Public Speaking Champs

Well done Tom and Johanna!

■ 2017■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 7 and 8 ■ Principal: Kay Thurston

■ 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

Book Week Fun

Sharing the joy of reading

Our School Vision TO INSTIL IN OUR STUDENTS, THROUGH DIVERSE, INNOVATIVE & QUALITY EDUCATIONAL

EXPERIENCES, THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS TO BECOME CONFIDENT, CREATIVE AND HIGHLY

SUCCESSFUL LIFE-LONG LEARNERS AND RESPECTFUL & RESPONSIBLE CITIZENS.

■ 2017 ■ Term 3 ■ Weeks 7 & 8 ■ Newsletter

Calendar Term 3, Week 7

31 August Assembly @ 2:30 pm

1 September Riverina PSSA Athletics

Term 3, Week 8

4 September Regional Spelling Bee Finals

5 September Stage 2 Borambola Excursion

6 September Stage 2 Borambola Excursion

CHORDS rehearsal

7 September Year 6 Transition visit to JHS

Assembly @ 2:30 pm

8 September Red Ball Tennis Knockout

Term 3, Week 9

12 September Hip-hop Workshops

14 September Assembly @ 2:30 pm

Term 3, Week 10

19 September NAPLAN on-line readiness Yrs 3

21 September & 5

21 September Assembly @ 2:30 pm

22 September Last day Term 3

Week 7 Assembly : 3/4M

Week 8 Assembly: 1/2D

In this issue ... Principal’s report ........................................................................... 3

Book Week celebrations! ...................................................... 3

Spelling Bee ................................................................................ 3

Borambola Excursion Error! Bookmark not defined.

Stage 2 are buzzing with interest! ..................................... 3

CHORDS Choir success .......................................................... 3

Sport News ...................................................................................... 6

PSSA Athletics ............................................................................ 6

What’s happening in our school? ........................................... 8

Stage 2 all ‘abuzz’ .................................................................... 8

Golf sessions for Stages 2&3 ..... Error! Bookmark not

defined.

Book Week Celebrations! .......................................................... 9

Author Robyn shares her craft ............................................ 9

Book Parade! .............................................................................. 9

Feature Photo

Luke, Bayley & Jaxson sharing Book Week fun times.

OUR STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS

1. Creating high performing, engaged learners

2. Consistent, high standard educational practices

3. Student wellbeing as the foundation to

successful learners.

Junee North Public School

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Principal’s report

Book Week celebrations!

What a wonderful day was had by all last Wednesday!

Beautiful sunshine, lots of fabulous costumes and

many family members in attendance made for a most

enjoyable day. A huge thank you to all of the students

for their fantastic participation and efforts – and to the

many family members who helped in creating some

awesome outfits! My thanks to Mrs Commins for once

again organising our Book Fair. Our final tally was

$3504 worth of books sold! This will mean a significant

amount of books will now go into our library – thank

you everyone!

Alexa (The Very Hungry Caterpillar), Seth (Diary of a

Wimpy Kid) & Destini (Matilda)

Kennedy (The Old Man from ‘Up’)

Spelling Bee

Congratulations to four of our students on their

selection to represent Junee North in the Premier’s

Spelling Bee. The regional finals are being held at

South Wagg Public School on Monday 4 September.

Good luck to Aimee White, Tristan Davis, Shallan

Wright and Ella Fitzgerald.

Stage 2 is buzzing with interest!

All Stage 2 students were treated to a very informative

session with local apiarist (bee keeper), Vincent. We

certainly learned some amazing facts!

Keegan in full bee-keeper outfit!

CHORDS Choir success

Our CHORDS choir group attended their first

combined rehearsal in Wagga recently. Several of our

students auditioned to be part of the ‘core choir’ group

and a number were successful in being selected! Well

done to Luke Moon, Jaxson Allen, Nikita Simpson,

Paige Vanzanten, Bayley Guinan, Ella Fitzgerald, Tiger-

lilly Kemp and Madeleine Cameron. These students will

be very busy performing on all 4 days and nights

during CHORDS week!

Captains display great respect

Last Friday I accompanied our school captains, Cooper

and Madeleine to the Junee Ex-Services Club to

represent our school in honouring the Vietnam

Veterans. They laid a beautiful wreath and showed

tremendous respect during the service.

Kay

Junee North Public School

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Merit Awards Term 3 Week 5

Kindergarten Izabella Douglas

Kayla Heir

Tilly Hanlon

Lesley Doolan

Imogen Dobson

1/2M Lucy McGregor

Leah Schultz

Annabelle Howarth

1/2W Millie Allen

Sophie Baldock

Preston Thelan

1/2D Rylee Henderson

Jacob Davis

3/4D Tahlia Mellish-Clarke

Makayla Cameron

Lochlan Judd

Zachary Green

3/4M Ryan Schultz

Micah Kemp

Natalie Smith

Blake Lloyd

Alexa Wright

Destini Shephard

5/6B Annabell Eccleston

Madeleine Cameron

Chloe Masters

Zoe Fitzhardinge

Maggie Hawke

Torah Newman

5/6S Caidence Reberger

Paige O’Rafferty

Jack Armstrong

Merit Awards Term 3 Week 6

Kindergarten Charlie Munday

Milton Butt

Zach Shaw

Jayde Sainsbury

Kennedy Eastoe

1/2M Katelin Heir

Samuel Schachtner

1/2W Seth Wright

Georgia-Kitty Watkin

Angus Baldry

Charlotte Bolan-Andrews

1/2D Thomas Gallop

Aaleya Harris

3/4D Emily Edson

Kailyn Harris

Emily Harris

Ayla Harris

Lachlan Storer

Jack Henderson

3/4M Darcey Harrison

Mya Chisholm

Tristan Davis

Amy Jarrett

5/6B Charlie McEwen

Allan Cameron

Zach Sheppard

Linus Schachtner

Luke Moon

5/6S Elizabeth Collins

Kyran Burgess-Finn

Cooper Vanzanten

Ryan Rogers

Dimity-Lee Crocker

Nikita Simpson

Julian Schachtner

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Book Awards

Term 3 Week 5

3/4D Emily Smith

Ayla Harris

Lachlan Storer

Jack Henderson

3/4M Darcey Harrison

Term 3 Week 6

3/4M Junior Dargin

5/6S Jack Armstrong

Pennant Awards

Term 3 Week 5

3/4M Tristan Davis

5/6S Elizabeth Collins

Term 3 Week 6

KM Izabella Douglas

Tilly Hanlon

Imogen Dobson

Lesley Doolan

1/2M Lucy McGregor

Leah Schultz

Annabelle Howarth

1/2D Rylee Henderson

Jacob Davis

5/6B Annabell Eccleston

Madeleine Cameron

Chloe Masters

Zoe Fitzhardinge

Maggie Hawke

Torah Newman

Junee North Public School

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Home Reading Awards

Week 5

25 Nights Jack Henderson

50 Nights Archie Smith Thomas McCann

75 Nights Jessica Eccleston Seth Collins

100 Nights Jessica Eccleston Natalie Smith

Alexa Wright

125 Nights Jessica Eccleston Hannah Fitzgerald

175 Nights Bodhi Thelan

Week 6

100 Nights

Imogen Dobson Izabella Douglas

Riley Dobson

125 Nights

Maggie Hawke

Sport News

PSSA Athletics

Junee North took a team of 35 students to District

Athletics in Cootamundra on Monday August

14th. We had some great results on the day:

8 Years Boys 100m final - Keegan 4th Kaden 6th

8 Years Girls 100m final - Millie 4th

9 Year Girls 100m final - Claire 5th

10 Year Boys 100m final - Kyran 8th

10 Year Girls 100m final - Aimee 4th

11 Year Boys 100m final - Jaxson 1st (new record)

11 Year Girls 100m final - Maggie 6th

12 Year Boys 100m final - Bailey 4th Cody 6th

11 Year Boys 200m - Jaxson 1st

12 Year Boys 200m - Bailey 1st

Discus

Bayley 2nd

Paige O 1st

Torah 5th

Ben 5th

High Jump

Maggie 2nd

Jaxson 1st

Cooper 3rd

Paige 7th

Bailey 4th

Aimee 4th

Shot Put

Paige 4th

Bayley 2nd

Cooper 1st

Long Jump

Torah 1st Zoe 2

nd

Jaxson 1st Paige 3

rd

Aimee 2nd

11 YEARS BOYS CHAMPION - Jaxson Allen

RIVERINA QUALIFIERS - Jaxson, Torah, Cooper, Bailey

and Paige

Thank you to all the parents who came and supported

our Junee North. It was great to see each child doing

their very best while displaying fantastic

sportsmanship.

We wish our 5 Cootamundra District Representatives

all the best on September 1st in Albury.

Gabrielle Commins

Junee North Public School

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Little Groovers

Tell Them From Me

This Term, our school will be participating in the

Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the

Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher

and parent surveys) on student engagement. The

survey asks parents and carers questions about

different factors that are known to impact on student

wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand

parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s

experience at school. These include: communication

between parents/carers and staff, activities and

practices at home and parent/carer views on the

school's support of learning and behaviour. This

valuable feedback will help our school make practical

improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online on

smartphones, Ipads, tablets, laptops or computers. The

survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete

and is completely confidential. The parent survey will

be conducted between 21 August and 13 October.

Although participating in the survey is entirely

voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

More information about the survey is available at:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au

To access the survey for our school go to: https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/jnps2017

P&C News NEW MENU TO START TERM 4

As mentioned in our last newsletter, all schools must

now abide by strict regulations as to the items on the

menu. As part of these requirements several items

have to be removed from our current menu and

replaced with healthier alternatives. This relies on the

generosity of families giving up some time to assist

with cooking these items. Unfortunately we won’t be

ready to start our new menu until next term due to the

lack of time and availability of helpers. We would ask

that when the call is put out (via our P&C Facebook

page) for cooking helpers, that you consider giving up

a few hours to ensure we have these other options –

otherwise our menu will become very limited.

P&C MEETING

Our next meeting is being held on Tuesday 5

September at 6:15 pm in the staffroom – all welcome!

Junee North Public School

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What’s happening in our school?

Stage 2 all ‘abuzz’

As part of their involvement in the ‘Week of Tastes’

Stage 2 students enjoyed a visit from Vincent, a local

bee keeper. Vincent had the students (and teachers!)

fascinated with the information he was able to provide

about these amazing creatures.

Junee North Public School

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Book Week Celebrations!

Author Robyn shares her craft

Brisbane author, Robyn Press entertained our students

with a performance of her ‘fractured fairytale’

Goldilocks. The students then worked with Robyn

discussing how an author writes a story and the

processes involved. Thank you Robyn!

Book Parade!

Sunshine, wonderful costumes, books galore, lots of

smiling faces and families – what more could we want?

Junee North Public School

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