16th October 2020
D A T E S F O R T H E D I A R Y
Tuesday 20th October P&C Meeting 6pm via Zoom Wednesday 21st October Book Week Parade
Friday 30th October First Day of Tadpoles Thursday 10th December Year 6 Graduation Friday 11th December Presentation Day Wednesday 16th December Last Day of Term 4 Thursday 17th December SDD - No students Friday 18th December SDD - No students
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Hello from 3 Green Welcome to 3 Green! What an interesting year we’ve
had!
Despite it all, 3 Green have been working hard all year,
and are excited to get back into learning for Term 4! This
term we will be looking at informative texts, as well as
completing some surveying and graphing in Maths!
We’ve also been developing our technology skills, having
used QR codes in Maths, as well as the dash bots to
explore 2D shapes, angles and length! 3 Green have also
been working on their literacy skills with Daily Writing,
Genre Writing and Guided Reading Groups. We’ve had a
fantastic year of learning, and with this term left, we are
going to make it our best yet!
Bushfire Safety Information Pelaw Main Public School is identified as a Category 2
school, which means we are in a bushfire prone area.
This means that the school has been assessed as being in
an area of land that can support a bushfire or is likely to
be subject to bush fire attack. We certainly learnt this
during the last bushfire season and our school was
incredibly fortunate to escape without damage.
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The school is aware of its responsibility to
implement prevention strategies prior to, and
during the bush fire season. As part of this, our plan
is reviewed and updated as necessary each year
and communicated with our families.
Fire danger ratings are released on the NSW Rural
Fire Service website each day at 4.30pm, for the
following day. As part of our plan, this rating is
checked each day and plans made accordingly.
We will be sending home a copy of our revised plan
next week, including a form to ensure your
emergency contact information is updated. Please
ensure you read this and return the information
ASAP.
Throughout the bush fire season the school will
liaise with Emergency Service Agencies during the
time of the year when the risk of bush fire is at its
highest, and gather information on fire activity and
monitor bush fire conditions through the media
and online resources. Please listen to the local radio
stations for bush fire or weather warnings for
advice and notification of any possible school
closure, and check the Fires Near Me app and Rural
Fire Service website.
If students are already at school and bush fire
conditions dramatically change, based on current
conditions on any given day, an informed decision
will be made as to whether the primary action for
the school will be to take shelter and remain on
school premises or evacuate to an off-site location.
If evacuation to an off-site location is decided, Kurri
Kurri Public School (Lang St, Kurri Kurri) is our off-site
evacuation site. Buses will be organised to transport
students to KKPS.
Please ensure that you have downloaded the
Skoolbag app to your smart phone, and have liked
the school’s Facebook page, as well as updating your
contact details and email addresses, in case of an
emergency.
The NSW Rural Fire Service website provides a
range of useful information at:
www.rfs.nsw.gov.au. There is also the Fires Near Me
Mobile App which can be found in iTunes or Google
Play. Further information can also be found at NSW
Department of Education’s School Safety website:
http://www.dec.nsw.gov.au/about-us/news-at-det/
bushfire-safety.
Term 4 Guidelines Much of the COVID restrictions are still in place,
with little change from last term. All activities
permitted at school are safe and appropriate in a
living with COVID-19 environment. Non-essential
adults are still not permitted on school grounds or
at school events.
Thank you for your continued efforts at drop off and
pick up time and remember to please be mindful
about social distancing around the school gates.
Our Kindergarten Orientation program, Tadpoles, is
now able to happen from Week 3. All parents
involved in this have been notified and we look
forward to welcoming our tadpoles in the coming
weeks!
We will be in contact with our incoming Year 3
students from Stanford Merthyr soon to arrange for
some transition activities and visits.
Year 6 Graduation can still take place, with some
restrictions we are planning around. More
information will be sent home to Year 6 parents
shortly, as soon as we have been able to finalise
plans around these changes.
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Fixed Equipment Shade Shelter Work started in the holidays, with the posts in ready
to go. The shade sail will be installed one weekend
in the next few weeks. We can’t wait to see this
new, long awaited improvement in our playground.
Tell Them From Me Please remember to complete your Tell Them From
Me survey by the end of term. We use this
information to help us evaluate our practices and
improve identified areas. This year we are asking
families to send in a screenshot of the completed
survey page to go into the draw for a $100 Coles Gift
Card! So far we have only had 16 families complete
the survey. We would love to get many more!
If you need any assistance with this, please contact
either your class teacher or Mrs Brathwaite.
We will draw the winner of this gift card at next
Friday’s assembly!
P&C Meeting Our P&C meetings are scheduled to occur on the
third Tuesday of the month.
The next P&C meeting is scheduled for next
Tuesday, 20th October at 6pm. Due to the current
restrictions, this meeting will need to be held via
Zoom. If you wish to attend this meeting, please
send an email to the school email below, so the link
to the Zoom meeting can be emailed to you before
the meeting.
Staff Development Day Variation Our staff all participated in online CPR training
through Royal Life Saving Australia at the end of last
Term. It certainly was a different way to do it, but
each teacher was assessed by a trained facilitator
via Zoom. This Tuesday afternoon, staff also
attended a professional learning session after
school for a few hours, to complete a self-
assessment of the School Excellence Framework to
assist us in planning for the new school planning
cycle. These sessions will be in lieu of the Staff
Development Day scheduled for Friday, 18th
December.
Selective High School Year 7 2022 If your child is currently in Year 5 and you are
considering applying for a selective high school in
2022, please visit the link below.
https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-
schools/selective-highschools-and-
opportunityclasses/year-7
An intention to Apply note was sent home with all
Year 5 students last term. If you require an
additional note please contact the office to arrange
for one to be sent home with your child.
Key Dates
Application website opens: 13th October
2020
Application website closes: 16th October
2020 ( you must apply before this date)
Attention Parents of Pelaw Main
Public School 2021 Kindergarten
Students The ‘Tadpoles - Taking
the leap to big school’
transition and
orientation program
will be taking place
again this year.
The Tadpoles Program is a series of play based
sessions, focussing on school readiness, school
environment and staff familiarisation.
Enrolments for the Tadpoles program/Kindergarten
2020 are now open. Please contact the school to
receive more information.
The Tadpoles program will commence Friday Week
3 of Term 4 (30th October) and will be held from
9:30-11am each Friday morning.
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Cessnock City Council : Motorcycle
Awareness Month Cessnock City Council is running a road safety community engagement this Motorcycle Awareness Month. Residents of Cessnock are encouraged to look
out for ‘Joe Rider’ wearing a bright yellow vest
to go into the draw to win $50 daily vouchers
with a grand prize of $250 drawn from all
submitted entries over the week. (19-23
October 2020)