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Howlong Public School Newsletter

Dates for your Calendar

2018

Term 2

Week 4

Fri 25 May

* K/1CN Assembly

Biggest Morning Tea

Week 5 Tues 29 May

ICAS Science

Wed 30 May

Lapathon

Kinder 2019 Parent

Information Night

7pm Fri 1 June

5/6A Oolong visit

Week 6 Fri 8 June

* 2S Assembly

Thursday 24 May 2018

Empathy and understanding are values that we emphasise in our

daily business with students at Howlong Public School. Students are

taught and encouraged to be respectful of others differences,

needs and opinions. It is always special to see students supporting

each other when they need help or just need a friend.

For that same reason, this week we are inviting parents and

community members to join staff at our Biggest Afternoon Tea on

Friday at 1:45pm, to help raise funds for the Cancer Council. We all

have family and friends who have been touched by this disease

and joining in this event is a great way to acknowledge and support

them.

Remember too, that we have a food bank operating at school and

donations of meals to freeze and distribute are always welcome.

Just ensure you label the contents/ingredients please, so that we

can avoid any issues with food allergies. Containers are available at

school if you would like to contribute, just ask at the front office.

Today I had the pleasure of meeting our new School Director for

Hume Mrs Sue Lowe, introducing her to students and staff and

showing her around our wonderful school. She was very impressed

with the programs and projects we have and enjoyed the students

sharing their learning with her. We all look forward to working with

Mrs Lowe in the future.

Gail Krause

Principal

We would like to invite you to the;

BIGGEST AFTERNOON TEA AT

HOWLONG PUBLIC SCHOOL

DATE: Friday 25th May

TIME: 1:45-2:20PM

Please bring a small plate of food to

share and a gold coin donation.

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DATES TO REMEMBER 2018

BIGGEST AFTERNOON TEA AT HOWLONG PUBLIC SCHOOL Friday 25 May

K/1CN Assembly Friday 25 May

Grip Leadership Conference Monday 28 May

2019 Kinder Parent Information Evening Wednesday 30 May

Lapathon Wednesday 30 May

5/6A Oolong visit Friday 1 June

Our Strive for Success winners:

Olivia White and Mia Beardall for being

organised and ready to learn.

Next weeks Strive for Success criteria is:

Playing fairly and treating friends with

respect.

David Carroll from Federation

Council delivering our new bike

donated to the school by the

council.

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Bronze Awards

Congratulations to: Amelie Ibrom, Tom Bailey, Zahara Ulep, Zoe Howard, Sienna

Napolitano, Blake Alchin, Sophie Eaton, Mikaela Farnsworth, Kai Mount, Inneka Wraith

and Leilan Lund.

We would like to invite you to;

Kindergarten 2019 Parent

Information Evening

includes; enrolment, communication applications, school

counsellor, various school staff, p&c, canteen/uniform

Date: Wednesday 30th May, 2018

Tme: 7:00pm

Where: Kindergarten rooms

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Today we were in the garden with

Mr. Curtis, we were filling up the

big concrete bed/tunnel. We took

turns in activities. One group

helped put compost in a bed with

another group. Another group

used shovels to fill up buckets to fill

up the compost. We were with Lyn

and she taught us how to put

plants into new pots and water

them.

By Andre Porter, Charlotte

Shepherd and Amarli McNamara.

Mia Lavis has been selected to play in the

Riverina netball team. She will play in the

State Carnival in Sydney late July.

Well done Mia !!!

This week Josh Murphy has

been in Batemans Bay

playing for the Riverina

football team in the State

carnival.

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Lapathon!! (Week 5) Wednesday 30 May

The school is holding a fundraiser to raise money

for the Playground Enhancement Project.

You may have noticed new garden beds, trees

and paths around our school grounds , this is all

part of the bigger ‘Project’ under the watch full

eye of Mrs Svarc and Mrs Nicholson.

SPONSORS + LAPS = $ $ $ $

For our Playground Enhancement Project!!

25/5/18 Carley Alchin

1/6/18 Alicia Murphy

8/6/18 Michelle Mathews

15/6/18 Fiona Ballintine

22/6/18 Kylie Baker

29/6/18 Jo Merritt

06/07/18 Carley Alchin

Paul Kelly Cup

The Paul Kelly Cup was held on Friday the 18th of May, the AFL supplied us with a bus so that

was very much appreciated. We played three games and two of them we sadly lost but

everybody tried their hardest and had fun. We would like to thank Albury High and Trinity for

umpiring us on the day. We had some extra time for two scratch matches and polished some

of our skills. We would like to thank Mr Clark for taking us and coaching our team.

By Cyrus Lindsay and Robbie Bailey.

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Maths Olympiad

A selection of 5/6 students completed the Maths

Olympiad on Tuesday this involved using all their

problem solving strategies.

Visiting Author

Last Friday Oliver Phommavanh a

children’s author visited our school . The

students said he was hilarious and

judging from the amount of laughter

coming from the hall he was certainly

very entertaining.

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VOLUNTEERS PLEASE

Any Mums, Dads or Grandparents who have a little spare time to cover library books, your

time would be extremely appreciated. Any time that suits you is OK. FREE tea and coffee

available, probably even biscuits !!!

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Last Friday we had a lovely turn out of students, staff and parents for our annual Walk

Safely to School Day.

Total Number of Birds

Galah 10

Plover 9

Common Minor 4

Magpie 22

Currawong 6

Sparrow 2

Parrot 1

Crow 3

Apostle Bird 2

Total 59

Howlong Public School Bird Watching Team

Senior Data collectors: Millie Ashman, Charlotte Chant, Olivia White, Tahlia Gray and Lillia Osojnik

In Term 4 last year we took part in the National Bird Count Program where for one week, we identified

and counted all the birds present in our school grounds. This information was uploaded onto the bird

count app to be included in the national data collection.

This information is very relevant to our playground development strategy to plant primarily native flora

interspersed with non-native trees. Ideally, as our planting progresses we will start to sight more birds

coming to visit.

With this in mind, we decided to collect data for each season and see how the numbers change each

year. Our next bird count will be in Winter in Term 3 and then in Spring. Mrs Svarc

Data collated by:

Charlotte Chant, Olivia White, Jessica Baggio and Layla Barnes