16 Smith Rd, Elermore Vale, NSW 2287 Ph: 02 49559963 or 02 49516669 Fax: 02 49502179 Email: wallsends-p.school@det.nsw.edu. Website: https://wallsends-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Week 4 Term 4 2019 The Wallsend South Public School community values and respects all people as individuals and believes in life-long

learning, the celebration of success and the achievement of academic and social potential for all, in a secure, stimulating

and challenging environment.

Principal’s Message Celebration Night Student Photos

During our whole school celebration event slide shows are shown to the audience. These slideshows may

contain images of your child. These are only shown during this event and will not be put into the newsletter or

housed on our website. If you do not want your child’s image to be included for this event please advise us

through the school email by Friday this week (8th November 2019).

Trialling a New Tallong Format

This term we have been trialling using Microsoft Sway for our newsletter for staff as well as shared what it looks

like with our School Council and our P&C. The feedback from all involved so far has been positive and

enthusiastic. The benefit of using Sway for our newsletter is that it is compatible with mobile devices, making it

easier to read and navigate in comparison to the current document form which requires you having to enlarge

text and continuously scroll/move the screen so that you can read all messages. Therefore Sway is more user

friendly. Next week we will send out the newsletter as usual but will also send out a copy in Sway through

Skoolbag so that you can compare the two versions. We would appreciate any feedback once you have had a

chance to use the new version next week as we are anticipating moving to Sway. More information about how

you can provide feedback will be provided in next week’s newsletter.

Day This week is Week 4 Term 4 Commencing Monday 4 November.

This week is Week 5 Term 4 Commencing Monday 11 November.

Monday Remembrance Day Service

Tuesday

Wednesday Senior/Junior Band Practice 3-4.15pm

Senior/Junior Band Practice 3-4.15pm

Thursday Count Us In – Snr band Lambton High School

Swimming Yr 2 9 -11.15am Yr 3 10am – 12.15pm Kinder Orientation #2 from 9.15am –

10.30 am

Swimming Yr 2 9 -11.15am Yr 3 10am – 12.15pm

Friday School Banking Funky Friday

School Banking Funky Friday

Congratulations Mr Parkinson

Congratulations to our previous principal, Mr Christopher Parkinson, on receiving a Life Membership with the

NSW Primary Principal Association during State Conference last week. This recognition is prestigious and well

deserved for Chris’s outstanding research and participation across many aspects of principal leadership.

Kelly Deakin

Principal

Term 4 Costs

There will be no Term Cost sheet sent home this term as Yrs K – 5 have no term 4 costs. Yr 6 do have their

party day to pay for – a note has been sent home by year 6 teachers advising of the cost for this excursion.

The P&C are kindly paying for the celebration practice bus cost.

If you have any outstanding fees for this year please finalise as soon as possible please. If you are unsure of

any outstanding fees please contact the school office for details.

Coming Up/Reminders…

Children’s University

We had 90 students graduate at the University of Newcastle last Wednesday night. Southy students combined for approximately 4200 passport hours of learning across the year. This is an amazing achievement! Well over 1000 hours was from new learning experiences (visiting museums, gallery’s, wetlands, reading new books, playing sports or taking up musical instruments). The program continues (never really stops actually). Any hours accumulated in Term 4 and the school holidays count towards next year’s graduation. Big thanks to all the students and their families for being involved in the Children’s University program this year. Family support of this incredible initiative and investing in your child’s learning has made it such a big hit.

Parent Requests for 2020 Classes

If your child has an issue with either a friendship group or an individual (in the past or this year), could you please contact the school via the school email address wallsends-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au as this information will be considered by the leadership team when forming 2020 classes. Please clearly mark the correspondence as Parent Class Request 2020. Please include your child’s grade for 2020. Please note, requests for specific teachers will not be considered. Even if you have told the school previously we need you to tell us again as we don’t store this information.

Family Band Night – Save the date!

The date has been set for our annual Family Band Night. This year the evening will take place on Friday 22nd

November. Please pop this into your diaries and onto your calendar. We look forward to seeing all of our band

members, both Junior and Senior, for a night to showcase our talent.

Funky Fridays (week 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)

In preparation for the Year 6 Farewell, Year 6 students will be fundraising with Funky Friday activities. Funky

Friday is an annual tradition at Southy with Year 6 students running stalls on selected Friday lunchtimes, offering

products and services to younger students (hair gel & braiding, face painting, temporary tattoos, nail art etc). In

addition to fundraising, this also provides our Year 6 with an opportunity to organise and promote an event,

practise their customer services skills and handle money transactions in an authentic manner. Funky Friday

occurs in the hall from 1.20-1.50pm and is open to all students K-6.

Prices

Hairstyles: Gel $1 / Braiding $1.50

Face Painting: Small design $1.00 / Large Design $1.50 / Whole face $2.00

Massage: Head massage 50c / Shoulder massage 50c / Deluxe massage $1

Nailart: One hand: 1 colour 50c / rainbow = $1.00

Nailart: Two hands: 1 colour $1.50 / rainbow = $2.00

Tattoos: Small 50c / Large $1

Lolly Guess: 20c a guess or 3 guesses for 50c

Coinslide: 20c a turn

Hoops: 50c for 3 shots

Year 6 Farewell Planning Meeting No#3

Our next meeting is Tuesday 18 November at 5.30pm in 6N classroom. Parents and carers of Year 6 students

are welcome to attend.

CAMBODIAN CHRISTMAS CHALLENGE 2019 Today your eldest child will receive a note outlining our plans to support our Cambodian school students this Christmas. After official contracts were exchanged last year, we are now formally recognised as a ‘Sister School’ with Romdoul. Our agreement was that we will continue our support of the villagers in whatever capacity we can. Our Christmas Challenge this year will cost $50 to save one of our 162 students from malnutrition by providing one daily hot meal whilst at school, which satisfies the requirements as set by the World Health Organisation. Last year many families sponsored a child for the year while some provided a smaller donation to contribute to the cause. This one Christmas present is the gift of giving to someone in need who may never have the chance to say thank you. If you require further information on how you can help us reach our target, or if you or your organisation would like to support our village on a larger scale, please refer to the note or contact Mrs Moloney on tracey.holbert@det.nsw.edu.au. Thank you in advance for your ongoing support of this campaign.

P & C News…

Our next P & C Meeting is the Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Tuesday 3 December p2019 at 7pm in the

Staff room. Please come along and join in the discussion about our plans for the rest of the year and our

planning for 2020. Everybody is welcome.

P&C Facebook Group – WSPS P&C 2019/2020

The P&C have created a Facebook Group. It’s a great way to stay up to date on current events run by the

P&C and weekly volunteer lists, plus canteen and uniform shop price lists.

Our Facebook Group is a closed group. To gain access to this group there is a requirement to answer three

simple questions. This is a safety precaution and allows the administrators of the group to only accept parents

and carers from the school community.

The simplest way to find the group is to search under the groups tab for WSPS P&C 2019/2020

Events

Major Fundraiser – Colour-A-Thon

Sponsorships forms are now overdue. If you have any forms or

funds, please return ASAP and winners will be announced next week.

Bright Star Kids – Fundraising

If you are after some labels for schoolbooks, pencil cases or any of your school supplies, check out

www.brightstarkids.com.au. Bright Star Kids give a percentage of every sale to the school, so not only will your

kids’ belongings never get lost again, but you will be helping us out! At the checkout you need to link a

fundraising account and then type in Wallsend South Public School.

ROUND 2 - CELEBRATION NIGHT

Thank you to everyone who has purchased tickets during the first round, which is now CLOSED.

The next purchasing window will occur in week 5 (next week). We have a minimal number of tickets available

however, so there will only be one extra ticket per family on offer. These will be distributed on a first-in, first-

served basis. We ask separated families to decide beforehand who will receive the extra ticket. Depending

on demand there unfortunately may be some families who will miss out.

We will again have two methods to purchase your extra ticket during the second round. Please note the

different dates and times for each method.

1. If you choose to buy via the Qkr! App, tickets will become available on Monday 11th November from 7pm,

until the pre-sale allocation is sold out.

2. You can pay by cash in person at school on Tuesday 12th November from 8.30am until the remainder of the

tickets is sold out.

As has been done in previous years, a table will be set up outside the canteen and you will be required to line

up on Tuesday 12th November to purchase the one (1) extra ticket on offer.

Please ensure you complete the second round ticket order form (hard copy being sent home with eldest child

or find it in this edition of Tallong) and bring it along to school with the correct amount of $15 and give it to the

P&C representatives at the table.

IMPORTANT: You cannot leave your money and form at school before Tuesday 12th November. Neither the

office staff, nor the canteen manager, will accept any round 2 notes and money. You MUST line up on Tuesday

November 12th at the table outside the canteen where our P&C representatives will be sitting.

This week’s volunteers are:

Tuesday 5th November

8:45 am – 9:15 am

Wednesday 6th November

2:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Friday 8th November

8:45 am – 9:15 am

Sandra Dart

Tammie Jones

R: Rachel Koo

CLOSED Jess Alexander Lillicrap

Helen Taylor

R: Leah Taylor

The Uniform shop is in great need of extra volunteers. Please if you can offer about half an hour of your time on a Tuesday or Friday morning, please come to the uniform shop during opening hours or send an email to wsps_pandc@yahoo.com.au.

From Your Uniform Shop Committee

Canteen News…

Canteen News

This week’s volunteers are:

Mon 4th Nov Tues 5th Nov Wed 6th Nov Thurs 7th Nov Fri 8th Nov

Angela Mottee Nicole crooks Jan Duncan Francis Lambkin

Leanne Sendjirdjian John Stewart Julie Butler

Thank you for supporting our school canteen from your Canteen Committee

**THIS FORM NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED IF PAYING BY CASH. IT IS NOT REQUIRED FOR QKR PAYMENTS.**

2019 CELEBRATION NIGHT

When: Wednesday 11th December

Where: Wests City, Cnr King & Union Sts, Newcastle

Start: 6.30pm SHARP (Please arrive & be seated

by no later than 6.20pm)

Finish: 8.30pm

Cost: $15 per t icket

ROUND 2 TICKET OFFER – IMPORTANT INFORMATION

Round 1 t icket sales have now closed and nearly every family has availed themselves the two init ial

t ickets. As a result , we have a minimal number of t ickets available for sale in Round 2.

Round 2 will take place in Week 5. A number of t ickets will be available for pre- sale on the Qkr!

App on Monday 11 th November at 7pm or you can complete this form and pay by cash to purchase

your ex tra t icket at school on TUESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER from 8.30am until sold out. A table will

be set up outside of the canteen. You will be required to line up at the table and hand in your $15

payment along with the slip below to the P&C representat ives.

Only ONE (1 ) extra ticket per family will be offered, on a first in first served basis. We ask

separated families to decide beforehand who will receive the ex tra t icket . Please note a hard copy

of this form is being sent home with your eldest child, otherwise you are able to print .

Tickets will be sent home with your eldest child on Monday 9th December, unless you have

specif ied another arrangement for your t icket collect ion.

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2019 CELEBRATION NIGHT ACCEPTANCE ROUND 2 TICKET OFFER IMPORTANT: Please bring this slip along with correct money of $15 and line up at the

table outside the canteen on TUESDAY 12 TH NOVEMBER from 8.30am until

sold out.

Eldest Child Name:__________________________________________Class:___________________

1. Acceptance of Offer :

Our family:

Would like one (1) ex tra t icket and payment of $15 is enclosed

2. Distribution of ticket:

Please address our ex tra t icket at tent ion to: _________________________________________________

To be sent home on Monday 9 th December with our eldest child

To be collected in person from the school off ice after midday on Monday 9 th December

3. Extra Ticket Seating:

Would you like this ex tra t icket to be seated with t ickets already purchased in Round 1?

Please circle: YES / NO If you circled NO please leave instruct ions below.

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

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$ School Banking News $$$

$$$ School Banking News $$$

School banking day is every FRIDAY! Please don’t forget to bring your deposit book to either the Office by

9am or to your teacher to place into the grey class banking bag.

Woohoo…what a great effort with a total of 71 students banking & a total of $277.15 deposited…!

The classes with the most deposits were 1S and 3M congratulations...!!!

Let’s beat our current school banking record of 146…can we beat it…yes we can…!!!

Year Students Banked – 01/11/19

Kindergarten 6

Year 1 15

Year 2 13

Year 3 16

Year 4 5

Year 5 9

Year 6 5

Ex students

/Siblings

1

Term 4 Rewards

Water Skimming Bounce Ball, Polar Pencils & Pencil Toppers

Please note that the other term rewards can still be ordered. The Fluffy Notepad is now unavailable.

This weeks volunteers are:

Friday 8th November - 9am - 10:30 am

Holly Spannenberg, Leah Walker

We are looking for a volunteer to help out on a Friday morning from 9 am – 10:30 am, if you are available

please either leave your details at the Office or pop into the Meeting room (next to the Computer room) on

Friday.

Keep on banking!

From your School Banking Volunteers Team - Holly Spannenberg, Leah Walker (School Banking Co-

ordinator), Leanne Outram, Shannon Smith & Sonia Nathan

Term 4 Student Deposits

Week 1 72

Week 2 82

Week 3 71

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10