LAVINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Newsletter - Term 4, Week 9 Relieving Principal: Brett Davies Telephone: 02 6025 1864 Fax: 02 6040 2325

Website: www.lavington-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: lavington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Facebook: www.facebook.com/lavingtonpublicschool

CALENDAR DECEMBER Friday 8 Kindergarten Orientation Session 10:00 – 12:00noon

Whole School Assembly, 11:20am Monday 11 Year 6 Farewell Dinner & Graduation Tuesday 12 Celebration of Success Playground Reward – Water Circuit Activities Year 6 ‘SLOSHEM’ Fundraiser Wednesday 13 GOLD AWARD SPECIAL MORNING TEA Thursday 14 PBL Classroom Reward Pool Activity Day Friday 15 LAST DAY OF DAY SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS

Aaron Ellis in Class 6N was announced as Lavington PS Dux for 2017 during Presentation Night at the Albury Entertainment Centre. See the back page for a list of special prize winners.

A message from our Principal…

Good afternoon everyone! How good was our Presentation Night? I was massively impressed and incredibly proud of our whole school community. We had great numbers attending and our students were provided a fitting occasion to be rewarded for some fine individual efforts this year! Hats off to our student leaders for their performance in running the event and Mr Jarrod Lyons, Mrs Evelyn Killalea and Mrs Wendy Schulz for their tireless efforts.

What a great balance of academic, sporting, creative and cultural recognition as well as band, choir and dance performances with some truly

outstanding presentations created by Mrs Cunningham and Mrs Denton. It was awesome! Part of my Principal’s speech last night was to announce that I have been successful in gaining the Principals position at Lavington Public School into the future. The future I see is a bright one and I look forward to sharing it with all of you! Over the last few weeks, I have announced our classroom teachers from Kindergarten to Year 4. Now – it’s time for the Year 5’s and 6’s: I can announce our Year 5 classes will be taught by:

Mrs Lisa Denton & Miss Kylie Dawson And our Year 6 classes will be taught by:

Ms Aana Nicol & Miss Fiona Smith We will also have a Year 5/6 class, taught by:

Mr Jason Hallandale. See you soon! Brett

KINDERGARTEN 2018 ORIENTATION DAY Tomorrow, Friday 8 December is the Orientation Day for our 2018 Kindergarten students. Starting at 10:00am, all children will assemble and meet their class teacher in the hall. Parents are requested to leave once their child has met their teacher and return again at 12:00pm to collect their child. This is sure to be an exciting morning for our new students. Parents are requested to ensure that the school has received the following documents to enable their child’s enrolment to proceed:

• Application to Enrol in a NSW School • Birth Certificate • Immunisation Certificate • Proof of Residence • Health Care Plan if applicable

CLASSROOM REWARD - POOL ACTIVITY DAY All students should have received a note regarding the Classroom Celebration of Success K-6 Activity to be held at the Lavington Swim Centre on Thursday 14 December.

The Consent and Medical section (Page 2) must be returned with $3.50 to the office by tomorrow, 8 December.

ALBURY & DISTRICT DANCE ENSEMBLE 2018 Congratulations to the following students who have been named in the 2018 Albury & District Dance Ensemble squad: Kelsie Allen Claudia Browne Lilly Daley Saffrone Lepkhammany Tahlia Snow Well done girls, we wish you well in your dancing endeavours. CALENDARS Our special Lavington PS 2018 Calendars have arrived and will be distributed as soon as possible. They look fantastic so if you never got around to placing an order, there are extra copies available for sale from the office. Priced at only $10.00, they would make a great Christmas gift.

SCHOOL NEWS

Date 7 December 2017

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YEAR 6 FAREWELL DINNER Next Monday evening our Year 6 students will celebrate the culmination of their time at Lavington PS with a Farewell Dinner. The Dinner commences at 6:00pm and will finish by approximately 8:00pm. Parents are invited to arrive at 7:45pm to witness the presentation of their child’s Graduation Certificate. ‘CELEBRATION OF SUCCESS’ DAY Next Tuesday, 12 September we will be celebrating the positive behaviours and choices that students have made in the playground during second semester with a ‘Celebration of Success’ day.

During the last session on this day, students will take part in a ‘Water Circuit’ involving lots of water activities here at school. On this day, students are NOT required to wear their school uniform. Instead, students should wear a shirt, shorts,

school hat and shoes and socks that can get wet. Please do not send your child in their swimmers, singlet tops or t-shirts with exposed shoulders or thongs. Students will need to bring a towel and perhaps a change of clothes if they are catching a bus home.

COLOUR FUN RUN Thank you to everyone who supported this event. Whether that was by means of volunteering your time before, during or after; participating on the day or just coming along and cheering on participants, your support was much appreciated. Check out the photos showing all the fun of the day on the flyer accompanying the newsletter today. END OF YEAR GET-TO-GETHER As mentioned in the newsletter last week, our P & C will be holding a dinner to end the year. Anyone who has helped out on the P & C during 2017 as well as P & C members are invited to attend. We will meet at Taco Bills on Sunday, 17 December from 5:30pm. If you would like to come along, please RSVP to Kathy Barnes on 0427 263 097 by Friday 15 December. Attendees will be required to pay their own way.

Week 10 Recess items on offer next Monday: Pizza Slices $ 1.50 Holiday-themed treats $ 1.00 & 50 Week 10 Recess items on offer Tuesday – Friday: Sausage Rolls $ 1.00 Pizza Bread $ 1.00 Pasta Salad $ 1.00 Christmas Fruit $ 1.00 Frozen Mango Cups $ 1.00 Cupcakes .80 PLEASE NOTE: The Canteen will be CLOSED on Thursday 14 December due to the PBL Classroom activity Day at the pool.

ROSTER FOR NEXT WEEK DAY DATE TIME VOLUNTEERS Mon 11/12 9:00 – 2:15pm Melissa Tues 12/12 9:00 – 2:15pm Junior 9:00 – 1:00pm Bridie Wed 13/12 10:00am Donna Thurs 14/12 CLOSED Fri

15/12 9.00 – 2:15pm Lorraine, Teagan

GOLD AWARD Blake Kain Alana Duffy Ava Poynter

Rhean Carroll

Congratulations to these students for qualifying for their Gold Award. Well done!

P & C NEWS

‘HEALTHY HUT’ CANTEEN NEWS

LAVINGTON PS PRESENTATION NIGHT Wednesday 6 December

Last night, our annual Presentation Night was held at the Albury Entertainment Centre. The evening

acknowledged and rewarded student’s achievements in academic, social, sporting and creative areas. As well as class awards, the following students received recognition for special awards.

DUX 2017 Aaron Ellis GIRL CITIZENSHIP Mollie Wayenberg BOY CITIZENSHIP Oscar Lyons

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING K-2 Ruby Reimers

3-6 Mollie Wayenberg

TECHNOLOGY AWARDS K-2 Sydney Heinjus 3-4 Grace Alexander 5-6 Lauren Griffiths

SCOTT OSMAND MEMORIAL AWARDS K-2 Emma O’Keeffe 3-6 George Harmer

ENCOURAGEMENT AWARDS Kindergarten Eli Furner Year 1 Addison Stewart Year 2 Lezley Rolfe Year 3 John Barnes Year 4 Brooke Cozens Year 5 Josie Riley Year 6 Lily Osborne

HOWARD PARKINSON AWARD Elabree Fenech

TRISH CHARNLEY MEMORIAL AWARD Shani Perrie

MUSIC AWARDS - KIDS ON KEYBOARD Isaac Felder DSA Charlotte Paul & Dylan Rixon

DURAKAR INDIGENOUS STUDENT AWARD Kiesha Rolfe

ENGLISH AS AN ADDITIONAL LANGUAGE Carl Lyons

RENAE HUTCHINSON PUBLIC SPEAKING Oscar Lyons

LUKE BYRNE MEMORIAL AWARD Rhean Carroll MAX APPS SPORTSMAN 2017 Shari Bradshaw

MAX APPS SPORTSWOMEN 2017 Ethan Semple

PREMIER’S SPORTING CHALLENGE MEDAL Eddy Schultheis

CAPTAINS FOR 2018 Saffrone Lepkhammany Zachary Clarke

VICE CAPTAINS FOR 2018 Jazmyn Shanahan Luke Filliponi