Tea Gardens Public School Witt Street, Tea Gardens, 2324

20/5/2013 Week 4 Term 2

NEWSLETTER

UPCOMING EVENTS TERM 2 WEEK 4

Tue 21/5 ICAS—Computer Skills Test Tue 21/5 Boys Soccer (10.30am) Girls (11.30am) Vs Bulahdelah At Tea Gardens Oval Tue 21/5 P & C Meeting (7pm School Library) Thu 23/5 Newcastle Knights Knockout Comp Thu 23/5 ―Bag It‖ presentation (Yr 3 to Yr 6) Fri 24/5 Walk Safely to School Day Fri 24/5 Assembly (Keys)

TERM 2 WEEK 5 Wed 28/5 to Thu 30/5 Stage 3 Excursion (Bathurst) Fri 31/5 Premiers Debating Challenge @ Laurieton

Coming Up NSWPSSA Soccer against Bulahdelah- Tuesday We look forward to seeing how our boys and girls soccer / football teams perform tomorrow against Bulahdelah Cen-tral School. The boys match commences at 10.30am and this will be followed by the girls game at 11.30am. Thanks to Mark Woolard and Mrs True for training the teams. Go Tea Gardens! P&C Meeting- Tuesday 7pm The May P&C General Meeting is on tomorrow night com-mencing at 7pm in the school library. Please come along and be active in supporting and promoting our great school. Newcastle Knights Rugby League Knockout Students in the Newcastle Knights Rugby League Knockout were provided with permission notes last Friday. This Thursday 23

rd May, the Open Primary B division team will

travel down to Harker Oval in New Lambton to play the fol-lowing schools: 9.40am v St Patricks Cessnock 10.40am v Morpeth Public School 11.20am v Rathmines Public School 12.00pm v Hamilton North Public School 1.20pm v St Josephs Charlestown Best of luck to all participating students! Bag It- Thursday 23 May from 1.55pm Tim Silverwood, Vice-President and Co-Founder of http://www.take3.org.au/ will present a talk about our growing independence on plastics for students in Years 3-6. Tim will then host a FREE Bag It movie screening at Tea

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Student of the Week Congratulations to Rogue Bowman from the Longitudes class for being selected as this week’s Student of the Week. Rogue receives this award for his work as Minister for Special Events and for assisting with the recent Stew-art House Day. Congratulations, Rogue on being named this week’s student of the week.

Bouquets

Congratulations to the NSWPSSA Boys Rugby League team who played extremely well against Tuncurry Public School on Friday. The Tea Gardens boys played with great passion and pride being de-feated 11 tries to 2. Bailey B scored both of Tea Gar-dens tries running from deep in our own half to score on both occasions. Many thanks are extended to Col McCarthy and Dave Coyle for assisting with training the team.

Gardens Baptist Church from 6pm on Thursday 23rd May for interested parents, students and community members.

To reserve a place call 6591 7301 or email

isabelle.strachan@greatlakes.nsw.gov.au Walk Safely to School Day – Friday 24 May See the attached flyer for further information. Weekly Assembly The Keys class will be hosting our assembly this Fri-day 24 May. All parents are most welcome to attend. Local Schools, Local Decisions Reform Local Schools, Local Decisions is a reform that gives

NSW public schools more authority to make local de-

cisions about how best to meet the needs of their stu-

dents.

A fact sheet which provides a brief overview of the five reform areas and lists the key achievements for each area to date is available to download from: http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/news/announcements/yr2013/lsld_reform_overview.pdf Mark Clemson Principal

Safe People, Safe Places With term two now underway, please take this oppor-tunity to discuss ‘Safe People, Safe Places’ messages with your children, including;

Make sure your parents or another adult you know knows where you are at all times.

Always walk straight home or to the place you are walking to. Use paths where there are lots of other people.

Know where safe places are – a shop, service sta-tion, police station, library or school. If you are ever frightened, you should go to one of these places and ask them to call the police.

Learn about safe adults you can look for and talk to if you need help – police officers, teachers at school, adults you know and trust.

Don’t talk to people you don’t know and never get into a car with someone you don’t know. If a car stops on the side of the road and you don’t know the person inside, do not stop.

If you are scared and can use a phone, call 000 and tell them you are scared.- If someone tries to grab you, yell out, ‘Go away, I don’t know you’. This lets other people know you have been approached by someone you don’t know.

Junior Golf—Term 2 Junior Golf will be commencing next Monday 27 and Tues 28 May at 4pm at Hawks Nest Golf Couse. Stu-dents may go on both or either days. Fees are $30 or $55 per family.

Stage 3 Excursion to Bathurst

The Stage 3 excursion is fast approaching (next

week). Please finalise payments this week.

Voluntary School Contributions

Thank you to the parents that have paid the school

voluntary school contribution for their children. This

contribution is greatly appreciated and helps buy re-

sources for our students. The fee is set by the P & C

and is $50 per family. Invoices will be sent home this

week.

Updating Student Emergency Contacts

A detailed “Emergency Contract Detail Report” will

also be sent home this week with each family. Please

update any changes in phone numbers/names/

Doctors/ and any additional details that are not com-

pleted on this report. It is important that we are able

to contact you and your designated emergency con-

tacts should we need to at any time. Thank you.

Woolworths Earn and Learn 2013 The managers of the Woolworth stores in Raymond Terrace have agreed to place the supplied school logos above drop boxes at each store. If you are shopping in store don’t forget to ask for the Earn and Learn stickers and place in the drop box or return to the box in our school foyer.

Uniform Shop Open Mondays 2.30pm—3.00pm

Wednesdays 8.15am—8.45am

Fridays 8.15am– 8.45am

Girls Summer Dress Uniforms—made to order

Blue Polo Shirts $24 (Long Sleeve $26)

Yellow Polo Shirts $24 (Long Sleeve $26)

Navy Culottes $23

Navy Ponte Pants $20

Navy Zip Jumper $25

Maroon Shorts $12

Grey Shorts $15

Grey Long Pants $18

Bucket Hats $12

STUDENT BANKING DAY IS TUESDAY 2013 Rewards

Term 1 and Term 2 Handball Wallet Knuckle Bones

CANTEEN NEWS—TERM 2 WEEK 3

TUESDAY 21/5 (Jen Ewen) Snack Attack

WEDNESDAY 22/5 (Christine Wisemantel, Jayne Leslie) Quiche & Salad $5.00 Served with a drink

THURSDAY 23/5 (Bill/Colleen Ewen) Snack Attack

FRIDAY 24/5 (Christine Wisemantel), Jude Woodfield, Kelly Pietsch) Hamburger Or Cheeseburger Served with a drink $5.00

MONDAY 27/5 (Jen Ewen) BLT Or Bacon & BBQ Sauce Roll Served with a drink $5.00 LUNCH ORDERS Other items also available each canteen day are: Cheese, Vegemite or jam sandwich with a drink for $3.00 Drinks include: Apple, Apple/Blackcurrant, Orange Bottled Water Milk: Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana NB: Please state your choice for lunches on your brown paper bag along with child’s name and class and money inside bag

Congratulations to the following students who received a merit award on Friday 17 May 2013 They were: ANGLES Samantha Way Working well in reading Zarlii Ray Working well in reading DIAMONDS Darcy Ingram Being a wonderful class captain Jacob Avery Being a helpful, co-operative class member KEYS Adam Lu Reading his sight words correctly Ellie Watson Being a responsible and reliable class member MERCURY Jemima Ryder Diligent effect in her extra activities in Literacy Alanah Hinitt Great work in mathematics STATISTICS Ethan Pinch Trying hard in spelling Kasey Biffin Being a valued class member RADIANS Harry Clemson Being helpful in class Georgia Stevenson Being a fantastic member of our class TANGENTS Ethan Stevenson Excellent work in visual arts Cooper O’Bryan Consistent effort LATITUDES Lucas Barry Working well in class Ben Woolard Very good work in mathematics LONGITUDES Nicholas Baker Being an enthusiastic student Charlotte Collins Working well on reading activities

Junior Golf

Commences next

Monday 27 & Tuesday 28

May 4pm