Term 4 continues to fly by with our students

finishing their second week of Swim School

this week. This is a lifesaving skill that I

cannot promote strongly enough with our

community. As a trained swimming

instructor myself, I have seen firsthand the

great pleasure that children can gain from

becoming confident in the water,

particularly living in such a beautiful area as

we do in Lake Macquarie. I encourage our

students to continue to make the time

whenever possible to practise the skills they

have learnt after this

program finishes on

Friday.

Last Friday was World

Teachers’ Day in

Australia. It is

celebrated on the last

day of October each

year. I can say without

hesitation that the

teachers that we have

here at Windale PS are some of the most

talented, dedicated and caring staff that I

have ever had the pleasure of working with.

The time and effort that they each put into

making the best possible learning

experiences for our students, be they in

school time or outside experiences such as

Starstruck, school excursions and discos, is

second to none. Please take the time this

week to show your child’s teacher that you

appreciate their efforts in helping your child

achieve their personal best. Together we

can ensure that when our children leave

Windale PS that they will believe that they

can do and be anything that they want to

be. The sky’s the limit!

As I mentioned briefly in our last newsletter,

we have lots of exciting new developments

happening at the school between now and

the end of the year. This includes the

purchase of brand

new furniture for

some of our

classrooms where

students will be given

the opportunity to

learn in the latest and

greatest 21st Century

learning environments

with the use of hands

on technology on a

daily basis. Learning as

we know it is changing at Windale PS. We

cannot train the leaders of tomorrow with

yesterday’s thinking.

Looking forward to sharing more exciting

news with you over the coming weeks. Have

a fantastic week of learning everyone!

Principal’s Message

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Grandparents Day 2

Artwork

3

Swim Scheme 4

Assembly Awards 6

Emu Class Work

7

Milabah 8/9

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Windale Public School

Phone: (02) 4948 8864

Fax: 4948 9720

School Security 1300 880 021

Transition to Kindergarten 9am-11am 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th

November

Preschool Christmas Concert 6th & 8th December

Presentation Day 10am 7th December

Year 6 Farewell 6pm – 8pm 7th December

Year 6 Orientation 8th December

Helpers Morning Tea 8th December

Year 3 - 6 Party Day All day 15th December

16th December K - 2 Movie Day 11:40am

Kilfera Street

Windale

NSW 2306

Important dates to remember

World Teachers’ Day

GOT IT TIP OF THE WEEK

Give your child lots of

descriptive praise when

they do something that you

would like to see more of

e.g “Thank you for doing

what I asked straight away”

Caption describing

picture or graphic.

GRANDPARENTS’ DAY

We had a great turnout for the Grandparents’ Day Morning Tea

last Thursday. Grandparents and friends were entertained by

our Kinder students who shared their favourite books. Year One

students also shared their writing with our visitors and read to

them and classes from across the school produced some

wonderful artwork which was displayed in the hall. Our

Grandparents were able to choose a piece of artwork to take

home with them as a memento at the end of the morning tea.

Our very capable Year 6 students made tea and coffee for our

guests and were excellent hosts with a number of the boys

really showing off their hospitality skills. Many of our

Grandparents enjoyed their time here so much that they stayed

in the school and kicked on to Milabah for some more chatting

and story sharing.

We would like to thank Sue

McQuillan for her organisation

of this event and also

a c k n o w l e d g e g e n e r o u s

donations made by Welcome

Mart at Windale who provided

morning tea and Geoff’s Cakes

for the delicious Grandparents

Day cake he kindly donated.

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P A G E 3

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Bilbies Brayden

Pelicans

Emu

Cooper

Some of the

brilliant

artwork from

the

Grandparents

Day

Swim School Begins

We have had a great start to swim school this year with over 60 of our

students attending Charlestown pool for a two week intensive learn

to swim program. We have been lucky with the weather so far and

the children are really enjoying the opportunity to learn new skills

and refine their style. We have had some great achievements already

with some of our non-swimmers getting much more confident and

getting into the water unassisted. We have a number of our teachers

and support teachers attending and reports from both swim school

staff and teachers is that students are behaving well and making great

progress. Hopefully we will continue to have good weather and

students will benefit greatly from this excellent opportunity.

art to swim school this year with over 60 of our students

Swim Scheme has

been a great success

so far with students

continuing this week

improving on their

abilities.

P A G E 4 T E R M 4 W E E K 2

Swim Scheme 2016

P A G E 5

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P A G E 6

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Primary Awards Reading awards

Class Awards Respect awards Gotcha awards

Windale PS Weekly Merit Award Winners

Kangaroos Riley B, Bailey A

Bilbies Harley H, Isaak M

Emus Jordan F ,Chevy H, Aliqua D-K

Pelicans Hayley J, Nicole H

Platypus Tenasy L, Hunta P, Emily P

Dugongs Taleisha D, Danika H-H, Craig C

Goannas Tayla G, Malakai S-C, Matilda C

Barramundi Brayden H, Adam P, Ben W

Class Awards K-2 Home Reading - Bilbies

3-6 Home Reading - Goanna

K-2 Cleanliness - Pelicans

3-6 Cleanliness - Dugong

Uniform - Platypus

Attendance - Pelicans

Gotcha Awards K-2 Janahli S, Breanna P 3-6 Bindah D, Angie D

Respect Awards Hayley J

Makayla N

Reading Awards Aleyah H

Ruby-Anne D

Pelicans Week 3 Assembly Item

The Pelican’s recently read the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff and loved it so

much that they wanted to perform their version of the story at our whole school

assembly. The performance starred Aleyah H, and Nadia B as the Three Billy

Goats Gruff and Keely G as The evil troll. Sharna W-W, Kiana M, Levi M, Mathew

L, Izack H-K and Ben S played the hungry goats waiting to cross the bridge and

Owen N, Hayley J, Guy H, Taylor A and Tyrell N were the full and happy goats that

had made it across the bridge to greener pastures. It was a very entertaining

performance and the students loved performing in front of the school.

As an education community we want to protect our most valuable assets, our students and their families, and to do this Transport for NSW have provided the Department of Education with a range of resources to promote bus-related safety.

Be Bus Aware has a suite of animations highlighting tips for safe boarding, travel and disembarkation from buses. It also has a bus safety education video for students in years 5 and 6. Both sections of this site could be useful in developing learning experiences to meet the road safety needs of students.

Please join with the Department of Education community in promoting this road safety campaign, because we all want our students to be safe and well now and into the future.

https://www.facebook.com/nswroadsafety https://www.safetytown.com.au/

P A G E 7 T E R M 4 W E E K 2

Some FANTASTIC

work from our Year 1

students in

Emus

Aliqua

Madison

The Fearsome, Frightening, Ferocious Box by Frances Watts

Emu have been reading the exciting

story of the Fearsome Frightening,

Ferocious Box and then creating

stories about their own mystery

box. They used some excellent

adjectives to describe what the box

looked like, sounded like and felt

like. They also used alliteration to

make their writing more

entertaining. We hope you enjoy

these samples of our work and what

mysteries lie within our boxes.

GOT IT TIP OF THE WEEK

Support positive friendships in your children’s lives. Invite

their friends over to do fun things like going to the park or

beach.

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Dream, Believe, Achieve

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Windale Public School provides

quality programs and quality

teaching by highly educated,

skilled and dedicated staff. We

also provide a safe and

nurturing learning environment

that develops respect,

understanding and

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