Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

Newsletter Term 4, Week 3 - 26 October 2016

77 Barton Avenue, Wallerawang NSW 2845 PO Box 21, Wallerawang NSW 2845 Phone: 6355 1210 Fax: 6355 7003 Website: www.wallerawan-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: wallerawan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Member of the Western Gateway Education Community “Excellence, Innovation, Opportunity and Success”

Principal: Janine Macky Assistant Principal Early Stage 1/Stage 1: Mrs Jenny Lamborn

Assistant Principal Stage 2: Mrs Katrina Foster Assistant Principal Stage 3: Mrs Katrena Fraser

Notes Home This Week

School Activities Update

Sports Day - Friday

Library Days

Monday: 5/6C, K/1B, KD, KR

Tuesday: 5/6F, 3/4G, 5/6G, 1/2C, 1/2W

Wednesday: 3/4F, 3/4M, 1/2K

Instrumental - Monday

Editorial Group - Tuesday

Choir - Infants - Wednesday

Choir - Primary - Wednesday

Dance Group - Tuesday

Reading Club - Tuesday

Chess Club - Wednesday

Recorder Group - Thursday

Important Dates

Please include these dates on your calendar

OCTOBER 2016

Fri 28 P&C Fete 2016

Mon 31 Early Bird 10:00am Wk 2

NOVEMBER 2016

Wed 2 Stg 3 Broken Bay Excursion

Thurs 3 LHS Yr 7 2017 Parent

Information Evening

6-7pm at LHS Library

Stg 3 Broken Bay Excursion

Fri 4 Assembly 9:10am

Stg 3 Broken Bay Excursion

Mon 7 Early Bird 10:00am Wk 3

Swimsafe Program

Tues 8 Swimsafe Program

Wed 9 Swimsafe Program

Thurs 10 Swimsafe Program

Fri 11 Swimsafe Program

Mon 14 Early Bird 10:00am Wk 4

Wed 16 Captain’s & Prefect’s

2017 Speeches 9:15am

Fri 18 Assembly - Announce

2017 Leaders 9:10am

Mon 21 Early Bird 9:30am Wk 5

LHS Yr 7 2017 Orientation Day Medications for Broken Bay Captains and Prefects - Nomination for Election for 2017

DECEMBER 2016

Tues 6 Yr 6 Transition Day at

LHS

Thurs 8 Presentation Day 9:15am

Mon 12 Year 6 Dinner

Fri 16 Last day of 2016

Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

Principal’s Report Dear Parents and Caregivers, Staff I would like to open this newsletter by acknowledging the wonderful group of people who work here. From teachers, office staff, SLSO’s (School Learning Support Officer’s) to cleaning staff. On a daily basis, I see all staff engaging, teaching and helping all of our students. It’s a wonderful school community.

This week, staff were engaged in professional learning in matching NAPLAN questions with the Lit-eracy Continuum. This planning is in preparation for next year and as part of the Bump It Up strategy we are involved in. This was discussed in previous newsletters. Professional learning contributes to improving students Literacy and Numeracy outcomes. POP (Parent Online Payments) The new system of payments to the school was introduced last term. We have a steady flow of the community using this system. If you would like to know how to use this system, instructions can be found on page 6 in this newsletter. An instruction leaflet can also be picked up from the front office. It is a fantastic way to make payments and is used by many schools. Planning for 2017 We are in the preliminary stages of planning student classes and staffing for 2017. If you will not be returning to Wallerawang Public School next year, could you please contact the school by phone - 6355 1210 by email - wallerawan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au or just a quick note to your child’s teacher. Accurate numbers for 2017 help us to plan future classes and resources. P&C Fete 2016 This Friday, 28th October, our annual school Fete will commence at 10am (Students to arrive at school as normal to begin their day at 9:10am). On the day students can wear Mufti, please no thongs or singlets. I look forward to sharing a very enjoyable day with the school community. Let’s hope the weather is kind to us! School Poetry and Short Story Competition - Write 4 Fun Last week we recognised and congratulated Alexandra Fitzgerald for her success with her short sto-ry. I am pleased to also acknowledge and congratulate Katelyn Micallef, Toby Zorz and Andrea Fitz-gerald who have also made it through the first set of judging and will have their stories published.

The Short Story Competition is from the program ‘Write 4 Fun.net’. The theme was ‘The Spooky Halloween Graveyard’. The publication is called ‘Word Zone’ and will be printed in March 2017. It gives me great pleasure to share this news and we look forward to reading their stories when pub-lished. Yours in education Janine Macky Principal

Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

School News

Competitions We have had more results and certificates back from the following competitions and these were awarded at last Friday’s Assembly. UNSW Mathematics Credits: Brody Hart, Blake Rose, Kade Anderson and Daniel Rose Participation: Kyle Eccleston, Shane Ivin-Brown, Ella Zorz, Lily Forrest, Dayne Houlison, Hayden Carter, Harrison De’Rooy and Noah Jewell UNSW English Distinctions: Daniel Rose Credit: Lillian Davidson and Harrison De’Rooy Participation: Taylor Zorz, Millie Francis, Lily Forrest, Blake Rose, Hannah Lambert, Sophie Clark, Olivia Lambert, Wade Fraser and Kade Anderson Congratulations to all who participated. We should have results to the remaining math-ematics competition soon. Ms Katrina Foster Competitions Coordinator

Broken Bay A reminder in regard to excursion payments: The total amount for the Broken Bay excursion for students is $300. Final payments are due this Friday 28th October (Fete Day!)

Medication Notes are due tomorrow, Thursday 27 October - with medications

Year 7 Entry into Selective High Schools 2018

Applications are now open for students who would like to apply for a selective high school in 2018 (going into Year 7). The schools cater for highly achieving academically gifted students who may otherwise be without sufficient classmates at their own academic and social level. Parents may wish to look at the information and application criteria on the website before applying. Mrs Fraser is also available to speak to parents about the suitability of selective high schools for your child. Website information and application: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/shplacement

Mrs Katrena Fraser

LHS - Year 7 2017 Parent Information Evening On Thursday 3rd November Lithgow High School will be holding a meeting for parents of stu-dents transitioning into Lithgow High School in 2017. The meeting will be held from 6-7pm at the Lithgow High School Library. The evenings topics will include:

The differences between primary and high school for parents and students Meet the Year 7 Adviser BYOD - Bring Your Own Device - 2017 Uniform information and display LHS Uniform Shop Open for purchases from 5:30 - 6:00pm

For further details please contact Sam Luchetti, Community Liason Officer at LHS on 6352 1422

Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

Community Notice

Mayors Appeal 2016 - Request for donations of

Christmas Gifts

Donations of wrapped gifts will be distributed to the residents of our local nursing homes. Please tag, indicating gift for a male or female. Donations may be dropped off at Lithgow Council Admin-istration building or any one of Council’s Libraries before Friday 11th November. Thank you

WPS P&C Uniform Shop There will be a variation to the day the Uni-form Shop will be open next week. The time will remain the same: 2:00pm to 3:00pm We will be opening on: Week 4 - Thursday 3rd November From Week 5 our normal day of Monday will resume from 2:00pm to 3:00pm.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Thursday October 27th CANTEEN CLOSED

Friday October 28th FETE DAY!!

Monday October 31st Kimberly Graham Vera Foong

Tuesday November 1st CANTEEN CLOSED

Wednesday November 2nd Carol Chew Cheryl Mason

WANTED Horse Shoes We would appreciate any donations of horse shoes for our woodwork creations. Please send them into Mr Way or Mrs Bennett Tea Cups and Coffee Mugs Do you have too many cups and mugs at your place? Please consider donating them to us for a craft ac-tivity. Please leave at the front office or send into classroom teacher. Mrs Leanne Walsh

Glass Jars We are seeking do-nations of glass jars for the school fete. Any size jars includ-ing baby food, jam or coffee jars would be really appreciat-ed. These can be left at the front office for col-lection. Mrs Amanda Brown

SCHOLASTIC

BOOK CLUB

Order forms

have gone home

Orders and

payments due

tomorrow

Thursday 27th October

Stewart House

Clothing Appeal 2016

Clothing bags have been

sent home today with

students. Please fill with

any good quality used

clothing or manchester. Bags need to be re-

turned to school no later than

Tuesday 8th November.

Thank you for supp0rting Stewart House

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Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

Did you know that you can

make payments to your

child’s school online?

POP (Parent Online Payment)

We have launched a new online pay-

ment portal linked to our school’s web-

site to make it easier for you to pay for

school related payments. This is a se-

cure payment page hosted by Westpac.

What expenses can be paid online?

Voluntary School Contributions

Subject Contributions

Excursions

Sport

Creative and Practical Arts

Sales to Students

Other

Please note: POP can only be used

for school payments, not P&C payments

i.e. uniforms, meal deals, fete wristbands

or other P&C initiatives

How?

Log onto School site at: http://

www.wallerawan-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

home Click on $ Make a payment and

follow the prompts to make a payment

via Visa, MasterCard or Debit card.

Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

P&C Fete 28 October 2016 - Stall Helpers

I, ___________________, am available to help out at the school fete on Friday

28th October.

My contact number is ____________________.

Please indicate time/times available:

Setup from 9:30am

10am – 11am

11am – 12pm

12pm – 1pm

1pm – 2pm

Pack up from 2pm

Wallerawang School Fete - Friday 28th October 2016

This year we will be running a “Cake Stall Competition” with 3 cat-

egories – “Best Decorated Cupcakes”, “Prettiest Cake” and “Most Creative Cookies”. A prize will be allocated in each category! The

items will then be sold on our Cake Stall. Ingredients MUST BE

listed on each item. These items are to be delivered to the school

hall on the morning of the fete, fill in an entry form and you may

win a prize!

2016 Cake Stall Competition 2016 Cake Stall Competition

Entry Form Entry Form

Name: ________________________ Name: ________________________

Class: _________________ Class: _________________

Category: _______________________ Category: _______________________

The chocolate toss is always popular, we are asking for dona-

tions of blocks of chocolate to be used as prizes. These can be

handed in to classroom teachers.

Don’t forget to pre-order your Ride Wristband to receive the discounted price of $30. The order form is on the back page of this newsletter.

Wallerawang Public School “Loyalty, Truth, Obedience”

Wallerawang Public School

2016 Fete Ride Wristband Pass

The 2016 School Fete is being held on Friday 28th October, 10am-2pm. Students are required

to attend school as normal from 9:10am to 3:00pm. If you wish to take your child before 3:00pm

you must notify their teacher and sign them out.

Rides this year will be a Giant Inflatable Slide, The Big Squeeze Challenge and Turbo

Tubs. All rides are suitable for ages from 4yrs. The ride wristband pass is available for purchase

prior to the day for $30. If purchased on the day the cost will be $35. This allows unlimited turns

on all 3 rides for the duration of the fete.

Individual ride tickets will be available at the fete for $7 per ride.

If you wish to pre purchase a wristband please complete the attached form and return with pay-

ment to your child’s class teacher. The wristband will be issued to the child on the morning of the

fete. Wristbands may be purchased for non school children and will need to be collected at the

ticket stand on the day of the fete, please complete details on the form.

P&C Fete Committee

_______________________________________________________________________________

2016 Wallerawang School Fete Ride Wristband Pass

Number of wristbands: _________@$30ea Total : $________ (enclosed)

Names of children for each wristband: ______________________________________ Class: ________

______________________________________ Class: ________

______________________________________ Class: ________

_______________________________________Class: ________

Names of non-school children for each wristband purchased: _________________________________

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