EUNGAI PUBLIC SCHOOL E-mail : eungai-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER TERM 3 WEEK 10 19TH SEPTEMBER 2016

Our Mission: To provide a unique, challenging

and world class education

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Eungai Creek NSW 2441

Phone: (02) 6569 9248

Fax : (02) 6569 9428

Mobile: 0438 463 912

September

22nd Jump Rope For Heart Jump Off

23rd Last day of Term

October

10th Term 4 students return

12th Life Education visit

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome to the end of Term Three. We have had a busy and exciting term with the book fair, the

Yarrahapinni festival and the Mini Olympics just to name a few activities that the children have

participated in. They have also been doing plenty of practice for our Jump Rope for Heart which is on this

Thursday. Don’t forget to send in the sponsorship forms this week.

Our Guinea Pigs need a home for the holidays. They have their own hutch and food. If you would like to

look after our Guinea Pigs over the two week break please come and see me before Friday.

We are changing the day of our afternoon assemblies due to a change in our timetable. Short weekly

assemblies will now be on at 9:00 on Fridays in lines. These short assemblies will be to give out our weekly

merit award winners. Our big assemblies will still be on Week Five and Ten of term.

Have a happy and safe holiday everyone. See you back at school ready to learn on Monday 10th October.

Julie Carr

CALENDAR DATES

MERIT AWARDS

Term 3: Week 10:

Kinder: Haylie Little

Year 1: Amber Neilly

Year 2: Owen Neilly

Year 3: Cleo Day

Year 4: Reece Bishop

Year 5: Harry Smart

Year 6: Erin Cooper

Term 4: Week 1:

Kinder: Travis Hamer

Year 1: Cooper Bates

Year 2: Helena Leksinska-Crosswhite

Year 3: Kayla Czisz

Year 4: Isaiah MacDonald

Year 5: Jesse Falzon

Year 6: Paige Shanahan

SENIOR CAMP

OFFICE

Coffs coast adventure centre

4/5/6 CAMP 2016

Monday morning I was feeling as happy and buzzy as a bee. I went into the kitchen to thank my

amazing dad and step mum Nikki for paying for this adventure I was about to start. It was going to

be a one of a kind adventure camp.

When I arrived at school everybody was running around as excitedly as puppies. After we got to

camp and met all of our cabin mates we went out and got into our activity groups. We also met our

instructors. They all had smiles as big as the moon.

Our activities for Monday were Zorb ball and archery. On Tuesday we completed the commando

course and did canoeing on the beautiful river. In the afternoon we did fencing and I loved the sword

fight at the end of the session.

I was excited on Wednesday as it was my birthday and we did Sumo Zorb, mega drop and the giant

swing.

On Thursday we did ladder logs, Inner limits and the scary leap of faith. Lots of people were scared of

heights and were shaking like leaves in a storm.

Finally, on Friday last but not least were did circus skills. The food that Bruce the chef cooked over the

week was delicious.

Overall, the camp was amazing and I will have many happy memories for the rest of my life.

By Lilly Lawson

Grade 5

SENIOR CAMP

OFFICE

The Art and craft group have made masks and mini canvases through the week.

The first week we did masks and we got to do our own designs. All of the masks were great Mary was

helping us. Everyone had great ideas and everyone had a lot of fun. The people that were in the

group were Tanisha, Aila, Isaiah, Erin, Lilly, Taya, Joeli , Reece and Mathew.

The second week we started canvases and they were tiny but were awesome. We found designs on

the internet and everyone had great ideas

We all had fun in the last two weeks.

By Tanisha and Isaiah

THE ART AND CRAFT REPORT

OFFICE

This term we have been involved in genius groups where we could choose an activity that we wanted

develop our skills in. We chose to go in the artists group to complete some paintings. We could paint

what we wanted.

Most Mondays and Fridays we do genius groups. It is common to see the art group outside painting

on our canvases. In the art group there is Amber, Zoe, Jessica, Aleesha and Eva and we all love it. We

all share a passion for painting and all the canvases look exquisite. The art group is super excited

about the art show in week 7 of term four to show off their excellent art works.

By Eva Delimihalis and Aleesha Davis

There is also a robotics group in genius hour. They have downloaded robot designs for the EV3 Lego

kits and have built robots from these designs.

Their next job is to try and program the robots to make them move. Harry has already got his robot

arm moving to pick up an object.

By Eva Delimihalis and Aleesha Davis.

YEAR 4/5/9 GENIUS GROUPS

OFFICE