Our School NewsWeek 7 | Commencing 29th August, 2016

Elanora Heights Public School is a White Ribbon School

Week 8 - Term 3 Mon 5 Sep K - 6 Assembly

“Go Live” with LMBRTue 6 Sep

Wed 7 Sep PCS Science Fair

Thur 8 Sep

Fri 9 Sep School Banking Day

Don’t forget to visit our website at elanorahts-pschool.nsw.edu.au

Don’t forget to visit our website at elanorahts-pschool.nsw.edu.au

Weekly Reminders!Book Club Closes: Aug 30 - On-Line Payments ONLYZone Athletics Carnival: Aug 30

P&C Meeting: Aug 31 7pm -

includes a presentation from Eve Clark a NSW Health Promotions Officer for SchoolsK-2 Athletics Carnival: Sep 1

School Banking: Sep 2

LMBR Begins: Sep 5

Lost Property: Parents, please make sure that ALL your child’s belongings are clearly labelledNB: that items for this newsletter will NOT be accepted after the preceding Thursday

Week 7 - Term 3 Mon 29 Aug 3 - 6 AssemblyTue 30 Aug Pittwater Zone Athletics Carnival

Last Day for On-Line Book ClubWed 31 Aug P&C Meeting 7pm -

NSW Health’s Eve Clark speaking Meet our incoming Principal, Mrs Leesa Martin

Thur 1 Sep K - 2 Athletics Carnival

Fri 2 Sep School Banking Day

Until next time,

Your Relieving Principal, Laurinda Lomas

Book Parade The wet and cold conditions could not dampen the enthusiasm of our students at our Bookweek parade last Wednesday. Mrs Morrison did a fabulous job introducing the book characters as class buddies walked around the hall to the music. A big thank you to all the parents who supported our parade and helped our students create the proudly-paraded characters.

What a wonderful way to celebrate our love of reading!

Teddy Bear’s PicnicMore than 70 new Kindergarten children along with their families, the current 2016 Kindergarten children

and Year 5 students filled the hall and Kindergarten classrooms for a fun-filled morning of hands-on activities at our Teddy Bear’s Picnic last week.

Thank you to the EHPS staff, in particular Mrs Rosconi, and our current Kindergarten and Year 5 teachers, who helped make this an enjoyable first experience at EHPS. Thanks also to our incredible parent helpers Ro Brazel, Anna Buono, Melanie Ballard, Maria Allart, Carly Skeers, Barb La Ganza and the canteen staff for their assistance in the preparation and serving of our delicious lunch.

We are very fortunate to have such supportive and caring parents within our school community. A special mention to our General Assistant, Mr Brooks whose BBQ cooking skills were second to none!

We look forward to welcoming the new Kindergarten children and their families into our school again at our Orientation days in Term 4.

Athletics Carnival on ThursdayThis week is our K-2 Athletics carnival on Thursday September 1. Volunteers for this day are always welcome. Please contact the school if you are keen to be involved. Thank you very much to Mrs Rebecca New who has been organising our wonderful events for the day.

P & C meeting 7.00pm this WednesdayThis week our P&C meeting starts at 7pm. Our new principal, Leesa Martin will join us for her first introduction to the wider EHPS community. We also have a visit from Eve Clark, the Health Promotion Officer responsible for Livelifewell@school on the northern beaches. Ms Clark is coming to talk about children’s health, guidelines and good healthy eating ideas in other schools. We would love to see you on the night.

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All assemblies are held on Mondays at 2pm and your child’s name will appear in the newsletter on thesame day they receive their award.

To assist us, when sending in the mini merits/awards from home, please either staple or clip them andmake sure your child’s full name and class is on the top mini merit. Please do not send them in in plasticbags or envelopes.

The cut-off time to hand in your mini merits/awards is THURSDAY morning as the box is emptied after recess.

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... STUDENT ACHIEVEMENTCongratulations to the following students who achieved places at the Australian Physie and Dance Association (APDA) Interclub Competition in Canberra at the weekend:

Isabella H (6S) 2nd in 11 years

Daisy H (4C) 1st in 10 years

Sabrina B (6S) 5th in 11 years

Jacinda B (4M) 2nd in 9 years

Well done girls, what an amazing effort!

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INFLUENZA A few of our students have been diagnosed with Influenza. We have been in contact with the NSW Health Dept and they have advised the following.

FACTS: Time from exposure to illness is 1 to 3 days.

Symptoms are sudden onset fever, runny nose, sore throat, cough, muscle aches and headaches.

Do I need to keep my child home?Yes, until they look and feel better.

How can I prevent spread?Careful hand washing, especially after coughing, sneezing or wiping your nose. Immunisation, is recommended for children with chronic illnesses.

A factsheet can be accessed from the following link:

http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/factsheets/Factsheets/influenza.PDF

ELANORA HEIGHTS PS YEARS 3–6 PRESENTS

Ticket Sales Purchase your tickets through an order form in your

8th SEPT Newsletter. Deliver the order form with cash payment to your class teacher from the 12th SEPT – NOT BEFORE

4 ticket limit per family$5.00 PER TICKET Cash Only Sales

YOU KNOW...You Really Should

Read More!19 SEPT 11:30AM

20 & 21 SEPT 6:30PM

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PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE FINAL REPORT 2016 Congratulations to the 145 students who completed the PRC this year, including Isabel B, Scarlett M and Jed G who made it by a whisker!

Certificates will be presented to all students at the end of the year.

18 students will receive a GOLD certificate for completing the PRC four times.

Six students in Year 6 have earned a PLATINUM certificate for completing the PRC seven times. This is every year of school and a wonderful achievement!

Most of all, we hope you enjoyed the Challenge and all the books you discovered.

Joanne Argent and Anne-Marie MorrisonPRC Co-ordinators

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COASTAL ENVIRONMENT CENTRE VISIT2ST and 2C are learning about how land is shaped by water. To help us understand the fascinating landscape we live in, Tim from the Coastal Environment Centre brought in a 3D relief model of the Narrabeen Lagoon Catchment.

When we poured water on it, we saw how it flowed into the creeks and down to the lagoon and then the sea.

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SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB....|....ON-LINE PAYMENTS ONLYREMINDER: Book Club purchases need to be finalised by TOMORROW, Tuesday, 30th August. Payments can ONLY BE MADE ON-LINE by logging on to the Scholastic website at www.scholastic.com.au or download the iPhone and iPad app from the App Store!

Dear 3-6 Elanora Heights PS Families

Students and teachers in classes 3-6 are very busy preparing for an end of Term 3 performance.

19th September @ 11:30 am20th September @ 6:30 pm21st September @ 6:30 pm

There are just a few things that we want all parents to be aware of:

*Your children will need to be at all of the above performances.

*You will purchase tickets on an order form available in the September 5th Newsletter.

*Deliver that order form with cash payment to your class teacher from the 12th September NOT BEFORE!

*Each family will be allocated 4 tickets only. (If we have not sold all our tickets by the 19th September we will sell additional tickets through the office)

*The ticket is a program and is also your receipt.

*Everyone will need a ticket/program to enter the hall.

*Only children two years and under will be able to sit on an adults lap.

*Everyone must have a seat. There can be no standing at the back or the sides of the hall due to safety restrictions. There will be a DVD made to capture the event for all parents to access.

Finally, your class teacher will be letting you know about costumes and the finer details regarding your child’s performance closer to the event.

Thankyou for your co-operation.

Sincerely,

Cynthia Pitt Director

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To order school lunches online go to www.munchmonitor.com Use log in – username: elanora and password: munch2101 | To Volunteer Ph 9913 2721

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NSW Health’s Fruit and Veg month starts Monday, so remember to get your loyalty cards from the canteen and start collecting those stickers to receive a free frozen fruit pop!

To kick things off, the canteen will have a special menu item – fresh, frozen pineapple pops. They will be sold for $1 and are pictured below.

Thank you to our canteen volunteers who put together rainbow fruit platters for last Thurs-day’s Teddy Bears Picnic. The children loved eating the colourful displays of fruit.

Also a reminder that our “Red Light” day will be held on Thursday Sepember 15th. Order forms will be sent home soon, or you can order through munch monitor.

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Green gets gobbledCrunch, much, like very hungry caterpillars! Thank you for sending green fruits and vegetables on Friday. It was great to see the children enjoying such a range of fresh food and looking around to see what everyone else had. We build on this interest for class activities in writing and maths. Year 2 classes counted who has what, and recorded it as a table which can now be turned into a graph.

What did Year 2 eat for Green Fruito-vego?23 children ate cucumber, 16 ate green apples, 10 had kiwi-fruit, 5 ate green grapes, 4 ate broccoli, pear, snow peas and green grapes and 1, 2 or 3 enjoyed honeydew melon, capsicum, baby spinach, beans, celery, avocado or asparagus!

LLW@S talk at P & C meeting 7.00pm this WednesdayEve Clarke is the Health Promotion Officer responsible for Livelifewell@school in the northern beaches, helping school communities develop a strong, consistent focus on healthy nutritional habits and lots of daily activity. She is coming to talk at the start of this week’s P&C meeting about children’s health, guidelines and good ideas in other schools. I hope parents will take this chance to hear about the broader context for our school’s initiatives and why it matters.

K-2 Edible Art coming up in Week 9 The LLW@S parent group is organising some fun with food in Week 9 as K-2 children will have the opportunity to create edible art. We will need some helpers to cut up fruits and vegetables please.More details will be in our newsletter next week.

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Our incoming Principal, Mrs Leesa Martin, is attending the P&C meeting commencing at 7pm in the staffroom this Wednesday, August 31st. She is looking forward to meeting the school community.

The meeting will open with a presentation from Eve Clark, Health Promotion Officer for Schools, from NSW Health. Her talk will cover the LiveLifeWell@School program and she will take questions. The usual business of the P&C and an opportunity to hear Mrs Martin will follow Eve’s presentation.

Working BeeThe working bee is scheduled for the afternoon of Saturday, 10th September.

• Garden Bed along Middle Oval (near Art room) – prune shrubs and weed.

• Re-planting along Bottom Oval fence, then mulch – some plants have died so we’ll obtain some more free native seedlings beforehand.

• Prune shrubs and weed along new top staircase. The P&C minutes also mentioned that there had been some garden waste dumped near here, so that can be cleaned up too.

• Clear weeds and heavily mulch area between new sandpit (bottom oval) and water tanks. Mr Brooks would like to clear this whole area and make it kid friendly.

• Make a new garden along wall just below K-2 assembly area (on LHS of stairs going down to bottom oval). This would need some logs to define garden bed and keep mulch in, some mature-ish plants to ensure survival (growing to only 1m so doesn’t obscure teachers’ view of playground), a load of garden soil mix and mulch.

• Paint the other railings up the stairs to the classrooms – I think this would just require a light sanding to roughen the old paint, then painted over. Mr Brooks even bought the paint for last W/Bee. Currently some of the railings are cream and some are white.

• Uniform Shop – Sue and Janine did not fix up the shop during the holidays as planned. So we would love some helpers to remove shelving, patch up holes, paint ceiling and walls, and put up shelving in new layout.

Please contact our Organiser Extraordinaire, Janine Ralston, at Janine@korekreative.com if you can assist on the day, particularly if you have specialist skills or equipment that will make the day far more productive than if left to hacks such as me!

LanguagesFollow-up actions are placed on the P&C Agenda for discussion on Wednesday.

Uniform ShopUniform Shop Coordinator Sue Garrity

Contact ehps.uniforms@gmail.com

Open on Monday & Thursday from 8.15am to 9.45am

Purchase in store or by order form available online via the school website

Pay by cash or card (Eftpos, Visa or Mastercard)

Alterations & Repairs by Michelle Sturrock (Dressmaker and parent), great rates on offer to Elanora families. Details are available at the Uniform Shop.

Second Hand UniformsSecond Hand Uniform Coordinator Karen Woodley

Enquiries or Purchase please call 9913 1292 after 9.00am or email thewoodleys@optusnet.com.au

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….… September is Fruit and Veg Month across our state?Fruit and Veg month is a NSW Health initiative for primary schools. The initiative aims to put a positive focus on fruit and vegetables by encouraging conversations about healthy lifestyles, increasing students knowledge about the benefits of eating fruit and vegetables and giving them opportunities to try a variety of fruit and vegetables.

This initiative is important because only 22% of kids aged 4 to 8 meet their recommended 4.5 serves of vegetables each day. This number drops to less than 5% of kids when you remove potatoes.

So what are we doing at Elanora? To kick things off, we have Eve Clark from NSW Health talking to our P&C on Wednesday night. We are also issuing ‘loyalty cards’ in the canteen, where students collect stickers by purchasing fruit or vegetables. They will then get a free frozen fruit pop once they have collected 10 stickers.

NSW Health also has a number of fun and free competitions that you can enter. “Max the Veg” involves submitting a picture of one of your family’s favourite meals that includes vegetables. Entries close Friday October 14th and first prize is $250!

http://healthy-kids.com.au/teachers/fruit-veg-month/veg-it-to-the-max-family-challenge-2/

“Photographic Competition – Healthy Life, Healthy You” Take a photo that depicts the competition theme of healthy life, healthy you. Entries close on November 1st with the winner taking home prizes worth more than $2,000 and also securing $3,000 for our canteen.

Get clicking! http://www.yourhealthlinkphotocomp.com.au/primary-school/

Dates for your diaryTERM 3Wed 31st Aug P&C meeting 7:00pm (includes a talk from

Eve Clark, NSW Health Promotion Officer for Schools)

Thur 1st Sep Athletics Carnival K-2; 9:15am to 12:15pm

Sat 10th Sep School Working Bee

Fri 23rd Sep Last Day of Term 3

Mon 10th Oct First Day Back for Term 4

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Anthony D (4W) Drums/Percussion Training Band Alex K (4C) Drums/Percussion Senior Band

Mia S (5Z) Clarinet

Intermediate Band Max M (3S)

Guitar Ensemble

Dates for your diary Wed 12th Oct ALADDIN The Musical Excursion – open to any students who are currently involved

in the EHPS Music Program – see below for more details.Sun 16th Oct Musicale: 3pm - 4pm All ensembles to perform for end of year concert

Sun 23rd Oct Bunnings BBQ & Cake Stall - Narrabeen – volunteers needed

Fri 9th Dec EHPS Carols Night – All ensembles involved – Volunteers needed to run the BBQ

A permission note and payment form will come home this week for our annual musical excursion.

Please note: this excursion is for students in the music program only, no siblings sorry.

There are limited seats, so make sure you return your payment of $75 asap.

Students will be picked up from school at 11am, with the show starting at 1pm. We will not be returning to school until approximately 4:45pm - 5pm, so you will have to take into account any after school activities or care that

your child normally goes to.

Please contact Lou England if you have any queries.M: 0414 492 588

E: maecon@bigpond.net.au

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Camps held rain, hail or shine during all school holiday periods

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Casual bookings and excursions available!

o FREE After School Bus Pick Up Service

P: 9498 1902www.inspiretennis.com.au

Venue: Terrey Hills Tennis Club

Junior & Adult Programs Based on school calendar!

Holiday Programs

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ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Coaching (4-13yrs)

Ladies & Adult Clinics (Beginnner & Intermediate)o Private Lessons and more...

Every week of school holidays throughout the year!

FREE Before Care & Racquet Hire

o High Performance & Competition (9-18yrs)

13C O N N E C T | Week 7 - Term 3 Products & Services advertised are NOT endorsed by Elanora Heights P.S.

Fun & friendly training for 7-13 year olds•

Games, circuits, running, stretching and basic exercises

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Increase confidence and awareness in posture, fitness and technique

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Tuesday 3:45 - 4:30pm during school termat Bilarong Reserve, Narrabeen lake

Children must be accompanied by an adult – adults can train together too!

Personal Trainer Cert III & IV • FIA Registered Exercise Professional #086494Current advanced first aid & CPR certificates • Working With Children clearance

BLACK CAT TRAINING FOR KIDS

To book call 0421 021 827 or emailtricialaurie@bigpond.com

14C O N N E C T | Week 7- Term 3 Products & Services advertised are NOT endorsed by Elanora Heights P.S.

Nippers Registration DaysCollaroy SLSC: Sunday 18th September 9am - 12pm

www.collaroysurfclub.com.au/nippers

North Curl Curl SLSC: Sunday 11th September 2016 9am – 3:30pmwww.nthcurlcurlslsc.com.au or office@nccslsc.com.au

Manly Life Saving Club: Sunday 11th September 8:30am - 12:30pmContact: Andrean Duffy www.manlylsc.com.au nippers@manlylsc.com

15C O N N E C T | Week 7- Term 3 Products & Services advertised are NOT endorsed by Elanora Heights P.S.

Looking for a new sport that the whole family can enjoy?

Come sailing at ‘the friendly club’. We offer junior coaching and learn to sail programs on Sundays. At our club we sail Herons, Lasers,

Sabots, Optimists, Windsurfers and open class sailboats.

Mums, dads, kids, grandparents - everyone can join in!

You are welcome to join us at our Registration and information day on

Sunday 4th Sept 10am - 2pmJamieson Park, Narrabeen Lakes

www.narrabeenlakessailingclub.com

(NLSC is a not-for-profit community organisation)

• Use a catchy slogan to help them remember • Tell them why you want them to wear a helmet• Show them how to put their helmet on right• Show them how cool they’ll look!

Mums and dads always make you wear a helmet when you bike or scoot. This helps protect your head if you fall, or if someone bumps into you. But have you noticed mums and dads not wearing a helmet themselves? Their brains are important too!

Submit your entry - at any of the Northern Beaches Council Customer Service Centres or Libraries.

NSW BIKE WEEK KIDS POSTER COMPETITION

Northern Beaches Council presents

Please note• Competition closes Friday 9 September• Don’t forget to include your name, age,

address, school, contact email or phone • Entries will not be returned to the artist

after judging• Winners announced during Bike Week,

17-25 September 2016

Hey kids! Design a poster to remind mums, dads, nannas and grandpas to wear their helmet and you could win great prizes!

For more Bike Week info visit transportnsw.info/bikeweek

16C O N N E C T | Week 7- Term 3 Products & Services advertised are NOT endorsed by Elanora Heights P.S.

School Holiday ProgramsGoodwin’s Tennis Academy web: www.goodwinstennisacademy.com.au | email: joelgoodwin@bigpond.com Ph: Joel - 0410 523 726

Pittwater Sports Centreweb: www.pittwatersports.com.au | Ph: 9913 7421

Cheeky Monkeys PlayhousePh: 9999 0388 | email: info@cheekymonkeysplayhouse.com.au | web: www.cheekymonkeysplayhouse.com.au

YMCA Vacation Care @ Narrabeen Sports Highemail: oshc.elanora@ymcansw.org.au | Ph: 0418 474 120

Think Club - ExpandingYoung Mindsweb: www.thinkclubaustralia.com | email: info@thinkclubaustralia.com

Collaroy Tennis Centreweb: evolvetennisacademy.com | email: evolvetennis@evolvetennisacademy.com

Voyager Tennisweb: www.voyagertennis.com | wrc@voyagertennis.com | Ph: 9938 1831

If U Like Artweb: www.ifulikeart.com | email: daphne.katos@bigpond.com

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