Waratah Public School

Term 2 - Week 8 RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY LEARNING Wednesday 17 June 2020

Lambton Road Waratah NSW 2298 T 4968 2221 E waratah-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

School News * Year 6 High School Testing Friday 19 June in our School Library. * Recently we have had a few children borrow clothes from the office. If you could please wash and return to school that would be greatly appreciated. A blue note is sent home with children advising what they have borrowed and to be returned. *Our Library is looking for Barbie Doll donations for the children. If you have any to donate they can be handed in at the office. * From Term 3 will be changing the Newsletter - exciting times ahead!!. If you do not give permission to publish your child’s photo please contact the office.

Class News from 2/3D On the 4th June, 2/3D got to meet Brickman from 'Lego Masters!' Then, along with students from other schools, 2/3D took part in a Lego challenge to see who could build the tallest tower in 20 minutes. The student worked individually and in pairs to build incredible towers. Indi S won the challenge and everyone had lots of fun. Mrs Durston

CANTEEN IS REOPENING!! With great excitement the canteen is reopening this Thursday and Friday with a temporary menu for the remainder of Term 2. We ask that you send your child to school with their order and money in an envelope, zip lock bag, or whatever you have. As Parents and Carers are not yet allowed back on site, if your child needs help with ordering, please write the order out for them. Lunch and recess by order only, no counter service during these times. Please see attached menu. If you are interested in volunteering in the canteen please contact Megan on 0439 172 288 or send an email to the P&C at waratahpublicschool@pandcaffiliate.org.au Our Uniform Shop is operating on a Friday morning from the hall 9.00 am - 9.30 am. We have Covid safe measures in place. We have been unable to source another supplier of bootleg pants for girls so these are being phased out. We have alternative options of fleecy track pants or our new style microfibre track pants. These are both unisex. We have some sizes in bootlegs left but no size 8’s. Any questions about uniforms or volunteering in the shop please call Kellee on - 0401 842 073. Thanks to everyone who has placed a pie drive order. Orders need to be in today so we can ring through the final order to Thompson’s tomorrow.

Week 7 Class Awards Congratulations to all the students who received an award in Week 7.

KB Jasmine P - for always trying her best in every class lesson.

Abu K - for being a helpful and hard working class member.

KG T'Keyha L - Improvement in her Number work.

David J- always trying to do his best.

KO Braxton C - for his energy and enthusiasm toward learning,

Isabella T - enthusiastic participation in reading groups

1/2D Hayloh P - For being a role model in the classroom.

Ayla B - For always helping others.

1/2M Aingel C - for working hard in all class tasks.

Harrison T- for being an enthusiastic learner.

1/2N Finney O - demonstrating responsible behaviour at school

Lakeisha F - for trying her hardest with her classwork.

1/2O Mason B - for demonstrating a resilient attitude

Rhys O - for being a hard-working and helpful class member

2/3D Sylvie C - huge improvement in spelling

Allirah Y - creating a quality information report on a cheetah Indiana S - presenting her weekly topic talk with confidence

3/4B Chloe M - Math Master working with Data

Heath K - Kindness Counts Award

3/4L Nicholas J - working independently in reading

Daniel O - Reading punctuation with great expression

3/4M Tom M - Fantastic effort in Reading

Samuel M - Using critical thinking during writing Anika S - persisting with and finishing lengthy tasks

5/6I Mikaela T - Great sportsmanship and skills during Netball each week

Indiana J - For impressive effort and results during his reading and spelling intervention. Amelie P - For your impressive effort during the QuickSmart program.

5/6M Silas H - Completing Quicksmart with excellent results.

Jed L - Respect for others Guy T - Respect for others Riley M - Respect for others

5/6P Tyson W - showing integrity when faced with difficult situations.

Kayla S - her improved responses to comprehension questions. Grace M - her persisitence when measuring angles of quadrilateral shapes.

2RL Award System A child receives a ‘Weekly Waratah’ when they follow the expectations of our school values RESPECT, RESPONSIBILTY and LEARNING. We have revised the 2RL timeline for 2020 to reflect the Remote Learning period when students were not able to receive these awards. 6 Weekly Waratahs = a 2RL award

2020 Revised Timeline

The timeframe below reflects the earliest date students can receive a 2RL award

Term 1 Week 6

Receiving 1st 2RL

Term 2 Week 8

Receiving 2nd 2RL

Term 3 week 4

Receiving 3rd 2RL

Term 3 Week 10

Receiving 4th 2RL

Term 4 Week 6

Receiving 5th 2RL

Cut off for Gold awards term 4 week 8 (students must receive at least 30 awards in 32 weeks to receive)

GOLD AWARD