The Link Volume 2 Issue 4

22nd May 2018

Participation Leads to Success

Phone: 6859 2233 Fax: 6859 2581

Principal’s Message

Eisteddfod

Biggest Morning Tea

Small Schools Athletics

Music Viva Canowindra

District Cross– Country

CWA Public Speaking

Photography Workshop

Simultaneous Reading

3-6 Snow Excursion

School Calendar

Simultaneous Reading

STEM

Meals on Wheels

GRIP Leadership

P & C Meeting

Eugowra Schools

Athletics

“With oars and sails”

Hill Street Eugowra 2806

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

www.eugowra-p.school .nsw.edu.au

Principal’s Message Thank you to all staff, students and parents for a lovely Athletics Carnival last Friday. It was great to see students participating and showing sportsmanship. Thank you to the staff of St Joseph’s School for organising the carnival this year. We look forward to our next sporting event together, the cross country, next term. This week, there are many extra-

curricular activities taking place for our

students. Thank you to all parents

involved and assisting with these extra

activities.

Have a great week. Regards, Carmel Doyle

Eisteddfod Congratulations to our six choir members who participated in the Cowra Eisteddfod last Thursday. Our tiny choir sang beautifully winning second place out of the 6 schools entered in the small choir section. Congratulations to Sophie Gibson, Chloe Gibson, Annabelle Peile, Shalara Jackson, Emily Cox and Louise Hailstone. Biggest Morning Tea We will be joining in with the community fundraiser for the Biggest Morning Tea again this year on Thursday 24th May. If you haven't already and your child would like a cup cake and a piece of slice, please send in $1. Food items will be provided by the community and delivered to the school.

Forbes Small Schools Athletics Carnival This carnival has been rescheduled for Friday 8th June. Please put this date on your calendar. This carnival is for all students K-6. Music Viva—Canowindra Tomorrow, the 24th May we will be traveling to Canowindra to participate in the Baroque music festival in Canowindra. Students will travel by bus during school time to attend this music workshop. Please return the permission note and money to the school office if you haven’t already. District Cross Country The following students have qualified to participate in Forbes this Friday 25th May for the District Cross Country: Levi, Axxell, Adam Valentine, Hayley, Reece, Ben, Macey, Louise, Zoe, Sanjay, Thomas and Alec. A separate note was sent home last week outlining details for this event and students name tags have been sent home with students today. Parents are to arrange for their children to get to and from this event in Forbes. We wish students all the very best. CWA Public Speaking

On Tuesday 22nd May, Sophie Gibson,

Hannah Williams and Alyssa Gibson

participated in the CWA Public Speaking

contest at Bathurst. The girls enjoyed

this enriching experience.

Kim Storey Photography Workshop Next Monday 28th May, Kim Storey will conduct a photography workshop with our students. Kim is volunteering her time and skills on behalf of View Club's involvement with our school initiative CEP (Community Engagement Program). We thank Kim and know that our students will thoroughly enjoy this experience.

Australia’s

Biggest Morning

Tea.

$1 per student.

Thursday

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2018 PRIMARY EXCURSION This years Primary Excursion is to the Snow. This will be 3 days and 2 nights, with a day on the snowfields learning to ski. This will take place in Term 3, week 10, 26th—28th September. (The last three days of Term 3) This is preliminary notice so families can start to put aside money towards the excursion.

Mrs Welsh, Emily Cox, Louise

Hailstone, Sophie Gibson, Annabelle

Peile, Chloe Gibson Shalara Jackson.

Term 2 2018

Week 4 21.5.18 GRIP Leadership Dubbo Year 6

22.5.18 CWA Public Speaking

23.5.18 Simultaneous Reading Day NO Assembly Sport Golf

24.5.18 Music Viva Canowindra Biggest Morning Tea

25.5.18 District Cross Country Forbes P & C Meeting 3.30pm

Week 5 28.5.18 Photography Workshop with Kim Storey

29.5.18 30.5.18 11 am Assembly Sport Golf

31.5.18 1.6.18

Week 6 4.6.18 Eugowra V’s Bedgerebong Soccer Game

5.6.18 LEEP

6.6.18 11 am Assembly Sport Golf

7.6.18 8.6.18 Forbes Small Schools Athletics Carnival

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Simultaneous Reading Day

Today our K-2 students joined students at St Joseph’s School

for Simultaneous Reading Day. Our 3-6 students joined in

Simultaneous Reading Day at 11am by reading the book

‘Hickory Dickory Dash’ at 11am.

STEM EPS has joined with other smalls schools (Bogan Gate, Bedgerebong, Caragabal and Quandiala) in a STEM initiative. At the end of this term all schools will join together for a STEM day at Quandiala Public School. We are asking families to send in recycled materials for activities that will be taking place on this day. We would like to start collecting materials now so that we will have ample amount for our students on the day. Eg Cardboard boxes, plastic bottles. Meals on Wheels A big thank you to our local Meals on Wheels volunteer drivers, Marie Noble and Tim Cheney, for allowing our students to assist with delivering of meals last term and the beginning of this term. All of our students have had a turn helping to deliver meals and have enjoyed this experience. We will have a break for the remainder of this term and look forward to helping with meal deliveries in Term 3.

P & C Meeting

Friday 25th May

3.30pm

In the School Hall

REMINDER Arrival Time at School Morning Duty does not start until 8.45am.

For Health and Safety reasons, students are not to be at school until after 8.30am.

Students arriving prior to 8.45 am have no supervision and are required to remain seated on the benches

under the COLA until the morning duty teacher arrives.

GRIP Leadership Conference for Year 6. On Monday this week Miss Rinaldo took the year 6 students to the GRIP Leadership Conference in Dubbo. This was a great opportunity for students as the current school leaders to workshop leadership skills and participate in leadership focused activities. Thank you to Donna Maclean for driving some of the students to Dubbo.

L-R: Sanjay, Thomas, Alec, Cameron, Alyssa, Zoe, Louise, Ricky.

Uniform Could families please check your children's school sports jackets. There has been some mix up with children taking the wrong clothing. Please check the names and if there are any mix ups please bring them to the office so we can get them back to the correct children. Reminder also to make sure all school jackets, jumpers, hats have your child's name on them.

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BUS NEWS:

Pick up and Drop off as usual.

Sub Junior Boy Champion—Bayden Jackson; Runner-up—Hunter Newell. Sub Junior Girl Champion—Esther Kimmorley; Runner-up—Lily Hurd Junior Boy Champion—Reece Matheson; Runner-up—Ben McMahon. Junior Girl Champion—Paisley Middis; Runner-up—Lucy Philipzen Senior Boy Champion—Sanjay Buttle; Runner-up—Thomas Turner Senior Girl Champion—Celeste Gavin; Runner-up—Eve Moore.

Winning House: BLUE Goanna’s