School News and 

Learning at Joey's

Students on Friday often get to share with the school what are some of the skills they have learnt this week. Mr Wisemantle's students were demonstrating their ability to name angles using their bodies. Well done. 

Warialda Show Visit

We were very lucky to head down to the Warialda show on Friday the 12th. We had a great time viewing all of the exciting attractions. Thank you to all the teachers for taking us.

The Premier’s Reading Challenge has arrived for 2023. The challenge requires children reading books (or being read to) from selected lists, logging them online with the PRC and receiving a completion certificate later in the year. The challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for pleasure in students and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. The Koala class will participate as a group and their challenge will be completed at school. 

If your child expressed interested in participating in the 2023 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) they will have received a permission note to complete. All students from Kinder to Year 6 are to return their signed note to their class teacher to participate. Passwords will be provided once notes are returned. 

More information about the challenge is available by visiting the PRC website:

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

What to do Next?

For students who have returned their permission notes already, a password letter has been sent home. Any students who would still like to participate can join right up to the closing date in August. Permission notes are available from Mrs Koch.

When you receive your password information, you can log into the NSW PRC website at https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

K-2 children read 30 books (these can be read to them) and years 3 - 9 read 20 books from lists available on the website. As these lists are over 100 pages long, I am unable to print these for families, so you will need to access these on the PRC website. As books are read, they are entered into the online student reading log. The challenge closes at midnight on Friday, 18th of August 2023.

If there are any difficulties for primary students logging books at home, Mrs Koch is able to assist at school.