Principal’s Report Term 2 - Week 5 ~ 21.05.2021
Attendance
Regular attendance at school is vital for success in education. School attendance rate targets
are embedded in our School Improvement Plan as having our students at school makes a
difference to academic, social and wellbeing achievement. From this week, I will report our
percentage of students attending, and the percentage of students attending at above 90% of
school days per term. A 90% attendance rate means that your child has missed 20 days of
school (four full weeks in total) across the year. It has been a very difficult time recently with
various illnesses and of course we would not want any sick students to attend school, but if
they cannot attend for any reason
please let us know as soon as possible.
If you need any support in getting your
children to school on time, please let
us know as we are available to support.
Please see our current attendance rates against targets to date.
P&C Meeting
Many thanks to the trusty crew of families who attended the P&C meeting on Monday night. In very exciting news, the Tocal Committee was able to report a profit from the Field Days Fundraiser of just over $24,000. This is the result of a huge amount of planning and sheer hard work and I am sure many much bigger schools would struggle to make such a significant contribution through fundraising. After some discussion, it was decided to allocate a large amount of those funds to a playground equipment upgrade and I am currently seeking some options and estimates.
Check-In Assessment Results
In 2020 a new optional online assessment was introduced to assist schools to gather data on reading and numeracy for year 3 and 5
students as NAPLAN did not take place last year. We opted to participate, and as a comparison we administered the same assessment to
year 4 and 6 students this year to track progress. There are some very pleasing results, which are summarised in the table. The data from
2020 informed school planning and resourcing
and the data indicates that our programs have
had a significant impact, although there is still
some work to do. Ongoing data analysis of the
2021 results, paired with additional data sets,
will give us rich information about how to
continue to grow our academic results. SSSG
refers to schools with similar profiles to us in
terms of socio-economic status and some other
factors.
Learning Boost Program
Our Learning Boost program has started Phase 2. This program is for students who are achieving at expected level in the classroom and
who would benefit from a ‘Boost’ in certain areas to assist them to reach their full potential. Students are identified through classroom
data. In Phase 1 leading up to this point, the focus was on reading and there were some outstanding results. We have moved our focus to
numeracy this term. All participating students will bring home a letter outlining the program in more detail in the next few days.
Upcoming Events
All the best to our soccer team who will play two games in a gala day on Monday, and to our debating teams who will participated in a hotly contested debate on Tuesday – Paterson PS year 5 vs Paterson PS year 6. Thank you to our teachers for their organisation.
Semester 1 Academic Reports
Our semester 1 academic reports will come home to students on the Tuesday of the final week of school prior to the holidays. There are
no formal parent teacher interviews this term, but please feel free to contact your child’s teacher to discuss any aspect of the report.
With thanks,
Mrs Hazell
Term 2 - 2021
Coming Events JUNE Wed 2nd - StarStruck rehearsal
Mon 14th - Public Holiday
Wed 16th - Starstruck rehearsal
Thu 17th - STEAM Day
Fri 18th - StarStruck Matinee
Sat 19th - StarStruck Night Perf
Mon 21st - - Athletics Carnival
(Please note change of date)
- P&C meeting 7pm
Fri 25th - Last day for Term 2
JULY Mon 12th - Staff Development Day
Tue 13th - All students return for Term 3
Current Target
Overall Attendance 93.7% 98%
Attending Above 90% 78.8% 85%
Year 3 Reading 2020 4.7% below SSSG 6.4% below state
Year 4 Reading 2021 5.9% above SSSG 4.2% above state
Year 5 Reading 2020 5.4% above SSSG 6% above state
Year 6 Reading 2021 5.6% above SSSG 6.2% above state
Year 3 Numeracy 2020 6.4% below SSSG 8.1% below state
Year 4 Numeracy 2021 2.1% below SSSG 2.4% below state
Year 5 Numeracy 2020 1.4% above SSSG 1.5% above state
Year 6 Numeracy 2021 4.3% above SSSG 4.7% above state
What’s New In 2/3! 2/3 have started a new novel study this week “Fantastic Mr Fox” by Roald Dahl. Students have loved listening to the first few chapters and have enjoyed learning how Mr.Fox outwits his farmer neighbours to steal their food from right under their noses.
We will be completing many literacy and numeracy lessons linking to the novel over the next few weeks. Our first activity asked students to research some interesting facts about foxes to give us some background knowledge about the main character, Mr Fox.
Paterson Public School
Athletics Carnival
(Please note change of date)
Monday 21st June
at
Paterson Oval
9.30am
Canteen available
Bring a chair, blanket and your cheering voice.
If you are willing to assist on the day with field events and time keeping please phone the school on 4938 5114
or let Mr Lowrey know.
WK 2 26th April
Cass Baxter
28th April
Leah Gale
30th April
CLOSED TOCAL
WK 3 3rd May
CLOSED TOCAL
CLEAN UP
5th May
Jess Presland
7th May
Jacky Keena & Rhianna Gorfine
WK 4 10th May
Volunteer needed
12th May
Leah Gale
14th May
Jacky Keena & Rhianna Gorfine
WK 5 17th May
Volunteer needed
19th May
Rhianna Gorfine
21st May
Linda Wood &
Danielle Cowled
WK 6 24th May
Karen Ford
26th May
Leah Gale
28th May
Robyn Cowan &
Gen Fitzgerald
WK 7 31st May
Ann-Maree Ure
2nd June
Kristie Cridland
4th June
Rhianna Gorfine &
Heidi Barker
WK 8 7th June
Cass Baxter
9th June
Leah Gale
11th June
Robyn Cowan &
Gen Fitzgerald
WK 9 14th June
Public Holiday
16th June
Heidi Barker
18th June
Nicole Paterson &
Danielle Crebert
WK 10 21st June
Kerri Hicks
23rd June
Leah Gale
Monday Wednesday Friday
Term 2
Canteen Roster
This is a limited time offer and it ends Monday, May 31 at 11.59pm AEST, so be quick!
Go to www.entertainment.com.au
