School Surveys Please find attached the Yoogali Public School Evaluation and Planning Parent Survey. These surveys are an important feedback for our future planning. Could you please complete your survey and return them to the school by Monday 15th November. These surveys assist in the development of the Annual School Report and our future directions or needs as a school. It would be greatly appreciated if these surveys were completed and returned. Thank you. School Hats The Education Department has the „No hat no play’ policy. We would like to remind all students to bring their school hat every day. The school is unable to lend out hats due to health regulations. New hats are able to be purchased from the school office for $10 each.

Important Dates Yr 6 Graduation Dinner -

Tuesday 14th December RSVP by 29th November

tickets will need to be paid in full on pick up

Presentation Night and Whole School Performance Thursday 9th December.

Last day of Term 4 is Wednesday 15th December.

10th November 2010 Term 4, Week 5

Monica St Baker - Principal Ph: (02) 6962 4540 Fax: (02) 6964 1476 1 East St, Yoogali, NSW 2680 email:yoogali-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Police patrolling children’s crossing

On a recent visit to our school the RTA Safety Around Schools Officer witnessed several parents dropping their children off at the school gate which is in a no stopping zone. PLEASE drop your children at the designated area.

Website: www.yoogali-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Yoogali Public School is producing an annual school magazine ........

The East St Editorial All students have an item of work published along with photos, reports and profiles. The magazine is 60 pages of full colour. The office will be taking pre-paid orders only at $12 per magazine. Please complete the order form and return to school with money.

YES! I would like to pre-order and pay for a 2010 East St Editorial. Name: _____________________________ Class: _______________ Number of magazines required:_________ Money enclosed: ____________ Due to the expense of producing a high gloss magazine, payment must be made at the time of ordering the magazine. Orders will be taken until Friday 26th November.

Providing the ‘best of both worlds’ - excellent learning facilities combined with small class sizes.

Silver Certificates were awarded to :

Laurence Laviano Nicholas Pennisi Oakley John Daniel Morris Megan Gibbs Robbie Peterson

Trent Barrett Shield Report

The Small Schools Trent Barrett Shield team travelled to

Wagga on Thursday to compete in the regional finals. It was

the first time we had ever made the finals.

Our first game was against Gundagai Public School, and our

boys thought they had walked into the Land of the Giants as

they were dwarfed by the much bigger GPS boys. Our boys

were a bit shell-shocked in the first half and by the time the

hooter went they were down 20-0. A half-time chat with Coach

Steve Mott gave the boys some inspiration and they performed

very well in the second half before going down 28-8.

Our next opponents were Sacred Hearts Catholic School from

Cootamundra, who also had a big team. It was a tight

encounter but two brilliant individual tries from one of their

players in the second half proved the difference as they went

on to a 12-0 victory.

The final game was against Temora Public School and this was

again a very close match. Our boys fell behind 12-0 before

scoring two quick tries to get within four points. With time

running out and TPS deep on attack, Isaac Campbell took an

intercept and streaked away for the try line. As the siren

sounded he was tackled metres short of the try line. TPS won

12-8.

It was an amazing experience for all our boys. They gave

100% in all their games and never took a backward step. They

are to be congratulated on their efforts in making the finals and

playing with such wonderful sportsmanship.

I’d also like to thank the coach, Steve Mott, and all the parents

for making the effort to get the boys to training and the games

in Griffith and Wagga. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Steven Fattore

Yoogali Public School would like to congratulate Dale Lyons,

Luke Mott and Osman Ozgur for efforts in representing us in

this team. A huge thank you to Stephen Mott for his time,

effort and commitment to coaching our Small School team.

Canteen News

Now available “Cruncha”

Frozen orange juice ice blocks.

$1 each

Assembly Leaders

Term 4

Week 5 - Osman Ozgur

Emily Parsons

Week 6 - Nicholas Pennisi

Megan Gibbs

Week 7 - Jamie McGarry

Cameron Rasmussen

Week 8 - Cody Clark

Falaoa Motufau

Week 9 - Narman Motufau

Emma Provera

Are you interested in learning to play hockey?

The GRIFFITH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION will

be holding a JUNIOR HOCKEY COMPETITION

Starting Monday 15th November 2010 from 6pm

At West End Oval

Cost $40 per child

Current Hockey Players will be in attendance to help players

of all ages and abilities.

For more information or to enrol your child

Please contact Kym Ramsey on 0413690011

Or Sallie Cowie on 0402162382 or email griffith-

hockey@hotmail.com

Competition will run during school term from 15/11/10 until

21/3/11.

Half way through the term

already!

K/1 has been doing many

assessments over the past

weeks in preparation for end of

year reports. I am extremely

proud of all of my students for

the effort they have put into

these assessments and I am

very pleased with their results.

Miss Dance finished up her 3

week practicum with us last

Friday. She had an amazing

time with K/1 and she was sad

to leave. On behalf of Miss

Dance I would like to say thank

you to all of the students,

parents and staff for making

her feel a part of Yoogali Public

School and our community.

We will be continuing our work

on Pirates over the next few

weeks and we will begin our

Christmas craft and decorating

(so very excited about this)!

We have 3 more weeks of

Kindergarten Orientation and I

am looking forward to spending

more time with each of our new

Kindergarten students over the

next few weeks.

Jaimee :-)

I cannot believe that we are almost half way through the term! In our classroom over the last few weeks we have been busy with assessment for the end of year reports. It is great to see how much individual students have grown in both literacy and numeracy. We have also been looking at persuasive texts in literacy, and this week will be creating speeches and exploring how we can persuade our audience. There was an EXPLOSION of glitter in our classroom last week (and I am sure that I am still collecting some on me) as we are busy getting decorations made for our Yoogali Public School Christmas tree at Griffith Central. Be sure to check out our tree early next week, with decorations made by every student at our school! 2/3/4 are very close to their next class reward. When we reach 75 points we will have an afternoon of games outside which the whole class is very excited about. They are working very hard at improving their listening skills and walking to class without talking. Well done 2/3/4. Emma

Well what a week! I feel like I blink and the next week is starting! Assessments are all done and dusted and I must congratulate all the 5/6 students in the way they conducted themselves as they really took these exams seriously! Every student has demonstrated improvement, with some progressing at an amazing rate. I am very pleased with the outcomes I have witnessed when analysing the data. Reports are well underway and will be available to all parents at the Presentation Night on Thursday 9th December. Year 6 parents, please contact the office when you have organised the number of guests you will require for the Year 6 Graduation Dinner. We are tentatively getting table numbers organised. The sooner you have this information to me the better prepared I will be!

Don‟t forget to order a school magazine! They will be a great keepsake for all students. ~ Monica ~

Yoogali Public School Motto - Be All You Can Be!

K/1 Awards

Oakley John - Having his name on the happy face almost every day.

Hamish Peato - Improvements in all areas. Great work with his sight words.

Sarah Atkinson - A great achiever and great pirate outfit.

Jaden Lawlor - Amazing effort in „Captain Hook”.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to……

Laurence Laviano 5th Nov

Samantha Laviano 8th Nov

Bailey Gibbs 11th Nov

2/3/4 Awards

Brontie Ridley - Having an amazing week by putting in 100% all the time.

Matthew Smith - A terrific „have a go‟ attitude towards his work.

Luke Mott - Improved spelling and reading results.

Laycie Taylor - Always being a terrific class member.

Citizenship Award Kurt Power for exceptional behaviour on the Canberra Excursion. Shontel Hillier for “stepping up” on the Canberra excursion. Shontel Hillier for “stepping up” in a leadership role. Leslie Singleton for alerting teachers to another students distress.

5/6 Awards

Chloe Mott - Great improvement in reading.

Megan Gibbs - Excellent assessment results in literacy.

Caitlin Parks - Working very hard on the multi-lit program.

Kiara Armstrong - Great basketball skills and sportsmanship.

Principal Award Bailey Gibbs for voluntarily helping Mrs Sweeney. Shontel Hillier for mature decisions during the Canberra Excursion. Miss Dance for a amazing teaching practicum at Yoogali Public School. Assembly Manners Dale Lyons, Falaoa Motufau, Isobelle Smith and Kiara Armstrong

Yoogali Public School - Achieving quality learning in an open and supportive environment!

Celebrating success…

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8/11 9/11 10/11 2011 Kinder Orientation

11/11 12/11 13/11 14/11

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15/11 16/11 17/11 2011 Kinder Orientation

18/11 WHS middle school 9-10am

19/11 20/11 21/11

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22/11 23/11 24/11 2011 Kinder Orientation

25/11

26/11 27/11 28/11

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29/11 Church Christmas Performance

30/11 1/12 2011 Kinder Orientation

2/12 Wade High Orientation day 2011 students

3/12 4/12 5/12

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6/12 7/12 Choir at Pioneer Lodge 10.30am Griffith Central 11.30am

8/12 9/12 Presentation Night

10/12 11/12 12/12

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13/12 14/12 Yr 6 graduation Night

15/12 Last day for students

16/12 Staff development day

17/12 Staff development day

18/12 19/12

20/12 21/12 22/12 23/12 24/12

25/12 Christmas

Day

26/12 Boxing

Day