Principal’s Message 1

Stephanie Alexander 2

Stephanie Alexander 3

Stephanie Alexander & Pie Drive Information

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Kitchen Garden Pie Drive Order

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PBL at The Crescent 5

Naomi & Chevvy’s Class News

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Community Notices 7

Woolworths Earn and Learn

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Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you to the members of our school community and staff who attended our ‘Meet and Greet BBQ’ last night, a big thank you to Kerry, Bill and Kath for assisting with the BBQ. It was a fantastic opportunity for your child to share with you their classroom and the things they have been learning about in class. Next year our ‘Meet and Greet’ BBQ will be held at the beginning of Term 1, 2020.

We warmly welcome members of the Goulburn Quota Club and the Goulburn Local Police who will be attending our school each Tuesday morning for the Cops for Kids Reading Program. Each week 2-3 students are selected to read a text donated by the Goulburn Quota Club. After these books have been read they will be accessioned to the library for all students to enjoy.

Our PBL ‘Wonderful Wednesday’ morning tea yesterday consisting of donuts, hot chocolate, hot chips and barbecue biscuits. Congratulations to you all.

This week some of our students have participated in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy NAPLAN. These students are to be congratulated for their high level of enthusiasm and engagement with the assessments.

This term a new IO/IS Support Class has been established at our school. We welcome Todd Henry as Class Teacher and Cassie Taylor as School Learning and Support Officer ,who will fill the positions temporarily for the remainder of this term. This term we also welcome Margaret Bourke as School Counsellor. Margaret will be available on Fridays by referral through the Learning and Wellbeing Team.

Thank you to the parents who have offered to provide feedback through our 360 degree Customer Service Feedback. An email will be sent to your nominated email address later this term. Please contact the school office if you require assistance in accessing the survey.

Next Wednesday 22nd

of May, students and staff will be participating in the National Simultaneous Story time here at School. Students will have the opportunity to engage with the text through various communication modes including visual, audio and signing. It is planned that additional learning activities will supplement this event.

Staff and Students at The Crescent School are very thankful and appreciative of the recent donation from Angela Storrier Real Estate. This donation will be used to purchase new mathematic resources for each classroom.

The Goulburn Convoy for Kids are proud supporters of The Crescent School, and the committee would like to invite new members to support the annual Goulburn Convoy for Kids to be held on Sunday November 10

th 2019. The

Goulburn Convoy for Kids committee meet at the Goulburn Workers Club on the 2

nd Monday of each

month. For more information please contact Bryan

on 1300 663 669.

Warm regards

Steve Edmonds

Dates to Remember

Next P&C Meeting, Wednesday, 19th May 7.00pm in The Crescent School Staffroom.

National Simultaneous Story Time Wednesday 22nd May 2019.

Pie Drive Return Friday 31st May. (with cash payment please)

Crescent Connect

Our next Crescent

Connect will be on

Wednesday 29th May, 9.30am.

Continuing the chance to

meet up with some of our

Crescent School parents,

enjoy a hot cuppa and relax

after bringing your children to school.

I look forward to seeing you

in the staffroom on the 29th

of May.

Bronwyn Warren

The Crescent School Chaplain

The Crescent School Newsletter

Thursday, 16th May, 2019 Term 2, Week 3

Karen, a representative of

Angella Storrier Real Estate,

presenting a donation to the school .

Kitchen Garden Program

Last week in the kitchen we have been very busy preparing special treats for our mums and other people who love us. We hope that all those special people who care for us had a lovely day.

The Primary School students prepared love heart biscuits and the word “Mum” as part of our celebration week. They were buttery and each person was thrilled with the results. Many of the children were arranging where they could hide them !

This week we have gardened. We have tidied all the garden beds ready for the winter planting, have picked a big crop of butternut pumpkins and have then safely stored in the garden shed. We have placed them in a net off the floor with the air circulating around them. The dark of the shed should help keep them at their best.

Our garden needed a good tidy up. We now have a place for everything and everything in its place. If anyone has some old bricks that could be use for a garden edge could you please let us know.

It was great to see that most students can put their gardening gloves on independently. We have certainly developed some great skills since we started our program. Well done everyone.

For the classes not gardening this week, they will be making their first dip and biscuit for tasting. Greta’s class and Racheal's class will be alternating between dips and fritters, making and tasting lots of different vegetables and fruits.

Kitchen Garden Program

In the high School classes , the ANZAC slice was delicious. Last week the classes made delicious

sweet treats for their mothers and carers too.

The classes made Mint Fudge, Apricot Coconut Balls and Rocky Road. Hope these treats made

everyone's Sunday a little extra sweet.

Thanks this week go to Lana Gardiner for her lemons. We have some exciting plans for them.

Kitchen Garden Pie Drive

Please see the attached flyer for details of the Pie Drive.

Orders are due …….Friday 31st May.

Payment with Order to The Crescent School.

(Cash Only)

Delivery Date……. Friday 7th June

Collect from The Crescent School

between 10am and 2pm

Thank you

(A copy of the Order will be sent home with students)

PBL at The Crescent

The diagram shows how the PBL continuum applies to all students. PBL establishes strong school-wide universal systems that promote early intervention, and the teaching and acknowl-edging of social-emotional skills. PBL helps schools to develop consistent systems to discourage unproductive behaviour.

Tier 1 looks at the rules that form the school expectations. Tier 2 targeted support is a team driven process. It strengthens and builds upon what has been taught to students at the universal level. Some students, approximately 10-15 per cent, will respond to Tier 1 supports but will continue to exhibit some difficulties. These students may be need additional academic and/or social-emotional support. A smaller group of students, approximately 1-5 per cent, may need individualised and intensive Tier 3 supports as well as universal and targeted support. Schools will build upon the foundations of the school-wide system to support these students. Interventions focus on creating and implementing individualised behaviour support plans that are linked to the universal system. Next Week : Playground Lessons.

Mornings have been very productive in our class.

We always start the day with an engine room to turn

our bodies and our minds on, so we are ready for

learning.

The students really enjoy a range of activities that

develop many fundamental movement skills.

After engine room we then start literacy groups

which engages the students in a variety of learning

tasks all aimed at students individual needs.

Naomi & Chevvy’s Class News

“What’s Happening in our Community”

“Wonderful Wednesday”

Our PBL ‘Wonderful Wednesday’ morning tea yesterday consisting of donuts, hot chocolate, hot chips and barbecue biscuits.

Ready, Set, Go!

We are collecting the stickers again this year.

We’re excited to say that Woolworths Earn & Learn

has launched this week, and thousands of Schools and

Early Learning Centres have started collecting

stickers.

The Crescent School has registered with Woolworths

to participate in the Earn & Learn promotion. We

have a box at Woolworths in the Market Place and

one inside the front door at school.