EGLINTON PUBLIC SCHOOL Excellent teaching and learning in a caring environment

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COMING EVENTS PRINCIPAL’S REPORT TERM 4

WEEK 9

Friday December 10

Softball Match.

School Assembly

WEEK 10

Monday December 13

Presentation day

Reports to go home.

Tuesday December 14

Metro 5 Day

Wednesday December 15

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Thursday December 16

Staff Development Day

Friday December 17

Staff Development Day

SCHOOL RESUMES ON

MONDAY JANUARY 31, 2011.

BEST START BEGINS ON

TUESDAY , FEBRUARY 1 AND

KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS

START FULL TIME ON

MONDAY FEBRUARY 7, 2011.

Dear Parents and Carers What a fantastic concert! It just keeps on getting better. Well done to the students who have practised tirelessly and were the stars on the night, the teachers for their creativity, patience and passion (special thanks to Peter Hanlon and Tracey Hicks) and the parents and families who organised costumes, painted faces and were great supporters on the night. Thanks also to those who stayed behind at the end of the evening and assisted with packing up, your help was greatly appreciated.

Home Reading has finished for the year and I appeal to families to have one final search for books that need to make their way back to school. Approximately fifty books are still missing.

The choir performed on Wednesday at Ilumba Gardens and were very well received. One of the seniors explained to the students that she attended Eglinton Public School many years ago and was one of just five pupils at the time. A member of the nursing staff commented that it was the first time many of the seniors had smiled in a long time. I congratulate the choir on their service to the community.

Thank you for your ongoing support this year, enjoy a restful holiday.

Best wishes

Meleesa Smith

Relieving Principal.

NEWSLETTER

Term 4, Week 9 - Thursday, December 9, 2010

VIRTUE OF THE WEEK: JUSTICE

Justice is being fair in everything that you do. Justice is everyone getting their fair share.

Week 7. GOLD AWARDS: KM: Nicola Bourchier, Riley Ledingham. 1C: Connor Lockie.1G: Hannah Simpson. 3L: Jessica Sinclair, Georgia Cole, Carl Nichols. 4K: Lauren Casani, 5C: Brenna Nichols, Mitchell Brown. 6J: Tom Craft. 6A: James Eggins. CLASS AWARDS: 1A: Sam Parker, 1C: Alex Colwell, Joshua Stansell, Lucy Writer. 1G: Jaylen Bower-Ross, Noah Cowley, Olivia Turnbull. 2O’C: Zac Anderson. 2P: Alexei Pikul. 2/3S: Nicholas McMennemin, Lydia Nichols, Ethan Oates. 3E: Heath Delahunty. 4K: Brianna Graham, Sarah Lockie, Alex Smith, Rhys Sufong. 5B: Lucy Grimmond, Katelyn Witherspoon. Week 8. GOLD AWARDS: KP: Caitlin Morris, Gabriel Fuchina and Poppy Winterton. 2P: Harrison Simmons. 5C: Lachlan Mellor and Grace Finlayson CLASS AWARDS: KM: Beau Evans. KP: Alastair Crane-French, Olivia Morris, Maddison Peters, Riley Wilds and Tyler Wilds. KW: Lara Grabham, Marshall Larsen and Julian McMennemin. 1A: Katie Borodin and Spencer Tupaca. 1G: Keisha Sealy. 2O’C: Ella Davis. 2P: Tom Cowan. 2/3S: Charlton Lew. 3E: Akira Berrisford, Jacob Bicanic, Sienna Cheevers, Aiden Heywood and Scott Osborne. 3L: Alice Carroll, Madie Pye and Andrew Timmer. 5C: Dylan Kennedy. 6J: Hannah Hanson and Bethany Simmons.

Canteen News

Thanks to every one for their help this year. This year we lose many amazing helpers who have given the canteen and Eglinton School many volunteer hours and they will be greatly missed. These include Darlene Macri, Mandy Irwin, Janelle Kemp and Margaret Vanheekeran. Thanks to them for being a great help to me and the canteen. You will be missed.

IMPORTANT NOTES

MONDAY 13/12/10 - Presentation Day. The canteen will have NO RECESS, but we will have normal lunch orders and lunch time Canteen. WEDNESDAY 15/12/10 - Last day. We will have normal recess BUT will have NO LUNCH ORDERS We will have some surprises on these days of excess stock. 2011 is not far away and to help Darlene Macri get started as the new Canteen Coordinator, please note a roster for the first weeks of next year - FRI 28/1/11 PUPIL FREE DAY MON 31/1/11 Pam Nolan WED 2/2/11 T Pye FRI 4/2/11 K Cole, T Ashworth MON 7/2/11 A Howarth KINDER START WED 9/2/11 M Whitton FRI 11/2/11 N Howard help needed MON 14/2/11 L Roberts A lot of help will be needed after this so please consider your available days. It is a friendly and happy environment and your children love it when you work in the canteen. I have loved working at the canteen and will miss it very much. Thanks to the school and to all my friends who have been so supportive. Good Luck to Darlene. The canteen is in great hands . Merry Christmas and have a safe holiday Di THORNCRAFT

CLOTHING POOL Merry Christmas everyone and enjoy your holidays.

Presentation Day is on next Monday so please

remember to wear your official school uniform.

Come see us when school starts back as I have

PLENTY OF STOCK to clothe your kids! Thank you to

all who have donated clothing during the year and I

look forward to heaps of donations next year. Thank

you to all volunteers throughout the year!! Special

mention this time to another special grandmother,

Rosemary, who keeps our uniform shop in stock of

those absolutely GORGEOUS library bags and pencil

rolls.

REMINDER –To girls, please remember to wear

skorts only; shorts are not school uniform.

See you on Mondays…..Denise

EGLINTON SCHOOL YEARBOOK 2010

The yearbook will be available for purchase during the last week of this term. The

cost is $10.00

BAND ROSTER JUNIOR BAND: and SENIOR BAND:

Monday 8.25 am WEEK 10

Monday December 13

Because of our school’s Presentation Day,

the Junior and Senior bands will have their

Monday morning practice at the High

School hall. Children in the band have al-

ready been given a note with all the

details.

Bags of Hope

Thousands of Cambodian children go to school everyday without a bag in which to carry their most basic necessities (books, stationary, food and—vitally important– bottled drinking water to help them avoid dysentery from unsafe drinking water).

Students who would like to donate their old school backpacks and bags at the end of the year can leave at the front office for collection during the last week of term.

The bags will be collected and packed with books and stationary before being shipped to Cambodia for distribution to needy students for the commencement of their school year in March.

COMMUNITY NEWSCOMMUNITY NEWSCOMMUNITY NEWSCOMMUNITY NEWS

EGLINTON WAR MEMORIAL HALLEGLINTON WAR MEMORIAL HALLEGLINTON WAR MEMORIAL HALLEGLINTON WAR MEMORIAL HALL

The Eglinton War Memorial Hall and Park Incorporated held

their AGM on 25 November 2010 but due to lack of

attendance not all positions were filled. The hall is now

unavailable for

casual hire as it no longer has a booking officer.

The committee is holding an extra ordinary meeting on 16

December 2010 at 6.30pm to try to fill the vacancies, which

include the booking officer.

Please phone Lisa North on 0402 525 475 or 6337 1919 if

you would like to nominate for a position and cannot attend

the meeting or would just like any further information.

The hall is a wonderful community asset and it will be a

shame to see it not being fully utilised.

EGLINTON VRFS SANTA IN THE VILLAGE EGLINTON VRFS SANTA IN THE VILLAGE EGLINTON VRFS SANTA IN THE VILLAGE EGLINTON VRFS SANTA IN THE VILLAGE

Friday 17 December. Santa will be at the following

locations—

Cnr Loren and McCarthy Sts 6.00pm

Bend in Peacock St 6.20pm

Cnr Cox and Halstead Sts 6.40pm

End of Hobson Close 7.00pm

Cnr Parraweena and

Warrawee Place 7.20pm

Cnr Cottonwood Dr and

Delaney Place 7.40pm

COLOURING COMPETITION

Bathurst Baptist Church is holding a Christmas colouring

competition for school aged children. The drawing is avail-

a b l e o n t h e c h u r ch i n t e r n e t s i t e a t

www.bathurstbaptist.org.au or from the church on Eglinton

Road, Bathurst. The competition will be judged at the Carols

on the Lawn on Sunday 19 December. Everyone is welcome to

come and celebrate Christmas with other Bathurst families

at this event: 4-6.60pm Car Boot Sale and children’s

activities, 7-8pm Carols.

Eglinton Tennis Academy

will be holding Tennis Holiday Clinics at the Eglinton Tennis Courts,

Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th January 2011. The cost is

$60.00. To enrol, please contact Rod on 6337 1680 or

0431 737 585.

THE AUSTRALIAN FOSSIL AND MINERAL MUSEUM Holiday activities January 2011. Activities include Bubble Trouble, Go Green and Arachnology. Call the museum on 6331 5511 for more information.

Bathurst Library Holiday Program

Bathurst Library will be hosting several activities

during the school holidays. A program of the many

events is attached to today’s newsletter.

TRADITIONAL NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS AT MISS TRAILL’S HOUSE.

Please see attached flyer for more information.

SCHOOL CAPTAIN ELECTION

FOR 2011

8.12.10

Today we had our election for the 2011 School Captains in the year 6 classrooms. Each person was asked what their name was, what class they were in and if they had voted in this election before. Once they had been asked these questions they went to a voting booth and voted for three people that they would like to see lead the school. After students voted they would put their ballot papers into the ballot boxes. People cannot vote more than once. The candidates running for this job were: Girls: Grace Finlayson, Bethany Osborne, Mikala Grabham, Mikaela Graham, Brenna Nichols, Eve Curry, Lillian Stocks Breanna Davey, Skye Carpenter. Boys: Nick Johnson, Henry Marson, Harry Brown, Jakob Wells, Jacob Zammit, Ronan Vanderhel, Greg Chapman, Mathew McCauley. The election went really well and the new captains will do a great job of leading the school.

By Alanna Bankovic 6J

Captain Election

2011. 8.12.10

On the 8th of December 2010 the school

went to the year six classes to vote for

candidates they would like to take the

role of being school captain and school

vice captain for 2011

The girls running for the job were:

Grace Finlayson, Bethany Osborne,

Mikala Grabham, Mikaela Graham,

Natalie Davis, Eve Curry, Brenna

Nichols, Lillian Stocks, Breanna Davey

and Skye Carpenter.

And the boys:

Nick Johnson, Henry Marson, Harry

Brown, Jakob Wells, Jacob Zammit,

Ronan Vanderhel, Greg Chapman,

Mathew McCauley.

To vote each person must follow a

simple set of rules.

#1 it must be a formal vote so you

cannot put your name on the ballot

paper or any other name. #2 you are not

allowed to vote twice. #3 you must be

an Australian citizen or in this case an

Eglinton Public School student.

Students then go to the voting booths

and vote for the person(s) that they

believe will make this school a better

place. The students will then go over to

where the guards with machine guns

stand , (ha ha) and put their ballot

papers into the ballot boxes.

Whoever receives the task will do a

wonderful job in 2011.

By Rebecca Cole 6J