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Calendar September Thursday 19th Boys Rock & Girls Shine Years 5 & 6Friday 20th 5/6 years T20 Gala Day MudgeeTuesday 24th Touch Gala Day in Mudgee Thursday 26th Out of Uniform Day - High School Fete

OctoberTuesday 29th Information Sessions Kindergarten 2020 1.00pm and 5.00pmNovemberWednesday 6th,13th,20th,27th Kindy KapersNovember 19th/20th Year 5 Overnight Excursion

16 September 2019Term 3, Week 9

Gulgong Public School has been invited by the High School to participate in their Annual School Fete. This will be on Thursday 26th September.

This will be an out of uniform day for our students.

The out of uniform will be a gold coin donation with proceeds going to Mia O'Dwyer.

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to all our students who took part in the Spellathon last week. It was wonderful

to see so many students involved and challenging themselves to learn their words.

A massive THANK YOU to all families who collected money and sponsored their children.

We are so excited to announce that we have raised $2231.30 for Mia O’Dwyer and her family.

What a truly AMAZING effort by our school community.

We’d like to make special mention of our highest fundraisers: Henley Fielding, Bentley Frost, Karly Wood, Emma Kerr, Charlie Hollow,

Summer Warner and Laihla Griffiths.

The Spelling Bee will take place in the hall tomorrow, 17th September at 12.10, where students will compete in a spelling quiz to find the top speller from each Stage.

Parents are most welcome. ES1: Peyton Ellery, Prescott White, Fiona Wang, Zhi McKenzie, Bentley Frost, Charlotte Large

S1: Henley Fielding, Matilda O’Connor, Jemimah Smith, Connor Smith, Bohdi Payten, Kailyn Pearson

S2: Scarlett Wilkie, Makayla Morgan, Tamara Watts, Lekeesha Wales, Teagan Doherty, Taylor Haney, William Mattick

S3: Rueben Farr, Kate Hamson, Erin Yardy, Natasha Dunk, Corser Fyfe, Gypsy Drew, Paeyton Pelchen.

Good luck to all our finalists!

NO HORSE RIDING for the MC class for the next 2 weeks

Riding will begin again in Term 4

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PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Gulgong Public School is looking at Before and After school care to provide further opportunities for our students and families.

To get this up and running we need parents to have their say on this. Please see below and follow the link to have your say.

Have Your Say on Before and

After School CareThe NSW Government is committed to providing before and after school care to all students of public primary schools in New South Wales. As part of the reform, a parent web form has been established by Service NSW that will enable parents to tell the department about their specific care needs and to stay up to date with any new developments.

The information provided by parents will help theDepartment of Education to understand your needs, give them insights into where there are gaps in service delivery and help to ensure the extra places are delivered where they are required.

Have you say today athttps://www.service.nsw.gov.au/basc.

Generosity is a word we don't use very often nowadays, however on this occasion it is a very accurate reflection on our community.

The generosity shown by our student's and the Gulgong community is outstanding. The Spellathon that we are holding tomorrow has raised $2231 for Mia O'Dwyer and her family. This money will go directly to her family to help our brave little girl fight her cancer battle.

I would like to personally thank all those parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, neighbours and shop owners who donated money to this worthwhile cause and Mrs Lewis who organised the Spellathon. I know the O'Dwyer family are very thankful for the support.

This Spellathon has also given our students the opportunity to show their spelling skills and tomorrow we will find out who the top 4 spellers from each stage group are. Parents are most welcome to come along and watch their children spell their words. Each of the winners of their stages will receive a $20 voucher to Stacks store in town. We look forward to seeing who our top spellers are.

This Thursday our Year 5 and 6 students also have the opportunity to participate in a Girls Shine and Boys Rock day. This is designed to allow students to see future careers as well as how to look after their changing bodies. It includes fitness and Pilates sessions and hygiene and wellbeing talks.

David Lewis

Principal

Last Wednesday Year 5 and 6 students from Mr Haney's class got to complete their projects making Carbon Dioxide powered dragsters.

This involved them going over to the High School and using their bandsaws and drill presses to cut and drill their cars in the Industrial Technology rooms.

They then had to sand their cars to a nice smooth finish to reduce the drag and allow their car to travel faster. The students really enjoyed making their cars and the opportunity to see the High School where they will be in 1-2 years time.

We would like to thank Mr Johnson from the High School for giving up his time to help our students make their dragsters.

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ATTENDANCE

We at Gulgong Public School want our students, your children, to get a great education and the building blocks for a great education begin with students coming to school each day and every day.

If students miss school reqularly, they miss out on learning the fundamental skills that will set them up for success in the later years of school.

There is no safe number of days for missing school - each day a student misses, puts them behind and can affect their educational outcomes.

Each missed day is associated with progressively lower achievement in numeracy, writing and reading.

All this said we do, however, acknowledge with current sickness across the grades that students stay at home to recuperate and also to prevent the infection of other students, but we need to communicate that outside of illness, families need to be aware of absent days from school and the impact this may have on students.

ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL

Students must attend school every day. Whenever this is not posssible a note signed by the parent or guardian, giving the date and reason for the absence, must be presented to the class teacher as soon as the student returns to school.

LATE TO SCHOOL

School begins at 9.25am each day and to maximise the learning opportunities for your child, it is important that they arrive prior to this time.

We fully understand that this is not always possible and at times, you may arrive late to school.

If your child does arrive late they are to report to the School Office to record details in the Late Register.

The parent/caregiver should accompany the student to explain the partial absence.

If the student is unacconpanied on arrival, the abesence is recorded as an Unexplained Absence.

CLASS IN FOCUS

Sarah Price

Deputy Principal

YEAR 1 EXCURSION to REDHILL

WEDNESDAY 25th

Students please wear their Sports Uniform, Sneakers School Hat, Sunblock.

Students will be walking to Redhill, leaving at 9.30am and retuning around 3.00pm.

Students are to bring water, morning tea and lunch and are asked if they can pack their food with as minimal

packaging as possible.

He/She is only missing just ......

That equals ....... Which is .......... Over 13 years of schooling that’s ..........

1 day per fortnight 20 days per year 4 weeks per year Nearly 1.5 years

1 day per week 40 days per year 8 weeks per year Over 2.5 years

2 days per week 80 days per year 16 weeks per year Over 5 years

PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWSwill be held tomorrow

17th September, 2019

Kaden Hall and Paeyton Pelcin practicing keyboard and drums for the School Band.

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This Week’s Winner

Ellie O”Brien

Uniform Winner

PLEASE REPORT TO THE OFFICE IF YOU

ARE

PICKING YOUR CHILDREN UP EARLY

OR

ARRIVING LATEThird Instalment for the Year 4

Excursion is NOW OVERDUE !!!!!

Tea Gardens Excursion to The Great Aussie

Bush Camp

KINDERGARTEN 2020Enrolling Now!

For more information phone Gulgong Public School

6374 1622.

Gulgong Public School have Enrolment packs available.

Kindy KapersPacks are also available from the

Gulgong Pre School and Happy Days

Kindy Kapers sessions will be held on the following dates:

Wednesday 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th NovemberSession 1 and Session 2 - 9.30am - 11.30am

Kindergarten 2020 Information Night Tuesday 29th October

1.00pm and 5.00pm

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