Welcome Kindergarten Class of 2016

notable individual winner was

young Phoebe Paulston who won

many sections in the cooking, flow-

er and vegetable decorations to win

the overall champion exhibitor. It

has been a wonderful week for Wee

Waa Public School.

This week has certainly started with

a bang! Monday morning saw two

groups of students head off to par-

ticipate in either the PSSA knock out

Rugby League in Moree or the Nar-

rabri Eisteddfod. Our boys in the

league team took on the might of

Moree Public who fielded a team

almost totally made up of Year 6

boys. The final score showed how

close our boys went to a memora-

ble victory, beaten 14 to 12 with 3

tries each and only a solitary con-

version from Moree being the

difference. Congratulations to

coaches Toomey and Mason on

achieving such a great team effort.

Well done to all the boys who rep-

resented our school.

Winners were certainly grinners

with our Infants students winning

both the blue ribbon choir event

and the Infants Percussion group.

The students looked fantastic in

their uniform and their singing was

excellent scoring 90/100 to beat

both Narrabri West and St Xaviers

Infants choirs. Congratulations to

Miss Macpherson on producing

such a wonderful sound and to all

our staff on developing such a fine

disciplined performance. My mag-

nificent nine Year 2 students who

played drums did a fantastic job and

wowed the judge to score 88/100.

Great job Year 2!

Finally I cannot finish without mak-

ing a comment on the wonderful

Wee Waa show held over the week-

end. The entire show was a great

success and showed what a resilient

community we have here that even

in the worst of times we still put

forward our best. The school work

section was a magnificent display of

the range of work done across all

the district schools. Our kindergar-

ten students produced 11 of the 15

winners in their section and Year 5

won the Primary class section. A

View from the Principal’s Desk

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

The Week in

Review

2

Upcoming

Events

2

Classwork

Corner

3

Term Dates

3

All about

WWPS

4

Parent News 4

Wee Waa Public School 1 7 M A Y 2 0 1 6 W E E K 4 , T E R M 2

D A T E S T O

R E M E M B E R

18/5/16 School

Cup Netball

19/5/16 PSSA

Netball Wee

Waa

23/5—25/5

Life Education

Van

24/5/16 PSSA

Soccer

Coonamble

27/5/16 Zone

Netball Trials

08/06/16 Zone

Cross Country

Fairfax Public

24/6/16 Jump

Rope for

Heart

Phoebe Paulston was excited

to receive Most Successful

Exhibitor at the Wee Waa

Show on the weekend.

Wee Waa Public School Zone Cross Country Representatives 2016.

Good luck at Fairfax runners.

P A G E 2

Week 3 Happenings—Cross Country

The Week in Review—Art Workshop In Week 2 our Year 5/6

students spent a day in

Tamworth at a Depart-

ment of Education Visual

Art Workshop. The

workshop was held at the

Tamworth Regional Gal-

lery and was a hands on

day where our students

used a variety of different

media to create their art-

works.

Some wonderful work was

produced and several piec-

es won prizes in the local

show on the weekend.

Canteen Special Lunch

It’s footy fever—State of

Origin—Wed 1 June 2016

See the attached order

form!

Year 5/6 Canberra

Excursion

Sunday 24th—

Friday 29th July

$35 weekly instal-

ments!

You must have

paid at least $200

by 20th May.

After this date no

refunds will be

given.

Healthy Harold

Healthy Harold and the Life Educa-

tion Van will be visiting our school

from 23rd to 25th May.

If you want your child to

attend please sign the

permission note attached

to this newsletter and re-

turn it with $5 before

Monday 23rd May.

The school is subsiding this event

which would normally cost $11 per

child.

School on Wednesday 8th

June.

Upcoming Events

Cross Country

Well done to all of our

students who participated

in the cross country on

Thursday and gave it their

best!

Congratulations to those

students who will now go

on to represent our school

at the Zone Carnival to be

held at Fairfax Public

W E E W A A P U B L I C S C H O O L

Below: Age Champions and

Runners up from our school

cross country carnival.

Classwork Corner Wonderful 1R

P A G E 3 W E E K 4 , T E R M 2

Year 1 have been learning about how objects

can change. We looked at the differences be-

tween cooked and uncooked spaghetti. Check

out the spaghetti towers that we made!

Right: Mason, Logan and Liam concentrate on

building their spaghetti tower.

This includes parents, friends

and older siblings who are de-

livering lunches etc

Thank you for your under-

standing and we look forward

to seeing you at the office!

Thank you to all of our won-

derful volunteers who come

each week to help with read-

ing groups and other activities.

Please remember that ANY-

ONE who enters the school

grounds for any reason must

sign in at the office.

THANK YOU

A big thank you to all of the wrappers and donators of wrap-

ping paper and gifts for our Mother’s Day stall last week.

The help was greatly appreciated!

Term 1

Wed 3/2/16 to Fri 8/4/2016

Term 2

Wed 22/04/16 to Fri 1/7/16

June Long Weekend

Sat 11/6 to Mon 13/6/16

Term 3

Tue 19/7/16 to Fri 23/9/16

Term 4

Mon 10/10/16 to Fri 16/12/16

Term Dates

Don’t forget to visit the office

June Long

Weekend—

Monday 13th

June 2016.

The next General Meeting of the

P&C will be on TONIGHT Tuesday

3rd of May from 5.30pm in the

school staffroom.

Please consider coming along and

joining the P&C, everyone is made

very welcome.

Parent Contributions are due once

again. The Contribution Statement

and Explanatory letter is attached to

this week’s Newsletter. The money

raised from last year’s school fees

has been used to purchase some

new home readers and up to date-

books for our students to read in

class.

Primary classes are already using

some of our new home readers.

Thank you to our fantastic P&C.

41 Cowper Street

PO Box 128

WEE WAA NSW 2388

Phone: (02) 6795 4284

Fax: (02) 6795 3098

E-mail: weewaa-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

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Password weewaaps

Wee Waa Public School has something to offer every

child. Whether their interest lies in sport, academic chal-

lenge, technology or artistic endeavor.

Our school has a dedicated computer laboratory as well as

several class sets of both ipads and ipods.

Students who excel in the sporting arena have many op-

portunities to represent our school, district and zone at

State Level Competition in a huge variety of different indi-

vidual and team sports.

Academic achievement is encouraged with the provision of

Extension Classes for both infants and primary students.

Students who show talent with art are also catered for

with the school running a successful Art Extension pro-

gram each year.

Wee Waa Public School hosts a variety of cultural and

musical shows in our school hall throughout the year and

also attend and perform at the Narrabri Eisteddfod.

If you would like any further information

please contact Mr Peter Carrett (Principal)

on 6795 4284.

Department of Education -

NSW

Parent News

Respecting the past, valuing the present,

aiming for the future.

Wee Waa Public School

School winter wear is now available at the school canteen.

School jumpers $20.00

School jackets $30.00

Winter material to make the tunics $15.00 per metre

Also available

School sport shirts $18.00

White school shirts $18.00

Some pre-loved school wear is also available.

The P&C will be doing an order for new winter clothing on Wednesday

18th May. This order will include girls long sleeved lemon shirts, green

microfiber track pants (Sport), boys grey polo shirts, boys football shorts

(Sport) and football socks.

If you wish to order please complete the attached order form and re-

turn it to the office no later than Wednesday 18th May. Full payment

must be included with your order.

COPPLESON, Sir Victor Marcus (1893-1965), Surgeon

Victor was born in Wee Waa and educated at the Wee Waa Public School, Syd-

ney Grammar School and St Andrews College, University of Sydney (M.B., Ch.M.,

1915). In November 1915 he joined the Australian Naval and Military Expedition-

ary Force to New Guinea. In March 1916 as a Captain he sailed for the Middle

East and in June went to France with the 15th Field Ambulance. He had several

spells as regimental medical officer in France and Belgium and on 12 May 1917

was wounded at Bullecourt. He was promoted Major on 28 February 1918. Vic-

tor worked as a house surgeon at St George’s Hospital, London, from April 1919;

he was demobilized in London at the end of that year. He also worked and

gained experience at Westminster and Middlesex Hospitals; he became a fellow

of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1921.

Victor had remained on the reserve of officers and when WWII started, he joined

up in January 1941 as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he arrived in the Middle East and

went on to serve in Greece and Crete. From 1926 he had been an honorary med-

ical adviser to the Surf Life Saving Association of Australia and wrote several arti-

cles on the shark peril before publishing Shark Attack in 1958 the book brought

him world recognition.

With Judge Adrian Curlewis he helped organize the first International Convention

on Life Saving Techniques, held in Sydney in 1960: as a result mouth-to-mouth

resuscitation was universally adopted. Victor was knighted in 1964 for his ser-

vices to medicine.

The Kokoda Challenge

Year 5 held a successful cupcake stall last week. The funds raised

will be used for the Year 6 farewell at the end of the year.

In July Miss Raymond and Mrs Currey are heading to the gold coast to take part in one of the toughest team endur-ance events in Australia…. the Kokoda Challenge! It is a gruelling, cross-country trek through the spectacular Gold Coast hinterland. The time limit for completion is 39 hours.

The time limit of 39 hours is in honour of the 39th Militia, who were the first troops to defend Australia at Kokoda.

Each team of four participants (with the help of their Support Crew) treks the course along fire trails, crossing 12 creeks

and climbing summits of 5,000m of vertical elevation. The goal is to finish as a complete team of four in honour of the

spirit forged on the Kokoda Track in 1942: courage, endurance, mateship and sacrifice.

This is a preparation event for Miss Raymond as she tackles the real Kokoda Track later this year.

Please support our dedicated teachers as they take part in this worthwhile event. Miss Raymond and Mrs Currey will

hold a cake stall on Friday 27th May. Donations of cakes etc to sell would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Save the Date

Cakestall—Friday 27th May 2016

Cakes, toffees, treats

from 50c—$1

WHY IS THERE A COMPULSORY FUNDRAISING PART TO THIS EVENT? WHAT ARE WE FUNDRAISING FOR?

You are fundraising for The Kokoda Challenge Youth Program (KCYP) which is a 14 month experiential program for

16 – 18 year olds.

The KCYP selects applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds and at different stages in their lives to work to-

gether in a unique team building program designed for learning the life skills and values of courage, endurance,

mateship and sacrifice.

Once they have completed 20 weeks of training the young people embark on a trip of a life time – The Kokoda Trail.

Whilst in PNG and completing the trail our young people participate in humanitarian activities such as rebuilding of

the schools and villages. On return to Australia before graduating from the KCYP, the young people (more often

than not now young adults) are committed to giving back to their local communities through a 6 month community

services program. Each young person is fully funded and costs the association $10,000.

Our primary school program consists of curriculum based modules focusing on issues around food and nutrition, personal safe-ty, physical activity, cyber safety, safety with medicine and legal drugs; tobacco, alcohol and caffeine.

By taking a comprehensive approach to drug and health education our modules help children to develop relationship skills,

positive communication (both face to face and online), problem solving and decision making skills.

We provide students the opportunity to develop strategies, and practise the skills required to avoid the harms associated with

an unhealthy lifestyle.

Each module presents an issue or issues with memorable and engaging activities. Our specially trained educators ensure that

all messages are age-appropriate, relevant and enhance and support the messages taught in Australian schools.

If you would like your child to participate in this program please sign the permission note below and return it to school with $5

per student no later than Monday 23rd May. The school is subsiding the lessons which would normally cost $11 per student.

……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

I give permission for my child/children _______________________________________ Class _____

_______________________________________ Class _____

_______________________________________ Class _____

To participate in the Life Education lessons at Wee Waa Public School from 23rd to 25th May 2016. I have enclosed $5 per stu-

dent towards the cost of this program.

______________________________ ________________

Signature Date