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Weston Public School School Purpose - to create a happy, secure and successful school

environment through effective teaching and learning.

Term 3 Week 6 18th August, 2015

Dear Parents, Carers and Community Members,

Welcome to Week 6!

Thank you! For the Education Week Assembly my class 6F and Mrs Fonssbach set up a cake stall to help me get to South Australia to play in the Pacific School Games for goalball. I would like to thank my wonderful school for helping me get to Adelaide. Thanks to all the people who bought some food or who made some food. Also thanks to all the people involved in the hundreds chart and the lolly guessing competition. Congratulations to the winners of the two competitions. If you would like to know more about goalball go to: www.goalball.com.au By Tyson O’Neil

NEWCASTLE HERALD

This Thursday the Newcastle Herald will feature articles written by the students of Weston Public School. Staff and students have worked hard during Term 2 writing these articles. Part of this process included developing ideas, researching and interviewing members of the community. Each student will receive a free copy of the Newcastle Herald this Thursday to celebrate their efforts. Mrs Lauren Fonssbach

Thank you for your ongoing support of our school Mrs R. Callinan (Principal)

Weston Public School Sixth Street Weston NSW 2326 T 4937 1318 / 4937 1601 F 4936 1210 E weston-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au www.weston-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“At WPS staff, students and community are Safe, Respectful and Responsible.”

Term 3

Class Assembly Items Assemblies are held on Friday at

1.30pm in the hall. All welcome!

Important Dates for

Term 3 2015 August Thursday 20

W.P.S Newcastle Herald is printed Friday 21

Pie Drive Delivery Railway Safety Talks Tuesday 25

Cyber Safety Presentation Thursday 27

Book Week Parade/Activities

September Friday 4

Father’s Day Stall

PBL Focus of the Week: Library/IT

Week Class Item

6 2D

8 1/2C

10 KH & K/1B

We are still collecting ‘Ring

Pulls’ for wheel chairs. A

box is located at the front

office.

Play the Game Weston Public School

NORTHERN NSW FUTSAL WHAT IS FUTSAL? Futsal is a format of five-a-side football (soccer) that is played extensively throughout the world. It is played on a court approx-imately the size of a basketball or netball court with a ball which is smaller and heavier than the outdoor football and has a re-duced bounce. The type of ball used forces a player to use their skill rather than the ball’s bounce to pro-pel it. As a small sided game, play-ers are constantly placed in situations where they must receive or play whilst under pressure or in confined spaces. Playing Futsal allows you to touch the ball nearly twelve times more than playing football. The game places considerable demand on technique, movement, tactical awareness and fit-ness. Futsal is a great skill developer, demanding quick reflexes, fast thinking, and pin-point passing. The speed of play is such that you are forced to make quicker technical and tactical deci-sions. Player Rego is $55 per player and is valid for 12 months, This includes a full playing strip –Shirt, shorts and socks, which you get to keep. Register Online, or attend one of our rego nights, MAITLAND Maitland Basketball Centre—Bent St, Maitland Monday 17th and 24th Aug, 6:00-7:30pm CESSNOCK Cessnock PCYC - Wollombi Rd, Cessnock Tuesday 18th and 25th Aug, 6:00 - 7:30pm More info? registration info available on www.maitlandfutsal.com or call 0400 279 711 Now registering Players/Teams for our Maitland and Cessnock Centre's Maitland Basketball, Bent St Maitland

TOMORROW (Wednesday,24th June) from 12.30 - 2.30pm in the School Hall. Please come and have some fun!

THEME: Maths Buddies

On Friday, I had a maths buddy, her name was Bailey and she taught me about thou-sands.

We played games. I had to say the number before and the number after. I was really good at it!

By Tyson Baker

Book Week

WHEN: Next Week (Week 7)

THEME: “Books Light Up Our World.” BOOK WEEK PARADE/ACTIVITIES:

Thursday, 27th August Students are encouraged to come dressed as

their favourite book character on the day of

the parade and bring along their favourite book.

Students will be involved in various reading

activities in the morning session.

Parents are then invited to school for a picnic

lunch and share a book with their child/

children.

The parade will take place from 12:00noon.

We hope to see you there.

Play the Game Weston Public School

PBL Corner

At WPS staff, students and community are Safe, Respectful and Responsible. Remember to send in your child's 5 white certificates so they can receive their levelled Bronze, Silver or Gold award at the following PBL assembly.

Parents, friends and carers are now welcome to join us for our weekly PBL assemblies. Come and hear our great messages and see your children rewarded for their positive behaviour every Monday at 2.45pm

P & C News

Our next P&C meeting is on Monday 14th September at 7pm in the staff room. All welcome.

Pie Drive delivery is on Friday of this week (21st August). A note will go home Thursday with

times for pies to be picked up.

Our Father's Day Stall will be held on Friday 4th September. Children will be able to purchase a gift for dad

priced between $3 and $8.

We still have some seats available on our bus trip to the Sydney warehouses and markets on Saturday 31st Octo-

ber. Seats are priced at $30 each. A few of the places we will be visiting are: The Nut shop, New Balance,

Galward Trading, Just Sports, Adore Shoes, Christmas World, Dolce Doro Chocolates and Victoria's Basement as

well as Paddys Market at Haymarket. If you would like to book a seat, please phone me on 49373119.

We still need volunteers for the canteen on a Wednesday. If you can help, please phone me on the above number. Mary Lawson

(Positive Behaviour for Learning)

WEEK 5 Focus:

2 Dangerously Awesome

In 2D we have been learning all about

fractions. A class member from 2D

brought in some home-grown oranges

and the class used these to learn how

to halve objects, make quarters and

eighths. The best part was we were

able to eat our fractions.

The last 5 weeks of Term 3 have gone by very quickly. Year 2 have been working very hard in all Key Learning Areas. In Term 2 the students interviewed Justin from Wakagetti Dance Company about Aboriginal dance and culture. Our newspaper article that 2D worked on together will be in the Newcastle Herald this Thursday, 20

th August.

In Writing we have been learning how to write an exposition. Our topic was ‘Why should children in Australian schools wear hats?’ We learnt how to write the introduction, body and conclusion, and what a time constraint was. A time constraint helps support our 3 good arguments that we had to come up with. Keep up the great work Year 2!

2D has been practising very hard for our item for the school assembly this week.

Don’t forget it is on Friday, 21st August at 1:30pm.