much for your extra generosity. I urge everyone to sell the tickets as soon as possible. We intend to draw the raffle on Monday, after the Year 6 Farewell Assembly, so please have your SOLD raffle tickets in before then. All proceeds from this raffle will be sent to the Drought/Fire Appeal, so I ask everyone to assist in making this fundraising effort a big success. TALENT QUEST DAY - The Annual Hornsby North Talent Quest will be held on Tuesday, 17 December. Mrs Reeves is a passionate advocate of this event. A flyer explaining the Talent show details is on Page 5 of this Newsletter. Students are asked to bring a gold coin on the day to donate to the fire appeal and to “Save a Koala”. YEAR 6 FAREWELL ASSEMBLY - The Year 6 Final Assembly will be held on Monday, 16 December. Year 6 students who are yet to bring a Kindergarten photo are reminded to do so as soon as possible. A reminder to Year 6 students that uniforms MUST NOT be written on and worn next week. Parents who wish children to have a piece of clothing with names on it, should send a permission note to the class teacher, but students will not be permitted to wear uniforms or clothing with names written on them. Autograph Bears should be brought to school on Monday and not before. We also ask that the large Perpetual Trophies that were received today be returned to school on Monday. STUDENTS LEAVING HORNSBY NORTH - If your child/children are not returning to Hornsby North in 2020, not including Year 6 students, could you please let the School know in writing as soon as possible. MUFTI CLOTHES - All students are invited to wear mufti clothes next Tuesday and Wednesday.

Maree Sumpton Principal

Coming Events…… Thursday 12 December: Scripture Assembly / Band Xmas Party 5.00pm. Friday 13 December: Semester 2 Reports sent Home. Monday 16 December: Year 6 Farewell Assembly 9.30am. Tuesday 17 December: Party Day K-2 / Talent Quest—Gold Coin Donation. Wednes. 18 December: Years 3&4 Fun Day / Years 5&6 Movie Day / Last day for Students.

From the Principal...

11 December, 2019

HORNSBY NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL

Ida Street, Hornsby, NSW, 2077 Phone : 9987 4605 Fax : 9482 2527 Before/After School Care : 9482 3484 Email : hornsbynth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web site : www.hornsbynth-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

This will be the final Newsletter for the year and I take the opportunity to thank the school community for their continued support during the year and wish all a safe and happy Christmas and New Year. PRESENTATION ASSEMBLIES - The three Presentation Day Assemblies this week were wonderful times for students, teachers and parents. The Kindergarten students enchanted us with their songs and smiles.

The Year 1 students were equally charming with their beaming faces and enthusiastic singing. Year 2 were a little more subdued in the beginning because they were moving to important places—Year 3! However, their singing and movements later on reassured us that they were still our bubbly 8 year olds. It was a privilege to have our local member, Mr Matt Kean with us for the 3-6 Presentation Assembly. As we all know, he is extremely busy but always finds time to visit the schools because he loves to interact with the children. His Portfolio is a very busy one, particularly at this time of decision making in Parliament, so we are grateful that he could join us to present prizes to our Major Prize Winners. Once again he commented on the amazing standard of our band! “Best band around” he said. GIANT CHRISTMAS RAFFLE - The hampers for our giant raffle are on display in the School foyer. Thank you to all who contributed to the prizes. Special thanks to 5 Rose and Mrs Reeves, as they filled three baskets with their donations! Thank you very

PSSA CRICKET TRIALS FOR 2020 - PSSA Cricket Trials for the 2020 season continue tomorrow. Junior (Years 3 & 4 in 2020) trials will be held on: Thursday, 12 December (8:00-9:00am) and Monday, 16 December (1:00-1:40pm). Senior (Years 5 & 6 in 2020) trials will be held on: Friday, 13 December (9:15-10:55am – during school sport time) and Tuesday, 17 December (8:00-9:00am). All trials will be held at the school cricket nets. Seniors should bring their own cricket kit if they have one. However, school pads, bats, gloves etc. can be used. Girls are most welcome to try out for these teams too. Thanks, Michael Howard.

P & C News - Please join us on Facebook to keep up-to-date on all matters P&C. Simply search for Hornsby North Public School P&C Association on Facebook and Like us to join. CANTEEN NEWS - DIP OF THE WEEK: Tzatziki. Helpers: Thursday 12 December: Toby Shan. Friday 13 December: Clare Rienits, Maria Alvarez. Monday 16 December: HELPERS PLEASE. Tuesday 17 December: Toby Shan, Savanna Li, Fei Shen. Wednesday 18 December: Clare Rienits. I would like to thank all the volunteers who have helped in the Canteen during 2019. I look forward to seeing you again in 2020. Vicki Stubbings, Canteen Manager. UNIFORM SHOP - The opening hours for Term 1 2020 are as follows:- Tuesday 28 January—Pupil Free Day—8.45 to 10.45am. Wednesday 29 January—CLOSED. Thursday 30 January—8.45—9.45am. Friday 31 January—8.45 to 9.45am. Normal hours resume in Week 2—Mondays & Thursdays 8.45am to 9.45am. The Uniform Shop will close after trade on Monday, 16 December. The email address to contact me directly is hnpsuniforms@gmail.com. Tanya Manwaring, Uniform Shop Co-ordinator. BAND NEWS - We are looking forward to our Band Party tomorrow night. This is the last event on the Band calendar for 2018. All students are to be at the hall by 5.00pm with their music and instrument. Dress is mufti. Students who have hired instruments this year must hand them back at the end of the evening. Thank you to everyone involved in the band program for a fabulous year. The students have achieved outstanding results in all areas and a big thank you must go to their conductors, parents and of course Mrs Sumpton. All the best for a happy and safe holiday season. If you do have an instrument at home, don’t let it get too lonely! Keep practicing. Thank you, Gavin Hunter. SCHOOL BANKING - Rewards will be sent home with students as they arrive at school. School banking will re-commence early in Term 1, 2020. We would like to wish everyone an enjoyable festive season and safe holidays. Thank you, Pearl & Ruth.

From The Classroom - SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Week 8, Term 4: Rebecca, Claire, Omkar, Hayley x 2, Sarah, Kaitlen, Neha, Lincoln, Abigail, Lucia, Kai, Ethan, Izaan, Suri, Sunny x 2, Renetta, Tyler, Maggie, Cameron, Jake, Harris, Jason, Andrew, Lucia, Katherine, Lara x 2 & Kyra. KINDERGARTEN NEWS - Our Kindy students have had a wonderful year. The teachers and I would like to thank all those parents/grandparents who have given their time to help in 2019. Merry Christmas and enjoy the holidays. Thank you, Sharon Gates. LIBRARY NEWS - Thank you for all the wonderful families who have returned library books this week. Outstanding books may still be returned to the library any time. Thank you to Mrs Dowling for the many hours spent carefully covering many hundreds of new books this year, we cannot thank you enough. Merry Christmas and a safe happy New Year to you all, and I encourage all our community including parents, students and teachers to spend time reading over the holidays. Mrs Nicklin. SCIENCE NEWS - We have a few positive announcements to make: 1. Thank you to Justine, Amity and Eloise who have

volunteered their time over the Summer holidays to help cultivate our Kitchen Gardens and look after our pet worms.

2. Bunning's have already promised to fill our Kitchen Gardens once more with nature's delicious foods and even help with our never ending plastic lid installation.

3. The Red Frog Recycling Project will also be taking off! The children will take an active role in a Return & Earn system with an Environment Charity in mind. Miss Page is hoping her chosen charity “Take 3 for the Sea” will be our focus.

4. We have had a family donate a bee hive which will add great inspiration to our sustainability program. Thank you to all the families who have supported our little Kitchen Garden in 2019.

Karen Fitzsimons. PSSA CRICKET - Our Senior Cricket Team played in our 6th Grand Final in the last 7 years at Montview Oval last Friday against Turramurra P.S. We bowled first and did a good job to keep a good batting team to 58 runs from their 12 overs. The best bowlers were: Lucas H. (1/2), Maanav S. (maiden), Riley P. (0/2), Josh R. (1/5) and Jordan W. (0/3). Our run chase always lacked momentum, as we finished with a total of 36 runs. Congratulations boys on a successful and enjoyable season. You’re all wonderful representatives of our school with the skills and determination you’ve displayed, as well as the fair and encouraging spirit that you always play with. Well done to Ian A. and Lucas H. for your excellent leadership of the team. Thank you to Mrs Westwood, Mrs Hunter, Mrs Amarasinghe, Mrs Apostoloff, Mrs Thurbon, Mr & Mrs Ackland, Mr Pearson and Mrs Sahni for driving the boys to and from their matches during the season. PSSA CRICKET SHIRTS - All PSSA Cricket shirts need to be washed and returned to Mr Howard this week please.

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Dear Everyone,

This year our school is going to use one of our most popular End of Year events to raise money for our precious native wildlife and national icon. Each child is asked to bring a gold coin whether they are a performer or an audience member. This way we can adopt more than one Koala. Our adoption helps with the rescue and treatment of sick and injured koalas and release back to their home range where possible. Our adoption will also assist with the conservation and expansion of habitat, collection of information for research relating to habitat, disease, nutrition and habits of wild koalas. It also helps to provide educational material to increase public awareness of all aspects of the koala. Below are pictures of the first 3 koala’s to be rescued during the fires. The more money we raise the more animals we can save and adopt. Three Burns Victims from the recent Fires – LINR (Lake Innes Nature Reserve) Anwen, LINR Paul, LINR Peter – These three koalas were the first to be rescued from the firegrounds at Lake Innes Nature Reserve

Thank you Mrs Maree Sumpton Mrs Sandra Reeves Antony Paslis Principal Co-ordinating Teacher Student Assistant/Representative