Repton Public School Excellence, Opportunity and Success

Find us at River Street Repton 2454 Telephone: 66554 201 Fax: 66554570 Principal—Jane Martyn

repton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.repton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 1 Week 3 9th February, 2017

Sports Report

Monday the 6th gave years 3 – 6 their Small School’s

Swimming carnival. 3– 6 attended what was a great

day. Repton public school saw two champions with

Jeremy Radecki and Sam Hely taking Junior and 11

yrs champion. Alongside this we saw a girls relay

team making great time for their relay race hopeful-

ly earning them a place in the next level of races.

All in all, it was a very successful day with a lot of

tired students on the bus home.

Thank you to all who attended, the extra help was

appreciated!

Eli Phillips

What’s Happening:

FEBRUARY—2017

13 Clear Minded For Life—starts for 6 weeks

15 Meet the Teacher afternoon

17 District Swimming Carnival

MARCH

16/17 Year 6 Leadership Camp

APRIL

7 Last Day Term 1

24 Staff Development Day - Term 2

25 Anzac Day—Public Holiday

26 Students return for Term 2

Principal’s Message Welcome to our 17 new Kindergarten

students and their families who have settled in

very quickly! Welcome to: Azalia; Lila; Evie;

Harper; Jack; Ollie; Jarrah; Finnius; Kaiden;

Ryley; Oro; Kacee; Nesta; Sam; Tyrone; Joseph;

and Cash.

Please feel welcome to come in and see what is

happening or to find out the answers to any

questions that you may have about your child’s

school experience.

There has been a change of date for our Meet the

Teacher afternoon. It has been brought forward

to next Wednesday 15th February replacing the

original date of 8th March. The times, however,

will remain the same:

Kindergarten : 3.00 – 3.30

1/2 : 3.30 – 4.00

3-6 : 4.00 – 4.30

Earlier this week, students were given a note

regarding our Clear Minded for Life program

that commences soon. Please return permission

notes and money as soon as possible. If you have

any questions, please feel free to ask me.

Jane Martyn

Term 1 Week 3 9th February, 2017

P&C News

Hello and welcome to all of our new families in 2017,

and welcome back to all returning families!

Welcome event – Barefoot Bowls After the fun we had last year, we will again offer all

families the opportunity to gather over a game of bare-

foot bowls at North Beach Bowling and

Recreation Club – Friday 17th February from 5pm. See

the invitation for details – please RSVP by Wednesday

15th (return the slip to the office) The P&C will sponsor

this event, however a gold coin per entry would be

appreciated! Note: This really is a family event; our

school aged children are encouraged to play/form teams!

First ordinary meeting

Next Wednesday 15th February is our first P&C meet-

ing for the year. Starting at 5.30pm at the school I’d like

to invite everyone to attend. Our main focus will be to

give an introduction to new parents as to the role of the

P&C, to give an overview of how parents can be in-

volved, to discuss what our goals and focus should be

this year, and look at suitable / more convenient times

to meet. Already we’ve contributed to a better school

life in 2017 by sponsoring the bus to the swimming car-

nival and purchasing the new microwave in the canteen.

J Children are welcome to come along, and we will show

a movie in an adjoining classroom.

AGM

The AGM will be held next month on Wednesday 15th March at 5.30pm. At this meeting all current committee

positions will be declared vacant and nominations for

each role open. Roles on the “executive” (sounds fancy

but it’s really not!) are President, Vice President, Treas-

urer and Secretary. This year we really do need help to

fill these important roles; some of our current team

members have been on the exec team for a number of

years and now wish to make way for others. If we cannot

find people to take on these roles unfortunately we

won’t be able to offer our students and families many of

the wonderful services like canteen, subsidised excur-

sions or busses, new playground equipment, uniform

coordination or fun community events like the bubble

soccer and outdoor cinema that were such a success last

year. Without a P&C we won’t have a parent body rep-

resentation for consultation with Jane and our wonderful

teachers.

Perhaps you have skills in:

- finance and can do a spot of bookkeeping,

- minute taking at meetings

- writing grant applications

- coordinating uniform sales,

- leading up fundraising,

- monitoring our social media,

- coordinating an event

- canteen duties

- leading small building projects

- generating new ideas!

I do encourage all parents; old and new to come along to

our meeting NEXT week to hear how you could help with

“just one thing” this year, and consider putting your

name up for nomination at the AGM. Even if you don’t

volunteer for an exec position, we still need your sup-

port in the above areas and your attendance at one or

two meetings per year! If you can’t make evenings I will

be at school most mornings between 8.30 and 9am over

the next week if you have any questions about the

P&C, or of the roles and help needed.

Uniforms 1. Most sizes are still available in our uniforms. If you

would like a special order for a different size, please let

me know via Bev at the office.

2. There is now a rack in the staff room to display pre

-loved uniform items for sale. Please provide your items

on a hanger and tag them clearly with size, price and

your name. Bev will handle sales as long as this is done

clearly!

3. Don't forget that we also have a clothing pool

where items can be donated. A gold coin donation is

appreciated for anything taken from the pool.

Communication If you are on Facebook – please join our private Face-

book Group by searching

“Repton Public School P and C”

Thanks everyone

Tracy Young

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SCHOOL FREE TRAVEL INFORMATION - for Busways North Coast schools

School Free Travel

Students must have one of the following for school free travel on Busways services:

2. 2016 School Bus Pass (The 2016 pass is only valid for free school travel until 7pm on Friday 10 February 2017)

Replacement Pass Procedures - visit local depot or mail options

4 Busways issues a new pass and hands to the applicant or mails to the applicant.

Parents can apply for a replacement bus pass online by visiting www.busways.com.au

1. 1 Click on region/area where student resides.

2. Under TRAVELLING WITH US, click on School Bus Passes under the SCHOOLS menu.

3. Below Replace a lost/damaged school bus pass online for: Click on region/area.

4. Complete the online application form.

5. The local depot will issue the replacement pass and mail it to students address.

Travel Times

School passes may only be used on weekdays, during school term, for journeys to and from school from 6.30am to 7pm.

Term 1 Week 3 9th February, 2017

Term 1 2017 Canteen Roster

Roster contact for Canteen is Melissa Storey on 0421 728 774. Could all Volunteers please check the roster

above and let Mel know on the above number as soon as you can if you cannot do your day/days.

Also please let Bev know if you are making any special food.

VOLUNTEERS ARE NEEDED!!!!!!!

Please come and help out - the children love seeing you on

canteen day. It is a great, fun way to meet other parents and

be involved in the school community.

Canteen is always on a Wednesday now to avoid any confu-

sion. If you are able to do one day per term that would be

greatly appreciated.

If there is a certain date that you are available just let me

know and I’ll work the roster around you.

WEEK WEDNES-

DAY

PARENT HELPERS SPECIALS

WEEK 1 1 Feb NO CANTEEN

WEEK 2 8th Feb Melissa Storey/Michele Storey

WEEK 3 15th Feb Michael Radecki/Melissa Storey

WEEK 4 22nd Feb Vanessa Thornton/Karen Fry

WEEK 5 1st Mar Melissa Storey/Bec Evans Quesadillas

WEEK 6 8th Mar Sean Hely/VOLUNTEER NEEDED

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