Relieving Principal Mrs Susan O’Shea Phone 02 6025 4044 Fax 02 6040 2344

600 Logan Road, Glenroy NSW 2640 Email: glenroy-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

PO Box 267 Lavington NSW 2641 Website: glenroy-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Issue 26 – Term 3 – Week 7 Thursday 1st September 2016

Calendar Dates to Remember

TERM 3 SEPTEMBER Week 7 Fri 2 Environment Workshop K-6 Father’s Day Stall K-6 Assembly @12.15 Host K/1F Week 8 Tue 6 K-2 GYM Rugby Clinic 3/6 @ 1.05 Wed 7 Tiny Treasures 9.15-11.15am Thu 8 Borambola Payment 8 due Year 3 - $20 Years 4,5,6 - $30

Leadership Groups SRC Crazy Clothes Day

Week 9 Tue 13 K-2 GYM

Rugby Clinic 3/6 @ 1.05 Wed 14 Tiny Treasures 9.15-11.15am SCHOOL PHOTOS Fri 16 QUIZ WORX K-6 Assembly @12.15 Host K/1C Week 10 Tue 20 K-2 GYM Wed 21 Tiny Treasures 9.15-11.15am P & C Meeting @ 7.30pm Thu 22 GREEN DAY Fri 23 Borambola Payment 9 due Year 3 - $20 Years 4,5,6 - $30 Leadership Groups Last day term 3

PRINCIPAL’S NEWS

I am delighted that this term, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey aims to help improve student learning outcomes and measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents

The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help improve how they do things at school.

I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 22 August and 21 October. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.

GNEWS

GLENROY PUBLIC SCHOOL

On Crazy Clothes Day you wear the craziest clothes you can find. Please bring a gold coin donation. For an additional gold coin you can get your hair coloured. SRC

A consent form and FAQs for parents/carers about the survey is being sent home with students. If you do not want your child or children to participate, please return the form to school by Wednesday 7th September. Copies of the form and FAQs are available from the website above.

Susan O’Shea Relieving Principal

K/1F ASSEMBLY

This Friday K/1F is running the school assembly!! All the children are enthusiastic as ever for this challenge! They will be looking for smiling and encouraging faces out in the audience! If you are available this Friday at 12:05 please come and support our gorgeous kindergarten and Year One students from K/1F! They will be performing their little hearts out!

Mrs Ferris

OUTDOOR LEARNING AREA On Thursday 25th August, Rachel and Dave from Albury Bunnings delivered and helped install lots of the equipment we

will be using in our outdoor learning environment. We have four new outdoor bench seats and tables, colourful outdoor chairs and some wood and paint to make displays with. You may notice when you visit our

school the brightly coloured garden beds outside Miss Brown and Mrs Ferris’s classrooms. We have planted some beautiful flowers and also some herbs that we hope to use when cooking in the kitchen!

We are still in the early stages of developing the area into a space that will be wonderful for learning. The students are very excited about our new learning space and those who helped out had an amazing time (even if they did get a little messy in the process).

A huge thank you to the Albury Bunnings store who have donated lots of the equipment to our school and who were kind enough to come and help us with

some of the installation. Watch this space for further developments!

Miss Innes

NAIDOC DAY

Yesterday Glenroy Public School students had a wonderful day

celebrating NAIDOC Day. Our special guest Aboriginal

comedian Sean Choolburra was brilliant and the students

really enjoyed his show. Thank you to Mr David Noonan and

AWAHS for generously providing the BBQ lunch. A big thank

you to Mr Dent and Lenny Foard for being head chefs and also

to all staff for providing engaging Aboriginal activities to the

students.

Jess Milham

PRIMARY COOKING Last Friday I had another enjoyable cooking session with some beautiful primary students! We made healthy muffin pizzas, we used zucchinis, tomatoes, pesto, puff pastry and heaps more! By the look of the students’ faces- THEY LOVED THEM!!

Mrs Ferris

SPORTS NEWS

NRL CLINIC All of the Primary students are participating in NRL clinics with tuition by NRL development officers and James Fallon Year 10 students. Clinics are held fortnightly with the next ones being Tuesday 6th September and Tuesday 20th September. The clinics will be held at Norris Park oval as the state of our oval is terribly muddy. Permission forms to allow children to walk to the venue were distributed this week. Please return permission notices by Monday 5th September to your class teacher.

REGIONAL ATHLETICS The Regional (Riverina) Athletics Carnival has been postponed from Friday 2nd September until Friday 16th September. Lenny Foard (12/13 Yr High Jump), Grace Sawyer (12 Yr 100 mts) and Angela Butt (13 Yr100 mts) will be representing Albury at Alexandra Park. All the best to you all and congratulations.

STATE GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS A big well done to Sam Bakes who recently became the Riverina Public Schools’ Golf Champion. Sam will now play in the NSW state championships at Blackheath Golf Club in the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney. Sam’s competition begins on Mon Sept 19 and continues on Tues Sept 20. Go Sammy!

SUMMER PSSA Summer PSSA starts Week 2 Term 4. We will be training the students over the next few weeks now that the winter competition is finished and deciding which teams to enter. We will choose from cricket, touch and softball.

Bruce Arnott

P & C NEWS LAST MINUTE REMINDER FATHER’S DAY STALL THIS FRIDAY Lot’s of very affordable gifts from 50c to $5. Don’t forget to send your students in with some cash so the blokes in our lives can get spoilt.

A HUGE THANKS The Gollan Foard family are pulling out all stops with their support of the school. Len can nearly always be found behind the BBQ at any and every sausage sizzle at the school. This week he helped fry up around 400 sausages. And then the brand spanking new milkshake machine that is in the canteen was a donation from the family as well. So anyone who

enjoyed our one day special on milkshakes on Wednesday benefited from this very generous donation. Thanks Len, Julie and Lenny. You rock!

THE WEATHER IS A CHANGIN’ There will be some lovely warm days just around the corner, thank goodness, and so we will all be looking at updating school uniforms. Don’t forget our uniform shop for some great bargains of second hand, good quality uniforms.

NORMAL PRICES RESUME Thanks to all of the families who supported our milkshake special on Wednesday. We had a great day in the canteen. Just to remind you that milkshakes will now be back at their normal price. Still very affordable and yummy.

Narelle Vogel Secretary and Newsletter Writer for the P & C Ph: 0458 716283