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North Weekly News

Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Term 4 Week 5

PBL “Reach for the Stars” Badges and Awards Congratulations to the following students who have received our Reach for the Stars Gold Star Award and badge: K-2 Gaureesh (KP) for demonstrating care, respect and responsibility in all aspects of school life. 3-6 Mia (4E) for always displaying a high level of care and respect towards staff and students.

Presentation Day Wednesday 5th December Years 3-6: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm K-2: 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Tickets on sale Tuesday 20th November Tickets for GNPS Presentation Day will be on sale from the GNPS front office from Tuesday 20th November until Tuesday 27th November. A limit of TWO tickets for each ceremony per family can be purchased. This is to ensure that all families have the opportunity to attend Presentation Day on December 5th. Parent Online Payment is not available. On Wednesday 28th November, extra tickets will be able to be purchased if they are still available. This is the only fair way we are able to do this. Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.

Tickets are priced at $6:00 for both K-2 and Yrs 3-6 ceremonies

NAIDOC Week Poem Competition Congratulations to Tara who won a NAIDOC Week Poetry Competition. Today at our assembly Councillor John Dal Broi, Mayor of Griffith attended our assembly to present Tara with her medallion and Tara shared her poem on Spirit Dreaming with the assembly. Well done Tara!

Dates To Remember Tues 13th Nov Band Information Session 5.15pm Wed 14th Nov Year 6 Full day Orientation at High

School Tues 20th Nov Presentation Day Tickets go on sale

from office K-2 Assembly – Italian Assembly 3-6 Assembly – Italian and 3M

Wed 21st- Fri 23rd Nov

Year 4 at Borambola

Tues 27th Nov K-2 Assembly – No Assembly 3-6 Assembly – Captains and Prefect Speeches

Tues 4th Dec No Assemblies Wed 5th Dec Presentation Day

3-6 10am and K-2 1.00pm Thurs 6th Dec P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 Term 4 Week 5

Remembrance Day Yesterday GNPS paused for one minute’s silence to remember the men and women who gave their lives while serving Australia in wars, conflicts and peace operations. Well done to all of our students who showed respect during this important moment! Thank you to Kaeli, Alex, Emily and Alex for hosting our short assembly, Mrs Woodward for her organisation and Mr Pendlebury for playing the Last Post.

Girls New Uniforms Lowes has contacted the school to say that the new summer uniforms will not be in until early to mid-January. Once they are in during the holidays, we will advertise on our Facebook page. Sorry for this inconvenience. Lowes have the current summer dresses available for half price now. Lost Property Our lost property box is located in Room 2 and a half, which is between 5W and 4E. The box is currently overflowing with jumpers and other items. If you are missing an item, please go and have a look. Hopefully your item has your child’s name on it, which makes it a lot easier to identify.

K-6 Awards - Term 4 Week 5

KP: Jack, Teeghan, Scarlett KD: Beau, Andrea, Pippa KH: Elaina, Cooper, Daniel KA: Chase, Tamsin, Abdan 1C: Alara, Nate, Clayton 1A: Millah, Hunter, Chelsea 2M: Sikaia, Isabella, Lachlan 2U: Jemima, Layla, Aston 2H: Lucas, Valentina, Isabella Italian: Paxton, Chelsea 3M: Zeinab, Jullian 3A: Cooper, Aurora 4P: Alex, Kaiden 4E: Holly, Scarlet 5A: Gisela, Meli 5W: Tasnia, Shakiya 6M: Michael, Issa Al 6D: Iesha, Todd Italian: Brock, Jorja, Jenna,

Millie

Band News Information Evening On Tuesday 13th November, we will be holding our band information evening in the school hall at 5:15pm. This is for students who will be in Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 in 2019 and are interested in learning to play an instrument in our school band. No unaccompanied students please - at least one parent/guardian must attend. Mr Pendlebury

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 Term 4 Week 5

PBL – Expectation Focus for the Week This week’s focus for PBL is:

“Follow Instructions”

Our PBL expectation for the next two weeks is “Follow Instructions.” Following instructions is easy to do. When you are asked to do something please listen carefully to the instruction and then do your best to follow it through.

Local Debating Final Last Thursday our debating team, consisting of Kaeli, Aotearoa and Chelsea debated against GEPS in the final of the Griffith Debating competition. The debate was an impromptu debate on the topic “Homework should be banned in all primary schools.” Our team was the affirmative and GEPS argued the negative. It was a very close debate and GEPS won the debate.

We would like to thank all our debaters, (both Year 5 and Year 6 teams) for all their hard work this year and especially thank Mrs Delves for coaching the teams all year.

Canteen News Week 5

We have a new menu for this term, which was sent home last term. Please ensure you order from this menu, as some items are no longer available. Chocolate cups are now $2.50. If your child is swimming and they are in Years 3-5 can you please write swimming on their lunch order, as they will be having an earlier lunch. This way their lunch will be ready at 12.30. Thanking you Kelli and Paulina Canteen Supervisors

Kindergarten Orientation 2019 Today was our last day for Kindergarten Orientation. It has been lovely seeing all the 2019 Kinders settling in and having a good time at their new school. I would like to thank Mrs De Paoli, Miss Petrulli, Mrs Aitken and Mrs Adams for all their efforts in organising Kindergarten Orientation and making our new Kindergarten students feel so welcome. We look forward to the new Kinders returning next year to start their education with us at GNPS!

Wednesday 14.11.18 Help Needed Thursday 15.11.18 Help Needed Friday 16.11.18 Janelle

Heather Nolan Monday 19.11.18 Help Needed Tuesday 20.10.18 Help Needed

Tuesday, 13 November 2018 Term 4 Week 5

Year 5 Hockey Clinic Last Wednesday, Year 5 participated in a local hockey clinic run by NSW Hockey officials. They learnt passing, trapping and running skills. There were 330 students from the Griffith area, and students had the opportunity to meet two Australian players.

Goal Ball On Thursday the 8th November the students from 1A had the opportunity to learn all about Goalball. Three members of Goalball NSW visited the school and taught them how to control the Goalball and how to stop it. This might sound like something that would be easy to do, but you play the game of Goalball blindfolded! One of the people who taught the students about Goalball is a Para-Olympian, having represented Australia at two Para-Olympics and two World Championships in the sport of Goalball. All the children joined in enthusiastically and were keen to put their new skills to the test. One of the hardest things to do was to be completely silent. As the players can only locate the ball by listening to the bells, both players and spectators have to be completely silent during play. They can only speak or cheer when a goal has been scored and announced by the umpire.