The Wollondilly Wag

Wollondilly Public School Find us at : Newton Street Goulburn 2580 T: 4821 4496 F: 4821 4462

E: wollondill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.wollondill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Term 1 Week 4 Wednesday 4 February 2015

SAFE RESPONSIBLE RESPECTFUL

Co-operative Kinders 2015

Our new Kinder students have settled straight into life at ‘Big

school’ . They are quickly learning the routines and love

learning with their new friends.

Student Representative Council 2015

The following students have been elected to the executive of

the SRC for 2015. The students were inducted to their

leadership role at assembly last Friday. Congratulations to –

Kirsten Moller ( President ) Nicholas Yeadon ( Vice Pres. )

Janaya Goulthorp ( Publicity Officer ) Imogen Broadley ( Vice

Publicity Officer ) Lockie Brouff ( Treasurer ) Jared Murphy

( Vice Treasurer ) Jordan Flood ( Secretary ) Emily Hellessey

( Vice Secretary )

Class representatives on the SRC are as follows : KDH – Isaac

Jones KAH – Rob Emerson K/1M – Charli Hayes 1W – Oliver

Marriott 2S – Tom Woodberry 2N – Kate Walsh

3/4R – Nicholas Ottley 3/4T – Hugh McCall 3/4C – Aaryan

Sarin 3/4D – Kal-el Marriott 3/6S – Declan Apthorpe 5/6F –

Ewan McVicar 5/6C – Meg Baxter 5/6A – Lara Karjalainen

Sports House Leaders 2015

Congratulations to the following students for being elected

leaders of their respective sports house.

Fraser – Alyssa Gregory & Hayden Grant

( Captains ) Janaya Goulthorpe & Jhon

Hagan (not in photo) ( Vice Captains )

Brewer – Georgie Chandler & Jamin

Armstrong ( Captains ) Piper –Lily

Cumberland & Jack Bailey ( Vice Captains )

Rosewarn – Georgia Staines &

Nicholas Yeadon ( Captains ) Britel

Fernandez & Lachlan Wray ( Vice

Captains )

McDermott – Parnika Mani & Deecon

Ladmore Captains ) Kirsten Moller

& Harry McKenzie ( Vice captains )

Generous School Donation

A huge thank you to the Wollondilly parents who have

made a very generous donation to the school. We

will use the money to help support our literacy

programs across the school.

Your generosity is greatly appreciated by all.

Library News

We have an exciting year of reading and improving

our library skills planned for this year. To encourage

students to share what they have been reading we

have been giving out bookmarks to every primary

student on which they can fill in a short book review.

Each returned bookmark puts them in the competition

to win a free book at the end of term. One book will be

awarded to each class. We have already received

many entries so keep them coming. Over the coming

weeks we will introduce a similar system with the K-2

classes so they can participate as well if they wish.

To also encourage student's reading efforts we will be

giving away a book to each student when they have

completed 100 nights of home reading, so make sure

you fill in your reading logs each night. To help fund

these initiatives we had books available for families to

purchase and donate to the library at our Meet and

Greet evening. Thank you to those families that

purchased a book. They will be available for

borrowing shortly. As this was well received keep an

eye out for us at future school events where we will

have books available again for $5 and we have

decided to make them available for students to

purchase and own themselves if they wish, or donate

to the library. Purchases from our Book Club and

Book Fairs also contribute to our fundraising efforts.

Swimming Carnival

The Wollondilly Swimming Carnival will be on this

Thursday 19 February starting at 10am at the

Aquatic Centre. Students must come to school first

to be marked off the roll.

We will then walk in class groups to the pool.

Students must have their $2.10 entry fee or their

season pass to get into the pool.

While we have 25m and 50/100m races and ribbons

are awarded in all categories, only the 50m and

100m placed students will go on to the District

Carnival. Parents and carers are welcome to attend.

Students will need all their food and drinks supplied,

as the pool and school canteens will not be

available. Do not forget: swimmers, towel,

goggles, sunscreen, hat, shirt, dry underwear.

Ms Tilley

3-4T Growing Together in 2015

Well, it has been all go, go, go for 3/4T. After what

amounts to only 11 days together as a whole class,

we have already started growing seeds for our

plant unit in Science and looking closely at our local

community for our HSIE unit, even making a game

about all of the services provided in our town.

On top of all that, we have started Maths Plus, our

reading groups and narrative writing. A great start

to the year. I predict lots of fun ahead.

From Ms Tilley

School Uniform

A reminder that baseball caps are no longer part of our

school uniform. Students wear a bucket or broad

rimmed hat to cover their ears , neck and nose. To

comply with Cancer Council recommendations, all

students should apply sunscreen before coming to

school and again during the day.

Roll-on sunscreen is ideal to carry in school bags for

students to apply as they leave the rooms at breaks and

for sport! Sunscreen is also available at school.

Last week KDH received a bag of popcorn for having

every student in their class with the correct hat.

3-4R received a bag of popcorn for having all but 1

student, wearing the correct hat. The best class in

Years 3 - 6!! Well done!

Sport shoes are only to be worn on sports day. School

uniform is black shoes.

Please encourage your child to wear full school uniform

and take pride in their school There are lots of items in

the clothing pool if you need spare shirts, polar fleeces

etc. School hats are for sale in the school canteen for

$10.

Head Lice

There have been a number of cases of head lice

reported. We would appreciate your support in this

matter with further checks at home over the next few

weeks.

Changes to the Student Attendance in Government Schools Procedures

From January 2015, changes have been made to the eligibility for exemptions, and the time

frame for explanation of absences.

CHANGES TO EXEMPTIONS

An exemption from attendance at school can no longer be granted for vacations taken

outside of school holiday periods.

Holidays and travel outside of school vacation periods will now be included as absences.

If the Principal accepts the parent’s application for extended leave, a certificate of extended

leave will be issued and the absence recorded as Leave.

If the Principal does not approve the application, any resulting absence will be recorded as

unjustified.

Application for exemptions due to illness are still accepted IF a medical certificate for the

period of absence is provided.

CHANGES TO TIME FRAME FOR EXPLANATION OF ABSENCE

An explanation for any absence must be provided to the school within 7 days from the first

day of any period of absence.

What should I do if my child has to stay away from school?

It is important to let the school know when your child will be away and why your child is

absent. Parent have several options of notifying the school of their child’s absence:

by ringing the school on the morning of each day’s absence

by emailing through an explanation of the absence

by sending in a Reason for Absence form on the first day the student returns to school

after an absence.

Any note of explanation forwarded to school should contain:

Your child’s name and class

The day(s) and date(s) that your child was absent from school

The reason the child was absent

The signature of the child’s parent or caregiver

If your child is seeing a Doctor due to illness, please request a Medical Certificate covering

the date(s) of the absences(s). Absences due to illness are eligible for an Exemption from

School if a Doctor’s Certificate is provided for the entire period of illness.

Kindergarten Enrolments 2016

Wollondilly Public School is accepting

Kindergarten enrolments for 2016 If you have a child

who is turning 5 by 31 July 2016, please collect an

enrolment form from the School Office. When you

come to school to enrol your child please bring the

following documents with you:

Proof of student’s residential address (e.g. original

copies of council rates notice, residential lease,

electricity accounts, statutory declaration etc).

Birth Certificate or identity documents

Immunisation history statement

Copies of any family law or other relevant court

orders. (if applicable)

Please return any completed enrolment forms

together with supporting documentation for processing

to the School Office.

P B PARADE Positive Behaviour in the Classroom

3 PB Cards

Purple STARRS Cards Positive

Behaviour in the playground

Congratulations to the following students who are

winners of the K-2 PB Card Canteen Pass

Winners.

Eva Blay KDH, Daniel Pedersen 2N & Allegra 1W

Term 1 Week 4 Wednesday 18 Feb. P & C Meeting in the

staffroom, commences at 7.30pm.

District cricket

Week 4 Thursday 19 Feb. - WPS Swimming

Carnival.

Week 5 Tuesday 24 Feb. District Swimming

Week 5 Thursday 26 Feb. District Zone AFL

Week 6 Wednesday 4 March P & C AGM in the

staffroom, commences at 7.30pm.

Week 6 Friday 6 March - Regional Swimming

Week 7 Thursday 12 March - Questacon School

visit.

Week 9 Wednesday 25 March - GRIP Leadership

Conference

Week10 Monday 30 March - School Photo Day.

Full summer uniform to be worn by all

students. Photo order envelopes will be

distributed when received from the

photographers. Money and order

envelopes are to be returned to school

on the day of photos.

Week 10 Wednesday 1 April - P & C Meeting in the

staffroom, commences at 7.30pm.

District Netball

Week 10 Thursday 2 April - Term 1 concludes.

Term 2 Week 1 Monday 20 April -Staff Development

Day, students do not attend school.

Week 1 Monday 21 April - Students return to

school.

Week4 Tuesday 12 May, Wednesday 13 May

and Thursday 14 May - NAPLAN for

Years 3 and 5

SCHOOL CALENDAR 2015

Dates for your Diary

Claire Hellessey 3-4D Elliott Frazer 3-4D

Kal-el Marriott Julia Roberts 3-4D

Amelia Waters 3-4D Tiana Gospel 5-6F

Hayden Grant 5-6F Nicholas Yeadon 5-6F

Jamin Armstrong 5-6F Imogen Broadley 5-6F

Ryder Kingsford 5-6F Abbey Loader 5-6F

Jared Murphy 5-6F Clinton Latham 3-4T

Rachel Baird 3-4T

Questacon School Visit -Thursday 12 March 2015

K-2 10.30 to 11.30am

Years 3-4 12.15 to 1.15pm

Years 5-6 2pm to 3pm

Newsletter reminder - This week’s newsletter will be the

last whole school print. From Week 6 (Wed 4 March),

hard copies will only go to families who have notified us

that they require a copy in that format.