Presentation Day Assembly, Thursday 6 th December, 9:00am Page 1 Respect Responsibility Personal Best The Galston Gumnut Galston Public School Newsletter Wednesday 5 th December 2018 Phone: 9653 2062 Fax: 9653 1980 Email: [email protected]Website: www.galston-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Calendar Dates Week 8, Term 4 Thursday 6 th December Presentation Assembly, 9am Friday 7 th December Assembly, 2:05pm - Year 6 item Week 9, Term 4 Monday 10 th December P&C Carols Night Tuesday 11 th December Senior Choir performing at Bendigo Bank, 11:30-12:30 Library Monitors’ Party Thursday 13 th December RDA Tall Timbers ‘Horsing Around’ Fundraiser Kindergarten Cake Stall Friday 14 th December Talent Quest No Assembly Week 10, Term 4 Monday 17 th December Parent Helper & Volunteers’ Breakfast Party Day Extra Play Student Reports sent home Tuesday 18 th December Year 6 Arch Year 6 Farewell Wednesday 19 th December Year 6 to Vision Valley Last day of Term 4 for students Note Due Date Year 6 Party Day Monday 17 th December From the Principal Parent Helpers and Volunteers’ Breakfast In recognition of the valuable contribution to Galston Public School from our parent helpers and volunteers, we would like to invite all who have helped and volunteered at the school in any way during the year to join us for breakfast hosted by the teachers. This includes helping in the classroom, library, sport, scripture, special days, transporting students, computers, excursions, canteen and P&C. Date: Monday 17 th December Time: 7:30am – 8:45am Venue: School Hall Hamper Donations Thank you to the families who have donated items for the hampers to be raffled off for our Carols Night. If you have not done so already, please consider donating. Planning for 2019 We are planning for 2019 and would greatly appreciate receiving information regarding student movement. If your child is not returning to Galston Public School next year, please inform the office. Thank You Thank you to Belinda Crofts who last week continued the painted lavendar hedge from Chloe’s garden around the canteen wall. Week 8, Term 4
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Respect Responsibility Personal Best
The Galston Gumnut Galston Public School Newsletter
Wednesday 5th December 2018 Phone: 9653 2062 Fax: 9653 1980
Week 8, Term 4 Thursday 6th December Presentation Assembly, 9am Friday 7th December Assembly, 2:05pm - Year 6 item Week 9, Term 4 Monday 10th December P&C Carols Night
Tuesday 11th December Senior Choir performing at Bendigo Bank, 11:30-12:30 Library Monitors’ Party
Parent Helper & Volunteers’ Breakfast Party Day Extra Play Student Reports sent home
Tuesday 18th December Year 6 Arch Year 6 Farewell
Wednesday 19th December Year 6 to Vision Valley Last day of Term 4 for students
Note Due Date
Year 6 Party Day Monday 17th December
From the Principal Parent Helpers and Volunteers’ Breakfast In recognition of the valuable contribution to Galston Public School from our parent helpers and volunteers, we would like to invite all who have helped and volunteered at the school in any way during the year to join us for breakfast hosted by the teachers. This includes helping in the classroom, library, sport, scripture, special days, transporting students, computers, excursions, canteen and P&C. Date: Monday 17th December Time: 7:30am – 8:45am Venue: School Hall Hamper Donations Thank you to the families who have donated items for the hampers to be raffled off for our Carols Night. If you have not done so already, please consider donating. Planning for 2019 We are planning for 2019 and would greatly appreciate receiving information regarding student movement. If your child is not returning to Galston Public School next year, please inform the office. Thank You Thank you to Belinda Crofts who last week continued the painted lavendar hedge from Chloe’s garden around the canteen wall.
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Well Done Well done to Annabelle from 5-6M and Will from 4-5P who recently held a cake stall fundraiser coinciding with Galston Open Gardens weekend. They raised $400 which they are donating to the BFT. Well done, Annabelle and Will. Premier’s Reading Challenge Assembly (PRC) Congratulations to all the students who completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge. They received their certificates at an assembly yesterday organised by Mrs Saxby. Thank you to the parents who encouraged their children at home during the challenge and thank you to Mrs Saxby and Mrs Morgan for their hard work to make this year’s challenge successful. Mrs Saxby also presented her Library Monitors with a certificate to thank them for their work, plus two merit awards per class for children who have made an outstanding effort in library this year. Please note that all of these awards can be used towards Bronze Awards.
Well done to the students who received a Gold Award for completing the PRC for four years. Congratulations to Sophie A, Lily D, Brooklyn T, Chase K and Jayden S who received a Platinum Award for completing the Premier’s Reading Challenge for seven consecutive years – what a great effort! The Gold and Platinum Certificates have been held up and have not arrived at school yet. As soon as they do, they will be presented to the children.
Library News Premier’s Reading Challenge Congratulations to all Premier’s Reading Challenge students—a record year! Keep an eye out for information regarding the 2019 Challenge. Children can begin the 2019 Challenge now if they like and record the PRC numbers or titles of any books read. Permission note to participate and recording sheets for 2019 will be available early in Term 1. Delia Morgan – PRC Coordinator Stocktake 2018 Please remember to return all library books this week. They need to be scanned and shelved ready for end-of-year stocktake and borrowing in 2019. If you have lost a book, please send a note through the school office. Working Bee The final working bee for the year will be helping with shelving and general clean-up of the library in preparation for 2019. The working bee dates to choose from are:
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Tuesday 11th December, 9.00am – 10.00am Thursday 13th December, 2.00pm – 3.00pm Tuesday 18th December, 9.00 am – 10.00 am Please come along and help if you can, even for a short while. I would like to thank all helpers who have visited the library in 2018—your assistance in keeping the library a neat and tidy environment is so appreciated! Jean Saxby – Teacher Librarian
News From K-1W K-1W have had a fun-filled and action packed term so far, with more to come! In amongst all the impressive reading and writing, our work with numbers, shapes and measuring and our amazing art work, we have had quite a few adventures and exciting moments. Year 1 began this term with an excursion to Gibberagong, where we learnt all about different plants in the Australian bush. We enjoyed bushwalking and finished the day building huts using the technique of the Aboriginal peoples.
We had an enjoyable time playing cricket each week with Coach Harry. We improved our batting, fielding and catching skills and shared lots of giggles amongst some fierce competition! The visit from the Tasmanian Devils stimulated much conversation and we were proud to be raising money to help protect this endangered species.
One of our highlights this term was when Mr Taite (a university student studying teaching) played his trumpet for us. We enjoyed dancing along to the jazz music. Rebecca Wallace – K-1W
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P&C News Carols Evening Less than a week to go until we host our wonderful Carols Evening. • Donations are still being accepted in the school office for our hampers. • Raffle tickets and money are still being accepted by the office. • Remember all food orders for the evening need to be in by this Friday. • If are able to offer some assistance on the evening to help with ticket sales and food please email
[email protected] Kim Alsdorf – P&C President, [email protected] Canteen News Friday 7th and Monday 10th December Lunch + Counter Sales Please lodge all orders through Flexischools.com.au by 9.15am. If your child is absent from school on a lunch ordering day you are able to cancel the order online prior to cut off at 9.15am or call Flexischools on 1300 361 769. As we near the end of the school year we will run down stock of our Monday meals. If an item is not available it will be shown as unavailable in Flexischools. If we have excess of some items they will become available for sale on a Friday and Monday. Keep an eye out for changes. • Lasagne and Bangers and Mash are currently out of stock. • Our stock level of Choc/Vanilla Twisted Frozen yoghurt is low. Class Party Day: Monday 17th December The Canteen Committee was asked to cater for the students' party day. Parents are able to order the food they feel is suitable for their child, and can also choose whether or not to send in money for additional snacks for their child at recess and lunch. We have organised the following food that will be available for purchase through Flexischools: sausage on a roll, macaroni cheese, gluten free chicken nuggets, rainbow Paddle Pop, lolly bags, buttered popcorn and our standard range of drinks. A limited supply of the following foods will be available for purchase on the day at recess and lunch: rainbow Paddle Pop, cakes and slices. The sausage on a roll, gluten free chicken nuggets and macaroni cheese have to be pre-ordered as we will not stock extra supply. Our range of chips, drinks, breadsticks, and fudge will be available as normal. The popcorn and lolly bags will be served when the students watch a movie. The sausage on a roll, macaroni cheese, gluten free chicken nuggets and rainbow Paddle Pop will be available at lunch time. The cut off time for ordering in Flexischools for the Class Party Day is 9am on Thursday 13th December. Louise O'Rourke – Canteen Committee
Friday Roster 7th December
Helpers Assistants Supervisor
9:30-12:00 Edyta Lynch 9:00-3:00 Cholena Izzard 9:00-3:00 Susan Vriens
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Uniform Shop We encourage all parents and carers to order uniforms via Flexischools. Orders will be packed and sent home with students each Monday. The uniform shop is open the first two weeks of term and, when the following term has a change of season/uniform, the last two weeks of term. During the term the uniform shop is open once per month, with the dates being determined at the start of each term. Kristie Chambers and Lucy Parrin – Uniform Shop Coordinators
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