Tullibigeal Central School Newsletter Kurrajong Street Phone: (02) 69729105 Tullibigeal NSW 2669 Fax: (02) 69729267 Principal: Tom Garvey Mobile: 0415 171 781 Email – [email protected] Term 2 Week 4 18 May 2016 Truth * Consideration * Service Mortimer Shield Good luck to our Stage 3 students who are Principal’s Report off to Leeton tomorrow to play Mortimer Shield Rugby Successful Excursions This morning sees nearly the whole League and League Tag. school travel to Ungarie Central School to join in the Musica Congratulations to Bill Dillon and Riley Glasgow for making Viva concert which is being hosted there. the Western AFL team who will play at Nelson’s Bay next PBL corner. We are proud to be a Positive Behaviour for week. And also to Bill Dillon and Harley Henschke who Learning school. Respect is an important value which we all made the Group 20 Rep under 12’s Rugby League team. espouse. This can mean; respect for ourselves, respect for Learning Planning Meetings will occur in the last 2 weeks fellow students, respect for our teachers. Through showing of term after the reports are issued. respect we show how we can treat others as we would like to be treated ourselves. Dignity in our relations with other people is a badge of our civilisation. Till next week… Flash back to Anzac Day Of course 2015 was the 100th Tom Garvey anniversary of the landing at Gallipoli and that prompted a Principal lot of loyalty and dedicated activity ensuring the Memorial Park looked its best and that the stones accurately reflected the scores of local men and women who served in Term 2 Coming Events conflict. 2016 was a somewhat quieter marking of Anzac Day but our students did a fabulous job; turning up in school uniform and performing their roles with aplomb. MAY 2016 Pictured is Ricky Riley at the guns. As is always true, he did a fantastic job on the day. Week 4 Wed 18 May Mortimer Shield for Years 5 & 6 Fri 20 May Lower Cross Country at Tulli Week 5 Monday 23 May Bill and Riley away at Nelson’s Bay AFL State Carnival Tues 24 May NRL Cronulla Sharks Visit Week 6 Mon 30 May Recorder Camp Wagga Page | 1 TERM 2 - WEEK 4 18 May 2016 Primary News Secondary News Today all students Kindergarten to Year 10 have the Year 11 Industrial Technology Metals opportunity to watch a drumming performance in Ungarie. Students will be heading to Ungarie for the Well done to all students who attended the Industrial performance. Thank you to Ungarie Central School who Technology Metals Industry Study Day in Condobolin last offered our students this performance. Friday. You displayed exceptional behaviour and all your th This Friday 20 May we will be holding the Lower schools can be proud of how you represented them. I am Lachlan Cross Country. All students received their notes sure you learnt a lot about how a business operates within last week and we ask they be returned as soon as the metals industry. Hopefully it gave students the possible. The P & C will be running a canteen on the day so any donations of cakes and slices would be inspiration they need to be successful in this course moving appreciated. Also we will need some parents to run the into possibly their own fabrication business. canteen on the day. This Wednesday all students in Years 5 and 6 will be heading to Leeton to compete in the Steve Mortimer Shield. Students will be joining with Naradhan and St Francis Lake Cargelligo. Students will need to be at school by 7.50am on Wednesday morning to be taken to Leeton. Students estimated return from Leeton will be between 4pm -4.30pm. Good luck to Bill Dillon and Riley Glasgow who will be heading off to Nelsons Bay next week to compete in the state AFL carnival representing Western Region Sport for all of next week. Good luck boys. Year 11 Business/Legal studies All students in the LAP program studying either Business Studies or Legal Studies will congregate at Tullibigeal Central School for a study day. Thank you to Mr West for organising this day for the students. HSC Chemistry Ricky Riley will attend a HSC Chemistry Study Day in Condobolin on Friday. I hope this day helps Ricky achieve the high results he is capable of in his coming assessments and exams. Bill, Riley, Damon and Dylan were to join with Ungarie next week to play cricket in the next round of the PSSA Exams Knockout however their opponent have forfeited and they will now move forward to the next round. The A reminder to all Junior Secondary students that you will boys will take on a school in Dubbo area. More details have half yearly exams starting next week. These exams will be given once we know. Thank you to Ungarie make up part of your assessment for the year and it is Central School and Mr Cattle for including our students. important for you to try your best in these exams. You should have a routine study pattern leading into these exams. Jacqui Dillon Assistant Principal Timothy Small Relieving Head Teacher Page | 2 TERM 2 - WEEK 4 18 May 2016 SCHOOL CAPTAIN’S TRIP TO SYDNEY and provided first hand fieldwork in exploring the th issue. Students were given the opportunity to On Wednesday the 4 of May, Ricky and Mr West, measure the depth of the water table using a along with school captains from Ungarie and Lake piezometer and draw conclusions as to what may Cargelligo, flew to Sydney for a tour of NSW have helped or hindered the rise of the water Parliament House and Government House. table. Students should now be working towards Condobolin also sent their captains who we met in Sydney. We were able to meet our local member completing a report on salinity for their next of state parliament, Kevin Humphries, member for assessment task, using information and photos from the day. Barwon as pictured below. Students were able to see both houses of parliament in session from the viewing platforms, as well as seeing a protest in action outside of the building. The afternoon session involved a tour of Government House and a meeting with the Governor of NSW, His Excellency General David Hurley, before flying home. Stage 5 Entrepreneurship excursion to Parkes On Monday the 9th of May, stage 5 students and Mr West travelled to Parkes to be part of the launch of a new program being run by Intel and the Department of Education which is based around innovation and entrepreneurship. Students were able to hear from those who had been successful entrepreneurs and learn about what skills you need to achieve success. They will be involved in an ongoing program where they need to come up with ideas that are able to solve problems we face in our everyday lives and can be capitalised on. Stage 5 Geography Salinity excursion to Condobolin/Ootha On Friday the 6th of May, stage 5 students and Mr West travelled to Condobolin to be involved in a joint excursion with Condobolin High School focused on the issue of salinity. Students were able to see the effect this geographic issue has had on different areas of the town; from buildings in town, to farmland and Gum Bend Lake. This excursion tied in with their study of salinity in the classroom Page | 3 TERM 2 - WEEK 4 18 May 2016 Page | 4 TERM 2 - WEEK 4 18 May 2016 Page | 5 TERM 2 - WEEK 4 18 May 2016 ‘LIFE ON THE LAND’ PHOTOS This term in art lessons, we are creating a whole school collage to put in the Blue Waters Art Competition. The theme is ‘Life on the Land.’ I would love it if each student in our school could contribute a photo to this. The photo should be either one that you have taken, or one taken of you. It can be any photo that you think relates to life on the land. Some ideas could include: A photo of you doing a job or hobby that is unique to country life. A photo of the landscape. A close up of an interesting texture or pattern eg. machinery parts, dirt, a wood stack. Research shows us that family reading time A photo of something showing farm life. is one of the BEST ways to grow a child’s A photo of a local place, event or building. interest in the wonderful world of books. Something old that you have found We encourage students to read with a family member for at least 10 minutes every Please email your photo to day. [email protected] or bring it to school on a USB. If your photo is printed out, please bring it to May is National Family Reading Month and school on a Monday or Wednesday for me to scan and Scholastic is offering over $20 000 worth of prizes return to you. for students who get involved in this challenge. All Primary students have been given a reading log Thank you in which they can record time spent reading and Mrs Hayward TCS is also offering the following prizes to encourage all students to become involved and get reading! Anyone who enters will receive a pencil 10hrs = Ice Block 15hrs = Book from the Box 20hrs = $10 Book Club Voucher Over 20hrs will receive a special ‘mystery prize’ th Reading logs must be returned by the 13 June.