Westlawn Public School Newsletter Term 1 Week 8 20 th March 2018 Strive to Achieve North Street, Grafton. 2460 6642 7466 [email protected]We are inviting all of our grandparents to visit our school this Wednesday. At 10:30 grandparents are welcome to visit their grandchildren in their classrooms. As it is World Poetry Day we are asking grandparents to bring along a short poem they might enjoy sharing with their grandchild or their grandchild’s class. At 10:55 grandparents are asked to bring a picnic lunch to share with their grandchildren in the playground. Tea, coffee, sandwiches and cake can be purchased near the Canteen on the day. If you are able to help sell tea, coffee etc on the day please leave your name at the school office. Attendance Just a reminder that if we have a change of routine such as Grandparents Day, Easter Hat Parade etc students need to remain at school to continue with their normal school day after the special event or activity. This also applies to Friday Infants Assembly. The Westlawn PS P&C AGM was held last Wednesday evening and once again we had good attendance. P&C Life Members Heather Ford and Ann Sinclair joined us for the evening. All of the reports delivered at the meeting indicated another very successful year at Westlawn in terms of teaching and learning, provision of resources through school and P&C sources, strong parental involvement in the school and volunteer support right across the school. I particularly thanked our P&C Executive: Caryn Dunston (President), Shayna Delaforce (Secretary), Sheree Gray (Treasurer), Michelle Oxenbridge and Deanna Fernance (Vice Presidents) and our Canteen Manager, Michelle Ford and Deputy Manager, Belinda Oxenbridge for their effort, dedication and support in 2017. It was greatly appreciated. I also extended my appreciation to everyone in our school community who has helped in so many ways. Once again, a great team effort! The new 2018 P&C Committee was also elected. Congratulations to Caryn Dunston and Michelle Oxenbridge who were re-elected as President and Vice President. Shayna Delaforce was re-elected as Secretary and Sheree Gray was re-elected as Treasurer. The new face on the Committee is Belinda Oxenbridge as our second Vice President. We also have a new Caretaker Canteen Manager, Amy Freeman who will officially be voted into the position at the next meeting. We look forward to another positive and productive year with this team of dedicated people supporting our school. School Photos School photos are being taken on Wednesday 28 th March. The envelopes have been sent home. They are individually pre-labelled with your child’s name. We ask that all children look their best in full uniform. This includes black shoes with white socks for girls and grey socks for boys. Any hair ribbons or hair ties need to be in school colours of green and yellow please. Message from the Principal
If you are able to help sell tea, coffee etc on the day please leave your name at the school office. Attendance Just a reminder that if we have a change of routine such as Grandparents Day, Easter Hat Parade etc students need to remain at school to continue with their normal school day after the special event or activity. This also applies to Friday Infants Assembly.
The Westlawn PS P&C AGM was held last Wednesday
evening and once again we had good attendance. P&C
Life Members Heather Ford and Ann Sinclair joined us
for the evening. All of the reports delivered at the
meeting indicated another very successful year at
Westlawn in terms of teaching and learning, provision
of resources through school and P&C sources, strong
parental involvement in the school and volunteer
support right across the school. I particularly thanked
Presidents) and our Canteen Manager, Michelle Ford
and Deputy Manager, Belinda Oxenbridge for their
effort, dedication and support in 2017. It was greatly
appreciated. I also extended my appreciation to
everyone in our school community who has helped in
so many ways. Once again, a great team effort!
The new 2018 P&C Committee was also elected.
Congratulations to Caryn Dunston and Michelle
Oxenbridge who were re-elected as President and Vice
President. Shayna Delaforce was re-elected as
Secretary and Sheree Gray was re-elected as Treasurer.
The new face on the Committee is Belinda Oxenbridge
as our second Vice President. We also have a new
Caretaker Canteen Manager, Amy Freeman who will
officially be voted into the position at the next
meeting. We look forward to another positive and
productive year with this team of dedicated people
supporting our school.
School Photos School photos are being taken on Wednesday 28th March. The envelopes have been sent home. They are individually pre-labelled with your child’s name. We ask that all children look their best in full uniform. This includes black shoes with white socks for girls and grey socks for boys. Any hair ribbons or hair ties need to be in school colours of green and yellow please.
Reminders Coles Sports Vouchers Thank you for all the support so far with collecting the Coles Sports for Schools fit vouchers. The more vouchers you collect, the more sports equipment we'll receive. You can drop the vouchers into the school office or into the boxes at Coles in Shoppingworld, Coles in the Mall or Coles at South Grafton. Easter Raffle Last week tickets were sent home with students for the P&C Easter Raffle. The P&C is asking for donations of Easter eggs or chocolates for raffle prizes. The eggs do not have to be expensive, just whatever parents can afford. The eggs get bundled up into prize packs. Last year we were able to give out over 30 prize packs plus we gave a prize to the student who sold the most tickets. Any tickets sold or unsold must be returned to school by Tuesday 27th March as an audit requirement. If you are unable to sell the tickets please return them immediately so we can re-issue them to someone else. Please send any Easter egg or chocolate donations to the school office. The raffle will be drawn after the Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 29th March. Movie Night The Grafton District Services Club (GDSC), in Mary St will be holding an open-air movie night on Saturday 24th March 2018, featuring the family movie ‘Sing’ (PG). It will be held on the bowling green so families are welcome to take their chairs and picnic blankets for a fun filled evening. The movie will begin at 8:00pm. There will be popcorn and other treats for sale and entry is by a gold coin donation. The proceeds raised from the evening will be donated to Westlawn Public School to purchase resources for our students. Thank you to the GDSC for their support. Have a great week,
Trish Ellis
Relieving Principal
Clarence and Mid North Coast Rugby League Trials
The following boys and girls played in the Clarence
Rugby League Trials at South Rugby Park on Friday 9
March:
Mason Madden, Reece Winters, Jay Higgins, Sonny
Kilduff, Marliiya Laurie, Cooper Cochrane, Xavier
Elward, Jimmy Ford, Shayne Johnson, Zane
Maddock, Jimmy Strevens, Koopah Walters, Jak
McPhee- Young, Ethan Burley, Bradley Clark, Axel
Hargans, Charlie Nilon, Bailey Sciberras, Beau
Hartmann and Benji Pereira.
From the Clarence trials Cooper Cochrane, Jimmy
Ford, Zane Maddock and Charlie Nilon were chosen
to play in the Clarence Open side and Beau
Hartmann, Koopah Walters, Mason Madden, Bailey
Sciberras and Sonny Kilduff were chosen to play in
the Clarence U’11 side. These teams played at the
MNC trials last Friday in Coffs Harbour.
Congratulations must go to Beau Hartmann, Bailey
Scibberas, Sonny Kilduff (Under 11’s side) and Jimmy
Ford and Cooper Cochrane (Opens) who gained
selection into the MNC teams and will now play for
their MNC side at the North Coast Trials at Yamba on
Monday 7 May.
Primary Sport for Term 1
We have been advised that the Grafton TenPin
Centre will be closed for this Friday 23 March to
repair and replace a number of lanes. Students who
attend tenpin for sport will not need to bring money
this week. Instead, they will stay at school and play
an organised sport during their Friday morning sport
Costs and equipment needed each week: Hockey - Cost $6 (inc. bus fare). All equipment is provided, however, participants must have their own mouth guard, hat and water. Tennis - Cost $7 (inc. bus fare). All equipment is provided. Please take a hat and water.
Ten Pin Bowling - Cost $6. Bottle of water is optional.
Basketball – Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. KidsFit - Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. Indoor Soccer - Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. It is important that all students remember their
Sport money each week as we are using community
venues, which depend on income to remain open.
Students who fail to pay for their sport two weeks in
a row will still go to their venue but will not be able
to participate. Please contact the school if there are
difficulties covering the cost of weekly sport.
Other dates to remember – plan ahead!
Westlawn Cross Country Carnival will be held on
Tuesday 10 April (T1,W11) at Junction Hill. Clarence
Welcome to the NSW Premier's Reading
Challenge (PRC)The Challenge aims to encourage a
love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students,
and to enable them to experience quality literature.
It is not a competition but a challenge for each
student to read, to read more and to read more
widely. Over the next five months students will be
aiming to complete the challenge. Over the coming
weeks I will include hints for how you can help your
child to succeed in the challenge.
Tip 1: How can Parents and Carers help
students to achieve their goal?
Familiarise yourself with the PRC website. Logon is
not required to view the booklist or read the rules.
https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/rules.html
Kindergarten added Nick Bland’s book, The
Magnificent Tree to their list this week. A beautiful
story where Bonny and Pop are bursting with ideas
that are big, brave, simple and clever to create a
Term 1 2018 – Please check Diary dates for any changes. Week 8 Tues 20 Mar PSSA Tennis v GPS Wed 21 Mar Grandparents Day Fri 23 Mar Ride Safely to School Day PSSA Girls Cricket v GPS Week 9 Tues 27 Mar CSI Wed 28 Mar School Photos Thurs 29 Mar Easter Hat Parade K-2 Disco Fri 30 Mar Good Friday Week 10 Mon 2 Apr Easter Monday Tues 3 Apr Parent/Teacher interviews Primary Disco Wed 4 Apr Year 6 Leadership Day Thurs 5 Apr PSSA Boys Cricket v Lawrence Week 11 Mon 9 Apr Parent/Teacher interviews
Notes home for International Competitions: Writing and Spelling Tues 10 Apr CSI
Westlawn PS Cross Country Carnival at Junction Hill Wed 11 Apr Award Assembly and Year 6 Leadership badges at 1:00pm
Canteen and P&C Meeting 6:00pm NSWPSSA Swimming Thurs 12 Apr NSWPSSA Swimming Fri 13 Apr ANZAC Assembly Last Day of Term
