Thank you to Mrs Gale for relieving while I was absent during the term. It was a good feeling coming back knowing that our students were maintaining their focus to learn each day. As a school we are always interested in hearing opinions from the school community about what is going well and ways we can improve our practices. The school would like to hear from each family about 2 things you could give us a star for and what you wish would be fixed or changed. To provide feedback I ask you to complete an online form. https://forms.gle/ExTUKLhanGtFvBLz6
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There are some dates that need to be brought to your attention. They have been added to our school calendar that is on the school’s website. https://meadowflat-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Today the students in Years 3 to 6 connected via video conference to a counsellor from the Kids Helpline. They will be discussing a variety of wellbeing coping strategies next term with them as a part of our Health lessons.
Thank you to our Year 5 students for their captain speeches. Everyone has voted and the results will be announced at the end of year presentation.
Michael Wood.
Thank you to all the parents and caregivers for coming out for our combined Book Week and Education Week celebrations. All of the students performed perfectly. Thank you for being respectful when the bell was revealed, we are very proud of the final results, it looks amazing. We hope the bell can be used for many more years to come.
A big thank you to Helen Drewe for giving us some indigenous plants from the Lithgow and District Community Nursery to plant in our school gardens. The whole school worked hard on our wattle art which was displayed at Lithgow City Library for National Wattle Day. We received very high reviews on our artwork. Two students’ works have been kept by the library and will be on permanent display.
Noah and Riley
Year 6
In a couple of weeks Katie, Matilda, Couper and Lucy will be representing Meadow Flat Public School at the Interschools Equestrian Gymkhana in Moss Vale.
Sport has been very interesting and varied this year. During Term 2, Andrew from Bathurst came and taught us athletics. During term 3 we have had some basketball players Michael and Darreon and one of their coaches, Richard, from the Lithgow Lasers come to the school and teach us Basketball skills for 5 weeks. For the past few weeks we have all been having fun on Fridays with our own teachers. Wollemi and Billabong merge classes on Fridays and we have been playing teams sports like continuous cricket and tee-ball.
The Bilby and Platypus merge on a Friday and they have been playing rounders which is like tee-ball but you have 3 balls which are in a hula-hoop. You can either throw them or kick them, you then run around the diamond but when all the balls are back in the hoop you have to stop on one of the 3 bases.
By your sports captain,
Jamia
This term has been great!
The Wollemi class have been busy reading books for the Premiers Reading Challenge for this year. So far, we have read a lot of books.
We celebrated book week in week 7. Mrs Kelly held a book fair in the Library and we had a parade which allowed us to see the lovely costumes that all the students had worn. The theme for Book Week this year was reading is my superpower. The ladies from Lithgow Library came out to our school and read us the winning book from its category, its name was Cicada.
Wollemi have been reading the winning shortlisted book for 2019 called His Name was Walter by Emily Rodda.
The author of the month is Jackie French because we have lots of her novels and picture books in our library to read.
Molly, Katie, and Ava
Year 5
As part of the Book Week celebrations in week 7, the whole school performed the Lion Sleeps Tonight and it was very successful and fun.
A big thank you to Mrs. Palmer for teaching us the ukulele, we have enjoyed her lessons and learnt a lot. We have learnt how to play C, G, F, G7 and A minor chords. We practice the chords every Friday. The worst thing is packing all the ukuleles away and putting them in their cases. The songs that we have learnt are B-I-N-G-O, She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain, and Shoo Fly Don’t Bother Me and of course The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
Everyone enjoys playing ukulele.
Toby and James
Year 5
Helen Drewe from the Lithgow and District Community Nursery returned our wattle day art and brought in 4 plants as a thank you gift, they included a dianella, an accacia and a native yam which we will be able to harvest.
The nice spring weather has allowed us to get out in the garden again to do some planting. We have prepared some of the garden beds and have planted some potatoes and flowers.
Woolworths have kindly donated a discovery garden to our school. This garden kit includes all of the 24 vegetable, herb and flower seeds which make up the discovery garden promotion currently running through Woolworths. We would like to give a big thank you to Mr Evans for delivering this to our school. We look forward to planting the seeds very early next term
Matilda and Kane
Year 5
