Dear Parents and Friends,

Welcome back to another busy term. Yesterday Edward

School hosted a training and development day for 130 teachers and 140 support staff from 27 schools in our

district. The day was organised by a committee of principals

from the district.

Our Edward School P&C did a fabulous job catering for the large crowd, providing morning tea and a delicious spread

for lunch. I would like to thank Felicity Michael, the P&C

president and a tireless group of ladies who helped her on the day. Thank you also to everyone who helped with the

catering. The principal organising committee for the day was very impressed.

Deafness Foundation We have received a certificate of appreciation from the

Deafness Foundation thanking us for our fundraising efforts

and supporting the butterfly badge appeal. The school raised $400 through the sale of badges. If you would like to

purchase a badge, there are still a few available at the office.

Extended Leave Ms Soper is on leave at present. Mrs Blacker and I will be sharing the relieving principal’s position for the first 4 weeks

of term. A letter has been sent to every school family outlining in detail the changes that are being made to

staffing. If you do not receive that letter in the next few days, please contact the school.

Education Week On Thursday July 31st, Week 3, Edward school will be

celebrating Education Week with a gala day. The outline of

the day is being finalised. The jump rope demonstration team will perform, classrooms will be open for you to visit

and we will have a picnic lunch. Please try to put aside some time to visit to see the great things the children are

doing.

Best wishes

Jo Evans Relieving Principal

Mathletics Program Mathletics is an online maths program that can be accessed from home as well as at the school. This program was

kindly funded by the Deniliquin RSL club. We are very grateful for their continued support. Congratulations to

Molly Shaw (41 activities), Regan Emery (40 activities) and

Djaidha Bux (39 activities) who are our top Mathletics students to date. To master an activity, students must

achieve a score equal to or greater than 85%. These results reflect student achievements up until June. Well done!

Cross Country State Carnival Good luck to Annie Harvey and Jade Parsons-Cooper who

will be competing in the 8/9 years girls 2km and 12/13 years

3km respectively at the Cross Country state carnival this Friday.

EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Butler Street DENILIQUIN NSW 2710

Phone: 5881-2612 Fax: 5881-5090

Email: edward-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.edward-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Newsletter: Week 1 Term 3 – 15th July 2014:

A PBL SCHOOL - Positive Behaviour for Learning - WE VALUE

RESPONSIBILITY SAFETY RESPECT

EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Edward Awards

Michael Garner McLean Kinder Bronze 1 Miley McCully Kinder Bronze 3

Molly Bradley Kinder Bronze 4 Abbie Fraser Year 1 Bronze 2

Erica Hayes Year 1 Silver 2

Hazel Glowrey Year 1 Silver 3 Tyler Marchant Year 2 Silver 4

Hayley Noonan Year 2 Gold 1 Georgia Taylor Year 2 Gold 3

Matilda Glowrey Year 3 Bronze 2

Sam Blenkiron Year 3 Bronze 2 Arizona Buckley Year 4 Gold 2 /2

Jack Michael Year 5 Gold 1 Ella Harvey Year 5 Gold 1

Staff Development Day Wow- what a start to Term 3!!! Thank you to all of those people who helped with the mammoth task of catering for the Staff

Development Day held at Edward yesterday. We fed 270 people, and we received many compliments about the quality and

quantity of food provided! A huge thanks to Clare Muldoon, Debbie Gazzara, Lyn Smith and Gail Barling who worked tireless-

ly all day. Thank you also to Kama Duffey, Sarah Young, Deb Bowie, Christina Mildren, Kylie Cartwright, Missy Bradley, Ky-

lie Hayes, Barb Larcombe, Belinda Larcombe, Alex Glowrey, Fiona Semple, Wendy Nethercote, Nat Shaw, Nat Dawson, Kylie

Green and Jo Evans who all cooked for the day. All containers and pots can be collected from the staff room. Thank you also to

Isabel Michael and Hayley Noonan who provided hours of assistance in preparation and on the day. We have raised over $4000

for the canteen- which will go back into P&C projects.

Welcome Gail Barling- our new Canteen Manager who started on Friday. Please make her feel welcome. Thanks to Sacha

Jefferies for helping Gail to become familiar with the canteen operation. More canteen volunteers are desperately needed.

Please see Gail.

Canteen Accounts- the canteen has a policy that accounts must be in credit for items to be booked up. Reminders have gone

out today, and will go out each Wednesday to all families who use the credit book so that you can keep track of your account.

Only accounts which are in credit will be able to be used from now on. Thank you for your cooperation.

Chocolate Fundraiser- Chocolates are due to go out next Monday. If you DON’T want to receive chocolates please let the of-

fice know.

HELPERS needed- packing chocolates THIS FRIDAY after assembly. It should only take an hour- if we have 5 or 6 helpers.

Please fill in the slip below and return to the office.

…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………...

CHOCOLATE PACKING

Name: ____________________________ Contact Number: ____________________

I can help with packing chocolates after assembly Friday 18.7.14