Years 3 and 5 NAPLAN Tests Eleebana PS will participate in this year’s NAPLAN tests following a decision to do so by our staff last week. NAPLAN tests will take place in Week 4, with writing and language on Tuesday 11 May, reading on Wednesday 12 May, and numeracy on Thursday 13 May.

Grounds and Band Team Meetings A Grounds committee meeting will be held at the school on Monday 3 May (next week), commencing at 6.30 pm in the staffroom. This meeting will plan the Term 2 working bee. All parents are very welcome to attend this meeting which will be 1 hour in duration. At 7.30pm in the staffroom there will be a Band meeting. All band families (concert and learner band) are very welcome to attend as we transition over to Mr Goeldner as co-ordinator. Your attendance will ensure revised procedures are understood and communi-cated. I look forward to seeing you at both these meetings.

ANZAC Day Service A big thank you to our students, parents, Mrs Dianne Shearman, Mrs Sallie Dezius, Mrs Marilyn Hird and Mrs Carolyn Bear who represented Eleebana PS at the ANZAC service at Valentine on Sunday.

Public School Parent of the Year Nominations Nominations for these awards close this Friday 30 April. If you would like to nominate a parent(s), please contact Ian Graham (Principal) at the office. Thank you everyone.

Self Evaluation Team Survey coming soon A ‘management’ survey will come home to parents (also completed by students and staff at school) on Monday 24 May (Week 6) and returned to school by closing date Friday 4 June (Week 7) Please take the 5 minutes to complete this survey as a strong parent re-sponse is essential and will ensure a valid result. Thank you everyone.

Starstruck News We will again be represented at Starstruck this year, with our Choir, a Year 2 Dance group and a Primary Dance group. Starstruck will take place at the Entertainment Centre on Thursday 17 June (evening performance), Friday 18 June (matinee and evening performance) and Saturday 19 June (evening performance). Tickets for these performances can now be purchased through Ticketek. Our dance students will participate in their first Starstruck rehearsal on Friday 7 May. A note will be coming home soon.

Free Training Event Please find attached information sheet on training event for ‘Children Who Challenge Us’ that will be run at Club Mac-quarie during May. (registrations close on Monday 3 May). This event is worth a look for ALL parents and carers.

Student Sporting News Last Friday, Reece ******, Jakob ********* and Sam ****** trialled for the Hunter Soccer team. The boys all played very well. Congratulations boys and all the best to Reece and Jakob who will represent the Hunter Region at the State Soccer Championships this term. John ******** and Deni ***** trialled for inclusion in the Hunter Region Hockey teams. Again our students performed ex-tremely well with John making the Hunter Region Hockey team to compete in the State Championships later this term. Congratulations John and Deni and best of luck John at State. Alex ***** trialled for inclusion in the Hunter Region Netball team. She has made it through to the next level and is trialling for the regional team today. Good luck Alex.

Eleebana Public School 70 Ian Street, Eleebana

Newsletter Phone: 4946 8927

Fax: 4942 8437

Webpage: http://www.eleebana.ps.education.nsw.gov.au Email: eleebana-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Twitter: @eleebanaps

Calendar 29 April-Zone Cross Country 3 May–Band Meeting 7.30pm

From the Principal... 27 April 2010 Term 2, Week 2

Last Weeks Notes Whole School-Mother’s Day Stall information. School Tennis Team-Tennis Match

Notification of Major Conta-gious Infections/Diseases Could parents please notify the office immediately if their child(ren) have con-tracted any of the major contagious infections / dis-eases including Chicken Pox, Mumps, Measles, Ru-bella, Scarlet Fever, Glandular Fever, Fifth Dis-ease (Slapped Cheek Syn-drome), Hand, Foot and Mouth disease, School sores (Impetigo) Meningi-tis, Meningococcal and the like to minimise the chance of other students / staff / parents being af-fected.

Best of Luck School Cross Country Team The following students will represent Eleebana PS at the Eastlakes Zone Cross Country carnival at Barton Oval on Thursday 29 April (this week): Liam , Je-htro, Isaac Matthew, Emily, Holly, Cassidy, Kara, Callum Luke, Max, Corey, Katelyn, Sophia, Deni, Shannen, Nathan, Jordan, Dylan, Mackenzie, Sophie, Alexis, Emma, Sian, Reece, Sam, Chris, Taylor, Sam, Mitchel, Tamara, Amber. Adriana, Naomi, Natasha and Jesselyn. Congratulations on your selection and best of luck at Zone. A special thank you to Mr Mark Lewis who organised a great school cross country event last week. Mr Lewis will accompany our school team to Zone.

Student News Some Writing work samples from 1/2S can be seen on page 6 of this Newsletter.

Needed: Tree Lopper and Mulcher If anyone can provide some information and/or service of a tree lopper and mulching machine, could you please con-tact Ian Graham at the office. Thank you everyone. If you have any concerns or issues relating to your child(ren) or school matters in general I would be pleased to discuss these with you.

Ian Graham Principal

Office News..

Updating Family Details In the near future, we will be sending home, with your child, forms for our annual check of family details. Please be aware these forms will list all your confidential personal information. If you do not wish to have your child carry this home, please contact the office for alternative arrangements. Please take special time to check the medical details as we have found some of these are not up to date. Thank you.

Sport Choices When the sport choices have been made, we will invoice each child accordingly.

Thank you Thank you to Officeworks for their donation of some hats, which will be kept in the office as spares.

Kelly Wright Acting Office Manager

Library News.. What a great effort some students expended over the school holidays with their Pre-mier’s Reading Challenge. Olivia 4/5S, Jake 6W, Lilliana 3B, Erint 1L, Luke K Blue, Joel 1/2H, Cassidy 1/2H, Nicholas 1L, Briahna 1/2H and Hannah 3B have now completed the Challenge. The race for highest achieving class is being hotly con-tested with 1/2H, 4G and 4/5S all tied at the moment but Mr May remains hopeful. This year’s Challenge will cease on Thursday, 19 August so there’s still time to finish so long as students are reading every week - which they should be for Home Reading and for younger students, this could be used as a bonding time with parents. Happy Reading

Robyn Forbes Librarian

Due to enrolled children’s life threatening Anaphy-lactic allergic reactions to all nuts and peanut products, we would like to encourage families not to send these products to school with their children. These include peanut butter, nutella, sesame seeds, loose nuts, muesli, nut or chocolate bars or any products con-taining any type of nuts.

Friday Football for 30 April Eleebana Senior Vs St Paul’s on field 1 at 1pm Eleebana Junior Vs Charlestown East on field 3 at 1pm

Friday Soccer and Netball Draws will be available later this week.

Canteen News.. We are thinking of holding a night out each term for our volunteers. This term we are looking at Week 5, Wednesday 19 May, if this suits most people. It will be at Belmont 16 Footers at 7pm. Please RSVP by Friday 14 May.

Michelle Sommerville & Warren Spooner Canteen coordinators.

P&C News..

Mothers Day Stall The Mothers Day Stall will be held on Thursday 6 May 2010. Donations for this stall can be handed in at your child's classroom and a raffle ticket will be written for each donation to go into the Mothers Day raffle. Working bees to prepare gifts will be held on the following dates between 9am and 3pm in the P&C room - Tuesday 27 April, Wednesday 28 April, Thursday 29 April, Friday 30 April, Monday 3 May, Tuesday 4 May and Wednesday 5 May. Everyone is very welcome to come along for whatever time you can spare and help prepare gifts. This is a great way of catching up and meeting other parents from school. Entertainment Books These books have been sent home today, books are $60 each with $12 from each book sold going back to the school. Please return all unwanted books or payments to the school office - thankyou.

Cathy Sjostedt P&C President

OOSH News.. Welcome back to all our families for a bumper term 2. Last week, children did HAMA every day with many great creative designs proudly taken home to show family. Today, we celebrated part of the ANZAC tradition by making ANZAC biscuits and tomorrow we start 1 1/2 weeks of Mothers’ Day craft-this week placemats and cards-no peeking Mum! On Friday, we will be having a disco with various DJs such as ‘Marvellous Monty’ so bring your dancing shoes and music. Birthday wishes this week to Elliot H (6), Brandon C (6), James S (12) and Taryck R (6). Have a great day from every-one at OOSH. Many thanks to the Donaldson and Thorn families for their donations of electrical equipment and to Mark Korsman for installing our 2 blackboards which are proving great additions to our outdoor activities. For enquiries or information please phone Carolyn or Wendy on 4942 8186 or call in between 7-9am or 2.30-3pm, not at 3pm, which is our busiest time of the day.

Carolyn & Wendy

OOSH Co-ordinators

New Vine Lake

Church

4947 4538

Community News… Lake Macquarie PCYC Gymnastics Lake Macquarie PCYC Gymnastics offers classes for children aged from 2 years all the way through to high school and all skill levels. Phone LMPCYC on: 49486622 for information or to make a booking for your child. School Watch School Watch is a volunteer program that greatly assists our school. The volunteers take a walk through the school grounds at varying hours checking the windows, doors and looking for trespassers. If a volunteer sights anything they are NOT to approach them, but to ring the school watch num-ber (1300 880 021) and let the security and/or police handle the situation from there. So if you are interested in further assisting our great school community, let the school know. Mark Korsman School Watch Coordinator 0400 306 350 Rebel Sports Sponsorship Rebel Sports Charlestown offer an enormous range of sporting equipment and services. By purchasing their prod-ucts, quoting rebate no 23879 and swiping your discount card you will receive a 5% discount and our school will receive a 5% sponsorship. Bunnings Family Night Bunnings, Glendale are holding a Mum’s & kids family night on Thursday 6 May 6-8pm. Free Sausage sizzle for families that participate. Stacks of prizes, competitions and giveaways. Bookings essential. Phone 489547722 Warners Bay community Gardens Warners Bay Community Garden will hold our next market stall on 9 May at the Lions Club Markets, John Street, Warners Bay. Organic, in season vegetable and herb seedlings will be available.

Quality Work Awards

Bronze Awards Laura

Jessica Tas

Silver Awards Jackson Brandon Kelsey Tiani

Gold Awards Emily

To report unauthorised entry or damage to school property, contact School Security Unit on 1300 88 00 21

Monday ‘K’

3/5/10

Tuesday ‘L’

4/5/10

Wednesday ‘M’

5/5/10

Thursday ‘N’

6/5/10

Friday ‘O’

7/5/10

Bronwyn Faber Raelene Rye Tracey McDonald M Newton Lynda Parkinson

Donna Jones Liz Green Dorrin Suciu Talia Schmidt Stephenie Allen

Narelle Hyslop Helen Sawyers Jacqueline Bell Nicole maison Tasmyn Freeman

Canteen Roster

My dragon is fierce strong and he isn’t evil, terrifying fire breathing an in-destructible. I like my fierce dragon very much. Bayly. 1/2S

My princess is beautiful brave and rich. She likes to dance and she lives in a castle with her Dad, the King and her Mum, the Queen. Larissa 1/2S

Work samples from 1/2S