Term 3 Week 3 2 August, 2012

Ph: 4988 6234

www.seaham-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

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

Principal’s Message

Dates for your Diary

Fri 2 Aug Full School Assembly - 2.00 pm Tue 14 Aug Zone Field Events Fri 17 Aug Zone Track Events Sat 25 Aug P&C BBQ Masters Hardware Wed 29 Aug School Performance Thur 30 Aug School Performance Tue 11 Sep Orientation for Grossmann High Thur 13 Sep Teen Talk - Year 6 Only Mon 22-26 Oct Wangat - Stage 3 Wed 7 Nov Surf Safe Thur 8 Nov Surf Safe Thur 15 Nov Great Aussie Bush Camp Stage 2 Fri 16 Nov Great Aussie Bush Camp Stage 2 Tue 4 Dec Annual School Presentation 7pm Tue 11 Dec Year 6 Farewell

Woolworths Earn & Learn

Coles Sports For Schools

6034 vouchers have been collected to date.

Double your vouchers until 14th August,

2012.

Assembly

Over 90 000 stickers have been collected.

Visit the Woolworths Earn & Learn page on

the internet to browse the products the

school can choose from when redeeming its

sticker points.

Book Club There is a book club order form in the school

office with no name or class on it. If this

belongs to you please contact the office

immediately so your order can be processed.

Education Week Newsletter

Happy Education Week to all our Seaham families. I

hope you have had a chance to witness our Public

Speaking Finals, visit our book fair or just spend time

talking with your child about school and their many

achievements. Education Week is a time to celebrate

the quality teaching and learning that occurs

everyday at Seaham and in our 2,200 Public Schools

in NSW.

During this time when our athletes are competing in

the Olympic Games in London we also celebrate

many sporting achievements at Seaham. Our Zone

Athletics Team who travel to Raymond Terrace

shortly to compete in the Zone Carnival, our Netball

Team who are through to round 5. We also wish our

Girls Touch Football Team well before their match

with Dungog tomorrow.

Zone Athletics Change of Date

Congratulations to all students who qualified for the

Zone Carnival. The track and field days have been

put back one week due to the condition of the track.

The new dates are now the 14th for field events and

the 17th of August for track events.

Valuables at School

Please remind your children to leave valuable items

at home. Mobile phones, iPods etc are small and

tempting. Recently I have noticed an increase in

these types of things at school. The loss of these

valuables can be very upsetting, not to mention

costly.

Recently a white with pink iPod touch has gone

missing from one of our student’s bags. This item

was a recent birthday present and its loss has been

very upsetting for its owner. If anyone knows of its

whereabouts or has seen it, please contact the

school.

Education Week Presentation

The Official Ceremony and Awards afternoon for

Education Week will be held on Tuesday, the 14th of

August at Irrawang High School from 4.00-5.30 pm.

Schools from the Irrawang and Hunter River learning

communities will be involved. Awards will be handed

out for outstanding students, teachers, community

members and school support staff.

Craig Partridge

Principal

Tomorrow we will be holding a full school

assembly for Education Week, commencing

at 2.00pm. Our students who will be

representing Seaham Public at the upcoming

Hunter and Central Coast Public Speaking

Competition will be presenting their

speeches. Everyone is welcome to attend.

Canteen Roster

Fri 3 Aug Terri Walters

Tracey Morris Sharon Morgan

Mon 6 Aug Maree Jenkinson Tue 7 Aug Rachael Bridge Wed 8 Aug Erin Selden Karen Phillips

Thu 9 Aug Mandy Collins Fri 10 Aug Karen Forsyth Mel Meggs

Liz Akerman

New volunteers are urgently needed to assist in the canteen. It is a great opportunity for parents old and new or grandparents to become involved in the Seaham School Community. Please contact Karen Codrington on 49 887 026 if you are able to assist.

Our netball girls travel to Warners Bay on

Monday to compete against Biddabah Public

School in round 5 of the PSSA. This is a very

exciting time for Mrs Lawler and her team and

we look forward to hearing the result on

Monday.

School Performance

Tickets are now on sale for our Performances to

be held later this month. We invite you to

attend as many performances as possible. Any

proceeds from the shows will go towards new

hall curtains.

Performance A (K-2) $6.00

Performance B (3-6) $9.00

Whole Performance (K-6) $12.00.

Details of performances details are as follows:

Matinee Performances—29 August

Performance A (K-2) @11.30 am

Performance B (3-6) @1.00 pm

Night Performances - 29 & 30 August

Performance A (K-2) @6.00 pm

Performance B (3-6) @7.30 pm

Girls Touch Football

Netball Update

Kinder Enrolments for 2013

We are now taking names and details for those

families that will have a student attending

Seaham School next year. It would be

appreciated if you could please contact the

office with the relevant details. Enrolment

packs will be forwarded out later in the term.

Evacuation Drill

Zone Athletics Change of Date

Today Seaham School conducted an

evacuation drill. Congratulations to all the

students on their very calm manner, this

made the process run very smoothly.

Our girls touch football team will travel to

Lakeside at Raymond Terrace tomorrow to

play their 1st round PSSA game against

Dungog Public. If they are successful they will

then play their 2nd round against

Grahamstown Public also tomorrow. Good

luck girls!

As mentioned in Mr Partridge’s news, the Zone

Athletic Carnival has been changed to the 14th

(Field) and 17th (Track) August. Students

representing Seaham will appear in next week’s

edition.

Public Speaking

Yesterday our school held a Public Speaking Final to

determine our representatives for the Hunter and

Central Coast Primary Schools Public Speaking

Competition for 2012.

Several students from each class were chosen by their

class teachers in the lead up to the school final and then

had to compete against each other in an effort to

choose the two best speakers from each Stage. Just to

make it to the school final is an achievement in itself.

Congratulations to all of the following students.

Stage One: Tim Kerkhof, Brylee Brown, Rhianna

Brooker, Clare Moroney, Brooklyn Clarke, Oscar Mella

and Jasmine Armitage.

Stage Two: Bridie Holloway, Cameron Parker, Jordan

Flynn, Milla Kime, Olivia Teterin, Sophie Taylor and Joe

Richards.

Stage Three: Joel Wevers, Erin Meredith, Kelsey

Burridge, Taylah Baylis, Tom Lidbury, Juliet Taylor,

Jazmin Neilson and Abbey Baylis for their well written

speeches and for the impressive job they did on

presenting them.

It was especially challenging for the younger students in

each Stage, having to compete against students a year

ahead of them. The marking criteria was very specific

and it was pleasing to see such high scores from ALL of

the speakers.

For Stage One, Seaham Public School will be

represented by Claire Moroney and Brooklyn Clarke.

Stage Two will see Milla Kime and Sophie Taylor in the

Zone Finals and Kelsey Burridge and Juliet Taylor will

represent Stage Three.

Special mention to Taylah Baylis and Abbey Baylis who

were also outstanding in the Stage Three Finals and

were narrowly beaten by half a point and one point

respectively.

Mrs Imber

Absent:

Joseph

Richards

Absent: Abbey Baylis

Education Week Book Fair & Public Speaking Finals

We would like to thank our

families for their wonderful

support with our annual book fair.