Week 6 Term 3 2017

**THIS WEEK!**

Tuesday 22nd August

School Sport

Little Wattle Visit

Wednesday 23rd August

Bookfair & Book Parade 9.30am

Family Referral Service Here

Meals on Wheels

Community Radio 12pm

Thursday 24th August

Middle School

Friday 25th August

Assembly 9.10am

Aspirations Newcastle

University visit

**COMING SOON**

Week 8

SCHOOL PHOTOS

WEST WYALONG SHOW

Opportunities are created here everyday!

Don’t forget to come along and help us celebrate Book Week on Wednesday by watching our book parade and browsing through the book fair in the library.

The Parade begins at 9.30am, it would be great if you could join us!

The Tell Them From Me survey link is now available for parents to access via Facebook or the skoolbag app. The survey is a great way for parents to give us anonymous feedback . This feedback is

“Resourceful, Resilient & Future Focused”

Wyalong Public School

Contact:

Principal: Meg Staples

George Bland Avenue

Wyalong NSW 2671

Phone: 0269 722 140

Email:wyalong.p-school@det.nsw.edu.au

Congratulations to Ryder, Tristan & Tayah.

Students of the week!

I would like to extend an invitation to anyone wanting to join our

school planning team.

It will involve meeting on occasion to discuss the future planning of

our school, and to set future directions that are not only staff driv-

en but community driven also.

Parents please have your say!

Interested parents or community members please

contact the school 69722140

WOW, what a way to celebrate book week!

A HUGE THANK YOU to Jack and Grace Curry who have donated a signed copy

of the 91-Story Tree House to our School Library.

Pictured is Jack meeting Andy Griffiths (author) and Terry Denton (illustrator) holding a

copy of their book. Jack is also holding a copy of the book he wrote and had published

last year!

Assembly

Students

that have

sparkled this

week!

Merit Awards:

Grace Clements for improvement in vocab.

Kylan Imrie for using great maths skills.

Colby West for her consistent positive attitude during Friday rotations.

Vince Dionela for always doing his best in all areas.

Lily Judd for producing a well structured, visually appealing Nepal

poster.

Bianca Dionela for great descriptive writing.

Students of the Week:

Ryder Pettit

Tristan Davis

Tayah Worner

Congratulations to the

4,5,6 class, they are

looking after Geraldine this

week!! Gerald is away

pursuing his acting career!

Sports Awards:

Grace Curry

Jay Thacker

Karl Orallo

Silver Pennant

Silver Pennant Awards:

Hunter Rennie

Logan Johnson

Lani Stanton

Parent Information

Kindergarten Orientation 2017

Kinder Orientation program will be run in

Term 4.

Dates are:

Friday 20th October (1/2 day)

Friday 27th October (1/2 day)

Friday 3rd November (1/2 day)

Friday 10th November (1/2 day)

Friday 17th November (whole day)

Friday 24th November (whole day)

Friday 1st December (whole day)

Please contact the School for more information.

Taking

Enrolments

For 2018

Wyalong Public School

Concert

“Somewhere Over

the Rainbow”

Friday 15th September

2017

Tune in each Wednesday from 12pm

to hear our students.

Tuesday 5th September

P&C Meeting

Tuesday 29th August 2017

@ 5.30pm

AGENDA

Market

Bird feeders

Front Garden

Raffle

Show

Excursion

School planning

Phone 1300 307 897

Carolyn will be visiting Wyalong Public School on Wednesday

23rd August 2017

Year 5

Envirochamps

Birds of the Bland

We need your help!!

Envirochamps are after some coffee mugs,

cups, saucers, teapots, wooden spoons

and saucepans to assist with their project

this term.

If any donations of these items could be

dropped off to the office, it would be

greatly appreciated. Thank You

Start collecting

You can drop

stickers off to the

front office.

Thanks

When should I send my child to school?

REMINDER:

West Wyalong Show and Half

Day Show Holiday

Wednesday

6th September 2017

Wyalong Book Week

Celebrations

Wednesday 23rd August 2017

Parade starts 9.30 am This year at Toppy we are celebrating book week by

“escape to everywhere.”

Books take us to places we know and those we don’t.

Places that are magical and make believe.

Choose a character from a book and dress up and take

part in the celebration.

When you dress up be prepared

to tell the name of your book

and your character.

If you choose to speak and not

dress up, you should include in

your speech:-

Name of book, author and

illustrator.

What you like about the

book.

Where the book escapes

you to.

The Book Fair will

start after the

parade.

See scholastic

information about

payment.

Wish lists will be

completed on

Monday 21st

August at school.

For each year there are

three prizes:-

Best dressed

character.

Runner up Best

dressed

Character Speaking

Award.

SCIENCE WEEK ACTIVITIES

Community Information

WEST WYALONG - UPCOMING

Please call West Wyalong TAFE for more information on 69790 800

COURSE DATE TIME COST

FOOD SAFETY SUPERVISION 24th Aug & 9.30am -4.30pm via connected classroom $265

31st Aug 9.30am - 12.30pm via connected classroom

CHEMICAL APPLICATION 31st August 2 day course At West Wyalong TAFE $350

1st Sept 8.30am-4.30pm

CHEMICAL REFRESHER 1st Sept 8.30am-4.30pm at West Wyalong TAFE $240

RSA 8th Sept 9.30am at West Wyalong TAFE $195

connected classroom - finish at 4.00pm

RCG 15th Sept 9.30am at West Wyalong TAFE $140

connected classroom - finish at 4.00pm

FIRST AID 20th October 9.00am at West Wyalong TAFE for $170

practical exam - Theory completed online.

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WEEKLY QUIZZLES

ANSWER TO LAST WEEKS:

1. 1. Black-eyed Susan. 2. Harmony. 3. Your pants are on back to front. 4.Extraordinary performance.

5. You can’t have it both ways. 6. I’m between jobs. 7. Cross country. 8. Once in a while.

9. Better safe than sorry.

2. 1. More to it than meets the eye. 2. The start of something big. 3. Free-for-all. 4. See you in the

morning. 5. A big fuss over nothing. 6. Gross injustice. 7.J-walking. 8. A bad spell of weather.

9. Last but not least.

At Wyalong Public School we believe your child is

SOMEBODY!

As a small school, we cater to each child’s individual strengths

by delivering personalised learning and preparing students to be

resourceful, resilient and future focused . Our Teachers recognise that it is their high expectations

and quality teaching that influence the best student outcomes.

Your child’s educational experience is our core business; we strive to offer students at our school a quality educational experience and opportunities for learning that only a small school can offer.

Miss Meg Staples

Principal

Mrs Regina Ray

School Administration Manager

Mrs Lynne Helyar

(Monday)

Mrs Melissa Blackwood

Teacher K/1

Miss Rebecca Lamb

Teacher 2/3/4

Mrs Melissa Stanton

School Learning Support Officer

Mrs Lacey Petitt

Teacher 4/5/6

Miss Kheely Turner

School Learning Support Officer

Mrs Amanda Cooper

Learning &

Support Teacher;

& Teacher of

Music and Band

Mrs Michelle Nunn

Instructional Leader

Mrs Susan Low

Librarian

Mrs Lyn Anderson

School Administration Officer

Mr Pat Mason

Teacher

Physical Education

Miss Fiona Dunstan

Teacher of Dance