Phone 6374 1622 Email gulgong-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web gulgong-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Calendar Swimming for Sport Infants Wednesday,

Primary FridayNovemberWednesday 6th,13th,20th,27th Kindy Kapers SessionsMonday 11th WEEK 5 Wellbeing WeekNovember 19th / 20th Year 5 Overnight Excursion

Return Medical Notes by Friday 15th NovemberMonday 25th Prefect/Captain Speeches 10.00am Gulgong Public School Hall

December Friday 6th GPS School FeteThursday 5th Gulgong High School Music

ConcertMonday 2nd - Friday 13th Intensive Swimming - Yrs K- 6Thursday 10th Presentation Day Tuesday 10th Year 6 Farewell

School Times: - 9.25am - 3.25pmPlease Report to the Office if you are picking your

children up early or arriving late.

12th November, 2019Term 4, Week 5

Getting on Track in Time (Got It!) Is a program designed to help teachers and parents build and support children’s social and emotional skills. We are excited to announce that the Got It! program is being rolled out at Gulgong Public School from Terms 4 2019. You are invited to an information session to learn more about the GOT IT program and answer any questions you may have.

ALL KINDERGARTEN AND YEAR 1 GULGONG PUBLIC SCHOOL PARENTS ARE

VERY WELCOME!!!

WHERE:

GULGONG PUBLIC SCHOOL

WHEN: *MONDAY 25TH

NOVEMBER 2:30PM-3:30PM

IF YOU HAVE

ANY

QUESTIONS,

PLEASE

CONTACT THE

GOT IT TEAM ON

63698204 OR

SCHOOL ON

63741622

Appointments with the Teachers and the Principal

can be made by contacting the School Office.

Your details will be taken and someone will get back to you with a suitable time.

Please Do Not make Contact through Facebook or Messenger.

This week we celebrate Wellbeing Week at GPS.

We have many activities planned over the week for students and staff to engage in.

We hope you have a fabulous week.

* Magnificent Monday * Check In Tuesday * Fill Your Bucket Wednesday * Thankful Thursday - Staff vs Year 6 Netball game at 2.15pm * Fun Friday

- ‘Wear What you Want' and Infants and Primary discos during break times.

Entry - Gold Coin Donation

Best of luck to our boys cricket team today.

They play Orange Public School for a place in the State Quarter finals.

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PRINCIPALS MESSAGE

Respect staRts with youRself

Respect is defined in the dictionary as: due regard for the feelings, wishes, or rights of others.

My personal aim at school is to always treat students, staff and parents with respect when dealing with them.

I rarely raise my voice or get very cranky at students.

I also expect this of the staff at Gulgong Public School.

We try our very best to treat everyone with Respect.

We may not always get this perfect but we try.

Recently at school we have had an outbreak of students not treating each other and teachers in this manner.

This involves following instructions and not talking back to a teacher when they ask you to do something.

For students, this looks like, keeping hands and feet to themselves and speaking nicely and kindly to one

another.

There is an old saying "that my mother used to tell me.

if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all".

This is a great rule to live by.

Here at Gulgong we don't put up with people not showing Respect or hurting other students.

If your son or daughter is involved in hitting, kicking, punching or abusing another student or staff member

verbally or physically you should expect a call from the school and consequences to follow.

If they did this outside school then often the authorities would get involved and students need to learn there are

consequences for their actions.

On the other side if your son or daughter is the victim of this then you can also expect to hear from us.

This will be to let you know what happened, that your child is ok and that there were consequences for the other

students involved.

There are going to be people in our lives that we don't gel or mesh well with.

Part of our job as parents and teachers is to show our children how to deal with different people whilst still showing them the Respect that they deserve as a

person.

Imagine how nice the world would be if we all treated each other the way we wished to be treated.

We may not be able to do this across the world (yet) but we can try to start with Gulgong Public School.

David Lewis

Principal

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This Week’s WinnerEstelle Wade

Uniform WinnerKINDY KAPERS

Session 1 - 9.30am -11.30am

Session 2 - 1.00pm - 3.00pm

Please ensure your child has a piece of fruit,

water and a hat.

Getting into Learning at Gulgong High School

Community members are invited to come along to our Getting Into Learning Evening.

At this evening ,community members will be able to make a mobile phone speaker in our woodwork room.

Please feel free to come along and make one. To ensure there is enough time to complete the project

please arrive no later than 5.45pm.

Date: Tuesday, 19 November 2019 from 4:00-7:00

Location: Gulgong High School

Woodwork Room

Gulgong Public School Christmas Family Gala Night

If you wish to be a Stallholder please contact the Gulgong Public School Office on 6374 1622.

A $20 stall fee will be required.

SHARED READING IN THE LIBRARY

Shared Reading will finish

Friday,Week 6, this Term.

2020 Captain and Prefect Speeches.

With 2020 fast approaching , it is time to look to the new student leaders for our school. Student leaders play a very important role in a school.

These leaders lead by example in class, in the playground and provide stability in our organisation of many school events that students engage in.

Nominations have been made and the Captain & Prefect speeches will be held on the Monday 25th November (Week 7) at 10am in the School Hall.

The successful group of students will be announced on our Presentation Day which is being held on Tuesday 10th December 2019.

All parents, carers and family are invited to attend.

SHOOSH FOR KIDS

11 – 17 November 2019sport.nsw.gov.au/shooshforkids

Shoosh for Kids is proudly supported by:

Join the Office of Sport, Sport NSW, State Sporting Organisations and grassroots clubs across the state for Shoosh for Kids, the initiative promoting positive spectator behaviour at junior sport. Visit our website to sign up, gain access to posters, social media posts and more and let your members know where you stand on poor spectator behaviour.

Let’s keep kids coming back to junior sport!

LIBRARY NEWS

Library is CLOSED for borrowing for 2019 and we are returning books to the shelves.

We are sending home notices with Outstading Books Listed.

If you have returned the book, lost it or it is damaged please notify us and we will be able to replace it.

Shared Reading in the Library will finish Friday, Week 6, this Term

Many thanks - Library