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FOOTY COLOURS DAY - TOMORROW Tomorrow, Friday 7th September, the Year 6 Graduation Committee are holding a Footy Colours Day to raise money for Year 6 Graduation. All students are encouraged to wear their favourite sporting teams colours, from any sport. There will be a Special Lunch from the canteen on this day for those students who have already placed orders. NO OTHER CANTEEN ORDERS WILL BE AVAILABLE.
SCHOOL CONCERT THANK YOU Let me start by saying how FANTASTIC our concert was! It was such an amazing night, definitely the best concert of my time at Glengala. I am so proud of the students, their efforts and their enthusiasm. I am also extremely proud of our staff. We are so lucky to have the dedicated and caring staff that we have here at Glengala who ALL volunteered their time to make the concert happen and support our students. Thank you to our parents and carers who were the BEST AUDIENCE we've ever had.
NAPLAN RESULTS – READING SHOWS EXCELLENT GROWTH! We received our 2018 NAPLAN results last week and from initial evaluation these results show that our student’s Reading Growth from Year 3 to Year 5 is extremely pleasing. This means that the improvement students make in reading over time, in Years 3, 4 and 5 at Glengala are better than those of the national average. This is excellent news. We have Reading as the focus of all our school goals, and Decision Making, and we are starting to see improvement over our long term trends. We will share this data in greater detail on Kris’ return. I thank all our staff, students and families for your continued support of our wonderful school. Families in Years 3 and 5 please note that your child’s individual NAPLAN assessment results are now available for you to personally collect from the office. These results cannot be handed out to students, or posted.
eSmart WEEK PARENT INFORMATION SESSION MONDAY 10TH SEPTEMBER 5.30pm Families of the 3-6 Learning Space are invited to our eSmart week Digital Technology information session next Monday at 5.30pm in the new 3-6 Learning Space. Grant our Leading Teacher for ICT and our 3-6 Team Leader, will be providing families with information on our 1-1 iPads, how we use technology in the Learning Space and how you can support your children to be safe when using technology at home. Bring your children along so they can share the great things they have been doing in class!
SUNSMART HATS - SEPTEMBER TO APRIL All students and staff are now required to wear a SunSmart hat when outside between 9am and 3.15pm. A SunSmart hat has a broad rim, and is NOT A CAP. Only school uniform hats are acceptable. If you would like assistance with purchasing our very affordable hats please come and speak to Kathy, Jenny or Kellie in the office.
PLANNING WEEK—THIS WEEK This week staff held Term 4 Planning Week. This means that each team of teachers had one day out of the Learning Space to plan the learning for the following term. On these days a team of specialist teachers rotate students through the specialist program (Art, PE, Inquiry and Science). The final part of the day is a celebration of the school concert. Students and staff view footage of the concert night and reflect on our Performing Arts Program.
SWIMMING NEXT WEEK – SEE THE TIMETABLE ON PAGE 2 FOR YOUR CHILD’S SWIMMING TIMES A reminder that with Swimming Program beginning next week and running right through to the end of term, here are a few handy hints to make this time as easy to manage as possible;
PLENTY OF SLEEP- Swimming Program is tiring and students can become sick or cranky if they aren’t getting enough
sleep to reboot for the next day. Going to bed early will help them energised to make it through the 2 week program.
EATING HEALTHY AND NUTRITIOUS FOODS- Plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables will give them the energy they need
to make it through the 2 week program. Packing an extra sandwich will help if they become extra hungry during the day, or it could be an easy after school snack if they don’t eat it at school.
DRY TOWEL, CHANGE OF CLOTHES AND UNDERWEAR, DAILY- It is handy to keep an emergency set of clothes either at school or in their swimming bag. Sometimes dry clothes fall into puddles in the change room or get temporarily packed away in another student’s bag.
CLEARLY LABEL ALL CLOTHING WITH STUDENTS FULL NAME. When 30 school tops get taken off all at once, it can be
difficult to find the right owner. Fully named clothing is easy to return.
Students with long hair may find it easier to have their hair braided at home, leave the braids in and wash their hair
when they get home again. There are no hair-drying facilities or showers to wash hair in the time allocated.
A reminder that swimming is part of the PE curriculum (Year 6) and therefore non-attendance may impact on your child's PE achievement report.
FREE ENGLISH LANGUAGE CLASSES Every Monday morning from 9.30am we offer FREE ENGLISH CLASSES in partnership with Duke St Community House. Come along and bring a friend to improve your reading, writing and speaking of English. This is a fantastic opportunity for our community and we would love to continue to offer this moving into 2019.
Sam Fleming Acting Principal
Thursday 6th September, 2018 Issue 27
Principal - Kris White [email protected]
@GlengalaPS
Glengala Gazette
Glengala Primary School
Dates to remember
Friday 7th September
Footy Colors Day Gold Coin Donation
Finance Committee Meeting
TOMORROW 8:00am
Monday 10th - Friday 21st September
Swimming Program DUE NOW!
Thursday 13th September R U OKAY DAY?
Wednesday 19th September
Shine Performance Sunshine College Year 6 students
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DEPART GPS
ARRIVE SLC
LESSON START
LESSON FINISH
DEPART SLC
ARRIVE GPS
EATING LUNCH
5/6 Learning Space 9.10am 9.25am 9.30am 10.15am 10.45am 11am 11am
3/4 Learning Space 9.45am 10am 10.15am 11am 11.30am 11.45am 11.45am
1/2 Learning Space 10.30am 10.45am 11am 11.45am 12.15pm 12.30pm 12.30pm
Foundation Learning Space 11.15am 11.30am 11.45am 12.30pm 1pm 1.15pm 10.50am
SWIMMING TIMETABLE
R U OK DAY?
THURSDAY
13th SEPTEMBER
WEAR SOMETHING YELLOW TO SCHOOL.
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Bee Three Achievers
RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY SAFETY
Name Value House Act
Jayden Pham Responsibility Yellow Consistently offering to clean the Learning Space.
Justin Le Respect, Responsibility Blue Picking up balls left in the yard and putting them away.
Yacob Dib Responsibility Blue Helping to clean the Learning Space, without being asked.
Angela Haidari Responsibility Red Looking after a Foundation student who was sad.
Sarah Mohamed Responsibility Green Looking after a Foundation student who was sad.
Teanna Nguyen Responsibility Green Helping out in the classroom by untangling headphones.
Jhett Gilmour Respect, Responsibility Green Holding the door open for teachers without being asked.
Mischa De Vera Responsibility Green Caring about the welfare of others.
Preetheeban Sivanantharasa
Responsibility Green Helping other students log onto Story Box Library without being asked.
Olivia Brock Respect, Responsibility Green Demonstrated being a good role model by helping younger students out in the yard.
Taj Laffey Responsibility Green Helping other students make good choices.
HAVE YOU LOST A JUMPER, HAT, SCARF, JACKET OR OTHER ITEMS OF CLOTHING?
Please check the lost property box located in the corridor near the office for any lost uni-form items.
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Student Learning
Space In recognition of
Amelia Hua Foundation Her hard work and commitment during reading which has helped her move up a reading level! Keep up the great work Amelia.
Alilia Tuitupou Foundation Her understanding of fiction texts and the difference parts of a narrative—beginning, middle and end. Great job Alilia!
Malee Muensang Foundation Exploring their creative talent through taking risks and excelling in their learning.
Jemimah Ulberg-Mauafa 1/2 Consistently challenging themselves in The Arts.
Maile Fangaake 1/2 His outstanding achievement in his reading and for trying his best!
Laine Kaisa 1/2 Her outstanding achievement in her reading by growing from level F to level M. Well Done!
Jobe Temple 1/2 His outstanding effort and trying his best in reading.
Jayden Pham 3/4 His effoerts during Inquiry trying out coding, and exploring the Swift Playgrounds App.
Hosea Taukatelata 3/4 His great effort creating an amazing School Concert invitation and publishing it on Seesaw!
Taj Laffey 3/4 Consistently challenging themselves in The Arts.
Eitini Samasoni 3/4 Using suitable units of measurements to measure the length of a door and using his additional skills for support! Great work Eitini!
Abdullah Hussein 3/4
Showing outstanding whole body listening skills and making a good choice where he is sitting in order to put in his best effort to understand and measure different lengths using millimetres, centimetres and metres correctly.
Sfa Mohamed 5/6 Sharing their creative and critical thinking processes with their peers in The Arts.
Glengala Primary School is excited to be running a
FREE breakfast program in 2018! All students are
welcome to come down for breakfast
Monday—Friday from 8.30am onwards.
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