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Term 3 Week 4 Thursday 16th August 2018 Book Week Parade

We are having Book Week a week later than other schools due to

our stage 3 excursion to Canberra. We will be hosting our Book

Week (dress up) Parade on Tuesday 28th August (Week 6) at 12

midday. The theme is ‘FIND YOUR TREASURE’. We can’t wait to see

all the students’ creative costumes!!! More information is available

later in the newsletter. See our Facebook page for some cheap and

easy (or fairly easy) ideas.

Canberra Excursion

Our year 5 and 6 students are off to Canberra for 3 days next week.

This is a fantastic opportunity for our students and strongly

supports the work they are doing related to government.

Something we all need to understand as Australian citizens.

All payments for Canberra were due last week. If you are having

difficulty paying please come and talk to me as all money will need

to be paid for students to attend the excursion unless another

arrangement had previously been made with me.

Swimming School

Swimming school has been offered to all year 2 and year 6 students

now. This swimming school is aimed at poor or non-swimmers. If

your child cannot swim 50m confidently and proficiently they

should be doing swimming school. Swimming lessons are paid for

by Dept. of Education. You are only paying pool entry and cost of

the bus. We have 60 places available and last time I checked only

22 places had been taken up.

Unfortunately the Dept. of Education does not offer the program to

year 1 and 2 students. I’m sure you can understand that it would be

quite difficult for many of them to get changed and organised in

this context. Student assistance is available for families who have

difficulty paying.

It's important our children can swim. We live on a peninsula. I am

passionate about ensuring our students can swim, after having a

student who had attended my previous school, drown in the lake a

few years ago.

Facebook

Our Facebook page is for positive promotion of school events. Any

negative comments will be removed as we want our school to be

viewed in the most positive way in the community. If you have a

problem with something that is happening, please make an

appointment to discuss the problem so you can have a complete

understanding of what is happening.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Reward Day

All students will be part of our PBL reward day to be held on

Tuesday 28th August after our book parade. To reward our students

at Gwandalan for following our PBL expectations we will have an

additional 20 minutes of playtime after recess where all teachers

will come to the playground and join students in their activities. We

will endeavour to plan different reward day for students every 5

weeks to reward them for their behaviour. In future, students who

have been suspended or attended PBL room a number of times will

be excluded.

Education Week

We had a wonderful Education week assembly and open class-

rooms visit. I was impressed to see so many parents visiting class-

rooms. I know your children really enjoy you visiting and seeing

what they are doing. Thank you to Mrs Tangye for organising our

assembly and congratulations to all the students who received

awards and to our amazing performers and public speakers.

PBL Surveys

Thank you to those parents who completed our PBL survey during

open day. We have also been seeking ideas from our students. We

want to create a “vision” statement for our PBL program. I will be

inviting parents, students and teachers to be part of developing this

statement on Monday 10th September.

There will be more information in the next newsletter.

Athletics Carnival We had a great day for our Athletics carnival. Student’s behaviour was outstanding and they were all enthusiastic to try their very best which was great to see. Thanks to Mr Turner for his organisation of the day. We have 42 students who will attend the zone carnival on 30th August. Information will be sent home tomorrow for those students. We wish them the best of luck. Parent Teacher Interviews Parent/Teacher interviews are almost complete. If you have not received the information please contact our office.

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Dates to Remember

17th August Dress like a Farmer. Mufit day Gold coin for the farmers

20th August Infants Assembly 2.20pm

21st August Bringing up Kids. Parenting program

22nd August Canberra Excursion. Students depart

23rd August Canberra Excursion Continues

24th August Canberra Excursion Continues

28th August Book Week Dress Up Day

30th August Wallarah Zone Athletics

4th September - 14th September

Swimming Scheme

19th September Kindergarten Excursion Blackbutt Reserve

New Kindergarten Students for 2018

It is again that time of year where we start to organise our

Kindergarten Transition to School program. We ask our

community if we have any families that may have a child that is

starting school next year to please come into the school office

and put their name down so that they can receive all the

information directly. This year we are going to continue our

extended transition program starting with our Picnic in the Park

this term. We will then, during Term 4, run 4 transition days for

students and their parents. This is a great opportunity for our

students to get a wonderful start to their schooling journey.

Please contact the school if you require any additional

information or just need to ask a question.

Parent Code of Conduct

I have previously included with the newsletter our Parent Code

of Conduct. This can be accessed on our webpage in the “Our

School” tab under “Rules and Polices”. I want to remind

everyone to; “treat all persons associated with the school with

respect and courtesy”. This includes in and around the school

and includes people of all races and religions. People who do not

follow our Code of Conduct are at risk of being excluded from

the school grounds. We have had a recent incident where a

parent has received racist comments outside our school.

Kind Regards

Sandy Notley

Principal

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Infants PBL Assembly Awards

Bronze Silver

Piper Fischer Skye Smidt Savannah Hind Hayden Smith Matilda Marshall Hayden McKinnon Amelia Newton Claire Pittman

Piper Fischer Chayce Fullerton

Primary PBL Assembly Awards Week 4 term 3

Bronze Silver Gold Diamond Principal

Isaac Davy Riley Campbell-Butler Annabelle Taylor Aaliyah James Heidi Shmidt Brodie Munsie Emily Lewis Curtis Beveridge Mackenzie Shep-pard Lara Bull Marnie Angus Mason Hamilton Hendrix McGrath-Green Kaley Bull Cody Nuttridge Kiara Walton Lincoln Apps Bronte Broom Tara Austin Bryson Clarke Amber Cunning-ham Mia Harris Jacinta Cruise Zac Wahby Keili Kirchner Taj Findlater Mason Hartas Taleeha Dun-combe Amy Dalton River Lambert Jesse Cooper Rebecca Turner

Lilly-Ann Smith Prysais Ciel Lauren Boslem Lara Bull Marnie Angus Erica Scott Isaac Davy Zac Wilberforce Angel Zreika Zoey Blight Zac Wahby Keili Kirchner Mason Hartass Liam Knight Harper Jones

Prysais Ciel Lauren Boslem Boyd Wilks

Chelsea Gutierrez Kira Whitney Lilly-Ann Smith Prysais Ciel Travis Higgins

Danielle Kennedy

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From the Office

Medication

Is your child on medication at School?

If so, we would appreciate you arranging to have your child's medication prepared into a Webster pack. This is prepared for you at the Chemist. Many Chemists do this as a free service. However some charge a small amount.

Attendance

The school has commenced sending out sms

messages to parents when students are absent. We ask that you reply to theses messages by phoning the school, recording the absence via the skool bag application or replying to the SMS.

Payments Due

Blackbutt Reserve. Kindergarten Fri 7th Sept

Swimming Scheme. Years 2 & 3 Fri 17th Aug

Kindergarten 2019

Its time to enrol your child for Kindergarten

2019.

If you or someone you know has a child that

will be starting School in 2019 please visit

the office and leave the child’s details.

READ-A-THON

Read-A-Thon will run until 24/8/2018.

This event is about participation and reading as

many books as possible and has been designed to

be a fun and educational way to assist and con-

tribute to the schools literacy program. All funds

raised are invested back into the classroom to buy

essential resources for learning.

Happy Reading!

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Positive Behaviour for Learning

Our Kindergarten to year 6 focus for Term 3 Weeks 2 and 3 was

Hard Surfaces and Wet Weather.

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Forgot to get bread?

No worries

Canteen is now open everyday for lunch!

Plus! Get excited!

Online ordering is coming soon to our canteen.

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