Gunnedah Public School Quality Education in a Caring Environment Newsletter Term 4 - Week 6 Tuesday, 20th November 2018 Bloomfield Street, GUNNEDAH. 2380 Phone: (02) 6742 2266 Fax: (02) 6742 4309 Email: [email protected]Principal: Mrs Cathie McMaster Upcoming Events Weeks 5 & 6 - Parent/Teacher meengs 23rd November - Beach to Bush & PBL rewards 28th-30th November - Book Fair 4th December - GHS Orientaon & S.T.E.A.M Science Bus 6th December - Parent helpers morning tea @ 10.30am & Yr 5 leadership speeches 10th December - Kinder Orientaon 11th December - Early birds Graduaon @ 10am 13th December - Presentaon Day 18th December - Stage 1 concert Ozobots Break time fun During recess and lunch breaks, children have been busy creating special areas around the school using their imagination. Sarah, Se-annah and Beau from 3A have been very creative using different materials found in our playground. 4H and KL have had the opportunity to use the new ozobots. ey worked together to create some great tracks for the ozobots to go along and had some great fun. Stay tuned for what is coming next.
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Gunnedah Public SchoolQuality Education in a Caring Environment
Upcoming EventsWeeks 5 & 6 - Parent/Teacher meetings23rd November - Beach to Bush & PBL rewards28th-30th November - Book Fair4th December - GHS Orientation & S.T.E.A.M Science Bus6th December - Parent helpers morning tea @ 10.30am & Yr 5 leadership speeches10th December - Kinder Orientation11th December - Early birds Graduation @ 10am13th December - Presentation Day18th December - Stage 1 concert
Ozobots Break time fun
During recess and lunch breaks, children have been busy creating special areas around the school using their imagination. Sarah, Se-annah and Beau from 3A have been very creative using different materials found in our playground.
4H and KL have had the opportunity to use the new ozobots. They worked together to create some great tracks for the ozobots to go along and had some great fun. Stay tuned for what is coming next.
Speaker - Luke Kennedy
The theme of last week’s Horse Wisdom session was Feelings. The students learnt about the four main feelings, ‘joy’, ‘sadness’, ‘fear’ and ‘anger’, and how to identify these feelings.
Horse Wisdom
Buy one, get one freeto the equal value.
Books only, no novelty toys.
Yesterday afternoon, staff members from a number of schools within our Namoi Partners group came together to listen to Luke Kennedy talk about how he beat stress. The talk was very motivational and carried the message that everyone needs to be a little selfish and look after their mental health. Staff from all schools walked away with some simple ideas to help reduce the stress in their lives.Luke is an amazingly motivational speaker with a very interesting life story. If you have the opportunity tonight to come to the High School and hear Luke's story, you will not be disappointed.
CHRISTMAS HAMPER RAFFLEPlease donate non-perishable food items and Christmas items for the Christmas Hamper
raffle to be run by the P&C Committee.Items can be left at the front office.Raffle books have been sent home.
CANTEEN VOLUNTEER ROSTER23rd November - Ray, Michelle & GHS
30th November - Ray, Kayana & Sirleigh7th December - Lisa, Michelle & GHS14th December - Ray, Karla & Jessica
A big thanks to our canteen volunteers!***MORE VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS
NEEDED AND APPRECIATED***If you are able to help out with canteen on
Fridays, please contact Ray Williams on 0419 669 498
Speaker - Luke Kennedy
Attention: Parents/CarersKINDERGARTEN 2019
We are still taking enrolments for 2019 and gathering any missing documents for
enrolments already received.If you know anyone starting Kinder in 2019, please ask them to contact our
office.If you have enrolled your child and been
asked to provide further information, it is important that we get that information as
soon as possible.
Today we were very fortunate to have Luke Kennedy speak to all our primary school students. Luke's enthusiasm was contagious and his message was strong - "be yourself, don't listen to the doubts that creep into your head and labels that others put on you", " trust in yourself and only choose to do what you want, not what others think"All students were enthralled with what he had to say and hopefully took away the very strong message, that you can do whatever you want to do as long as you "choose you" and believe in yourself.Don't forget that he will be speaking at the High School Hall for all Public School parents on Tuesday evening at 6pm (no cost). His message is powerful and one that we all need to hear.
Kindergarten Orientation Day Monday -10.12.18
9-12noon
Gunnedah Public School
Contact Office: 6742 2266 For children eligible to start in 2019
Early Birds Graduation Class of 2018
Early Birds family and friends are invited to join us to celebrate the graduation of our 2018 Early Birds class.
We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday 11th December at 10am at the Gunnedah Public School Hall.
SUMMER UNIFORMSRemember for all of your uniform needs,
call in to our office.
Assembly
Merit Awards!K - Blayze Crowley & Zak Kemsley-O’ConnorK/1 - Kobe Kelly & Haakon Williams1/2 Gold - Kirby Wells & Aliza Hubbard1/2 Green - Tyyrone Adams & Jedd Wilmen3 - Riley Lancaster & Wesley Conomos5/6 Gold - Millie Rumbel & Peter Shoobert5/6 Green - Opal Kelly & Shantaya ConnollyK-6 A Team - Jacob BennettSports Awards - Chase Hubbard, Matthew Dawe, Bailey Redgrove, Millie Rumbel &Se-annah MeredithCongratulations!
Positive Behaviour for Learning
Gold AwardsJacob Bennett, Jackson Hinton, Matthew Dawe,
Shantaya Connolly, Hudson Brown, Alice Mulherin,
Ruby KnightSuper Deni Awards
Carley Hinton & Mia Slater
This week, our focus for PBL is on being respectful by controlling our reactions. We have learnt about why we find it hard to control our reactions and what strategies we can use to help with this.
PBL Focus
FREE PARENT EVENING With
LUKE KENNEDY
20TH NOVEMBER 6pm at the High School
Come along and take the opportunity to hear one of Sydney’s best motivational speakers
LUKE KENNEDY
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On the outside he looked strong and confident, on the
inside his thoughts would come to haunt him. He was
incredibly scared, depressed, anxious, and
awkward in social situations. Luke always worried what other people thought about
him which led to him committing some harsh acts
and missing out on many positive opportunities.
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He opens up the audience’s eyes, and mind, to their ego – to the labels that we battle to live up to, and relates his story back to some of the
masks the audience would be wearing. He then shows
how these labels, and worrying what other
people think, is ruining our relationships, following
through on ideas (it could be as simple as not making
those crucial sales calls, or not putting your hand up in
class), happiness, and success in every area of life.
Becoming aware of ones ego and labels, is the first
step towards releasing it.....
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Gunnedah Public School2018 School Calendar Term 4
MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY
Week 6 19/11 20/11Parent/Teacher
meetingsYear 4
21/11Parent/Teacher
meetingsK/1
22/11Parent/Teacher
meetings5/6 Green
23/11CANTEEN DAY(Ham & cheese
pasta with popper or water)
K-6Beach to Bush
PBL 5 for 5 rewards
Week 7 26/11 27/11 28/11Book Fair
29/11Book Fair
30/11Book Fair
CANTEEN DAY(Gravy beef roll with popper or
water)
A TeamRDA Christmas
Party
Week 8 3/12 4/12GHS Orientation
Day
S.T.E.A.MScience Bus
5/12 6/1210.30am
Parent Helpers morning tea
Year 5 leadership speeches
7/12CANTEEN DAY
(Bacon & egg sandwich with
popper or water)
Week 9 10/12 11/1210am
Early Birds Graduation
12/12 13/12Presentation Day
14/12CANTEEN DAY(Chicken & cheese wraps with popper
or water)
PBL Rewards Day
Week 10 17/12 18/12Stage 1 concert
19/12LAST DAY OF
TERM FOR STUDENTS
20/12STAFF
DEVELOPMENT DAY
21/12STAFF
DEVELOPMENT DAY
Supervision before SchoolDue to an increase in community concern, it is necessary to remind parents, carers and students
that there is no supervision at school until after 8:30am in the morning. It has been reported to the school that students have been seen waiting for school gates to open in the streets surrounding
the school as early as 8am, where they are unsupervised and unsafe. We encourage you to please keep your children at home until adequate supervision can be
