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Whian Whian Public School Principal:
NEWSLETTER ~ Term 3 Week 8 Dave Condon
Creative & Caring 4th September, 2012 Phone: 6689 5240
Tuckshop This week – Natalie Things are happening in Public Education. One
Next week – No Tuckshop – Teams Day of the important initiatives is called “Building
Don’t forget your piece of fruit and 50c for our capacity.” I suggest you take the chance
recess and money for lunch to participate in the process. Phone
: Capacity
Information on Building Our 6689 9259 Public
The term 4 roster is on the wall please put your
name on the dates that suit you. Education Lismore P-12 Project
An exciting project has commenced in The
Fruit Break 10am daily – each child can bring a piece Wilson School Education Group to gather
of fruit. school and community views on how we might
build the capacity of our public education
Wide brimmed red hats available for $6 from school
system in Lismore to provide improved
We are still collecting dead batteries, so any you have outcomes for our students at every stage of
at home please send them in to the office. their education.
Please don’t forget our consultation meeting
CALENDAR
will be held at: 6.30 pm on Wednesday 5th
This Fortnight:
September at Modanville Public School. We
Wed 5th – Playgroup
Thur 6th – Public Speaking – Jiggi encourage parents to attend this meeting.
Fri 7th – Assembly The children have decided that we will raise
Wed 12th – Playgroup money to assist the elephant rescue
Thurs 13th – P & C organisation this term. We will have a day at
Fri 14th – The Channon Teams Day
the end of the term but for now there is a jar
Upcoming Events:
3 4 5 6 7 at school children can put change in to help
Building
Capacity
our
–
Public Speaking
- Jiggi
Assembly
save the elephants. Don’t forget to support
Modanville
School 6.30pm
this charity chosen by the kids. We will be
10 11 12 13 14 holding a special “elephant day” on the last day
Public speaking
finals
P & C Channon Teams
Day
of term when students can bring in their
money and we can send it off to assist the
17 18 19 20 21 rescuing of these elephants.
Our students performed brilliantly at the
Science – Dr School Photos Last Day of
Nathan Term
Assembly
Performing Arts Festival last week. We had
many great comments about the performance.
Principals Report
We have been given the date of Wednesday
19th September for our Annual School
Photos. This is the last Wednesday of
Term, if you know you will not be here
please let us know and we will try and have
the date changed.
Miss Jodie has once again done a spectacular work and receive awards for their
job with the children and especially with their achievements.
costuming. Don’t forget the next P & C meeting will be
Thank you held on Thursday the 13th of September.
Jodie, from all Gordon Bryant will be at the meeting, so I can
of us. Thanks introduce him to parents as he prepares to
also to Kim and take over while I am away at the start of next
term.
The annual Channon teams day will be held
next Friday the 14th of September. We are
Laura who volunteered their organising the bus and a permission note will
time to assist with the be sent home when we have the details early
preparations on the night. next week.
Thanks to Laura also for her Helen will be taking school photos again this
enthusiastic “crab work”. year. We have organised for this to happen on
I will be running a double Wednesday the 19th of September. We will
session of Habits on Wednesday this week. I notify you of the time when the date
understand things are very busy at the approaches.
moment with meetings almost every day, but We have had a lot of equipment donated to
we hope to complete the program before the the school by Peter who drives the bus. If you
end of the term. The remaining session will be are interested in any of the second hand
on the last Wednesday of this term. equipment please come in and check it out and
At assembly last week, children participated in you can make an offer in our silent auction.
the Whian Whian Public School Public Money will go to the P & C for your children to
Speaking competition. The students have been use. We have a surf board, body board,
working very hard on their speeches and have Christmas tree and oil heater.
improved enormously. All students received The students are working on their entries for
participation certificates for their efforts. the Lismore Show. Some students are working
Winners were Innes, Faith, Jayden, Mollie, on individual art works and others are working
Sebastian and Kiara. The four students who in groups to construct a scarecrow. We will be
will compete at Jiggi on Thursday in the big travelling to the show on Friday the 19th of
scrub public speaking competition will be October, which is in the second week of term
Jayden, Faith, Mollie and Sebastian. Good luck 4 on the bus. More details will follow closer to
boys and girls. All the students are looking the date.
forward to next year’s competition and are
hoping to improve.
We were notified this week that we have been Kanga Cricket
successful in our application for the Solar Boys & girls 6-10yrs
Schools program. This means we will receive a Training one afternoon each week
grant to install solar panels and an education noncompetitive game each Sat at
Woodlawn.
system to the school. This should be
Sign on this Saturday 8th Sept 4-5pm
completed by mid 2013. Congratulations to Clunes School cricket nets
Jessica who did most of the preparation for $75/season get cap & shirt, all else provided.
our application. Thanks Jess. Contact Kel McGrath 66291678 or
Our next assembly will be on this Friday 7th of mcgrathx4@westnet.com.au
September. All are welcome to come and join
as the children share some of their favourite
Lismore Little Athletics starts:
Friday 7th September at
Riverview Park, Lismore
5.30pm to 7pm.
Enquiries Phone:
Bev 0488 963968
