Term 4 Week 6 Fr i day 13 th N ovem ber 201 5.

Ulmarra Public School

Excellence Innovation Opportunity Success

Contact us:

12-14 Pacific Highway, Ulmarra. N.S.W. 2462

www.ulmarra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Email: ulmarra-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Phone: 02 66445266 Fax: 02 66445373

Our School Planning and Review Process has begun.

Our strategic directions for 2015-2017 are:

- Quality Teaching and Learning

- Leadership across the school and community

As a staff we have been reviewing our current plan to

look at the impact our current plan has had across the

school and to look at changes for 2016. This is all

under pinned by the School Excellence Framework

where the focus is on the student, excellence in

learning, excellence in teaching and excellence in

leading.

The Tell Them From Me Survey was one of our

strategic directions analysis forms but unfortunately we

didn’t have enough responses from parents to use that

part of the survey so I will be sending home a different

survey to gauge parents feelings and ideas for the

school and the education of your child.

Transition/Kinder/Yr1/Yr 2 Excursion

This week the students headed off to Coffs Harbour

for a fun but educational day. The children spent time

at Tabatinga and the Coffs Harbour Aquarium. They

had a great day as you can see from the photos later in

the newsletter.

Ulmarra PS is 125 years old in 2016 UPS is turning 125 in 2016. We would like to

celebrate this milestone by holding celebrations over

the weekend of Friday 24th and Saturday 25th of June

2016. Save the date!

Remembrance Day

On Wednesday we remembered all the Australian men

and women who have served in war and peacekeeping

activities at our Remembrance Day Service with the

local RSL at the cenotaph in Memorial Park. Ryan,

Ashleigh, Brodie and Zach spoke at the service. I was

very proud of the way all students paid their respect to

Defence Force Personnel. Thank you to the

community who were able to join us.

NEWSLETTER 2015

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land we work on; the Yaegl and Gumbaynggirr people.

Check us out at

www.ulmarra-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Deeds not words.

Christmas Hamper

The P&C are holding a Christmas Raffle and would

like donations of non-perishable food items and

Christmas items. Please drop these into the front of-

fice.

Volunteers and Working With Children Check

Thank you to those parents and grandparents who

took the opportunity to complete their Working

With Children Check at school last week. Don’t

forget to take it into the RMS for validation and

then bring the number in to school

All volunteers who work with children in any capacity

now need a Working With Children Check in NSW.

This includes Home Reading volunteers, canteen vol-

unteers and anyone who come to schools to help in

any way. As a volunteer there is no cost BUT the ap-

plication needs to be done online at

www.kidsguardian.nsw.gov.au. The application then

needs to be taken to a RMS Office for verification.

During this term I would like all volunteers to com-

plete this check and show us the verification form.

Parents and grandparents may complete this on a

computer at school if you wish. This offer is open to

all community members who may need to complete

their check for any volunteer service.

Outstanding Accounts

The end of the school financial year is fast approach-

ing. Settlement of all outstanding accounts would be

appreciated by Friday 20th November 2015. Thank

you to those who have already settled their accounts.

Year 6 Fundraiser

Year 6 will be selling Zooper Doopers for 50c every

Wednesday and Friday for 10 minutes at lunch time.

The money raised from this will go towards their

Year 6 Farewell and Gift to the School.

Maintenance

You will have noticed a bit of work happening

around the school over the last few weeks. We have

finally had our fence erected after most of it blew

down in a storm late last year. Thank you to Ken

Cowan, David Dick and Jeff Rainbow who removed

palings and posts from the school grounds.

The practice wall was deemed unsafe due to an enor-

mous crack down the centre and the subsequent

movement in the wall. Dave Bale and his team took

this down during the week and also removed the old

cement path in the middle of the oval.

Ken Cowan and Lawrie Mearing have been busily

clearing the stones from out the front to be replaced

by turf next Tuesday. Extra help on Tuesday to lay

the turf would be greatly appreciated. In the near future the rest of the front windows of the

school will be tinted and the green house will be re-

moved.

FOR SALE

We have a stove for sale. The cord has been cut and

this will need to be replaced for the stove to work.

Make an offer!

HOMEREADING

Home reading will finish on Friday the 27th Novem-

ber. All home readers will need to brought back to

school by that date for stocktake and repair.

The Excursion

We went to the aquarium. We touched a sea eel. It

was slimy. We touched a star fish. We saw a boat. It

looked like under the sea. There was a play boat. It

was fun. We got cards to see fish. We saw a shark but

it was only a mediumn. I loved it.

By Talia Yr 1

I went on an excursion to Tabatinga and the Solitary

Islands Aquarium. In the Aquarium I touched a sea

cucumber and a sea urchin and a sea snail and I even

touched a starfish. I saw a shark. It was so cool then I

saw an octopus.

I went to Tabatinga and I went on the jungle gym and

glow in the dark mini golf. I did some craft too.

By Flynn Yr 1

1/2/3 Recorder Group

PLEASE SHUT THE GATE

Please remember to shut the gates when you enter and exit the school grounds. This will keep us all safe!

Rememberance Day 11/11/2015 Photos

Assembly Award Winners—13th November, 2015.

Merit Award Recipients Congratulations to: Josh, Blayne, Shawn, Sophie,

Mitchell, Molly, Flynn, Brodie, Talia, Samuel,

Riley, Ryan, Emily, Ethan, Sophia, Ahlia, Tabatha

and Claudia. Absent: Tayla

Student of the Week Recipients Congratulations to:

Sophia, Tori, Olivia, Chloe, Gabe, Shawn

Absent: Elora

Principal Awards

Congratulations to: Ethan, Sophia, Talia, Emily, Clau-

dia, Ahlia, Chloe, Joshua, Rhys, Zoe, Jazmine, Samuel

and Flynn. Absent: Chloe

25, 50 and 75 night Home Readers

Awards

Special Principal’s Award

Congratulations to:

Tahlia, Isabella, Claudia and Samuel

Great Aussie Bite Canteen News

As the end of year is fast approaching, we are trying to reduce the stock in the canteen. Due to this we are lowering the price of some items (until sold out). These items include: Beef Burger (beef pattie with sauce) $2.50 Beef Burger with Salad $3.00 Quiche 50c ea 2 Quiche with Salad $3.00 Fried Rice $2.50 Spaghetti Bolognaise $2.50 Mac n Cheese $2.50 Soup + bread roll $2.00

Chicken noodle or Pumpkin Lemonade Icy Poles 50c ea Sea Salt Chips 50c ea

Thank you for supporting our canteen.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday/Sunday

16th Nov 4/5/6

SydneyExcursion

17th Nov Kinder Orientation

18th Nov 19th Nov 20th Nov 21st /22nd Nov

23rd Nov 24th Nov Special Principal

Award

Kinder Orientation Parent session

P&C Meeting

25th Nov

Korean VC

26th Nov

Yr 3 Excursion

27th Nov

Asian Celebration Day

28th/29th Nov

30th Nov

Swimming Assessment

1st Dec

Transition Last Day

2nd Dec 3rd Nov 4th Nov

Christmas Concert

5th/6th Nov

P & C News—Christmas Raffle

P&C Meeting 24 th November 5:30 in the library.

The P &C will be running a Christmas Raffle to be drawn at this year’s

Carols night.

We are requesting donations of non-perishable food items or Christmas

related items.

Please leave donations at the office.

Raffle tickets will be sent home soon.

Extra books will be available at the office.

Thankyou for your support

Transition/

K/1/2

EXCURSION