September 10 Week 9 - Singleton Public School

Newsletter to Parents

SINGLETON PUBLIC SCHOOL

Find us at: 8 Hunter Street, Singleton NSW 2330 email: [email protected] Phone: (02) 6571 2250 Fax: (02) 6572 3076 website: www.singleton-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Week 8 Term 3 QUALITY RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY 3 SEPTEMBER 2014

Last Tuesday evening, I had the pleasure in accompanying Mrs Merrick, Tess Orton and her family at the Singleton Youth Centre for the announcement of Team Singleton. Tess has been chosen to represent Team Singleton at the International Children’s Games to be held for the first time in the Southern Hemisphere in Lake Macquarie during December. There are 33 countries competing at the games. There have been 18 students from Singleton that have been selected for Swimming and Track and Field. Tess will be representing the Track and Field team in the 100m, Long Jump and Relay. Congratulations Tess on an amazing opportunity.

Congratulations to Cody Purvis, Ethan Van Zyl and Emily Brown who were successful at Friday’s Hunter Regional Athletics Championships. These three students will be competing at Homebush at the State Championships in October.

Most of our Year 5 and 6 students participated last Wednesday in the Newcastle Permanent Mathematics Competition. This is an annual event with awards given to students who perform well. Stay tuned later in the year for the results.

The school will be sending home the NAPLAN test results this Thursday for students in Years 3 and 5. NAPLAN tests provide schools with valuable information on the literacy and numeracy skills of your children that are essential for ongoing learning.

I would like to encourage parents and interested community members to become active in our P&C committee. It would be wonderful to have some new faces and ideas to work cohesively with the current P&C to enhance our school. Please try to make the next meeting which is scheduled for tonight - Wednesday, 3 September - in the School Library commencing at 7pm.

We have had an overwhelming response to our Father’s Day Breakfast with close to 200 bacon and egg rolls to be cooked on Friday morning. The breakfast starts at 7am – 8.30 am. A huge thank you goes to Coles Singleton, who is sponsoring the morning. As you can appreciate we will only be serving those people who have returned their slips.

It is a big day on Friday! Our annual school Fete will also be held and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organising committee for their tireless efforts over the past two terms in getting things organised. Please endeavour to attend from 10am as we will be opening the fete with a grand performance by our school band, accompanied by members of the high school and town bands. Please also note that on fete day staff will be busy running their stalls. Therefore the school suggests that kindergarten parents organise for either themselves or a grandparent/carer to accompany their child. If you are taking your child/ren home from school early on Fete Day, please ensure that you advise your child’s class teacher.

Jonathan Russell Relieving Principal

Calendar of Events Wednesday 3 September

Swag of Tales notes and money due P &C Meeting 7pm Library

Thursday 4 September

Last day of Active After School Sports for Term 3 Band Workshop at Scone - meet at Parsonage at 7.30 am LEGO Expo entries to be delivered to library

Friday 5 September

School Fete and Father’s Day Breakfast

Monday 8 September

Visiting Show - A Swag of Tales Year 4 Sydney excursion departs 7.30 am

Tuesday 9 September

Year 4 Sydney Excursion

Wednesday 10 September

Year 4 Sydney Excursion returns approximately 5.45 pm

Friday 12 September

K –2 Sports Carnival at Cook Park 9.30 am - 2.00 pm

Wednesday 17 September

School Disco - Denim Theme K-2 5-6 pm, Year 3-6 6-7.30 pm

Friday 19 September

Last day of Term 3 A Day for Jacob—Mufti Day gold coin donation

Monday 6 October

Public Holiday

Tuesday 7 October

Term 4 starts

There is no assembly this week due to the Fete.

Monday 15 September

Girls Soccer –v- Guyra Central School GOOD LUCK

Enter to Learn

P&C Meeting Tonight in School Library at 7pm.

Vote now for Singleton PS See details on Page 2 to see how you can help our school win $20,000 worth of flooring.

Enter to Learn Singleton Public School

P&C Meeting - Wednesday 3rd September

The next meeting of the Singleton PS P&C will be held tonight - Wednesday, 3rd September at 7pm in the school library.

All parents and carers are most welcome.

Interface Go Greener Grant

The school was successful in obtaining an Interface Go Greener Grant for $1,000.00 to redevelop the school’s bush tucker garden to reinvigorate the area into a hands-on learning environment for all of our students.

We now have a chance to win another $20,000 but need your help!!!! Interface have now opened up voting for a “People’s Choice Award” where the schools attracting the highest number of votes will receive a $20,000 Interace carpet refurbishment for their school.

To vote, go to http://www.interfaceflor.com.au/Projects/Education/Go_Greener_Grants.aspx. Then scroll down to Singleton Public School and click on Vote Now. Simply fill out the information and then submit.

SPS Girls’ Soccer Team in final 16 in the state!!

On Tuesday our Girls’ PSSA Soccer Team played their Final of our Hunter draw against Thornton Public School. Thornton was a very good side and came out strong scoring 2 goals in the first half. At half time we were 2-0 down but our girls knew they could do it. They had been attacking well and knew they could take this game to extra time.

In what was a very action packed second half our girls scored 4 goals to Thornton’s 2 goals making the score 4-4 at full time. Two five minute halves of extra time was played in very tense conditions. Our girls scored 2 goals in extra time to win the game 6-4!

We had great support from parents and from Year 6 who came and watched and cheered on our team. This support helped us win in difficult conditions and we hope to see as many supporters as possible at our next game on Monday, 15th September at Howe Park. We play against Guyra Central School and kick-off is at 10.15 am.

Well done girls!

Joel Andrews Soccer Coach

Photos removed for internet publishing.

Permission to Publish Note

The Permission to Publish note was due back at school last Friday, 29th August. The permission to publish is used to publish photos on the school’s newsletter and website or in the local papers.

Please note: If the school has not received your Permission to Publish note back at school, we will assume that you agree to having your child/ren’s photo published in the school newsletter, school website and/or local papers.

Visitors to school

The safety of our students is of paramount importance. Therefore all members of staff wear an identifying badge and all visitors to the school must sign in and wear a visitor’s label. This must be done at either the school office, canteen or the classroom if working as a classroom volunteer. A Working with Children Check Declaration must also be completed.


Uniform Shop Roster - Week 9,Term 3 2014

Mon 8/9//14 (8.30 - 9.30 am) Renee MacDonald

Fri 12/9/14 (8.30 - 9.30 am) Kim Carter, Amanda Ward

Please contact someone else on the roster if you need to swap your duty.

Canteen Roster - Week 9, Term 3 2014

Mon 8/9/14 Lyndal Barry, Penny Clancy

Tues 9/9/14 Rebecca Hobbs, 1 more helper please

Wed 10/9//14 Kerry Anne Baker, Kellie Della-Ca

Thurs 11/9/14 Tanith Bell, Teresea Mexon

Fri 12/9//14 Jenna Pfeiffer, Robyn Skinner, 1 more helper please

Please advise Nicole Gray if you have any changes to your rostered day.

Credit Card Payment Slip

The school can accept credit card payments (Visa and Mastercard only) over the phone or by mail. Please note, this is not an EFTPOS facility. EFTPOS (Savings or Cheque a/c) can only be paid over the counter.

This facility can be used to pay school contributions, excursions, uniforms or P&C levy etc. The minimum payment is $20.00. Building Fund and Library Fund cannot be paid by credit card.

Student’s Name: …………………………………………………………………………… Class: ……………………….

What are you paying for? ………………………………………………………….……………………………………………

Credit Card Type (please tick one) □ VISA □ Mastercard Amount paying $...............................

Cardholder Name (as shown on card) Please print in capitals

………………………………………………………………... ...........................................................

Credit Card Number ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___

Expiry Date ___ ___ / ___ ___

CSV ___ ___ ___ (last three digits on back of card)

Signature of Cardholder ……………………………………………………… Contact Number: …………………………...…..

Information from the DEC

Share a book at home

Children love to hear a story read aloud. Try reading with different voices, lots of emotion, invented sound effects and funny faces. Change the tone in your voice and vary its loudness or softness. Have fun and enjoy it.

It's a good idea to practise reading before sharing a book. Listen to your child talk about the story and the pictures. Try asking your child which parts of the books they found exciting, funny or different.

Research the internet

When kids use the internet they need skills and knowledge that are different from those found in books and other printed materials. These skills include such things as links, images, icons and searching.

The internet is a wonderful resource for finding things to support your child's literacy development. If you are searching for a good book to read to your child, try entering a publisher or an author's name into a reliable search engine such as Google.


Hunter Athletics

On Friday, 29 August the Regional Athletics Carnival was held at Glendale Sports Centre. Our school was well represented with 17 students competing on the day. Our students competed well and demonstrated our school’s core values, both in and out of competition.

It was a very successful day for our school with 3 students qualifying for the State Athletics Carnival to be held at Homebush on the 15th and 16th October. These students were Ethan Van Zyl- who came 3rd in the Junior Boys’ Discus; Emily Brown- who came 3rd in the 9 yrs Girls’ 100m and Cody Purvis who came 1st in the Senior Boys’ Discus.

We wish all three students the best of luck for the State Carnival.

Special thank you to Brooke Purvis who washed all 80 Upper Hunter Shirts from the carnival on Friday. Brooke volunteered to do this in her own time and this was greatly appreciated by all the Upper Hunter Schools.

Joel Andrews, Sports Co-ordinator

K-2 Sports Carnival

The K-2 Sports Carnival will be held on Friday, 12 September at Cook Park. The children will walk down to the oval after the roll has been called. The students will be at Cook Park from 9.30 am and anticipate completion of activities at approximately 2.00 pm.

To ensure the sun safety of our children we are requesting parent helpers to erect shades.

Children are to wear sensible clothing in their house colours. Class teachers will let the children in their class know which house they are in (Gordon-yellow, Lawson-blue, Kendall-red, Paterson-green).

The canteen will not be open on the day so students need to pack plenty of drinks and food for the day.

Children will return to school after the carnival. If they are leaving early they will need to be signed off by their teachers.

Looking forward to your company and support for the day.

Sharmyn Zeidler Carnival Organiser

LEGO Expo 2014

The fantastic “make believe” LEGO creations will be received in the Library tomorrow from 8:30 until 9:30am and also during first break. Judging will take place at 2:00 pm tomorrow and winners will be announced on Friday during the fete.

Unfortunately, LEGO Australia has been unable to supply the barrel of bricks and prizes this year. Consequently there has not been an opportunity for students who do not have LEGO to build from the barrel in the Library this week.

Many thanks to our prize sponsors, namely 8Daysaweek Performance Coaching; Majestic Cinemas and That Little Art Place for their generous contributions to the prize pool.

Students please remember to fill in and attach your entry card to your creation and to collect it from the Library by 2:00pm on Friday 5th September.

Good luck to all entrants and remember “everyone is awesome”.

Libby Morris and Honor Lianos - LEGO team.

Intensive Swimming

All children in Year 2 and selected children in Year 3-6 will be attending an Intensive Learn-to-Swim campaign in Weeks 6 and 7 of Term 4 (Monday 10th November until 21st November 2014). This will occur every school day during these two weeks. This intensive program is a NSW Department of Education initiative; therefore, it is a recommended program for all Year 2 children. We believe that every child should be able to swim at least 25 metres with correct breathing. An intensive swimming program is of vital importance for all children because of our Australian lifestyle and it allows them to enjoy water sports with safety.

The cost will be $75.00 for the two weeks (includes lessons and bus). Please forward permission notes back to school before Friday, 24 October 2014. Permission notes have been sent home. Please note: Sessions times are at 1.15 - 2.00 pm and 2.00 - 2.45 pm.


Working Bee

The Working Bee for Sunday, 17 August was postponed due to the bad weather. A new date will be advised over the next few weeks.

LADIES! GREAT OFFER!

Have your nails professionally polished at the fete for only $5!

Vanessa Sinclair from Vanessa's Nails Spot has kindly donated her time and products on fete day to do professional nail polishing using a Shellac type polish. This is a wonderful offer not to be missed! Make sure you come to our nail polishing stall and tell your friends! All proceeds will be donated straight back to the school.

There will still be nail polishing for the children using regular polish for $1.

SCHOOL FETE NEWS Singleton Public School Fete is on Friday 5th September 2014, and this years Theme is “MAKE BELIEVE”.The fete will commence at 10am, with many stalls finishing up at approximately 2 pm.

The following table is a list of the Fete Stalls for this year’s fete:-

KS Craft Store

As part of the KS craft stall, KS are raffling off the Teepee pictured (children not included)! Tickets are available for $1 each or 3 for $2. Tickets are available from the office and from KS stall on fete day.


Classes Stalls

KS Craft

KL/KM Cake Stall

KM/GARDEN CLUB Plants and Produce

1A Spaghetti and Baked Beans dip

1DL Father’s Day

1G Lucky Dips

2P Gift baskets

2Z Lolly bags

2B Bottle stall/ Nail Polish

3P Fairy Floss, Popcorn and Slushie

3H Show Bags/Packs etc - Side show alley

3/4S Trash and Treasure

4A Photo Booth SEE ADVERT ON PAGE 7

Year 5 Putt Putt/ Dunk Tank

Year 6 Ice cream stall

Support Unit Raffle

Miss Eyles Balloons

Donations

Donations of any craft items such as knitted coathang-ers, baby items, braclets, lavender bags, etc. Donations of cakes, biscuits, slices, etc to be delivered on the day clearly labelled with ingredients Donations of fresh produce delivered on the day

Small donations of ‘Fathers’ Day’ style presents to con-tribute to our stall. Some ideas include: Coffee mugs, chocolates, handy man sets, shower gel/shaving cream, socks, hankies etc. Small novelty items for lucky dips

Donations of gift baskets such as toiletries/soaps, choco-lates, stationery, colouring-in sets, cup of tea baskets, etc. Packs can be in a basket, cup, plate or other.

Glass jars filled with goodies, eg small toys; jigsaw puz-zles; ribbons, hair ties and clips; a mini sewing kit eg scissors, needles and cottons; rainbow playdough

Donations of soft toys, or party favour toys, McDonald toys or other small items eg stationary, kids jewellery for lucky dips and show bags Donations of books, dvds, cds, baskets, toys, stationery, and all other wonderful varieties of treasure (no electrical items)

Note sent home to parents of Year 6 students for re-quirements Contribute to prizes for raffle, eg pamper pack, toy pack, stationery pack


2014 Fete Raffle

Singleton Public School will be running a Raffle at this year’s school fete. A book of five tickets are being sent home with this week’s school newsletter and they will also be sold on the day. Tickets will be drawn at 1:00 pm on the Fete Day. More tickets will be available at the office.

Prizes include Portable DVD player with 3 Popular Children’s DVD’s, Official Australian Cricket Shirt, a house clean by Huntwood Cleaning Services, Avon products, Vanessa's Nails Spot and many more gifts.

Tickets are $1 each. If you would like to purchase tickets, please write your name and contact number on each individual ticket. Place all tickets and money in a sealed envelope and write 2014 School Fete Raffle and return to your class teacher before fete day. More tickets are available from the school office or the Support Unit.

Thank you Elaine Bunnemeyer

Office Hours and Payment Options

The office hours are 8.30 am - 3.30 pm with no payments being taken after 12.30 pm. The office can take payments by cash, cheque, credit card and EFTPOS (minimum amount of $20.00).

The Uniform Shop is open Monday and Friday mornings from 8.30-9.30 am. The Uniform Shop can take payments by cash, cheque and credit card (minimum amount of $20.00).

Have you downloaded the new School App?

To be kept up to date with the latest information download our School App TODAY.

Parents, carers and interested community members can find out what is happening at school by using their smart phones and tablets.

Parents will be able to receive travel and other notifications; location guides for school events; provide absentee notes, access the newsletter and school calendar and much more.

To get the app on to your device you need to go to your App store and search for Singleton Public School. Full instructions on how to download the App are available on our website.

Canteen News

Due to various volunteers gaining employment we are after some more volunteers to help out. If you available please ring Nicole or just rock up.

We are in the process of organising the Fete on the 5th September. Another busy day and fundraiser for our school! If you are interested in helping on the day, please contact Nicole in the canteen using the slip below. Your help is very much appreciated.

Nicole Canteen Co-ordinator

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Canteen Volunteer for the Fete - 5th September 2014 (return to Nicole in canteen)

Name: ____________________ Phone:_______________________

Please Circle your availability

Set up & Prep 9am-10am Serve 10am-11am Serve 11am-12pm

Serve 12pm-1pm Serve 1pm-2pm Tidy up 2pm-3pm

We need about 4 Volunteers per time slot!


Support Unit Intensive Swimming

Over the past two weeks some students from the Support Unit have enjoyed participating in intensive swimming. Sandra and the staff at the Gym and Swim were fantastic with the students. The students showed improvement with the swim-ming skills.


Congratulations to our assembly award winners for Term 3 Week 7 2014

CLASS AWARD RECIPIENTS K - 6

Assembly Awards

KL Nesha

Harley KM Jessica

Oscar

KS Noah

Sophie 1A Jack

Cooper

1G Seth

Harry 1DL Bailey

Trisha

2B Sam

Ethan 2P Annabelle Davis

John Jerusalem

2Z Harry

Kaeli 3H

Kley

Zach

Nathan

3P Georgia

Ruby

Phoebe

3/4S Seth

Sarah

Ryan

4A Whyatt

Ruby

Charla

5E Georgia

Bryce

Erin

5RV Tiarni

Darcie

Dustyn

6D Thomas

Cheyanne

Grace

6M Bridget

Anika

Cooper

Support Unit

Singleton Stars

Early Stage 1 Jack Stage 1 Phoebe

Stage 2 Jonas Stage 3 Amy

Super Citizens

KL Sam 3H Ciara

1A Chelsea 4A Callan

2B Jett 6D Katelyn

After School Sports Award—Jenna


Intensive Swimming certificates for the Support Unit (7BD and 7W)



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