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22 July Second payment for School Camp due Wed 27 July District Athletics Wed 27 July P&C Meeting 3.15pm Insert DVD Order Form Fri 29 July Education Week Assembly & Morning Tea 9.15am Insert Canteen Menu Term 3 7-9 Sep Whole of School Camp – North Stradbroke

The Pocket School Newsletter Term 3 Week 1 No. 1 19 July 2011

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Also last term Karen Longden developed an application for a Healthy Schools Project and we received Welcome back everyone to what I hope will be a much notification that this has also been successful! The healthier term. It was sad to hear of so many of our Project “I Can Be A Rainbow” involves a circus skills students and staff who become rather ill at the end of activity program and awareness of and eating foods last term. Let’s hope we have rested well, all the bugs from the rainbow colours. are gone and we are able to get with what looks like a very exciting term! The project secured $2500 to support these activities! Congratulations Karen, what a boost for our students! We have some very exciting news to start the term! This term we have Education Week, Science Week, We Won! We Won! We Won! Book Week, Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations, “The Great Schools Show Off” DVD Competition the Whole School Camp to North Stradbroke, a Lighthouse Valley Learning Community dance concert, We are the regional Primary School winners for the an excursion to the markets with a community cooking North Coast and are in the final three in the State for day to follow and that’s the major prize. The overall winners will be announced what we know about! in Sydney on 3 August at a ceremony to be attended by There are always other our School Captains and Donna McFadden, who activities developing organised this great event. How exciting is this! along the way. More Congratulations to all involved (which is all the details on these events students, Pete Murray and Staff). to follow next week.

Our award winning DVD, will be played at our Education Week Education Week assembly, on 29 July so don’t miss it! We will start our Education Week activities on Friday 29 July with a whole school assembly starting at Congratulations also to Mullumbimby High who won 9.15am. We hope all of our parents will be able to join the High School section for our region. We are all us for this special assembly. There will be open members of the Lighthouse Valley Learning classrooms for you to visit and morning tea provided by Community. the staff to follow. So please keep this date free so you are able to join us.

Please Note Next School Assembly Education Week Assembly Term 3 Friday, 29 July 9.15am & Morning Tea

The Pocket School Newsletter Term 3 Week 1 No. 1 19 July 2011

Whole School North Stradbroke Excursion Staff Long Service Leave It’s not too late to secure your place on this excursion. This term Davina is taking some much earned long It will be a great experience for everyone. Any service leave. She will be away from 18 July returning questions or concerns please contact the school as we on 2 August. Mrs Gae Jansen will be taking the K/1 hope to have everyone to attend this trip. A reminder class. that the second payment is due this Friday. In week 3 I am taking long service leave and will be District Athletics Carnival absent for four weeks from 1 August returning on We are still waiting for 29 August. Trevor and I will be travelling and exploring details confirming the “the Outback”. Jade Matheson is with us in the 4/5/6 District Athletics Carnival on class as School Learning Support Officer while Gary is Wednesday, 27 July. Any away on leave. students involved will be notified directly. K/1 and my class will receive letters with more details.

Staff Development Day I hope you have had a restful and enjoyable break with If you passed the school on Saturday you would have your children and ready for another term. It’s great to noticed the staff cars all parked at the front. Yes, we be back with the students with so many things planned were working from 9am to 4.30pm!! And what a for great learning experiences. productive day we had. We spent the time modifying the Rewards and Consequences process for our school And a big thank you to everyone who came and fed the in line with our Positive Behaviour for Learning chooks over the holidays. Program. It will be implemented this term and explicit teaching will occur to inform the students of the Soundwaves changes to the card/behaviour system. Parents will This week we are working on also be invited to a meeting where we will explain the process to ensure you can support your child in this area.

This will allow everyone to have a clear understanding and K/1 are working on of the expectations of appropriate behaviour and the consequences at our school.

On Monday the teaching staff attended a Staff Annette Fairhall Development Day with the other Small Schools in our Principal Learning Community at Byron Bay on Quality Teaching

Strategies that will enhance planning, assessing and 2/3 Food Pyramid programming in our school and classrooms. It is a Class 2/3 have been studying our digestive system and follow on from a course we did last year. Pauline food groups. Here they are checking ingredients and attended an administration training session at Byron placing the food item into the correct section of the High with other clericals from our Learning Community. food pyramid. These days are great opportunities to share information, learn new skills and to build connections Karen Fletcher with our colleagues in other schools.

Skill of the Week This program will continue this term continuing on with our three expectations, I’m Safe, I’m Respectful and I’m Responsible. So watch this space for winners and the skill being introduced for the week. This week is a revision week.

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THE POCKET HAS LOTS OF TALENT! What a great effort by all of the children who participated in our recent talent show. It was so wonderful to see the many talents of our children and so many willing to ‘have a go’!

If you would like to order a copy of the DVD, with the bonus ‘award winning’ school mini movie, please complete and return the attached order form, along with a $10 donation. All donations will go towards our school camp.

GARAGE SALE Next term we will be having our P&C Giant Garage Sale. Please keep this in mind when you are tidying up for the Council Cleanup that is coming up in a few weeks. We have very limited space to store items at school currently, but would really appreciate it if families could begin to gather any items ready to donate.

P&C NEWS The next P&C Meeting will be held on Wednesday, 27 July at 3.15pm.

With School Camp fundraising and the School Garage Sale happening we really need your input and support – please spare an hour and join in.

CANTEEN Hot Dog Day was thoroughly enjoyed by the students and staff here on last day of Term 2, thanks to the Dad’s for their time and enthusiasm!

This Week 22 July Sarah S. & Mandi

Next Week 29 July Fonn + help needed 9-11 help needed

Please advise when you are able to help in canteen this term so we can prepare the next roster.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

FOUND Black nylon OPTEX camera case was left behind at the Talent Show. Please contact the office if you are missing it.

Supa IGA – Byron Bay COMMUNITY CHEST PROGRAM Spend $30 and receive a token valued at 10c. Place in The Pocket Public School box at the front of shop. In six months the IGA will donate any money raised to the school.

Coles Sports for Schools is back! We hope your school is enjoying your new Sports for Schools sports gear. Did you know last year we gave away over $7 million worth of sports gear to over 7,500 schools? Well this year we want to give away even more gear to even more schools, so make sure you register your school to be part of an even bigger and better program in 2011! This year your school can get even more quality sports gear from your favourite brands such as , , Steeden, , Wilson and Gray-Nicolls, simply by collecting vouchers from Coles, Coles Online, BI-LO and Pick'n Pay supermarkets. At Coles we are committed to quality fresh food and helping Aussie kids lead a healthy and active lifestyle and that's why we've joined forces with Cathy Freeman, our national sports ambassador, to invite your school to take part in this fantastic program.

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