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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (please see Skoolbag for further details and copy of notes)

Term 1 – 2019

Week 4

20 Feb Zone Swimming Carnival

21 Feb Meet the Teacher Afternoon

Week 5

25 Feb Zone Boys Cricket Trials

26 Feb Zone Basketball Trials

Week 6

5 Mar Hunter Swimming – Maitland

7 Mar School Cross Country

8 Mar Zone Netball Trials

Week 7

11 Mar Hunter Boys Basketball Trials

12 Mar Hunter Girls Basketball Trials

13 Mar Zone Winter Soccer Trials

14 Mar Zone Rugby League Trials

15/3 SRC Team Building Day

Principal’s / Deputy Principals’ Report

Welcome to our New Teachers

Forster Public School would like to extend a warm

welcome to our new teachers in 2019.

Ms Renee Henderson and Mr Levi Worth

Ms Layne Ross and Mr Roan Whiteman

School Leaders 2019

Forster Public School Leaders were on hand to begin

their responsibilities of fulfilling their leadership

roles for 2019 looking resplendent in full school

uniform enhanced by their school blazers and ties.

Principal, Mrs Annie Everingham, welcomed them to

their roles and enjoyed lunch with the young leaders

to discuss how they could contribute to the life of

the school.

Captains – Sophie and Connor

Vice Captains – Halli and Harrison

School Leader Team - Keira, Iesha, Eve,

Charlie, Jesse, Jaiden, Sam and Brodie.

Forster Public School A vibrant, caring and successful learning community

Respect Personal Best Safety

Find us at: Head Street, Forster Tel: 6555 6766 Fax: 65556374 Email: forster-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 1 Week 3 Friday, 15 February 2019

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Forster Public School Staff

Annie Everingham Principal

Lorelle O’Brien Deputy Principal

Tianne Buderus Deputy Principal

Katrina Pettet Instructional Leader

Keryn Stone Instructional Leader

Whole School News TerraCycle and Colgate® Recycling Program

We are participating in the Terracycle dental

hygiene waste recycling program again. Please start

bringing in your waste (and your neighbours and your

family's waste) and collect for our fundraising.

TerraCycle and Colgate® have partnered to create a

free recycling program for oral care product

packaging as well as a fundraising opportunity for

participants.

Forster Public School are participating! Simply

collect your used oral care waste (any brand is

accepted), bring to school and we’ll ship to

TerraCycle to be recycled. TerraCycle points can be

redeemed for a payment of $0.02 per unit with the

money raised coming back to the school.

What can we recycle? All brands of old

toothbrushes, toothpaste tubes and caps, floss

containers and their outer packaging.

Why? Every year in Australia and New Zealand, over

30 million toothbrushes and 90 million toothpaste

tubes are thrown away.

Thank you for your participation – and please drop

your items to the collection box in the front

office.

Forster Public School’s SRC 2019

This week our classes have been busy voting for their

class representative on the K-6 SRC. We are pleased

to announce that we will be having an induction

ceremony on Thursday 21 February at 10am in the

school hall. Invitations will be sent home to parents

of the SRC and House Captain students inviting them

to attend the assembly where the will have the

opportunity to pin the SRC and House Captain badge

onto their child and share this special moment with

them. A morning tea will follow for these students

and their parents.

Lisa Lacey and Laura Chapple

SRC Team

Support Unit Welcome back. The Support Unit welcomes all our

new families and look forward to a fun and productive

term

3-6/5 and K-6/6 have been spending the last week

perfecting the PBL focus of walking in two straight

lines. Starting at the assembly lines, we have been

walking together and focusing on respecting the

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learning that is happening around the school by

walking quietly and safely.

3-6/5 have begun some gardening lessons with the

garden teacher Ellen and Trish. With the recent

water restrictions that have been put into place, the

extra hands to help with the watering were greatly

appreciated. Seth, Noah and Peta enjoyed helping to

keep our leafy greens watered.

Noah

Seth

Peta

Angela Coffey

Assistant Principal Support

Early Stage 1 It is an exciting time of year. We are getting to know

each other, learning about being safe, showing

respect and doing our best work. Students are

settling in well. A confident wave and a big smile help

these young students to separate happily. Please

label all belongings, so that they can be returned.

All students need to wear their hats at school to

keep sun safe and they need to stay hydrated. We

are looking forward to seeing you all at Meet the

Teacher Night next week.

Some great Year 6 friends helped us settled in.

Kindergarten children settling in

Penny Holm

Assistant Principal

Stage 1 Stage one students are all settling in nicely to their

new classrooms with their new teachers. Sport will

be on Thursdays for all students in Year 1 and Year

2.

The weather of late has been hot. Please ensure that

students bring a school hat with their name on it to

school and have plenty of fluids to drink. All classes

in Stage 1 will continue to participate in the crunch

and sip program. Please remember to pack a piece of

fruit or some vegetables for fruit time. We look

forward to meeting you at the meet the teacher

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afternoon next Thursday in your children’s new

classrooms.

Melea Tyrie

Assistant Principal – Relieving

Stage 2 Stage 2 have had a fabulous start to the term and

are very excited for the year ahead. Year 3 have

settled in nicely to the primary playground areas.

Garden lessons are due to Start from Week 4 for

Year 3 and 4 classes. Don’t forget to bring back your

signed note. Volunteers are both welcomed and

appreciated!

Brooke Egan

Assistant Principal - Relieving

Stage 3 Stage 3 have had a fantastic beginning to the year.

The classes are settled and working well and there is

a lot of great learning happening. We had our first

assembly last Friday and it was great to see so many

children receiving awards.

We have had so many new students in Stage 3 and

they have all settled in beautifully. They all seem to

have made lots of new friends. Welcome to Forster

Public School!

The School Captains and School Leaders have been

busy as they learn their new jobs. They did a

fantastic job with the Kindergarten students helping

them to settle in during their first week. Make sure

you read the first report written by our School

Captains, Sophie and Connor.

Meet the Teacher

Meet the Teacher Night is on next Thursday and we

would love to see as many of you as possible. It's

important to make the connection between home and

school early in the year, so we can offer the best

support for your child. If we work together in

partnership, your child will experience much more

success at school, so please make an effort to come.

Stage 3 Sport

The Swimming Carnival was a wonderful day with

students from Stage 3 attending in great numbers

and entering many races. We had some amazing

results and quite a few Stage 3 children will be off

to Zone.

Stage 3 Sport now runs on a Friday and it will consist

of rotating sports groups. Students have the option

of learning game skills, training for the Athletics

Carnival or doing their PSSA training in Touch

Football and Netball. Tryouts are beginning for many

Stage 3 PSSA sports, including tennis, netball and

touch football, so listen out for the announcements

and have a go!

School Captains' Message

As Captains, we are looking forward to representing

Forster Public School in 2019. Our first job was to

look after the new kindergarten students and

welcome their parents to our school. We enjoyed it

and made lots of new friends. We have learnt a lot

so far, such as tying a Windsor Knot in a tie and being

a good role model. We are very excited for the

upcoming year and the Leadership Training at Club

Forster.

Sophie & Connor

Susan Gonzalez

Assistant Principal - Relieving

Sport Swimming Carnival

What a wonderful start to sport this year! We had

nearly 200 swimmers attend our School Swimming

Carnival and they were full of enthusiasm, respect

and good ol’ school spirit. The calibre of athleticism

was excellent, with 27 athletes qualifying for the

Zone Swimming Carnival to be held at the Taree

Aquatic Centre on Wednesday 20 February, 2019.

Family and friends are encourage to attend and

support our students. Well done to everyone!

PSSA Sport and Gala Days

As usual PSSA sport has well and truly kicked off,

with Tennis trials complete, Buderus 7’ Gala day set

up for early March, Soccer interest collected,

Cricket soon to start, Cross-Country later this term,

and of course the Athletics Carnival to happen mid-

Term 2. It is great to see lot of students eager to

participate, experience new sports and support our

school in the community.

Lunchtime Sport

Sport throughout the school during lunchtime has

started again. The Sports Captains have agreed to

take on a week each and spread sport across the

school to encourage active and positive behaviour.

Keep a look out for new and fun activities across

Forster Public School!

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School Sport Captains Selected

Our school sport captains are top notch this year.

The students have put their hands up to take on

everything and anything sport. It should be a

fantastic year! Congratulations to:

Gannet

Captains –Ben & Shaylin

Vice Captains – Hayden & Charlotte

Albatross

Captains –Kai & Charlotte

Vice Captains – Archer & Jesse

Shearwater

Captains –Isaiah & Isabelle

Vice Captains – Lucas & Asha

Penguin

Captains –Cameron & Paige

Vice Captains – Zach & Taylee

Dorota Osinski

Sport Organiser

Library News Hello from our library!! Welcome back everyone who

was with us last year, and for those who are new,

especially our amazing kindergarten people, welcome

to Forster Public School!

We are very busy and very secretive in the library at

the moment as our renovations are well under way.

We have had a delivery of furniture, but

unfortunately have had a delay in our shelving, which

means we will be able to get our classes back into the

library over the next couple of weeks, but will be

unable to borrow until we can get our books out of

storage and onto the brand new shelves.

This year we have decided to extend our borrowing

limits. Our Kindergarten students will begin learning

to borrow with 1 book each week, and this will be

extended to 2 books later in the year. Year 1 and 2

can borrow up to 4 books at a time for a maximum of

2 weeks at a time. Year 3 and 4 can borrow up to 6

books for a maximum of 3 weeks at a time. Year 5

and 6 can borrow up to 8 books for a maximum of 4

weeks at a time. If any student has an overdue book,

they will not be allowed to borrow any more books

until the overdue book is returned or replaced.

Notes will go out to classes when our borrowing is set

to resume. We are hoping at this stage that

borrowing will commence in week 6.

Lunchtime activities are expected to start next

week, with the following activities available to

students at 2nd half lunch Mondays to Thursdays:

Monday – Board games, card games, dominoes.

Tuesday – Movies (all G rated)

Wednesday – Mindful Colouring

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Thursday – Craft

Lunchtime activites will also include quiet reading or

drawing each day.

Fridays will be open to students from our Support

Unit to enjoy the library.

We look forward to welcoming everyone in to view

our amazing new library set up when it is complete.

Until then, as always…

Happy Reading

Miss Eggins and the Library Team

P & C News Our Colour Event last year raised $4,135 which is a

fantastic effort for our first event. A huge thank

you to the students that raised this money. Thank

you to the teachers and parents who helped out on

the day. We look forward to our next Colour Event

when everyone can help with fundraising to enable us

to give more money to help support the school.

This week we have donated $2,000 to the

Kitchen/Garden program.

New wide brim hats can now be purchased at the

Uniform Shop for $20 each. The Uniform Shop is

open Tuesday and Thursday 8.30am to 9.30am. You

can always pick up an order form at the front office.

We have had a small price increase from 2019 with

our Microfibre Jackets. These jackets now need to

be specially made. We did not want to change the

uniform and create extra expense for parents.

Microfibre Jackets will be increased from $37.00 to

$40.00, as of January 2019.

Thanks

Lesley Campbell

P & C President

Community News

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