Fairfax Public School Newsletter Term 3 - Week 9, Tuesday, 18th September, 2018

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Dear Parents,

Greetings everyone. The weather is definitely warming up, so much so that I invite students to wear

their summer uniform for the remainder of the term, particularly next week when we go swimming.

Has everyone checked their swimmers from last season still fit? There has been a lot of growing

since last summer.

Kids With a Purpose

Take 2! Mrs Cassie Gorrie has requested an extra final session of Kids with a Purpose this Friday. So

therefore, we will have our final session of Kids with a Purpose this Friday.

PARENTS (and Grandparents) you are invited to come to this final session which will review what the

students have covered this term. The session starts at 9.30am and will conclude at approximately

11am. Morning Tea will follow. This will be a lovely opportunity for you to share in your children’s

learning and inform you regarding possible future discussions. Thank you to Gail and Cassie and the

team at NDCAS for delivering such an interesting, informative and engaging program.

NAPLAN

We have received student results from NAPLAN which students participated in early in Term 2.

Some outstanding results were achieved by students. Individual NAPLAN student reports will go

home with students today. I know parents will take the time to thoroughly examine your

child’s/children’s report. I will be available next week after school to discuss any questions parents

may have in interpreting NAPLAN reports.

Last week

Fairfax PS

had a visit

from Enviro-

Mentors.

Students

were very

interested in

what they can

do to be more

sustainable.

PL (Professional Learning)

Mrs Burtenshaw and Mrs Shields attended a SAP HR Payroll workshop yesterday in Gunnedah. These

workshops have been provided to all schools to support the roll out of the new Schools’ Finance

system.

On Friday, Miss Allan and Mrs Burtenshaw attended an excellent workshop on Evaluation Essentials

which is an area we identified to address in our School Plan. We will be working on this project’s

implementation in our school over the next term to establish good practice into the future.

The Courier

What a lovely surprise it was to find Fairfax students on the front page of The Courier!

Touch Football Gala Day

Mrs Burtenshaw is looking forward to Years 3-6 students playing touch at Cooma Oval, Narrabri

tomorrow in the Touch Football Gala Day. Could parents please ensure they meet Mrs Burtenshaw

near the canteen area at Cooma Oval at 9.45am? Make sure students wear your sports uniform.

Please wear your school hat but bring a cap to wear when playing. Bring lots of water, recess and

lunch. The day is supposed to finish by 2pm, so parents can return to school to pick up Infants

students. A draw is attached along with other information on how the day runs.

You’re Invited!

Kids with a

Purpose,

Friday, 21st

September,

2018.

Bring a plate if

time, energy

and motivation

allow!

Come and share

your children’s

learning over

the last 7

weeks.

Congratulations to our Week 8

students of the week. Blake

Nobilo received his third

certificate for the term for his

improvement of his times tables.

Molly Murphy received her

award for her application and

improvement in reading and

mathematics.

Congratulations to students.

Stage 3 students received

their beautiful booklets from

Boggabri PC to commemorate

their Canberra excursion.

What a lovely memento!

Thankyou Mrs Nott and

Boggabri PS staff.

Congratulations to

Eileen Murphy on

winning the Stage 2

Narrabri Shire

Library Book Week

Competition. She

received a

beautiful book for

her excellent

effort creating a

treasure map.

Max FM

The Mysterious Robot (Blake)

Boom! Boom! I opened the mysterious box.

What’s that mysterious smell? I see a robot

with very sharp fangs and long arms. The

strange robot has a trapezium shaped head

and still hasn’t moved or talked yet. It has got

a rectangle shaped neck and mean, small eyes.

On its shoulders, head and legs it has

extremely sharp spikes. The ferociously

dangerous robot jumps on top of me and it

smells like rotten eggs. Phew! It didn’t eat me.

It is running towards me! It hit the hoop and

ate it and the robot hit cement and cracked

his head open. Yes! Then I locked him back in

the box. I shouldn’t have opened that box.

Teach-o-Bot.

Chhhhh! As I open the box smoke starts to come out. The smoke

is as white as snow. When the smoke clears there is a robot and

its name is Teach-o-bot. Teach-o-bot is a tin blue colour and fills

in so you don’t have to hire a substitute teacher. Teach-o-bot is

fun, friendly and funny sometimes too. He is safe and is good at

first aid. Teach-o-bot is the best. Quick, open the box again and

see if there is another Teach-o-bot. (Elsie)

Congratulations Molly,

Grace, Chelsea and Hazel

on gaining 2nd place in the

Narrabri Shire Library

Science and Engineering

Investigation awards. A

fantastic effort against

some excellent entries.

Now how do we spend the

$100 prizemoney?

What’s in

the Box?

The Bunyip In The Box Creak!! The heavy lock gently loosened off the box

and fell onto the floor with a tremendously loud

THUD. I tiptoed to the door to see if anyone had

heard the noise. Luckily everyone was occupied

with something I couldn’t quite make out. Slowly I

turned around to see the shock of my life, there

standing before me was the vilest creature that I had

ever seen! It was six feet tall, had a razor fanged

beak, a mass of fur was lingering around it, also it

had a few patches of rough skin where there wasn’t

much fur, on its face there was one eye larger than

the other , the large eye was bulging out of its head

which made it all the more menacing, although

despite all its ferocious looks it had two small stubby

chicken legs that were much more powerful then

you’d expect, and it had two minuscule ears that you

hardly noticed unless you moved closer, but no

sane person would ever go close enough to find out.

The beast spared no time quick as lightning it

grabbed one of the computers, (it belonged to Mrs

Burtenshaw) and like an absolute psychopath

smashed the box into a million pieces, after its rage

fit it charged out the door, outside it looked quite

confused. Then it saw the growing crowd and it

leaped onto them with its chicken legs. It was hard

to describe the moment but it was a mess of blood

and limbs, then suddenly to my horror not one

person was left alive, not one person but me. Then it

turned around with a much different expression, it

looked more like a sense of pride than rage or

savageness. Then it did a gentle bow and hopped

away.

(Max)

The Creature from the Box (Brigid)

Whoosh! As I lift open the lid of the box, a foul smell fills my nostrils. I peer inside the big, metal box and

see an eye staring up at me. I take a step back. But I have to know what was in the box. So I walk forward

and look back inside. In the box lay the ugliest creature I had ever seen. He has a square head with a

humongous nose and three gigantic nostrils. One of the nostrils is used for smelling, another for blowing and

the third for sucking up messy work. The creature has rotting, green skin the colour of moss and two

bloodshot eyes. But one of them looks like it has been stretched sideways. He has a monobrow and a scar to

the right of his nose, dripping with dark, red blood. His teeth are like chainsaws that rip apart atrocious

work. His brain is made of bolts and is floating in the air above his head.

The crazy mechanical creature has a very skinny neck with bolts and veins popping out of his skin. His

forearms and upper arms are connected by wires and cords. The creature’s fingers are short and stubby

with rotting, yellow finger nails. He’s wearing a tatty, yellow shirt with a rip through the middle. His jeans

are old and patched up everywhere. The creature has a stiff, brown belt with a super big buckle. The crazy

mechanical creature has huge metal boots with spikes at the bottom. When the monster walks, his metal

boots bang onto the ground. His steps are two metres long. The crazy mechanical creature smells like old

socks and mouldy cheese.

The Monster on 16 Legs.

Crack, crack, crack!

Bang! The lock dropped to the floor. I carefully lifted the lid and

glimpsed inside. I came face to face with hundreds of eyes. I quickly

slammed the lid with a bang! But I had to find out what was in the

box. So I opened it once more. There in front of me lay a beast. It

had darting, red, ruby eyes that just stared at you mysteriously. His

monobrow was black, dirty and bushy and had taken over his

forehead.

He had eight long black legs dangling on either side of his body.

On his face, you would never see a smile emerge onto his serious

mouth. His two fangs came right down past his chin. They were

both white and shiny. While one had a nice point to it, the other

had been chipped off in a fight.

You could hardly see his hairy nose because it was filled with green

booger that oozed like squelchy mud.

His body was round, black and had a scar right through his back

with fresh, red blood dripping from it. (Erin)

The Pppirate Map! (Eileen)

Crack! The lock fell to the ground. I

smelt the scent of an old pirate. There

in the box was a thousand year old

pirate map! Then I started to look at it.

The map was brown – it had some sort

of mark on it like coffee and tea mixed

together. The map was very delicate

like pastry, thin and crumbly. On the

back it said, ‘Captain Blackbeard’s map.

Do not touch or there will be

consequences!’ I gently put it in my bag

so nobody would see it.