Railway Town Public School

TERM 3 WEEK 5 - 20 August 2018

Phone 08 8087 3008 | Fax 08 8087 7491 | Address 102-106 Wills Street, PO Box 785, Broken Hill NSW 2880

Email railwaytow-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au | Website www.railwaytow-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

DATES TO

REMEMBER

Mon 20 August Book Week starts!!

Fri 24 August Book Parade

Stage 3 Excursion final payment due

Wed 29 August P&C Fathers Day Stall

Thu 30 August School Photo Day

Sun 2 September Stage 3 Excursion

Wed 12 Sept Book Club due

Wed 19 September Stage 2 Excursion final payment due

Wed 17 October Stage 2 Excursion

Thu 6 December Presentation Night

This week’s Assembly will be hosted by

Miss Vaughan

As Mrs Pascoe will be on Long Service Leave for the next two weeks, I will be taking on the role of Relieving Principal and Miss Vaughan will be our Relieving Assistant Principal.

Railway Town has an exciting week planned for Book Week celebrations! Throughout the week, all classes will be participating in activities around this year’s theme ‘Find your Treasure’. On Friday, students and teachers will be dressing up as their favourite book character and will show off their costumes at our annual book parade. Come and join in the fun! The parade will begin at 11:30am in Wilson Hall and will run through to our book themed Assembly at approximately 12.30pm. Families are invited bring lunch and stay to enjoy time with the students.

We are in our final two weeks of preparation for the Stage 3 excursion to Canberra. Please return medical forms and PG Movie notifications as soon as possible. A parent/carer information session will held NEXT Monday (27 August) at 6pm in the Library. All aspects of the excursion will be discussed and there will be time set aside for any questions that you might have. If you cannot make it to the meeting, please do not hesitate to organise a time with us for any information that you require. We look forward to seeing you there.

I would like to extend my congratulations to Lillian Singleton, Emily Dyson, Cohen Clavel and Austin Clavel. These students did an amazing job at preparing and presenting a speech at the Broken Hill Public Speaking Competition held at Sacred Heart last Friday.

Finally, congratulations to our School Administration Officer, Lana Bell, on the birth of her first child. Eli Bradley Morrison was born on 19 August 2018 at 4.48am, weighing in at a whopping 9lb 7oz! We welcome Mrs Alisha Pitt to the school office, replacing Lana for the remainder of the year.

Have a great week!

Miss Elizabeth Gleeson

Principal (Relieving)

FROM THE ENGINE DRIVER

The Best in the West

This is Miss Vaughan’s favourite week of the year! All classes will be reading the short listed books and enjoying a variety of activities during Library time. A week full of fun, creativity, imagination, treasure hunting and BOOKS! There is nothing better and we cannot wait!

Book Parade will be on Friday 24 August from 11.30am, and we will be dressing up as our favourite book characters followed by a book themed assembly starting at around 12.30pm. Pre-schoolers and parents are welcome to dress-up to enjoy the fun with us (special prizes for each group!) and can stay to enjoy lunch with students in the playground.

MEET THE STUDENT SPEECHIES

IT’S BOOK WEEK!

Devna Luthra Hello! My name is Devna and I am studying in my final year as a Speech and Language Pathologist from Sydney Uni. I’m very excited to be working with the students and teachers at Railway Town Public School over the next few weeks. I have never been to Broken Hill before but I am looking forward to exploring the area!

Jayne Ayliffe Hi, I am studying my final year in the Master of Speech Patholo-gy at Flinders University. Growing up in a small country town in South Australia (500 people), just 1 ½ hours north of Adelaide, I was keen to go take up the offer of a rural placement. I travelled through here about 20 years ago but only stopped overnight. So I am keen to check out the area and be involved in as many community activities as possible. My previous degree was So-cial Work. I have mainly worked in higher education as well as community development. My current job is as a Disability Advis-er at UniSA. I have 2 children; a daughter (20yo) and a son (19yo). I like gardening, cooking and travelling and I have a pet turtle called Toby.

Congratulations to Lillian Singleton, Emily Dyson, Cohen Clavel and Austin Clavel who represented Railway Town Public School at the Broken Hill Primary Schools Public Speaking Competition held at Sacred Heart Primary School last week.

The students all wrote their own speeches of between three and four minutes, on varying subjects, and delivered them with confidence.

Lillian, Emily, Austin and Cohen received an Achievement Award and Austin and Cohen also received a Highly Commended Award. Great work!!

Sending out a HUGE

to Coles, along with all RTPS Students, Staff and Community members that collected the Sports for Schools vouchers from Coles in Term 2 and provided them to the school. We’ve received a well needed boost to our sporting equipment including a ball storage trolley, an air compressor, stop watches, tunnels, hoops, dodge balls and up-to-date equipment for our RTPS Gala Day

teams.

We’ve Found our Treasure this week with the arrival of

the new equipment

(pictured with our House

Captains L-R: Abbashay-

Star Pinnuck, Janica

Lohmann, Talan Pitt and

Malarkai Taylor).

COLES SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Mrs McInerney’s class has been enjoying Friday sport in the sunshine with her very

creative pool noodle obstacle course!

FRIDAY SPORT WITH 1-2M

Our students had great fun at the Toonschool Workshop with Jeff Taylor (also known as Joffa) last week.

Congratulations to the following students who placed in the Broken Hill Athletics Carnival held in Week 3 at Picton Oval. These students have been invited to represent Broken Hill in these events at the Barrier Athletics Carnival in Mildura on 7 September 2018.

BROKEN HILL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL RESULTS

TOONSCHOOL WORKSHOP

Event Student Place

8yr Girls 100m Eleanor Pitt 1st

8-10yr Girls shot put Kiarah Halliday 2nd

8-10yr Boys 200m Rhys Pitt 2nd

8-10yr Boys 800m Rhys Pitt 1st

9yr Girls 100m Nerida Taylor 1st

10yr Boys 100m Rhys Pitt 3rd

11yr Boys 100m Talan Pitt 1st

11yr Boys 200m Talan Pitt 2nd

11yr Boys high jump Talan Pitt 2nd

11yr Boys long jump Talan Pitt 3rd

12-13yr Boys 200m Austin Clavel 2nd

Congratulations to the following Railway Town Public School students for placing in the individual performances section of the Broken Hill Eisteddfod on the weekend:

Janica Lohmann - 2nd in Instrumental Solos - Beginners under 12 - Guitar

Kennith Lohmann - 1st in Beginners Solo - Beginners under 12 - Piano

SCHOOL NOTICES

BROKEN HILL EISTEDDFOD INDIVIDUAL RESULTS

Stage 3 Excursion Parent Information Session A parent information session for the Stage 3 Canberra Excursion will be held

NEXT Monday (27 August) at 6pm in the Library. All aspects of the excursion will be discussed and there will be time set aside for any questions that you might have.

If you cannot make it to the meeting, please do not hesitate to organise a time with us for any information that you require.

SCHOOL NOTICES

Class Attendance School Target 92%

Well done to 1/2M, 4/5G and 5/6H for improving their attendance rate last week!

Notes Sent Home Please contact us if you didn’t receive relevant notes

Note Given to Return by/action required

Statement of Account All families Pay outstanding amounts ASAP

School Photo Info All students Order online/wait for envelope

Authority to Publish Students without authority Friday 24 August

Head Lice Note Youngest students Check for nits/lice and treat

Core Value Awards

KW: Payton Coombes

1/2M: Shyla Marks

2/3R: Camaro Nott

4/5G: Kynan McConnell

5/6H: Tahlia Probert

ML: Cooper Hannig

Assembly Awards

KW: Aisen Spencer, Shaelie Hannig

1/2M: Kiah Stephens, Kobe Philp

2/3R: Brianna Champion, Billy Siemer

4/5G: Cohen Clavel, Emily Dyson

5/6H: Chakylah McEvoy, Shayle Huxtable

ML: Alex Stone

STEAM: Shayle Huxtable

Lost Property

The Lost Property box will be emptied at the end of each term and items will be donated to our

second hand uniform store.

Please come into the office to check

for any missing items ASAP.

Library days

KW: Tuesday

1/2M: Wednesday

2/3R: Monday

4/5G: Thursday

5/6H: Wednesday

ML: Thursday

Home Reading 25 nights: Jarrah Wellington

KW 1/2M 2/3R 4/5G 5/6H ML School

87.60% 86.70% 87.88% 90.07% 88.88% 82.98% 87.98%

School Photos School photos are scheduled for Thursday 30 August 2018. If you wish to place an online order, visit www.advancedlife.com.au and use our schools unique 9 digit code

K75 YMV VDN. If you do not want to place an online order, envelopes will be sent home soon. If you wish to have sibling photos taken, these can either be ordered online or you can collect a siblings envelope from the front office.

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P&C NOTICES

The Railway Town Public School Parents & Citizens Association

meets on the third Wednesday of every month in the Staff Room at the Office. Our next meeting is on

19 September. All Welcome!

The School Canteen is closed on Mondays and not open for

orders on Tuesdays. If you have some time to volunteer in the canteen please contact our

Canteen Manager Leonie Channing on 0458 503 306.