Narrandera Public School Informer

Excellence, Opportunity, Success

Relieving Principal: Mr Derek Noffke

We learn and meet on Wiradjuri Country

Phone: (02) 6959 2144

Fax: (02) 6959 3274

Term 2, Week 10 Tuesday, June 23, 2015.

From the Principal . . . . . . . . . . School Gates Last Wednesday we sent a note home detailing the reasons why we are required to lock the side school gates. So for security reasons, the side gates will be locked from 9:30am and will be re-opened at 3:00pm. The main front gate will remain open all day, so please enter through Adams Street during these hours. If you have any concerns regarding this issue, please contact the school. Parent-teacher interviews We will be holding our parent/teacher interviews in Week 2, beginning Monday 20

th July 2015. Student reports will

be handed out during this time, so please take the time to attend these interviews. Mrs Cassidy’s interviews will be held during Week 4 as she will be on Long Service Leave. Teachers will send information home in the very near future regarding this. If you have any concerns or questions please do not hesitate to contact the school. NAIDOC Week NAIDOC Week is held in the first full week of July. It is a time to celebrate Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements and is an opportunity to recognise the contributions that Indigenous Australians make to our country and our society. We encourage all Australians to participate in the celebrations and activities that take place across the nation during NAIDOC Week. As this celebration is during our school holidays, we will be holding our NAIDOC activity day on Wednesday 15

th

July 2015. Details will follow soon.

LNPSSA Yesterday we had approximately 50 students attend the LNPSSA Athletics Carnival at Leeton High School. There were many fine results across our team, with a range of achievements and personal bests. Once the official results are obtained, we will publish them in an upcoming newsletter. I have been told that all students were very

well behaved and competed to the best of their abilities. Congratulations to all our students on their results. Kindergarten Enrolments We are now taking enrolments for our Kindergarten class for 2016. Please come and get an enrolment form from the office. Also, if you know anyone with Kindergarten aged children, please encourage them to consider our school. Transition dates and times have been released. If you are unsure, please call the school office. Education Week Education Week this year will be held in Term 3, starting Monday 27

th July through to Friday 31

st July. KROP will

be held during this week on Thursday 30th July and

Friday 31st July at the Griffith Regional Theatre. Many

other events will be held at the school during this week. Please read the newsletter each week for details. Feel welcome to attend the activities planned. Finally, I would like to wish all of our school community a restful holiday. Term 3 will commence on Tuesday 14

th

July. Have a great week. Derek Noffke Principal

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LEETON SCHOOL DENTAL CLINIC The School Dental Clinic is available for all children aged from 0 – 18 years of

age. We encourage all parents to make an appointment for your child to have a

full dental check. Treatment at our clinic is FREE to all children who have a

Medicare card. To make an appointment please telephone our call centre on

1800 450 046 We hope to see you soon!!! Sue & Cleo.

Our School has students who are highly allergic to

NUTS and NUT PRODUCTS We seek your co-operation in trying to keep our school

NUT FREE

Cooking Group This term in cooking with Mrs Seymour we have made scrambled eggs on toast, chicken vegetable soup, spaghetti, honey joys, chocolate muffins, iced orange muffins and chocolate crackles. Yesterday we cooked fried rice. My favourite was spaghetti bolognaise. Mr Noffke’s favourite was chicken vegetable soup. Mr Noffke said ‘It was fantastic!!!!!!!’

Mason/Mrs Seymour

Calendar of Events

Date Event/s

June 26 Assembly – 10.30am Last Day of Term 2

TERM 3

July 13 Staff Development Day

July 14 School commences for Term 3 for students

July 15 NAIDOC Activity Day

July 22 & 23 Transition commences – 12.30pm to 2.30pm

July 27 – 31 Education Week

July 30 – 31 KROP (Kids Rapt on Performing)

August 12 School Photos

COMMUNITY EVENTS: Wagga Autism Support Group – Autism Conference & Expo

2015 – August 4 & 5, 2015 at RSL Club, Wagga Wagga.

Speakers include Paula Tazzyman – Dietician, Jeremy Samson

– Personal Trainer, Time2Train Asperger’s, Jodi Rodgers –

Personal Development, Georgina Ahrens – OT – Kids World

Paediatric Therapy and Jose Webber – OT – Kickstarting Kids.

For more information: info@waggaautismgroup..org.au

www.waggaautismgroup.org.au.

This newsletter is produced with the support of the following local businesses:

Rel. Principal: Derek Noffke Assistant Principal: Karla Jamieson Rel. Assistant Principal: Jeremy Campbell Phone: 02 69592144 Fax: 02 69593274 Email Address: narrandera-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au School Website:

www.narrandera-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/sws/view/home.node

Canteen: 02 69591141 Dental Clinic: 1800 450 046 Narrandera Schools as Community Centre: 6959 3894/0410284145

SCHOOL DANCE

Thursday, June 25

P & C selling Lucky Dips for $1

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Millie & Olivier hosted the Assembly on

Friday.

Merit Award Recipients – Congratulations all.

Stars of the Fortnight – Ella Richens, Huntah

Brooker, Taj Nielsen, and Dakoda Sumpter.

Well done Stars.

Cooking & Science with 6C & 6H

Some students in 6H and 6C have been involved in cooking

activities with Mrs Seymour. They have been shopping to buy

ingredients. They have been to the vegie garden to pick

vegetables and herbs. Then, they have taken over the staffroom

to cook! And can they cook! Over the last few weeks they have

made scrambled eggs, spaghetti bolognese (with lots of vegies)

and fried rice. They have certainly enjoyed the cooking but

they’ve enjoyed the eating even more…… so have some very lucky

staff members who were given a taste.

Students have also been involved in cooking and selling foods for

lunch and recess on Tuesdays, to help raise funds to assist with

the Year five and six excursion to Canberra in Term 3.

6H students had a science homework task where they had to go

on to a YouTube site called “Sick Science” and choose an

experiment to demonstrate to the rest of the class. Some of

these experiments were a great success. Some needed

adjustments. Some just failed. All were a learning experience

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enjoyed by the students and staff. Noah Watson’s

experiment was particularly impressive. It demonstrated

changes from liquid to ‘solid’ states and chemical reactions.

Zara Hand’s experiment showed the effects of detergent on

fats by using fullcream milk, food dyes and detergent. We

also discovered that skim milk doesn’t contain much fat

(should it have any?) Ella and Riley’s experiment proved that

air exerts pressure and they invented a new sprinkler but it

is a little labour intensive. Bradley changed his first choice of

experiment when he realised he may have to take out a bank

loan to cover costs. Research can be very expensive. In the

absence of iron filings, Brad used shavings from key cutting

for his magnetism experiment and discovered that most keys

are alloys. Emma safely proved that fire eats oxygen and

creates a vacuum.

Mrs Hugo – 6H Classroom Teacher.

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NARRANDERA PUBLIC SCHOOL

TRANSITION TO KINDERGARTEN

PROGRAM WHEN - Wednesday and Thursday

afternoons from 12.30pm until 2.30pm. The

program begins on Wednesday 22nd July

2015 (Term 3, Week 2). During Term 4 the

program will run on Tuesday, Wednesday and

Thursdays. WHERE - Narrandera Public School.

WHO - All children beginning Kindergarten in

2016 are invited to attend.

TRANSPORT - A bus will be provided.

Enrolment packages are available at Narrandera Public

School. For all enquiries contact the school on

69592144.

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Future Leaders Program @ Borambola

We arrived at 2pm on Sunday the 14th June and had a little introduction about Borambola and the fire exits. We all

went there to learn about being a better leader, communication, teamwork and thinking outside the box.

The thing I liked the most was the rock climbing, free time and the food. We had to build ideas for our School Action

Plan which is Buddy Reading. We will be getting the class teachers reading data and then make a roster for classes we

will read with, it will take place in term 3.

Our activity for thinking outside the box was to design something to keep a budgie cool in Summer using the items

supplied. This was fun.

As well as doing all this we managed to see 3 possums and a fox at night.

On Tuesday before we came home we presented our power point presentation with our big idea. We received a

certificate and a badge that says “Future Leader”

Noah Bolton and Shauna McHale O’Keeffe