Woolomin Public School

Newsletter Term 4, Week 4

Frederick Street, Woolomin, NSW, 2340

Phone: 6764 2274

Email: woolomin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.woolomin-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Monday, 4 November 2019

Week 3 Assembly Awards

Mrs McMahon’s Award

Maiya Douglas

For focus, application and attitude

across all subjects.

Miss Burford’s Award

William Adams

For excellent progress and independ-

ence when writing.

Mr Burnett’s Award

Bryce Thompson

For a thoughtful and well communi-

cated letter to the council.

Principal’s Award

Tyson Olive

For excellent effort in learning and

spelling.

Mr Burnett’s Award

Liam Wells

For a thoughtful and well communi-

cated letter to the council.

Mr Burnett’s Award

James Sampson

For sensational clear thinking when

problem solving “CODEWORDS”.

Woolomin Public School 2

The SRC Raffle was drawn Friday 1 November 2019.

Congratulations to Rob Carey who took out the major

prize worth approx. $2500.

Ticket sales totalled $621.50

A big thank you to our SRC, Mrs Smith and Mrs Mer-

edith for co-ordinating a successful raffle.

This week will be an exciting and busy week as our

performers prepare for their items in the CAPERS

performances on Friday and Saturday.

Our performers will have a full dress rehearsal at the

TRECC on Wednesday 6 November. Students will

depart the school via bus at 9am and return to school

by 3pm.

Friday 8 November all students will head into the

TRECC for the Matinee performance. Students not

performing will be watching the performance. They

will depart the school via bus at 9.00am.

Our performers will depart from the school via private

transport at 8.30am.

Please ensure permission notes for both performers

and students watching have been returned ASAP. A

copy of these notes will go home attached to this

newsletter.

Please return all library books by Week 6 in prepara-

tion for stocktake. Overdue letters will be sent out to

families shortly.

We’d like to extend a big thankyou to Gaye Johnson

for the donation of a full sized electric piano to the

school.

We are in the process of securing a piano teacher for

Term 1 2020 for both individual student lessons and a

classroom program. If students are interested in indi-

vidual lessons please contact the school office. Once

more details are available we will confirm further de-

tails.

There will be a special assembly for Remembrance

Day held at school on Monday 11 November at

10.30am. Parents and Community are invited to at-

tend the assembly and stay for a morning tea.

Piano

Remembrance Day

SRC Raffle

CAPERS Week

Library Books

Caught You Being Good

Allee Thompson

Merit Cards Amba Graham, Emma Adams, William Adams, Jackson Hoad,

Maiya Douglas, Lily Parkinson, Tim Meredith, Tyson Olive.

Woolomin Public School 3

Last Thursday 31 October Woolomin students were

invited to attend a Halloween Disco hosted by

Dungowan SRC.

Students dressed in some spook-tacular costumes,

enjoying a sausage sizzle, playing games and danc-

ing the night away.

Halloween Disco

Woolomin Public School 4

Last Thursday we had a visit from Tamworth Region-

al Council members to discuss with students the plan-

ning of the Community Playground.

Amos Doyle from the Tamworth Council has been

developing the playground based off pictures and re-

quests from Woolomin students. It was amazing to

see our students plans starting to come to life.

Below is the current proposed plan for the play-

ground.

The SRC are hosting a Melbourne Cup hat display

tomorrow, Tuesday 5 November 2019 at school.

Students are invited to wear their most outrageous,

flamboyant and colourful hats or fascinators to school

for a gold coin donation to the SRC.

The SRC are also hosting a Melbourne cup cake

stall. Please bring in cakes, treats or slices into the

school office Tuesday morning to sell. These will be

available during the lunch break for a small fee rang-

ing from $0.50 to $1.00.

Community Play-ground

Melbourne Cup

Woolomin Public School 5

Our Kindergarten Orientation Program 2 is to provide

children who are turning 5 before 31st July 2020 and

intend on commencing Kindergarten in 2020 the op-

portunity to become familiar with school routines.

Children will spend time in the K-2 classroom learning

the expectations of ‘big school’.

Day: Tuesday Term 4 Weeks 5,6,7

Dates and Times: 12/11/19 9am-3.00pm

19/11/19 9am-3.00pm

26/11/19 9am-3.00pm

RSVP now by phoning the school to inform us that

your child will be attending.

School Phone Number- 67642274

Please note when enrolling your child you will need to

bring their birth certificate, immunisation details and

any medical information / health care plans.

We have recently noticed with this term’s salad bar

that we are quickly running short on forks. If you have

any old cutlery that you are no longer using and un-

sure what to do with, we would be happy to take them

off your hands.

We are also low on baking trays and cake tins.

Please keep us in mind if you are re-organising and

down sizing your baking equipment as we can always

put them to great use within the school.

Pictured below is Miss Burford receiving the HTB Har-

ris Memorial Trophy on behalf of the Winanga-Li

Learning Alliance. Earlier in the Term.

The school is seeking donations of cakes / slices /

biscuits from the parents for the clearance sale at

“Winchfield” Saturday 9 November.

If parents are able to donate some baked goods they

can be dropped off at the school on Friday 8 Novem-

ber for collection by the Woolomin P&C.

Nundle Public School are also baking for the clear-

ance sale and with the assistance of parents, we

would like to share the load with our schools commu-

nity.

If you have any questions please contact Ninna

Douglas on 0431 424 589.

Thank you

Kindergarten Orienta-tion Program 2- School Readiness

HTB Harris Memorial Trophy

Cutlery Donations P&C News

Woolomin Public School 6

Salad bar will be available everyday Mon-

day to Friday at 11.15am. Please place or-

der each morning upon arrival in the SRC

Mini Canteen Book.

COST: $2

To encourage healthy eating and provide a

valuable service to school families the cost of

mini canteen has been subsidised by the

school.

Families can pay either daily or in advance

($10 per student to be supplied with a salad

bowl or sandwich 5 days of the week).

PLEASE NOTE:

Toasties will not be available for purchase at all

this term.

There will be no food brought from home (left

overs, noodles etc.) heated up / prepared by staff

for students due to reduced staffing on Wednes-

days. Only salad bar, ice blocks and fruit will be

available for purchase.

Weekly Regulars

Ice Blocks $1.00

Chocolate Yowie Cups $2.00

Sippah Straws $1.50

Fruit $0.50

Tamworth High School

Quirindi High School

Year 7 2020 Q&A Tuesday 19 Nov 6-7pm

Year 7 2020 Thur 28 Nov 12-3.30pm

Indigenous Transition

Year 6 Taster Day Tuesday 3 December

Farrer Memorial Agricultural High

School

Year 7 Orientation Thursday 5 December

Mini Canteen High School Tasters

Term 4 2019

Week 4

Tuesday 5 November SRC Melbourne Cup Day

Wednesday 6 November CAPERS Dress Rehearsal

Friday 8 November CAPERS Matinee and Even-

ing Performance.

Saturday 9 November CAPERS Performance

Week 5

Monday 11 November Remembrance Day Assembly

Tuesday 12 November Kindy 2020 Orientation 9-3

Wednesday 13 November P&C Meeting

Thursday 14 November Mrs Mc @ Principals Meeting

Friday 15 November Mrs Mc @ WLA grant writing

Saturday 16 November Nundle Art Show

Sunday 17 November Nundle Art Show

Week 6

Monday 18 November Mrs Hughes Report Training

Tuesday 19 November Kindy 2020 Orientation 9-3

Thursday 21 November Nundle Bursary Test

Woolomin Public School 7

Woolomin Public School 8

CWA Cooking Competition It’s time again for the CWA Cooking Competition.

Dust off your cake tins and fire up the oven (with adult supervision).

18 years and under (at 31 March 2020) are cooking a Cinnamon Teacake

12 years and under (at 31 March 2020) are cooking Decorated Butter Biscuits

Both recipes are attached to this newsletter or can be obtained from Mrs Hughes at the School Office.

Entries are due into the school office no later than 9am Tuesday 26 November 2019 with your NAME and

AGE clearly marked. Mrs Kimball will collect entries and take to the CWA for judging.

Woolomin Public School 9

Woolomin Public School 10

OOSH Services

What do you do when the school day has finished, but your working day hasn't? How do you keep your

child busy during the holidays? The answer for many working parents of school aged children is Out of

School Hours Care (OOSH).

OOSH is supervised care and recreation for primary school-age children:

Before and after school,

On pupil-free days,

During school holidays (vacation care)

OOSH care is usually associated with schools and caters to primary school children. Most OOSH services

are operated by community and private organisations and the government's program is known as Out-

side School Hours Care (OSHC) or Vacation Care (VC).

Typical hours for OOSH services are:

Before school commencing from 6:30am till 9:00am

After school 3:00pm till 6:00pm

Vacation from 7:00am till 6:00pm each week day

At the recent P&C meeting there was discussion regarding establishing an OOSH service based at

Woolomin PS. The process to establish and coordinate this service is quite involved so the first step is to

survey parents to establish the need for this service and the number of potential families who would use

this service and the frequency that they would access the service.

Please complete the attached brief survey to indicate your responses to an OOSH service operating at

Woolomin PS.

OOSH Survey Response

FAMILY NAME:

Please circle YES or NO to indicate your response

YES / NO Our family would use OOSH at WPS

YES / NO More than 3 times per week

YES / NO About once per week

YES / NO During School Holidays

How many children in your family would use OOSH services? ____________

Do you know of any other families who would use OOSH in the local community?

Thank you for your time. Responses help our school provide valuable services.