OUR CHILDREN GRANVILLE EAST PUBLIC SCHOOL

TERM 3- WEEK 6 THURSDAY 25TH AUGUST 2016

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Term 3 2016

19th July—23rd September

The Canteen ordering times are detailed below. So that children are not running late to their class, no orders can be made outside of these times by students.

BEFORE SCHOOL

8:30am - 8: 50am (students)

8:30 - 9:30am (Parents only)

RECESS shutters

close11:25)

11:00am - 11:25am

LUNCH (shutters close 2pm)

GEPS-Connects Open Days

Part of our plan to connect better with our parents is to hold more open days. This week, Stage 1 classrooms were open for parents to see how their child learns to read.

We love having parents come up to our school and watch a reading group or learn the importance of independent reading. Do you know what “back-to-back and knee-to-knee reading” is??? Ask your child!

Thanks, teachers!

Happy Book Week! I hope you have been enjoying the Book Week festivities—I loved tricking people on Tuesday with my outfit (photos later in this newsletter!).

Here is a lovely photo taken yesterday which shows the power of a book:

Thanks, Mrs Delvecchio!! PS. Book was Pig the Pug

Super-duper NAPLAN results! Our NAPLAN results go home today to students in Years 3 and 5. Congratulations to students—and remember that these results are a snap-shot of one test—they don’t reveal your creativity, insight, thinking, compassion, perseverance or spark!

Having said that—look at some of our Year 3 results:

• Percentage of Year 3 students

achieving in the TOP 2 bands for Reading was 33%;

• Year 3 in the TOP 2 bands for

Writing: 43%!!

• Year 3 kids in the TOP 2 bands for

Spelling—35%

That’s over one third of our Year 3s making it to the top 2 bands—and 96% of those kids came to school in Kindy with limited English language. W O W!

TERM 3 CALENDAR

GEPS-Fest 9am sharp!

Monday 29th August in the Hall

Pyjama Day Thursday 1st September

Performance Day Friday 9th September 9:30

Louise Reynolds, Principal

CALLING ALL PRESCHOOLERS

Is your child turning 5 on or before 31 July

2017?

ENROL NOW!

Book Week 2016

Book Week 2016

Kindergarten Transition 2017

Granville East Public School

We are Safe, Respectful Learners

210 The Trongate GRANVILLE NSW 2142 Phone: 9637 1562 Fax: 9897 3857

Free Kindergarten

Transition for

children turning 5

before the 31st July

2017

Register NOW!!!

Parent sessions - Ensure

your child has the best

start to school!

Free resource

packs for

home!

If you have questions about

starting school, we have the answers!

Rights Responsibilities

‘Proud’ Padma

To feel that GEPS is my school.

To be supported and given opportunities

to achieve my goals.

To feel confident and happy about my

learning.

To act appropriately within

and outside of school.

Strive towards achieving my

goals.

To recognise my own and

others achievements.

Introducing Proud Padma

Proud

Popcorn

Students were asked to write down some things that they were proud of. We scrunched our pieces of pa-per and placed them into our proud popcorn boxes.

We then shared some of our proud moments with our buddy classes!

I am proud of the teachers

Student 1/2B I was proud when I

got my first gold badge

Student 3/2F

I’m proud of being in such an amazing

class. I’m also proud of achieving my

reading goal

Student 5/6B

I am proud of myself because I always show my

5L’s

Student 1/KA

Proud Popcorn

3/4HR is buzzing with Olympic Madness! Students have been using their maths skills to work on an exciting project about the

Olympics!

Working in small collaborative groups, students have been applying their skills of data collection,

graphs, position, angles and 2D shapes to research several countries that have participated in the

recent Olympics held in Rio.