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15th March, 2012 Communicating with our valued community Term 1 : Week 8

This week has been another exciting week at Toukley Public School with many students representing our school in a variety of District level sporting events. The Wyong District Swimming Carnival was held last week and our school representatives performed well. Their behaviour was outstanding. Thanks to Mrs Binnie and Mrs McMillan for their organisation and support of these students. On Wednesday Mr Shipp took our boys’ cricket team to participate in the first round of the Primary Schools Sports Association competition. Next week is Harmony Day. The theme for this day is Sports Around The World. As this year is an Olympic Year the theme for Harmony Day 2012 reflects the peaceful and harmonious spirit of the Olympic Games. Our wonderful students will be participating in a variety of activities including playing sports from different countries. Students will also be completing art and craft activities with members of our Student Representative Council. Some students from 2/3P and the Public Speaking Gifted and Talented Group will discuss the meaning of Harmony Day 2012 during the Year 3 to 6 Assembly on Monday afternoon. It was fantastic to see the large number of families who returned the Priority School’s Survey 2012. Thank you to all the parents and carers who took the time to complete this survey. The surveys were collected and returned to the Priority School’s Directorate where they will be automatically scanned and the data compiled. We will be informed later during the year as to whether we were successful in gaining funding. This week sees some of our long time staff leaving us to seek new challenges. Ms Ellis is officially retiring this week after more than thirty years service with the Department of Education and Communities. Mrs Lyndall Coles is leaving to take a position closer to her home and finally Mr Derek Garland our General Assistant is also retiring. He has been our General Assistant for twenty years. All these staff members have given years of wonderful service to our school and they will be sorely missed by our school community. We wish them all the best for the future. Narelle Armour—Principal

K/1H Jayda Caulfield, Keenan Raymonde K/1W Blake Cresswell, Summer Chaplin KJ Charlee Ritchie, Jye Gifford KP Natahlia Scott, James Lumby KT Samuel Petch, Bella Eaton 1B Duke Huckstepp, Chloe Van Heck 1L Jeremy Orwin, Janaya Wiles 2/3P Lewis Swannell, Joshua Killen 2M Mia Hilder, Gracie Kitchen 2S Lewis Hutton, Monique Blackborrow 3/4N Liam Glover, Elswyth Porter 3/4W Riley Shortland, Joel Dunn 3G Madison Cuskelly, Ryan Hilder 4/5S Riley Jones, Imogen Munro 5/6B Jacob Kidd, Daniel Brands 5/6C Joshua Hoger, Georgi Peek 5/6G Storm Oxley, Niesha Deane 5/6M Harry Waddington, Sam Strong

STAR CLASS AWARDS — 12th March, 2012 CLASS OF THE WEEK K/1H

What a great start to the year we have had in K/1H! Our Kindergarten children have settled in beautifully and are learning all about school life and routines. Our Year Ones have come back to school with greater maturity and independence and all class members are enthusiastic learners. We have been working hard in our morning literacy groups and children are making pleasing progress in reading and writing. Parent helpers are needed in the mornings to change home readers, help with Kinder sight words and to assist children with playing literacy games. Please feel free to come in any day and help out as your assistance is truly appreciated! K/1H have been enjoying the hands-on maths activities we do in our weekly units and this week we have had lots of fun learning about grouping and sharing (multiplication and division). I am very proud of how the children have coped with relocating to a demountable classroom this week as our room is being painted. It has been a topic for our writing and inspired us to use our lovely playground for some of our maths activities. We are looking forward to being back in our freshly painted classroom at the end of the week! Amelia Heap – Class Teacher

SCHOOL LATENESS Lateness can be a problem for many schools. “So what if my child is sometimes late for school—does it matter t hat much?” Take a few seconds to read this and see what you think! School is usually the first place where children are made aware of the importance of regular timekeeping. Arriving early will boost your child’s confidence for the day, and set them in the right frame of mind for learning and achievement. If a child arrives late the whole class is disrupted and the teacher has to repeat the same things over and over again - losing valuable teaching time or the child completely misses out on information eg daily student notices. Punctuality and good attendance will always be important - at school now and later at work. Help to make sure your child is given a good start in life by coming to school regularly and on time.

Continues next week

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MUFTI DAY The P & C will be having a mufti day on Friday 23rd March. Instead of a gold coin donation students will be asked to donate an Easter egg for the privilege of coming to school in mufti. CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA—OUR SCHOOL FRIDAY 16TH MARCH, 2012 It looks like the weather might stay fine for our Clean Up Australia task of cleaning up our school this week. Please remember to send your child with gloves if possible. The children will be required to wash their hands with soap thoroughly after the clean up. SCHOOL WORKING BEE Thank you to those dads who could make it to our Week 8 assembly at such short notice. If you didn’t make it to the assembly, we presented your appreciation Certificate to your child on your behalf. A big apology also to Mr John Cant who I unfortunately missed giving an invitation to our assembly. His award will be presented at next week’s assembly.

SCHOOL CHOIR Congratulations to these students who have now joined the Choir. Sasha Cowan 5/6M, Kayley Wilkinson 5/6M, Kylie Bridle 5/6M and Dannielle Smith 5/6M. I am please to announce that the Choir will be performing on ANZAC Day at Toukley RSL Club on 25th April, 2012. They will be performing the National Anthem, God Defend New Zealand, Abide With Me and Lead Kindly Light with the Gorokan High School Band. Pauline MacMillan (Choir Teacher)

EASTER DONATIONS Donations of baskets and gift boxes to be used for prizes in the Easter raffle would be greatly appreciated. Please leave donations at the office. Sally and Kathryn

HELP NEEDED WITH MATHS If there are any parents or grandparents who are able to help in classrooms during morning Maths sessions playing maths counting games or other number games with younger students could you please leave your name and contact phone number with the office staff and I will contact you. This program will begin Term 2. Please remember you will need to complete clearance checks. Jane West, Assistant Principal

P & C MOVIE NIGHT Wednesday 21st March, 2012 Gates open 6pm till 7.30pm. The movie starts at 7.45pm. Tickets : $25 for a family, $10 Adult; $5 Child. Come and enjoy a fun filled evening and support our school. Bring a blanket, bring a chair, sit back and enjoy the wonderful family movie—RED DOG. Free jumping castle for the kids! BBQ, cold drinks, popcorn, ice creams, tea and coffee will be available for purchase.

JUNIOR RED CROSS The Junior Red Cross Leaders for 2012 are: President Lara Corbett Vice President Jacob Kidd Secretary Sophie Jones Publicity Committee Brayden Whitmore, Jazmin O’Loughlin, Anayla Schipp, Taylor Stirton, Natasha Fisk, Anica Leaudais. Entertainment Committee Melanie Elshaug, Tanique Nolan, Jade Slattery, Josh Fenech, Emma Shipp, Koko Lemke, Niesha Deane, Meliah Weaver. By Sophie Jones

123 MAGIC Session 3 of 123 Magic parenting course will be held next Thursday 22nd March in the Community Room at 9am. If you missed Session 2 please still come along to Session 3 and bring your participants book.

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY Friday 16th March � SRC Cake Stall—11am to 11.40 Monday 19th March � Harmony Day Monday 26th March � Forest Fruit tray draw

Wednesday 28th March � Ride 2 School Day � After School Sport ends Thursday 29th March � After School Sport ends

Wednesday 4th April Easter Scripture Service NSW Swimming Carnival Thursday 5th April NSW Swimming Carnival END OF TERM

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HUNTER SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS 2013 APPLICATIONS Hunter School of Performing Arts is a Selective Performing Arts School from Year 2 to Year 12 with a gifted and talented focus in Dance, Drama and Music. Enrolment is by audition. Applications for Enrolment Auditions are available in Dance Drama or Music and are available from the office or the Hunter School of performing Arts School website: www.hspa.nsw.edu.au/information/enrolmentforms. Applications close on Wednesday 21st March, 2012 for Years 7-11 or 29th June, 2012 for Years 2-6.

PSP SURVEYS On behalf of Toukley Public School I would like to thank all families who returned the Priority School Survey forms. If we are selected to be a Priority School for the next three years it will mean funding to continue many of our exciting Literacy and Numeracy programs for example The Home Maths Games Program. Also it will enable us to purchase more, rich literature for use in classrooms and for home reading.

PRIORITY SCHOOLS MATHS HOME GAMES On behalf of our school I would like to thank Mrs Bronwyn Sherry for the amazing job she is doing in producing more games for our Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 students to play at home. She has also repaired many games that have become damaged. Mrs Sherry has personally bought playing cards and laminating sheets. The school appreciates this greatly. If you would like to help Mrs Sherry and myself in producing and repairing games please join us on Monday mornings next term from 11:40 until 1:00pm we would really appreciate your help. Mrs Sherry has asked if there are any parents who could donate more packs of playing cards this would be greatly appreciated. Many games require packs of playing cards as the basis of the game so we need them desperately. Any student who donates playing cards will go into a draw to win a free lunch at the canteen. As I am on leave for the next couple of weeks the draw will be held early in Term 2.

NEWMANS PROMPTS Newmans Prompts are a great way to help your child solve Maths problems. All students Kindergarten to Year 6 are taught these simple steps that help them unpack problems. You too can use these prompts when you are helping your child with Maths homework.

CAKE STALL A cake stall will be held this Friday 16th March to raise money for the SRC badges. Cakes will be priced from 50 cents to $2. The cake stall is at recess under the COLA. Don’t forget to support your SRC leaders. Billie Hudson & Kane Slattery (5/6G)

SPORTING NEWS Congratulations once again to our Zone Swimming Team, our students who gained ribbons and our Champions. Lachlan Tabrett 5/6M—Senior Boy Champion Kody Ryan 5/6C—11 yr Boy Champion Lacklan Bickhoff-Claydon 2/3P—Junior Boy Champion Aleesha Fitzpatrick 5/6M—Senior Girl Champion Tara Wagstaff 4/5S—11yr Girl Champion Alyssa Wagstaff 2/3P—Junior Girl Champion Swimming Ribbons— children are welcome to see me either at recess or lunch to have any ribbons re-written. Coming up in Sport • 22nd March—Girls PSSA Cricket match—our 5/6 school team

(Mr Norman) • Boys Soccer—PSSA team are training hard Mrs Wilson

(3/4W) • Girls Soccer—PSSA team will be called for training by Mrs

Wilson (1L) before the end of term. • Boys Rugby League PSSA team—team has been formed by

Mr Lee • Boys Rugby League Trials 16th March, 2012. • Mrs MacMillan and Miss Jackson will call for both boys and

girls who are interested in playing our PSSA Basket Ball teams before the end of term.

Sports Leadership Day This Thursday 8 students have been selected to represent Toukley School at a Sports Leadership Day at Blue Haven and were transported by bus along with Budgewoi students to the day. This Leadership Day is part of the Premiers Sporting Challenge Program which enhances student opportunities in sport and sport leadership. The following 10 students from Years and 5 and 6 including 5 House Captains have been selected for the program. Year 6: Kylie Bridle 5/6M, Aleesha Fitzpatrick 5/6M, Haley Gilyeat 5/6M, Nathan Petch 5/6G and Georgi Peek 5/6C. Year 5: Adam Riding 5/6C, Bailey Horswell 5/6M, Imogen Munro 4/5S, Niesha Dean 5/6G, Jarrod O’Brien-Swann 5/6B. Mrs MacMillan also attended the Leadership Day.

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I can see the cupcake. by Danika