In this week’s newsletter…….

* Cricket, Tennis and League news

* Darlington Park Excursion

*Principal’s Message

Upcoming events

Tuesday 15th September: DP and Principals Awards both

campuses

Friday 18th September: Pyjama Day for Kinder and Year 1

Last Day of Term 3

Students return to school on Tuesday 6th October.

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Grafton Public School A Tradition of Excellence

Term 3 Week 10: Monday 14th September

2015

Locked Bag 9024 Grafton 2460 PHONE: Primary - 6642 1000 Infants - 6642 2286

Email: grafton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

GPS will be issuing a Yearbook again in 2015. This will be a pictorial account of events here at our school during the year

and will feature the photos of nearly all the students. This year, Yearbooks must be pre-ordered and paid for, but

families will be given lots of time to budget for this expense. Order forms issued last week to all students, and paid

orders must be returned by the end of October.

Yearbook 2015

Thankyou to all of our families for their support of this initiative!

Please send in all of your Earn and Learn stickers ASAP. We

must get these counted by the end of this week and submit

them for verification.

We will let you know what we have earned as a GPS team for our

school!

Earn and Learn

Darlington Park Camp

Sixteen very excited students, selected from mainstream and Support Unit classes, spent last week at an

Independent Living and Fitness camp at Darlington Park. They enjoyed a very busy week of activity.

The highlights for nearly all of the children were a visit to “Springloaded”, the trampoline centre in Coffs, and the

swims in the resort pools. Students also did bushwalking, went on beach walks, and visited Muttonbird Island. The

boys and girls loved activities like the jumping pillow, pedal carts and arts and crafts, participated in team building

activities and worked on increasing their independent living skills by attempting things like making their own beds,

assisting with meals and helping with the clean-up after meals.

Thankyou to Miss McDonagh, Mrs Johnson, Mrs Craik, Miss Chris, Miss Niki, Miss Liz and Miss Jody for taking this

group away for this special opportunity.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Another school term draws to a close and we are now on the march towards Christmas, a pleasant

social time , yet, for some a financially challenging time. We will try our hardest to give plenty of

notice for an expenses which occur in Term 4 to help in the working of the family budget. There

will be end-of-year parties, excursions for Kinder and Year 1 and the P & C Christmas Fete on the

calendar, as well as a Family Portrait fundraiser, Yearbook orders and the Year 6 Farewell.

Last week our Independent Living Skills excursion returned from Darlington Park exhausted and

extremely happy. They had a ball! Walking up Mutton Bird Island, travelling to Sealy Lookout and

venturing out on the boardwalk, visiting the trampoline centre and much more including the giant

pillow games and beach walks. Our staff believe in making these excursions experiences which

extend and enrich our students lives and this, they achieved. My sincere thanks to Michelle

McDonagh, Lindy Johnson, Lindy Craick, Chris Reardon, Niki Martin, Liz Weller and Jody Duroux.

Last Friday our students participated in a number of local events. We had sixteen students

compete in the local Dudley Jones Tournament which we managed to retain for the eighth

consecutive year. To date we have won this trophy nineteen times in its history, a very special feat.

My thanks to Mr Howard Avery for stepping in and taking this squad as Mrs Avery was unavailable

due to illness.

We had sixty students compete in the T20 big bash with Mr Steve Lamb, Mr David McMahon and

Mr.Dion Donnelley accompanying our potential cricketers. Mrs Leigh Robertson and Mr Tim Keogh

accompanied our choir and golds band to Shopping world where we performed as part of Child

Protection Week. On Wednesday our football team played in the local Westlawn Cup Rugby League

knockout where we played three and won two games with Mitch Cachia being named ‘Most Valuable

Player’.

Your children are being provided with opportunities to participate in a rich and diverse educational

program here at Grafton Public. We can help inspire attitude as long as parents are inspiring

aspiration and supporting ambition.

This Friday, our Infants Campus students (Kinder and Year 1) will be wearing their pyjamas.

This is a fun reward for those who have been Gorgeous Grafton Public School STARS

throughout the term.

Have a pleasant and relaxing break. We start back on Tuesday 6th October as Monday the 5th is the

Labour Day holiday (long week-end).

Kind regards and stay safe,

Will Randall

Principal

From the Principal

T20 Milo Cricket

Last Friday, 56 students from Grafton Public journeyed to South Grafton to participate in the T20 Blast Cricket Gala

Day. A great time was had by all, with the students taking on schools from around the district. For many participants,

this was their first taste of the game, and it was a pleasure to witness their developing skills and confidence as the

day unfolded. Don't forget that cricket season is just around the corner, and information regarding this is readily

available from your local cricket club.

Planning is well underway for Kindergarten 2016, and the Kinder Kritters Orientation program has

started. Our next Kinder Kritters Sessions are early next term. If there are any little brothers and

sisters, friends or cousins who are starting “big school” next year, please call in to get forms as soon as

possible so that they can be a part of this program. Please spread the word to friends and neighbours

who may have pre-schoolers starting with us next year.

Canteen Infants Roster

15/9/15 Marcus and Yuki

16/9/15 Sharon

17/9/15 Suze English

18/9/15 Amy Blanch, Kristie Bridges

T4 6/10/15 Marcus and Yuki

Primary Roster

15/9/15 Cheryl and David Maunder

16/9/15 Help Needed

17/9/15 Amy Blanch

18/9/15 Rhonda Adamson

T4 6/10/15 Help Needed

Dudley Jones Tennis

16 GPS students ventured to the Grafton City Tennis Courts last Friday to contest the annual competition to vie for

the coveted Dudley Jones Tennis Shield. Congratulations to all those students who played and represented GPS with

great sportsmanship. Well done to the team of Noah, Blake, Whitney and Lydia for becoming the victors of the day.

GPS has a distinguished accomplishment of winning the Dudley Jones Shield for 8 consecutive years. Well done team!

Bike Bus

* Best of luck to Jack Brown, Lucas Westbury, Charlie Cutts and Lily West, who will be travelling to Maclean this

Thursday to take on the North Coast's finest spellers in the Regional Final of the Premier's Spelling Bee.

* The SRC are selling Legacy arm bands this week for $3 each. SRC members will be outside the library selling the

bands. Please support this worthy cause!

* Our next Deputy Principals and Principals Awards will be presented at ceremonies are tomorrow. Families of the

award recipients received letters last week and we look forward to seeing many proud family members here tomorrow

to support the deserving students.

* Due to the replacement of many of our computers within the school recently, we have been able to donated 35 of our

old computers to the local SORT program “Computers for Clarence Valley Kids”. SORT is a not-for-profit social

enterprise that aims to enhance recycling while also creating new jobs for disadvantaged job-seekers. SORT workers

check and disassemble the computers before reviewing and refurbishing them so they can be used by local families.

We have been pleased and proud to be able to support this initiative.

Brief But Important

Last Wednesday the Grafton Public School Rugby League team participated in the Westlawn Cup Rugby League Gala

Day. Our first match was against Small Schools which we won 24-8. We then went on to play Maclean Public School.

The boys showed plenty of pride and passion but unfortunately went down 16-8. In our final game (for third place

overall) we played Westlawn and won convincingly! Well done to all the boys for a fabulous day and a big

congratulations to Mitchell Cachia who was announced player of the series!

Rugby League Gala Day

Grafton Little Athletics

Grafton Little Athletics Club will be holding two sign on/information opportunities for those

wishing to join or re-enrol for the 2015/16 season. These will be held on Thursday 17th and

Friday 18th September 2015 at the Terry West Field, Pine Street, Junction Hill between

4.00pm and 5.30pm. Regular weekly competition will commence on Friday October 9th 2015.

Community Notices

The Northern NSW Local Health District would like to remind parents and carers

that the Child Oral Health Service offers FREE dental care to ALL children under 18.

* Oral health is essential for health and wellbeing. * It is recommended that children have regular dental check ups starting at 1 year.

* Regular dental check ups can prevent minor problems becoming major ones and prevent unnecessary pain and

distress.

* Dental visits can be fun for kids, treat these visits as normal, routine events so as not to develop fear.

Each week we will try to acknowledge the children who received awards at their grade assemblies in the previous

week. Congratulations to the following students who received awards last week:

Kinder: Chaz Tomlinson, Kai Jackson, Maynard Cootes, Amber Child, Ari Tomlinson, Tristan Messer, Georgia Carlton,

Paige Tilse, Jaxson Haynes, Angela Dodd, William Rhodes, Logan Smith, Taylor Larkin, Hannah Johnson, Jeremy

Davies, Madison Durrington, Oliver Spice, Tiffany Mills, Elizabeth Kennedy, Keira Cooper

Year 1: Rebel Morgan, Zahli Laverty, Kelani O’Dwyer, Shalisse Chard, Wyatt Jewell, Chloe Wills, Dalton Drummond,

Mia Watling, Tamika Nicholson, Brock Eveleigh, Cadence Anderson, Toby Smidt, Tahnee Milne, Tiana Ryan Thornton,

Cruz Boyd, Hope Henderson

Year 2: Brodie Madden, Jake Crowe, Lane Logan, Elizabeth Budden, Kiki Tan, Taj Elliott, Sienna Connell, Jake Boyd,

Hayley Cowley, Mia Grieve, Jessica Tomlinson, Joshua Anderson, Brodie Millard, Chelsey Clarke, Mikayla Armstrong,

Kayla Ellis, Phoebe Rootsey, Lachlan Simmons, Riley Smidt, Paige Cole

Year 3: Xavier Rautenberg, Chloe Russell, Reuban Baxter, Violet Larcombe, Jackson Duroux, Malakye Gardiner,

Brooklyn Roach, Hannah Watkins, Anicka Peters, Summer Loadsman, Isabella Riepon, Julia Hennessy

Year 4: Bree Irving, Chelsea Scott, Sophie Rowe, Sienna Hall, Isabelle Ellis, Samara Grebert, Bobby Hart, Anneka

Carlsson

Year 5: Scott Ellis Taylor, Octavius Corcoran, Aillyn Brown, Shameeka O’Dwyer, Monique Masters, Whitney Moon,

William Simmons, Bethany Rigby-Pierse, Shakirra Stewart, Rahni Cansdell, Samuel Kennedy, Blake Robertson,

Assembly Award Winners

Community Notices

SIGN ON DAY TOMORROW TUESDAY 15th AND FRIDAY 18th 4~5.30PM for the 2015

SSGSC Summer 6s Soccer Competition

Competition is Tuesday afternoons and starts 6 Oct - 22 December.

Players from 3 (turning 4 in 2015) years to open seniors, male and females welcome to join.

All junior players will receive free playing shirt.

Fees

Young Guns 3-4s $50

Under 6-7 $50 or $55

Under 8-11 $60 or $65

Under 12-17 $70 or $75

Under 18+ $80 or $90

Larger fee for non-winter competition players

No weekly fees.

Register as an individual or as a whole team!

Community Notices

Community Notices