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Tighes Hill
Public School
33 Elizabeth Street, Tighes Hill, 2297
Phone: 4969 3720
4969 3703 Fax: 4961 2334
Email address: [email protected] Website: www.tigheshill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Newsletter No. 18 27th
November 2013
Principals Newsletter Week 8 ~ November 27th 2013
The next few weeks leading up to the end of Term 4, promises to be extremely busy so it is important to keep an eye on the up-coming events and activities as most children will be involved. Thank you for your patience during these final weeks. Apart from the huge demands of the day to day organisation of the different learning activities within the school, all staff are also involved in finalising assessment and reports, strategic and annual planning, the Annual School Report, financial roll-over and the added on department and regional training sessions that are difficult to pre-plan.
Presentation Assembly: This special assembly will be held on Tuesday the 10th of December at the Grainery in George Street. All children will walk to the venue from school (notes will be sent home next week) with their teachers and SLSOs. The assembly will commence at 12.00pm and conclude by 2.00pm. Parents who wish to take their children home from the Grainery must indicate on the permission note. We are all looking forward to sharing the children’s achievements with you.
Carols Night: Thank you to Miss Beker, Mr Britt and all our staff for organising this annual event scheduled for the evening of Thursday 5th December. Our carols night is a great way to welcome the Christmas season. The evening is set to begin at 4.15pm with a sausage sizzle. Please bring your blankets and pillows to sit on so you can listen to the children perform. Unfortunately, we are growing too big to continue to use the lovely entry near the silver seats.
School Captains/Vice Captains ~ 2014: A whole school assembly will be held next Tuesday 3rd December for the announcement of Tighes Hill Public School’s Captains for 2014. The assembly will commence at 12 noon, all parents, grandparents, caregivers are welcome to attend.
Parent Helpers Morning Tea: All parent and community members, who have assisted in ANY way, are invited to attend a special Parent Helpers Morning tea that will begin following the Scripture Assembly on Tuesday 3rd December. Invitations were sent out last week BUT if you did not receive yours please let us know as notes DO get misplaced on the way home and we would hate you to think that you have been overlooked.
Our school newsletter comes out fortnightly on Wednesdays and is given to the eldest member of the family.
This edition includes: Principal’s Report
Carols Night Information Flyer
P&C News
Islington Park Carols
Dates to Remember
Mon 2nd Dec Last K-2 Assembly
Tues 3rd Dec Scripture Assembly ~ 9.20am
Helpers Morning Tea
Captains/Vice Captains Announced ~ 12noon
Thurs 5th Dec Carols Night ~ Starting at 4.15pm
Mon 9th Dec K-6 Assembly ~ Principals Personal Best
Canteen Meeting – 5.30pm ~ Staff room
P & C Meeting – 6.00pm
Tues 10th Dec Presentation Day ~ 12pm ~The Grainery
Thurs 12th Dec Year 6 Farewell
Mon 17th Dec Reports go home
Year 6 Farewell: Again this evening will be held at Islington Baptist church hall on Thursday the 12th of December and all Year 5 and 6 children are attending. Miss Armstrong and Mrs Ireland are working hard preparing for this very special night for Year 6. All the children are asked to wear smart casual and appropriate clothes; the boys need to wear a collared shirt with no inappropriate logos. Girls need to be appropriately dressed with sensible shoes as dancing can cause twisted ankles. Further time and organisation information will be sent home.
Year 6 Uniforms/Mufti: Year 6 children will be able to wear mufti for the remainder of the year WHEN they donate their uniform to the clothing pool after Wednesday 11th of December. All uniforms can be handed in at the office.
Autographs: I am more than happy for all Year 6 children to collect their friends’ autographs before the end of the year, the only proviso, autographs cannot be collected on any uniform that is being currently worn. Autograph bears, books and uniforms brought to school in a plastic bag are all better options. This can be done in the final week of school.
Reports: Our yearly reports will be handed out Monday the 17th of December. All teachers have worked extremely hard to ensure that all data entered is a true representation of your child’s learning growth. I am sure that you will be very pleased with the comprehensive assessment information and the clear picture of your child’s progress and achievements that these reports contain. Please let us know if multiple copies need to be sent home. Don’t hesitate to contact teachers if you need any point clarified.
Outstanding Excursion Payments, School Fees: As we are entering the final few weeks of the 2013 school year I urge all parents to finalise outstanding payments for excursions, photographs, book packs and school fees. Each year, as a school we end up carrying bad debts and then we have difficulty trying to retrieve late payments. This really impacts on our capacity to assist new and needy families each year. Please help us end the year in the black! Enrolments 2014: To enable us to correctly estimate enrolments and staff for 2014, I need all parents enrolling children K-6 to complete enrolment forms and leave their details at the office ASAP. Please let me know of any neighbours and friends, who may not have children already at this school but will have school age children for 2014, we can then contact them and include them on our numbers for next year. Thank you to all the parents who are promoting our school in such a positive way and encouraging all local families to enrol in their local school.
If you are not returning next year, or know of new enrolments or going on holidays and returning after school commences in 2014 please see Margaret at the office. PEANUTS/Anaphylactic Reaction: Tighes Hill Public School is becoming a nut free zone from Term 4 onwards. The number of children with allergies to different food products and substances is growing. At this school we have had students with severe (life threatening) reaction to eggs and peanuts enrolled. Each Monday we have a Kindy Club student who has such an allergy to peanuts. To maximise the wellbeing and safety for all students, parents are asked not to pack peanut butter or nut sandwiches 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.
Newsletter: In Term 4 the newsletter as discussed at the P&C meetings and school assemblies became paper free and is no longer printed and distributed in a paper copy. We ask that parents and carers access the newsletter from the following: • school website • school app • classroom blogs • supply the office with an email address that it can be sent to
A small number of printed copies will be available for collection at the office for those who cannot access the newsletter by these means. This will be a saving to the school and a much more environmentally sound method of delivery.
School App: Thank you to all of our families who have downloaded our new school app. The feedback has been amazing and we look forward to continuing to develop new and innovative ways to best utilise it. The app gives you the ability to instantly access newsletters without going to the website, or to send in a sick note for your child without having to write a paper note! Download it to your smartphone or tablet by going to either the Apple App store or Android Google Play Market and search for our school name. Once you have found it press install or download. One of the new ways we will be using our app is to send push notifications to communicate travel time during excursions. School App Update Are you not receiving push notifications on your iphone? If you have updated your software to IOS7 then you will need to uninstall the THPS App and reinstall. Make sure when you open the App you accept ‘push notifications’! P&C: The final P& C meeting will be held on Monday the 9th of December at 6.00pm. Come along and help celebrate 2013 achievements and plan for 2014.
ASSEMBLY AWARDS Week 7 & 8 KD. Max Baudelaire, Jack Peady, Nora Prieto, Sophie McCulloch, Oliver Collis KR. Henry Gallacher, Maiya Spoljaric, Bobby Hunter, Fraser Haug, Django Rees, Ede Warwick KR1. Cooper Crooks, Mia Whyburn, Jamie Dear, Harrison Bebb, Jemima Kellett, Adam Watson 1L. Lachlan Riters, Emily Michie, Mekah Leslie, Isabella Parker, Christopher Farthing,
Chelsea Young 1E2. Nas Andrews, Sam Howe, Imogen Peady, Tyson McCulloch, Georgia Perry, Edie Isaacs 2G. Olivia Collins, Jude McIvor, Mala Blackley, Jamie Farthing, Connor Sternbeck, Lucy Pascoe 3S4. Jaden Hudson-Ross, David Nguyen, Maggie Puhi 4J5. Anthony Sheedy, Keiran Insley, Akira Poggi 5A6. Rory Graham, Amy Phillips, Liam Badier, Cooper Cheetham, Christopher Falley,
Ethan Callingham Congratulations Everyone! Fantastic Effort! Tony Selwood Principal
**The Canteen is in desperate need of volunteers for Friday 13th December. **
Breakfast Club: We are always desperately in need of volunteers to run our
Breakfast Club. We are now asking for volunteers for 2014; if you are available one morning a week from 8.30am – 9.30am please leave your name at the office. This is an important service that we offer here at our school as it provides breakfast for children in need.
Thank you in anticipation ~ Mary Crump (Community Liaison Officer)
Canteen Roster Thurs 28th Nov
CLOSED
Fri 29th Nov
Dee Crocks
Help Needed
Mon 2nd Dec
Anna Kasper
Simon Marrable
Tues 3rd Dec
Ashley Sneddon
Thuy Long
Wed 4th Dec
CLOSED
Thurs 5th Dec
Jenine Stibbard
Sarah Gallacher
Fri 6th Dec
Mel Yarnold
Adam Yarnold
Mon 9th Dec
Christine Hallam
Kristy Crooks
Tues 10th Dec
Sonya Phillips
Caryl Bajrai
Kate Ross
Wed 11th Dec
CLOSED
Thurs 12th Dec
Dearne Spoljaric
Lucy Ellis
Fri 13th Dec
Lisa Fisher
Help Needed
Tighes Hill Public School
Annual Christmas Carols
Concert
Join us under the trees on our grass area for carols and
celebrate the Christmas season! When: Thursday the 5th December
Time: Sausage Sizzle from 4.15 till 5pm
Performances begin at 5pm
Where: Under the trees on the grass area
(If wet we will be under the COLA)
What to bring: Money for sausage sizzle and drink, Picnic rugs
Sausage Sizzle
$2
Drinks
$2
School News
Music News ~ Band Camp 2013 Congratulations Tyler Wakefield and Eva Morris on your achievements at Band Camp. We had three great days with 60 other students from four different schools. The Wednesday evening performance for parents and friends was outstanding. Well done!
Class Blogs Our class blogs allow us the opportunity to communicate student achievements, learning
experiences and events taking place in our school. Subscribe to our blogs to receive the latest
news and photos.
We would love to hear your feedback so feel free to make a comment!
KR – Miss Ragan’s Rugrats – visit http://missragan.edublogs.org/
KD – Mrs Dickson’s Kindy Critters - visit http://tigheshillmrsdickson.edublogs.org/
K1R – K1R’s Super Stars! – visit http://thpsmissrobinson.edublogs.org/
IL – Ms Luke’s Little Ones – visit http://mslukeslittleones.edublogs.org/
1/2E – Tiger Cubs – visit http://tigheshill12e.edublogs.org/
3/4S – Staniland’s Superstars – visit http://tigheshill34s.edublogs.org/
4/5J – Jammin’ with Junon – visit http://thpsjunon.edublogs.org/
5/6A OC – Tiger Tales – visit http://tigheshilloc2013.edublogs.org/
Mrs Bowman’s Science Fiction – visit http://sciencefictionthps.edublogs.org/
Miss Beker’s Library – visit http://megstr21.edublogs.org/
Our class blogs can also be accessed via links on our school website class pages.
Watch this space. More blogs coming soon!
DONATIONS For OVERSEAS AIDE.
Collections for being taken for an orphanage in Thailand and villages in Laos. If you have any of the following things to donate, please bring them to the school office.
Books; pencils; hair-clips.
Helmets, match-box cars, soccer balls, air pumps.
Toothbrushes; toothpaste
Donations are being collected in the office until Friday 29th November.
These book coverers are so important, we can't show you their faces.....But we can tell you they need some help to finish covering a gazillion books!!!!!!!!!
Tighes Hill Public School
Library Stocktake
Please return all Tighes Hill Public
School library books to the library by
this Friday the 29th
November. The library will be closed for the rest of the year
after this date
P&C Update
Coming up….
CHRISTMAS
CAROLS
CONCERT
Thursday 5 December Sausage sizzle from 4:15 Performance starts at 5pm On the grass, under the trees. Canteen Meeting Monday 9th December 5:30pm In the staff room P&C Meeting Monday 9th December 6pm In the staff room PRESENTATION DAY
Tuesday 10th December
Dear Families,
We are very quickly approaching the end of 2013
and what a fantastic year it’s been.
This year saw our P&C committee grow substantially, and as
a result, we were able to accomplish some great events,
which raised significant extra funds for the school.
The Wine Tasting “Meet and greet”, the Movie Fundraiser,
and the Election “Mini Fete” were all great fun and couldn’t
have happened without the hard work of our fantastic
volunteers.
These events were a success, because of the wonderful
vibrant school community we are all a part of. Collectively,
we really are a talented, diverse and colorful bunch, and I
am excited at what we are going to achieve together in
2014. An informal “Brainstorming” session will be happening
early next year, so please come along and share your big,
small and crazy ideas! New P&C members are always
welcome.
To everyone who has helped in any way, by your effort,
your positivity and enthusiasm THANK YOU!
To Tony Selwood and his fantastic teaching and support
team, we thank you for a great year.
The P&C wishes you all a Very Happy Christmas,
and wonderful break with your families.
MURAL PROJECT Since the start of term 4, students &
teachers have been working on designs for
2 new mural pieces for the school. House
mascots will be painted on the storage
shed & toilets joining up with the garden
mural plus a feature mural with school crest
& local native animal characters near the
handball courts. Local mural designer &
street artist Jess Coglan will be completing
the layout & color design this week with
sketching up & painting starting shortly
after. Any creative parents & students who
would like to be involved in painting the
murals can contact Dale on 0401 592 323
to get info on painting days/times.
Canteen News As the term comes to an end, the canteen will be
winding down, so if your kids are using the
canteen over the next few weeks, please
understand that some items may be unavailable.
In the final week of school, anyone wanting to
help out is welcome to help with the big annual
defrost and clean up!
The last canteen meeting of the year will be on
Monday 9th December. Please come along if you
would like to contribute.
A BIG THANKYOU to all the canteen volunteers for
all of your wonderful help in 2013.
Merry Christmas, and see you all in 2014.
CAROLS IN ISLINGTON PARK
The Community Carols in Islington Park will be held on Sunday 15th December.
Activities which commence at 4.30pm include games, face painting, balloons and a free sausage sizzle.
The Carol Concert starts at 6.30pm. It will feature Islington Public School Choir, puppets, carol singing and entertainer ‘The Pretty Amazing Jono’!
You are all welcome to attend the evening which is presented for the local community by the Islington Baptist Church.
If the weather is unsuitable, the carols and other activities will be held in the hall and church. The church is opposite to Islington Park.
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Years 5-6
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Do you have any uniforms to
donate?
The P&C Uniform Pool is running very
low on stock.
Please donate your items for other families to purchase at low prices.
All profits go towards additional resources
for the school.
Uniforms are available to purchase from the canteen on,
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
from 8.50am – 9.20am.
Thank You
Marketown Shopping Centre,
Newcastle West
Growers Best kindly supply our school
with a box of fruit each week for
‘Fruit Break’
Next time you visit Growers Best , please thank them on behalf of Tighes Hill Public
School.
If you have been saving with School Banking this year and collecting your silver Dollarmites tokens, then now is the time to redeem
them before the end of term 4, as due to a system change, a maximum of 9 tokens can carry over to 2014!
Once you have chosen the reward item(s) you would like to receive, complete the coupon on your rewards card and take it, along with
your 10 tokens per reward, to school with your next School Banking deposit.
