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Term 1 - Week 8 2018

Neutral Bay Public School175 Ben Boyd Road Neutral Bay NSW 2089Tel: 9953 1798 Fax: 9904 1479 App: Primary Parent Planner

Monday2 April

Easter Monday

Tuesday 3 April

Senior BandJunior ChoirConcert Band

8.00am8.00am12.40pm

Wednesday 4 April

Year 5 CampChamber Group Year 4 Opportunity Class Information SessionMixed Dance GroupOrchestraSenior Dance GroupBay ChoirJunior BandK - 2 Combined Assembly

7.00am8.00am8.00am8.00am8.15am8.30am8.15am11.50am2.20pm

Thursday 5 April

Year 5 CampConcert Band 7.45am

Friday 6 April

Year 5 CampSenior BandSenior ChoirPSSA

7.45am8.00am12.20pm

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2018 TERM 1: Tuesday 30 January - Friday 13 April

TERM 2: Tuesday 1 May - Friday 6 July

TERM 3: Tuesday 24 July - Friday 28 September

TERM 4: Monday 15 October - Wednesday 19 December

Term Dates

Monday 26 March

Junior Band 7.45am

Tuesday 27 March

Senior BandJunior ChoirConcert Band

8.00am8.00am12.40pm

Wednesday 28 March

Chamber GroupMixed Dance GroupOrchestraSchool CouncilSenior Dance GroupBay ChoirJunior Band

7.00am8.00am8.00am8.00am8.30am8.15am11.50am

Thursday 29 March

Concert Band 7.45am

Friday30 March

Good Friday

Term 1 - Week 9 2018

Weekly Calendar Page 1

Principal’s News Pages 2 & 3

Sports House Points Page 3

Sports News Page 3

Stage News Pages 4 & 5

Uniform Shop News Page 6

P & C News Pages 6 & 7

School Council News Page 7

Canteen News Page 7

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Principal’s NewsTerm 1 Parent/Teacher InterviewsWe will be holding Parent/Teacher Interviews the week commencing Monday 26 March. This will be a valuable opportunity to discuss how your child has settled into the new school year, share with you assessment information and areas of focus for the future. We will be using an online booking system for interviews. For parents who do not have internet access please contact the office with a choice of two preferred booking times.

• Bookings open: Monday 19 March 8.00am

• Bookings close: Thursday 22 March 3.00pm

URL: www.schoolinterviews.com.au

Event code: kk8n9

1. Enter your details

2. Select the teachers you wish to see

3. Select the appointment times that suit you best

When you click ‘finish’, your interview timetable will be emailed to you automatically. You can return to www.schoolinterviews.com.au at any time and change your interviews until Thursday 22 March (3.00pm).

National Day of Action against Bullying and ViolenceOn Friday of last week we took part in the National Day of Action against Bullying and Violence. The students signed a pledge against bullying and created daisy chains where they wrote ‘My school should be bully free because …”

Grandfriends’ DayWe look forward to celebrating Grandfriends’ Day on Thursday 12 April. An invitation has been sent home with all students who are in Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 later this week. There will also be an opportunity for parents to view the rehearsal concert on Wednesday 11 April at 2.00pm. The program of events is:

• 9.30 - 10.30am Concert outdoors featuring students in Years K, 1 and 2 performing, Concert Band and Chamber Group.

• 10.30 - 11.00am Class Visits

• 11.00 - 11.30am Morning Tea in hall

Opportunity Class Information SessionWe will be holding an Opportunity Class Parent Information session for parents who have students in Year 4 this year on Wednesday 4 April at 8.00a.m. in 4M room.

Applications for Opportunity Classes in 2018 open online as of Tuesday 1 May and close on Friday 18 May. A note will be sent home in the near future providing further information.

Morning Playground SupervisionA reminder teachers commence playground duty before school at 8.45am. On occasions, due to exceptional circumstances, a child may need to arrive at school a few minutes prior to this time. If this is the case, the students wait in the designated area (silver seats near the Junior Library or in front of the staffroom) until the 8.45am bell rings. If you require further information, you are welcome to contact the school.

Year 6 2017 Farewell GiftThank you to Year 6 from 2017 who kindly donated our new drinking station as a farewell gift to the school. The students can use the station as a bubbler and to fill their drink bottles. The water is cooled and it keeps count of the number of drink bottles we fill to remind us of the amount of plastic disposable bottles we are saving.

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Sports News

Sport House Points

Boyd Gilmore Milson Warung

Week Total

3 1 4 2

Term Total

16 14 19 21

Have a great week at Neutral Bay.David ShusterPrincipal

Home RunnersCaptain: Yuma Jo Most Valuable Player: Claudia Offer

It was a compelling match that ended with our win 21-20. We started amazingly, but completely collapsed in the 2nd innings. If Claudia didn’t catch the ball at home and to get two runners out, we would’ve surely lost!

StrikersCaptain: Dylan Tyler MVP: Mack Waters

Today the Strikers played really well. I think we did a good job in batting. Although we lost 15-18 against Neutral Bay 4, all of us hit a homerun. I think we need to work on stopping the ball because sometimes the ball went through our legs. The MVP goes to Mack because he caught two people out and got his first homerun!

Double OutsCaptain: Krishan Price MVP: Tom Metcalfe

Today we played a successful match against Anzac 2 from Anzac Park Public. It was a successful match, as we triumphed 26-14. Since our last match, we improved our batting, even if we could work on it a bit more. All in all, our fielding was excellent and this has been a great match of which everyone in the team can be proud.

MVPsCaptain: Charlie Atkinson MVP: Charles Conlon

MVPs won 18-15 against the Strikers. There were a few tricky balls to face, but we survived. I’m very proud of the team. Charles Conlon was a very good sportsman and he got the MVP.

StealersCaptain: Lucas Fargeat MVP: Lucian Samuels

It was a tough game against Middle Harbour 3, although the umpire said we were encouraging each other. We lost at the end of the day 16-14. It was very unlucky.

SlidersCaptain: Hunter Camelo-Gomez MVP: Lachlan Bennett-Cramond

Neutral Bay 6 unfortunately lost to Artarmon 5. We scored 12 points. Neutral Bay hit some great balls. We scored 12 points. Artarmon 5 were a hard team and scored 19 points.

Cross CountryOur school cross country will be held next term on Thursday 3 May (Please note change of date from Yearly calendar). This year students in all years will be involved. Further information will be provided in the near future. Distances the students will run are:

• Kindergarten 1 lap of the top oval of Forsyth Park

• Year 1 2 laps of the top oval of Forysth Park

• Year 3 3 laps of the top oval of Forsyth Park

• 8/9 Years 2000m

• 10 Years 2000m

• 11 Years 3000m

• 12/13 Years 3000m

Road SafetyIn upcoming newsletters, we will publish information in regards to safe driving practices around our school. This week’s message is:

Please do not turn using the school entrance.

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Kindergarten News Stage 1 News (Years 1 & 2)Stage News

Mrs J. Hudson - 2H Class TeacherMiss S. Medhurst - KM Class Teachers

Year 2 students have been reading and studying the book ‘Uno’s Garden’ by Graeme Base. The book is about a fantasy world full of extraordinary creatures. 2H made up their own animals and wrote about them, as if they were being discovered by Uno’s grandchildren in his garden…

Uno’s grandchildren were at a crystal clear waterfall when they saw three gurgling girkooks playing among the tall branches.It has brown spots and a bird like head with razor sharp claws and yellow wings. It also has a brown beak.It walks elegantly amongst the forest floor and leaps across the fields and walks very slowly but when something wants to eat it it runs.

The girkook sounds like a kookaburra. It laughs very loud and they are very cheeky.By Sina

Uno’s grandchildren were playing next to a crystal waterfall and they saw a turger that was swimming then went out then slept.

There is a heard of turgers. It has a shell as hard as a brick. It has a tiger’s head and legs, the rest is a turtle’s body. They walked into a mysterious cave that was forbidden. There was a water hole and a lake. They went swimming in the lake. By Matthew

Uno’s granddaughter was walking in a beautiful forest with a crystal clear waterfall beside her, with magnificent beautiful soft water. Until 10 elegant epos’ came crashing through the trees.

The epos were walking very slowly and suspiciously to hunt for its prey. It also has long legs and it has a very busy tail and it has floppy ears. The epo sprints when it sees food. ByTippi

Uno’s young grandchildren were sprinting through the silky soft grass in the beautiful rainforest in Africa. Suddenly they heard a sound. It sounded creepy and scary! So they hid in the dark green bushes.

The butterbee was gnawing on its prey. It has deadly poison than can kill you! It has black stripes as black as coal and yellow stripes as yellow as honey. Its eyes are as big as coal and as round as a roundabout. It was bigger than a jellybean and smaller than a football. It has an enormous, adorable wing. Its skin is covered in fur and yellow and black scales that are as small as an ant but when their all together it looks big.

It flies around crazy to look for its prey. By Byron

Last week KM practiced counting, matching and recognising numbers from one all the way up to 100!

We also used pipe cleaners to make our sight words.

We used blocks to work out the area of different shapes. Some shapes had an area of more then 40 blocks!

We are excited for our assembly this week and have been learning a Rock ‘n’ Roll dance to perform on stage!

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Stage 2 News (Years 3 & 4)

Miss T. Barone-Kriznar - 3K Class Teacher

Stage 3 News (Years 5 & 6)

Stage News

Miss I. Blackie - 5B Class Teacher

This week marks the week of Harmony Day. 3K signed a class pledge to ‘choose kind’ as a way to embrace and celebrate differences within the classroom and on our playground. This includes saying “Hi” to someone who you do not usually play with, sharing with classmates, and writing a thank you note in response to a kind act. 3K now have a kindness jar in their class where one kind act = one token where you thank a friend or peer. 3K loved the idea of writing notes and filling the jar with kindness as a way to show respect and celebrate each other!

5B were extremely excited last week to meet their kindergarten BUDDIES!

Nothing could prepare us for how sweet, friendly and fast our buddies were on the playground. We spent some time getting to know each other, finding out our similarities and teaching our buddies some new playground games. We will be visiting our buddies once a fortnight to help them with their special class programs, as well as having times together to share and play. 5B can’t wait to see their buddies again!

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Uniform Shop News

The Uniform Shop Volunteer Team

P & C News

Has your Child Lost Anything?PLEASE check the lost property stand if you child has lost something.

Each Friday, the stand will be cleared and the items will be donated to the second hand uniform shop.

Second Hand SaleWe raised over $500 for our school at the second hand uniform sale held 14 March – thank you to everyone who came along and purchased some items. The next second hand sale will be Wednesday 4 April 2018, so mark the date in your diary now and come and stock up on a few spare items before we head into term 2.

Second Hand Uniform SalesIf you would like to buy second hand items outside of our set sale dates, please email Lyndsey at nbpssecondhand@gmail.com, detailing the item/s you would like, size, child’s name and class. Lyndsey will confirm the order to you, stock dependent, and have the order delivered to your child’s class.

Second Hand DonationsWe welcome donations of washed, wearable, unstained uniforms (we do not accept hats or tights). Please place your items the uniform shop box next to the office window. Thank you!

P & C Family Welcome PicnicWe had a beautiful Autumn night last Friday for the Welcome Picnic. It was great to see so many school families catching up with old friends and making new connections. Thank you to everyone who made a cake, sizzled a sausage, or otherwise helped out on the night. The school community really came together to for this special evening, and what’s more we raised around $3,000 towards the P&C fundraising target for 2018.

Raffle winners Congratulations to the winners of the Welcome Picnic Raffle:

• 1st Prize to Rachel van Zyl (Isabelle 1T)

• 2nd Prize to Kirsten Abeywickrema (Eliza 5M)

Skort Proposal voteThe Uniform Shop proposal regarding adding a skort as an option to the sports uniform was resolved at the P & C meeting held last week on Wednesday 14 March.

We received input from parents who would like the skort option, as well as from parents who do not see the need. I presented all of the feedback at the meeting, which we discussed at length, followed by a vote.

The motion to add a skort to the NBPS sports uniform was NOT passed, and as such we will not be adding this to our uniform at this time. Among other pros and cons discussed, it was generally felt that the current offerings are both practical and look smart, versus us adding another variation. We appreciate there are differing views on what people would like offered, but at the same time we will never be able to meet all asks, so thank you for your understanding.

P&C meetings are held each month and the dates are advertised in the school newsletter, should you wish to join and hear more about what's happening at our school.

Ginita Taylor Volunteer Uniform Shop Coordinator

Coming up next• P&C Grandfriend’s Day Morning Tea (Catered by

Year 1 & 2 Parents) - Thursday 13 April

More information to come over the next few weeks. Year Group events

Kindy Easter Egg Hunt

Saturday 24 March

3 - 4.30pm Forsyth Park

Year One Easter Egg

Hunt

Wednesday 28 March

3.45pm Barry Street Park

Year Two Easter Egg

Hunt

Sunday 25 March

9.30 - 11am Warringa Park

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P & C News

An extraordinary meeting of the School Council will be held on Wednesday 28 March 2018 to vote on an updated School Council Constitution.

The proposed new Constitution and current Constitution are available for reading on the school website.

Canteen NewsPSSA. Remember to put PSSA on your lunch and please no hot food. If you forget, let us know in the morning so we can make arrangements for your lunch to be ready. If you are using your mobile, PSSA is found in the top button (before specials) under Alerts.

Next week the canteen would appreciate more volunteers! Below is the roster so far; have a look and see you can help (even if it’s for an hour). The kids and the staff are so grateful for all the help the volunteers give. In return, we offer excellent coffee and there is always sushi and hot cheese rolls you can enjoy.

Week 9 (26 Mar - 29 Mar) 5A

Week 10 (3 Apr - 6 Apr) 4A

Week 11 (9 Apr - 12 Apr) 5C

Next Week (W9 - 5A)

Monday 9 - 11 HELP NEEDED

Monday 11 - 1 Julie Zhang, June LiTuesday 9 - 11 Lisa Connor-BrentTuesday 11 - 1 Lisa Connor-BrentWednesday 9 - 11 HELP NEEDED

Wednesday 11 - 1 HELP NEEDEDThursday 9 - 11 Jess KeenThursday 11 - 1 Jess Keen, Andrew

MacdonaldFriday 9 - 11 HELP NEEDEDFriday 11 - 1 HELP NEEDED

Have a wonderful week,

From the Canteen Team

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