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Wellington Public School

Tuesday 15th August 2017 Volume 16, Issue 24 Also available at www.wellington-p.schools.det.nsw.edu.au

Rail Safety Talk

After Monday morning’s assembly we welcomed Michelle and Luke from the

NSW rail Authority who came to deliver a power-point presentation and a rail

and train safety talk to our students. This talk was being delivered because

this is Rail Safety Week and many schools would be being given the same

important messages. Wellington was chosen with some importance because

our town has an important rail link passing through which supports travel and

transport to rural communities. We hope our students listened well and have

a balanced respect for the safe practices they need to know when near trains

or railway lines.

Eisteddfod In Full Swing

Our participation in the 2017 Wellington Eisteddfod is still going strong and

many of the children get so much joy out of their participation. It is an

educational experience and teachers are to be thanked for bringing this extra

-curricular activity to their students. Mrs Chick Jones is to be acknowledged

for her efforts too, for although she has had a stint in hospital and has had to

have been away for a while, she has ensured a continued support and has

helped build success into what we achieve. Good luck to classes still

performing and take pleasure in knowing that everyone gets to be on stage

and enjoy what they are doing.

I still Like To Replay The Video

Where the Variety Children’s Charities helicopter landed in our playground on

Central Grass on Thursday back in Week 3. I like to replay this image

because the sound captures the excitement of its arrival and the joy the

children. To see all this happen in our school as the first of the official party

arrived brought tears to the eyes of some observers.

Spelling Bee To find our School Champions

Unfortunately I was away last Tuesday and missed class competitors who

came together to determine our winners who would go off to represent our

school at a regional level. Congratulations to the winners in both the Junior

and senior divisions and to all who were at this special event who were there

to compete. This is an inter-school competition that can lead all the way to

the state finals in Sydney later in the year.

NAPLAN Reports Have Been Dispatched

Word has been received that our NAPLAN reports for parents have been sent

out to schools and we should be able to send them home by the end of this

week. Today we have live SMART data where we can examine all

performances right down to the level of the individual student. It takes time

to do our evaluation but we are anxious to get this process underway.

A Chat This Morning With Mrs Milgate

This quick chat revealed Mrs Milgate’s excitement that her girls’ soccer team

were about to play in the semi-finals against Middleton P.S. here in

Wellington. The girls had been so strong and so determined that they had

been able to maintain their winning streak. Sadly this was not to play out this

way as they went down two nil. Nevertheless we are very proud of our team

and the way they have conducted themselves in all their games. Good sports

all around we are very proud of them all and we know Mrs Milgate is a great

coach and mentor – it’s just that she didn’t wear her lucky pants today.

Tell Them From Me..

This term, our School will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent

survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (Teacher and

Parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers

questions about different factors that are known to impact on students

wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our School understand parents’ and carers’

perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include:

communication between parents'/carers and staff, activities and practices at

home and parent/carer views on the school’s support of learning and

behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our School make practical

improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets,

laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to

complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted

between 21 August and 13 October. Although participating in the survey is

entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

Our School will provide further information about how to access the survey.

In the meantime, more information about the survey is available at:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/

Premier’s Spelling Bee 2017

The Premier’s Spelling Bee was introduced in 2004 as a fun and educational way for primary

school students to engage in spelling. The programme includes activities to encourage all

students to engage with spelling and to promote improved literacy in combination with the

English K-6 Syllabus.

Wellington Public School will this year participate in the 2017 Premier’s Spelling Bee. The

competition comprises of two divisions – Junior for Years 3 & 4 and Senior for Years 5 & 6.

Students have been selected from Spelling Bees held in classes at the beginning of Term 3;

notes will go home with successful students. Wellington Public School will hold their school

Spelling Bee on Tuesday 8th August 2017 in the Gould League Hall at 12.00pm, all parents

are welcome.

From the School Spelling Bee, two Juniors and two Seniors will be selected to then attend a

Regional Final knockout to be held on the Wednesday 14th September 2017 at Dubbo West

Public School.

The following students were successful and gaining a place in the Regional Finals to be held at Dubbo West Public School on the 6th September 2017. Congratulations to the following students and we wish them all the best:

Cody Conn and Khole Pascoe

Madelyn Leggett and Ryan Hyde

Kindergarten Purple have been very busy this term!

We always have fun in maths learning all about

numbers and recently we have been learning about

making groups of objects.

Last week all of Kindergarten went to

Wambangalang for a Teddy Bears’

Picnic, we learnt all about the things that

our teddy bears need - PAWS (Plants, air,

water and shelter)

This term during Creative Arts we have been

looking at different portraits and learning

about them. Last week Kindergarten Purple

looked at some of Picasso's art works. We

then created our own! They look fabulous!

BOOK WEEK IS COMING UP IN WEEK 6

AT WELLINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL

25TH AUGUAST from 12pm, in the

GOULD LEAGUE HALL.

Let’s celebrate with a book parade! WPS is having it’s annual book

parade and students are encouraged to dress up as their favourite

book character. Every student dressed up will receive a participa-

tion certificate and one student from each class will receive a book

club voucher just for dressing up! Every student that dresses up will

need to bring a copy of the book or a print out of the front cover of

the book they are out of. You can borrow the book from our school

and town library or get a photo off the internet…

The winners of this year’s CBCA Book of the Year will be an-

nounced– we have been reading these books all term and the WPS

winners will also be announced! This year WPS Library will also be

holding a second hand bargin book sale, starting after the parade

and finishing a week later. Books will be $2 each and all money

raised will go towards buying new books for our library. After the

book parade parents, care givers and friends are welcome to bring

some lunch, eat with the students and visit the bargin book sale. It

will be a combined lunch for all students fron 1-1:30pm.

Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017

Dear Parents,

This year we will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this program we will

be able to get new educational resources for our school/early learning centre – and all we need you to do

is shop for your groceries at Woolworths. From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September or while

stock lasts, we are collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn &

Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the Woolworths Earn &

Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet

can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your local Woolworths. At the end of the

promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and offers lots of items

ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some fantastic fun supplies for

Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit this link: woolworths.com.au/

earnandlearn

Enrolments for 2018 are now

being taken

Celebrating Great Efforts and Performances

Maddy KB, Callie KR, Zara KG, Bella 1CK, Liam 1L, Decklin 2U,

Callen 3K, Nicholli 3E, Karl 3/4H, Callee 5/6B, Malaki 5/6B and

Kiesha K6P