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Newsletter Tallong Public School Bumballa Street, Tallong NSW

T: 02 4841 0292 F: 02 4841 0240 E: tallong-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Dear Tallong families and friends,

This is the final newsletter for Term 2 and the final

time it will be officially called Newsletter. We have had

lots of entries to rename our newsletter and I will be

announcing the winning entry on Friday at our formal

assembly. I would like to take this opportunity to invite

all members of our community to our end of term as-

sembly on Friday 5 July at 2pm under the cola.

During the July school holidays Tallong Public School

will be apart of the ‘Share Our Space’ program to ena-

ble greater community use of schools. For further in-

formation, please see the flyer attached to the news-

letter.

During the school holidays, a company will be coming

in and removing any unsafe branches in designated

spots. This will not have an impact on our ‘Share our

Space’ program.

PERMISSION NOTES

We have a busy start to Term 3, can you please return

your child’s signed permission notes to their class

teacher asap.

DEBATING REPORT

Tallong’s debating team are on a roll and gaining

some momentum moving forward for our last debate

of the round robin today. We have won all 4 debates

and our team have improved each time, listening to

the adjudicators feedback. I am looking forward to

hearing about their result today and see if we are suc-

cessful in moving through to the next round.

Term 2 Week 10 Thursday 4 July, 2019

UNIFORM

The P&C and school are going to collect some data

from a survey they will produce and send out to the

community about our school uniform. From that we

hope to ascertain an understanding if modifications are

wanted. The uniform shop is still operational and a

reminder if you are after winter uniforms please contact

the school so we can organise a time for you to meet

with the uniform coordinator. As it is getting colder, if

your child is going to wear an alternative jacket can

you please align with our blue uniform.

MULTICULTURAL PUBLIC SPEAKING

Last Wednesday Josh D, Harland R, Hayden D and

Brody M participated in the regional public speaking

final at Bowral Public School. The boys delivered a

prepared and an impromptu speech. It was a new ex-

perience for the boys having students from Bowral,

parents and teachers making up the audience. Well

done boys!

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS 2020

We are now taking enrolments for Kindergarten 2020.

Please come into the office and speak with a member

of staff or give us a call for further information.

DIGITAL LITERACY

Because innovation occurs so fast in the electronic

world, many parents may feel as though they cannot

help their children navigate the endless expanse of the

Internet. But, even if they do not know everything

about every technological advance, parents are a cru-

cial stakeholder in teaching children the safe and

healthy use of the Internet. As schools work to discuss

principles of online safety in the classroom, parents

can reinforce the media literacy educational messages

at home and form a powerful partnership for helping

children become effective cybercitizens. This week we

have shared some fact sheets about apps that your

children might be engaging with - please note the rec-

ommended age rating for each application.

Tallong P.S.

A nurturing small school environment with

caring and committed staff.

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Next P&C Meeting - AGM

Tuesday 6th August, 2019 @ 7:00pm All welcome!

2019 PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

All books need to be logged online via the NSW PRC website using your child’s individual login details by Friday 30 August. Koalas class are not required to log theirs as Mrs Schaefer does this for them. WEEK 9 AWARD WINNERS

AWARDS SYSTEM Last Tuesday night at the P&C meeting Mrs Mat-

thews and I introduced and gained feedback on Tal-

long Public Schools new reward and behaviour sys-

tem. The staff and P&C are very excited about the

new wellbeing system which will bring more con-

sistency and highlight positive behaviour. The stu-

dents have been introduced to the new systems and

have had their chance to voice their opinion and are

very enthusiastic for this to start in Term 3.

Our awards mascot will be named on Friday at our

formal assembly and I will also announce the student

who was the winner of the competition and will go

down in Tallong history.

You will also notice a few changes and surprises to

our formal assembly tomorrow…….

SRC SEMESTER 2

I would like to thank Semester 1s SRC for their

valuable contributions to our school and for the

collaboration at our 3 weekly meetings. We had

discussions about fundraising, ideas for our

school and leadership.

Our new SRC for Semester 2 are:

Stage 2 - Jade H, Hayden M, Hunter S, Maddie F

Stage 3 - Geordie R, Jack M, Tom B, Leyla W

LIBRARY MONITORS TERM 3

Thank you to our Term 2 Library Monitors, Geor-

die and Logan. You have done a wonderful job

and they will assist in training the Term 3 Library

Monitors. Our new Library monitors for Term 3

are Ollie and Jayden.

PRINCIPAL’S MORNING TEA

This semester the teachers and I have been looking

for students who value and show our school expecta-

tions all the time. They are great role models for their

peers, don’t get involved with silliness in the classroom

or playground and are happy and motivated learners in

all areas of Tallong Public School. At the end of each

semester we choose 1 student from each grade to join

the teachers and I for a morning tea to be recognised

and celebrated for being a great citizen of our Tallong

school community. We also invite the parents of each

child to the morning tea as well as it is a great honour

to be selected! Semester 1 Students are:

K – Dash DW 1 – Eleanor H 2 – Finley H

3 – Hamish R 4 – Jade H 5 – Isaac D

6 – Brody M

Regards

Scott Osborne Principal

Term 2 Week 10 Thursday 4 July, 2019

Koalas Kookas Kangas

Cianna Finley Aiden

Charlotte Zali Breanna

Archie Jace Jack

Ethan Harland Max

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NCCD— NATIONALLY CONSISTENT COLLECTION OF DATA ON SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH

DISABILITY

Tallong Public School is in the process of completing the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on

School Students with Disability. An information sheet about this process can be found below. No

individual student is identified to protect the privacy of all.

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TERM 2 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week 10 1/7

Debating @

Bundanoon PS

2/7

P&C Meeting

7:00pm in Library

All welcome!

3/7

Scripture

Playgroup 9:30 - 11:00am Art and Craft with Janet

4/7

Library

Newsletter

Debate @ TPS with West Goulburn PS

5/7

Sports Day

Gymnastics @ the

Hall

Principal Morning

Tea - Students

Formal Assembly

2:00pm

All Welcome!

Last day of

Term 2

Term 3

Week 1

22/7

Staff Development Day

23/7

Students return for Term 3

24/7

NAIDOC @ Bundanoon NoScripture

25/7

Library

Big Read Bus

Tree Planting by

Mayor Bob Kirk

@2:30pm

26/7

Sports Day

Tennis

Week 2 29/7

Opera House

Performance

Recorder Group

30/7

31/7

Scripture

Playgroup 9:30 - 11:00am Art and Craft with Janet

1/8

Library

Newsletter

2/8

Sports Day

Tennis

Week 3

EDUCATION

WEEK

5/8

6/8

P&C AGM

7/8

GCOPS Concert in Goulburn Scripture

8/8

Open Day

Book Fair

Library

Big Read Bus

9/8

Sports Day

Tennis

Assembly 2:30pm

Remember the best way to keep in touch with what is happening at our school and receive

newsletters is with the School Stream app.

Download it today, it’s FREE! Once downloaded search for ‘Tallong Public School’.

Calendar of Events

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Hosted by the Koalas

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Congratulations! Congratulations Tom in being

awarded a Silver and Bronze Medal

for his Kata at the IOGKF NSW State

Karate Championships in Newcastle.

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Save the Date

Open Day/

Grandparent’s Day

We warmly invite all grandparents,

parents and friends to join us for our

annual Education Week. It is a

celebration of public education and the

wonderful things that happen at Tallong

Public School.

This year as part of our Open Day I

would like to incorporate Grandparents

Day on Thursday 8 August commencing

at 9.30am.

We will also be having our book fair

during Open Day.

A program will be issued closer to the date.