TERM 3 WEEK 7

Friday

1st September, 2017

Gunnedah South

Public School “With oar and sail ”

Relieving Principal: Mrs Nicole Walsh Assistant Principals: Mrs Justine Davies

Deputy Principal: Graham Conn Mrs Judy McGowan

Relieving Deputy Principal: Jonathan Smith Mrs Vicki Merlehan

School Captains: Toby Bartlett & Lucy Reid Mrs Lynda Heath

Administration Manager: Mrs Kerryn Pryor Mrs Jenny Ross

Phone: 6742 1899 / 6742 1448 Fax: 6742 4217

Email: gunnedahs-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.gunnedahs-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Skool Bag App ; Gunnedah South Public school skoolbag

(available from the iTunes store and Google play store)

Flexischools Online Ordering: www.flexischools.com.au

Special points of interest:

Child Protection Week

Chess tournament

Teddy Bears Picnic

2018 Kindergarten

Transition

School

Week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

8 Sept

4

5 6

Chess Tournament

Gunnedah Public School

7

Teddy Bears Picnic

11am—1pm

8

Kindergarten 2018

Transition 9.15-10.45

9 Sept

11

12 13

High School Transition

Afternoon visit

6M & 6P

14

Year 1 Excursion

15

Bookweek Parade

10 Sept

18

Year 5 Excursion

19

Year 5 Excursion

20

Year 5 Excursion

21

Year 5 Excursion

22

2018 Kindergarten

Transition

9.15 - 10.45

LAST DAY OF TERM 3

Year 5 Excursion

Gunnedah South Public School

Proud supporters of the

“You Can Do It” Program

GETTING ALONG Supporting & caring for your children.

CHILD PROTECTION WEEK

BOOK WEEK & FAIR

From the Relieving Deputy

Principal….

Sport The boys touch football ventured to Narrabri

this week to play another round of the tournament.

The team were able to come away with a 10-3 win and

will now compete against Tamworth South in the next

round.

The game is set to be played at

Longmuir on September 11.

Good luck.

Staffing changes

Aylish Flannery has returned to our happy school after

18 months of travel throughout Europe, Canada and

also working in an orphanage in Ethiopia.

Before taking on her travelling adventures Ms Flannery

had taught in Gunnedah South Public School for 6 years

and upon her return was greeted with many familiar

faces, both staff and students throughout the school.

We look forward to seeing Ms Flannery helping out all

over the school in the following months.

S-Factor

Auditions for the 2017 S-Factor have been taking place

all week in the hall. There has been so many wonderful

performances, including an impromptu song from Mrs

Walsh, I am sure the judges will be in for a treat at

Friday night’s finale.

Well done to all competitors and good luck to the

finalists.

CAPERS This November our stage 3 Choir will be the

first students from GSPS to ever

participate in CAPERS. CAPERS is a

creative arts spectacular that involves

over 2500 students from over 40 public

schools. Our students will form part of

the massed choir. The theme this year is Far, Far Away.

All students in the Stage 3 Choir need to collect an

expression of interest from Mrs Passfield.

Dorothea Mackellar On Friday morning 1st

September Lucy Reid, Luke Lumsden and Toby Bartlett

accompanied Mr Smith to the Dorothea Mackellar

Poetry Awards. The event took place at the Civic Centre

and was attended by many local schools and

dignitaries.

Throughout the occasion the students represented the

school well and were proud to have the opportunity to

both represent the school at this event and also see the

performance that was given by the students in the

“Short Black Opera”.

Short Black Opera The students that were

selected to participate in the “Short Black Opera” have

had the opportunity to work all week with Deborah

Cheetham AO.

Deborah Cheetham is a Yorta Yorta woman, soprano,

composer and an educator that has been in the

Australian arts for over 25 years.

The students practiced up to six songs throughout the

week and have given two performances, one for

parents and the second at the Dorothea Mackellar

Poetry Awards. Having the opportunity to experience

the opera at the poetry awards I can express my pride

at how wonderful they all sounded and how well they

represented their school.

Speakfest

Students from years 1-6 who had

been selected to participate in

Speakfest attended Carroll on

Thursday to compete in public speaking. The students

participated enthusiastically and came away with some

very proud winners.

Congratulations goes to;

Lilly Harris 2nd Stage 1 Prepared Speech.

Rosie Snape 1st Cooper Williams 2nd -Stage3 Prepared

Speech.

Sienna Mitchell 1st Liam Reid 2nd Jack McCulloch 3rd

in Prepared Speech.

Olivia Heath 1st and Lucy Reid 2nd in Impromptu

Speech

Wishing everyone a relaxing and enjoyable weekend.

Kind regards,

Jonathan Smith

Silver Kadence Milne, Savannah Eather, Jake Atkins, Kodee Bendall, Peter Davison,

Kyran Kleinscafer, Sienna Mackay, Kiarni Mallia, Charleigh McArthur, Laura Demmery, Tyler Ibrahim-Lynch, Timmy Capper, Kye Towill,

Siri Sparkes, Mia Carroll, Zoe Morgan, Jack Mackay, Dylan Stubbs, Lucy Robertson, Cooper Blinman, Jayln Muggleton, Callie Fordham, Brittney Smith, Heath Stark, Oliver Shoesmith, Charlie Barnes,

Toby Bartlett, Harry Ryman

Gold Kadence Milne, Savannah Eather, Jake Atkins, Peter Davison, Laura Demmery

Tyler Ibrahim-Lynch, Timmy Capper, Mia Carroll, Lucy Robertson, Jayln Muggleton,

Titanium Kadence Milne

Class Bronze Eva Kelly, Danielle Kelly, Rakha titaley, Levii Porter, Eloise O’Donnell, Eli Clark, Harley Eveliegh, Blaire Costello, Kobe Knight, ruby Newman,

Georgia Dowe, Imogen-Hope Jolliffe, Zahlee Penfold, Ava Talbott, Kieesha Winsor, Elsa Sparkes, Mayse Frey, Lacie Kleinschafer, Harriet Snow,

Lane O’Donnell. Zavier Eveleigh, Ella Carter, Liette Tindall, Charlie Duff, Lilly Harris,Gavin Sams, Casey Honeysett, Tyler Hobden, Ruby Beasley,

Kirra Talbott, Liam Duff, Shaylah Doolan, Ashley Riley, Deekirah Rowlands, Alisha Berton, Finn Leader, Blade Rowlands, CJ Lim, Tiah Small,

Jack fouracre, Jayla Woolaston, Savannah Eather, Mackenzie Keeler, Dylan Anderson, Claire Barnes, Chloe Elsley, Chantelle Stubbs, Lara Jones,

Laurel Thomas, Connor Morgan, Thomas Donaldson, Chloe Dorrington, Abigail Dwyer, Toby Randall,

All Year 3 Students who attended the School Excursion to Gulgong last week

YCDI Van Jordan, Niko Thompson, Lucy Hanaford, Lucas McKeowen, Matther Poss,

Jordana Jeffrey, Sophie Weston, Jarvis Cameron

PBL

Malaki Winsor, Liana Burwood, Clinton Hall, Andrew McMaster

Our experience at TOM Tournament of Minds 2017

On Sunday the 27th of August, 7 students travelled to Armidale High School to compete in the annual Tourna-ment of Minds competition. When we arrived, it was absolutely freezing, so we went inside quickly. Once we were all inside, we went into the auditorium, set ourselves up, and quickly practised. After a short break, we were called into the spontaneous audition room. In this room, competitors are set a challenge of which they previously had no knowledge of. The challenge was very compli-cated and the team had to put their brains to work. Once we completed the spontaneous challenge we went to watch other teams do their long term chal-lenge. We did one last practise and then we were ready to go. We did a per-fect run of the script and had to wait for the awards presentation. Unfortu-nately we didn’t come first or second in social science but we can’t wait to go

again next year!

TOM Team: Cooper Towill, Claire Barnes, Rosie Snape, Abigail Dwyer, Lucy Robertson, Lewis Donaldson and Stella Robertson.

Facilitator: Mrs Belinda Piggott

YEAR FOUR EXCURSION

Dear Parents and Carers,

All NSW Department of Education schools including Gunnedah South Public are

transitioning to a new finance structure, LMBR.

With this reform, it is required that all payments for the Year 4 excursion to Lake

Keepit Sport and Recreation Centre be finalised by the end of Term 3, to avoid any

unforeseen difficulties.

There are 5 weeks remaining in this term and instalments can still be made.

Please check to see if you have paid and/or how much you have owing. Thank you to

those who have already paid in full.

The cost of the excursion is $250.00.

Thank you for your co-operation.

Kind regards,

Vicki Merlehan

Excursion Organiser

Year 6 Sydney Excursion

23rd-27th October, 2017 (Term 4, Week 3)

The Year Six Excursion is fast approaching. Ms. Davies and Mrs. Piggott are

busy making final adjustments and arrangements. Students will be doing surfing

lessons with Manly Surf School, visiting the Teppanyaki restaurant and Taronga

Zoo. They will also possibly be Jet Boating and visiting both the Urban Jungle

and Sydney Aquatic Centre at Homebush.

Please be reminded that all payments must be made by Friday, September

22nd. This is only seven weeks away. The payment plan below may be of

assistance.

Term 3 Week 4 Friday, 11

th August

$60 payment

Term 3 Week 5 Friday, 18

th August

$70 payment

Term 3 Week 6 Friday, 25

th August

$70 payment

Term 3 Week 7 Friday 1

st September

$75 payment

Term 3 Week 8 Friday 8

th September

$75 payment

Term 3 Week 9 Friday 15

th September

$75 payment

Term 3 Week 10 Friday 22

nd September

$75 payment

Save the date!

Book Week is coming!

Book Fair: Week 9

Book Parade: 15th September.

Our Book week parade will be held on Friday 15th September. Start

organising your costumes. This years theme is ‘ESCAPE TO EVERYWHERE’,

although children may dress up as any character they choose. There will be

more information in the newsletter closer to the date.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

We require some volunteers to come to the school one day a

week to do school banking. Apart from counting money

there is no experience required. If we get a number of

volunteers we can sort out a roster