Term 3, Week 1 - Grenfell Public School

Volume 16 Issue 20
Date: 19th July 2016
Phone: 6343 2122 Fax: 6343 1480
Email: grenfell-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Achievement for All in a Happy, Safe & Caring Environment
School Athletics Carnival
Due to the inclement weather expected this week, and the
fact that we have to submit our District Athletics
nominations by this Friday, we will not be running a normal
Athletics Carnival. We are going to endeavour to finish off
field events at school this week if we get a break in the
weather. We will bus students to and from the High
School to run the 100m, 200m and 800m on Wednesday,
Thursday or Friday. The oval at the High School is still
wet, and to make matters worse, they had a water leak on
the 100 metre track. If that fails, we have prepared a
temporary track on our oval and will run the track events
on Friday as best we can. We are still going to run House
and Age Championships and will tally up the points as
normal. The only event that we might not be able to run is
our House relays. We will do the best that we can and we
appreciate your support with this. We ask that all students
turning 8 years and above wear their joggers to school
this week and have a change of clothes with them as they
might get wet if we run events. If you check our school
Facebook page we will announce each day whether we
are going to run any events.
District Athletics Carnival
The District Athletics Carnival will be held in Cowra on
Friday 5th August. More information will be given to
students once we have sorted out our own entries.
Regional Athletics Carnival
The Western Region Athletics Carnival will be held in
Dubbo on Friday 2nd September.
P & C Meeting
There will be a P & C meeting
tonight in the school staffroom at 7.30pm.
Everyone is welcome to come along.
2015 Athletics Champions
Athletics Carnival 2015
Year 6 Transition to the High School
Students in Year 6 are attending the High
School each Wednesday afternoon this term
for Science. Mr Martens will take the students
to the High School each Wednesday at lunch
time for the afternoon session and students will
be dismissed from the High School at the end
of the day. They will need to make their own
arrangements home from there. This is a great
opportunity for our Year 6 students to become
familiar with the High School.
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State Cross Country
Good luck to Will Johnson who is off to State for Cross Country this Thursday, 21 st July.
Showground sale
The P & C catered for a showground sale last Sunday. Thank you to John Gorman, Brent
Cartwright, Tam Ingrey, David & Debbie Freebody, Paul Westman, Daniel Martin, Francesca
Nolan, Ali Forde and Tracy Taylor for helping out at the sale. Thank you to Debbie Freebody
and Mia Westman for making all the lovely cakes and slices for us to sell. We made around
$600 which is excellent.
School External Validation
Our School is going to be one of the first schools in the state to be externally validated and it is happening this term.
This is where external people from the department come in to look at our plans, programs and the running of our school.
Our executive team will be involved in preparing things for the validation which is on Thursday 1 st September. This will
happen every 5 years. I will discuss this further at our P & C Meeting tonight.
Education Week
We are celebrating Education Week in Week 8 of this term and our special
day will be Friday 9th September. We will have an early Morning Tea at
10.30am, a Special Assembly at 11.00am in the hall, and then have a Tabloid
run by our Year 6 students. Lunch will be at 1.00pm and then we will
continue with the Tabloid if we are not finished. During the day we will be
holding our Book Fair in the Library which will be run by Mrs Scott and Mrs
Eppelstun. You can come and buy books before school, at morning tea or
lunch time. Students will be able to view the books for sale all week. The
Library will be closed for students during Assembly and Tabloids. Please put
Students enjoying Tabloid sports
during Education Week—2015
Kinder Enrolments for 2016
Information booklets and enrolment forms for students starting Kindergarten in 2017 are available
from the office. We will be sending out our Kinder Orientation program for Term 4 very soon. We
will be presenting a Kindergarten information session on Wednesday 3rd August at the PreSchool.
Father’s Day Stall
Our Father’s Day Stall will be held on Friday 2nd September. Students can bring in $1 to $10 to buy
their Dad a Father’s Day gift. If you are able to help out on the Friday morning for this please contact
Bec Squires, Jessica Brenner or Mia and Paul Westman.
Winter Uniform
Now that winter has set in we need to keep our students warm. Students should be wearing:
Sky blue school jumper or Navy blue school polar fleece jacket
Navy blue school parker
Navy blue skort with Navy blue tights
Navy blue pants
If you want to buy a jacket without a logo it needs to be navy blue. In winter students can also
wear gloves, a beanie or scarf but they have to be Navy blue. If they are not navy blue the kids
can not wear them. I would also like parents to purchase black shoes as a part of our school
uniform. It looks very ordinary when students are not wearing the correct uniform. It’s fine to
wear joggers on a Friday as that is our sports day or for special activities. I would appreciate your support with this.
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PLEASE
REMEMBER
OUR FISH
PHILOSOPHY
Month of July
Meal Deal!
Homemade Macaroni
Cheese & a Fruit
Popper for $5.00.
Canteen Roster for
Term 3
Tues 19th July:
Volunteer required
Wed 20th July:
Volunteer required
Thurs 21st July:
Volunteer required
Fri 22nd July:
Volunteer required
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SCHOOL BANKING
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Welcome back to Term 3. This term we have 2 new reward items - the Jump & Skip
Rope and the Backtrack Eraser Pen.
Also there is another competition running where students can go into a draw to win a
Star Saver prize – these include 50 camping kits, 90 instant cameras and 200
magazine packs. All you have to do is make 3 deposits during Term 3 to be eligible
(details below).
Also there is an online competition where students go into a draw to win one of 50
Supernova prizes - PlayStation 4 packs. Go to commbank.com.au/prizelights for
details.
Congratulations to all those students who received certificates and reward items
during the last week of Term 2 - great work!
Don’t forget to send in your deposits each Tuesday.
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