NEWSLETTER

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CHERTSEY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Willow Road Springfield 2250 

Phone:  4325 3963                4323 1443   Fax:       4323 6891 E‐mail: chertsey‐p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web site: www.chertsey‐p. schools.nsw.edu.au 

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Father’s Day Stall Thank you to the P & C committee for organizing the Father’s Day Stall for 2010. It was great to see so many children coming to school to purchase a gift for their Dads or significant male role model in their lives … as a proud dad myself I know how much Dads appreciate these things! Father’s Day Breakfast Our staff are looking forward to seeing another large turn-out for this Friday’s Father’s Day Breakfast, starting at 7.30am in our school hall. We have planned not only a great breakfast menu but some fun activi-ties as well. You and your child/ren might like to view a great online Maths Program (Mathletics) in our P & C Computer Lab, play a game of Volleyball in our fantastic COLA, read one of our new books that were donated by some of our lovely families during Education Week (in the library) or play a game in the canteen area. Staffing Mr. Anderson will be on leave throughout this week and Mrs. Vaughan, Mrs. Auinger and I (Mr. Fran-cis) will be replacing him during his term of absence. All matters pertaining to the School Principal this week should be directed to one of the aforementioned Assistant Principals. District Athletics! Congratulations to all of the students who competed at the District Athletics Carnival at Mingara last Thurs-day and Friday. A special thanks to Team Manager, Mr. Noel Payne for looking after the Chertsey PS tent and ensuring our students were ready for their events. Also, a huge thanks to those parents who were able to assist with transport to and from the carnival. I was fortunate enough to attend the District Carnival on both days and was very pleased by the positive manner in which our students competed. Well done to Calisto Cook (Junior Girls High Jump) and Hayden Doe (13 Years Boys 100 m) who have gained selection in the BWPSSA Athletics Team who will be competing at the Regional Carnival at Sydney Athletics Centre, Homebush on Monday 20 September. Literacy and Numeracy Week National Literacy and Numeracy Week is being celebrated across Australia from August 29 until September 4. Thank you to Miss Sammut for co-ordinating our school’s activities this year. Chertsey

students have participated in the “Learning for Living” theme through collaborative story-telling / story-writing. Each class will be creating a “storybird” which is a visual online story. Each class’s storybird displays the students’ creative and imagi-native skills as well as the ability to work together as a team to construct a class project. The students’ stories can be viewed on the school website next week. Well done to Nick of K-6D for winning our recent Hat Draw. I am sure Nick will enjoy the prize of a Slushie from our school canteen. My thanks to Mrs Dyer and the school’s P&C for supporting this initiative. Greg Francis for John Anderson

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KINDERGARTEN 2011

Do you have a child or know of any children who will be starting kindergarten next year? If so please contact the school so that we can place you on our list of families to be sent information regarding our Headstart Program. This information will be sent to families in the coming weeks. Please contact Kris Denning on 4325 3963

SCHOOL PERFORMANCE Rehearsals, costumes and prop making are well underway for our school performance in Week 10 – ‘Our Australia’. There will be two evening performances, Wednesday evening 22nd and Thursday evening 23rd September. Both performances will begin at 7.00pm. Ticket prices are $4.00 per ticket or $15.00 for family ticket package of (4 tickets). Tickets go on sale from Monday 6th September at 8.30am for both performances. Tickets can only be pur-chased through the front office. No child will be able to purchase tickets. Please do not send money with your child. If you are unable to come to the office please ask an adult friend to purchase your tickets. No ticket money will be taken prior to the day of sales – Monday 6th September. It would be appreciated if you could have the correct money for your ticket purchases as change will be limited. This system was used for our last performance and is deemed to be fairest. Thankyou in anticipation of your support of our concert. Gail Palmer

Year 6 Farewell It is now that time of year where the Stage 3 teachers start thinking about end of year activities including the Year 6 Farewell. We are looking for a group of Year 6 parents who are willing to meet with us and discuss the organi-sation of this important milestone in your child’s life. We anticipate a similar event to past years (dinner and bowl-ing) but we are open to ideas. A note was handed out last week asking for volunteers. Please see us if you are interested in helping. Mr Francis, Miss Wiseman, Mrs Vaughan and Ms Daley Choir 2010 Last Friday, the choir, accompanied by Miss Susie and myself, travelled to Sydney for the Festival of Choral Mu-sic at the iconic Sydney Opera House. The day started with a (rather long!) walk from Milson’s Point Station across the Harbour Bridge, down through the Rocks, past Circular Quay and finally, ending at the Opera House. The choir then participated in a Dress Rehearsal along with 24 other Primary Schools from across NSW. After a dinner break with their parents, the choir got ready for the moment they had been working towards all year - the concert itself. I’m sure all who were present would agree our students were absolutely amazing as part of the combined choir, and had everyone spellbound with their extraordinary singing talent! Miss Susie and I were ex-tremely proud of not only their behaviour, but also their enthusiasm and professionalism. Congratulations on a wonderful performance! Thank you to those parents, family members and friends who supported the choir over the last seven months and in particular, on Friday. Without this continued support, your children would not be able to participate in these wonderful opportunities. Thank you also to Miss Susie who has been a wonderful choir teacher and whose ex-pertise we value greatly. Choir will continue through the remainder of the year as we still have many other per-formances to prepare for including the upcoming school concert, Presentation Day and Year 6 Farewell assem-bly. Finally, many choir and recorder group students will also attend the “Wicked” excursion next Wednesday 8th Sep-tember (Week 8). The group will travel by train to the Capitol Theatre in Sydney for the 1pm matinee session. A reminder note with further details will go home later this week. Miss Wiseman

Gosford City Reads Last Tuesday, K – 2 had an exciting morning at Gosford Library, Erina. Gosford City Reads is an initiative of Gosford City Council which aims to promote early childhood literacy throughout the community. The children were treated to a tour of the library and given information about joining. They listened to stories read by the librarian, and even got to take part in the storytelling with props and masks. The stories, ‘The Waterhole’ and ‘The Wrong Book’ are available for borrowing from our library. If you and your children are not already mem-bers of Gosford Library, maybe now would be a good time to join. Our thanks to Nada Potter and Lisa Seaman for organising this treat for us.

Anne Whitty

Scholastic Book Club Welcome to Book Club Issue 6. There are some great deals on fantastic books and other products in this issue. For our almost teens check out the books on the inside back page of the Star catalogue. “Tomorrow, When the War Began” is now a major motion picture as well as a Premier’s Reading Challenge book. Page five of the Lucky brochure has some beaut how to draw books. Final orders for this issue are due in by this Friday to Ms Daley. Happy Reading!

Gecko Club You may have noticed that K6D’s old demountable has now gone and we have been left with a lovely patch of ground where Gecko Club can establish some gardens. This week we started to plan our gardens and with thanks to Mr Martin and Bunnings we hope to be ready to plant in a few weeks. Gecko Club meet most Monday’s (weather permitting) at Lunch One play time outside K6D’s room. All students welcome!

AMBULANCE VISIT

Week 7 Tuesday 31st August

On Tuesday between 12:00 and 3:00pm, one of our Chertsey dad’s, Mr Scott Dries (Lachlan ) will be running an interactive session for K-2 students. Children will have an opportunity to learn about the NSW Ambulance Service. Thanks to Scott for being available to us. Next Term, years 3-6 will have a similar opportunity and details of this next session will be pub-lished in the school newsletter. Penelope Tillers

COLES SPORTS FOR

SCHOOLS

Shop at Coles or Bi-Lo from the 2 September until the 31 October and for every $10 spent the school will receive a voucher worth 1 point. At the end of this period all of the points earned will be redeemed for sporting equipment for the school. It’s so easy, shop, earn and drop the voucher/s into the box that will be located in the school foyer. We have already earned 100 points just by registering early. Tell your family, friends and neighbours to collect as well, the more vouchers, the more equipment. Remember shop at Coles or Bi-Lo and earn, earn, earn.

Kate Currie Co-ordinator

 

 

 

 

  

Friday 3/9 Father’s Day Breakfast Starting at 7:30am

Tuesday 7/9 MSP—Photography Primary/Sports photos

Wednesday 8/9

‘Wicked’ Excursion –The Capital– matinee session Choir/Recorder Group)

Tuesday 14/9

P & C Meeting

DIARY

DATES

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Meetings are held

every 2nd Tuesday of

each month 6.30pm.

All parents are

welcome!

School Community Hall for hire. Chertsey Com-munity Cottage for hire.

Phone school Office for details

CHERTSEY SaCCs

School as Community Centres

Phone: 4323 7158 Fax: 4323 7158 Facilitator: Nada Potter

Our canteen is now opened on :

MondayMonday WednesdayWednesday

Thursday and FridayThursday and Friday

Canteen 1. Canteen Volunteers - Volunteers are always appreci-

ated – the busiest days being toward the end of the week and especially Friday.

2. Volunteer Draw - All Volunteers who spend time help-

ing in the canteen any time this term go in the draw for a pamper voucher (Body Shop…I think?) to be drawn at the end of the term

3. Children’s Draw – any child who puts in a lunch order

on a Monday only for this term goes in the draw for a Scooter to be drawn at the end of the term

Merit Awards Alexander KA Anton KA Amy K/1P Jaydenn K/1P Cassie 1/2H Khalil 1/2H Sami 2W Cassie 2W Leslie K/2S Ava K/2T Justin Reading 2H Quentin Reading 2H Reece 3/4S Keenan 3/4S Brad 3/4C Holly 3/4C Jacob 3-6V Jaiden K-6D Brock 5-6W Teelia 5-6W Marko 5-6F Tamara 5/6F Dylan Library (Primary) Skye Reading

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NSWAGTC SCHOOL HOLIDAY WORKSHOPS Wednesday 6 October 2010 9.30am to 3.00pm St Phillips Christian College—Middle School 57 High St. Waratah NSW 2298 ..................................................... NSWAGTC JUNIOR SCIENCE WORKSHOP LEGO ROBOTICS Saturday 30 October 2010 10.00am to 12.00pm Gosford Public School Manns Road Gosford 2250 02 9633 5399 Fax: 02 9633 5799 Email: office@nswagtc.org.au Web: www.nswagtc.org.au

Core Hours: 10.00am to 2.00pm Wed & Fri. BOOKINGS AND PAYMENT ESSENTIAL via registration form on website. Events Co-ordinator Julie Porter-Stephens 0408167249 Weekdays (10.00 –2.00pm

WE WANT YOUR EMAIL As part of our move towards the Digital Education Revolution, Chertsey Primary would like to start sending out our par-ent newsletter and other important no-tices by email. While we have some family email ad-dresses from enrol-ment forms, we would like to develop a com-prehensive list. Any information sent in this format will be sent in a manner which does not dis-close your email address to anyone else. If you are happy to provide your email address, please send an email to: chertsey-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au with the subject line “Newsletter”

Chertsey Primary School &

CHERTSEY SCHOOLS AS COMMUNITY CENTRES

HEADSTART Is your child coming to school in 2011?

And do you live in Springfield?

CHERTSEY PRIMARY SCHOOL Has the best Transition To School Program on the Central Coast!

Our program is full of fun and learning for Parents & Children. Your child will love coming to school by attending this quality

Transition to School Program. It will give your child a chance to meet friends and teachers in a warm and nurturing environment.

If you would like more information about Headstart Program

please call the school on 4325 3963 or Nada on 43237158

COMMENCING Wednesday 11th August 2010 Time: 11.45 am– 1: 15pm

AT CHERTSEY PRIMARY SCHOOL