Principal’s News - Simone Champion

The Bay News 2 2 M A R C H 2 0 1 8 T E R M 1 W E E K 8

234 Empire Bay Drive EMPIRE BAY NSW 2257 Phone: 4369 1796 Email: empirebay-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you once again for your continued support of our school.

Swimming Results

Well done to all the boys and girls who attended the Zone Swimming Carnival last week on

Tuesday. Mr McCredie, Mrs Ballard and I attended the carnival and helped out with the

event. Harley M broke a Zone record in the Butterfly – what a beautiful style he has and

Fraser came overall second in his age group! We wish good luck to Harley M, Fraser B,

Airlei M and Rubee S for next Thursday at Sydney North.

Kiss and Drop

There has been a change to the Kiss and Drop area with a gate installed at the front of the

Zone. I am working with P&C, local council and government to make the best of a difficult,

one access point, situation. There are further plans to hopefully increase the number of

spaces and the flow of cars coming in and out of the Kiss and Drop Zone, being mindful of

safety of children. We have already received positive feedback about the change in gates

and we thank you for your support. Moving the children away from the hall gate has also

had a positive impact on people trying to leave the school from this area. Please also be

aware that Council Rangers do patrol school zones and have been in the area recently.

Progress Hall Money

We have received $750 from the Progress Hall from last year’s Village Fair. This money will

go towards upgrading our hall lighting in time for the Annual Performance. We thank the

Progress Hall committee for their continued support of our school. We thoroughly enjoy

working collaboratively with you.

S C H O O L

C A C A L E N D A R

Friday 23 March

Book Club due

Thursday 29 March

Easter Hat Parade

Friday 30 March

Good Friday

Monday 2 April

Easter Monday Friday 6 April

School Cross Country

Thursday 12 April

School Photos Friday 13 April

School Development Day

Pupil Free Day

Last day of term Monday 30 April

Students return to school

P&C NEWS

CMPS P&C Association plays an active role at Central Mangrove. As well as raising additional funds to

assist with school activities and Uniform Shop; the P&C can have a say in everything from traffic safety

problems , bullying, enrolment issues, school transport, testing procedures, improved curricula, school

funding, teacher performance, student support services, libraries & information technology, student coun-

selling and wellbeing to mention just a few topics.

Your P&C association can assist in making a difference to how your child is educated and help them enjoy

their time at school, resulting in better performance in and out of the class room. Research has shown that

students whose parents are involved in their school (via their P&Cs), perform better academically and so-

cially.

Welcome back!! Hope everyone had a great holiday. This year we a pleased to announce that our P&C meetings will be held on the 3rd Tuesday of every month (excluding holidays) with alternative day/night meetings. Our First Meeting for this year will be Tuesday 20th February @ 7.00pm in Cooinda. Attending P&C meetings are a great way of finding out what is happening within your child’s school. It is also a great way to make new friends and to be a part of our wonderful school community. We hope to see many more new faces, with our new alternative times. Our first event for the year is a School Disco to be held on Tuesday 20 March, keep an eye out for further details in the next coming weeks. We have an exciting calendar of events for the students as well as parents/carers to participate in such as: Easter Raffle - Mother’s Day Stall & Raffle - Bush Dance -Father’s Day Stall & Raffle -Mufti/Crazy Hair Day Camel Calendars - Christmas Raffle If you have any ideas, contacts etc, or would like an issue raised at a P&C meeting, please email the P&C on ebps.pc@gmail.com.au

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Assistant Principal Role

Mrs Kirkman, Mrs South, Mrs Moore and Mrs Dempsey all for part of the Executive of the school with me. At

times, they need to be off class to support school programs so that we can offer the students and families of

Empire Bay PS the best possible service and learning opportunities. Please be assured if your child is in one of

these teacher’s classes that the teacher taking the class is following the classroom program set out by the

Assistant Principal.

Change to Term 2 SDD

This is a reminder to families that the Term 2 SDD has been moved to the last day of this term (Friday, April

13th). This means students will NOT attend school on this date but WILL attend on Monday, 30th April.

Evacuation Drill

It is a requirement by the Education Department that all schools have regular evacuation drills so students,

teachers and visitors to the school know what to do in the event of a fire or some other danger. Next week,

we will have an evacuation drill. Your child’s class teacher will talk about this to the students so they know

what is expected of them when they hear an uninterrupted ringing of the bell. Everyone within the school at

that time will stop what they are doing and follow instructions to walk quietly up to the Oval.

Simone Champion

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Central Coast Council’s Bookmobile will visit our

school from 2:30pm to 3:15pm on the following

dates:

9 August

23 August

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Focus

Weeks 8 & 9: Classroom

Quality Work. Participation. Be ‘Ready to Learn’ with all

Equipment. Respect visiting teachers.

Please reinforce the above expectation at home with

your child

Be Safe Be Responsible Be Respectful

Library Refurbishment

A big thank you to the P&C for donating the

money from last year’s 5c challenge to the

library. We have just purchased four rugs, eight

pebble poufs (little cushion seats) and four flexi

stools to add colour and comfort to our library.

I would love to hear from any parents who are

artistic or may have experience with interior

design as we have more plans to change the

décor and layout of the library.

Jenny Chippendale

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Central Coast Council’s Bookmobile will visit our

school from 2:30pm to 3:15pm on the following

dates:

9 August

23 August

Last Friday Domino shaved her head for The World’s Greatest Shave

helping families with blood cancer. She raised a total of $1700 and our

school community contributed $198 in gold coins towards her

fundraiser.

Domino, and her parents, Linda and Andre would like to thank everyone

for the marvellous effort and say they are very humbled by the support.

Domino bravely took on the challenge completely unprompted and we are

all very proud of her.

If you would like to support Domino’s fundraising efforts contributions can be made at

https://secure.leukaemiafoundation.org.au/registrant/FundraisingPage.aspx?RegistrationID=711470 Thanks for your support SRC

The Leukaemia Foundation—World’s Greatest Shave

Fantastic Effort Domino

School Cross Country

The School Cross Country has been postponed . The new date is Friday 6th April.

The school photo day will be Thursday 12 April. All students should have received their order envelope. Please take the time to carefully read the relevant information on the MSP Photography envelope. Please enclose correct money with you order as no change is given. An online payment option is available at www.msp.com.au and click ’order online’. Family envelopes are available at the school office upon re-quest. Please note that payments for photograph orders cannot be made via the school website.

School Photos

Salvation Army Red Shield Appeal

9th—12th April

The Red Shield Appeal runs over the months of April, May and June each year with the Red Shield

Doorknock taking place on the last weekend in May. This year the door knock will be the weekend of the

26-27th May. The SRC would like to support the cause so we are asking families to donate non- perishable

items such as tins of soup, vegetables, sauces, packets of rice and pasta, long life milk and juices, sugar, tea

and coffee, toothpaste and shampoo. The Red Shield Appeal helps provide 100,000 meals for the hungry

and hampers for those in need, at difficult times. During the last week of term One, 9th-12th April the SRC

will have a table set up in the mornings outside the school office to collect any donations. We will then

pass on our donations to the local Salvos for distribution.

Thanks SRC

Education Week Awards

Term 3 Week 3

CM1

Elise Excellent Independent Writing.

Max Fantastic Independent Writing.

CM2

George Outstanding commitment to

learning.

Sienna Always being ready to help

others.

CM3

Drew Outstanding school citizenship.

Payton A hardworking attitude which

has led to improvement in all

key learning areas.

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Workers of the Week

Week 7

Week 8

KA Emilia C Nathanael M No K—2 Awards

No Assembly

KL Paige G Declan K

KM Sienna Z Darcy W

KS Willa M Heath M

1C Aaliyah R Finn H

1W Oliver J Mitchell C

2C Isaac C Sofia D

2H Alex WA Willow S

2S Evie G Josh T

3J Milo W Mia H

3SB Phoebe W Liam M

4D Morgan L Marley C

4M Milla W Lily C

5B Tory NS Connah H

5M Jarvis O Domino D

6D Tiella C Jarrod C

6H Marlen W Emilee B

6M Ruby D Charley B

Library Max S Ariel M Jack B

Uniform Shop

Hours Tuesdays

8:30 – 9:30 am

Thursdays

2:30 – 3:00pm

Orders can be placed at

www.flexischools.com.au

or at the school office.

Chapter 3 Jack stared at the small, wrinkled body lying on the white hospital stretcher. His Eyes filled with tears as he

looked at the blurred form of his sobbing sister. He walked backwards until his back touched the wall. He

slid down onto the floor and his mind went blank.

Walking home felt like a marathon. His brain was numb, and he could barely put one foot I front of

another.

Peter C—5M

Quality Work

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Thank you to all the wonderful parents and children who have collected the Coles Sports in

School vouchers. The school benefits greatly from these programs. Vouchers can be donated at

the following locations: School office, Coles Umina and Coles Kincumber.

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Coles Vouchers

The Working with Children procedures have changed. As from Jan 1, 2018 anyone who comes in contact with

children either in a school, sporting group, canteen or like situations are required by law to have a WWC#.

Volunteers are required to obtain a number from Services NSW, either by visiting an office, phoning 13 77 88 or

going online at https://www.service.nsw.edu.gov.au. There is no cost at this stage for the Volunteers number.

When you have received your number, please bring or email the original document to the school and we will

record the number and keep it on file. After March 2018 we will not be able to allow you into the classrooms etc.

until you provided us with a WWC#. The Department of Education also require that any visitors or volunteers to

the school sign in at the office on arrival and out on departure. Please collect and wear a Visitor lanyard while on

site. Thank you for your assistance in keeping your children safe.

Working With Children Check

Easter Hat Parade

It’s time to get creative. The school will be holding an Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 29th March from 11:35am

to 1:00pm under the COLA. Parents and Grandparents are welcome to attend. Pre-schoolers will also be able to

parade if time permits. Students are expected to stay at school after the parade.

Harmony Day

KA enjoyed celebrating Harmony Day with a visit from Mrs Mac Connell to talk about her American heritage.

Mrs Mac Connell made all of the children a cookie in the shape of the US and iced them in US flag colours. Thank

you for such a wonderful presentation. KA thoroughly enjoyed learning about America.

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