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7th September 2015 Term 3 Week 9

Trundle Central School Newsletter A school that provides a

professional, stimulating and challenging learning

environment

Reminders Wednesday 16/9/15 Car wash Monday 14/9/15 BIG GIG Trundle Performance 1pm matinee 7pm night performance Friday 18/9/15 Year 12 Farewell Assembly

P&C President

Mr Mitch McAlister

Secretary Mrs Joanne Coster

Treasurer Mrs Rasha Lynn

Principal Mr John Southon

Relieving Head Teacher Secondary

Miss Leisa Rowlands

Relieving Assistant Principal

Mrs Fiona Sanderson

(l-r) 5/6 - William Taylor, K/1/2 - Benjamin Strudwick and 3/4 - Sky-Lee Brown

(l-r) Sebastion Brown, Ashlee Bartijn, Jason Gerry,

Erin Fernando and Lionel Hartig

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.trundle-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/


Term 3 Week 9

Principal’s

Message

Parent teacher afternoon/evening was well attended

on Tuesday and I thank those parents that were able to

attend. I would be disappointed if parents came away

from the evening shocked or angry because of new

information about their child as our processes should

keep parents reasonably well informed. Parent teacher

evening however, still provides another important

opportunity to discuss your child’s progress and plan

for the future. When I was a child the ferocity of the

slam of the door when my mother returned from

parent teacher night was always an indication of how

fast and far to run, but schools now are more

proactive in contacting parents and early intervention

is promoted. This week is again very full for both staff and students.

Year 11 exam week starts, Future Moves, Big Gig

practice continues, 4t’s sport in Tullamore, Great

Escape car rally raising funds for Cystic Fibrosis,

supported Playgroup, VET audit and WAP Graduation

Dinner. Primary students will have the opportunity to

view the rally cars and take part in any activities if

appropriate. Teachers will walk their classes down to

the pub corner and back to school. WAP Graduation Dinner is another life marker for

both students and parents. Even after 23 years of

incarceration with the Department of Education I still

get a sense of pride when attending end of Year 12

events. I am particularly proud of this current group of

students because they have grown enormously both

academically and in terms of maturity since the start of

the year. The challenge for this group now is to finish

strong. Not every child receives a Higher School

Certificate so finishing is still an enormous

achievement. In other recent great news, one of our Year 12

students has already been offered an apprenticeship. I

am very proud of this student because I believe

working with your hands has just as much status and

credibility as pursuing academic qualifications. Indeed,

there are many highly qualified university graduates

lining up at the dole office. I want to instil a culture in

students that it does not matter what career you

pursue but be the best you can at it and be proud. The

value of a person is not dictated by the size of their

bank account. Last year every Year 12 graduate either

received an apprenticeship, fulltime work or a

University offer. This is the challenge for the current

group of students. In another great piece of news Trundle Central School

has been successful in receiving a grant for 10 Arduino

Esplora boards worth 850 dollars. These will help

develop computer programming skills and knowledge

of how students can interface with computers. The

technology available at Trundle Central School is as

good as or better than any mainstream school in the

state, allowing us to develop students capable on

interacting in the current information driven society.

Obviously Mr Lynn told me what these boards are

capable of and wrote the phrase ‘interface with

computers’ as I have little idea what this means. Many students and staff have suffered illness this term

compounding the levels of tiredness and stress across

the school. I thank students and staff for their

continued effort and professionalism in often difficult

circumstances. Teachers are one group in the

workforce that is particularly susceptible to illness

because of close contact with little bacteria factories,

commonly referred to as children. Parents and carers can help us by encouraging your

children to wash their hands, faces and clothes

regularly. Yes it is possible for older children to place

clothes into a washing machine and press start. The

minister has even taught me and she is looking forward

to the next leap year. Give children a computer game

they will soon work out how it functions but the

washing machine and vacuum cleaner are way too

complex. I try not to come across as lecturing people

but I feel it is my job to protect children. Some

children come to school with extremely dirty hands

and faces and sometimes clothes. This is a perfect

breeding ground for illness. I am asking for collective

community responsibility especially when illness is

common. The amount of illness in the school this year

has affected school budget and children’s learning. The warm weather is just around the corner so it is

time parents have the hygiene talk with their children.

Last week I walked into a classroom of boys and it

smelt like there was a dead camel in the corner.

Teachers do not get paid danger money so if you could

provide older students with deodorant, roll on only

please as aerosol cans are banned in schools. This year we have changed our transition to

Kindergarten and into secondary program. This

extended program will allow students to understand

school routines, get to know their teachers, familiarise

themselves with the variety of technology available at

school and develop friendships.




Term 3 Week 9

Kinder students will also be introduced to their Big

Buddy for 2016. This Year 6 student will make their

start to school easier and mentor them through the

challenges of big school. Our Kindergarten program

will also allow our experienced Kindergarten teacher to

observe and assess the school readiness of the children

and start to plan for 2016. Both transition programs

have a strong emphasis on early intervention for

children and acknowledge that students and families

bring a variety of strengths to a school. Transition is

essential to develop connected students. These

students through the linkages and skills developed

through transition enter school with the foundations of

learning, helping them to quickly achieve their potential.

Complementing our transition program is supported

playgroup. Playgroup builds foundation skills that allow

students to interact positively with peers, develop gross

and fine motor skills and other essential school skills. I

hope this is a success but only the community can

determine this. There is no charge for this playgroup.

Another strategy introduced to the school is THINK.

This is very simple before you speak or write:

T = Is it true?

H = Is it helpful?

I = Is it inspiring?

N = Is it necessary?

K = Is it kind?

This strategy is to encourage more positive interactions

between students. Maybe this could become a town

wide strategy to improve interactions between people.

Certainly free up some Facebook space.

Our vegetable garden and orchard was planted this

week. This project is an effort to provide fresh produce

for our kitchen and to offer to the community for a

small donation towards the cost of water. The amount

of vegetable seeds donated to the school was

outstanding. Thank you Trundle. Many students react

the same way to a vegetable as you do to a black snake

but I believe increased availability will break down these

fears. This garden is possible because of the use of the

Police paddock. I again thank the police for thinking

outside the bureaucratic square and allowing us to use

vacant land. We are increasing the scale of planting

because of the moisture available at present. Better to

be optimistic then hungry. If this is El nino, I will not be

selling my raincoat. In many ways the world has gone crazy. Jared Hayne is

successful in the NFL, a few footballers take some yippy

beans to increase performance and it is in the

mainstream media for weeks, even front page of some

papers. Europe is facing the biggest humanitarian crisis

since the end of the Second World War and it hardly

makes the paper. Imagine if Jared Hayne has holidaying

in Hungary, with his girlfriend who starred on Home

and Away was the daughter of a Syrian refugee and he

was caught with performance enhancing drugs sold to

him by a former child actor. We would have to get the

forklift from Ag & Vet to lift the paper. That is the last

free plug for Ag & Vet. Come on have you seen the

photo of cute kinder kids on aging play equipment?

Advertising in our newsletter is progressing well. A

huge thank you to Wendy O’bryan Turner, Owen John

Turner, Jo & Peter Coster, Terry & Lorna Charton, Bob

and Anne Mawbey for agreeing to advertise. There is

still plenty of space and the cut off date is next Friday.

Our newsletter is read I believe by more people in

Trundle than the Forbes and Parkes newspapers. I also

know of people across the district and country that

read our newsletter from our website. A whole years

advertising for 500 dollars! Try and negotiate that with

a main stream newspaper. The advertising money is to

be used for renewing our playground equipment. This

equipment is enormously expensive because of the

amount of standards it needs to meet to be in schools.

The current equipment is ageing and needs replacing. I

could put up with ageing equipment but I am sure the

Trundle Community expects me to at least try and have

the best possible facilities for children.

Bush Tucker weekend is over and sore heads are

starting to recover. The committee and many

volunteers led by Col Quade once again put on an

event for the community to Trundle to be proud of. I

would like to make special mention of Ronald Jones

Junior. Ronald works for many community organisations

and always puts in massive effort to make things

successful and does not receive the thanks that he

deserves on occasions. It does amaze me human nature

however. When I was on the gate I received a

complaint about the cost of a ticket. Where else would

you be able to have entertainment all day long and a

headline act that has received many golden guitars for

thirty dollars. A packet of cancer sticks is over thirty

dollars and a carton of giggle juice 50 dollars. The

cheapest thing available in life is perspective I can sell it

to you for free.

I am on leave for Week 10 of this term and the first

week back. Mrs Sanderson will be in the lonely chair. I

am very confident the school is in very good hands for

these two weeks. Anyway JFK was replaced in a day I

am sure I could be replaced in a heartbeat.

Another great week in Trundle

John Southon




Term 3 Week 9




Trundle Central School has been successful in receiving a grant for 10 Arduino Esplora boards

worth a total of $850. These boards will be used as part of the year 9 and 10 IST course. We will be

participating in a challenge to develop programing skills and knowledge of how we can interface with

computers. The program is being run by Sydney University and is government supported to enable us

to receive these boards.

The esplora boards are designed to look like a

games controller and can be programmed to

be used as such. They have an inbuilt

accelerometer, temperature sensor, RGB

LED, 4 button keypad, joystick, buzzer and

microphone. These boards allow a wide

range of interesting activities to be

undertaken in computer interfacing and

programing.

The performance schedule is as follows:

The students will need to come to school as per usual and will be walking down to the hall

after morning assembly.

We are also looking for donations of unwanted makeup and hair

spray. If you have any of these items, please hand them into the

front office.

9/9/15 10/9/15- Thursday 11/9/15- Friday Wednesday

16th September

Thursday

17th September

NO AFTER

SCHOOL

REHEARSAL

DUE TO 4T’s

EXCURSION

Afternoon

12:10 – 3:00

FULL DAY

dress rehearsal School day

as per usual

Yeoval

Performance

1pm – Matinee

7pm - Night

All CAST All CAST

Monday 14th

September

Tuesday 15th

September

Wednesday 16th

September

Thursday 17th

September

Trundle

Performance

1pm – Matinee

7pm - Night

Tullamore

Performance

1pm – Matinee

7pm - Night

School day as per

usual

Yeoval

Performance

1pm – Matinee

7pm - Night




Primary

Students of the week K/1/2 - MacKenzie Smith

3/4 - Xander Hartig

5/6 - Sue Wu

Mrs Jones - Noah Wilson

Sportspersons - Sebastion Brown

and William Taylor

Fruit & Veg Month 2015

24 August to 18 September This year’s Fruit & Veg Month theme is

‘Let’s Go Green!’

Fruit and Veg Month encourages children and parents

to try new fruits and vegetables

and healthy recipes.

K/1/2 Assembly What a fantastic assembly on Friday! It was great to

see such amazing things happening in our primary

classes. The Tiddalick play was fantastic. What great

directors Mrs Jones and Ms Downes are! Year 3/4

read some beautifully written dreaming stories and

Year 5 and 6 taught us some Japanese greetings, told

us their names in Japanese and sang a Japanese song.

Assemblies are a fantastic opportunity for the

students to showcase their talents in art, drama,

writing and music. If you haven’t been to an assembly,

please put the next one on your calendar. They are

worth attending!

Parent/Teacher Interviews Thank you to all the parents who came along to our

parent/teacher interviews on Tuesday afternoon. It is

a fantastic opportunity to discuss your child’s

progress and hear about all the achievements each

student has made throughout the year. If you were

unable to make it to these interviews and would like

to discuss your child’s progress with their teachers,

please call the school to arrange an appointment.

Book Week Photos

K/1/2/3 BIG GIG Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 will be

performing a dance at this year’s Big Gig. They will

need to wear black clothes. Would parents please

start to help your children to bring in their black

clothes (labelled with names please) and we will

keep them at school until

their performance on

Monday 14th September.

(Week 10).

(back l-r) William Taylor, Sue Wu, Xander Hartig

and Sebastion Brown

(front l-r) Noah Wilson and MacKenzie Smith




Primary Assembly




Secondary Assessments & Homework

YEAR 9/10 SUBJECT DATE GIVEN DATE DUE Internal or

External TOPIC

PDHPE 13/8/15 8/9/15

External Road Safety

YEAR 7/8 SUBJECT DATE GIVEN DATE DUE Internal or

External TOPIC

Science 27/8/15 14/9/15

internal Student Independent

Research Project

State Athletics Six students from Trundle Central

competed in the State Athletics

carnival last week. Their results are

as follows:

Brodi Gavin Rossiter 8th 14 years

Long Jump, 9th 14years discus

and 18th 14 years 400m

Luke Watt 10th 17+ Years javelin Eloise Clayton 14th 17+ years

javelin

Eliza Stokes 18th 16 years javelin Brooke Morgan 15th 14 years

javelin Monique Morgan 14th 14 years

javelin

Congratulations to all athletes as they performed

very well in their individual events and they should

be proud of their achievements at the state

carnival.

Welfare Level Changes Secondary students will receive the following when they reach the correct amount of pink slips whilst

being on Level 5:

Level 5 = 30 pink slips

Level 5 with 50 pink slips = 2 blue awards Level 5 with 75 pink slips = mufti day and icy

cup on the Friday of that week Level 5 with 100 pink slips = mufti day and

voucher for a SRC Red Food Stall

Once a student reaches 100 pink slips their total

will be returned back to 30.

These changes have been made through

consultation with students, staff and the SRC.

These changes reward students who are

consistently well mannered, complete all set tasks,

submit assessments and represent their school

with pride.

Congratulations to the

following students who have

received 50 pink slips and have

earned themselves 2 Blue

Awards:

Eliza Stokes, Alex Brown and Shelby-Lee Dellow

Congratulations to the following students

who get to wear Mufti tomorrow for

receiving 75 pink slips:

Ashleigh Newham, Albert Wykes and Brad Watt

Secondary The following

students are

on Level 4:

Ella Bridger Bryce Gavin-

Rossiter

Liam Walsh

Chelsea Taylor

Jack Williams

Maddie Coster

Jasmine Cowle

Karl Turner

Jess Farrar

Lucy Aveyard

Shelby-Lee Dellow

Hannah Dunn

Emily Harper

Amy Mallard

Monique Morgan

Willa Stokes

Alex Brown

Izaac Longhurst

William Wells

Eliza Stokes

Robert Stokes

Ryan Taylor

Codie Wilson

Brooke Morgan

Brodi Gavin-Rossiter

Paige Fox

Harrison Williams

Tahlia Dellow

Leah Martin

Chelsea Taylor

Ashleigh Newham

Wills Wells

Luke Watt

Daniel Martin

Leah Martin

Bradley Watt

Albert Wykes

Congratulations to the following

students on Level 5:




What’s been happening in Year 7/8?

Art:

Year 7/8 have been busy this term, producing some beautiful art work. The overall theme this term

has been Nature. All students printed an amazing etching of either a plant or an animal. A visiting Art

teacher made a comment that the quality of their work was as good as a senior students’ work. They

are now learning how to master water colour techniques and will produce a master piece during next

week.

Music:

If you’re wondering what band you have heard that has been touring our town lately, it’s our own 7/8

class band. The quality of their performances is even surprising me! A few students have taken to

learning the ukulele and doing really well. We have been playing Riptide by Vance Joy.

The students have also composed their own rap song and performed it. The criteria, was that they had

to use a kazoo, strings, drums and voice. These have been recorded and will be great to play back in

their senior years.

Next month on the 29th October at 12pm,a majority of our students will be singing the song Gold.

Over half a million students across Australia will also be singing this song. It is to promote the

importance of music in our everyday lives.

German:

Guten Tag. Wie heist du? The students have been blitzing German this year. Year 8 have been working

independently on the booklets and year 7 have progressed to the second stage of the programme. All

students have learnt about; numbers, where they live, favourite past times, how they are feeling,

colours and animals.




HSC Week Subject Weighting Form of Assessment

9 Metal & Engineering -- Interpret Technical Drawings

Preliminary Week Subject Weighting Form of Assessment

9/10

Agriculture

Ancient History

Biology

Construction

Community and Family

English-Advanced

English-Standard

Food Technology

Hospitality

Industrial Technology

Mathematics

Mathematics General

Metal and Engineering

PDHPE

Senior Science

Sport, Lifestyle and Rec

Visual Arts

30

30

30

--

25

25

20

35

--

20

35

30

--

40

30

40

25

YEARLY EXAMS

Year 11/12 Week Time Monday 07/9/15 Tuesday 08/9/15 Wednesday 09/9/15 Thursday 10/9/15 Friday 11/9/15

9

9.00 -

11.05

AM

STANDARD ENGLISH FOOD TECHNOLOGY GENERAL MATHEMATICS AGRICULTURE BIOLOGY

ADVANCED ENGLISH PRIMARY TECHNOLOGY MATHEMATICS ANCIENT HISTORY SENIOR SCIENCE

12.30 -

2.35 AM

METAL AND

ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION PDHPE CAFS

Week Monday 14/9/15 Tuesday 15/9/15

10

9.00 - 11.05

AM

INDUSTRIAL TECHNOL-

OGY HOSPITALITY

12.30 -

2.35 AM VISUAL ART

SPORT, LIFESTYLE & REC-

REATION

Year 11 this week will undergo their Preliminary

Examinations and start on the road to the HSC.

Good luck Year 11.

Year 12 will be washing cars to raise money for Trundle

Central School. Please support us by bringing your car in

and getting it washed.

Date: 16th September

Time: 11.20 am - 3:00pm

Cost: $10 per car

Where: Please bring your car to the side entrance of Trundle

Central School near the police station and it will be available for

pickup at 3:25pm.

For all the terrible puns from the Year 12

class over the last 2 years - Miss Ranger.




Library

JOKE OF THE WEEK

"My name is Slither, and

before my tale is finished

you'll find out why."

The dark is full of terrifying

creatures. And Tom

Ward—the seventh son of a

seventh son, and the

Spook's last apprentice—

hasn't seen all of them. Far

from the county, one named

Slither has lived for

hundreds of years, hunting

blood.

But a dying father binds the

monster to a bargain. If

Slither will take his two

youngest daughters safely to

their family in the south,

then the eldest daughter,

Nessa, is his.

What do you do when your new

best buddy has been designated a

scourge by the community and

marked for imminent extermina-

tion? Just ask Kenny Rabbit. When

the simple folks in the sleepy little

village of Roundbrook catch wind

that there's a dragon running loose

in the countryside, they get the

wrong idea and the stage is set for

a fight to the death.

Crafty Cat has hatched a plan

to chase the other animals out

of the barn, but will it be a

runaway success or farmyard

folly?

Book club orders due back to

school Wednesday,

9th September 2015




Community

Trundle Branch CWA

School Children’s

Sewing Day

Open to school children who

have attended previous

sewing days.

Date: Thursday, 24th September, 2015

Time: 9 am – 3.30 pm

Venue: Trundle CWA Hall

Cost: Patchwork Batik Floor

Cushion Kit $30.00

Please bring lunch. Morning tea provided.

Protective footwear to be worn.

Enquiries: Robyn Taylor 68921274

AWA Stall A huge thank you to all the wonderful people who

donated goods for the street stall and to all those

who supported the stall. Your generosity is

overwhelming.

Thank you to those who

manned the stall.

Some of the proceeds

from the stall will help

purchase scripture

books for the students at Trundle Central School.




Call Terry on 0427921379 Ph/Fax 68921379



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