The Link Volume 4, Issue 9

7th December 2016

Participation Leads to Success

Phone: 6859 2233 Fax: 6859 2581

Principals Message

Class Parties/

Pool Party

School Swimming

Intensive Swimming

Small School’s

Swimming Carnival

School Calendar

Eugowra Pool

Activities

Carols by the Creek

Year 6 Farewell Disco

Dates for your Diary

Community Notices

Presentation Night Fun

“With oars and sails”

Hill Street Eugowra 2806

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

www.eugowra-p.school .nsw.edu.au

School Swimming

Due to Intensive Swimming continuing

this week, School Swimming at Eugowra

Pool won’t be on. Students will depart

from Eugowra Public School as usual on

Friday afternoon.

Intensive Swimming

Intensive swimming continues until the

end of Week 9 (this week) in the

morning sessions from 9am-1pm. Please

continue to send students to school

with their swimmers on under their

school uniform and packed recess,

water, dry underwear to change into

and any special swimming gear your

child requires.

2017 Small School’s

Swimming Carnival

The 2017 Small

Schools Swimming

Carnival will be held

on Friday 3rd February, 2017 at the

Forbes Pool. This is a combined event

w i th B edger abong , Car agaba l ,

Quandialla and Bogan Gate Public

Schools. Due to organisation, we need to

submit race nominations this year. If

you would like to nominate your child in

a race, please fill out the attached

form and return to school by this

Friday 9 th December . If your

nomination is not received, your child

will not be entered in events. Students

are only allowed to compete in a 25m

event OR a 50m event, they are unable

to participate in both. They can

participate in both 50m and 100 events.

Non-swimmers wil l be able to

participate in novelty events on the day.

This Friday

Pick-up and

buses from the

School

NOT the pool

Principal’s Message

Welcome to Week 9!

With only a week and a half of school

left and Presentat ion Night

completed, we only have a couple of

important dates left for the end of

the term. Intensive Swimming will

continue until the end of this week,

reports will go home this Friday and

our Year 6 Disco will be on next

Wednesday night from 6pm-7pm. Our

last day of school for the year will be

Friday 16th December where we will

have class parties and a pool party in

the afternoon session. The first day

for students in Term 1 of 2017 is

Monday 30th January with the Small

School’s Swimming Carnival on Friday

3rd February and the Eugowra School’s

Swimming Carnival on Friday 10th

February.

Thank you to all that attended our

Presentation Night, it was lovely to

see our students perform and to be

able to recognise their achievements

throughout the year. Thank you to

Mrs Reeves, Miss Gail, Miss Matthews

and Miss Hodge who all assisted

greatly in getting ready for the big

event.

Have a great week!

Mrs Welsh

Class Parties/Pool Party

Next Friday 16th December (last day

of school), we will be having our class

parties in the middle session and pool

party at Eugowra Pool in the

afternoon. Students will depart from

the Eugowra Pool at the conclusion of

the day. Buses or pick up will be from

the pool.

Term 4 2016

Week 9 5.12.16

Intensive

Swimming

Program at

Forbes Pool

6.12.16

Intensive

Swimming

Program at

Forbes Pool

Presentation

Night 6.30pm

7.12.16

Intensive

Swimming

Program at

Forbes Pool

8.12.16

Intensive

Swimming

Program at

Forbes Pool

9.12.16

Intensive

Swimming

Program at

Forbes Pool

Reports Home

Week 10 12.12.16

Willawa Visit

10.15am

13.12.16 14.12.16

Year 6 Disco,

6.00pm—7.00pm

School Hall.

15.12.16 16.12.16

Last Day of

school for

students

2017

TERM 1

30.1.17

Students

Return

31.1.17 1.2.17 2.2.17 3.2.17

Forbes Small

School’s

Swimming

Carnival

Forbes Pool

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Activities at Eugowra Pool

2016-17 School Holidays

The Pool Committee is holding 3 activity days during the Summer holidays. Sessions are free. Each session will take a maximum of 10 children from the age of 7/8 years old on. Dates: 1. Wednesday 28th Dec 2016 2. Wednesday 4th Jan 2017 3. Wednesday 18th Jan 2017 Times: 10am to 12 noon 1) ‘Lets Go Potty’ - a) help decorate large pots for plants around the pool - b) decorate a small terracotta pot to take home with a succulent. 2) ‘Fish Pool’ - a) help decorate the front door of the pool—all the fish need swimming costumes. b) make a small painting to take home by turning your finger prints into fish! 3) ‘Sunflowers’ - a) give our pool cow sculpture a garden filled with sunflowers you paint. b) paint a sunflower to make into a magnet to take home. ALL MATERIALS ARE SUPPLIED Contact the pool for further information.

Carols by the Creek

Students will again be participating in the annual

Carols by the Creek that is run by the Lions Club at

Apex Park on Sunday 11th December at 7pm. It would

be great to see as many families there as possible as

this is a community run event. Students will need to

wear Christmas clothes for their performance of

Christmas songs. Students should look for Mrs Welsh

on arrival.

P & C AGM

The P & C AGM is due to be held in February of 2017.

Date to be confirmed.

Year 6 Disco

The Year 6 disco will be held next Wednesday 14th

December from 6pm-7pm. Students will be provided

with a packet of chips, popper and some groovy tunes

to dance along to. We will also have cake towards the

conclusion of the event. Students are able to wear

appropriate free clothes for the event.

Assembly

There will be no end of term assembly for Term 4 due

to Presentation Night and end of year events.

Dates:

9/12/16 – Reports home

11/12/16 – Carols by the Creek

14/12/16 – Year 6 Disco 6pm-7pm

16/12/16 – Last day of school/pool party/class

parties

3/2/17 – Small School’s Swimming Carnival

10/2/17 – Eugowra School’s Swimming Carnival

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End of Year Raffle. Thank you to all who supported our end of year raffle. Congratulations to our winner, Boyd Greenhalgh.

Carols by the Creek - December 11

Carols by the Creek will be held at Apex Park,

Eugowra on Sunday, December 11. The Lion's Club

barbecue will start at 6:30 and the singing at 7 pm.

As in past years the local school children will be first to perform and the community choir will lead

the carol sing along. Flying in for the evening's end will be a visit from the jolly man in red.

A new twist to this year's Carols by the Creek will be the performance of local singer/songwriter

Kerry Hodge. Kerry, who now lives in Kelso, is a true Aussie bushman and busker. He has

performed with Gordon Parsons, Lee Kernaghan, The Wolverines, and many others. Kerry has also

performed on the Footy Show and on the Kerri-Anne Kennerley Show. He and members of his

family won 'best group performance' at the Tamworth Country Music Festival with their version of

'Amazing Grace.'

Eugowra is sure to be delighted by Kerry Hodge and his wit, stories, and Christmas singing.

Please contact Jeanine Gibby at 6867-1100 or gibbyj@live.com.au for any questions or comments.

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