EGLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL Excellent teaching and learning in a caring environment

http://www.eglinton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

COMING EVENTS PRINCIPAL’S REPORT TERM 2

WEEK 8

Friday June 11

Assembly 12.15pm

WEEK 9

Monday June 14

Queens Birthday holiday

Tuesday June 15

Senior Band 8.30am

Wednesday June 16

Area Cross Country

Thursday June 17

Area Netball

Friday June 18

School Athletics Carnival

WEEK 10

Monday June 21

Junior Band 8.30am

Reports go home

Tuesday June 22

Senior Band 8.30am

Parent interviews begin

Monster Band day

Wednesday June 26

Serious Fun to Yamaha

Music Festival

Friday June 25

Assembly 12.15pm

WEEK 11

Monday June 28

Junior Band 8.30am

Tuesday June 29

Senior Band 8.30am

Friday July 2

Jump Rope for Heart

Skip-a-thon

Last Day of Term.

School resumes on

Tuesday July 20

Dear Parents/Carers Eglinton Dance Program Congratulations to our Dance team for the fantastic work they have put in under the support and direction of Peter Hanlon, Jayne Evans and Lisa Roberts. This group was only one of two Primary Schools performing at this weeks Western Dance Festival. They did an outstanding job with two members Amy Cole and Matthew McCauley interviewed by Prime News. Well done to all team members. Eglinton P & C. We had a very productive P & C Meeting on Tuesday night. This core of parents, along with many parents who align their support to the various sub-committees, do an outstanding job and work long voluntary hours to ensure the success of Canteen, Bands, OOSH, Clothing Pool, Gymkhana & Country Fair, Fundraising and general support for school activities. All this work contributes to the great culture of our school and increases the learning opportunities and wellbeing of all our students. Athletics Carnival Our Athletics Carnival is coming up on Friday June 18, and the Canteen needs volunteers for the day. If you can help please contact Di Thorncraft on 63371205 on Mon., Wed. and Fridays. Eglinton Chess Team Our Chess Team compete this Friday at St Philomena’s. We wish them every success and will publish results in next week’s newsletter. Queen’s Birthday Just a reminder that this weekend is a long weekend. School will resume on Tuesday June 15. Netball: Today, Thursday our Netball team braves the cold of Orange to compete in the Divisional day of the State PSSA. knockout. A big thankyou goes to Margaret Chalmers for coaching this team and to all the parents who helped transport students on the day. Graham Small Principal

NEWSLETTER

Term 2 – Week 8 Thursday June 10, 2010

VIRTUE OF THE WEEK: COMPASSION

Compassion is understanding and caring about someone who has made a mistake or is in trouble.

BANNER: Allanah Nolan GOLD AWARDS: 1A: Darci Fish, Baxter Rivett, Zack Graham, 2P: Luke Furbank, 2/3S: Rachel Vanderhel, 4K: Till Gurich, 4H: Matthew Cole, 6J: Mariah McCormack, Caitlin Olsen.

CLASS AWARDS: KM: Nicola Bourchier, Isaac Bower, Carlee Edwards, William Northey. 1A: Jacob Markwick, Duaine Wallace. 1G: Hannah Simpson. 2O’C: Zac Anderson, Lily Cole, Thomas Colwell, Ella Davis, Tillie Dunbar, Jemima Hobson. 2P:

Tom Cowan, Liam Kennedy, Alexei Pikul, Shelby Stokes, Joshua Witherspoon. 2/3S: Bianca Baker, Lydia Nichols. 3E: Grace Shumacher. 5C: Jacob Zammitt. 6A: Brent Macri. 6J: Braydon Barratt.

VIRTUE AWARD: CLEANINESS

KP: Callum McClymont, 3E: Olivia Ryan, 5C: Lillian Stocks.

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

ALL Kindergarten children are participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge as part of their library and classroom literacy activities. Year 1-6 can collect a reading log from Mrs Hicks or the Premier’s Reading Challenge website.

SKIPPING:

Years 3-6 are practicing their skipping skills in preparation for our Jump Rope for Heart Skip-a-thon on the last day of term. We are raising money to help the Heart Foundation and to also provide new skipping ropes for Eglinton Public School. All sponsorship money can be collected be-tween now and the last day of term. Please send sponsorship money into your classroom teacher. If you need a new sponsorship form please see Mrs Hicks. Alternatively children can register online through the Jump Rope for Heart website.

Western Region Dance Festival 2010.

Congratulations to the Year 5/6 Dance Ensemble, who represented Eglinton Public School at The Western Region Dance Festival on Tuesday June 8 They had a great day beginning with a dance workshop, then technical rehearsal, after lunch they performed in the Matinee and returned in the evening to dance their best performance of “Lean on Me”. Every member of the Ensemble looked very professional on the stage and they all enjoyed this great experience. They should all be very proud of their excellent achievement, after many weeks of rehearsals during lunchtime. Thank you to Jayne Evans for her training and choreography and Lisa Roberts for making costumes. So you think you can dance Eglinton? Yes ALL these children can ! Alanna Bankovic, Rebecca Cole, Suzannah Combey, Alana English, Sophie Hobson, Maree Randall, Tom Craft, Amy Cole, Shannon Furbank, Grace Hallahan, Sophie Ryan, Eve Currie, Breanna Davey, Elissa Yankovich, Matthew McCauley, Bethany Osborne, Brenna Nichols.

CANTEEN NEWS Thanks to all those who had time to attend our

canteen meeting last week. It was great so see such a

lot of people with great ideas to make our canteen

bigger and better.

A new canteen menu will be issued very soon, please

watch out for it.

REMINDERS: We are unable to heat food • In line with our canteen’s safety policies,

we are unable to heat food in the micro-wave. Sorry for any inconvenience.

• If you send your order in a zip or plastic bag, you still need to add 10c to your order for the lunch bag.

• Athletics Carnival is on June 18 and the canteen will need lots of helpers on the day. We will ask for donations to sell on the day.

Thanks so much

Di Thorncraft

Canteen Supervisor

JUNE MEAL DEAL $5.00 HOT chicken, cheese and mayo roll with a piece of fruit and popper fruit juice.

CANTEEN ROSTER FRIDAY June 11 S Walker & C Hogan MONDAY June 14 PUBLIC HOLIDAY WEDNES. June 16 S Cheevers & M Cheevers

CLOTHING POOL ROSTER 3.15—4pm MONDAY JUNE 14 PUBLIC HOLIDAY MONDAY JUNE 21 BEV

BAND ROSTER

WEEK 9 JUNIOR BAND SENIOR BAND

Monday June 14 PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Tuesday June 15 Emma Gardner and

Sarah Hobson

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS Your yearly school contribu-tions are now due. The fee is $20.00 per child and funds go towards the purchase of classroom supplies for your child to use during their lessons.

HAVE YOU GOT AN OLD TV.

Please keep the old TVs (working or not) rolling in. Thank you to all those who have partici-pated, especially Carla Robinson who donated 40 TVs!. Please phone the school to arrange collection. Liz O’Connell.

Student Banking

Thanks to the fantastic efforts of our students in the school banking program.

It’s great to see a few of the older bank books being regularly used again!

For all those wonderful bankers – Save those tokens!

Children can redeem tokens for a

variety of gifts, or save them up for bigger value items. Here is a list of the

gift items. 4 tokens – Pat the Dog bookmark 6 tokens— Pat the Dog eraser

10 tokens – Colouring pencil pack 14 tokens - Dollarmites ruler

18 tokens – Dollarmites pencil case 20 tokens – Dollarmites hat

25 tokens – Collectable Dollarmites money box

30 tokens – Dollarmites back pack

Packs are available from the front office Happy Banking! Carrolyn Halsey

WANTED Some students are undertaking a garden project of building a bridge. We need timber off cuts for this project, e.g. pieces of decking timber or similar type of timber, nothing too big please. Please drop off at the front office if you are able to help.

FOR SALEFOR SALEFOR SALEFOR SALE

Two girls push bikes for

$20.00 each. Please con-

tact Jess on 63371282

or 14 Parraweena Place,

Eglinton.

JACKEROO RANCH HORSE RIDING SCHOOL HOLIDAY JACKEROO RANCH HORSE RIDING SCHOOL HOLIDAY JACKEROO RANCH HORSE RIDING SCHOOL HOLIDAY JACKEROO RANCH HORSE RIDING SCHOOL HOLIDAY

CAMP.CAMP.CAMP.CAMP.

Jackeroo Ranch has relocated to Bingletree

Station at Upper Turon and is again running

its popular horse riding camps in the Winter

vacation.

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2nd Week Saturday July 102nd Week Saturday July 102nd Week Saturday July 102nd Week Saturday July 10 ————July 18.July 18.July 18.July 18.

Shorter stays are possible if camps are not

fully booked.

These camps cater for horse mad children aged

from 6 -16 years from beginners to advanced

riders.

Previous experience is not necessary. This is

not just a camp – its a wonderful farm

experience that your child will treasure

forever.

For more information contact

Pattie Hudson 6337 7173 (nights are best).

Bathurst Tennis CentreBathurst Tennis CentreBathurst Tennis CentreBathurst Tennis Centre

Holiday Tennis Clinics

Caters for beginner, intermediate and advanced

students aged 5 to 15 years.

Monday July 12

to

Thursday July 15

9.00am to 12.00 midday

Each day

Contact the Tennis Centre

6331 3786

Or phone Andrew

0419499467

AUSTRALIAN FOSSIL & MINERAL MUSEUM W O R K S H O P S

Booking essential 6331 5511

COOL CHEMISTRY 6-12 YEARS Thursday July 15, 11am – 12 noon $10.00 Fizzy, bubbly simple science experiments and magic ROCKASAURUS 6—12 YEARS Friday July 16 11am—12 noon $10. Have you ever wanted to have a pet dinosaur? How about a pet dinosaur rock instead? Create a rockasaurus or dinosaur egg to keep. It won’t eat much! TORCHLIGHT TOUR Thursday July 15 at 7pm $10 adult, $8 concession, $5 child & $25 family. Take a torchlight tour of the Museum.

JUNIOR SPORTS GALA DINNER!

SUPPORTING – PANTHERS RUGBY

LEAGUE

- WESTERN NSW PANTHERS FC

- EGLINTON ALLSTARS & PANTHERS

NETBALL

When, Where, Dress:

Bathurst Panthers Auditorium, Saturday 7th August, 6.30 pm

Neat Casual Attire

What you get:

- Two course served meal – Entrée Mains Tea/coffee and sweets

- Live Comedian – Clint Paddison - DJ – Terry Lovett

What it costs:

Tickets are $50.00 each or two for $90.00 (18yrs and over)

For more information & tickets, please con-tact

Julie Cole on 0417 406 774

JUNIOR SPORTS GALA DINNER!

SUPPORTING – PANTHERS RUGBY LEAGUE

- WESTERN NSW PANTHERS FC - EGLINTON ALLSTARS & PANTHERS NET-

BALL

When, Where, Dress:

Bathurst Panthers Auditorium, Saturday 7th August, 6.30 pm

Neat Casual Attire What you get:

- Two course served meal – Entrée Mains Tea/coffee and sweets

- Live Comedian – Clint Paddison - DJ – Terry Lovett

What it costs:

Tickets are $50.00 each or two for $90.00 (18yrs and over)

For more information & tickets, please contact Julie Cole on 0417 406 774

Or talk to Michelle Rogers at Panthers on

6330 0600