Email: tocumwal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au or visit our website: www.tocumwal-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Phone: (03) 58 742 128 Fax: (03) 58 742 281

Principal: Darren White

TOCUMWAL PUBLIC SCHOOL

Wednesday 21st March, 2018 Term 1, Week 8

Important Dates

Wednesday 21st March P&C Meeting 7pm

Thursday 29th March Easter Hat Parade

Easter Raffle Drawn

Friday 30th March Good Friday

Monday 2nd April Easter Monday

Friday 13th April Last Day Term 1

Wednesday 25th April ANZAC Day

Monday 30th April First Day Term 2 - Staff

Tuesday 1st May First Day Term 2 - Students

Principal’s Report Congratulations to our Regional Swimmers Last Wednesday, 19 of our finest swimmers who had qualified for the Regional Carnival went to Albury with a real purpose. They planned to do their very best and that’s exactly what they did. Congratulations to all of our individual and relay swimmers who brought their “A game” to the day. Personal Best times were smashed by all of our swimmers who stepped up on this occasion to perform their best on the big stage. Thank you to all of their parents and supporters who came to cheer them on. Tocumwal PS were well represented. Well done to: Cooper Quick, Adrienne Jones, Molly-Mae Ruigrok, Alex Booth, Heath Mansell, Jett Parker, Evelyn McCallum, Abigail Walsh, Logan White, Katya Eddy, Remmi Wardlaw, Hunter Hardwidge, Tahlia Pate, Alana Sutton, Dylan Schwan, Charles Locke, Will O’Connell, Kane Wardlaw and Jackson Bury.

Logan and Jackson Bound for Sydney We congratulate Logan White Year 4 and Jackson Bury Year 6 who continued their dominance in the pool by qualifying for the State PSSA Swimming Carnival to be held in Sydney’s Homebush Olympic Pool on the 11th-12th April. At the Riverina Regional carnival on Wednesday these students qualified into the Riverina team by coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd in their events. Logan qualified for 6 events after winning the 10 year Boys 50m Freestyle (just missing the Riverina Record by 0.3 of a second), Junior Backstroke and Breaststroke

and coming second in the Butterfly and IM 200m this also qualifies him to swim the 10years boy’s leg of the Riverina Boys Team relay. Jackson has qualified in two events after winning the senior boys 50m Backstroke and placing 3rd in the Breaststroke. Well done to both of you and keep up the training for the NSW PSSA State Swimming Championships.

Breah Gill Tayah Gill

Mrs Brooks

Mathletes of the Week:

Infants: Emily Mansell

Primary: Ryan Huang

ASSEMBLY 2.30PM FRIDAY

No Flies on Us Last week, students in Years 5 and 6 walked down to the old Bowling Club to participate in a community program aimed at learning about fruit flies and how they, as students, can play a part in protecting our local fruit growing industry. Hosted by the Lion’s Club of Tocumwal and its members, our children made a fruit fly trap each for themselves to take home. It looked like a lot of fun.

Welcome to our School I would like to welcome our newest member of staff to Tocumwal Public School. We have Mrs. Maryanne Ryan who was successful in obtaining a Teacher’s Aide position through merit selection for the next 12 months. Maryanne comes to us with a wealth of experience of working in a school environment. Maryanne has a great understanding of the processes that occur on a daily basis in schools. She has made a wonderful start to our school and we look forward to having her as part of our school community.

Western Riverina AFL Trials We wish Brock Bear, Hunter Hardwidge, Kane Wardlaw, Joe Barker and Jackson Bury all the best of footballers luck as the join the rest of the Finley District AFL team to play in the Western Zone AFL trials on Thursday March 22nd in Leeton NSW. The Finley Zone team will play against other Western Riverina Zones throughout the day. At the end of the day a Western Riverina Team will be selected to attend a further selection trial against the Eastern Riverina team. From here students will be selected to play in the Riverina AFL team to compete in the NSW PSSA State AFL Carnival.

Easter Hat/ Lunchbox/Basket Parade and Raffle Next Thursday 29th April during afternoon assembly (2:30pm) students are invited to bring or wear to school an Easter hat/ bonnet. All participating students will parade their Easter hat/ bonnet/ in front of the school in the assembly area while dancing to their class’s selected song. We will not be having a normal assemblyduring the parade.We will draw the P&C Easter Egg raffle after the parade.

Work Experience This week we have the pleasure of hosting past student Sarah Gillespie as part of her High School Year 10 work experience program. Sarah from St Mary’s, Nathalia is here to enjoy her experience and to help out. We know she will have a great time while she is here helping out Year 2. It is wonderful to have students return and see how much they have matured. Nitbusters Day On Monday we had our first “Nitbusters” Day for the year. It was a successful day with local hairdressers Jayde from Lush and Bec from Rusties giving up their time to do our checking. A big thanks also to our P&C members Kim Sutton, Leonie Dawes and President Vanessa Bury for their time to process the return notes home. We will do the follow up day in Term 3. Thank you to our parents who have supported this P&C/NSW Dept. Health initiative. P&C Meeting The next P&C meeting will be held tonight 21st March at 7:00pm in the school library. We would love for you to join us.

Email: tocumwal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au or visit our website: www.tocumwal-p.school.nsw.edu.au

Phone: (03) 58 742 128 Fax: (03) 58 742 281

Canteen Roster

Friday 23rd March 9am-12.00pm: Emily Tuck 11.30am-2.30pm: Volunteer Required

Thursday 23rd March All Day: Laura Palmer

Friday 6th April All Day: Laura Palmer

Friday 13th April All Day: Laura Palmer

P&C Easter Raffle Drawn Thursday 29th March

Please return tickets to the office by Wednesday28th March

We are asking each family to please donate an Easter Item for the Raffle. Thank you to those

who have already donated.

School Fees Attached to Newsletter in Week 3 was the 2018 School Fee contribution form. This also takes into account the cost of text books and consumables. It also has the option to buy a Riversider (School Magazine 2018) at a reduced price at the start of the year. It would be appreciated if you could return the form to the school office with your payment promptly. We thank you in advance for your contribution. Wearing Riverina Apparel to School It is wonderful that our students experience the highs of representing their zone at Riverina Regional carnivals and events. It is a great opportunity to buy some merchandise from the clothing stands etc… However, these articles of clothing (including shorts, shirts and jumpers) are not the school uniform and should not be worn to school in the place of the school uniform. The only time a student may wear Riverina apparel to school will be the next school day immediately after they attend the Riverina event. At no other time is it to replace school uniform. NB. The only exception is that Riverina socks may be worn at any time. Moving into Year 7 in a NSW Government School in 2019 Students in Year 6 have received an information guide and expression of interest form for parents and carers. Regardless of where your child may be attending next year could all parents return the completed sections relevant to their intentions on or before Friday 23rd March. We are only waiting on a couple to be returned. Thank you.

Darren White

Lego Robots At the end of last year our

school invested a significant amount of money in the

purchase of Lego EV3 kits. The kits allow students to design, build and program robots! When working with the EV3 kits, students work

collaboratively whilst thinking critically and creatively to solve real world problems. Year 6 have been learning

the ins and outs of the kits in the last month and are

having a blast!