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Yenda Agenda Yenda Public School

Friday, 3 August 2018

Principal: Mrs Belinda Wallace PO Box 462 Curran Rd Yenda NSW 2681 T 02 69681236 F 02 69681636 E yenda-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: yenda-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 3 Week 2

Principal’s Report

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Yenda Agenda! This week, Yenda Public School held the Annual Athletics Carnival at Westend Oval. The sun was bright and the breeze was cool as all of our students demonstrated house pride, athleticism and resilience at the carnival. Thanks go to Mrs Conlan for her organisation of the Carnival, Wade High School for providing student volunteers, Veronica from Little Athletics for running the timing gates and to all of the parents for attending to support our school.

Congratulations to our Age Champions, Mitchell, Isaac, Isla, Paige, Farrah and Luke, and to Grevillea for winning the most points on the day. A full athletics report will be in next week’s newsletter. Next week we celebrate our core business of Education with Education Week activities. Make sure you come to the special Education Week Assembly to acknowledge the great work of our students and school. Bel Wallace - Principal

Calendar Week 3 – Education Week

Monday 6 August School Leader Awards at Bagtown Inn

Tuesday 7 August KROP day/night Wednesday 8 August KROP day/night Matinee performance Friday 10 August Open Classrooms

10am Picnic Morning Tea 11am Education Week

Assembly 11.30am Week 4

Monday-Friday 3 Way Conferences Tuesday 14 August ICAS Maths Friday 17 August Assembly (2.15pm) Year 1 Soccer GALA day Week 5

Monday – Friday Book Week Tuesday 21 August Book Week Parade

2pm Picnic lunch 1pm Week 6 Friday 31 August Riverina Athletics Assembly (2:15pm) Kindergarten

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Welcome back Miss Ryan! Miss Ryan has returned from leave this week, joining Year 1 again for the remainder of the year. Mrs Conlan will continue to teach the class on Mondays and Tuesdays, with Miss Ryan teaching the class on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Both teachers would like to encourage parents to swing by the classroom if they have any questions, or would like to see what the class is currently working on. 3 Way Conferences Online booking is available to book a time for your three way conference in week 4. Simply follow the link below to book your time. If you require support or do not have access to the internet, please call the school and we will gladly assist you in booking your appointment. https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code?code=aqjqr Farewell Jakaylah From all of us at Yenda Public School, we would like to wish Jakaylah all the very best in her new school adventure at Kalinda School. We are so proud of all that she has achieved, and the amazing person that she is. She will be missed at Yenda Public. Thank you to Mrs Kirkman and Year 2/3 for all of the wonderful memories that she will carry with her.

Education Week 2018

This year Yenda Public School will be celebrating Education Week with a number of events throughout the week.

School Leaders Award Presentation School Leaders will be presented with an award by Director Educational Leadership, Mr David Lamb at a ceremony at the Exies Bagtown Inn. Mrs Wallace will accompany the School Leaders to this event. Learning in Action – Classroom visits Parents and community members are invited to come into their child’s classroom between 10am and 11am on Friday 10 August to see what learning looks like in the classroom. All classes will be engaged in literacy sessions, with the teacher working with the students, therefore individual discussion will not be possible. This is an opportunity for students and teachers to showcase their learning partnership in literacy, and give parents a visual idea of how learning occurs every day. Picnic Morning Tea Following the Learning in Action – Classroom visits, parents and community members are invited to bring a picnic to share with their child/ren during recess. Recess commences at 11am. Bring a picnic blanket, rug or sit at a table and share a lovely snack with our students! Education Week Assembly Yenda Public School will celebrate the achievements of our students and teachers with a special assembly on Friday 10 August, at 11.30am. The Dance Group and Choir will be performing at the assembly to showcase our creative and performing arts skills. We would love for as many parents and community members as possible to join us and celebrate our students success.

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Welcome to the weekly ‘Code Corner’, where we will be looking at different elements of literacy learning! Visual Processing Visual processing describes a person’s ability to interpret and understand what their eyes see. There are a number of things that make up a person’s visual processing ability, including: • Sensory Processing: Accurate registration,

interpretation and response to sensory stimulation in the environment and the child’s own body.

• Visual Attention: The ability to focus on important visual information and filter out unimportant background information.

• Visual Discrimination: The ability to determine differences or similarities in objects based on size, colour, shape, etc.

• Visual Memory: The ability to recall visual traits of a form or object.

• Visual Spatial Relation Ships: Understanding the relationships of objects within the environment.

• Visual Sequential-Memory: The ability to recall a sequence of objects in the correct order.

• Visual Figure Ground: The ability to locate something in a busy background.

• Visual Form Constancy: The ability to know that a form or shape is the same, even if it has been made smaller/larger or has been turned around.

• Visual Closure: The ability to recognise a form or object when part of the picture is missing.

To strengthen our students visual processing abilities, we spend a small amount of time daily practicing the skills required to track objects, colours and letters across a page, concentrating on accuracy and fluency. This practice is having a positive impact on our students reading ability.

Assembly Awards – Week 2 Kindergarten Chad Nehme Tansy King Dean Serafin Benito Carusi Year 1 Noah Everett Noah Chapman Cooper Power Alex Bastianon Jaimee-Lee Godfrey Year 2/3 Reilly Chapman Dean Preuss Donald Hunt Nate Wallace Year 3/4/5 Monte King Lili Vaccari Alynta Watts Samarah Stockton Year 5/6 5/6 awards will be handed out next week. Principal’s Award – Porsha Carusi Echo’s Award – George Nehme Staff CPR and Anaphylaxis Training

This week all staff refreshed their skills and training in CPR and anaphylaxis.

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LIBRARY NEWS

As you know, this term we celebrate Children’s Book Week in Week 5.

Our celebrations at Yenda PS will be held on Tuesday 21st August 2018.

We are inviting parents, grandparents and friends to join us for a picnic lunch (everyone is to provide their own lunch) in the grounds of the school at 1pm.

At 2pm we will hold a Book Character parade in the School Hall and the CBCA Award winning books for 2018 will be announced.

The theme for CBCA Book Week 2018 is “Find Your Treasure” and all students are encouraged to come to school on Tuesday 21st dressed in a book character costume or a dressed according to this year’s theme.

I do encourage everyone to be involved with this special time for books!

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be highlighting the shortlisted books for each category. This week’s feature is Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Book of the Year: Younger Readers

Entries in this category may be fiction, drama or poetry and should be appropriate in style and content for readers from the middle to upper primary years. Ages 8-12 years.

THE ELEPHANT by Carnavas, Peter

HOW TO BEE by MacDibble, Bren

HENRIETTA AND THE PERFECT NIGHT by Murray, Martine

MARSH AND ME by Murray, Martine

THE SHOP AT HOOPERS BEND by Rodda, Emily

THE GRAND, GENIUS SUMMER OF HENRY HOOBLER by Shanahan, Lisa

LIBRARY DAYS – TERM 3

Tuesdays – Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 3/4/5 & Year 5/6

Wednesdays – Year 2/3

Students are also encouraged to keep reading as part of the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge.

Remember, Winter is the perfect time to snuggle down with a good book!

Mrs S Chilvers

Teacher-Librarian.

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Athletics Carnival

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P and C News Chocolate and Lolly Money There are a number of families and community members who have not yet returned their chocolate and lolly fundraising money. Could these please be returned to the school office ASAP so that the fundraiser can be finalised. Tartan Pants Due to ordering technicalities, we have been unable to purchase tartan pants for this winter. Supplies will be restocked before next winter, the P and C apologise for any inconvenience. There are still second hand pants available from the uniform shop, as well as tunics. Uniform Shop Due to the change of assembly time, the uniform shop will now open 15 minutes before and after assembly on Friday afternoon (2pm and 3pm). Reverse Draw

Canteen News A big thank you to everyone who helped out in canteen on the Athletics Carnival day. Also, to those who baked cupcakes for the day. Starting next week we being our Sydney Markets “Eat Fresh and Win” promotion. Kids will receive stickers for healthy choices at canteen and also for bringing fruit from home for fruit break. They then earn trading cards and entries into major prize draw.

Helpers are still needed on Fridays for a couple of hours.

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In 3/4/5 we have been concentrating on beautiful letter formation. Everyone is so proud of their efforts that we thought we would share some with you. Check out this amazing handwriting about our Geography focus for this term.

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Special commendation goes

to Isaac, for producing this

amazing writing with his opposite hand. Talk about being

ambidextrous.