GOOLGOWI PUBLIC SCHOOL

TO THE STARS NEWSLETTER TERM 1, WEEK 5 Principal: Mrs Anne-Maree Young Penney Street, Goolgowi, NSW, 2652 T 02 6965 1207 F 02 6965 1309 E goolgowi-p.admin@det.nsw.edu.au

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Calendar *Please note dates from week to week as there are occasionally some changes.

Term 1, 2019

Week 5 Tues 26 February Tom Curtain - Speak

Up event for students Wed 27 February Tom Curtain Concert -

6.00pm Goolgowi Recreation Ground

Thurs 28 February Zone Swimming Carnival

Friday 1 March Swimming for Sport

Week 6 Tuesday 5 March Tuesday 5 March

Parent Information Session 6pm P&C Meeting 7pm

Friday 8 March Gymnastics Clinic Seniors’ Week

Assembly

Week 7 Monday 11 March Young Leaders Sydney Wednesday 11 March

Riverina Swimming Carnival

Friday 15 March Gymnastics Clinic

Week 8 Tues. 19 March Mobile Library 2:00pm Wed. 20 March Rugby Union Gala Day Thurs. 21 March Harmony Day Friday 22 March Gymnastics Clinic

Notes coming home this week

Canteen Roster

Canteen

Wed. 27 February - Kylie McKenzie Wed. 6 March - Allana Shaw & Mary-Ellen Armanini Wed. 13 March - Janaya Clark/Billy-Jo Clark Wed. 20 March - Wendy Clark & Jeni Robertson Wed 27 March - Gillian Star & Christie Bavistock Wed 3 April Penny Headrick & Sharon Domjahn Wed 10 April - Janaya Clark & Allana Shaw

Principal’s Message

Cooperation - Respect – Responsibility

Zone Swimming Carnival

Best of luck to the students who qualified at the Small Schools carnival for the Zone swimming carnival at Griffith on Thursday 28 February. From all accounts, students swam their best and can be proud of their efforts. Thank you to Miss Sim, Mrs Liddicoat and Miss Gordon for their organization and assistance at the carnival.

Tom Curtain Speak up against Bullying

On Tuesday 26 February as part of his Speak Up tour, Tom Curtain will visit the school to speak to the students about bullying and its effects. Goolgowi will be joined by Carrathool and Rankins Springs’ students. They are busy learning the words of his song ‘Speak Up’. It was inspired by a drawing by Dolly that included the words “Speak even if your voice shakes”.

Whole School Parent Information Session

The staff will be presenting a parent information session on Tuesday 5 March at 6pm where the school’s expectations and class routines will be outlined. Each teacher will give a brief outline of the expectations in their classroom and I will present the school’s Wellbeing policy. This is a chance for parents and carers to ask questions and become more informed about the school. The session will be followed by the P&C meeting.

Thank You

Thank you to Allana, Mitch, Jewel and Austin Shaw who helped remove 3 trailer loads of rocks on Sunday and for a lend of their tipping trailer which made the job of unloading so much easier. Their assistance was greatly appreciated.

Schools Plus

Through the Schools Plus website, the school continues to raise money for our Robotics

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and Coding program and this year, we are raising funds to purchase 10 iPads, a fileserver to manage them and a subscription to ZuluDesk to download apps. I understand that the drought has had a huge impact on the community but if you have friends, family, clients or businesses who would like to donate to our worthy cause, please ask them to go to the following website: https://www.schoolsplus.org.au/robotics-coding-goolgowi-ps/ . It is great to see the improvement in student engagement as part of this program.

Anne-Maree Young Principal

in the classrooms?

K/1/2 News

I’ll eat you up! I love you so!

The wild things in K/1/2 have been exploring ‘Where The Wild Things Are’. They have taken their wild rumpus into the playground to swing from the equipment and develop their gross motor skills with an obstacle course.

They have measured their height using string and paddle pop sticks. We have a range of 9-12 paddle pop sticks tall. Miss Sim is 9 whiteboards tall.

Miss Sim

3/4 News

This week students will continue writing their own imaginative stories and will begin to edit their stories. We are writing our whole class story using features of Roald Dahl from his texts ‘James and the Giant Peach’ and ‘The BFG’. Small group reading sessions will begin this week. Students will be developing explicit reading and comprehension skills while reading.

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During maths activities students will be comparing the size of numbers and continue looking at the value of each digit in numbers up to 4-digits. We will be focusing on multiples of 4 this week during our maths games. In geometry, 3/4 will revise the 2D shapes and their properties.

Miss Gordon/Mrs Young

5/6 News

I am very impressed with the Year 5/6 students’ effort, participation and resilience so far this year. They are eagerly accepting every learning challenge I am presenting to them.

We are continuing to study the text ‘Fire’ by Jackie French. This week we are looking at the power of illustrations to communicate complex ideas not written in the text. We are also taking a closer look at the imagery Jackie French uses in the text.

In maths, our focus is addition and subtraction. We are learning to select and apply efficient mental, written and calculator strategies to solve word problems and record the strategy used.

The school is currently borrowing Lego WeDo kits from the DET StemShare library. The students have a task this week to make an Aussie bushfire robot that needs to be strong, stable, and able to move through a stimulated bush environment in the playground.

Jo Henwood Visit

On Friday 22 February, Goolgowi Public School had an interesting and sometimes hilarious storyteller called Jo Henwood visit. She shared with the students true stories about real people’s experiences of being on the First Fleet. Some students were lucky enough to be included as characters in her stories. She was passionate in her delivery and loved to share her tales. She also spoke about Australia’s Aboriginal history and our French connections. The students learnt the importance of using expression when telling or reading stories.

Thank you to the Carrathool Shire library for organising this event for the students.

By Jarod Harris

PBL (Positive Behaviour for Learning)

PBL focus for this week:

Value: Respect

Focus: Care for self and others

Action: Be kind to others. Friendly actions, friendly words!

Awards

Congratulations to our weekly award winners:

Miss Sim

Cooper - for continued effort and responsibility during literacy rotations.

Enara - for persistence and challenging herself at swimming lessons.

Miss Gordon

Lexie - for correctly ordering 4-digit numbers in descending order.

Mrs Liddicoat

Annabell - for a great effort in maths when learning about perimeter.

Tevita - for a great effort in maths when learning about perimeter.

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PBL Awards

Canteen Voucher - Reagan Liddicoat

Friday Reward

This Friday 1 March, students at Goolgowi Public School who have consistently displayed the school values of respect, responsibility and cooperation for the week and who have not had a timeout, will be able to wear a mufti pair of shorts to school.

Sports News

Griffith Small Schools Swimming

Seventeen excited students from Goolgowi eagerly participated in our first ever Griffith Small Schools swimming carnival last Thursday. We had a very successful day, with many students placing in the top three, in the various swimming events and receiving a ribbon for their fantastic efforts. Congratulations to Charlotte, who was awarded Junior Girl Champion on the day. All of the students did a wonderful job at competing and representing Goolgowi Public School.

George, Austin, Charlotte, Jewel and Dustin were successful in swimming qualifying times for the zone carnival and will compete in Griffith this Thursday. Our PP5 Small School’s relay team was also successful on day and they will progress directly to the Riverina carnival.

Community News

Goolgowi Exies Club News

Calling all volunteers

Bunnings Sausage Sizzlethis Saturday

2 March from 8am - 4pm

Come on down to lend a hand or just buy a sausage and drink to support your local club.

See you there.

Oaklands was the lucky club last week and the money was won, so the Riverina

Club’s super-draw this week will be a useful

$2800.00

IT COULD BE YOU!!!

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You must be on the club premises on Thursday night at the time of the draw which is between 7.00 and 9.00 pm and you must

be a current 2019 financial member

A big thank you to the CORO CLUB for the gift of the new stools in the pokies area and the comfy sofas in the lounge come in , have a drink and try them out.

The club will close this Wednesday 27 February at 5.30 so that everyone can go and support and enjoy the Tom Curtain Outback experience at Goolgowi Oval.

BYO chairs - BBQ will be available at the show.

“EYES DOWN”

Bingo is definitely on this Friday 1 March at 7.30.

Be in it to win it !!

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Goolgowi Golf Club Meeting

Tuesday 26 February 2019

7:30pm at the Golf club

AGENDA

50-year Anniversary

Renovations to Golf club

2019 Program

Election of Office Bearers

Charity Day

Men & Ladies Open Day

Any other suggestions.

Any enquiries call Geoff Elliott

0429 651 501 or 6965 1501

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your support.

If you have any community announcements or wish to advertise through our school/community newsletter please contact Jane by phone or email by Monday

afternoon.

Our newsletter is published on Tuesday.

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Term 1 Canteen Roster Week 5 27 Feb Kylie McKenzie Week 6 6 March Allana Shaw/Mary-Ellen Armanini Week 7 13 March Janaya Clark/Billy-Jo Clark Week 8 20 March Wendy Clark/Jeni Robertson Week 9 27 March Gillian Star/Christie Bavistock Week 10 3 April Penny Headrick/Sharon Domjahn Week 11 10 April Janaya Clark/Allana Shaw Please try find a replacement for yourself if you cannot make your day and not leave other parent stranded.

All the help we can get is greatly appreciated not only by the P&C but also the students (our children).

So if you would like to/could do a shift (one a term) that would be great. Please contact me.

Thanks from your Canteen Co-ordinator.

Janaya Clark

0412115717

Price Change

Please disregard price of fried rice on the menu due to my error. FRIED RICE is $4 not $2.50, sorry.