SPORT

This term all students will be participating in gymnastics and swimming classes. We would like to thank the cricket and AFL coaches from last term. We would like all students to continue active play at home and hope you enjoy your new cricket bat and ball. The perfect cricket kit for a game at the beach or in the backyard.

HISTORY The driving question for our history lessons is “How has our history influenced our lives?” All students will pose questions, identify and explore information and ideas from source materials about the history of our local community. All students will be visiting Lismore Museum, the Visitors Information Centre and exploring the cultural trail over three afternoons whilst in town during the swimming weeks. Stage 3 students will be accessing source materials on the development of Australia when visiting the Australian museum, The Rocks, Darling Harbour and Botanical gardens.

TRANSITION PROGRAMS All our year six students will be attending Richmond River High Campus on the 14/11 & 5/12. There is an organised program and will require private transport.

We welcome our pre-school children who are starting in 2018 with special transition days on 27/11, 28/11, 4/12, 5/12, 11/12.

If you know of any students starting school in 2018, please invite them to our school for a visit to discuss enrolment and details for our transition program.

BUSHFIRE PROCEDURES With the bush fire season upon us, Goolmangar PS has recently taken action to review our Bush Fire Emergency Management and Evacuation Plan. In the event of a fast approaching fire the students, staff and visitors would go into “lockdown” in the classroom, until the danger has past. Our front classroom has been deemed to be a “Shelter of Last Resort” by the Rural Fire Service. We do not encourage you to enter the fire zone to try to collect your children from the school until the “all clear” is given by the emergency services. We would endeavour to send a School Stream app message or contact each

family to reassure you that your children are safely in lockdown, and again

when the emergency has passed. Please take this opportunity to ensure we

have your current phone contact details.

As our community is surrounded by bushland, it seems opportune to note that

the NSW Rural Fire Service recommends that families develop their own home bush

fire safety plan, as well. Resources and a template to help you do this are available on

the NSW Rural Fire Service website at rfs.nsw.gov.au/plan-and-prepare.

Closed Gates: As part of our WHS procedures, the school gates will now be closed

@ 9.30am each morning and re-opened @ 3pm. Please close them behind you if

coming in or out between these hours.

Goolmangar Public School Newsletter

Engaging Minds

Empowering Success

31st October 2017 Week 4 & 5 Term 4

Date Event

Tm4 November

1 Choral Choir Parent Meeting @

3:45pm, GPS

2 Year 6 Moving Into Teens Interrelate

Program @ Clunes PS

Sun 5–

Wed8

Yr5 & 6 Choral Choir Festival, Opera House

13-24

K-6 Daily Swimming Lessons

14 Yr6/7 Transition Day @ RRHS

21 Year 6 Moving Into Teens Interrelate

Program @ Clunes PS – 2nd day

NOTES TO RETURN

Yr5/6 Choral Choir Note

Year 6 Interrelate Moving Into The Teens

K-6 Swimming Note

COMING EVENTS

Quote Sooner or later,

those who win are

those who think they

can. Paul Tournier

1301 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan NSW 2480 Phone: 6689 9262 Fax: 6689 9334 Email: goolmangar-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.goolmangar-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

BE SAFE

BE RESPECTFUL

BE RESPONSIBLE

Gotcha Guru Week 2 Term 4

Congratulations

Taj

BE SAFE

BE RESPECTFUL

BE RESPONSIBLE

Gotcha Guru Week 3 Term 4

Congratulations

To

Taj

Date Name/phone Menu

3 Nov. Kids in the Kitchen Fried Rice

Fruit Salad

10 Nov. ?

17 Nov. ?

24 Nov ?

1 Dec. Kids in the Kitchen

8 Dec. Kids in the Kitchen

Canteen Friday - 3 November

What $3.50 Rice

Fruit Salad

Cake/slice $1

Drink juice/milk 50c

Name _________________________

Total Enclosed ________________

Canteen Friday - 10 November

What $3.50

Cake/slice $1

Drink juice/milk 50c

Name _________________________

Total Enclosed ________________

CANTEEN – TERM 4 Can you help? The P&C need extra chefs on a Friday.

If you have a couple of hours to spare on a

HAPPY BIRTHDAY October

Frankie Taj

Eden

Hope you had a great day!

YEAR 5 & 6 Choral Choir Meeting

3:45pm Wednesday 1 November

All students need to have returned note and

any outstanding funds as of last Friday.

Please ensure you are aware of all details

required for this trip.

INTENSIVE SWIMMING SCHEME

All students will be travelling to Lismore Memori-

al Baths every school day from the 14th Novem-

ber - 25th November. Students who can swim

confidently 25m or more will be in a group that

focuses on stroke correction and lifesaving skills.

All other students will be in a group according

to their swimming capabilities. Students will be

assessed during the School Swimming and Water

Safety Program for all water safety skills without

wearing goggles. During these two weeks children

will need to wear their school uniform. Children

are to bring: Swimmers, towel, rash/swim shirt,

bag for wet clothing (not a plastic bag as these

rip), goggles are optional.

Please make sure that all items of clothing are

labelled with your child’s name so that we can

keep track of them all as much as possible. The

school will provide sunscreen.

Return the attached permission note

and payment to the office (or pay

online @ the school website).

CURTAIN CALL

We wish Lucy, Taj and Tessa all the best

with their performance next Tuesday evening

at the Star Court Theatre. The students will

be performing the same drama performance

as they did at the Lismore Performing Arts

Festival, featuring different features of the

Roald Dahl stories.

We would like to thank Ms McEwen for

offering this opportunity.

KIDS IN THE KITCHEN

As a follow up to a student’s suggestion on how we

can improve on the Kids in the Kitchen expo,

students would like to have a Kids in the Kitchen

Club.

Staff and Karen (canteen coordinator) believe this

could work on a Friday and small group rotations will

be responsible for preparing the canteen lunch on

their day. This will be a trial run over four Fridays

this term.

This project will continue teaching our students about

how food is prepared, food safety and hygiene. Most

recipes will be chosen from the Kids in the Kitchen

resource and are aimed at improving students confi-

dence in the kitchen, exploring different tastes, learn-

ing valuable life skills and thinking in a procedural

way, all while having fun!

This is a fantastic opportunity for parents and grand-

parents to be involved in their child’s education. If

you can spare a couple of hours on a Friday to help

teach our students valuable life skills let us know!

Date Kids in the Kitchen Club 27 Oct. Lucy, Eden, Frankie, Lewi, Maria

3 Nov. Sianna, Tessa, Liam, Jamilla

1 Dec. Emlyn, Taj, Ethan, Ari

8 Dec. Blade, Rory, Hayden

1301 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan NSW 2480 Phone: 6689 9262 Fax: 6689 9334 Email: goolmangar-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Term 4

Week 4 Oct./Nov.

30 31 1 2 Year 6 Moving Into the Teens Interrelate, day 1 at Clunes PS

3

Week 5 Nov.

6 Yr5/6 Sydney Opera House Trip

7 Yr5/6 Sydney Opera House Trip

8 Yr5/6 Sydney Opera House Trip

9

10

Week 6 Nov.

13 K-6 Swimming

14 K-6 Swimming Y6/7 Orienta-tion Day At RRHS

15 K-6 Swimming K-6 Trip to the Lismore Muse-um

16 K-6 Swimming K-6 Trip to the Visitors Centre & Surrounding Park area

17 K-6 Swimming

Week 7 Nov.

20 K-6 Swimming K-6 Cultural trail walk in Lismore

21 K-6 Swimming Year 6 Moving Into the Teens Interrelate, day 2 at Clunes PS

22 K-6 Swimming

23 K-6 Swimming

24 K-6 Swimming

Week 8 Nov./Dec.

27 2018 Kinder Transition Day

28 2018 Kinder Transition Day

29 30 1

Week 9 Dec.

4 2018 Kinder Transition Day

5 2018 Kinder Transition Day Year 6 Orienta-tion Day at RRHS

6 7 School Concert– details will be provided at a lat-er date.

8

Week 10 Dec.

11 2018 Kinder Transition Day

12 13 14 15 End of Year Excursion TBC *Last day of the year for students

Week 11 Dec.

16 Staff Devel-opment Day

17 Staff Devel-opment Day

GOOLMANGAR PUBLIC SCHOOL - Coming Events Dates & Times May Change

1301 Nimbin Road, Koonorigan NSW 2480 Phone: 6689 9262 Fax: 6689 9334 Email: goolmangar-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

FRIDAY SOCIAL GROUP

Meets every Friday @ school

around 1.30pm Tea, coffee and

milo available.

SCHOOL HATS

Please check your child

has a school hat everyday (not

a cap or commercial style hat).

Our Lismore Show Journey

Preparing the chickens for the show