Dates for the Calendar

Dear Parents and Friends,

Thankyou P & C Congratulations to our Edward Public School P & C on the success of their games night! Over $3000.00 was raised. A

wonderful night of entertainment for the whole Deniliquin Community was organised by the very dedicated and

hardworking crew of the Games Night Committee: Anthony

Bradley, Deanne Bradley Linda Harvey, Lana Scoullar, Tracy Ho, Karma Duffey, Christina Mildren, Nat Shaw, Scott

Mildren and Wayne Bradley. Challenges, trivia, fun and games were key agenda items on the night, with the true

artistic and creative talents of the audience shining though in the team portrait drawing of a famous Deniliquin

personality. A giant game of Jenga kept us all on edge and

some very creative dance moves were skilfully enjoyed. A night of laughter and more laughter was had by all. A very

sincere thank you is extended to the members of the P & C, the Games Night Committee, volunteers and staff who all

had a hand in bringing this great event to the Deniliquin

Community. In particular, special thanks to our Edward Public School Community Members who helped in the

morning and during the day, with the ride a thon, and then went on to organise the Games Night, on the very same day.

Your commitment and enthusiasm in supporting our great

school is sincerely appreciated. Can’t wait for the next one!

Good Luck Good luck to our Athletics Team going along to the District

Cross Country Carnival tomorrow, Wednesday to represent

our school. We wish you speedy feet, strong arms and enjoyment in your events. Have a great day!

Congratulations Georgina Steph Maher and Georgina Mildren, who went along to

Wagga on Monday, enjoyed a day of success on the netball

court. Congratulations to Georgina Mildren who gained selection as a goal shooter into the Riverina Netball Team,

and will go on to play against other regional teams in the State Competition in Penrith in Term 3. We wish her all the

best in her netball aspirations.

Positive Behaviour For Learning It is great to see students making the effort to keep our

playground a very happy and safe place to enjoy playtime. LATCH THE GATE is the next very important thing we want

everyone in our school community to do. New yellow signs

have been put on our gates to remind us to LATCH THE GATE every time we walk through it. This will help to keep

our younger students safe and help to remind them to be in the right place.

More Sport News Our girls are off to the netball Gala Day on Friday with Miss

Gallagher, while both soccer teams will be going along to play in the soccer knockout with Miss Omeara. I hope

everyone has been adding their points to their Premier’s

Sport Challenge sheets.

EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Butler Street DENILIQUIN NSW 2710

Phone: 5881-2612 Fax: 5881-5090

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

Website: www.edward-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Newsletter: Week 5 Term 2 – 27th May 2014:

A PBL SCHOOL - Positive Behaviour for Learning - WE VALUE

RESPONSIBILITY SAFETY RESPECT

EDWARD PUBLIC SCHOOL

Week 5 Term 2

Tues 27th May Cake Stall - Gough Family Fundraiser

Wed 28th May District Cross Country

Fri 30th May Netball Gala Day

Fri 30th May Assembly

Week 6 Term 2

Fri 6th June Deni District Athletics Carnival

Fri 6th June Assembly

Week 7 Term 2

Tues 10th June Riverina Cross Country

Cross Country Congratulations to our place getters in the School Cross Country Event last Wednesday. The recipients of the

beautiful medallions donated by the P & C were very pleased with their efforts. All students put their best foot

forward in this school event to participate at their own pace,

and cross the finish line. Well done to all of you. We look forward to hearing of some great results from this week’s

District Cross Country Carnival. Thankyou to Mrs Young and Mr Bradley for their great work in organising our day, and

again for the support they will be giving in organising the

District and Regional event as well. It was great to see our families’ support at the cross country, and the cheers and

encouragement from everyone – a very positive and friendly spirit.

Too Many Elephants Last week, Edward School participated in a ’National Stimulus Story Time’! All students read ’Too Many Elephants in the House’ and completed some fun activities based on the book. As Edward School students were reading the book so were many children from around Australia. Great fun was had by all. Thank you to Mrs Druitt, who organised this celebration of

Reading in Edward Public School.

Reconciliation Week A special morning tea was enjoyed by members of our Aboriginal Community on Monday. After being welcomed by

Matthew Daniels, members of the Regional Support Team

addressed a gathering of parents, students and staff. Ruah Figiri did a fine job in presenting her exposition on anti

bullying, featuring racism. “Walk The Talk” is the theme for this year’s Reconciliation Week Campaign and walking

together in common cause to achieve quality learning and

engagement for all of our students is the key.

AECG meeting The next Aboriginal Education Consultative Group meeting

will be held on Monday 2nd June 2014 at 4:30pm. The venue

will be the Deniliquin High School Common Room. This is situated upstairs above the canteen. All welcome. For a

copy of the agenda and enquiries, please contact Matthew Daniels, President 03 5898 3700 .

Welcome Past students from Edward Public School have joined us

this week in experiencing what it will be like to be a

primary school teacher. We are very pleased to welcome Karla Everitt, Jesse Jennings and Molly Watson back to

Edward. With the expertise and very supportive encouragement of our dedicated teachers, here at Edward,

their visit is sure to be an invaluable learning experience. We look forward to having them return to us as teachers in

the near future.

Fundraisers The Edward Public School Community is thanked enormously for the support given to our fundraisers for the

Gough Family. Last week close to $200.00 was raised with our casual day and today’s cake stall funds will be added to

this. Important virtues of thoughtfulness and giving are

admirably experienced with such important community support.

Farewell As we extend a very hearty welcome to Corrinne Elul to the

role of Canteen Manager this week and wish her all the best on this new venture, it is with fond sadness that we

say a regretful farewell to Sacha Jefferies. Sasha has been

providing us with a very healthy range of delicious items in the canteen since taking up the position last year. We will

miss her very enthusiastic approach and especially her gentle reminders to our children about the positive

expected behaviours at the canteen. We now look forward

to seeing even more of Sasha in and around our school as a very dedicated, energetic parent and vibrant community

member. All the best, Sasha, and a huge thankyou!

Canteen Roster

Tues 27th May CANTEEN CLOSED

Wed 28th May Adele Butcher, Corrine Ellul

Thurs 29th May Kylie Green, Sasha Jefferies, Corrine Ellul Fri 30th May Adele Butcher, Sarah Graham, Corrine

Ellul, Jan Petersen Mon 2nd May Adele Butcher, Corrine Ellul

Tues 3rd May CANTEEN CLOSED

We welcome any parents, grandparents, carers, friends who could donate a couple of hours to vol-unteer in the canteen. Please see Corrine if you are able to help.

Creative Catchment Heroes Last Friday, three environment champions visited a farm in Wakool. Fahir, Hayden and Shannon from Stage 3 interviewed Mr John Lolicato, a local rice farmer. The boys interviewed Mr Lolicato and are currently writing a book about his life. The book will be published later this year through the Murray Darling Basin Commission.

Buy A Butterfly Over the next few weeks we will be selling beautiful butterfly badges at school in support of the deaf and hearing impaired. At any given time 1 in 3 primary students will have hearing loss no-one knows about. This hearing loss may prevent them from hearing you or their teacher properly and therefore reduce their opportunities to learn. If you would like to purchase one of these badges for $2, Maisy Edwards and some Year 6 helpers will be selling them at school. All money raised will be sent to the Deafness Foundation to fund research, prevention, early detection and technology. Maisy would love your support!

Sponsor Sheets Thank you to all of the mums and dads and family members for the quick return of the ride- walk- a- thon sponsor sheets! A friendly reminder to bring them in as soon as possible.

Anti Bullying Included in today’s newsletter is the Edward Public School Anti Bullying Plan. In Term Two students are

learning about anti bullying strategies. Last week we enjoyed a visit from Lorin Nicholson who spoke to our

students about the topic and ways to beat bullying.

With guitar in hand and a strong message for all, Lorin’s performance will be thought of for a long, long

time. Many thanks to you, Lorin.

As always, these are very busy times for our school.

Edward Public School prides itself on the great educational opportunities provided for all of our

students in a positive and inclusive environment. Congratulations and appreciation to all of our Edward

Public School Staff and Community Members for all of

the dedicated work that goes on behind the scenes to make these opportunities happen for our students.

Best wishes

Joy Soper Principal

Deniliquin District Athletics Carnival

Last week everyone that qualified for the District

Athletics Carnival to be held on Friday 6th June at the Rams Oval has taken a note home. Notes and $2.00

for the bus need to be returned to the school office by

Wednesday 4th June. Athletes will also need to bring $2.00 on the day for the Deniliquin District Levee.

Voluntary School Contribution Thank you, parent/carers who have already paid their

school fees this year. The school relies on this voluntary contribution to purchase classroom supplies

including work books, stationary, tissues and other essential learning materials. $35.00 for the first

student or $50.00 per family of more than one student.

Morning Tea The next morning tea for students and parents to

celebrate excellent classroom engagement for students nominated by their teachers will be on Monday 16th

June. Week 8.

Cross Country Canteen- Edward P&C are catering for the District Cross Country tomorrow at Memorial Park. If you can help for

an hour between 9-1, please contact Felicity 0488054356. This is the only catering we are responsible for at this time.

P&C AGM- the Annual General Meeting for the Edward P&C will be held on Tuesday 17.6.14. Come along and hear reports about

the projects that the P&C has done this year and those we are working towards as well as the financial status of the P&C. A light

supper will be served. All positions will be declared vacant- but no one will get a job unless they want one!! We are in particular

need of a new uniform coordinator to work with our very long serving and hard working uniform coordinator Kim O’Neill. If you

would like more information about any of the positions, please contact Felicity for a job description. Just a reminder that to vote

you need to pay a token $1 membership to the P&C association.

Discipline Policy Review- the first meeting of the Discipline Review working party, which is made up of representatives of the

community, the staff, the school executive and the P&C, was held last week. Vicki Hutton, from District Office is facilitating the

process. Felicity Michael is the P&C rep and I will be getting lots of feedback from the P&C every step of the way. The aim of the

process is to develop the Discipline policy so that it is clear, easy to read and follow for everyone in the Edward Community. We

are all very keen to get it up and going as soon as possible. To that end we hope to have a part of the new policy for people to look

at next P&C meeting. We look forward to getting as much feedback as possible.

South West Music and South West Arts with assistance from Arts NSW present:

"Music for Little Monkeys”

Quirky, fun music for the whole family with The Mudcakes!

Calling all yummy mummies, tiny tots, kindie kids, delicious daddyos and groovy

grannies! The Mudcakes – from Nashville Tennessee via Melbourne Australia – perform original songs that celebrate the delicious ups and downs of family life in a

range of music styles including bluegrass, rock, reggae, Hawaiian, surf and pop.

Voted top 10 kids music by the New York Post ! Sold out shows at the Melbourne

Recital Centre and New Zealand Kids Fest ! It’s no wonder The Mudcakes’ quirky,

funny and interactive stage show will have everyone up and dancing.

“Kindie Rock at it’s Best” – Herald Sun “Perfect for the 0 to 8 set!” – The Age

When: Sunday June 15th 11.00am - 12.00pm

Where: South West Music - 162 Hardinge St (behind the Caltex service station)

Tickets : $5 per child. Adults free.

If you are going to attend the movie night please ring the High

School for catering purposes.

Age Champions