Monday 18 August 2014 - Term 3 Week 6

Principal’s Report

August P&C Meeting: The August P&C Meeting will be held tonight Monday 18 August (W6), commencing at 7pm in the staffroom. A feature of this meeting will be a presentation summary of the data collection/collation to date around school practices, programs, policies and people as part of the 2015-17 Strategic Plan. Everyone is very welcome to attend.

Term 3 Working Bee: The Term 3 working bee will be held this Sunday 24 August, commencing at 8.30am and finishing with BBQ and refreshments at 12 noon. Projects to be completed on the day include updating the table tops on the benches between B and C blocks, refurbishing toilet doors, toilet wall and bubbler signage; water blast cleaning of external wall and concrete playground areas; gardening maintenance and mulching. Please come along to help make our school a more attractive and positive environment for our students.

Times Tables for this week: Years 3 and 4 will be working with the 8X table for the next 2 weeks. Years 5 and 6 will be working with the 9X table for the next 2 weeks. Mr Graham will see class champions on Monday at 11.30am.

Calendar

Day Week 6: 18th August – 22nd August

Week 7: 25th August – 29th August

Monday P&C Meeting 7pm Year 6 Production rehearsal

Band Meeting 6pm

Multicultural Public Speaking Final

Tuesday Father’s Day Stall Wrapping Father’s Day Stall Wrapping

Wednesday Parent Kinder Orientation Meeting 6pm NPBS Maths Competition

Thursday School Disco – Juniors 5:30pm Seniors 7:00pm

Friday

Band Bingo Night

Spotlight DVD orders now due

National Cross Country - WA

Rugby League: Juniors (Team 1) v Belmont Nth PS at 1:00pm on Field 2 Juniors (Team 2) v Windale PS at 1:30pm on Field 1 Seniors v Mt Hutton PS at 1:00pm on Field 2

Soccer v St Mary’s at Kahibah Juniors at 12:30pm

Seniors at 1:20pm

Last day for Spotlight tickets

Rugby League: Juniors (Team 1) v Juniors (Team 2) at 1:30pm on Field 1 Seniors v St Paul’s Gateshead at 1:00pm on Field 1

Saturday

Sunday Working Bee

Public Speaking Competitions: Last week, our public speakers competed in the Eastlakes Zone Public Speaking Competitions at various locations. Our public speakers performed extremely well in very competitive fields across our zone. Congratulations Darwin Merindah, Patrick, Reece , David, Holly, Amelia and John who represented us in this competition.

The Hunter Multicultural Public Speaking Regional final will take place next Monday 25 August(W7) at Cardiff South PS. We will be represented by John M from Year 6. All the very best John from the Eleebana PS learning community.

Future School Planning: The third and last parent survey will come home as a hard copy next Monday 25 August. This survey will focus on community participation in school programs, activities and events. The survey will provide an awareness of what is available and current participation. We will be asking for factors that limit community participation in school programs, activities and events. We will be asking for suggestions that could overcome these limitations and strategies for implementation over the life of the next school improvement plan. This survey will close next Friday 29 August 2014.

Eastlake Zone Athletics Carnival: Congratulations to all students who represented Eleebana Public School at the Eastlakes Zone Athletics carnival last week. Kaitlyn Klein was successful in making it through to Hunter Region Athletics carnival. We wish her all the very best.

Band News: The Band program going forward will include:

• Guest Conductor- Wednesday 20 August.

• Spotlight 10 and 11 September.

• Tuesday October 7 – We have been invited to perform at a pre Bandfest performance at WBHS.(TBC)

• Bandfest –will be the final performance of the Intermediate Band before combining with Senior Band.

• Succession Tuesday 21 October – Note the change of date. Int/Sen Bands perform as one. 16 footers performance starts at 6pm and concludes at 8.30pm. We will perform a 20 – 30 min set.

Farewell Mrs Gibbs: Mrs Margaret Gibbs will be finishing her teaching career this Friday 22 August. Mrs Gibbs will take long service leave for the remainder of 2014 and officially retire from the service in January 2015. We thank Mrs Gibbs for her time at Eleebana PS and for her service to the Department of Education and Communities over many years. Mr Rhys Thomas will teach 2G for the remainder of 2014. We all wish Mrs Gibbs a long and happy retirement.

Nationals News: Last week Lachlan J returned from the National Hockey Championships in Hobart. Lachlan represented the NSW team at these championships. Along the way NSW played games against Victoria (lost 1-0), ACT (won 8-1), SA (won 5-0), Tasmania (won 11-0), WA (drew 1-1), and Qld (drew 1-1). These results place NSW third(bronze), behind WA(silver) and Victoria(gold).

Congratulations Lachlan, we are all very proud of your effort and the results from your team.

The NSW girls hockey team won the gold at the National Hockey Championships.Times

2015 Student Enrolments: We are now being asked to provide anticipated enrolment numbers for 2015. We are particularly interested in securing our 2015 Kindergarten enrolments as the Kinder orientation meetings are organised for later in Term 3. All students who are 4 ½ to 6 years of age are entitled to start school in 2015 in our Kindergarten classes. If you have students who are in this age group, or know of families of students in this age group, or any neighbours who currently attend other schools and would like to attend Eleebana PS in Kinder to Year 6 in 2015, could you (and tell them to) please contact the school office for an application form for enrolment. Thank you everyone.

Spring Fair: The major P&C fundraiser, our Spring Fair is fast approaching. We are now officially in the planning stage for this event and the P&C are desperate for support from parent and community members to assist with this event. Volunteers are needed to assist committee members now. If you can assist in any way, please contact our P&C fundraising coordinator Debbie Fenwick on 0421 355 401.

Parking: Please avoid parking in the driveways of local residents as this can cause great inconvenience for them. It is timely to remind community members to avoid parking in no stopping or no parking zones around the school as there are significant fines for doing so.

2014 School Watch Team: Mr Max Broadbent is the 2014 School Watch coordinator. Max has a number of parents on this team, but would welcome anyone else who would like to join. For information about School Watch, Max can be contacted on 4942 8001.

Ian Graham, Principal

Deputy Principal’s Report

Hunter Region Public Speaking Public Speaking Competition – Zone 7 Final: Congratulations to our public speakers who competed in the Eastlakes Zone finals last week.

Early Stage 1: Darwin and Merindah

Stage 1: Patrick and Reece

Stage 2: David and Holly

Stage 3: Amelia and John

All students spoke extremely well, with Darwin highly commended, and just missing out on progressing to the regional final. Well done all!

Great things I saw last week: Darwin and Merindah receiving their participation certificates at the Early Stage 1 Public Speaking Eastlakes Zone Final at Marks Point PS.

Have a great week! Dr Leonard

Parent helpers needed with new K-2 books

Some new books have recently been purchased for teachers in K-2 to utilise in their Guided Reading lessons. Miss Meehan and Mrs Hughes-Dann would appreciate some assistance with stamping and sorting them. If you are able to give an hour or two of your time this week (preferably Tuesday or Wednesday) could you please make yourself known to either Miss Meehan or Mrs Hughes-Dann.

Library News

1 week to go until this year’s Premier’s Reading Challenge is over. Congratulations to Lily KM, Ali and Will KH, Thomas 1D, Bailey 1SS, Darcy and Mason 1/2HD, Jahnavi 2P, Amber , Isabella , Mohammad and Seon 3T, Jack 4JG, Lachlan 4M, Ruby 5HM and Abbey 6G who now join 240 other students who have completed the Challenge. All completed reading logs need to be returned by 22nd August to allow validation to be completed before the cut off date. To enter the books on to their online reading log, go to www.schools.nsw.edu.au/premiersreadingchallenge

Enter the student’s user name and password that they use at school and go to Student Reading Record. Enter the ID number of the book in the box and the details will be automatically entered to allow a cross-check that it was the right book. When the correct number of books has been reached, it will not allow any more books to be entered. Either, send the original reading log, or a print out from the computer record to Mrs Forbes. Students will only be able to enter their logs online until Friday, 22nd August, after that date the site will be closed off to students and only authorised teachers can enter records but after 31st August no further entries can be made.

Those who read – succeed, Robyn Forbes

Basketball News

On Thursday the 8th August Eleebana Public participated in both the Senior Girls and Senior Boys Hunter Region Basketball Knockout tournament. Both teams played four games each in the round robin format and after some wonderful displays of ability and skill both teams finished this part of the tournament undefeated. Both teams finished second in their pool on for and against. The senior boys played a very strong Heaton team and were unlucky to go down by around 8 points in their semifinal. The girls were even more unlucky, having a draw in their semi-final and losing on count back. Both teams showed a tremendous amount of team unity and wonderful sportsmanship. Thank you to Mr Kibble who gave up a week of his own mornings to help train both teams. Also a big thank you to our parent supporters who cheered on both teams on all day. Thanks, Mr Burrows

OOSH News

Last week at OOSH we made loom band jewellery, did an awesome scavenger hunt and painted plaster figurines. This week is National science week and so we will be doing a lot of science experiments and activities, such as making our own snow, making a clock that runs on water and growing crystals.

Two of our staff members Kendall and Ashleigh are away from OOSH until the end of Term 3, as they are completing their final internships for their Early childhood/Primary teaching degrees. We have a new staff member working with us Tannon Muller. Tannon is completing his fourth year of his Primary Teaching degree, and is already very popular with the children.

Our next committee meeting will be held Tuesday 26thth August at 6:30pm in the OOSH room. All interested parents and community members are invited to attend. Our AGM date is also set for the 28th October at 6:30pm in the OOSH room.

Happy Birthday to the following August children; Aedan C, Amelia K, Chloe M, Lara L and Logan P, We hope you have very special birthdays, from all your friends at OOSH.

For OOSH enquiries or information please phone Carolyn or Kate on 49428186 or visit us between 7-9am or 2.30-3.00pm (please avoid after 3pm as this is our busiest time of day).

Thank you, Carolyn and Kate

P & C News – from the President

This year our Father’s Day Stall will be held on Wednesday the 3rd and Thursday 4th of September. Working bees will be held on the following dates to wrap gifts from 9- 12pm in the P & C Room. These dates are the 26th of August and 2nd of September, any time you can spare would be appreciated. The wrapping day to be held on the 19th August has been cancelled due to a lack of donations. Don’t forget to bring in your donations for the stall please!

It’s Spring Fair planning time and we still need a parent volunteers! If you wish to volunteer please place your details in the P&C drop box in the office foyer or either call me on 0418111794 or Debbie Fenwick on 0421355401. There are many small jobs still requiring volunteers so come on everyone your school needs you! Please remember this is our major fundraiser for the year to be held on Saturday 18th October. The person who did the face painting last year at the Spring Fair could you please contact me for this year’s fair.

Annie is desperate for canteen volunteers. Some days she has had to run the canteen on her own. If we don’t have enough helpers the canteen will not be able to operate on a daily basis. Please see Annie if you can spare 1 day a month.

Our term 3 Working Bee will be held on Sunday 24th August. This day is a great day to help keep our school looking fabulous. The Working Bee will be held from 8.30-12.30 with drinks and lunch provided to all volunteers. Just turn up on the day if you are free!

Sue Norris is now taking payments for her bus shopping tour of Sydney for all Eleebana PS Mums who are interested in a fun day out. It will be held on Saturday 1st November departing school 7am for Birkenhead Point and Homebush DFO, returning 7pm for $40. Numbers are limited so if you are interested in attending please leave your payment at the office in the P&C drop box in the office foyer. Credit card details are an acceptable method of payment, along with cheque and cash. Sue would like to confirm numbers so prompt payment is appreciated!

Thanks, Vanessa Price, P&C President

Canteen News

The canteen is now selling ‘Milo Balls’ for 30c each. Parents are reminded that a key ingredient in ‘Milo Balls’ is Milk Arrowroot Biscuits. As per manufacturer’s advice, Milk Arrowroot biscuits contain: Gluten and Milk. May contain egg, tree nuts, sesame and soy.

Canteen Roster – 25 August - 29 August

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Steve Bradbury Kathy Thorncraft Tracey McDonald Angela Sills Lis D

Annouska Ranasingh Kathy Eftimovski Robyn Tooze Juley Troy Lorena Sharrock

Margaret Maclean Adele Cashion Meredith Newton

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Merit Awards - Term 3 Weeks 1 to 5

Alyssa KF Mio 1LT Ruby 3S

Ella KF Layla 1LT Peter 3S

Reid KF Imogen 1LT Lily 3S

Brayden KF Flynn 1LT Riley 3S

Jaxon KF Flynn 1LT Samantha 3T

Noah KF Zach 1LT Laura 3T

Keira KF Nikita 1LT Matthew 3T

Sarah KF Imogen 1LT Emily 3T

Billy KF Cooper 2G Amber 3T

Darwin KF Alicia 2G Laura 3T

Tom KF Sienna 2G Samuel 3T

Harrison KF Tyler 2G Ned 4/5F

Marcus KF Travis 2G Georgia 4/5F

Chloe KF Tom 2G Tayden 4/5F

Ashley KF Jasmine 2G Lily 4/5F

Spencer KF Lara 2G Max 4/5F

Brayden KF Benjamin 2G Lola 4/5F

Halle KF Charlotte 2G Torren 4/5F

Reid KF Brooke 2G Andrew 4/5F

Lawrie KF Brandon 2G Rosie 4/5F

Anisha KMH Adam 2G Niagara 4JG

Ochi KMH Annika 2J Nicholas 4JG

Zane KMH Jasmine 2J Liam 4JG

Nate KMH Toby 2J Emma 4JG Ale-

xander KMH Alexander 2J Phoebe 4JG

Henry KMH Alex 2J Luke 4JG

Josephine KMH Jessica 2J Noah 4JG

Eliza KMH Cody 2J Nicholas 4JG

Indiana KMH Oliver 2J Liam 4M

Ronnie KMH Ava 2J Tahlia 4M

Emma KMH Aidan 2J Brooke 4M

Noah KMH Marcus 2J Kyle 4M

Bonny 1/2HD Ben 2J Maddison 5HM

Alicia 1/2HD Maya 2P Jenaya 5HM

Charlotte 1/2HD Lachlan 2P Seth 5HM

Layla 1/2HD Madeline 2P Julia 5HM

Mason 1/2HD Hugh 2P Lexi 6L

Abbey 1/2HD Joshua 2P Charlotte 6L

Harry 1/2HD Madeline 2P William 6L

Jordyn 1/2HD Jahnavi 2P Ella 6L

Demi 1/2HD Logan 2P Hunter 6L

Lachlan 1/2HD Matilda 3G Nathan 6L

Jack 1/2HD Jake 3G Emily 6L

Levi 1/2HD Dimitri 3G Ava 6L

Bonny 1/2HD Bronte 3G Jasmyn 6L

Emily 1/2HD Kate 3G John 6L

Samuel 1/2HD Lily 3S Liam 6L

Alicia 1/2HD Tamika 3S Denver 6L

Charli 1D Mackenzie 3S Luke 6L

Thomas 1D Lachlan 3S Oliver 6M

Finley 1D Georgia 3S Ethan 6M

Madox 1D Nathan 3S Milly 6M

Kiara 1D Nathan 3S Bailey 6M

Lucia 1D Sam 3S Joel 6M

Cody 1D Lucy 3S Kayla 6M

Gabrielle 1D Zoe 3S Elijah 6M

Layla 1LT

Adam 6M

Mio 1LT Lilly 6M

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This week’s advertisements….

Community Notices…..

Valentine Eleebana Cricket Club: Valentine Eleebana Cricket Club registration days for both junior & senior players are as follows:

Wednesday 20th 5-7pm Saturday 23rd 3-5pm

Venue: Valentine Eleebana Netball Clubhouse, Parklea Ave, Croudace Bay For further information contact Club Secretary on vecc_linda@bigpond.com

School Banking. New rewards released in term 3. The School Banking program provides children with an opportunity to make deposits into their personal Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at school each week. The program is about how often your child makes deposits, not how much they deposit. To encourage regular savings behaviour the program offers an exciting Rewards Program. Every deposit earns your child a Dollarmites token, and once they’ve collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for a reward. Rewards available in term 3 are:

Handball (whilst stock lasts)

Scented Pencils (whilst stock lasts)

Shark or Penguin Keyring

Whale Shark Pencil Case

Moneybox (new release)

Swimming Bag (new release)

Please send in your redemption card and tokens on banking day. Rewards will be delivered in 1-2 weeks. Pooling of tokens is not allowed.