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PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Student of the Week Congratulations to Lenny Ehlefeldt from the Butter Beans class who was announced as our student of the week on Friday. Lenny receives the award for working hard and showing respect and consideration with his peers. In winning this award, Lenny receives $5 to spend at the Ice Cream Shack. Well done, Lenny! Bouquets We finally have play equipment! After several years of dedicated fundraising by the School P&C and some additional funding from the school, Tea Gardens PS is a proud owner of some very bright and colourful play equipment that I know the students will be actively using over the coming weeks. Play safe and enjoy! Thank you! Last week, I thanked our volunteers and once again, I would like to take the opportunity to acknowledge and thank our sporting team parent and community volunteers who have assisted with the coaching of our netball and rugby league teams. Many thanks to Kylie Patteson (Netball) and Col McCarthy and Senior Constable David Coyle (Rugby League). Thank you! Many thanks are also extended to the parents who assisted with transporting students to each of these events. Coming Up Tea Gardens Public School Annual Public Speaking Competition - 2016 Good luck to the students who have been selected to present speeches for the stage semi-finals this week. Winning stage finalists will participate in the Grand Final next Tuesday 31st May at 9:15am. This year the winner and runner up from Stage two and Stage three will have the opportunity to participate in the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition which is open to all NSW government primary schools. Stig Live@ The Library show Tomorrow at 9.30am Stig Wemyss will be coming to Tea Gardens. Stig Wemyss is Australia’s most loved narrator of audio books for children and young adults. Stig is also the author of The Tripp Dia-ries- an audio book series written specifically for audio. Stig reads books by Andy Griffiths, Paul Jennings, Tim Winton and others. For further information or if you’d like to know more about Stig, check out www.stig.com.au. Stig and Bolinda Audio will also be bringing a cameraman over for the tour who will make a short film for our school. At this stage, no one has indicated that they have concerns with their child being videoed. If you do not wish for your child to be videoed during the visit, please notify the office on 49970286 so we can place your child out of video view during the visit.

Great Aussie Bush Camp Update – 1st – 3rd June 2016 We are looking forward to our Year 3 and Year 4 students attending the Great Aussie Bush camp later this term. Mr Weightman, Mrs Booth and Mr Svensek are looking forward to sharing this experi-ence with your child. A reminder that final payment was due last Friday 20 May. PSSA Boys Soccer Tea Gardens Knockout Soccer team will be playing against Halliday’s Point Public School on Friday 27th May. The match is an away game to be held at Diamond Beach Oval kicking off at 10.30am. Students are required to be at Diamond Beach Oval at 10am to warm-up. Debate Best wishes to our school debating team who are competing in a video conference debate this Friday against Mitchell Island Public School. Good luck, team! Class Assembly Roster The class assembly roster for semester one is as follows:

SILVER AWARDS commence this Friday. Students who have been on track with their behaviour each week so far this year will be acknowledged at this week’s assembly. Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL). Everyone, Everywhere, Every time. This week, our focus is on Respect Each Other Respect- Kind words Good listener Be a friend Safety- Look out for others Personal space Personal Best- Encourage your peers Welcome others Newcastle Knights Knockout Results

Tea Gardens Public School played in the annual Newcastle Knights

Rugby League Knockout last Thursday achieving some very pleas-

ing results including:

Term Week Date Class

2 5 27/5/16 Miss Maloney

2 6 3/6/16 Ministers

2 7 10/6/16 Mrs Ingram

2 8 17/6/16 Ministers

2 9 24/6/16 Mrs Andrews

2 10 1/7/16 Athletics Carnival- No assembly

Tea Gardens Public School Witt Street, Tea Gardens, 2324

23/5/2016 Week 5 Term 2

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A draw against Greta PS 4-4 A loss against Marks Point PS 4-0 A draw against Beresfield PS 8-8 A win against Mayfield East PS 8-4 A win against Wiripaang PS 16-8 Coaching of the team was again shared between Senior Consta-ble David Coyle, Mark Clemson and local guru Col McCarthy. “The results achieved this year exceeded our expectations. Our teams are getting better year after year.” Principal Clemson said. “To say I’m proud of our boys and girls is an understatement- I’m thrilled how they performed”. Tea Garden’s progression in the knockout came down to the last preliminary match of the day. A draw in the game between Ber-esfield and Greta would have been enough to see our team through to the quarter finals. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be with Greta PS being victorious and progressing through. Re-gardless, the kids had an awesome time staying true to the old adage that it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose as long as you do your best and are having fun.

PSSA Girls Netball Our girls netball team played against Medowie Public School on Tuesday. The girls did the school proud in both behaviour and sportsmanship although we were unfortunately defeated on this occasion.

Approaching our School – dealing with complaints and resolving issues. Parents are reminded that they should not approach other children in the playground. If issues are present, please discuss these with the class teacher, stage supervisor or school principal. Please do not approach other children at school.

Medication at school In accordance with Departmental policy, no medication, other than prescribed asthma inhalers as part of an asthma manage-ment plan or epipen use as part of an ASCIA plan, can be self-administered by students. If your child requires medication to be administered during school hours, it can only be done so by school staff. Where this is required, application must be made to the principal in writing.

Maths Workshop

Are you interested in learning about what your child does in math-ematics at school? Would you like to learn how to best support your child at home with their numeracy and build their mathematical thinking? Come along to our parent information workshop about maths K-6. We will be running two workshop sessions on Tuesday 31st May 2016. The sessions will take place from 1:00pm-3:00pm and repeated from 6:00pm-8:00pm. We would love you to come along for a session of learning and FUN! Please complete the RSVP attached to this newsletter on page 4 and return to the office by Friday 27th May.

National Simultaneous Story Day -”I Got This Hat”

Students will all be participating the National Simultaneous Story

Day on Wednesday 25th May at 10.45am. They will be listening

to the book “I Got This Hat”.

Applications for free bus travel

New applications and change of address details for free travel

between home and school will need to be done online.

SKOOLBAG— GET YOUR NEWSLETTER ONLINE

Don’t forget: The new SKOOLBAG app also has the capacity for you to submit student absence infor-mation online which is emailed by the APP to the school email account. Go to the APP store (Apple) or Play Store Button and search for “Tea Gardens” and click on the SKOOLBAG App to install.

STUDENT BANKING BANKING DAY IS TUESDAY

These fun rewards are a great way to keep children motivated and demonstrate the value of saving:

Flying Snake Tail – now available to order

Wildlife Writer Set – now available to order

Mud Splat Handball – Released in Term 2

Outback Pat Bag Tag – Released in Term 2

Backtrack Eraser Pen – Released in Term 3

Jump and Skip Rope – Released in Term 3

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Uniform Shop Blue Polo Shirts $18 (Long Sleeve $20) Yellow Polo Shirts $18 (Long Sleeve $20) Navy Culottes $20 Navy Bootleg Fleecy Second hand Pants $26 items $2 each

Navy Zip Jumper $25 Navy Track Pants $20 Maroon Shorts $12 Grey Shorts $15 Grey Long Pants $18 Bucket Hat $12

School Backpack $25

Brochures outlining details will be sent home to families today.

STUDENT REPORT CARD FOLDERS

Please return your student’s Report Card

folder to the classroom teacher or the

Administration office . These need to be returned so that the reports for the 1st

Semester can be added.

Merit Awards Congratulations to the following students who received a merit award on Friday 20th May 2016. They were:

ADUKI BEANS Jayden Franks Confident presentation of speech Dean Reece Confident presentation of speech

CHICKPEAS Harry Webb Excellent effort in storywriting Rachael Watson Contributing positively during maths MUNG BEANS Heidi Deng Impressive reading and application Boston Marchant Expressive and interesting speech

SPROUTS Bianka Patteson Walking safely to school Beau Robertson Settling in quickly to classroom routines & working well in all areas

RATTLESNAKES Paige Wheatley Excellent work in Maths Indyanna Horne Excellent work in Maths BUTTER BEANS Gemma Brown Outstanding participant in PE Lenita White Excellent application in all class tasks WATTLE Alicia McCabe Improved performance in class Ciara Ridley Great work in Literacy

SNAP BEANS Lachlan Groot Enthusiastically making contributions during writing Ethan Pinch Putting more effort in during maths and writing.

CANTEEN NEWS

TACO FRIDAY

Friday 27 May

Tacos & Popper $5.00

Popper – Orange, Apple or ABC Normal menu still available

PLEASE HAVE

PRE-ORDERED LUNCH

ORDERS ON A PAPER BAG

ONLY PLEASE

VOLUNTEERS ARE ALWAYS

NEEDED so if you have a spare

Thursday or Friday please let Danielle Driscoll know on

0421976137

or ring the school on 4997 0286

PLEASE NOTE:

Chicken Nuggets (6) are $3.50

With sauce they are $4.00

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Dice,Dominoes, Cards and all that Maths! Are you interested in learning about what your child does in mathematics at school?

Would you like to learn how to best support your child at home with their numeracy and build

their mathematical thinking?

Come along to our parent information workshop about maths K-6. We will be running two

workshop sessions on Tuesday 31st May 2016. The sessions will take place from 1:00pm-

3:00pm and repeated from 6:00pm-8:00pm.

We would love you to come along for a session of learning and FUN! Please complete the

RSVP below and return to the office by Friday 27th May.

Thank you,

Debbie Booth

____________________________________________________________________________

I would like to attend the Maths workshop on Tuesday 31st May.

I will be attending the 1:00pm / 6:00pm (please circle preference) session.

Signed _______________________

Child’s Name _________________________ Class _____________________

Walk Safely to School Perfect weather last Friday 20th May, saw 30 students participate in the Walk Safely to School Day. Twelve students, three parents and two teachers made the scenic trek across the Singing Bridge from Hawks Nest and were once again treated to manta rays, a swordfish and some flathead in the river. The parents and kids enjoyed the walk they have suggested we do the walk on a more regular basis. Students walking the Tea Gardens route were unhappy to find a young echidna injured by the road. Thanks to ambulance officer Josh Davy for coming to the rescue and taking the unique little native to the vet for us. Thank you to all the parents, students and teachers who joined in the walk. A great way to keep fit and healthy. Debbie Booth Coordinator

Photo: The Hawks Nest Walk Safely to School participants

Photo: The Tea Gardens Walk Safely to School participants