Premier’s Sporting

Challenge

Finishes Tomorrow

Glen Alice PS Excursion Tomorrow

Last Day Term 2

Tomorrow

NAIDOC Week

7th -

14th July

Students Return

23rd July

Little Diggers

2nd August

CALENDAR

Term 2 Week 10

4th July 2019 H I L L E N D P U B L I C S C H O O L

The Golden Quill

ATTACHMENT Bathurst Winter Festival Flyer

Happy Holidays!

What a fantastic term it has been for the students. With our focus on

‘Space and Earth Science’ the children studied planets, our solar system,

space exploration and deep into space.

They enjoyed reading, writing, research, painting,

coding and many more activities all related to the

topic and by the end of the term our learning portal

was simply bursting with student work.

It has been a wonderful step forward for our school and for our students.

The children have all made progress academically and with their

personal learning skills. They have been simply buzzing with

excitement, talking and working alongside each other.

My personal thanks of course go to the wonderful staff we have here at

our school. They are all committed to the best outcomes for our students

now and into the future and truly are an inspiration to work alongside.

Thank you also to our families and community for your ongoing support

of our students and school. Congratulations boys and girls on a fantastic

term! I hope everyone has a nice holiday break. Mr G

Earn & Learn

3...2...1...Blast-off!

Thank you to everyone who have dropped off or posted

stickers to support our Little Diggers program.

The program finishes this Sunday. Our results will be

printed in our first newsletter after the holidays.

Hill End

Public School’s

150th

Birthday!

Saturday

7th November 2020

P a g e 2

Term 2 Space Recount Snippets

T h e G o l d e n Q u i l l

“The

darkest

nights

produce

the

brightest

stars.”

This term we have been learning about space. We built

rockets and tested them. We wanted to see how far they

could go. We made pictures of astronauts and pictures of

planets. We did a planet study. I did Mercury. I know

Mercury looks like the moon. The craters are billions of

years old. They were made when the solar system formed.

Mercury has no moons. Emily - Year 2 On our excursion to the

Mudgee Observatory we saw

the constellation Scorpio and

the Southern Cross. We also

saw the planet Jupiter, shooting

stars and the International

Space Station. This term has

been great. I have loved all the

things we have done.

Claire - Year 6

This term I’ve learnt what astronauts wear and do in

space. We have studied constellations and learnt how

many there are. I enjoyed making our cross-sections of

the Gate-way, making the details for it was fun. This

term was the best! Lauchlan - Year 6

We have been learning about phases of the moon.

The phases of the moon have names like new moon,

crescent moon and also full moon. We have also been

doing word of the day. We have been learning lots of

space words like rocket and astronaut. I really enjoyed

this term. Beth - Year 3

This term we have been

learning all about space.

I have studied about the nine

planets. They orbit the Sun.

The moon is orbiting the

Earth and the dark side of the

moon protects the Earth from

meteorites and asteroids.

Charlotte - Year 3

This term we have learnt about

straw rockets. We made bottle

rockets. Edmond - K

We did cool space art . I did a rocket made out of

coloured paper. I also did a planet artwork. We have a

special place for putting spacey stuff. It’s called the

portal. We put space art and space books in there.

When we first saw it we were amazed! The best part

of Term 2 was all of it! This term was great! All

thanks to the teachers. Toby - Year 4

We learnt about constellations.

The Southern Cross is a

constellation. Scorpio is also a

constellation. It was such a fun

term. Bryton - Year 4

I liked the straw rockets!

Akadia - K

GOOD LUCK

To all of

our students

who are

competing at

the Small

School’s

Athletics

Carnival in

Mudgee

today.

T e r m 2 W e e k 1 0 P a g e 3

SCHOOL LEADER REPORT

This week we have been

practising for the Athletics

Carnival again. We have also

been choosing work for our

portfolios. Toby is going good

with his times tables

Claire English

AWARDS Students of the Week

We congratulate all

of our students

for your

wonderful work

this term.

“I keep hitting

the space

bar but I’m

still on Earth”

Visitors

Our Little Diggers Hudson and Chelsea had a

great afternoon with play, a story and even some

athletics training! Imogen visited the library for a

story with Mum. We look forward to welcoming

our Diggers after the holidays. First afternoon is

Friday 2nd August. Wear your jeans and bring a

gold coin donation to support Jeans for Genes.

Mannie visited to borrow from

the Bathurst Library Depot and

Kerri was spotted conducting

a village tour for visiting

students. The Library Depot

will be closed from Friday 5th

July. Re-opens 23rd July.

Little Diggers

Semester 1 Show-off Our students were so proud to show off their classroom and their

Semester 1 work to family and friends yesterday afternoon. Everyone

was very impressed with the standard of student work and also the

knowledge they had about it. Thanks for the donuts Hayley and Lea!

THE AUSTRALIAN MONTHLY MARCH 1953 (courtesy Tony Power) History Snippet

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