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63 - 101 Chester Street WARREN NSW 2824

Ph: 02 6847 4438 Fax: 02 6847 4419

Email: [email protected]

Website: warren-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

Relieving Principal Bryce O’Connor

Deputy Principal Wade Greenwood

Executive Staff Head Teachers

Robyn Taylor - Secondary Studies Dianne Hamilton - Science/Maths

Christopher Perry (Rel) - English/HSIE Jenny Brooker - Wellbeing

Assistant Principals Elyse Perry (Rel) Lyn Westgarth

School Administrative Manager Roz Hunt

IT Manager Cade Wilde

Learning and Support Teacher Suzanne Mayger/Jade Lovelock

Teacher Librarian Narelle Whittaker

Aboriginal Education Resource Teacher

June Hawkes

Aboriginal Education Officers Phyllis Oates Allison Fuller

School Counsellor Margaret Bourke

School Chaplain Stephen Bignall

Canteen Manager Janice Oriel

Breakfast Club Coordinator Joanne Lincoln

Term 3 Issue 10 2017

WARREN CENTRAL SCHOOL PAGE 1 RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE LEARNERS

Celebrating 150 Years of Education

Education Week is a state-wide, annual event to celebrate Public Education in NSW.

This year it is held this week from 31 July to 4 August.

The week highlights the achievements of Public Education and local schools, putting

the spotlight on our students, our educators and the communities that support them.

What’s On in Term 3 August/ Sept Week 4 10 Ridley/Trudgett Netball gala day

Week 5 14-18 Book Week

15 Gobondery/NARRAF Athletics

Barden Park Dubbo

16 Yellow Band Morning Tea

17 Book Week Assembly

1 Western Region Athletics Week 7

4-8 NAIDOC Week 8

8 Gobondery/NARRAF Netball/Touch Warren


TERM 3 ISSUE 10 2017

Mrs Cherie Hansen, Mr Garry Hansen and their two

daughters Elly and Tilly.

Welcome back to term 3. Our new Instructional Leader

has started this term. Cherie Hansen comes from

Bingara Central School. I’m looking forward to adding

someone with her experience as a Learning and

Support Teacher to our leadership team. Cherie will

play a key role in building staff skills and knowledge in

teaching and assessing literacy and numeracy across

both the primary and secondary years. She will also be

assisting us in further developing personalised learning

for students.

This week we have been celebrating Education Week. I

hope you were able to join us for our open day. The

theme for this year was ‘’I Learn, We Learn” and

celebrates the achievements of our students, educators

and communities. Each and every day I see the efforts

of our school community to ensure our students are

receiving personalised learning and striving for

improvement. In the coming weeks we will be starting to

develop a new school plan. Before we start a new plan,

however, we need to evaluate our current plan. The

staff have put together a survey for parents to contribute

to this evaluation. The link to the survey will be sent out

to the email on file. If you do not receive the link, you

can use the link below. It will only take you 5 minutes.

https://goo.gl/forms/lEqyVQ2QbUTCvxhj1

Principal - Bryce O’Connor

Parent/Caregiver and Student Assessment and

Reporting surveys.

Schools are required to regularly review other targeted

programs or practices each year. If these programs are

not part of their major targets or are minor in nature, a

less intensive form of evaluation may be appropriate.

Parents need to have a voice in the evaluation of

school programs. Their participation can be undertaken

through discussions at P&C meetings, individual

discussions, formal or informal focus groups or through

a survey. We have selected a survey for the parent and

secondary student voices.

Secondary students will be completing the survey

during school time. Parents/Caregivers will have the

opportunity to complete the survey in their own time.

Parents have two options in accessing the survey.

Option 1.

Copy the web address https://goo.gl/forms/

bD5ALcIqX6NjOtfz2 and access the survey,

Option 2

Visit the Warren Central School Facebook page and

access the survey via the link on our page.

We encourage as many responses as possible and the

feedback we receive will assist in future school plan-

ning.

Please complete by 18 August 2017.

All results are anonymous and we will give a written

report of the feedback for all to see.







K—6 News

We value RESPECTFUL RESPONSIBLE

LEARNERS

Welcome back to Term 3

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome every-

one back to Term 3. Term 3 is going to be a very busy

term filled with Life Education, Ridley/Trudgett netball gala

day, Gobondery/NARRAF Athletics, Gobondery/NARRAF

netball and touch football, Education Week, Book Week,

NAIDOC Week, Kindergarten 2018 transition, netball and

touch football clinics and much more! We look forward to

sharing these events with you and having the pleasure of

your company at these events.

Life Education

Life Education was held on Monday 31 July and Tuesday

1 August. Students loved seeing Healthy Harold and will

now continue their learning in class with their workbooks.

Thank you to Val Soulsby for organising a generous

donation, which decreased the price students needed to

pay.

Rainbow Day

Our K - 6 Rainbow Day for Term 2 was held on Tuesday

27 June. Students who reached rainbow thoroughly en-

joyed celebrating their success at rainbow day. Students

participated in Bricks 4 Kidz lego, as well as other activi-

ties such as free time, games, iPads, lunch and games

outside. Some of the lego creations were fantastic and

extremely creative. A huge thank you is extended to Mrs

McCormack for all her wonderful organisation of this day.

We all appreciate the great effort put into making Rainbow

Day special.

Stage 3 Excursion

This year the Stage 3 excursion will be held from

Monday 20 – Friday 24 November at Lake Keepit

Sport and Recreation Camp, Tamworth. Places are

limited so expression of interest forms and $50 de-

posit must be returned by Friday 4 August in order to

attend.

Ridley/Trudgett Netball Gala Day

The Ridley/Trudgett netball gala day will be held at

Victoria Oval on Thursday 10 August. Please assist

us by returning these notes as soon as possible in

order to finalise the teams. The girls are looking for-

ward to this wonderful day.

Kindergarten 2018 transition

Kindergarten 2018 transition to Warren Central

School takes place every Tuesday for one hour. Dur-

ing the first few weeks all Kindergarten 2018 students

will attend this transition. Following that, from week 4

onwards, only students who are intending to enrol at

Warren Central School will attend. Students will at-

tend with Preschool or Little Possums. Orientation

days will be held early Term 4. Please ensure enrol-

ment paperwork is completed prior to these orienta-

tion days. We look forward to welcoming all these

students to our school for this valuable transition

program.

Gobondery/NARRAF Athletics

The Gobondery/NARRAF Athletics carnival will be

held on Tuesday 15 August at Barden Park Dubbo.

Students have received their notes. Please assist us

by returning these notes and money as soon as pos-

sible. All students must travel as a team on the bus.

There are some limited places available for parents at

a cost of $15 each.

Glasses

Students in K - 6 were very excited to receive their

glasses last week. They look smart and have found

they are helping them in class. We were fortunate to

be a part of this wonderful program.

Lillian Bailey, Nathan Edwards-Schrouder, Kara Forbes, Charlotte

Mitchell, Hunter Casey, Jerome Amatto-Shepherd and Daniel

Russell

Above: Jacob Wilson, Gracie Leonard, Toby

Greenwood, Zephyr Nielsen and Harrison Leach

enjoying Bricks 4 Kids.



We are holding a Scholastic Book Fair in the Library

from Monday 14 to Friday 18 August between the

hours of 8.30am-3.15pm. During the Book Fair your

children can purchase quality reading material. All

sales benefit our school library, enabling us to

purchase some great resources and books for your

children.

In this Jumbunna you will notice further information

regarding competitions, the Book Fair and the Book

Week assembly. No excuses for boredom over the

weekend! Encourage your children to have a go at one

of the activities! Great prizes are on offer!

If you have any queries regarding our Library please

contact Mrs Maclean or myself at any time.

Mrs N Whittaker

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent teacher interviews will take place next Tuesday 8

August from 3:15 - 6pm in the school library. Please return

your interview sheet as soon as possible in order to get your

preferred time.

Netball Clinics

This term students in years 2 to 6 are participating in some

netball clinics. We have been fortunate to secure funding

through the sporting schools program in order to run these

clinics. Kindergarten and Year 1 were also lucky enough to

participate in an introduction clinic last Thursday. All the stu-

dents thoroughly enjoyed the clinic and learnt a lot of essen-

tial netball and ball skills. We are also organising some

touch football and rugby league clinics for this term.

Book Week

Book Week will be held in Week 5 with our exciting book

week parade and assembly being held on Thursday 17

August. We hope you have been busy thinking about your

costumes and starting to get them ready. Book week

competitions are due Monday 7 August. Don’t forget your

20c per entry. We are looking forward to this exciting event.

Book Week is fast approaching and preparations in the

library are well underway.

We will be celebrating Book Week in Week 5 of this term

which is 14 -18 August. The Book Week assembly and

character parade is on Thursday 17 commencing at 1.30pm.

The theme for this year is “Escape to Everywhere“. We

would love to see as many parents and friends attend this

event and watch our talented students perform and present

their book characters in the parade.







2/3 Kookaburras use the force!

In Science this term we are investigating the different forces in everyday life. The class had a great time exploring

how toys can be moved as a way of observing how forces act in air, water and on the ground.



English & HSIE

Term 3 This term presents our students with exciting opportunities to develop their knowledge and creativity in diverse ways. Year 7 are studying picture books and focusing on the concept of Point of View. They will look at different fairy tales and imagine how the story would change if the villain became the hero. Their task will be to create their own picture book based on a traditional story but giving their own twist to the tale. Stage 5 Green are exploring the world of poetry. They will be working on their folio task, choosing a poem to analyse, creating a narrative and discussing a topical issue. This assignment challenges students to evolve their skills and extend themselves. I’m looking forward to some good reading! Stage 5 Gold are doing Geography this semester and will be studying biomes and looking at sustainability. Stage 5 Green are doing History this semester and have begun to look at the Rights and Freedoms topic. Stage 5 Commerce are completing the ‘Running a Business’ unit where they will complete a portfolio and have to come up with a business idea, and then put that idea into practice and record results. The Year 11 Standard class are studying Drama in the form of the David Williamson Aussie classic, ‘The Club’, focusing on the robust, earthy dialogue of the football club. Year 11 Business Studies will be completing a Business Plan assessment task before getting ready for their Preliminary Examinations at the end of term. Year 11 Legal Studies are working on essay writing in order to form an argument on the effectiveness of law reform before completing their Preliminary Examinations later in the term. Year 12 Business Studies are winding up the Human Resources topic before getting ready for the Trial HSC examinations. The Year 12 CEC class will be exploring the world of travel; travel writing, blogs, brochures, planes, trains and automobiles, the experience of going from here to there. Students are to be encouraged to give themselves time to complete their assignments to the best of their ability and develop their confidence and skills.

Students have recently started on the topic “Japanese Food and Drink” and will spend most of the term on it. In this topic students extend their vocabulary knowledge of food written in hiragana (Japanese food) and katakana (Western style food). Students will learn what Japanese people actually eat and the benefits of one of the healthiest diets in the world. Being able to say what food they eat and don’t eat, what food they like and don’t like and how to order food at a restaurant are the key grammatical structures taught. We will also engage in chopstick relay races, use chopsticks to eat rice and participate in the wasabi challenge! In these photos students are playing my “Japanese version of snap”. They need to listen to the food said in Japanese, locate and “snap” the picture for it and then try and “snap” the vocabulary card by reading it in Japanese. It was a challenging game! Mrs Lovelock

Stage 4 Japanese

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Congratulations to the

Warren Central School

lawn bowls team who have

qualified in first place in the

first round of the NSWCHS

Lawn Bowls competition in

Coolah on July 19. A big

thank you for the excellent hospitality at the Coolah

Sporting Club.

Photo: Jack Taylor, Daniel Stanley and Matt Marks.







New glasses arrived for students involved with

the OneSight charity foundation.

OneSight is a charity foundation of the Luxottica

Group (OPSM, Sunglass Hut, Laubman and

Pank) providing free eye care, with no obligation,

to low socio-economic and remote communities.

Students looked very smart with their new

glasses.

Thank you Mrs Brooker and Ms Mayger for

organising and distributing the glasses to all the

students.

Sunday was Happy International

Day of Friendship

They’re thoughtful and supportive, brave

and trustworthy, empathetic and kind.

They’ll lend a shoulder when you’re feeling

down, and there when you need them most

and will lift your spirits whether they’re near

or far.

Students comments in the playground:

They’re friendly.

They help you when you’re down.

Spending time together.

Playing with a friend is always fun.

Caring for each other.

Listen to what your friends are saying.





Healthy Bones Action Week

The first week of August marks Healthy Bones Action Week

across the country. Healthy Harold and the Life Education

programs partner with schools to enhance and develop

messages about healthy eating and maintaining good health

and wellbeing. Through the programs, children not only

identify good foods, but learn about the physical impacts and

importance of nourishing their body. As almost 60 percent of 2

-16 year olds miss out on their daily recommended dairy

Intake, now is a good time to add an extra portion in their

lunchboxes! www.lifeeducation.org.au/dairy-nutrition-

andeducation

Healthy Harold celebrates Be MedicineWise Week (21-27

August, 2017)

As parents we need to make sure we are fully informed when

it comes to providing medicine to our children. When your

child is feeling unwell speak to your local pharmacist for

advice.

When you child says they feel sick, ask them where they feel

sick, what’s hurting to understand why they might be feeling ill,

before resorting to an analgesic. They may be dehydrated and

need to drink fluids, or have strained their eyes and need

some screen downtime and fresh air!

If you do need to give your child some medicine, after advice

from a pharmacist or doctor, help them to understand what a

medicine is, why you are giving it to them and that it needs to

be taken properly. Keep all medicines well out of the reach of

little hands. Let your child know that the medicine cupboard is

for adults only.

It's equally important for us to recognise our own practices,

and what we role model, when it comes to medicine use. Take

a few minutes to identify for yourself the reason you may have

a headache and look to alternatives such as having a rest,

drinking water or getting some fresh air rather than take

medicinal help first.

At Life Education, our Mind Your Medicine module helps mid-

dle and upper primary school children to understand that while

medicines can be helpful they can also be harmful if used

inappropriately. For more information, visit https://

www.lifeeducation.org.au/



Have you recently moved house or changed your

phone number???

Please contact the Front Office with your updated

information.

Thank you.

Merchandise

available

150 Years Celebration logo on

the umbrellas.

Umbrellas for $25

Caps For Sale $10 each

SRC are selling the caps at lunchtime

each Wednesday.

Above: Hamish Callander, Zoe Taylor and Aimee Sheppard.




TERM 3 ISSUE5 10 2017

PBL Focus K-6: The music means:

YOU ARE IN LINES

Secondary: SPEAKING

POLITELY

Congratulations to our Star Students.

Week 2: Primary Bella Gough and Secondary Taylah Reid.

Week 3: Secondary Zoie Rookledge and Primary Lily Stacey.



Primary enjoyed a day with Bricks 4 kids, free play and

lunch provided for Rainbow rewards day.

Secondary had a gorgeous day at the Taronga

Western Plains Zoo. Well done to all these students.

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