K/1 ORANGE RALEIGH NURSING HOME VISIT On Wednesday the 31st of October, K/1 Orange went to Raleigh Nursing Home. We were very excited to travel on the bus and meet our driver Peter! When we arrived, we met Debbie and Kristie and they led us to the entertaining area. We introduced ourselves to the residents and read our ‘familiar read’ with expression. The residents helped us colour in our pictures. After all our hard work, we relaxed on the balcony and enjoyed afternoon tea. Finally, we sang ‘One Song’ and ‘Fire and Flood’ using our best singing voices. Thank you to all the staff and residents for having us. By K/1 Orange

NEWSLETTER NO. 34 TERM 4 WEEK 4 TUESDAY 6th NOVEMBER, 2018

BONVILLE STREET EMAIL: urunga-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au PO BOX 21 WEBSITE: www.urunga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au URUNGA NSW 2455 TEL: 02 6655 6393 FAX: 02 6655 5140

On the traditional lands of the Gumbaynggirr people

IMPORTANT DATES

Wed 7th Nov Basketball Skills Day (in school time) Mon 12th Nov Garden Club @ 11.10am

Thurs 8th Nov Kinder 2019 Orientation 9.30-10.45am Wed 14th Nov 4/5 Indigo visit Raleigh Nursing Home

Thurs 8th Nov Whole School Assembly @ 2.20pm Fri 16th Nov Kinder 2019 Orientation 9.30-10.45am

Fri 9th Nov School Remembrance Day Assembly 19th-21st Nov Library Book Fair

Sun 11th Nov School Spectacular Cake Stall @ Urunga Markets 8am-1pm

20th—25th Nov Schools Spectacular Trip

NEWS FROM OUR PRINCIPAL MRS JANE MARTYN

CONGRATULATIONS TO LULU! Well done to Lulu in Year 6 who was successful in making it through to the PSSA National Athletics Carnival for long jump. Nationals will be held in Melbourne across Week 6. To help support Lulu on her endeavours to nationals there will be raffle tickets sold at the front office. They are $5.00 per ticket and the prizes are: 1st Apple iPad (32GB), 2nd Fitbit Blaze Fitness Watch, 3rd Fitbit Flex 2 Activity Wristband, 4th and 5th is a Sony Bluetooth Speaker. Your support is greatly appreciated and on behalf of Urunga Public School we wish her all the very best. STAFF PROFESSIONAL LEARNING AT URUNGA PUBLIC SCHOOL Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) Our teachers at Urunga Public School have been embarking on the journey of Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) and how this can be incorporated at our school to continue to make it a wonderful place. PBL is an evidence-based whole school process to improve learning outcomes for all students. We have had the pleasure of Joanne Stewart who has provided professional learning for our staff around understanding what PBL is and how it supports schools and the students within. A team of four teachers will be attending a 3-day workshop to plan and start the implementation process at Urunga. Literacy and Numeracy Progressions Staff have started the ongoing training around the new learning progressions. This will start with the initial implementation phase in 2019, where Best Start for Kindergarten will be conducted and align with the Learning Progressions and teachers will be implementing it with all students across their class. What are the learning progressions? The learning progressions are a teaching and learning resource. They describe common pathways of literacy and numeracy development from Kindergarten to Year 10. The learning progressions map to the NSW syllabuses and the Australian curriculum in English and Mathematics, demonstrating the development needed to meet stage outcomes. They can be used to determine what students know already, and what they need to learn next. Why were the learning progressions developed? The learning progressions have been developed to help identify student needs, and to support classroom planning and reporting. The learning progressions will: provide comprehensive information about literacy and numeracy development from K-10 identify knowledge, understanding and skills that can be demonstrated across all learning areas, not

just English and Mathematics allow teachers to locate a student's current knowledge and ability more accurately, to determine the

learning that should follow.

REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICES - 100TH YEAR COMMEMORATION Remembrance Day is fast approaching this Sunday 11/11/2018. We have planned to hold a short service at school on Friday the 9th at 10.30am in the top COLA. Our leaders will conduct a small commemorative assembly. Parents and community members are welcome to join us. On Sunday the Urunga RSL and Community will be holding a Remembrance Day Service at the cenotaph at 11am. We encourage students and families to be there at 10.40am. We will have our student leaders, school band and choir members also present at the service. If you are available, we look forward to seeing you there. Jane Martyn

WEEKLY SCHOOL RULE

The focus this week is the red rule

“we all listen to each other ”

We ask that you reinforce this week’s

rule at home with your child.

LULU LEAPS INTO THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS Lulu McGrath, one of our school captains and very talented sports person, showed us what she is really capable of at the PSSA State Athletics Championships last week. She made it to this level to compete in the 12yrs girls 200m sprint as well as the 12yrs girls long jump. While she ran well in her 200m, she didn’t make it past the heats. It was the long jump where she really excelled. After starting off with two foul jumps in her heat, she had nothing to loose and just ‘went for it’ on her third and final jump. She jumped 4.77m which was a personal best jump for her and also qualified her for the final!! With three more jumps in the final, she stepped it up another notch and jumped an amazing 4.91m (yet another PB) to finish third overall and claim the bronze medal. A truly fantastic achievement in an extremely strong field. The gold medal winner actually set a new State record! Lulu will now travel to the National Titles to be held in Melbourne from 23rd – 27th November. Lulu is over the moon to be able to compete at this level. Our whole school community is very proud of her, congratulates her and wishes her all the best.

COUNT US IN SONG DAY Urunga Public School participated in the annual Music: Count Us In song day last Thursday. We were linked into the live stream to sing “One Song” with approximately half a million other students from all around Australia! All these students were singing the same song, on the same day, at the same time. The Music: Count Us In project aims to promote and foster music education in schools which has been shown to help students with self-confidence, self-discipline and team work. Everyone had been practising hard in their classes and at whole school assemblies and the performance at 12.30pm was fantastic. Well done everybody!

WHAT’S DUE

School Swimming Scheme balance of payment due Friday 23rd November Term 4 musical instrument hire Educational Resources & Voluntary School Contribution payments Sporting Schools Netball Program Note (Kinder - Year 2)

NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICER JENNY LUXON

SPOTLIGHT ON YEAR SIX We continue to spotlight our wonderful Year 6 students.

BEAU GEORGE FAVOURITE FOOD: KFC FAVOURITE COLOUR: Blood Red FAVOURITE MOVIE: Vacation HOBBIES: Football, fishing and hanging out with friends. My favourite place in the world is Cape York because it has good fishing. When I am older I would like to be a professional footballer. Highlight of my time at UPS was the Canberra excursion in Year 5.

SKYE ALYSSA KELLY FAVOURITE FOOD: Avocado FAVOURITE COLOUR: Aqua FAVOURITE MOVIES: Happy Gilmore and Suicide Squad HOBBIES: Art and swimming My favourite place in the world is Los Angeles because famous rappers come from there. When I am older I want to be a famous rapper. Highlights of my time at UPS are spending time with all the amazing and kind students and teachers.

HARLEY FARRELL FAVOURITE FOOD: Pizza FAVOURITE COLOUR: Purple FAVOURITE MOVIE: Dead Pool 1 HOBBIES: Hanging our with friends, boxing and playing video games. My favourite place in the world is New York. When I am older I want to be a professional UFC fighter. Highlight of my time at UPS was going to Canberra in Year 5.

OCEAN GREEN FAVOURITE FOOD: Lollies, sushi, chicken, eggs, chocolate, rice and cake FAVOURITE COLOUR: Purple and pinky purple FAVOURITE MOVIES: Pretty Little Liars, Once Upon a Time, Suicide Squad, Riverdale HOBBIES: Karate, boxing, meditating, dancing, singing and random gymnastics. My favourite place in the world is New York City because it is where people get famous. When I am older I want to be an artist (drawer) and fashion designer. Highlights of my time at UPS are going to Schools Spectacular and meeting Franky. Also all of the teachers and students.

CALLING ALL BAKERS…..AGAIN! This weekend, at the Urunga Markets, our School Spectacular students and their families will be running a another Cake Stall to raise money to cover the cost of their participation at School Spectacular. If anyone is willing and able to contribute a plate of treats (slice, muffins, cupcakes, biscuits, etc.) or a whole cake/loaf for sale please bring these to the Front Office on Friday or bring them straight to the stall by 7.30am on Sunday morning. Please ensure all donated items are wrapped/sealed well and that any plates items are on paper or plastic, as we will not be able to return them to you.

If you are free on Sunday, please pop down to the Markets; grab a coffee and something sweet. If you are around at 10am and 11.30am you will also be able to enjoy a short performance by our School Spectacular Choir students.

School Spectacular is a rare opportunity and we want to take this opportunity to say how very thankful we are for the support we continue to receive as we prepare to travel to Sydney and represent Urunga Public School. School Spectacular Students & Families P&C NEWS - COLOUR RUN It is time to order your prizes!! They must be ordered before this Friday 9th November. Log in to your online account and choose your prize depending on how much money you raised. If you ONLY collected cash and did not make an online profile, please send in your prize order form before tomorrow Wednesday 7th November to the school office. The next P&C meeting will be held on Wednesday 14th November in the Staff Room at 9.30am. We hope to see you there. Roz McLagan - P&C President

HEAD LICE It’s that time again! The head lice are out and about. Please check your child’s hair regularly for head lice and eggs (nits) - use a fine metal tooth nit comb and plenty of cheap hair conditioner applied to the dry hair. This is a cheap method to see if your child has head lice, and if they do please treat with an approved head lice treatment. It is very important to remove all the eggs and repeat the process regularly until you no longer find eggs or lice in your comb. Eggs will continue to hatch over a ten day period. It is also advisable to wash bedding and pillow slips in a hot wash and put them through the dryer.

MUSIC LEARNING SPACE Thank you to those who made it possible to create our music studio on the left hand side of the stage. It is set up to be a useful musical learning space and is being utilised by our music tutors. Judy Thorn

Attendance Award Winners

Week 3

3/4 Blue

HALLOWEEN Sharon joined in the spooky feel of Halloween last Wednesday and created some scary (but still very yummy!) cupcakes. There were ghosts, pumpkin faces and sour zombies to choose from. They were very popular and raced off the counter. Thanks Sharon for joining in the fun of Halloween!