Monday 27 October - Term 4 Week 4

Principal’s Report

Times Tables for this week: The following tables will be the focus:

Years 3 and 4 will revise the 7X,8X. Years 5 and 6 will revise the 8X,9X.

October P&C Meeting: The October P&C meeting will be held tonight Monday 27 October, commencing at 7pm in the staffroom. Please come along and be part of a team which will help make our great school even better.

Succession Banding Evening: Last week’s Succession Bands performance at Belmont 16s was enormously successful, with bands form Eleebana PS, Warners Bay HS, Hunter Wind Ensemble and NSW Army Band (Newcastle) performing for the enjoyment of a great audience. We especially thank Mr David Goeldner for his organisation of this event which has required significant coordination and management of personnel and instruments. Thanks to the Band committee for your assistance in realising the successful presentation of the event. Congratulations to all bands who participated in what was a very productive evening of banding.

Choralfest Success: Our school choir participated in the local Choralfest last week. Choirs from Newcastle and Lake Macquarie participated for prizes at Warners Bay Performing Arts Centre. Our school choir, under the tutorage of Mrs Sallie Dezius performed very well and won their division at the first attempt. Congratulations choir and thank you Mrs Dezius for a fine effort!

Sporting and Other Photographs: Sporting and Other photographs were taken last week. Staff is finalising names of students on the photographs which will go to MSP on this week. The proofs of both these photographs and those taken on the Spotlight rehearsal day will be available for ordering from the office shortly.

All the best Cricket team: Tomorrow, Tuesday 28 October Eleebana Public School cricket team play The Junction PS at Smith Park Hamilton in round 6 of the NSW PSSA cricket knockout. All the best boys and thanks to Mr Burrows for your coaching of our team.

Life Education Program: The Life Education program will be implemented next week, commencing on Monday 3 November and conclude on Friday 14 November. Notes have come home about this program earlier. Life Education is a valuable program which attempts to prepare our students with strategies to manage the temptations of modern living. Thank you to Mrs Buckton for coordinating this program.

Calendar

Day Week 4: 27 October - 31 October Week 5: 3 November – 7 November

Monday P&C Meeting 7pm Life Education

Tuesday Kinder Orientation Day #1 11:15-12:30 Life Education

Wednesday Life Education

Kinder Orientation Day #2 11:15-12:30

Thursday Gymnastics Year 2 Gymnastics Year 2

Life Education

Friday Life Education

Welcome 2015 Kinder students and families: Our 2015 Kinder students have their first orientation day tomorrow Tuesday 28 October, commencing at 11.15am. Other orientation visits will occur on Wednesday 5 November and Thursday 13 November. There will be a welcome BBQ for 2015 Kinder students and their families on Thursday 13 November after the third orientation visit. Welcome to the Eleebana Public School learning community!

Won’t Be At Eleebana Public School in 2015? If your children are definitely NOT going to be at Eleebana Public School in 2015, could you please let the office know as soon as possible please? We are now planning our enrolment numbers for classes in 2015, and need to have an accurate estimate of our numbers.

2015 Student Enrolments: We are now being asked to provide anticipated enrolment numbers for 2015. We are particularly interested in securing our 2015 Kindergarten enrolments as the Kinder orientation meetings are organised for later in Term 3. All students who are 4 ½ to 6 years of age are entitled to start school in 2015 in our Kindergarten classes. If you have students who are in this age group, or know of families of students in this age group, or any neighbours who currently attend other schools and would like to attend Eleebana PS in Kinder to Year 6 in 2015, could you (and tell them to) please contact the school office for an application form for enrolment. Thank you everyone.

Canteen Volunteers Urgently Needed: Due to illness and work commitments, we are currently experiencing some shortfalls in volunteer numbers at the canteen. Annie has worked almost singlehanded on a number of occasions to keep the canteen open.

If you are able to volunteer on canteen, Annie would love to see you either at the canteen or through the office. Without volunteers, we will need to look at closing the canteen(like last Tuesday) or on days where it can’t be staffed.

Parking: Please avoid parking in the driveways of local residents as this can cause great inconvenience for them. It is timely to remind community members to avoid parking in no stopping or no parking zones around the school as there are significant fines for doing so.

NOTE: Please do not park in the disabled parking facility near the entry gate to the staff carpark on Ian Street unless you have a Disabled Parking Permit and have a disability. Thank you everyone.

Ian Graham, Principal

Deputy Principal’s Report

Raising good digital citizens: We're the first generation of parents responsible for equipping our children with digital citizenship skills. That is, how to use technology safely and responsibly, and how to evaluate, manage and use the information and tools they find online.

Find out more: http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/technology/using-technology/raising-good-digital-citizens

Congratulations Jasmyn Lockett: Last Wednesday and Thursday, Jasmyn and her Australian team competed at the World Aerobic Championships in Prague. Jasmyn's team placed 7th in the world behind! Jasmyn wished to thank the EPS community for their support and financial assistance in helping her achieve her dream.

Spotlight Photo Order Forms: Photos taken at the Spotlight rehearsal are on display in the Staff room window. Order forms will be sent home with students today.

EPS Parents Can Now Make Online Payments: It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website http://www.eleebana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au by selecting ‘$ Make a payment’

Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions and excursions. There is also a category called ‘OTHER’ this to cover items not covered in the previous headings.

When you access the $ Make a payment you MUST enter: • the students name, and • class and reference number OR • the students name, and • date of birth.

These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system. There is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number if you are aware of them, these are optional fields.

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school.

You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.

Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school.

For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the School Administration Office.

Great things I saw last week: Congratulations to our primary choir under the wonderful direction of Mrs Dezius who won the unison section of Choralfest. The Great Bookswap conducted Mrs Rocco was also a huge success.

Have a great week.

Dr Carl Leonard

Library News

Congratulations to Lily Ferguson 4/5F who is the first person to complete next year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge. Lily definitely takes charge of her own learning and has been reading consistently since the Challenge finished in August. Reading Logs have now been issued to all students, if your child has not received one please come to the library after checking with the class teacher.

For those parents who have come into the library to see the new ottomans which were to be purchased from donations made on Dedication Day during Education Week, ordering them has been delayed but they will be here before the end of the school year.

Those who read succeed.

Thanks, Mrs Forbes

The Great Book Swap

I would like to thank the Eleebana Public School community for the wonderful contribution to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation ‘Great Book Swap’. All the costumes looked amazing on both students and staff and the amount of book donations was overwhelming. All money raised will be going towards the foundation, which purchases books and Literacy resources for Aboriginal children in remote communities across Australia. I would love to personally thank the SRC and several members of 5R; Samuel Haren, Jaida Price, Erin Deer, Aidan McDonald and Bridie Newell, for taking on the responsibility of sorting out all the books, setting up the Hall and running the book stall on the day. Without their help this would not have been such a success. There are plenty of books left over and if your child is interested I’m more than happy for book sales to continue this week for a gold coin donation. Books are currently being kept in 5R and purchases will be available at recess and lunch time. Thank you all once again, Kahlia Rocco

OOSH News

Last week at OOSH we did some sewing, painting, collage, recycled craft and made pom poms. This week we are getting a little bit spooky with some Halloween crafts and treats.

A reminder to parents and interested community members, our AGM date is set for this Tuesday 28th October at 6:30pm in the OOSH room. Nomination forms for positions on the Committee are available from

the OOSH. If you wish to have a voice in the way our OOSH service is run you are invited to come along to any committee meeting, you do not have to be a member of the committee to attend, but you need to be a member of the Committee to have voting rights.

Happy birthday to Kye B and Ashton B; we hope you have a special day. For OOSH enquiries or information please phone Carolyn or Kate on 49428186 or visit us between 7-9am or 2.30-3.00pm (please avoid after 3pm as this is our busiest time of day).

Thank you, Carolyn and Kate

Canteen Roster: 3 November – 7 November

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Jo Thompson Kristen McDonell Sally Chislett Vanessa Price Steph Allan

Bec Regan Michelle Butler Renee Peters Jackie Bell Lisa Hill

Mel Coulter Karen Taylor Natasha Bilton Heidi Cairney

Nicole Kristiani Fiona Roberts

Sporting News

On the 17th of October Kaitlyn Klein participated at the NSW state titles in the senior girls 800m. She finished 4th overall and ran a personal best time. Unfortunately, she missed out on the National Championships by one position. Well done Kaitlyn on being the 4th best, 800M senior girl, in NSW. Nathan May

Band News

Thankyou to the following parents that were able to help on Saturday selling lamingtons and BBQ , Khaalyd Brown, Kevin McMahon, Ami and Ronny Eidels, Scott and Tanya Lehman, Jill Harvey, Maureen and Alan Hayes, Lu Taylor, Tracey Diederichs & Margot, Susan Elliott, Cindy Offord, Tracey Haggerty, Sandra Elsworthy, Dorin Suciu, Ann-Maree Doughty, Stephanie and Tim de Grauw, Karen Harris-Broadhurst, Vanessa Price, Jenny Barbour and Michele Loughlin.

Without parents help we would not be able to continue the band program at Eleebana School

Katherine Deer, Band Convenor

P & C News – from the President

What a wonderful day the Spring Fair was. It was so lovely to see everyone out and about enjoying themselves in the beautiful sunshine. I would like to thank Sandra Elsworthy, Robyn Tooze, Tracey McDonald, Debbie Fenwick and Marie Norris for our combined hundreds of hours of work to make the day such a success that it was.

Thank you to all our volunteers on the day, too many to name! Just to name a few hard workers on the day, thanks to Annie Dangas and her team in the canteen, Mark Sjostedt our MC, Rodney for our thousands of dollars of signage he kindly donated and installed, Mathew Sommerville and his team on the BBQ, Kathy Eftimovski in accounting, Kety Macchia for set up and pull down, all our volunteers arm band sales people, all our stall volunteers and all our entertainers. Thank you to everyone who turned up and splashed the cash on the day! We couldn’t have done it without you all and we have raised approximately $18,000 towards our Wifi plans and ipad purchases.

Our Pet Photo Competition was won by Eliza Gunning of KMH and Lachlan Jones of 6G. Congratulations! Our Hamilton Island Holiday was won by a very well deserving Rodney James. Enjoy! Our multi raffle winners are too many to name, congratulations! Congratulations to our auction winners also.

Lastly, thank you to the numerous people and companies that donated prizes for our raffles or from their vendor carts on the day. And a big thank you to our entertainers for volunteering their time. It was a wonderful way to see the end of the year out.

P&C meeting tonight in the staff room from 7pm. All welcome!

Thanks, Vanessa Price

Eleebana Public School Spring Fair 2014

Eleebana Public School P & C would like to thank our many generous sponsors for helping to raise funds and supporting the Eleebana Public School Spring Fair.

They are:

Insane Signs New Age Air Conditioning Warners Bay

Camping Country Superstore The Good Guys – Warners Bay

Annie Dengas Mr May and Mr Lewis (Football Jerseys)

Whitelaw/ McDonald Solicitors. Frank Carter President Fort Scratchley

Rovert Lighting and Electrical Broadmeadow Hunter United Pest Control Gateshead

Cagney Tennis Academy Fair play Café Gateshead

Power House Museum Sydney Strike Bowling Bar Charlestown

Hunter Valley Chicken and Game Shop New Lambton Captain Cook Cruises Sydney

Belmont 16ft Sailing Club Taronga Zoo Sydney

Reading Cinemas Charlestown Bakers Delight Warners Bay

Itti – Leah Morgan Officeworks Warners Bay

Mama’Mex Restaurant Warners Bay Spring Loaded Gateshead

Lake Cinema Boolaroo Charlestown Golf Club

Access Pool Services Mount Hutton Super Strike Bowling Warners Bay

Timezone Charlestown Square Auto Barn – Warners Bay

Amcal Pharmacy Warners Bay Simply Pharmacy Valentine

Marie Norris Bunnings Belmont

Shin Digs Party Supplies Lambton The Macchia Group

Genetics Fitness Warners Bay Eazyway Out Cleaning Services

Mrs V Shearman Brown Dog Restaurant Warners Bay

Hippo Espresso Warners Bay Chumley Warner’s British Fish and Chips Warners Bay

Belmont Sportsman’s Club Col Bryson – Pancakes

Matthew and Michelle Sommerville Valentine Bowling Club

Mark Sjostedt Rhae Taekwondo

Theresa Carlton Face Painting Lou Taylor (Girl Guides - Tables)

Max Broadbent Warners Bay High School Students

Chris English Ashleigh Forbes

Miss Fairhall Elite Dance Coaching

Breakaway Dancers Rising Starz Baton Twirlers

Madison Hyslop Curfew

Poppy’s Garden Centre Gateshead Jimmy Figg’s Bare Knuckle Barbers

Headquarters for Hair – Cardiff Jeff Forbes Massage

We would also like to thank the generous school community and teachers whom have donated both prizes, baskets, cakes, 2nd hand items and families who brought in gazebos and tents and especially those that have given their valuable time to assist in the preparation and running of this momentous annual event.

Without their support the Spring Fair would not have been possible.

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The Australian Red Cross Mobile Blood Service is visiting Valentine,

Monday 10 November, 9.00am – 2.30pm (30 more donors needed)

Tuesday 11 November, 1.00pm – 6.30pm (25 more donors needed) Wednesday 12 November, 1.00pm – 6.30pm (20 more donors needed)

Thursday 13 November, 1.00pm – 6.30pm (30 more donors needed)

If you haven't already made an appointment to give blood, you can make an appointment online or call us on 13 14 95.

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Vegemite Surf Groms is back again this September SchoolHolidays.

All equipment supplied including winter wetsuits, softboards and rash shirts.

Surf safety education and local beach info taught each lesson.

Age groups are 5-12yrs (max 12 kids/3coaches) School holiday 4 x 2hr $165pp (all prices inc GST)

Plus registration fee for the Surfgroms gift pack value $150 free.

13yrs-18yrs $165pp welcome too, over 18’s $175pp Single 2hr lessons daily $45pp under 18yrs, $50pp over

18yrs. Group size 12yrs to Adults are max 10 with 2 coaches.

For bookings and enquiries please call 4944 9585 or 0404

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