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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

YOOGALI PUBLIC SCHOOL

NEWSLETTER

Vaccination Guidelines for NSW Public Schools From 8 November all workers who attend a NSW public school, preschool or early childhood education provider for their work will be required to be fully vaccinated. From 25 October all NSW school and preschool staff on-site to support the staged return of student cohorts under Level 3 will be required to have received two doses of COVID-19 vaccination. This includes:

● all staff members ● canteen and uniform shop volunteers ● contractors working on a school site in close proximity to students and staff

Proof of vaccination status must be provided to Leanne McWhirter, Principal, to ensure compliance with this guideline. Covid Guidelines for Level 3 Schools

• Non essential visitors are not allowed on our school site

• Parents and carers must follow physical distancing advice and avoid gathering outside our school gates

• Parents and carers must remain outside school grounds unless an appointment has been made to see a staff member.

• When entering school grounds, parents and carers must adhere to mask-wearing requirements and sign-in using the Service NSW QR code in the school office.

• If students are unwell they must not attend school. If they have flu-like symptoms they MUST not come to school. They must get a Covid test and may return to school when they receive a negative test result. This must be forwarded to staff.

• P&C meetings can only be held online.

At this stage we are not able to have school excursions, field trips or camps. We have tentatively booked some excursions in the hope that our LGA moves into Level 2 in the near future. Presentation Night 2021 Save the Date of our Presentation Night which will be held on the evening of 8 December 2021 at the Griffith Regional Theatre. Our Year 6 farewell dinner will be held in the Burley Griffith Room at the Theatre. It will be for all Yoogali PS students and Year 6 invited guests-immediate family only. P&C will be ordering pizza. There is no cost to the students of our school, however, Year 6 invited guests are asked to pay $10 each. Invitations will be sent out soon.

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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

2 November 2021

Assembly Awards Term 4 Week 3: Our awards this week were awarded to the following students for being a learner and making improvements in their writing. Congratulations!

Lisa Finau

Application and effort in all areas.

Chelsea Sayers Having a ‘red hot go’ hearing and

recording sounds in her writing.

Shiv Patel Putting in greater

effort in all learning areas.

Lily Sargeant Working hard towards her

writing goals.

Lucas Barber Excellence in all

areas of academic learning.

Tiah Wigg Writing poetry using figurative

language.

Kindness Award

Week 3 PBL Award

Week 3 Liara Sam

Kindness Award Week 4

PBL Award Week 4

Tristan Dela Cruz

Jordan Scott Being a lovely friend who plays with lots of children. Lovely Jordan!

Addy Santullo Lending a helping hand in the classroom and playground. Wonderful Addy, keep it up!

Week 4: Our awards this week were awarded to the following students for being safe and making improvements in their reading. Congratulations!

Tyler Watts Making great choices when

moving around our classroom

and working with others.

Sapphire Gorey-Gatto

Using great expression in

reading.

Robert Burns Always trying to

keep his classmates safe in

the classroom and playground.

Kale Curphey Reading with

expression and fluency.

Nate Anderson Always being safe and respectful to

classmates in class and the playground.

Dominic Byrne Working hard in

Maqlit.

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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

2 November 2021

Term 4 Sport – Swimming (next two weeks) This term we will be having two weeks of intensive swimming lessons to be held from Monday 8 to 19 November from 12-12:45 pm each day. This year due to a lack of excursions, swimming lessons, and the bus, will be FREE of charge. Please have your child ready for swimming with swimmers, rash vest/t-shirt, towel, goggles and thongs EVERYDAY for the next two weeks. Remembrance Day Our students will be taking part in a virtual excursion to the Australian War Memorial. Our students will find out about the history of Armistice Day, and some of the special events that have taken place at the Australian War Memorial on Remembrance Day since the building opened in 1941. Explore symbols of remembrance, and the stories of men and women who have served for Australia.

On Thursday 11 November we will hold our own commemorative service and hope to be able to live stream it through our Facebook site from 10:45 am.

Kindergarten Orientation Our Kindergarten Orientation Program has recommenced until 1 December. If you know of any Yoogali locals that are considering our school, please pass this information on. we are only to happy to give families a tour of our sensational school and show them all the wonderful things our small school has to offer.

Families interested in taking a tour are required to call to make an appointment on 6962 4540.

Tell Them From Me Survey The survey is anonymous and will be used to identify trends within schools and better inform school priorities for our school planning.

The survey is available in multiple languages and is conducted entirely online on computers, tablets, ipads or smartphones during the specific survey window. Our school can make school computers available for parents/carers to use. The survey takes around 15 minutes to complete. Parents with more than one child at the school may choose to complete the survey more than once, if they feel that their children’s experiences differ.

Our Tell Them From Me Parent survey is now open. Please enter this web address to open the survey which will take 10-15 minutes to complete.

http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/kdn28

All parents who complete the survey will go into a draw to win a Wish Card from Woolworths. Parents are asked to message Mrs McWhirter on the Yoogali P&C Business Messenger group or email yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au so a raffle ticket can be sent home.

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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

2 November 2021

A note from your Treasurer Hi all,

A MASSIVE THANK YOU to the parents that gave up 2 hours on Saturday 30 October to help man the Bunnings BBQ. Results are as follows: Money in Till =$1344.50 Costs $484.09 (we had to replenish gloves, serviettes, sauce , oil, which pushed costs up) We do have some drinks, 5 loaves of bread & 48 sausages left over. These will be used either by canteen or on election day.) Profit $860.41

Thanks, Sue Rebetzke

4 December – Election Day cake stall/BBQ Donations of homemade cakes and slices, homegrown fruit etc, as well as time are needed on Saturday 4 December. An election day stall will be set up at school for those who are voting as well as election staff and candidates. Please donate to this and come along and vote here and buy something yummy for morning tea! It all goes back to your children as students of this wonderful school.

Christmas Stall Students will be able to purchase Christmas Presents for their parents from a P&C run Christmas Stall. Prices will be under $5 each. A great opportunity for your children to learn the gift of giving.

NEWS FROM OUR

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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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Yoogali Public School Tel: (02) 6962 4540 Web page: 1 East Street YOOGALI NSW 2680 Email: yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

2 November 2021

Term 4 – 2021

Calendar of Events

Week 5 November

1 2

Melbourne Cup Luncheon

3 4 Tonga National

Day

5

6/7

Week 6 November

8 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

9 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

10 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

11 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

Remembrance Day

12 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

13/14

Week 7 November

15 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

16 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

P&C Meeting

17 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

18 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

19 12-12:45

Swimming Lessons

20/21

Week 8 November

22 23 24

Altina Wildlife Park YYS , K-2

Pioneer Park 3-6 Both TBC

25

26

27/28

Week 9 November/December

29 30

1

YYS last day

2 3

4/5

Week 10 December

6 7 8

Presentation Night

9 10

11/12

Week 11 December

13

Reports

14

15

Colour Run whole school PBL

reward

16 17 SDD (no

students)

18/19

Term 1 – 2022 Calendar of Events

Week 1 January February

31

SDD (no students)

1

All students return to school

2 3 4 5/6

Week 2 February

7

8 9 10 11 12/13

Week 3 February

14 15 16 17 Small Schools

Swimming Carnival

18 19/20

Week 4 February

21 22 23 24 25 26/27