Weekly Newsletter Woy Woy South Public School

The School Mall WOY WOY NSW 2256 Ph: (02)43411899 Fax: (02)43431984

Website: www.woywoysth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: woywoysth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Principal: Matt Barr Term 2 – Week 8 Date: 20th June, 2018

Respect ~ Responsibility ~ Relationships

Message from the Principal

PJ Day

WWSPS held PJ Day today to raise funds for ‘2GO’s Give me 5 for Kids’. It was great to see all the students and staff getting into the spirit of the day. Overall, the school raised more than $574 to contribute towards helping children with cancer, which was a fantastic effort. Thanks to all the parents for supporting the day and organising the students to be in the right gear.

Attendance

In recent weeks, we have had an increase in student absences, which is common at this time of the year. When students return to school, it is important that we receive notification of the absences within 7 days, as we are required by law to keep this information on file. Notification needs to come in written form or alternatively, through the Skoolbag App. As part of our attendance monitoring procedure, reminder notes are sent home for any absences that are unexplained. If you receive one of these notes and have already notified the school, please disregard.

Winter School Uniform

With cold weather upon us, we are intent on ensuring that our students are comfortable and warm, whilst continuing to wear full winter school uniform. This is a key factor in ensuring ongoing success and consistency at

our school. It assists us to prepare our students to behave and perform at the best and serves as a crucial preparation for future settings, such as high school, where uniform requirements are extremely rigid. We very much appreciate your support in this area.

Girls:

K-5: Red school hat with logo, red jumper with logo, red checked winter tunic or dark grey pants/slacks, plain white socks (or black stockings) and black shoes.

Year 6: Red school hat with logo, white polo (or Yr 6 shirt), red/grey checked skirt, red jumper with logo, plain white socks (or black stockings) and black shoes

Boys:

K-6: Red school hat with logo, white polo (red polo/Yr 6 shirt), red jumper with logo, dark grey pants or shorts, plain grey socks and black shoes

Sport:

K-6: Red school hat, white polo shirt or new red sports polo, red jumper with logo, black shorts or black tracksuit pants, white sports socks and runners (no fluoro coloured runners)

Please note – Black shorts or tracksuit pants are a sport day item only. Leggings are not part of the school uniform.

Upcoming Events Thursday, 21st June

Yr. 4. BWSC Woy Woy Concert

Under 10’s Rugby League Woy Woy Cup

Tuesday, 26th June Kindy 2019 Open Day 11.30AM – 1PM

Wednesday, 27th June

CCDF Pacific Islander Dance Group

Thursday, 28th June

CCDF Stage 3 Dance Group P&C K-6 School Disco

Tuesday, 3rd July Yr. 6 Japanese Garden Gosford Excursion

Lola and Abishaa from 1M with Mr Barr on PJ day

Ben and Cooper from 2M with some great work!

Principal’s Awards

Disco

Stage 3 will be hosting the Term 2 school disco on Thursday 28 June. Tickets for the Disco will be on sale before school on Tuesday 26, Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 June. Tickets will not be available at the door. Please be aware that no student will be able to purchase a ticket for the school disco without a written permission note.

Congratulations

Congratulations to our Goalball team for their recent success. All students represented our school with great pride and excellent behaviour. Many thanks to Mrs Stevens for her organisation of this event and for providing a great opportunity for our students. Please read her report for further details.

Have a great week everyone,

Matt Barr Principal

Parent Computer Sessions

Mrs Shearer will be running two computer sessions over the next two weeks for parents who would like to know more about how to use Reading eggs and Maths Online. These programs are free for your child to use at home and provide a fantastic opportunity for them to improve their reading and mathematics skills. The sessions will be held in the computer lab-G Block near the school hall. All parents and carers are invited to attend.

• Session 1 Reading Eggs – Week 9 Wednesday 27th June 3pm

• Session 2 Maths Online – Week 10 Wednesday 4th July 3pm

Mrs Shearer

Positive Behaviour For Learning

This week our PBL focus is showing the 3R’s by accepting the authority of casual and visiting teachers. Students need to understand that they need to treat all adults at school with the same respect they would show to their regular class teacher. This includes listening to and following instructions. At home, you could encourage teachers are there to provide a safe and positive learning environment, and they can only do this if people are listening to them.

The PBL Team

Merit Awards

KJ – Chelsey S KP – Maddison T KW – Asta M

1A – Rose K 1B – Marshall W 1M – Noah O

2M – Zoe H 2R – Ella C 2W– Madison T

3A – Wyatt D 3W – Rhys S 3/4P – Ben R

4G – Sienna M & Mikayla T

4M– Nathaniel H

5P – Kayla C

5/6L – Will L-W 6A – Dylan C

Superstar Awards KJ – Toby B KP– Dylan S KW– Jayden C 1A – Teryn A 1B – Ruby C 1M – Kobi N 2M – Jenna F-G 2R – Jacob O 2W – Reece P 3A – Kaylee E 3W – Diesel S 3/4P– Karen W 4G – Harrison C & Levi P

4M – Joshua B 5P–Peyton L-F

5/6L – Isaiah D 6A – Skye F

Goalball. On Monday 18th June, eight students represented WWS in a regional goalball competition at Newcastle University. Goalball is a sport originally designed for people with vision impairment. The students play under blindfolds using a bell ball. - Alexander M, Max N, Brayden D, Joshua D, Nicole B, Karen W, Edward D and Zachary C represented the school with outstanding skill and sportsmanship. They played extremely well finishing 3rd overall. Well done team! Mrs Stevens

P & C NEWS P&C Meeting – Friday 6th July – Learning Centre –Mini Meeting Our next meeting will just be a mini meeting before the school holidays. Everyone’s welcome. Come along or let us know of any ideas or concerns at woywoysouthpandc@hotmail.com Have you booked your ticket yet?? Comedians from the Sydney and Melbourne Comedy Festivals!!! The P&C are holding a Comedy For A Cause night on Saturday 7th July and we would love you to all come along and support Woy Woy South Public School. It will be held at Everglades Country Club. Doors Open at 7pm for an 8pm start. Tickets will be $30 per person. This is an ADULTS ONLY event. The night will feature at least 2 comedians and we will be running some fun intermission games as well. Tickets can only be bought through the link http://comedyforacause.net/WOY Tickets are non allocated and will be first in best dressed on the night for seating. Have you planned your School Holidays Yet?? Could you use a buy one get one free admission to Clip n Climb Gosford? Or 25% off at Ocean Beach Hotel? Or buy one get one free main course at the Empire Bay Tavern? Or 25% off at KB Thai Woy Woy? These are just some of the thousands of vouchers in this year’s book. All vouchers are valid until June 2019. Selling these books raises funds for our school. Order the NEW 2018 | 2019 Entertainment Book or Entertainment Digital Membership and you will receive hundreds of valuable offers for everything you love to do, and you will also be supporting our School. You can get your books • By following this link and ordering your online book https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/3q4713 • By visiting our uniform shop within opening hours. This is CASH ONLY. Selling for just $65!! Once you buy one you will never go without!! School Banking Remember, Friday is School Banking day and students should bring in their weekly deposit. For every deposit made at school, students will receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for an exclusive School Banking reward item in recognition of their regular savings habits. School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives a Regular Savers Contribution of $5 for every 10 deposits processed per student as well as an Annual Contribution which is based on the number of

students who made at least one School Banking deposit in the prior year. If your child has lost their book, they can bring their money to school in a sealed envelope with a note on the next School Banking day. We will issue them with a replacement. Thank you for supporting the School Banking program at Woy Woy South Public School. We would also like to thank these wonderful parents Danielle, Chris, Amanda, Lauren, Rebecca and Briana who volunteer as our School Banking Co-ordinators and process our banking every week. A special thank you goes to Jordy. Thank you for your help. Good luck in your new adventure 😊😊 If you would like to know more about School Banking, please ask for a 2018 School Banking program information pack from the school office or visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking Uniform Shop-Temporarily in the P&C Community Room- Volunteers Needed Uniform Changes are coming! Please keep this in mind when purchasing new items though current uniform can still be worn throughout 2019. New Sports shirts should be available for next term and we are hoping to have an alternative to the white polo’s available for sale from term 4. We won't be ordering more of the current skort in red and white gingham material or the Year 6 girls skirt in the red tartan. A grey skort in the same material as our cargo shorts will be offered as an alternative to tunics. We are still located in the community room next to 1A while canteen refurbishments are being completed. Opening times may change from next term as we are still looking for volunteers. If you can open the uniform shop one day a week, please come and see us or email woywoysouthpandc@hotmail.com

The Black Crow Canteen – Lunch Orders ONLY

Thank you everyone for your patience whilst we have been relocated for our renovations. We are hoping to be back in our new improved canteen soon!

What do you think a cool new name for our canteen would be?? We are now holding a competition to find a new name for our canteen. So get your thinking caps on and see what you can come up with. Entry forms available from the canteen ladies.

The Canteen has relocated temporarily to the old P&C Room, which is located in the building behind the flagpoles in the 3-6 Quadrangle area. This is due to our canteen being refurbished and completely modernized. It

is going to look amazing when it is finished but please bare with us while we go through the next few weeks.

The Canteen has reopened for LUNCH ORDERS ONLY until we relocate back to our new canteen. This will mean we will have no counter service before school, at recess and at lunch. If anything is required for lunch it must be placed on a lunch order bag or ordered through the quickcliq system. Tables will be set up on the verandah for people to fill out their lunch order bags.

Thank you to all our volunteers who have helped out so far this year but whilst we are in our temporary location you are not required, so please enjoy your free time and rest up as it will be super busy when we return to our new Canteen!!

Did you know you can order your child’s lunch online up until 9.15am that day??

PLEASE ONLY ORDER WHAT IS ON THE TEMPORARY MENU.

You can now order your children’s lunches online. Check it out at – www.quickcliq.com.au Simple and easy to sign up. Please remember to update your child’s Class and Teacher on your online ordering accounts

Amanda and Jacqui – Canteen Phone No. 4341 7798

What do you think a cool new name for our canteen would be?? We are now holding a competition to find a new name for our canteen. So get your thinking caps on and see what you can come up with. Entry forms available from the canteen ladies.

Keep the kids ‘Entertained’ these school holidays!

With the school holidays approaching, now is the perfect time

to buy an Entertainment™ Book or Entertainment™ Digital Membership – 20% of the proceeds

from every Entertainment™Membership we sell will contribute towards fundraising for our school!

The Entertainment™ Memberships are available as a Book (with a gold card and vouchers) or as a Digital Membership that puts all the offers in the Book, on your smartphone to redeem at the

touch of a button.

The Memberships sell for $65, and we keep $13 for every one we sell.

You only need to use it once or twice and it will have paid for itself!

Here is how you can save this school holidays in Woy Woy and

surrounds: Visit the Red Lime Cafe for lunch – save up to $25

Take the kids to Event Cinemas to watch the latest flick – save up to $10

On a fine day, take the kids out to The Australian Reptile Park – get one free admission –

Save $19.00 A family dinner at KB Thai – save up to $30

On a rainy day, let the kids burn some energy at Clip n Climb – get one free admission – save up to $18

Take the kids for pizza at Pizza Hut – save up to $50

Plus hundreds of offers in Newcastle, Hunter, Port Stephens and the Central Coast

…. all for $65..Valid to 1 June 2019!

Simply go online to purchase: http://www.entbook.com.au/3q4713

If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Stewart on

0435 375 060

Thanks for supporting our fundraising!

Naming competition for

our school canteen!