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Westlawn Public School
Newsletter Term 3 Week 8
11 September 2018
Strive to Achieve
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Infants Concert The Infants Concert was a wonderful success! So many audience members told us how entertaining and enjoyable it was to see the children perform. They really did a great job. My thanks to the teachers, support staff and office staff who made it possible through their hard work. Congratulations to our fabulous students.
Hockey News Congratulations to our boys and girls hockey teams who travel to Sydney next week to play in the PSSA State finals. This is an amazing achievement. Thank you to Mrs Hadley for all the hard work in preparing the students.
Primary Concerts There are only a handful of tickets left for the evening performances for the Primary Concert. Tickets will not be available at the door on the concert nights. Due to safety laws we cannot crowd the hall with extra people. Numbers are strictly limited to seating allocation. Tickets are still available for the Matinee performance at 12:00 on Wednesday 26 September at a cost of $4 for adults, $2 for children, family tickets for $10. The children are getting very excited about their concerts and are looking forward to performing on stage in front of an audience. The theme for the Primary Concert is ‘Mission Impossible’. Primary Concert (for children in Years 3 to 6): Matinee Performance: Wednesday 26 September at 12:00 midday. Two evening performances: Tuesday 25 and Wednesday 26 September at 6:30pm.
Canteen and P & C Meeting The next Canteen and P&C meeting is this Wednesday 12 September at 6:00pm in the Meeting Room. We encourage parents to attend and join our fabulous P & C.
Message from the Principal
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Kinder Enrolment for 2019 We are accepting enrolments for 2019 now. If you know anyone who has children who are beginning Kindergarten in 2019, please invite them to a Parent Information Evening for prospective Kindergarten parents on Tuesday 18 September at 6pm in the KS Kindergarten classroom. The meeting will conclude at approximately 7pm and enable parents to gain information about the Kindergarten learning program, our school’s values and ethos, and being part of a supportive school community. We welcome any prospective parents to attend. We are holding another evening as we have had some new enrolments and they missed the meeting in June. They can also arrange to visit the school so that I can show them around. If your child is enrolling in Kindergarten at Westlawn PS in 2019 please leave details of name, address and birth date at the office. We will be sending out information later this term, so need names and addresses now please.
Canteen If anyone is available to volunteer in the canteen on a Friday please contact the Canteen Manager,
Amy Freeman on 0459 944 716 or the school office. The canteen is in desperate need of volunteers.
PSSA Hockey Knockouts
As reported last week, both the boys and girls hockey teams won their matches at Taree last
Tuesday. They will now travel to Narellan to be part of the ‘Finals’ containing the final four
teams in the state.
The boys will play Parkes PS in their semi-final, with the winner to play either Barrington PS
or Tamworth PS in the final. The losing sides will play-off for 3rd and 4th place.
The girls will take on Molong PS in their semi-final. The winner will meet either Red Head
PS or Ben Venue PS in the final.
It is a rare feat indeed for the winner of the boys and girls state knockout competitions to
come from the same school. Out teams now have the chance to create some ‘history’. We
wish our students and their family members a safe and enjoyable trip away together and we
will have our fingers crossed that they can play their best hockey.
Boys Cricket Knockout
Westlawn travelled to Iluka yesterday to play Iluka PS at Ken Leeson Oval. Iluka won the
toss and sent Westlawn into bat.
The Westlawn opening pair of Axel Hargans and Reece Winters were very watchful in the
first few overs, seeing off the stronger Iluka bowlers. At the 15 over mark, Westlawn were in
a very good position at 0 for 55. Kade was then bowled for 11 runs and scoring became very
hard work. Axel was finally dismissed for a valuable 27 runs, Sam Buggy was run out for 1
run and Reece Winters chipped in with 6 runs before losing his wicket. Eli Jones and Zane
Farrell both finished not out on 0. Westlawn PS finished their 25 overs at 4 for 85.
The Iluka openers were in a very aggressive mood and smashed 33 runs from the first 6
overs. Koopah Walters stemmed the flow a little with a wicket but Iluka raced to 1 for 49
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from 9 overs. Blake Norrie then snared a very valuable wicket and Iluka were 2 – 54. Sonny
Kilduff bowled beautifully to take the 3rd wicket and Kade Simpson took 2 wickets in his
second spell to give Westlawn some hope. Iluka were beginning to look shaky at 5 for 70 off
17 overs.
Westlawn needed some quick wickets and valiantly defended in the field but it wasn’t
enough. Iluka reached their target with 4 overs to spare and 5 wickets in hand.
Bowling figures were: Koopah 1 – 12 off 5, Kade 2 – 28 off 5, Blake 1 – 14 off 3, Sonny 1 –
19 off 4, Zane 0 – 7 off 2, Eli 0 – 6 off 1, Shayne 0 – 6 off 1.
The loss means we now bow out of the competition. Many thanks to Amy Jones and
Christian Buggy for scoring. It was much appreciated. Thank you also to our family members
for providing transport to the students and for cheering us on.
North Coast Athletics Carnival
Best of luck to our athletes competing at the North Coast Athletics Carnival in Lismore this
Friday. Competitors can qualify for the NSW PSSA Athletics Championships by finishing in
the first 3 in track events, field events and relays.
Our competitors and their events include:
Athlete Name Age/Division Event
Eliza Berrick 11 yrs 100 m
Eliza Berrick 11 yrs 200 m
Cooper Cochrane Snr 200 m
Shanae Crispin Jnr 800 m
Jimmy Ford 12 yrs 100 m
Jimmy Ford Snr 200 m
Beau Hartmann 11 yrs 100 m
Marcus Makejev 12 yrs 100 m
Marcus Makejev Snr 200 m
Marcus Makejev Snr Long Jump
Gabby McCrae Snr Discus
Isabella Miller 11 yrs Shot Put
Harry Oxenbridge Snr Para 100 m
Harry Oxenbridge Snr Para 200 m
Harry Oxenbridge Snr Para Long Jump
Jimmy Strevens Snr 800 m
Jessica Towns Snr Shot Put
Koopah Walters 11 yrs 100 m
Koopah Walters 11 yrs 200 m
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Westlawn PS relay teams:
Jnr Girls – Cara Lomas, Shanae Crispin, Adelaide Kearns, Ashlea Blair
Snr Girls – Zahli Shannon, Eliza Berrick, Mia Hayne and Shani Firth
Snr Boys – Koopah Walters, Cooper Cochrane, Jimmy Ford and Marcus Makejev
Good luck everyone.
SRC Citizenship Award
The SRC present a weekly Citizenship Award at our primary assembly. Each week we
meet to discuss what encouraging things we have seen happening in our
playground and classrooms. The SRC look for behaviours that are helpful,
demonstrate our school rules or an act that shows a student as a positive role
model for others. We then nominate children we have seen displaying these
behaviours. Last week the SRC focussed on finding children who were being helpful
around our school.
The students who were nominated by SRC representatives were Makayla Pugh,
Kiarra Owen, Clair See, Lachlan O’Grady, Sam Ensbey, and Ilianna Ward. We all
voted. The award winner has been seen and heard…being kind and helpful to
anyone who needs it, picking up rubbish in the playground and playing fairly. This
week’s Citizenship Award winner is Clair See.
Congratulations Clair!
Over the coming weeks, the SRC are looking for students being helpful around our school.
TERM 3 Week 8 Wed 12 Sept Canteen and P&C Meeting at 6pm in the Meeting Room Fri 14 Sept NC Athletics Week 9 Tues 18 Sept Kindergarten Parent Information Evening (2019) Week 10 Tues 25 Sep Primary Concert - evening performance Wed 26 Sept Primary Concert - matinee and evening performance Thurs 27 Sept Award Assembly Fri 28 Sep Infants Disco
LAST DAY OF TERM
SRC Information
Diary Dates
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STUDENTS OF THE WEEK
Shayne Johnson 6B Blake Norrie 5A Ruby Egen 3/4T
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