Last Friday 15th March, Hillsborough Public School joined more than 5000 schools across the nation to take a stand against bullying and violence. The National Day of Action is Australia's key anti-bullying event for schools. This was a positive day of action, bringing school communities together to help find workable solutions. With a focus on promoting ‘upstander rather than bystander’ behaviours across the school students focused on activities that promote kindness, cooperation and looking out for one another. Our day culminated with every student and staff member contributing their handprint to our ‘Kindness Tree’ mural facing our back playground. This bright and positive mural has created a lot of excitement with our students and sends a very important message to all.

Harmony Day This Thursday 21st March 2019, Hillsborough Public School will be acknowledging Harmony Day. Harmony Day is all

about celebrating Australia’s diversity. On this day we will acknowledge and celebrate inclusiveness, respect and

belonging for all Australians, regardless of cultural or linguistic background. Mrs Dubojski is currently collecting entries

for the Harmony Day Poster Competition in which Students are encouraged to visually articulate their interpretation of

the 2019 theme: ‘Harmony – it’s up to us’.

P&C AGM Please don’t forget that our P&C will hold their AGM on Monday 25th March. I would like to take the opportunity to

firstly congratulate and say a huge thank you to the outgoing members who have made a tremendous contribution to

our school. We have been extremely fortunate to have such an active and hardworking P&C who support the school in

many endeavours. We look forward to welcoming all new members and encourage our whole community to take the

opportunity to help our P&C continue to drive the wonderful opportunities and events they put in place to support our

great school.

New Fence Over the coming weeks our school will be having a new front fence installed. There will be contractors working at the front of the school with safety fencing erected to ensure the site is clear for pedestrian access for students coming to and from school as per usual. The upgrading of the fence will provide further security to our school and we are looking forward to its installation.

Suzanne Mills

Relieving Principal

Term 1 Week 8 20 March 2019

CHESS NEWS Last Friday a group of 15 Year 6 students competed in the Primary Division of the Interschool One-Day Chess Tournament held at Fletcher. It was a tough day but we had some triumphant moments. Unfortunately we didn't score in the top three winning schools but we remained competitive, some of our players achieving four wins out of the six rounds played. We all vastly improved our chess skills, versing players from other schools and observing their tactics, we're anticipating a thrilling chess season. By Erika and Blake

STAFF CARPARK

The staff carpark is

strictly for staff only

between 8am-4pm

DATES TO REMEMBER ASSEMBLY

Assemblies are held fortnightly on Tuesdays at 2:15pm in

the school hall. Parents are most welcome to attend.

Our next Assembly will be on Tuesday 3 April 2019. The

item will be performed by 3/4M.

NOTES SENT HOME

EOI Stage 2 Camp Morisset—due 5 April

EOI Stage 3 Excursion Canberra—due 5 April

27 March School Photos

4 April School Disco

12 April Last day of Term 1

Easter Hat Parade 1pm

29 April Staff Development Day

30 April Students return Term 2

PLEASE NOTE: The school disco is for

Hillsborough Public School students

only. Children are well supervised by

volunteer teachers. Parents are not

permitted in the hall and are asked to

collect children promptly at the end of

each session.

Thursday 4 April in our School

Hall $5 entry

INFANTS 5-6pm

PRIMARY 6-7:30pm

Pizza $2 slice from 5.30pm

Glow products available

Come along and have a great time!

School Disco

Congratulations to Tristan P, Firdaus I, Sophie A,

Nahla H, Rania I, Will R, Sierra D, Vylet A, Boycie H,

Alex R, Liam H, Elliott B, Brodi W, Kaliyah V, Jay H,

Leighton A, Ayla K, Scarlett C and Saige W for all your

‘quality work’ this week.

UNIFORM SHOP

HOURS

Wednesday

8.30am - 9.30am

This term we will be holding our whole school disco. It will be on the 4th April,

on a Thursday night in week 10. Infants will start at 5pm and finish at 6pm,

Primary start at 6pm and finish at 7:30. Our Easter hat parade is the following

week and our Anzac Ceremony will be held next term.

P&C The next P&C meeting will be Monday 25 March 2019. This meeting will be the AGM at 6:00pm

followed by the general staff meeting at 6:30pm in the school library.

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Zone and Regional Sporting Trials

Over the last few weeks, many Stage 3 students have been doing our school proud at sporting trials across the region. All reports have highlighted that our students have performed very well athletically as well as displaying the behaviour expected of students of HPS.

We congratulate:

Isaac W and Bailey L (Rugby League)

Addie P, Lily S, Eloise D and Hannah M (Netball)

Tom M, Cooper S and Callan P (Soccer)

Chelsea D, Sophia C and Imogen N (Soccer)

In addition we wish Rory G the very best when he heads to Sydney early next month for the State Swimming Carnival.

Woo, New & You

On 7 March, 20 of our Year 6 students went to Newcastle University to watch Woo, New and

You. We arrived at the university at 12:20 and Mrs Cambourn went inside to sign us in. We

were very excited which took our minds off the hundreds of mosquitoes that were attacking

us.

Inside the Great Hall, we took our pens out and started doing the activities that had been

given us. Everybody started an Eddie Woo chant and he came up the front. Before he came

onto the stage we heard other talks from people involved in communications and the

sciences.

After the talks we were able to meet Eddie and the other speakers and get our books signed.

All 20 students came back very excited to tell their parents of their adventure.

Trieanna O

KH Lola B

Oscar C

KM Tayla A

Erin H

1D Ivie R

Jake F

1H Phoebe T

Nevaeh E

2M Hannah S

Cameron H

2S Madison M

Kai H

3/4A Leah K

Sadie K

3/4M Hayden C

Madden R

4/5S Isaac W

Amelia K

5/6B Trienna O

Macey B

5/6P Sienna T

Tom B

Library Cameron W

Koda B

RFF Emily K

James S

Book Club orders are to be

returned to the school office

by Friday 22 March.

WE

NEED

YOU! Did you know, being involved with the P & C doesn’t mean you are going to

be lumped with a full time job? We know you are busy, and we value any

time that you donate to helping us co-ordinate events and raise funds to

provide your child with the best resources for their education!

Our P & C do amazing work and have helped contribute to bettering the

resources available for your children, such as purchasing new smart boards,

more home readers, replacing air conditioners in classrooms and obtaining a

grant worth over $17,000 to contribute to the replacement of the soft fall in

the play area.

It’s not what your school can do for you,

it’s what you can do for your school! We love new ideas and thrive on feedback! Much like our children, each

parent can bring their own set of skills to assist the P&C! So, please! Join us

on at the AGM March 25 in the Staffroom and show us what you can bring!

P & C NEWS

The P & C AGM will be held on Monday 25 March at 6.00pm in the school library.

At this stage many executive members have indicated that they will not stand for re-election thus leaving

many positions to be filled.

If you feel this is something that you would be interested in and would like some information please feel

free to contact me via the office.

Positions available:

Role Of The Secretary

The Secretary is responsible for carrying out the administrative tasks related to the decisions of the meetings

as resolved. The Secretary prepares, in consultation with the President, all meeting agendas.

The Secretary is required to attend P&C Association meetings and take notes of the discussions in order to

produce a set of Minutes for subsequent distribution to members and for receipt, possible amendment and

adoption at the following meeting. (In the absence of the Secretary the meeting should elect a person to

take the Minutes, this person should be identified in the Minutes.) Further, the position includes receiving

and tabling all correspondence as well as writing and dispatching outgoing correspondence as resolved/

appropriate. The Secretary also issues notice of all meetings and maintains official records of the P&C

Association such as the constitution, by-laws, rules of subcommittees, Incorporation Certificate, ABN details,

list of financial (voting) members, Minutes, Attendance book.

For more details of the secretaries role follow the link below:

http://pandc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Static/2014/Publications/FAQ/Quick%20member%20info%20-%

20Role%20of%20the%20Secretary.pdf

Role Of The Treasurer

Whilst all P&C members must be mindful of complying with financial accountability requirements, this is the

Treasurer’s primary responsibility. The Treasurer receives and deposits monies, maintains records, draws

cheques* and presents accounts.

The Treasurer also ensures that all funds held and handled by P&C are properly and openly accounted for as

the Treasurer is responsible for all funds held in the name of the P&C Association. This includes all P&C

Association Committees. This does not mean that the Treasurer must undertake the actual bookkeeping

themselves but they must ensure that the various sub-committee financial records have been kept to the

Treasurer’s satisfaction. The Treasurer is a signatory on the P&C accounts and should not delegate this

responsibility. The Treasurer should encourage members to understand the state of the P&C Association

Executive Sub Committees

President Canteen

Vice President Uniform

Secretary Fundraising

Treasurer

Assistant Treasure

finances. The Treasurer must ensure a case book or books are kept, recording all financial transactions of the

P&C Association.

For more details of the Treasure’s role follow the link below:

http://pandc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Static/2014/Publications/FAQ/Quick%20member%20info%20-%

20Role%20of%20the%20Treasurer.pdf

Role of the President

The President is elected at the P&C Association’s Annual General Meeting.

The President is responsible for:

The successful functioning of the P&C Association meetings

The attainment of the P&C Association’s objectives

Ensuring that the P&C Association takes part in decision-making processes in the school

Fostering fair participation of all members and ensuring that all new members are made to feel welcome

Supporting volunteers

Consistent adherence to the constitution Acting as the P&C Association’s spokesperson when public

statements or actions are needed

Setting up lines of communication with the Principal

Being signatory on the Association’s bank accounts

Chairing meetings, in the absence of the President, one of the Vice-Presidents will chair the meeting or the

meeting can elect a chairperson from the members present for that meeting.

For more details of the President’s role follow the link below:

http://pandc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Static/2014/Publications/FAQ/Quick%20member%20info%20-%

20Role%20of%20the%20President.pdf

Volunteers

As volunteers are we subject to legislation?

Yes. All laws apply to volunteers as they do every citizen.

Do we need to have a list of volunteers that help at events?

Yes. All volunteers for the P&C Association should be recorded in a register at events. Where it is a meeting

there attendance will be noted in the Minutes, where there is an event such as a fundraiser the P&C

Association should have an attendance register for volunteers to sign in and out of.

For more details about a volunteer follow the link below:

http://pandc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Static/2014/Publications/FAQ/Quick%20member%20info%20-%

20Volunteers.pdf

School Banking is on

Wednesday