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 3 Week 4 Wednesday 5 August 2015

SAFE RESPONSIBLE RESPECTFUL

From the Relieving Principal

Education Week –

Celebrating local heroes was the state theme for

Education Week this year. Wollondilly celebrated the

achievements of our students with performances in the

GCOPs concert on Monday night, OPEN DAY on

Wednesday and creative arts performances in

Goulburn Plaza on Friday. I hope you had the

opportunity to see your child perform, view their work,

participate in a student workshop or visit their

classroom, stage 3 displays or library.

Thank you to all staff for their commitment in bringing

together a showcase of the wonderful work taking

place every day at Wollondilly.

Sport

This week we had students participating in a Touch

Football knockout with Mr Armstrong. On Monday Au-

gust 17 Mrs Bradley will accompany our girls’ hockey

team to Bega to compete in PSSA Hockey knockout.

An open invitation has been extended to all stage 2

and stage 3 students to participate in a touch football

gala day. We will enter as many teams as possible.

Concert

Concert is now less than five weeks away. Classes are

busily working towards their performance items with a

focus on achieving a vast array of Creative Arts and

English outcomes. Tickets orders have been sent

home. Ask your child for the note if you haven’t seen it

yet. Tickets are allocated on a ‘first in first allocated’

basis.

Public Speaking

Public Speaking finals will be held for all stages this

week. Congratulations to all students on their

participation in public speaking in class and especially

to those who have competed in class and stage finals.

Kindergarten held their finals today. Stage 1, 2 and 3

finals will be held on Thursday. Those competing have

each received a note indicating their selection and the

time of their final. Parents are invited to attend.

Kindergarten 2016

Kindergarten information night will be held on Thursday

night 7pm in the library. If you know of anyone with a

child starting Kindergarten in 2016 please invite them to

attend. Orientation days will be held in term 4 along with

parent/carer interviews.

Parking on Site

For the safety of our students, parents are

requested NOT to park within the school grounds or

drive into the school grounds to collect children.

Parents parking in the disabled car park must have a

disability label displayed in their car. Parking is limited

to the staff of Wollondilly school and My Direction.

Thank you for your co-operation with this concern.

Mrs Amanda Cooper

GCOPS-celebrating Public

Education!

GCOPS PERFORMANCES AND EDUCATION WEEK

AT SCHOOL

Last week, Education Week, was celebrated across and

in schools in the Goulburn district. Last Monday evening

our choir and dance groups performed at the Goulburn

Worker’s Club with other schools for the GCOPS

concert. Congratulations to all those students who put in

many hours of practise and performed so well on the

night. We are extremely proud of you!

The choir and dance groups also performed at Centro

during the week and were fantastic!! Congratulations.

Many thanks must go to Tiana Gospel who had to sing

without any accompanying music due to a malfunction in

the technology at Centro on the day.

Parents visited the school throughout the week to visit

their children in their classrooms, to watch the

“Jollybops” performance and the Maths day. Stage 3

students presented their wonderful “Australian Identity”

boxes in the hall. The library looked amazing with all the

students’ boomerangs on display and the wonderful

history display that Mrs Fennamore and Mrs Dunn had

so brilliantly assembled.

Many thanks to everyone for all your hard work and for

making the week such a memorable occasion.

NAIDOC ASSEMBLY

The whole school participated in the NAIDOC Week

assembly two weeks ago. An enormous thank you must

go to Mr Crossley and Mr Fagan for valiantly doing their

best to get the technology working. Despite the

technology failure, the school captains conducted the

assembly brilliantly and we all saw the visual

presentation in the library.

YEAR 5 CAMP

Next week, Year 5 will be going to Borambola Sport and

Recreation Camp. They leave on Wednesday 12th

August and return on Friday 14 August. ALL

PARENTS MUST COMPLETE THE MEDICAL/

CONSENT FORM on line before their child has legal

consent to attend. If you have not done this, PLEASE

ENSURE IT IS DONE IMMEDIATELY. A note went

home on Monday 3 August with all the information

concerning what to pack, what to do if your child has to

take medication and other useful information. A final

note will go home this Friday with the information

concerning what time the bus will be leaving and

returning. It will be a lot of fun and we are all looking

forward to the camp.

Jollybops - entertaining the students.

School Notes

School notes will now be available to download and

print from our school website, if you happen to

misplace or lose your original copy. We will no

longer be reprinting copies of original notes already

sent home. Wollondilly Public School link…..

http://www.wollondill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Notes can be found in the “W.P.S Notes” tab in the

menu at the top of the screen.

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2015

The Woolworths Earn and Learn promotion has now commenced. Sticker cards are available at Woolworths checkouts and once filled, can be placed in our school’s collection box at Woolworths, Goulburn. Please encourage family and friends to collect the stickers, so we can earn some great resources for our school. If you’d like to know more visit woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn Thank You Mrs Davy

WANTED-SHREK COSTUMES

KDH will be performing an item at the school concert

on the movie ‘Shrek’. If you have any character

costumes at home (Puss in Boots, Donkey, Three

Little Pigs, Gingerbread Man etc) that you would like

to lend our class for the item, then please contact

Mrs Davy.

Many thanks.

TWIN DAY SRC FUNDRAISER THIS FRIDAY

This Friday (7 August) the SRC is holding a twin day.

This means your child and their friend dress like twins. It

is a gold coin donation. The money raised is going to-

wards buying books for our MultiLit program and the 3-6

reading room. Arm bands will also be on sale on Friday.

The cost of an arm band is $2.

Thankyou (The SRC)

Goulburn Netball Clinic

Goulburn Netball Courts

Saturday 22 August 2015

Time: 9.00am–11.00am

Age: 6-14 year olds

Cost: $45 per person

(includes coaching and a goodies bag)

Bring: Water bottle, snack and comfortable clothes

For registration, please contact GDNA Coaching

Coordinator on 0422 141 859 or via email

gdna.coachingcoordinator@hotmail.com

Registrations close 17th August 2015.

Places are limited so get in quick! Tuesday mornings is student banking day.

5-6A White buckets needed………

5-6A needs 29 clean white buckets for their concert

item. We are looking for the kind that might be

recycled after holding supplies for tilers, builders and

bakers. 28-30 cm diameter at the top and about 28

cm deep. Deeper buckets are also useful. Any colour,

preferably with lids but we can use buckets without.

Many thanks,

Mrs Amanda Cooper

P B PARADE Positive Behaviour in the Classroom

3 PB Cards Term 3

Week 4 Wednesday 5 August - P & C meeting

commences at 7.30pm in the staffroom.

Week 4 Thursday 6 August - Kinder 2016

Information Night, 6-7pm in the School

library.

Week 5 Year 5 Camp at Borambola

Wednesday 12 August - Friday 14 August

Week 6 Friday 21 August -Regional Atheltics.

Week 7 Touch Gala Day for all years 3 to 6, at

Carr Confoy Oval, Eastgrove, cost is

$4.00 per student.

Week 8 Monday August 31– Big Cake Bake - Red

Cross Fundraiser

Week 8 Friday 4 September - P & C ‘s Father’s

Day Stall-please send in your presents

and support your fundraising team.

Week 9 School Concert

Monday Matinee 7 September 12.30pm

Tuesday 8 September 7.00pm

Thursday 10 September 7.00pm

Week 10 Tuesday & Wednesday 15 & 16

September– School Dental Clinic

Week 10 Friday 18 September- Last day of Term 3.

School resumes on Tuesday 6 October

for all students and staff.

SCHOOL CALENDAR 2015

Dates for your Diary

12 PB Cards

It’s not OK to be away It’s not great to be late

A reminder that school commences at 9.25 am

and concludes at 3.25pm

SkoolBag

Our School has our own Skoolbag iphone and Android App

to help communicate more effectively with our Parent/Carer

community We are asking parents/carers to install our

Skoolbag School App.

To install it, just search for our school name “Wollondilly

Public School” in either the Apple App store, or Google Play

Store.

Emily Walshe 2N

Toby Martin 2N Aiden Mathew 2N

Ayrika Scott 5-6C Meg Baxter 5-6C

Amity Frazer 5-6C Brodie Bird 2S

Mitchel Gardiner 2S Thomas Seaman 2S

Rex Sherwood 2S

Tom Clements 2S Tayah Thomas 2S

ENROL NOW FOR KINDERGARTEN 2016

- existing WPS families

We are now taking in area enrolments for our

Kindergarten children commencing in 2016. If you are

an existing “in area” family currently at WPS and are

enrolling a child for 2016, please request an

Enrolment Application Form from the school office, for

you to complete.

Kinder 2016-dates for your diary

Thursday 6 August, 6-7pm Information night in the

school library.

Thursday 22 October, Kinder interviews.

Kinder Orientation Wednesday 4 November &

Wednesday 25 November, from 10am to 12pm.

Early Arrivals at School

Students who travel by bus are the only students

who should arrive at school before 8.55am.

There is no supervision for any other students

before 8.55am. Do not drop off or send your

children before 8.55am.

6 PB Cards

Do you know of a business that would like to participate in our letterbox drop? We are fundraising for new read-ing books for MultiLit. We are offering to deliver 500 flyers for $50 or 1000 flyers for $100. Please contact me for more information.

Kellie Cameron

Learning and Support Teacher