We have finally reached the last week of school

for 2016. Last week was extremely busy with

our Presentation Day, Year 6 Farewell, two

Preschool Graduation concerts, Year 6

Orientation Day at Hunter Sports HS,

Volunteers Morning Tea and our Windale

Community Christmas Carnival on Friday to

finish everything off with a bang. Thank you

to everyone who supported the school at

these special events where we came

together and celebrated a year’s worth of

achievement and learning at Windale PS. I

was so very proud as Principal to see our

students, school and community coming

together as one for the benefit of our

students.

2017 is shaping up to be a fantastic year

with many more exciting announcements to

be made about how we are leading the way

in innovative learning and leadership at

Windale. I would like to take this

opportunity to wish all our families and

volunteers a very Merry Christmas and the

happiest of New Years. School will resume

on Monday 30th January for all our

Kindergarten to Year 6 students and our

Preschool resumes on Tuesday 31st January.

Ms Cindy Sadler

Principal

Principal’s Message

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Year 6 Farewell 2

Pelicans Classwork 3

Goanna Classwork 4

Barramundi Letter 5

Assembly Awards 6

Presentation Day 6

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15th December Year 3 - 6 Party Day Casual Clothes allowed 10am

16th December K - 2 Movie Day Full School Uniform 11:40am

30th January Term 1 2017 Kindergarten - Year 6 9am

31st January Preschool commences Group 1 9am

8th February Primary Swimming Carnival All day

Kilfera Street

Windale

NSW 2306

Important dates to remember

Phone:

(02) 4948 8864

Fax:

4948 9720

School Security

1300 880 021

Windale Public School

THINKING OF VOLUNTEERING IN 2017?

Parent Volunteers at Windale PS

Please note the only volunteers who need to provide a WWCC clearance to the Department are adult (18 years of age and over) volunteers who:

will work as part of a formal mentoring program, or

will provide intimate, personal care to children with a disability, or

is not a parent or close relative of a student at the school where the volunteer is working, but will have direct contact with children

We have copies of these forms at our office. We welcome and value our volunteers and are required by guidelines to ensure we are compliant. Please complete this form along with the required “100 points” documents to be sighted by a staff member, so we can welcome your contribution in our school. Along with this, if you are visiting to assist in school activities, we require you to sign in as a visitor at our office, before you go to the classroom to help. This again, is for safety requirements in the event that we need to evacuate or have an emergency of some sort. We must have an accurate record of all people on our site, at any given time.

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Year 6 Farewell Last Wednesday night we held our Year 6

Farewell in the hall. The students all dressed

up and had a wonderful night celebrating

their primary school journey. A great night

was had by both the students and staff and we

wish all these wonderful students an easy and

successful transition to high school. A big

thanks to Miss Carter for all her organisation

in the lead up to the event and on the night

and to all those that lent a hand to make the

night such a success. Congratulations to Year

6 and Good Luck as you continue your school

journey into high school.

Christmas Carnival 2016

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Year 2 Pelicans read the story of “Sunday

Chutney” by Aaron Blabey. Sunday Chutney

has lived everywhere and been everywhere

so they wrote a postcard from Sunday’s

perspective talking about one of the many

places she may have been in Australia. They

used books about Australia to research

different places you can visit or used

information from

their own experiences

to describe what she

had done or seen.

They also drew some

amazing portraits of

her.

Aleyah

Kiana

Taylor Tara

Goanna are writing up a storm

Even though it’s the end of the

year. Goanna are still working hard

and would like to share some of their

writing with us. They have written

some fun poems, some diamante

poems and an information report on

Kangaroos.

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Pelicans Postcards

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The competitors

To Whom It May Concern,

We are in the Stage Three class, Barramundi and we have had a pretty awesome

year with lots of fun and exciting opportunities given to us. One of the high-

lights had to be Robotics day, we were lucky enough to spend an entire day

learning how to code, build bricks and make a Lego robot move in any direc-

tion we desired.

Camp was an experience that we won’t be forgetting anytime soon, the activities

allowed us to bond as a team and overcome our fears. Flying fox, Giant Swing’s

and Mud World were just a few of the awesome activities that we took part in.

One of the funniest things was the number of kids who cried in Mud World be-

cause they were cold.

We loved being creative with lots of fun and messy art lessons, we quickly learnt

that if you add a sprinkle of glitter to your work it will look fabulous.

We got our jive and groove on with Star Struck we danced to ACDC’s long way to

the top and danced our tail feathers off. We got to meet and hang out with kids

from other schools.

The Year Six Farewell was a night of glamour and sophistication with the hall

looking amazing and being given the opportunity to have dinner with our

classmates.

We end the year on a happy and sad note, we shall miss our friends who will be

going off to different schools but we are grateful for the opportunities that have

been given to us.

Yours Sincerely

Class Barramundi

Barramundi Bid Us Farewell For our final newsletter, 5/6 Barramundi have written us a letter sharing some of their highlights for the year and what they most enjoyed about their final year at Windale Public School.

We wish them and all our Year 6 students all the best for their future endeavours and while we will miss their smiling faces we hope they embrace this next phase o f their lives with open arms

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infants Awards Reading awards

Reading Awards Infants awards

Presentation Day 2016

What a great Presentation Day we had last

Wednesday where we got to recognise some of the

achievements of our many talented students.

Congratulations to all our students on their hard work

throughout the year and a special mention to the award

winners and our 2017 student executive. It was exciting

to have our Captains, Vice Captains and prefects

announced with the following students filling the

prestigious positions:

Captains – Candace H and Taylah L

Vice Captains – Bianca H and Mason F

Prefects – Lachlan F, Matilda C, Malakai S-C and

Jessy S

Windale PS Weekly Merit Award Winners

Kangaroos Amelia, Riley

Bilbies Traie, Harley

Emus Madison, Aliqua, Jordan

Pelicans Aleyah, Ben, Nadia

Dugong Jarrama, Sierra

Goannas Olivia, Ebony, Tyler

Barramundi Loghan, Taylah, Georgia

Primary Awards

Gotcha Award

Windale Public School provides

quality programs and quality

teaching by highly educated,

skilled and dedicated staff. We

also provide a safe and

nurturing learning environment

that develops respect,

u n d e r s t a n d i n g a n d

responsibility.

http://www.windale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

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