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Vacy Public School Newsletter Week 10 Term 3 2017

The Newsletter of Vacy Public School Term 3 Week 10 Tuesday 19 September 2017

Friendship & Learning

Dates for your Diary

September

Wednesday/

Thursday 20-21

Zoosnooz – Years 3 & 4

Friday 22 Last day for Term 3

Saturday 23 P & C Spring Dinner Dance

October

Monday 9 All students & staff return for

Term 4

Thursday 19 Kindy Orientation 9.30-10.30am

Monday 23 -

Friday 27

5/6 Camp—Narrabean

Saturday 14 Cutting Day

November

Wednesday 1 Kindy Orientation 9.10-11.10am

Wednesday 8 Surf School K-6

Tuesday 14 Kindy Orientation 9.10-11.35am

Thursday 30 School Mobile Dentist

December

Friday 1 Year 6 Farewell

Friday 8 Presentation Day 9.30am

Friday 15 Students Last Day

Relieving Principals Report

Congratulations to all our students who received their P.B.L badges at our assembly on Friday. This week the students that qualify will be participating in their reward days. I was very pleased to see that the majority of our students will get to join in. It is good to see our students making sensible choices and decisions in our classrooms and playground. Well done. As was announced in our previous newsletter this Friday will be Mrs Percival's last day at our school. As many of our staff are absent and the time frame has been quite rushed we would like to be able to give Mrs Percival a proper farewell on our Presentation Day. After the ceremony we would like to invite parents and friends to bring a plate so that we can share a special morning tea with her as thanks for her hard work and dedication to our school. We are very sad to see her go but we realise what a wonderful opportunity this is for her and wish her all the best in her new role. We know that she will do a wonderful job. Please be aware that supervision at school begins when the teacher on duty commences at 8.40. If for some reason your child needs to be here before that, please ensure you book them into Before School Care. This is a great service that we have onsite to keep your children safe if they need to be at school early. On the issue of safety I would ask that you support us in reinforcing our rules regarding the Staff car park. One of these is that the students are not to walk through it at any time. Please ensure that your children are dropped at the gates that will allow them to walk safely up the path into school. We would also ask that you help us by modelling this behaviour when you are with your children and do not enter or leave the school via the car park. Your help in reinforcing these safety messages would be greatly appreciated. Our students are all learning how to interact and socialise appropriately with their peers. From time to time children can have issues with their friends that may cause them and you as their parents distress. If you find yourself in this situation please alert the staff so that if necessary we can take the appropriate action needed to ensure all children are happy and safe at school. If we are unaware of a problem then we can not help fix it. Please do not feel you need to deal with these alone. If you think it warrants the attention of the Principal you are more than welcome to contact them. If they are away or on leave there will always be someone else who is filling this role. Please feel free to contact them via the school email or phone.

K-2 had a fantastic day at Walkabout Park on Thursday. The children got an insight into the lives of Aboriginal people from the past. We saw bathing pools, gathering areas and hand paintings in a cave that were over 40000 years old. We learnt about tress and plants that could be used to alleviate illness. We heard of their clever and innovative ways for collecting honey. The highlight for the students was eating termites! Some even came back for seconds and thirds. They are apparently very yummy but I will have to take their word for that. This was a great cultural experience for our students. We then had some very close encounters with an echidna, baby emus, a snake and a very beautiful koala. It was a great day. Thanks to Mrs Rogers and Ms Graham for their organisation.

This Wednesday 3/4 are off for their zoo snooze at Taronga zoo. We hope they have a great time and we look forward to hearing all their exciting stories when they return.

I hope everyone has a safe, relaxing and enjoyable holiday and I look forward to seeing everyone in Term 4.

Kind regards,

Maree Greaves

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STUDENT OF THE WEEK AWARDS

K/R Indiana Schumi

1/2G Emily Grainger

2/3G Deegan Holding

4/5B Ewan Knowles

5/6F Tia Magr

CLASS AWARDS

K Taylah Ham for excellent working with words.

Penny Allison for excellent reading

1 Jordan Bates for great rhyming work.

2 Nate Allison for great attitude and helpfulness.

3 Maddie Priestley for persistence.

4 Jack Butler for working hard to master division.

5 Natasha Lutschini for fantastic presentation of a life cycle.

6 Tom Doyle for excellent work converting fractions.

1/2G Class News

No home readers will be changed this week but the children do still have their spelling lists to work on if they wish. I will re-

sume readers first week back next term.

This Wednesday is our rewards day. Children can come to school dressed in casual or dress up clothes as long as they are suita-

ble for participating in the usual class activities up to lunch. If they are not the students can bring them and get dressed at the

end of lunch if they prefer. Please remember they must have filled in shoes and no singlets or crop tops. After lunch the chil-

dren will have a disco in our class. A separate note went home last week asking the children to bring in a small amount of party

food to share with their class on Friday for a small class party. ( NB this is separate to the rewards day) Any questions please

give me a call.

Library News

The book fair was extremely successful, raising over $2000 worth of books

purchased by our students and families. Once again the community support was fantastic. We

received $400 in commission to our library and we cannot thank Mrs Percival enough for

co-ordinating this event.

Bronze Sarah Chamberlain, Jorden Bates, Aiden

Hall, Sonny Thorne, Gracie Clements,

James Walters, Isabella Vonbun &

Angus Lean

Silver Kodie Knox, poppy Uren, Fletcher

Herrmann, Dougal Evans, Nellie Pereira,

Charlie Watson, Brigetter Finlay&

Dakota Robertson

PBL AWARDS

SPRING FLING! Yes, the Spring Fling is on this Saturday 23rd Sept in the Vacy School of Arts Hall, doors open at 7.00pm, with dancing, fun and games from 7.45 till late. Bring your own drinks and a plate to share for supper. We've booked the Liv Gritten Band from Newcastle, they're a great outfit playing all your favourite dance tunes from the 70s, 80s and 90s.

All who attended last time danced up a storm, met new people and had a great night out in a very relaxed atmosphere.This is a great fun way to be part of fundraising for our kids. Remember we're raising $10,000 this year to upgrade all the laptops and iPads in each classroom. Come along, bring your friends and have a great night out.

Please prepay, $25 p.p via direct deposit to the P&C bank account using the following details - BSB: 062813 Account: 00903142 and use your surname and "Dance" as the reference.

Earn and Learn

Thank you to all the families who have been bringing their Earn and

Learn stickers in. The issuing of stickers finishes this Tuesday the 19th

of September so if you could have any remaining stickers to the school

not later than Friday the 22nd (last day of term) that would be

appreciated.

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Swimming School Swimming school places are now filled, thank you for all your prompt payments. Amanda Buck Relieving SAM

Kindergarten News

Many many thanks to our parent helpers who have supported us throughout term 3. We really appreciate your

time and help. We hope to see you again term 4 week 2. This week I will be collecting library books and home

readers. These will be collected and returned next term.

Please don't forget to dress in casual clothes for our PBL reward day on Wednesday. This term we have investigat-

ed and written many stories about bees so it is very apt that we will be enjoying ‘The Bee Movie’.

Thank you Lincoln for sharing your movie with us.

Gala Sports Day

Tuesday 3rd October 2017

9am – 4pm Registration from 8.30am

BBQ lunch and fruit break will be provided.

School age children.

40 minute sessions for each sport

20 kids per group

Possible sports on the day

Hockey Soccer Rhee Taekwondo

Cricket Rugby Gymnastics

Jumping Castle & Horizontal Bungee Station

The day is being run by the Dungog Shire Community Centre

For all enquires please contact 4992 1133

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Vacy Public School Newsletter Week 10 Term 3 2017

Stage 2 ZooSnooz Camp Please note new date:

The Stage 2 ZooSnooz

excursion is now leaving

on Wednesday 20

September and

returning on Thursday

21 September. Thank

you to all the parents

who have returned their

new permission note.

Walkabout Park Excursion

K/1/2 had a massive day on Thursday at Walkabout Park. The students met a variety of Australian bush animals

and then enjoyed a bush walk with a very informative commentary from our guide. Our guide told us about the

bush resources used by our indigenous people. Our guide gave us some valuable information about making

shelters to using plants as medicine to what we can eat in the bush. We all enjoyed a picnic lunch with a nice

afternoon tea of termites to finish our day!

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Vacy Public School Newsletter Week 10 Term 3 2017

Dear Parents and Carers,

It is with great sadness that we say farewell to Amanda Percival at the end of this term. Mrs Percival has been a constant presence through my children's time at Vacy school and has been an amazing source of support for many kids who've needed that little bit extra along the way. She has brought music to all of us through her ever-so-patient work as the Choir Mistress (at least that's what they were called when I was at school!) as she has gently coaxed beautiful songs from our kids. As a netball coach she has been excellent, bringing her passion for the sport into the school to motivate the girls. Mrs Percival has reinvigorated our library, got it organised and open for lunchtime browsing and borrowing, making reading more fun and more accessible for all the children in the school.

For all of these things, as a school community we'd like to thank you, and wish you well with your new venture. On a personal note, I say thanks for being the one my kids have always chatted about so enthusiastically, you've been an ever smiling presence, a joy for them to be around and work with.

Best wishes,

Joe Thompson

P&C President

Dear Parents and Carers,

Each year I go for a bit of a motorbike ride on a cheap old bike with a bunch of family and friends to raise funds for Down Syndrome NSW, the SCRAPHEAP ADVENTURE RIDE!

The idea for the ride is to buy a bike for less than $1000, get it roadworthy and ride it to the destination via any route you choose. And of course, raise funds for Down Syndrome NSW through donations. Down Syndrome NSW provides vital services to families with Down Syndrome children and ongoing support to young adults.

This year the Scrapheap Adventure Ride is off to Tingha near Inverell in northern NSW at the end of September, and we're expecting more than 100 riders to come from all over NSW, and interstate. This is the 8th ride and to date over $500,000 has been raised.

Our team The Hillbillies are a group of family and friends from the lower Hunter valley and we're looking for your support to raise lots of money to support people with Down Syndrome and their families. Attached is a photo of my daughter Ursula (Year 5) and I on the bike we built last year (we got the trophy for "Best Scrapper"!) riding on a sheep station at Nymagee in western NSW

Your support is important, it's easy to do and it's fully tax deductible. Simply click the link below and it will take you to The Hillbillies supporter page. Follow the instructions, make your donation and you'll receive a receipt by return email.

To donate, click this link: http://www.mycause.com.au/page/156996/the-hillbillies

You can see the full details of the Scrapheap Adventure Ride and more information about Down Syndrome NSW by clicking on: http://www.scrapheapadventureride.com.au/

Thanks in advance for your generous donation.

Regards,

Joe Thompson & The Hillbillies

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VACY PUBLIC SCHOOL – CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 4 2017

Thank you to our volunteers, without you our canteen is not able to run.

Its that time again, so please if you are able to spare a couple of hours either Monday or Thursday check your diaries and let

me know.

Tanya 0429800608 or find us on Facebook “Vacy School Canteen”

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Tanya Reynolds

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Jillian Reid

Karen Whiteley

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