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DENILIQUIN NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL
PO Box 449, Deniliquin, 2710
Phone: 0358811042 Email: [email protected]
Fax: 03 5881 5086 Web Site: www.deniliquin-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Newsletter: Term 1 Week 10 (5/4/11)
Reminders Ballarat excursion– for Grade 5/6 students-
preliminary note is due ASAP ,and downpayment of
$50 is due by Friday, April 8.
Private Conveyancing-forms available at office for
eligible students that need to be transported to bus-
stop each morning/arvo.
Indigenous dental notes are due at the front office
New Website for North A new website featuring all that is great and good about the
„school on a hill‟ is now up and going. Although
incomplete, further additions in the next month or two, will
see it blossom into something special. Features include::
links to Departmental articles and policies
photo albums
VIDEO HITS-‟award winning‟ videos of North
weekly newsletter in colour
annual school report in colour
KIDS BIZ-stories and heaps more
The new site can be accessed by just googling, “Deniliquin
North Public school” and following the links.
School Holidays Almost Here
The school vacation period begins from Friday. School will resume for students on Thursday, April 28.
Be safe!-Be happy!
Principal’s Awards
Last week’s champions are:
Olivia Manzin-beautiful bookwork
Oliver Wilson-working hard
Myles Amor-mature approach to work
Tom Cochrane-working hard
Alex Ritchie-excellent maths work
Tallulah McKenzie-excellent persuasive texts
Karla Malloy-super maths improvement
Leigh Bassett-good reading efforts
FROM THE SCHOOL ON A HILL
Tom Cochrane and Chelsea Heagney are Term
One’s final GOLD award winners.
What a great way to start a holiday with a
GOLDIE in the back pocket!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Date Event
6/4 GOLD morning tea
7/4 Easter K-2 performance at assembly-12:15pm
7/4 Easter Hat parade-1:45pm
8/4 School ANZAC ceremony-LAST DAY of term
Wed27/4 Teachers resume-Staff Development Day
Thurs28/4 School Resumes for students
GOLD AWARD WINNERS Congratulations to the following students for achieving GOLDEN status this term:
Charlotte Warren
Tabitha Napier
John Allitt
Lucy Metcalfe
Amelia McCrabb
Shannen Varty
Tom McCallum
Luke Learmonth
Holly Amor
Bella Lewis
Oscar Erard-Farmer
Lucy Simpson
Leigh Bassett
Jasmine Kilpatrick
Jai O’Donnell
Jackie Thorpe
Charlie Dudley
Dylan Bassett
Adrian Mulham
Sophie Willis
Chelsea Heagney
Tom Cochrane
Ella Sander These students and their families are invited to the special GOLD morning tea to be held in the hall on Wednesday from 11am.
North Roll of Honour Many thanks to Storm Barlow and family for their
kind donation of photocopy paper.
Much appreciated!
K-2 Easter Performance at School Assembly This week’s assembly is one with a difference. It will
start at the earlier time of 12:15 and will include the
K-2 Easter performance. All welcome!
Easter Hat Parade The annual Easter Hat Parade on Thursday, com-
mencing at 1:45pm, is bound to be as ‘egg’-citing as
ever. Students in Grades K-4 are asked to get
creative and whip up a not-too-’egg’-spensive’ hat,
while Grades 5/6 have the chance to go crazy with a
colourful and trendy new hair style.
School Anzac Ceremony
The school’s annual ANZAC ceremony will be held
on Friday, April 8 from 10am on the top
playground. Again, all welcome to attend!
P&C Motor Rally Fundraiser Update Update regarding the Motor rally
fundraiser which is going to be held in
the first week on the holidays.
North school are providing morning tea on
the Tuesday 12th April.
We have:
Sarah Atkins kindly making her lovely
Yoyo's (don't forget the extra for me:-))
Dianne Morris with her well known jelly
slice. (fingers crossed just waiting upon
answer)
Simone Learmonth - Apple slice, sounds
lovely!
Ron McKenzie "The super Scone Maker" will
help supervise helpers on the Monday 11th
about 5 batches!!!!
Ali Ferguson is making some Hedgehog
slice
Louise Bashford has offered to do a
gluten free vanilla slice.
Maureen will order some petite cakes.
What we need:
Some have asked what can we do to help,
but don't have time to cook etc.
If you would like to donate a few
dollars to the canteen and this would
help cover costs of napkins, plates, bags
and ingredients, this would be most
kindly appreciated.
Maureen will do a big shop. This will be
easier to keep in check what we have.
If you would like to donate a slice it
would have to be 3 batches of the same
one. This can be dropped off to the
canteen on Monday (11th) or just let
Maureen know if there is another time
more suitable.
Also, we need some helpers on the day to
pick up slices to transport to Memorial
Park at 8.30am.
Morning tea is served between 9.30-10.30
then help with pack up. Please let myself
or Maureen know so we can work out a
roster.
Many thanks
Mikki
0411 301918
Easter Raffle Winners
Drawn at assembly last week!
1st-Easter Egg Basket-Emily Manzin
(see above!)
2nd-Choc Easter House-Charlie Paton
3rd-Box of chocs-Andrew Zrajko
The raffle raised $364!!
Lucy and Jackie in Riverina Team
Its been a long time since North have had 2
students selected in the one Riverina team, but
Northeroos’ Jackie Thorpe and Lucy Simpson
have etched their names in the history books,
following outstanding performances at the
Riverina Girls’ Soccer trial held in Leeton last
week.
The girls will now head to Sydney to play in the
State carnival in late May. Nice one champs!
COMMUNITY CHEST Local Traffic Committee Notice
Last week I received notification from Deniliquin
Council that the following traffic conditions will
apply to the Conroy St (street that runs along-
side basketball court and to the school entrance)
end of the school:
Council will apply to RTA for Conroy St to be designated a School Zone That parking in Conroy St is investigated and line marking carried out
Parents are reminded that there is to be no
double parking in this street or parking across
driveways.
Term Pointscore
Team Pts
BANANA SPLITS 20 One week to go
and its anybody’s
race with
Cheesey Cakes
making a late
run.
LEMON MERINGUES 22
STRAWBERRY SUNDAES 22
CHEESEY CAKES 20
Canteen Roster
Wednesday R McKenzie M Oakley
Thursday B Schoeman C McInness
Friday S Metcalfe J Manzin
Thursday 28th K Paton G Arthur
Friday 29th C Sanders Help Needed!
Monday 2nd G Arthur Help Needed
Tuesday 3rd P Galpen J Cochrane
We Value Values
Well done to the following students who last week
received awards for being top value at:
“Having Good Manners”
William McKern-good manners
Luke Learmonth-good manners and fantastic
reading improvement
Emma McCallum-beautiful manners
Emily Manzin-great manners
Ella Sander-polite and friendly
Phoebe Aitken-beautiful manners and excellent
application
Elly Stringer-lovely manners
Sophie Stringer-lovely manners
This week’s value will be:
‘Getting Along With Others’
Deni Fun Run
The annual Deni Fun Run will be held on Sunday,
April 10.
Events include:
10km run
5.5km run/walk
1.5km race against the rotary train for
primary students
Registration forms are available at the front
office or from Rockets Sportspower, RSL Gym
and Paul Strongman Physio.
Purtill’s DISNEY on ICE
Friday, July 8. Adult $90/ Child $75 (12 yrs and
under) .Includes A Reserve ticket and coach
travel. Book at Wired Entertainment 58813555.
Become a WEP Host Family
World Education Program (WEP) is inviting you to experience another culture in your own home by becoming a volunteer host family to one of our international students arriving in July 2011. Our students from Italy, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Sweden, Finland,
Norway, Japan, Brazil and Chile are looking forward to experiencing life in Australia, making new friends and becoming a member of an Australian family soon. Find out more! Getting to know your student before he or she arrives brings fun and joy to
everyone involved. Take the next step and contact WEP today to receive a full information pack for your family.
Nikki Medwell Inbound Exchange Administrator
Phone: 1300 884 733 Email: [email protected] Online: www.wep.org.au
Our School Canteen Update
As we hope most of you are aware our school canteen is one
of the services provided and maintained by our P & C
Committee. Our canteen, including canteen related
fundraising activities, has traditionally broken even
financially or had to be funded by other P & C activities.
Eight months ago, financial concerns regarding the viability
of the canteen were a major concern for the P & C. As a result
a number of strategies were introduced to ensure the canteen
did not become a major financial burden to our P & C, as the
P&C were very focused on ensuring the canteen continued to
operate.
The P & C Committee are extremely happy to report that the
canteen is now running at a profit and if we can maintain the
current trend it is looking likely that the canteen will be a
major fundraising activity carried out by the P & C this year.
So we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone
in our school community for their contribution, from those
who volunteer their time to help in the canteen and catering
activities, who provide ingredients, those on the canteen
subcommittee and everyone who uses the canteen service.
We would also like to thank Maureen for her enthusiasm in
her role of managing North School canteen in this new era of
the school canteen contributing funds back to North School.
So well done everyone and please keep up the great work and
the continued support of your canteen.
Regards,
P & C Committee
PS. If you have not yet had a chance, please get involved and
if you have a few spare hours once per month then please
contact Maureen and don’t forget if you are going to the
Easter Hat parade then consider ordering the special meal
deal from the canteen for yourself.
REMINDER!-UNIFORMS IN Term 2 A reminder to students and parents that the
school uniform for Term 2 is Winter uniform.
Students should wear this uniform, from the
beginning of term.
The school Photograph day is on the Friday
of the first week back!
THIS WEEK’S THINKING TASK for Grades 3-6, was……
A dragon would make a great pet. -YES or NO ?
Why ?- Time to Argue
Dragons would not make a good pet because they could burn your house down, scare people away and you could also
get hurt.
If your dragon isn’t trained, it might burn your house down. If it gets angry it could blow fire at you and when it does
it could start a bushfire. Would you like to be the one responsible for people’s houses getting burnt down?
Dragons could scare friends and family away if you ask them to come over. Also, people might get worried and ring
the police. The dragon could break wind and smell out the whole neighbourhood…..Excerpt by Bree Collins
Do dragons make good pets? No!-I think this is a stupid, ridiculous, horrible idea.
They might tread on things, burn things and even eat someone.
My first argument is that it would be horrible to have a dragon because they might tread on things. They may even
tread on something very valuable like your mother’s very valuable vase or car. Your mother would be very angry and
would probably send him away.
Dragons would make horrible pets because they might burn something and start a fire. They could even burn your
precious house or even start a bushfire. Then your dragon would probably be put in gaol..Excerpt by Sophie
Stringer
I would like a dragon for a pet because it could go into Miss Smith’s classroom and catch the mice in there. He would
be like a vacuum cleaner. Beep! Beep! Coming through!
He could sharpen my pencil with his sharp teeth and Mrs Rumble’s too.
When we have a cross-country he could fly me to the finish line. First place! Oh man! I win again! Dragon
power!...By Duncan Hughes
Many people think dragons would make a great pet. I absolutely agree!! They would make a brilliant pet because they
can clean your house, breather fire and sleep with you.
Firstly they make good pets because they can clean your house and the toilet. Now, I don’t know anyone that likes
cleaning the toilet. That’s why you have a dragon to get it done for you.
Secondly, they breathe fire. This is good because they can cook marshmallows for you and a roast like chicken and
vegetables.
Finally, they can sleep with you to keep you warm all night. When it is very cold at night get your dragon and try to
get to sleep.
In conclusion, I think dragons make good pets. They can clean your house, breathe fire and they can sleep with
you….By Charlotte Warren
More Great Ideas Dragons would make a fantastic pet! They can breathe fire and burn all your enemies!-
That’s RADICAL!! You could ride it overseas and fly up to plane windows and poke
out your tongue and scream, “You call that first class!!”…. By Isabel Osborne
Would you like it if you came home and saw your dog eating your neighbor or setting
fire to your house? No?-I didn’t think so, but that is what it would be like to have a
dragon as pet...By Edwina Arthur
Lighting fires would be a breath! Oh!-I mean breeze!-All you would have to do is get
the dragon angry...By Elly Stringer
If you had a dragon as a pet, and I do hope you don’t, well, I’ll tell you a fact. All ani-
mals do their business, and a dragon’s droppings..I probably shouldn’t say the word,
but they would be very, very large and stinky...By Lucy Metcalfe
Firstly, dragons may rip people’s head off. Imagine you invited your best friend over
and they dragon ate him….By Ben North
Why should someone have a dragon? That would be stupid. Every time he breathes on
my home it would go on fire...By Thomas Nevinson
Dragons can burn down the school, smash buildings and you can ride them...By Ryan
Borella-Holschier
I think this is outrageous! Dragons might burn down your house, jump on the roof and
smash it and they might fly to the beach and eat everything in the sea...By Calypso
McKenzie
Granny pegged Jacko to the line because he got on the motorbike and he did
burnouts on the lawn. He was very naughty….By Will King
Jacko was getting chased by a fire-breathing dog. The dog looked really cute. It
looked so cute that Jacko picked it up. The dog tried to get Jacko’s pants on fire
and it did.
Then Jacko dropped the dog and when he saw a puddle of mud he tried to splash
water on the pants so they would not be so hot.
Jacko accidentally splashed himself and that is why Granny put Jacko on the
clothesline...By Charlie Dudley
More Great Ideas
Granny pegged Jacko to the line because she felt like it….By Abbey Hicks
Granny pegged Jacko to the line because he was all wet and very dirty and
very naughty….By Bella Lewis
Granny pushed Jacko into a
squishy, ishy, squashy, deep pool of
mud...By Sophie Bashford
For Grades 1 and 2: Why has Granny pegged Jacko to the clothesline?
Expect the
Unexpected!!
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