Term 3 Week 4 Monday 12th August

2019

Contact us: West Wyalong Public School 71 Park Street West Wyalong NSW 2671 Phone: 02 6972 2157 Fax: 02 6972 2818

Email: westwyalon-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.westwyalon-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Welcome to week 4!

Our Education Week celebrations were a huge success and I have received such positive feedback from parents and grandparents about the “great buzz” in our school! So many comments ranging from “our warm and friendly atmosphere”, “the beautiful classrooms with incredible work by the students’ and “what clever, beautiful students and wonderful dedicated teachers”. Thank you everyone for your attendance and for sharing the celebrations with us. We love being able to showcase the great things happening in our school!

A special congratulations to the recipients of our Education Week Awards and congratulations to Ben and Lana, our school captains, for receiving Leadership awards from Mrs. Burke, Director Educational Leadership at a special assembly last Monday.

A big congratulations to our Spelling Bee winners- you are off to the regional finals! Well done Caleb, Lucy, Halle and Olivia! Please take notice of Rhys Bischoff’s mathematical masterpiece in today’s newsletter! Rhys wanted to create this 3D object, so throughout his holidays, he carefully measured and cut out the necessary 62 faces and then, with the assistance of Mr. Pokoney, he patiently put it all together. Well done Rhys!

I hope you are keeping warm! Have a good week. Regards,

Lyn Barnes Principal

West Wyalong Public School Newsletter

From the Principal’s Desk

Attention Year 6 Students: Mrs Fealy will need a Jpeg file of a kindergarten photo for any Year 6

student who did not attend Kindergarten at West Wyalong Public School. Kindergarten photos can be

emailed to nicole.norris@det.nsw.edu.au.

Alternatively if you don’t have a digital file I can scan a hard copy and return

the photo to you. This is a little project for our students Year 6 farewell.

PAYPOP: Payments can be made on-line to our school by accessing PayPop through our school website.

A great rhombicosidodecahedron

What is it? It is a 62 faced 3D object. It is made up of 12 decagons, 20 hexagons and 30 squares. Step 1: look up what shapes and how many to use. Step 2: cut out and fold the shapes on a piece of card. Step 3: glue or staple together and it should make the shape. This took about 6 – 7 hours to cut it all out and about 3 – 4 hours to glue. So all up it took 9 - 13 hours.

STUDENT BANKING Tomorrow

Tuesday 13th August

Dates for the Diary: SCHOOL & COMMUNITY NEWS

Tuesday 13th August Primary Assembly 12:45 in the MPU Wednesday 7th August Infants Assembly 12:45pm in the COLA Friday 16th August District Athletics

Senior Excursion A note has been sent home with details of the Senior Excursion (2nd – 4th December 2019). Payment can be made in full or by

instalments, due dates below: Monday 5th August $70 (OVERDUE) Monday 2nd September $60 Monday 14th October $70 Monday 11th November $60 Thank you.

KINDERGARTEN 2020

We are now accepting names for Kindergarten 2020.

An “Expression of Interest to Enrol” form is available at the Front Office,

Little Wattle Pre-School & Child Care Centre and the West Wyalong Bland District Pre-school.

Thank you.

Meals on Wheels West Wyalong

Annual General Meeting To be held at the

Community Care Centre 72 Ungarie Road On Thursday 29th August 2019

Commencing at 2:00pm Followed by afternoon tea

RSVP by Friday 23 August Phone 6972 3444

The theme for Book Week this year is “Reading is my Secret Power”. Thank you everyone for supporting our Book Week costume parade and book fair last Tuesday. The student’s costumes looked fantastic! Our school book fair was successful and all book fair purchases earnt reward points for our school. These points will be used to purchase new books and resources for our school.

Student of the Week Madison Darrington, Jhye Fuller,

Joel Johnston, Shayden Neil, Chevy Steele

BOOK AWARDS Sophie Blackstock, Travis Brooks x 2,

Aleyah Catlin, Ned Crossman, Abbey Crowe, Riley Greenwood,

Connor Herrick, Chevy Steele.

INFANTS ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Maths Awards Lana Cain, Brax Matthews,

Sophie Seaman, Charlie Smith, Hazel Webster

Wednesday 7th August 2019

BLUE AWARDS Bianca Aheer, Suriyan Elimparithy,

Athena Halstead

Writing Award Abbey Crowe

SMILEY BADGE

Josie Biggam, Heath Bischoff, Travis Brooks, Aleyah Catlin, Charlotte Clay, Pippa Cooper,

Ned Crossman, Abbey Crowe, Madison Darrington, Phoenix Fuller, Darcy Jamieson,

Brumby Johnston, Nick Lord, Maicey Maitland, Cody Marinkovic, Hannah Milsom, Clive Moses,

Sarenah Murray, Olive Norton, Katie Reid, Charlie Smith, Noah Turner.

Reading Award Lana Cain, Pippa Cooper,

Maicey Maitland.

Literacy Award Grace Miller

Merit Awards

KW: Kane Fealy Kaden Golya 1 BLUE: Isabella Cox Joshua Whittaker

1 GREEN: JJ Pursehouse Leon Sayers Hunter Shaugh

2 PINK: Austen Fleming Nick Lord

2 RED: Broden Dolan Grace Miller

On the 2nd of August, the top ten spellers from both years 3/4 and 5/6 took part in our Spelling Bee, as part of our Premiers Spelling Bee. The Premier’s Spelling Bee was introduced in 2004 as a fun and educational way for primary school students to engage in spelling. Last year the bee tested a record 170,000 students. To create an even playing field, each school can enter two students in each division to compete in the regional finals. This year’s finalists from West Wyalong public school are:

Lucy Biggam and Caleb Boneham from year 3/4

Halle Donaldson and Olivia Downey from year 5/6

These students will continue on the Regional Finals at Griffith, it will take place across NSW Monday 2 to Friday 13 September 2019. If students are successful they will move on to the finals in Sydney! Congratulations to everyone who participated in our spelling bee and our finalists.

We celebrated NSW Public Education Week last week. Our leaders, Ben and Lana were presented Directors Awards on Monday by our Director Mrs Karen Burke. Mrs Charpentier and the clarinet played for this special ceremony. On Tuesday we had our whole school celebration, starting with a special assembly where we presented awards to dedicated school and community members to recognise the contribution and commitment they demonstrate towards our school community. Nicholas Seaman and Lilly Smith were our Year 6 recipients for their commitment and integrity toward school responsibilities and leadership roles. Our hard working P & C were recognised for the many hours of hard work they have contributed towards fundraising effort. Our dedicated scripture teachers were recognised for their commitment to religious education in our school. We thank all of these people for helping our school community.

WEST WYALONG PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION WEEK ASSEMBLY

Term 3 2019

Director Awards Awarded to:

• Nicholas Seaman For: Nick is a responsible and helpful House Captain and completes his roles and responsibilities with enthusiasm and integrity. He is always willing to assist others and demonstrates an honest and reliable attitude. Nick always strives to complete his work efficiently, displaying a positive and diligent work ethic. His is respectful to his peers, teachers and members of our school community. Nick always follows our school pledge ‘choose kind’ and is a positive role model to the younger students. Congratulations Nick!

• Lilly Smith For: Lilly is a positive leader of our school and constantly fulfils her roles and responsibilities as a Prefect with willingness and integrity. She is polite and respectful within the classroom and school environment, continually demonstrating a diligent attitude at school. Lilly always puts in a wonderful effort to classroom tasks and is a developing a growth mindset. She willingly assists her peers and is a wonderful role model for others in the school. Lilly is a deserving recipient of this award.

Library Awards Savannah Carter and Noah Turner

KW: Bianca Aheer and Kaden Golya 1Blue: Shayden Neil and Jasleen Kaur Rehal 1Green: Connor Herrick and Chevy Steele 2Pink: Joel Johnston and Hannah Milsom 2Red: Bridie Johnston and Charlie Smith 3-4Green: Billy Broad and Phoebe Larden 3-4Orange: Will Burge and Tayah Maitland 3-4Pink: Jemma Gillespie and Hayden Sayers 5Red: Kalan Miller and Keira Wright 5Yellow: Katie Kirkup and Lucy Whiley 6Blue: Preyha Allatt-Kani and Beau Dodds 6Orange: Mia Baker and Kayli Jones

Community Awards:

Awarded to: • West Wyalong Public School

P & C Committee: Holly Brooks, Leanne Cox, Deanne Blackstock, Belinda Miller and Anne-Maree Barrett.

For: The P & C is a vital part of our school community. Thank you for donating your time and talents to support our students.

• Special Religious Education Teachers: Cameron Webber, Glenys Haworth, Robyn Melmoth, Rosalie Kerr, Henry Halder and Susan Haines.

For: For the support and dedication shown to our students in the provision of Special Religious Education.