Remember to send in your old mobile phones. Every phone, whether working or not, is worth money to the school. Your old

phones have already raised much needed funds for your school.

Room 9 Cameron Feather Improvement in listening to Teacher’s instructions

Room 10 Jarrod Hart Improved behaviour in morning circle

Room 11 Taryn Wright Great co-operation on community access visit

Room 12 Lochlan Garvey Great participation and co-operation at art/craft time

Room 13 Steven Bruerton An excellent worker keeping school supplied with chux

Room 14 Brock Davis Improved ability to walk with his pre- cane

Room 1 Sienna Mauceri Excellent work matching & naming colours

Room 2 Laura Cutbush Making choices in morning circle

Room 3 Aaron Bourke Great work skills drying plates

Room 4 Phoenix Palmer Great verbal communication

Room 5 Maddeline Aitchison Stepping out of her comfort zone and talking to new people

Room 6 Logan Relf Being a positive role model

Room 8 Mitchell Jones Great work using words during morning circle

Narara Awards

Room 4 Nickolas Luyt Independent feeding - making his own sandwiches and pouring his own drinks

Room 5 Jack Burland Full participation in Bowling

Room 6 Christopher Kyle Displaying a mature attitude in com munity access activities

Room 1 Jarred Chandler Great participation in ‘Footsteps’ dance program

Room 2 Amelia Caesar Using her photo choice board consistently

Room 3 Elizabeth Gorey Working independently at her desk

North Entrance Awards

Playground Award Skye McDougall

Playground Award

Nickolas Luyt

Contact Details

Narara Campus: Corner Manns Road & Narara Creek Road, Narara 2250

North Entrance Campus: Hutton Road, North Entrance 2261

Administration Office: Phone 4325 7783, 4325 2325 Fax 4323 6326

PRESENTATION DAY

FRIDAY, 13th December, 2013

COME ALONG AND HELP US

CELEBRATE YOUR CHILDREN”S

ACHIEVEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

HELP US TO CONGRATULATE OUR NEW

SCHOOL AND HOUSE CAPTAINS, ANNOUNCE

OUR CITIZENSHIP AND ACHIEVEMENT

AWARDS AND ENJOY YOUR

CHILDREN AS THEY PERFORM

THEIR MUSICAL ITEMS FOR

YOU.

THE MORNING STARTS AT

10am IN THE HALL at

ST PHILIPS CHRISTIAN

COLLEGE in NARARA CREEK

ROAD, NARARA.

Remember to set aside time to join us at Presentation Day on Friday from 10am. It is always a wonderful morning and brings much joy to the children, staff and families. Reports are currently being printed and your child’s annual report will soon come home to you. It has been a great pleasure to read each of the reports and see the progress that students have made throughout this year. Next week is a really big week for us. Presentation Day is on Friday and the annual Graduation Dinner for Year 12 students and their families is on Tuesday evening. This is a very special occasion. While it is always tinged with sadness as we prepare to say good-bye to students and families who have often been with us for many years, it is also a joyous occasion where we all have the chance to dress up and share a lovely evening with our very special students and their wonderful families. This week is our last newsletter for the year. Students’ last day at school is on Wednesday week (18th December) and they return to school on Wednesday 29th January. Next Friday is our Presentation Day and all awards will be presented on that day. You will receive a program listing all the awards on the day. Your child’s proposed classroom, class teacher and learning support officer will be included in each annual report. This year, we have included a photograph of each staff member to help with those students who find change difficult. If you think it will help, it may be an idea to show your children the pictures towards the end of the holidays in the hope that it may assist them to make the transition to the new class. If you know that you are changing address over the break, please let us know next week so that we can advise Assisted School Travel of any changes. If you are going away on holidays before the end of the school term, please also let us know so that we can mail your child’s annual report to you. We hope that everyone will enjoy a very happy holiday break with their families and look forward to working together with you in the new year. Regards

Gwenda Williamson

Principal’s Message

Dates to RememberDates to RememberDates to Remember Graduation Dinner for Year 12 students - Tuesday 10th December

Presentation Day - Friday 13th December

Students’ Christmas Party - Tuesday 17th December

Students’ last day for Term 4 - Wednesday 18th December

Students return in 2014 - Wednesday 29th January

At Glenvale School, we encourage all students to wear a hat, play in the shade, etc. to protect them on our hot summer’s days. In order to ensure that every child at Glenvale School is safe when outdoors, we ask that parents/carers do two things for us. The first is that we ask that every child who is able to wear sunscreen have a long lasting sunscreen applied just before they leave for school in the morning and the second is that we would like every child to bring an appropriate hat (wide brimmed if possible, but any hat that provides some shade to skin and eyes) to school every day. We understand that some children have difficulty in wearing a hat, but would like to consider that it is our role to teach those children to wear a hat when outdoors. If your child also needs other protection such as protective clothing or sun glasses, please feel free to let your class teacher know and send these in to school also. If you wish us to reapply sunscreen during the day, please send your preferred cream to school and we are happy to do this during the day.

CHRISTMAS

PARTY DAY

TUESDAY 17th December is Mufti Day.

Each year, the lovely ladies from the Gosford Lions Club arrange a visit from Santa Claus and provide all the food for a party lunch for the students at Narara campus (and the Valley View class). At North Entrance, the local Progress Association usually provide the funds to cover the cost of a similar party over there.

These are special times when we first gather together to sing Christmas carols - the last one being Jingle Bells which heralds the arrival of Santa. We then enjoy a very relaxed and happy party time together. The parties are, of course, only for students and staff but our children really have a lovely time and enjoy wearing party clothes on the day.

VOLUNTEERS’ MORNING TEA

Earlier this week, we had two lovely morning teas

where people who visit our school to volunteer their

services to support students’ programs came

along to have morning tea with staff so that we could

say thank you to them. These volunteers are very important to us. Without

their support, many programs could not go

ahead. They take scripture classes (lovely lessons where children enjoy music and talk about such things as happiness, kindness, etc), go with

swimming groups (where we have students who need one-to-one support), help us keep students safe and engaged on outings to the park, shopping centres, etc and assist teachers and learning support

officers with classroom programs. As well as these volunteers who come regularly to the school, we also have those who come on occasions to assist with special outings such as visits to places like the Reptile Park,

Girrakool, Fire Station, etc. We

even have volunteers who do such things as coming along to

school to cut children’s hair in this familiar environment so that they learn to

tolerate or even enjoy the process

and are eventually able to go to the

hairdresser.