OUR VALUES:

RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY COMMUNITY TEAM WORK

FINAL ASSEMBLY - TOMORROW

The final assembly will be held on Friday 16th December 2016 at 2.30pm (NOT 1pm as previously noted). Parents wanting to take their child early from school or straight after assembly will need to sign

them out at the office. The 2017 school captains will be announced at this assembly.

2017 SCHOOL YEAR The 2017 school year commences on Monday 30th of January for Victorian schools but NPPS students

will not commence school until Wednesday 1st February as the first 2 days will be curriculum days which will include staff planning for the 2017 year. Our 2017 preps will be starting on Wednesday 1st

February and will have the other 3 remaining Wednesdays off in the month of February.

WHAT A GREAT YEAR FOR NPPS IN 2016 Another great year at Nichols Point for our fantastic community. It has been a huge year for NPPS as we have farewelled our fantastic Leader in Jo McQuinn to Irymple Secondary College and we thank her for her dedication in guiding our community over her years. Another highlight of the year was the Google Expedition Launch with special guests Sir Peter Cosgrove and Lady Cosgrove. We would like to thank all parents, carers and those associated with the school for your support in 2016. We certainly couldn’t do what we do without working in partnership with you all. This past month has been a very busy one for us all and we thank you for bearing with us around that – we have farewelled our Grade 6s with our graduation dinner and ceremony, completed the whole school swimming program, class parties and reward days. What an amazing year it has been. This year we farewell the following staff: Sharon Sutherland – After a fantastic career and 9 Years at The Point Sharon is retiring. Sharon’s passion for creating a love of literacy has seen her introduce The Daily 5 Café program to our school. We thank Sharon for her dedication during her years here and hope she finds some time to put her feet up and relax.

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N E W S L E T T E R

DATES TO REMEMBER Term 4 (3 October – 20 December) 15th Dec – Prep-2 Classroom Unlocked Showcase 12.30pm-1.30pm 15th Dec – Gr 3-6 Choir performing Christmas carols in the Mall 10.30am-11.30am 16th Dec – Final Assembly 2.30pm 20th Dec – End of Term dismissed 1.30pm Term 1 (1st Feb-31st March) 2017 Students will commence school in Term 1 on Wednesday 1st February.

Annie O’Rourke is taking 12 months off from NPPS to continue to develop her ‘Jaffled’ business. Thank-you Annie and good luck. Kerry McGaffin has spent the past 12 months with us and we would like to thank her for her commitment to The Point and the Grade 3/4 team in this time. Emma Warhurst is leaving and we thank Emma for her 12 months at The Point and wish her, Damali and Tabitha all the best. Janelle Harrington is leaving us to pursue new opportunities. Janelle has done a power of work getting the 2017 preps ready for school by running a new program this year ‘Pointers Preparation’. We thank Janelle for her time at The Point. Abbie McQuinn is taking 12 months leave from NPPS to further her studies and complete a Diploma of Early Childhood Education and Care at Swinburne in Melbourne. Abbie will be missed for her willingness to jump in and support others. We wish Abbie all the best with her study. Kim Brown has this year has displayed her commitment to The Point by committing to a role in Grade 3/4 and Science and we would like to thank her for this. Rowena Humphris came to Nichols Point PS to take over from Emma Wood who left on Maternity Leave. Rowena has been a fantastic member of the Grade 3/4 Team and we thank her for this. Hayley Cross and Geoff John this year worked in a shared role for PE and continued the tradition at Nichols Point PS to give the students fantastic opportunities. Thank you to both Hayley and Geoff for your dedication to this role. I would like to introduce to you our Nichols Point PS Staff for 2017:

Office Dan Holy – Principal Fi Turlan – Assistant Principal Ler-ree Judd Chistine Dawes Andrea Soebardi Chelsea Baker Prep Team Nat Wilksch (Coordinator) Sally Thomas Kat Stanley Sarah Humphrey Grade 1 Team Greg Licastro (Coordinator) Simone Caminiti Courtney Meredith/Nikki Baldock Grade 2 Team Kayla Fullgrabe (Coordinator) Vicki Matthews Dylan Tyers Buket Oz

Grade 3/4 TeamLeisha Morrison (Coordinator) Ryan Doherty Annette Manna Caitlin Finis Alana Driscoll Melissa Lawson Grade 5/6 Team Matthew Eyles (Coordinator) Julia Mugavin Jodee Clancy Nathan Manuel Jarryd Gahan Specialists Trav Zanker Ginette Lanyon Sarah Wood/Grace Williams

Educational Support Team Lisa Downes – (Coordinator) David Hogarth Chloe Pridgeon Pete Hilton-Wood Jenny DeBoo Darrell Heathcote Ross Carr

Music Andrea Soebardi Iwan Soebardi Luke McCarthy Canteen Annie O’Rourke Sherri Hammence

COMMUNICATION ABOUT LEARNING and Home Groups for 2017 All students will have an envelope tomorrow with a hard copy of their progression points. This needs to be read in conjunction with the fortnightly comments on Yammer. If you are having difficulty with accessing Yammer please contact the school so we can help you as you are missing out on vital information about your child’s learning and progress. There also will be a letter providing you with your child’s homegroup teacher for 2017. When making up class lists we take into consideration many factors and do our best to accommodate requests. Please prepare your child in a positive manner over the holidays for 2017. SCHOOL CAPTAINS Thank you to this year’s Captains – Ethan, Chloe, Tori and Ayden. These young people have done an amazing job in welcoming visitors, showing short listed staffing candidates around our school, running assembly, workers of the week, ANZAC Day commemorations and the list goes on. Next year’s Captains will be announced at our final assembly on Friday at 2.30pm. Well done to all 21 students who tried out for School Captain – you certainly did yourselves and your families proud and we are sure there will be many more opportunities in leadership in 2017. FACEBOOK Please stay tuned to Facebook for any updates and if you don’t have Facebook there is a feed on our School Website. FAREWELL TO OUR GRADE 6STUDENTS Goodbye and best wishes to our Grade 6 students moving onto Secondary College. Good luck with your future. Remember to use your voice. One last thing….. Once A Pointer Always A Pointer We hope you have a fantastic break with your families.

GRADE 6 GRADUATION A very proud moment at the Point to see our Grade 6s graduate last Thursday night. Congratulations to all involved in the night, one I'm sure the students will remember for many years to come.

!! GRADE 3/4 FUN DAY !!

Celebrating a wonderful year in 3/4! The grade 3/4’s had an awesomely fun day yesterday at Putt Putt and the Aqua Coaster.

Thanks to the teachers and parent helpers that made this day happen

INSTRUMENTAL 2017 Luke McCarthy is seeking expressions of interest for students looking to learn drumming in 2017. He can be contacted on 0417 897 906 or lukemccarthy@lukemccarthy.id.au for further information. For those wanting to join singing or guitar lessons, please contact Andrea or Iwan Soebardi for further information. 2017 expression of interest sheets are on the front counter at the office. STUDENT BANKING Well done to all the 2016 student bankers! Everyone has done a great job with their banking this year and received many awesome prizes! Student banking has now finished for this year but will resume on Monday 13th February 2017. See you all then UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop will be open on from 11.30am-1.30pm Tuesday 31st January (the day before students start) for any last minute needs. Otherwise the uniform shop will be open as usual on Wednesday afternoon 3.30pm and Friday mornings 8.30am-9am. GRADE 1/2 Grade 1/2 parents, please don't panic if your kids come home with some red stickered picture story books. We're having a clean out of our class libraries and we're offering them to the kids before taking them to the Salvos.

FAMILIES LEAVING IN 2016

Farewell to all of our Grade 6 students and families leaving NPPS in 2016. We hope you all have a safe and wonderful future! Thanks for all your support over the years!

Indiana Belvedere and family Rachael Douglas-Haby-Milne

Blake Jones and family Oscar Kallweit and family Lucy Konecny and family

Samuel Maiorana and family Damali Warhurst and family

Jake Muir Rani Spence-Weightman and family

Adelle Stewart and family Willem Taylor and family

Saffron Virgona and family Giordana Callipari

Tanner Clancy Ayden & Laura Costa and family

Chloe Fangaloka and family Shanika Kirby-Wilson

Tia Le Hamish Leishman

Angus Pahl and family Aidan Riordan and family

Lois Taylor and family Jasmine Balchin and family

Emily Burns Sofia Ghidinelli-Matheson and family

Andie Hannah and family Eden Muster and family

Tori Price Ella Reynolds and family

Nekia Scott-Stowe and family Olivia Symes Elise Tierney Harry Tonzing

Keira Yound and family Emily Barling and family

Tenaee Cumming Ethan Fryar

Arabella Golsworthy and family Allysha Hicks and family

Rhianna Hinks and family Joel Iredale and family

Jamison Nokes Jordan & Breeanna Parker and family

Dru Pilmore Chelsey Ryan Noah Turnbull Hayley Wyld

Charlotte Bergens Jedd Bicket

Tahlia Brunato and family Caterina DeMaria

Jackson Malycha and family Holly McGlashan and family

Olivia Orwell and family Fletcher Wilson and family Ethan Woods and family Tapaita Fanua and family

Lara & Jemma Gillick and family Jack & Loch Marshall and family

LIBRARY NEWS

As 2016 comes to a close I would like to thank each and every one of you within our school community for the support I have received over this last 12 months. Your support has been in various forms, bringing in plastic bags,

donations from your own library as well as keeping a check on your child’s library borrowings. I would like to thank in particular Heather Lambert who has volunteered her time on most Mondays to cover books. It is a very

time consuming task and I have been most appreciative of her help.

One of the highlights of our library year was Book Week. Our Book Week was very successful because of the wonderful support you as our community gave to the activities throughout that week as well as our Book Fair

(which was our most successful to date). The money raised from book sales enabled me to purchase many new books that our students had placed on the library’s “wish list”.

I would like to remind all students that books borrowed from the library need to be returned as soon as possible

so that I can have the library ready for next year.

Since my last article in the newsletter the library has been fortunate enough to have received donations of books from Henri Baldock, Layla Parker, Lochie and Makenzie Holy. Tuesday I received the novel the 78 Storey

Treehouse from Charlie Butcher whose family donated the book to the school as a big thank you to Miss Manna and Miss Driscoll for their support throughout 2016. It is wonderful that we can place donated books into our

library and I know the students are very appreciative. I thank also the parents who have replaced books that have unfortunately been lost by their child.

As is usual most years several students have shown interest in the library and how it is organised. As I have been

part-time they have been a wonderful support and help and I feel that it is fitting that their efforts are acknowledged. So a big thank you goes in particular to Sofia Ghidinelli-Matheson, Emily Barling, Kiera Young,

Emily Burns and Caterina De Maria.

To the Grade 6 students who are moving onto secondary college – goodbye and my very best wishes to you for your future. To those students who are leaving us to move elsewhere goodbye and good luck and I hope that you

will have very happy memories of your time spent in the library at Nichols Point.

Have a Merry Christmas everyone and may 2017 be all that you wish.

Jenny DeBoo Library

MERRY CHRISTMAS

AND A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

MERRY

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