last Friday in the hall.
The whole school were given an opportunity to visit the ‘time warp’, going back into time over 200 years! As they entered the timeline, each class watched anengagingvideohighlightingsignificantpastevents in Australia. Then the fun was on!
Starting from the year 2008 students and their teachers gained information from the ‘characters’ (played by Stage 3 students) of each decade going right back to ‘Before time’. They asked questions from question boxes, watched PowToon, Slideshare, Prezi and Power Point visual displays
and browsed through research books full of interesting facts and pictures.
To conclude the show, Stage 3 students taught the classes a range of popular ‘old fashioned’ games such as ‘Oranges & Lemons’, marbles, Twister and ‘hula, hula’ with hoops.
Parents, carers and community members were invited in for the last session to share the success of their child’s independent research task that had progressed throughout the term.
Thank you for your huge effort 5-6B & 5-6T. We are all clapping your well earned praises as the curtain goes down!
Miss Toop & Mr Bush
Volunteers Morning TeaOur volunteers are a special group of people who regularly give up their time to assist the children and staff at our school.
Invitations have been handed out to all our wonderful volunteer helpers at our school. If you volunteer at our school and have not yet received your invitation, please don’t hesitate to let us know so we can include you in special morning tea to celebrate your help at this school.
We look forward to showing our appreciation to you at the morning tea.
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K-1WStudents in K-1W have been learning more about the creatures that live ‘under the sea’. Each day during independent writing, the students listen to information texts which inform them of details about different types of sea creatures. Each student then is to write about what they havelearnt;suchashowtheyfindfood,protectthemselves and move. We have learnt so many new and interesting facts about sea creatures.
DID YOU KNOW; the seahorse is the only living animal that the father carries and delivers babies? I bet Mr Ware is glad!
Did you know that crabs have ten legs AND walk sideways instead of forwards? They use their back legs to assist with swimming AND remove their shells when their soft body grows too large for it! THEN, they grow a new one!
Theboxjellyfishhasclumps of eyes on four sides of its bell, up to 15 tentacles and they can grow up to 3m long; that’s taller than Franklyn and Eliana combined in length!
We have made our own aquariums, which we includedseaweedwhichthefisheatandusetohideamongstforprotection.Manyfishhaveaskeleton,scalesandfins;whichtheyusetoswimin a straight line through the water.
This week we started to practice publishing our wonderful stories on our XO’s, even Mrs Madden was very surprised at the high quality editing and proof reading skills students demonstrated in Kindy and Year 1 so far, a credit to Mrs Wares excellent ICT teaching!
We are all still awaiting the arrival of baby Ware!
Our school is a Positive Behaviour Learning
school and as such we want the best behaviour from all our children
to ensure everyone learnsto the very best of their ability.
2-3G Pencil BoxesThe last few weeks have seen 2-3G busy putting together wooden pencil boxes. After the pieces were glued together they were then sanded ready for varnish.Here are some comments from the studentsLachlan: “I am really looking forward to painting my pencil box. When we glued the box together we held the wood with clamps.” Talitha: “I am looking forward to using my pencil box.” Tanaeya: “Wow we will have our own pencil box.” Aurealie: “I am looking forward to having it. When we sanded the box we had to follow the grain.” Samuel: “We had to sand all the glue off the box.” Tanaeya: “When we sanded the box we had to follow the way the wood was facing.” Ivan: “We had to sand the box the same way all the time.”
Student BankingFriday, 5 December will be the last day for Student Banking this year. Due to the large number of events on this day student banking will be processed on Monday, 8 December.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this program this year.
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Targeting Early Numeracy (TEN)Targeting Early Numeracy (TEN) is the program Kindergarten to Year 2 teachers use to develop students mathematical thinking at our school.
It focuses on number recognition, counting forwards and backwards and addition and subtraction strategies.
Below are some websites recommended to help your child at home.
Count Me In Too – Working with your childhttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/countmein/parents.htmlCount Me In Too – For childrenhttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/countmein/children.htmlParents count too pamphletshttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/primary/mathematics/numeracy/parents/index.htmTofindoutmoreaboutTENgotohttp://www.curriculumsupport.education.nsw.gov.au/beststart/ten/index.htm
Community NoticesVacation Care bookings are now open at Tweed Shire Vacation Care on 07 5523 3708. Do you want your children to have fun in the school holidays? Do you want your children to be catered for in an exciting and safe environment? If the answer is yes, then send them to Tweed Shire Vacation Care. We are located in the grounds of Tweed Heads South Public School and are open every day of the school holidays except for public holidays. Our hours are 7:30am until 6:30pm DST. We also go out and about on local excursion and we have fun activities happening in centre too. Take a look at our website www.tweedshirevacationcare.com.au for program details. For more information call 07 5523 3708
Scout group We are seeking expressions of interest from any families or community members who are interested in establishing a new Scout Group in the Coolangatta/Tweed Heads area. No group has been active here for some years, but we are keen to see if there is enough interest to support a new group. Scouting is open to both girls and boys aged between 6 and 26, and to parents or other community members who are interested in participating. If you are interested in the new group and would like more information, please contact John Laing on [email protected] or 0409 573 900.
Turbo Fitness - Prices from $7 - affordable and fun! Call Trish on 0408 639 230 for more information.
