Weekly Newsletter Woy Woy South Public School

The School Mall WOY WOY NSW 2256 Ph.: (02)43411899 Fax: (02)43431984

Website: www.woywoysth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: woywoysth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal: Matt Barr Term 2 – Week 3 Date: 15th May, 2019

Respect ~ Responsibility ~ Relationships

Upcoming Events Wk. 3 & 4, Mon May 13th - Fri May 24th NAPLAN Yrs. 3 & 5 Tuesday 21st May Star Stuck Second Rehearsal Thursday 23rd May Under 12’s Girls Soccer-Umina Oval Tuesday 28th May Paul Kelly Cup AFL Thursday 30th May Star Struck First Major Rehearsal

Boys PSSA Soccer-Umina Oval

MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL BIG NEWS FOR OUR SCHOOL! Due to extensive communication with NSW Department of Education Assets Management and the ongoing collection of maintenance data relating to our school buildings, I was advised yesterday that our school will soon be undertaking major roof reconstruction to all buildings. This will mean that all of our old tiled rooves will be replaced with new Colourbond, giving our school a new fresh look throughout. It is expected that this work will take place at some stage during 2019 and while there will be major construction taking place, a careful plan will be implemented so that class time is not effected. This is very exciting and a big win for our school! MOTHER’S DAY STALL/BREAKFAST Thank you to everyone who attended our Mother’s Day Breakfast last Friday morning. Feedback from the event has been very positive which is fantastic. Many thanks to Miss I’Anson, Miss Swan and Mrs Formston for the organisation behind the scenes and to the rest of the staff for getting to work so early to make the event a success. Thanks also to our P&C for the organisation of the Mothers’ Day Stall. I hope all our mums had a great day last Sunday and were well and truly spoilt! NAPLAN This week and next week students from Years 3 and 5 are sitting the annual NAPLAN assessments. Due to some schools experiencing connectivity issues yesterday, the assessments were postponed today and will resume on Thursday when hopefully, the issues are resolved. The results from the assessments will be made available during Term 3. If your child is absent for whatever reason throughout the week, a catch up session will be conducted at some stage during the 9 day testing period. As a school that experienced technical difficulties and requested information to send to parents, below is a suggested message provided by ACARA for this purpose: “As you are aware, today was the first day of NAPLAN, which your school is doing online. Unfortunately some connectivity issues were experienced during the test and these issues are currently being investigated. While this isn’t ideal, please be assured we have procedures to follow to minimise any impacts on our students, including rescheduling the test if required. National test authorities have advised they regret any inconvenience this has caused to schools and students, and are working to rectify the issue as soon as possible”.

CULTURAL CONTINUUM EXCURSION Today we were visited by all of our local partner primary schools who sent their Yr. 4 Aboriginal students to participate in an Indigenous cultural excursion about bush tucker here on our site at WWS. Reports suggested that the excursion was a great success and enjoyed by all. Special thanks must go to Mr Jarrett for organising the excursion and providing such a great opportunity for these students. Have a great week everyone, Matt Barr Principal

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING

This week, our whole school focus for PBL is 'The Rights of Others'. At our school, everyone has the right to learn. In the classroom, we respect teachers and other students by listening when they are talking. We complete learning tasks responsibly and treat other students with respect, using kind and encouraging language. In this way, all students are given the opportunity to learn at Woy Woy South. The PBL Team

YEAR 5 OPPORTUNITY CLASS PLACEMENT 2020 Online applications for the 2020 Year 5 Opportunity Class opens on Tuesday 30th April 2019 and close on Friday 17th May 2019. Late applications will not be accepted. All applications must be made online by going to the following website: https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5 All students seeking opportunity class placement in 2020 will be required to take the Opportunity Class Placement Test on Wednesday 31st July 2019. Please fill in an intention to apply form. Forms are available from our school office. You need to complete and return the intention to apply form before completing the online application. Miss King

MERIT AWARDS SUPERSTAR AWARDS Jack 3/4I Charlie 3/4K Jonty 3/4K Eva 1/2R Alana 3/4A Jago 1/2R Corey 6O Jack 5G Kyan 5G Lily 3/4M Lachlan 2K Dexter KJ Chloe 2K Lexie KJ Marcie 3/4A Teleah 6O Corey 6O Evie 3/4M Ella 5W Rosalie KW Josh 5W Harry KW Callum 1A Rosemary 1B Connor 1A Dylan 1B Angela 3/4I

YEAR 4 CULTURAL CONTINUUM

Today our year 4 Aboriginal students along with those from other local primary schools spent the morning enjoying a bush tucker experience with Jake Cassar. The students enjoyed learning to make a rope, trying Illawarra bush plums and native grapes. Rheese Bull from Ettalong PS also told a local dreaming story and played some didgeridoo. Mr Jarrett

WOOLWORTHS EARN AND LEARN PROGRAM 2019 This year Woy Woy South will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school and all we need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths. From Wednesday 1st May to Tuesday 25th June, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10.00 spent. The Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers can be dropped into the Collection Box at the front of the office or to class 1A collection box here at the school or at your local Woolworths. At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our Library. If you’d like to know more visit woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn Happy collecting! Miss Nelson

As a way of providing you and your children with lots of useful online resources, each week we will be sending home a ‘Wonderful Website of the Week’. This will equip you with a list of great websites that your child can use when they are using computer technology at home. Please always remember to talk to your children about responsible and safe use of the internet.

Enjoy.

Wonderful Website of the Week worldbookonline.com

Username: wwsps Password: wwsps

Best to access from google chrome. Username and password is the same for everyone

P&C NEWS ELECTION DAY BBQ AND CAKE STALL – WE NEED YOU Woy Woy South is an election day polling booth and we are holding a bbq and cake stall to raise some founds for our students. We are asking all students to get involved by bringing something for the cake stall to school on FRIDAY morning and dropping to the tables outside the canteen. This will in turn mean more funds for our students due to lower costs. We are also in need of some more volunteers so please contact us if you can help out at all, or just turn up on the day. Finally if you are going to vote on Saturday please come to Woy Woy South and buy a sausage sizzle or egg and bacon roll. MOTHERS DAY RAFFLE AND STALL – THANK YOU Thank you to everyone who returned their Mother’s Day Raffle Tickets and congratulations to the winners! If you have any tickets left please return them to the RED P&C Box at the canteen so we can reuse them next time. Also thank you to everyone who helped run our Mother’s Day Stall on Friday. It was such a great day and we had such fun with all the students. PLEASE NOTE- we have had a report that the glass mason jars that contained the hot chocolate/marshmallows may be faulty as one broke when hot water was poured into it. We apologise to anyone that received these as gifts as we were unaware and advise not to fill with hot water. P&C MEETING – FRIDAY 14TH JUNE 9:00AM Our next meeting is Friday 14th June at 9:00am in the Learning Centre. Everyone is welcome, including younger children. We try to have a laugh and a bit of fun so come along and find out who we are and what’s happening.

WOY WOY SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C FACEBOOK PAGE Have you liked and followed our page? Get up to date information and reminders on all things P&C. Join our Woy Woy South Public School P&C Facebook Page so we can get messages to all our volunteers and parents as required. This page will be a source of Canteen specials, Volunteers needed for certain days, reminders for meetings, reminders for money/notes due to the RED P&C BOX, Uniform Shop specials and opening times, and anything we need to get out to you. Feel free to ‘like’ our page and send us a message if you need any clarification or advice about upcoming events. ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW Support Woy Woy South P&C and reap the rewards of the many discount offers contained in the Entertainment book. We have a copy in the school Uniform Shop if you want to see exactly what is on offer this year. Vouchers are valid until June 2020 and for just $65.00 you could easily save hundreds of $$$!! $13.00 from every book sold helps us purchase items for the school such as the jellybean tables in K-2 classrooms and the ottomans found in all classrooms. Purchase both digital membership or book membership any time online at https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/3q4713 Books can also be purchased with cash from our Uniform Shop or online book orders collected. Alternate delivery can also be arranged by emailing wwspandc@gmail.com SCHOOL BANKING Woy Woy South is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students. School Banking is a fun, interactive and engaging way for young Australians to learn about money and develop good savings habits. Children who deposit money into their Youthsaver account through School Banking earn Dollarmites tokens, which they can save up and redeem for exciting rewards. The rewards available during 2019 are: Term 1 Term 3 • Scented Stackable Highlighters Arctic Owl Fluffy Keyring • Snowy Origami Set Scratch Art Cards Term 2 Term 4 • Icicle Slapband Ruler & Yeti Fluffy Notepad Water Skimming Bounce Ball & Polar Pencils & Pencil Toppers

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5.00 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year. School Banking day is Friday. Each week you need to hand your bank book to your teacher first thing in the morning. UNIFORM SHOP Winter uniform can be worn in terms 2 and 3. For boys this is grey trousers ($23.00) with our grey and red polo ($24.00) and hooded jumper with school logo ($28.00 or $33.00 with zip). Girls are also able to wear this but we do have winter tunics available ($43.00) which are worn with a white shirt or skivvy underneath and black or grey stockings. Girls can also continue wearing their grey skort ($20.00) with grey and red polo ($24.00) with black or grey stockings. The Uniform Shop is offering a CASH ONLY winter pack for $70.00 (save up to $9.00) which includes one jumper and either 2 pairs of long cargo trousers OR one jumper and a winter tunic. Please remember to label your child's jumper - we have marker pens available when you purchase. Our uniform shop is CASH ONLY or you can pre-order online at quickcliq.com.au

BLUEY’S SNACK SHACK

CANTEEN ROSTER Thursday 16th May - Keiran Friday 17th May - Paul Monday 20th May - Sandra Tuesday 21st May - Tracey G Wednesday 22nd May - Justine Also reminder we have warm milo and warm cheese and bacon rolls, warm cheese and vegemite scrolls to keep warm in the cooler weather Did you know you can order your child’s lunch online up until 9:15am that day? You can order your children’s lunches online at Woy Woy South. Check it out at – www.quickcliq.com.au Simple and easy to sign up. Amanda and Jacqui Canteen PH: 4341 7798

COMMUNITY NEWS

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