Nyngan Public School Nyngan Public School provides – quality education for all children through dedicated teaching in a secure, caring country environment.

Safety, Respectful, Cooperative Learners

60 Cathundril Street, NYNGAN 2825 Phone:02 68321605 Fax:02 68321836 E-mail: nyngan-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Phone: 68 321 605 Fax: 68 321 836 Email: nyngan -p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

2nd

August 2019

6th

August

School Spelling Bee 9am

12th

August

Assembly Years 3 – 6

item

12th

August

Book Club is due

13th

August

Cricket Blast Years 3 – 6

15th

August

Debating – Rounds 2 & 3

16th

August

Middle School for Year 6

16th

August

Nyngbar Athletics at

Cobar

16th

August

1st Instalment for the 3/4

Excursion to Lightning

Ridge is due

IMPORTANT DATES

Dear Parents/Carers,

Welcome to Term 3. Thank you to the many family and friends

who supported students at the athletics carnival last Friday or

who assisted with the running of this annual event.

Staff and students would like to thank Angela Smith, Kristy

Neill and Teressa Rose for providing canteen to our staff and

students on 2 occasions this week. Funds raised will contribute

to the school transitioning to new shirts in 2020.

Staff and students were treated to a visit from the State Library

on Tuesday. Staff from the State Library brought with them

artefacts such as an antique globe, the shopping list of an

explorer and a telescope. Staff and students from St Josephs

joined us for this visit.

Students enjoyed an afternoon of skipping yesterday. Funds

raised support Jump Rope for Heart.

Next week the Nyngan PS Spelling Bee will be held at 9am on

Tuesday. I would like to wish all students well in their

participation in this. We also wish Nick Motley and Samuel

Milligan an enjoyable time at the Moorambilla camp on

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week.

Nyngan Public School now has a new app. Our previous app

ceased in providing this service. As a result we now have

Skoolbag providing this service for our school. Please refer to

the bottom of the newsletter for more detail.

Kylee Pearce

Principal

NAIDOC WEEK

The last week of Term 2 we celebrated NAIDOC Week by participating in the many activities

that were organised. On Monday we attended the official opening outside the Bogan Shire

Council, Tuesday our Year 5 and 6 joined the Nyngan High School students at their showcase

day. Wednesday we hosted children from ELC, Preschool and Year 1 and 2 students from St

Josephs. We played TIG games, were entertained by Uncle Ralph and the Castlereagh

Connections band and had a wonderful BBQ lunch. Thanks to everyone that helped out to

make our day so much fun. Thursday our Year 3 and 4 went to St Josephs to participate in

their activities and Friday was the Community River Day. As well as this we also took part in

many in school activities that were organised by Marea. I big thankyou to all the people that

were involved in making the NAIDOC Week so successful.

CHILD PROTECTION STUDIES

In Term 3 students will be studying Child Protection. Notes were sent home on last week

explaining this program in more detail. If you didn’t receive this note please contact the office

and we will send one home with your child. If you DO NOT want your child to participate in

the Child Protection studies please send the signed permission note back to the office. If we

do not receive a note we will assume you are happy for your child/ren to attend the program.

SPELLING BEE

Module Spelling Bee

Thank you to the thirty three children from Year 3 to 6 who

participated in the module spelling bee last

Wednesday. Congratulations to Sarah, Lily, Mia and Sam who

have made it through to the Stage 3 School Spelling Bee and to

Santana, Ava, Smokey and Taya who have made it through to

the Stage 2 School Spelling Bee.

The School Spelling Bee is on Tuesday 6th

August at 9.00 am in the auditorium. We will be

spelling until we have 2 children from each stage to go on the Regional Final. Everyone is

most welcome to attend.

Nyngan Public School is hosting the Regional Spelling Bee Finals this year on Wednesday

11th

September. More details to follow.

ROCK AND WATER

Last term, Years 4, 5 and 6 have been taking part in the Rock and Water program with Viv.

During these sessions we have learnt how to ground ourselves and have self-control. We

played a lot of different games such as Chinese Sticky Hands, Standing Roster and Ground

Ball to help us learn how to control our feelings. We really enjoyed going to Rock and Water.

Thank you Viv.

Written by Alexis and Chloe E, Year 5

STILL STANDING

Last term, Years 5 and 6 enjoyed going to the boxing shed with Lonse for the Still Standing

program. While we were there we learnt how to box, including how to stand properly and

how to breathe and how to throw the right punches. This program was good because it taught

us how to defend ourselves and also about how to lead a healthy lifestyle. It was a good

source of fitness and Lonse taught us to just get outside rather than sitting inside watching TV

or playing games. Thank you Lonse giving up your time to teach us all some great lessons.

Written by Year 6

BOOK CLUB

Book Club is due by Monday 12th

August.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Congratulations to all the students that participated in the

carnival last Friday. Orana was the winner of the day, followed

by Macquarie and then Bogan not far behind.

We have 33 students that have now qualified for the Nyngbar

Carnival which will be held at Cobar on Friday 16th

August

2019.

Congratulations to the following students who are our Athletics

Champions for 2019:

Sub Junior Max Gadsby and Klaire Parry

Junior Toby Selfe and Rubie-Lee Hicks

11 years Christopher Morgan and Chloe McCarthy

12/13 years Nicholas Motley and Mia Cummings

You will no longer be able to use our old app. Please download the Skool Bag app and search for

Nyngan Public School in order to get the latest updates,

newsletters and send in your child’s absentees.

Note – if you have sent through any absent notes for your child through our old app this week could you please resend them through our new app.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL)

Last week’s draw winners were:

Line Legends: Year 4

Attendance Winner: Jaxson Yeomans

Bango winners:

* Kinder - Lexi Cook

* Year 1 - Joanna Raymond

* Year 2 - Mckinlay Dedman

* Year 3 - Gracie Griffiths

* Year 4 - Charli Selfe

* Year 5 - Jamaal Simpson

* Year 6 - Shania Dutschke

This week’s draw winners are:

Line Legends: Year 2 and 5

Attendance Winner: Kalee Heenan

Bango winners:

* Kinder - Jordan Payne

* Year 1 - Charlie Klante

* Year 2 - Lucas Pollard

* Year 3 - Gracie Griffiths

* Year 4 - Oscar Fitzalan

* Year 5 - Alexis Stanley

* Year 6 - Samuel Milligan

Year 1 have filled their classroom Bango Buck tub by showing Safe, Respectful and

Cooperative behaviour. They will be celebrating on Thursday 8th

August and have decided

they would like to make slime.

Students with three or more Millennium entries will need to complete a PBL lesson before

joining in.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR FOR LEARNING (PBL) REWARD AFTERNOON

On Monday the 5th of August NPS students will be participating in their rewards

afternoon for positive behaviour. With the help of Miss Fensom and the SRC students we are

hosting a FUN sports afternoon from 2pm-3pm.

K-2 will be enjoying rotations on Larkin Oval such as:

· The Parachute

· Ball games

· Egg and spoon races

3-6 will be engaging in a sport they choose at school such as:

· Tennis

· Hockey

· Cricket

Congratulations to all students on filling another Bango Box with positives from our

playground.

WE ARE PROUD OF YOU!!

Please be reminded students with 3 or more Millennium entries will be completing a PBL

lesson before they participate in our rewards afternoon.

LIBRARY

Nyngan Public School was one of 2000 recipients to be donated the Grower Series books by

Alice Mabin.

The books are "The Grower, The heartbeat of Australia" and "The Grower, The roots of

Australia".

Proudly donated to the school by John Nicoletti to enable young Australians to connect with

where their food and fibre comes from.

The books are beautifully presented with

amazing photographs. The books can be

found in our school library.

We thank John Nicoletti for his donation.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Youth and Community Centre Survey

Bogan Shire Council would like your thoughts on whether there is a need for a dedicated

space for youth (12-24 year old) activities in Nyngan. The Council has an opportunity to

apply for grant funding to construct a Community Centre which could include provision for

the salary of a Youth Worker to run programs and activities outside school hours.

It would be appreciated if you could complete this short survey to help Council make an

informed choice.

Please could you complete the survey by 4pm on Friday 9 August 2019

Please contact Abigail McLaughlin, Community Development Officer (6835 9000) if you

have any questions about the survey.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QLCSYPP

Derek Francis

General Manager

Bogan Shire Council