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Our school community is committed to providing a supportive learning environment which promotes success and equity. Page 1
Term 1 - Week 5
SOLDIERS POINT PUBLIC SCHOOL
39 Cromarty Road
Soldiers Point NSW 2317
P 4982 7151 F 4982 0576
Website – Soldiers Point Public School
Monday, 30 July 2012 Term 3 – Week 3
The Point
Dear Parents, In our endeavour as a school community to provide a supportive learning environment we need to identify ways to best support our students in their daily challenges. For this reason and with the backing of the school’s P&C, we successfully applied to have a chaplain / student welfare officer appointed to our school and it is with pleasure that I welcome Mrs Joy Shotter to SPPS as our school chaplain / student welfare officer. Schools recognise that in addition to developing children academically, we need to also support their social and emotional development. Indeed, it is for this reason we introduced the You Can Do It! program several years ago. With Mrs Shotter joining us as chaplain / student welfare officer, we are able to extend the way and manner in which we support our students. Mrs Shotter has included a brief introductory letter about herself and the nature of her role at the school later in this newsletter.
Happy & Safe Feet Included with this newsletter is a letter written by one of our Kindergarten student’s Chloe regarding an improvement she would like to see at SPPS. Like others, Chloe would like to have a path constructed between the Kindergarten classrooms and the Games Court as the current path becomes very busy at recess & lunch. As you will read in Chloe’s letter you can help by voting for her idea. Follow the instructions on how to vote and you may help our school win a grant to fund the project.
Meaningful for All Having spoken to many students following their Life Education lesson all have commented on how fun and meaningful their activity was. Life Education is a vital program offered all over Australia and is very highly regarded. I trust that all of our children enjoyed and learnt a lot from their visit.
Reach It’s time to celebrate the artistic talents of so many of our children by attending the 2012 Tomaree Music Festival (TMF). The theme for this year’s TMF is Reach, which will see our students singing and dancing next Wednesday and Thursday nights.
Stage 3 Camp Today, nearly one hundred very excited Year 5 & 6 students and four very brave teachers departed for
their annual camp. Students and teachers will be having an outdoor education experience at Morisset where they will undertake activities such as: rock climbing, archery, flying fox, canoeing, orienteering, giant swing and the high ropes course. I’m sure the students and teachers will have a great experience as they enjoy the challenging activities. Stage 3 will include a report and photos in future newsletters.
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Monday, 30 July 2012 Term 3 – Week 3
Term 3 - Week 3
Monday 30th
July Stage 3 Camp
Life Education
Tuesday 31st
July Stage 3 Camp
Life Education
Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 1st
August Stage 3 Camp
Thursday 2nd
August
Friday 3rd
August
Term 3 - Week 4
Monday 6th
August Tomaree Music Festival –
rehearsal day
ES1 Zone Public Speaking
Finals – Garden Suburb
Tuesday 7th
August Tomaree Music Festival –
rehearsal day
Zone Athletics – Field
S1 Zone Public Speaking
Finals – Soldiers Point
Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 8th
August Tomaree Music Festival –
Performance Night
Thursday 8th
August S2 Zone Public Speaking
Finals - Cardiff
Tomaree Music Festival –
Performance Night
Friday 9th
August Zone Athletics – Track
S3 Zone Public Speaking
Finals – Stockton
Term 3 - Week 5
Monday 12th
August AE/CAPA Info Night at
Tomaree High School
Tuesday 13th
August Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 14th
August
Thursday 15th
August Technopush Challenge (OC)
Friday 16th
August
Sunday 19th
August Working Bee
Term 3 - Week 6 – Book Week + Book Fair
Monday 20th
August
Tuesday 21st
August Radio Station Visit - SRC
Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 22nd
August Storytime 1
Thursday 23rd
August Stage 3 author visit
Friday 24th
August Book Week Character
Parade
Term 3 - Week 7
Monday 27th
August
Tuesday 28th
August Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 29th
August Newcastle Permanent
Maths Competition (St 3)
Thursday 30th
August
Friday 31st
August Open Day @ SPPS
Term 3 - Week 8
Monday 3rd
September
Tuesday 4th
September Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 5th
September Storytime
Thursday 6th
September
Friday 7th
September
Term 3 - Week 9
Monday 10th
September
Tuesday 11th
September Nudie Tuesday
P&C Meeting
Wednesday 12th
September Recycling workshop (Yr 4)
Thursday 13th
September
Friday 14th
September
Term 3 - Week 10
Monday 17th
September
Tuesday 18th
September Nudie Tuesday
Wednesday 19th
September Storytime
Thursday 20th
September Yr 6 Gala Day @ THS
Friday 21th
September Term 3 Concludes
See our school website for additional information. PLEASE NOTE: Permission notes are now available for excursions on our website. Just click on calendar, find your excursion and open the event.
ASSEMBLY Where: School Hall When: Fridays, 1:30 pm
FRIDAY, 3RD AUGUST
No Assembly
FRIDAY, 10TH AUGUST K-2
Hosted by K/1S
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Monday, 30 July 2012 Term 3 – Week 3
CWA POSTER COMPETITION At Fridays’ assembly Mrs Janet Henderson presented awards to the winners of the Timor Leste poster completion. Congratuations to our winners. 1st Fionn 2nd Poppy 3rd Joe Highly commended: Corey G, Verdehl, Taylah K
Book Fair is coming...
Our school will be holding our annual Book Fair
from Monday 20th August – Thursday 22nd August. as part of our Book Week festivities
All students will have the chance to view the books before they go on sale.
All profits go towards resourcing our great library
Thank you Mrs Davis & Mrs Merriman
HEALTHY KIDS ASSOCIATION Parents, as members of this organisation you can receive free nutritional information for your child from the Healthy Kids Association website and free bi-monthly e-newsletters. A wide range of topics about
nutrition and healthy eating are covered. Visit the following website for more information: www.healthy-kids.com.a
INTERESTED IN LEARNING AN INSTRUMENT? The school has 3 flutes, 2 tenor saxophones, 1 clarient and 1 trumpet available for hire. We also have a skilled tutor available at school on Thursdays and Fridays to teach your child their chosen instruments. If you are interested and would like some more information, please email Miss Strassmeir at: [email protected] or send a note to Miss Strassmeir with your contact details
STAGE 3 PUBLIC SPEAKING FINALS
On Friday Stage 3 conducted their Public Speaking
Finals. Congratulations to all participants in the final. To represent Year 5 will be Hannah and for
Year 6 will be Callum at the Hunter competition
soon.
From the Office ..............
Music Festival Tickets are now on sale - $10.00 each
If you have changed any details eg. phone
numbers, addresses, emergency contacts please have amended.
Check Lost Property for lost items
If you know of any Kindergarten child for
2013 who has not registered at the school, please inform the office.
If you know that your child will be leaving at
the end of the year, please leave details at the office.
Thank you
CHILDREN’S AFTER SCHOOL ART CLASSES A range of art and craft activities for both boys and
girls aged 5 to 12. Taught by a trained and experienced art teacher. Classes available Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays
$10 per student per lesson. All materials supplied. Kids just need to bring an artbook and some old
clothes. Phone Jen – Home: 49827579
Mobile: 0425246401 Email: [email protected]
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Monday, 30 July 2012 Term 3 – Week 3
New Chaplaincy Role Soldiers Point Public School has been successful in
receiving a grant from the Commonwealth
Government as part of the National School Chaplaincy
and Student Welfare Support Program. This grant
enables us to provide chaplaincy support to the
students, staff and families of our school. The
funding will provide a Chaplain for 10 hours a week in
our school.
What will our Chaplain do?
# Assisting in the development and continuation
of the schools welfare programs.
# Network with welfare services, local churches
and other agencies in the local community to
provide a broad range of support services to
the school community.
# Work with the School Learning Support Team
to facilitate student wellbeing.
# Facilitate groups, events and activities to
support emotional and spiritual wellbeing with
voluntary student participation.
# Support staff at school camps, excursions
and other activities as required.
# Provide pastoral care and personal assistance
for students, staff and parents of the school
community regardless of religious or cultural
background in coordination with the school
counsellor and other support staff.
A school chaplain is expected to respect the range of
religious views and affiliations, and cultural traditions
in the school community, and be approachable by
students of all faiths.
Our chaplain, Joy Shotter is at the school Mondays
and Thursdays all day and half days on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays. She will be available to meet individually
with students with parental permission, and other
members of the school community to provide support
and guidance regarding relationships, life choices,
values and spiritual matters.
Please feel free to contact Joy at the school office
if you have any questions.
MUSICA VIVA: On Thursday Week 1, Term 3 Soldiers Point
Public school participated in Musica Viva. The chosen
band for this year was B’Tutta, they are a percussion
band with a high amount of skill. They performed many
entertaining songs which got the audience participating
in many different ways. Some of the students were
clapping, while others were singing and even teachers
got to go up on stage! Songs that B’Tutta played
included Celebrate, Asa and Cinquillo. Overall, we all
had a great afternoon at Musica Viva and hope to have
as much fun next time. We would like to thank Mrs Hunt
for organizing such a fun afternoon.
By Isabelle L and Carmen C
HOCKEY: Last week was a big week for hockey at Soldiers
Point. On Tuesday we played our first schools hockey
knockout game against Tinonee Public. The team played
extremely well and we cruised to a 6-1 victory.
On Friday we played our second game on the astro turf at
Cessnock against Nulkaba Public. Again the team played like
champions and at full time the game was drawn at 2 all.
Then we had to play extra time with only nine players. Then
another lot of extra time with just seven players but neither
team scored. Finally we had to keep playing with only a
goalkeeper and four players on each team. Nulkaba
unfortunately scored a goal and won the game. It was the
longest game any of us have ever played.
Thank you to Mrs Hunt for organising our games and to all
the parents for training us, umpiring and taking us to the
fields. Lucas
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Touch: The Soldiers Point boys’ touch team had good wins in Rounds 1 & 2 of the 2012 PSSA Knockout defeating Shoal Bay PS 4-2 and Tomaree PS 2-0. In Round 3, however, they came up against a very strong team in Anna Bay PS who defeated our team 7-1. Well done to the boys and thank you to the parents who joined us for training and supported us at the games.
Rugby league: Our school rugby league team participated in the 2012 Jarrod Mullen Cup last Thursday at Salamander Sporting Complex. The team consisted of 17 players from Years 4, 5 and 6. On the day we had a win against St Michaels (12-8), a loss against St Phillips (8-4)
and a win against Shoal Bay (20-4). The boys played with tremendous spirit and sportsmanship in all three games. Thank you to all the parents / grandparents who came along to support the boys. Photo of Fionn running the ball with Joe in
support.
DEFENCE AIDE NEWS To all Solders Point Defence families In term 3 I will be working Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday mornings and Friday will be flexible. Please contact me through school if you have any concerns or need any information regarding Defence issues. You can also email me on [email protected] I have just received copies of the latest: Buzz Newsletter (a great resource on local info and defence websites). DSNSG Williamtown 4: A magazine for Defence parents with children who have special needs and seek more information. Carolyn Watson is our local coordinator and has a great deal of knowledge on special needs within the Defence. You can contact Carolyn on 0427008084 or [email protected]. Thank you to all those mums who attended the morning tea. It was great to see some new faces. I hope it was informative to some of you and a chance to catch up with friends. I would love to take this chance of saying a warm “welcome back” to Tara and Tayla’s dad who has been away on Deployment overseas. Have a wonderful time catching up and enjoy every minute of your family time. See you all soon - Danielle Robinson
LETTER FROM CHLOE
Hello, my name is Chloe Richards and I am in KS. I love my school very much but sometimes wish I was the koala in the tree so I didn't have to climb the steps to get to my favourite play area. Last week I fell over on the path and my knee was bleeding. We are trying to get some help to build a soft path from the classrooms to the play area. Thanks Chloe for your story! As Chloe mentioned, we have put in a proposal to the NSW Mine Safety Advisory Council, under the Regional Health and safety Community Grants project for a grant to improve the safety of the existing path and concrete steps leading from the infants’ classrooms to the main play area. The grant assessment will be based on several criteria including how many community members vote for the project! After the amazing support of the Soldiers Point Public School community in the Run Around Australia competition we know that collectively we can achieve great things! To support the Happy & Safe Little Feet project, please click (you may need to press "ctrl" and click on the link at the same time) on the link below and then when the web page opens click on the green box "I vote for this" http://communitygrants.nswminesafety.com.au/idea/happy-safe-little-feet Voting for the Regional Health and Safety Community Grants closed on Sunday, August 5. The more votes we have, the more chance we have of winning the grant. Thank you all for your support.
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P & C NEWS Run Around Australia
http://www.portstephensexaminer.com.au/news/local/ne
ws/general/46000-prize-win/2635196.aspx
As you would have seen, the School featured in an
article in last week’s Port Stephen’s Examiner. Well
done to all and thank you very much to the whole local
community. We will keep you posted with further
developments.
Woolworths Earn and Learn & Coles Sports for
Schools promotions are still in progress
Woolworths Earn and Learn Simply shop at a Woolworths store (or Safeway or
Woolworths Online) and for every $10 spent, you will receive
one Earn & Learn sticker. (Liquor, tobacco and gift cards are
excluded.) Stickers can be collected until Sunday 12th
August.
Place the stickers onto a sticker card and when the card is full,
either put it into a school’s sticker collection box at your local
Woolworths store or the collection box at the School Office.
Coles Sports for Schools
Coles Sports for Schools is operating until 14th August
2012 and so please retain your vouchers for that and
bring these into the collection box at the School Office.
We will discuss this further in future newsletters.
The prizes for these two promotions (Stickers and
Vouchers) are fantastic resources for SPPS.
Uniform Shop News
A very big thank you for assistance for the last two
weeks goes to Brooke Hill, Karen Richards, Karen Jones
and Belinda Lavers for helping out in the Uniform Shop.
It couldn’t operate without these generous and caring
volunteers. Please remember that they are volunteers.
The P&C website now shows the new price list and new
trading hours.
http://sppspc.weebly.com/uniform-pricelist.html
http://sppspc.weebly.com/uniform.html
The Uniform Shop Trading Hours are now Tuesday
mornings from 8.30am to 9.30am and Friday afternoons,
after the School Assembly, from 2.15pm until 3.15pm.
(This allows Uniform Shop Volunteers to attend the
School Assembly). Please note that the Uniform Shop
will no longer be open on Thursday afternoons. We hope
this will enable more people to be able to access the
Uniform Shop.
Canteen News
Thankyou to Robyn Murray, Liz Dennison, Deanne
Cosgrove, Tammy Peach, Julie Thomson, Rebekah
Newell and Carey Bell for all their help during Weeks 1
& 2. A huge thank you goes to Dion Cooper, Andrew
Driscoll, Tony Newton, Rob Moss, Penny Whatman,
Belinda Lavers, Danielle Robinson, Kate Jackson, Leah
Groves, Paula Browne and Tristen Cosgrove for their
assistance at the Athletics Day BBQ last term. Also a
huge thankyou to Deanne Cosgrove, Julie Thomson,
Kate Jackson, Danielle Robinson and those wonderful
Year 6 helpers India, Olivia, Liv, Karla, Sam, Toby and
Drew and Rees on Hot Dog Meal Deal Day. It was a
great success because of your help.
Roster for the next two weeks:
Mon 30/7 Karina Patane
Wed 1/8 Belinda Lavers
Fri 3/8 Liz Dennison, Barbara Weaver 9.30-11.30,
HELP NEEDED Please Mon 6/8 Robyn Murray
Wed 8/8 Jenny Jones
Fri 10/8 Barbara McIlwraith, Penny Whatman
Mon 13/8 Tammy Peach
Year 6 Helpers:
Thu 2/8 Jamie W 5/6M, Laura K 5/6S
Thu 9/8 Amelia O 5/6S, Ben B 6G
Due to the colours used in the manufacture of Jelly
Sticks, the Canteen will no longer be selling these items.
Work on Garden Bed Improvement
A group of P&C volunteers will be working on the
construction of a garden bed behind the School
classrooms building block on Sunday 19th August. This
will be completed at a Working Bee planned for Sunday
26th August. Please contact the P&C if you would like
to be involved. The profits from the recent Disco will
pay for this School improvement.
Working Bee
The P&C invite you to come along and help out at a
Working Bee at the School in Sunday 26th August
9.30am to 12.30am. Please put it in your diaries and help
keep the School looking great for our Education Week
open day on August 31st. (This is the date for our
School, moved back due to a full School calendar.)
P&C Volunteers
The Soldiers Point Public School P&C is always looking
for parents who are able to lend a hand for various
events and/or regular assistance, even if it is only for an
hour or two. If you are interested in helping in the
Canteen or the Uniform Shop in 2012 then please let us
know. Remember that any help you can give, no matter
how small, will be beneficial for all the children of our
great School. ([email protected])
The P&C desperately needs a Vice Treasurer to assist
our wonderful Treasurer Lesa Cooper. Please contact us
if you are interested. This is really important. Please
consider if you can lend a hand.
Upcoming Meetings
SIFC Meeting Wednesday 1st August at 3.30 pm (note
the change of date and the earlier time).
P&C Meeting Tuesday 14th August 7:00pm (in the
School Library) The P&C encourages you to come
along, have your say, get to know some Parents and the
Principal, and get to know more about how your School
works. Minutes from previous meetings and the agenda
for the next meeting can be found on the P&C website.
Point Directory
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The Soldiers Point P&C Yellow Pages information
Portal is now available on the P&C website.
If you are interested in being included then please
submit your details to the P&C via the contact details
form on the website http://sppspc.weebly.com/point-
directory.html
http://sppspc.weebly.com/pointdirectory_details.html or
via email [email protected] For all the latest P&C
news please check out the website
http://sppspc.weebly.com/
Expression of Interest ~ Kindergarten 2013 Name: ______________________________________________ Male/Female DOB: _______________ Parent/Caregiver: _________________________________________________ (Ms, Mr, Mr & Mrs etc ) Address: ________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________ Postcode: ______________ Phone: ______________________________ Mobile: __________________________________________ Do you have other children enrolled at SPPC or at any government school (including high school?) Name: _________________________________________________________ DOB: _______________
Please complete and return to school office