PO Box 1050 Ebor NSW 2453 T: 6775 9136 F: 6775 9182 [email protected]2019 Term 3 - Week 4 Ebor Public School Website: [email protected]Ebor News Dates to remember Friday 16 th August – Science Day, Sandon Public School Friday 23 rd August @ 10.30am – Book Week Parade & Assembly Monday 23 rd September – MSP Photos @ Ebor Falls (Please note date change) Tuesday 10 th September – Camp Quality Visit Friday 27 th September – Last Day of Term 3. Principals Message Wow!! We are already half way through the year, 134 days until Christmas. Congratulations to all of our students for their continuing commitment and focus on learning this term. We have been focusing on the effort we need to apply to our learning and utilising strategies effectively in the form of visible learning and goal setting to help us identify where to next. We have also had a major focus on quantifying number, addition and subtraction, sentence structure, comprehension skills and persuasive writing strategies. This term we are focusing on learning and applying strategies to solve 2, 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers in multiplication, division and problem solving. In literacy our focus is on informative texts/reports, poetry and paragraph writing. Our science unit this term is microbes and microorganisms – with a focus on yeast and mould. Lee Rose Principal This term we welcomed Cooper and his family to our wonderful school and community. Black Mountain Highland Fling On Friday 9 th August Ebor and the other SGLA schools attended the annual ‘Highland Fling’ at Black Mountain Primary School. Mr Pat Cavanagh & Mr Hobbs helped celebrate the success of NSW Education awarding certificates to the award recipients. The students also participated in STEM activities, including robotics, music making and choreography, as a focus on the changing environment and shape of our future. Ebor PS would like to thank Black Mountain PS, Mel Wood and Dave Eddy for making this a valuable and enjoyable learning experience.
Dates to remember Friday 16th August – Science Day, Sandon Public School Friday 23rd August @ 10.30am – Book Week Parade & Assembly Monday 23rd September – MSP Photos @ Ebor Falls (Please note date change) Tuesday 10th September – Camp Quality Visit Friday 27th September – Last Day of Term 3.
Principals Message Wow!! We are already half way through the year, 134 days until Christmas. Congratulations to all of our students for their continuing commitment and focus on learning this term. We have been focusing on the effort we need to apply to our learning and utilising strategies effectively in the form of visible learning and goal setting to help us identify where to next. We have also had a major focus on quantifying number, addition and subtraction, sentence structure, comprehension skills and persuasive writing strategies. This term we are focusing on learning and applying strategies to solve 2, 3, 4 and 5 digit numbers in multiplication, division and problem solving. In literacy our focus is on informative texts/reports, poetry and paragraph writing. Our science unit this term is microbes and microorganisms – with a focus on yeast and mould. Lee Rose Principal
This term we welcomed Cooper and his family to our wonderful school and community.
Black Mountain Highland Fling On Friday 9th August Ebor and the other SGLA schools attended the annual ‘Highland Fling’ at Black Mountain Primary School. Mr Pat Cavanagh & Mr Hobbs helped celebrate the success of NSW Education awarding certificates to the award recipients. The students also participated in STEM activities, including robotics, music making and choreography, as a focus on the changing environment and shape of our future. Ebor PS would like to thank Black Mountain PS, Mel Wood and Dave Eddy for making this a valuable and enjoyable learning experience.
2019 Term 3 – Week4
PSSA Congratulations to Maddie Marsden who ran an exceptional 100m race at the north-west athletics, and also had a fantastic long jump. We are still waiting for the official results of who has qualified for regionals, but we are keeping everything crossed for you! Congratulations also to Aria and Wyatt Brauer who competed in the gymnastics PSSA on Monday 12th August in Armidale. Aria took home Gold for Rhythmic Gymnastics, and Wyatt Bronze in the Men’s Gymnastics. Fantastic results guys, well done!
Book Week Parade We are celebrating Book Week on Friday 23rd August. The theme this year is ‘Reading is my Secret Power’. We are also celebrating Education Week ‘Our Youth, Our Future’. Students are welcome to dress up in either theme. We welcome parents and community members to come to our parade and assembly at 10.30am followed by morning tea. We look forward to seeing all the fabulous outfits next week.
Head lice Please check your child’s hair regularly for head lice/nits. If you find any eggs or lice please commence treatment immediately as recommended. Further information on head lice is available on the NSW Health website. We appreciate your assistance in this matter.
Skool Loop App We have recently joined the Skool Loop app which is a school and parent communication app that was developed to meet a rising demand for a user friendly smartphone calendar. The app is free to download. We would love you to check it out, and we hope that in the future we can use it for most of our communicating, which will cut down on the use of paper. Let us know what you think of it!
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Uniforms Please ensure students wear appropriate coloured (Navy or Red) jackets, scarves and beanies. Scarves and beanies should be plain in colour, not patterned, with no pom poms, ear muffs.
The new school uniform worn proudly by our students
2019 Premiers Sporting Challenge We are once again participating in the Premiers Sporting Challenge. A 10 week event which encourages students to work towards a higher level of physical activity. Activities may include time spent in a broad range of sports and recreational pursuits during lunchtime, in school sport programs, class time, before or after school and on weekends. Students can track their activity on the school wall charts or the PSC Tracker. Certificates are issued at the end of the challenge.
Award Level Daily Activity Time
Bronze 30 minutes per day
Silver 45 minutes per day
Gold 60 minutes per day
Diamond 80 minutes per day
Eyesight Tests Do you have a child starting school next year? Centrelink have now made it compulsory for 4 year olds to have eye screening test. If you require any further information, please call stEPS clinic on 6656 7061, or ask Ashley in the office for more information.
First Lego League Junior Chandler Public School have invited our students to enter into the Junior Lego League - Boomtown Build with them! 3 Teams have been entered and will travel down to Korora in October for the Expo.
Earn & Learn “Thank you” for all the support in donating the Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. Not only did the local community support us, we also received many stickers in the mail from a number of individuals from all over NSW and QLD wishing to support our small school, to which we are very grateful. We completed a total of 139 full sheets. Our new equipment we have purchased will arrive in Term 4.
Wood Raffle Congratulations to Shirley Heffernan, winner of the P&C’s Wood Raffle. Many thanks Miss Rose for donating the wood and to all who purchased tickets. P&C Lunch Please support the Ebor P&C lunch order’s on the upcoming dates. Order forms are available from the front office of the school: Thursday 15th August Thursday 29th August Thursday 12th September Thursday 26th September
2019 Term 3 – Week4
School Donations Charlotte Ahern, a Primary School student from St Joseph’s in Charlestown donated her piggy bank savings of $168.20 to our school at the end of last term. We are truly appreciative and thank you Charlotte for supporting our small school. We would also like to thank the families who have been mailing us Woolworths Ooshies and Coles Little Shop’s. The students have to earn these by working hard in class in order to pick one and take it home.
Snow Pics Our students had a ball in the snow, making snowmen and angels!
