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6th September 2018

Term 3 Week 7

Quality education and care with meaningful community and parental involvement!

Tomaree Public School EMAIL: tomaree-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

WEB: www.tomaree-p.schools.nsw.edu.au PO Box 710, Nelson Bay 2315

Ph: (02) 4981 1444 Fax: (02) 4984 1524

Important

DatesTERM 3

SEPTEMBER

14th S3 Bathurst excursion $50 payment due

20th Performance Matinee and night show.

26th K-6 Assembly

27th Teddy Bear’s Picnic

&

Science Discovery Day

28th September Last Day of Term 3

TERM 4

Students and staff return

to school 15th October OCTOBER

15th Students and staff return to school

17th Gymnastics prog starts

23rd—25th Stage 3 Bathurst excursion

24th K-6 Assembly

30th ES1 & S1 excursion Hunter Valley Zoo

31st Grandfriends Assembly

NOVEMBER

1ST Volunteers Thank you

morning tea

6th 1st Kindi orientation and parent Information session

7th K-6 Assembly

8th Year 6 Fair

9th Remembrance Day Service

12th-23rd Commencement of Intensive swimming scheme

14th 2nd Kindi orientation

29th 3rd kindi orientation

DECEMBER

3rd Yr 7 Parent information night

4th HS orientation day

5th K-6 Assembly

6th Twilight Bandstand at Anna

Bay PS

11th Presentation day rehearsal

12th Presentation day

13th Principals Afternoon Tea

& Scripture Assembly

& Carols night

17th Yr 6 Farewell

18th End of year picnics

19th Last day of School Term 4

LIBRARY NEWS

Many new resources ordered by the school

are from the rewards accumulated with

Scholastic Book Club.

The Library is proud to offer a great variety

of books catering for all levels and styles of

reading.

Happy reading.

Principal’s Report

One week to go until ‘Pages in Time”

The excitement is building at school as we get closer and closer to our Performance

date of Thursday 20th September. For those of you still to purchase your tickets, the

instructions have been included again in this week’s newsletter. Remember you can

come to the matinee, night, or both if you just can’t get enough of our wonderful per-

formers.

Poetry Competition

It was such an honour, to watch the students from K-6 recite their poems for the

Poetry Competition finals on Tuesday. It was wonderful to see such talented speak-

ers, delivering their poems in such a clear and expressive manner. Congratulations

to everyone who participated. The winners are listed in the newsletter.

Wear your Footy Colours

Thank you to everyone who dressed in their favourite footy colours to raise money

for the Cancer Research Foundation. The amount raised was over $500. Great ef-

fort everyone!

Kindergarten 2019

I can hardly believe we are back at this time of the year where we are asking you if

either your children, or the children of someone you know, is gearing up to start

school in 2019.

In order to make sure we can plan ahead regarding teachers and classes, please

make sure that you have contacted the office to let us know you will be sending your

son/daughter to school in 2019.

Take care and have a wonderful week

Chris King

Proud Principal of Tomaree Public School

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Congratulations Tomaree on your fantastic effort to show your true colours and support the Fight Can-

cer Foundation by wearing your team colours.

We were able to raise $537.75 to support the foundation in their work to find a cure for cancer.

Footy Colours Day

Mr Hughes S1H

My name is Gary Hughes and I commenced working as a Stage 1 classroom teacher

at Tomaree Public School at the beginning of this term.

Prior to completing my teaching degree in 2007, I worked as a Child Development

Officer for Lake Macquarie City Council for almost 10 years. This year will be my

tenth year of teaching in primary schools. Some of the highlights have included:

teaching at an international school in Germany in 2013-2015, acting as AFL School

Ambassador and meeting players from the Sydney Swans, presenting a workshop at

the Working with Boys in Early Childhood national conference in Melbourne and

working as part of a team of staff and parents to establish the Stephanie Alexander

Kitchen program at Mayfield East Public School.

Now that my daughter Jessica has grown up, I like to travel overseas as much as possible in my personal time. I have visited

almost 30 countries around the world – at the end of this month I will travel to Israel. I like to spend my weekends in my

kayak or at the beach. I am studying German at a B2 level and I enjoy cooking with fresh produce from the Newcastle

Farmer’s Markets every Sunday.

I feel very fortunate to be working at Tomaree and have already met so many kind staff, students and parents who have

made me feel welcome at the school. I look forward to becoming an integral part of the Tomaree Education learning com-

munity.

TPS PBL Focus for this week is:

RESPONSIBILITY

Right place at the right time

Please refer to the school website for further information.

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Tomaree Public School Poetry Recitation Finals

On Tuesday we held our stage finals for the Poetry Recitations. The standard in all stages was very high and it

was a very close competition for each stage. Here are our winners and runners up for each stage.

Early Stage 1 Winner- Sebastian Reid

Runner up – Emily Watson

Stage 1 Winner- Marley Bunny

Runner up – Jasmine Hodgson

Stage 2 Winner

- Amelia Whiteman-Law

Runner up- Bianca McEvilly

Stage 3 Winner- Olive Phillips

Runner up- Taylor Smith

Congratulations to all students who participated in the finals and to our students across

the entire school who presented poems in their class.

Stage 3 also participated in poetry writing

as part of the Margaret Watts competition.

Students could work in pairs or write a po-

em individually.

1st- Isabella Szarkun and Trinity Frazer

2nd- Alexis Thiele and Ella Borg

3rd- Lilly Hancock

Congratulations to these talented, creative students.

Sue Holland-Organiser

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MERIT AWARDS Term 3 Week 8

KA Connor Homewood Rhegan O’Farrell Sunny Chen

KH Aaliyah Grover Bailey Tumbers Anthony Grace

S1H Mason Sumner-Davis Amber Coughlin Lilly Wilson

S1M Maci Charmicheal Orlando Peak Nyah Eissa

S1O Grace Niddrie Max Mackander Ciara Thornthwaite

S1/2B Adam Gollan McKenzie Ryan Jack Shephard

S2C Gilby Burgess Jonty Bunny Charlize Fines Brodie Grace

S2H Zarley Peters Aiden Rosenberg Ava Coppleman Brady Durant

S2R Blake Peterson Beau Joyce Amelia Whiteman-Law

S3B Abbey Davis James Donovan Jake Affleck Cuebyn Martin

S3C Tia Bishop Mali Gauta Bella Hurle Harry Devine

S3D Charlotte Shaw Lilly Cummins Trinity Frazer Thomas James

S3H Serena Petrie Ebony Harrison Isabella Harris Jarvis Miller

1C London Rundle

3P Jayden Hannah

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Congratulations to the following students Week 3 Term 8

Class Nominees Awardee Reason for Award

3P Elizabeth Peterson, Brock

Davis

Elizabeth Peter-

son

For always taking pride in her work and

striving to reach her personal best.

KH

Aaliyah Grover, Emily Wat-

son, Austin Hochkins, Wil-

liam Profitt, Harlow Earn-

shaw

William Profitt For striving to achieve his personal best

and being a willing helper in class.

S1H Tillie O’Farrell, Jasmine

Hodgson, Nina Feenan

Jasmine Hodg-

son For being a really kind friend.

S1/2B

Jonnie Andrijic, Jorja

Dunkley, Jayden Harris,

Savannah Peacock

Savannah Pea-

cock

For being kind and respectful and being

a good friend always.

S2R

Nate Chugg, Will Hoffman,

Eadie Hutchinson, Nick

O’Donnell, Jessieca Lee

Treharne

Jessica-Lee Tre-

harne

For always being a considerate and con-

scientious learner

S3D

Thomas James, Kaili Wark,

Kayley Starr, Lilly Cum-

mins, Sebastian Peak Kayley Starr

For always working hard; being kind and

caring towards others and inspiring peo-

ple to feel and be happy.

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CANTEEN NEWS

As of Thursday 28th June the

Flexi School cut off time will change

from 9.15am

to

9.00am

With such an increase is the use of

the

Flexi-schools system

This will give the canteen

volunteers more time to prepare.

Thank you

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