Principal (Rel.): Mrs Terrie Payne Condobolin Rd, Ungarie NSW 2669 Ph: (02) 69 759 030 Fax: (02) 69 759 157 Email: ungarie-c.school@det.nsw.edu.au Web: www.ungarie-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

From the Principal’s desk…

It’s hard to believe that we are near the end of

another term. This term has flown by!

Ungarie Central School hosted a very

successful Lachlan Access Program (LAP) Year

12 graduation evening on Tuesday. Students

from across the four schools came to celebrate

their graduation from LAP and receive awards

for their efforts over the year. I am proud to say

that 100% of our Ungarie students received

awards on the night, from Merit Awards

and/or First in Courses for Danielle, Emily,

Sean, David and Vanessa, to Distinguished

Achiever Awards for Vanessa and David.

Congratulations to you all!

Mrs Anne Noble did an amazing job

organising the catering for the event, with

many positive comments about the food.

Thank you to Mrs Noble, our Hospitality

students and Michelle Potter for cooking,

Jason and Nicky Lewis and Vanessa Williams

for helping on the night and to our Year 6/7/8

girls who assisted with the serving. Thank you

also to Mrs Michelle Roscarel and our Stage 5

Music students who performed on the night.

There were many comments about the

brilliant music program we run at UCS.

Melissa Rees is our Head Teacher for the

Lachlan Access Program and is based at

Condobolin High School. Melissa works

extremely hard to ensure that our senior

students can access quality learning. I am

excited to announce that Melissa has received

a 2017 Minister’s and Secretary’s Award for

Excellence in Teaching, which was presented

in Sydney yesterday. This is a very

distinguished award and one that is very well

deserved. Congratulations Miss Rees!

Parent/teacher interviews are on Monday

afternoon after our assembly. Please contact

the front office to make an appointment with

your child’s teachers.

A reminder to all community members to

complete and hand in the UCS survey. It’s a

very simple survey with only three questions to

answer. There are two boxes in the front office

to place your survey and ticket to the prize

draw. There are not many surveys in the box

yet so get them in for a chance to win a $50

shopping voucher!

Terrie Payne

The Humbug 14th September, 2017

Week 9, Term 3

Upcoming Events:

Mon 18th Sep Whole school

assembly @ 2pm

Mon 18th Sep Parent/Teacher

Interviews

Tue 19th Sep Headspace @

Tullibigeal

Thu 21st Sep UCS Yr 12

Graduation

Canteen Roster: Fri 15th Sep Karen Rossiter &

Vanessa Williams

Mon 19th Sep Jen Rutledge &

Sal West

Fri 22nd Sep Lisa Crofts

Birthdays Isabelle Archibald 21st Sep

PRIMARY NEWS Week 6, Term 3.

Year 3/4: Rachel, Caitlin, Mitchell, Jarrod, Patrick, Lara, Hannah, Dylan, Dakota and Lachie.

Year 5/6: Regan, Audrey, Ella, and Hugh.

Tomorrow Darcy Langham, Ella Payne, Rachel Ridley and Alfred McCubbin will be competing in the Regional Finals for the Junior and Senior Spelling Bee. Good Luck!!!!!

Show Entries

Congratulations on the outstanding effort put in by all students in the displays and entries for the West Wyalong show. We had an amazing amount of beautiful work to enter and display. Well done.

Assembly and Parent/Teacher

Meetings

On Monday next week we will be having our last assembly for the term. It is always a great opportunity for students to showcase their learning and achievements and we look forward to seeing you there.

After the assembly we will be having Parent/Teacher meetings in our classrooms. Light refreshments will be available in the computer room for those waiting moments. We look forward to seeing you.

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‘HABIT OF MIND’ AND SPORT AWARD RECIPIENTS FOR WEEK 8

SCHOOL HAPPENINGS

Right: PBL Fast and

Free prize winners

for Week 8. Lila

Henley, Ella Payne,

Adelaide Langham,

Eva McCubbin, Tom

Roscarel. Ungarie Central School’s display at the West

Wyalong show won ‘Most Successful Exhibitor in

the Industrial Hall’.

Eleven students travelled into the West Wyalong show last Wednesday as part of our Cattle Judging Program. Unfortunately there were no cattle to judge, but the students had a good time looking at all the exhibits in the different sections. We watched Sammy ride her horse and did our own judging of some of the Merino rams. The boys enjoyed talking to a professional feral animal shooter, and the machinery displays were a hit. Tom displayed his prowess crutching some sheep with students from West Wyalong High, and we watched the crossbred ram sale. Even though we went for cattle judging, the day was still good for the students to experience many agricultural sectors. While at the show, the students accepted the ‘Most Successful Exhibitor in the Industrial Hall’ prize for Ungarie Central Schools display. A number of students were also successful in the ‘Art and Craft’ competitive school sections in the pavilion. Cattle Judging

Team:

Mikell Quarman,

Braden Payne,

Tom Roscarel,

Daniel Potter,

Ryan Wallace,

Dean Otovic,

Ryan Crofts,

Molly Bryant,

Michelene

Izzard, Kadee

Gerhard-Scali,

Matilda

Langham.

Above: Ella Payne

and Sammy Rutledge

1st prize in Yr 6

Painting.

Left: Harry Roscarel,

Steward’s Choice

Award. Darcy Cattle

1st Prize Yr 2 Painting.

Jayda Brew 1st Prize

Yr 5 Collage.

WEST WYALONG SHOW DISPLAY AND EXCURSION

Noah Bryant, Jayda Brew and Harry Roscarel.

Left: Lisa Payne, Harry Roscarel, Noah Bryant

and Jayda Brew. Below: The working bee team!!!

HUMBUG NATURE TRAIL WORKING BEE

Ungarie Central School students and community members had a successful day on Monday 11th September at the

first working bee for the Humbug Nature Trail. A hugh amount of rubbish was removed from the creek and it

already looks tidier. Twelve established native trees, twenty one native shrubs and one hundred native grasses

were planted. The dry conditions were very challenging with loads of water carted to all the plants.

We would like to thank the following people for their assistance; Vanessa Williams, Justine Henley, Jason Lewis,

Sally Russell (Lake Cowal Conservation Centre), Glenn Neyland (Bland Shire Council) and David Kellett (Local Land

Services). We thoroughly appreciate your help!

Planting grasses Jett Brew and Sally Russell David Kellett and Glenn Neyland

Left: Alfred McCubbin, Joshua Battey. Centre: K/1/2 Bug catching. Above: Jarrod

King, Deakin Ross. Below left: Lachie Ward, Sally Russell. Below centre: Regan

Hukins, Audrey Hukins, Apryl Lyons with month old McDonalds.

LCCC SCIENCE ACTIVITIES AT UCS

On Monday 28th August Sally Russell from Lake Cowal Conservation Centre visited Ungarie Central School and

conducted a variety of science activities with the students.

The K/1/2 Living Things workshop looked at animals and how they camouflage themselves in their habitats

and the effect on animals when habitats are destroyed. We also looked at food chains and how animals survive

within ecosystems. We discussed the ecosystem that exists in and around a wetland, looking at waterbugs and

also the crawling bugs that live in the leaf litter near the water. Catching waterbugs was great fun, looking at

them under the microscope and identifying them was so interesting. Seeing all the body parts, hairy bits,

mouths, eyes and watching them move and breathe was a highlight. Worms, slaters and millipedes were other

amazing animals under the microscope.

In Yr 3/4’s Living Things session we discussed what animals need to survive, looked at a variety of different

habitats and using a number of different local animals, were able to make and discuss food chains. We

discovered that some animals have a large diet and this created a food web of who eats who. The discovery

and identification of waterbugs that live in a wetland was done by catching bugs and looking at them under

the microscopes. Again seeing the legs, mouths, eyes, digestive tracts, breathing and other weird bits was very

engaging and created lots of great discussions about why the bugs had those bits.

Yr 5/6 worked with Microbes and after discussing and looking at a variety of microbes; viruses, bacteria and

fungus and their positive and negative uses, we had a look at an experiment. The Year 5/6 class had already

started looking at bread and how long it takes to 'go off' and grow mould on it. They had also swabbed some

areas around the school to see which areas were the dirtiest, growing a culture of really interesting microbes.

Sally brought with her some McDonalds burgers she had bought 4 weeks earlier and had sitting in their original

packaging in her garage. We discussed and predicted what each burger would look like and carefully

unwrapped them to look, the results shocked and surprised us all. The burgers didn't look much different to

the day they were bought, no mould and surprisingly had a bit of 'squish' still in the bread/bun. The following

discussions about what is in the food to make it stay like that was very interesting and did change some

thoughts about how good the food is for you.

Above: Rachel

Ridley, Adelaide

Langham.

SYDNEY RECORDER EXCURSION 4TH-6TH SEPTEMBER

The Sydney Recorder team have had a big year, performing at the West Wyalong High School Concerts, attending the cluster

rehearsal at Borambola, playing for the CWA ladies in Term 2, performing at the UCS Open Day assembly earlier this term, as

well as attending weekly rehearsals and practising at home.

All this preparation paid off last week when we travelled to Sydney to perform at the Jacaranda Concert in the Opera House

on Tuesday night.

The nine students were accompanied by Mrs Mason, Mrs Jackson and seven parents (Mark and Fiona Bryant, Steve Henley,

Colleen Robb, Michelle Roscarel, Sally West and Vanessa Williams), with Jason doing a fantastic job driving the bus under

some trying conditions (particularly the wind gusts on the way home).

We made excellent time on the way to Sydney on Monday, leaving UCS about 8am and stopping for a morning tea break at

the park at Harden (which was no less cold, windy and rainy than last year!) and lunch at the park in Goulburn (ditto).

We arrived at the Sydney Harbour YHA before 4pm and checked in, and then Jason dropped us off at Darling Harbour where

we played some arcade games and challenged ourselves with laser tag (Allora Vinecombe was the top scorer!). After tea in

the food court, we stepped outside our comfort zone on the ferris wheel before walking back to the YHA and retiring to our

rooms.

On Tuesday, Sally and Steve joined us for a walk across the Harbour Bridge, and then we went to the Museum of Contemporary

Art for a tour. Our guide Jodie was very enthusiastic about her work, but some of us were a little non-plussed by the clay

power points.

After lunch at Circular Quay, we changed into our recorder shirts and walked to the Opera House for the rehearsal, which

went well. We dropped in at Sticky on the way back to the YHA and had tea at the Orient Hotel before returning to the Opera

House for the big performance. As well as playing our pieces, we got to see a lot of other ensembles performing a range of

items at a high level. The jazz bands were popular, and the xylophone duet was pretty amazing too.

An Opera House concert would not be complete without a visit to the Gelato shop on the way home, which we duly did, and

then it was off to bed for an early start again.

On Wednesday we packed up and Jason dropped us off outside Sunrise, where we displayed our school sign (mostly the right

way up) and got on TV for the folks at home to see. After that it was back on the bus and off to Goulburn.

Lunch at Goulburn (and a climb up inside the Big Merino), followed by a pit stop at the Harden park, saw us arrive back at

Ungarie around 4pm.

Congratulations to all members of the recorder team for the work they have put in throughout the year, and for the excellent

behaviour displayed on this excursion. It has been a pleasure to play music with you, and wonderful to see the progress you

have made! Many thanks also go to the parents who helped with transport and other logistical issues, and to Jason for doing

such a great job with the bus. The recorder team would also like to thank our generous sponsors, including pie drive

customers, the P&C, the CWA, Jeff deRozario and Eric Haworth, who have helped make the excursion possible.

Mrs Mason and Mrs Jackson

TOWN CRIERS PERFORMANCE

The KROP team travelled in to Wyalong on the evening of Wednesday 6th September to perform at the Toppy Hall

prior to the official Awards Ceremony dinner for the Town Crier Competition.

Seth McCubbin, Angus Williams, Kadee Gerhard-Scali, Michelene Izzard, Madi Cassidy and Mrs .

Mason performed for

approximately 40 minutes

whilst competitors from the

Town Crier competition

(held at the West Wyalong

Show during the day) arrived

for the dinner.

Many thanks to Bland Shire

Council for inviting our

group to perform on the

evening, and to Grahame

McCubbin and Bridget Izzard

for assisting with transport

on the evening.

Mrs Mason

Above right: Lewis Henley, Reuben West,

Ethan Robb, Hugh Williams, Noah Bryant,

Deakin Ross, Allora Vinecombe, Kate

Jackson and Harry Roscarel outside the

Sydney Opera House. Above left: Inside the

Opera House before the performance.

Right: Outside and behind the set at

‘Sunrise’.

UCS YUM

Available from the garden

Spinach

Lettuce leaves

Eggs

Mint

Parsley

Rocket leaves

Broccoli

Spring Onions

Chives

Herbs: Sage, oregano & thyme (please order)

Milkshakes available every Thursday

for the next 2 weeks. Chocolate,

caramel & strawberry flavours. $2.50

plus.......... Iced Chocolate for $2.50

Town deliveries next

Thursday: Biscuits

UNGARIE SWIMMING CLUB

AGM

WEDNESDAY 20TH SEPT

3.30PM IN THE SCHOOL SCIENCE ROOM

Ungarie Bowling Club Jackpot Draw Friday Night stands at $2500 (Must be there to win)

** Non-financial members are ineligible for the Jackpot Draw **

Coming events!

BOGEYE

CUP 2017 16th September Start 1pm

Teams of triples (Men, women

or mixed)

(See flyer attached)

THURSDAY NIGHT HAPPY HOUR

6.30 – 7.30pm

$4 Schooner, $3 Middies

FRIDAY NIGHTS

HAPPY HOUR 6-8pm

Kitchen will be opened from 6-8pm

XXXX BEER BACK ON TAP

$10 Jugs beer

Raffles

SUNDAY MORNING BUFFET

BREAKY

8am -9.30am

All you can eat for $6.

Bland Hoteliers Jackpot Draw

$3300 next week.

Make sure you are here to claim the prize if your

name comes out.

Tuesday Night Raffles

6 meat trays and other prizes available.

Come on down and win some meat trays!

For September all proceeds go towards the Garden

Club.

Friday Night Pub Super Cash

Draw

$4,000 this week.

It is free to enter and is drawn every Friday night

between 7pm-9pm. You must be here to win.

Meat raffles are also held on Friday night. 8 meat

trays available.

Footy Tipping Wind Up/AFL

Grand Final

AFL Grand Final Day Luncheon.

Cold meat, salads, prawns.

Cost: Free for anyone that is paid up in the footy

tipping. $20 for everyone else.

Booking essential.

Don’t forget we have newspapers and

magazines, a full café fast food menu, coffee,

golden fried chicken, milk and a new coke

fridge. Open from 10am daily.

West Wyalong Touch Football Registrations are now OPEN.

Touch Football will run separate Junior Boys and Junior Girls competitions.

Juniors is children in Years 3 to Year 7 in 2017. Thursday evenings 5.15pm to 6pm. $30 for 16 weeks of competition.

Slightly different this year with only 2 week break. Starts Thursday 12th October to 21st December – 2 week break

11th January to 15th February.

Registrations online – go to www.westwyalongtouch.sportingpulse.net Registrations close on 29th September.

Ungarie Night Tennis Competition

Requesting names for the upcoming Night

Tennis comp.

Starting 10th October

Tues & Wednesday night

Contact Scott Robb

0429 029938

Names in by 5th October