GOOLGOWI PUBLIC SCHOOL

TO THE STARS NEWSLETTER TERM 2, WEEK 5 Principal: Mrs Anne-Maree Young Penney Street, Goolgowi, NSW, 2652 T 02 6965 1207 F 02 6965 1309 E goolgowi-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

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Calendar

*Please note dates from week to week as there are occasionally some changes.

Term 2, 2018

Week 6 Monday 4 June Zone Cross Country Friday 8 June AFL Clinic

School Assembly 2pm

Week 7 Monday 11 June Queen’s Birthday Public

Holiday Tues. 12 June Mobile Library Thurs. 14 June Riverina Cross Country AFL Clinic Friday 15 June AFL Gala Day

Week 8 Wed. 20 June School Performance - A

Slice of Vaudeville Fri. 22 June AFL Clinic

Week 9 Fri. 29 June AFL Clinic

Week 10 Wed. 4 July Reports to Parents Fri. 6 July Whole School Assembly Last Day Term 2

Notes Coming Home This Week

Nil

Canteen

Wed. 30 May Gillian Star & Jeni Robertson Wed. 6 June Michelle Farlow & Danielle

Smith

Student of the Month

Cooper Headrick

For consistently applying himself to all learning.

Principal’s Message

Cooperation - Respect – Responsibility

Year 6 Transition to High School

Year 6 students will begin their transition to high school with a visit from a Griffith High School teacher on Friday morning. Miss Ridgway will provide information about high school and they will have a chance to ask questions. This is one of several visits this term.

Staying Safe Online

Last week the Life Education unit for Years 3-6 focused on staying safe online. Online bullying or cyberbullying is engaging in bullying behaviour using technology such as the internet or mobile devices.

Online bullying is different from other forms of bullying:

It is more likely to happen outside school.

Harmful material can be shared quickly and long after the first incident.

It can happen anytime, day or night.

It is more difficult for children to defend themselves or get away.

Online bullying might include:

sending abusive text messages and emails

posting hurtful or threatening material on social media like Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, or on gaming sites

imitating or excluding others online

inappropriate comments on pictures of others

threatening another person to do something such as sending revealing images.

Students learnt to identify some of the hazards of social media such as lying about your age to open an account. You are breaking the terms and conditions of Facebook if you have an account under the age of 13 years. So if people lie about their age on social media, what else do they fake? A friend should be someone you have met personally.

Anne-Maree Young, Principal

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In The Classrooms?

K/1/2 News

In maths this week we are learning about multiplication and division using equal groups and rows. Later in the week we will be discussing graphs. In shared reading we are focusing on discussing the characters and what they are like. When reading with your child ask about the characters in the book. In personal development and health we will be doing follow up activities from Healthy Harold.

Mrs Robertson

3/4/5/6 News

In English 3/4 are focusing on information texts and how they are written in a different way to other text. We are learning the importance of diagrams, captions and pictures to get our message across. This week we are recognising different fractions, reading and counting by fractions and determining equal parts of a group. In science, students will begin to present their research on water, wind, glaciers and humans as factors in erosion. Our library lessons will continue to look at the features of Australia and the 3-6 students will begin their research on 3 different places. It is great to see so many students participating in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. They are all keen to read as many books as they can.

Mrs Young

5/6 Literacy and Maths Groups

The 5/6 students participate in a variety of literacy activities each morning including studying a new ‘word of the day’, a grammar activity, independent reading, a sustained writing activity and reading with the teacher.

In maths, this week we are looking at expressing mixed numerals as improper fractions and vice versa. We will also look at adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator. On Thursday and Friday, the whole class learning focus will be connecting three-dimensional shapes with their nets.

In creative arts, the students have been learning about Aboriginal art. This week’s art lesson involved the students designing and creating their very own dot painting. Dot painting is a relatively new form of Aboriginal art originating in the Alice Springs area in the early 1970’s.

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The whole class reading text this term is Wonder. This beautifully written book encourages all students to ‘choose kind’ and to see the world through another person’s perspective. So far, the students have enjoyed reading this story and completing learning activities related to this text.

Mrs Liddicoat

PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

PBL focus for this week:

Value: Responsibility

Focus: Right place, right time, right away.

Action: Be on time.

Answer bell promptly, stop playing when bell goes.

Awards

Congratulations to our weekly award winners:

Mrs Robertson

Lexie - for using interesting words and adjectives in her writing.

Marcus - for improvement in reading.

Mrs Young

Jordon - for being a quick mathematician who is learning different ways to check his calculations.

Mrs Liddicoat

Rachel - for great writing in ‘Word of the day’ activities.

Reading Awards

50 Nights - Olivia, Cooper, Bronwyn 75 Nights - Austin

PBL Awards

Canteen Voucher - George

Sports Report

Zone Cross Country

We wish our Zone Cross Country team all the best for this event. The zone cross country is being held this Monday 4 June at Lake Wyangan. Participants will continue training at school. Students may like to bring runners to school to train in.

A reminder note will be sent out to participants later in the week. Mrs Liddicoat will be the teacher attending and the team manager. Please report to Mrs Liddicoat on arrival and before you leave the event.

Mortimer Shield

The students were very excited to tell us about their day at Mortimer Shield. Both boys and girls won and lost some games. Students demonstrated great sportsmanship and cooperation.

A huge thank you to David Williams and Clint Robertson who were the coaches of the boys for

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the day. They did a great job organising, training and assisting on the day. Your assistance was great.

Our hearts were thumping and our legs pumping as Brooklyn ran for the try line. She scores the try just as the full-time siren went off. The final score, Hanwood 1 and Small Schools 2. Consequently, this close win meant we made it into the finals. At the end of our third game, unfortunately Tyesha got a cramp in her leg. Brooklyn was dummy half and Tyesha was first reserve. We ended up losing in the final to a strong St. Patricks team. The final score 10 – nil. Brooklyn was awarded the best and fairest player for the small schools team and got a NRL boot bag as a prize.

Tyesha’s nickname from the day was Foxy because she would not let them through the gaps and Brooklyn was Bull Ant because she was red as a bull ant after she scored her try. Our first game was at 10:30am and we were there at 9:00am so we met all our other teammates. There was Molly, Sophie, Erica, Juliet, another girl called Sophie and there were more but we cannot remember all their names.

We enjoyed playing league tag on 24.5.18. Thank you to Mrs Robertson and other organisers for giving us the opportunity to represent small schools league tag.

Brooklyn and Tyesha

On Thursday 24 May Kadon, Tevita, Charlie, Dylan, Jarrod, Jye and Dusty went to Jubilee Oval to play in the Mortimer Shield. We were in the Griffith Small Schools team. In our first game we played Beelbangera and it was a 10 all tie but we won the game because we scored first. In our second game we played Griffith East

PS and we lost 20 to nil. It was our biggest beating of the day. In our third game we played Yenda and during the game is was 6 all but in the last play, the worst thing possible happened, Yenda scored and won the game on the bell. It was a very long day but we all had fun and we did very well for a team that only met twenty minutes before the first game. We would like to thank David Williams, Clint Robertson for coaching us and Mrs Liddicoat for organising it for all of us.

Kadon

Premier’s Sporting Challenge

Our school has registered to participate in the 2018 NSW Premier’s Primary School Sport Challenge. Goolgowi School has participated in this challenge since it began over 10 years ago.

The purpose of the Challenge is to encourage students to participate in sport, games and physical activity and to have more students, more active, more often!

Participation in this event also brings funding to the school for sporting resources such as equipment and coaching.

Over a ten week period our whole school, including staff, will be monitoring physical activity completed during class time, at recess and lunch and during sport. Outside school hours activities (after school and weekend) will also count towards the Challenge award.

The challenge will run in Weeks 6-10 Term 2 and Weeks 1-5 in Term 3.

Each student in Years 3-6 will be issued with a Challenge logbook to record their physical activity.

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Students completing the Challenge will receive a personalised certificate from the Premier of New South Wales.

Please encourage your child to be active. You may like to join them in an outside game over a weekend.

Community News

Goolgowi Golf News

On Saturday the men played a three ball combined aggregate event. Winners Neil Perkins, Geoff Elliot and Glen Bock. Runner up - Owen Martin, Owen Pascoe and Ray Christoff.

Best individual score was Owen Pascoe (48 points) who had a great day with three gobbles and also NTP on the 3rd.

Ladies

Winner of the day - Jill Connelly Runner up - Jenny Nicholls NTP - Fay Roberts

Goolgowi Exies Club News

Inez Grace Roberts “Poppy” 23 January 1933 – 12 May 2018

Please join with the directors and staff in sending our condolences to the Roberts family

on the passing of Poppy, much loved wife, mother & mother-in-law, grandmother and great

grandmother. Poppy was a quiet but great achiever, she was extremely dedicated to her

family and our community, which was rewarded by receiving the Citizen of the Year award in

1998. Poppy was a lady of many talents, raising her family while supporting her husband and has

left a permanent mark in our community for many past and future generations to come.

THURSDAY NIGHT RIVERINA SUPERDRAW WAS NOT CLAIMED BY THE MEMBER AT WEETHALLE COUNTRY CLUB SO THIS

WEEK: $10,200

Draw is between 7 & 9pm, you must be a current financial member and on the premises at

the time of the draw

THURSDAY NIGHT SPECIAL ROAST BEEF & VEGIES WITH GOLDEN

SYRUP DUMPLINGS $18 WHILE STOCKS LAST

FOOTBALL

State of Origin GAME 1 Wednesday 6 June (Kickoff: 8:00pm)

PROTEN COMMUNITY CUP

1ST ROUND SATURDAY 2 JUNE AT HILLSTON

NARRANDERA V GOOLGOWI 2PM GO RABBITOHS

PLEASE THINK ABOUT HAVING A TURN ON THE COMMITTEE. WE WILL BE LOOKING

FOR NEW COMMITTEE MEMBERS AS THERE WILL BE A FEW MEMBERS NOT RE-

STANDING THIS YEAR. STILL WAITING ON BOOKS!

GOOLGOWI GOLF CLUB NEWS

MEN

SATURDAY 2 JUNE STROKE 3RD ROTHMANS

LADIES

TUESDAY 5 JUNE FOURSOMES C/SHIP (DRAW FOR PTNR)

NEW CLUB & KITCHEN HOURS

CLUB KITCHEN

MONDAY 5PM – 8PM CLOSED TUESDAY 5PM - 8PM CLOSED WEDNESDAY 4PM – 9PM 6.00-8.00 THURSDAY 4PM – MIDNIGHT 6.00 – 8.30 FRIDAY 4PM – MIDNIGHT 6.00 – 8.30 SATURDAY 1PM – CLOSE 6.00 – 8.30 SUNDAY 3PM – 8PM 6.00 – 8.00

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