Public Speaking Champs

Well done Tom and Johanna!

■ 2019■ Term 2 ■ Week 7 ■ Principal: Justine McDevitt

■ Phone: (02) 6924 1839 Loyal to my School

■ Fax: (02) 6924 1794 Junee North Public School

■ Email: juneenorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Queen Street

■ Website: www.juneenorth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Junee NSW 2663

New Tags for the League

Tag Team

Junee North Public School ■ Principal: Justine McDevitt Loyal to my School

■ Phone: (02) 6924 1839

■ Fax: (02) 6924 1794 Junee North Public School

■ Email: juneenorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 1-15 Queen Street

■ Website: www.juneenorth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Junee NSW 2663

■ 2019 ■ Term 2 ■ Week 7 ■ Newsletter

Calendar Term 2, week 7

10 June Public Holiday

11 June Mortimer Shield Finals

Term 2, Week 8

19 June CHORDS Rehearsals

Term 2, week 9

27 June JHS Production

Term 2, week 10

5 July Last of Term

5 July Reward Day

Term 3, week 1

22 July Staff Development Day – No

students

23 July Students return to school for

Term 3

Feature Photo

Mya and Montana proudly model the new tags for the

League Tag Team kindly donated by Mya, Montana and

their families. THANK YOU!

In this issue ... Principal’s report .............................................................................

Tournament of Minds ...............................................................

School Website………………………………………………………..

CPR Training………..………………..…………………………………

School Appreciation ..................................................................

What’s happening in our school? .............................................

Mortimer Shield ..........................................................................

House Champs!.........................................................................

Welcome to Junee North ........................................................

Break out Kits with Mr Fellows - JHS………………………

ASSEMBLIES

Week 8: Kindergarten Red

Week 10: CHORDS Choir

OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

1. EXCELLENCE IN LEARNING- Inspire, challenge & engage ALL students to be successful, creative & active partners in

learning.

2. EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING- Quality teachers committed to developing the skills & talents of EVERY student in our care.

3. EXCELLENCE IN LEADING- Effective leadership fostering a school-wide culture of high expectations & shared

responsibility.

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Junee North Public School

Principal’s Report

Tournament of Minds

This Year some of our Stage 3 students will be

participating in the Tournament of Minds School

Challenge. The Tournament of Minds is a competition

that develops student’s enthusiasm for risk taking,

problem finding and solving. Depending on the

discipline, selected teams will work together for 6

weeks without any assistance to develop a creative way

to communicate their solutions to a panel of judges. To

prepare for the competition the students will need

assistance with gathering and sourcing a variety of

materials and resources. If you are able to assist, I have

included a list of the type of resources needed later in

this Newsletter. There will be a box in the office to

drop off items.

School Website

Our school website has now been updated. It now has

current school and departmental information,

including permission notes, newsletters and current

photos of the events that have taken place within the

school. This has been a huge job updating our very

tired looking website, with many hours spent on it. A

big thank you goes to Miss Carrie Turnbull from our

school office for doing this job for us. Please take some

time to look at and familiarise yourself with this

webpage, as all school information can be found there.

Our other forms of communication and school

information is sent home using the skoolbag app and

the P&C closed Facebook page. I recommend that you

use these communication tools.

Caring for our students

This week all of our staff stayed behind for a 3 hour

professional learning session to update our CPR and

Anaphylaxis practical skills. These sessions are

completed by staff every year, as well as online training

in emergency care and anaphylaxis. It is vitally important

that parents provide us with up-to-date information

regarding any health issues for their child. In particular

any children with asthma or allergies must have an

updated health care plan. This also includes ensuring

that emergency contact details are kept up to date in

case we have to call.

School Appreciation

All staff and students at Junee North would like to

extend our personal thanks and appreciation to our

wonderful and caring families that take the time to

help out our students and our school. Again a big

thank you to Mya and Montana and their families for

the kind donation of new tags for the league tag team

and a big thank you to all the parents and family

members who kindly help out with transport to take

our students to sporting and extra curriculum activities.

Our appreciation also goes out to Mrs Lizzie Lemmich

and Mrs Cherie Smith for taking time out of their day

to get our vegetable patches back up and running, all

stocked up with a Winter crop of vegetables. Thank

you to Junee High School for the kind donation of

vegetable seedlings to plant. We do truly have great

and caring students, teachers and parents, all helping

to make Junee North such a great place to be. Thank

you!

Lunches

Many students are turning up to school regularly

without food for the day which greatly affects the way

they function and learn for the day. We can cater for

the occasional emergency but it is vital that students

are provided with the right amount of food for the day.

Please assist us with this concern by checking that your

child has packed their food for the day.

Junee North Public School

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Merit Awards Term 2 Weeks 6 & 7

Kinder Red Ivy Hanlon

William Hume-Landrigan

Melody Yu

Joe Andrews

Kinder Blue Charlie Henderson

Toby Rigg

Seth Shephard

Sophia Nell

Stage 1 Red Charlize Hayman

Ivy Hunter

Lachlan Berry

Tyler Hayes

Chayce Ferrario

Tilly Hanlon

Stage 1 Green Imogen Dobson

Charlie McLaughlin

Lyla Fellows

Emily Kearnes

Izabella Douglas

Lesley Doolan

Khie Allen

Lilly Hoffman

Stage 2 Blue Nate Wooden

Isabella Dargin

Cody Vanzanten

Leah Schultz

Jessica Hume-Landrigan

Anna O’Rafferty

Stage 2 Green Thomas Gallop

Ace Hayman

Katelin Heir

Ruby Blatch

Chelsea Hume-Landrigan

Seanna Bailey

Stage 3 Yellow Amelia Hoffman

Tahlia Plunkett

Makayla Cameron

Ruben Jacobs

Jack Henderson

Stage 3 Blue Lochlan Judd

Emily Edson

Lachlan Phillips

Tristan Davis

Ryan Crowder

Kailyn Harris

Congratulations everyone!

Happy Birthdays!

The following students received their

birthday books at our assembly.

Birthday wishes to:

Kinder Red

Ivy Hanlon

Kinder Blue

Ivy Plunkett

Stage 1 Red

Trae Clarke

Stage 2 Green

Ben Field

Stage 3 Yellow

Bodhi Thelan

Mya Chisholm

Stage 3 Blue

Sam Holloway

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Junee North Public School

Home Reading Awards

25 Nights

Bodhi Thelan

50 Nights

Ivy Hanlon, Sophia Nell, Emily Kearnes, Milton Butt,

Sienna Butt, Bodhi Thelan, Montana Butt

75 Nights

Sienna Butt, Bodhi Thelan, Montana Butt, Destini

Shephard

100 Nights

Seth Shephard, Izabella Douglas, Bodhi Thelan, Destini

Shephard

125 Nights

Destini Shephard

Materials Wanted!

Tournament of Minds

Aluminium foil Balloons

Balls- ping pong, foam or plastic Buttons

Cling wrap Cotton wool

Dried peas/beans Straws

Elastic Feathers

Fabric Fishing line

Foam rubber Goggle eyes

Hessian Magnets

Make up/hair products nails & screws

Pantyhose Pasta

Pins Pipe cleaners

Plastic Polystyrene

Ribbon Socks

String Wire

Swimming caps Tape

Torch Whistles

Wood Yarn

All materials can be left at the school office in the

collection box.

P & C News

Next P&C Meeting:

Tuesday 6 August at 6:30pm in

the staffroom. All Welcome!

Junee North Public School

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What’s happening in our school?

House Champs!

Congratulations this week to our winning house:

Latham!! Latham won this fortnight’s cup with a total of

91 points. Well done Latham students!

Welcome to Junee North!

A big welcome to the Hoffman Family. Amelia, Isabella

& Lilly have all settled in well - WELCOME!

Touch Football Trials

Amelia & Mya attended the Touch Football Trials last

week. Well done Girls!

GRIP Leadership Conference

The student Leadership group from Junee North Public

School proudly receive their certificates of

participation.

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Junee North Public School

Debating

Last Wednesday (5th June) the Junee North Debating

team travelled to Coolamon Central School for a

debating gala day. Our teams were Lightning (Ruby

Lemmich, Kailyn Harris, Caitlyn Payne, Caitlyn Mudge

and Amy Jarrett) and Thunder (Tristan Davis, Aimee

White, Micah Kemp, Destini Shepherd and Makayla

Cameron).

Our first debate was Thunder vs Lightning and our topic

was All kids, Year 5 and above should get a paid job one

afternoon a week. A coin toss determined that Thunder

was affirmative, while Lightning took the negative side.

Lightning won the debate by 3 points.

In the second debate Thunder took on the Illabo 1 team.

Again, Thunder were affirmative. The topic was All sport

in school should be replaced with class work. They found

it hard talking positively about something they

disagreed with! Illabo won the debate.

Lightning took on Coolamon Crusaders. Their topic was

All children under 18 must participate in weekend sport.

Lightning took the negative side to the argument and

came away with the win.

Both teams, and the teacher, took away valuable advice

on how to improve our public speaking and debating

skills. We will compete against the other Illabo and

Coolamon teams in early Term 3, this time hosting the

debates.

Cross Country

On Friday 31st May, 38 students represented Junee

North at the District PSSA Cross Country in Harden. This

is a tough track with 3 hills, as well as creeks, bridges

and trotting tracks to compete with. Despite the cold,

wet conditions, students ran well, with most students

coming in the top 15 in their age groups.

Congratulations to Kaden Shaw (10 years) and Claire

O’Rafferty (11 years) who both ran 4th in their age group

and will represent our school and the district at Regional

level, to be held at Gundagai later this term.

Breakout kits with Mr Fellows - JHS

Mr Fellows from Junee High School has been working

with the Stage 1 students to introduce the Breakout

Kits, used to promote team work, planning and

problem solving skills.

Junee North Public School

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