Term 2, Week 3, 2018 Principal: Sandy Schmid

Ganmain Public School Newsletter The Ganmain Community Celebrate ANZAC Day.

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Principal’s Message

WHAT’S ON AT GPS in 2018… I hope all our mums and grandmothers had a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday and I hope you enjoyed the treasures you received from the children. The TERM 2, Week 3, 2018 students thoroughly enjoyed their Mother’s Day craft. I sincerely thank both 16/5 Wed Yr 3 & Yr 5 Naplan James and Jenny Stephens for making and donating the wooden key holders 17/5 Thurs Yr 3 & Yr 5 Naplan for the students to paint and gift and Tracy Clark and Sally Thompson for TERM 2, Week 4, 2018 making the chocolates for the beautiful Mother’s Day chocolate boxes. Our 24/5 Wed Royal wedding high tea mums were definitely spoilt this year - and deservingly so. TERM 2, Week 5, 2018 A big congratulations to Keri, Ben & Wyatt on the arrival of a beautiful

29/5 Tues GRIP Leadership Conference for the daughter Evelyn. Wyatt is very excited and has enjoyed sharing the wonderful Yr 6 Leadership Team. news. We are all looking forward to welcoming Evelyn to GPS.

1/6 Fri Small Schools Athletics Carnival at A very successful PSSA District Cross Country was held on Monday with perfect Marrar weather for competitors, spectators and helpers. Thank you to our parents for TERM 2, Week 6, 2018 providing a wonderful selection of canteen options along with a welcoming 6/6 Wed P&C Meeting at 6.00pm smile for our visiting schools. Thank you to our staff who organised a well-run

event: Mrs Graham, Mrs Fryer and Mrs Booth. Thank you to the Ganmain Golf Club committee and Mr Bunny Winter for providing a wonderful venue, golf carts and mowing the course. A big well done to the children who put in their Awards TERM 2, Week 2 best effort and encouraged each other along the way. Ganmain Public School ACACIA (Kinder to Year 2) took out the handicap trophy for the second year in a row. Congratulations to Jhaleiza For having a positive & happy our placegetters who will be heading to for the Cross Brown attitude at all times. Country event.

BANKSIA (Years 3 to Year6) 1st Girls 8/9 Years Lillyarna Clark Ben Wells For being resourceful with his 1st Boys 12 Years Tristan Hare learning. 2nd Girls 10 Years Lilly Brill LIBRARY/Computer Studies 4th Boys 11 Years Nate Hamblin Jayden Clark For great reflective behaviour in 4th Girls 12Years Kaitlin Logan & Tyson Page Library lessons. Catch a Kids Kaitlin, Tristan & Nate represented the school last week in the

Artist of the Week – Matilda Brill & Hannah Ganmain/ combined AFL team in the Paul Kelly Cup carnival. They reported that they had a great day. Sheridan. Author of the Week – Mannix O’Mara The students had a great day last week on excursion to . First stop was the Civic Theatre to watch an adapted play of George’s Marvellous Medicine from the Roald Dahl book. By all reports it was a great show. Next off to the Wagga City Art Gallery for a guided tour of the latest exhibition; artworks of Yidumduma man, Bill Harney, who is regarded by many as a national living treasure. He uses his paintings, carvings, songs and storytelling to communicate his Indigenous knowledge. The Stage 3 students then were treated to a tour of the National Art Glass Museum and then we all headed off to the Wagga City Library and then the Museum of the Riverina. Thank you to our parents and grandparents for your assistance with transport. Your support makes these school experiences possible. This week we welcome new student Khaleya and her family to GPS. Khaleya is in Year 3 and is settling in well. We hope Khaleya enjoys all the great things we do in learning at GPS.

Year 3 & Year 5 have been undertaking NAPLAN assessments this week. Good luck to all.

Have a great week!

Sandy Schmid

Principal

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Karen’s Corner

What a great couple of weeks we have had at Ganmain Public School. Fantastic learning opportunities, excursions and sporting events. It sure is never boring at GPS.

The garden has had a good drink thanks to last Friday’s rain but if we don't receive any follow up rain I'll have to drag out the sprinklers once again. Remember to stay away from any wet areas.

In Youth Worker news we will be focusing on manners. Manners should be used by everyone, every minute, every day, everywhere, every time. There is no excuse for bad manners, EVER!

Why not come in to the “chatroom” before school or at recess to talk about all your exciting things. I love to hear about your weekends, new babies, families, sport, how good your footy team is going or not going. If it excites you then I reckon it will also tickle my fancy. For more serious things that may be worrying you ask your teacher if you can see me during P.E. Just remember I can't support you if I don't know.

Keep chatting,

Mrs Fryer- SLSO / Youth worker/ GA.

P&C News

Thank you to all the wonderful parents who donated cakes, slices, biscuits and pumpkin soup for the catering for the District Cross Country on Monday. A special mention to Sarah, Reece, Geoff, Sally and Rachael for cooking the BBQ and operating the canteen all day. The day was a great success.

Well done to the students that participated on the day and gave your best. Congratulations to those that have made it on to the next level, best of luck at Riverina.

Congratulations to the Mother’s Day Raffle winners and a big thank you to everyone that sold or brought tickets. Your support of our school and P&C is greatly appreciated. . 1st June Crozier 2nd Jodie Graham 3rd Tania Angove 4th Colleen Irvine

Finally congratulations to the staff at GPS on a well run carnival. The venue and your organisation was excellent.

Tracy Clark - P&C President

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Coolamon Library News

Lego club has commenced. Come and join us every Wednesday afternoon from 4.00 – 5.00pm and at the Library every Saturday morning from 10.30 – 11.30am. Everyone is most welcome to attend.

The Library, in partnership with the Murrumbidgee Primary Health Network, are hosting a free My Health Record (MHR) information session. At this session you can learn about MHR, what it is, the benefits and how the system is expanding this year. The MHR session will be held on Tuesday, 29th May @ 10.30am with morning tea provided.

The next Story time will be Friday 25th May @ 10.30am, theme - “Clothes”. Come and join us – new families are most welcomed to attend.

The library has a variety of NSW Premiers Reading Challenge books available for students to borrow. The books have been sorted into their different levels to make it easy for students. This challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure, phone the library for further details.

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