Our School NewsWeek 9 | Commencing 11th September, 2017

Elanora Heights Public School is a White Ribbon School

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Week 10 - Term 3Mon 18 Sep Elanora Extravaganza - 6:30pm

Tue 19 Sep Yr6 - Excursion - Middle CreekNorthern Sydney Debating Camp 1

Wed 20 Sep Green DayNorthern Sydney Debating Camp 1Northern Sydney Debating Camp 2

Thu 21 Sep Northern Sydney Debating Camp 2PCS Naidoc Sleep Out

Fri 22 Sep Book Character ParadeLast day of TERM 3

Week 1 - Term 4Mon 9 Oct Lifeskills Lessons 3-6

Tue 10 Oct Lifeskills Lessons 3-6

Wed 11 Oct Yr 6 Interrelate - Moving into the Teen Years

Thu 12 OctFri 13 Oct Stage 1 Music Incursion

Year 2 Swimming Program BeginsPSSA v NewportBoys Cricket @ Newport Reserve Girls Cricket @ Narrabeen ReserveBoys/Girls Softball @ Rat Park 5Boys/Girls T-Ball @ Rat Park 6Boys/Girls Tag @ Narrabeen Sports

Dates for Your DiaryElanora Extravaganza: Sept 18 6:30pm @ Pittwater HighBook Character Parade: Sept 22Last Day of Term: Fri Sep 22Students Return: Mon Oct 9

Weekly Reminders!Un-Named Lost Property: uniform items are donated to the 2nd Hand uniform shop. Lunchboxes and drink bottles are put into recycling. School Banking: NO Banking NEXT FRIDAY Sept 22Reminder Heading Reminder detailsNB: that items for this newsletter will NOT be accepted after 10am on the preceding Tuesday

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Dear Parents and Friends,Another busy week has flown by as we work towards the end of term. Here’s the action that was had in Week 9…

Election Day BBQ Congratulations to the P & C Music Committee for their very successful Election Day sausage sizzle and cake sale. Many parents gave generously of their time to support the fundraising efforts of our Music Committee, with just over $1500.00 being raised. Congratulations to Mrs Martha MacLaurin-Wood and Mrs Anna Davis who coordinated the event, which was a clear winner for the Elanora community.

Life Skills K-2 Parent DayMonday and Tuesday were certainly times to relax and be mindful as many parents took the opportunity to join their child’s Life Skills lesson. Stacy, our Life Skills teacher, commented that Elanora had the highest number of parents attending the sessions from the many schools she works in - a clear indication of the strong parent support of wellbeing programs at our school. If you attended the sessions, we would love to hear your feedback regarding the program by completing this very short survey – your feedback in invaluable in helping us to determine our program offerings for 2018. https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DJN3PJJ

Move-A ThonThe playground was a hive of activity on Wednesday morning as our students participated in the annual Move-A Thon. This outstanding event promotes the importance of fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle and I would like to thank Mrs

Jessica Mobbs, Mrs Kerrilyn O’Reilly and Miss Khiara Kengike for their excellent coordination of this K-6 event. Funds raised through the event will be utilised to improve sporting initiatives for our students.

Navy Band VisitOur students were also entertained by the fabulous Navy Band on Thursday afternoon, in a foot-tapping precursor to our annual band recruitment program. Our thanks to Mrs Bec Heather, our wonderful Senior Band Conductor, for organising this musical event for all students K-6.

Next week is certainly action packed, so please make sure you check the newsletter and calendar for all the info you need.

I am looking forward to seeing many of you at the Extravaganza on Monday night – it is going to be amazing!

Leesa Martin

Principal

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Eat-A- RainbowKeeping with the focus on healthy habits, we all ate a rainbow on Thursday and Friday – an activity which involves students creating wonderful works of art with a variety of colourful fruits and vegetables and then eating them!

Such an event takes a lot of behind the scenes support and I would like to thank Janine Ralston, Carly Skeers and their tireless team of wonderful parent helpers for their assistance in preparing the food for the students.

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DS AND THE AWARDS GO TO.....To assist us, when sending in the mini merits/awards from home, please either staple or clip them andmake sure your child’s full name and class is on the top of the mini merit.

The bronze awards are given out at lines, the silver awards are given out at the K-2, 3-4 and 5-6 assemblies held in even weeks (week 2,4,6,10) and the gold awards are given out at the K-6 assembly in Week 8.

NO Awards are being given out in Week 10

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... K-2 LIFE SKILLS - FOCUS FOR THE WEEKWeek 9 - Mindful Gratitude

This week was the last week in our Mindfulness in Action program. Students were excited to celebrate the ending of an amazing program in which students and teachers learned so much about self-awareness, each other, our breath, and body. Students discovered things they are really good at and really capable of. Students were invited to recreate some of their favourite poses for the class to follow. Not only was recreating movements fun, but the exercise allowed students to take on a leadership role in the class and become accountable for their own learning. Together, students revisited poses and activities they had learnt during the program and discussed which tools could be used in their own lives. Mindfulness is not only a coping tool, but it can be an absolute lifestyle if we choose to make it one. Students recalled calm, happy and relaxed feelings after engaging in the various exercises. Students suggested utilising the exercises anytime feelings of anxiousness or worry creep in, when a dispute with a friend or sibling arises or sleeplessness takes over.

Uniform ShopUniform Shop Coordinator Sue Garrity

Contact ehps.uniforms@gmail.com

Open on Monday & Thursday from 8.15am to 9.45am

Purchase in store or by order form available online via the school website

Pay by cash or card (Eftpos, Visa or Mastercard)

Second Hand Uniforms Second Hand Uniform Coordinator Karen Woodley

Enquiries or Purchase please call 9913 1292 after 9.00am or email thewoodleys@optusnet.com.au

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K-2 ATHLETICS CARNIVAL AINBOW Sunshine, excited students, supportive volunteers, parent cheer squads and a variety of skilled based activities, all added up to fantastic and fun filled K-2 Athletics Carnival.

Elanora students looked extremely colourful and enthusiastic as they made their way in their teams, to the top oval. Here, they participated in activities ranging from bib grab, long jump, flags, sack races and jellyfish- just to name a few.

Laughter and encouraging words from team mates filled the air as every student showed exceptional team spirit on the day.

A huge thank you to our parent volunteers who manned the activity stations and kept the pace, flow and fun factor fluid all carnival long!

Congratulations to the staff, parents and students who helped make our K-2 Athletics Carnival so successful.

Di Reeks and Virginia St HeapsK-2 Athletics Carnival Coordinators

STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTREGIONAL ATHLETICSCongratulations to our athletes who competed at the Sydney North Regional Athletics Carnival on Monday 11th September at Homebush. We had some outstanding results on the day and we are proud to say we have 3 athletes heading to the NSWPSSA State Athletics Championships on Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th October.

A huge congratulations to Annabelle F (Year 6), Sophie C (Year 6) and Max D (Year 4). We know that you will amazing ambassadors for our school and you will all be doing your very best. Good luck!

AMEB EXAMSCongratulations also to Cait B (Year 2) who passed her AMEB preliminary Grade Violin exam achieving a B+ and to Sam B (Year 6) on receiving a B+ Pass (Credit) for his recent AMEB 4th Grade Trombone exam. Outstanding effort Cait and Sam!

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... GREEN DAY 2017 - WEDNESDAY 20 SEPTEMBERINBOW Who lives here?The school’s annual “Green Day” of environmental activities is on Wednesday 20th September, with K-2 activities on surrounding days. See last week’s newsletter for overall information.

This year’s theme is Who Lives Here? Activities link to this theme of native animals and their habitat. What are our local native birds, reptiles, mammals? What habitat do they need? How are our actions affecting them?

The stunning hall mural recently completed by Robin Martin highlights beautifully the dramatic landscape we live in, and how we share it with many other creatures. To enrich students’ appreciation of this marvellous new artwork, Green Day activities will develop links with the featured animals. Robin will return and work with some classes to draw the creatures represented on the mural.

Activities K-6K-2 classes each participate in a 90-minute art session with environmental artist Emmie Collins. Emmie will explain some of the habitat homes for local fauna and lead children in creating artworks representing them. Materials were sent home for preparation, and hopefully have already been returned. If you have not yet returned the materials, please send them on Monday as your child will need them to complete the activity. Years 1 and 2 will be seeing firsthand how plastic and foil do not break down, by pulling out the bits left in our completed compost. The rich dark soil formed by their food scraps and paper bags, unfortunately also reveals the non-degradable litter.

Year 2 will use the large 3D catchment model brought by Coastal Environment Centre. They will see how rain falling in Ingleside or Elanora flows down the gullies to the lagoon and ocean, linking with their science and geography units. Year 2 will also learn about the many problems caused by plastic pollution and some solutions from Nicola, an environmental educator who has transformed waste practices in her home city in Ecuador.

Years 2-6 will listen to Sonja Elwood, Council’s Wildlife Officer and ex-pupil of our school. Sonja will be talking about habitat and local fauna and will bring some live rescued wildlife too.

Year 3 classes will each have a 90-minute session with Lisa from Gibberagong Environmental Education on our school grounds. They will learn about the vital role of hollows for many Australian animals and birds and construct nest boxes to replace lost tree hollows. Another activity demonstrates how different bird beaks are suited for different feeding habits.

Year 3 will visit the hall for an art session with mural artist Robin Martin.

Year 4 classes will each have a 90-minute session with Helen from Gibberagong, walking up to Anana Reserve above the school where they will use geographical skills to investigate this remnant bushland and binoculars to look for its creatures. They will also use the catchment model with staff from the Coastal Environment Centre, learning about water and pollution flows.

Year 5 are preparing informative materials about the creatures depicted in our new mural. In groups, students will research an animal and prepare information sheets and learning activities suitable for different grades across the school.

Year 6 have an excursion to Middle and Deep Creeks on Tuesday 19th September with Gibberagong staff. They will be investigating this local environment through geographical inquiry techniques as well as learning about its history. At school the following day, students will complete activities using experiences from the excursion.

Do ask your children about their experiences and, hopefully, you will hear lots more!Jenny Cullen

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...BOOK CHARACTER PARADE (1 0f 2)

This parade is for all students K-6 and will be held on Friday 22 September, beginning at 9.30am. Costumes are to be made at home and students are asked to wear these to school and remain in them for the whole school day, if comfortable. Students will parade to music, on the middle oval, accompanied by their buddy class. PARENTS ARE WELCOME.

This year’s Book Week Theme is “Escape to Everywhere” with a book. To support this theme, students need to decide where they would like to escape to and the name of a book related to this e.g. Escape to the ocean. A book that relates to this is “The Rainbow Fish” and the student could dress as the Rainbow Fish character. It would be beneficial to the audience if a banner/sign or sash could be held or draped over the student with the name of the place they have escaped to e.g. Ocean and the character name. It is desirable that students choose a character from a book in our school library and if possible from the Premier’s Reading list, in order that others may be motivated to borrow the books their characters represent. Students by now should be creating in order to do their character justice and be ready for a fabulous parade.

For those who need some help, below are some suggested places to escape to and examples of texts. (To find out what books we have on the place you wish to escape to, logon to the school’s online catalogue, ORBIT, by accessing the DET Portal from home). If you need more choices, please also see further suggested texts, following this article.

Escape to: The Library – The Library Mouse, Dewey the Library Cat, It’s a Book The past – Australia’s Convict Past, Playing Beatie Bow, Callie’s Castle Early Australia – Pioneers All, Early Governors, Bushrangers, Topsy Turvey World, Captain Cook Space – Space Demons, Halfway Across the Galaxy turn left, New Girl, Alien Escape, Alien at School The Moon – Moon Attack, Under the Moon, The Cow Tripped over the Moon The Ocean – The Rainbow Fish, Looking for Crabs, Commotion in the Ocean, Pippi Longstocking The Sea – Seadragon Sea, Mr McGee Goes to Sea, Bear and Chook by the Sea, Squidnapped The Beach – Old Tom at the Beach, Tram to Bondi Beach, Granny Grommet and Me, Grandpa and Thomas The Rainforest – Fern Gully, Rainforest, Zizzy, Rainforest Animals A Cave – The Very Cranky Bear, The girl in the Cave, A Castle - Dragon Slayer’s Academy, The Queen’s Cubby Oz – The Wizard of Oz Narnia – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, Prince Caspian Wonderland – Alice in Wonderland, Alice through the Looking Glass The Snow – Snow Bear, Snow Wombat, Polar Boy The Dinosaur Age – Dinosaurs and all that Rubbish, I’m a Dirty Dinosaur, Daniel’s Dinosaur Hogwarts – Harry Potter Series Middle Earth – The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings Neverland – Peter Pan World Adventure – Around the World in 80 Days, The Gigantic Balloon, Mr Chicken in Paris Holidays – Old Tom on Holidays, Spot Goes on Holiday, The Pocket Dogs Go on Holiday North or South Pole – King of the Polar Bears, Sea Lion Roars, The Naughtiest Reindeer goes South Dr Seuss – ABC, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, Cat in the Hat The Zoo – Kangaroos at the Zoo, Paddington at the Zoo, Truth about Penguins, Elephants Big Day Out The Country – My Dog Bigsy, Rosie’s Really a Country Dog, The Coat , Two Tough Teddies The Outback – A Little Dog on a big Adventure, Tiny, Tom the Outback Mailman, Audrey of the Outback The Bush – Koala Lou, The Bush Santa, Sam’s bush Journey, Grandma Wombat, Town Possum Outback Possum Your Imagination – The BFG, the Twits, The 26th Storey Treehouse, Imaginitus, The Wrong Book

Suggested Authors, - Aaron Blabey, Nick Bland, Pamela Allen, Roald Dahl, Andy Griffiths, Paul Jennings, Jackie French, Emily Rodda, Mem Fox, Alison Lester, Duncan Ball, Colin Thiele, Isobelle Carmody, David Walliams, Judy Blume, Jeff Kinney, Ruth Park, H. I. Larry, Anna Fineberg, Dr Seuss, Enid Blyton, Sally Rippin, Jacqueline Harvey, etc. Anne-Marie Morrison/Teacher-Librarian

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...BOOK CHARACTER PARADE (2 of 2)

Some further suggested texts with great characters to represent in the Book Character Parade: (you may choose from either list)

K - Year 2 The Gruffalo Horrid Henry John Brown, Rose & the Midnight Cat The Enormous Crocodile Boris Monster Corduroy Willy the Champ Burglar Bill The Muddle-Headed wombat Pete the Sheep Enoch the Emu Queenie – One elephant’s Story Can you catch Mermaids The Wild One Our Daft Dog Danny Cat and Fish Fearless Mrs Wobble the Waitress Bernard the Bikie ` The Recess Queen The Long Red Scarf My Dog Bigsy Captain Crabclaw’s Crew Prince Cinders Koala Lou Possum Magic Counting on Frank Mr Chicken Goes to Paris Old Tom on Holiday Mr Huff Too Loud Lily Ugly Fish The Man Who Loved Boxes Hairy MacLary The Little Red Hen The Cow Tripped Over the Moon The Jolly Postman Blinky Bill Ollie and the wind The Last Viking A Monster Wrote me a Letter Ride Ricardo Ride Snail and Turtle Twin Trouble The Way of the Dragon Where the Wild Things Are Noni the Pony Sebastian lives in a Hat Pig the Pug, Pig the Elf The Very Hungry Caterpillar One Step at a Time Noni The Pony The Stone Lion Lucy Goosey Kick With My Left Foot The Very Itchy Bear Mr Seahorse Billy the Punk Bella’s Bad Hair Day Shooting Star Jeremy Silly Squid Billie B Brown Parachute Honey Bees Closeup The Pirate Who Wouldn’t Wash The Duck and the Darklings Where is the Green Sheep? King Pig Horrible Harriet Tea Cup Bob the Railway Dog Aussie, Aussie, Aussie Our Granny My Dad’s a Wrestler Baby Boomsticks Pig and Pug I’m a Hungry Dinosaur Slinky Malinky Blow Your Nose, Big Bad Wolf! Monster Chef Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley Boris and Borsch Ella Kazoo Would Not Brush her Hair Queenie the Bantam Rosie Sips Spiders Miss Lily’s Fabulous Pink Feather Boa

3- Year 6 Water Witcher Fearless Weirdo The Paper Bag Princess Penny Pollard’s Diary The Snake who came to Stay Phyllis Wong Mysteries Emily Eyefinger And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda The Iron Man Zac Power Anzac Sons Tashi Why I love Footy Just Another Ordinary Day A-Z of Convicts The 91st Storey Treehouse Stunt Boy Gangster Granny Top Dog Never Hitch a Ride with a Martian Cairo Jim The Ghost Boy The Water Tower The Steam Train Crew Pencil of Doom Woolvs in the Sitee Selby Going Bush with Grandpa Ernie Dances to the Didgeridoo Harriet the Spy Paper Planes Midnite Storm Boy Rowan of Rin Ten Unlucky Pirates The Peasant Prince Krakatoa Lighthouse The Very Best of Friends Kaboom Fudge Blubber Charlotte’s Web Just Shocking Just Disgusting Charlie and Chocolate Factory Chess Nuts Capt. Jimmy Cook Discovers 3rd Grade The Fantastic Mr Fox Young Samurai The Midnight Fox Alice-Miranda Harriet the Spy Diary of a Wimpy Kid Captain Underpants Maniac MaGee Eric Vale The BFG The Lighthouse Keeper Danny – Champion of the World Anne-Marie Morrison - Teacher-Librarian

WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARNTime is running out for you to collect the Woolworths Earn and Learn stickers as the program ends next Tuesday!

Be sure to collect some more over the next few days and send these to school. They can be placed in the Woolworths Earn and Learn box in the front office.

We thank you for your support.

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... ELANORA EXTRAVAGANZA - ELANORA EXTRAVANGAZA

All performers are to arrive at Pittwater high on Monday morning at 8.30am with school bag, food for the day, equipment (instrument/costume and school uniform) needed for their performances and have their names marked off upon arrival.

Please ensure they arrive via the bridge from the Flying Fox Car park. They will then need to go and get their name marked off and enter the hall.

Tickets will have gone home this week check in your child’s school bag for them.

Please make sure ALL permission notes have been returned to school for the trip on the bus. Jennifer PowerMusic Specialist Teacher

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Heights Delights is sad to say goodbye to our valued staff member Karen. Karen has made Tuesdays and Thursdays in the canteen a fun and bright place to work, and has always been an asset to our team on fundraising days and during menu brainstorms. We wish Karen all the best in the future and look forward to seeing her in canteen in Term 4 as part of our volunteer team!

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You can contact our canteen supervisor Ingrid at ingrid.taylor@outlook.com or 0416 258 626

To order school lunches online go to www.munchmonitor.com Use log in – username: elanora and password: munch2101 | To Volunteer Ph 9913 2721

Heights Delights guessing game continues during Fruit and Veg month. This week’s answer is a pomegranate. The winner will be announced at morning lines and will receive a $2 canteen voucher. Come back on Monday to have a fresh guess. Each guess costs 10c.

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