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Yeoval Central School Term 3 Week 9

7 September 2015

Year 12 Graduation Assembly

Friday September 18

10am in the school hall

Join us as we celebrate 13 years of school with the class of 2015

Year 12 celebrated their thirteen years of schooling at an in school dinner last Thursday evening with their family and teachers. The P & C supplied a beautiful 2 course dinner with cake created by Belinda Lorimer (below) as dessert. During the evening a slide show played depicting their years at Yeoval Central School and family snap shots. Mrs Johnson was emcee and she had calculated the number of kilometres the students had travelled. Mr Olsson had made a video to present to the students. Darby and Jake replied to Mr Olsson speech thanking their parents and teachers for their support for them during their schooling. Thank you to Mr Peter Tremain for taking photographs to remember the evening.

Mrs Elaine Bates

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Principal

Mr Scott Olsson Rlg

Assistant Principal

Mrs Jodie Klein

Secondary Head Teachers

Mr Benn Wright

Mr Ken Horley Rlg

Address

Obley Street

Yeoval NSW 2868

Phone

02 6846 4004

Fax

02 6846 4317

Email yeoval-c.school@det.

nsw.edu.au

Web address

www.yeoval-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

P & C President

Mrs Michele Kerin

Secretary

Mrs Brooke Cusack

Treasurer

Ms Sara Cannon

P & C Meets the 2nd Tuesday of every

month

Next P & C Meeting

8 September 2015 6pm

A member of the

Western Access

Program

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT:

Congratulations to Mrs Bates and the P and C for the organisation of the Year 12 farewell dinner. The food was fantastic and the presentations were outstanding. The students thoroughly enjoyed the evening and on Friday they will have the Western Access Graduation Dinner in Dubbo.

The Year 7 transition taster day was brilliant, the feedback from kids and parents was that it was thoroughly enjoyed by all. The teachers are to be congratulated on the engaging and enriching lessons. We look forward to another transition day in Term 4.

Congratulations to Miss Border and the primary girls that trialled for Western Area Cricket PSSA. Miss Border selected a very strong team which will contest the NSWPSSA championships in Term 4 at Dubbo.

Thanks to Mr McLaurin for his efforts in Metals and Engineering. It is fantastic to see such a passionate teacher provide additional assessment opportunities for students of the Western Access Program to obtain competencies for their qualification.

Big Gig rehearsals are in full swing and the reports are it will be a brilliant show, thanks to Mrs Tremain, Mrs Blatch, Miss Border and Mrs Johnson for their time and effort to put on the production. I look forward to the night performance on Thursday next week.

Don’t forget our paver promotion which finishes up on September 10. These will then be ordered and laid early next term.

Scott Olsson Principal Rlg

Term 3 YCS Calendar Week 9 and 10

Sept 8-17 Year 11 exams—all week

Sept 11 WAP Graduation Dinner, Dubbo RSL

Sept 11 Year 12 Access Graduation - Dubbo RSL

Sept 14 Big Gig - Tullamore

Sept 15 Big Gig - Trundle

Sept 17 Big Gig - Yeoval

Sept 18 Year 12 final assembly, all welcome.

YEAR 3/4 LITERACY & NUMERACY WEEK

Years 3/4 have been making Trihexaflexagons (eighteen equilateral triangles folded into a hexagon) as part of Literacy and Numeracy week 2015.

TENDER

HP Colour Laser Jet CP2025 printer with ink. Tender closes Thursday 17 September. Please bring offers in an envelope to the school office.

Kindy 2015 Transition

Amelia and Grace enjoying the Pre-Primary Program this morning with the assistance of Olivia and Abilee. They were introduced to engaging learning programs such as Reading Eggs and Mathletics, which they will utilise in Kindergarten.

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TERM 3 SECONDARY ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE - WEEK 8

YEAR SUBJECT W% TASK

7/8 English 40% Speech

7/8 Technology Mandatory—Food 25% Adriano Zumbo

7/8 Visual Arts 50% Recreating Van Gogh

9/10 English 40% Appropriation - Project Based task

9/10 Food Technology 60% Fabulous Food

9/10 Visual Arts 25% Music and Art - Contemporary

LITERACY AND NUMERACY WEEK IN K/1/2

As part of the Literacy and Numeracy Week celebrations K/1/2 have been doing some engaging activities. In literacy we read the book ‘Banjo and Ruby Red’. We did a comprehension task and a range of writing activities based on the book. K/1/2 also listened to the book in Thai. We thought this was very interesting. We created digital artworks and chicken drawings, we were very proud of how they turned out. In Numeracy K/1/2 engaged in the theme ‘Explore’ and created pictures in groups with shapes. K12 have enjoyed celebrating Literacy and Numeracy Week.

Miss Crain and K/1/2

PRIMARY SPORT

Primary students are reaping the benefits of a fantastic grant acquired by Mr Coote. This has enabled us to run the ‘Game On’ rugby program aimed at teaching the basic skills of rugby union to primary aged students. Mr Wright, Mr Kinscher ( our prac student) and Mr Coote presented the afternoon to the kids. These lessons will continue for the remainder of term.

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ASSEMBLY:

Primary Class of the Week: Years 5/6 For their leadership and mentoring of peers.

Secondary Class of the Week: Year 12 Hospitality For baking fantastic cakes for the Year 7 transition day. MATHLETICS:

Bronze: Jessica McClure Silver: Cathryn Brown, Dusty Millis, Hin Yin Foster WEEKLY MERIT:

Bronze: Isabella Smith Silver: Darby Tremain Gold: Grace Monk

READING AWARDS: 50 Nights: Abilee Berney 100 Nights: Michael Hennock CITIZENSHIP AWARDS: Bailey Carr, Billy Kramer, Lauchlan Johnston, Lachlan Wykes; for their fantastic assistance with the Year 7 transition day in Industrial Arts.

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK:

Congratulations to all the following students who have received awards this week.

Years K/1/2 Ethan For settling in to YCS so well.

Years 3/4: Elke Bishop For consistent application across all key learning areas.

Years 5/6: Claire Smith For striving to achieve high standards in all curriculum areas.

Years 7/8: Isabella Smith For fantastic work in PDHPE theory.

Years 9/10: Ben Einhaus For his studious application of knowledge in Information and Software Technology.

Years 11/12: Darby Tremain For excellent service to the school community.

COMMEMORATIVE PAVERS

Have you and your family ordered a commemorative paver yet?

Order forms are available from the school office or on our website. Pavers are $25 each and are a great way to celebrate your time here at YCS.

PHOTOCOPIER

Fuji Docucentre photocopier free to a new home. NB. This item has been in storage for a number of months—we cannot guarantee the working condition of this item. Please arrange with the office for an inspection if interested. We cannot arrange delivery.