Tighes Hill Public School Newsletter No. 12

Principal’s Report

Congratulations to the 38 students who represented Tighes Hill

PS at the Zone Athletics Carnivals last Friday. All of our students

represented our school with pride, enthusiasm and great

sportsmanship. We had some amazing results as a team and the

following students further qualified for the Hunter Region carnival

at the end of the month.

Alexis - 100m, 200m, 800m and long jump; Amie & Jules - 800m

Congratulations to all participants, we are very proud of you!

Term 3 Week 4 15th August 2018

Dates for the Diary

Thursday 21st August

Interrelate Year 6

Wednesday 22 August

Year 5/6 Newcastle Permanent

Maths Competition

Thursday 23rd August

SKIPs program 5/6A & 6B

Cluster Choir rehearsal day

Friday 24th August

Daffodil Day

Monday 27th August

Parent/teacher interviews begin

Chess Teams event

Tuesday 28th August

NAPLAN Readiness Testing Week

Interrelate Year 6

Tighes Hill Public School

33 Elizabeth St, Tighes Hill, 2297

Phone: 4969 3720 Fax: 4961 2334

Email:

tigheshill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website:

www.tigheshill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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class blogs yet?

Principal’s Report

Premier’s Spelling Bee!

Congratulations to all of our super spellers who took part in our

annual Premier's Spelling Bee last fortnight. It was a tough

competition with many challenging words. Well done to our

Stage 2 winners Evie and Ella and Stage 3 winners Dexter and

Chelsea. They will represent our school later this term in the

Regional finals. Thank you to the parents and grandparents who

came along to watch and support our children.

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2019

Families with students to commence Kindergarten in 2019 are

asked to contact the school office. This enables us to correctly

estimate enrolments and staff required for 2019. Parents are

asked to help contact new families to Tighes Hill who have

Kinders or other new enrolments for 2019. Likewise, please let

me know of any neighbours and friends, who may not have chil-

dren already at this school but will have school age children for

2019 so we can then contact them and include them on our num-

bers for next year.

Canteen

The canteen is now open for business. Let’s support our new

operators. The new menu can be found on our website and app.

Opportunity Class Test

Well done to all Year 4 children who sat for the Opportunity

Class Placement test on Wednesday (1st August 2018). I know

that they all tried their best!

Motiv8 sports after school activities

We have had three extremely successful sessions and I want to

congratulate those 50 students who are taking part on their

engagement and enthusiasm they display each week. Keep it up!

School Banking is on

TUESDAY

Book Club Orders

Orders have been placed

Assemblies

Our assemblies are on Mondays

K-2 from 2.15pm

Y3-6 from 11.40am

in our upper hall

Hall of Fame assembly

Week 9 at 2pm

The next P&C meeting will be held

Monday 10th September

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Canteen News

Our canteen is open daily. The

menu is on the school website

with a link to online ordering.

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Principal’s Report

Chess Coaching

Mondays 1.15pm - 1.55pm

provided by the Sydney

Academy of Chess. Cost - $68

per term. Please see Ms

Armstrong for more details.

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Callaghan Education Pathways Recognition Assembly

On Monday 6th August, I was fortunate to attend this special

event with staff, students and parents from the 18 primary and

high schools of our cluster. Children from all these schools

received Excellence Awards for their work in our schools.

Congratulations to Tama, Jemima, Gracie, Kalan & Lucy from

our school. I am so proud of you and the way you strive for

excellence each and every day.

Lost Property

We have a number of items in lost property. These items

generally do not have any name labels on them. Larger items

such as clothing, lunch boxes, drink bottles are kept under the

sink in the lower hall. Smaller items such as purses/wallets,

jewellery, thumb drives, sunglasses etc are kept at the office.

We have quite a collection and encourage you to check these

areas if you have lost any of these items.

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Well done to all our students taking part in this

year's Premier's Reading Challenge! There's

only a few weeks left to enter your reading log

online as the competition closes on

Friday the 31st August.

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Assembly Awards ~ Term 3, Weeks 3 & 4

KD Zeppelin, Lola, Eden, Piper

KH Lars, Mikayla, Fergus, Amaya

KTB Luciana, Amelia, Xavier, Joseph

1C Indi, Luuk, Edward, Grace

1E Zane, Abby, Asha, Pontus

2S Maxime, Aidan, Noah, Franki

2W Jayden, Edie, Xavier, Max

3D Arlo, William, Arlo

3S Lachlan, Kai, Jada, Orla

4S Giverny, Jacinta, Nathan, Sarbella

4/5R Gordon, Ede, Tayla, Ruby

5W Henry, Adam, Christina, Issach

6B Cody, Stephanie, Keita, Christopher

5A6 OC Kynan, Amira, Callum, William

Congratulations to all our children and staff.

Tony Selwood

PRINCIPAL

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Hunter Zone Public Speakers

Congratulations to our Highly Commended public speakers, Seb and Mitchell who participated in the next

stage of our Hunter Zone Public Speaking Competition in week 2 of this term. Thank you to all our

fantastic public speakers who participated in this round of the competition and beautifully represented all

of us here at Tighes Hill Public School. We are all very proud of your efforts. The judges commended all

speakers on the calibre of their speech content, gestures and the selection of topics, which were of a high

standard.

Stage 1

Mitchell P - Annoying Kids & Imogen B - You Shouldn’t Chew Bubblegum in Class

Stage 2

Lachie I - The Diary of an Obi Dog & Leontine O - The Species of 4S

Stage 3

Sebastian T - Apples & Nikolai S - Cockroaches

Daffodil Day

The SRC will be supporting Daffodil Day Friday 24th August. A note will be

sent home later this week.

Jeans for Genes Day

Everyone looked amazing and on trend in their denim last

Friday! Thank you so much for your generous donations

for Jeans for Genes Day. We raised over $484 to go towards funding research into

genetic diseases.

School News

School News

Education Week ~ Grandparent Day

I would like to thank all the students, parents and staff for making the Education Week celebrations last

week such a success. A special mention to all the grandparents who joined us on the day to make it so

special - we loved having you here and hope to see you all more regularly. What an amazing showcase

of talent that was displayed through the Science, Technology and Maths (STEM) activities. Special

thanks to Ms Armstrong and Mrs Bowman for your planning and organisation of this event.

School News

Musiva Viva!

In week 2 we had a wonderful visit from Mara! We sang and danced along to a variety of songs and were

introduced to some beautiful instruments. Thank you so much to the P&C for this fantastic opportunity for

our students through Musica Viva. Thank you to Miss Hibbert for teaching and preparing our students with

music and lyrics to this fantastic folk music from around the world!

Fiver for a Farmer

Thank you so much to our wonderfully generous students and families who showed their support for the

Fiver for a Farmer event this week. We have now raised over $1800! Well done, Tighes Hill!

Maths Superstars!

Well done to all our clever Stage 2 & 3 mathematicians who took part in the Mathematics Challenge for Young Australians at the end of last term. The program provided students with a series of problems to work through and allowed them to collaborate and discuss strategies in small groups. Congratulations on your effort and hard work completing this challenging challenge! Our super achievements are below:

Proficiency: Tayla, Andreas, Aidan, Zali, Annabelle, Jack, Nora, Zanetta, Laura, Alexis, Callum & Rowan

Credit: Orlando, Tama, Leontine, Addison, Finn, Aiden, Bobby, Seb, Eden, Chloe & Dylan

Distinction: Keita, Kalan, Will, Fin, Julian, Archie, Amie, Ellen, Hamish, Oliver, Norah, Hamish, Kynan,

Raquel & Emma

School News

School News

Thank you and well done to all of our Children’s University students who attended our after school learning

session in Week 2. A huge thank you to our amazing parent volunteers; Elena, Sarah, Bec and Brooke!

We are so lucky to have incredibly talented and generous parents to give their time and share their

expertise and love of learning with our kids.

Just a reminder to all students taking part in the Children’s University program that passport hours need to

be completed and checked by Ms Armstrong or Mrs Schonberger by the end of this term. The last day to

have your passport checked to qualify for graduation is Friday 21st September. If you haven’t had your

passport hours checked recently, please bring your passport in to school ASAP.

Save the date! All CU students who have 30 hours of validated learning for 2018 will be invited to the

University of Newcastle for a special Graduation Ceremony in Term 4 on the evening of Tuesday 6th

November.

If you’re looking for extra hours to qualify for graduation, remember to visit the Children’s University page

on our school website to download the Term 3 activity booklet. There are also lots of

activities taking place to celebrate National Science Week.

For more information, please see Ms Armstrong or Mrs Schonberger.

School News

DO YOU HAVE AN INTEREST OR SKILLS IN THE CREATIVE ARTS?

It could be sewing, weaving, leather work, graphic design or working with

clay. The school is looking for parents/grandparents carers or

community members who would like to help out in the art cave.

The art cave has a small, dedicated base of volunteers but we are

looking for more volunteers who are keen to be involved.

Presently, the art cave runs in class time on Thursdays, 9am to 1.30pm

and Fridays, 9am to 1pm. Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) are on Thursdays

and Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6) are on Fridays.

Art cave is a lot of fun, students love it and so do

the teachers.

We have considerable resources in the art cave

including a kiln. If you would like to be involved or

know someone else who may be keen you can

contact Jane on 0427 921 707 or simply come on

down to the art cave on a Thursday or Friday to

check it out.

NEW TITLES HAVE JUST ARRIVED!!!

Hello avid readers of Tighes Hill!

The last fortnight has seen many new titles added to our collection that are

now ready to be borrowed!

These are just a few of the titles that have just landed. Be sure to

check ORBIT and browse the new books section for a complete

updated list to check to see if your favourites have been purchased.

The last Scholastic book orders for Issue 6 Term 3 are now

closed. Orders will arrive within the fortnight. Catalogues are

handed out twice a term. Online ordering through loop and the

new catalogue is already available online.

Visit www.scholastic.com.au/schools/ .Happy Reading!

Meg Derricott THPS Librarian

http://www.scholastic.com.au/schools/

P&C News

Community News

MOTIV8 MEGA CAMP FOUNDATION MEMBERS

This is just a reminder not to forget about our 25% off discount for our MEGA

CAMP on the 9th - 11th of October. We know many of you have already booked

in which is great news and we are looking forward to running a bigger and better

camp with more prizes and giveaways for the kids to enjoy.

The code to use when registering is MEGA25. The registration link is below:

https://motiv8sports.com.au/event/3-day-mega-camp/

We also have a 4 on 4 Soccer Tournament on the 4th and 5th October in the first week of the school holi-

days. Simply create a team of 4 in a specific age group and one person pay the deposit, then the follow-

ing 3 pay as they go. Included in their registration is their Country Soccer Jersey (eg Brazil, Argentina or

Japan). For more information please go to the link below:

https://motiv8sports.com.au/event/4-on-4-football-tournament-2-day-world-cup-edition/

For more information on either events please contact Aaron on 0412 872 306 or email newcas-

tle@motiv8sports.com.au

We look forward to seeing you all very soon. Spread the word to all your friends to jump on board the

best school holidays experience the kids will have.

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