Kalori“Message Stick”

Term 4Week 5

13th November 2018

Henty Public School

43 Sladen Street Henty NSW 2658

T 02 6929 3184

F 02 6929 3057

E henty-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au W henty-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

“Achievement for All in a Safe and Respectful Environment”We are Responsible, We are Respectful, We are Learners

November 15th - 2019 Captains/Leaders speeches 9.30am

16th - Kindergarten Transition Day

16th - Swimming Testing

19th - Bluearth

19th - 30th - Intensive Swimming

19th - Aboriginal Leader Speeches 9.25am

21st - Assembly - Yr 5 Performing

22nd - Volunteers Morning Tea 10:15am22nd - Sports Assembly 11am23rd - 5/6 Tennis Round Robin 9.30am

23rd - Kindergarten Transition Day

29th - Musical Concert TBC

December4th/5th - Henty’s Got Talent (Heats)

5th - Assembly - Yr 4 Performing

5th - Combined Scripture Service 2mp

6th - Henty’s Got Talent - Finals

6th - Mental Health Fun Day

13th - Presentation Night

13th - Reports go home to parents

14th - Year 6 Mini fete 10:30am

17th - Year 6 Farewell

19th - Last day Term 4

What’s On at HPS?

Henty Public School

Henty Public Schoolfor a

YOU ARE INVITED TO

10:15am  before the Sports Assembly  

45 Sladen Street, Henty.

To thank you for your wonderful

contribution to our school  

RSVP please  for catering purposes

Term 4 Week 5

The term’s activities are really ramping up now; with many exciting events planned for the remainder of this term. The Hentyscape last week and the PBL treat day in Wagga this week announced the beginning of many wonderful experiences for our students before the end of the year.

Tell Them From Me Survey

A big thanks to parents, students and teachers for completing the Tell Them From Me survey. This survey provides very useful feedback about how we are going and gives us future milestones that we still need to achieve to ensure that we are delivering the best education to all students at Henty Public School. In the coming weeks I will share some key findings from survey responses in the Kalori.

Stage 3 Excursion

Congratulations to the Stage 3 students who went on their excursion last week. I had good reports from all venues about both behaviour and attitude. I really enjoyed seeing students in costume on Facebook and could see happy and exhausted faces upon their return. A huge thanks to Miss Watson, Mrs Liston and Mrs Malmo for all their hard work to ensure the excursion was a success.

Hentyscape

A big thank you to those people who helped sell glow products or sell raffle tickets at the Hentyscape last Friday evening. What a fun night it was for everyone!

Christmas Raffle

As you are aware, this year we have been upgrading the Art room into a new multi-purpose maker space. Monies raised from this raffle will go towards more equipment and technology for this room.

The hamper contributions have been wonderful and ticket sales are well under way! Students will come home with tickets today and it would be appreciated if you could help sell them to family and friends.

Volunteers Morning Tea

A volunteers’ morning tea will be held at the school on Thursday 22nd November. We are looking forward to saying a big thanks to those of you who have helped in small and larger ways throughout 2018. We have a wonderful school community and all staff are very thankful for everything that you do! Please let us thank you on this day with morning tea!

2019 Captain Speeches

On Thursday, students in year 5 who wish to run for School Captain will give their speech at a special assembly at 9:30am in the hall.

After speeches, students and staff will go back to class to vote for four students who they wish to see as leaders in 2019, (This year’s Year 6 will not be included in the vote). The boy with the highest tally for boys will be Boy Captain and the girl with the highest votes will be Girl Captain. The students with the next highest votes will be named Vice Captains, regardless of gender.

Have a great week

Tina Roworth - Principal

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

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SCHOOL NEWS

SCHOOL CANTEEN ROSTER COULD ALL VOLUNTEERS ARRIVE BETWEEN 900AM & 930AM19/11/2018 - Jennifer Haines 26/11/2018 - Sonja McCallum03/12/2018 - Cathy Coe10/12/2018 - Tania Corrigan17/12/2018 - Simone Brown

Term 4 Canteen Menu is available on school stream and on the schools website.

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Christmas Hamper Items wanted: Families can still donate hamper items to the raffle. Please bring to the fron office.

Raffle Books: Coming home today with each family is a raffle booklet. Can you please ensure that all books are returned before Presentation Night. The raffle will be drawn at Presentation Night on Thursday December 13th.

Absentees: We are required by the Department of Education to follow up absentees. If your child is away please remember to call the school or fill in an absentee note so we can record the reason your child is absent. Absentee notes are sent home if you do not provide us with a reason.

Sports Uniform: All students are to wear sports uniform every Monday for blue earth and Friday for basketball all of this term.

Chook Food: The school has a number of out of date bags of cereal if you would like to take some to feed your chooks / ducks. Just see the office to collect.

Remembrance Day: Today our Year 6 class led our Remembrance Day service to remember our fallen soldiers.

They shall not grow old,

As we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn;

At the going down of the sun and in morning

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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SCHOOL NEWS CONTINUED

PBL TREAT DAY: What a fabulous time we had in Wagga yesterday at the movies and bowling. Congratulations and thank you to our students.

YEAR 5/6

EXCURSION

YEAR 4 PURPLE

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Half way through our last term of Year 4 already! What a busy term we have already had, not to mention everything to follow. Over the course of the first 5 weeks of this term Year 4 have been involved in many exciting activities.

Year 4 were very privileged last Thursday to be given the opportunity to learn how to play the game ‘Goalball’ by one of the best players in Australia and the current Coach of the Australian Women’s Paralympics team. The children had an absolute blast as the game is consisted of 3 players on each side, while wearing blindfolds. It was very new experience for all of the children but an amazing experience for all.

Sport has played another big factor in our first 5 weeks of this term, as year 4 has been honing some new skills on the basketball court. This has been a great opportunity for the children to practise dribbling, passing and we have begun to learn how to shoot and ‘lay-up’. We certainly look forward to our Friday sessions! Some of the children in 4 Purple also just participated in a small tennis knockout last week which was great fun! It was a beautiful day in the sun and the children were fantastically well behaved and were able to cheer on each other as well as be terrific ball boys and girls when they weren’t busy playing.

In class we were lucky enough to have the chance to play around with some new robotics by the name of Blubots. The children were given the opportunity to work in small groups and explore the world of coding, from simple codes and directions to move the bot around an obstacle course. They can’t wait to have another go!

As previously mentioned in the Kalori, Henty Public school is trialling a new app called ‘SeeSaw’ which is currently being used to great success in some other classes. 4 Purple will be giving this a go as it will give parents the opportunity to keep up to date with activities and the learning the children are undertaking in class. A note will be sent home sometime this week which will show you how to connect and view some of the wonderful work your children are completing. The children have been given a sneak peek into this and are very excited to be able to share this at home with their families.

I look forward to the remainder of the year in 4 Purple and all the fun activities we will be part of.

Have a great week.

Mr Davis

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SPORTS NEWS

Tennis Championships

Students are currently participating in the school championship and we hope to have the finals next Monday afternoon. Parents will be notified if their child is participating.

Basketball

Basketball will resume this week and students are all enjoying this activity. Remember to bring your drink bottles to school with this warmer weather.

Swimming

Intensive swimming assessment will take place on Friday 16th Nov and the program will commence Monday 19th Nov and run for two weeks. You will receive a notification if your child is to be involved.

Lessons will commence on Monday. All students will get the opportunity to participate in swimming as part of either intensive swimming or our sport program.

Sports Assembly

Our annual Sports Assembly will be held on Thursday 22nd Nov, commencing at 11am.

2018 SPORTING PRESENTATION

ASSEMBLY

THURSDAY 22ND NOV 2018

HENTY PUBLIC SCHOOL

Guest Speaker - Iilish Ross

11am - School Hall Please join us to celebrate our students sporting

achievements throughout 2018. Members of the public and greater community are

invited to attend the assembly.

5 x Australian Motorbike Champion AFL 2 Premiership titles, League Best & Fairest,Drafted pick 13 to Collingwood in the AFLW &

signed to play Collingwood in 2019 season

invites you to the

HENTY NETBALL CLUB AGM TONIGHT

Tuesday 13th November 20187.30pm

@ Henty Public School Library

YEAR 5/6 EXCURSION

I liked it when we were at Sovereign Hill because we didn’t have any teachers telling us what to do. By Misty

I liked when I dressed up in a big poofy dress. By Cheyeanne

In Sovereign Hill Kaylee and I met a policeman and when I said hi he went “plbfft’ with his tongue. By Anka

I thought it was funny when the boys kept knocking and running on all the doors. By Taj

I enjoyed walking around with friends at Sovereign Hill. By Joss

My favourite part was the Cobb and Co ride. By Amarlie

My favourite parts of the camp were when I found gold and went down in the Central Deborah Mines. By Kaylee

I found one of the biggest bits of gold ever in the Sovereign Hill River. By Konnar

Ash kept taking photo’s of me when I was asleep! By Lucy

I enjoyed seeing the horses and riding on the Cobb and Co horse ride. By Taleisha

It was funny when Noah T ripped his pants when we were trying to get a class photo. By Maddy

I liked the lolly draw. By Isabel

My favourite part was having a big sleep over with all my friends. Noah F

I liked walking around with friends and not the teachers. By Kate

Harry thought Sovereign Hill was better then Disney Land? By Safi

It was funny when Anarchy couldn’t get on the wooden horse! By Noah T

Anarchy was really funny when we went to the class at Sovereign Hill and dressed up. Ryder

I liked Sovereign Hill. By Sam

I loved the playground at Sovereign Hill. Anarchy

It was funny when Taj fell off the bed! Mitch

I enjoyed the accommodation, Knock and running and playing truth or Dare. Hannah

It was a really fun excursion and I never knew how hard it was in the olden days, not just for adults but kids too! Ashtyn

Sovereign Hill was one of the best places I’ve ever gone too and recommend it to everyone, I hope the school keeps going! Harry.

I learnt a lot and it was so fun seeing how things were done in the olden days. Jonny

It was the best and I didn’t want to leave but I had too. Tyler

I loved Sovereign Hill it was a bit cool. Helena

I enjoyed walking around Sovereign Hill and being social. Angus

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LIBRARY NEWS

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR!

Buy One Get One Free

Thinking about Christmas? Thinking about buying some great books at fabulous prices?

Henty Public School is having a Buy One Get One Free Book Fair – where every book purchased enables the buyer to select another

book of equal or lesser value for FREE!

This book fair will operate based on ‘first in best dressed’. Titles cannot be reordered.

NO stationary, NO posters and NO paraphernalia!!! Just BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS!!!

Other than being great gift ideas for family and friends you may also choose to donate your second book to charity.

Thursday 6th December

School Library Time TBC

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P & C NEWS

The Annual General Meeting for 2018 will take place on Wednesday 5 December 5.30pm. The AGM will be directly followed by the next general meeting of the P&C. As this is my last year at Henty Public School, I would be grateful for nominations for the role of secretary. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding what is involved in the job.

We welcome all and any parents and guardians to be involved in the P&C, and I attach an article from the Sydney Morning Herald to inspire and encourage all aspiring dads and male carers who might be interested in being involved in their children’s education and to learn more about how the school runs. We have previously heard from some dads who say they have been interested but perhaps felt a bit ‘outnumbered’ at P&C meetings. We are a very inclusive P&C, and meetings are informal and friendly. We warmly welcome any new members!

Kind regards, Cindy Scott, Secretary HPS P&C

This is an article taken from the SMH

It started with a simple offer to use their business contacts to help kickstart some fundraising for their kids’ fete.

But for a group of dads planning the schoolyard fete quickly became a much bigger proposition.

The four dads ended up as the all male executive of the school’s Parents & Friends committee at St Columba’s Catholic Primary in Leichhardt.

“A lot of mums have done the heavy lifting at the school for a long time but it was time for the dads to step up and help because mums are busy too and it is no excuse anymore to say that we are too busy,” Gus Seebeck, the St Columba’s P&F Preseident said.

***School volunteering in no longer just the job of mums***

Mr Seebeck, who has a background in major events and sponsorship, said the fathers all had different skills to offer the parent body.

Their treasurer is Tim Nelson, the chief economist at AGL. Dr Nelson said he wanted to be a good role model for his children.

Your kids will grow up to be who you are, not what you want them to be,” Dr Nelson said.

“Historically, P&F’s have had a whole bunch of mums doing all the work but dads have an important role too and should be involved. I also think the school does so much for my kids so I really wanted to contribute.”

Richard Fletcher, who leads the Fathers and Families Research Program at Newcastle University, said the involvement of fathers in schools was vital.

“We know from the research that if dads are involved in their children’s education, their children will do better.” Dr Fletcher said.

While they may be unique when it comes to parent bodies, the St Colomba’s dads are not alone in helping out at schools.

Rachael Sowden, a regional president of the P&C which represents public school parents and a consultant in raising parental engagement, said father were more involved in schools than ever before.

“There is no doubt that we are seeing dads doing a lot more to help out at schools, whether that be in the traditional ways like on canteen or helping with reading or they may have a particular skill to offer that the school could really use,” Dr Sowden said.

“I know at my school, for example, the working bee used to be 99 per cent mums and now it would wasily be 810 per cent dads.”

Dr Sowden said she had not heard of any all-male P&C’s in NSW public school but fathers played a much bigger role in the committees.

“We would often see P&C’s now where it is 50/50 mums and dads”

School volunteering in no longer just the job of mums cont’d

P & C NEWS

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COMMUNITY NEWS

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Pleasant Hills Tennis Club

The season is off to a great start, with our Saturday afternoon competition playing

against the other Hume League clubs.

If you would like to be involved, its not too late; we would be happy to have a few more

players - regulars, part-timers or fill ins; adults, teenagers and kids.

Social Tennis is on a Friday morning from 9:30am; everyone welcome. Gold coin

donation for non members. Courts are also available to use at other times.

Hotshots Tennis for kids has started - we had a great turnout the first 2 weeks!

It runs on a Friday at the Pleasant Hills Tennis Courts from 5-6pm

Multiple groups run catering for ages 4 to 12+ All equipment is provided.

The remaining dates for term 4 are 16th & 23rd of Nov and 7th & 14th of Dec. There

will be another 6 sessions in term 1 - $5 session or $35 for the season. Feel free

to contact Renae Lieschke - Secretary, for further information on 0428 296 147 or

pleasanthillstennisclub@gmail.com or just turn up!

HENTY SWIM CLUB SEASON 2018/9 BEGINS ON

• Mon 19 November • Wed 21 November

4.00pm - 7.00pm Need to be able to swim 25m & have water confidence

Membership fee: $70/child

Feel free to contact Julie White 0487 484 420 or Jennifer Zweck on 0402 548161

if you would like any further information.

Please email hentyswimmingclub@gmail.com to get a registration form