Tighes Hill Public School Newsletter No. 15

Principal’s Report

Thank you to all the children who have found their summer

school hats this week. Well done. Our “No Hat no Play” hard line

is part of our Sun Safe policy and is in place to protect our

children throughout the warmer months. Please help your child

remember to wear their school hat, to school, each day.

As this is the last newsletter for this term I want to thank all our

parents and carers for their fantastic support in all areas of

school. We really value having you work closely with us to

maximise learning outcomes for the children. I particularly would

like to thank all the parents who have taken the positive steps

towards becoming involved in the many areas of our school from

P&C members, school gardeners, classroom helpers, venue

drivers and assisting in all the varied functions and activities that

our school engages in each day. We have a wonderful number of

parents and carers who participate in all our activities thank you!

Your involvement makes a difference for all children and staff

and our school grounds reflect this as well. I want to encourage

and invite more to join in.

As the holidays finally arrive I hope that you have a restful and

safe break and enjoy just being with your children. I also hope

that the holidays will finally see the end of the great number of

colds and flus that have been around and that attendance in term

4 will be exceptional for all children. This is also a great time for

all children to be treated for head lice.

I also really want to thank my staff and all the children for their

extremely hard work this term, their great resilience and flexibility

in being able to step up to any challenge and their total

commitment to learning and wellbeing. Everyone has worked

very hard at achieving outcomes and overcoming challenges.

Term 3 Week 10 25th September 2019

Dates for the Diary

Friday 27th September

Year 5/6 Fair!

Last day of term 3 - happy holidays!

Monday 14th October

All students and staff return for term 4

Thursday 17th October

Band Workshop

Wednesday 23rd October

Bandfest

Thursday 24th October

OC 2020 Orientation evening 5pm

Friday 25th October

Interschool Chess Challenge Finals

Monday 28th October

Children’s University:

Graduation Ceremony

Year 2 Swim School begins

Thursday 31st October

CEP Digital Media Festival 4.30pm

Tighes Hill Public School

33 Elizabeth St, Tighes Hill, 2297

Phone: 4969 3720 Fax: 4961 2334

Email:

tigheshill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website:

www.tigheshill-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Principal’s Report

School Banking is on

WEDNESDAYS

Book Club Orders

Issue 6 orders

arriving soon

Assemblies

Our weekly assemblies are:

K-2 Monday 2.15pm

Y3-6 Tuesday 2.00pm

in our upper hall

Hall of Fame assembly

Last week each term under COLA

The next P&C meeting will be held

Monday 4th November at 6pm

ALL WELCOME TO ATTEND!

Choir performance

Miss Tregillgas and the students took to the stage on 12/9/2019

at Waratah High as part of the combined cluster choir evening.

The performance was terrific and I was so proud to be in the

audience and watch the Tighes Hill choir perform. This school

opportunity was excellently organised by Miss Tregillgas.

Congratulations everyone.

Sporting Superstar!

Congratulations to Alexis who competed at Nationals recently.

She came 6th in the National 200m and won a Gold medal in the

800m medley relay.

Principal’s Report

Assembly Awards ~ Term 3 Week 9

KD Sullivan and Tygah

KH Mae and Moby

K1N Eve and Arjan

1C Piper and Luca

1E Sia and Rex

2MB Alice and Liam

2W Asha and Mela

3D Leo and Aidan

3S Lucy and Reuben

4R Aubrey and Ava

4S Amethyst and Una

5T Willow and Sidney

5/6W Joey and Hannah

6B Finn and Harrison

Hall of Fame recipients for Quality

Congratulations to Mikayla, Mae, Marlia, Meka, Phoebe, Oscar,

Suki, Charlie, Tygah, Bronx, Luciana, Pipa, Elliott, Otis, Grace,

Ella, Stella, Clementine, Caitlin, Eddie, Orli, Mitchell, Henry,

Jack, Andreas, Sienna, Millie, Mia, Hamish, Sanne, Laura,

Jemima, Ruby, Issach, Rebecca, Seb, Chloe, Zante and Chloe

Congratulations to all our children and staff.

Tony Selwood

PRINCIPAL

Chess Coaching

Mondays 1.15pm - 1.55pm

provided by the Sydney

Academy of Chess.

Term 4 cost $85.50.

Please see Ms Armstrong for

more details.

Tighes Hill Primary School

New App!

Information has been sent home

with instructions about how to

access our Sentral Parent app

School News

Tell Them From Me - Parent Survey

This term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell

Them From Me suite of surveys on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions

about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s

experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and

practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable

feedback will help our school make practical improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey

will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be

conducted between 26 August and 25 October. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary,

your responses are very much appreciated.

To complete the survey, click on the link below or scan the QR code.

http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/thps

Office Times

The school office opens at 8.30am each morning and closes at 3.30pm. Outside of these operating hours

the office cannot process financial activities or administer first aid treatment in the sick bay. Access to the

sick bay outside of the office operating hours is not permitted. Thank you for supporting the school with

this process.

PEANUTS/Anaphylactic reaction reminder

The number of children at Tighes Hill Public School with allergies to different food products and

substances is growing. At this school we have students with severe (life threatening) reactions to peanuts

and all tree nuts enrolled. To maximise the wellbeing and safety for all students, parents are asked not to

pack peanut butter sandwiches or nut products for your children and to make sure that you are vigilant in

reading labels of all pre-packaged foods. Please let’s work together to provide a safe environment for all

students.

Book Week Celebrations

Thank you to all parents and friends of Tighes Hill PS for coming along to our Book Week parade and

supporting the staff and students. The costumes were amazing and the students had a great time. A big

thank you for the support that was given to the book fair and all the purchases and donations to the school

library.

School News

School News

Great Aussie Bush Camp

Well done to all of our Year 5/6 students for their great work at camp last week. We had so much fun

taking part in archery, team building initiatives, canoeing, high ropes, raft building and more! To see more

photos, visit our Facebook page or Instagram.

1st round of finals against Newcastle East PS 2nd round of finals against Ashtonfield PS

Our debating Year this year has been full of achievements and not only did they win

our pool competition but they progressed into the second round of finals.

Unfortunately, even though it was an extremely close battle, we did not come out

victorious against Ashtonfield and our competitive debating season is now over. Our

team did exceptionally well this year due to their commitment to training and

enthusiasm to learn and try new things to better their debating skills. They will become

mentors to our Year 5 team next term as they continue their training to fill the shoes of

those who leave for high school. It has been a joy to work with such a hard working

group of people!

Library shut down for Term 3

A huge thank your to all the Tighes Hill community for supporting and getting involved in

celebrating Book week with us! This year we made over 3,000 dollars and we have been

able to keep close to $700 as our commission for sales. That money will be invested back

into our library! We also received over $500 dollars worth of donations! Thank you to all

those who came along and purchased.

Please remember that there will be no borrowing this week as we prepare for school

holidays. Books that are overdue or are not needed throughout the holiday break are

asked to be returned to the library before Friday.

Class library days are as follows:

Mondays: KH and K1N Tuesdays: OC, 6B, 2MB, 3D, 3S

Wednesdays: 1E, 2W and KD Thursdays: 4S, 4R, 5T and 5/6W Fridays: 1C

Remember at Tighes Hill we have a ‘no bag no borrow policy’

Take a look at these exciting new arrivals!

Scholastic Book Club:

Orders for term 3 are now closed. Orders for the last issue will arrive throughout this

final week before holidays. Catalogues are handed out twice a term. Online ordering

through loop and the new catalogue is available online — this is the faster more efficient

way to order as these orders always arrive first!

Visit www.scholastic.com.au/schools/ to access your child’s class

Happy Reading!

Meg Derricott - Tighes Hill PS librarian

Students in years 5 and 6 have been busy planning our

2019 Year 5/6 Fair for Friday 27th September, which is our major fundraising event for the year and a fun day for all

students to take part in.

Last year’s fair was a great success and this year is shaping up to be just as fun with lots of exciting stalls being organised by our creative students.

All children wishing to purchase from the various stalls are asked to bring in their money prior to the fair as no money will be used on the day at any of

the stalls. Children will be given tokens (Fair money) in exchange for their money which will then be used to make purchases at the stalls. Money will be collected

from classes by student leaders every day leading up to the Fair.

You can help make this day a success by donating cakes,

lollies, drinks, pizza ingredients, ice cream cones and any bits and pieces for trash and treasure. Any donations can be brought in to 5/6’s room.

Don’t forget - Fair day is also a mufti day! You can wear out of uniform, comfortable clothing and closed-in shoes.

Jumping Castle

Popcorn $1

Homemade pizza $1 per slice

Drinks $1

Cake Stall $1 Trash &

Treasure $1

Fortune Telling $1

Face Painting $1

Lolly bags $1

Bottle stall $1

Hair, Beauty & Nails Salon $1

What’s in the box $1 Ice cream $1 Gladiators $1

Ninja Warrior $1

Mystery Pong $1

Yuck in a Cup $1

Pie Face $1

Lucky Dips $1

Air

Splat or Swallow $1

Nerf Wars $1

Beast Master $1

Community News

Community News

Community News

Peter Pan is one of the most beloved and frequently performed family favourites of all time. This

high-flying Tony Award-wining musical has been performed around the world and delighted

audiences for over 60 years.

With an outstanding cast of young performers to feature in Hunter Drama’s large scale lavish

production to be staged at Newcastle’s beautiful Civic Theatre. It's sure to be the best school holiday

fun ever!

Join Peter and his mischievous fairy sidekick, Tinkerbell, visit the nursery of the Darling children late

one night and, with a sprinkle of pixie dust, begin a magical journey across the stars that none of

them will ever forget.