2013 Term 2 Week 5 Principal: Timothy Allen

Dear Parents and Carers, Well done to all of our students for your participation and effort in Monday’s LNPSAA swimming carnival. Thank you to Mr Powter for attending the event and to our parents for assisting with transport on the day. We wish the best of luck to our PP5 relay team members Tom Strachan, Taylor Griffiths, Dakoda Cross and Asha Dunn. The annual Riverina Swimming Carnival takes place in Albury on Wednesday, March 11th 2020. Training at the Leeton Pool will take place for these students as often as possible up until the carnival. Kluwell Reading App Attached to this newsletter is a survey for parents to complete based on personal experience with the Kluwell Reading App. Further information about the benefits of using the app are included on the survey page. Little Learners 2020 Our Little Learners program commences next Friday, February 28th 2020 from 9.30am-12.00pm. Our enrolment spaces are filling up quickly. If you know of anyone wishing to find out more about the program or would like to enrol, please encourage them to contact the school. Thank you! Thank you to our parents and carers for joining us today for our first shared lunch for 2020. It is always great to have you all here with us!

Yanco Public School Newsletter

Term 1 –Week 4 February 20, 2020

School Lunch Orders Please remember there is a $1 surcharge on orders that will go towards the school. Please note: Monday Lunch Orders are placed through the Yanco Shop. Student orders are to be placed in the office on the bench ASAP on Monday morning before school commences. Friday Lunch Orders are placed with Aki’s Kitchen. The order forms are handed out on Monday morning at assembly. Orders must be placed on the bench in the office by Wednesday afternoon at the latest. Kindergarten Homework Kindergarten will commence receiving homework from Monday next week. Each child will be given a home reading bag, two home readers for the week, four sight words and their sounds book. Information for the Kluwell Reading App will also be included. Young Leaders Conference Our school captains will fly to Sydney on Sunday, March 1st accompanied by Mr Powter and Miss Grigg. It will be an experience jam packed with fun, delicious food and inspirational stories from some amazing and talented individuals at the Young Leaders Conference. LNPSSA Soccer Gala Day On Friday, March 6th our Stage 3 students (Year 5 and Year 6) will have the opportunity to participate in the LNPSSA Soccer Gala Day. Mr Powter is involved in the organisation of the event. Parents will be required to assist with transport. Welcome to 2020 Barbecue Our ‘Welcome to 2020’ barbecue will take place on Thursday, February 28th 2020 at 5.30pm. The school will provide the meat for the barbecue and parents/carers will be asked to assist with providing drinks and or food items for the evening. Little Learners, K-6 students, and family members are invited to attend the event.

What’s on……….

Fri, Feb 21 Sporting Schools –AFL – Whole School Lunch Orders available Mon, Feb 24 Lunch orders available from Yanco Shop Wed, Feb 26 Sporting Schools –AFL – Whole School Thur, Feb 27 Library borrowing day

Dollarmites School Banking Welcome BBQ

Fri, Feb 28 Little Learners commences Lunch orders available

Friday Lunch orders 2020

ORDERS MUST BE RETURNED BY WEDNESDAY $1.00 Surcharge per order (school fundraiser)

Sushi options ( priced at $4.00 each - 10cm long- )

• Teriyaki beef • Vegetable • Poached chicken and avocado • Smoked salmon • Teriyaki chicken • Tuna and mayo • Chicken cutlet

Meal option ( priced at $4.50 per serve ) THE MEAL DEAL LUNCH OPTION CHANGES WEEKLY

Congratulations to this week’s award winners

Cancer Council NSW is here to help you kick start the year easily, packing healthy lunch boxes your kids will enjoy. Developed by dietitians healthylunchbox.com.au is a one-stop shop for everything families need to know about packing a healthy lunch box. Here’s what you will find:

• an interactive lunch box builder that helps parents and kids plan and pack a healthy lunch with foods they like. • The ability to filter recipes based on diets, easy to freeze and prep time • Lots of quick and easy recipes and snack ideas • Regular healthy eating blogs

You can sign up to the Healthy Lunch Box e-newsletter for ideas, updates and recipes delivered to your inbox throughout the year.

Learning Support News All learning support students have been working really well and I have been very impressed with their attitude to learning. Activities undertaken during our sessions so far this term have included:

• name writing and pencil control; • making groups of specific numbers with ‘bug’ counters; • selecting the correct homophone for selected sentences; • looking at different ways to make numerals to 10 using dominoes; • ‘dabbing’ CVC word ducks that rhyme with bingo markers; • using our new ‘magnetic place value arrows’ resource when revising our addition and subtraction

skills; • thinking of adjectives which effectively describe nouns to improve the descriptive language in

writing; • and re-constructing sentences with sight words to learn and sorting these words into columns.

Letters outlining support being received will be sent home once learning support work groups being trialled are officially finalised.

Mrs Kara Kroek – Learning Support Teacher