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Term 2, Week 7 12 June, 2018

Calendar

JuneWednesday 13th June Girls Rugby League Dubbo Western Cross CountryFriday 15th June BOOK CLUB DUE

July

Friday 6th July End of Term 2

Monday 23rd July Start of Term 3 Staff Devolpment Day

August

3-10 August Education WeekFriday 10th August Year 6 Canberra EXcursion Full payment DUE

September

Friday 28th September End of Term 3

UNIFORM SHOPTuesday afternoons - 3.00pm - 3.30pm

Friday mornings - 9.20 am - 11.30am

CUP CAKE DAYLast thursday Year 6 held a Cup Cake Day to help

with raising money for their upcoming Excursion to Canberra. It was a great successs.

Lozza and Darcy from Year 6 with all the cupcakes for their fundraiser on Thursday.

COLOUR RUN DAY On Friday our Stage 2 & 3 students joined the Gulgong High School for their Colour Run.

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PRINCIPALS MESSAGEHenry Lawson Festival a big success.

Thanks to all those parents and children who gave up their time over the weekend to ensure the Henry Lawson Festival was a big success. We had students Parade in old time clothes, Ride on tractors, trucks and on the back of floats in the Parade. Students were also pushing wheelbarrows and doing pavement art. Max Hamson, Kayla Forster and Charlie Hollow all had a go at the Miners Barrow Push. Denver Buchannan won the pavement art competition and got a $30 gift voucher to Stacks for her fantastic art work. We also had winners in the Unearthed art competi-tion with Bede Kelly, Rhiannon George, Brayden Britton, Oliver Hampton and Aliva Trevithick all gaining awards from their superheros artwork.

There were many other winners who we will try and acknowledge in coming weeks. Gulgong Public School would like to thank the following businesses for their support and sponsorship of our events this year at the festival. Gulgong Timber and Hardware, Centennial Hotel, Commercial Hotel, Prince of Wales Hotel and Troy McKellar Real Estate.This week our focus is Getting Along. We are trying to include others in our games and learning and help all students succeed at Gulgong Public School. Some of the things we are doing at school here and you can do at home to help develop these skills include, •Leading by example by using social skills, such as negotiating, considering others’ needs, and solving problems with your child and others. •Encouraging social and imaginary play using props and dress-ups.•Creating opportunities to practise social skills, such as sharing for older children, by having them work on joint projects, such as building together.•Developing strategies to help children join in with others.•Teaching children to embrace and explore the different places, things and people in their environment.•Talking with you about your child (e.g., sharing ideas about how they play with others, their likes and dislikes).

We are also encouraging students on assemblies and in playtime to be kind and considerate of others and their feelings. Gulgong Public School staff are trying to create a culture where students look after each other and help each other to be better learners and people.Recently we have had a communications and engagement team into the school to have a talk about how the school communicates with families and the community. They have given us some focus areas to work on and hopefully in the near future we are able to better inform our whole community of up coming activities and events. We appreciate the feedback from the community and remember you are always welcome to come to P&C meetings if you have concerns or ideas.

David LewisPrincipal

Paparazzi Club DonationOn Wednesday 6th June Di Clifford, secretary of the Gulgong Folk Club, presented a cheque to Gulgong Public School for the work of their Paparazzi club at the Folk Festival in January. Mr Alan Walker and the Paparazzi club took photos all weekend during the January event and the Folk Club donated $100 to show their appreciation of their efforts. In the Photo Di Clifford presents the cheque to School Captains Sigrid Germon and Max Hamson as well as Principal David Lewis.

There has been a survey sent out on behalf of Gulgong Public School asking for community consultation. If you can spare 5 mins to fill this out and tell us about the job we are doing here at Gulgong. The process is anonymous so all answers are private and will help shape the directions of the school.

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This term in Kindergarten our Science topic is ‘Paddock to Plate’.

We have been learning about where food comes from and the process of how it gets to

us from farms.

Our unit commenced with a trip to Mrs Griffith’s farm. We saw many farm animals including sheep, cows,chickens and horses. When we returned to school we identified food, water and shelter are needed by all living things to stay alive. We were lucky enough to feed the sheep and have a sausage sandwich for lunch.

Next we investigated foods that come from farm animals.

We have examined the multi-step processes involved in getting various food products from the farm to the supermarket shelves. First we constructed a flow chart to represent the process of how cows produce milk.

We had a go at ‘milking a cow’ and enjoyed milkshakes!

Then we investigated the process of how eggs get tothe shops. We discussed how we can eat eggs and what we can cook with them.

Scrambled eggs were on the menu this week!In our classroom we have an incubator to observe the cycle of eggs to chickens.

The countdown has begun!Last week we identified how bread is made through harvesting and processing food. We watched a short video which showed us where bread comes from.As a class we made a flowchart to illustrate the process of how bread is made and how it reaches the supermarket. We made fairy bread, which was very tasty!

In the coming weeks we will investigate the processes of different foods that come from plants and how it

gets to us from farms.

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Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with DisabilityNotification for Parents and Carers

All Government and non-Government schools across Australia are required to participate annually in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). All Australian schools will collect data on their students who are receiving adjustments to meet additional learning and support needs in accordance with their obligations under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and Disability Standards for Education 2005. This data will be provided to the Australian Government to assist in the development of a consistent, national picture of the education needs of students with disability.The data provided to the Australian Government by the NSW Department of Education is provided in such a way that it cannot be used to identify any individual student or school.General information about the national data collection can be found on the Australian Government Depart-ment of Education and Training website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability

Privacy ProtectionThe NSW Department of Education follows the requirements of the Privacy and Personal Information Protec-tion Act 1998 and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. Schools will collect, record, store and use data about individual students in line with these requirements. Data security and protection is a priority and students’ personal details will be kept confidential. Under Clause 52 of the Commonwealth Australian Education Regulation 2013, data collected by the NSW Department of Education for the NCCD must be provided to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training. This includes the number of students at each level of education, the number in each category of disability and the number at each level of adjustment. The information is provided to the Commonwealth as a series of number sets that cannot be used to identify any individual student or school. The Australian Government Department of Education and Training follows the requirements of the Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 when handling any data provided by NSW Department of Education in connection with the national data collection. A public information notice has been developed to by the Australian Government to provide students, parents and carers with important privacy information in relation to the data collection. This notice is available on the department’s website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability

If you have any questions about the data collection please do not hesitate to contact Carmelina Leotta at Gulgong Public School.

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