Tanilba Bay Public School Fortnightly Newsletter Term 2 Week 2
Thursday, 8 May 2014 Ph: 49824762 Fax: 49823112 Email: [email protected] Online: www.tanilbabay-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Principal’s Message I would also ask parents to have a think about what Congratulations to Leone Jack who retired from the they are putting in their child’s lunch box every day Department of Education today after 31 years. Leone and try to make sure that healthy options make up has worked in the TBPS office for 11 years. On the majority of your child’s food. There is a lot of behalf of all staff and students I wish Leone a long and research to prove that children will learn more and happy retirement. Good Luck! We will miss you. stay on task longer when they feed their minds and Our Mother’s Day pamper day on Wednesday was a bodies with the right food and drinks. fantastic, fun event. I know all the Mums and Nanas One of our ongoing strategies in this area is Crunch who came along had a beautiful time having their hair and Sip, thanks to all of our families for their support and nails done or getting a lovely massage. It was also of this health initiative. Please continue to send in a exciting for our kindergarten students who loved healthy snack of fruit and/or vegetables for your child the opportunity to pamper and look after their loved to eat during our Crunch and Sip break in the ones. See our photographs on page 4. morning. Also, please send in a bottle of water for Congratulations to Margo Kovalevsky who had her them to keep on their desk so they can have a baby in the holidays. Margo had a little boy who has healthy drink option during their lessons. been named Jackson. Another part of our strategy will be to provide Last term I contacted Port Stephens Council and health tips and recipe ideas in our newsletter from requested a Zebra Crossing be installed at the back time to time. gate to the school. Our P&C supported this request Health and wrote a letter to the council on our behalf asking • Encourage your child to drink lots of water that we have this road safety measure installed. instead of fizzy drinks. This helps with their Council have undertaken pedestrian and vehicle metabolism and their general health. counts and have informed us that we do not meet • Encourage your child to snack on fruit and the numerical warrant outlined in the Austroads vegetables such as carrot sticks, watermelon, Guide to Traffic Management for a pedestrian bananas and apples instead of chips and crossing or a children’s crossing. chocolate. This will teach them healthy eating I have been advised by the Council’s Road Safety habits for later life. Officer to remind all parents on the need for • Always have healthy snacks at home to decrease children to hold an adult’s hand in the traffic the temptation of having unhealthy ones. environment until the age of 8 and to stay within NAPLAN close reach until the age of 10, both on the footpath Next week our Years 3 & 5 students will sit the and when crossing the road. Additionally, parents National Assessment Program Literacy and should not encourage children to the opposite side Numeracy. NAPLAN is a State Wide Assessment of the road to a waiting car. and our students have performed well in these As part of the ‘Live Life Well’ strategy we have assessments in recent years. Good luck to all of our introduced a canteen committee which is a joint students participating in NAPLAN this year. initiative between the P&C and staff. This committee will support the canteen manager in ensuring Have a great weekend. compliance with this government program and in the Stuart Wylie development of healthy menu options. Principal Page 1
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Athletics Carnival The athletics carnival will be held this term, Friday of Last Fortnight’s answer: The girl made $10.00 week 8. If you are turning 8 or older this year you Problem Solvers: will be eligible to participate on the day. Field event Suppose the time is now 2 o’clock on a twelve- trials will be held each week during stage 2 and stage hour clock which runs continuously. What time 3 sport. The top 6 qualifiers will advance to the finals will it show 1000 hours from now? which will be held on the athletics carnival for a spot Website Focus: K-6 in the zone team. http://www.softschools.com/ Mr Gattenhof Math Fact: Have you heard about a Palindrome Number? It is Canteen News a number that reads the same backwards and A big thank you to our wonderful volunteers who forward, e.g. 12421. help out in our canteen each week. We are desperately looking for volunteers to assist in the Calendar of Events canteen on Mondays or Fridays. If you are available Mon 12th May PSSA Netball to help, please contact the school canteen or office 10am staff. Students love seeing Mums, Dads and Tues 13th-Thurs 15th May NAPLAN Grandparents helping out in the canteen! You will be Thurs 15th May ES1-S1 Assembly provided with a light lunch, unlimited tea/coffee, 2.30pm good conversation and fun times! Fri 16th May Zone Touch Trials Stewart House Early Stage 1 Mufti Day Even though it is only nine weeks, the term ahead Mon 19th May K-6 Assembly will be a busy but rewarding term. Students have 2.30pm come back from holidays revitalised and ready to Tues 20th May St 2 take it on. Then & Now 2pm Wed 21st May Knights Knockout The teachers of ES1 have been busily preparing some Opens – Windale fantastic and engaging units of work that involve Thurs 22nd May Girls Soccer learning about the sea. Please find the time to look at St1 Public Speaking the ES1 page on the school website for a detailed 2pm Hall overview of what ES1 students will be working Fri 23rd May Walk to School Day towards this term. It is great to see that students are completing their homework each week and returning their home readers each day to help them on their Sports Report way to achieving ES1 benchmarks. Last week the senior boys’ rugby league team ES1 held the Mother’s Day Celebration this week. travelled to Medowie to play Wirreanda P.S. After What a wonderful event this was! We saw lots of two quick tries to Wirreanda the boys were down fabulous hairstyles and craft items being created and 12-0. Showing great resilience and determination as some of the special friends even got a hand or back Tanilba Bay P.S always does, the boys scored two massage from their child! A big thank you goes out fantastic tries to go into half time 12-12. Wirreanda to Mrs Sturgess for organising the event. Please see started the second half with an early try. Once again page 4 for photos of the event. the Tanilba Bay boys showed determination and scored a try to take the game into extra time. Stage 1 Wirreanda managed to score a try and went away The students in Stage 1 have settled into Term 2 victors. Tanilba Bay boys are now training hard for extremely well and are already hard at work. In the Knights Knockout which will be held later this writing this term, we are using our creative minds to month. Keep up the great work boys. write some brilliant narratives. We are focusing on Aboriginal culture and we are discovering lots of Page 2
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interesting and exciting information that we are going 5D to use as part of our story writing. This term we are studying the narrative poem “The We have another busy term ahead in sport. Our Highwayman”. The children have been working in focus in Term 2 is dancing. On Wednesday groups to look at language, images, characters and afternoons Stage 1 will be learning dances like the emotion. They used the classic image of the poem to Nutbush, Macarena, Heel and Toe Polka and many brainstorm words and phrases that they thought other dance moves. were appropriate for the image and tried to build a All the teachers are looking forward to another profile of the ‘Highwayman” character. As part of our fantastic term with our classes. profiling we also watched a short TV program piece Stage 1 Teachers from Horrible Histories. We have really been focusing hard on reading 2/3G comprehension , grammar and writing skills. We are Welcome back to an exciting term 2. I am glad to see also working well in groups to discuss concepts and all my students back safely and enthusiastic to learn. come up with ideas to share as a whole class. NAPLAN preparations are continuing well with all With the cold weather creeping in it would be students participating eagerly. This term for HSIE we wonderful if each child could supply a box of tissues will be focusing on “Australia You’re standing in it” for the classroom. Paper towel would also be and for Science, Mrs Hainzer will be looking at “Mini helpful. Thank you to those parents who have Beasts”. Our text type for English, to be commenced previously provided these items. after NAPLAN, will be information reports which correlate nicely with our other KLA topics! Well done to Liam for receiving this week’s award based on the PBL expectation of “Friendly.”
3/4M and 3J Well done 3/4M and 3J. It has been very pleasing to see the way in which students have already settled back into school routines and are working hard in class to achieve their personal best results. During the term students will cover a variety of topics ranging from narrative writing to the “Australia Reading Comprehension You’re Standing in it” HSIE unit, as well as PBL lessons on the school wide expectation of ‘being friendly’. We would also like to remind parents and carers that next week the NAPLAN will be completed by students in Years 3 and 5 across all Australian schools. Good luck to all Tanilba Bay students who are undertaking these assessment tasks. Finally, we are looking forward to seeing as many parents and carers as possible for our Stage 2 assembly in week 5 which will be run by 3/4S. Congratulations to all 3/4M students who will be receiving their rocket reader badges from Mrs Hainzer at this assembly. We hope to see you all there. We are looking forward to a productive and rewarding term 2. Highwayman Brainstorming Tim Marchant and Miss J Lisa Dovey Page 3
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Sacraments of Reconciliation & First Holy Communion The Parish of St. Brigid’s, Raymond Terrace, including the Mass Communities of Mallabula, Medowie and Raymond Terrace, will shortly commence a
Sacramental Programme to form and prepare those children who have already received the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion. Firstly, a massive thank you to everyone who If you would like your child to participate, and you believe they are ready, you are invited to attend a supported our Easter Raffle! We had over 70 prizes st this year, so thank you to the families who helped Parent Information Evening on Wednesday 21 with donations of Easter eggs, it was great to see so May at 7.30pm in the St Brigid’s School Hall. At many smiling faces when the students won a prize. this gathering, the timetable and process will be All this fantastic effort helped us raise $1288.90 !! explained, and the children’s names and details taken. Bunnings BBQ The Parish Sacramental Team, who oversees the We will be holding our BBQ at Taylors Beach practical running of the programme, currently consists Bunnings on Sunday May 18th. Why not call in and of only two people who have put a lot of time and grab some lunch and support your school at the effort into the Sacramental preparation of your same time. children. At the Parent Information Evening we will be Any volunteers that are available to help out please seeking new people to join the Sacramental Team and leave your contact details with the office and we will continue this valuable and important ministry. be in touch. Any time you can spare is welcomed. It is critical that a number of parents be prepared to You are not required to be a member of the P&C, assist and become members of the Sacramental Team anyone can help. to ensure that the Sacramental Programme can P&C Survey continue in this parish. Anyone who would like to In the last newsletter we asked parents if they could assist and be involved, but would like more fill out their preference on what was important to information, please feel free to contact Bernadette them and what you would like us to fundraise for. Stellenberg by phoning her on 4932 1875 or Limited copies have been returned so we are email [email protected] extending the due date to Monday 26Th May. These surveys will be tallied and taken to the P&C Meeting and discussed to decide on what we will raise funds for this year. Therefore, this is your chance to have your say. Another copy has been attached to this newsletter. We truly value your opinion. Uniform Shop Our uniform shop, located in the AV room is open Mondays 9am – 10am and on Wednesdays 2.30pm – Messy church is a new approach to doing “church”. 3pm. It is particularly designed for families who value Don’t forget if you can’t make it on these days, you doing things together, meeting others & enjoying can also leave an order at the office and we will put it life. We welcome the young & the young at heart - together for you next time the uniform shop is open all age groups. There will be plenty of fun, messy and these can be sent home with your child. crafts, games, music – lots of “doing things”. A Next Meeting basic meal will be provided. There will be a small Our meetings are held on the last Thursday of each cost of $5.00 per family to help with food month at 3:15pm. Our next meeting will be Thursday expenses. Hope to see you there!! Contact 29th May in the library. Lynley Keers for more information 4982 4267 Page 5
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A message from Live Life Well @ School Breakfast provides brain food Have you heard about the new government dental Eating breakfast each morning improves children’s scheme “Child Dental Benefits Schedule”? From learning, concentration, behaviour, overall nutrient January 1st 2014, it is providing eligible kids with intake, and establishes healthy eating patterns for life. $1000 to spend on selected dental services over a 2 Some quick breakfast options include: calendar year period. This great initiative expects to wholegrain cereals and reduced-fat milk help around 3.4 million Australian kids between the baked beans on wholegrain toast and a glass ages of 2-17 years. of reduced-fat milk To benefit from this scheme, children must be eligible fruit smoothie and toast for Medicare and the family must be in receipt of Family Tax Benefit Part A or receive a relevant toast topped with cheese and sliced tomatoes Government payment. Services that will be covered egg on toast with a glass of reduced-fat milk include: examinations, x-rays, cleaning, fissure sealing, wholemeal or wholegrain toast or fresh fillings, root canals and extractions. Benefits will not bread, with margarine spread plus a topping, be available for services carried out in hospital, or for such as tomato, reduced-fat cheese or baked orthodontic or cosmetic dental work. beans To see if your kids are eligible, call your local Dentist reduced-fat yoghurt, fruit and raisin bread who can look up the information for you. fruit salad and yoghurt.
Serve breakfast with a glass of water or milk to get children hydrate.
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May *Boys Cricket *Kinder Mothers *Cricket Back 2 *Nasal Health Day Celebration Up
Lessons Mothers Day Stall
12 13 14 15 16 *PSSA Netball *Zone Touch
May 3 10am Trials
*Mufti Day *ES1-S1 Assembly 2.30 19 20 21 22 23 May *K-6 Assembly *St2 Then & *Knights *St1 Public *Walk to 4 2.30 Now Show Knockout Open Speaking 2pm School Day
26 27 28 29 30 *St3 Assembly *St3 Public *P & C Meeting *Reward Day May 5 12.50 Speaking Final 3.15pm *St2 Assembly 9.15-10 *Knights 12.50 Knockout U10’s *ES1 – S1 Assembly 2.30 2 3 4 5 6 June *K-6 Assembly *ES1 Public St1 Excursion 6 2.30 Speaking Finals 9am-3pm 10am 9 10 11 12 13 PUBLIC June STAR STRUCK HOLIDAY Star Struck Rehearsals 7 PERFORMANCE
*Junior Choir * ES1-S1 Tanilba Shores Assembly 2.30 1pm 16 17 18 19 20 *K-6 Assembly *Athletic 8 2.30 Carnival 8YO- June Yr6 21 Saturday Trivia Night Tilligerry Sports 23 24 25 26 27 *Athletic *Combined *P&C Meeting *Disco Day June 9 Carnival Back Scripture 3.15pm Up *St2 Assembly *ES1 & S1
*Reports 12.50 Assembly Home 2.30pm
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