GOOLGOWI PUBLIC SCHOOL

TO THE STARS NEWSLETTER TERM 4, WEEK 3 Principal: Mrs Anne-Maree Young Penney Street, Goolgowi, NSW, 2652 T 02 6965 1207 F 02 6965 1309 E goolgowi-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

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Calendar *Please note dates from week to week as there are occasionally some changes.

Term 4, 2019 Week 3 Wednesday 30 Oct Kinder Orientation 9.00-

11.40am Week 4 Mon 4 - Wed 6 Nov Borambola Excursion

Year 3-6 Wednesday 6 Nov Kinder Orientation

9.00am-1.55pm Thursday 7 Nov Scripture Year 6 Transition Week 5 Monday 11 Nov Remembrance Day 2021 Selective HS

Applications close Tuesday 12 Nov P&C Meeting 2.00pm Wednesday 13 Nov Kinder Orientation

9.00am - 1.55pm

Notes coming home this week - Nil Canteen Wed. 30 Oct - Sharon Domjahn & Tiffany Rayner Wed. 6 Nov - Gillian Star & Christie Bavistock Wed 13 Nov - Penny Headrick & Dee Clonan Wed 20 Nov - Janaya Clark & Billy-Jo Clark Wed 27 Nov - Gillian Star & Wendy Clark Wed 4 Dec - Janaya Clark & Allana Shaw Wed 11 Dec - Janaya Clark

Student of the Month

Dustin McIntyre

For being resilient and challenging himself.

Principal’s Message

Resilience - Respect - Responsibility

Grandparents and Special Friends day

Last Friday was Grandparents and Special Friends day at the school and as always we had visitors come from far and wide to spend the morning with us. It was wonderful to witness the beautiful connection between the grandparents and their grandchildren - it is indeed a very special relationship. The students thoroughly enjoyed this occasion and we thank everyone who came along to celebrate this special event. Thank you also to our senior students who donned their chef’s hats and helped with the catering for the event. They spent two mornings cooking many tasty scones, delicious apple and cinnamon muffins, sweet cupcakes and mouth-watering salted caramel biscuits. Our Year 5/6 students also helped serve our visitors and set up the classroom and assisted with the mountain of washing up after the event. Grandparents & Special Friends Day was an opportunity for students to show their grandparents their creativity and learning in their classrooms. It was great to see so many happy faces having a chat and enjoying a cuppa and the delicious treats. We can’t wait to do it all again next year.

 

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Borambola Excursion

The Borambola excursion is on next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, 4-6 November. Thank you to all parents who have completed the medical and consent forms and sent in the final payment. Students need to be at school on Monday morning by 6.45am at the latest. Please make sure that you have read the information sent home carefully and pack as advised.

For information on camp life and what to pack, go to:

sportandrecreation.nsw.gov.au/schoolcampparentinfo

Any medications need to labelled and given to Mrs Liddicoat on Monday morning. Kindergarten Orientation Our kindergarten orientation sessions will continue this Wednesday morning. The sessions are as follows: 2. Wednesday 30 October - morning

session 9.00-11.40am 3. Wednesday 6 November - morning and

middle session 9.00am-1.55pm (including lunch)

4. Wednesday 13 November - morning and middle session 9.00am-1.55pm (including lunch)

5. Wednesday 20 November - all day session 9.00am-3.00pm.

Please contact Louisa Sim or Jane Brown on 02 6965 1207 if you require more information. If you know of any Kindergarten students who have not enrolled for 2020, please encourage their parents to contact our school as soon as possible. Beth Liddicoat Relieving Principal

in the classrooms?

K/1/2 News

K/1/2 got a little bigger on Wednesday. By bigger, we mean greater in numbers as we welcomed two of our three new kindergartens for 2020. They both seemed to settle in nicely and enjoyed the activities and stories we had prepared for them.

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Ted developing his fine motor skills stickering his name.

Dakota scrunching crepe paper to make blossoms.

A game of bob, bob, freeze.

Our budding young artists completed their artworks for Griffith Regional Art Gallery with the theme ‘Mothers Love’. After much discussion, we decided we would go with the theme of native animals and their babies. Here are some of our artworks.

Lizzie’s Wombats and Lucy’s Possums.

Tyler’s wombats and Montana’s foxes.

Miss Sim

3/4 News

It was lovely to see so many visitors, grandparents, friends and family members attend last week’s ‘Grandparents Day and Special Friends’ event. Thank you to those who attended, and a massive congratulations to 5/6 and Mrs Liddicoat for the organisation. As part of our writing focus this term students will be examining poetry and devices used to create poems. This week 3/4 will be investigating the purpose, audience, and context of poems. As whole class text we will begin reading the text ‘Storm Boy’ developing comprehension. This week students will be focusing on predicting. During maths 3/4 will develop their recall of their multiples of 6 and further develop applying strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems. Last week the students completed their ‘Mother Love’ artworks. Below are some of the own representations of what ‘Mother’s Love’ looks like to them. These will be on display in the Griffith Art Gallery for the next few weeks.

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Miss Gordon/Mrs Young

5/6 News

Grandparents Day Catering

I want to start by acknowledging all the Year 5/6 students’ wonderful efforts catering, setting up, serving and packing up after Grandparents Day. Your enthusiasm and hard work made sure the day ran smoothly and no visitors went hungry. You certainly did a fantastic job and showed great responsibility.

We have finished reading the text Storm-Boy and will begin writing an information report on pelicans. In maths, we are learning about quadrilaterals and diagonal lines. Our focus in PD/Health is water safety.

Technology News

Students in Years 3-6 have been busy using both the school and Stem.T4L EV3 Lego kits to build rovers, mechanical arms, gyro boy robots and cute little robotic puppies. Once we have completed constructing them we will be coding them to make them move in various ways.

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Mrs Liddicoat

PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

PBL focus for this week:

Value: Responsibility Focus: Right place, right time, right way. Action: Line up promptly.

Weekly Awards

Congratulations to our Weekly award winners: Miss Sim

Max - for always being helpful around the class.

Montana - for working independently and writing extended pieces.

Mrs Gordon

Sam - for expanding 4-digit numbers. Mrs Liddicoat

All of Year 5-6 - for a great effort helping with Grandparents & Friends Day.

PBL Awards

Canteen Voucher - Max

Book Club

Book Club orders are due back on Wednesday 30 October.

Community News Goolgowi Exies Club News

Last week the Riverina Clubs super draw went to Oaklands, it was not claimed.

This week it is an exciting $22,400. IT COULD BE YOU! The Riverina clubs super draw is held every Thursday night. Remember you must be at the club at the time of the draw between 7.00 and 9.00pm and you must be a current 2019 financial member. Dates to put in your diary:

★ 31 October - Halloween Disco ★ 2 November 2019 - Calcutta ★ 23 November 2019 - Twilight Markets

Calcutta Draw

Saturday 2 November $15/head includes BBQ, salad and potato bake. Calcutta tickers now on ale - tickets $1, minimum buy $5. Ask staff for tickets.

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Twilight Markets 23 November 2019

Come and get your Christmas shopping done. Exies Opening Hours

CLUB KITCHEN MONDAY 5PM – CLOSE - PIZZA AVAILABLE TUESDAY 5PM- CLOSE - PIZZA AVAILABLE WEDNESDAY 4PM – CLOSE 6.30-8.30 THURSDAY 4PM – CLOSE 6.00 – 9.00 FRIDAY 4PM – CLOSE 6.30 – 8.30 SATURDAY 3pm – CLOSE - PIZZA AVAILABLE SUNDAY 3PM – CLOSE 6.00 – 8.00

On Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays you can buy our Pizza Bargain.

CWA News

Welcome to the CWA for a new generation. A fabulous mix of old and new combining to create an impact within our community! On Thursday 24 October we held our AGM. 2019/2020 committee President: Mary-Ellen Armanini Secretary: Dee Clonan Treasurer: Jenny Naismith assisted by Jenny Campbell Vice President: Ethel Booth and Alice Robertson We thank them for taking on the roles and wish them luck. We had a productive meeting following the AGM. Lots of ideas were thrown around the primary focus being community. How we can bring the CWA into the community and events that could be held! We are excited. Our first event is a morning tea to be held in memory of Margaret Sutcliffe. It is Sunday 17 November 2pm at the CWA rooms. All are welcome to enjoy tea and cake and remember the huge contribution that Margaret made to the CWA and the community. We are also having a stall at the club twilight markets on 23 November. We are always looking and hoping for new members, if anyone has any questions or are interested in joining then please get in touch! Dee Clonan Secretary

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Landline no longer in use so please contact B & C Robertson Engineering via Barrie’s

mobile number.

Thank you to all our community businesses who support our school newsletter. We really appreciate your support. If you have any community announcements or wish to advertise through our school/community newsletter please contact Jane by phone or email by Monday afternoon. Our newsletter is published on Tuesday.

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Riverina Children’s Activity Van Preschool