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Term 4 Week 4

2019

Learning For Life

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Important Dates

Tuesday 12/11 * School Banking * Stage 2 Excursion 3/4C & 3/4M Wednesday 13/11 * K Start Groups 1 & 2 * Stage 2 Excursion 3/4G & 3/4H Thursday 14/11 * K Start Groups 3 & 4 * Stage 2 Excursion 3/4L, 3/T, 4T & Stage 2 Multicat Friday 22/11 * Superstar Assembly 2:00pm in school hall

Great Work! This week I had some students visit to show me their work. Lucas from 2/3T is working well in mathematics. Chase and Levi from 2J achieved great spelling results and Jayden from 1M is working well in reading. Aleshia, Ayda, Scarlett, Isobel and Keinzley from KH read me their bushwalk writing. Chloe and Lillian from 3/4H read me their mini writes and Jackson, Lamorna and Lucas from 2/3T shared their persuasive texts. Well done to Chloe 1M, Esther and Eloise 1/2H and Jamicyn KM for reading 100 nights and congratulations to Maci 2/3T, Oliver 1/2H, Scarlett 3/4G, Ayda, Ben and Riley KH for reading an amazing 200 nights.

P&C Fundraiser Our P&C Obstacool Splash-a-thon was a fantastic success with the students having loads of fun and with your help, the P&C raised over $6,700 for our school. Thank you so much for your support. All money raised will be going to purchase readers for our K-2 classes. Thank you also to our P&C for organising such fun opportunity for our kids.

Valley Schools Leaders Forum Our school Leadership Team presented their Leadership project at the Valley Schools Leaders’ Forum on Wednesday 6 November at Niagara Park Public School.

Our school leaders profiled their Kinder transition initiative. It was a great opportunity to see the different projects other leaders from the Valley Community of Schools completed. It was also great to

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see a wide variety of performances showcasing the talents of our local schools. Our senior dance group were amazing!

Many thanks to Miss Tout and Mrs Rutherford for their coordination of our Leadership team and thank you to Stage 3 teachers and staff for their organisation and help throughout the evening. Thank you also to our students for their efforts with leading their initiative.

School Prefect Speeches On Tuesday, the Year 5 students completing the Leadership program presented their speech for 2020 Student Leadership. The successful Leadership team for 2020 will be announced at the Superstar Assembly in Week 8 and the School Captains will be announced at the Presentation Day on Wednesday 11 December. The House Captains will be voted for in Term 1, 2020 and will have their badges presented at a special assembly next year.

Remember, as a Leader you don’t need to be a certain age or grow up in a certain area. You don’t need to be the most popular or the best looking. You don’t need to be the funniest or the smartest in the class. What you do need to be a great leader is to care for the people you are leading and care about the goals of your team. A leader is someone who leads with integrity, responsibility and generosity.

Update Information Through the course of the year, families have relocated, changed phone numbers and have different emergency contact details. If you have relocated and have different contact details can you please provide them to the school office so that our records are up to date. Also, if you are not returning after the holidays can you please notify the school. Breakfast Shack Our Breakfast Shack has been operating for three weeks and has been well supported by our students with an average of 65 students visiting each morning. This program was started by our SLSO’s who put on the breakfast daily. Thank you to families who have donated to our breakfast program. Your kindness is greatly appreciated. Thank you also to our SLSO’s who provide this great initiative for our kids.

Clothing Pool Our P&C volunteer run Clothing Pool is currently undergoing some changes. We have had a volunteer to take on the co-coordinator role and due to volunteers availability, we have had to change our opening hours. As at 4 November the Clothing Pool will no longer being open on Mondays. Thursdays opening hours of 8:30am to 9:30am will remain and will be the only day we will be open.

We will be delivering Flexi School Orders on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s.

We will be opening on announced days for special events eg. new Kindergarten parents and to purchase uniforms early next year.

We apologise for any inconveniences caused. Thanks to all our volunteers, without which we could not operate. If you are available to help in our Clothing pool, please contact the Niagara Park Public School P&C Secretary at: nppspandc@gmail.com

Have a great weekend. Adam Boulus Principal

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CHANGE OF DATES FOR SUPERSTAR ASSEMBLY Due to unforeseen circumstances the Superstar assembly, which was scheduled for Friday 15 November (Week 5), has been postponed until Friday 22 November (Week 6). We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause and we hope to see you there.

Nicole Pattison Deputy Principal (Rel.)

PARENT HELPERS MORNING TEA To show our appreciation for your assistance and support this year, we would like to invite you to join us at a special morning tea to say thank you.

Date: Wednesday 4 December, 2019 Time: 11:00am Venue: Niagara Park Public School Hall

We hope that you can attend and look forward to seeing you. Nicole Pattison Deputy Principal (Rel.)

TERM 4 STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL This term, the SRC are asking families to donate new books to The Smith Family’s Book Appeal for Australian

children living with limited financial advantages. Reading at home is very important to every child’s education

so by donating books, we can improve the educational opportunities for less fortunate children. During

November, collection boxes will be in each classroom. All books must be NEW. We thank you in advance for

your support.

Sallyanne Probert

SRC Coordinator

LIDS4KIDS Thank you so much for your amazing support. We have stopped collecting them for this year and will take up the collecting again in Term 1, 2020.

Please hold onto your lids and bread tags over the next few months and we will let you know when to send them in next year.

Michelle Spence Classroom Teacher

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