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Term 2- Week 8 Friday 22nd June 2019

TERM 2 CALENDAR

PJ Day $$ Wednesday 26 June

Yr 3-6 Art Show Friday 28 June

9-11 (Hall)

Celebration Assembly

Friday 5th July

Term 2 - 2019

Tuesday 30 April to

Friday 5th July

Out In Space! Last week, 5 special GEPS students got to hear from the world famous astronaut, Chris Hadfield—at the Amplify Festival. Chris has been around the world (apparently something like 92 times!!) and served as commander on

the International Space Station.

He took questions from the crowd (thank you Jaimie-Leigh and

Kasa) and played his guitar at the end. What a wonderful opportunity for our students—I only wish we could have taken more kids!!

Meanwhile—Year 2 students went to the theatre!

Riverside Parramatta was showing Me and My Shadow, an award winning show about friendship and creativity. The students had a ball! They enjoyed the show and have been working on the themes in class.

Community Warriors Donate Our Community Warriors have been leading a donation drive for the House of Welcome. They spoke with the P&C; the teachers; and students at GEPS-Fest. They organised the donations and presented them to the House of Welcome. They want to thank everyone who contributed toiletries to help refugees.

P&C News At the P&C meeting this week, the P&C wrote a cheque to the school for $280 to buy much needed sports equipment.

They also finalised hot chocolates and marshmallows to sell next week on PJ Day—and they’re gearing up for Red Nose Day on August 9.

Meetings for Term 3 are Wednesday mornings 9am: 14 August and 18 September. Please come along.

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Yr 2 and their teachers at the theatre

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Biggest Morning Tea The Student Representative Council organised a fundraiser for cancer research. They collected donations of cakes and sweets and sold them at recess time.

They raised over $270 for this charity and will be sending a cheque to the Cancer Council. Well done!! And thank you to all of the families who contributed cakes.

Pyjama Day

Wednesday 26 June, GEPS will be celebrating PJ Day—to raise funds for Asthma Australia. Students can wear PJs, dressing gown, ugg boots and bring a gold coin donation.

The P&C are also supporting this day by selling hot chocolate (warm milk suitable

for children) and marshmallows. These will be on sale at recess, so bring some extra money!

Art Show Friday 28 June Years 3—6 students will showcase their artistic talents in our Indigenous themed art show.

Come along between 9am—11am to see the artworks and watch some artist-students at work!

L Reynolds, Principal

This term, 5/6 Arrernte have been focusing on the big idea Adventure as part of their

literacy topic. This was an important topic to teach as it gave the students the

opportunity to discover that personal growth can occur through adventure. The unit

started with a yarning circle where students had to share ideas about what makes an

adventure.

In 5/6A, we always have a word wall related to the ‘big idea’ we are focusing on. This includes the words, an image to go along with it and a definition. This allows students to develop a stronger understanding of the language we use.

Students sharing ideas in a Yarning circle.

The big idea of ‘adventure’ has been taught through a variety of

texts with a strong focus on visual literacy. Students have been learning about the impact that im-ages can have on a reader/viewer. They’ve been studying the elements that composers use to try and position us to make us think, feel or act in a certain way.

Students analysing the visual literacy elements in a brochure.

The various visual literacy elements students have been learning about.

In stage 3, there has been a strong focus on having the students thinking about and collecting 'seeds' for what they could write about. Then, develop-ing vocabulary that they might need when writing. Students have also loved being creative and imaginative!

At GEPS

Recess is:

11am—11:30am.

Lunch is:

Supervised eating:

1:20—1:30pm

Play time:

1:30—2pm.

Please come to the Office if you need to give something to your child.

GEPS

UNIFORM SHOP

Located in Room 5

Open: Every Friday

8:45am—9:15am

Each newsletter we’ll be having a problem of the week. Families can work together to solve this problem. Solve the problem in multiple ways and submit your answer to Ms Beede’s box in the office.

We look forward to seeing your results and will share some in the next newsletter!

Neighbourly Addition (from: nrich.maths.org/14222) As I walked down the street this morning, I noticed that all of my neighbours' house numbers were odd!

I added three house numbers together as I walked past:

Further down the road, I passed some bigger numbers. I added another set of three neighbouring house numbers:

Can you find some other totals I could make, by adding together the house numbers of three (odd) next-door-neighbours?

Once you've found a few totals, here are some questions you might like to explore: * Is there anything special about all the totals? * Is there a quick way to work out the total? * Can you predict what would happen if I walked down the other side of the street instead (where all the houses have even numbers)? * Are there any patterns if I add together four house numbers instead of just three? * Or five house numbers? Or... * Can you explain and justify the patterns you have noticed?

3+5+7=15

The Canteen ordering times

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

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

RECESS (shutters close 11:25)

11:00am - 11:25am

LUNCH (shutters close 2pm)

1:30pm - 2pm

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help out at Recess & Lunch

Few right-minded people want children or young people to experience hardships or difficulty. However growing up generally means that kids will experience their fair share of hardships, frustrations and challenges which lead to uncomfortable feelings.

Exercising their discomfort muscles

Tolerating discomfort is an important resilience skill. It refers to an ability to sit with an uncomfortable or emotionally painful feeling such as disappointment, apprehension, nervousness or fear. These emotions can be brought about as a result of not being picked for a team; getting lower than expected marks for an assignment; or going into new, unfamiliar situation such as school camp. These are the sorts of every day situations that can make some kids feel uncomfortable. It’s helpful to think of discomfort as a ‘muscle’ that gets stronger with training. Each time a child or teen successfully tolerates discomfort they’re reinforcing their ability to do so and cementing the knowledge that they can overcome emotional challenges.

Opportunities to practise tolerating discomfort

Opportunities for practice are plentiful and are found in common situations such as when a child or teen is: feeling hungry; wanting something they can’t have; having to end screen time; contributing to household chores when they don’t feel like it; missing out on a job interview; asking someone on a date or not receiving a party invitation.

It’s not toughing it out

Tolerating discomfort doesn’t mean toughing out an unbearable situation. It’s teaching your anxious child to notice how they’re feeling, naming their emotions, and practising acceptance of difficult feelings as they occur. This is done in the knowledge that what they’re experiencing is temporary and that they’re lovingly supported by a warm and comforting adult. Couple tolerating discomfort with social rewards (such as words of praise or shared fun activity) for coping behaviours and you’re helping to build their personal resilience.

Michael Grose

Michael Grose, founder of Parenting Ideas, is one of Australia’s leading parenting educators. He’s the author of 12 books for parents including Spoonfed Generation and the best-selling Why First Borns Rule the World and Last Borns Want to Change It. His latest release Anxious Kids, was co-authored with Dr Jodi Richardson.

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Helping kids tolerate discomfortby Michael Grose

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