Term 2, Week 7

Week 9

Tue

25/6 CANTEEN TUESDAY SPECIAL: HOTDOG

Wed

26/6 School Band Rehearsals in

Demountable from 8:00-8:45am

Spelling Bee Thur

27/5 COS Public Speaking competition

Fri

28/6

Music Lessons in Demountable @ 7:45am

Dance Troupe @ 8am

1D Assembly and Superstar Awards @

2:15pm

TERM 2

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO

YOU ... Bryn Fuller, Addison Cook,

Amelie Hill, Kale McClymont

and William Humphrey

Week 8

Wed

19/6 School Band Rehearsals in

Demountable from 8:00-8:45am

Thu

20/6

Figgy Heights Fathering Project

Board Games and Cards -

FHPS @1:35pm

Fri

21/6

Music Lessons in Demountable @ 7:45am

Dance Troupe @ 8am

Superstar Awards Assembly @ 2:45pm

Flying Figtree Superstars:

Congratulations to the following

Bronze

Superstar students:

Abigail Humphrey, Olivia Lonsdale,

Jamie Wouters, Rose MacRae,

Olivia Morgan, Asher Percival,

Sophia Edwards-Alm, Mia Placek,

Charlie Kerr, Keiana O’Neill,

Lexi Forrester, Ethan Dzeparoski,

Audrey Lonsdale, Liam Hayes,

Alex Popovski, Lawson Cook,

Lorelei Percival, Ty Adlington,

Jaiden Kerr, Bennett Anderson

and Hunter Demertzis

Congratulations to the following

Silver

Superstar students:

Nash Ferguson, Isla Nelson,

Jaxon Toth, Ebony Pascoe,

Kelaela Smith and Sophie Thackray

Superstar wristbands will be awarded at the

Friday June 14th assembly at 2:45pm

Week 7

Wed

12/6 School Band Rehearsals in

Demountable from 8:00-8:45am

Fri

14/6

Music Lessons in Demountable @ 7:45am

Dance Troupe @ 8am

Superstar Awards Assembly @ 2:45pm

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l Dear Parents and Carers,

I hope you were able to spend time in the sunshine and enjoy some

relaxed family time over the long weekend. Our teachers are very busy

completing reports at the moment so the holiday Monday was much

appreciated by them.

Last Wednesday we held our P&C meeting for the term. It was lovely to

meet Mrs Raelene Redfern, our new Principal, at this well attended

meeting.

Our students and staff are blessed to have such an active, supportive and

caring P&C. With the funds raised from the tremendously successful Colour

Run and profits from the canteen, the P&C were able to provide $8,900 for

Ipads and technology resources. These will be used to support class

learning across all key learning areas, especially digital technology skills

such as coding which is a requirement of the new NSW Science and

Technology syllabus.

The P&C were also able to generously provide an additional $4,600 for the

purchase of books to support the explicit teaching of reading and literacy

studies across the whole school. The teachers are most appreciative of

these wonderful resources.

The debating team is busy practising for our round robin Debating Day

next Tuesday at Figtree Public where they will compete in two debates.

We wish them well in this exciting venture.

EMERGENCY ‘LOCK DOWN’ PRACTICE

Next week we will be holding a practice emergency ‘Lock Down’

procedure. You may wish to speak to your child about this so that they are

not overly alarmed.

‘FATHERING PROJECT’ DAY AT FIGTREE HEIGHTS PUBLIC SCHOOL

Calling all dads, grandfathers and father figures - please put the afternoon

(from 1:30pm) of Thursday, 20th June in your diaries to spend with your

child/ren enjoying an afternoon snack and playing board games.

SPELLING BEE

There’s a buzz in the air as many of our students focus intently on practising

for our Figtree Heights Spelling Bee Competition. The finals will be held on

Thursday, June 27th. Stage 2 will begin at 9am and Stage 3 will be held at

12pm. Family and loved ones are most welcome to attend.

2020 KINDERGARTEN

If you know of any family in our local area who have a child starting

Kindergarten in 2020, please encourage them to contact the school and

leave their details. Our classes in 2020 depend on our Kindergarten

numbers and the earlier we can finalise these numbers the better. Thank

you in advance.

I hope you have a wonderful week.

Kind regards,

Dee

Superstar Student

Over the weekend Barry Dennis of 4/5B set

up an ice cream stall at his house in Figtree

raising money for the RSPCA.

He raised $50 all up which will be donated

to RSPCA Illawarra.

Well done Barry.

If you'd like to join our Figgy Heights Fathers group and be in the loop with

what we're doing, follow this link, fill in your name and email address, and

join other fathers and father-figures from our school community:

https://thefatheringproject.org/dads-group/figtree-heights-public-school/?letter=F

Details of the upcoming Figgy Heights Fathers event are as follows:

Thursday 20th of June

1:35pm - eat recess with your kid/s

2:00pm - quick group talk with Mr Nielsen about The Fathering Project and

Figgy Heights Fathers

2:10pm - in classrooms to play board games and cards with kids

FIGGY HEIGHTS FATHERING TIPS Teaching Independence

This week, we are looking at teaching your kids independence. Try our tips:

Encourage your kids to make decisions; on what activity to do on the weekend,

what to help make for dinner, what holidays to go on.

Give your kids responsibilities around the house and hold them accountable.

Ask for your child’s opinion when making family decisions. Take what they have to

say seriously.

Teach them not to take things for granted; a good method with this is getting them

to create a savings plan to pay for part of something they want.

What do you call a

fake noodle?

An Impasta

SRC BADGES If you have a SRC badge from last term could you please return it to the office OR If you

would like to keep your badge, please make a payment of $10.00 through the

office.

Bookclub Issue 4 closes Sunday 23rd June 2019

Scholastic Bookclub Orders

All Bookclub purchases must be done online using the Scholastic Loop Payment Portal.

If you wish to purchase books for a gift and would like the option to pick up from the

School Office, there is now an option to select this when you order online.

If you have any queries or require assistance, please contact the Bookclub Coordinator

Rebecca Anderson on 0412469343.

Cash or cheques will not be accepted as payment.

Wednesday

12/06 Julie Jones & Brooke Bridge

Friday

14/06 Karen Polhill & Sarah Snelson

Monday

17/06 Simone Pratt

Community News

FHPS Canteen

The canteen is open for lunch

orders

Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Don’t forget to use our

HEALTHY canteen!

Please note: S/S= selected students only

What When

School Magazine (s/s) $10 End Term 2

Mathletics (s/s) $26 End Term 2

MathsOnline (s/s) $10 End Term 2

Reading Eggs (s/s) $24 End Term 2

Spelling Mastery End Term 2

What is Due and When?