DENILIQUIN NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL

PO Box 449, Deniliquin, 2710

Phone: 0358811042 Email: deniliquin-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Fax: 03 5881 5086 Web Site: www.deniliquin-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Newsletter: Term 1 Week 4 (26/2/13)

Meet the Teacher

and New Parents Night

A chance to meet and greet your child’s

new teacher, and to learn more about

what, why and how things are done in the

classroom, is set down for this

Wednesday, February 27.

A free family BBQ will be operating from

6:00pm.

The time for each class is as follows:

5:30pm-KW and 3/4H

6pm-1/2K and 5/6HB

6:30pm-1/2R and 4/5S

Sports Crazy

North Soccer trials

A selection trial will be held next Tuesday at

lunchtime for Grade 5/6 students that are

interested in trying out for both the DPSSA Soccer

trials and the State Knockout teams (Boys and Girls).

Players are asked to wear runners (not soccer boots)

and sports shorts.

Principal’s Awards

Last week’s champions are:

Brodie Barlow—being a happy learner

Peta Thomas—showing a kind and caring

nature towards everybody in the class

Jarrod Bashford—working hard all week

Will King—excellent effort in all areas

Catriona Vickery—outstanding art work

Michael Slattery—excellent behavior and

enthusiasm and interest in his learning

James Roe—terrific effort in reading and

writing

FROM THE SCHOOL ON A HILL

UPCOMING EVENTS

Date Event

27/2 Meet the Teacher Evening

28/2 Outback Theatre workshops

1/3 DPSSA Swimming Carnival at Hay

4/3 DPSSA Cricket trials

5/3 North Soccer Trials

5/3 Under 7s swimming trials

6/3 DPSSA Basketball trials at Moama

7/3 Under 7s Swimming carnival

11/3 North AFL trials

13/3 DPSSA Soccer trials

15/3 50 Year Celebrations meeting-12:30pm.

20/3 Life Education van arrives

20/3 DPSSA AFL trials

25/3 Rising Generations Leadership workshop-RSL

26/3 P&C Meeting-6:30pm.

29/3 Good Friday holiday

1/4 Easter Monday holiday

North Swimming Carnival

I was disappointed to miss this great event, having to head

to Albury instead, for a Principal’s Conference.

From all reports it was a typically wonderful day and our

gratitude goes to all that chipped in to make it so-chefs,

time-keepers, judges, starters, recorders and early

morning setter-uppers. A special ‘pat-on-the-back’ goes to

Miss Smith for her fine organization, as well as: the Deni

Swim Club (use of equipment), Bill Dudley (starter/set up)

and Cheryl McMillan (set up/ stroke judge).

McKenzie proved to be the dominant house-team in the

overall pointscore. Tyson were in 2nd spot, ahead of Boyd

and Cobb. McKenzie captains’, Olivia Park and Jason

Higgins accepted the winning shield on behalf of their

team.

Congratulations to our ‘Age Division Champions’ for 2013,

namely:

Charlie Dudley (Junior Boy)

Eimear Gogarty (Junior Girl)

Ryan Borella-Holschier (11Yr Boy)

Stephanie Vickery (11Yr Girl)

Jason Higgins (Senior Boy)

Sophie Hodge (Senior Girl)

One record was broken on the day, with Charlie Dudley

surpassing Will Hodge’s 2008 Medley time by a massive

1min 9 seconds.

A whopping 36 children have qualified for the DPSSA

carnival which will be held in Hay on Friday, March 1.

Transport for this event will be by private transport.

A reminder to all parents that are taking students

other than their own, that they are required to drop

into the school and complete a ‘Prohibited Employment

Declaration (if they haven’t already done so!), as well

as provide a photocopy of car registration, your license

and vehicle insurance.

See over for photo page!

DPSSA Swimming Carnival

This Friday. See above for some info. Students have

received notes and these must be returned by

Wednesday.

Under 7s Swimming Carnival-Trials

The trial day for students in Grade K, 1 and 2 (under 7s

only!) will be held at the Deni pool next Tuesday, between

9:30am and 11am. Parents/Guardians are welcome to

attend. Students are required to bring towel, hat,

swimmers, entry fee and sunscreen.

NB. Swimming permission notes MUST be returned for

students to attend.

We Value Values

Well done to the following students who last week

received awards for being top value at:

“Being Neat and Tidy”

Gemma Macdonald—packing up neatly every

day

Chloe Emery—beautiful neat bookwork

Alllira Paterson—being very neat and tidy in

class

Phoebe Fitzmaurice—beautiful bookwork

Lillie Harford—neat and tidy bookwork

presentation

Chloe Fishlock—consistently presenting neat

and tidy bookwork

Isabel Auldist—being neat and tidy in writing

tasks

This week’s value will be: ‘Being a Good Friend’

What’s New on the

Website!

This newsletter (in colour!),

New Swimming record in

Curriculum section (Charlie Dudley),

Swimming Carnival photos (Gallery)

North Cricket

DPSSA Trials

Congratulations to the following boys on their

selection to represent Deni North at the DPSSA

cricket trial next Monday: Jason Higgins and Tyler

Moeke.

Knockout Team

The North team selected to play against Hay PS in

the first round of the Statewide Knockout

competition is:

Jason Higgins

Tom Thorpe

Michael Slattery

Bryson Glanvill

Alex Ritchie

Tyler Moeke

Jack King

Alex Rose

Ryan Borella-Holschier

Oscar Erard-Farmer

Cody Learmonth

Dylan Bassett

Duncan Hughes (reserve)

Have a great week!

Chris Hogan

Canteen Roster

Wednesday A Roe

Thursday T Higgins

Friday B McCallum

Monday S Learmonth

Tuesday N Ritchie A Ferguson

Term Pointscore

Team Pts

TADPOLES 4 The Crayfish have

clawed their way up

to equal leader

alongside the

slippery Snails.

GOLDFISH 4

SNAILS 7

CRAYFISH 7

At Left: 2013 Age Division Champions:- Charlie Dudley, Sophie Hodge, Ryan Borella-Holschier, Stephanie Vickery, Eimear Gogarty and Jason Higgins, pictured with Olivia Park (McKenzie Cap-tain)

THIS WEEK’S THINKING TASK was……

Who’s throwing the snowballs and why?

This week’s stories come from 4/5S

Stay tuned next week for 1/2K.

It was a scorcher of a day. It was so hot, Jimmy

and I flipped through the phone book, looking for

a solution and Jimmy found an ad. It was for a

robot called, ‘Snowball Maker-Matic’.

So, we rang and we waited.

Soon it arrived. There it was just standing there.

We plugged it in and it said, “OVERLOAD!!”

Jimmy and I noticed that there was a sticker on

it, and it said, ‘Pre-Owned’.

Someone had put it into overload. It started

throwing snowballs at us.

“Duck for cover!” Jimmy said, as he and I got

pounded to the ground……….

Excerpt by Oscar Erard-Farmer

One day my family and I went to a skiing place.

My cousin, Tom fell down a hill.

Suddenly, a snowman popped up out of nowhere

and started to bombard Tom with snowballs.

Quickly, I made a huge snowball and rolled it

down the hill…….

Excerpt by Alex Rose

We were all at Falls Creek with the family; Mum,

Chloe, Chelsea and me. Suddenly, Mum felt

something. She turned around and saw something

run away.

She walked over and found a hideous, smelly

creature. Mum yelled, “ Ahhhh!”

The thing started throwing snowballs….

Excerpt by Ellie Fishlock

I was minding my own business when I touched

the hot tub and I was suddenly at the North Pole.

A minotaur was pegging snowballs at me, so I

started fighting back…..

Beginning by Jack King

Dad had been in the shed for weeks, working on

something.

One morning, I was woken by a yell. It was dad.

I ran down the stairs and hugged Dad. Behind his

shoulder, I could see a big satellite. Dad saw me

staring.

“That is the ‘Snowball Satellite 1000000. 5.5 for

short! Watch this!”

He pressed a button and the satellite shot up in

the blink of an aye and started firing snowballs….

Excerpt by Adrian Mulham

Again and again, the snowballs pounded into my

fort, and again I got splattered by snow.

I just don’t understand why Harry is so angry.

All I did was step on his ‘RC Car’.

Anyway, I got some snowballs and charged out of

my fort. I pelted some at him and he cried out

when one knocked his glasses off.

I saw my advantage, so I………

Excerpt by Ryan Penney

Expect the Unexpected!!

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