Glenreagh Public SchoolGlenreagh Public School

ESTABLISHED 1887ESTABLISHED 1887

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News from Glenreagh Public School - November 2015 Jump Start for 2016 Kindergarten For most of this term, on Friday mornings, we have been privileged to have been joined by the cohort of excited 2016 Kindergarten children. They have enjoyed familiarising themselves with the school and the children that will be their class mates next year. It’s been great to see their smiling faces each week and their confidence grow as they prepare for their journey through their school years. Library News We are changing to a new Library system called Oliver. It will be more user friendly for the children through their own library page - Orbit, which they will be able to personalise. Due to the system change over and stocktake, the last week for borrowing was Week 6. All books need to be returned by Week 8, this is both library and home readers. We ask for you to encourage your child to look for and return their books. It will make Mrs Hart’s job a lot easier and she will have all the books ready to begin borrowing in 2016. A BIG thank you to the P&C for their continued support of the library, Glenreagh would not have such

a great up to date collection without it, thank you. Happy Reading. Don’t forget books make good Christmas presents.

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Remembrance Day Service Last week the students participated in a Remembrance Day Service held at Glenreagh Public School. On the 11th hour of the 11th day in the 11th month, a minute’s silence was observed and dedicated to those soldiers who died fighting to protect the nation.

Mitchell Library Visit Stage 2 On Monday 2nd

November the students from years 3 and 4 attend-ed the Mitchell Library Early Australia Artefacts tour held at Coramba Hall. This excursion was at no cost and funded by the Mitchell Library. The students got to experience what it may have been like to on the First Fleet arriving at Australia. Student also

got to see relics and artefacts from Captain Cook’s ship ‘The Endeavour’, and hear about the life of Mary Reibey, a convict. Afterwards they had a picnic lunch at the Coramba Park

before returning to school.

Photos from Special Swimming Scheme Clarence Valley Inter-Schools Equestrian Challenge Congratulations to Florence Shen who competed at this gymkhana this term. Florence achieved the following results in her age group: 1st Barrels, 2nd keyhole, 2nd bends, 3rd mug, 4th flag and 4th girl rider. Well done Florence! School Library/Document Bags The P&C have purchased new Library/Document bags for student use. They have a velcro tab closure and are embossed with the school logo. The bags are for sale for $10.00 each, have a 25 year warranty and are available from the main office. Please support your local P&C as funds raised benefit all children at the school. Orara Valley Maths Enrichment Day at Nana Glen Jade Masden, Rachel Pobjoy, Aiden Hill and Peter Cohen represented Glenreagh Public School at the recent Orara Valley Maths Enrichment Day held at Nana Glen. The students participated with other students in the valley, sharing their knowledge and strategies, to collab-oratively solve problems and equations. It was a great opportunity to experience different ways of working mathematically. Munch and Crunch Garden The Munch and Crunch Garden is nearly finished. The garden beds are being filled awaiting the

yummy vegies and beautiful flowers. All parent and community members are welcome to come in and help, or offer their expertise.

Stage 3 Excursion to Canberra Early this term, stage 3 combined with the Orara Valley community of schools to travel to Canberra. Students really enjoyed themselves as it was a once in a lifetime experience. The excursion included a number of significant sites such as:

New and Old Parliament House, Telstra Tower, The Australian War Memorial, The Australian Museum, and The Australian Institute of Sport. The accommodation and meals were fantastic as was the behaviour of all the students from the valley.

Year 3/4 Excursion to Yarrawarra While the Years 5 and 6 were with their Orara Valley peers at Canberra, the Years 3 and 4 participated in an excursion to Yarrawarra Aboriginal Cultural Centre, Corindi with students from Coramba and Ulong schools. They all had a wonderful time enjoying the many activities, e.g., bush walking, screen printing, painting and throwing their own boomerangs. Thank you to Mrs Pobjoy and Mr Mayled who accompanied them.

4/5/6 Class News While Mrs Smith is helping the students learn to swim, Mr Paul Smythe is looking after the class. Mr Smythe did some of his teacher training here in 2013. Mr Smythe is a welcome addition to the teaching staff and has a strong artistic and mechanical background. The class is doing a number of interesting projects from making Viking masks and ships to repairing bicycles and repairing a new chicken coop for our chooks.

Special Swimming Scheme It’s that time of the year again when the school participates in the Special Swimming Scheme. The programme is run daily for two weeks and enables students the opportunity to learn how to swim or develop their swimming strokes and endurance. They are taught water safety and survival skills. Students are graded into groups and develop their skills and confidence under the tuition of qualified Austswim teachers. At the end of the course they receive certificates for

the level that they attained. Thank you to Su Salmon for assisting us this year. Let’s hope

t h e w a r m weather holds out.

K/1D Class News A few weeks ago Cooper and Arabelle’s mum Alex came to our class to give a talk about Scuba Diving. We learnt that you need to be well-prepared before you dive with the correct apparatus. She showed us some photographs of her under-water adventures and the students had many and varied questions for her which she so generously provided informative and descriptive explanations about scuba diving. Thank you Alex J. This term we are exploring past and present holidays. We have compared how The Allen’s Family spent their holidays in the 1900s to the way we take our holidays. Now we can go on a plane to another city or country in a few hours or days but 100 years ago passenger planes were not around. We are learning about skills such as catching, jumping, sprinting and balancing and we apply those skills into games and fun activities during ‘Live Life Well’ daily exercise. The children have become very good at working as a team during these exercises. Just cuts Hair Vouchers IS IT TIME for a haircut? Save yourself some money. We have a number of $29 'Just Cuts' Coffs Harbour vouchers available for purchase. They are available for purchase from the school for ONLY $20. That's right, you get almost a ten dollar saving on the voucher. The expiry date for the vouchers are March 2016. If you are interested in purchasing one of these bargains, please contact our school. Responsible Pet Education session On Friday, 13th November the Responsible Pet Education session was held for students. They were entertained by Gypsie and learnt all about how to correctly approach a dog, warning signs of an angry dog, body language from dogs and lots more. New Policy for School Visitors We have a new policy document for parents/carers and visitors to our school. There are new signing in and signing out procedures to ensure the safety of visitors to our school in accordance with WHS regulations.

Yarrawarra Aboriginal Centre On Thursday morning we went to Yarrawarra .When

we got there we sorted out our rooms. I had a room with

Matilda, Tilly and Isabelle, our room was 26. After we

went to the hall, and then we had recess and played

cricket. Then we went to screen printing. I got

Yarrawarra Aboriginal Centre on my shirt. After that

we had lunch and went for a walk to the beach.

We saw a blue bottle jellyfish, starfish and a

little fish. Reegan

YARRAWARRA

On Thursday it was 3\4

excursion over night at

Yarrawarra. When we got

there we chose rooms.

One side was girls the

other side was boys.

After that we had some-

thing to eat.

Florence