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Term 1 ends : Friday, 12 April, 2019

Term 2 begins : Monday, 29 May 2019

Next P&C + AGM Meeting Wednesday, 20 March

DATE: Monday, 25 February 2019 TERM 1 WEEK 5

Principal: Drew Green

Principal’s Message

Welcome to week 5. Things have been flying along as usual with the final classroom carpet put down last week. We now have some really lovely learning spaces for our kids to flourish in.

We do on occasion - with a very small number of children - reach the end of our behaviour system and unfortunately a short suspension can be the result. As stated in State Policy a short suspension will be imposed for continued disobedience or aggressive behaviour (including bullying and online bullying). A long suspension will be imposed for physical violence resulting in injury, possession of a prohibited weapon, firearm or knife, possession of illegal substance or serious criminal behaviour. Fortunately we don’t have to go here very often and are driven by state policy when required to do so. The vast majority of our students will never have to be concerned with this level of consequence.

Drew

6S has started the year with a bang. We have formed our literacy and

maths groups and are now working at student’s individual ability. The

students are motivated and are working very well together. We have

also started our fitness program. We are training twice a week and

working hard to beat our personal bests. After our training session on Fridays we

have been rocking out using Just Dance to finish the week on a high note.

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What’s happening

PO Box 428, KYOGLE NSW 2474 192 Summerland Way, KYOGLE NSW 2474

Phone: 6632 1200 Fax: 6632 2579 Email: kyogle-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.kyogle-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 1 Week 5

Wed 27/02 PSSA Zone Swimming Carnival Alstonville Aquatic Centre

Term 1 Week 6

Wed 6/03 Assembly 5-6B performing

Term 1 Week 7

Wed 13/03 Aboriginal Community Meeting 3:45pm

Term 1 Week 8

Mon 18/03 School Photos. Envelopes home today

Wed 20/03 Assembly 3-4M performing

PBL Focus - Being a Star in the playground. Be Respectful - Be Safe - Be a Learner

Aim: To make sure we are respectful of each others property - “bag areas”.

What it looks like:

look after my belongings stay inbounds follow staff instructions

care for others value all property use equipment for its purpose

use school talk

Sound Waves is a word study program designed to develop reading, spelling and writing skills through phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness is essentially a knowledge and understanding of the sounds and sound patterns of our language. This week

we are

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the sound:

Aboriginal Community and Parent Meeting We will be holding our first meeting for 2019 on Wednesday 13, March at 3.45pm in the library.

This is a great opportunity to have a yarn about some fun activities for NAIDOC day this year.

The theme for NAIDOC Day 2019 is Voice, Treaty, Truth. Let’s work together for a shared future. All welcome! Be great to see you there.

This is Russell. He is our PBL mascot. He represents our three expectations: R – Respectful S – Safe L – Learner He was given the name Russell after a school wide vote. He will be visiting assembly each fortnight to look for the class that demonstrates the three expectations the best. *Congratulations to 1/2M - who have Russell with them unil next assembly.

Week 4 Assembly Award Recipients

1-2N Travis Guiney Pippa Galvin

1G Luca Hannon Sabelle O’Meara

1-2M Lily Farlow Jake Clark

2-3X Cruz Newton Mia Mackay

3-4D Matilda Green Lebron Mercy

3-4H Sophie Jenner Luka Farrell

3-4M Lucy Klaassen Tyson Barnes

4-5A Xavier Watson Charlotte Wright

5L Zoe Runciman Annemarie Katic

5-6B Finn Wilkie Laci Newman

6S Rigby O’Meara Iddo Adar

What’s happening

Kyogle Public School celebrates Harmony Day every year to foster values of inclusiveness and diversity in our school community. Thursday, 21 March is the national date for Australia's Harmony Day, which celebrates the country's cultural diversity. It coincides with the United Nations' International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Harmony Day is about inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all Australians, regardless of cultural or linguistic background. We will be celebrating Harmony Day with each class picking a country to focus on for the weeks preceding Harmony Day. It would be really good if parents could support Harmony Day by helping their student source some simple ‘dress ups’ relevant to the country picked by their class. It may just be the colour of their flag or an orange t-shirt which is the Harmony Day colour. On Thursday, 21 March there will be a Harmony Day assembly in the morning when the students ‘parade’ in their costumes.

KC - Mexico 2-3X - Turkey 5-L - America KS - Ireland 3-4H - France 5-6B - Germany 1G - Italy 3-4M - Greece 6S - Israel 1-2M - Japan 4D - Brazil 1-2N - Belgium 4-5A China

PO Box 428, KYOGLE NSW 2474 192 Summerland Way, KYOGLE NSW 2474

Phone: 6632 1200 Fax: 6632 2579 Email: kyogle-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.kyogle-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to our 2019 Swimming Champions and to the winning house:

Junior Girls Lauren Binney - Champion Ruby Nix - Runner Up Junior Boys Argent O’Meara - Champion Thomas Binney - Runner Up 11yr Girls Imogen Lansdown - Champion Pippa Kennedy - Runner Up 11yr Boys Wyatt Galvin - Champion Jayviah Harley - Runner Up

Senior Girls Jaydin Beamish - Champion Hannah Harris - Runner Up Senior Boys Luke Barnett - Champion Rigby O’Meara - Runner Up

HUNTER!!

Good luck to our swim team travelling to Alstonville on Wednesday, 27 February to compete at the Zone Carnival. *It was previously published in the newsletter that the Carnival would be held at Goonellebah, but please note it is being held at the Alstonville Aquatic Centre.

Proud Hunter House captains accepting the winners cup. ~2019 Swim Team~

PO Box 428, KYOGLE NSW 2474 192 Summerland Way, KYOGLE NSW 2474

Phone: 6632 1200 Fax: 6632 2579 Email: kyogle-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.kyogle-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Community Announcements

Kyogle Public School is lucky enough to have some Student Dieticians working at the school for the first half of the year. They will be running ‘Kids in Kitchen,’ which will eventuate with cooking classes with the kids in their classroom. Children who have hands on cooking experiences are more likely to eat fruit and vegetables and, in the long term, develop healthy eating habits. To make this program successful we need community support of Parents, Grandparents or interested community members. The Dieticians will be running a workshop on how to help kids become familiar with cooking, covering topics such as safe cutting of food, how to read a recipe and healthy food choices. After this workshop the trained volunteers and Dieticians will run a few sessions of ‘kids in the kitchen’ with their children’s class or other classes. This will be followed by a shared lunch of what was cooked. The workshop will be running (tentatively) on Tuesday,12 March from 9.30am - 12.30pm. Please talk this up amongst your friends and help us to get this program happening in the school. A note will be going home this week to sign up, or phone Sue at the school.

Registration forms available form the office.