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A proud member of the Western Shores Learning Alliance.

Term 4 Week 8

Thursday 26 November 2015

Principal’s Report

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Powerful Learning Accountable Teaching –PLAT

In 2015, Wangi Wangi Public School embarked on a new teaching and learning program in literacy featuring

explicit teaching, sequencing of skills logically and focused lessons which will result in engaged students, high

levels of success, critical content matched to students’ instructional needs, supported practice and timely

feedback.

This initiative will continue in 2016, PLAT is an education process based upon student performance against

identified achievement benchmarks. Individual student performance data is collected every five weeks and

used to inform teaching practices.

Bushfire Preparations

Procedures have been put in place for Bush Fire Communication protocols. A Bush Fire Emergency

Management and Evacuation Plan has been prepared for 2015-2016. This ensures that we receive all

appropriate information and advice to assist us in preparing and responding to bush fire conditions. Our bush

fire response procedures have been communicated to all staff. For parents, procedures are as follows: our

primary action to follow under normal bush fire conditions is to take shelter in classrooms. We will only

evacuate once we have been given an alert from NSW Rural Fire service.

Principal for the Day

Our School Captains, Ella and Brodie, visited Morisset High this week to participate in the Principal For A day

program. All schools in Western Shores Learning Alliance (WSLA) participate in this worthwhile program. Ella

and Logan accompanied Mr Mark Snedden, Principal, to an Awards Assembly, asked many questions as well

as learning how a high school operates. Feedback from Mr Snedden was highly positive on how our leaders

led by example. Wangi’s Got Talent

Mrs Rayfield and Mrs Tarrant have been extremely busy auditioning and polishing acts for the talent quest.

Don’t forget the date Wednesday, 2nd

December at 6.30pm at 6.30pm. Come along and be prepared to be

entertained!

Jenni Langford

Principal

No, you never get any fun

Out of the things you haven’t done.

Class 5/6

Mathematics

Harry and Nathan have been working on some challenging

mathematical problems over the year. At the beginning of the

year they found the problems quite difficult, but now they are

consistently attacking and solving every problem, not matter how

long it takes them.

For those of you playing at home; here are a couple they have

solved:

In a class of 26 students, 15 like vanilla ice cream and 16 like

chocolate ice cream. However, 3 do not like either. How many

students like both vanilla and chocolate?

On a shopping trip Griff spends 1/3 of his money at store A, 1/3 of

his money at store B and his remaining $12 at store C. How many

dollars did he have at the start?

English-

Check out Ella’s Cockney rhyming passage bout the weather-

Try and read it in your head with a cockney accent.

Key-

(frog and toad= road)

(plates of meat=feet)

(north and south=mouth)

(hampstead heath=teeth)

(currant bun=sun)

(mince pies=eyes)

(brass bands=hands)

(trouble and strife=wife)

(scotch eggs=legs)

The heat from the frog scorched my bare plates. The sweat from

the top lip of my north dripping onto my hampstead. The currant

to bright for my mince pies. My brass bands are sweating from

holding trouble’s brass bands. I mean seriously, my scotch eggs

are going to fall off.

Here is Griffin’s persona poem about anxiety. It is very well

written!

Pretend Morgan Freeman is reading the poem to you to fully

capture the emotion.

I am your worst enemy. I shrink your comfort zone and make you

worry. I stop you trying new things and create barriers. I’m the

one who tells you what you can and cannot do. You try to escape,

but why even try; there is no escape from me. I make you rush to

do things quicker. I make you worry about everything. Sneaking,

hiding, I pop up every time I feel the slightest hint of doubt. You

fear me because there is no escape from, anxiety. In writing we

have been refining our techniques making sure we include time

connectives, adverbial and adjectival phrases and clauses and

figurative language.

Here is a snippet of J.K Rowling, I mean Zali’s writing:

The enormous black dog, with fiery red eyes was sprinting across

the grass when it skidded to a halt in front of a slimy, green

caterpillar. The dog’s teeth were sharp; dripping with spit and the

mangled remains of someone’s recently departed rabbit. The

caterpillar was large and the dog was glaring at it like a bone a

plate. The dog let out a booming………Wait, tiny bark. So much for

his sharp claws, black coat like death and powerful body. You

could almost hear the caterpillar laughing.

Merit Awards

K/1 Bailee Edden, Lukas Pallas, Claudia Black.

Yr 1/2 Aston Walsh, Taj Vane, Hannah Kosky.

Yr 3/4 Bae-Phoenix Kelly, Finn Miller, Cooper Walsh,

Lawson Latham.

Yr 5/6 Griffin Haines, Logan Brodie, Nathan Hayes,

Jake Kosky

50 Nights Super Readers

Laicey Emerton Kaizen Ruse Lukas Pallas

Gaby Di Lenardo Brock Bennett Lily Matthews

Scarecrow Competition

Well done to Lily Matthews who received 1st Prize in the

under 13 year category and to the Walsh Family who

received 1st prize for the best story book character.

What’s on at WWPS:

TERM 4 2015 Week 9

Wed 2 Dec Yr 1/2 Dinosaur party THS Yr 7 2016 Orientation Talent Quest 6:30pm WWC Thurs 3 Dec MHS Yr 7 2016 Orientation

Week 10 Mon 7 Dec Red Day Tues 8 Dec Presentation Day 10am WWC P&C meeting Wed 9 Dec Thankyou morning tea Thurs 10 Dec Yr 6 Farewell Dinner @ WRSL

Week 11 Wed 16 Dec End of year picnic @ Myuna Bay Last day for students Thurs 17 Dec Staff Development day

TERM 1 2016 Week 1

Wed 27 Jan Staff Development day Thurs 28 Jan Students Yrs 1-6 return Kinder Best Start Fri 29 Jan Kinder Best Start

Week 2 Mon 1 Feb First day for Kinders Wed 3 Feb Kinder photos

Please refer to our website’s calendar for more details. www.wangiwangi-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Soccer Gala Day.

We went to Speers Point for a scorching hot soccer gala

day and the boys were exhausted. Both teams were

awesome representatives for our school. One team

played a man all day and won every game. Our other

team drew a couple of games and got stronger as the day

went on. We finished with a big win to top off a great

day. Well done boys!

Bowling.

Brian from Wangi Wangi Bowling Club has been

offering his time to teach our 5/6 students the art of

lawn bowls. Hopefully we can squeeze a few more

sessions in during this busy time of year. Many

thanks to Wangi Wangi Bowling Club .

Community Notices

Before & After School Care

YMCA ran OOSH @ Biraban Public School Toronto

Students taken to and collected from school.

More details available on 4959 4444