Denil iquin South Public

School ’s Newsletter

Principal’s Message Dear Parents/Caregivers,

The start of a new year can bring with it a range of emotions: excitement, worry or uncertainty. Being able to understand and manage these emotions and thoughts are something children learn as they grow and develop. Resilience is a term that is often used to describe a child’s ability to manage these ups and downs.

Building resilience comes through the development of social and emotional skills, including coping skills. Noticing changes in your child’s behaviour and taking the time to check-in are important. School Plan 2018-2022 2018-2022 Draft School Plan

As many of you are aware the School has been working on a School plan which will take us through to the end of 2022.

Our School plan is based around three strategic directions: A draft copy of this plan will be uploaded to the school website on Wednesday and I would like to encourage everyone to take the time to have a look at the plan.

As a part of the consultation process, I will be holding a number of meetings in Week 6, where parents and community members are invited to come along to discuss the plan, as well as, put forward ideas for any changes.

Meetings will be held in the hall: Monday 5th March 2:00pm – 3:00 pm 4pm – 5pm

Tuesday 6th March 7pm - 8pm in the Staffroom

If you are unable to make these times, but have ideas in how the plan could be adapted please email the school. Parliament Last Wednesday, 21

st March, students from Yr 3-6

assembled in the hall for the first Parliamentary session for 2018. Each Minister presented an informative speech, as well as, tabling relevant motions according to their portfolio. The Ministers are to be congratulated on the respectful way in which they conducted this first session.

Peer Support Training All Year 5 and Year 6 students are reminded that their Peer Support Training will be held tomorrow in our school hall. The training day will be run by Assistant Principal Miss Kerry and will focus on developing skills of leadership, resilience, problem solving and positive thinking. School Swimming Carnival I would like to take this opportunity to wish our swimming squad of 43 students, all the best for this Thursday the 1

st March, as they represent our school at the District

PSSA Swimming Carnival. I know that they will represent our school with pride and swim their hearts out.

Thank you to Mrs Champness, who will manage the team in Hay and to our many parents who have offered assistance with travel. Deniliquin Show Make sure you take the opportunity to visit the pavilion at the Deniliquin Show this weekend, as many of our students have entered creative and quality pieces for the many displays.

Thank you to Miss Liefting and Mrs Honey, for taking the time to coordinate entries and promote the show within our school. Grandparent Reading This wonderful well-being program got off to a terrific start this morning, with grandparents and community members giving up their valuable time to assist students at South. I’ d like to thank, once again, Mr & Mrs Hodgkinson, Mr & Mrs Driver, Mrs Seely and Mrs Harvey for supporting this wonderful program and ensuring that as a school, we are able to continue to offer quality well-being programs for our students.

Enjoy your week!

Liz Dudley Relieving Principal

Phone: 03 5881 2045 Fax: 03 5881 5079 Email: deniliqsth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.deniliqsth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Principal: Greg Danckert

Term 1, Week 5 27/2/2018

Basketball Trials The PSSA Basketball trials took place today in Moama and we had 13 students representing South.

Congratulations to Logan Leiper, Joshua Mills, Tyson Willis, Cameron Will, Brodie Park, Jace Collins, Liam East, Abbie Blake, Jerrah Caruso, Jarrah Fitzpatrick, Sophie Hillier, Mia and Emma Parks.

Thank you to Miss Parsons for coordinating the school trials and to our dedicated parents for assisting with transport.

School Fees At our recent P& C, Meeting, it was agreed the school fees would remain the same for 2018. $75 - 1 child $130 - 2 children $175 - 3 children or more

An early bird discount is being offered to those families, who are able to pay their fees before the end of Term 1 (13

th April).

The adjustments are as follows: $70 – 1 child $120 for 2 children $165 for 3 children or more.

Please contact the office if you wish to pay your school fees by instalments. Cricket News Ryan Rotherham and Cameron Wills attended the PSSA Cricket Trials yesterday. Congratulations to Ryan, who has been selected in the Riverina PSSA Squad. Ryan will train with a squad of 24 until September where a final squad will be chosen to participate in the PSSA State Carnival in October at Barooga.

Clean Up Australia Day 2018

This coming weekend is Clean Up Australia Day and on Friday 2

nd March, South students will take part in the

school clean up event. During the day, classes will head out to their designated area to pick up rubbish and help keep our beautiful school clean and tidy.

Students should wear gloves on the day, so if you have an old pair of gardening gloves, or rubber gloves, please send them to school this week. For more information on Clean Up Australia Day at Deni South, please contact Mrs. Landale. To find Clean Up events in the area this weekend, please visit: https://www.cleanupaustraliaday.org.au/join/?location=Deniliquin&kw

Another fantastic way to help fight the war on waste would be to pack a ‘nude food’ lunch box for your child, reducing the amount of waste we throw away.

Did you know, every year, more than 160 million drink containers end up as litter in NSW. Deniliquin now has a ‘Return and Earn’ machine (in the IGA car park), where you can recycle your used drink containers and get 10c back for each bottle/can/carton!

Other great ways to reduce waste in our community are to use ‘Boomerang Bags’ instead of plastic ones when you go supermarket shopping, and to use ‘Keep Cups’ when you buy a coffee, instead of throwing away the disposable coffee cups. Let’s work together to keep our beautiful town litter free.

Canteen Roster

Wed 28th Gill Fraser 9.00am - 11.30am

Lyn Rose 11.30am - 1.30pm

Thu 1st Mel Beckwith 9.00am - 11.30am

Chelsea Jeffrey 11.30am - 1.30pm

Fri 2nd Marie Wall, Carol Borella 9.00am - 1.30pm

Mon 5th CANTEEN CLOSED

Tue 6th Linda Norrish 9.00am - 1.30pm

Wed 7th Enid Seely 9.00am - 11.30am

Marie Wall 11.30am - 1.30pm

Thu 8th Danica Reeves 9.00am - 11.30am

Jody Mikolajski 11.30am - 1.30pm

Fri 23rd Marie Wall, Carol Borella 9.00am - 1.30pm

ASSEMBLY AWARDS

Principal’s Awards

Honour Cards

Kinder Dolphins

Grace Kelly Tamra Sheridan Kayleah Harvey

K/1 Gold Hugo Malin Ged O’Donnell Hunter Campbel

1/2 Bahamas Travis Hanns Jack Wade Olivia Armytage

2 Hockeyroos Talen Barnes Eliza Weir Darcy Johnson

2/3 Great Britain

Kya Dick Amy Holloway Jya Wade

3/4 Diamonds Matthew Caruso Charlie Connor-Hetherington

Matthew Caruso Sophie Redden Kazara Leishman

4 Boomers Leandri Bothma Mya Crampton Darcy Chalmers Brody Wills Alinta Beddoe

4/5 Stingers Ava Richards Landon Daggett Riley Clent Abbey Doncon Gracie Allitt

5 Kookaburras Phoebe Selleck Luke Holloway Dakota McKenzie Shiloh Smith Ava Wallace

5/6 Matilda Koby Allitt Lily Donald Logan Leiper Dylan Beddoe Cormac Witty

6 Cyclones Nathan Ho Shanè Bothma Hayden Doncon Cameron Wills Maddie Weir

Library News

Friendly reminder – all students in Kinder, Grade 1 and Grade 2 need a Library bag in order to borrow books. These can be any shape, size or colour, as long as they can fit 2 Library books and have the student’s name on them. The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge starts next week (Monday 5

th March). The Challenge aims to

encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. In the 2017 Challenge over 290,000 students read over 8 million books! It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. It is available for all NSW students from Kindergarten to Year 9. It starts on Monday 5 March and closes Friday 31 August. Mrs. Landale will help students get set up and will assist students with recording their reading lists. For further information, you can check out the official website or talk to Mrs. Landale.

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Dates for your Diary - Term 1

28th Feb Peer Support Training

1st Mar Deni PSSA Swimming Carnival - Hay

2 Mar Riverina PSSA Tennis Trials Clean Up Australia Day

6 Mar Yr 2-6 Primary Swimming

9th Mar Deni PSSA Footy Trials

14th Mar Riverina PSSA Swimming Carnival - Albury

15th Mar Riverina PSSA Basketball Trials - Albury

16th Mar Harmony Day Assembly

19th-22nd Mar

Healthy Harold - Life Ed Van

20th Mar Deni PSSA Soccer Trials (Boys/Girls)

22nd Mar Western Riverina PSSA AFL Trials

29th Mar Charity Mini Fete

6th April Deni PSSA Netball Trials

13th April Last Day Term 1