large tree branch that fell onto the back fence on Tuesday, when Jason Thomas asked if he could help…

By lunch-time the job was done, the area raked clean and the low branches were removed from the oak, everything was loaded onto the truck and re-moved Jason even tidied up the sand-pit for the littlies!… no fuss, no problems. Thanks Jason, we very much appreciate your help and hard work.

Attention Year 5 Parents Parents wishing to apply on behalf of their child for year 7 in 2013 Selective Schools placement test may apply online from October 24th, 2011 when most students are in Year 5. The online application process can be found at www.xsel.schools.nsw.edu.au

From October 25 printed application forms will be available in the school for parents without internet access. I have received the paper applications, please phone, or send a message if you would like to receive a printed copy of the ap-plication form. If using the paper appli-cation, when completed it must be re-turned to the student’s current primary school by November 2011.

Parents and teachers may read more about the placement test process on the selective Schools website, or through xsel website. As ever, the xsel office is happy to receive enquiries, too.

It’s week 3 already! We’ve had a busy and productive term so far already. I very much enjoyed the Stage 3 excursion to Broken Bay for a couple of days. I was lapping up the positive com-ments from the Broken Bay staff about your wonderful children, whose beautiful behaviour, positive attitude and friendly, kind manners make them memorable visitors to the camp. The Broken Bay staff were very impressed by the Millthorpe group, once again. Then I had two days watching Charlotte and Chloe compete at the State PSSA competi-tion, at the Olympic Sports centre, at Homebush. Both girls won through to the semi-finals, and then to the finals in the 200m - 12 yrs (Chloe) and the 100m - 9 yrs (Charlotte) Chloe jumped a personal best in the High jump, and also ran in the semi-finals of the 100m - 12 years event. It was fantastic, and the girls were excel-lent ambassadors for the school. Back at school we have welcomed 35 new kindergarten enrolments to their first orientation session, and hosted a visit from the Blayney High school Staff to inform our year 6 stu-dents about their orientation session to high School.

Thanks to Jason Thomas I was in a little bit of a pickle, trying to organise someone to remove the

Principal’s News

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26th October , 2011

Term 4 Week 3

MILLTHORPE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

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MILLTHORPE PUBLIC SCHOOL

Please call 02 6841 3861 during school hours.

Abbey Barrett - artist visit Last Friday, before camp, the senior 5/6 class were treated to a visit from Abbey Barrett, a print-maker from Sunny Corner. The class produced some great mono-prints, which will be on display at the Heritage Country Schools Art Show, to be held on the 14th November, in the new Blayney Public School Hall. Keep the afternoon free for the open-ing, and come over to see the art, and also check out the Blayney Public School hall, which is similar to the hall we are hav-ing constructed. Our hall will start construction soon!

KLA Day - 2011 2nd November Each year, the Heritage Country Schools group gather all the chil-dren together in celebration of a different Key Learning Area (KLA) This year marks the HSIE (Human Society and Its Environment) celebration. We will be hosting all students in Early Stage 1 (Kindergarten) and Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) here at Millt-horpe. Stage 2 (years 3 and 4) will all be together at Blayney Public School, while Stage 3 stu-dents (years 5 and 6) will gather at Blayney High School.

At Millthorpe, we will be investi-gating a variety of countries from around the world. At Blayney Public, students will be focussing on Australian studies, while the High School students will be en-joying some historical aspects of

HSIE. KLA day is next Wednes-day, 2nd November. The cost for each student is $2, which covers special equipment costs, for ex-ample, the “passports” needed for Kindergarten and stage 1, bus transport for stages 2 and 3, and performances for stage 2 and 3. The costs are being heav-ily subsided, to keep costs down for you. Students in stage 2 are asked to dress in a colonial theme. Please return the en-closed permission note and $2 per student to Millthorpe school office before next Wednesday 2nd Nov. KLA day is always fun, it allows our students to meet and mingle with their counter-parts from *Blayney *Carcoar *Errowanbang *Lyndhurst *Mandurama *Neville and *Trunkey.

No Printing We continue to accept “no Printing” forms, which is continu-ing to save us time, paper, and printing costs. Thank-you to those who have returned the forms. To find the newsletter, go to the school website, www.millthorpe-p.schools@nsw.edu.au look for the tab newsletters 2011, and there you have it! We have opted for the website option, as maintaining accurate e-mail mailing lists is time consuming and fraught with possible prob-lems. Please contact us if you have any comments about the website. You may need to download adobe PDF to view the newsletter on the website.

Kindergarten Orientation

Our first session for the new Kin-dergarten students was held on Tuesday 25th. Congratulations to the year 4 and 5 buddies, who did such a great job wel-coming the new kindies, that everyone went off into their orientation with lots of nerves and excitement, but no tears or fears. Well done buddies! Same time next week.

Kind Regards

Jo Jackett

Go Chloe! The start of the 100m.

Charlotte in her “Western” Colours

P&C President’s Report

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Term 4 Week 3

Hi all,

Hope you all had a well earned holiday. We had a fantastic trip to Central Austra-lia. If you are a family of campers I highly recommend it. Back to an event that happened in Term 3 ‘Special Food Day’. Thanks Terri and Johanna for putting your hand up to run the day. From all accounts it was very popular and the ladies were ran off their feet. The kids certainly enjoyed the Italian feast that was pre-pared. As you all know Term 4 is always a very busy term for staff and P&C. Though last week was fairly quiet in many Millthorpe homes with Stages 2 and 3 on their excursions. I know my girls had a fabulous time, experiencing activities like grass skiing, ropes courses and raft building. Thanks teachers for organising these grand adventures and bringing our kids home safe and sound and exhausted. Away, but not on excursions were our super athletes Charlotte Stewart and Chloe Richards. Both girls should be congratulated for their tremendous efforts at the state athletics carnival. Speaking of athletes, I would also like to acknowledge and thank Mr Tom Mason for the efforts he put into preparing our children for the regionally athletics carnival in Term 3. Tom offered training to all the children participating at a regional level and did so in his own time. We are truly lucky to have teachers like Tom Mason at MPS. Thanks Tom!! A big thank you must go to the Millthorpe Bowling Club for their generous donation of $1500 towards resources for our new library, it is very much appreciated. This has been a big term so far for the Markets Committee, I know the ladies, have sent many an email, made many a phone call and filled out many forms so that the markets can happen in a safe way. Market Committee you know who you are and you gals are doing an amazing job. Also thanks to Steve Harris for filling in for me while I was away I know how much you all enjoy reading his reports. Don’t forget next meeting is Thursday 27th October in the new library at 6:30pm. Have a great week.

Kate

Burrendong photos

next week! Broken Bay 11

JESSE RYAN & “HEART KIDS” Mufti & Cup Cake Day 

Jesse Ryan who is a student in Year 3 at our school was born with a heart condition, called Taussing‐bing Cardiac Anomaly (transportation of the great arteries, ventricular septal defect). 

Jesse has asked the SRC to hold a Cupcake / Mufti day this Friday 28th October  at school.                                                                            So, on Friday wear your casual clothes and make a gold coin dona‐tion and buy a cupcake for 50c at recess to help support “Heart Kids”.                                                                                         “Heart Kids” signature colours are blue and red, so try and wear something in those colours, and all money raised Jesse will donate to “Heart Kids” Australia.Allergy children will also be catered for and we ask any parent who could possibly help on the Friday morning, between 9am – 11am ice cup cakes please let the girls know in the office, as any help would be greatly appreciated.                       Thanks for your support. 

Mon Tues Wed Thu Fri

WEEK 3 24

Millthorpe Cup

Starts

25

Kinder Orientation

Starts 9.30 - 10.30

26 27 28

Heart for Kids        

Mufti Day 

Boys Cricket, Bathurst 

Week 4 31

Kinder Swim

1

Melbourne Cup Day 

Kinder O 9.30-10.30am

2

KLA Day

3 4

PRIMARY

ASSEMBLY

Week 5 7

Kinder Swim

8

Kinder Orientation

9.00-10.30am

9

CSIRO Show

10 11

Book Club

Issue 7

Due Thursday

27th October

2011

(Due to excursions etc)

Well done Tate!

Tate was awarded a trophy for most improved for the Blayney Table Tennis

round robin held earlier this year, his handicap decreased by 5 pts over 10

weeks! He officially received his certificate of achievement for successfully

completing the Bronze Award by the Table Tennis Australia Skills Award

Scheme, he is now working towards his silver. Well done and congratula-

tions Tate on a achieving great things!

If anyone is interested Blayney Table Tennis Club meets at Blayney Sport

and Leisure Centre 6 - 8.30pm Thursday evenings.

For all enquiries Matthew Crane - matthew.crane@activ8.net.au

U10s and Milo In2Cricket Start

This Thursday! Where: Redmond Oval

When: Thursday 27th October

Milo Cricket starts at 3:30, finishes at 4:30

Players / Parents can meet Mr T under COLA once

school is finished, we will walk to the oval and get started!

Milo Cricket will be each Thursday, weather permitting.

U10s play in Millthorpe this week and the match will

start at 5:00.

For more information contact:

Milo Cricket - Mr T at school or ph: 6366 3683

U10s - Mr Coyte 6366 3435

Carcoar Cup

The Carcoar Cup running festival will be held on the

5th & 6th November 2011 and will be an important

community event for the whole region.

There will be the main Marathon to Neville and back

(42kms)

Half marathon (21kms)

Team marathons

Carcoar to Cooming Creek

Carcoar Cup for kids

Mile Long Club( 26 runners from Uralba)

Contact: 0263673290

Email: Andrew@carcoarcup.com.au

Web: www.carcoarcup.com.au

Infants Assembly 21-10-11

KH Bren Millgate, Noah Yates, Thomas Dixon, Jessica Harris, Finn McDonell, Amy Copelin

KORG Chaase Cowan, Noah Ellem, Octavia Robinson, Scarlett Mason, Samuel Gifford

1/2OB Bradley Denzel, Max Andree-Evarts, Kenyan Watson, Ella Truloff, Fergus Connick,

Loretta Francis, Caitlyn Jones

1/2T Gloria Brun, Kate Cornally, Kaitkyn Black, Blaise Brown, Nick Harris, Campbell Roweth,

Ginger Wolters-Wood

1/2K Max Truloff, Lilly Bingham, Liam Francis, Brock Morris, Ayla Bird, gaige Jenner,

Izac Cowan, Charlotte Cantrill

Award of Merit

Charlotte Coulton, Fergus Connick x 2

Green Banner

Mia Davis

KORG

Millthorpe Public School Park St, Millthorpe 2798

Phone: 02 63663104 Fax: 02 63663230 E-mail: millthorpe-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

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NEWSAGENCY & STORE Phone : 63663253

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Speak Consultancy

New Private Speech Pathology Practice Danielle Leahey & Fiona Thorburn

Orange & Surrounding Areas

Currently no waiting list Ph: 02 53106178 0487677083 (Danielle) or 0402570276( Fiona)

Email: Speakconsultancy@gmail.com

For Sale

Hand raised cockatiels , just weaned

$50 each

Please call Heike on

63663340

Donations                                         

If anyone would like to collect “ring 

pulls” off any drink cans, Raelene 

McNamara (Mrs Mac) is collecting them 

for a good cause. For every 20 kilos of 

ring pulls a company will donate a 

wheelchair to someone in need. The ring 

pulls can be dropped into the 

office. Thank you 

The Orange PCYC will be conducting a Disco at the Orange PCYC on the 28th of October.

The Junior Disco (kindergarten to year 6) commences at 6pm and concludes at 7.30pm.

The Senior Disco (year 7 to year 12) commences at 8pm and concludes at 10pm.The Cost is $5.

The disco is fully supervised by Police and adult volunteers.