HAPPENINGS

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Term 1 Week 11 NAROOMA PUBLIC SCHOOL 10th April, 2018

Our School is leading the Way

Today, we hosted representatives from Yenda Public

School, a school in the Riverina, showing them some

of our wonderful programs and structures that have

been recognised for improving our results and data.

Programs on display were Synthetic Phonics, Words

Their Way, CARS & STARS and Maths Frenzy.

It is fantastic that Narooma Public School is

recognised in the wider educational community for

our achievements!

District Soccer & Rugby League Trials

Last week, our school sent representatives to the

Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, U11’s Rugby League or

Opens Rugby League trials.

These trials saw children from the Eurobodalla

District competing for a position on the team

involved in the South Coast Regional championships

next term in their chosen sport.

We are proud to announce the following children

have been selected into these teams:

Girls Soccer – Halle Constable.

U11’s Rugby League – Daniel Betts, Sam Patmore,

Rueben Booth, Luke Barry and Drew Arentz.

Opens Rugby League – Max Bourke, Talon De

Heaume, Jorge Constable, Blake Salway and Jackson

Rapley.

Congratulations once again to all who were selected.

State Swimming Carnival

Good luck to all the swimmers who will be

representing the school on Wednesday April 11 and

Thursday April 12 at the NSW State Swimming

Championships in Sydney.

We look forward to hearing the results of your efforts

in upcoming newsletters.

School ANZAC DAY Ceremony

This Friday at 10:10am in our hall our school will be

holding an ANZAC Day ceremony.

I would like to invite any parents and friends of the

school to come along to this ceremony to help our

school remember the sacrifice that the service men

and women gave to their country.

We hope to see you there.

ANZAC Day at Club Narooma

During the holiday break, ANZAC Day celebrations

will take play on April 25 at Club Narooma.

Children wishing to represent the school can march

behind our school banner as per previous years. They

will be led by our School Captains and members of

the SRC. We will meet at the Visitors Centre to

assemble before the March at 10:40am

Our school choir will also be performing at the

ceremony. It would be wonderful to see as many

children as possible on this significant occasion

representing the school.

Voluntary Contributions

The school would like to thank the families that have

paid their contributions as this money is vital for our

programs.

Money collected via the contributions is used to

purchase resources for teaching and learning

activities within the school. Some of the resources

purchased are art paper, paints, pencils, exercise

books, consumables for our science program etc.

Our school has currently received less contributions

this year compared to last year. I am hoping that

many families may have simply forgotten to forward

their contributions to the school.

Payments can be made online via our website or can

be dropped into the office area at your convenience.

I thank the community for your anticipated co-

operation with this matter.

Stage 2 & Stage 3 Assembly - Thursday, 12th April, 2018 at 2.00pm

The following students will be receiving an award at our Stage 2 (Years 3 &4) & Stage 3 (Years 5 & 6) Assembly on Thursday.

Kookaburras will be hosting this week’s Assembly.

Krystal Bailey 3 Platypus Meah Beecham 3 Platypus

Joshua Brooks 6 Stingrays Giaan Cafe 6 Eagles

Allie Mae Cook 6 Stingrays Benjamin Dart 4 Turtles

Marley Davis-Ward 6 Stingrays Brodie Drummond 6 Stingrays

Matthew Elliot 6 Stingrays Mikayla Homan 6 Eagles

Thomas Hudson 3 Platypus Mitch Lavis 3 Platypus

Bethany Owens-Roberts 4/5 Echidnas Samuel Patmore 6 Stingrays

Claire Raabe 3 Kangaroos Zane Ziviani 3 Kangaroos

Talaywah Wallace 4 Kookaburras

Coming Events:

11-12 April: State Swimming Carnival Fri 13 Apr: ANZAC Ceremony at 10.15am

Fri 13 Apr: Last day of Term 1 Mon 30 Apr: Staff Development Day

Tue 1 May: Students return to school

Fri 4 May: AFL Gala Day - Kinder, Years 1 & 2 Wed 9 May: Year 4 Botanic Gardens Excursion 15-18 May: NAPLAN Week Wed 23 May: School Photos Mon 28 May: Jump Rope for Heart 28 May - 1 June: Book Fair Tue 29 May: ELC Enviro Day Fri 1 June: South Coast Cross Country

ANZAC Assembly We will be having a special Whole School Assembly to commemorate ANZAC Day on Friday, 13th April at 10.15am in the school hall. The School Choir will be singing.

Parents, carers and community members are welcome to attend.

All children are requested to bring flowers on Friday to contribute to a class display for the Ceremony. Please give these to your class teacher.

Relay For Life On Saturday, 7th April, students participated in the Eurobodalla Relay For Life.

The event featured students performing on the djembe drum, participating in games and laps around Bill Smyth Oval. All activities were in support of raising money for cancer research.

The school would like to thank all students and teachers involved.

Happy Holidays

This week sees the last week of school before the

School holidays.

Students will return to school on Tuesday May 1. The

Monday before this date is Staff Development Day

which is a student free day. Staff will use this date to

participate in Teacher Professional Learning activities

and to continue planning for Term 2.

Please mark the date children return on your

calendars!

Paul Sweeney

Principal

Ministry 2018

Prime Minister: Halle Constable

Deputy Prime Minister: Talon De Heaume

Speaker: Allie Mae Cook

Treasurer: Jorge Constable

Congratulations 2018 Ministers

Congratulations to the ministers for the 2018 Narooma Public School Parliament, who have been elected by the Year 6 students. The NPS Parliament will open in early-Term 2, with introductory speeches by all the ministers outlining their roles. Parliament will then meet every 4 weeks to discuss Bills put forward by NPS students.

How does our Parliament work? To suggest a Bill to Parliament students should first see their class representative (SRC). They and their representative can then take their Bill to the correct Minister (e.g. for a Bill about an Art competition see the Creative Arts Minister). The Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister will be responsible for deciding which Bills will be debated. All students in Years 3-6 will have voting rights in the School Parliament once Bills have been discussed. Successful Bills will be passed to the Governor-General, Mr Paul Sweeney, for approval.

Why have we introduced a school parliament? To increase student leadership opportunities To empower students to make genuine decisions on positive change within the school To introduce students to models of democracy and citizenship To support development of speaking, listening, and debating skills.

Sport K-2 PBL Indigenous Students Community/ Fundraising

Travis Stubbs Sandy Loudoun Anna Woolnough Joey Naumoski Sonny Dudley

Environment Literacy Numeracy Science & Tech Creative Arts

Crystal Davies Leah Adams Kirra McCaughtrie Sebastian Potts Taja Williams

District Cross Country

On Monday, Narooma PS sent a strong squad of students to the District Cross Country trials at Potato Point.

The students behaved wonderfully showing our school values by being respectful, responsible and safe at all times.

The following students have made it to the next level and will head to Regional Cross Country on the 1st of June:

Laura Ovington, Phoenix Clarke, Joel Constable, Rogue Constable, Jett Cook, Lachlan Druhan, Shay O'Sheehan and Giann Cafe.

A number of students are also reserves including:

Aidan Hummel, Mia Jones, Mikayla Homan and Ethan Reakes.

Congratulations to all students.

School Banners Two of our school captains, Jorge and Halle, along with our PBL Minister Anna, launched our new banners today. These will be placed around our playground to remind everyone of our NPS expectations:

Be Respectful

Be Responsible, and

Be Safe

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Congratulations to Cooper Hastie, Shaylee Henry, Zavier Grantham, Jack Klose and Brendan Raabe who were awarded in the Termly Big Draw. They will receive their chosen acknowledgement at the Friday morning assembly.

Whale Tail Draw Recipients

Congratulations to our Whale Tail Draw recipients this week: Summer White, Mac Lavis and Logan Allison.

These students are acknowledged for being safe, respectful and responsible in the playground. They receive a Citizenship Award.

Our focus this week is making sure all litter goes into a bin. We want our playground looking smart and our rubbish to stay out of the ocean.

Transport Volunteers As per New South Wales Department of Education Policy, all parents, carers or volunteers assisting in providing transport of students, must complete an Appendix 5 - Working with Children Check: Declaration for Volunteers Form, which is available at the school office.

Parents/Carers are also required to show their current driver’s license and registration to the office prior to the excursion. A reminder of this requirement will be placed on permission notes.

Stay Sun Safe at School

To keep children safe we require that they wear a navy blue bucket hat for outdoor activities.

Please provide your child with a navy blue bucket hat to wear to school. $10 school hats can be purchased from the P&C Uniform Shop and the front office, but plain, navy blue hats without logos can also be worn.

We recommend that your child’s hat is clearly labelled and that it is kept in school.

Four Winds

Over 3 days in March, some of our Indigenous students were invited to the Four Winds in Barraga Bay.

Takeisha Mason Campbell, Ella Moore, Dominica Naumoski, Noah Thomas, Joey Naumoski, Antwon Harrison, Jared Hoskins-Moore, Mariah Rotumah and Malayah Gibson attended a three day workshop

where they worked with professional musicians Candice Lorrae and Krystal Kristel Kickett.

The students learned four songs and then performed in two concerts. The first was for Bermagui students and the second on Easter Saturday, in front of approximately 500 people of the local community.

The school would like to also acknowledge Arwyn Landini for her performance with the Djaadjawan Dance Group.

P & C Uniform Shop The Uniform Shop opening times are:

Monday: 8.30-9.30am

Thursday: 9.00-10.00am

Friday: 8.45-9.45am

Hats are also available from the school office at $10 each.

Music & Singing Lessons

The After School Music teachers are now taking enrolments for Term 2. Places are filling up fast with Miss Garcia and Tara Moore only having three spots left at this stage.

Rob Cove will continue to teach guitar and drum kit, we also have a singing, saxophone and silver flute teacher available.

Please call Miss Garcia on 0415 897 087 to reserve your place or to enquire.

Piano & Theory of Music All styles including AMEB Exams

Carl Tuckwell Over 12 years experience

(over 40 years experience as a musician)

Also guitar - Rock, Pop and Folk (no guitar beginners under 12

years old) Bermagui 6493 3574 or

0415 209 039

Kookaburra News Term 1

History We have been studying the journey of the First Fleet from England to Australia from 1787-1788. We have been reading accounts from journals and letters of the convicts and officers on board various ships. We recently had a visit from author Susan Boyer who wrote one of the texts we are reading, Stories of Life at Sydney Cove. This was a wonderful opportunity to listen to

how information is sourced from historical events and ask questions about the process of writing texts.

We have drawn and painted some tall ships on the seas. They are on display in the classroom and in the foyer of the Office.

English

We are learning to write persuasive texts. We will be attempting to write strong arguments about our opinions on several given topics. There are lots of things to consider like the structure, factual input, and modality – choice of words used to persuade the reader. We are using an analogy of a boxer when creating our sequence of arguments. I ‘jab’ to alert the reader and make them take notice, an ‘uppercut’ delivers our second point and a final ‘knockout blow’ convinces the reader our point of view is correct. We should be experts by mid Term 2.

We are building up our ability to maintain focus and read for longer periods of time. Our aim is to read undistracted for 30 minutes. We have begun to develop our comprehension of texts using comprehension cards – short passages we read then answer questions on. We are also practicing our editing skills by correcting grammar, spelling and punctuation in incorrect passages.

Maths For the last few weeks of this term we are learning about fractions, data and chance. We always try to practice our skills in games based or hands on activities before demonstrating our competence in various assessments. Some photos have been included showing us engaged in Maths games and activities.

Assembly Kookaburras will be hosting the Primary Assembly on Thursday of this week. It begins at 2.00pm in the hall. All families are welcome to come and watch.