Our School NewsWeek 3 | Commencing 24th October, 2016

Elanora Heights Public School is a White Ribbon School

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Weekly Reminders!Kindy Zoo Excursion: Oct 25Navy Band: Oct 25 - All welcome Gold Coin Donation PleaseP&C Meeting: Oct 26 7:15pmHalloween Disco: Oct 27 K-2: 5pm-6:15pm 3-6: 6:30pm-8pm

School Banking: Oct 28Kindy 2017 Orientation: Nov 2 & 3

Un-Named Lost Property Parents, please come and checkNB: that items for this newsletter will NOT be accepted after 10am on the preceding Friday

Week 3 - Term 4Mon 24 Oct K-2 Assembly

Tue 25 Oct Kindergarten Excursion to the Zoo.Navy Band visit for years 1-6 @ 1:30pm under the COLA

Wed 26 Oct P&C Meeting 7:15pmYear 6 Interrelate

Thu 27 Oct Year 5 Leadership DayHalloween Disco: K-2: 5pm-6:15pm3-6: 6:30pm – 8pm

Fri 28 Oct School BankingPSSA v AvalonEagle Tag @ NSHS GroundsBoys Cricket @ Careel BayGirls Cricket @ Narrabeen Reserve Teeball @ Rat Park 6Softball @ Rat Park 5

Week 3 - Term 4Mon 31 Oct K-6 AssemblyTue 1 NovWed 2 Nov Kindy 2017 Orientation

Year 6 InterrelateThur 3 Nov Kindy 2017 OrientationFri 4 Nov School Banking

PSSA v Mona ValeEagle Tag @ Narra North PS GroundsBoys Cricket @ Kitchener ParkGirls Cricket @ Narrabeen ReserveTeeball @ Rat Park 1Softball @ Rat Park 2

Until next time,

Leesa Martin

Principal

Dear Parents and Friends,What a lovely second week I had at Elanora Heights Public School, spending more time with our students in their classrooms and at assemblies, meeting our dedicated music committee parents and working with the teachers as they participated in a professional development workshop on Inquiry Based Learning.

If that wasn’t enough excitement for one week, I was also delighted to visit the Elanora Dads’ Camp Out on Saturday afternoon and even grabbed some brownies from the cake stall at Bunnings on Sunday morning. It is lovely to be part of such a cohesive school community, working together to provide wonderful experiences for our students.

My thanks to the many parents who coordinated the camp-out on Saturday evening and Sunday morning – especially to the mums who came in to cook breakfast! – and to the Music Committee

parents who not only manned the BBQ at Bunnings on Sunday, but also baked so many delicious treats to sell.

Youth Eco SummitLast Wednesday, Miss Chloe Powell accompanied four of our Elanora students, (Kate

H, Natalie P, Ben M and Lachie S) to the Youth Eco Summit, along with other students from the Peninsula Community of Schools (PCS). The Youth Eco Summit is an annual curriculum-based festival that provides students with hands on workshops and interactive displays based around the theme of sustainability. The aim of the festival is to allow students to present their current achievements in sustainability, and inspire ongoing action for change. Our students participated in activities such as worm farm building, mud brick making and traditional Aboriginal axe crafting! They shared ideas, learnt new information and had so much

fun doing it! What a great day!

P and C Meeting This WeekThis week’s P and C meeting will be held in our school Library to enable us to share our school’s NAPLAN results with our community. We will also be explaining the school’s Resource Allocation Model, or RAM funding with you prior to our planning for 2017. I look forward to meeting many new faces at this week’s meeting.

Class Formation for 2017This week I will be meeting with the Executive Team to reflect on our strategic planning achievements for 2016 and commence the process of determining our targets and milestones for 2017. As part of this discussion we will be commencing our class formation process for 2017, which will include looking at what new initiatives we may offer students. Some of these may include enhancing our music programs and further developing our inquiry based learning models through the use of technology.

We will also be reviewing our class formation policy to ensure the best possible outcomes are achieved for every student. To assist this process, could you please advise the office if you have any specific information or requests relating to your child’s class placement in 2017, or if your child/ren will be leaving the school in 2017, at your earliest convenience. Please note, requests for specific teachers will not be considered. All requests will need to be received by the office by no later than Friday 18th November.

Surfing Star of the FutureCongratulations to Xavier B in 5Z who competed in the Wahu Surfer Grom Comps over the past two weekends at Curl Curl and Conulla, picking up a 4th and 3rd place respectively. What a fabulous achievement in a hotly contested field. Well done, Xavier!

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K-2 PerformancesThis term we are excited to announce that K-2 is busy making a music, dance and drama performance for us to enjoy at the end of this term.

There will be one matinee performance and two evening performances. Students are expected to attend both evening performances to showcase all the hard work everyone has put into these spectacular evenings.

Please put aside Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 for these performances.

They will start at 6:30pm and go for around 45 minutes. The matinee performance will be in school time during that week also. We are finalising that date this week and will let you know next week.

Thank you for your assistance.

Save the Date: Our Thank You Morning Tea will be held on Tuesday, November 29 at 10:45am for all volunteer parents, caregivers and friends.

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NAVY BAND PERFORMANCEThe Navy Band performed at Elanora Height Public School today. We asked your child to please bring in a gold coin as a donation to our Elanora Heights School Band. If you have not already sent yours in, please do so tomorrow.

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AND THE AWARD GOES T0...The Bronze and Silver awards for K - 2 are handed out to students at the K - 2 assemblies and theBronze and Silver awards for years 3 - 6 are handed out at the 3 - 6 assemblies. All Gold and Diamondawards are handed out at the K - 6 assemblies. Parents are welcome to attend these assemblies, butplease call the office first to confirm that your child will be receiving their award that day.

All assemblies are held on Mondays at 2pm and your child’s name will appear in the newsletter on thesame day they receive their award.

To assist us, when sending in the mini merits/awards from home, please either staple or clip them andmake sure your child’s full name and class is on the top mini merit. Please do not send them in in plasticbags or envelopes.

The cut-off time to hand in your mini merits/awards is THURSDAY morning as the box is emptied after recess.

SILVER AWARDSCODY B

ARCHIE B

EMMA B

OSCAR C

JAIDA C

CEDRIC D

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SYLVIE M

BRADLEY M

SUMMER P

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RYLIE P

ANGUS W

JASPER Z

BRONZE AWARDSIMAAN A

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PHOEBE B

MADELINE C

MILLA C

KAI C

DANIEL C

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LILY D

MAXI D

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BRAITHE L

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LIVE LIFE WELL @ SCHOOL .....|.....MRS CULLEN

From our school to the sea ...Thank you to all the parents who took their children for a landscape walk and collected collage materials. I heard many encouraging stories of children being shocked at the amount of rubbish and cleaning up a littered area.

In their environmental art sessions, K-2 imagined where a red ball might go if you dropped it in Pickletown and it rolled all the way down the hill. They looked at Powerpoint photos of the main landscape features from Pickle-town to the sea: the steep sandstone cliff on Elanora Rd, the flatter land by Nareen Creek, the broad lagoon and its entrance to the ocean, the rock platform and headland. Each class created artworks showing one part of that landscape journey. The red ball is rolling down in each picture, acting as a symbol for where water would also flow.

Now can you believe this? When Year 2 walked down to Nareen Creek, imagining where the red ball might go, a boy said, “There’s the red ball!” And, there, in the gutter on Elanora Road, was a small red ball, stuck in some leaves! No one was more surprised than me!

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To order school lunches online go to www.munchmonitor.com Use log in – username: elanora and password: munch2101 | To Volunteer Ph 9913 2721

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Halloween in the Heights….The Halloween disco is on this Thursday and the canteen team has been hard at work coming up with a themed menu for the night.

Featuring on the menu will be the Freaky Feast for $5. This pack includes a spooky pizza or a piece of scary sushi, plus a bloodied Band-Aid and a ghastly ghost. The Band-Aid is a wafer biscuit covered in raspberry coulis and the ghastly ghost is a strawberry dipped in white chocolate. We promise that no can-teen staff members were hurt in making this menu!

Also available on the night will be water, juice and apple slinkies. Our last disco set a slinky record of 60 apples sold – lets see if we can beat that this Thursday.

The Halloween disco is designated as an “amber traffic light” event. The school and P&C are bound by the NSW Health Guidelines which detail that only two red-light days can occur in any term. Red-light foods are items high in sugar, fat and/or salt. Given the number of red-light days in term four leading up to Christmas the disco was given an amber rating by the P&C.

If you are able to help our canteen on Thursday night please contact Erku on 9913 2721 or erku6za@gmail.com. Feel free to dress-up on the night!

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First up was the Fathers’ Day Campout and Huey did the right thing by raining on Friday night leaving, for once, pliable earth for the insertion of hundreds of tent pegs. In previous years pile drivers were required.

Despite a wet start to the weekend the top oval quickly filled with dads, kids and tents. Just prior to the start of the Campout Games our new Principal, Leesa Martin and Deputy Laurinda Lomas, popped in to meet many of the families. We appreciate your interest and the opportunity for many to have a casual chat. There were games aplenty, sack races, egg and spoon and of course the tug of war.

Dads v. Kids and a MumA truly massive thank you to Ro Brazel and her talented team who seamlessly bring this event to life, we couldn’t do it without you. Thanks also to Janine Ralston who assisted behind the scenes and ran the Campout Games with her two Year 6 helpers Zaley and Maddy.

And if this wasn’t enough the Music Committee ran a very successful sausage sizzle and cake stall at Bunnings Narrabeen on Sunday. A huge thank you to the many, many helpers who cooked, served and enticed, particularly when it came to the cakes. I confess to some overindulgence such is the cooking standard of EHPS parents. Special thanks to Tara Mooney who has gone to extraordinary lengths raising money for the music program, you have pounded many kilometres of pavement and worn out many pairs of shoes in support of a very fine program.

P&C 2017We are now be looking for a new Vice-President for 2017 (we anticipate at least one nominee for President).

All positions are declared vacant at the AGM to be held in November. If you have a desire to serve the school community (and could there be anything better?) please send an email to elanorahtspandc@gmail.com so we can hopefully put some structure in place prior to 2017.

P&C MeetingThe next P&C meeting is this Wednesday, 26 October at 7:15pm in the Library. An Agenda is attached to this email along with the minutes of the last meeting. We look forward to another fabulous turnout of parents and trust you can join us.

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Please join us for our annual end of year EHPS Music Program Concert

on Sunday 30th Oct 3-4pm

in the School Hall.Our 3 amazing Concert Bands will be performing as well as our

fabulous String & Guitar Ensembles. Our newly formed Year 2 Recorder Group will also make a special appearance.

Afternoon tea will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you there.

SWING WITH STRINGS Is your child going into Year 1 or 2 next year?

Would they like to be part of our new Training Strings Group (Violin or Cello) in 2017? The Elanora String Ensembles will inspire us all with a performance at the K-2 Assembly on

14 November 2pm. Lucky children in the audience will have the opportunity to come up on stage and have a go on a

string instrument. We would love parents to join us and experience the wonderful potential that being part of the Elanora Heights String Ensemble offers.

Interested children will be given an Information and Expression of Interest Note on the day. Please return it to the ofÞce and you will be contacted by Strings Parent contact, Fiona Brock.

Alternatively please email elanorastrings@gmail.com

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….that our secondhand uniform sale was a huge success!Thank you to our fantastic uniform shop team who put on the second hand uniform sale.

We had a fantastic turnout on both days and raised more than $1,000 for the P&C. Given that this event was such a win-win for our school community, we envisage doing this event again early next year.

Dates for your diaryTERM 4Wed 26th Oct P&C Meeting 7:15pm

Thur 27th Oct Halloween Disco

Wed 23rd Nov P&C Meeting 7:15pm

Tue 29th Nov Volunteers Thankyou Morning Tea, 11am

Fri 2nd Dec Carols Night

Tue 6th and Wed 7th Dec K-2 School Performance

Thur 15th Dec Yr 6 Farewell Dinner, 6:30pm

Fri 16th Dec Yr 6 Farewell Assembly

Fri 16th Dec Last Day of Term 4

Uniform ShopUniform Shop Coordinator Sue Garrity

Contact ehps.uniforms@gmail.com

Open on Monday & Thursday from 8.15am to 9.45am

Purchase in store or by order form available online via the school website

Pay by cash or card (Eftpos, Visa or Mastercard)

Alterations & Repairs by Michelle Sturrock (Dressmaker and parent), great rates on offer to Elanora families. Details are available at the Uniform Shop.

Second Hand UniformsSecond Hand Uniform Coordinator Karen Woodley

Enquiries or Purchase please call 9913 1292 after 9.00am or email thewoodleys@optusnet.com.au

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ni PSSA Training Please be advised that all children should be collected by parents when they are dismissed from training (within the school grounds) and NOT wait for collection at the top of the track where there is no supervision.

PSSA Training Times Training is cancelled if it is raining

SPORT DAY & TIME LOCATION

Boys Cricket Fridays 8am – 8.55am Top Oval

Girls Cricket Fridays 8am – 8.55am Middle Oval

Boys & Girls Softball Fridays 8am – 8.55am Top Oval

Boys & Girls Pittwater Tag Wednesdays 3pm – 4pm Top Oval

T-Ball Thursdays 8am – 8.55am Top Oval

PSSA ResultsSPORT VERSUS RESULT

Junior Boys Cricket Bilgola Plateau Loss 134 - 175

Senior Boys Cricket Bilgola Plateau Loss 43 - 60

Junior Girls Cricket Bilgola Plateau Win 95 - 32

Senior Girls Cricket Bilgola Plateau Win 71 - 30

Senior Boys Softball Bilgola Plateau Loss 0 - 13

Senior Girls Softball Bilgola Plateau Win 8 - 0

Junior Boys T-ball Bilgola Plateau Win 13 - 4

Junior Girls T-ball Bilgola Plateau Win 9 - 3

Junior Boys Pittwater Tag Bilgola Plateau Win 10 - 2

Senior Boys Pittwater Tag Bilgola Plateau Win 19 - 0

Junior Girls Pittwater Tag Bilgola Plateau Win 8 - 3

Senior Girls Pittwater Tag Bilgola Plateau Win 9 - 0

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Alice M (5Z) Tenor Saxophone

Training Band

Alex K (4C)– Percussion Intermediate Band

Maddie C (6R) Clarinet

Senior Band

Dates for your diary Tue 25th Oct Navy Band Performance 1:45pm Gold Coin Donation

Sun 30th Oct EHPS Musicale – 3-4pm – all ensembles to perform

Fri 2nd Dec EHPS Carols Night – All ensembles involved – Volunteers needed to run the BBQ

Mon 12th Dec EHPS Presentation Day – Combined Intermediate/Senior Band

BUNNINGS BBQ & Cake StallOur Bunnings day was a great success and we managed to make a profit of $855.

Many thanks to Tara Mooney for organising the day, it was a huge effort. Thank you to all the parents who baked for our cake stall, it made a huge difference to our profit at the end of the day.

We would also like to acknowledge the following people who gave up big chunks of their Sunday to serve and cook the BBQ:

Jo Glinsky, Anna Davis, Peter Lemon, Terry Harvey, Lyndal Perry, Beck Heather, Kate MacGregor, Fiona Brock, Tim Baxter, Alison Pittorino, Vivien Brown, Bob Dartnell, Laura Van Der Straaten, Mick Brown, Martha MacLaurin-Wood, Louise England, Birgit Ohst, Belinda Brown andAnthony Mahoney.

Special mention goes to Bonnie H (3W) who plays flute in Training Band who was the only child who came down to play for the Bunnings customers. Well done Bonnie. We all loved listening to you!

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Santa’s Little Helper!

Santa is looking for one lucky Sydneysider to help him light Sydney’s Christmas tree in Martin Place.

Entries are now open for City of Sydney’s 2016 Christmas colouring competition.

We’re inviting kids aged 12 years and under to get artistic for the chance to light up the Christmas tree at our Christmas concert on Saturday 26 November!

The lucky winner will also win a prize valued up to $100.

Simply go to: https://whatson.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/events/martin-place-concert-tree-lighting

download the PDF colouring form and mail your entry to us before 21 November for your chance to win!