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Newcastle Middle School Newsletter

Tuesday, 7th November 2017

151 Christo Road Waratah NSW 2298 T 4960 2122 F 4967 5920 E [email protected]

Term 4 - Week 4

NEWSLETTER

Term 3 Week 1 2013

Friday 10th May

Principal’s Message

Late newsletter this fortnight because I

wanted to give feedback regarding our

Annual Charity Golf Day.

Congratulations to all for another

hugely successful Golf Day last Friday. We had

perfect weather and a strong roll up of teams who

enjoyed the golf, food and some cool beverages.

Massive thank you to Jenny for her wonderful

organisation again, to the Friends Committee for their

ongoing assistance around the day and ‘Paparazzi

Ray’ for his photography of teams and action shots

across the Merewether Golf Club greens. Thanks to

our major sponsor Bentley’s Accountants for their

contribution to the day and to Chris Dumas for his

continued support and again this year, for his ‘not so

silent auction’ highly persuasive auctioneering skills.

Other major sponsors were Harvest Homes and

Laser Electrical. The day was a massive success

with the amount raised to be confirmed in the next

newsletter. Thank you to all our corporate sponsors,

players and community businesses that donated a

range of prizes for raffles and team winners as all of

you contributed so much to the day’s success. Your

generosity ensures we can couple these funds with

Orica’s fundraising as we are completing the planning

and implementation of special playground projects

including a Sensory Playground area.

Winning team of the 4 Ball Ambrose event this year

were Antenna Wizards, 2nd place - Bentleys and

3rd place - Laser Electrical. Congratulations to all.

We were very lucky to have some special prizes for

the Silent Auction feature. A signed Melbourne Storm

team jersey was donated by Steve at Marshall

Batteries (won by Mark Smith of Lecky’s); a signed

Swans team jersey by Concrete Evidence via Chris

Dumas (won by John Green of Lecky’s) and Friends

purchased a voucher at Crowne Plaza Hunter Valley

(won by Grant Mead of Lecky’s). Lecky’s entered 6

teams all splendidly dressed in pink flamingo shirts - a

big effort and in the spirit of the day. They were just

pipped for best dressed by Grant Hewlett’s team who

were coordinated on multi

levels of attire.

I have attached photo pages

of Golf Day highlights and

pics have been posted on

Facebook, too.

Sickness

Thank you to our families who are keeping students at

home when they are unwell. There is a particularly

nasty cold / flu going around the school and broader

community, as well as change of seasons, flu and

other sicknesses are affecting many of our students

and their families. Staying home gives students a

chance to rest and recover quickly and we thank you

for your thoughtfulness, not only to your own child, but

to their peers and school staff.

Congratulations and Thank You Well done and congratulations

Virginia on 20 years’ Service

with the NSW Department of

Education as a classroom

teacher. It was a pleasure to

present you with your

certificate at our staff meeting

this week.

Kind regards,

Judy Mouthaan

Principal (Relieving)

Tuesday 7th November 2017 Term 4 - Week 4

School Attendance

I would like to remind all parents and carers that it is

compulsory for school aged children to attend school

regularly, each day that the school is opened.

Following an absence parents should provide the school

with a verbal or written explanation for the absence

within seven days. This explanation can now be

provided through our Skoolbag app or via email.

The following link will lead you to the “Compulsory

School Attendance - Information for parents brochure

prepared by the Department of Education.

https://detwww.det.nsw.edu.au/inprincipal/assets/commo

n_media/20120525/AttendanceInfoParents.pdf

Should you not have access to the internet, please

request a printed copy from your class teacher or the

school office staff.

Transition - incoming and exiting

students

We have held our Transition information sharing

meetings at Middle School for our incoming cohort and

Senior School for our exiting Year 8 students. These

meetings were valuable sharing to get to know the new

students for each site as we plan for the next stage of

the educational journey at Newcastle School.

Transition visits are underway and Year 8 students have

been meeting friends / new peers and enjoyed

participating in Zumba at Senior School. Our Junior

incoming students will begin their visits today and thanks

to Lenore for her organisation and careful planning

around this program.

School Banking Day Reminder

Don’t forget that Wednesday is School Banking day and

students should bring in their weekly deposit.

For every deposit made at school, no matter how big or

small, students will receive a silver

Dollarmites token. Once students have

individually collected 10 tokens they

can redeem them for an exclusive

School Banking reward item in

recognition of their regular savings

habits.

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program at

Newcastle Middle School.

Diary Dates - Term 4

Week 5

Tuesday, November 7th Junior School Transition

Visit

Wednesday, November 8th School Banking

Week 6


Visit


Wednesday, November 15th New Student Transition

Visit

Thursday, November 16th New Student Transition

Visit

Week 7

Tuesday, November 21st Pop Up Coffee Club

Wednesday, November 22nd School Banking

Thursday, November 23rd New Student Transition

Visit

Week 8


Visit


Wednesday, November 29th New Student Transition

Visit

Thursday, November 30th Presentation Day

Week 9

Wednesday, December 6th School Banking

Friday, December 8th Year 8 Graduation Day

Week 10

Monday, December 11th Student Christmas Party

Wednesday, December 13th School Banking

Friday, December 15th Last Day of School -

Students


PBL Focus Areas

Term 4 We Learn to Be Safe

Week Lesson Content

Week 5 and 6 Sun Safety -

Wear hats, suncream, “slip slop slap“

Week 7 and 8 Home Safety -

Chemicals, fire safety eg. “get down

low and go go go”

Week 9 and 10 Stranger Danger -

Cyber safety

Student Christmas Party

When: Monday 11th December

Place: COLA

Time: 11.30am - 1pm

Food: Please bring a plate of party food to share e.g. potato chips, lollies, cakes etc.

We would like to invite our students’ families to celebrate the festive season with us at school on this day.

If you would like your child to receive a gift from Santa, could you please send one in before the day to your child’s teacher.

Thank you

Jenny Lewis Teacher

Office News

Term Fees

As we are now in Term 4 we would like to remind

parents the voluntary school fees are due. They are $25

a term or $100 for the year. These go towards

purchasing personal hygiene products as well as art &

craft supplies for the children.

Uniforms

With the warmer weather and new school year

approaching, now is the time to start thinking about

uniforms. We will be placing an order Wednesday -

22nd November. (This is the last day the uniform

manufacturer will be accepting orders for 2017)

If you would like to purchase uniforms please use the

order form attached.

WE CARE - PBL AWARD

Jasmine Jack B

Eden Edan

Congratulations and well done!

WE LEARN - PBL AWARD

Hayley Sarah


WE ARE SAFE - PBL AWARD

Domenick Alex

Charley Max D

Layla


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