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Term 3, Week 4 - Issue 25 Wednesday 14 August, 2019

BULLETIN

Tomerong Public School

http://www.tomerong-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Dear all,

Education Week Thank you to everyone who braved the winds to join us for our Education Week and Grandparents assembly last week. It is great to see so many people engaged in our students’ schooling. Congratulations to the following students who received our Leading The Way awards during the assembly: KD - Annabelle and Caitlin, 1R - Arabella and Connor, 2A - Melia and Matthew, 3CM - Lily and William, 4-5D - Ruby and Jesse, 4-5S - Anna and Kali and 6B - Isabella and Harry.

Athletics Congratulations to the many students who received their athletics ribbons at yesterday’s sports assembly. Our District carnival will be held this Friday, 16 August and we wish all our competitors every success.

Farewell Mrs Hogan Mrs Veronica Hogan has spent the last three weeks in the 2A classroom completing her latest practicum placement for Curtin University. This Friday will be her last day at Tomerong. Miss Arnott and the students of 2A have really enjoyed having Mrs Hogan in the classroom and we would like to wish her all the very best in her future endeavours.

Year 6 Cake Stall Fundraiser Yesterday, the students from Year 6 held a cake stall to raise funds for their end of year gift to the school. The stall raised $272, which is a wonderful effort. Thank you to Mr Booler and Year 6 for all your efforts and to all the parents who supplied cakes and slices.

Have a great week,

Rod White Principal

This week’s value is

Congratulations to last week’s winners

Ruby B and Ty

COMING EVENTS - TERM 3

WEEK 4

Thu 15 Aug -Library Borrowing - 1R, 2A and 3CM

Fri 16 Aug -District Athletics Carnival -Uniform Pool - 2.50-3.10pm

WEEK 5 - BOOK WEEK

Mon 19 Aug -Gymnastics Program Continues

Tue 20 Aug -Library Borrowing - 6B

Wed 21 Aug -Library Borrowing - KD, 4-5S and 4-5D

Thu 22 Aug -Book Parade - 9.30am

Fri 23 Aug -Junior Gala Day

Bailey

“Hello, my name is Bailey and I am six years old. I have one little brother. At school, I like news time and playing in the playground. At home, I like playing with my trucks. I go to swimming lessons and I am really good at floating on my back. When I grow up I would like to be a truck driver.”

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JUNIOR GALA DAY The Dragon Tag Junior Gala Day will be held next Friday, 23 August. Permission notes were sent home with students today. The cost of the excursion is $8. Payments can be made by cash or online using the Parent online payment option on the school’s website. Please ensure that permission notes are completed and returned as soon as possible. Miss Doumbos

BOOK WEEK PARADE We will be holding our annual Book Character Parade next Thursday, 22

August, starting at 9:30am!

The theme for this year’s Book Week is ‘Reading is my Secret Power’. You can either dress up with that theme in mind, or as your favourite book character. Enjoy getting creative and planning your costume! Can’t wait to see everyone’s outfits! Mrs Darby

Term 3, Week 4 - Issue 25 Wednesday 14 August, 2019

P&C NEWS Bean-Cycled Oyster Mushroom Kits EXTENDED and WEBSITE NOW WORKING The extended offer for the Mushroom Kits ends next Sunday, 25 August! There have been recent technical difficulties with the website, but GREAT NEWS, the website is back up and running again. Visit http://www.beancycled.com.au/products/farmraiser, add the number of kits required to your cart, enter ‘Tomerong Public School’ as the organisation then PICKUPTOMERONG for free delivery to school. Or if you prefer, it can be shipped directly to you. There is also a link on our school Facebook page if you would like to share it. Please support our school and your children so the P&C can keep subsidising programs like Gymnastics!

Father’s Day Stall We are still seeking donations of homemade creative gifts, new items to sell and either prefilled jars of goodies with all ingredients listed (if food) or small, empty, clean, used glass jars with lids for our Father’s Day Stall in Week 6. Please ensure all labels are removed from the jars. Donations can be dropped into the 1R classroom. Thank you to those who have donated jars already. We appreciate your support.

Run4Fun Colour Explosion The School Run4Fun Colour Explosion is our major fundraiser this term and we are asking for your support. The more money we raise the more we can provide for the students through vital school projects such as an amphitheatre extension. The School Run4Fun Colour Explosion will be held on Friday 27 September (last day of term). The day’s focus is on fun and fitness with the added benefit of raising funds for our school. More details will be sent home soon.

P&C Support Please find attached to this week’s ‘Bulletin’ a letter about supporting our P&C. Thank you Tomerong Public School P&C

SPORTS REPORT

Athletics Results On Tuesday, we held a special Sports Assembly to present ribbons and announce the Athletics Age Champions. The age champions were;

Junior Girls -Tia

Junior Boys -Riley H

11 Years Girls -Samantha

11 Years Boys -Jesse W

Senior Girls -Isabella U

Senior Boys -Jett K

I was very pleased to announce the champion house for the 2019 Athletics Carnival was Turpentine on 359 points.

Good luck to all students attending the District Carnival this Friday. Mr Booler, Miss Saunders and Mrs Ford will be attending. Please ensure you see Mrs Ford as you arrive and depart the carnival. Programs have been sent home. Miss Arnott

SCHOOL TERM DATES - 2019

Term 3 - Tue 23 Jul - Fri 27 Sep

Term 4 - Mon 14 Oct - Wed 18 Dec

CANTEEN ROSTER - TERM 3

Mon 19 Aug - Kerry Wed 21 Aug - Help Needed

LIBRARY LINKS

Premiers Reading Challenge A reminder that the closing date for the Premier’s Reading Challenge is Friday 30 August, less than two weeks! Please make sure you have logged all of your books onto the website by then. Thank you and congratulations to all the students who have already completed the challenge! Shoalhaven Libraries Book Week Competition A reminder that the Shoalhaven Libraries Book Week competition closes this Friday, 16 August. Parents/carers need to sign the back of the sheet before it can be handed in. Please return it to me or your class teacher by this Friday. You can also take your entry to the library (Nowra or Sanctuary Point are the closest). All entries need to be received by this Friday, 16

August by

5pm. A big thank you to all those students who have already handed their entries in! There are some wonderful prizes to be won and all entries will be displayed in the Nowra Library during Book Week. Good luck everyone! Mrs Darby

PEER SUPPORT This week, in Peer Support, students will discuss skills and how to communicate their feelings and needs to others. The children will discuss skills they use when participating in a variety of activities. When children understand they already have many of the skills needed to succeed, they can feel more confident when trying something new. The children will be identifying events which trigger different feelings. I encourage you to have a conversation with your child to remember skills they have used in an activity when trying something new.

Miss Doumbos

Wednesday 14 August, 2019 Dear Parents and Carers, We are writing to you to ask for support with our P&C initiatives and fundraising at the school. Lately, we have been struggling to attract enough volunteers and support with our efforts, which fund and subsidise many things that benefit the students in our school. We are small team of volunteers, who like you have busy lives. We understand that families are busy and have many responsibilities, but we are asking everyone to please consider contributing to our efforts when you are asked. For example, we ran a cake stall earlier in the year and outside of the P&C, only five families from the entire school contributed baked goods towards this event. The reality is, without the support of the wider school community with our fundraising and volunteering, the P&C will no longer be able to provide and subsidise many activities your children enjoy such as the gymnastics program, school disco, subsided fees for leisure sports, the canteen, Skoolbag app, Mothers and Father’s Day stalls, the conversion of the sports shed to office space and sensory space, sporting equipment. The list goes on. We do a lot behind the scenes and are just asking for your support. Often, we are not asking much and even helping in a small way, helps us tremendously. Ways you can help are: Volunteer 2 hours once a year in the Canteen (or more if you can)

Buy and sell the raffle tickets/fundraising goods

Consider donating goods for the Mothers and Father’s Day stalls

Making or buying cakes for cake stalls and sports carnivals

Volunteering your time at working bees and fundraisers (often we only need a couple of hours of your time)

Help organise, set up or supervise the school disco

Volunteer for a term in the uniform shop

Take on an executive role in the P&C

Attend a P&C meeting

And finally to stay aware of current P&C initiatives, please read the P&C section of the ‘Bulletin’.

If you would like to discuss ways you can help, please contact Karley on 0406 175 541. Kind Regards, Tomerong Public School P&C

President Karley Bailie

Secretary

Kathryn Raymer

Treasurer Patricia Hennessy

TOMERONG PUBLIC SCHOOL P&C

355 Hawken Road, TOMERONG 2540 ABN: 83 819 569 856