Weekly Newsletter Woy Woy South Public School

The School Mall WOY WOY NSW 2256 Ph.: (02)43411899 Fax: (02)43431984

Website: www.woywoysth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: woywoysth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal: Matt Barr Term 4 – Week 1 Date: 16th October, 2019

Respect ~ Responsibility ~ Relationships

Upcoming Events Thursday, 17th October P&C Meeting in Learning Centre – 7pm

Friday, 25th October Year 6 Farewell Meeting – 3pm in Learning Centre Tuesday, 29th October Kindergarten Farm Visit – no cost involved

Thursday, 24th October – Thursday, 28th November

Ready 4 School Kindergarten 2020 Transition Program – 2pm > 2.45pm

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL Welcome back to Term 4 at WWSPS. I hope all students and families managed to have a safe and relaxing holiday and are ready for a busy term to finish off 2019. Holiday Work/Upgrades During the holidays we have taken delivery and installation of 8 new touch screen TVs to replace our aging Smartboards in the Year 3 & 4 classrooms. The next phase of the project will see the same boards installed in our remaining infants classrooms, which is very exciting. Additionally, our old library has been revamped with new flexible furniture. This will allow us to reconfigure the layout of our library at any time to suit our specific needs. Tell Them From Me Survey As mentioned last term, The Tell Them From Me survey for parents, students and teachers has opened for 2019. The more responses we get the better our ability to make change. We are hoping to break last year’s record response rate of 177 – we currently sit at 155! Survey closes 25/10/19. Please take the time to have your say and make our school a better place by completing the Tell them from Me Parent Survey by following the link on: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/92d9p Summer Uniform As Term 4 has now commenced students are requested to attend school in full school summer uniform. This includes: Girls: K-5: Red school hat with logo, red checked tunic, plain white socks and black shoes or Grey polo shirt, dark grey skorts/shorts, plain white socks and black shoes. Year 6: Year 6 shirt, red/grey checked skirt or dark grey skorts/shorts, plain white socks and black shoes. Boys: K-6: Red school hat with logo, grey polo shirt and dark grey shorts, plain white socks and black shoes. Sport: K-6: Red school hat, new red polo shirt and black shorts, white sports socks and runners (no fluoro coloured runners)

Correct wearing and presentation of our school uniform ensures student identification and safety in the community and assists in the continued development of strong school pride and learning culture - characteristics we are extremely committed to upholding. Ready for School Next Thursday, 24/10 our ‘Ready for School’ program commences for our 2019 kindergarten students. This program will run every week for 6 weeks commencing at 1.55pm. If you know of anyone with Kindergarten age children for 2020 living in our school zone, please don’t hesitate to invite them along to be a part of the program. Please contact the office if you’d like any further details. Social Media Use for Children The new term presents an opportunity for a timely reminder of the appropriate use of social media for children. Use of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr or Snapchat is restricted to those over the age of 13. It goes without saying that dealing with issues in the school context arising from social media interactions of children under this age, is not only alarming and highly time consuming, but totally avoidable. Not using these platforms is the surest way to escape these issues. Allergy and Anaphylaxis Awareness Support Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction that can be life threatening. Could we please ask your assistance in avoiding foods containing peanuts or tree nuts and talking to your children about sharing certain foods and washing their hands regularly? Have a great week everyone, Matt Barr Principal

Grandparents Day On Friday the 25th October Woy Woy South PS will be celebrating Grandparents Day. We will be having open classrooms from 10:00-10:30 followed by performances in the hall. Grandparents are then asked to stay and have a picnic recess with students at 11am. On the day we will be also raising money for local animal shelters and are asking for donations of dog food, cat food, pet treats or a gold coin donation. We will also be having a cake stall outside the hall at recess. Hope to see you all there. Miss I’Anson

Year 2 – 3 Transition Information SPORT

All Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 students have Sport on Fridays and will need to wear their sports uniform.

Sports Uniform –

Black Shorts for boys and girls

School Sports Shirt

White Sports Socks

Running shoes (please avoid fluro colours)

Sport is organised on a Stage basis with a variety of activities planned. School sports are usually a series of modified games which involve the skills being taught in PE over the term e.g. AFL, Netball. Soccer, T-ball & Football.

In addition to school sport, students are invited to participate in a Gala Day which involves them travelling to different venues and playing sports against students from other schools in the local area. Gala Day sports usually include Netball, Soccer, T-ball and OZ Tag.

Next year, your child will have the opportunity to participate in our school Swimming, Cross Country and Athletics Carnivals. These can lead to school representation, moving into Zone, Sydney North and State carnivals for successful participants.

Students are also given the opportunity to try out for knockout teams in a variety of sports including Rugby League, Girls and Boys Football, Girls and Boys Cricket, Girls and Boys Touch Football and Basketball.

CAPA

Creative and Performing Arts continues in primary with Stage 2 and 3 Dance Groups, Aboriginal Dance Group, 3-6 Choir and Drama Groups. Rehearsal for these groups are at recess or lunch time. Students also have the opportunity of performing in Central Coast Dance Festival and Showcase, Choral Festival and Starstruck.

PBL Focus for Week 1. The PBL focus for this week is 'Classroom Expectations'. Each class has their own rules based on our school values of Respect, Responsibility and Relationships. It is important to remember these rules when working in the classroom to ensure all students and staff have the opportunity to learn and teach in a productive and safe environment.

The PBL team.

Library News I wanted to share some exciting news with you all.

We have new furniture in our library! As you can imagine removing all of the resources to make way for the new furniture has been a mammoth endeavour and I would like to thank all of the students for their patience while this transition is happening. I can’t wait to reopen the library and show the students their new dynamic learning space. Unfortunately I will not be able to reopen until Monday, Week 2, Term 4. Thank you to everyone who has assisted with the move. Hopefully you will all love our new library as much as I do.

Megan Rigas

Teacher Librarian

P&C News P&C MEETING – THIS THURSDAY 17TH OCTOBER 7:00PM

Our next meeting will be held this Thursday 17th October at 7:00pm in the Learning Centre. If anyone is interested in looking at the options for a new grey skirt to be added to our current uniform, we would love to see you there! Term 4 is a huge term and we would love some extra help too please. Everyone is welcome, including younger children. We try to have a laugh and a bit of fun so come along and find out who we are and what’s happening.

SAVE THE DATES

We have some awesome adventures coming up in Term 4 so please save the date of Friday 22nd November for a fun filled day!!! We also have our school disco planned for Thursday 5th December. More information about these events will be coming home soon.

WOY WOY SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C FACEBOOK PAGE

Have you liked and followed our page? Get up to date information and reminders on all things P&C. Join our Woy Woy South Public School P&C Facebook Page so we can get messages to all our volunteers and parents as required. This page will be a source of canteen specials, volunteers needed for certain days, reminders for meetings, reminders for money/notes due to the RED P&C BOX, uniform shop specials and opening times, and anything we need to get out to you. Feel free to ‘like’ our page and send us a message if you need any clarification or advice about upcoming events.

SCHOOL BANKING

New Polar Savers Term 4 rewards are now available, while stocks last:

For every deposit made at Water Skimming Bounce Ball

Polar Pencils & Pencil Toppers

school students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for exclusive School Banking reward items in recognition of their regular savings habits. There are two new items released each term so be sure to keep an eye out for them!

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program and remember, School Banking day is every Friday.

UNIFORM SHOP

Just a reminder that our term 4 Uniform Shop hours are Monday 8:30am-9:30am and Friday 8:45am-9:15am. From next week we will also be open for our 2020 kindergarten parents from 1:30pm on Thursdays while the Ready for School program is running. We are CASH ONLY at the uniform shop. If you wish to pay with card, please sign up for an account at: quickcliq.com.au which will enable online purchase of uniforms and also canteen lunch orders. Online orders can be collected from the uniform shop, canteen or Featon Locksmiths on West Street, Umina (Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm). Please specify if collecting from Featons where you can also purchase most items (limited stock) using cash.

BLUEY’S SNACK SHACK

Canteen roster:

Thursday 17th October - Keiran

Friday 18th October - Ellen and Paul

Monday 21st October - Sandra

Tuesday 22nd October – Volunteers needed please

Wednesday 23rd October - Volunteers needed please

Halloween Scary Recess Treats are coming, keep an eye out for the flyer.

Did you know you can order your child’s lunch online up until 9:15am that day?

You can order your children’s lunches online at Woy Woy South. Check it out at: quickcliq.com.au

Simple and easy to sign up.

Amanda

We are absolutely delighted with how well the garden is doing. The children will be lucky to watch our garden become edible in the very

near future!

A huge thank you again to the families, friends and teachers who contributed their time and effort to

make this possible.