Forbes North Public School Newsletter May 21st, 2019 Week 4, Term 2

Phone: 6852 2187 Fax: 6852 1452 Email: forbesnth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.forbesnth-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

From the Principal…..

Planning is currently underway for our Education Week Showcase ‘Spectacular’ which will be held on Thursday the 8th of August at Forbes High School Hall. The format will be similar to our last such event in 2017, with performances from every class, our choirs and our dance troupes. We are also hoping to unearth some brave and talented individuals who are prepared to hold the spotlight on their own!

Keep an eye out for the promotional posters that will soon be on display. These will tell you how to access tickets for this popular event.

Have a great week! Steve McAlister Principal

JUNIOR SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS – TERM 1, 12TH APRIL

Kinder BOYS Harry Bilsborough, Zac Dunn, Cael Ryan

Kinder GIRLS Charlotte McClenahan, Freya Dumbrell, Mckinley Newell

Year 1 BOYS Hayden Dunn, Nate Markwort, Will Spence

Year 1 GIRLS Lexie Finn, Matilda McClenahan, Alani Brunt, Eleanor Osborne

Year 2 BOYS Rylah McLachlan, Ryley Curtis, Gabrielle Armstrong-Barnes

Year 2 GIRLS Katie Thomas, Sarah Hayward, Isabella Spice

FORBES NORTH PS ‐ Term 2 2019 Term 2

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

SAT/SUN

4

20 MAY 21 MAY PSSA RL Gala Day

P&C Meeting

22 MAY

23 MAY Musica Viva

Biggest Morning

Tea

24 MAY Class of the week

KW District Cross

Country

25/2

6 M

AY

5

27 MAY

28 MAY

LEEP/Maths Science

29 MAY 30 MAY

Spelling Bee

31 MAY Class of the week

4/5F 1 /

2 JU

N

6

3 JUN 4 JUN 5 JUN 6 JUN 7 JUN Class of the week

5/6M 8/9

JUN

E

7

10 JUN QUEENS

BIRTHDAY

11 JUN 12 JUN Area Cross Country

13 JUN Area Netball trials

14 JUN SCHOOL

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

15/1

6 JU

N

Biggest Morning Tea

THIS THURSDAY 23rd May, Week 4 we will be hosting The Biggest Morning Tea where the children will be joining up with their buddy class at recess time (11:20am) to enjoy an assortment of foods at the Junior end playground. Could your child please provide a plate of food along with a gold coin donation to raise money for the Cancer Council. Food containing nuts is not to be provided. All parents/carers are welcome.

Forbes North Public School Spelling Bee

Thursday 30th May at 10:30 in the Hall.

Year 3 to Year 6 students will participate in the FNPS Spelling Bee (those students who entered). The winners from each year will then attend the Premiers Spelling Bee held later in the year.

All are welcome.

HEALTHY HAROLD IS COMING TO FORBES NORTH

He will be here from Wednesday 19th June to Tuesday 25th June. We thank Northparkes Mine again for supporting the LEV visit to our school. For those who have not paid the VSC the cost to participate is $5.00 per student, payable to the school by no later than Friday June 7th. A note was sent home yesterday with a merchandise order form attached.

CHOOKS We are looking for donations of grain and hay for the chooks! If you can help out by donating please contact the school office.

P&C MOTHERS DAY STALL

Thank you to everyone who supported our Mother’s Day Stall. The students loved shopping for something special and we hope you all enjoyed your gifts! Extra thanks to Mrs O’Brien and Spencer & Hartwig for their kind donations. Also to Lin Samson, Karen Knight and Lucy Pearce for their assistance on the day. We raised a little over $1500 for our school! Kate Bilsborough

Kitchen News This week the 5/6 classes are bringing their detective skills into the kitchen and investigating how different ingredients can change the outcome of a recipe. One group has the control batch of cupcakes while the other four groups have to leave out a different ingredient – then they get to sample the results! As the lesson is linked to their science unit, Change Detectives, the students make predictions for each batch and then document the outcome. Thanks Mrs Gartner for putting it altogether!!

HEAD LICE ALERT – There have been a number of cases of head lice reported recently, please check your child’s hair regularly.

In some exciting news the people from Musica Viva have offered to perform a concert - The March of the Fire Ants - for the students of Forbes North PS this Thursday May 23rd. There will be NO COST for students to attend the performance, which will be held in the school hall at 9:30 am. The Musica Viva website describes this performance as:

"A fantastic musical world is brought to life by Australian composer Paul Kopetz. Students will discover music that depicts the inhabitants of the fire tree, including jet fighter lorikeets, swarming fire ants and machine-like cicadas, demonstrated by sounds of the cello, clarinet, voice and keyboard. Performed by ensemble Entourage, this engaging performance paints a vivid and immersive picture of the Australian backyard."

This is a great opportunity for our students and we look forward to the performance!

Families Week Movie Night

How lovely to see so many families come along to see Incredibles II on Friday night at Forbes North School Hall. Around 100 children and families attended and the Forbes Youth Action Team (FYAT) sold more popcorn than they have ever sold at a movie night. Thank you to Kate Bilsborough for organising and to the many helpers who stayed behind to help clean up. We hope to make our movie night an annual event.

Maree Yapp Forbes North P&C President

On Wednesday 15th May Junior school K-2 Students attended a free concert by the Gigalees to celebrate Families Week at the town hall. All students had a fabulous time and were very entertained by the funny duo- Wilma and Daisy. We were even lucky enough to have some of our students and even Mrs Welsh go up on stage.

Art club Last week we had our first lunch time art club on Wednesday, this will be a weekly lunch club where students in year 2-6 will be able to create art and craft to be displayed around the school. The students enjoyed making peg butterflies and bottle flowers last week. Please keep collecting bottle tops as we will be making murals and other crafts with these over Term 2 and 3. Thanks Mrs Obrien

Class Student of the Week PBL Award Merit Award

KK Joshua Wright James Barlow Bella Hoey Hudson Welsh

KW Xander Copus Ehren Miller Cooper Reid Cael Ryan

1C Harmonee Johnson Arabella Myers Harper O’Malley Eli Bilsborough

1O Isabel Pearce Lola Hughes Jaspa Buckmaster Logan Godden

2N Tyler O’Malley Braxton Johansson Gabriel Armstrong-Barnes Lillian Scott

2O Aubrey Loomes Braxton Hopkins Ryley Coles Sarah Hayward

3/4K Aidan Campbell Leonie Read Destiny Pout Max Ridge

3J Nevada Karaitiana Adam Cuskelly Jedd Smith Corby Fliedner

4/5F Jamal Gorman-Barnes Zac Gillman Noah Skinner Ali Hodge

4J Kailey West Drew Barter Aurora Farrelly Josiah Klingner

5/6M Grace Godden Tia Gorman-Barnes Eliza Riddle Kaydon Griffiths

5/6P Philip Klingner Milli Robson Charlotte Markwort Hayden Coleman

5/6Y Oliver Walker Reggie Sharkey Latrell Griffiths Ashton Johnson

Library

Tyler Gray

Kitchen Aurora Farrelly

General revision of PBL behaviour expectations.

On Wednesday, 22nd May students in KW and KK will be walking to Forbes Preschool to participate in Simultaneous Reading Day activities for the morning. We will be leaving school at 9.30am and returning at approximately 11.30am. Students will need to take their recess and hats with them. This excursion is covered by the general permission note signed at the beginning of the year.

Thank you, Mrs Welsh

PBL FOCUS – Accept consequences for your choices

Class lessons this week will focus on students accepting the consequences

for their own choices both in the playground and the classroom. Our new celebration has been added into our tally options as well this week. The latest celebration to be added is PJ onesie day. Keep up the great work

everyone.

What will the next celebration be? Tallies

Movies

Gel Pen Crazy Hair Day

PJ Onesie Day

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