FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Welcome to the Week 10 Newsletter!

Olympics Fun Day! What a fantastic day we had on Tuesday for

our Olympic Fun Day! It was wonderful to

have Wyangala Dam PS visit us for the day!

The students represented different countries

and competed in some crazy events such as

pool noodle javelin and ping pong fly swat

hockey!

Students stood on the podium to receive

their medals, and all countries participated

in the torch relay and our opening ceremony!

NEWSLETTER

What’s On?

Social Distancing for adults will still continue in schools.

Winter Holiday

Break July:

12th – Teachers return for Term 3

13th – First day for students in Term 3

21st – Life Education Van

Week 3 –Education Week

29th - Book Fair - Open classrooms & parent morning tea

August:

13th – District Athletics Carnival

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Term 2 2021 Week 10

Creative Kids Vouchers Please send in your hard copy of the Creative Kids Voucher, or email the PDF, after you have applied online.

The voucher will cover all Parkour lessons at the PCYC and bus travel to and from the venue.

How do you apply? Instructions are on a note included with this newsletter.

Thank you to all our parents who have sent in their vouchers!

COVID Update: The current guidelines state that we are not able to welcome adults on site if not for curricula based activities therefore some events planned for Term 3 may need to be adjusted. Watch this space! Hopefully we will be back to COVID normal soon!

Olympics Fun Day! What a fantastic day we had on Tuesday for our Olympic Fun Day!

The students represented different countries and competed in

some crazy events such as pool noodle javelin and ping pong fly

swat hockey!

Researching their countries and creating their

flags ready for the Opening Ceremony!

Finland

Ecuador

Kuwait Madagascar Lebanon

Malaysia

Malta

Morroco

Olympics Fun Day!

Opening Ceremony

& Torch Relay

Pool Noodle Javelin

& Fly Swat Hockey

Balloon Walking

& Tug of War

The Podium!

Assembly Awards

Hilda Baylor Challenging herself in all areas of learning

Riley Traves His commitment during literacy activities

Riley Smith A thorough effort on his project

Riley Buckanen Striving to do his best work in English

Emily Cameron Her positive attitude in class!

Alana Kiss Displaying a fantastic attitude to learning

William Baylor& Hilda Baylor 50 nights of reading!

Lachlan Langfield Displaying a caring and kind attitude to others.

Principal’s Award

Congratulations everyone! Amazing effort!

Noah Newton Receiving his Principal’s Award from our last assembly

School Spectacular Audition

The School Spectacular audition tape has been submitted for

our bid to be part of the action this year! We will be joining with

Wyangala Dam PS and Gooloogong PS as the Cowra Small

Schools’ group.

Fingers crossed! We won’t know if we are successful until July.

If we are successful, the School Spectacular performances will

be held on Friday and Saturday 19th & 20th November at

Homebush in Sydney.

‘Mystery Tour’ Whole School Excursion

This year our whole school excursion will be a

day trip – a mysterious mystery tour!

Students will not know where they are going

until they get there!

The day will include more than one

destination. We will start early and return

late! The Mysterious Mystery Tour will take

place on Friday 10th September. More

information closer to the date!

Leadership Camp Term 4

In term 4, students from Years 5

& 6 will be invited to attend a 2

day (1 night) camp to the Blue

Mountains.

More information on this will be

sent home closer to the day.

ALL THE FUNDS THE SCHOOL RAISES

FROM RAFFLES, THE PIE DRIVE AND

OTHER EVENTS WILL GO TOWARDS

SUBSIDISING THESE EXCURSIONS.

Confirmed Dates for

Performances and Excursions

These dates are ALL

CONFIRMED

Whole School Mystery Tour

Friday 10th September

School Spectacular Friday 19th &

Saturday 20th November

Years 5 & 6 Leadership Camp

Tuesday 14th to Wednesday 15th

December

Small Schools Creative Arts

Performance Thursday 25th

November

End of Year Presentation

Assembly – Monday 13th

December

HPS now has a QR Code. Please ‘Check In’ when you come into the school office, and ‘Check Out’ on leaving. The QR Code is at the entrance to the school office. Downloading the SERVICE NSW app on your phone is the easiest way to do this. You will also be required to sign the ‘Visitors’

Acknowledgement Form’.

Lunch Orders in Week 1

Monday – Student Free Day today

Tuesday – Jam or Vegemite Sandwich $2

Wednesday – Cheese Toastie - $2

Thursday – Jam or Vegemite Sandwich - $2

Friday – Pie - $2

Please write your child’s name and lunch order on a paper bag prior to sending to school.

What a lot of pies! Thank you to Cheri, Georgie and Anthea for making this fund raising event run so smoothly! And thank you to everyone who bought pies and supported our school’s fundraising efforts. This was a very successful fundraiser, raising more than $800! … now you get to eat them!

Have safe and happy winter holiday!

Kind regards,

Melissa Tracy Principal

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Attachments:

✓ Lunch orders for

Week 1

✓ Creative Kids

Vouchers Info

Sadly we say farewell to Ms Jemma Pokoney as today is her last day at Holmwood. She has been an amazing pre-service teacher and we wish her all the very best in her career. We’ll miss you Jemma!