Term 3 Week 10 Thursday 27th September 2018

Phone: 9652 1237 Fax: 9652 2538 School Security: 1300 880 021

www.glenorie-p.schools.nsw.gov.au Email: glenorie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Upcoming Events

Date Event 28 Sept Silver/ Gold assembly 28 Sept Last day term 3 15 Oct Students return term 4 22 Oct First kindy orientation (Mondays) 23 Oct 7:00pm P&C Meeting 25 Oct First kindy orientation (Thursdays) 26 Oct Fire Wise program K-2 & Yr 5

27-28 Oct Band Camp

Country Fair Success The Country Fair held last Sunday was a huge success. A wonderful day was had by all and the turnout was amazing. Thank you to the many students, parents, family members and friends for coming along and joining in the fun.

Thanks to your support, the P&C raised $44,000. Your contributions raised $7,800 – raffle; $7,221 - food stalls; $5,639 - chocolate wheel; $2,166 - plant stall; $1,620 - jar sales; $1,082 - cake stall and $850 - lock & key. All of the money will go directly towards improving opportunities for your children, including new playground slides, additional curriculum resources, more computers and possibly an extension to the COLA over the new sandpit. A very special thanks to all of the parents who worked tirelessly to organise the day. Even though the actual Fair only took six hours, many dozens of hours were spent organising the day. Thank you also to the staff who supported the day by running stalls and preparing the students for their dances. The biggest thank you must go to Mrs Dennise Williams. Mrs Williams coordinated the whole event and, I am sure you will agree, provided a wonderful day for many hundreds of people. On behalf of the entire Glenorie Public School community, thank you

very much Dennise Williams, Neisha Walmsley, Megan Piper, Libby Cuza, Kate Devaney, Kelly Kearns, Libby Powell, Catherine Militello, Jenny Smart and Madona Habkouk.

Another Great term We would like to congratulate all of our students for working hard throughout this term to achieve many of their personal, educational, social, sporting and cultural goals. All of the teachers truly appreciate the “self-drive” you have all developed throughout this term. Thanks, as always, to our parents for your ongoing support, at home and at school. We couldn’t do the focused job of teaching without your support. Thanks to the staff, teaching and support, for ensuring our core business ALWAYS revolves around teaching and learning. We have many reasons to feel proud. We look forward to achieving even greater things next term.

NAPLAN Results Our school’s NAPLAN Test results in Literacy and Numeracy are improving. Some of our Assessment results include:

53.16% of our Yr 3 & Yr 5 average NAPLAN Reading & Numeracy results were in the top two bands.

20% of our Yr 5 students performed in the top two bands in Writing, 6% above the state.

40% of our Yr 5 students performed in the top two bands in Reading, above the state.

46% of our Yr 5 students performed in the top two bands in Numeracy, which was 15% above the state.

53% of our Yr 3 students performed in the top two bands in Grammar & Punctuation.

63% of our Yr 3 students performed in the top two bands in Reading, 12% above the state.

Congratulations to all of our Yr 3 and Yr 5 students. Our NAPLAN Assessment results are outstanding. Thanks to our parents for being committed to supporting learning at home and a special thanks to all of our staff for consistently striving for excellence for all of our students.

Another great day for

Glenorie Public School!

The Partners in Learning parent feedback survey

Have you completed the survey yet? The parent survey will be conducted between 27 August and 26 October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary; however, your responses are very much appreciated. Please can you

complete the survey : https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/yytj6

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents

That’s not a pie…… This is a pie Rob Pirina from Glenorie Bakery has been baking up a storm in Glenorie over the last month with the creation of the "Invictus Pie" which will be a fundraising initiative in aid of the Invictus Games Sydney 2018 presented by Jaguar Land Rover. Glenorie Bakery is donating $5 from every Invictus Pie sold to raise funds to support the Games. Invictus Games has asked Glenorie Public School to be part of the celebrations on Wednesday 3rd October at the bakery. They would like us to represent our school by wearing our school uniform on the day. It will be a fantastic fundraising day for the Invictus Games with Jnr Bakers Academy, face painting and kids arts and crafts. I will see you there at 11:30am.

Enrolments Enrolments are now being processed for 2019. If you have children who are due to start Kinder in 2019, please enrol them before the end of this term as both classes are full. You will need to provide a Birth Certificate and Immunisation details. If you have new neighbours with school-aged children, please ask them to contact the school for an enrolment package. If you plan on moving out of the area at the end of this year (therefore resulting in your children not attending Glenorie PS in 2019), please inform the school in writing before the end of this term. Two families have already let me know. Thank you.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You! Thanks to the many parents who are constantly praising our school. Many of the enrolment enquiries that we receive are as a result of positive feedback from you. Thank you for constantly “singing the song of your school”!

Thanks to our Volunteers On behalf of the staff at school, I would like to offer sincere thanks to the many parents who offer their time and effort to make our school a wonderful learning environment for students. Your commitment to the students and school certainly allows us all to work, learn and play in a great environment… you are all truly appreciated!

Term 4 Starting Date… The starting date for term 4 is…

Monday 15th October.

We hope you all have a relaxing holiday.

School Planning…

As the year draws to an end, many students and parents will begin to think, “Who will be teaching the children next year?” As with previous years, draft plans will be developed, however, we will not inform you about teachers/classes until 2019; our decision is not based on a conspiracy-theory secret society…it is based on the fact that due to potential enrolments up to and during the holidays, any planned structure may change in the new school year anyway. Thanks for your understanding in this matter.

Gold, Silver & Ribbon Assembly This Friday, we are hosting our Gold & Silver Assembly. Parents and friends are invited to this assembly, as we acknowledge the achievements and efforts of our students.

Stewart House Clothing Appeal Every year Stewart House benefits financially from collections of clothing in schools. The Smith Family generously provides bags and undertakes the collection and pays Stewart House for each kilogram received. Today your child will bring home a Stewart House bag. Blankets, towels, clothing that you no longer require will be valued. Please place clean clothing in the bag and return to the office by 26th October.

Holiday Security As always we seek your support during the school holidays to ensure our school remains secure. If you see any suspicious person(s) in the school grounds, please contact our School Security Unit on 1300 880 021 or Hornsby Police on 9680 5399. Thanks for caring about your school. Please remind your children that our school is “off-

limits” during the holiday period. We will be

videoing all intruders.

Daylight saving time 2018 in New South Wales will begin at 2:00 am on Sunday 7 October

Become involved in your child’s education. Enjoy learning! Lyn Pearce Principal

Thank you to everyone who visited the

brigade stand at the fair last week. It is

always considered a privilege for the

brigade to support school activities. It was

a very busy weekend for our members. District courses for Bush Fire,

First Aid and Rural fire Driver involved several members while newer

members did vehicle familiarisation at station.

New Members Welcome We have welcomed several new members over the last few weeks. If you are interested in joining the brigade now is

the ideal time, so you can complete your initial training with a group of very enthusiastic, like-minded people.

FIREPROOF your PLAN

Don’t let the cooler, damp days this week lull you into thinking the fire danger is past. A couple of hot, windy days

and we will be right back up to SEVERE or beyond. So, we ask “How FIREPROOF is your PLAN?”

There are simple things you can do to protect yourself and your family this bush fire season.

Discuss with your family what you will do if a fire starts near you

Prepare your home and get it ready for bush fire

Know the bush fire alert levels

Keep key information like websites and emergency details handy. Download the Fires Near Me app. Go to

www.myfireplan.com.au for further information.

Brigade members will be on hand at the school assembly this Friday to answer questions and discuss your Bush Fire

Survival Plan with you. Please allow a couple of minutes to pick up a copy of the plan so making a fireproof plan

becomes a priority these holidays.

We wish you all a very happy, healthy and safe holiday. As always you are welcome to call the brigade community

engagement officer James Wicking 0422 168 914 or Elizabeth Whiteman 0416 201 196 should you need assistance

with your plan. You can also call the station 9652 2017 (leave a message someone will get back to you) or visit the

Glenorie Station Monday evening from 8pm or Saturday afternoon from 2pm.

P & C News

What an AMAZING day!

On behalf of the P & C, I would like to THANK all the

families that came along in the beautiful sunshine to

support our school at the 2018 Country Fair. It was truly

a wonderful community day.

Our Country Fair preparations started in March 2018, when I called the first meeting. The following

generous, excited, amazing and talented ladies came forward:

Neisha Walmsley

Madona Habkouk

Megan Piper

Kate Devaney

Kelly Kearns

Libby Cuza

Libby Powell

Catherine Militello

Jennifer Smart

Together we started

researching and developing

plans to make the 2018

Country Fair a memorable

day. On behalf of the whole

school I thank you for

your commitment and

contribution to the day. We

all worked extremely hard to

make the day successful so

we should all be proud. It

was an absolute privilege to

be working with you;

nothing was ever a big ask

and I thank you from the

bottom of my heart for

working with me to create

such a wonderful day.

You are all truly remarkable ladies - can’t wait to celebrate with you all.

The Country Fair consisted of two parts, Business Sponsorship Program and the Actual Country Fair Day.

The business sponsorship program generated $14,200 and the Fair day generated $29,800. The overall

success amounted to $44,000.

While we started the day $8,000 less in sponsorship money compared to the 2016 fair we managed to

achieve a result that exceeded the 2016 result which was absolutely amazing and the organising committee

is blown away by this result.

Here in the Glenorie Community we have a lot to be grateful for…….

To the parents and students of Glenorie Public School, we

thank you for your help on the day, from the parents that took

on the Class Coordinator position and ensured all class stalls

had enough volunteers to help on the day, to the parents that

helped ALL day long in the food stalls and other stalls. Overall

most families did their bit to make the day a success.

This photo is

missing

Jenny Smart

as she was

too busy

counting all

the

money……

We are lucky at Glenorie Public School to have a dedicated

school Principal and teaching and support staff that were

excited to be part of the day and come along and help on the

day and also assist during term 3 with all of the Country Fair

activity. A lot of other schools don’t receive this support but

we did and we are so grateful.

Thank you to our Business Sponsors –

Diamond, Platinum, Gold, Silver and

Bronze – you will find a full list in the

Glenorie Public School newsletter – please

support these business when you are

considering any of their services in the

future.

Thank you to all the businesses that donated to our school, from the local Glenorie and surrounding areas,

to the businesses further away, giving vouchers and other items to use on the Chocolate Wheel and Major

Raffle.

A special thank you to David Camilleri for

running the Chocolate Wheel stall – 104

spins were spun, he spent all day being

MC of the Chocolate Wheel, generating

$5,639 for the school.

A special mention of gratitude to all the

generous families in our school community

who made and donated all the food and

fresh produce to our Lebanese Kebab &

BBQ stall. A HUGE thank you to all the

people who were by Madona’s side all day

cooking and wrapping the delicious kebabs! Such a huge success with 100% of profits going straight back

to the school.

A BIG thank you to the Kearns family and the wonderful

team at Camelot Amusements for providing a wonderful

playground on the fair day.

Thank you to all the performance groups for providing

wonderful entertainment throughout the day also.

Thank you to Gary Pearce for spending Friday collecting

all the plant donations and running the plant stall on

Sunday.

Special mention to the Year 5 and 6 students who ran their

businesses at the country fair and helped during their

allocated time slot - it was a successful project where the

children had the opportunity to write a business plan and

execute their business venture on the fair day. In term 4 we will be discussing the results with them. Well

Done!

Thank you to Ulla and Bjorn Art & Photography Studio for capturing the day for us through photos.

You can view the gallery of photos at www.gallery.ubartshack.com.au/view-your-pictures/80214

using the password GPSF18.

Mrs Harmon will be creating a video of the day also in term 4 so we look forward to seeing that too when it

is ready.

OVERALL a massive thank you to EVERYONE that helped in some way, big or small - it was much

appreciated. Many hands truly make lighter work.

At our P & C meeting in October we will discuss the financial details in more detail.

Congratulations to the following winners:

Major Raffle

1st Prize – Apple Watches – Taryn Marchant

2nd

Prize - $500 Art Voucher and Candle Pack and Voucher – Marie Elder

3rd

Prize – Tailor Suit – Lara Williams

4th

Prize – Café Sasanqua Voucher, Plants and Drayton Wine – Sarah Proudford

5th

Prize – BBQ – Verity Nicolcon

6th

Prize – $275 Art Voucher – Johansen family

7th

Prize – Massage – Zubrycki family

8th

Prize – Huffy Buggy – Jett Cuza

Selling Raffle Tickets Competition

Week 1: Gillies family

Week 2: Ashton Fisher

Week 3: Trey O’Connor

Week 4: Blake Williams

Students that sold the most books – 17 in total: Lara and Blake Williams

Lego Competition

K-2 – 1st Place – Daniel Eldridge, 2

nd Place Noah Giusa

3-6 – 1st Place – Cameryn Gillies, 2

nd Place Dylan James

People’s Choice Award – Sophie Gillies

Art Competition

Kindy Girl – Cora Hoogesteger

Kindy Boy – Caylan Young

Year 1–2 Girl – Sonya Saliba

Year 1–2 Boy – Drayton Carruthers

Year 3-6 Girl – Jaime Saliba

Year 3–6 Boy – Blake Williams

Highly Commended – Eloise Kearns, Georgia

Awakian, Matthew O’Kane, Toby Anderson,

Lachlan Powell, Sienna Cooper-Durant

Many thanks to our Art Judges – Sharon and Ulla

Kiss A Pig/Cow Competition

Mr Gornalle came in first with $77.25 – but all teachers gave the cow a kiss – so thanks to Mrs Pearce,

Mr Ure, Mrs Harmon and Mrs Perry.

100 Club – Mark Powell #79 the winning Box

Lock N Key – Ridley family

Lolly Jar Competition – Jar 1 – Keira Norbury,

Jar 2 – Freya Norbury

Jar Game $50 Jar – Bradley Dalton

Many thanks for your support and excitement for the day.

Dennise Williams

P & C President

CATCH A GOLD FISH GAME JARS

If you were a lucky winner of a GOLD Fish and no longer need the jar, can you please return it – with lid –

to the school office so it can be used next time!

OOSH News Important changes to fee collections: All families have been notified of the changes to our fee collection.

ALL forms need to be returned to the OOSH by Wednesday 26th

September.

Vacation Care Program has been published also – please complete the enrolment form so we can cater for

your children during the holidays.

Please contact the OOSH on 9652 0074 if you have any questions in relation to the OOSH program and

availabilities for your children to attend.

Canteen Recess and Lunch orders MUST be ordered via Flexischools, by cut off time

Monday 9:30am and Friday by 9 am

Friday 28th September CO-ORDINATOR AM Kate Devaney

CO-ORDINATOR PM Kate Devaney

930am-1030am Renee Portelli

930am-12pm Ramza Saliba

12-2pm Cher Campbell

12-2pm Taryn

12-2pm Emma Morgan

A big thank you to Kate and Kelly for their commitment to canteen – New rosters for term 4 are being

drafted, if anyone is able to help on a Monday or Friday that will be much appreciated.

Uniform Shop The uniform shop will continue to open Monday 9am to 10am BUT uniforms will only be delivered to

your child’s class on a Thursday if ordered via Flexischools.

The uniform shop ONLY operates Monday 9am to 10am.

Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program School banking day will continue every WEDNESDAY morning. We encourage children

to visit the school banking window before 9:25am to ensure you are not late for class.

Once you have 10 TOKENS you can trade them for an amazing prize.

Family Portraits Please keep in Mind: Family Portraits are available at UB Art Shack where 10% of your session booking

fee will be donated back to Glenorie Public School. More details contact the office.

Thank You!

Term 3 has been a very busy term for the P & C –We thank

you for all your support.

Enjoy your well-deserved school holiday and see you for

term 4….

glenoriepandc@gmail.com

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