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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Leadership Speeches 2018This week, our Year 5 candidates for School Leadership positions 2018, (pictured below) presented their speeches to the whole school. All students presented with confidence and articulation as they strived for positions on the Student Leadership team. I would like to congratulate all of our brave Year 5 students who completed their leadership speech. All staff and students commented on how difficult the decision was and recognised that all students would make positive school role models. The standard was outstanding and a voted decision will be announced at our 2017 Presentation Day on Tuesday 12th December 2017, at 10am.

End of 2017!Friday 15th December 2017This is the final school day of the 2017 school year. Please encourage your child to continue to come to school and participate in end of year activities. It is a legal requirement that students attend until the last day of the school year and any absence needs to be explained via our App or a note. Over the next 2 weeks, there are many exciting activities taking place which we will report on in the final newsletter for 2017, in week 10.

Volunteers Morning TeaThursday 14/11/17, 11:30 – 12:30A morning tea is being hosted, courtesy of the Wangi Wangi PS teaching staff, to say thank you to all the valuable members of our community that contribute to our school. Volunteers are an essential element in making school, home and the wider community a connected place for students to attend. At Wangi Wangi PS, we are incredibly fortunate to have many volunteers come to our school each week and offer a range of assistance in the operation of the school and teaching of our students. If you can make it, we warmly invite any volunteer to come to school and enjoy some time having morning tea. This is just a small way of showing our appreciation for the invaluable contribution volunteers make at our school.

Presentation DayTuesday 12th December 2017, 10am at Wangi Wangi PSOur final week for 2017 is quickly approaching. Please save this date and come along to support our school community and students in recognising the outstanding achievements that our students have made throughout the 2017 academic school year.

Tim Lewis

WHAT’S ON AT WWPS?

WEEK 9Friday 8 DecemberReward Day

Sunday 10 DecemberCarols on Dobell 5pm @ Dobell Park

WEEK 10Tuesday 12 DecemberPresentation Day 10am @ WWCYr 6 Farewell Dinner @ WWC

Wednesday 13 DecemberEnd of Year Day @ Myuna Bay

Thursday 14 DecemberXmas Singalong with The Stilling St Singers

Friday 15 DecemberClap OutLast day of Term 4

2018 Tuesday 30 JanuaryYr 1- 6 return

TERM 4 – WEEK 8– 2017

PBL FOCUSWeek 7

The Way We Speak

10 Gotchas for next reward

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MERIT AWARDS

Aaliyah French, Jayden TapperOliver Eames, Ella Nipperess

Ethan Taylor, Lukas PallasCooper Walsh, Kiara Gee

100 NIGHTS READING

Laicey Emerton

250 NIGHTS READINGLiliana Hayes

William BevanTom Bevan

150 NIGHTS READING

Jazmyne Armstrong,

CONGRATULATIONS

200 NIGHTS READING

Liliana Hayes

CAPA GROUPSYr 5/6 Gardening with Miss BaillacheThe 5/6 class have recently been doing gardening during CAPA groups. We’ve been shovelling mulch, growing mushrooms and more. We made our own food boat with some ingredients from the garden. The boats were yummy and we made them out of sprouts, cucumber, cheese, tomato, mint and creamed corn with a bit of salt and pepper. The 5/6 students had a lot of fun and wish to do it again. All in all, it was a great experience and certainly was extremely fun.By Dylan Salter and Tom Bevan.

Kinder Drawing with Mrs BevanI drew vegetables and fruit with crayons. Jack Mrs Bevan taught us how to draw houses and fruit. Kaitlin

Yr 2/3-Music with Mrs Morgan “We learnt the Cup Song with Mrs Morgan and had fun making music with our friends.” By Breeanna Wellard.“Singing with Mrs Morgan was a lot of fun and we learnt the Cup Song.” By Michael Kiellor

4/5 have written a class poem entitled “In Our Small School”

In our small schoolI smell coffeeAnd stinky rubbish binsYou can seeChildren playing With happy smiles upon their facesYou can seeAn open gateThat welcomes many visitorsI can seeCaring teachersMarking big thick maths booksI can see banana treesproducing healthy fruit

YEAR 4/5

Year 4/5 STEM with Mr Taylor4/5 have enjoyed doing S.T.E.M ac-tivities with Mr Taylor as part of the CAPA group rotation.

Year 1 Photography with Mrs MurphyDuring the last three weeks Year 1 have been developing their photography skills by taking landscape photos of Wangi Wangi Public School. They also had the opportunity to use different Apps on the ipads to edit and alter their faces, which they thoroughly enjoyed.

What an amazing 4 weeks at Wangi Wangi Public School! Thank you to all the amazing staff and students who have made this experience so memorable. Special thank you to Mr Lewis, Mrs Peterson and the beautiful 5/6 for having me in your class. I have had an absolute blast and will carry this experience with me forever.Miss Keating

I can seeKids relaxingUnder the swaying branchesI can seeColourful keys Greeting our new studentsI can seeStudents workingUsing their imaginationI can seeLoving teachersWorking hard with their studentsI can seeClasses learningWith new technologyI can seeStudents playingIn the gardens of the playground

FROM OUR PRAC TEACHER

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WANGI’S GOT TALENT 2017 HEALTHY HAROLDWell, Wangi Wangi Public School certainly does have TALENT. Congratulations to all participants and winners for a fabulous night of entertainment. A big thankyou to our judges Anne Lilliss and Julie Hodge, they certainly did have a tough challenge on the night. A big thankyou to Mr Taylor for our sound and music. Great work team! Mrs R

From this week on there will be no more borrowing for the rest of the year. Could all Library books please be returned ASAP so that all stock can be accounted for and reshelved. Thankyou to the unflappable Sophie Poole who has been our Scholastic Book Club contact & organiser for the last few years. We appreciate all the time and effort she has given our school. As a result we are now looking for someone to take Book Club on in 2018 – if you are interested please let me know. Mrs R

Junior Section1st Place – Ricardo Hovell, Hayden Tuhakaraina & Thomas Ririnui

2nd Place – Hula Girls ( Shaye Sunol, Gabby Di Lenardo, Lucy Kosky, Alexis Eames and Regan Bender

3rd Place – Ayda Fergusen & Angela Duncan

Encouragement – Laicey Emerton & Jazmyne Armstrong, Cassie Page, Oliver Eames & Tiarna Vane

Senior Section1st Place – Zali Field & Kiara Gee

2nd Place – William Bevan

3rd Place – Quest For The Golden Sword. (Tom Bevan, William Bevan, Dylan Salter, Oliver Tabone,Finn Miller and Dylan Gobbo

Encouragement – Emily Kent & Sarah Bullock, Aston Walsh, Maggie Carr & Charlotte Marsh

LIBRARY

On Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th of November, students at WWPS had a special visit from the Life Education Van. The Life Education program is an important component of our Personal Development curriculum and students had a great time engaging in fun and interactive lessons. Students were also lucky enough to see Healthy Harold the giraffe! Miss Baillache

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Wangi Fire Station Donnelly Road, Wangi Tuesday 19 December 2.00pm – 7.00pm Drink up! Have 3 or 4 glasses of water or juice in the hours before you donate Eat! Have a good sized breakfast or lunch Please bring photo I.D. with you

Christmas Markets 3pm to 9.30pm

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Carols by the Lake

6pm to 9.30pm Friday 8th December

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