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Term 2, Week 5 27th May, 2019

CalendarMay Tuesday 28th Questacon Visit - Year 6Wednseday 29th PSSA Rugby League Knockout - DubboWednesday 29th Eisteddfod Choir - PrimaryFriday 31st Out of Uniform Day Eisteddfod - Infants Percussion

JuneWednesday 5th P&C Meeting - 5.00pm StaffroomThursday 6th Zone Cross Country Friday 7th Athletics CarnivalFriday 28th Jump Rope for Heart - Jump Off Day

It’s Wellbeing Week at GPS!A time to stop and fill our cup a little.

There will be no homework during

Wellbeing Week.

Enjoy some rest and time to relax together as a family.

What’s on at GPS during Wellbeing Week?

Monday – Mindfulness Art and Yoga

Tuesday – Inside Out Short Clips and Class Discussions

Wednesday – Buddy Class Activities

Thursday – STEM Activities

Friday – Mindful Colouring and Board Games plus Mufti Day

“Wear What Makes You Happy”

Mufti day this Friday,

Gold coin donation for the SRC’s first project.

Eisteddfod TimesPrimary Choir Wednesday - 10.30amInfants Percussion Friday - 10.00am

Gulgong Memorial Hall

Full School Winter UniformAdmission Prices - Adults $5.00, Seniors $3.00

Come Join Us

Bunnings Sausage Sizzle

2nd June, 2019

Year 6 Canberra Excursion Fundraiser

8.30 - 2.30

ATHLETIC’S CARNIVAL FRIDAY 7th JUNE

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PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

This week we will be celebrating Wellbeing Week at Gulgong Public School. This means we will be having a relaxing and chilled out week at school with our students. They will still be learning, but we will be taking time to enjoy school and our friends.

We will be completing different activities that allow us to show our individuality and do things that make us happy.

Friday will be a wear what makes you happy day with a gold coin donation going to our SRC as their first fundraiser.

Our focus this week for our 4 R's is Being Respectful to other students and staff.

I asked Noah Smith this morning what he thought this meant and he said "listening to teachers when they are talking to you" Natasha Dunk said "having nice conversations with your friends and listening to what they are saying".

These are great attributes and will allow our wellbeing week to flow nicely.

Our Breakfast club has started serving Milo, thanks to Peabody Energy who gave us a $3000 grant to help keep our students warm on these cold mornings.

It was great to see this morning that lots of our students were helping serve Milo and Toast. They were also helping wash up and clean the cups and plates.

The line up this morning was huge for the Milo.

A big thanks to the staff and students for last Wednesday. We had our Scarecrow making day. The kids loved it and Dugald Saunders our local member dropped in to see how the Scarecrows were coming along.

Get along to the Henry Lawson Festival on the 8th June to vote for our Scarecrows to win the competition.

David Lewis

Principal

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YIPPIE WE’RE IN KINDY! Term 2 is off to a cracker start!

We now know our way around big school and are having lots of fun! Some of our favourite activities in

Kindergarten this term have been…

Learning to dance! We have been learning how to use different parts of our bodies to stay in tune with the beat, this has involved lots of counting and locomotor

skills like walking, hopping, jumping and galloping!

Counting and representing our numbers 1-20! We have been focusing on writing and expressing our numbers in different ways. We enjoy sharing our ideas

with peers. Here is some action shots from our maths this week!

Macca the Alpaca!

This week was National Simultaneous Storytime. We enjoyed reading Macca the Alpaca by Matt Cosgrove and spent some time crafting our own quirky alpacas.

Henry Head!

In preparation for the upcoming Henry Lawson Festival KT and KW have been working on crafting a very creative, tactile and bright Henry Head. We are still in the process of this and have really enjoyed using pom poms to give Henry a burst of colour!

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WEEK 6UNIFORM WINNER

This week’s winner isAylah Wilson

AECG MEETING

Gulgong’s first AECG meeting will be held this Thursday 30th May at the

Gulgong High School Common Room at 3.30pm.

Please RSVP to the Gulgong High School on 6374 1201 if you wish to attend as there will be

afternoon tea provided.

This is a great opportunity to become involved in the Indigenous history of Gulgong and help our Indigenous students move into the future.

SOCCER

Last Friday our open boys soccer team played Dunedoo Central School at Billy Dunn Oval.

After a tight first 20 mins the boys really started to play well and took a 2-0 lead into half time.

In the second half Gulgong got the better of Dunedoo with Kaden Hall scoring a double after playing well in goal in the first half.

Brennan Auckett, Baden Lewis and Jayden Finney finished the scoring with Gulgong winning 7-1 over a hard working Dunedoo.

Jayden Finney, Henry Drury, Asa Smith, George Honeysett, Brodie Dunk and Lachlan Dunk also ran all day and set up a lot of the goals. Jye Garner, Noah Smith, Bailey Miller,Eden Ferguson and Cooper Riley also defended very well and helped stop a lot of goals.

The boys will play the second round in coming weeks.

YEAR 6 WOOD RAFFLE FUNDRAISER

The winner of the raffle was Todd Webber.

Thank you to everyone who purchased tickets.

PSSA NETBALL

Last week Gulgong Public School played Netball against Cudgegong Valley Public School.

Gulgong going down 24 - 15.