Noumea Public School...Noumea Public School Newsletter Thursday 20 August 2015 [email protected] From our Principal On Tuesday of this week, a fabulous artist named Janne

Noumea Public School Newsletter Thursday 20 August 2015

www.noumea-p.schools..nsw.edu.au [email protected]

From our Principal

On Tuesday of this week, a fabulous artist named Janne painted a beautiful mural of two fairy wrens on our Community cottage. We have been working with Mission Australia to brighten up the old yellow wall on the cottage and make the entry to our school inviting. The guys at Street Art murals were easy to work with and after talking to them about our brief, succeeded in assigning Janne to do the work. He spoke to all of the children throughout the day and explained what he was doing as he completed the painting. Everyone who has seen his painting has commented on how beautiful it is so again, a huge thank you to Janne for an amazing work of art. Next week is Book Week and the children are excitedly getting their costumes together for the parade. Parents and friends are invited to join us for a picnic recess after the parade and visit an art display in the hall. A Forensic Science show will also be held on Wednesday as part of Science Week. Students from Year Three to Year Six are invited be quick to make your payment to attend. Mr Ford also has student Science Projects set up in the Library and parents are invited to view these. Our District athletes will compete next Monday and Tuesday at the District carnival and we wish them all the best. Stage Three camp organisation is also complete and our campers will head off to Bathurst in the coming weeks. A team of electricians are currently working their way through the school removing lights and fittings and replacing them with new energy saving lighting. This should greatly improve our energy usage and bring our lighting up to date. Please avoid using the car park as it is currently congested with workers and the large container blocks visibility, signifi-cantly. Parents are reminded that the car park is only for staff. Children are to exit via the front gate near the crossing. Kind Regards, Mrs Sue Finn Principal

A newsletter for the community of Noumea Public School, built on Dharug land.

Term 3 Week 6 20 August 2015

Noumea Public School

Noumea St

Shalvey NSW 2770

T 9628 7777

F 9628 1572

2015 Term Dates

Term 1 Wed 28 Jan - Thurs 2 April

Term 2 Tues 21 April - Fri 26 June

Term 3 Tues 14 July - Fri 18 Sept

Term 4 Tues 6 Oct - Wed 16 Dec

24 to 28 August 2015

Book Week

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26 August 2015

Science Show

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27 August 2015

Book Parade

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1 to 3 September 2015

Stage 3 Camp

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4 September 2015

Footy Colours Day

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17 September 2015

Whole School Assembly

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Coming Events

Office Hours

Monday - Friday

8:30am - 3:00pm



EnviroMentors On Thursday 6 August, several classes (K – 6) attended a recycling workshop presented by EnviroMentors held in our schools library. EnviroMentors is part of Keep NSW Beautiful and works in conjunction with local councils to provide workshops designed to inform local communities on how best to protect their local environment. Our workshop focussed on recycling organic waste through the use of worm farms. It was a fascinating presentation with plenty of hands-on activities, the highlight of which must have been the identifying and handling of different worm species. We are grateful to the Blacktown City Council for the free workshop and the donation of a worm farm to our school. Mr Brad Ford Science teacher

Book Parade On Thursday 27 August, we will be holding a Book Parade to help celebrate Book Week 2015. This year, the parade will coincide with a Book Week Art Show in the hall and a picnic recess at the end of the parade. The theme of this year’s Book Week is “Books Light up Our World”. All students K-6 are invited to come to school dressed in either light themed costumes or as their favourite character from a book. A parade will be held under the school COLA at 10:30 am so that students have an opportunity to share their costumes. Parents are also invited to come and watch the parade (fancy dress is optional), followed by a picnic recess with their children in the playground. We are looking forward to seeing all princesses, pirates, Harry Potters, monsters and friends on the day. For further details please contact Ms Dunn or

Mrs McNally

Sports and Group Photo Day

Advancedlife Photography will be returning to

Noumea Public School today to take our group

and PSSA team photos. Once the photos have

been processed they will be displayed at school

for ordering.

Photos to be taken are:

Year Six Group photo

Captains and Prefects

House Captains

SRC

Choir

PSSA Rugby League/ Netball

Multicultural Group

Aboriginal Dance Groups (K-2 and 3-6)

Junior Dance Group

Further information about the ordering of photos

will be given once the photos are on display and

ready for purchasing.



IT’S BACK!!!!! WOOL-WORTHS EARN & LEARN STARTED ON Wednesday 15 July and continues until Tuesday 8 September. When you shop at

Woolworths you can collect Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers from the checkout operator and place them on a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet (available at school). There will be one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Once completed simply place the Sticker Sheet in the collection box located in the school foyer. You can download more Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheets from the website woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn This program gives schools and Early Learning Centres around Australia the chance to earn new educational resources. Year 2 Excursion Fund Raising Cake Stall Yr. 2 would like to thank the community of Noumea PS for supporting our cake stall to help subsidise the cost of our excursion. Year 2 Excursion to Rouse Hill House and Farm An excursion to Rouse Hill House and Farm would normally have cost our students upwards of $50. This excursion was made possible because of the support of the NSW ‘Sydney Living Museums’ travel subside and the whole Noumea PS community. Year 2 would like to thank everyone who helped make the Yr. 2 excursion to Rouse Hill House and Farm possible.



Year 2 Excursion



Whole School Assembly

TEA & TALK @ TWO-THIRTY

Since there are a number of school functions in the remaining weeks of this term we will resume Tea & Talk sessions in Term 4. Thanks to those who have attended and we hope some more will join us when we start back in October.



Athletics Ribbons



School Mural



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Canteen Meal Deal from 24 August to 11 September Deal 1 $4.50 Salad Roll Small Water Piece of fruit Deal 2 $4.40 Hot chicken Roll Pop Top Juice Frozen Juice Cup

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