GEPS NEWS

Term 4, Week 4 Thursday 30th October 2014

Glendale East Public School values Respect, Honesty, Care, Love, Tolerance and Responsibility.
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Phone: 4954 9551
Fax: 4956 6248
Disco Fun
What a great night last night. Thanks to
all the parents and community
representatives who coordinated the
disco it looked like great fun. Well done
to everyone who dressed up!








Swimming School Starts
Kindergarten Orientation
Only one more kindergarten orientation
to go. It was really nice sitting in with
kindergarten 2015 yesterday and getting
to know them all a little better. Theyre
going to be a great bunch! Our last
orientation for the year takes place on
Thursday 13
th
November!
Captains speeches for 2015 takes place
next Wednesday 5
th
November at
9:15am in the hall. Good luck to
everyone who is preparing a speech in
the effort to become a school captain or
prefect!
Attendance
High School Orientation
School Plan Writing
Thanks everyone for the prompt payment
of swimming school money. Swimming
school commences on Monday 10
th

November and runs everyday rain, hail or
shine until Friday 21
st
November. A
reminder that payments need to be paid
as soon as possible as there are limited
places.
Please note that school break times for
weeks 6 & 7 during swimming school is
as follows:-
Recess 10:3010:50
Lunch is 1pm1:55pm
Daily Fitness
Our daily fitness routine seems to be of to
a great start with the kids trying really
hard. Teachers have reported that the
kids are more settled and are applying
themselves better to their learning
especially in the morning sessions.
Thank you to those parents and
community members that have
expressed an interest in formulating the
2015 school plan. This plan will drive the
teaching and learning programs that the
school implements over the coming years
to best educate your kids. The finalised
plan will be presented at P&C before
being implemented in term 1 of 2015.
Captains Speeches
The school undertook a recent audit of
unexplained absences. It is highly
important that all absences that your
child has had throughout the year a
explained. There are severe penalties
that apply for students who have had
too many absences including fines of
up to $11,000! Please send a note or
contact the school as soon as it is
possible if our child is away from
school for the day.
We received an email from Gavin Wilson
at Glendale High advising us that the
parent info night for Year 6 going into Year
7 is Tues 25th Nov and that the Year 7
Orientation Day is Wed 3rd Dec (with
further details to follow from the high
school).
News from 2/3A.
























Year 2/3 are looking forward to a busy
term of learning. We have been busy
exploring the relationship between the
Earth, Moon and the Sun as part of a
science Unit of work called Night and
Day. As part of creating understanding
about the movement of Earth in relation
to the sun we spent last Thursday
collecting data about shadows. We
recorded the length and direction of the
shadows. There was some amazement
from all students regarding how
different the shadows were every hour
and how quickly they moved.
Check out the difference between the
9.15 shadow and the blue line tracing
the 1.15 shadow. The 2.15 shadow was
actually longer than an hour earlier.
Some comments from the students
following the experiment:

I was surprised the shadow got smaller.
Tyannah

I thought that the shadow would move and
get smaller and it did. Riley

I found out that the shadows can move
throughout the day. Poppy

I was surprised at 2.15 when the shadow
was longer than an hour before. I thought it
would keep getting shorter. Lachlan

I found out the planets mover every
minute. Ethan

I was surprised the shadows move
direction. Nick

I found out that the shadows got smaller
throughout the day and began to get longer
after recess. Jack

I found out that the shadows moved and
got shorter through the morning. Owen

I predicted that the shadows moved and
got smaller throughout the morning.
Breeanna

I found out that through the morning the
shadow gets smaller. Ryvrr

I was surprised that the shadow moved so
much. Zoe
Science in action in the carpark!
3/4L News.









3/4L have had a busy term already! In
science we have been busy learning about
the sun, moon and Earth and how the earth
spins in its axis to cause night and day. We
have looked at shadows and how they move
during the day, we made sundials out of
cardboard and pencils and discovered
another way to tell the time without a watch!
















In literacy, we have already completed a
mini unit of work based on The Lost Thing
by Shaun Tan. We have practiced using
descriptive writing to describe the main
character or Lost Thing from the book and
we made artworks that were inspired by the
illustrations in the text.




Maths time has been busy as usual
and last week we learnt about position.
In small groups, we hid treasure
around the school and used
compasses on the iPads and
coordinates to draw a map and write
directions for other groups to find our
treasure.

We enjoyed having our grandparents
visit our classroom last Friday as it
gave us a good chance to show them
some of our work! We are looking
forward to all the end of year
celebrations towards the end of this
term. It will be a great way to top of
what has been a fantastic year in 3/4L!
More disco photos
Thank you to all the grandparents
who attended last weeks
grandparents day it was really nice
to see so many people in the
school sharing their stories of what
school was like when they were
kids. Interesting to hear about the
trenches that were dug in the
playgrounds and the like!
Grandparents Day...

















School Banking



















Tech Tip
Term 4
week
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
SAT-
SUN
1
6
th
October
Labour day long
weekend

7
th
October
Students return
8
th
October


P and C 6:30pm
9
th
October 10
th
October

2
13
th
October

14
th
October 15
th
October

16
th
October
NEWSLETTER
Kindy orientation


Kindy info night
17
th
October
KE KM assembly



Peer support

3
20
th
October



21
st
October
Year 6 @ GTHS 11-
3pm sports day

22
nd
October





23
rd
October 24
th
October
Grandparents day



Peer support

4
27
th
October

28
th
October 29
th
October

Kindy orientation

Halloween Disco
30
th
October
Newsletter
31
st
October
Assembly 2-3


Peer Support

5
3
rd
November

4
th
November 5
th
November
Year 5 captains
speeches @ 9:15am


6
th
November

7
th
November


Peer Support


6
10
th
November

Swim school

11
th
November 12
th
November 13
th
November

Kindy orientation


Newsletter

14
th
November

Assembly 1-2H

Peer Support


7
17
th
November
Swim School



18
th
November 19
th
November



P and C 6:30pm
20
th
November



21
st
November


Peer Support

8
24
th
November



25
th
November



26
th
November 27
th
November
Year 6 camp

Newsletter
28
th
November


Assembly 1-2J



9
1
st
December 2
nd
December

3
rd
December
Year 6 transition to HS
4
th
December 5
th
December
Year 6 fun day




10
8
th
December





9
th
December
Volunteer luncheon
10
th
December
Year 6 Farewell lunch
11
th
December
Newsletter


Carols evening
12
th
December

Presentation day


11
15
th
December
Party day K-2
16
th
December
Party day 3-6
17
th
December
Last day for students
18
th
December
holidays
19
th
December
Holidays