FROM THE PRINCIPAL

On Tuesday the captains were invited to attend a ceremony held at Pioneer Park, that acknowledged their leadership within our school. All four captains were presented with a beautiful trophy as a keepsake from our Director, Educational Leadership, Mr David Lamb. Above: Reese Vidler, Jacob Serafin, Ryan Irvin, Rahni Cabahug, Mr David Lamb We will also hold an Indigenous games day hosted by Matt Daniels on Friday. Mr Damien Thorne will also bring some Murrumbidgee High School boys from the Wade site to play a game of touch football. Mr Thorne has also offered to do a smoking ceremony at the commencement of the games.

KINDERGARTEN ORIENTATION

HANWOOD PUBLIC

SCHOOL IS CURRENTLY TAKING ENROLMENTS FOR

2020

We are beginning our preparations for Kindergarten 2020. If you have a child (or

know of a child) who is commencing Kindergarten next year and are intending to enrol at our school, please come to the office as soon as possible

to get an enrolment form.

Our orientation program will begin on Wednesday

October 23rd at 2:30.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Term 3 Week 3 Date: Thursday 8th August 2019

Hanwood Public School School St, Hanwood, NSW, 2680

Tel: (02) 6963 0297 Email: hanwood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web page: www.hanwood-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

EDUCATION WEEK 2019

Congratulations to the following students who were presented with Hanwood Public School Education Week Awards: KB - Olivia Kulupa KP - Hailey Bonfield 1/2C - Zavian Miles 1/2G - Tana Palanite 1/2K - Luke Stradiotto 3/4DM - Jessica Edwards 3/4S - Madeline Serafin 3/4Y - Brennah-Lee Abera Crowe 5/6A - Chloe Hughes 5/6CB - Natalie Woolnough 5/6L - Laura Irvin Principal’s Award - Josh Serafin Principal’s Award - Lucas Brill

An outstanding effort from exemplary students and role models in our school.

Charlotte Cameron - 5/6L For always trying hard to complete all tasks with a persistent positive attitude and helping others around

her.

OUR EDUCATION WEEK AWARD WINNERS ...

MURRUMBIDGEE REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOL - MOVIE FUNDRAISER

In October, Australia will be hosting Polyfest for the first time. Polyfest was founded in New Zealand and is a competitive high school and college performing arts event of world indigenous and pacific Island performances. It was established to raise awareness of Polynesian cultures and positively increase sense of identity for students. At present, there are over 180 Pasifika students enrolled at Murrumbidgee Regional High School. Richard Wiseman and I are in the process of organising an excursion for 50 of our Pasifika students to attend Polyfest in Liverpool during this October long weekend. In order to keep costs low for our students and their families, we are hosting a movie screening of 'Angel Has Fallen' at Griffith City Cinemas on 28/08/19. I would like to take the opportunity to invite you all to this screening. Tickets are $20 each and can be purchased at the Griffith site school office or by contacting me on 0402162881. Please note that the movie is not recommended for persons under 15 years. Please find attached a flyer of our fundraiser if you wish to print and spread amongst your contacts. If you require any further information please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you for your time. Kind regards,

Nau Mahe Pacific Islander Community Liaison Officer Murrumbidgee Regional High School - Griffith site Mobile: 0402 162 881 Ph :02 6962 1711 Fax : 02 6964 1465

3/4DM - A SELECTION OF POEMS ON ULURU...

Uluru I see the sun set and the colours fill the skies. The flaming sky and the burning hot sun. Shadows creep over the red and orange dirt. The wild animals eat the dry grass as the sun drops over the horizon. I feel the wind pushing the red and orange sand into my face, I feel the air getting colder. It wraps around me. Under my feet, I feel the rocks and minerals; they are hard. I feel joyful because Uluru is here for us all to see and enjoy, for generations to come. I hear wild animals fighting. I hear the winds blowing the grass. I hear the howling of the animals hunting in the desert. I hear whistling and birds tweeting. I can smell eucalyptus leaves and smoke from campfires. I can smell the remains of dead animals after they have been killed. I can smell the fires burning the sand and grassland and the wild berries growing. By Kade Tropeano

Uluru As the flaming sun slowly drops over the horizon,

colours fill the sky.

The spinifex grasses go from brown to black as the

sun shadows their figures. As I watch the sun set, I

feel the bad spirits drift out of my head when they

are all gone I am calm, fresh and grateful.

The distant howls of the dingoes echo through the

night breeze. The rustling of the animals awake me

from my slumber. As I scavenge around the grass I

find bush tomatoes, salt bush and native herbs.

The fumes of herbs and steak fill the night air.

Smoke from the campfire wraps around me like a

blanket.

By Kate Parker

Uluru In the sight of my eyes is a solid, crumbly dry outback. The sun slowly drops down over the horizon as the animal’s die of thirst. As the sun slowly drops down, the cold breeze wraps around my skin making me shiver. It felt like all the dangerous spirits are forcing me to sleep. The sound in my ears is the air whooshing past me when I walk across the desert looking for food. I hear the birds in the dehydrated trees tweeting lullabies to their chicks to calm them down and the dingoes howling in the black night sky with their packs. On my tongue I feel the dry hot sand put there by the breeze whooshing in my face. I can almost taste the melted chocolate of s’mores by the bonfire. In my nose are smells of smoke from fires burning the ground, and remains of animals that have been hunted by other wild animals. By Layla Abera Crowe

Sand blows around and softly lands on my tongue. It’s dry and warm and has a little crunch to it. The cold breeze freezes My tongue like a long Ice cube in my mouth. The sand is smelly from the camel dung. The air fills with the smell of oil from Eucalyptus leaves. The smoke from the burning fire floats to my nose. I can smell the stink of dead animals.

By Liam Williams

ULURU A dark shadow slowly Creeps over the hot orange Sand as the sun floats Down under the horizon. The sky fades away To a dark gloomy black. In the night. The heat bursts down on my Tongue but the sun is going Down and now I feel a Cool breeze blowing in my Face. The sand cools down and softens I’m calm and relaxed The sound of swishing Sand blows around the desert. Animals scuttling into The sand waiting for Their prey to walk by their hiding spot. Dead leaves rustling by animals of all sorts.

MRS BAIRD

In 1/2C this term we are learning about moving things. We are designing our own toys. Firstly,

on paper and then creating them out of objects in the room. We then tested our first creation, which was a bubble blower. We

then realised that we could have improved the design, which we did. It will be interesting to evaluate the results!

5/6CB - MRS CALLINAN/MRS BRAITHWAITE

STAFF IN THE SPOTLIGHT - MRS DAL BROI

Ash Barty is ranked No. 1 in the world in singles by the Women's Tennis Association and is the second Australian to hold this top ranking after Evonne Goolagong Cawley.

Nova Peris was the first Indigenous woman to win a gold medal and to be accepted into federal parliament.

Dr Anita Hiess is a famous Aboriginal writer who has made people happier with amazing writing.

Ms Dal Broi thrives in her role in the office and library and especially likes to ensure all students feel valued and cared for. Ms Dal Broi has a passion for keeping fit and healthy and loves watching her 4 boys play soccer.

In 5/6CB, We have been researching about famous Indigenous, Australian women. We have been learning about their achievements throughout their life, their inspirations, their life changing moments and even just their everyday lives. With this research we are creating 3-4 minutes speeches to present to our class with visuals in the background. We are learning how to present speeches with eye contact, tone, different forms of language and much more. Some significant women are:

SHAVE FOR LEUKAEMIA

Flynn Edis (Year 6); a fighting survivor of Leukaemia, is shaving his head on the 20th September to raise funds for the Leukaemia Foundation. Please help him reach his goal!! He is taking part in the World’s Greatest Shave. He has also convinced Mark St Baker to shave his head and beard and Miss Lucy Capstick will also cutting her long locks. Miss Simone Amaro will be allowing Flynn to choose any colour to dye her hair in support of this great cause (He has chosen bringt pink) Flynn’s goal is to raise $2000 and he is already well on the way to achieving this. Let’s support him and hopefully exceed his goal. You are able to sponsor him through a donation at our school or go to our Facebook page and donate directly via the link. It is great to see so many of our community already supporting him and this very personal journey.

The Shave will occur at a special assembly on Friday 20th September at 2:30.

KP - MRS POWYS

SCHOOL PHOTO DAY

SCHOOL PHOTO DAY IS ON NEXT TUESDAY 13TH AUGUST, PLEASE

SEND IN PHOTO ENVELOPES ASAP.

FULL SCHOOL WINTER UNIFORM

Week 4 KP Assembly On Wednesday at 3:00pm KP will be running assembly and presenting an item. It would be great to see so many parents there to see our performance. We have been busy making watermelon bowls to go with our item. Writing We have been working really hard to write our sentences independently. To help with our creativity we have been creating different things using different materials to then write about. The most popular things to make so far has been a house or a rocket. Term 3 Important Days This term Library is on Tuesdays. On Tuesdays and Thursdays we can wear our sports uniform as we have PE, class and paid sport.

HANWOOD PLAYGROUND COMMUNITY GRANT

Please remember to vote for our Hanwood

school playground in the

My Community Projects:

www.mycommunityproject.service.nsw.gov.au

P&C NEWS

TERM 3

Week 3

Monday 5/8 Ann Maree Agostini Di Ratcliff

Friday 9/8 Ann Maree Agostini Juanita Cook Kim Dal Broi

Week 4

Monday 12/8 Ann Maree Agostini Eliza Serafin

Friday 16/8 Ann Maree Agostini Natalie Caqusau Karen Woolnough

Week 5

Monday 19/8 Ann Maree Agostini Alicia Webb

Friday 23/8 Ann Maree Agostini Josie Brady Clare Dal Broi

Week 6

Monday 26/8 Ann Maree Agostini Ann Maree Schirippa

Friday 30/8 Ann Maree Agostini Gemma Irvin Kim Dal Broi

Week 7

Monday 2/9 Ann Maree Agostini Christina Schirippa

Friday 6/9 Ann Maree Agostini Rosalee Sergi Tracey Dall’Est

Week 8

Monday 9/9 Ann Maree Agostini Janelle Laird

Friday 13/9 Ann Maree Agostini Natali Caqusau Clare Dl Broi

Week 9

Monday 16/9 Ann Maree Agostini Erin Bonetti

Friday 20/9 Ann Maree Agostini Elle Horton Gemma Harris

Week 10

Monday 23/9 Ann Maree Agostini Lisa DeMarco

Friday 27/9 Ann Maree Agostini

TERM 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

3

5/8 Education Week

6/8 7/8 8/8 KROP HPS Education Week assembly 11am

9/8 50 students attending KROP Indigenous games (TBC)

10/8 11/8

4

12/8 Additional tickets for concert go on sale, if available.

13/8 P&C meeting 7pm School Photo Day

14/8 Tyke-Oh Drumming (school to pay for all students) Assembly KP

15/8 Tyke-Oh Drumming (school to pay for all students) Zone Athletics

16/8 17/8 18/8

5 19/8 20/8 21/8 22/8 23/8 24/8 25/8

6 26/8 27/8 28/8 Assembly

Captains and Music

29/8 30/8 Riverina Athletics

31/8 1/9

7 2/9 3/9 HPS rehearsal

at Griffith Regional Theatre

4/9 Hanwood Public School Concert

5/9 6/9 7/9 8/9

8

9/9 10/9 P&C meeting 7pm

11/9 Dr Michael Carr-Gregg parent evening—FREE Assembly 1/2K

12/9 Infants shoe tying Premier Spelling Bee

13/9 Stage 3 Agri-Tech experience Day

14/9 15/9

9 16/9 17/9 18/9 19/9 20/9 Hair shave for

leukaemia 21/9 22/9

10 23/9 Stage 2 Borambola Rec Camp

24/9 Stage 2 Borambola Rec Camp

25/9 Assembly 3/4Y

26/9 27/9 28/9 29/9

TERM 4

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

1 14/10 15/10 16/10 17/10 18/10 19/10 20/10

2 21/10 Stage 3 Canberra

22/10 Stage 3 Canberra

23/10 Stage 3 Canberra

24/10 Assembly 1/2G

25/10 26/10 27/10

3 28/10 29/10 30/10 31/10 1/11 2/11 3/11

4 4/11 5/11 6/11 7/11 Assembly

5/6A 8/11 9/11 10/11

5 11/11 12/11 13/11 14/11 15/11 16/11 17/11

2019 assemblies. Term 1 - Monday 3pm, Term 2 - Tuesday 3pm, Term 3 - Wednesday 3pm, Term 4 - Thursday 3pm