FROM THE PRINCIPAL ..

It is great to see the wonderful learning that is taking place in all classes at Hanwood Public School. Well done to Year 3 and Year 5 students who completed their NAPLAN assessments this week. Good luck to our Stage 3 students who will be representing Hanwood Public School at the Mortimer Shield next Thursday. With the cold weather now here, please make sure that tags on school jumpers and jackets are marked clearly with student names. If students are ordering lunches, they need to hand in their lunch orders before the morning bell on Monday or Friday. Please make sure that you check the calendar at the back of the newsletter for important dates of upcoming events that may involve your child/children. We look forward to another great week of learning at HPS in week 4.

WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY

Once again, Hanwood Public School is recognising Walk Safely To School Day, on Friday 17th May (week 3). The aim of this day is to encourage children to add more regular exercise and movement into their day. If you would like your child/ren to participate, please drop your children at the gate of Hanwood Oval, by 9.00am. Mrs McAllister, Mrs Mackerras and Mr Workman will meet them and supervise the walk back to school. Parents and caregivers are more than welcome to join us and walk to school. If you have any questions regarding this, please see Mr Workman.

FEDERAL ELECTION CAKE STALL

The Federal Elections will be held on Saturday 18th May. We are again holding a cake stall to help raise funds for our school. All donations will be gratefully accepted. If anyone is able to provide an hour or two to help run the stall on Saturday, please let the front office or Bec Watt know. Cakes, slices, biscuits, preserves etc are able to be left at the office from Friday 17th May.

STUDENT OF THE WEEK

Term 2 Week 3 Date: Thursday 16th May 2019

Hanwood Public School School St, Hanwood, NSW, 2680

Tel: (02) 6963 0297 Email: hanwood-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Web page: www.hanwood-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Domenico Macri - KB For always being a kind and caring member of the class.

Well done, Domenico!

TEACHER IN THE SPOTLIGHT - Mrs Violi

Mrs Violi loves her role as an Italian teacher as well as a Learning Support teacher, helping children achieve their potential. Mrs Violi loves reading in her spare time. She especially enjoys reading to her little granddaughter and spending quality time with her.

Library - MRS MACKERRAS

Premier’s Reading Challenge H.P.S. participates in the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) each year and all students at our school are enrolled in it. At the end of the challenge, all students who have completed it will receive a special certificate. Students in K-2 participate by listening to stories which are read to them at school. These stories are logged online by the library teacher. Students in Years 3-6 are responsible for reading their own books. Our school library has many books which are on the PRC list and these are labelled with special stickers which make it easy to find appropriate books. Students in Years 3-6 must read 20 books to complete the challenge. Year 3/4 students can read PRC books which are levelled at Year 3 & 4, Year 5 & 6 or Year 7-9. Year 5/6 students can read Year 5 & 6 or Year 7-9 books. Year 3-6 students are logging the books they have read themselves this year. They have been taught how to do it on the PRC website and most primary students have already started doing this. Students are also able to log onto the website and log books at home. HAPPY READING!

KB - MISS BRESOLIN

KB have had a great start to Term 2! We have lots of exciting things happening this term. Our class will be hosting the school assembly in Week 8 (18th June 2019) - so save the date! Please keep an eye out for information regarding this in the coming weeks. Altina Excursion - We are very excited about our Altina Excursion which is coming up this week on Friday 17th May. We will be leaving at 9:30am, so please make sure that you are on time to school on Friday – this is really important! Just a friendly reminder, your child will need to bring; Fruit break Lunch (NO lunch orders) Drink bottle Hat Sunscreen Students will wear their full school uniform on the day. We will return to school at approximately 2:30pm.

5/6L - MS CAPSTICK

We are off to a flying start for term 2. We have been busy beginning all of our new units and completing some NAPLAN preparation. In History, we have began looking and how and why Australia became a nation and organised groups for our super exciting assessment task. Students will role play their selected significant events from the past and capture it with film to create a historical documentary. During Science this term we are investigating STEM activities, (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). Students each have a vital role during these activities where they collaboratively work toward the end goal of the task. This week students had to construct the tallest tower possible using only hard spaghetti and marsh mellows. STEM is a fun and innovative way to learn. Students always work hard in Mathematics, we have recently finished learning how to collect data and organise it in to different specialist graphs. Students enjoyed collecting data from classrooms around the school and organising their data in different forms.

TERM 2

Week 3

Monday 13/5 Ann Marie Agostini Lisa DeMarco

Friday 17/5 Ann Marie Agostini Juanita Cook Kim Dal Broi

Week 4

Monday 20/5 Ann Marie Agostini Eliza Serafin

Friday 24/5 Ann Marie Agostini Kerry Saunders Karen Woolnough

Week 5

Monday 27/5 Ann Marie Agostini Alicia Webb

Friday 31/5 Ann Marie Agostini Josie Brady Clare Dal Broi

Week 6

Monday 3/6 Ann Marie Agostini Di Ratcliff

Friday 7/6 Ann Marie Agostini Gemma Irvin Kim Dal Broi

Week 7

Monday 10/6 Public Holiday

Friday 14/6 Ann Marie Agostini Rosalee Segi Tracey Dall’est

Week 8

Monday 17/6 Ann Marie Agostini AnnMaree Schirripa Christine Schirripa

Friday 21/6 Ann Marie Agostini Michelle Johanson Kim Dal Broi

Week 9

Monday 24/6 Ann Marie Agostini Janelle Laird

Friday 28/6 Ann Marie Agostini Ellie Horton Gemma Harris

Week 10

Monday 1/7 Ann Marie Agostini Erin Bonetti

Friday 28/7 Ann Marie Agostini Clare Dal Broi

TERM 3

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

CLOSING SCHOOL GATES

Can all parents and visitors ensure that if they walk through a closed gate when entering or leaving the school grounds, to again close it behind them? Targeted gates will include: Wilga St (near canteen) School St (Bus stop) Kidman Way (Front gate) An executive will close these gates every morning after 9:30am.

TERM 2 2019

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

3

13/5 Life Education Program

14/5 NAPLAN– Yr 3 and 5 P&C meeting 7pm Life Education Program

15/5 NAPLAN– Yr 3 and 5

16/5 NAPLAN– Yr 3 and 5

17/5 WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY Kindergarten-Altina Stage 2– Possum Magic Stage 3– Leadership excursion

18/5 FEDERAL ELECTION And CAKE STALL

19/5

4

20/5 21/5 Assembly Captains and Italian Stage 3 Debating

22/5 Choir Practice (will travel by bus)

23/5 Mortimer Shield Communion info night

24/5 Zone Cross Country

25/5 26/5

5

27/5 Great Galaxies Performance State Soccer Bathurst

28/5 State Soccer Bathurst

29/5 State Soccer Bathurst

30/5 State Soccer Bathurst

31/5 1/6 2/6

6

3/6 4/6 Assembly 3/4DM

5/6 6/6 7/6 8/6 9/6

7

10/6 Queen’s Birthday holiday

11/6 P&C Meeting 7pm

12/6 13/6 14/6 15/6 16/6

8

17/6 18/6 Assembly KB

19/6 20/6 21/6 22/6 23/6

9 24/6 25/6 26/6 27/6 28/6 29/6 30/6 First

Holy Communion

10 1/7 2/7 P&C

Meeting 7pm 3/7 4/7 5/7 6/7 7/7

TERM 3

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat Sun

1 22/7 Staff Development Day

23/7 24/7 25/7 26/7 27/7 28/7

2 29/7 30/7 31/7 Assembly

SRC/Public Speakers

1/8 2/8 3/8 4/8

3 5/8 6/8 7/8 8/8 9/8 10/8 11/8

4

12/8 13/8 P&C Meeting 7pm School photo Day

14/8 15/8 16/8 17/8 18/8

5 19/8 20/8 21/8 22/8 23/8 24/8 25/8

2019 assemblies. Term 1 - Monday 3pm, Term 2 - Tuesday 3pm, Term 3 - Wednesday 3pm, Term 4 - Thursday 3pm