Trundle Central School Newsletter · This week we are hosting our local state member of parliament Philip Donato on Tuesday. Super 8’s Cricket will be on Wednesday. Last week, we

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28th October 2019 Term 4 Week 3

Trundle Central School Newsletter A school that provides a

professional, stimulating and challenging learning

environment

Principal Mr John Southon

Head Teacher Secondary Mr Gerry Capell

Assistant Principal Mrs Fiona Sanderson

Reminders

This Week:

Wed 30/10/19

Super 8’s Cricket

Kinder/Yr 7 Transition

Next Week:

Wed 6/11/19

Kinder/Yr 7 Transition

Thur 7/11/19

League Tag

P&C President

Mrs Rhonda Grady

Secretary Mrs Kelly-Lee Dunn

Treasurer Mrs Lubka Prebendarcik

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.trundle-c.schools.nsw.edu.au/


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Principal’s

Message

This week we are hosting our local state member

of parliament Philip Donato on Tuesday. Super 8’s

Cricket will be on Wednesday.

Last week, we had the privilege of hosting the

Deputy Prime Minister Mr Michael McCormack.

Mr McCormack spoke to students on assembly. I

thank Mr McCormack for making himself available

to our community. On Tuesday, our state

member Mr Phil Donato will visit to talk to

students and the community about issues within

his electorate. Members of parliament are paid to

serve the public. Therefore we are all entitled to

question their performance just as they are

entitled to question mine. I thank both members

for making themselves available.

Opportunities for employment for our students, I

believe, are affected by location and the cost of

travel. Consider the financial disadvantage our

students have if they gain employment in Parkes

but choose to live in Trundle. Six hundred

kilometres a week on an apprentices wage. This is

something I will be taking up with Mr Donato.

In some wonderful news, the P&C under the

expert guidance of Ms Hazel Walton has been

successful in securing a $60,000 grant for our new

bus. This will mean the school will have two buses

with a combined capacity of 35 seats. This will

significantly reduce the cost of excursions and

open up opportunities. I am hoping our existing 11

seat bus will serve us for another two years and

then we may be in a position to apply for a grant

to update it. Through our fundraising, the new 24

seat bus with all the extra tow bar, roo bar and

cocktail bar only cost the school $5000.

This week, our replacement computers will arrive.

This is enough to completely replace one

computer lab. In the 2020 school budget, I have

allocated funds to replace the other computer lab.

This will mean, by the end of first term, the school

will have all the latest computers giving our

students access to the best available in NSW

government schools. When I think of

infrastructure, I ask myself the question. If we

cannot afford the best available, is this the best we

can afford? I refuse to have our students sitting in

hot uncomfortable classrooms or using old

computers.

Many people have commented on how good the

school grounds are at this time. This is because of

the hard work and knowledge of Richard Grady.

This school has made considerable effort over the

last 5 years to improve the appearance and

comfort of this school, as well as improve facilities. The reason is simple. There is a

mountain of research that indicates student effort,

behaviour and well-being are positively enhanced

by the physical environment in which they learn.

Research also indicates that the appearance of the

school is one of the cheapest and most sustainable

ways of improving school spirit. I am one of the

best spenders of other people’s money on the

planet but I also read research into how students

learn or behave.

Last week, our school hosted ZDF Television

from Germany. These people were making a short

documentary on the difference between farm lives

in Germany compared to the Central West. I

thank the Randall and Charlton families for hosting

this crew. Australia was shown off at its finest to

these visitors with the exception of the thousands

of little black flies that are currently sticking to

every part of people’s faces. The school has

recently purchased a fly net for every student to

help make the playground a little more bearable.

The installation of our new air-conditioning is well

ahead of schedule. In my 28 years of being

involved with schools, I have never seen a more

professional company. Every person working for

this company is professional and dedicated to

completing the project on time and to a high

standard. I would also like to pay tribute to our staff and students as well. They have coped with

the disruption and noise without any complaints.

At least not to me anyway.

Guitar lessons are not part of the compulsory

curriculum.





Guitar lessons are not part of the compulsory

curriculum. The school heavily subsidises these

lessons and as a result, only asks parents to pay $15

per term. This is less than the cost of a single

lesson in town. Unfortunately, if outstanding fees

are not paid I will be forced to remove children

from the program. I hate doing this because

children are suffering not the person responsible

for the fee, parents.

Last week, there was a very minor incident outside

the school involving a member of the public. Our

school practices for such incidents and our

procedures worked perfectly.

Happiest man in Trundle

John Southon

Principal

Parents of primary students,

please return the swimming

note before the end of the

week.

From the Office Kindergarten 2020

parents, please return the

enrolment forms to the office at

your earliest convenience.

Thank you.

Guitar fees are now due.









Kindergarten/Year 7 Transition

Continues this Wednesday 8:55 –11:30

Please bring a hat, water bottle, fruit break and recess.

Trundle Central School P&C Inc.

Annual General Meeting

11th March 2020

3.30pm

All Positions will be declared

vacant





Ajax’s

Weekly Woof

I am on leave this week. Have a look at some of my

cheeky moments from this year.

Bark with laughter with

Ajax:

What day do chickens fear the most?

Fry-days!





Trundle Central School has a long tradition of quality inclusive public

education. We would like to recognise successful people from trades,

professional people and the business world. Please contact the school to

have someone placed on the Honour Roll.

Employment Achievement

School Administrative Manager

School Teacher

School Teacher

Proprietor - Harvey Norman Warwick

Heavy Vehicle Diesel Mechanic

Teacher (Band 6 HSC Industrial Technology)

Business Owner

Relieving Principal

Head Teacher

Lawyer/Teacher

Plumber

Engineer at Qantas

Doctor

Teacher/Nurse

Doctor at RAAF Fairbairn hospital in

Canberra

Doctor Cooma

Software engineer

Essential Energy Line Worker

Combat Medic in Australian Army Asia Account Manager Head at Citibank Singa-

pore (Jennifer completed Year12 through

Western Access Program)

Teacher/Grants Officer Parkes Shire

Industrial Chemist

Registered Nurse Orange

Teacher Dubbo

Wildman Stairs (Owner) Coffs Harbour

Environmental Scientist Forbes

Students Name

Ann-Marie Taylor

Trish Morgan

Blake Ridges

Chris Robson

Daniel Hosie

Luke Watt

Nicole Pascoe

Nikki Mayall - Mudge

Caroline Page

Sally Taylor

Dale Page

Craig Hawke

Jason Maher

Helen Gray

Danielle Dickson

Kylie Fardell

Daniel Pate

Tim Taylor

Craig Robson

Jennifer Sefonte

Jennifer Hawke

Danny Page

Merrilee Morgan

Michelle Morgan

David Whiley

Eloise Clayton




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Primary

Term 4 Week 3

Students of the Week K/1 - Sabrina Ferguson

1/2 - Cameron Strudwick

3/4 - Renea Cotter

5/6 - Riley Houston

Mrs Sanderson - Cooper Dunn Sportspersons - Max Longhurst,

Chloe Budd, Narella Thornton-

McKellar, Katanah Price.

Kindergarten/Year 7 Transition This week will be the second week of

Kindergarten/Year 7 Transition sessions that will

run throughout the term.

This year the sessions will run from 8:55 – 11:30

for Preschoolers – Year 6.

This will allow the Pre-schoolers and Year 6 to

engage in some fantastic activities to ensure the

transition from both Preschool and Primary School

is a smooth and enjoyable experience.

All classes in primary will be moving up into the

next group for these sessions. It is a great way for

the students to practise being in a new class.

Sun Safe Policy This term is a No Hat No Play term. Students

MUST wear a wide brimmed hat. This means that if

they do not have a hat, they cannot participate in

any outdoor activities including lunch time play. We

keep a small selection of spare hats for those

students who accidently forget their hats. These

hats are washed regularly but are not to be used

every day by the same students. We will endeavour

to call parents to let them know their child has

forgotten their hat so that it can be found. Please

make sure you put your child’s name inside their hat.

Swimming For Sport Friday the 8th November will be our first swimming

for sport. We are reducing the size of our groups

by sending one group to the pool at 1:00pm. This

group will return to school at 2pm, have lunch and

return to class for half an hour.

Notes were sent home last week. Please return the

signed permission notes as soon as possible.

The second group will walk to the pool as per usual

and can be picked up at 3pm at the pool. Alternatively, if your child catches a bus home, they

will be picked up at the pool.

Please check your child’s note carefully. If there are

any changes to your child’s afternoon arrangements

during the swimming season, please call the front

office on 68921303.

Year 3-6 Excursion to Canberra All the arrangements for our Year 3-6 excursion to

Canberra on the 13th November are being finalised

over the next week.

The final payment for our Canberra excursion is

due as soon as possible.

There will be an invite to an information session

sent out this week. This information session will

provide the students and parents with a detailed

itinerary and provide all information regarding the

excursion.





Secondary

The last few week has been a little disrupted with

the new air conditioners being installed. However,

as always our students’ ability and willingness to

apply themselves to any situation and overcome

distractions so they can continue to learn has been

outstanding. Also as a very hot summer fast

approaches [is there any other kind in Australia?]

our little bit of pain will make for a big gain as we

will be learning in comfortable conditions no

matter what the weather!

Friday afternoon our assembly for Term 3

celebrated the many successes our students

achieved. As usual the number of students receiving Bronze and Silver awards was an

extremely pleasing acknowledgement on how well

our students are working at school. I would

particularly like to acknowledge Monique Morgan

and Nick Williams of the attainment of their Gold

Awards. To achieve this a student needs to be

consistently contributing to the positive culture of

our school as well as gaining many individual

awards. Well done! Thanks to Miss Rowlands for

her ongoing organisation of our welfare system.

Continuing in this light, this Thursday our Level 6

students will be in mufti as an award. Also today a

large number of students will be receiving and ice

block as acknowledgement of their attainment of

the higher levels of our system. Again our students

need to be congratulated for their ongoing

excellent behaviour.

Mrs Gray will be away for the next 3 weeks. Miss

Emily Price will be filling in for Mrs Gray and we

welcome her to our school.

On Wednesday we have our students participating

in Super 8’s Cricket. As usual we look forward to

hearing all about our students’ efforts and

achievements. Thanks to Mrs Morgan for her

organisation and Mr Southon and Miss Rowlands

for helping with supervision and transport on the

day.

Wednesday also sees the second day of transition.

Congratulations to our 2020 Year 7 cohort on the

start they made last week and also to the rest of

secondary for their mature and helpful approach to

the new secondary students.

Next week our Year 11 students will be partaking

in this term’s study days. A note with all

information about next week will be sent home

today with Year 11.

Year 7-10 examinations will be held in Week 5 and

6. If your child needs any extra support from

school, please contact us.

As always if you have any questions in regards to

secondary please contact me at school.

Have a great week

Gerry Capell

Head Teacher Secondary

Monique and

Nicholas were

awarded Gold

Awards at the

Secondary

Assembly.

Congratulations to the following students who have received the

correct amount of pink slips to move to a higher level. All students

start at Level 3 each semester. Each level has rewards with

Level 6 being the highest.

Level 6 ( 75+ pink

slips)

Year 7 – Charlie, Maggie, Harry, Jason,

Paddy, Kiera

Year 8 – Ryan, Harrison, Grace,

Xander, Casey, Aliethea

Year 9 – Jennet, Jamie, Lionel, Jason,

Will L, William

Year 10 – Hamish, Jaxson, Nick

Year 11 – Ella, Emily, Monique, Ethan,

Robert, Ryan

Level 5 (30+ pink

slips)

Year 7 – Jake, Sam, Sasha

Year 8 – Mya, Alex

Year 9 – Will C

Year 10 – Anthony, Dylan

Year 11 – Willa, Codie

Level 4 (15+ pink

slips)

Year 7 – Zac, Ollie, Hannah, Blair, Jim,

Brad

Year 8 – Cameron, Aidan, Jye





Year 8 Science

Year 8 dissected a lamb's heart to help further their understanding of the structure and function of the

heart.

Secondary Awards Assembly




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Library

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Community

Term 4 Week 3

Trundle Junior Cricket

On Saturday the Trundle Juniors travelled to

Condobolin to play their first game of the season

against the Gilgais. Trundle won the toss and

elected to field taking early wickets but a 70 run

partnership from the Gilgais helped them to post a

formidable score of 129 runs.

In reply Trundle batted well, however found

themselves needing 8 runs an over to reach the

target. With the return of the retirees to the

crease, Paddy Williams and Sam Charlton

combined in a blistering partnership to steal the

game with 3 balls to spare to give the Trundle

Juniors a great winning start to the season.

Runs for Trundle: Paddy Williams 50 NO, Sam

Charlton 16 NO, Jim Ramsay 9, Blair MacDonald 5.

Wickets for Trundle: Blair MacDonald 2, Charlie

Anderson 1, Kayden

Charlton-Little 1 and Josh Clayton 1

Catches for Trundle:

Paddy Williams 3

Fielding points went to

Paddy Williams 3, Charlie

Anderson 2 and Sam

Charlton 1

Game Ball went to Paddy

Williams for an

outstanding performance.

PLAYGROUP This Thursday from 10:30am in the Library.

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Trundle Amateur Swimming Club The first meet for the season will begin on the Friday

8th November at 4pm.

We would love new and old members to come along,

try out some events and join our fantastic club.

Registration- Please read carefully!

The registration of each individual swimmer is

essential. Upon registration, the swimmer joins NSW

Swimming Association which makes them eligible to

swim and to be covered by insurance.

This year a new Portal called “Swim Central” has been

introduced.

When logging in, use the email address where you

received your Swim Central email and choose “Forgot

Password”. A password will then be sent to your

email. Use this to log on.

For members who have registered in the previous

year, your renewal registration email has recently been

sent out. (If you have a new email address please let

Kellylee know as ASAP as you may not have received

your payment email). When logging in, use the email

address where you received your Swim Central email

and choose “Forgot Password”. A password will then

be sent to your email. Use this to log on.

You must follow the links to your shopping trolley,

checkout and complete payment online.

For new members or returning members (that did not

register last year), you must complete registration as a

new member online prior to or on 8 November 2019.

If you wish to pay swimming club fees using an “Active

Kids Voucher” please make sure the product in your

shopping trolley (in Swim Central) is the correct one

for this! Do not pay unless you are sure. Refunds

are not possible. Contact Kellylee for help. (Be

aware you will need to upload a copy of your “Active

Kids Voucher” when at the checkout of purchase. The

voucher number also needs to be given to Kellylee.

Registrations must be completed before 8th

November 2019 for existing members, and new

members are able to attend two time trial swims

before they must be registered to participate in any

further club activities. All registrations must be

completed before Friday 29th November 19,

otherwise these swimmers will be unable to attend

our meets as they are not covered by our insurance.

Each swimmer receives a registration card that

should be kept in a safe place. When competing in

carnivals outside of Trundle, swimmers must take this

card with them to prove registration.

Registration fees for 2019/2020 are as follows:

There are no Dolphins this year, so all across the Pool

swimmers must pay as a Non Swimmer.

Swimmer (8 years & Under) $80.00

Swimmer (9 years & Over) $ 8 0 . 0 0

Non Swimmer (8 years & over /adults) $30.00

(The age to use when selecting a category is the age

you were on 1ST October 2019)

TRUNDLE DAY CENTRE

ACTIVITIES

November 1st: Bingo




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