Annual Review Meeting—Tuesday 19th November This meeting will highlight the year’s achievements at Tumbulgum Public School including the School’s NAPLAN results. We will also take this opportunity to share our plans for 2014 with parents and the community. We encourage you to come along and have your voice heard concerning our plans for 2014. As part of our Annual School Report we would appreciate it if you could complete the attached survey and return as soon as possible to the box in the school office. Gold Coast Antique Car Luncheon What a hugely successful fundraiser! Thank you to the P&C for your tireless efforts. Christmas Celebration On Wednesday 4th December our school will have a special Children’s Christmas Celebration between 11.30 and 12.30pm. We are one of 11 public schools to host this Tweed Coast community initiative in its seventh year. The whole school program will include an assembly and three learning centres, celebratory songs, activities, DVD and craft with the theme ‘Christmas Joy’, including references to Christ and Christmas. There will be no cost to our school or students. If you do not wish your child to attend please advise the school. Ashton Circus Attached are 1/2 price ticket vouchers from Ashton Circus. Please note that the tickets are for opening night only and you must ring the phone number and make a booking. Each ticket will admit 4 people at 1/2 price.

Term 4 Week 7 – 18th November 2013 Principal: Mrs Sam Rowsell

Excellence, opportunity & success through innovative & dynamic teaching

Term 4

Week 7 18th Nov Kindergarten Transition Program 9.15-3.00pm 19th Nov Annual Review Meeting 3.15pm Saturday 23rd Nov—School Development Day (Staff only)

Week 8 25th Nov Kindergarten Transition Program 9.15-3.00pm 26th Nov P&C Meeting 7-8.30pm 29th Nov Red Food Day

Week 9 2nd Dec Kindergarten Transition Program 9.15-3.00pm 4th Dec Christmas Celebration

Week 10 11th Dec Presentation Night and Year 6 Dinner 12th Dec Fun Day 13th Dec Judy Parker’s Retirement Celebration 2pm

Week 11 18th Dec Students Last Day of Term 4 19th Dec Staff Development Day

Tumbulgum Public School 11 Fawcett Street, Tumbulgum 2490 Phone: 02 66766237 Fax: 02 66766149 Email: tumbulgum-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.tumbulgum-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Estella Excellent application to all tasks

Briony Excellent application to all tasks

Ella Great work in Mrs Hockings class

Nicholas Great work in Mrs Hockings class

Ethan H Great work in Mrs Hockings class

Brock Improved spelling and writing

Lily Y Being involved

Briony Being prepared

Zhaine Being prompt

Bianca Being respectful

Zac Being responsible

Week 6

Class Awards

Week 6

Values Awards

Canteen Friday 22nd November—Regular Menu

All food provided by the House of Gabriel

Mrs Parker will miss this!

P&C News

A huge thank you for all those helped to make the

Antique Car Club Lunch a success. Helpers were

involved in moving furniture, cooking, serving, deco-

rating, setting up and packing away. Numerous com-

pliments were received from our guests regarding the

warm welcome, tropical ambience and delicious food.

Well done everyone! This was our final fundraising

event for the year. Our last meeting this term will be

held on Tuesday 26th November at 7.00pm.

Heidi Plater—P&C President

Transition students hard at work.

Rous students with their

hydro powered

machines.

Tweed Small Schools Choir

My Trip to Sydney—by Trixie Meeves

I flew to Sydney with my dad on Saturday 19th October

to attend the 2013 Tweed Small Schools Choir.

When we were there we caught the ferry to Taronga Zoo and saw thousands of jellyfish. We travelled under the Harbour Bridge and caught a glimpse of the Opera House, where I would be singing. It was celebrating its 40 year birthday. At Taronga Zoo my dad and I went on the Gondola 11 times and got a fantastic view of the city skyline and the animals beneath us – lucky we didn’t fall into the lion enclosure!

With the Small Schools Choir we visited Elizabeth Farm Cottage, Australia oldest homestead which was a working farm for convicts. We went back in time and were all given our own costumes, names, crimes, accents, sentence, former jobs and education. My name was Eliza Brown and I stole underpants so I was deported to Australia to be a convict for seven years! It was an interesting history lesson. Afterwards we travelled to Hyde Park Barracks designed by the convict Francis Greenway. It held 15,000 male convicts and was an asylum for the insane. Just after that we went on a guided tour of The Rocks. To cap it all off we walked along the Harbour Bridge and got a great view of the city.

The highlight was the choral performance of 700 children from schools in NSW in the famous concert hall of the Opera House, together with an orchestra.

Thanks to Mrs Vicki Armour and her assistants for all their patience and hard work in giving me the opportunity to be involved in such a fantastic event.