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Week 3 Term 3, 2016

DISTRICT ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Congratulations and well done to Chad Welsh who qualified to represent the Small Schools Team at the District Athletics Carnival on Wednesday 27th July at Urunga. Chad placed 4th in his heat of the 9 years boys age race. CHRISTMAS IN JULY AT DUNDURRABIN Thank you to parents for transporting our talented musicians and line dancers to the Dundurrabin Community Centre on Tuesday 26th July. Our students are to be congratulated on their fantastic performances to entertain the senior citizens from Dorrigo. Hernani’s student performance certainly showcased the quality of our music program with Mr K and the creativity of our students. Our performance included songs written by students and line dance choreographed by Fiona Fritz.Well done everyone,a great whole school team!.

Our musicians sang songs and played their ukuleles

EDUCATION WEEK AT HERNANI Our Education Week activities were thoroughly enjoyed by all students and our preschoolers. We trust that you will enjoy reading the recounts written in class by students informing our readers. This continues the theme for 2016, “Shared stories, better learning, stronger communities”. A special “Thank You” to all parents for their support and assistance with transport to Armidale. Thank you to all parents for their help with gymnastics as it is an active, fast paced session and the extra help with supervising activities is very much appreciated. NEW ENGLAND ART MUSEUM (NERAM) and SPORTING SCHOOLS GYMNASTICS On Wednesday HPS travelled to Armidale for a special Education Week excursion.

Hernani Public School News – Week 3 Term 3, 2016

Our first venue was NERAM, so that our Year 1 student Leah Roworth could see her artwork on display in the ‘Let’s Hang It’ exhibition.

A very proud mum with artist Leah

There were 654 student artworks entered in this competition and only 64 finalists. Leah’s artwork was selected to be in the exhibition (1 of 64 artworks).

Tania welcomed us to NERAM and explained how special it

was for Leah to have her artwork chosen as a finalist Whilst at NERAM students looked at the artworks in the ‘Let’s Hang It’ exhibition and Leah was presented with a certificate from NERAM. Leah’s picture of the sun on hessian will be going to the University of New England (U.N.E) to hang on their walls for everyone to see.

Discussing artistic techniques and special features with

Tania Other exhibits students from Hernani saw included; ‘Landscapes’ and ‘Operation Preservation’. We discovered that it costs quite a lot of money to preserve artworks. A highlight for all was being able to see Leah’s artwork and choosing our own favourite artworks. After lunch we had a great afternoon at the Armidale Gymnastic’s Centre, for our first Sporting Schools gymnastics session for Term 3. Ebor Public School’s students joined us for gymnastics. It was fun returning to the gym and learning about gymnastics with Mr O’Hara. Mr O is cool!

Gymnastics-warm ups with Mr O Hara are great fun too!

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Ali and Kaylene did a great job running one of the activity

stations

Leah enjoying her time at Gymnatsics

Molly loved the foam pit!

In True Small School Tradition Everyone gets involved

………….No matter how old you are!

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Mr O’Hara ensuring all students learn correct techniques We were excited to see the new climbing wall and to climb on this. It is called ‘bouldering’.

Leah challenging herself on the wall!

Next week we are going to use harnesses to climb right to the top!. We even get to see Mrs Winkel climb to the top (if she can, as Mrs Winkel is scared of heights!).

Go Chad! Mr O said we will get to use the special tissues and the bars. Our excursion was FUN! By K-6 Students

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V.C. WITH KATHY CREAMER On Tuesday 2nd August we participated in a video conference with the New England Writer’s Centre. We worked with author and illustrator, Kathy Creamer. We all learnt how to draw dragons and we had fun!

Sylvie Kindergarten

Patrick Year 1

Leah Year 1

Beau Year 1

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Chad Year 4

Darcy Year 6

We also learnt that Kathy uses animals that look like dragons to inspire her – for example: sea dragons, pangolin, komodo dragon and Megalania! Students from the following schools participated: Bundarra Central School, Walcha Central School, Uralla Central School, Chandler Public School, Ebor Public School and Hernani Public School. PLAYGROUP/PRESCHOOL MORNINGS Hernani Public School will be holding regular Playgroup/Preschool mornings from 9.15 to 11.00am. Dates for Term 3 2016: Monday 15th August, Monday 29th August and Monday 12th September. We look forward to welcoming younger children and their parents to our school for an informal morning of fun at school. Mrs Williams will be on class with students from Kindergarten to Year 6, whilst Mrs Winkel will be running our special Playgroup/Preschool activities. All interested families are welcome.

Max enjoying his morning at school

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Molly enjoying playdough time

Lenny enjoying dress up time and the Lego

Fun with Jumbo Chalk!

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P&C The annual P&C Membership fee of $5.00 is now due. Could you please finalise payments with Trish the P&C Treasurer for 2016. Thank you. Our next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 25th August at 2:00pm. Everyone welcome! Agenda items include:- Shade shelter, Catering at Campdraft, Generator, Student toilet block upgrade, Book Week. LIBRARY NEWS Our library has many new titles ready for students to borrow! A HUGE thank you to Ali for her many hours spent covering our new books and ensuring students don’t have to wait to borrow our quality books. Please encourage your children to bring their library books and bag each Friday! SCHOOLS TREE DAY FRIDAY 29TH JULY Hernani’s students continued our tradition of participating in National Tree Day; this year we planed a new pine tree in our windbreak. Thank you to Matt, our plumber for ensuring we had a MASSIVE new hole for the pine tree and to Fiona for relocating soil in order to ensure that our pine tree gets off to a great start.

Planting our tree!

WESTPAC RESCUE HELICOPTER FUNDRAISER

Red and Yellow Day – Friday 12th August 2016

Our students and staff are invited to support this important fundraiser (gold coin donation) and by wearing mufti featuring Red and Yellow. There is also the option to purchase a WESTPAC RESCUE HELICOPTER Merchandise. (See noticeboard)

Thank you for supporting this important community initiative. ---------------------------------------------------------------------

**For Sale – by Tender closing 26th August 2016

John Deere LA125 Ride on Mower (Regularly serviced – as is condition – see photo)**

Serial # GXA125A054681 Model # SKG20463 LA 125 21hp 42” cutting deck Briggs & Stratton Engine – Model 331877 Serial # 0710032005551 371 hours work For more information contact: Jennifer Winkel 66576155

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STUDENT AWARDS – WEEK 2

Congratulations to Chad Welsh for achieving great results

in place value work in Mathematics

Congratulations to Leah Roworth for application and effort

in Literacy and Mathematics.

WEEK 3

Congratulations to Darcy Creenaune for excellent results in

Spelling.

Congratulations to Sylvie Creenaune for achievement in

Skipping during Daily PE

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Upcoming Dates

WEEK 4 Monday 8th August - Tuesday 9th August – Wednesday 10th August – Sporting Schools Gymnastics Armidale Departing HPS @ 12:15pm Thursday 11th August – Mrs Winkel at Primary Principals Conference. Mr K on class. Friday 12th August - Library Day. Mrs Winkel at Primary Primary Principals Conf. Mr K on class. Westpac Rescue Helicopter - Red and Yellow Day WEEK 5 – SCIENCE WEEK Monday 15th August - Playgroup/Pre-school 9:15am-11:00am Tuesday 16th August – ICAS Maths Comp. Wednesday 17th August – Sporting Schools Gymnastics Armidale Departing HPS @ 12:15pm Thursday 18th August – Friday 19th August – Library Day. Term 3 Assembly (tbc). WEEK 6 - BOOK WEEK Monday 22nd August - Tuesday 23rd August – Wednesday 24th August – Darcy – Maths Comp. Sporting Schools Gymnastics Armidale Departing HPS @ 12:15pm Thursday 25th August – BOOK FAIR PURCHASES - P&C Meeting 2:00pm Friday 26th August – Library Day. WEEK 7 Monday 29th August - Playgroup/Pre-school 9:15am-11:00am Tuesday 30th August –

Wednesday 31st August – Sporting Schools Gymnastics Armidale Departing HPS @ 12:15pm Thursday 1st September – Mrs Winkel at Prof. Learning. Mr K on class. Friday 2nd September - Library Day WEEK 8 Monday 5th September - Tuesday 6th September – Mrs Winkel at Prof. Learning. Mrs Williams on class. Wednesday 7th September – Cricket Gala Day Thursday 8th September – Mr K’s first day of LSL. Mrs Williams on class. Friday 9th September - Library Day WEEK 9 Monday 12th September - Playgroup/Pre-school 9:15am-11:00am Tuesday 13th September – Wednesday 14th September – Sporting Schools Gymnastics Armidale Departing HPS @ 12:15pm Thursday 15th September – Friday 16th September - Library Day WEEK 10 Monday 19th September – Tuesday 20th September – Wednesday 21st September – Thursday 22nd September – Friday 23rd September - Library Day Last day of Term 3 2016

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