2016 Presentation Night

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Gloucester Public School Newsletter Opportunity - Innovation - Excellence

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Term 4 Week 10 Tuesday 13th December, 2016.

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Term 4

13/12 Year 6 Farewell

14/12 Stage Parties

15/12 Semester 2 Reports

16/12 Last day of Term

4 for students

Term 1 2017

Friday 27 January

Staff Development Day

Monday 30 January

First day for students 1-6

Wednesday 1 February

First day for Kindergarten

Dux of the School : Cameron Badham Principal’s Award: Bailey Hughes

Student Leadership Excellence in representing our Citizenship English

Brooke Willis school & community Lynelle Hester Ava Tuckwell

Josh Norrie

Maths Academic Improvement Consistency of Effort Excelsior Awards

Simon Collins Isaac E-Broadley (absent) Harley Dangerfield Melia Mulder

Cooper Harrod (absent) Emily Walker Laura Stone Anna-Rose Seale

Bryce Drew

Uncle Jimmy Clarke Memorial Award

Olivia Wade

Cameron Turner

Indigenous Achievement

Mackenzie Hardy

Mathew Galvin

Jayden Hardy

Alarni Longbottom

Premier’s Sporting Award Sportsmanship

Luke Williams Kayden Schumann

Sam Ashton

Encouragement Awards

Savannah Ashby

Tyler Parish

Gardening and

Sustainability

Georgia Hughes

Jessica Howard

Creative & Performing

Arts

Taleah Higgins

Sadbh Renshaw

Winning House: Carson Shield - Bradman

Overall Application and Commitment

Cody Howard

Congratulations to the other award winners

Science Award : Aiden Coombes

HSIE : Jessie Stewart

Music : Ivy Kellehear, Lyla Cawley, Tallulah Ashby, Ryan Beggs

Creative Arts (Infants) : Mitchell Davies

Public Speaking : Jacob Edwards, Brooke Willis

Reading Recovery : Hayley Green-Crook, Jaxson Galvin

GPS Reading Program : Teela Maslen, Violet Broadhead, Ale-andra Parks

Learning Assistance Program :

Poppy Murphy, Fallon Hardy, Katie Broadhead, Tiera-Jade Watt

Information Technology Ethan Smith, Isabella Parker, James Berry, Kaleb Smith

Sporting Awards : Rachael Smith, Emily Kearney, Tanai O’Brien

Ryan Latmore, Sam Ashton, Blake Murray

Library Awards : Heidi Brenton, Rhys Saunders, Jacob Edwards, Haylee Mathews

QuickSmart Awards: Elise Coombes, Jazmyne Rolvink

Maths (Australasian) Olympiad Awards: Cooper Harrod

Maths Olympiad Special Achievement: Anita Jackson

GPS Horse Sports Award: Travis Sansom

Class Awards:

KB : Ivy Kellehear, Christopher Bolton, Brodie Baker, Emma Latimore.

KM : Olive Kelly, Tyler Hobbins, Amelia Wooster, Toby Warwick.

1M : Amy Fry, Mia Blamires, Nash Griffin, Makaylee Gooch.

1S : Jessica Marchant, Reannah Yates, Alice Murphy, Nylah Wisely.

2H : William Wooster, Matilda Dillon, Sophie Lenehan, Phineas Hester.

2W : Marley Young, Jethro Llewellyn, Asher Baker, Amy Rumbel.

3G : Jackson Moore, Sam Collie, Kayla Blanch, Nikita Hobbins.

3H : Xavier Soupidis, Joseph Hogan, Kaitlyn Beggs, Ruby Bradbury.

4C : Ryan Latimore, James Berry, Anna Lenehan, Lily Llewellyn.

4L : Taleah Higgins, Ryder Stuckings, Tallulah Ashby, Max Todd.

5/6B : Emily Kearney, Aiden Sopher, Miranda Yates, Charlie Roy.

5/6C : Elyssa Keen, Parker Grady, Lilly Mills, Jessica Murray.

5/6G : Ryan Beggs, Beau Murray, Ethan Clarke-Johnston, Alyssa Redman.

5/6M : Cameron Badham, Jackson Scanlon, Will Griffis-Powick, Travis Johnston.

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Thank you to the following individuals and organisations for their generous sponsorship of

prizes:

Newcombe Coaches

View Club Gloucester

Rotary Club Gloucester

Quota International of Gloucester

Masonic Lodge Gloucester

Lions Club of Gloucester

CWA Day Branch

CWA Evening Branch

Garner Family

Gloucester Public School P&C Association

Gloucester Shire Council

Gloucester AECG

Mrs Bev Murray (Ivan Murray Memorial Award)

A special thank you to Mr Dave Willard (Director, Public Schools) and Mr Pat Cavanagh

(Gloucester High School Principal) for attending our Presentation Evening and helping to present awards.

School Leaders for 2017

Our school leaders for 2017 were announced at Presentation Night.

Congratulations to Nicholas Maslen and Kate Bradbury who will be our captains and to

Will Griffis-Powick and Emily Kearney who will be our vice-captains.

Message from Mrs Wakefield – Presentation Night

Congratulations to all the students who received awards at Presentation Night and to our new

Captains and SRC Executive.

Captains – Nicholas Maslen and Kate Bradbury

Vice-Captains – Will Griffis-Powick and Emily Kearney

SRC Executive – Rachael Smith, Katrina Channon, Ryan Beggs and Caiden Wakefield.

Merry Christmas everyone! I hope all our families and friends have a wonderful Christmas,

fabulour New Year and a safe and happy holiday. See you all in 2017 for another fabulous

year.

Ava Tuckwell, Marcus Fish, Tiera-Jade Watt, Connor Garnham, Lee Rolvink, Tallulah Ashby, Sam

Whittaker, Elise Coombes, Hannah Leimgruber, Nash Griffin, Jack Johnson, William Wooster,

Mitchell Davies, Archie Ribbons, Matthew Woods, Matthew Galvin, Ethan Blanchard, Aidan Swan.

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Year 6 Farewell

Tonight is the night of the Year 6 2016

Farewell. All Year 6 students need to arrive at

6.15pm and assemble outside the library.

Year 6 parents leave once the students are

seated and return at approximately 7.30pm to

watch the dance, power point photos, Year 6

song and presentation of honour rolls.

The evening concludes at 9.00pm.

All the best Year 6 – have a wonderful night

and remember this will be one of the highlights

of your years in primary school.

We would like to thank all the Year 5 parents

who have helped in any way to make this night

such a success. Without your enthusiasm,

dedication, skills and hard work, this event

would not go ahead. Thank you for being so

reliable, considerate and cooperative - a true

team!

Rod Maggs Stage 3 Supervisor

Thank you - We would like to say a big thank you to Gloucester Public School staff, especially all the teachers we have had over the last seven years. We will really miss all of the staff and fellow students! We have so many great memories from the past years and we hope to meet again another day. From all of the students in Year 6!

Gloucester Public School Farewells

Come and share in the special time that is the

last day of primary schooling for our Year 6

students.

At 2.40pm on Friday, students of GPS will form

a guard of honour to farewell our Year 6

students as they head off to high school life

and beyond. Family and friends are welcome to

join in this memorable occasion as they finish

primary school.

Best of luck, Year 6! You are an amazing group

of fantastic people. Thank you for all you have

contributed to our school over the last seven

years. We will miss you!

All of the Staff and Students of

Gloucester Public School

Sporting Schools

Our 2016 Sporting Schools Program has been

lots of fun and we would like to thank everyone

who attended this year. It was great to see so

many familiar faces as well as so many new

ones. It has been a busy year and we enjoyed

the following sports activities:

Term 1: Orienteering and Table Tennis

Term 2: Squash and Touch Football

Term 3: Netball and Softball

Term 4: Golf and Hockey

We trust that you all enjoyed the program,

learnt new skills and developed a love of sport

and being active. Our Sporting Schools

Program will commence again in Term 1, 2017.

Congratulations to Luke Williams who received

the Premier’s Sporting Award at our

presentation evening last week. Luke attended

numerous AASC and Sporting Schools sessions

at Gloucester Public School and he always

played fair and tried his best. Good luck to

Luke and all our Year 6 students who are

venturing off to High School. We hope that

you will continue to enjoy sport and being

active!

Finally, we hope you have a wonderful

Christmas and an enjoyable holiday and we look

forward to seeing you all again next year.

GPS Sporting Schools Team Eve Green, Mel Seale, Susie McLeod, Hayley Laurie and Christie Baker.

Stage 3 Class Party

A reminder that the Stage 3 Class Party is on

this Wednesday.

Students should have returned their note and

$2 if they wanted to purchase the hotdog,

drink and ice block deal. If your child does not

wish to purchase this, they should bring their

lunch from home or buy it from the canteen.

Students need to return their permission note

to watch the PG movie in the afternoon.

Stage 3 Teachers

GPS Reading Program

Please return all take-home readers as soon as

possible. The 2016 Home Reading Awards went to:

Stage 1 – Asher Baker

Stage 2 – Nikita Hobbins

Stage 3 – Violet Broadhead

Melissa Seale GPS Reading Program Teacher

TooTs and DooDs

A huge congratulations and thank you to the

fabulous members of our GPS TooTs and

DooDs group.

All the very best to our Year 6 members:

Simon Collins, Brooke Willis, Lynelle Hester,

Anna-Rose Seale, Ava Tuckwell, Tanai O’Brien

and Bailey Hughes. We will miss you! Keep

playing and making music at High School.

I am very proud of the commitment all of our

TooTs and DooDs players have shown to our

group this year. We look forward to welcoming

next year’s Year 3 students as well as any

other new members. Interested students have

been given a note detailing where they can

purchase an instrument and our rehearsal

times.

We will be having a fun rehearsal this

Thursday morning (Week 10) at 8.00am in the

music room as per usual. If you want to

perform a favourite piece to the group on

Thursday morning, come prepared!

Sarah Soupidis and Laura Llewellyn

After many years at GPS, it’s time for us to say farewell! We would like to send a big, sincere thank you to all the past and present families and staff for the zillion memories we have from our 26 years at Gloucester Public School. We have seen a lot of changes along the way but the essence and core of our school has never changed. We have an amazing caring and supportive school community here at GPS – and maybe that’s why after saying we’d only be in Gloucester for five years, it has turned out to be 26 years! We are excited and look forward to our retirement but it’s also a little sad to be leaving something that has consumed so much of our life. As cliché as it sounds, you would have to search high and low to find a better school than Gloucester Public School anywhere. We know that we have been very lucky to have taught here. Our best wishes to everyone for a great Christmas and a wonderful holiday break. We hope that you stop and say hi to us if we pass each other down the street … or on the golf course … because we will miss you all very much! Cheerio from Mark and Debbie Howland. I have many treasured memorises of my teaching career. I have been very privileged with the fact that most of my time teaching has been at Gloucester Public School, a wonderful school. How fortunate am I! The students and staff may come and go, but the families all have a common belief and support for an excellent education for their children. Thank you staff, parents, carers and especially students, for helping to make my career as enjoyable as it has been.

I leave you with these words:

As children we thirst for knowledge,

We try to correct things that are wrong,

We shut out pain,

And we yearn for acceptance.

As teachers, we should educate with enthusiasm,

We should explain the rights from wrongs,

We should protect and sympathise,

We should praise and not condemn.

Find something special in each child

And nurture their learning

As if they were your own.

Not goodbye, but I’ll be seeing you. Margaret Wilson.

It’s been a privilege and a great pleasure for me to have the role of Learning and Support Teacher at our wonderful school. I was new to the role way back in 2009 and it was a steep learning curve for me at first. However, I’ve grown to love working with students who find it that bit more challenging to learn and have shared their joy and feelings of success when they’ve made a breakthrough- those special moments both big and small, when you can see a student taking off with their reading or maths or even being able to write a letter ‘w’ for the very first time. My job has been made so much easier and enjoyable by having such a quality group of dedicated executive staff, teachers, administration staff and SLSOs who always do their utmost to support the students. I want to thank you wholeheartedly for all that you do. Thank you also to the parents who have been happy to take time out of their busy lives to meet with me and talk about how we can support their children. That support and involvement has really made a difference. Last of all, thank you to all of the students of Gloucester Public School. You’re fantastic! I will really miss teaching you.

Kaye Leighton

Canteen Update

Thank you to everyone who has supported the canteen this year.

The canteen will be open as normal for the first day of school next year – Monday 30 January.

Our current summer menu will carry on into Term 1. We have a shortage of lunch bags due to

Townsend Electrical changing their name to Laser Electrical. Hopefully new bags will be printed and

ready for the new school year.

A special thank you must go to all of our fantastic canteen volunteers. Without you we couldn’t

operate. If anyone else would like to join our fun bunch of helpers, you can call me on 0447 727 388.

Have a safe and happy holiday.

Lisa Norrie Canteen Supervisor

School Banking

Ho, Ho, Ho, it’s the last week of school banking. Thank you again, parents, carers and students who

have participated this year.

Congratulations to our most consistent savers: Christopher Bolton, Kate Bradbury, Ruby Bradbury,

Heidi Brenton and Tyler Hobbins. Please remember to collect your certificates this week in the

library.

We look forward to seeing you all in 2017.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas.

Jane Richardson & Julie Clarke School Banking Coordinators.

SMART PACKS & VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS 2017

Smart Packs will once again be available for purchase at the beginning of the new school year. The

costs are as follows:

Kindergarten - $45.00

Years 1-6 - $35.00

These packs contain everything your child will require for the year; e.g., pens, pencils, glue sticks,

exercise books, textbooks etc.

Please pay for the pack as soon as possible at the office when school returns next year. We would

appreciate it if you would make this a priority.

Voluntary school contributions will remain at $30.00 per child per year. These funds are used to

assist the school to purchase items used in teaching and student welfare. Such items include

expenses relating to each of the learning areas such as art supplies, equipment, sports gear, library

books, take-home readers, paper, cost of photocopying and texts etc.

Payment of these fees would be very much appreciated.

If you wish to make an online payment the reference numbers are as follows:

Smart Packs : 051624

Voluntary Contribution: 046001

The school choir entertaining the residents of Narraweema Nursing Home at their Christmas party