trangie central school newsletter 20th november 2014 term ... · module c – people and politics...

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SCHOOL INFORMATION

Address: Derribong Street (PO Box 6) Trangie 2823

Phone: 6888 7578

Fax: 6888 7602 Email: trangie-c.school@ det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.trangie-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Anne Holden

Access Coordinator: Troy Jones

Head Teachers: Debbie Waters Ted Wright (Rlvg)

Assistant Principals: Jacky Murtagh Alissa Miller (Rlvg) Welfare Coordinator: Cheryl Rowley

School Admin Manager: Jaye Milgate

Parents & Citizens ASSOCIATION

President: Melinda Gleeson

Vice President: Kirsty Cook

Secretary: Sally-Jane St Clair

Treasurer: Amanda Kater

TrangieCentralSchoolNewsletter

20thNovember2014Term4‐Week7

P & C Meeting Tuesday

9th December 2014 4.00pm

Common Room

What’s On Week 7 21/11 Opals Assembly in the Kinder Room - 12.30pm

23/11-30/11 2014 Schools Spectacular in Sydney - Depart Trangie 7.35am

Week 8 25/11 2015 Kinder Orientation 9.00am - 11.45am

Week 11 16/12 MADD CHRISTMAS

Week 10 12/12 PRESENTATION DAY in the MPSC - 11.30am


FROM THE PRINCIPAL Hi everyone. The term is going well and still more to come! CSU Regional Development Program TCS would like to extend a big thankyou to Charles Sturt University for their generous donation as part of their regional Development program. These funds enabled our school to purchase data loggers so that we can run our science classes more effectively with the latest technologies. We now have a State of the Art Science Lab with State of the Art equipment! Tell Them From Me Student Survey Before the end of term we will be giving all students from Year 4 to Year 12 the opportunity to give their opinion about our school. They will participate in an on-line survey that is a tool for evaluating our school’s impact on student engagement, school climate and classroom effectiveness. The students’ voice is a vital component of our evaluation of our school. It is essential that we know how the students feel about their school. In this way we can ensure that our planning takes into account their ideas about how we can improve our beautiful school even further.

We will be sending out a letter shortly explaining the project. Parent and Community Survey During the next week or so you will be receiving a call from Mrs Mel Gleeson, our Community Liaison Officer asking for your opinion on our school. She will be asking questions about what we do well and what you think we could do better. Please take the time to take her call and give her your honest opinions. We are not afraid of hearing your comments, even if they are not positive, as we truly want to make our school the best it can be for our students. We are totally committed to improving our school and we need your help to do that. Quality Literacy at TCS TCS continues to run quality literacy and numeracy programs. Our programs are explicit and systematic. Every child’s progress is monitored and their needs catered for on an individual basis. Our outstanding results speak for themselves:

Early Action for Success – K-2 with L3 Reading to Learn Years 3-6 Corrective Reading in small groups MULTILIT – Individual intervention

If you would like more information do not hesitate to call in. I am always proud to show people our great school. Finally ........ As always, my door is open. Do not hesitate to come in and see me if you have a concern. No problem is too hard to solve if we work together. All the best

Anne Holden

We strive to ENGAGE!


SECONDARY Head Teachers

Debbie Waters

Ted Wright (Relieving)

Head Teachers’ Report Winners of the $100 Club The winners of the $100 Club are as follows: 1st Ms Waters (donated her winnings back to Daniel Flannery) 2nd Ms Cutcliffe 3rd Mrs Browning

Thank you to all who bought tickets and supported Daniel in his endeavour to go to Sydney for debating. Senior Science Students in this subject have been engaged in their first HSC topic, Lifestyle Chemistry, this term. They are learning about and examining how cosmetics affect the skin. They are also investigating the effects of drugs on the digestive system. Below are Bianca Littler and Kaeleb Appleyard enjoying the practical aspects of the course. Senior English

Students in Advanced and Standard English are well and truly in the midst of their Area of Study topic – Discovery. Each class is analysing a text that contains this concept and relating it to other texts.

Both classes have their major assessments coming up: Advanced – Portfolio Week 10 Standard – Speech Week 9 The Advanced text is Swallow the Air and Standard is Rainbow’s End.

Have a great weekend!

REMINDER

Year 6 > 7 Transition Excursion “Great Aussie Bush Camp”

1st-4th December 2014 Payments are now OVER DUE.

Please forward any remaining payments and necessary forms to school as soon as possible.


Student Smile (Week 6)

Demi Dunn was our smile student of the week and

received chocolates.

Student Smile (Week 7)

Karly Edwards was our smile student of the week and received chocolates.

SECONDARY Head Teachers

Debbie Waters

Ted Wright (Relieving)

English Extended Response On the subject of English, a Year 9 student composed the following in his Yearly English extended response section of the examination. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. The response section asked the students to write a letter to Walt Disney proposing a new children’s film. In their letter they were to outline the role of the villain as that has been the focus of our topic this term, Vile Villains. 10th November 2014 Dear Mr Disney, I am writing you this letter because I have a brilliant idea for a movie!! Now let me tell you about it. The movie’s name is ‘All but Evil’. The movie is about a mad English teacher who has a fetish for watches. She will do anything to get herself a new watch. She also loves to torture her students with her terrible jokes and awful French. She really does have a passion for giving her students a hard time and robbing jewellery stores for those expensive watches she longs for. This evil English teacher thought herself to be unstoppable. She even called herself ‘The Time Catcher’. All of a sudden out of nowhere a brave man stepped up to her. This brave man even worked in the same school as her. After this courageous Math teacher finally caught on that she was The Time Catcher, he swore to steal all her watches and keep them for himself. He called himself The Bald Bandit. He is an evil genius and loves to scheme. Some will say he is a menace. These two villains clashed both taking hostages. They were too dumb to realise that both only cared about the very expensive watches. Then out of nowhere a brave intelligent student came along and started using the wrong grammar while trying to figure out the circumference with Pythagoras’ Theorem. Both villains crumbled to their knees because they could not stand it. The brave student knew that and he led them straight into the trap and locked them up for good. Everyone threw the brave student a party. Yours Sincerely Reed Heterick P.S. The characters in this story need to remain nameless due to the real life people they are based on.


Access Coordinator

Troy Jones ACCESS NEWS TERM FOUR - Week 7

General Business YEAR 11 Access Camp 2015 Preliminary students for 2015 will be required to attend Access Camp at Lake Burrendong in Week 5, Term One 2015. This is a great opportunity for students to meet socially with other students in the program and to meet their teachers face to face. Students will be participating in Sport and Recreational activities alongside educational activities organized by their teachers.

Sport and Recreation has now gone to online processing of student information. Parents will need to go online to enter their student’s information directly into the Western Access Program Booking. A letter will be sent

closer to the date with the booking details and link that parents will need to follow. If you have problems with this you will be able to come into school to get assistance.

YEAR 10 into YEAR 11 Orientation for WAP Year 10 students will be getting a taste of the Western Access Program via Video Conferencing (known as VC). Students will be meeting with myself, learning the basic VC procedures and protocol. Students will also be partnered up with our HSC students for some peer support.

What’s Due in Week 8? Industrial Technology Folio Feel free to visit the Western Access Program website for more information about the program and polices and procedures. http://westernaccess.nsw.edu.au/

http://www.facebook.com/WesternAccessProgram.

Troy Jones Access Coordinator

HSC Advanced English Deb Waters Trangie English (Advanced) is designed for students to undertake the challenge of higher-order thinking to enhance their personal, social and vocational lives. These students apply critical and creative skills in their composition of and response to texts in order to develop their academic achievement through understanding the nature and function of complex texts. The pattern of study for the 2014-15 HSC English (Advanced) course is as follows: Area of Study - Discovery: Swallow the Air by Tara June Winch Module A – Inter textual Connections: Richard III (Shakespeare) and Looking for Richard (film) Module B – Critical Study of Texts: Speeches Module C – People and Politics – W. H. Auden poetry


PRIMARY Assistant Principals

Jacky Murtagh

Alissa Miller (Relieving)

Assistant Principals’ Report

School Leaders Election Day On Tuesday, students from Year 5 presented their electoral speeches inviting and enticing voters to give their vote to them. The students who bravely nominated themselves included: Anna Anderson, Sophia Hayden, Cameron Cook, Chloe Peters, Daizie Dolphin-Smith, Emily Purseglove, Andreas Gordon and Claudia St-Clair.

Everyone was impressed with the level of responsibility, maturity and sincerity expressed in the student’s speeches. Some teachers even had a tear in their eye! Such moving words, from the mouths of babes reinforced the quality and integrity of our students here at T.C.S.

Congratulations to all students involved, we are all so proud of you. You all did an impressive job and it was extremely difficult for all voters to make a decision.

The new leaders for 2015 will be announced at our major Presentation Day which will be held on Friday 12th of December.

School Supplies 2015 Families, we ask that you start thinking about school supplies for 2015. From next year, students from Years 3-6 will be required to supply their own pencils, pens, rulers, pencil case etc. We suggest that this could be an ideal Christmas gift or stocking filler for your child/ren. School Swimming Scheme Just a reminder to families that we will be conducting the School Swimming Program for K-6 running from the 1st – 11th of December. Students will be required to pay entry into the pool if they do not have a season pass. Working Bee Families are welcomed and encouraged to attend an upcoming working bee for the primary playground. We will need assistance with planting and also shoveling mulch at the base of our tunnel. Stay tuned for confirmation of dates!

Packing Healthy Lunchboxes Lunch and snacks are a great opportunity to offer a range of foods from each of the food groups. Here are some tips to help pack a healthy lunchbox. Include foods from a variety of food groups by including: protein, whole grain breads, fruit and vegetables,

reduced fat milk and milk alternatives Include a drink: preferably water and/or plain milk Involve children in packing their lunchbox: involve your child in choosing what they would like to eat at

school by providing them with options from each food group Ask your children to bring home uneaten foods and talk about what they enjoyed or didn’t enjoy. Continue to

offer less popular foods from time to time and try to present them in a different way Ask if enough food was packed or too much. Often too much food is packed in school lunches and that is why

food is left uneaten Presentation is important: make school food appealing Keep food in the lunchbox cold (with a freezer brick or frozen bottle of water) to keep it appealing and prevent

the growth of bacteria


PRIMARY Assistant Principals

Jacky Murtagh

Alissa Miller (Relieving)

2/3 Diamonds Commemorate Remembrance Day2/3 Diamonds Commemorate Remembrance Day2/3 Diamonds Commemorate Remembrance Day On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Year 2/3 Diamonds students stood silently and thought about all of the brave men and women who have died in wars. We discussed how we would feel if we were involved in a war. Most children said terrified, scared and sad. The following are some excellent writing samples that demonstrate what the children have learned about Remembrance Day.

Dear Nanny, Today is Remembrance Day. Today we are going to remember the people who died in the war. We’re having a minute of silence. We’re going to commemorate the soldiers who died. They sacrificed themselves for the land and to keep the nation safe. When you were born were there any wars? From your beautiful granddaughter, Katelyn xoxox

Dear Pop, Today is Remembrance Day in Australia where we stand straight and bow our heads. We stand still for one minute silence. We did this because the people in World War saved Australia. They sacrificed themselves. This was the 11th hour, 11th day and the 11th month. All of Primary school came and even high school. Everyone sat down and waited. Then the flag came up. We stood still and remembered them and then we went back to class. Do you know anyone in the war? From Sofie xoxxo

Dear Remy, Today at school we had one minute silence at 11am. The day falls on the 11th of November. On the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month that is when we have a minutes silence in Australia and other allied countries such as New Zealand and Canada and the United States. Do you know anyone who went to war? From Mia xoxox

Dear Pop, Today we are doing a minute of silence to remember soldiers who died in the Wars and sacrificed themselves in warfare in Australia and New Zealand and Canada and the United States. What would you do if you were in the war pop? Would you be an aircraft flyer or a sniper, tank driver or just be a normal runner with a gun and ammo? I’m going to be an aircraft flyer if I want to be in a war. From Coby xoxo

A big thank you to all of the family and friends who visited our class last week, to celebrate Grandparent’s Day. The children were very excited to show you all a little bit of the work they have been doing and they also liked creating some special gifts for you all. It is truly wonderful to see how lucky our students are – having lots of love and support from extended family!

2/3 Diamonds Reminder – MADD night is happening on the last week of term. The theme this year is Carols by Candlelight. 2/3 Diamonds will be singing and will all need to wear a red top and either a denim skirt, short or jeans (blue please).


SPORTS


MUSIC EVENTS Last Thursday was the WAP school’s music day AGAIN!!! at Yeoval Central School. Not only did we bring our usual troops, but this time round, we had two singers – Sophia Hayden, Olivia Hilder and two Glockenspiel players – Kai Greenwood and Emily Purseglove. The strings were with Mr Lee and band with Mr Screen, our bandmaster as usual. The rock group guitars were guided by Mr Gerry Capell from Trundle Central School and the beginner guitar group went under the wings of Ms Johnson from Yeoval Central School.

Special thanks to Jack James our reliable bus driver and Ms Murtagh for coming along.

Well done to all, and hopefully it’ll be the same again next year. If you want to read more about the music day, please refer to Matilda Brennan’s article for a comprehensive report! And see below for some wonderful photos. House keeping matters: The end of the year is approaching fast. Some of the students have had a taster of a particular instrument for the year. Now is a good time to have a talk to your child about whether they want to keep going with the current instrument or swap to something different, but related, or totally different. Please keep in mind that: “The first three years is the hardest when you learn an instrument. During this period, often progress can be either slow or non-existent.”

Martin Lee


MUSIC EVENTS

Matilda’s Poem Guitars a- strumming

Wind instruments a- blowing Strings a- plucking Rockers a – rocking Teachers a- teaching

New friends’ a-making At the end of the day the combined orchestra showcased the amazing talents of both teachers and students who had

practised patiently for the perfect performance. The audience wanted more. Thank you Mr Lee for making this special day happen for the children at TCS.

YEOVAL MUSIC DAY BY MATILDA BRENNAN - YR 2

*It was a picturesque drive from Dubbo past the zoo, paddock sculptures, reedy creeks and lots of farm houses and interesting buildings. *We had a warm welcome at Yeoval especially as the air con in the library wasn’t working but thankfully a cool breeze persisted!! *Soon the notes of ‘g’ and ‘c’ sounds growled and flowed, filling the air with sound. *All the children were watching, listening, enjoying and making music together. *I think the children were very caring, cooperative, capable, concentrating and charming!

STUDENT VOICE Members

Cheyanne, Tegan, Sophia, Kamaliyah, Matilda, Annalee, Xanthe, Kai,

Mathematics

In Maths we have been learning about area and we have been busy on how much of area a shape takes up. We have been learning that the difference between the perimeter, which is a measurement of the boundary of the edge of a shape and the area. This has been a fun process and we have had lots of hands on maths objects. Area is a really fun subject. Also in maths we have been learning about converting fractions to decimals. At first we didn’t really know what to do. After a while you got the hang of it. Now we can all do it quite fast and some can do it in their heads. Miss Miller has taught us an easier way of converting fractions to decimals.

By Xanthe St Clair and Kai Greenwood


Foster Carers Make a Difference

Life Without Barriers is seeking compassionate and motivated people who are capable of providing care and support to children and young people. Carers can be male or female, single, married,

defacto, same sex or a family; Carers may come from Aboriginal and multicultural

backgrounds; Carers will receive support, training and financial

reimbursement. If you are interested in joining our caring team and enhancing a young person’s quality of life, please contact Shayne on: Ph. (02) 6809 9500 Mob. 0407 062 020

Email. [email protected] or www.lwb.org.au

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