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DIARY DATES

2017 TERM 1 MARCH 9 Zone Swimming Carnival 10 PSSA 13 Longneck Lagoon Leadership Program 15 Regional Swimming 16 School Photos 17 PSSA Assembly 1.45pm 21 Harmony Day 24 PSSA 26 P&C Bunnings BBQ 31 PSSA APRIL 7 Book Fair Grandparent Day Easter Hat Parade Last Day of Term 1

TERM 2 APRIL 24 Staff Development Day 25 ANZAC Day 26 Students Return MAY 1 Sport in Schools (SISA) 5 Assembly 1.45pm 8 SISA 9 NAPLAN 10 NAPLAN 11 NAPLAN 12 PSSA 15 SISA 17 Stage 3 Excursion 18 Zone XCountry 19 Assembly 1.45pm

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL….

Swimming Carnival Last Thursday 2 March our 3 to 6 students and a number of year 2 students who turn 8 this year attended our swimming carnival at Waves Pool Baulkham Hills. Thank you to Miss Blanch for organising your first carnival and to all the students who participated. I congratulate the 18 students who have qualified to represent our school at the Zone carnival. All the best for todays events to those students competing at the Zone Carnival at Blacktown Aquatic Centre.

School Leader Initiatives Our school leaders will be involved in a number of initiatives in the following week to assist in the development of their leadership skills. Yesterday the leaders and I participated in the Grip Leadership Conference at the Olympic Sports centre at Homebush. We travelled by train and got the opportunity to listen to guest speakers and participate in fun activities aimed at improving leadership skills. On Monday 12 March Ms Ricketts and the school leaders will travel by private transport to Longneck Lagoon near Pitt Town to participate in a day of problem solving and team work. Finally, for the time being the Captains and Vice Captains will participate in a 2-day leadership program being run by the Blacktown Learning Community at Quakers Hill Public School. Enjoy your leadership development days and make the school proud!

Kiss and Drop As our school continues to grow the number of parents using Kiss and Drop has also grown so please ensure that you are patient waiting in the line of traffic. The traffic moves quickly and the kindergarten students are quickly learning to be independent with putting seat belts on. Please encourage your children to make their way quickly to the Kiss and Drop zone as you will need to go and park if you have to wait for longer than 2 minutes.

Harmony Day This year we are celebrating harmony Day on Thursday 30 March and due to a rather full calendar this term it will be a low key event. The students may dress in something orange and we will have a school picnic lunch up on the oval. We are hoping to celebrate our community and the cultures that help to make our school by having a Multi-Cultural day later in the year.

Easter Parade/Grandparents Day Our Easter Parade and Grandparent Day is fast approaching on Friday 7 April. It is one of our major community celebrations. In the morning we invite the grandparents into the classrooms and then they enjoy a scrumptious morning tea supplied by our families. Grandparents, parents and students get the opportunity to visit the Book Fair to purchase books to keep or donate. After morning tea, we have our Easter Hat Parade, followed by a sausage sizzle lunch. I look forward to seeing all of the amazing hat creations this year.

High School Forms All high school forms need to be returned to school by Friday 17 March.

P & C annual General Meeting The Annual General Meeting of the Seven Hills North P & C will take place on Tuesday 14 March @ 7.30pm in the school staffroom.

Spider Drink Day We would like to say a big thank you to the students and parents who helped to make spider drink day such a success in excess of $600 was raised which is a great start to Year 6 fundraising for this year. A special mention needs to me made to Mr Burns who organised donations from McDonalds and Aldi for the day. Our biggest thanks for the day goes to those businesses that where willing to lend a hand MdDonald’s at Seven Hills and Doonside for donating all the cups, straws, spoons and ice-cream cones, and Aldi at Seven Hills for donating some ice-cream and soft drinks.

Kate Pugh Principal

Term 1— Week 7 Thursday, 9 March 2017

SEVEN HILLS NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL 45 Beethoven Street, Seven Hills 2147 Phone: 9624 1275 Fax: 9838 7839

www.sevenhilln-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: sevenhilln-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

SHNOOSH

(Seven Hills North Outside of School Hours Centre)

Phone: 9620 9308

Email: shnooshcare@optusnet.com.au

SCHOOL SECURITY 1300880021

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School Invoices 1st Child payment due 17 March 2017 2nd Child payment due 7 April 2017 Balance payment due 12 May 2017

Sports in Schools begins first week of Term 2, if the $60 payment for incursions is not received by the end of Term 1 we will assume that you do not wish for your child to participate.

For those families who need to pay in smaller amounts or wish to create a payment plan please contact the office.

Learning and Support News Great news! Our school is lucky once again to have 8 speech therapy students working alongside our resident speech therapist, Kate Meredith. The students will be accompanying Kate each Thursday morning. They will be working in the classrooms to support the classroom teachers, as well as undergoing screen tests. Should you have any enquiries about speech therapy for your child, please don’t hesitate in letting me know.

Mrs Johnson

EASTER RAFFLE Our Easter Raffle is back again and will be drawn at the Easter Parade on

Friday 7 April, 2017. In the past we have been able to have many prizes

thanks to the generous donation of baskets and eggs from our school community.

We are now asking for your Easter donations.

Please drop them into the office.

A book of raffle tickets will be sent home closer to the date.

Thank you for your continued support.

Payment for Excursions Due to our new accounts system the final payment date on excursion notes will be the last day that payments will be accepted, there will be no exceptions.

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2017 SWIMMING CARNIVAL RESULTS

12 yr girls 50m freestyle 12 yr boys 50m freestyle Senior Girls backstroke Senior Boys backstroke

1st Erin V 1st Tim L 1st Maliyah M 1st Brayden B

2nd Shae H 2nd Filip O 2nd Yaris V 2nd Tim L

3rd Ziah B 3rd Kai E 3rd Erin V 3rd Zac G

11 yr girls 50m freestyle 11 yr boys 50m freestyle Junior Girls breaststroke Junior Boys breaststroke

1st Sarah I 1st Brayden B 1st Tijana B 1st Nikola B

2nd Maliyah M 2nd Cooper P 2nd Kaitlyn A 2nd Beau J

3rd Darcie B 3rd Tanish P 3rd Keely V 3rd Hamish S

10 yr girls 50m freestyle 10 yr boys 50m freestyle Senior Girls breaststroke Senior Boys breaststroke

1st Tijana B 1st Nikola B 1st Sarah I 1st Brayden B

2nd Kaitlyn A 2nd Hamish S 2nd Yaris V 2nd Tim L

3rd Ella C 3rd Alistair M 3rd Ziah B 3rd Kai E

9 yr girls 50m freestyle 9 yr boys 50m freestyle Junior Girls butterfly Junior Boys butterfly

1st Reneet S 1st Beau J 1st Tijana B 1st Nikola B

2nd Zoe A 2nd Charlie T 2nd Kaitlyn A 2nd Hamish S

3rd Georgia D 3rd William R 3rd Sara M 3rd Beau J

8 yr girls 50m freestyle 8 yrs boys 50m freestyle Senior Girls butterfly Senior Boys butterfly

1st Sara M 1st William Y 1st Sarah I 1st Brayden B

2nd Isla M 2nd Riley G 2nd Darcie B 2nd Kai E

3rd Ava A 3rd Curtis O 3rd Ziah B 3rd Tanish P

Girls 100m freestyle Boys 100m freestyle Junior Relay Senior Relay

1st Sarah I 1st Nikola B 1st Pye 1st Hume

2nd Tijana B 2nd Brayden B 2nd Hume 2nd Pye

3rd Kaitlyn A 3rd Tim L 3rd Best 3rd Best

Junior Girls backstroke Junior Boys backstroke Total pointscore 1st 219 points HUME

1st Tijana B 1st Nikola B 2nd 191 points PYE

2nd Kaitlyn A 2nd Hamish S 3rd 181 points BEST

3rd Jasmine G 3rd Beau J

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Library Gossip

Arrgh me hearties!!

Join us and walk the plank on Friday 7 April. Our Book Fair is fast approaching where all our books are treasure. I can’t wait to see all our Bookaneers raid our library to gather the treasure on offer. Remember, any purchases made at our Book Fair are a benefit for our school as we receive a commission from all monies spent. Easter is in the middle of the school holidays. Why not give a book as an Easter present rather than chocolate? It can be a special memory of Easter. Look forward to seeing all of you at our Fair, Captain Scarlett Sinai

P&C NEWS

Volunteers Needed Seven Hills Bunnings BBQ Please keep in mind that the P&C will be

running a Bunnings BBQ on Sunday 26

March @ Seven Hills.

Our BBQ’s are usually a great fundraiser

and we ask for your support by volunteering

some time. A roster with times available and

information for the day

is set up on the

Community Noticeboard

as you enter the school,

your assistance would be

greatly appreciated.

HARMONY DAY—30 March 2017

Harmony Day is a day where we celebrate all the

cultures that Australia has and we recognise these

differences but we understand that we are all

“Australian”.

This year we will be conducting Harmony Day on

Thursday 30 of March.

All children are welcome to wear orange clothes

as a mufti to celebrate this day.

Children will be involved in a big picnic lunch

on the oval with all of their friends (just pack a

normal lunch for your kids or maybe something

a little special).

Mrs Hilly

KILDARE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE

DR. PHIL HUMPHRIS, MBBS, MIPH, RACGP