Katoomba North Public School Community News

Life Skills Barton Street, Katoomba 2780 Website: www .katoomban-p.schools.nsw .edu.au Office Hours: 8.30am – 3.00pm Email: katoomban.school@det.nsw .edu.au Principal: Cathy Clark Phone: 4782 2743 Fax: 4782 3871 Facebook: KatoombaNorthPS

19th November 2019, Term 4 Week 6

November 20th Assembly 22nd Soccer Gala Day 26th Debating Gala Day 28th Year 6 Gala Day December 3rd Year 6 KHS Orientation Day 4th Last Scripture Day Parent Helpers Morning Tea

Assembly 5th Broadway Ensemble Performing at the Carrington 6th Reports sent home 10th Talent Quest 12th Year 6 Fun Day 13th Presentation Day 17th Year 6 Farewell 18th Year 6 Graduation Students’ Last Day 19th Staff Development Day 20th Staff Development Day

Dear Parents, Carers and Community, Exciting news: Meet our New P and C Committee for 2019-2020 The P and C held its annual general meeting last week and we have a new committee to see us into mid next year. President – Kazzia Kelly Treasurer – Sylvia Szabo

Vice President – Helen Flint Canteen Coordinator – Briana (Bre) Moyle

Secretary – Roslyn Goddard Uniform Coordinator – Caroline Gilligan-Payne I would personally like to acknowledge the previous P and C committee and the support they have given both to myself and the school. I know some of the outgoing members of the committee will be there to assist and support the various events our P and C committee plan. I visited stage 2 (years 3 and 4) last Friday as they worked on their technology presentations. The topic was Australia and Japan with students needing to present information about both countries using powerpoint and its many features. The work I saw was fantastic with many special effects being utilised. My year 2 reading group are completing research and a project based on seahorses which has stemmed from a book we read. They have used Ipads to find out more information about the seahorse and are now presenting their work for display. Did you know there are 45 species of seahorses? Years 5 and 6 spent some time with Mr Chris Tobin an Aboriginal community member. Chris first came to our school in NAIDOC week and we hope he can continue to work with stage 3 next year especially with writing and science. When I visited some 5/6 students using the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) kits I was amazed at the devices they were creating. There was activity in all parts of the room. The STEM kit has certainly been a worthwhile “borrow” to have this term. Year 1 are gardeners “extraordinaire”. They are growing plants in the wet area of the infants block and are checking on them every day. We have kindly been given seeds for Woolworths and I know Ms Cliff is keen to use these seeds in 2020. I have watched our Friday morning cycling group. Students now are safer on bikes and are looking forward to using the bikes in a larger area than under the COLA. My thanks this newsletter include: The outgoing P and C committee for their work supporting the school during 2018-2019. The unidentified student who was polite to a visitor from Public Works. The visitor who goes to many schools in NSW was astounded at how polite one student was. In fact he commented that he had never heard students who were so polite as he moved around KNPS in any other school. Students in Kindy who have looked after a new Kinder Bees student who was very upset. Special thanks to Jackson and Toby. Amanda for volunteering to assist with swim school this week. Mrs Cullen for phoning half of our parents last week to notify them the school was closed on Tuesday. (She saved me hours).

Principal’s Log - Monday 18th November – 20.00 hours

The volunteers from the Wildlife Rescue Plant and BMCC for donating and then overseeing students plant 97 natives in our school grounds. Ms Abela for organising an excursion to the Power House Museum for our 3 students to receive their awards in the Reconciliation Art Competition. Cathy Clark Principal of the best school in the Mountains. .

Students start rehearsing your amazing talents now..... Our Semester Two Talent Quest will be on Tuesday 10th December at 11:45am. Audition slips will be available in the next couple of weeks!

Tree Planting at KNPS

Well done to all the students who recently planted the native plants at school. The plants were kindly donated by Wild Plant Rescue. Thank you to the wonderful volunteers who gave up their time to assist us in the preparation and planting. A great day outdoors caring for our environment. Well done!

Ms Abela

Swim School

Planetarium

School Reconciliation Challenge

Congratulations Poppy Newman, James Cayzer and Yanna Anderson-Hughes for

creating ‘Heart Sun’ for this year’s Schools Reconciliation Challenge. ‘Heart Sun’ was

chosen and awarded for this year’s exhibition at the Power House Museum. This artwork will travel on exhibition all around

regional NSW in 2020. It will be exhibited at many of the National Trusts Historic Houses. This is an incredible achievement by these

three young artists. You have made our school very proud. Ms Abela

Christmas is on the way and we are busily preparing for a community concert and carol singing at the Carrington Hotel on Thursday 5th December at 6 pm. We hope you’ll come along in your full school uniform and sing some carols. The three carols will be: The First Noel, Silent Night and O Christmas Tree. So brush up on the lyrics. We will be performing with some other schools and choirs led by Damien Beaumont from ABC Radio. We also have some of our musicians and singers performing, so we hope that you’ll be there to support them also. Would anyone like a Piano, for free? If you can take it away, it’s yours. Please see Ms Catriona.

BREAKFAST PROGRAM

Volunteers run this wonderful program Monday to Friday between 8.40 – 9.00 a.m. with the appreciated ongoing support from Bendigo Bank Katoomba, Rotary Club of Katoomba, Earth Recovery, Blue Mountains Food Co-op, Coles parents and students. Donations of jam, vegemite, honey, marmalade, long-life milk, fruit and milo are always welcome. Contact Caroline (mobile: 0426 399 355) if you are interested in helping to run our breakfast program or drop off donations to the school office or the community room.

SCHOOL UNIFORM NEWS Please see Caroline Monday-Thursday down in the hall at uniform shop 3.00pm – 3.15pm and Fridays 2.45- 3.15pm. Caroline can also be contacted on 0426 399 335 for more information.

Music News

P & C News

PLAY AND CHAT PLAYGROUP Is on for 0-5 year olds and their parents/carers, Monday and Tuesday mornings, 9.15 – 12.15 during the school term. Sandpit, cooking, music, outdoor play, painting and more. All welcome! Craft Club Friday mornings 9.30 – 12.30 in the hub. Bring your own craft activity and enjoy a cuppa and some company. Pre-schoolers are welcome but you are responsible for their supervision.

TERM 4 CALENDAR

2019 Term 4

1

October 14

15

KHS Dance

16 17 18

2

21

22

Kindy 2020 Prep

23

Assembly

24 Disco

25 Summer Games

3

28

29 Planetarium

Kindy 2020 Prep

30 31 November 1 Astronomy

Night

4

November 4 5 Kindy 2020 Prep

6 Kindy Excursion to Joan Sutherland

Assembly

7 School Photos

8 Teddy Bears Picnic

5

11 Swim School Begins

12 Kindy 2020 Prep Stage 1 Op Art

13 Stage 2 Op. Art

14 Stage 3 Op. Art

15

6

18 Swim School Continues

19 Kindy 2020 Prep

20

Assembly

21 22 Soccer Gala Day

7

25 26 Debating Gala

Day

27 28 Year 6 Gala Day

29

8

December 2 3 Yr 6 KHS

Orientation Day

4

Assembly

5 Broadway Ensemble Performing at the Carrington

6 Report Sent

Home

9

9 10 Talent Quest

11 12

13 Presentation

Day

10

16 17 Year 6 Farewell

18 Year 6

Graduation

Students Last Day

19 Staff

Development Day

20 Staff

Development Day

SCHOOL BANKING School Banking is on Fridays this term. Please bring your bank book to the office before the bell goes in the morning.

Community News

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTION

The school contribution is a small yearly contribution that is used towards the cost of classroom resources, arts and crafts, materials, books and sporting equipment. If you can pay your contribution, could you please do so through the school office? Fees are as follows:

$42.00 per year for 1 child $75.00 per year for 2 children or $90.00 per year for 3 children or more.

The Blue Mountains Music Festival (18 weeks to go) The Blue Mountains Music Festival P&C organisational committee met this week in order to prepare for the 25th Anniversary of the festival. Planned for the 13, 14 and 15th March 2020, the festival is already boasting some big name acts, such as Kasey Chambers and John Butler among many others over eight stages. Go to bmff.org.au to see a full line up — it’s going to be a great one. The committee is made up of volunteer Mums and Dads from Katoomba Public School, Katoomba North Public and Katoomba High School. We look after all the volunteers, four bars, merch tent and clean up crew. Marina Brown (parent of Archie Taylor Brown in year 5) has been co-ordinating the Clean Up Crew for the last 6 years, and will be seeking more help in this role for 2020, her final year as a Katoomba North parent. It would be great to have another KNPS parent to hand the role over to. In my humble position as PR (parent relations) person, I’ll be contributing to the school newsletters and keeping you up to date with all that is planned for this exciting event. Currently, we are looking for a few more parents to join the committee. So if you love music, love our town and want to help out, check out the positions or just get in touch. We’re looking for two bar managers to run one of the bars and anyone interested in running kids activities during the weekend. Applications to volunteer over the festival weekend will open early January 2020 via the festival website. And ‘like’ the festival Facebook page to keep up to date when new performers are announced. Contact Matt on leachworth@gmail.com to find out more or ask any questions.