EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Butler Street DENILIQUIN NSW 2710

Phone: 5881-2612 Fax: 5881-5090

Email: edward-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.edward-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Newsletter: Week 9 Term 1 – 22nd March 2016

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EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Week 9 Term 1 2016

Thurs 24th March

Celebrating Harmony Day - Wear something

orange, gold coin donation for the Royal Childrens Hospital Good Friday Appeal Easter Hat Parade - 2.00pm

Fri 25th March Good Friday - No school

Week 10 Term 1 2016

Mon 28th March Easter Monday - No school

Wed 30th March Oral Hygiene Yr 1 & Yr 6

Thurs 31st March Aspire Me Camp - Berrigan

Fri 1st April Aspire Me Camp –Berrigan

Week 11 Term 1 2016

Mon 4th April Healthy Harold

Tues 5th April Healthy Harold

Wed 6th April Healthy Harold

Fri 8th April Last day Term 1

Week 1 Term 2 2016

Mon 25th April Town ANZAC Day March - 10.30am

Tues 26th April Staff Development Day

Wed 27th April Students return for Term 2

Happy Birthday, Purtills! Last Wednesday morning, Mrs Blacker, Mrs Larcombe and our

school captains were invited to attend a very special morning tea at the Purtill’s Bus depot.

The Purtills name has been synonymous with Deniliquin for a

long time and this year they celebrate 65 years in the indus-

try. To commemorate this special event, each school was giv-en a bluetooth wireless entertainment system. We are ex-

tremely grateful to Purtills for this gift and for their ongoing support of our school. Happy Birthday, Purtills!

Tell Them for Me Surveys Over the last two weeks of term, all our Year 4, 5 and 6

students will have the opportunity to be involved in an on-line surveys seeking their thoughts and opinions about vari-

ous aspects of the school. An information letter is included in this newsletter. The responses of students will be used to

assist the school in evaluating some of its current practices and assisting with future planning decisions. Staff and par-

ents will have the opportunity to be part of the Tell Them

for Mr Survey process in Term 3.

Hawthorn Super Clinic AFL NSW, in partnership with AFL Vic, are conducting a Hawthorn AFL super clinic tomorrow, 22nd March at Memo-

rial Park. Year 5 and 6 students are invited to attend and

the cost is $2.00 for the bus. Students will wear sports uni-form and will need sunscreen, hat and drink bottle.

Students will have an opportunity for photos/signatures af-

ter the completion of the clinic.

Harmony Day This Thursday will be a special day at our

school. It is an out of uniform day where all students are encouraged to wear orange in recognition of Harmony Day.

All students who are out of uniform are asked to provide a

gold coin donation which will be collected by our school

leaders and forwarded to the Melbourne Royal Chil-dren’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal. Many of our stu-

dents have had to spend time in the Children’s Hospital and have been given excellent medical care. Our school has

been a long standing and proud supporter of this annual event.

Easter Hat Parade To help celebrate Easter, the school will conduct its tradi-

tional Easter Hat Parade on Thursday from 2pm, which will include the drawing of the Year 6 raffle. There are a signifi-

cant number of prizes which can be won from a 50c ticket

(or 3 for $1). Tickets are on sale at recess and lunch each day this week. Parents of students in Kindergarten to Year 4

are invited to join their child’s class from 11.30 to help dec-orate hats and parents are also invited to have a picnic

lunch with their children.

Oral Hygiene Next Wednesday, 30th March, those students in Years 1

and 6 will receive a visit from the Dental team from Com-munity Health in Deniliquin. This is an annual event and we

are grateful to community health for their support.

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Healthy Harold Visit The excitement and busyness of the term continues

with the news that Healthy Harold and the Mobile Life Ed Van will be visiting our school in the last week of this

term. All students will have the opportunity of attending the van with their class and learning important information

about developing an active lifestyle and making appropriate decisions around healthy food choices and positive behav-

iour. This cost of this activity is $5.00 per child, which has

been subsidised by the school. Please pay at the school of-fice for your child to attend.

AFL Last week, the Western Riverina trials for AFL were conduct-ed in Leeton. Our student representatives were very well

behaved and enjoyed a successful day. Special thanks to

those parents who drove the students to and from Leeton.

Congratulations to Tom Bradley, Darcy McManus and Brock Redden who have been selected to represent Western River-

ina at the Riverina trials on Friday, 1 April in Jerilderie. From

there a team will be selected to represent Riverina at the Australian Football Carnival in Nelson Bay. The carnival will

be held over several days in May.

Tom Bradley (Edward) also won the longest kick competition

with a kick of 36.4 metres. Well done, Tom!

Playgroup A reminder to all families that Intereach are continuing to conduct a playgroup at our school on Thursday mornings

from 9am to 11am. It is open to all pre-school children and

their families and everyone is very welcome.

Happy Easter All the staff at EPS would like to wish the students and their

families a safe and enjoyable Easter break. If travelling,

please do so safely. School resumes on Tuesday 29th March for 2 weeks before the end of Term 1 break commences. We

hope that the Easter bunny or bilby finds its way to your place!

Student Information & Permissions - Yellow Form

We still have a few yellow forms outstanding. If you could

return them to the school office by the end of term it would be very much appreciated and will save us from having to

contact you in Term 2.

Edward Awards Seth May Kinder Bronze 1

Maia Larmour Kinder Bronze 1

Sebastian Hammond Year 3 Bronze 1 Kaigh Ritchi Reid Year 3 Bronze 1

William Green Year 3 Bronze 1 Ronnie Owen Year 3 Bronze 1

Luke Todd Year 4 Bronze 2

Alysha Collier Year 1 Bronze 3 Lucy Herberte Year 1 Bronze 3

Kade Redden Year 4 Bronze 3 Eve Meharry Year 1 Silver 1

Catherine Michael Year 1 Silver 1 William Blenkiron Year 2 Silver 4

Olivia Didcock Year 2 Gold 1

Joshua Todd Year 2 Gold 2

Annual Medical - Blue Form Our annual medical form has been sent with students and

needs to be returned immediately as it covers all local ex-cursions. Parents are thanked for their support.

Canteen Roster Wed 23rd March Canteen Closed

Thurs 24th March Kerry Parsons, Help Needed

Fri 25th March Good Friday - Closed Mon 28th March Easter Monday - Closed

Tues 29th March Kylie Green

Wed 30th March Canteen Closed

Thurs 31st March Tracey Ho, Help Needed Fri 1st April Sarah Graham, Amy Petersen

Due to lack of volunteers, there will be no special Meal Day

at the end of term. I desperately need help on Fridays be-tween 12.00pm and 1.00pm. Getting the lunches into bas-

kets correctly on that day needs at least 3 people. Please

see me in the canteen or ring the school if you can help. Thank you. Shirlee Jennings