Quality Learning, Care, Innovation, Opportunities & Technology

Year 1 Dallas: Highly Commended Seattle: Highly Commended Year 3 Beau 3H: 1st place Dylan 3H: Highly Commended Nash 3H: Highly Commended Grace 3H: Highly Commended Cheyenne 3H: Highly Commended Year 4 Jemma 4C: Highly Commended Year 5 Rhiannon 5M: 2nd place Eliza 5M: 3rd place Noah 5M: Highly Commended Ethan 5M: Highly Commended Emily 5M: Highly Commended Madison 5N: Highly Commended

Chloe 5N, Angelo

5H, Hannah 4L

and Eliza 5M

Highly

Commended

winners

1st Place Beau 3H

and Mikaela KK

2nd Place Rhiannan 5M

3rd Place Eliza 5M

and Tommy KW

Award Winners

Silver Awards

Inside this issue :

From the Principal 1

K-2 Fun Day 2

SRC Update 2

PSSA Rugby League 2

10 Year Celebration

Bush Dance 2

Cake Stall 2

Fathers Day Stall 3

Poems from S3S 3

Term Planner 4

Glenmore Park Public School

Newsletter

From the Principal Dear Parents

4L Visit Bunnings 4L were lucky enough to have a trip to Bunnings Warehouse on Mulgoa Road, where Carly and the Bunnings team organised a D.I.Y. session. The excursion came about when Jimmy presented the class with his model of the Bunnings warehouse for news. Carly and the Bunnings team took the model and have displayed it at the Penrith Store. Miss Leersnyder and 4L had a fantastic time planting flowers, painting pots and getting a complete store tour with the help of Jimmy‟s expertise and knowledge. We would like to thank Carly and the Bunnings team for supporting our students and inviting our class to their store.

Penrith Show Winners 2012 The Penrith Show was held on 25th and 26th of August this year. A number of artworks and photographs by students here at Glenmore Park Public School were submitted into a competition held at the show. There were many entries from a number of schools in our local area. Our students were very successful with many ribbons awarded for our art and photographs. Winning entries were: Kindergarten Mikaela KK: 1st place and “best exhibit art-preschool/kindergarten” Tommy KW: 3rd place Emerson KW: Highly Commended

Issue 14 4 September 2012 SILVER AWARD

WINNERS

Kayla 6P

Shania 6C

Olivia 6B

Alexis 4L

Ryan 6C

Chanel 2H

Mikayla 2H

Isaiah 1E

Siobhan 1L

Matthew 1A

Hayden 2H

Kresent 6C

Samantha 6C

(See Page 2 for more

winners)

GOLD AWARD

WINNERS

Ryan 6C

Hayden 2H

Samantha 6C

Sarah 4W

HONOUR AWARD

WINNERS

Samantha 6C

Sarah 4W

Inside this issue: From the Principal

Round the World

Challenge

Drama at the Joan

Harmony Garden

District Athletics

Rugby League

Gold/Honour

Award Winner

Profile

Term Planner

Quality Learning, Care, Innovation, Opportunities & Technology

WE’RE ON THE

WEB!

http://

www.glenmorepk-

p.schools.nsw.edu.

au

Public Speaking Cluster

Finalists—Years 5 & 6 Students battled it out in their Cluster public speaking finals last week. Congratulations Georgia 5H who came first and Brooke 5N came runner up. Sarah 6P won and Edan 6B was runner up.

“Luke Makes Sydney West Soccer” Luke was selected as a repre-sentative in the Sydney West Soccer. Fantastic news and great to see his skills recognised.

“Yoshi Makes an Appearance”

Last week at our book week mufti day “Yoshi” made a wonderful appearance and was enjoyed by all students, especially Kinders.

“Move over Pavarotti—here

comes Anthony” Anthony in Year 6—K/6S wowed the judges last week at the Eisteddford singing in perfect pitch the song “He‟s my Hero”. Anthony‟s proud parents watched along with Mrs Small and Mrs Daniel. He received a medallion and a highly commended.

Spelling Champs Jessica 4C and Alyssa 3/4A were our successful school spelling bee champs in Year 4

Michelle Collins Michelle Collins PRINCIPAL

RUN AROUND THE WORLD CHALLENGE Glenmore Park Public School will be participating in the Run Around the World challenge as part of National Health & Physical Education day (H&PE Day) celebrations. The event will be held on the school grounds, tomorrow, Wednesday 5th September. The world‟s circumference spans approximately 40,000 km and the goal for H&PE Day is to run a „lap of the world‟ together as a nation. To achieve this, we need 40,000 students across the country to walk, wheelchair, jog or run at least 1 km each. The focus of the day is to get outside, active and having fun as a school community. The Run Around the World challenge is a healthy, fun and active way to ensure we send the right message to our students about getting active, having fun and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. The main focus of this event is participation. Family support is most appreciated as we encourage all students to get involved.

DRAMA AT THE JOAN On Thursday 16th August both our Primary and Infants drama groups performed at the Western Sydney Regional Drama Festival. They were stars both on and off the stage due to their outstanding behaviour and excellent performance. Well done!!!

HARMONY GARDEN The submissions for the Harmony Garden design have now closed. We received a

Page 2

HOW TO CONTACT

US

Address:

33-41 The Lakes

Drive

GLENMORE PARK

NSW 2745

Phone:

4733 6204

FAX:

4733 6430

MORE SILVER

AWARD WINNERS

Peter 1E

Courtney 3W

Joshua 2W

Maegan 3W

Emily 3W

Ricky 4L

Latoya 4L

Tahlia 6C

Mitchell 3/4A

Noah 5N

Rohan 3W

Liana 3W

Nathan 5N

Kaitlyn 6C

Nicholas 6C

Alyssa 4C

Madison 6B

Akhil 3O

Caitin 3O

Ben 3/4A

Jacob 3/4A

Ieash 3/4A

Sarah 4W

SCHOOL CONCERT Please see the attached flyer for

information about this exciting Concert along with information regarding ticket

sales, dates and times

Quality Learning, Care, Innovation, Opportunities & Technology

Page 3

number of entries from Year 1 through to Year 6. The amount of thought and effort put in by the children has been fantastic with a whole gamet of designs ranging from hand drawn to cut outs and computer generated images. Congratulations to all those wonderful children. As there were a number of quality entries, we have decided to use aspects of some of them rather than a whole design. We will publish the names of the winning landscape gar-deners when we have made our decision. Once again, well done to all those children who participated in our competition. Carole Kelaher

DISTRICT ATHLETICS CARNIVAL On Wednesday August 22nd and Thursday August 23rd, 44 children travelled by bus to Werrington Oval. The students represented Glenmore Park at the District Athletics Carnival. The children competed with fantastic sportsmanship and enthusiasm; they truly demonstrated team spirit by cheering each other on. Thank you to all the parents who also came along to support the children over the two days. The following children made the finals in their events; Kristen 200m, 100m Chelsea 200m, 100m, High Jump Shaylee 200m, 100m, High Jump Noah 100m Hollie Long Jump Brooke Shot Put, Discus Brock High Jump Dylan High Jump Shot Put Samantha Shot Put Cyril Shot Put Ryan Shot Put Senior Boys Relay Team Lochlan, Angelo, Andre, & Dale Senior Girls Relay Team Kristen, Chelsea, Shaylee & Tarnia The following students have qualified for the Sydney West Carnival to be held at the Blacktown Athletic Centre on Wednesday 12th September. Kristen McCormack 200m, 100m, Senior Girls Relay Chelsea Graham Senior Girls Relay Shaylee Bent High Jump, 100m, Senior Girls Relay Brock Taylor High Jump Dylan Scott High Jump Tarnia Mamo Senior Girls Relay

Congratulations and good luck!

The Principal and Staff at Glenmore Park Public School do not endorse any of the paid advertisements which appear in this Newsletter. Organisations which sponsor our school will carry a sponsorship acknowledgement.

RUGBY LEAGUE CHAMPS The junior boys were undefeated in the Penrith District PSSA Competition. In the Grand Final we played against Surveyors Creek. Although the very windy conditions made it hard for both teams to pass the ball we were able to attack with lots of energy. We won the game 54-0 in a very convincing fashion. A few weeks earlier the boys competed at the Regional 7‟ a side competition. We made the semi-final and were beaten in that game by the eventual winners Blaxland East PS. The team has had an outstanding year and made it through the finals or semi-finals in all the competitions they competed. Thanks to all the parents for your support transporting and supporting the boys. To Mr Chester for his time running the water and warming the team up before the matches. The senior boys team also played in the PSSA Grand Final against York PS. Previously we had a 12-12 draw with them. We lost the toss and had to run into a very stiff wind. York controlled the ball very well and thoroughly deserved the hard fought 16-4 victory. The senior team had a wonderful year beating the highly ranked Lethbridge Park PS at the Panther Trophy and also Regentville PS in the semi-finals of the PSSA competition. Special thanks to Mr Welsh for his assistance with the team over the past four years.

GOLD AND HONOUR AWARD WINNER

PROFILE Sarah 4W Hi my name is Sarah and I am in class 4W. I enjoy playing sports, public speaking, drama and dancing. Some of my friends are Tayler, Gabbi and Faith. My Mum said she is proud of me and so did my family. When I grow up I want to be a paramedic and a netball player for Australia.

Quality Learning, Care, Innovation, Opportunities & Technology

Page 4

WEEK 8

3/9

Drumbeats

4/9

BMNDF Matinee

Performance

Public Speaking

Cluster Final 3—

Surveyors Creek PS

5/9

Year 4 Excursion

6/9

Year 1 Excursion

7/9

Summer PSSA

Begins

BMNDF Evening

Performance

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

WEEK 9

10/9 11/9

Spelling Bee @ St

Marys

Yrs 3 & 4

Basketball Gala Day

12/9

Year 3 Incursion

Regional Athletics

Infants Athletics

Carnival

13/9

Maths Olympiad

Operation Art

Stage 1

14/9

PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

WEEK 10

17/9

Public Speaking

Finals

School Concert

Matinee 11 am

18/9

School Concert

Evening 7 pm

19/9

School Concert

Evening 7 pm

20/9

PBL Reward Day

Operation Art

Stage 2

21/9

NO PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

TERM 3, 2012

WEEK 1

8/10

Students return

9/10 10/10 11/10

Operation Art

Stage 3

12/10

Kindy Farm

Excursion

PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

WEEK 2

15/10 16/10 17/10 18/10 19/10

PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

WEEK 3

22/10 23/10 24/10

School Disco

25/10

Kinder 2013

Orientation

morning

26/10

PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

WEEK 4

29/10 30/10 31/10 1/11 2/11

PSSA

Autism Playgroup &

Lego Club

TERM 4, 2012

UWS PENRITH OBSERVATORY

Family Astronomy Night Saturday 8 Septem-ber – 7pm to 9pm OUR MOON: LOOKING A LITTLE LUNAR The University of Western Sydney Penrith Observatory will be running an Astronomy Night on Saturday, 8 September from 7pm. The evening will include a presentation, a 3D astronomy movie and stargazing through the University’s computerised telescopes (weather permitting). Cost: $15 adult, $10 child, $40 family. To book: Phone (02)4736 0135 (Mon, Wed

or Thurs), or email r.mccourt@uws.edu.au.