Wentworth Falls Public School Newsletter

Wentworth Falls Public School 5 July 2018

Falls Road, Wentworth Falls NSW 2782 * Tel: 0247571604 * Fax: 0247573927 * Ley Wighton Relieving Principal Email: wentwthfal-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal’s report 1

Awards, 2

Canteen News 3

P & C News 4

Public Notices 5-6

Inside this issue:

IMPORTANT DATES

TERM 2, 2018

July 6 Last day of Term TERM 3, 2018 23 Staff Resume 24 Students Resume 25 Fire & Rescue Stg 2 & 3 27 Cricket in School 30 Opera House Stg 3 Choir 31 ICAS English August 1 OC Test 6 Education Week & Book Fair Week 8 OPEN DAY 9 Gateway Family Workshop 14 ICAS Maths 20 UBMMF Rehearsal KHS T20 Cricket at Katoomba 20 UBMMF Performance KHS 21 P&C Meeting 1pm 23 UBMMF Performance KHS 27 Book Week 29 Penrith Lakes Stg 1

Proudly celebrating 131 years of continued excellence in Public Education

From the Principal..

What a beautiful part of the world we live in. Our gardens are looking fabulous as a result of our hard working community at the garden bee on Sunday 25th June. Many thanks to Simone Novello and Beck Keep for making it all happen. And thanks to Tunks Landscaping and Thomas Landscaping and Building Supplies for their generous donations of soil, compost and straw. Thanks again to Simone for acquiring these donations for the school.

The weather held out last Friday for our Athletics Carnival and we warmed up by running, shot putting and jumping. Thanks to Pete Evans who organised the day and thanks to all those who volunteered and came along. The Katoomba High School helpers were wonderful and we’re grateful they came along for the day.

Our Mid-Year Reports are out, and the new covers complement and showcase the hard work and effort these reports require, from your children and their teachers. Please let us know what you think of the covers.

We’re getting a new school app Skool Bag, early next term. You will receive more information on this early next term, so please keep an eye out!

Marley 34Mu, Txai 3/4E, Elliot 5/6F and Riley 5/6Z went along to the Multicultural Public Speaking District finals at Blaxland East last Tuesday. Congratulations to Txai who won the

Stage 2 competition and to Marley and Elliott, runner’s up in Stage 2 and 3 respectively. What a great effort!

Our 2019 Kindy enrolments commence next term and there will be flyers and information sent to interested families. Spread the word and let your neighbours know enrolments are open for 2019!

Gwen Blackwell will be having a farewell dinner with colleagues this Friday night in honour of her 40 years of hard work and dedication at Wentworth Falls. An amazing music education, Gwen still comes along once a week for school singing and is seeing ex students’ children come along to school. I don’t know if Gwen will be able to leave our school. She’s here for the rest of the year, one day a week and who knows what will happen next year?

Sue Bond also received a commendation from the Department of Education for 40 years of service certificate. Our director Jenny Thompson came to the school to present Sue’s certificate. Another marvellous effort and sign of community here at Wenty.

Term 3 starts for students on Tuesday

24th July. Enjoy your holidays, relax

and get ready for another 10 weeks of

non stop action next term!

Ley Wighton, Relieving Principal

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2019

Our Kindergarten enrolment packs are now available . If you have a child starting Kindergarten next year please collect one from the office.

Laughter is therapy-

an instant vacation.

Bob Hope

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Principal’s Awards

WEEK 9 Term 2

KB Athletics Carnival

KF

K/1M

1C

1/2PS

2M

2P

3/4/M

34MU

3/4E

3/4H

5/6B

5/6F

5/6H

5/6Z

PBL Awards

WEEK 9 Term 12

KB Alyssa

KF Lai

K/1M Lily

1C Ivy

1/2PS Beau

2M Jayda

2P Sciana

3/4/M Caity

34MU Cohen

3/4E Lyric

3/4H Braydon

5/6B Matty

5/6F Ignacio

5/6H Eloisa

5/6Z Elli

PBL Awards

WEEK 10 Term 2

KB Hayden

KF Mila-Rose

K/1M Hamish

1C Mia

1/2PS Reece

2M Cruz

2P Sciana

3/4M Angelina

34MU Dante

3/4E Harry

3/4H Atticus

5/6B Cody

5/6F Elliot

5/6H Axel

5/6Z Harry

Principal’s Awards

WEEK 8 Term 2

KB Yael

KF Ben

K/1M Leon

1C Caleb

1/2PS Evie

2M Gabriel

2P Hannah

3/4/M Non awarded

34MU Kale

3/4E Lachlan

3/4H Xavier

5/6B David

5/6F Jaya

5/6H Lachlan

5/6Z Tom

Dion Drummond, Indigenous Performance for NAIDOC week

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Our gardens are looking so much better after our working bee. Thanks Simone for your enthusiasm and energy in organising the day. Lots of hard work and Simone’s newspaper mulching should keep the weeds down - at least for a little while.

Next P & C meeting will on Tuesday August 21stth at 1pm in the

school hall. All welcome.

Artfest – save the date 9th to

11th November.

Check out our beautiful revamped website to get more information about the Artfest weekend (www.bluemountainsartfest.net.au). And please like our Facebook page (@BlueMountainsArtFest), to get updates in the lead up to event.

Clothing Pool open

Fridays

The Clothing Pool has changed from being open on Wednesdays to Fridays. It is now open: Friday 8:20-8:45am inside foyer of 1C.

P & C NEWS

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