Term 4 Week 7

Principal’s Message Dear Parents,

The last few weeks of term four are always busy and exciting and this year is no exception. Students have completed

assessment tasks and teachers are currently writing reports. Students will bring home Progressive Assessment Folders to

accompany reports that have work samples and assessment tasks that give evidence to the learning expressed in the student‟s

report. Reports will be issued to students on Tuesday 13th December.

Some of our junior students have taken up the opportunity to attend the annual „Swim School‟ Program that aims to enhance the

swimming skills of students. Mr Faulkner and Mrs Houston will be supervising this program as they have Aus Swim

qualifications.

Year 6 are gearing up for their annual „Fun Day‟ which will be held next Thursday. They are preparing their stalls and making

sure that they have „fun‟ on their agenda. Students will be able to purchase „tokens‟ on the day to use at the stalls. It is a

wonderful experience for our children and every year we are amazed at the creativity and organisational skills of our senior

students.

Of course year 6 are also looking forward to their Year 6 Farewell which will be held at Kahibah Bowling Club this year. We are

indeed limited by our choice of venue in most years because of our large numbers and we try hard to keep tradition in having

our parents included in the celebration. Year 6 are also looking forward to their end of year „party‟ experience at Imax and Luna

Park in Sydney. They certainly are busy bees!

Carols on the Green (Wednesday 14th December) is also shaping up to be wonderful event. Students are preparing their

musical items and our committee is planning for a bumper year as we are very excited about having our first event on the „new‟

flat. Dust off your Christmas t-shirt and come along and have some fun.

At Floraville Public our students definitely know what it means to be Australian and we sing the National Anthem every week

with pride at our K-6 assembly and twice a week in even weeks when Primary and Infants assemblies are held....and we sing

both verses!

Finally, a big thank you to parents for your support during this busy term. Our children work hard in their classrooms as we have

high expectations for their learning but we also like to offer them other opportunities to enhance their learning and to celebrate

their learning and we could not do this without parental support

Regards

Mrs Saurins

Relieving Principal

Deputy’s Message

Positive Affirmation – Quality This week‟s affirmation is “Every day I am responsible for what I achieve‟ This affirmation is about Quality. This affirmation reminds us that we all have to take responsibility for ourselves. Just like we own our behaviour, we also own our learning. We must think every day about how lucky we are in this country to receive free education and how we are responsible for how much we learn. Remember; you can do it!

At Floraville we begin the spring with an Aerobics Spring Challenge! Our teams spent last Saturday at Hunter School of Performing Arts competing in the annual Aerobics Spring Challenge. Our girls were up bright and early, make-up on and leotards ready to go. All of our students performed with pride and our newest team the Firebirds came away with a bronze medal at their first ever attempt. How exciting!

Monday 28/11/11

Getting Started BHS

Orientation Program

Tuesday 29/11/11

Yr 6 BHS Interview

Kinder Orientation

Sausage Sizzle

5.30-7.30

Wednesday 30/11/11 Thursday 1/12/11

Year 6 Fun Day

Friday 2/12/11

Monday 5/12/11

Getting Started BHS

Orientation Program

Tuesday 6/12/11

BHS Orientation

Parents

Luna Park Yr 6

P&C Bring a Plate

Night

Wednesday 7/12/11 Thursday 8/12/11

Year 6 Farewell

Friday 9/12/11

K-2 Movie Day

Swim Scheme

Swim Scheme

Floraville School Presentation Day 2011

As a valued member of our school community, we would like to extend an invitation to you for the annual Floraville

Public School Presentation Day Ceremony. As a school community we appreciate the significance that merit and

recognition plays in the lives of our young students and we take great pride in welcoming you to help us celebrate

the achievements of our school, our students, our teachers and our school community.

Where: Floraville Public School Hall

When: Tuesday 13th

December 2011

Infants - K-2 Ceremony 9.30- 11.00am

Primary - Years 3-6 Ceremony 11.30-1.30pm

Please note: All K-2 students receive an award on the day but notification will be sent to the parents of students receiving a class award, a Program Achieve Award or any other special award. Primary students: notification will be sent to the parents of students receiving a class award, a Program Achieve Award or any other special award Tal Nelson and Joshua Laity are the epitome of „Getting Along‟ at Floraville Public School.

Year 5 Leadership Program

This week, Year 5 students will be participating in the Young Leaders Program that focuses on team skills, public

speaking, organisation, responsibility and confidence.

Graduates from this program are afforded the opportunity to nominate for school leadership in 2012. Nominated

students will prepare their speech in class time next in a two hour session that is designed to offer scaffolding for a

successful experience for each child.

School Leadership speeches will be delivered at a school special assembly (Year 1 to 5) on Wednesday 23rd

November (revised date) at 11.30am (voting will occur directly afterwards). The assembly will be held in the hall.

Parents are most welcome to attend this important event.

School Captains and Vice Captains will be announced at the Presentation Day Ceremony on Tuesday 13th

December. Please note that Sports Captains will be elected early in Term 1, 2012 and Captains elect 2012 will not

be eligible to stand for these positions as they will need to concentrate on their Captaincy roles.

Jack Ireland presenting Ms Oxenford with a momento Of our „Jack Flash‟, featuring one of his national medals. Reegan Glover, Sam Norman and Alex

Dugomanov who are absolute Mathletics Champions, accept this week‟s class award for the fabulous 1/2R .

Busted! Mrs Saurins caught Kameron Jolly once again hanging around the library borrowing books! Keep reading Kameron, very proud of you! SUPER SPELLER JAKE ROBERTSON OF 1DJ

Jake is “Mr Consistent” when it comes to spelling. Visiting 1DJ this week I

learnt about their 100 club. To be included in the 100 club children are

required to attain 100% on their weekly spelling test. Jake consistently

scores 100% and has a perfect record for the entire year. Well done Jake!

Congratulations to all Floraville students who regularly achieve great results

in spelling each week.

WELCOME TO OUR WORK EXPERIENCE STUDENTS

This week we welcomed six Year 10 students from Belmont High School to

our school. Many of these students are former Floraville students including

Sarah Foley, Sarah Haigh, Roisin Molloy, Claire Kendall, Liam Shoesmith

and Jacob IlIfield ( who attended other primary schools) . There placement

in our school this week will provide a practical workplace experience

allowing them to gain valuable skills and knowledge about teaching (from the other side!). We hope their

experience is a positive and rewarding one.

LEADERSHIP SPEECHES FOR 2012

Today we welcomed a number of Year 5 parents, grandparents and family members to our school hall to witness

what is best described as an exceptional group of young children. Each student today put forward their desire to be

elected in a leadership position for 2012 in a very convincing manner. All students should be extremely proud of

their efforts and we wish them the very best of luck. We look forward to announcing the outcome of today‟s

speeches at our school Presentation Day ceremony on Tuesday 13th December.

The candidates are:

Boys – Branan Worlin-Smith, Mitchell Roberts, Adam Woodger, Wesley Osmond, Jarrod Delahunty, Ryan

Stuchbury, Casey Turner, Buddy Botham, Kye Condon, Josh Penfold, Darrell Hutchison, Lachlan Capararo, Callum

Rowe, Lachlan Toll, Blake Urquhart, Lachlan Powell

Girls – Maddison Thompson, Bree Sumpton, Kate Spicer, Jazmyn Robards, Hope Norman, Jessica Noble, Olivia

Mansfield, Ebony Manderson, Sarah Longworth, Jasmine Hudson, Emma Hodgson, Gabrielle Harden, Laura

Garafolo, Lani Fuller, Katie Collins, Jamie Burns, Shauna Boots, Mahasin Arweeg, Siena Allen

I would like to acknowledge Gemma Robertson, Mikayla Armstrong, Isaac Ireland and Yoey Wahabzadah for their

outstanding contribution to hosting today‟s event. Well done to all involved!

Assemblies- all assemblies are in the Hall

K-6 Every Monday 2.20-2.50pm

Infants- K-2 –every even week- Thursday

2.20- 2.50pm

Primary – 3-6 – every even week-Friday-

12.20pm (Parliament sits on the odd

weeks)

Floraville P.S. Currently Focusing on Playground – Stop, Freeze, Teacher This initiative requires our students to stop and freeze on the bell and wait for teacher’s instructions to leave the playground in an orderly way.

Office Office hours 8.30am to 3.15pm

Please make sure you have the correct money when paying for activities or excursions. Please note we do not have EFTPOS. PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK LOST PROPERTY IF YOUR CHILD HAS MISPLACED ANY OF THEIR BELONGINGS. LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CANTEEN. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU LABEL YOUR CHILDREN’S BELONGINGS Please be aware that the school has a bounce back service that is used to notify parents of any change of arrangements to times for students returning from excursions, camp or major sporting events. All you need to do is text the word “flora” to 19922767 and you will receive any updated information the office has on hand.

School News

AppleShop Excursion

This week, the Life Skills Group attended an excursion to the Apple Store where they were able to access the

Apple iPad and interact with the latest cutting edge technology and

applications.

A fabulous time was had by all and congratulations to them on their

beautiful behaviour as representatives of Floraville Public School.

K – 2 Movie Day

Alvin and the Chipmonks is the movie to be shown.

Getting Creative!

Lake Macquarie primary school students were invited to create an

artwork for the 2011 „Keep Your Backyard Clean‟ student sign

competition. Council‟s Manager of Sustainability, Alice Howe, said the

competition aims to develop in students a sense of ownership over

parks and foreshores as an extension of their own backyard.

“This is a chance for students to use their creative skills to develop an artwork promoting the message „keeping Lake Macquarie clean is everyone‟s responsibility‟, Dr Howe said. “The winner will have their artwork printed onto a sign and installed at a local park or foreshore area.”.

At Floraville Public School several students entered the competition and Zak Mitten won the event last Saturday. Congratulation Zak on an amazing art-work.

Movember

It‟s Moustache Season and I‟m growing a fine moustache for Movember! Please support my growing efforts and the 3,300 men who will die

of prostate cancer and the one in eight men who will experience depression in their lifetime. Thank you. To make a donation please go to the following website:

http://au.movember Click on make a donation then someone you know type in xian vogel then donate

Gifted and Talented Mathematics & Science Workshop

Skellybones is a G.A.T.S program that taught us about how archaeologists estimate the height and other statistics

about skeletons. We, Lachlan Powell, Ryan Stutchbury, Casey Turner and Wesley Osmond participated in this

G.A.T.S project. We were in groups 4 and 5 and each group got a bone to measure. The bones were the thumb,

finger, femur, tibia radius, ulna and humerus. The groups had to measure the bone that they were given at the

start on everybody within their group and record the information on to a table. Then we had to graph the

information to find the average length of the bone and therefore the height of Skellybones. We were 99.2%

accurate on Skellybones height. This was a truly great experience and we highly recommend this workshop to any

student in the years to come.

Lachlan Powell, Ryan Stutchbury, Casey Turner and Wesley Osmond

THANK YOU!!

Kinder 2012 News

The final classroom visit for the Kindergarten children of 2012 occurred last Thursday. The children went with the

teachers to the classrooms to make a hat, listen to a story and play some games. The parents went to the hall to

learn how to book their Best Start interviews online. (Thanks to Mr. O’Shannessy) Then our lovely P&C parents

provided them with morning tea. Once again many people were involved with the success of the morning. Thank

you to Margaret and her team in the canteen, the Band committee for providing 2 big slab cakes and the

wonderful parents who sent in cakes to welcome our new Floraville families. On Wednesday 30th November from

5.30-7.30, there will be another Kinder Connections picnic for the families of Kindergarten children from 2011 and

2012. This will be held on the Flat. The school is providing a sausage sizzle and the children will play games and

get to know each other before they come to school next year. This year’s parents will be able to give some helpful

tips on starting school and what to expect from a parents point of view. Please return your RSVP by November

25th to assist with catering.

Sport

Congratulations to Trudi Peterson on successfully being included in the NSW State Cricket Team.

On Thursday 24th November, Year 6 Parliamentarians will be holding a cake stall to help raise funds to support

Trudi. Cakes will be priced at 50c and $1. The Cake Stall will be held in the first break under the COLA.

We thank you for your support of this fundraiser.

Band

Carols on the Green – the band would like to invite any ex-band members or musical family members (brothers,

sisters, parents or grandparents) who play a concert band instrument to join in with us for Carols on the Green.

Tutoring – Please remember it is your responsibility to let your tutor know if you are unable to attend a lesson for

any reason. If you do not let your tutor know, you will be charged for that lesson. Keep practising - we have lots of

performance opportunities coming up. Band fees are now overdue. Please make your payment to the front office.

Band Christmas Party – our band Christmas party will be held on 14th December. We will leave school at around

10:30am and return after a fun-filled time at Zone Empire. Cost will be advised soon and if your band fees are fully

paid you will be subsidised for part of the cost of this excursion.

Upcoming events/performances for Term 4

2nd

December – Belmont Carols by Candlelight

13th December – School Presentation Day

14th December – Carols on the Green

14th December – Band Christmas party

Mrs Blake

P&C News

Belmont Retravision continues to sponsor the Floraville P & C please bring in a copy of

any receipts from the store. We receive 1% commission for each purchase.

SHOOT FOR THE MOON, EVEN IF YOU MISS, YOU WILL LAND AMONGST THE STARS.

SCHOLASTIC BOOKCLUB

A Book club catalogue has been sent home; any orders are required to be at school by Thursday 24 November.

Please make cheques out to Scholastic Australia. Kelly Woodger will be processing the orders and she can be

contacted on: 0430092940. If you wish to make a secret order, place your phone number on the order form and

not the class details.

UNIFORM SHOP

The uniform shop continues to run Monday mornings and Wednesday afternoons. Two of the ladies in the shop

will be finishing this year. Deb Hector would appreciate some more volunteers for next year. If you are able to

help in 2012 please attend the uniform shop and speak to one of the ladies.

CAROLS ON THE GREEN

We are organising a Christmas raffle to be drawn on the night. If you are able to assist with the raffle please let us

know. There will also be a BBQ on the night and if you can spare half an hour on the night to help with the BBQ

that would be appreciated. Further details will be sent home soon.

The P and C still have the magnetic display folders for sale if you require any, order form is below. They hold

notes that can be stored on the fridge.

UNIFORM SHOP HOURS.

The uniform shop will continue to open during term 4, thank you to the ladies in the shop the hours are:

Mondays 8.30am to 9.15am

Wednesdays 2.30pm to 3.15pm

Floraville Public School Merchandise Order

Name: ___________________________________________ Class or Phone: _____________

Magnetic Display Pockets A4 Size__________ @ $4.00 each = $ _________

Total enclosed $ _________. Please make cheques payable to the P&C Association.

Newcastle Permanent Offer

The Newcastle Permanent is again offering the school P and C $300 for any person

associated with the school that takes out a new home loan. Please consider the

Newcastle Permanent for your new home loans. So call in at the Jewells or Belmont

branch for further details.

Nextra Newsagents at both Belmont Citi Centre and Lake Fair Mt Hutton.

5% of all purchases (excluding lottery products, bus tickets, phone recharges & tobacco products) will be donated to the P&C. Just take a copy of your receipt to the school office. It‟s that easy to help us raise funds for our school. Thanks to Aeron Gribble for his support. There is also a great range of printer cartridges available at NEXTRA

Canteen News

CURRENT CANTEEN ROSTER

Thursday 24/11/11 - K.Saultry, L.Lentfer, N.Masson

Friday 25/11/11 - C.Hawkins, C.Thompson, T.Davies, K.Christian, S.Jopp

Monday 28/11/11 - K.Christian, G.Burt, T.Garred

Tuesday 29/11/11 - C.Jensen, V.Corrigan

Wednesday 30/11/11 - S.Robertson, M.Rachubinski, L.Grozdanovski, S.Langholz, K.Halls

Thursday 1/12/11 - E.Davis, B.Richardson, K.Merriman – Year 6 Funday

Friday 2/12/11 - T.Coles, J.Bourke, K.Montgomery

CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The Canteen Committee is aware as it is nears the end of the year that many other events and work can crop up

and for some volunteers it may mean not being able to work their day in the canteen.

Thank you to those volunteers who have advised Margaret regarding their availability for the canteen.

If you are a canteen volunteer and have not as yet advised Margaret that you are no longer able to volunteer in the

school canteen or unable to volunteer on a particular day can you please notify her as soon as you possibly can.

At the moment volunteers are desperately needed for most days of the week for the remainder of the year.

If you are able to assist please see Margaret in the canteen as soon as possible COMING UP

Canteen volunteer applications out NOW! Christmas Lunch Bags available NOW! Year 6 Fun Day – Thursday 1

st December

Presentation Day – Tuesday 13th December – CANTEEN CLOSED

Carols at Floraville (under the COLA) – Wednesday 14th December

Last Day Canteen open for 2011 is Wednesday 14th December

Canteen Closed from Thursday 15th December for cleaning until the end of term, reopens Term 1 2012

KINDERGARTEN 2012 PARENT MORNING TEA

The Canteen Committee would like to thank all volunteers who helped out at the Kindergarten Morning Tea last

Thursday. The day was a great success and once again we could not have had a successful morning without our

Floraville volunteers. We look forward to having our new students at Floraville in 2012.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH BAGS

Special Christmas lunch bags are available now! Please order prior to 9.00am with name, class, Christmas bag

required and correct monies if possible.

Bag 1 -

RUDOLPH

Bag 2 – SANTA

Bag 3 – ELVES

Bag 4 – JINGLE BELLS

Cocktail Frankfurts

Sauce

Quench drink

Treat 4.50

Salad Tub – small

Quench Drink

Treats

4.70

Sausage Roll

Sauce

Flavoured milk

Treat $4.00

6 Popcorn Chicken

Smiley Drink

Treat $5.20

DRINKS AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER – Term 4 2011 and Term 1 2012

** Water $1.00 ** Apple / Orange Juice $1.40

** CalciYum $1.40 ** Passion Juice $1.60

** Plain Milk $1.40 ** FOCUS Playwater $1.40

** Flavoured Milk $1.40 ** Quench $1.40

ICEBLOCKS AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER – Term 4 2011 and Term 1 2012

** Icy Twist $1.00 ** Jelly Sticks 20c each

** Paddle Pops $1.20 ** TNTs .50c

** Frozen Yoghurt $1.50 ** Juice Cups .60c

** Callipo Minis $1.00 ** Quelch 99% Fruit Tubes .50c

** Lemonade Icy Pole $1.00

SUMMER CANTEEN SPECIALS

RYLAN’S WRAP (grated cheese, grated carrot, lettuce, chicken or ham and mayo) $4.20

Chicken Tenderloin Wraps with lettuce and mayo $4.20

FLORAVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOL

Floraville Public School works within the Healthy School Canteen Program that has been initiated by the

NSW Government. All food prepared in the canteen is approved for sale.

The canteen holds 2 Red Days - “The Sweetest Day of School” each school term.

On these 2 days; food that is not sold in the canteen at other times is available for students to enjoy.

We would like to ask for expressions of interest from parents to work in the canteen in 2012. If you think you would

be able to offer a day of help to the canteen or you know someone who could help for example a grandparent, the

Canteen Committee would like to hear from you. If you are able to volunteer your time to the canteen or would like

to be on the Emergency Roster please fill out the form (s) on the following page. Alternatively see Margaret Osborn

of a morning at the canteen or ring her on 49 469 137.

Could all future volunteers please send in their forms to Margaret by the end of Term 4 2011 if possible. If this is

not possible please bring them to Margaret before Friday 10th February 2012 so that the roster can be completed.

This will enable the roster to be out to parents early Term 1 2012 (if there are enough volunteers for a roster to be

developed)

(If you do forget don’t panic - another letter will come out in the school bulletin at the beginning of

Term 1 2012).

To everyone who are future volunteers to the canteen; WELCOME to Floraville.

To those volunteers who continue to work in and support our school canteen THANKYOU and we hope to see

you once again in 2012.

Without volunteers to work in the canteen our school canteen would not be open 5 days a week. Other schools

would love to have this luxury.

FLORAVILLE SCHOOL CANTEEN

Casual Work Available - Employment Guaranteed

Where – At our School Canteen

When – Either Weekly, Fortnightly or Monthly

Hours – 8.3o am to 2.30 pm

Experience – Not necessary! Everything you need to know will be learnt in a short space of time.

Salary – An “a La Carte” lunch (healthy sandwich); plenty of tea / coffee and best of all friendships made

with other mums, dads and grandparents.

Bonus – Your children will love to see you at their school. You get to spoil them by spending a little extra

money (all for a good cause – our school) and you get to meet new people within the school

community and make new friends.

Applications Close – NEVER

If you are interested please complete the form below.

Canteen Roster Request 2012

If Possible please fill in the section below for “A PERMANENT (THOUGH FLEXIBLE) POSITION ON THE

CANTEEN ROSTER IN 2012” and return to the canteen as soon as you can and definitely by Friday 10th February

2012. Your roster will then be sent home to you with your child in early Term 1 2012.

Thank you.

NAME: - _______________________________________________________

TELEPHONE: - __________________________________________________

CHILD‟S NAME & CLASS (IF KNOWN FOR 2012) or CLASS IN 2011:

Please nominate below which day and how often you wish to offer your help –

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WEEKLY FORTNIGHTLY MONTHLY

**If possible I would like to work with: – ___________________________________________________

CANTEEN EMERGENCY ROSTER

Are you able to help in the canteen at short notice?

Are you unable to do canteen on a regular basis but would like to help?

Sometimes the canteen is short handed due to children being sick, work changes and other commitments and

a swap is unavailable.

We would like to have an emergency list of parents who can help on these days.

If you are interested in helping this way, please fill in the form below stating which day (or days) you would be

available.

PLEASE return to Margaret in the canteen as soon as possible. Thank-you

………………………………………………………………………………………

Emergency Canteen Roster 2012

NAME: - ………………………………………………………………………………

PHONE: - ………………………………………………………………………………

CHILD‟S NAME & CLASS (IF KNOWN): - …………………………………………………………….

DAY or DAYS AVAILABLE: -

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

All Day

or Morning 8.30 - 11.30 or Afternoon 11.30 -2.30

Community Information

FLORAVILLE OOSH WWW.FLORAVILLEOOSH.COM 02 4947 7498 0422538130/140

Belmont Men’s Shed Official

Opening & Open Day

This Saturday 26th November

10am- 2pm

@ Belmont Neighbourhood Centre (359 Pacific

Hwy- Cnr Old Belmont Road- Belmont North)

“Get connected with your Community”

Join us for a fun day, including Dancing Disco

Diva, Live Demonstrations from Rising Starz Dance, Heart moves & line

Dancing, Entertainment by Anna’s school of music, Garage & book sale,

Charity Auction at 11am, Official Men’s Shed Opening by MP Jill Hall at 12

noon, BBQ, cakes, information displays, displays from the Toy Library, Coffee

Craft & Chat, face painting and lots more…..