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Principal: Vicki O’Rourke Phone: 02 6337 1205 Fax: 02 6337 1394 Email: [email protected] Website: www.eglinton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Term 1 Week 10 Date: 5th April 2018
Good Citizenship
ANZAC Assembly and our Grandparents’ Day Over the final few weeks of term we are busily preparing for our special ANZAC Assembly and our Grandparents’ Day this combined event will be held on the last day of term 1 – Friday 13 April. Please place the date in your calendar. With each of our events it is wonderful to see our parents and community supporting the students. We do work hard to ensure we celebrate all of the good things that we create in our school. We usually do this through our Facebook page. Our Facebook page enables us to connect and communicate with the members of our school community. It is a place where we build our community, by building school spirit. Research tells us that when parents speak about or interact with their school in a positive way, it enhances student connectedness, wellbeing and ultimately learning outcomes. In joining our community on Facebook, Eglinton Public School follows the Department of Education Code of Conduct and Facebook’s Community Standards. Etiquette Our Facebook page is to be a celebration of our community and we are happy to see people support various posts via a Facebook comment or a ‘like’. However, Eglinton Public School reminds all families that our Facebook page is not the appropriate forum to be raising personal issues or complaints. Matters involving any of our children, parents or staff must not be raised on our Facebook page. There is a proper grievance procedure at Eglinton Public School to address such concerns and we encourage you to contact the Principal directly. Volunteering at School - Working With Children Check Please remember that all volunteers at school must provide the school office with their WWC documentation. This includes any position at school that brings you in contact with students, i.e. class home readers, volunteering in the library, uniform shop, working at a school BBQ and disco etc. If you have already been cleared for your place of employment or another volunteer situation please bring the approval letter to the school office as soon as possible. If you are new to the WWCC process please use this link to log on. https://www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au/child-safe-organisations/working-with-children-check Complete the volunteer form and finalise it at the local Service NSW Offices. Please note registering as a volunteer is free. Play Equipment Before and After School Reminder All parents and friends are reminded that children are NOT permitted on the school play equipment before or after school. This area is unsupervised so we continue to ask for your assistance in ensuring children do not access these areas. Vicki O'Rourke Principal
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9/4/18 3:15-4pm EMMA & Other helpers (Donations away, lost property sorted and start stocktake.)
11/4/18 1:00pm onwards
STOCKTAKE WEDNESDAY Whoever can make it please!
30/4/18 3:15 - 4pm Last day of school holidays
Megan & Extra help?
7/5/18 3:15-4pm Linda
8/5/18 2:30pm Meeting at Uniform shop.
Eglinton Public School’s ANZAC commemorative ceremony is quickly approaching. We are in search of any new families to our school or community who are ex-service men and women or members who are currently serving in Australia’s Defence Force to participate in our service as a special guest. If you are an ex-service man, woman or are currently serving and wish to attend our ANZAC Day ceremony as a special guest, please contact our school office staff and leave your details so a formal invitation can be issued. Cheryl Cluff
Week 10 Friday April 6th NRL Footy Clinic Stage 2 & 3 Infants Assembly - 12:30 Primary Assembly - 1:30 Week 11 Monday April 9th Teddy Bears Picnic - Kindergarten Tuesday April 10th P&C Meeting - 7:00 Wednesday April 11th Stage 1 BMEC Excursion - Georges Marvellous Medicine Friday April 13th ANZAC Day special assembly - 10:00 Grandparents day - 10:15 End of Term One Week 1 Term 2 Tuesday May 1st Students Return Wednesday May 2nd CWA Public Speaking Finals stage 2 & 3 Thursday May 3rd Wicked BMEC Friday May 4th Infants Assembly - 12:30 Primary Assembly - 1:30 Week 2 Term 2 Tuesday May 8th Band meeting - 5:30 OOSH meeting - 6:00 P&C Meeting - 7:00 Friday May 11th Infants Assembly - 12:30 Primary Assembly - 1:30
Our ANZAC Service will be Friday 13 April at 10.00am. REQUEST FOR FOLLIAGE FOR MAKING OUR ANZAC WREATHS We ask for the children to please bring in long-stemmed flowers or other foliage suitable for making our wonderful wreaths e.g. fern leaves, gum leaf branches etc. on Thursday morning 12th April. All flowers and foliage can be taken immediately to the Library so our great parent and teacher volunteers can construct the wreaths from 2:25pm. The Library will be open from 8.30am onwards. Thank you in advance.
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Amanda & HELP Friday 6/4/18
Help Monday 9/4/18
Vanessa Tuesday 10/4/18
Michelle (11am) Wednesday 11/4/18
Vicki & Jordan Thursday 12/4/18
Lots of Help needed Friday 13/4/18
Lunch
Order
Due to no assembly on Monday we will draw 2 QuickCliq winners next week. We will be having our Grandparents Day meal deal again on the last day of school, Friday the 13th of April. For $6 this will include mixed sandwiches, tea cake and drink (GF extra $1). Orders can be made on Quickcliq and must be in by Wednesday the 11th of April. Normal canteen menu is not available on the last day of term. Volunteers are needed to help on the morning of Grandparents day, if you are available please contact me in the canteen. Thank you, Amanda Lewis 0429 951 665
The next P&C meeting on the 10th of April will be the Annual General Meeting. If you would like to have input into the running of your school and/or the P&C please come along! We have some exciting projects in the pipeline for the 150th Birthday celebrations this year they include: Beautifying the front area of EPS so it’s a
welcoming, attractive space for our school Planning celebration events for the 150th
sesquicentenary; a trivia night, a bush dance and other fun stuff!
So come along, there’s no pressure to take on a job and we welcome all of the Eglinton Community.
End of Term 1 Social
Claim the date!! Wednesday 11 April
K-2- 4:15- 5:15
Stage 2- 5:30-6:30
Stage 3- 6:45-7:45
Put on your party clothes kids!!
Be part of the 150th anniversary celebrations of Eglinton Public School. Purchase a paver and be part of the pathway in the Heritage Garden to be opened in time for our sesquicentenary celebrations in September. Collect your order form from the from office.
Offer closes on FRIDAY 13TH APRIL, 2018.
A Dinner Date All EPS parents, community members, P&C
Staff and their partners are invited to join us for a casual dinner and night out.
7th of April 6:30pm
Two Heads Brewery RSVP to
[email protected] or Emma on 0409 288554
EPS GARDEN CLUB IS RUNNING!
EACH FRIDAY AT 2nd Half LUNCH
IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME ALONG AND HELP THE KIDS GROW SOME
PRODUCE PLEASE EMAIL [email protected]
On Monday these twelve fantastic year 6 Eglinton Public students attended the Orange regional round of the world renowned Kids' Lit Quiz - The Sport of Reading. Our students and their parents represented our school superbly and we are extremely proud of them.
Wayne Mills (The Quiz Master), a former senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in the Faculty of Education, asks the teams 100 questions from ten literary categories. Then asks bonus questions for individuals and audience members with book and cash prizes between categories.
With schools from as far away as the Blue Mountains and scores ranging from 20 to 87.5 our teams all did really well, scoring 49, 50 and 58 to place twelfth of forty one teams competing.
David Peters Librarian Just a gentle reminder to send note and money for your child’s Year 6 hoodie to the front office by Friday the 13th of April please.
It is compulsory for all children riding bikes and scooters to wear safety helmets. Children who ride bicycles to school will only be permitted to do so if they are wearing a helmet. Parents are reminded that children under 9 years of age should not be riding on the road. We would therefore prefer that Infants children do not ride bikes to school.
Vicki O’Rourke Principal
