Peachester State School

It has been gratifying to hear new and prospective families identifying they have heard good things about the school. New families and visitors to our school can draw comparisons to what we have known for a long time now. I am most pleased for the staff involved in the hard work over the years, who have transformed the opportunities and outcomes for our students. I hope students, staff and parents can proudly say they work, learn and are a part of this school.

Prep Open Day

This Wednesday we again welcomed our pre-preps to school for the morning. It was great to see so many keen faces come and join our class for some play time and stories.

Our next open day is next Wednesday the 3rd of October from 9am. We’re looking forward to seeing you all again then!

Well swimming has started and we all love it!  The instructors divided us into 3 groups so we can learn what we need to do next to be a good swimmer.  The instructors are all very good teachers and we are learning fast. 

We made our final recipe this week – our own favourite mini pizza.  We took photos and made our recipes into books using Book Creator.  It is easy to use and helps you make your own book with pictures, backgrounds, writing and even voice recordings.  Some of us have been having fun, seeing if we can scoop up close to one hundred objects.  See our photos of how close we got. Gee that was a lot of counting Lavina!

In spelling we have been practicing looking up long vowel sounds when we need to spell them.  Here we tried to spell the word ‘light’ using all the sounds that say ‘I’.  When we write them all we can easily see which one looks right.  Nice work Beth.

Time flies when you’re having fun and we have been having some fun in 2/3 this term!

This week we examined different types of soil using magnifying glasses. Students were most excited about wearing gloves. We are starting to see growth with some of our sunflowers even though the hot weather has impacted some of the seedlings.

2/3 are loving learning about poetry. We created and presented an innovation called ‘Creek Cats’. Presenting for the first time was a bit scary but everyone was excited to give it a go. 

Our current unit for English is well under way. Our class learning wall is looking fantastic.

Students are required to adapt a poem to make it their own. They need to use the language features and poetic devices from the original.

This week, we created adaptations of the Australian classic “Click go the Shears”.

Students thought of an occupation and then a sound that went with it.

Mr. Laurence wrote an example called “Ssh goes the Teacher”.

Feel free to stop by any time to check out the learning wall and your child’s work. 

This fortnight has seen lots of work continued on our English unit, analysing elements of the novel Storm-Boy by Colin Thiele.  We have worked hard through our financial maths element and are now down to numbers and working through word problems.

We saw Miss Berry finish her placement on Wednesday and we wish her luck for the future.

Look out next fortnight for our Premiers Reading Challenge fun photos!

Gambling Grant – unsuccessful for bike/scooter enclosure.

Tea towel fundraiser update – Price was determined $18 each or 3 for $16 each, all pictures were drawn and sent off. Orders have started coming in.

Colour Run Update – Date set: Friday 17th November at 1.30 pm.  Need helpers in the morning to set up, and in the afternoon to pack up. Already have a few helpers to set up, but do need more. Many hands make light work. Parents to supply a white T-shirt (pre loved is fine). After registering and paying $10, on the day students will get a pair of sunnies, participation in the fun afternoon and a Zooper Dooper or the like. Proposing to ask the local shop if they will sponsor the ice blocks. P & C will need to spend approx. $50 on accessories for the event.

Going Cashless – investigations are under way for the P & C to go cashless by the end of 2024. This would mean online ordering for Uniforms, Tuckshop, Donations (eg: Give me 5 for kids).  Going Cashless will save the hassle of counting money and getting to the bank. Making volunteering positions more desirable.

Presentation night – Friday 1st December from 5.30 pm family event.  BBQ possibly run by Rural Fire Brigade, looking for sausage donations from local butcher and bread from bakery, need to have vegan and gluten free option.

Sam Knight Photography – will be at our Presentation night to take your Christmas photos the same as last year, Sam donates a percentage to the P&C.

Year 6 Graduation – Thursday evening 7th December. Last year 6 graduation fundraiser “spider day” happening soon.

Welcome Pack for New Families – implementing strategies to have more community/parent engagement, making our school more inclusive community. Some ideas to help this: reinstate the class parent/carer buddy; in 2024 trial Friday play in the park after school etc.

Uniform Shop - More uniforms to be ordered to get us ready for our new school year 2024. We need a new Uniform Shop co-ordinator, current person is unable to continue in 2024, Kimberley is willing to train and assist new person.

Student Resource Scheme - approved by P & C, reduced charges across most year levels. Will be invoiced by school in January 2024.

2024 Event calendar – Executive to meet about the yearly events before the next P & C meeting on Wednesday 15th November. Greg’s wish list is to have an event involving the whole community.

Grant FRRR Strengthening Community with Schools – part funding big oval upgrade, project has started.

Grant writer – we are looking for a person to assist in looking for and submitting grants.

Market Garden – needs to purchase more potting mix. Last market garden for 2023 will be held on Wednesday 15th November. 

If you are interested in helping with any of the above please email: peachesterpandc@gmail.com

Next P & C Meeting 6.30pm Wednesday 15th November 2023, please come along and join the fun.

If you have something to add to the agenda of the next meeting,

 please email: peachesterpandc@gmail.com

All orders need to be in by Monday 30th October.

Having trouble ordering? - Lisa will be available on Monday morning under Admin to help get your order sorted.   Eftpos will be available. 

Steve and Heather are very generous to our school, helping us out each year with donations of items for various projects in our Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program.  They also supply our school with our Ninja garden gloves for a special discounted price.

(Heather from Co-op with our Teacher Aide Rose, Kitchen Garden Program & Enviro club receiving donations on behalf of the school)