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17 August 201817 August 2018

PRINCIPALS REPORTIt was fantastic to welcome so manyparents and community members to ourschool last week for Education Week OpenDay as well as our Book Week activities.While I was sadly out of action last Thursdayand Friday (having minor surgery), I have heard nothing butpositive reports regarding these events. Open Day, along withthe Easter hat parade and Grandparents Day are some of thehighlights of the year. Days such as these provide us with aperfect platform for ‘showing off’ our wonderful school andstudents. They are great community events that bring everyonetogether and help us to create a sense of community across ourschool. You will find a report of these events later in thisnewsletter.

Milo Cricket

Huge congratulations to our amazing Stg3Milo Cricket team who played outstandinglywell to win the local Hawkesburycompetition. Mr Wheat reports that the teamplayed with skill and determination indefeating a strong Wilberforce PS team inthe final. Our players displayed great sportsmanship, fair playand teamwork – all essential qualities in a champion sportsteam. We are very proud of this team’s achievements. Thankyou to all who assisted in preparing and transporting the playersto the competition day.

Coding Classes

Our coding classes with ScopeIT are well underway, with someclasses continuing on with building skills in computer coding,while other classes have undertaken classes in 3D design andprinting. The 3D design and printing is a new option that somestudents are participating in for the first time. Now that theschool has purchased its own 3D printers, it will be interestingto see what skills the students develop and what designs theycan come up with. It has been very pleasing to once againoffer these classes to students at no cost to parents. Theschool allocates funding from its budget to cover the costsof conducting these courses. Please take the time to ask youchildren about the work they are doing in these classes. Weknow that these future focussed skills will be highly sought afterin the future. As such, we feel our students need to be providedwith these types of opportunities where they can develop theircreative and critical thinking skills to solve real problems.

Kickstart to Kindergarten

The response to our Kickstart to Kindergarten program hasonce again been fantastic. With around 40 children alreadyparticipating, we are confident that our school will continueto grow. This program provides a perfect introduction to ‘bigschool’ for our preschool aged children. They develop socialskills, learn about expectations, meet their Kindy teachers andbecome orientated with the school. One can clearly see thebenefits of this program when we observe how quickly thesenew students settle in to kindergarten. Children that participatein the Kickstart program develop the self-confidence requiredto make the best start possible to their primary schooling.

Last week, the children had the opportunity to meet the schoolchickens. This proved to be a real highlight of the day for some,while others were drawn to games time and art activities. I lookforward to catching up with these children and their parentsover the coming weeks.

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Athletics Carnival

Well done to all the students whoparticipated enthusiastically in the trackevents carnival 2 weeks ago. There were anumber of hotly contested events, withsome races coming down to hundredths ofseconds. The points score lead changed several times duringthe day. At the close of the carnival, there were only a fewpoints difference between houses. It will be interesting to seehow the points change as we complete the field events over thenext few days. Those who have been successful in progressingto the District Carnival will receive information and permissionnotes shortly.

Wakakirri

The countdown is now on to our Wakakirri performance for2018. The students are getting very excited to show us allwhat they have been working so hard on for the past 2 terms.Well done to all the students involved. Special thanks to MsKane, Mrs Donaldson and Miss Riley for all your hard workin preparing the students. Thanks also to the parents whohave assisted with making costumes and constructing props.Hopefully everyone now has their performance tickets and weare ready to roll!

UPCOMING EVENTS

DATEDATE EVENTEVENT

20 August- 24 August Science Week

20 August and 27 August Coding K-4

21 August and 28 August Kick Start to Kindergarten

21 August Netball Gala Day

21 August Wakakirri Performance

23 August Rock and Water

28 August Volleyball with Ty

29 August District Athletics

30 August Coding 5-6

31 August District Athletics

DAYS TO REMEMBER

MONDAY Homework ClubBreakfast ClubCanteen Open

TUESDAY Canteen Open

WEDNESDAY ScriptureStudent BankingUniform Shop 8.30am-9.15am

THURSDAY Breakfast Club

FRIDAY Assembly 2pm (Odd Weeks)Uniform Shop 8.30am-9.15amBreakfast ClubCanteen Open

TEACHERS AWARDS

KR Kaylin CKayla McF

Lilley G

KV Khalil MMia B

Jagger R

1W Lillyana HTobias HSiobhan J

1/2D Tomas PHarry WLiam D

1/2M Brayde BMarli B

Harmony McKarly HRuby B

2/3H Emilie McBenji D

Phoenix H

3/4M Daniel BHannah NKobie T

3/4P Tearni SLiam T

5/6W Rhys ETe Whaea LLandon B

5/6Z Brayden PMary H

Oliver P

BIRTHDAY AWARDS

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Happy Birthday to Zayden L, Mia H, Charlotte W, Aldrich L,Jamie R, Adele T, Henri H, Leia P and Lily H who have allcelebrated a birthday.

CONGRATULATIONS

Congratulations to Henri H, Savannah M and Luca N forreaching your banking goals and receiving your rewards.

FIVER FOR A FARMER

Congratulations to all our students who have raised anastounding $923.50 to help our farmers in need.

LIBRARY NEWS

Library Borrowing Days 2018

MONDAY 5/6Z and KR

TUESDAY 3/4P and 2/3H

WEDNESDAY 1/2M

THURSDAY KV and 3/4M

FRIDAY 1W, 1/2D and 5/6W

Premiers Reading Challenge

In Library time and in class time the children will be given anopportunity to read or borrow books which are included in thePremiers Reading Challenge. The books for the K-2 childrenhave a purple sticker on the spine. Years 3-4 have a red stickerand Years 5-6 have a green sticker.

Your child has recently been given a Premiers ReadingChallenge recording sheet. If you want your child to participateyou will need to record the ID number, name and author of thebook. The recording sheets need to be kept in their Library bag.When finished hand to Mrs Donaldson in the Library. Your childwill receive a merit award on completion of the challenge, duringLibrary lessons or School Assembly.

The Challenge runs from 5th March to end of August 2018.On-going reading is encouraged.

Note: A book that is read to the child counts as a book read!

DEBATINGThis year some of our students participated in the Premier’sDebating Challenge, where we had a squad of students from5/6Z and 5/6W make up our team. Four students at eachtime were asked to participate in various debates against otherschools. Some debates were hosted by our school and otherwere ‘away’ debates hosted by other schools.

The students who participated in debating in 2018 were; EthanA, Bailey E, Kimberlie V, Lara P, Oliver E, Este H, Aleisha G andJessica H.

Congratulations to these students for all their efforts this year.The competition was very tough and students were given onlyone hour to prepare a four minute talk on an unknown topic.In our zone we debated against; Bligh Park PS, Richmond PS,Riverbank PS and just this week, we versed Kurmond PS foran ‘away’ debate. Our topic was ‘That primary schools shouldteach compulsory swimming classes’. We were the ‘Negative’side and had to accept defeat from Kurmond PS who puttogether some great arguments.

Our team did not make it to the zone knock-out competitionthis year however, they put up a great fight and haverepresented our RNPS community with pride. We will return tothe competition next year with just as much enthusiasm andwill be looking for more students to join our team. Perhaps wewill have some of the current year 4 students who might beinterested in joining the team for 2019.

Once again, congratulations to our stage 3 debating students. Iam also happy to report of all the compliments I received fromother schools about the conduct of our wonderful studentswhen representing our school. They showed respect,responsibility, compassion and fairness all season and I wasproud to be the teacher to work with these enthusiasticstudents.

A job well done!Miss Chantelle Ziesel - Debating Coordinator 2018

Four of our wonderful Debating StudentsFour of our wonderful Debating Students

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SPORTS NEWS

Upcoming Gala Days

Todd Woodbridge Cup Gala Day – 17th AugustRoyce Simmons & Greg Alexander Competitive NRLGala Day – 4th SeptemberMILO T20 Blast School Cup Cricket Yrs 3&4 – 14thSeptemberBasketball Gala Day – 21st SeptemberNetball Gala Day – 21st SeptemberHawkesbury Cup NRL – 26th September

PSSA Trial Dates

Please see below the PSSA (Primary School SportsAssociation) Trials that are approaching.

If you feel your child is skilled in one of these particular sportsand would like to try out for this team/individual sport pleasefeel free to contact Mr Wheat well in advance of the date listedbelow for more details.

We encourage and like to give the students the opportunitythat have knowledge and skill in any PSSA Sports to representRichmond North Public School.

District Athletics (Track & Field) – 29th & 31st AugustCricket – 6th SeptemberRegional Athletics (Track & Field) – 19th September

If you have any news or photos from our school Gala Days orDistrict/Regional Events please feel free to see me and I canhave them added to the Sports News in the school newsletter.

Thanks, Emma Racker.

Netball Gala Day

Miss Ziesel and Miss Hamilton are looking for some parenthelpers who are familiar with the basic rules of netball. We arelooking for 3 parents who would be willing and available onFRIDAY 21ST SEPTEMBER between 9am and 2pm, to umpireour students while they play netball at the Gala day. You don’thave to be a badged umpire, you just need to have an idea ofthe basic rules.

We are hoping to enter 3 teams in the comp, which will be heldat Windsor outdoor netball courts.

We would be appreciative of any help you may be able to offer.We are also wanting help to do some training sessions at lunchtime to train the teams. If there are any parents who would beable to help train our netball teams at lunch 1:20 to 2:00pmplease see Miss Ziesel or Miss Hamilton if you can help us out.

It’s always a fun day!Miss Ziesel and Miss Hamilton

BOOK WEEK CELEBRATIONS

The Amazing Book Week – written by 1W

On Thursday Richmond North celebrated Book Week andOpen Day.

To start the day we watched the ‘Treasure Hunt’ performance.The show was fantastic and funny and we liked the costumes.

Then our parents came to our classroom and we showed themour work and read a book to them.

After recess we had our parade. We took it in turns walkingaround the circle in our classes and we showed off ourcostumes. We loved seeing all the characters from differentbooks.

It was a very fun and exciting day and 1W thought it was anamazing and epic morning.

COLO HIGH TRANSITION DAYAll Year 6 students who participated in the transition day atColo High really enjoyed their experience. Well done to all thestudents, your behaviour was outstanding.

NOTES FROM THE OFFICE

Kindergarten 2019 Enrolling Now

We are now accepting enrolments for Kindergarten 2019. If youknow of anyone who is starting Kindergarten next year pleasesend them to the office.

School Gate

Parents please be aware that high school students who arecoming to pick up their siblings will not be allowed on schoolpremises until the school gate is opened at 2:45.

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