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TERM 4 ~ WEEK 9

Ph: 4284 6962 Fax: 4284 4079 Email: pleasantht-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 3 Alvan Parade, Mount Pleasant 2519

Coming Events

Week 9 Thursday 5th December

Back to PHPS Day – Time Capsule Reveal

No Canteen Lunch Orders Today

Week 10 Monday 9th December

Year 6 Presentation Assembly time 12 noon

Year 6 Farewell at the Fraternity Club 6 - 9 pm

Wednesday 11th December

P&C Meeting 7.15pm Friday 13th December

Gold Assembly 12pm

Saturday 14th December

P&C Bunnings BBQ

Week 11 Wednesday 18th December

Last Day for Students Thursday 19th & Friday 20th December

Pupil Free Days

School Updates

The day is here, tomorrow we will celebrate our Back to PHPS/1988 Capsule Reveal Day. At this time I must thank our wonderful committee. Mrs Worthington, Mr Swan, Mrs Phipps, Mrs Nicholls, Mrs Isedale and Mrs Appleby for the many weeks of planning and preparation they have put into arranging and organizing for tomorrow. Also to my staff who have all worked hard to prepare our students and school for tomorrow. We have an amazing team of teachers, administration staff and support staff at PHPS who work tirelessly for the students and community of our school! Our school students look forward to performing for you tomorrow for this special celebration. We hope you can join us. Some reminders for tomorrow. Firstly the driveway will be closed at 9.30 for the day. There will be no through traffic after this time. There is no parking on site tomorrow with the exception of our invited guests. School staff will be on hand to direct invited guests to their parking spots. We are expecting lots of visitors tomorrow, so, as advised previously, the drive though will be closed for afternoon pick up with the only exception being for the two afterschool buses. Can you help us? As advised last week, there will be an oval Working Bee this Saturday, to revitalize the school oval. Volunteers are needed at 10.00am.

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The Heights Happenings TERM 4 ~ WEEK 9

Please see a letter from Clarence Slokee (organizing Parent from school) attached to this newsletter. Year 6 Assembly Next Monday at 12 noon we will celebrate 7 years of schooling for our Year 6 students. At this special assembly a number of school awards will be presented to Year 6. These include the PHPS Excellence Award, PHPS Sports Award, Principals Award, Positive Behaviour for Success Award, Band Award, Rotary Pride of Workmanship and Keira Citizenship Award. We are looking forward to a number of special guests including Mr Ryan Park Member for Keira, Mr David O’Connor Director of Schools, Mr David Robson Principal of our partner High School, Keira High, Ms Caroline David P&C President. At this special assembly our captains and SRC elect will be announced. Have a good week

Lee Venables

Assembly Awards

Class Students KC Jurni Y

Finlay T Emily B Zane G

KG Oliver M Angus R

Evie N Abby C

1CR Bronte W Liam C

Ella W Liam An

1/2K Elodie P Tyera A

Samantha P Phoebe C

2R Amelia A Rubin G

Rogan H Breanna M

3N Alee H Harry S

Harry W Faisal S

3/4S Alex C Luke P

Lucy J Holly R

5P Michael T Lili O

Pearse H Charlotte M

6C Maya G Jade M

Sophie H Ben G

Personal Best Awards

Congratulations to the following students who achieved Gold, Silver and Bronze recently. Gold students will receive their badges at the special Gold Assembly on Friday 13 December. Silver and Bronze students will receive their certificates at the next assembly.

GOLD Level 1 Ayeesha M, Oliver M, Natalie H,

Evie N

Level 2 Yousef E

Level 3 Alee H, Jade B

Level 4 Bora S, Zac S

SILVER Level 1 Phoebe C, Alee E, Caden H,

Cruz S

Level 2 Elodie P, George L

Level 3 Ellen V, Bianca K

Level 4 Harrison W, Kathryn W, Luke P, Holly R, Ben S, Alex C, Amelia B

Level 5 Luca G, Danijela P, Jade M

BRONZE Level 3 Lachlan O

Level 4 Charli E, Omar M

Level 5 Daniel S, Xena K, Max H, Shari S, Callum C

Library News

Stocktake Thank you for your support and patience. Stocktake is now almost complete. However, there will now be no more borrowing this term (except K-3 Readers). Author Visit On Friday 6th December, author Aleesah Darlison is visiting our school. Aleesah has kindly donated her time to talk with the K-3 children about writing, books and reading. Children may order her books (notes went home last week) or bring money on the day. Children may also order books after the event and Aleesah will do her best to get them to us by the end of the term

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The Heights Happenings TERM 4 ~ WEEK 9

Tomorrow is the big day! We are looking forward to seeing many past and present community members, students, teachers and friends at our school for this very exciting day when we will reveal the contents of the Bicentennial Time Capsule at our special assembly. This will be followed by an afternoon of fun activities. Everyone is welcome to help us celebrate “Back to PHPS”!

9.15 – 11.15 Normal class lessons for students

11.15 – 11.45 RECESS

12.00 Special Celebration Assembly-Time capsule items will be displayed in the school hall throughout the day

1.00 Barbecue lunch - on the oval

1.30 – 3.00 Celebration Activities- on the oval

jumping castles ($5)

lucky dips ($5)

hairspray ($1)

nail painting ($1)

tattoos ($1)

face painting ($1 - $4)

pre-owned book stall (50c - $7)

lemonade ($1.50)

lolly stall 50c - $1

cake stall 50c - $2

coffee vans

mini canteen

major raffle draw

soft drinks ice creams

guessing competition

1988 photo booth

sale of merchandise

sausage sizzle barbecue

fire brigade

Due to the popularity of the school commemorative items which many students and families have already purchased, we have decided to sell these items tomorrow after the assembly. For those families who missed out on purchasing the commemorative items, they will be available on a stall outside the hall. Items for sale will include:

PHPS pen with a touchscreen stylus and bright flashlight attached - chrome accents, black finish ($6.00)

PHPS keyring - chrome accents, black finish ($6.00)

DVD including current and past Pleasant Heights memories and time capsule contents ($15.00)

The pen and keyring can be purchased as a set for $10.00, or all 3 items (pen, keyring,DVD) can be purchased for $25.00. Also, if you would like to purchase more sausage sizzles ($2.50) or jumping castle tickets ($5) they will be available tomorrow.

We would appreciate any donations of cakes and sweets for the cake stall tomorrow. These can be brought to school in the morning where they will be collected in the Green Room. Thank you very much for your support with this!

The volunteer roster for tomorrow is attached to this newsletter. Again, thank you to all the parents/caregivers/community members who have volunteered their support to help us with activities tomorrow!

Volunteer Roster Thank you to all our parents and families that have volunteered to help. If you have any questions or are unable to fulfill your timeslot, please contact Kelly on 0417 842265.

1.00 - 1.30pm 1.30 - 2.00pm 2.00 - 2.30pm 2.30 - 3.00pm

BBQ - Serving Belinda Clayton Belinda Clayton Simon Bain Simon Bain Catherine Purdie Catherine Purdie

BBQ - Coupons/Register Beth Bignell Beth Bignell Sharon Anderson Sharon Anderson

Cakes & Refreshments Mandy Lee Mandy Lee Trudi Murray Trudi Murray Clare Matthews Tara Corolla Shauna Thompson Rea Alban

Lucky Dip & Lemonade Jodie Stoyles Jodie Stoyles Mette James Kate Campbell Karina Cavanough Elissa Neill Anthea Gostt Pippa Burns

Selling raffle tickets Suzan Sengul Sharon Doolan

Nail painting stall Diane Kelly Diane Kelly Casey Snow Casey Snow Saada Hadaya Saada Hadaya Zaynab Mohamad Terri Dorrian Susi Mitchell Susi Mitchell Kristy Dinning

Tattoo Stall Julie Carter Julie Carter Kathy Gaudiosi Kathy Gaudiosi Julia Kittscha Julia Kittscha Natalie Moscrop Michelle Robson

Hair spray Painting Brooke Pike Brooke Pike Nada Appleby Nada Appleby Bryony Clark Bryony Clark Rowan Badarne Rowan Badarne

Gail Mettam Gail Mettam Anita Mitrevski

Face painting Cynthia Cuoco Cynthia Cuoco Anita Lyndley Anita Lyndley

Billie Acosta Billie Acosta Linda Budak Linda Budak Rebecca Wallace Renee Scifleet Tina Angel

Dear Parents,

For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Clarence Slockee and I know a little bit

about plants but I’m not big on lawns. Fortunately, I work at the Royal Botanic Garden

Sydney and my good friend and former colleague Martin Holmes spent a number of years as

head of turf culture at the gardens and knows a lot about turf and lawns. Martin has kindly

agreed to lend his expertise in the revitalisation and re-establishment of the oval at Pleasant

Heights Public School.

As a parent of students attending the school, I want our children to have a level, well grassed

oval for outdoor sports and recreation. The current issues of top soil loss, hard baked clay

subsoil and inadequate drainage can be overcome with adequate preparation. We are

currently arranging for work to rectify this situation on Saturday the 7th

of December 2013.

This is not ideal given students will still have two weeks till the end of term, it will however

allow 8 weeks for new turf and top dressing to establish ready for the 2014 school year.

I will be volunteering my time for the day to achieve a suitable outcome and I am hoping that

there are other parents willing to assist in what will be of great benefit to students well into

the future. The greater number of volunteers, the less time and effort required by the labour

force in attendance. I will be on site from 7.00am with machine operator and supervisor

(Martin Holmes) repairing Northern retaining wall, sub soil preparation, turf and sand/soil

delivery.

We estimate that volunteers will be needed from 10.00am (with shovels/steel rakes) to help

spread top dressing across the oval – the machine operator will then use a leveller to (you

guessed it) level the top dressing and prepare area for laying of turf.

This process should take between 2 and 4 hours should a volunteer pool of 20 be in

attendance; the sand/soil and pallets of turf will be strategically placed around the oval by the

machine operator to minimise the amount of shovelling required and we hope to finish

around the 2.00pm mark.

If you can’t spare 4 hours, we’ll take 2 or even 30 minutes as again greater numbers will

equal a lesser time frame; if you aren’t available on the 7th

, we will also need volunteers for a

watering roster during the holidays to ensure our hard work is not in vain.

If you can help in anyway please contact the school prior to Saturday the 7th

of December, or

contact Kerry Neubecker on 0407481516.

Kind Regards

Clarence Slockee

AUTHOR VISIT

will be visiting Pleasant Heights Primary School

ALEESAH’S BOOKS INCLUDE:

For more info visit: www.aleesahdarlison.com

A l e e s a h D a r l i s o n – B o o k O r d e r F o r m

Student Name: __________________________ School Name: ____________________

Class/Teacher: ________________________ Parent Mobile: _____________________

Children’s author, Aleesah Darlison, will be visiting our school in Term 4. To purchase signed copies of Aleesah’s books, please fill out this form and return it to the library with payment. Cash only please. More info at www.aleesahdarlison.com. Books will be delivered free of charge to the school. PLEASE RETURN ORDERS TO SCHOOL BY:_______________________

Title Price Qty Total Dedication (ie To Catherine ...)

Warambi (Paperback Picture Book) Subject: bats, with non-fiction component

$14.95

Puggle’s Problem (Paperback Picture Book) Subject: echidnas and Aussie animals

$12.95

Bearly There (Hard Back Picture Book) Subject: friendship, loyalty, teddy bears

$25.95

Totally Twins 1: Musical Mayhem (Diary Series for girls aged 8 – 12 years)

$14.99

Totally Twins 2: Model Mania $14.99

Totally Twins 3: Tropical Trouble $14.99

Totally Twins 4: Birthday Bonanza $14.99

Unicorn Riders 1: Quinn’s Riddles (Fantasy Adventure Series for girls 7 plus)

$9.95

Unicorn Riders 2: Willow’s Challenge $9.95

Unicorn Riders 3: Krystal’s Choice $9.95

Unicorn Riders 4: Ellabeth’s Test $9.95

Unicorn Riders 5: Quinn’s Truth $9.95

Unicorn Riders 6: Willow’s Victory $9.95

Unicorn Riders 7: Krystal’s Charge $9.95

Unicorn Riders 8: Ellabeth’s Light $9.95

I Dare You (Lightning Strikes Series) Humorous novel for ages 8 and over

$12.95

Little Good Wolf: Humorous illustrated chapter book for ages 5 and over

$12.95

Fangs: Humorous colour illustrated chapter book for ages 5 and over

$8.95

TOTAL

Teacher-Librarians: please collect orders. Ross Emanuel at PRC Books & Puzzles will be providing books.

Contacts: Ross Emanuel, PRC. Mobile: 0448 730 314, Email: chida@optusnet.com.au Aleesah Darlison, Author. Email: aleesah@bigpond.net.au