Tweed Heads South Public School ● Vibrant ● Caring ● Successful NEWSLETTER ● Heffron Street, Tweed Heads South NSW 2486 ● T: 07 5524 3408 F: 07 5524 3466 ● E: [email protected]● W: www.tweedhdest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Term 3 Week 9 2016 DATES FOR YOUR DIARY • Tuesday, 13 September Surf Awareness Talk P-2 • Wednesday, 14 September Surf Awareness Talk 3-6 Surf Rescue Day - Dress in red or yellow (gold coin donation to Surf Life Saving Australia) • Friday, 16 September Stage 2 - AFL Gala Day Kindergarten Transition 2017 - 12pm to 1:15pm Literacy and craft activities • Tuesday, 20 September Cinderella’s Ball and Cinema Under the Stars • Friday, 23 September Excellence Assembly Last day of Term 3 NOTES AND PAYMENTS DUE Kindergarten enrolments 2017 Preschool enrolments 2017 • Tuesday, 13 Septmeber Cinderella’s Ball and Cinema Under the Stars ($12) Boy, can she Talk Last Wednesday, 7 September our representatives from each stage travelled to Murwillumbah Public School for the Tweed District Public Speaking competition. Tj represented Stage 1 with her speech about ‘Myself’. She did a wonderful job and made us very proud. Lachlan spoke for Stage 2 with his ‘A-Maze- In’ speech and made it through to the finals, which is a very big achievement. And Kirra-Lea? Well, Kirra-Lea exemplified our school motto ‘Vibrant Caring Successful’ by winning the competition with her fabulous speech ‘For the longest time’. Congratulations to all three of you. You all worked very hard to be outstanding public speakers. Professional AFL Guidance Students in 3-4R have been enjoying the studies, discussions and computer research that they have participated in during their HSIE unit – ‘Olympics’. Students have learnt new PowerPoint skills and techniques like transition and word effects, as well as creating their own backgrounds! They did an excellent job in presenting and sharing their knowledge of the different types of sports played in the Olympics. Students have also been participating in an AFL coaching clinic under the professional guidance of John Caldow. Their skills have improved immensely and Mr Caldow is very pleased with their progress and looking forward to seeing our two teams playing on Friday, 16 September at the Dave Burns Fields, Tweed South. Permission notes are now overdure.
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY • Tuesday, 13 September Surf Awareness Talk P-2• Wednesday, 14 September Surf Awareness Talk 3-6 Surf Rescue Day - Dress in red or yellow (gold coin donation to Surf Life Saving Australia)• Friday, 16 September Stage 2 - AFL Gala Day Kindergarten Transition 2017 - 12pm to 1:15pm Literacy and craft activities • Tuesday, 20 September Cinderella’s Ball and Cinema Under the Stars• Friday, 23 September Excellence Assembly Last day of Term 3
NOTES AND PAYMENTS DUE Kindergarten enrolments 2017 Preschool enrolments 2017• Tuesday, 13 Septmeber Cinderella’s Ball and Cinema Under the Stars ($12)
Boy, can she TalkLast Wednesday, 7 September our representatives from each stage travelled to Murwillumbah Public School for the Tweed District Public Speaking competition. Tj represented Stage 1 with her speech about ‘Myself’. She did a wonderful job and made us very proud. Lachlan spoke for Stage 2 with his ‘A-Maze-In’ speech and made it through to the finals, which is a very big achievement. And Kirra-Lea? Well, Kirra-Lea exemplified our school motto ‘Vibrant Caring Successful’ by winning the competition with her fabulous speech ‘For the longest time’. Congratulations to all three of you. You all worked very hard to be outstanding public speakers.
Professional AFL GuidanceStudents in 3-4R have been enjoying the studies, discussions and computer research that they have participated in during their HSIE unit – ‘Olympics’. Students have learnt new PowerPoint skills and techniques like transition and word effects, as well as creating their own backgrounds! They did an excellent job in presenting and sharing their knowledge of the different types of sports played in the Olympics.
Students have also been participating in an AFL coaching clinic under the professional guidance of John Caldow. Their skills have improved immensely and Mr Caldow is very pleased with their progress and looking forward to seeing our two teams playing on Friday, 16 September at the Dave Burns Fields, Tweed South. Permission notes are now overdure.
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We have noticed lots of ladybirds visiting our sunflowers too. Kobe said “That’s good because they will eat the aphids off the leaves and keep the sunflowers healthy.” Taleah noticed that all the ladybirds visiting our sunflowers were yellow like the sunflowers were going to be. Keeleigh hypothesised if this was because they could camouflage with the sunflowers. We are currently researching whether only yellow ladybirds visit sunflowers. The children have been enthusiastically checking the sunflowers each morning and break time and reporting on their progress in class. Why don’t you take a look at our sunflowers in the school garden beds next time you are walking past!
Surf Rescue DayOn Tuesday, 13 and Wednesday 14, September the students will be learning about water safety and beach awareness. On Wednesday, 14 September the students are asked to come to school dressed in their best red and yellow colours with a gold coin donation for Surf Life Saving Australia. The canteen will also have healthy red and yellow food for sale.
Multi Sport Day for Students withDisabilities The NSW Department of Education is offering a sports day for students with disabilities. If you are interested please see the flyer on the notice board outside the front office.
K-1W Sunflower Update – We Have BudsLast term K-1W investigated the science unit “Growing Well”. This term we are putting into practise everything we learnt last term to grow and care for sunflowers from a seed. Our sunflowers have nearly reached the ‘flower’ stage of their development. This week the children were very excited to find that we had buds! We will be looking closely at these buds over the next few days as they grow bigger and gradually unfold to reveal a beautiful yellow sunflower.
Mrs Campbell donated a bunch of sunflowers that she found at the shop so we could see what the flowers would look like when they bloom. We completed observational drawings of the sunflowers and then used these drawings to create a scientific diagram that included the parts of a sunflower and what they need to grow. We have been recording the growth of our sunflowers with photos and are eagerly waiting for the ‘flower’ stage so we can put together a sequence of photos of the life cycle of our sunflowers.
The NSW Department of Education is offering a sports day for
students with disabilities. On the day students will be given the opportunity to
participate in a range of Individual and Team sports. Information will be available on the day, for students
wanting to continue in their new sport. On the Day school staff will receive
professional development on
Multi Sport Day for Students with Disabilities
Note: Places are limited. Complete the attached entry form and return to Rebecca Hanrahan, School Sport Unit by fax on: 97076999 or email [email protected]
When: Monday 19th September 2016 Time: 9.30am Registration Sports Finish at 1.30pm Venue: Lake Ainsworth Sport and Recreation Centre Pacific Parade Lennox Head Cost: $6 per Student Closing Date: Wednesday 14th September 2016
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PBL AWARDS Term 3 Week 8Shining Star Award Angelina 1-2SReaching for the Stars Riley 1-2CCitizenship Mia 5-6MPerforming Arts Ronin 3-4N
KEY LEARNING AREA AWARDSPD/H/PE N/AEnglish Jarrah 1-2SMathematics Shane 5-6HScience & Technology Elliot 5-6MH.S.I.E Zaden K-1CCreative Arts Rani 5F
TOPAZ AWARDSRonin, Zaden, Chelsea, Cohan, Kiara, Rihanna, Riley, Jyungarah, Nicholas
SAPPHIRE AWARDSRani YOU CAN DO IT AWARDS Yuvraj, Autumn, Ariella, Ryan, Aurelie, Lachlan, Jessica, Amber, Susanna
Rides! Rides! Rides!Family Fun Day Ride Pass just $20.We have some great rides lined up for you at this year’s Tweed Heads South Public School Family Fun Day on Saturday, 29 October. For a great day of fun, you can purchase an ALL YOU CAN RIDE PASS! for $20. The pass must be purchased now to take advantage of this price. On the day of the family fun day, Ride Passes will be sold for $25 and single tickets for $5. Ride Passes will be for sale near the canteen between 8:30am-9:15am and 2:30pm-3:15pm on the following days: • September, 14-16 • September, 21-23• October, 12-14 1st child early bird $202nd child early bird $203rd child early bird $154th child early bird $15
Show Bags! Show Bags! Pre-ordered show bags $6.5-6M has some great show bags for the Family Fun Day. A note will go home for students and family members to pre-order their showbag. Pre-ordered showbags will cost $6. There will be a limited number of show bags at the Family Fun Day at a cost of $6.50. A display of showbags will be on display in the staffroom window later this week. Pre-orders and payments need to be paid by Friday, 23 September.
Sapphire AwardCongratulations to Rani on achieving her Sapphire Award. Rani is the third student to be awarded the Sapphire Award this year. To recieve a Sapphire Award you need to be awarded sixteen Pearl Awards.
SchoolstreamSchoolstream is a free app for smartphones to receive alerts and access all notes, newsletters, notices, reminders and events from school. Go to your App Store (iPhone/iPad) or Google Play (Android) and follow the prompts to download.
Eftpos is now here! Our school now has Eftpos. Payment for school contributions, excursions and other school activities can now be made in person via, Cash, Cheque, Eftpos or online at our school website www.tweedhdest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
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NEWSLETTER Things you can do to help your child: Think about how much time you will need to get a job done and plan enough time to get it done. Have set routines to help get things done on time. Have everything ready before you begin and put things back where they can be found after you finish. Discuss persistence and talk about giving effort and trying hard because the harder you try and the more effort you give the more successful you are likely to be. Talk to your child about being independent and how important it is to try new activities and to speak up even if your classmates think it’s silly or stupid. Do not think badly about yourself for making a mistake.
School Term DatesTerm 3 ends Friday, 23 September. Term 4 resumes Monday, 10 October.
Community Notices
You Can Do It!In the last 5 weeks we have talked about ways of thinking that help students to be successful and happy at school. We have looked at persistence, resilience, getting along, organisation and confidence. We are now looking at the 5 ways of thinking that stop students being happy and successful. They are (feeling very down, worry, procrastination, not paying attention and anger) This week we look at procrastination. This means that, even though you see the disadvantages of delaying, you put off doing tasks and chores because they are frustrating, boring or hard. You give up easily after having started something that is difficult or boring to do and you may rush to finish your work so that you can do fun things.Negative ways of thinking that lead to procrastination include:• I can’t be bothered - thinking that life should
always be fun and exciting and that I can’t stand it when things are frustrating, boring or uncomfortable.
• Having no goals - thinking that it’s pointless to have any goals in life.• Planning time poorly-thinking that it’s pointless to plan my time, thinking that things will some how get done. When approaching a chore or task you think, when is the latest I can start? • Needing to be perfect - thinking that I have to be successful in everything important I do and that it’s horrible when I’m not.• Needing approval - thinking that I need people to approve of what I do and that when they don’t, it’s the worst thing in the world.
Yvette’s Home Based ChildcareIn home Childcare for children aged 0 months to 5 years. Registered educator with Multitask FDC. Phone: 0487186070
