WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLY Well done to our two new School Captains, Lulu and Eaden who ran their first whole school assembly last Thursday afternoon. It ran very smoothly! Congratulations also to our first group of class award winners for 2018. They all received their awards with great pride! Mrs Thorn led the assembly in school singing with everyone joining in and enjoying the songs “Lean Forward, Lean Backwards” and “I Like Eating Guano”. What a great way to start off the year!

NEWSLETTER NO. 4 TERM 1 WEEK 5 WEDNESDAY 28th FEBRUARY, 2018

BONVILLE STREET EMAIL: urunga-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au PO BOX 21 WEBSITE: www.urunga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au URUNGA NSW 2455 TEL: 02 6655 6393 FAX: 02 6655 5140

On the traditional lands of the Gumbaynggirr people

IMPORTANT DATES

Thurs 1st Mar Hockey Gala Day Mon 19th Mar Garden Club @ 11.40am

Mon 5th Mar Garden Club @ 11.10am Thurs 22nd Mar Whole School Assembly @ 2.20pm

Wed 7th Mar NC Swimming (Murwillumbah) Thurs 29th Mar Easter Hat Parade

Thurs 8th Mar Whole School Assembly @ 2.20pm Fri 30th Mar Good Friday—PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Wed 14th Mar Harmony Day Mon 2nd Apr Easter Monday—PUBLIC HOLIDAY

NEWS FROM OUR PRINCIPAL MRS JANE MARTYN

GOOD NEWS STORY Last year, our school was fortunate to be one of the first schools to have our wireless network upgraded. As a result of this, a team of technology specialists visited our school to do some fantastic work with robotics, Google and STEAM. You can read about it and see the pictures in this article that was sent to all schools recently: https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/0ab611a5-77d7-4865-9186-bab8f7fedf00/1/FutureStories.zip/FutureStories.html

NEWSLETTER Each week, our newsletter is emailed to the addresses that we have been given. Should you wish to change your preferred email address, please contact our office. Our newsletter is also uploaded to our school’s website at: http://www.urunga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/ If you would prefer a paper copy, please call into our office to pick one up.

END OF SCHOOL ROUTINES Please be mindful of the fact that lessons are still in progress until the end of school bell at 3.20. If you arrive at school to pick up your children before the bell, please don’t hang around the classrooms as this may impact on lessons and learning. We ask that you wait either in the top COLA or on the bottom COLA until the bell. Jane Martyn

WEEKLY SCHOOL RULE

The focus this week is the orange rule “complete all work”. We ask that you reinforce this week’s rule at home with your child.

Harmony Day this year will be celebrated at UPS on Wednesday the 14th of March.

This year we will again be teaming up with our Urunga CWA ladies and learning about Poland.

GET READY FOR THE BIG VEGIE CRUNCH! Did you know that 5.4% of Australian children eat enough vegetables? In order to work towards improving this percentage, we need to increase children’s knowledge, exposure and positive attitudes towards vegetables. On Thursday 1st March at 10am our school will be joining hundreds of schools across NSW to break the record for the most students crunching vegetables simultaneously. But we need your help to make it a success! On Thursday 1st March, please pack your child a container of vegetables (not fruit) for them to crunch on. Need some ideas?

carrot, celery, cucumber – cut into sticks or left wholecapsicum – cut into sticks or wedgescorn – raw baby corn spears or a cooked corn cobbroccoli or cauliflower florets - raw or lightly cooked to keep their crunchtomatoes – small cherry tomatoes or a large tomato that can be eaten like an applebeans or snow peas - raw or lightly cooked to keep their crunchmushrooms – sliced or left whole

If you require more information on The Big Vegie Crunch, please contact the school or your child’s teacher. Mrs Arnold - Vegetable Week School Coordinator

DISTRICT SWIMMING Last Friday, 22 of our swimmers competed at the District Swimming Carnival held at Macksville Pool. It was a great day and everyone swam their hardest and achieved some wonderful results. Congratulations to the 11 swimmers pictured who qualified to swim at the Mid North Coast Carnival at Coffs Harbour.

MID NORTH COAST SWIMMING As mentioned above, 11 of our swimmers travelled to Coffs yesterday to compete at the MNC swimming carnival. Lulu McGrath, Harriet Pagulayan-McCabe and Riley Meenahan will progress to the North Coast carnival to be held at Murwillumbah next Wednesday in some individual events. Lulu and Harriet will be joined by Eliza and Clare to compete in the senior girls relay. Great swimming everyone!! Read next week’s newsletter for a more detailed report!

P&C NEWS The P&C are having a cake stall at the Urunga Riverside Markets on Sunday 11th March from 8am till 1pm. We are looking for helpers on the day to sell goodies at the stall for an hour or so. We are also asking for donations of cakes, slices and biscuits. Sandy and Roz McLagan will be at the markets from 6.30am setting up so donations of baked goods can dropped off anytime after that. Our AGM is on Wednesday 14th March 9.30am in the staff room. All positions will be declared vacant and everyone is welcome. Remember, being involved with the P&C is a wonderful way of helping our children in their future and education. Karen & Roz - P&C Committee Members

SCHOOL BANKING - TERM 1 REWARDS School banking has some fantastic new rewards available this year. The first two super saver rewards that are available for any banker with 10 silver tokens are the Twister Power Handball and the Secret Scratch Notepad. Remember that banking day at Urunga Public School is Tuesday. Hand your bank book with a completed deposit slip and money to your classroom teacher on Tuesday morning.

NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER JENNY LUXON

SPOTLIGHT ON JANE SWEENEY Welcome to Jane who is our new SAM—School Administration Manager. Along with Louise Rodgers in the office, you will be greeted by her happy, smiling face. Make sure you come in and say hello! Star sign: Leo Favourite number: 8 Favourite book: Not Without My Daughter Favourite holiday: Tasmania and Cruising

If I had one wish: I wish that all animals were treated like my spoilt staffy. Some interesting things I’d like to share: I was school captain at Urunga Public School in 1978 I spent 10 years working at Tyalla Public School in Coffs Harbour We all look forward to working with you and utilising your expertise!! COMMUNITY TUTORS This week we started our 2018 Community Tutoring sessions. Each week this wonderful group of volunteers come to the school and share their time and knowledge with our students. Each tutor works with students to help with reading, spelling or maths. In doing so not only do the children improve in their studies but they also develop a special friendship with their tutors.

Many thanks to all our tutors!!

WHAT’S DUE Final Payment for Student Leaders Camp note due Fri 3rd March EOI’s for Yr7 in 2019 forms due Friday 9th March

SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS Invoices for school contributions with full details of what the school contribution covers, were sent home last week. Thank you to all the families who have already paid. These funds supplement the school budget and enable the school to supply additional and ongoing items throughout the year which benefit your child’s education. The individual class teachers will send home notes advising of any other supplies that may be required for their class. Classroom supplies and text books will be handed out in class. It would be appreciated if families could pay these amounts as soon as possible. If you wish, you may pay these contributions in instalments throughout the year. Please contact the front office for further assistance. You may also pay via our “Parent Online Payment” system which is accessed through our school website. Please visit www.urunga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au and click on the “Make A Payment” button. Fill in the details and tick “Voluntary School Contributions”. Please ensure you make separate payments for each of your children.

P & C AGM

Wednesday 14th March at 9.30am in the School Staff Room.

All positions will be declared vacant.

Come along for a chat. We would love to see you there!

For more information:

2018 FOOTBALL REGISTRATION WITH BELLINGEN FC 

   

We have vacancies in the 5’s, 6’s and 7 years teams 

 (And limited space in other teams) 

 So hurry 

Register at www.playfootball.com.au  

 Or  

Contact registrar.bellingenfc@gmail.com

or 0413298867 

 You can check the club website at www.bellingenfc.com.au for all 2018 registration fees. BFC will give you a 10% discount on the fees of the se-cond registration and 20% discount on the fees of the third or further registrations per family (the highest age group will count as the first registration).   Please also be aware that for each child under 18 you are able to claim $100 voucher as part of the NSW Government Active kids programme. For more info please see https://sport.nsw.gov.au/sectordevelopment/activekids.

 

Canteen Supervisor  

An opportunity exists for an innova ve person to take on a temporary role of canteen supervisor at Bellingen    Public School. The role is to oversee the day‐to‐day opera ons of the school canteen, including the supervision and 

rostering of relevant staff and volunteers.  

The hourly rate for this posi on is $20.63 to $21.68. The total salary package will include employer’s contribu on to superannua on and leave loading. 

 

For further informa on please contact the Principal: Graeme Ross 6655 1147.  

All applica ons for this posi on must be made through h ps://iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/  

Applica ons close at 4:00pm on the 8/3/2018.