Monday 13 October - Term 4 Week 2

Principal’s Report

Term 4 Planner: The Term 4 planner is attached to this newsletter. Please place it in a handy position at home, as we have a very busy Term 4 coming up!

Times Tables for this week. The following tables will be the focus:

Years 3 and 4 will revise the 6X,7X,8X.

Years 5 and 6 will revise the 7X,8X,9X.

Mr Graham will see class champions at 11.30am.

Spring Fair: The major P&C fundraiser, our Spring Fair will be held this Saturday 18 October, commencing at 2pm and concluding at 7.30pm. As you can see by the artwork banners on the school fence and around the community, we are hoping to have a wonderful Spring Fair this year. Special thank you to Mr Rodney James from Insane Signs who has very generously donated the signage for our 2014 Spring Fair. Thank you also to Kim and Lexus Harris, Rhys Thomas, Eathen Kibble, Dean Burrows, Luke Murrell, Paul and Dianne Shearman, David and Saxon Goeldner, and Nathan, Cohen and Archie May who assisted Rodney James to put up the Spring Fair advertising around the school last Saturday morning. And doesn’t it look great?

Reminders for parents this week regarding the Spring Fair: Armbands ($25) for 4 hours of unlimited rides will be available for sale every day this week outside the library at 8.30am. (Armbands can also be purchased at the Spring Fair on Saturday 18 October for $30.)

Raffle books can continue to be sold to family, friends, at work etc this week. Raffle books and money will be accepted at the P&C box in the office foyer area. We would appreciate if all raffle books (sold or unsold) and money could be returned to the school office by close of business this Friday 17 October. Thank you everyone.

Volunteer to help on stalls for a short period on Saturday afternoon. Please see handout from P&C with details of stalls available and times.

Calendar

Day Week 2: 13 October- 17 October Week 3: 20 October- 24 October

Monday Band Meeting 6pm

Tuesday Bandfest: Training Band at 9:20am Band Solo Night Belmont 16’s – 6pm

Wednesday Choralfest

The Great Book Swap

Thursday

Gymnastics Year 2

ATSI Families EPS at 3:30pm

Bandfest: Intermediate Band at 10:00am Senior Band at 12:00pm Jazz Band at 1:00pm

Sporting/Other Photos at EPS

Councillor Nominations

Gymnastics Year 2

Friday International Children’s Torch Relay

Saturday EPS - SPRING FAIR

Remind your child about what various grades are organising for stalls on the day. Again, please see details on P&C handout issued last week.

If you can assist in any way, please contact our P&C fundraising coordinator Debbie Fenwick on 0421 355 401.

NOTE: All money raised from the Spring Fair will go towards improving technology hardware (wireless install across the school, ipad/tablet sets for classes and an upgrade of school servers to enable efficient technology service. This initiative will enable the realisation one of our three 2015-17 strategic directions.

Thank you everyone.

Band Meeting Tonight: There will be a Band meeting in the staffroom tonight Monday 13 October, commencing at 6pm with the single agenda being Bandfest and the Term 4 band program. It would be wonderful if all band parents could attend this meeting to support the band committee and our school banding program. Thank you everyone.

Bandfest This Week: Our Training band will compete at Bandfest tomorrow Tuesday 14 October, commencing at 9.20am. Our Intermediate band (10am), Senior band (12 noon) and Jazz band (1.40pm) will perform at Bandfest on Thursday 16 October. All performances will be at the Warners Bay Performing Arts Centre. We are all very proud of our great banding program and wish all bands every success. A special thanks to band coordinator Mr David Goeldner, bandmasters Mr Michael Bell, Mrs Jo Cook and Ms Susan Philippa for our bands’ great preparation. Thank you to the band parent support group who also assisted with transport and equipment.

The Band program going forward will include:

• Succession Tuesday 21 October – note the change of date. Int/Sen Bands perform as one. The succession program will perform at Belmont 16 footers and will start at 6pm and conclude at 8.30pm. Our band will perform a 20 – 30 min set.

P&C Meeting: Our next P&C meeting which was to be held next Monday has been deferred to Monday 27 October at 7pm.

Congratulations Elliott and Erin: This Friday 17 October, Elliott Sturgeon and Erin Deer will represent Eleebana Public School at the International Children’s Games Torch Relay commencing at Warners Bay Lions Park and finishing with official proceedings at Speers Point Park. Friday will be 50 days out from these games which will be hosted by Lake Macquarie in 2014. Congratulations Elliott and Erin!

2015 Student Enrolments: We are now being asked to provide anticipated enrolment numbers for 2015. We are particularly interested in securing our 2015 Kindergarten enrolments as the Kinder orientation meetings are organised for later in Term 3. All students who are 4 ½ to 6 years of age are entitled to start school in 2015 in our Kindergarten classes. If you have students who are in this age group, or know of families of students in this age group, or any neighbours who currently attend other schools and would like to attend Eleebana PS in Kinder to Year 6 in 2015, could you (and tell them to) please contact the school office for an application form for enrolment. Thank you everyone.

Ian Graham, Principal

Deputy Principal’s Report

Excellent Results in the ICAS Mathematics Competition: Congratulations to the following students who achieved excellent results in the ICAS 2014 Mathematics Competition. Well done to all students who participated, particularly to Mohammad Medlej who achieved a High Distinction - this in an outstanding result:

Year 3: Emma Crouch - Participation, Kate Harris - Participation, Murray Peart - Merit, Emily Rye - Participation, Rori Wood - Participation, Molly Bell - Merit, Seon Burke - Distinction Sarah Carlton - Participation, Georgia Cooksey - Participation, Noah Crawford - Distinction Blaine Finn - Credit, Will Kristiani - Participation, Jayden Langham - Participation, Nathan Lockett - Credit, Sam Masia - Credit, Brianna Mason - Credit, Mohammad Medlej - High Distinction, Holly Osborne - Participation, Laura Tilley – Distinction, Matthew Tobin - Participation, Samuel Troyer - Participation,

Year 4: Rosie Adams - Participation, Cassandra Bell - Credit, Domenic Cooksey - Credit, Nicholas De Grauw - Participation, Liam Deal - Participation, Ethan Dooper - Participation, Fletcher Elliott - Merit, Lily Ferguson - Credit, Reese Hagan - Participation, Asha Kajendren - Merit, Holly Kleynjan - Participation, Reeve Kristiani - Merit, Seth Lever - Merit, Amalie Macchia - Participation, Tayden Nicholas – Distinction,

Torren Peters - Credit, Erin Pritchard - Participation, Ben Raftery - Participation, Jack Sills - Participation, Rowan Young - Participation, Ned Collins - Merit, Haris Nagata - Participation, Luke Taylor - Participation,

Year 5: Matthew Diederichs - Merit, Amelia Gellatly - Merit, Olivia Isenhood - Credit, Tiahn Langham - Merit, Larissa Mullard - Credit, Alana O'Brien - Participation, Elizabeth Patterson - Credit,Lauren Rees - Participation, Nicholas Rye - Merit, Izaac Smith - Credit, Andrew Tilley - Participation, Ethan Wilson - Credit, Tom Bradshaw - Participation, Campbell Bryson - Participation, Chelsea Crouch - Participation, Samuel Haren - Participation, Joshua Pajtl - Participation, Jaida Price - Participation, Nicholas Sugg - Distinction

Year 6: Min Burke - Credit, Chelsea Cook - Participation, Zoe Cooksey - Participation, Ella De Grauw - Credit, Oscar Elliott - Participation, Lachlan Jones - Merit, Khiara Langham - Credit, Jasmyn Lockett - Merit, Emily Main - Participation, Cas Masia - Distinction Briahna McMahon - Credit, Cassidy Motum - Participation, Tyla Ryan - Merit, Reagan Wood - Credit, Matthew Giudes - Participation, Lachlan Jackson - Credit, Chiara Macchia - Merit, John McDonald - Credit, Kaleb Milgate - Credit, Jazmyn Teague - Credit, Emma Wrightson - Merit, Ava Young - Credit,

Good Luck Jasmyn: Jasmyn Lockett and her team are heading off this Thursday to the World Aerobic Championships in Prague. She is so very excited about being able to represent her country!

Great things I saw last week: Students enjoying our new softfall, and daily fitness in the Spring sun! Thank you also to Rodney James who has again done incredible signage work for our Spring Fair this weekend - AMAZING!

Have a great week. Dr Carl Leonard

Library News

A reminder that Book Club closes on Friday 24 October.

Thanks, Mrs Forbes

The Great Book Swap

On Wednesday the 22nd October students at Eleebana will have the opportunity to participate in the Indigenous Literacy Foundation Great Book Swap and to come dressed up as their Favourite Book character. The foundation celebrates books and reading and it raises much needed funds for the Foundation's literacy work. We ask that students bring along one of their books they may no longer read anymore and for a gold coin donation they can swap it for someone else’s. We would also love to see all the students come dressed as their favourite book character to celebrate our love of the magical world of books. Students are also asked to bring in a gold coin for this. All the money raised is donated to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation, which works toward raising literacy levels in remote indigenous communities around Australia. They focus on promoting early exposure to appropriate and quality books in the home and community through the supply of books. The Foundation strongly support first language and culture and work with the remote communities to translate books which represent both English and first language. They are also committed to encouraging and supporting story writing and the development of community stories through publications. We ask that all book donations are brought to school by Monday the 20th October so we can arrange them for the stall and sort them into the appropriate age groups, looking forward to seeing all the costumes and book donations.

Mrs Kahila Rocco

OOSH News

A reminder to parents and interested community members, our AGM date is set for the 28th October at 6:30pm in the OOSH room. Nomination forms for positions on the Committee are available from the OOSH. If you wish to have a voice in the way our OOSH service is run you are invited to come along to any committee meeting, you do not have to be a member of the committee to attend.

Happy birthday to Lily C, Jack S, Jessica W, Cooper H, Amara M, Joey L, Kate H, Freya I, Sam S, Milla B and Nathan B. We hope you have a wonderful day.

For OOSH enquiries or information please phone Carolyn or Kate on 49428186 or visit us between 7-9am or 2.30-3.00pm (please avoid after 3pm as this is our busiest time of day).

Thank you, Carolyn and Kate

Canteen Roster: 20 Oct – 24 Oct

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Steve Bradbury Kathy Thorncraft Tracey McDonald Angela Sills Lis D

Anouska Ranasingh Kathy Eftimovski Robyn Tooze Juley Troy Lorena Sharrock

Margaret Maclean Adele Cashion Meredith Newton

P & C News – from the President

Welcome back to a very exciting term 4 with our major fundraiser for the year our Spring Fair to be held this Saturday 18th October from 2-7.30pm. All rides commence at 3pm and the day concludes with our auction from 7-7.30pm. If would like to volunteer please call myself on 0418111794 or Debbie Fenwick on 0421355401. We still need about 40 more volunteers on the day in order to run all our school stalls.

Sandra Elsworthy is selling arm bands for at the faire outside the library on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday this week from 8.30am. They are $25 on these days, then $30 on the day of the fair.

Our Pet Photo Competition has started. Annie Dangas in the canteen is collecting all entries. The fee for entry into the competition is $2. Entries close lunchtime Friday.

Raffle tickets for our major prize at the Spring Fair are due back this week. This is your chance to win a holiday for four people for 7 nights to Hamilton Island, and a $1000 Virgin travel voucher. If you can or can’t sell the tickets please return them to the P&C drop box. The raffle will be drawn at 7pm at the Spring Fair on 18th October at Eleebana PS.

Our next meeting has been deferred to Monday 27 October at 7pm. Apologies for any inconvenience.

Unfortunately our shopping bus trip planned by Sue Norris has been cancelled due to a lack of numbers. A big thanks to Sue for trying to get this fabulous idea off the ground. We will try again next year.

Thanks, Vanessa Price

Please support our Corporate Sponsors

EPS P & C would like to thank

New Age Air

for their fantastic donation of a 508L

refrigerator for the Spring Fair.

Hall and Ground Hirers

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