Gadara School Newsletter 13 February 2015 – Week 3 - Term 1

Planning and Learning Today for Living and Working Tomorrow

Principal: Ms Moira Kingwill

92 Capper St, Tumut NSW 2720 Telephone 02 69472164 Facsimile 02 69473408

gadara-s.school@.det.nsw.edu.au

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents and Carers We are already at the end of Week 3! From all reports, Swimming School has progressed very well with many students making big improvements in their swimming/water skills. Although travelling to Adelong Pool takes extra time I think the use of their wonderful facilities has far out weighed the extra travel on the bus. A special thank you to all school staff, volunteers, students from McAuley School and the Coordinators Kristi Bye and Mieka Skein for making this Swimming School such a great success. With Swimming School finished we will go back to our regular school programs and the start of the Stephanie Alexander Program for 2015. Work Experience will also commence next week. Parent and Teacher Planning meetings have been scheduled for the week beginning 2 March 2015. These are important meetings that parent/carers are encouraged to attend. While the dates sent home are the days that the teacher is available, there is flexibility to these dates so if you are una-ble to attend please let the school know and we can look at alternative date and time. Looking forward to getting back into our school routine. Regards Moira Kingwill, Principal

Learn-to-Swim Program

What is coming up:

23 February 2015

Immunisations Years 7/11/12

26 February 2015

I Want 2 Be Day

27 February 2015

Clean-up Australia

2/3/4/5 March 2015

Parent/Teacher Planning Meetings

School Vaccination Program 2015

The Department of Health has contacted the school to change the dates of the immunisations.

The new dates for the vaccination program at Gadara School are as follows:

Monday 23 February 2015 Years 12, 11 and 7

Monday 25 May 2015 Year 7

Monday 14 September 2015 Year 7

More information and consent forms will be sent home soon.

Stephanie Alexander Program 2015

The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program commences for 2015 next Thursday. The program will

now run over two days each week, on Thursday from 11.30 am – 3.00 pm and Friday 9.30 am -1.00 pm.

The students will be placed into four groups -Science, Kitchen, Garden and Garden Art. A letter will be

sent home so you will know what group your child is in and what activities they will be doing each week.

We will soon have more chooks kindly donated by the high school and with some wonderful help from the

Lions Club our chook pen will be a safe place for our new chooks.

The school has been contacted by the people from the Philmac Project to say our project to irrigate our

gardens is a finalist. The Philmac people indicated that we should find out this month if we were suc-

cessful - fingers crossed! Thank you to all who went to the website and voted for our garden project.

Parent/Teacher Planning Days

Below are the anticipated dates for the Planning meetings.

If you think that you will not be able to attend on your

allocated date please make contact with your child's

teacher to organise another day. Notes will be sent

home next week.

2 March Class 1 Mrs Rose

3 March Class 2 Mrs Bradshaw

4 March Class 4 Mrs Skein

5 March Class 3 Mrs Armstrong and Mrs O’Sullivan

The Daytime View Club have kindly donated

stationery and school equipment to Gadara

School students.

The donation from the View Club was presented

by Mrs Reid.

Luke Stewart, School Captain, received the dona-

tion on behalf of the Gadara School students.

Happy swimmers

CLASS ONE’S NEWS

Class One has had a lovely start to the year and have enjoyed being back in their classroom.

We have loved the Swimming Program but are extremely tired when we return from the pool.

We are never too tired though to do some creative artwork as you can see below.

Class1 have been reading and looking at the book Big Rain Coming.

Artwork - Frogs love the rain...

Sun dries up all the rain...

Umbrellas keep us dry...

Drawings about their holidays...