BIG READ BUS

21st August 2019 Don’t forget the Big Read Bus will be returning to our school on Wednesday the 21st of August. Please return all books.

TREC DAY AT COLLECTOR PUBLIC SCHOOL

27th August, 2019

African Beat is the most authentic provider of African entertainment in Australia. Specialising in interactive African drumming for team building, our performances are dynamic, authentic and create a sense of unity and team spirit through the power of music.

Established in 1983, Jump Rope for Heart is our skipping and fundraising program run in schools throughout the year. It encourages kids to have a positive attitude towards exercise, healthy eating and heart health while raising vital funds to fight heart disease. We are seeking a gold coin donation from each student.

Students are to bring their own lunch and drink for the day.

Windellama Public School

Monday 12 August 2019 Term 3 Week 4

RESPECT – RESPONSIBILITY - EXCELLENCE

Inside this Newsletter:

• Big Read Bus Reminder • TREC Day Collector • Earn & Learn • A word from the Principal • Positive Behaviour • GCOPS • District Athletics • P & C Meeting • CWA International Day • Book Fair • Breakfast Club • Touch Footy Gala Day • Save the Date • Kindergarten Orientation • Llama Merit Tokens • Up and coming Events • What’s happening in K – 2 • What’s happening in 3 – 6

A big thank you goes out to everyone who collected the Earn and Learn stickers. In total we collected 13794 stickers. We look forward to receiving our outdoor equipment in Term 4.

A WORD FROM THE PRINCIPAL

I would like to congratulate our District athletics representatives and also the six students who participated in our GCOPS performance last week. Our school relay team is now off to represent Goulburn District at the Regional carnival. Good luck to Toby, Shkeira, Victoria and Sienna. Shkeira, Mia, Alaskah, Adelaide, Cooper and Jack sang and performed beautifully on the night. A lot of practice went into their performance beforehand. Thank you Ms Charnley for all your help. Next week we are celebrating Book Week. I love seeing the children dressed up. Our Year 6 students will be leading groups based on nominated picture books.

The following students are our winners for the last two weeks and have used (or will use) their voucher at recess buy-up:

Jeremy (K-2) and Adelaide (3-6)

GCOPS

The GCOPS concert was a very lovely night. All of the schools put in a lot of effort both during the day and at the night time performance. There were individual school items along with all schools combining together for the mass choir. Well done to all.

DISTRICT ATHLETICS The following students, Tobie, Joshua, Mia, Shkeira, Sienna, Charlie, Victoria, Toby and William had all progressed to the District Athletics Carnival on Friday the 2nd of August. They all did their very best and our relay team has made it through to the Regional District Athletics. Details to be advised soon.

P & C MEETING The next Parent and Citizen (P&C) meeting will be 23rd September, 2019 at 6pm.

Parents, grandparents and community are encouraged to come along. Everyone, including children are welcome to join us.

CWA INTERNATIONAL DAY AT TARAGO HALL

The CWA are again running the International Day at the Tarago Hall on the Wednesday 28th August. The country chosen this time is Papua New Guinea. The K-1 students will be completing a colouring competition and the 2-6 students will be completing a project. All of these will be collected from school on the 21st August in readiness for judging.

BOOK FAIR

On Wednesday 21st August, students are invited to come as their favourite super hero or book character. All activities will start at 11am. Families are all welcome to join us.

BREAKFAST CLUB

On Monday 26th August only breakfast club will be cancelled due to staff movement on this day. All following Monday will operate as normal.

TOUCH FOOTY GALA DAY

There are a number of students attending. This is on this Thursday 15th August. Arrival time is 9:00am at Carr Confoy playing fields. Good luck to all. Ms Hawksworth, from Tirranna Public School and Mrs Vicki Hayes will be supervising this event.

SCHOOL ASSEMBLY

The next school assembly will be held on 22nd August at 2:30pm. All parents and carers welcome.

KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

Next year is fast approaching! We have finalised the dates for our 2020 Kinder students to take part in orientation. Kinder Orientation allows new Kindergarten students an opportunity to become familiar with the school and their new classmates before the start of the new year.

The dates for Kinder Orientation are as follows: 24th October 31st October 7th November

Watch this space for further information regarding Kinder Orientation.

LLAMA MERIT TOKENS

Sienna is our weekly stamper

Cooper, our first Llama Merit token recipient.

UPCOMING EVENTS IN TERM 3

EVENTS DATES

Book Fair Week 5, Wednesday 21 August

African Beat & Jump Rope for Heart at Collector P.S Week 6, Tuesday 27 August

CWA International Day Tarago Hall

Week 6, Wednesday 28 August

What’s Happening in K - 2 Students in K-2 have started work in their new homework books. It has been wonderful to see students taking pride in the work they complete at home as well as what they do at school. Students may personalise the cover of their book using wrapping paper, contact, pictures or any other way they can think of. Last week we began learning about money and we set up a class shop for students to ‘buy’ items. Our year one and two students had a chance to be shop assistants and were great at working out the total of different items and the change that their ‘customers’ needed. Pictured to the left are students taking part in maths groups. We have also started learning about ‘Growth and Change’ in science. Last week the students thought of a question we could test to discover how seeds grow in different materials. We will be starting that experiment this week.

What’s Happening in 3 – 6

3 to 6 have been given their CWA poster assignment on Papua New Guinea. I’m looking forward to seeing the final results. They are also working on a History unit with Mrs Ball. Everyone is looking forward to our music lessons with Miss A and hopefully using the marimba this term. We will also be practicing our skipping before Jump Rope 4 Heart at Collector.