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6th September 2018
Term 3 Week 7
Quality education and care with meaningful community and parental involvement!
Tomaree Public School EMAIL: [email protected]
WEB: www.tomaree-p.schools.nsw.edu.au PO Box 710, Nelson Bay 2315
Ph: (02) 4981 1444 Fax: (02) 4984 1524
Important
DatesTERM 3
SEPTEMBER
14th S3 Bathurst excursion $50 payment due
20th Performance Matinee and night show.
26th K-6 Assembly
27th Teddy Bear’s Picnic
&
Science Discovery Day
28th September Last Day of Term 3
TERM 4
Students and staff return
to school 15th October OCTOBER
15th Students and staff return to school
17th Gymnastics prog starts
23rd—25th Stage 3 Bathurst excursion
24th K-6 Assembly
30th ES1 & S1 excursion Hunter Valley Zoo
31st Grandfriends Assembly
NOVEMBER
1ST Volunteers Thank you
morning tea
6th 1st Kindi orientation and parent Information session
7th K-6 Assembly
8th Year 6 Fair
9th Remembrance Day Service
12th-23rd Commencement of Intensive swimming scheme
14th 2nd Kindi orientation
29th 3rd kindi orientation
DECEMBER
3rd Yr 7 Parent information night
4th HS orientation day
5th K-6 Assembly
6th Twilight Bandstand at Anna
Bay PS
11th Presentation day rehearsal
12th Presentation day
13th Principals Afternoon Tea
& Scripture Assembly
& Carols night
17th Yr 6 Farewell
18th End of year picnics
19th Last day of School Term 4
LIBRARY NEWS
Many new resources ordered by the school
are from the rewards accumulated with
Scholastic Book Club.
The Library is proud to offer a great variety
of books catering for all levels and styles of
reading.
Happy reading.
Principal’s Report
One week to go until ‘Pages in Time”
The excitement is building at school as we get closer and closer to our Performance
date of Thursday 20th September. For those of you still to purchase your tickets, the
instructions have been included again in this week’s newsletter. Remember you can
come to the matinee, night, or both if you just can’t get enough of our wonderful per-
formers.
Poetry Competition
It was such an honour, to watch the students from K-6 recite their poems for the
Poetry Competition finals on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see such talented speak-
ers, delivering their poems in such a clear and expressive manner. Congratulations
to everyone who participated. The winners are listed in the newsletter.
Wear your Footy Colours
Thank you to everyone who dressed in their favourite footy colours to raise money
for the Cancer Research Foundation. The amount raised was over $500. Great ef-
fort everyone!
Kindergarten 2019
I can hardly believe we are back at this time of the year where we are asking you if
either your children, or the children of someone you know, is gearing up to start
school in 2019.
In order to make sure we can plan ahead regarding teachers and classes, please
make sure that you have contacted the office to let us know you will be sending your
son/daughter to school in 2019.
Take care and have a wonderful week
Chris King
Proud Principal of Tomaree Public School
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Congratulations Tomaree on your fantastic effort to show your true colours and support the Fight Can-
cer Foundation by wearing your team colours.
We were able to raise $537.75 to support the foundation in their work to find a cure for cancer.
Footy Colours Day
Mr Hughes S1H
My name is Gary Hughes and I commenced working as a Stage 1 classroom teacher
at Tomaree Public School at the beginning of this term.
Prior to completing my teaching degree in 2007, I worked as a Child Development
Officer for Lake Macquarie City Council for almost 10 years. This year will be my
tenth year of teaching in primary schools. Some of the highlights have included:
teaching at an international school in Germany in 2013-2015, acting as AFL School
Ambassador and meeting players from the Sydney Swans, presenting a workshop at
the Working with Boys in Early Childhood national conference in Melbourne and
working as part of a team of staff and parents to establish the Stephanie Alexander
Kitchen program at Mayfield East Public School.
Now that my daughter Jessica has grown up, I like to travel overseas as much as possible in my personal time. I have visited
almost 30 countries around the world – at the end of this month I will travel to Israel. I like to spend my weekends in my
kayak or at the beach. I am studying German at a B2 level and I enjoy cooking with fresh produce from the Newcastle
Farmer’s Markets every Sunday.
I feel very fortunate to be working at Tomaree and have already met so many kind staff, students and parents who have
made me feel welcome at the school. I look forward to becoming an integral part of the Tomaree Education learning com-
munity.
TPS PBL Focus for this week is:
RESPONSIBILITY
Right place at the right time
Please refer to the school website for further information.
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Tomaree Public School Poetry Recitation Finals
On Tuesday we held our stage finals for the Poetry Recitations. The standard in all stages was very high and it
was a very close competition for each stage. Here are our winners and runners up for each stage.
Early Stage 1 Winner- Sebastian Reid
Runner up – Emily Watson
Stage 1 Winner- Marley Bunny
Runner up – Jasmine Hodgson
Stage 2 Winner
- Amelia Whiteman-Law
Runner up- Bianca McEvilly
Stage 3 Winner- Olive Phillips
Runner up- Taylor Smith
Congratulations to all students who participated in the finals and to our students across
the entire school who presented poems in their class.
Stage 3 also participated in poetry writing
as part of the Margaret Watts competition.
Students could work in pairs or write a po-
em individually.
1st- Isabella Szarkun and Trinity Frazer
2nd- Alexis Thiele and Ella Borg
3rd- Lilly Hancock
Congratulations to these talented, creative students.
Sue Holland-Organiser
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MERIT AWARDS Term 3 Week 8
KA Connor Homewood Rhegan O’Farrell Sunny Chen
KH Aaliyah Grover Bailey Tumbers Anthony Grace
S1H Mason Sumner-Davis Amber Coughlin Lilly Wilson
S1M Maci Charmicheal Orlando Peak Nyah Eissa
S1O Grace Niddrie Max Mackander Ciara Thornthwaite
S1/2B Adam Gollan McKenzie Ryan Jack Shephard
S2C Gilby Burgess Jonty Bunny Charlize Fines Brodie Grace
S2H Zarley Peters Aiden Rosenberg Ava Coppleman Brady Durant
S2R Blake Peterson Beau Joyce Amelia Whiteman-Law
S3B Abbey Davis James Donovan Jake Affleck Cuebyn Martin
S3C Tia Bishop Mali Gauta Bella Hurle Harry Devine
S3D Charlotte Shaw Lilly Cummins Trinity Frazer Thomas James
S3H Serena Petrie Ebony Harrison Isabella Harris Jarvis Miller
1C London Rundle
3P Jayden Hannah
PRINCIPAL’S AWARD
Congratulations to the following students Week 3 Term 8
Class Nominees Awardee Reason for Award
3P Elizabeth Peterson, Brock
Davis
Elizabeth Peter-
son
For always taking pride in her work and
striving to reach her personal best.
KH
Aaliyah Grover, Emily Wat-
son, Austin Hochkins, Wil-
liam Profitt, Harlow Earn-
shaw
William Profitt For striving to achieve his personal best
and being a willing helper in class.
S1H Tillie O’Farrell, Jasmine
Hodgson, Nina Feenan
Jasmine Hodg-
son For being a really kind friend.
S1/2B
Jonnie Andrijic, Jorja
Dunkley, Jayden Harris,
Savannah Peacock
Savannah Pea-
cock
For being kind and respectful and being
a good friend always.
S2R
Nate Chugg, Will Hoffman,
Eadie Hutchinson, Nick
O’Donnell, Jessieca Lee
Treharne
Jessica-Lee Tre-
harne
For always being a considerate and con-
scientious learner
S3D
Thomas James, Kaili Wark,
Kayley Starr, Lilly Cum-
mins, Sebastian Peak Kayley Starr
For always working hard; being kind and
caring towards others and inspiring peo-
ple to feel and be happy.
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CANTEEN NEWS
As of Thursday 28th June the
Flexi School cut off time will change
from 9.15am
to
9.00am
With such an increase is the use of
the
Flexi-schools system
This will give the canteen
volunteers more time to prepare.
Thank you
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