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Gresford Public School Newsletter Term 4 - November 10th, 2016
4938 9304 www.gresford-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Last week was a special one for our school commencing with tree planting in the Community Group Arboretum on Sunday. Thanks to all families who came with grandfriends to plant a native tree to beautify Gresford for future generations. We then enjoyed the lively concert presented by the Musica Viva group, Zeeko listening to an array of unusual instruments. Our bell was welcomed home in a dedication ceremony and now graces our Remembrance Garden. Some quality pieces of writing were on display as part of a competition for creative writing about our bell. Winners in each class were Mac Spinks, Lucia Merchant, Chase Hoffman, Amber Smith, Dylan Gardiner and Soanette Venter. Mrs. Freda Colllison, a Gresford ex-pupil and Lucy Pittman from Kindergarten were the first to try it out, followed by all the children.
Principal’s message
Please help support the bell restoration through the children’s spellathon. Spellathon sponsor sheets were sent home last week. Year 5/6 are attending a Hunter Water Catchment Crawl today where they will be learning about caring for our waterways. This complements our whole school unit on caring for the environment with our visit to the Barringtons next Monday. Please return notes and money for this excursion by tomorrow. We also need permission notes for our visit to the Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph tomorrow. Kind regards, Pauline
School planning snippets
As part of the Department of Education’s devolution of funds to schools, our
school has been selected to be part of an initiative called Early Action for Success.
This program focuses on providing extra support for children in K-2 and will see
the appointment of an Instructional Leader to assist teachers in these grades to
develop focused literacy and numeracy programs .
PBL AWARDS Lucas Snell, Hamish Mead, Lara Silver, Katie Curtin-Edwards,
Paige McFadyen, Tillie Parish, Amber Smith, Alysha Cowley
SCHOOL MERITS Acacia Galvin, Elizabeth Venter, Megan Venter,
Chase Hoffman, Rose Kelehear, Soanette Venter
SPORTS AWARDS Lacey Hoffman, Hayden Wilson, Leila O’Connor,
Bella Sellens, Dylan Gardiner,
Katharina Lawrence
ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT Pearl Ropata, Lacey Hoffman, Shannon McFadyen, Kayden Atkins, Blake Wilson, Bella Sellens, Jack Laurie, Carl Thompson
LIBRARY AWARD Jada Laurie, Leila O’Connor, Liza Kelehear
GOOD LISTENER AWARD Bryson Snell, Dylan Gardiner
NOVEMBER FRIDAY 11th
Remembrance Day Service at
Gresford Cenotaph; donations of
flowers gratefully accepted
MONDAY 14th
Whole school Science & Geography
excursion to the Barringtons
THURSDAY 17th
Spellathon sponsor sheets to be
returned to school. Testing on this
day.
Book Club due back
FRIDAY 18th
P&C Meeting 10 am
Y6 Orientation @ Dungog HS –
selected students
WEDNESDAY 23rd
Kinder Orientation 9.30am
WEDNESDAY 30th
Kinder Orientation
DECEMBER WEDNESDAY 7th
Kinder Orientation
THURSDAY 8TH
Year 6 Farewell Dinner
@ St Annes Hall
6.00pm
AWARDS
CANTEEN ROSTER
FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER Christine Vigar & Tracy Merchant WEDNESDAY 16 NOVEMBER Mel Thiecke & Jody Turner FRIDAY 18 NOVEMBER Joleen Pittman WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER Bec Spinks & Alissa Abra FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER Sharon Hill & Kristy Duncan WEDNESDAY 30 NOVEMBER Mary Horn & Yanmin & Clayton Scott
P&C News
Next P&C is on
Friday 18th November
From 10.00am
All welcome!
SLUSHIE’S NOW AVAILABLE
from the canteen at $2.00 each.
A special reminder of the readiness for
school program being run for our
prospective Kindergarten students for 2017
TRAIN 4 School Being run by Dungog Community Centre at alternating
sites of Paterson, Vacy and Gresford Schools.
A program which provides a supervised play group
whilst parents are given information and support for
starting their child at school.
Input from childcare specialists such as speech
pathologists and occupational therapists.
Next date at Paterson 8th December from 10.00am to
11.30am.
Next session - Practically Ready To Go
An excellent preparation for supporting Kindergarten
entry.
Please pass this information on to any prospective
Kinder students for 2017.
Applications for entry to
the Department’s Year
7 selective high schools,
2018 closes on 14th
November.
For more information,
see
www.schools.nsw.edu.au
/shplacements or enquire
at the office.
Professional Learning Teachers have participated in the following recent
training opportunities : Leadership, dance, learning
support, quality teaching and L3.
Breakfast Volunteers Needed Gresford Public School are in need of volunteers to help run the Breakfast Club. Volunteers are asked to be at school by 8.30am until 9.00am to serve fruit and toast to the children. If you are able to volunteer just one morning a week it would be great. Call Nicole on 4938 9304 if you are able to help.
Christmas
Food Appeal
Commencing the first week
in November, we will be
doing our annual
Christmas collection of
food items for the needy.
This collection is
organised by Samaritans
and encourages children to
support those less fortunate
than themselves. Tinned
ham, puddings etc will be
gratefully received.
Summer Dress
Orders can now be made
$45 each
Please ring Lyndell on
0429949559
to place your order.
FOR SALE
Sporting News Cricket matches continue in friendly competition with some junior talent adding to
the small numbers in the senior years. We have played Clarence Town, competition
winners from last year and today, Hunter Valley Grammar.
Boot Camp run by Mrs. Davies continues to be very popular on Thursdays and is
giving all a good workout. Our senior sports leaders are presenting a lively program
of morning fitness for all to start their day.
Flowers for Remembrance Day Donations of flowers and foliage would be greatly
appreciated for tomorrow’s Remembrance Day Service. If
you are able to donate please drop them off at the schools
office in the morning. Thank you.
NEW
EFTPOS Machine
We now have a new
EFTPOS machine which
allows us to accept
payments over the
telephone.
Due back
17th November
No late orders
will be
accepted!
Fungi: friend or foe?
All about fungus – what it is, how it’s used, what can kill you, and what you might find
in the bush.
Dr Lesley Wright and Skye Moore will reveal the fascinating world of this unique and
surprising variety of life.
Fungi are genetically more closely related to animals than to plants. They are essential to
ecological systems as the principal decomposers and recyclers – yet fungal diseases also
cause serious worldwide health problems.
Skye Moore is the author of ‘A guide to common fungi of the Hunter-Central Rivers
region’ and Dr Lesley Wright is a retired scientist working voluntarily for CSIRO Scien-
tists-in-Schools at Gresford Primary.
Cost: FREE!!
Where: Wednesday 16 November 2016, 7.00-8.30pm.
Where: Dungog CWA hall, Dowling St (next to Chillbillies), Dungog.
Booking: No booking is required.
We'd love to see you there.