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Newsletter 5 – Week 6 2nd – 6th March, 2020

Summer Fair Fun!

2020 – Term 1 Week 6: 2-3-20

3-3-20

4-3-20 GRANDPARENTS

& HARMONY DAY!

MARCH STAR STUDENT ASSEMBLY 9.40am

5-3-20

6-3-20

Week 7: 9-3-20

10-3-20

11-3-20 12-3-20

13-3-20

Week 8: 16-3-20

17-3-20

18-3-20 P&C AGM 7pm

19-3-20

20-3-20 Book Club Orders Issue 2 now due

Week 9: 23-3-20

24-3-20

25-3-20 26-3-20

27-3-20

Week 10: 30-3-20

31-3-20

1-4-20 2-4-20

3-4-20

Week 11: 6-4-20

7-4-20 8-4-20 9-4-20 LAST DAY OF TERM

BILLY CART DERBY DAY

10-4-20 GOOD FRIDAY

2020 – TERM 2 Week 1: 27-4-20 Staff Development Day

28-4-20 ALL Students Return today

29-4-20

30-4-20

1-5-20

Week 2: 4-5-20

5-5-20

6-5-20 7-5-20

8-5-20

Week 3: 11-5-20

12-5-20

13-5-20 14-5-20

15-5-20

Springwood Public School THE PLACE TO BE!

Burns Rd, Springwood NSW 2777 Phone: 4751 1333 Fax: 4751 1951 E: springwood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au W: www.springwoodpublicschool.com

In Darug and Gundungurra Country

Monday 2nd March, 2020 Hello Everyone and Welcome to Week Six! We are already half way through term one and we have achieved so much as a school and community. What a wonderful Summer Fair event that we held last Thursday. Thank you to our wonderful staff for organising this fresh and exciting new event and to Mrs Manion for her vision and creativity to ensure such a successful event. Thank you also to our school community for supporting our Summer Fair. Our annual combined Grandparents/Harmony Day event is only days away now. We look forward to seeing our grandparents on Wednesday, remember it is an orange mufti day to support Harmony Day. Don’t stress if you have no orange clothing! See you on Wednesday! I have received some disturbing news from our local community members about some of our students who ride their bikes to school. I am told that they are riding dangerously and with excessive speed, even resulting in one of them running into a member of our school community. Please talk to your children about safe bike riding expectations on the way to school and home again. Also a reminder that skateboards are not allowed to be ridden to school. All students riding their bikes must wear a helmet. Have a lovely week everyone. Stay safe.

Remind your kids everyday how special they are and how much you love them! Hug the ones you love and hold on for an extra second or two, it makes a world of difference. Mr Mehmet

Please come and join us for Harmony Day and Grandparent's Day this

Wednesday. Orange clothes optional!

Barista Coffee will be available for purchase from 8.30am until 9.40am.

$4.00 per cup or $3.00 if you bring your own keep cup.

Notes from the Office: Please allow yourself enough time when picking up your child during school time for us to locate them. We are unable to call children to the office prior to your arrival as this is disruptive to the class and means a loss of valuable learning time for your child.

Congratulations to our 2020 Library Monitors

These children will be receiving their library monitor badge at the combined Harmony/Grandparents Day Assembly Wednesday 4th March.

Icelyn Scott Laiken Want Eurora Edwards Jovina Manning Erin O’Riordan Joshua Archibold Lillian Warren Charlotte Napper Angelina Ajlouni Emily Hook Addy Quicke Sophie Mould Aaliyah Nanva Lina Fiefia Eve Gilchrist Okani Vaiomounga Natasha Frew Charlotte Miller Saskia Kolkman Ciara Hacker Phoebe De La Mare Jessica Brandjes Abigael Hook Travis Sagovac Emma Dufty Genevieve Gould-Towns Regards Miss Millar Our Student Representative Council (SRC)for 2020, who will also be receiving their badges on Wednesday 4th March at our assembly: KE Adelaide Smith & Jaxon Ritchie KM Lydia Horan and Markus C KWC Eleina Linacre & Oliver Stuart-Choat Support Unit Ari Hunt 1Sloan Jack Lehn and Amy Gardiner 1 Vincent Lucy Hudson & Aiden Gaffney 1 Wilson Brooke Lyne & Jesse Bullock 2 Hart Ashlyn Ferguson & Jonas C 2 Hugo Layla Brown, Amy Livingston & Carter Craig 3/4 McManus Zahra Nash & Max C 3/4 Toohey Mieke Ferguson, Malachi Smith & Max Colgin 3/4 Lolesio Ben Gardiner and Edie Jensen 3/4 West Chloe Leys & Oliver Rozyn 3/4 Williamson Lachlan Townsend & Sienna Bracegirdle & Amelia Choda 5/6 Cross Okani Vaiomounga & Natasha Frew 5/6 Goodman Amelia White & Addy Quicke 5/6 Halpin Francis Marks & Nikolas C 5/6 Honeysett Emily Dougherty & Angelina Ajlouni 5/6 Sanders Lina Fiefia & Riley Basic

SPS Clean up and Gardening Day

On Friday, 28th February, the school took advantage of the beautiful weather and all hands were on deck busy collecting rubbish and pulling weeds. Mrs McManus and Stage 2 students completed a waste audit at the end of the day and found that after separating our waste into our recycling, compost and reuse, we actually had zero waste which is a great effort. Thanks for your support, Mrs Williamson and Mrs McManus BOOK CLUB Scholastic Book Club Issue 2 have been distributed this week. Please place your orders online via the LOOP by Friday 20th March. Orders and payments cannot be taken through the office.

Time for a new P&C Executive! Hi everyone, Our next P&C meeting will be our annual general meeting (AGM) at 7pm on the 18th of March at the Royal Hotel Springwood (before we then go on to have our usual meeting). The AGM is where we elect new committee members for 2020 – that is, our president, vice presidents (x2), secretary, treasurer and general member.

Are you interested in getting involved? While all the positions involve a degree of commitment and work, they are also very rewarding and help build your skills base. If you would like to be involved in an executive position just send me an email with your interest.

If you would like to be a part of the P&C but not in an executive role that would also be amazing, the form is available at the front office and has also been skoolbagged home today. The fee is $5.00 per membership year. Please have a think about it. If you’re interested it might be worth having a chat to one of our 2019 committee members for more information (you’re welcome to send me an email at president.spspandc@gmail.com or jazzylee@ihug.com.au– which is easier to remember!). Thanks so much, Jasmine Cook P&C President Why join the P&C? I first became involved in the P&C in 2017, lending a helping hand at events and in my time in the P&C I've made some amazing friends and have met the most wonderful people. I took on the President position in 2018 and in that time we have accomplished so much to help the children have programs, such as the Lego club and Robotics club. We have also been able to provide the shelter over the seating outside the canteen, we have provided the fencing for the chicken coup, and also the new chicken coup, we have helped supply computers, air conditioners, whiteboards, projectors and extra furniture for demountables and classrooms. We have also helped teachers with supplies for the classrooms. We have also had Mother’s Day and Father’s Day stalls, along with helping out at the yearly Billy Cart Derby day and our Trivia Nights. These are just some of the things the P&C have done over the last few years. I have really enjoyed my time as president and being able to help raise funds for the school our children attend.