Principal Report Welcome back It is always lovely to return after the holiday break to see the students and families refreshed and smiling. Term four is known for its eventful reputation and it certainly will be a busy term with some staff movements as Mrs Johansen goes on leave, kinder and year 6 into 7 transitions, swim school, presentation night, reports and just daily business. As you will see by the term calendar, each week has exciting things happening. The calendar will be updated each newsletter. Absentee Last week we sent home a form that contained dates of unexplained student absences. Please complete, sign and return these so we can update our roll system. Daily Fitness In term 1 and 4 fitness always occurs first up in the morning session due to the warmer weather later in the day. This is the only timetable change for term 4. Miss Carr Teaching Principal

Disco Last week’s disco was a great success. Thank you to the Deepwater students and families who helped support this community event for kids. Thank you to Mrs Cuninghame for her assistance with the event. It was also fantastic to see so many students and families from Emmaville and surrounding areas. Next year

Emmaville CS will be hosting the next disco. Grandparents Day Celebrations – breakfast & assembly This year we are tweaking our Grandparents Day celebrations a little. We will be starting the day with a breakfast for all guests so it is important that you RSVP ASAP. Following the breakfast we will have our last assembly for the year, then conclude with some past and present games for all. Grandparents day is always open to other family members as well. UNE Voyager Bus The UNE voyager bus will be visiting the school on Friday the 1st November. Students will be involved in four science sessions that are relevant to the units taught this year.

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Newsletter No. 16 Term 4 Week 2 Wednesday 23rd October 2019

Swim School Swim school will be occurring in weeks 8 & 9 at Emmaville. More information will be sent home at a later date. Kindergarten Orientation Children turning 5 or 6 years are invited to attend kindergarten orientation this term. If you have a child ready to start school, please contact the school to arrange orientation. End of Raffle - P&C donations This year the P&C will be raffling off a beautiful handmade quilt and a mixed hamper. All families are encouraged to bring in an item to be added to the hamper. Community members and organisations are welcome to donate items as well. Please present all items to the front office during office days/hours. Student raffle ticket booklets will go home in coming weeks. New addition to school As you drive past you may notice our scarecrow. We have built a scarecrow for our kitchen garden. Traditionally scarecrows have been used to scare off uninvited visitors to gardens. Students also created their own miniature scarecrow to take home for their own gardens. A big thank you to Mr Farr who supplied all the sticks, clothes and items required to make them.

Term four planner Schools are always busy places so please be mindful that things are subject to change due to

circumstances out of our control – thank you for your patience. Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 2

21 Oct 22 23 Kinder Orientation 9-11am

24 Wellbeing Day Tenterfield Yr 5/6 Library Day Lunch orders due to mailbox

25 Scripture

Week 3

28 Oct 29 30 Kinder Orientation 9-11am

31 Emmaville Central School Yr 6 to Yr 7 transition day School Counsellor Visit Library Day Lunch orders due to mailbox

1 Nov UNE Voyager Bus Visit Grandparents’ Day guests RSVP Book club orders due back

Week 4

4 Nov 5 Grandparents day breakfast 8am Assembly

6 Kinder Orientation 9-11am

7 Library Day Lunch orders due to mailbox

8 Scripture

Week 5

11 Nov 12 13 Kinder Orientation 9 am -1 pm

14 Emmaville Central School Yr 6 to Yr 7 transition day Library Day Lunch orders due to mailbox

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Week 6

18 Nov 19 20 Kinder Orientation 9 am -1 pm

21 School Counsellor Visit Library Day Lunch orders due to mailbox

2 Scripture

Week 7

25 Nov 26 27 Kinder Orientation 9 am -1 pm

28 Presentation Night

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Week 8

2 Dec Swim School Rotary Club Citizenship awards night

3 Swim School

4 Swim School

5 Swim School

6 Swim School

Week 9

9 Dec Swim School

10 Swim School

11 Swim School

12 Swim School

13 Swim School

Week 10

16 Dec 17 18 Last Day for students

19 Staff Development Day

20 Staff Development Day

Each student receives a new toothbrush and toothpaste each term. Thank you Tamworth Oral

Health Centre for supplying these.

Junior cricket will be recommencing at Shirley Park in Tenterfield on Friday 25 October 2019. This season junior cricket will cater for all ages and hard ball cricketers will have the opportunity to play on the turf pitch under lights. There's music and a canteen operating. Registrations on offer include:

• Junior Blasters (for 5-11 year olds) – which builds the skills of younger cricketers with fun, game based activities but also caters to older children who would like to hone their skills and play a short form of the game. Each participant receives an awesome kit including a bat, ball, shirt and hat! Held at the Shirley Park main oval from 5pm-7pm.

• Junior Registration

o Level 1 – young cricketers who are transitioning from soft ball Blaster Cricket – shorter pitch, smaller boundaries & modified ball. Held from 5pm-7pm on the synthetic turf pitch.

o Level 2 – hard ball cricket using 142g leather ball on a full sized pitch – held under lights on the main oval turf pitch from 7pm. (Moved from the proposed Saturday morning timeslot). Tenterfield Junior Cricket recently purchased hard ball cricket equipment which players are welcome to use. Players currently registered to play in Stanthorpe on Saturday are welcome to join in the fun.

Registration is $100 (which is effectively covered by the 2nd 2019 Active Kids Voucher). Register at www.playcricket.com.au – search for Tenterfield and register in Blasters or Junior cricket.

Any parents or High School students who would be interested in being involved in facilitating Junior Blaster cricket, please contact Anne Palfreyman on 0498 175 275 or to assist with Level 1 or 2 Junior cricket please contact Leeza Wishart on 0457 246 064. Queries should also be directed to the same contacts.

BE ALLERGY AWARE Please minimise packing foods containing any

peanuts/nuts this includes peanut butter and nutella sandwiches due to the risk of students

suffering a severe allergic reaction.

Brimmed Hats Our school sun safe policy is, “No hat… play in the shade!”

Little reminder

Could all students please remember to bring their water bottles each day.

With the last two days having power outages - the bubblers do not work.

SAVE THE DATE

Deepwater Public School and

Deepwater P&C Association invites

Community residents and friends to attend the Annual Presentation of Awards Night

to be held on Thursday 28th November 2019

5.30pm for a 6.00pm start at the Deepwater Public Hall.