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8NORTH WAGGA NORTH WAGGA PUBLIC SCHOOL

Building a Culture of Excellence

: 6921 3533 : 54 Hampden Ave, North Wagga Wagga

: www.northwagga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au : northwagga-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

What’s on at NWPS Wednesday 13th February Welcome Back to School BBQ- 5.30 - 6.30pm

Thursday 14th February Years K-2 Assembly, 2.15pm

Thursday 14th February Years 3-6 Assembly, 2.40pm

Thursday 14th February Orders close for Book Club

Thursday 26th February SRC Member Badges presented at assemblies

Monday 4th March Wagga PSSA District Swimming Carnival

Wednesday 20th March Athletics Carnival, Jubilee Park

Farewell Mrs Crocker

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Please don’t forget our Welcome back to School BBQ tomorrow night where students will get a chance to introduce their families to their class teachers. Many thanks to P & C who has once again organised the catering and preparation. This is yet another example of the wonderful partnership the school shares with this dynamic group of people.

Mrs Hilton has done some magnificent work in organising a visiting author to our school. Phil Kettle is arriving on Thursday and we have workshops organised for Stage 1, 2 and 3.

Phil promotes his latest series of books for children as “Physical Literature” as it features aspirational stories around how we can be like famous cricketers. When asked why he wrote the series he responded

“It puts a smile on the faces of all primary school children – they want to read

and they want to play sport and parents love seeing their children’s enthusiasm

for reading. I find it easy to be passionate about that!”

Other book series we have all loved from Phil include: Boyz Rule, Get Real, Girlz

Rock, I Can Be, Our Australia, TooCool - Series 1, Toocool and Marcy and Toocool

Series 5.

Please ensure that permission notes are returned to school by tomorrow.

Our Kindergarten teachers have commenced the Best Start Assessments for our Kindergartens students. These are 1:1

assessments that take around half an hour per student. The findings from these assessments will shape the personalized

learning your child needs. Families will also, in due time, receive feedback on the assessment results as well as information

around what they can do at home to assist in their child’s learning. Any enquiries around this can be directed to the

Kindergarten teachers, or Mrs Quilliam.

Finally, it is with mixed emotions that this is my final newsletter as Principal of North Wagga PS. I have had a truly

wonderful time leading the school and the beautiful support I have always had from this incredible staff and school

community will be something I hold dear for the rest of my career. The most important people in our lives remain the

children we have the privilege to work with every day. They’re the reason we are all here, and they will be the saddest to

leave.

As you know, the whole team of NWPS is an incredible amazing group of professionals, and I know the school will continue

to raise the roof on educational standards. My sincere thanks to Mrs Trudy Standley who has happily agreed to act as

Principal and to Mrs Virginia Quilliam who will act as Assistant Principal from next Monday. In due time, our school

Director, Mrs Jenene McGrath will oversee the recruitment process for a new substantive principal. I look forward to

fondly watching from a distance, the greatness of North Wagga evolve as it starts a new journey.

Thank you for having me.

Have a great weeK Mandy Crocker

WELCOME TO OUR SCHOOL

COLLECTING STUDENT PROCEDURES If you need to take your child out for an appointment or need them to leave early, we require all parents to come to the office first. The office staff will then issue a note through the school attendance system. This note is then given to the classroom teacher. It is requested appointments be made out of school hours, whenever possible. Thankyou. NUT ALLERGY AWARENESS As we have several students who have been diagnosed with an allergy to nuts, we are asking parents not to send any food products containing nuts to school (this includes peanut butter sandwiches). It is important to understand that even trace amounts of food can cause a severe life threatening anaphylactic reaction so we are asking everyone to be aware of how serious this allergy can be. NEW SCHOOL APP We have included information about our new App

provider, Skoolbag. Please download the App and

follow the steps to ensure you don’t miss out on

any important information.

Stay informed with

the Skool App ASSEMBLY INFORMATION Similar to last year we will be having a Year K-2

Assembly and a separate Year 3-6 Assembly.

Year K-2 Assembly will be held every second

Thursday afternoon, just after lunch, commencing

at 2.15pm. The first Year K-2 Assembly will be this

Thursday 14th. Stage 1 students will receive their

Term 1 Class Councillor badges.

Year 3-6 Assembly will be held every second

Thursday afternoon at 2.40pm. The first Year 3-6

Assembly will be this Thursday 14th. At this

assembly, the newly elected Sporting House

Captains, Vice Captains and Term 1 Class

Councillors, will receive their badges and age

champions from the swimming carnival, their

trophies also.

BOOK CLUB ORDERS

SRC MEMBER BADGES UPDATE Mrs Lucy Walker has taken on the role of the SRC Co-ordinator for 2019. Newly elected SRC Representatives will attend

their first meeting this week and will be presented with their badges at the Week 5 assembly on Tuesday 26th February

(not at this week’s assembly as stated in last week’s newsletter). Sorry if this has caused any inconvenience.

Welcome to Ms Mulrooney!

Ms Mulrooney will be with us on Thursday and Friday

on Pink Class.

PARENT SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS The general Parent School Contribution is a voluntary contribution to the school and is set at $49.00 per child for the whole year. We would greatly appreciate if this could be forwarded to the school office during Term 1, if possible, to assist with planning of the school budget. Thank you in advance of a positive response to this request. SUBJECT CONTRIBUTIONS Each year we request payment for “Subject Contributions”. This is a specific request for books used in individual classes and a photocopy levy. The contribution is $35 for each child. It would be greatly appreciated if this payment could be received by the end of Term 1. Thank you in advance. Invoices will be sent out next week.

BOOK CLUB ORDERS Please be remindered: all orders are to be paid online to Scholastic- please do not send your payment or paper order to school. When searching for the school name when ordering, please look for ‘Wagga North’.

FAMILY INFORMATION NOTES

These notes were sent home with your child last week. They are on MAUVE paper and should be completed by all

families and returned to the office as soon as possible. It is essential that we have up to date information around how

we contact you to ensure we can call you in the event as an emergency.

NWPS P & C UNIFORM SALES AND P &C NEWS

Orders close this Thursday, 14th February

REMEMBER: TO SEND BACK YOUR MAUVE NOTE!!!

This Friday 15th February at 9.00am 2nd hand jumpers ONLY $2, sizes 4-16. CASH ONLY

NOTICE OF MEETING

The 2019 P& C AGM will be held on Wednesday 6th

March at 6.00pm in the Staffroom. All P &C officer

positions will be declared vacant and we will call for

nominations for the executive positions of President,

Vice President (x2), Secretary and Treasurer, as well as

the Uniforms Officer, Promotions Officer and the

canteen subcommittee. The March ordinary meeting

will follow the AGM commencing at 6.30pm. The new

officers will commence their new roles at the ordinary

meeting. Everyone is welcome to attend.

CANTEEN NEWS Wednesday 13th February – Kate Plum Friday 15th February – Kylie Burns, Kirsty Barby, Help needed (12-2) Wednesday 20th February – Jane Chobdzynski Friday 22nd February – Carol Mulley, Meredith West, Help needed (12-2) The P&C would welcome any new offers of help from our new families. Please contact Jane 0409926836

SORRY CANTEEN IS CLOSED ON MONDAYS NOTES TO BE RETURNED MAUVE FAMILY INFORMATION NOTE - Please return this as soon as possible PHIL KETTLE WRITING WORKSHOP - Permission note and $3 payment now overdue NRMA KINDER BUS SAFETY PROGRAM - Permission notes due Friday 15th February NWPS “WELCOME BACK” BBQ CATERING RETURN SLIP – As soon as possible UDENT BANKING OMMUNITY NE COMMUNITY NEWS

Special Themed Canteen

Order Day

Monday 25th February

Order forms will be going out

next week.

FAREWELL

MRS CROCKER!

WISHING YOU ALL THE VERY BEST IN YOUR

NEW APPOINTMENT!

THANK YOU!!

STAFF & STUDENTS