Westlawn Public School

Newsletter Term 1 Week 6

6th March 2018

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We are very excited about the new interactive

boards that have replaced some of our older

whiteboards in seven classrooms. Thank you to the

P&C and our wonderful school community for

funding two of the new boards. The students will

benefit greatly from this new technology.

If your child comes home talking about Penny Punctuation or demonstrating special Kung Fu punctuation moves it means they have been learning the first steps in the Big Write program. This year the program will be incorporated into all classes K-6. It will complement the teaching of writing that is already occurring in classrooms. Grandparents Day We are inviting all of our grandparents to visit our school on Wednesday 21st March. At 10:30 grandparents are welcome to visit their grandchildren in their classrooms. As it is World Poetry Day we are asking grandparents to bring along a poem they might enjoy sharing with their grandchild or their grandchild’s class. At 10:55 grandparents are asked to bring a picnic lunch to share with their grandchildren in the playground. Make sure the children have decided on a meeting place if there are a few from the one family. Tea, coffee, sandwiches and cake can be purchased near the Canteen on the day. Easter Raffle Tomorrow tickets will be sent home with our students for the P&C Easter Raffle. The P&C is asking for donations of Easter eggs or chocolates for raffle prizes. The eggs do not have to be expensive, just whatever parents can afford. The eggs get bundled up into prize packs. Last year we were able to give

over 30 prize packs plus we gave a prize to the student who sold the most tickets. Any tickets sold or unsold must be returned to school by Tuesday 27th March as an audit requirement. If you are unable to sell the tickets please return them immediately so we can re-issue them to someone else. Please send any Easter egg or chocolate donations to the school office. The raffle will be drawn after the Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 29th March. Our thanks to Michelle Boorman for organising the raffle tickets. P&C Our P&C AGM will be next week on Wednesday 14th March, in the Meeting Room. All positions including P&C executive or any sub-committees such as the Canteen committee are voted on at the AGM. Just a reminder that according to NSW P&C Federation guidelines, those wishing to vote, stand for office, or move motions, must be financial members. Membership is $1 per year. Payment of the membership fee must be made by the close of one meeting so that the member is eligible to exercise membership rights at the next meeting. The P&C Executive needs to be made up of people who want the best for the students of this school and support the school in a positive way, that is, a positive team of committed people who make every effort to work together to get the jobs done. The Executive members play an important role in encouraging other parents to become involved in the school and in making new members feel welcome. Year 6 Expression of Interest

All Year 6 students have received an ‘Expression of

Interest’ form to fill in for 2019. This information is

for our local Public High Schools to have an estimate

Message from the Principal

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Sporting News

of numbers of students who may be enrolling next

year. It is important to read the information in the

booklet before filling in the form. Every Year 6

student needs to return the completed form to the

Westlawn PS office or to Mrs Barnier no later than

Friday 9th March. This is not an enrolment form for

high school. Enrolment forms are given to students

later in the year. If you have any questions, please

contact the school office or Mrs Barnier and they will

be happy to assist with your enquiry.

Reminders Coles Sports Vouchers Coles Sports for Schools is back to help Aussie kids stay fit and healthy. When you shop at Coles, you'll receive Sports for Schools vouchers that we can exchange for sports equipment. The more vouchers you collect, the more sports equipment we'll receive. You can drop the vouchers into the school office or into the boxes at Coles in Shoppingworld, Coles in the Mall or Coles at South Grafton. Thank you for all the support so far. Exciting News The Grafton District Services Club (GDSC), in Mary St will be holding an open-air movie night on Saturday 24 March 2018, featuring the family movie ‘Sing’ (PG). This was supposed to occur last January but due to inclement weather plans were changed. It will be held on the bowling green so families are welcome to take their chairs and picnic blankets for a fun filled evening. The movie will begin at 8:00pm. There will be popcorn and other treats for sale and entry is by a gold coin donation. The proceeds raised from the evening will be donated to Westlawn Public School to purchase resources for our students. Thank you to the GDSC for their support. Have a great week,

Trish Ellis

Relieving Principal

Mid North Coast Swimming Carnival Results Congratulations to all the Westlawn PS students who competed at the MNC Swimming Carnival last Tuesday. Competitors had to finish in the first four of individual events and the first three in the relay

events to progress to the North Coast Swimming Carnival to be held in Murwillumbah tomorrow. Students who have qualified for the NC event are:

Individual Events

Chad Collie – 1st Boys 8 yrs 50m freestyle Sunny Hartmann – 2nd Girls 9yrs 50m freestyle Shanae Crispin – 2nd Girls 10 yrs 50m freestyle , 4th jnr 50m breaststroke, 2nd jnr 50m butterfly, 2nd jnr 200m medley Beau Hartmann – 2nd Boys 11 yrs 50m freestyle , 4th 11yrs 50m backstroke Cooper Cochrane – 4th Boys 12 yrs 50m freestyle Sophie Hinterholzl – 4th Girls Snr 50m breaststroke

Relay Teams 1st Westlawn Jnr Girls 8-10 200 Free

Junior Relay - Shanae Crispin, Sunny Hartmann, Riley

Robinson, Jorja Willis.

2nd Westlawn Snr Boys 11-13 200 Free Senior Relay

- Beau Hartmann, Cooper Cochrane, Jensen Haynes, Jimmy

Ford. Best of luck to you all tomorrow!

North Coast Boys and Girls Cricket Trials

All the best to Axel Hargans who will play for the Mid

North Coast Cricket Team at the North Coast Trials

this Sunday and Monday at Sawtell.

Maddy Hebblewhite was to play for the Mid North

Coast Girls side at the NC Trial yesterday, however,

the event has been postponed to Monday 26 March.

Primary Sport for Term 1

Community Sport will continue this week. Sport

money collection will occur on Thursdays after

morning assembly so we can start immediately on

Friday.

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Please send your child’s sport money on a Thursday

each week.

Costs and equipment needed each week: Hockey - Cost $6 (inc. bus fare). All equipment is provided, however, participants must have their own mouth guard, hat and water. Tennis - Cost $7 (inc. bus fare). All equipment is provided. Please take a hat and water.

Ten Pin Bowling - Cost $6. Bottle of water is optional.

Basketball – Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. KidsFit - Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. Indoor Soccer - Cost $4. Be sure to take a bottle of water. It is important that all students remember their

Sport money each week as we are using community

venues, which depend on income to remain open.

Students who fail to pay for their sport two weeks in

a row will still go to their venue but will not be able

to participate. Please contact the school if there are

difficulties covering the cost of weekly sport.

Other dates to remember – plan ahead!

Westlawn Cross Country Carnival will be held on

Tuesday 10 April (T1,W11) at Junction Hill.

Clarence Cross Country Carnival will be held on

Friday 11 May (T2, W2) at Junction Hill.

In partnership with the Clarence Valley

Conservatorium, we are holding a

parent band night on Thursday 15th

March 2018 at 6 pm.

Parents are invited to come along with their child

who will be teaching them a thing or two about

learning their instrument.

Kris Edwards, from the Clarence Valley

Conservatorium will also be providing tips on how

students can achieve and gain the most benefit from

the band program.

A note will be going home this week with new and

old band members to get an idea of attendees for

the night.

Jodie Ellem

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 demonstrating

‘Excellent Sportsmanship Skills’.

The students who were nominated by SRC

representatives were: - Breeanna Hunter, Cooper

Pereira, Mia Grieve and Chloe Loadsman.

We all voted. The award winner was ‘caught’ during

the week helping others when they fell down and

showed initiative by setting up and packing away

sports equipment. This week’s Citizenship Award

winner is Cooper Pereira.

Congratulations Cooper!

This week, the SRC will be looking for students

demonstrating responsible behaviours.

SRC Citizenship Award

Band News

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Library News

Premier’s Reading Challenge The PRC started this week and will continue

until the end of August. All students are

encouraged to participate in the challenge as it

opens a world of books for children to explore.

By entering the Challenge, students may receive

a PRC certificate and their name may appear on

the PRC Gold and Platinum Honour Roll. Their

certificate will have their name and school

printed on it and the Honour Roll has names

listed by alphabetical order and does not

mention our school name. If a parent or carer

giver does not want their child to receive a

certificate or to be on the Honour Roll, you must

not enter any books in your online Student

Reading Record. You can still use the PRC

booklists to help you find books to read and you

can ask Mrs Palmer about a school-based

certificate.

If anyone has any

questions please come

and see Mrs Palmer in

the library.

Happy Reading!

Mrs Palmer

Justine Purtill – 6P

Student of the Week Big Vege Crunch

47 920

Thanks to more than 292 schools across NSW, we

absolutely smashed last year's record -

47,920 students crunched vegetables at 10am on

Thursday 1st March with a further 11,915 students

crunching their vegetables at other times over

Vegetable Week.

All Infants students loved the BIG VEGIE CRUNCH!!!

Thank you for your support.

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Canteen News

For all enquiries relating to the canteen roster please call 0416 808 614 to speak to our canteen

manager Michelle Ford.

As of the 14th March our canteen Manager will be stepping down.

On behalf of Westlawn P&C I would like to thank Michelle for all her hard work and

voluntary dedication to the role of Canteen Manager.

Anyone who is interested in the role of Canteen Manager please contact the Westlawn P&C

Executive or attend next week’s P&C Meeting.

Easter Raffle

We will be holding our annual Easter raffle as our first P &C fundraiser for the year. We are

asking if all families could donate either an Easter egg, a gift bag or a basket that can be used

for prizes in our raffle.

Raffle tickets will be going home with students in the next couple of weeks. The raffle will

be drawn during the Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 29th March. All tickets sold or unsold

must be returned to the school office prior to Wednesday 28th March.

AGM

Our P&C will be holding its AGM next Wednesday evening the 14th March at 6:00pm in

Westlawn Meeting Room. All parents are welcome to attend. P&C General meeting will

be held immediately after the AGM.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Wednesday 7 March Debra Watts, Beck Plunkett, Gemma Radin

Thursday 8 March Sue Ulrick, Campbell Timmins, Debra Watts

Friday 9 March Shelly Thompson, Brooke Grayson, Maria Wormald

Monday 12 March Shane Masters, Christopher Bell, Deb Barlow

Tuesday 13 March Debra Watts, Liz Hamlin, Belinda Bowling

P & C Newsletter

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Term 1 2018 – Please check Diary dates for any changes. Week 6 Wed 7 Mar NC Swimming Carnival Murwillumbah Easter Raffle tickets go home Week 7 Tues 13 Mar CSI Wed 14 Mar P&C AGM at 6pm followed by P&C General Meeting

Closing date for International Digital Technologies and Science Competitions Thur 15 Mar Selective High School Placement Test at Grafton HS for Y6 students who applied for Y7

placement in a selective class in 2019. Week 8 Wed 21 Mar Grandparents Day Fri 23 Mar Ride Safely to School Day Week 9 Tues 27 Mar CSI Wed 28 Mar School Photos Thurs 29 Mar Easter Hat Parade

K-2 Disco Fri 30 Mar Good Friday Week 10 Mon 2 Apr Easter Monday Tues 3 Apr Parent/Teacher interviews Primary Disco Thurs 5 Apr Year 6 Leadership Day Week 11 Mon 9 Apr Parent/Teacher interviews

Notes home for International Competitions: Writing and Spelling Tues 10 Apr CSI

Westlawn PS Cross Country Carnival at Junction Hill

Wed 11 Apr Award Assembly and Year 6 Leadership badges at 1:00pm

Canteen and P&C Meeting 6:00pm NSWPSSA Swimming Thurs 12 Apr NSWPSSA Swimming Fri 13 Apr ANZAC Assembly Last day of Term

Diary Dates

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COMMUNITY NEWS

CLARENCE VALLEY CONSERVATORIUM 2018 VISITING ARTISTS SERIES FIONA BOYES – BLUES GUITAR

CONCERT Saturday 3rd March at 7pm At Clarence Valley Conservatorium 8 Villiers Street Grafton Tickets - $25 adult, $15 concession, $5 student (u18) Workshop – Saturday 3rd March, 3pm-5pm

The Big Vegie Crunch