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Bottlebrush St, THURGOONA NSW 2640 Phone: 02 60431 244 Fax: 02 60432 045 Email: thurgoona-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.thurgoona-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Relieving Principal: Joan Courtney

Term 1 Week 8 17 March 2015

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Please add to your dairy -Tuesday 24 March, 7.00pm - 8.30 pm for our super parent information session: ‘Reading at Home - Daily 5 Style’. We would like to demonstrate and discuss some of the reading strategies we use at school to help you with reading at home. We hope it will give you an insight into the goals that your children are aiming to achieve in their reading and how to assist them. Please note the change of date for our Athletics Carnival to Wednesday 25 March. We thank Albury High for allowing us the use of Alexandra Park on this day. Please come along and support your children and their houses in this annual carnival. Children will need to return the orange updated permission note to the office. All children are expected to attend as this is a component of our school sporting calendar. Congratulations to Liam Rule for his selection into the Albury District PSSA Basketball Team. We wish him well in his endeavours to gain selection at the next level – Riverina. Kind Regards Joan Courtney Relieving Principal

Friday 20 March Year 7 Transition Forms Due ASSEMBLIES: K/Stage 1 Wollemi Pine at 1.50pm to 2.20pm Stage 2/3 Paperbark at 2.25pm to 2.55pm

Monday 23 March Responsible Pet Program K-2

Tuesday 24 March AFL Sessions Parent Session: Reading at Home - Daily 5 Style 7.00pm – 8.30pm

Wednesday 25 March AFL Sessions ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Guide Dog Speaker K-2

Friday 27 March Gold Cup – Half day holiday 12.00 – 3.00pm

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School Contributions

It is that time of year when the school asks that families consider paying their school contribution. At our last P & C meeting the Voluntary School Contribution was set as $45 per child. A note will be forwarded to families in the near future. We ask that you give due consideration to the payment of fees as this money is important in providing resources for our classrooms. Payments can be made by EFTPOS at the School.

2015 School Captains My name is Kai Wilson and I am 10 years old.

I enjoy playing lots of different sports and my favourites are AFL, Soccer, Basketball and Cricket. I wanted to be in the school leadership group as I feel that I have the right aspects to contribute and help the teachers and students. I like to lead by example and show respect, be honest and treat everybody equally. I hope to contribute to making a difference to the school. I am looking forward to the year ahead and will be representing the school with pride.

Hi, my name is Asha Smith. Out of school I do dancing, trampolining, singing and water polo. I will try to be a good School captain in 2015 and will help others. I will to listen to teachers and other students, always make sure everyone around me is happy and that I am a good role model for all students at our school. What I am looking forward to this year as School Captain is marching in the Anzac Day parade and holding the flag, laying the wreath at the Anzac Day and Remembrance Day ceremonies and representing our school whenever I can. Notes Home

Reading Strategy Evening – All Students Third and Final Instalment for Stage 3 – Borambola Excursion Year 5-6 Only

Permission notes for Athletics Carnival – Stage 2 and 3 Tell Them From Me Student Survey permission note – All Students

Photo Order Envelopes Gold Cup Half Day Holiday note

Cool Kid Winners – Excellent behaviour in the playground Winners for this week are: Klaire Livermore, Amelia Spinks, Lily Copland, Samara Wynn, Birin Milgate, Alyssa Makeham, Ben Armstrong.

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Thurgoona Public School

Infant’s Easter Hat Parade Thursday 2 April Infant’s Easter Hat Parade You are invited to our Easter Hat Parade. The children will be parading the hat they made with their buddy at school. It is an enjoyable way to end our term and we hope you can hop along. When: Thursday 2 April 2015 Time: 2.15 pm in the quad. (Weather permitting) P & C News

“EASTER RAFFLE” Thank you to all the families who have already returned their tickets and kindly donated eggs to our raffle: Please keep them coming in. The raffle will be drawn at the Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 2 April.

On Saturday 28 March our school is open as a polling station for the election. We will be hosting a fundraising BBQ from 11.00 am-2.00 pm. A meeting will be held Monday 23 March 9.00 am in the P&C room to finalize details for the BBQ. Everyone welcome! If you are unable to attend the meeting and would like to be involved or help at the BBQ please contact Kylie on 02 6043 2642

MERITS - Term 1 Week 6

K Daisy Matilda Clapman, Carly O’Neill, Summer McNaughton, Isabelle Lawrence

K Bottlebrush Grace Hill, Isabella Habermann, Emmerson Laurien, Ryan Armstrong

K Pandorea Ava Walsh, Jake Deanshaw, Tiarny Vercoe, Alice Beaven

S1 Lomandra Carson Way, Abigail Power, Emma Phillips, Ammar Syed

S1 Kangaroo Paw Lily Copland, Isabella Osipov, Thomas McGregor, Joel McLean

S1 Calytrix Cassie Kreutzberger, Josh Thompson, Beau Quarel, Jacob Bartholomew

S1 Eucalyptus Harum Rizwan, Leonardo Pamatangi, Maksim Gough, Hollie Doogood

S1 Wollemi Pine Chloe Rodgers, Kyle Thompson, Jordan Morris, Ryleigh Franz

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Pre-Loved Uniform Shop

The Pre-loved uniform shop will be open from 8.45am – 9.15am on: Friday 20 March 2015

Canteen News

Canteen Meeting: Monday 23 March 2.00pm in P&C Room to discuss “Wednesday Meal Deals” and the menu for next term. All welcome. COMMUNITY NEWS

EASTER FAMILY NIGHT Thursday 26 March 6pm – 8pm

Come along for a FREE Face Painting, Jumping Castle, Animal Nursery, Easter Craft, Egg Hunt and

much more….

Booking is essential: 02 6042 3400

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Thurgoona Public School

Term 1 2015 (New entries are in Red)

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SAT SUN

Mar

ch

8

16

17

18

19 20 Yr 7 Transition Forms Due

21 22

9

23 Responsible Pet Program K-2

24 AFL Sessions Parent Session – ‘Reading at Home Daily5 Style’. 7:00 – 8:30 pm

25 Guide Dog Speaker K-2 Athletics Carnival Stage 2 and 3

26 27 Easter Scripture Service

28 29

12:00 noon Gold Cup Half -Day Holiday

April

10

30 31

1 School Photos

2 Easter Hat Parade 2:15 pm Easter Raffle to be drawn .

3 Good Friday

4 5

6 Easter Monday

7

8 9 10 11

12

13

14

15 16 17 18 19

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Term 2 2015

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

Apr

il /

May

1

20 SDD

21 22 23 K-2 Athletics

24 TPS Anzac Service

25 ANZAC Day

26

2 27 Stage 3

Borambola

28 Stage 3 Borambola

29 Stage 3 Borambola

K-2 Gym

30

1

2 3

May

3 4 5 6

K-2 Gym 7 8

TPS XCountry 9 10

4

11

12 NAPLAN Y3/5

13 NAPLAN Y3/5

K-2 Gym

14 NAPLAN Y3/5

15 District Aths

16 17

5 18

19 20

K-2 Gym 21 22 23 24

6

25

26 27 K-2 Gym Grip-Leaders Conference

28 29 District X Country

30 31

Jun

e

7

1 2 3 K-2 Gym

4 SnakeTails Show

5 PSSA Starts

6 7

8

8 Queen’s Birthday

9 Riverina X Country

10 K-2 Gym

11 12 PSSA Y3-6

13 14

9 15

16 17

K-2 Gym 18 19

PSSA Y3-6 20 21

10 22 23 24

K-2 Gym 25 26

PSSA Y3-6 27 28

Jun

/Jul

29 30 1 2 3 4 5

6 7 8 9 10 11 12

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Thurgoona Public School

Highly experienced and enthusiastic teaching and support staffing