Friday, 24 March 2017
Principal
Positive Behaviour for
Learning
Hi everyone,
Welcome to the final newsletter for term one. As I write this it is raining very
heavily. It reminds me just how hot and dry it has been for the last couple of
months. We are really fortunate at Geebung Special School to have air
conditioning, a pool and lots of shade on our oval. These provide positive
conditions for learning by allowing students to as be cool and settled as
possible.
Congratulations to LJ & Alison who
were our Students of the Week last
week.
We recently held the Annual General meeting for our P&C. A big thank you to
the large number of people who attended. Congratulations to our new P&C
executive
Jane Board -President.
Kerryl De Felicis -Vice President.
Vanessa Thomas -Vice President.
Kylie Renwick-Knight- Secretary.
Carolyn Potts -Treasurer.
Uniforms – Vanessa Thomas
Tuckshop – Julie Sim
The committee and the school would like to thank Helen Wallace for her many
years on the P&C
Committee, with the last 3 year being President. Her contribution to the school
has been magnificent and I know highly appreciated by staff, parents and
students.
Staff Member of the Week
Congratulations
to
Susie who was last
week’s staff member
of the Week last week.
Thank you for all of
your hard work at
Geebung
All the best,
Class 4 has had a wonderful start to the
new school year and already we’re on a
fantastic
learning
journey
together.
Alongside the other junior classes, we have
started implementing the Walker Learning
Program. The class are learning to engage
with the investigation tables set up for first
session in the morning. Eve and Charlotte
have the makings to be great friends and
enjoy getting messy in the sensory area
together. Violet has made some amazing
buildings in our construction area. Then she
enjoys knocking them down again just as
quick. Nataliah enjoys cooking up a feast in
the home corner which supports our
cookery program beautifully. Together we
are excited to see where this school year
takes us!
Class 9 has had a great first term getting to know each other and
becoming friends. Two of our classmates have had birthdays so we
wanted to give them a party. We read the big book ‘Monster Party’ and
talked about what we can do at a party. We then used our PODD to find
the words we needed to write our own story about how we can sing,
dance, play and jump. We enjoyed cooking a special cake for our friends,
putting up decorations, and singing Happy Birthday with Auslan.
Harmony Day activities have been a big celebration in our class with each
student having a different heritage. We have learnt about the countries of
Africa, Tonga, Myanmar, Italy and Scotland. It has been fun to practise
saying the name of each country, finding them on the map, looking at the
traditional costumes, music, painting the flags and cooking some of the
foods like Italian pasta and Asian rice. We made a power-point with our
comments about our own countries to show our parents on Harmony Day.
Anne & Robyn Smith
Lauren, Carrie and Belinda
P&C NEWS
Ray and Team.
Parents/Guardians
Deputy Principal
The end of a busy term!
Please not that the uniform shop is
changing days. The uniform shop
will be moving to Tuesday’s opening
from 8:45 till 9:15 am.
NOTICE BOARD
Thank you,
P&C Committee.
Thankyou to all the parents and carers who were able to come in to school on
Tuesday for our Harmony Day celebrations. It was a terrific opportunity to
celebrate the diversity of our school and for parents to see the learning that
occurs in classrooms throughout the school.
IMPORTANT DATES
Tues 28 March
PODD chat
Friday 31st March
Last day of term
one
Monday 17th April
Public holiday
Tuesday 18th
Term 2 starts
Tuesday 25th
April
ANZAC Day
Date TBA
School photos
Term 2
Friday 23rd June
Term 2 ends
Have a safe and happy Easter break, looking forward to seeing all the smiling
faces when we return from holidays!
Monday 10th July
Term 3 starts
Friday 15th Sept
Term 3 ends
Steve
Tuesday 3rd Oct
Term 4 starts
Friday 8th Dec
Term 4 ends
Tuckshop will not be running in the first week of term two. Our tuckshop will
recommence in week 2 (Tuesday May 9). Many thanks to Julie who is convening
our tuckshop and the many parents who have volunteered their time to assist in
term one.
Thanks to all staff for their hard work this term. The diversity of programs and
learning opportunities for our students is a reflection of their dedication and
commitment. We look forward to building on the learning that has occurred this
term when we return from holidays!
We hope everyone enjoys the easter break
with their families. Hopefully the weather is The New Year has started well in ECDP. Already we have welcomed 9
nice and cool for us all. Stay safe and we will new families to our program. As we play and work together, we discover
more and more about ourselves with our ‘All about Me’ theme. At the end
see you all for term 2.
of 2016 we were able to secure a grant to replace the shade awning in
Happy Easter
the ECDP playground. We were fortunate to have the work finished
before the start of the school year. We now have an insulated roof and
Admin.
rubber coating on the concrete beneath the roof. It’s a great place to
dress up, play cars, music and dance- out of the hot sun.
Carmel, Maria, Fay & Sally