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Howlong Public School

Newsletter Thursday 5 July 2018

Dates For Your Calendar

Thurs 5 July Tony Lockett Shield

Fri 6 July 3/4B Assembly

Fri 6 July Last day Term 2

Tues 24 July All students return for Term 3

Fri 27 July National Tree Day

Tues 31 July Student banking commences for Term 3

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

I would like to congratulate our students on a fantastic first semester. There have been many

wonderful achievements– academic, social and sporting that our school community as a

whole can feel very proud of. Reading each school report and looking at the growth that

students are achieving through their endeavour and application to learning, has been very

satisfying. We are lucky to have a great group of educators in our school who are committed

to student improvement. They work very hard, often in their own time to problem solve and

develop learning programs that cater to our 190 individual students. I hope all students and

staff enjoy this mid year break with their families and friends. Stay safe and we will see students

back at school on Tuesday July 24th.

Mrs Gail Krause

Principal

National Tree Day—Friday 27th July Week 1

Wear green to school and make a gold coin donation –money towards our playground upgrade project

Learning activities– How to care for our environment, all about trees

Planting of trees and shrubs— 80+ trees and shrubs provided by Corowa Landcare

Sausage sizzle lunch—order form out day one next term– Volunteers needed to

help Kayleen. Please contact the office if you are able to help 60265206

Thank you to Howlong Nursery, 1/2 Acre Café, Corowa Landcare, Bunnings

Albury, The Arnold family for their support and contributions to our Tree Day.

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Our Strive for Success winners:

Thomas Feuerherdt, Harrison

Tindall, Toby Kirk and Charlie

McNamara

for

being in the right playground

area in the mornings.

BRONZE AWARDS

Congratulations to: Jacob Panther, Josh Murphy, Jhai Lions, Jessie Wychowanko, Cyrus

Lindsay, Ruby Ballintine, Ella McMahon, Lyla McNamara, Indi Green, Crystal Fenner, Riley

Buchanan, Hunter Hall, Harrison Tindall, Lily McDonald, Sienna Arnold, Noah Orchard, Harry

Lucas, Jeremy Carpenter, Lily McDonald, Nate Arnold, Lachlan Bottrell, Beau Willmott, Austin

Alchin, Wallace Cann, Aleisha Carroll, Mollie McGee, Ned Gray, Finn Thompson and Tom

Ballintine.

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Lapathon

All the students who returned money raised in our Lapathon went into a class draw to win a

$5 canteen voucher. The lucky winners are Isla Britt K/1R Judd Murphy K/1CN Beau Willmott

2S, Maddison Taggart 1/2CP, Jett Murphy 3/4M, Jed Trevethan 5/6A, Haylee Tresham 4/5/6J

and Gabby Beardall 3/4B. The gold runner award for the class that raised the most money

went to 3/4M.

Fame the Musical and Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk

On Thursday the 28th of June, 4/5/6J and 5/6A went to Albury

to the Yindyamarra Sculpture Walk and to watch Fame the

Musical. They performed at The Entertainment Centre. The

show was wonderful with heaps of tricks and songs to make

the show more interesting. The roles in the performance were

all terrific but not only that they all shared the stage. We thank

Albury High School for putting on this performance and we

hope Albury High will have another performance just as well as

this one!

By Haylee Tresham and Crystal Fenner.

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As part of our learning in K/1R and 2S, we celebrated NAIDOC

week and the conclusion of our Indigenous Perspectives unit.

K/1R looked at Indigenous artworks and then created their own

dot paintings with an Australian animal theme.

2S learned about Indigenous shelters and then we had a go at

making our own small scale ‘Gunyahs’ and ‘Mia Mias’.

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K/1CN have had a busy week.

NAIDOC WEEK activities - Collecting bark and sticks for our shelters.

Volume and Capacity

In Maths we have

been learning about

volume and capacity.

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Garden Review Week 10

Tuesday’s cooking lesson for 3/4M and

3/4B was their last lesson in the SAKG

program for the year. They made several

yummy dishes: fried rice, flat bread, fruit

salad and a juice drink. The students had

a great time in the program and have

enjoyed caring for the garden and

preparing meals.

A special thank you to the volunteers who

gave up their time to help make this

term’s program so successful. We could

not do it without you. If you would like to

become a volunteer for Term 3, we would

love to have you!

Next term the K/1 classes and 2S will get

to experience all that the SAKG program

has to offer. Stay tuned for more details.

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FINANCE NEWS

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion – Term 3 Week 4, Monday 13th August – Wednesday 15th August

Payments can be made at any time to the school office or online through our webpage.

Stage 2 Harrietville Excursion – Term 3 Week 4, Tuesday 14th August – Wednesday 15th August

Payments can be made at any time to the school office or online through our webpage.

Statement of Account

This year as part of our new accounting system, we are invoicing for activities/excursions as

soon as they have been organised. Permission notes will be distributed closer to the actual

events. The idea is to give parents and carers the opportunity to budget for these future

expenses. You may still pay in instalments or in full before the event, if you wish.

Reminder, advanced payments can be made at the office at any time for any upcoming

activities/excursions. These advanced payments will sit as a credit against your child until the

activity is invoiced and the permission note has be signed and returned by parent/carer.

All school payments can be paid at the office by cash, cheque, EFTPOS or Parent Online

Payment (POP) on our webpage.

Please note: Canteen orders, P&C Uniform, P&C membership can only be paid at the

canteen by cash or EFTPOS.

National Data Collection

This week, the classroom teachers and the Learning Support Team have been collating data

for the National Data Collection. The National Data Collection occurs annually and counts

the number of school students with a disability and students who require learning

adjustments.

The National Data Collection is an opportunity for schools to review their learning and

support systems and processes to continually improve education outcomes for their students.

Mrs E. Newton

We would like to say a big thankyou to the Howlong Produce Store for kindly donating a large amount of seeds; including flowers and vegetables.

This will keep our kitchen garden very busy as well as beautifying our school

yard.

Uniform Reminders: Please be sure to check the lost property box in the office as anything

left at the end of term is washed and given to the P&C to sell in their second hand uniform

shop.

Also it is a good idea to take hats home in the holidays to wash them but please ensure

they are back at school for the beginning of term.

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