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Speers Point Public School Newsletter Week 2, Term 4


Principal’s Message

Last Friday, School Infrastructure hosted their pop-up

information booth here at school. It was a great opportunity to

show the progress that has been made with the designs. Through

the process we’ve been able to have lots of input into how the

designs will best fit the needs of the school and look forward to

the end product being delivered next year.

Headstart

Next week Years 5 and 6 from Cedar class will be attending the

Headstart program at Lake Macquarie High School. This is two full

weeks at the high school with Mr Bukey supporting. For Year 6

students it is a great time to prepare for the start of Year 7, which

is rapidly approaching. For Year 5 students it is also a great

opportunity to get a sneak peek into high school life and give

another full year to prepare.

Students are expected to follow not just our school’s

expectations, but to comply and model the expectations of Lake

Macquarie High School.

Year 4 students from Cedar will be joining with their peers in

Wattle during the two weeks.

Preparing for 2020

At this point of year we’re doing lots of planning for 2020. Next

year will be (again) our biggest Kinder intake in the last 20 years

and the whole school population continues to grow. While we

don’t wish to see anyone leave the family, we know that

sometimes the end of year brings movements out of the area and

even interstate.

If you are aware that you are moving at the end of this year we

ask if you can please let the office know so we are able to

accurate plan our staff and classes for 2020.

Early Arrivals

I’ve become increasingly concerned over the number of students

who are here at school before 8.30am each morning. Each day I

see over ten students in school well before 8.30am, sometimes

arriving before any school staff are on site.

There is absolutely no supervision for students prior to 8.30am

and it is not safe for students to be on site before that time.

Mrs Hazel

During the holidays Mrs Hazel had an unfortunate accident which

has resulted in a broken leg resulting in pins, screws and half of a

hardware store to repair. This has left Mrs Hazel immobile for the

time being an unable to attend work. Miss Steele has been filling

in on Blue Gum class. We’re hopeful to see Mrs Hazel back in a

few weeks, better, faster and stronger than before.

Upcoming Choir Performances

Our school choir has been invited to perform at two upcoming

performances leading up to Christmas. Firstly, our choir will

perform next Wednesday 13th of November for the launch of the

Kmart Wishing Tree at Glendale. Permission notes will be coming

out soon as we organise a bus for transport. Parents and

community are welcome to join us at Kmart Glendale to see our

choir perform at 10am.

Then on Monday 2nd December our choir will also perform for the

Lord Mayor’s Christmas Appeal. This is being held over the at the

Council chambers and permission is covered by the green general

permission form.

Reminders

Keep the date clear for Thursday 12th December, “Lights on the

Lawn” evening event out on our oval. We’re looking forward to a

fun, relaxed evening of student performances, music and fun.

Friday 13th December at 9.45am is our Presentation Assembly at

Lake Macquarie High School (they have a big hall for us to use.)

Have a great week

Chris Payne

Principal

Speers Point soaring high, spread our wings and learn to fly. 8th November, 2019

Find us at Bell Street, Speers Point Principal , Chris Payne

www. [email protected] Ph. 4958 1230 Fax. 4958 2478



IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER

Just a reminder that our office does not have EFTPOS facilities. If you wish to make payment using your card, the instructions to make a payment via

our school website are below. We also take cash payments. Please ensure you provide the correct money as we do not have change.

Parent Online Payment Instructions Speers Point Public School offers online payments for parents and caregivers Payments can be made using either a Visa or Mast erCard, credit or debit card. The secure payment page, hosted by Westpac is accessed via our website by selecting the Make a Payment link above.

You will be able to pay for anything you would normally pay at the front office.

When you access the Make a Payment you must enter:

1. the student's name

2. date of birth

3. the ref. or invoice (if applicable)

4. the payment option

5. the payment description

6. the amount you are paying.

These details need to be entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system. N o student's details are given to Westpac. As a consequence, payments for each child need to be made separately.

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured securely. These details are not passed back to the school.

Under payment options, enter the details provided on the permission note.

You can print your own receipts or have the receipt emailed to your email account. This gives you immediate proof that you have paid for the item. Record your receipt number on the permission note and return it to school as normal. Your payment will be reconciled against the receipt number on the permission note.

Making an online payment does not constitute permission.

Please return all signed permission notes to school as normal.

Thursday, 7th November

Musica Viva

(in school performance)

$7—Payment due 31/10

Monday, 11th November—

Friday, 22nd November

Swim Scheme starts

Years 2 & 3

$35—payment due 1/11

Monday, 11th November—

Friday, 22nd November

Years 5/6 Cedar students

Headstart @ Lake

Macquarie HS

Thursday, 12th December

“Lights on the Lawn”

@ school oval

Time: 5.30pm-8pm

Friday, 13th December

Presentation Assembly @

Lake Macquarie HS

Time: 9.45am

Tuesday, 17th December

Movie Day

“Frozen II’

$7

Payment due 9/12

Tuesday, 17th December

Year 6 Farewell @

Club Macquarie

Years 5 & 6 students

welcome

($18 payable for

Year 5 students only)

Wednesday, 18th December

Last day of 2019

2.45pm Year 6 clap-out

P&C UPDATE WEEK 4, TERM 4, 23 OCTOBER 2019

P & C Update:

We had a few new faces at the last P&C meeting, and they got the

chance to learn what our P&C is all about. Which is mostly having

a chat, a few laughs, and learning what’s going on at the school at

the moment.

OK, we also do some fundraising stuff too. This Includes coming

up with plans for our end of year events, such as a chance to

welcome our new Kindy families with some much-needed

morning coffee. And, what we have in store to support the school

at the Lights on the Lawn event.

Kinder transition

We had a good turn out and our Kindy Parents got a chance to

meet other new Kindy parents as well as some of those parents

that are going through this for second and/or third time. Big

thanks to our Volunteers who served up morning tea, coffee and

friendship on the day.

Lights on the Lawn

The P&C will be hosting a few booths at this event and we will let

you know more as the date approaches. But, at this stage we are

looking for raffle prize contributions. If you wish to make a prize

donation, you can drop it into the school office. If you are wanting

to make a contribution/donation/sponsorship pledge please feel

free to contact us on the Facebook page - Speers Point P&C - and

we can get back to you. Alternatively call the office and they will

get you in touch with a committee member to let you know how

you can help make our little schools event the best yet.

www.facebook.com/sppspandc

Canteen Helpers

Term 4

We understand that this time of the year is full of family and work commitments, but if you can spare a couple of hours to

help out on canteen we can make sure there are no

canteen closures this term. To volunteer you can either

use our sign up page via -https://bit.ly/2RQdwXn or

go to signup.com or

go to Speers Point PublicSchool P&C facebook page,under About / GeneralInformation for the sign uplink

leave a message on ourfacebook page

You could even call into the school, leave your details and

someone will be in touch.

Father’s Day

Thanks again to all who volunteered to give our dads

a special morning, we are pleased to report that we

made a small profit that will go towards our next

fundraising goal.

Last P&C Meeting for the year

This will be held on Tuesday 3rd December all are

welcome to come along and celebrate a year of

achievements.

http://www.facebook.com/sppspandc

https://bit.ly/2RQdwXn



Weeks 3 & 4

Safe Hands, Safe Feet

Safe, Respectful, Responsible,

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