Wow! What a busy couple of weeks! Congratulations to Jasmin and Shyann who attended the SCLC Music Camp in Week 4 this term. I had the privilege of attending the Mu-sic Camp Concert and was amazed at the out-standing talent on show, and thankful for the wonderful opportunities our students are pro-vided with. Students really enjoyed the Zoomobile visit and the Bournda EEC Dry Bug Investigation and were eager to share some of the inter-esting facts that they learnt about. What a great hands on learning experience. It was a huge day on Friday starting with Gym-nastics, we practiced with hoops and ladders! This warmed us up on a cool morning! We then performed an item the children have been working on with Mrs Rogers at the Com-munity Concert. Students did themselves and our school proud. Well done to everyone in-volved! Thank you to parents for attending the Whole School Assembly in the last session of school. It is always pleasing to present children with their awards for hard work in the classroom.

Premier’s Sporting Challenge Last week all students commenced the Premier’s Sporting Challenge. The challenge goes for 10 weeks and students are tracking the amount of physical activity they do each day. This information is recorded on an online chart and participants will receive a certificate at the end of the year. Parent Survey As we are currently working on our school

reports and reflecting on student achieve-

ments, we also need to reflect on our school

as a whole. One of the ways we do this is to

ask parents for feedback by completing a

survey. Could parents please complete and

return the attached survey as soon as possi-

ble. Your cooperation in this matter is great-

ly appreciated.

Life Education Notes for our excur-sion to Life Education at Towamba PS on Wednesday 12th June went home on Friday. If you didn’t get a note please see Alan in the Office. Notes and payment are due this Friday.

Principals Report

WYNDHAM PUBLIC

SCHOOL

MONARO STREET

WYNDHAM 2550

Ph: 64942128

Email: wyndham-

p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

3rd June, 2019 Term 2 Week 6

Wyndham Public School Newsletter Dream~Believe~Achieve

What’s happening:

Thursday 6 June

SAKGP Friday 7 June Wild West Disco

Monday 10 June Queen’s Birthday public holiday

Wednesday 12 June Life Education at Towamba Thursday 20 June

SAKGP Wednesday 26 June Stage 2 excursion to

Bournda EEC Thursday 27 June School excursion to Eden

Area Gym at Pambula Friday 28 June FSCSS Athletics Carnival at Wolumla Recreation Ground

Friday 5 July Last Day Term 2

Attachments:

Parent Survey

Book Club Brochure

Student Absences

Students prepare for their performance at the Wyndham Community Concert

Book Club Book Club brochures come home today. Look at the back page for the easy ways to pay. Order online via LOOP and your books will be delivered to school for dis-tribution. All orders must be received by Wednesday 19th June to ensure free delivery.

Sporting Schools Program Gymnastics continues each Thursday culminating in a visit to Eden Area Gym Pambula on Thursday 27th June. Parent transport will be required. Athletics Carnival With our Small Schools Athletic Carnival coming up in Week 9, this term we will be practicing athletic skills over the coming weeks. If anyone has any expertise or skill, particularly in field events, or knows of someone who could assist with developing student’s skills, please con-tact the school as soon as possible. Student Absences Unexplained Student absences come home today. I remind parents that a note must accompany a student absence as soon as possible after the absence, or if possi-ble prior to the time away in the event of holiday or ap-pointment. You may also contact the office to advise Alan the expla-nation either in person, by phone or email. We are una-ble to accept explanations from students, and Teachers may forget to pass verbal explanations to the office. Parent Transport Required We frequently seek the support of parents, particularly to transport children to extra activities and events—and Week 9 will be a prime example. Wednesday 26 June: 4 Stage 2 students need to

get to and from Bournda Environmental Education Centre.

Thursday 27 June: All students need to transport to and from Eden area Gym.

Friday 28 June: Stage 2 & 3 students attend the Small Schools Athletics Carnival at Wolumla.

If parents could coordinate themselves to share the load it would be greatly appreciated. Please note that a bus for a whole school event in Pambula costs approximately $15 per child return. SAKG Program Every student looks forward to the activities encouraged by the Stephanie Alexander program. If you would like to join us in coming weeks please let us know. We meet every second Thursday from 12:00 till 1:30pm. Thank You, Heather Bell—Relieving Principal

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P&C News We are in the last week of the Wood Raffle. Thank you to everyone that has sold and purchased tickets. Please return all sold and unsold tickets by Friday 7th June. There will be a trailer load of wood for each of the two winners to be collected from school. Prize winners will be announced Friday 14th June. Earn and Learn Woolworths Earn and Learn contin-ues! Start collecting your stickers and pop them into the collection boxes in the school office or at Tura Beach and Merimbula Woolworths Grocery stores. All stickers will be redeemed for fabu-lous learning resources for all students. Library News National Simultaneous Storytime was great. Alpacas with Maracas was read by author Matt Cosgrove with the help of Jimmy Giggle (from ABC’s Giggle and Hoot) AND with the help of 2 live Alpacas!! Library and Literacy Hub The Library will be open at lunch time on Mondays and Tuesdays to assist our budding novelists and po-ets. Students are invited to bring in their writing from home or the classroom. Tracy and Jo will be on hand to help with editing and publishing their work.

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June

Rikki-Lea

Class 3-6 News In the classroom the last couple of weeks we have been focusing on writing. We have been using images to promote discussion and then create ‘I wonder…” statements. These statements led the students to re-spond to the image with a piece of writing using a text type of their choice, for exam-ple, persuasive writing in the form of a letter. Students were also very enthusiastic to compose a piece of writing to share some of the information they learnt from the Zoomobile and Bournda visit. Students are enjoying the music/drama program being provided by Ms Rogers on Wednesdays. The program includes explor-ing music for the whole class through an UpBeat program, guitar and recorder les-sons for those interested students, percus-sion, drama and a whole school choir. Mrs Bell.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 6

3—7 Jun

SAKGP

Gymnastics

Week 7

10—14 Jun

Queen’s Birthday

Public Holiday

Healthy Harold and

Life Education Gymnastics

Week 8

17—21 Jun

SAKGP

Gymnastics

Week 9

24—28 Jun

Bournda EEC

Waste Challenge Stage 2

Gymnastics at

Eden Area Gym

Pambula

FSCSS Athletics

Carnival Wolumla

Week 10

1—5 Jul

SAKGP Semester 1 Reports

Last Day Term 3

Week 1

22—26 July

Staff Development

Day Students Return

1st Day Term 3

Calendar Term 2 2019

Class K-1-2 News All students in the K-2 class have been keep-ing busy the last few weeks. As part of our Writing Procedure unit we made grass heads last week. We will be re-cording the changes that we witness. In the coming weeks, we will be focusing on information pieces (on animals, autobiog-raphies, biographies and made up newspa-per articles). The Kindergarten students are continuing to consolidate the sounds the letters make and words that start with those sounds. Kinder-garten students are including known words in their writing. In Spelling, we are focusing on the sounds ‘u’ as in umbrella (Week 6), ‘h’ as in house and ‘j’ as in jellyfish (Week 7), ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ as in snail and hay (Week 8). In Maths, we are focusing on subtraction (Week 6), time (Week 7) and patterns and mass (Week 8). Mr Reeve.

Calendar Term 3 2019

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