Kalori - narromine.ps.education.nsw.gov.au fileKalori Term 4 - Week 6 14 November 2017 Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821

Kalori Term 4 - Week 6 14 November 2017

Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are

Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821

P: 02 68894566 F: 02 68894451

E: [email protected]

Amanda Turnbull – Assistant Principal

It was my great pleasure to announce the recipients of Gold

Level for Year 6 at last week’s assembly. This level represents

the dedication of students to achieving their best, both

academically and in social pursuits at school. Students that

receive this award have maintained blue level and gone above

and beyond in their capacity at school to contribute to the

well-being of others. They have demonstrated commitment to their learning and other initiatives around the school

and always presented themselves in a respectful and responsible manner. I would like to extend my congratulations

again to the students that have received this honour. They will be presented with their awards at our upcoming

Presentation Day Assembly.

Parents of students in Year 4 and 5 may also have received notes home recently regarding our Bronze and Silver

Level awards. As with the Gold Level award, students in these respective grades have

maintained their blue level behaviour over the year and completed additional

applications in the case of Silver Level. We will be presenting awards to the students

who have received Bronze and Silver Level at our next whole school assembly,

Monday 20 November 2017 at 2pm. I hope that you will join me in celebrating this

special achievement with these students.

Just a reminder for families with children due to start Kindergarten in 2019, we will be

running a Kindergarten Transition program next year. Children will attend one day per

week and it will run from February 2018, providing an extended period for students to

become familiar with the school setting and transition plans to be developed as

needed. A meet and greet has been held with parents who have already enrolled their

child into this program, but if you still wish your child to attend you can put your

child’s name down with our front office staff. (68894566)

If you are aware of students that are not currently enrolled at our school and will be

starting with us in 2018 please contact the school to organise their enrolment, and if

you are aware of students that are not returning in 2018 (except for our current Year

6) please let our office staff know.

Dates for the Diary: Students will be finishing this year on Friday December 15 2017.

The school will be having two pupil free staff development days on Monday and

Tuesday 18 and 19 December (Staff only). Students (Years 1-6) will return to school

Tuesday 30 January 2018 with a pupil free staff development day being held Monday

29 January 2018. Kindergarten will be completing their Best Start testing on Tuesday

and Wednesday the 30 and 31 January 2018 (notes to come home at the

end of this term) and will start at school on Thursday 1 February 2018.

Reports will be coming home at the beginning of Week 9 (Monday 4

December 2017) and an opportunity for interviews will also be made

available (notes to come home soon).

Please keep an eye out for notes coming home as there are many exciting things happening in the remainder of the term. Three of our NPS Leadership Team did a wonderful job representing our school at the community Rememberance Day service.

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Week 6 Fri – Intensive Swimming begins Week 7 Mon – K-6 Assembly Host 5&6 SRC Item KO Tue – Community Link Up Day Mon-Fri – Intensive Swimming



School Student Transport Scheme (SSTS) and Term Bus Pass (TBP)

Applications for 2018 SSTS and TBP travel entitlements are now open. Students who are applying for a bus pass for

the first time can do so online at:

http://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/#applyNow

or to update your details if you are changing schools or moving onto senior school:

http://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails

Students who are remaining at the same school and moving from Year 2 to 3 no longer need to reapply as this is

automatically verified by the school.

Year 6 Photo Display

Year 6 students who have not yet provided their photos for the Year 6 Farewell photo display have until 24

November to do so. It is requested that photos are emailed to Mrs Hilder in jpeg format

([email protected]) or delivered in hard copy to the office – labelled.

Three photos are requested for the display – one from their early years, one preschool aged and a recent one.

No late photos will be accepted due to the time it takes to produce the display.

Sport

Next week, Kuber Thakur is representing Western Sport at the NSW State Boys Cricket Carnival in Orange. We wish

him all the best at this carnival next week.

Intensive swimming will begin this Friday for Year 2 students and will begin on Monday for selected Year 3-6

students. Students are reminded to bring their swimmers, a towel and sunscreen each day. Intensive swimming will

continue for the two weeks following. A reminder that Year 3-6 students will also be attending the pool for sport on

Fridays as well.

Lacy Sampson – Sports Co-ordinator

http://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/#applyNow

http://apps.transport.nsw.gov.au/ssts/updateDetails

mailto:[email protected]


Stage 2 Cultural and Sustainability Excursion to Warren

On our excursion to Warren, Stage 2 (Year 3 & 4) and teachers went to

Windows Of Wetlands (WOW Centre) and Beemunnel (Aboriginal

Reserve). We travelled on three buses. When we arrived there, we

were greeted by Danielle Flakelar (National Parks and Wildlife), Tom

Carney (Aboriginal Elder), Dr Bill Phillips, Bill Johnson and Keith Redman

(Warren Aboriginal Lands Council). We were also lucky

enough to have some family members of children in

Stage 2.

After we were introduced to our guides, all the students

sat and ate their recess. After recess, we were split into

three groups to begin our journey of learning about

wetlands and the local Aboriginal history and culture.

One group was learning about the wetlands, the second

group was learning about totems and the types of

paintings that tell stories and the third group was

learning about the river catchment systems and its

inhabitants. All the groups rotated through each of the

activities.

At the wetlands, we learnt that the reeds clean the

water. There are three layers of reeds - tall, medium and

short. The cleaning process of the sewage starts with

the tall reeds, then the medium. The short reeds are the

last part of the cleaning process. The short reeds look

like mown grass.

These wetlands are also used for bird-watching. The

bird-watchers observe the behaviour and frequency of

birds visiting the area. The more birds that visit indicate

that it is a healthy wetland environment.

At the Aboriginal Reserve Beemunnel, we saw a sacred

tree. There were signs in places where families lived.

There were lots of native trees such as salt bush. Also,

we heard stories from families who lived there as small

children. The river runs through the reserve and

Aboriginal families used this for

catching food as well as water for

drinking. They also used it for

swimming when it was hot.

While we were looking at the

river we noticed that there was

an abandoned canoe on the river

bank.

Stage two students and teachers

would like to thank the

abovementioned people who made this excursion possible as it was a great learning experience. - 4W

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Stage 3 2018 excursion

Selective High School Placements 2019

Headlice 6M, 3-6LC, 3S

Intensive Swimming

NPS Community Consultation

YEAR 4 are requesting donations of bottle tops in GREY, GREEN, YELLOW and BLUE for their mural.



NPS @ St Lawrence’s School Horse Sports at Coonabarabran

Seven Narromine Public School and three Narromine High School students travelled to Coonabarabran last week to

represent their schools at the St Lawrence’s School Horse Sports. Students competed in school parade, ring events,

dressage, show jumping, cross country jumping, stock horse challenges, fancy dress and sporting events. All students

rode very well and bought home plenty of ribbons for their efforts including an age champion for the school.


Stage 3 Gala Day

As part of the Year 6 tranisition to high school, Stage 3 took part in a gala day at Narromine High School. Students

participated in four different sports and enjoyed a sausage sizzle lunch.


Stage 3 Great Barrier Reef Dioramas

Stage 3 (Year 5 & 6) students have been very busy researching the beautifully complex ecosystem of the Great

Barrier Reef. Students have created wonderful dioramas to demonstrate the features of the reef.

Great

Barrier

Reef


Numeracy News

5A have been investigating 3D shapes in Mathematics.

We worked in groups and used playdough to look at the

properties of prisms and pyramids.


Literacy News - Writing Samples

Partly Cloudy

Gus was a very different kind of cloud. Gus was a dark cloud compared to the other

clouds. Gus had a friend named Peck and he was a stork. Peck helped to get the

animals off Gus.

Gus could make himself into shapes. First Gus made a crocodile, then he made a

goat , then a porcupine then a shark.

But then Peck the bird flew to one of the other clouds and Gus was sad. So Peck flew

back to Gus and he stopped crying and cuddled Peck and gave him a bag with a

sting ray.

Then Peck said goodbye.

By William

Back to school

Once upon a time there was two friends. One was called Spy Fox and the other was

called Dr Hammer. Spy Fox and Dr Hammer where good friends. One day, Spy Fox

took Dr Hammer’s bubble suit off and Dr Hammer got really angry at Spy Fox . Dr

Hammer wanted to rule the world, and he didn’t really need a bubble suit.

When Dr Hammer got older he built a laser to destroy all the countries so fish can

swim where ever they want but Dr Hammer had some help. His sardines helped him

destroy the world but in the end Spy Fox stopped him.

THE END - By Dane

The Last Astronaut

Three, two, one blast off! Dumbo was off into space.

Bang! Dumbo was flying, flying so fast he was knocked out, and then the space ship

got blown up.

Eight years later Dumbo was carving out stars for a living. Each day someone died,

so every day Dumbo was carving out stars.

One day he heard a big bang and he went out to see what it was. There was a

spaceship, so he asked if he could return to Earth. They said yes and he went back

down to Narromine. When he left space he was paid for his hard work carving out

stars for 90 years. He got so much money it added up to be a trillion dollars. He

retired and lived on Earth as a famous star carver and continued to earn heaps of

money.

By Kaleb


P&C News

Tastebuds Special – Chicken and gravy roll $4

Community


Term 4 Calendar

MONTH MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY WEEK 6 NOVEMBER

13 School Leader speeches Girls

14 School Leader speeches Boys

15

16 Yr 6 NHS Transition

17 Intensive swimming

WEEK 7 NOVEMBER Intensive Swimming

20 K-6 Assembly Host Yr 5&6 SRC Item KO

21 Link Up and Careers day

22

23 Yr 7 Orientation Day

24

WEEK 8 NOVEMBER Intensive Swimming

27 28

29 NO SWIMMING K-6 Presentation Day @ 9.30am

30

1

WEEK 9 DECEMBER

4 K-6 Assembly Host Yr 3&4 SRC Item 2M

5

6

7 Yr 6 Farewell Assembly 9.30am Yr 6 Farewell Dinner 6pm

8

WEEK 10 DECEMBER

11 Gold Level Reward Day

12 Parent/Teacher Interviews

13 PBL Pool reward

14 PBL draw

15 Last day of term for students

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