Eleebana Public School Newsletter

70 Ian Street, Eleebana. NSW. 2282.

Phone: 4946 8927

Fax: 4942 8437

Webpage: http://www.eleebana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Email: eleebana-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Twitter: @eleebanaps

Term 3 Week 8 2 September 2013

Tuesday 17 September Kindy Orientation

Tuesday 3 September

Kindy Orientation 6.30pm Orange Medical Forms Due

Thursday 12 September

Spotlight Night Performance

Upcoming Events Band Meeting A band meeting will be held tonight, Monday 2 September, commencing at 6pm in the staffroom. All band families are encouraged to send a representative to this meeting to be fully aware of the banding program and schedules for the coming weeks, which will be a fairly busy time. Spotlight Tickets From Thursday 29 August, all remaining tickets are available for sale and there will be no restriction on the number available for purchase. Times Tables for this week The following tables will be the focus for Weeks 8 and 9 Years 3 and 4 will revise the 6X,7X,8X. Years 5 and 6 will revise the 7X,8X,9X. Mr Graham will see class champions next Monday at 11.30am. Helicopter Visit Last Thursday 29 August we had a visit from Mr Dwayne Sharrock and the helicopter that Years 3 and 4 had been learning about. I would like to extend a special thank you to everyone for their very productive input leading to the success of this visit. It was very generous of Dwayne to provide this opportunity for the parents and students and we wish to express our thanks to you from the Eleebana Public School learning community. This was another example of all teams working closely together for an excellent learning opportunity. Thinking of Selling? One of the school’s corporate supporters is McGraths Estate Agents at Warners Bay. They are offering support to our P&C through either of the following programs: If you are selling or considering selling your home in the next 30-60 days, contact Anthony Dinardo at McGraths Estate Agents Warners Bay on 4944 5639 or mobile 0416 007 504. With every house listed and sold, a donation of $500 will come to the school P&C. In addition to this, McGraths Warners Bay will donate the highest commission from a sale made between now and our Spring Fair (Saturday 19 October) to the school P&C.

Father’s Day Celebrations Last week the P&C organised some sensational Father’s Day stalls. We all sincerely thank families for donating gifts, and to Father’s Day helpers who wrapped and sold gifts for our students. The helpers included Jo Turner, Nicole Maison, Sally Chislett, Lynn Gomez, Nicki Walpole, Marie Norris,

Due to enrolled children's’ life threatening Anaphylactic allergic reaction 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 containing any type of nuts.

Uniform Shop Hours

Monday

8.45am - 9.15am

Tuesday to Friday

2.15pm - 2.45pm

EFTPOS Available ______________________________

Thank you to our wonderful Uniform Shop volunteers!

Principal’s Report...

Wednesday 11 September Spotlight full dress rehearsal

all day

Night Performance

CA NTE E N RO S T E R Narelle Hyslop, Sandra Elsworthy, Shelly Saunders, Tracey Peart, Terri Burke, Tracey O’Grady, Lis Nagata and Robyn Tooze, Cathy Kleynjan. A wonderful Father’s Day breakfast was also held at the school last Friday, thanks again to our P&C and particularly President Matthew Sommerville. The breakfast was a wonderful success and is sure to be repeated in 2014. Disco Last Thursday 29 August, we had our Term 3 disco. Also, a BBQ dinner was provided by the P&C at the request of parents to ease the stress of attending both discos and providing dinner in between. Again we thank Matthew Sommerville and his team for offering this service to families. A special thank you to the following disco helpers: Vanessa Price, Janene Freeman, Lily Sommerville, Abbey McNulty, Tracey O’Grady, Alex Garas and Michelle Sommerville. Parent Australian English Syllabus Workshop Our Australian English workshop was provided by Dr Leonard in the library while the disco was being held. A good turn - out was reported. A special thank you to Dr Leonard for his presentation of this workshop for the benefit of families,and ultimately, our students. Welcome Back Denise Long-term friend of Eleebana PS, Denise Devine has returned to us as our Glad Gunson Drive crossing facility supervisor and will take up duty soon. Welcome back Denise! Denise always greets people with a smile, so say hello and welcome her home when you are crossing Glad Gunson Drive. Ian Graham, Principal

Library News Premier’s Reading Challenge 2013 has now finished. This week’s congratulations go to Abbey, Lachlan, Jordyn, Nicholas, Ben, Zachary, Ava Tom, Brooke, Sarah all from 1L, Ely 1K, Scarlett 3/4E and Bronson 6J bringing our total to 258 students. The best performing grades were Year 1 with 62.8% and Year 2 with 60.8% participation. 2 classes had 100%, well done 2G and 1L. Other commendable efforts were: KM, 2B, 3H, 5H and 6J. 2014 Reading Logs will be sent home early in Term 4 to allow for an early start on next year’s challenge.

The results are in from the Tassie Devil survey. The students have voted to adopt a girl (333 votes to 164) and to help build a fence with our extra funds. Students have until Friday, 6

th September to enter the competition

to name our devil. Entries are to be returned to Mrs Forbes with the nominated name, an explanation about the name, their own name and class. Entries will then be short-listed and the school will vote during library time on the name, the winner will receive a prize and runners-up a merit award. Put those creative thinking caps on!

Those who read – succeed! Robyn Forbes

Band News Spotlight is upon us and we are going to help out our young training Band with an extended rehearsal on Monday 9 September. We will be asking some of our senior band to assist them from 8:30am and to help at Spotlight with Mr Goeldner. Reminder: Band Meeting tonight to discuss our possible tour to Dubbo.

If you would like to raise an issue, please send it to Stuart Horvath (2013 Band Convenor) at epsband11@hotmail.com or call him on 0407 949 955.

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Monday ‘P’ 9/9/13

Jo Farnant Nicole Maison Narelle Hyslop

Tuesday ‘Q’ 10/9/13

Kathy Thorncraft Helen Sayers Ann Harvey

Wednesday ‘R’ 11/9/13

Vanessa Price Monique Pritchard Mary Anne Milas

Thursday ‘S’ 12/9/13

Margaret Maclean Kathryn Clifton

Janene Freeman Tania Klein

Friday ‘T’ 13/9/13

Annie Dengas Lorena Sharrock

Lisa D

The Band Committee.

P & C President Hi everyone, I hope all our Dad’s had a wonderful Father’s day. I had a great day with my girls. Last week was the busiest of the year so far with so much going on at our great school. The canteen hosted Fruit and Veg week to encourage healthy eating. Each day there was a special healthy menu on offer. Each day was well supported however Wednesday was the standout with our volunteers making 77 salad wraps. That’s a massive effort! A big thanks to all our volunteers in the canteen last week who worked tirelessly to get all the lunches out on time. Our fundraising coordinator Nicki Walpole with the assistance of many others ran a very successful Father’s Day stall during the week. There is a lot a work that goes into such events, so on behalf of all the school thanks to all our volunteers for all your efforts. I know the children really enjoyed their little shopping trip and it was great to receive a couple handy gifts this morning from a very excited daughter. On Thursday we decided to do something a little different and cook a BBQ dinner for the disco. I’m pleased to say that the idea was well supported for a first effort so we will look to continue these going forward. Thanks to all my helpers on the night, Mr Garas, Lily, Claire and Abbey on a great job. To cap off the week we held our Father’s Day breakfast on Friday morning. It was fantastic to see many Dad’s, grand dads, mums and grandmothers have breakfast with their kids and grandkids at school. There were some games played and everyone seemed to really enjoy themselves. The feedback has been very positive so hopefully we can make this an annual event. Don’t worry mum’s, there will be one in your honour next May. Cooking 220 bacon and egg rolls in an hour was a massive effort so a huge thanks to all the team, Mr Jones, Mr Lewis, Mr May, Mrs Elsworthy, Mrs Graham, Mrs McDonald, Mr Patjl, Lily and Claire. Thanks also Mr Lewis and Mr May who came to school really early to set up. WOW what a week! Upcoming events Hamilton Island Holiday Raffle Today we are pleased to launch our annual Spring Fair Raffle to be drawn at the Fair, Saturday, October 19

th. Coming home today is one raffle ticket book

for each family to sell or buy. This is one of our major fundraisers for the year so I do hope everyone gets behind it. We have plenty of extra books so please let me know if you’d like some more. If you do not wish to participate please send back your book and the return slip as by law we need to account for all tickets. A big thankyou to Kathy Eftimovski in coordinating this big job, I really appreciate it. Have a great week everyone.

Matthew Sommerville

FUNDRAISING NEWS

Last Wednesday & Thursday we held our annual Father’s Day Stalls—These

were a great success and all the students had a wonderful time shopping.

A huge thankyou from the bottom of my heart to all the special mums and our

special Grandma (you know who you all are) for spending the last week and a

half wrapping and preparing the gifts and running the stalls. We couldn’t run

these special events without you.

To all the Fathers, Grandfathers and special people in our children’s lives

“Happy Father’s Day” for Sunday.

Thanks

T H A N K S T O O U R C O R PO R A T E

SU P PO R T ER S

S por t V e nue s

Sporting Fixtures

Junior Rugby League Windale Oval 6 September

Eleebana 1 v Belmont PS Field 2 @ 1.30pm

Eleebana 2 v Belmont N

Field 1 @ 2.00pm

Junior Netball Charlestown Courts

6 September

Eleebana v St Francis Xavier’s 1 Court 15 @12:45

Senior Rugby League Windale Oval 6 September

Eleebana v Mt Hutton Field 2 @ 1.45pm

Senior Netball Charlestown Courts

6 September

Eleebana v

Junior Soccer Speers Point 6 September

Senior Soccer Speers Point 6 September

Nicki Walpole—Fundraising Co-ordinator

Kookaburra Café What a week! Fruit & veg week went off. Well done to those children who tried something new last week. Feed back from these special weeks is encouraging and appreciated. Thankyou to everyone who helped last week. Please note that the fried rice & potato gems are on the menu this term. (They aren’t actually on the printed menu). I am looking to have fried rice on the Winter menu, and keeping potato gems permanently. Winners of our Fruit & Veg week vouchers are:- 1 Lexi 2 Nick 3 Elliot 4 Noah -5 Grace Please remember:-canteen will be closed Wednesday 11 September due to Spotlight rehearsals Cheers Michelle Sommerville

Out of School Hours (OOSH) Update We hope all the awesome men in our children’s lives enjoyed a special Fathers Day over the weekend. This week at OOSH we will be busy making flags of the world, doing Blind folded trust challenges, cooking and painting.

With the end of Term 3 approaching we remind parents that your accounts

need to be paid up to date by the last day of term. For enquiries or

information please phone Carolyn or Kate on 4942 8186, or call in between 7

-9am or 2.30-3pm, NOT AT 3pm, which is our busiest time of the day.

For enquiries or information please phone Carolyn or Kate 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 & Kate - OOSH Coordinators

From The Office

T H A N K S T O O U R C O R PO R A T E

SU P PO R T ER S

From The Office Student Medical Forms During Terms 3 and 4 we will be updating our medical records systems to ensure we have the most up-to-date information on your child’s health. We appreciate your support as we start collecting the information, and if you have any questions please call. An ORANGE cover sheet means that you indicated, at enrolment, that your child had a medical condition. As a number of these children have indicated two or more medical conditions we have included, for everyone, the additional forms that MAY be required. If your child has only the one condition you only need to complete the top and bottom forms. If they no longer suffer from any medical issue please fill out just the top half of page 1 and put Not Applicable (N/A) in the “Allergy“ and “Medical Condition” sections, sign page 11 and return. All orange forms need to be returned ASAP. PURPLE / PINK cover sheets: We are now starting to work through the remainder of the school with these forms this week Students in Year 3 & 4 will receive their forms please fill out just the top half of page 1 and put Not Applicable (N/A) in the “Allergy“ and “Medical Condition” sections, and return. All forms need to be returned 13 September.

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Spotlight News Just a reminder about the Spotlight FULL dress rehearsal on Wednesday 11 September at Newcastle Panthers. Payment for this day is $4 per student. Payment and permission notes are due by Friday 6 September. Just a reminder that this is a CLOSED rehearsal – no parent volunteers/visitors are required. The Canteen will be closed on the day of the rehearsal so please ensure your child brings their recess and lunch with them. Please be advised that the Spotlight rehearsal is classed as an excursion and ALL children are expected to return to school by bus ready for pick up by parents at 3pm.

Spotlight tickets are available to anyone who wishes to purchase additional tickets. There will be no refunds or reallocation of tickets that you have already received to date.

As you are aware the Thursday night performance of Spotlight is being filmed for DVD purchase. If you DO NOT want your child filmed, please do not send your child to perform on that night. The .Spotlight DVD’s are $35 and orders are still being taken.

Parents are reminded that video/filming/photography of the Spotlight performances Is not permitted. Thank you for your support of this request. Kindergarten will be having a dress rehearsal on Thursday 5 September at school. This is in addition to the dress rehearsal on September 11 at Newcastle Panthers. They will need to bring Black singlet/Black shorts for the boys and Black leotard for the girls.

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Walk to School Day On Friday the 6

th of September, Mr Manton and several teachers will be

conducting a Walk to School Day. We will be starting at the small park on Glad Gunsen Drive, near the Duck’s Crossing, at 8:30am. We will fol-low the footpath right up to meet the Lollipop lady at the schools crossing before crossing the road and entering the school. We are hoping that the weather will be sunny, and lots of our students will participate. Thanks, Mr Manton

Here’s a link to a fantastic video put together by another amazing dad at Eleebana Public School, Steve Bradbury. It is now on our school Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT75OQdTnsA Thank you Steve. If you follow our class website, you will know that this Wednesday is launch day for our Year 3 girls editing team. It is a bumper issue: http://eleebana34e2012.wordpress.com/ Please FOLLOW us. We are hoping to break our own record for the most number of views on our site this issue and increase our followers by 10%. Debbie Evans

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Helicopter visit Last Thursday a helicopter landed on our Eleebana PS school oval, and guess who was in it?? Mr Dwayne Sharrock!! Mr Sharrock is Riley’s (3/4E) dad. Before last Thursday Mr Sharrock had been to talk to Stage 2 about aer-oplanes and ejection seats. He talked a lot to us about weight, lift, drag and thrust. It was really interesting and we all learnt a lot. Last Tuesday he came in again. This time to talk to 3/4E about helicop-ters. He talked to us then about turning the helicopter using the cyclic pitch lever and making it go up and down using the collective pitch lever. We found out about the blades on a helicopter, the tail rotor and the main rotor. When he told us that he would land a helicopter in the schools top oval we were all so excited and we were looking forward to it all week!!! It was amazing and everyone got excited. We all cheered and clapped as he demonstrated some helicopter moves. He went up, sideways and in all different directions. It was good that he came in before to explain because we could shout what levers he was using when he landed. The Cyclic Pitch or the Collec-tive Pitch!! And it was Riley’s birthday on Friday, so he got to ride home in the heli-copter, what a wonderful birthday present! Thank you to all the teachers, office staff, ground staff and lots, lots more for organizing the helicopter visit. Mrs Evans told us it took a lot of effort. Safety was very important, next came learning, and then fun!! I think we were very safe, we learnt a lot, and I’m sure everyone had fun. The whole school says thank you to Dwayne and we all hope you can come back again!! Teia 3/4E