Nordsy Notes Term 3 Week 2 - Thursday 1 August 2019

Upcoming Events

Term 3

Friday

2 August

School Dentist Visit

Tuesday

6 August

Zone Athletics

Wednesday

7 August

Zone Athletics

Friday

8 August

Education Week

Open Classrooms 9:45am

BBQ Lunch 11:15

Canadian Moose Ice Hockey

Team Visit 12:30pm

Wednesday

21 August

Netball Gala Day—selected

students

Thursday

22 August

Book Week Parade 2pm

Thank you to the Ellevsen family for

your generous donation of two electric

amps. We’re sure our School Band and

Rock Band will get great use out of them!

The Canadian Moose Hockey

Tour

is coming to

Nords Wharf PS The Canadian Moose is an organisation dedicated to

playing and promoting the game of hockey in all corners

of the world. 2019 marks their 30 year anniversary of

travelling the world and Australia is their current tour.

On Friday, 9 August the team will be visiting NWPS and

will give a brief talk on hockey and life in Canada.

Students will get a chance to see an ice hockey kit up

close and ask questions. The team will join us at

12:30pm after our Education Week BBQ and parents

and carers are welcome to stay and listen to the talk.

This is a great cultural experience for all and an exciting

way to end our Education Week celebrations.

Lost Property The contents of the lost property basket were washed

and sorted during the school holidays. Any unlabelled

items have been donated to the uniform shop. This

includes many hats. For a limited time second hand

hats will be available to purchase for $2.

Please take the time to clearly label your child’s

belongings. Lost property doesn’t remain lost for long if

we can return it to the rightful owner.

Come and join the fun and help us to celebrate

book week.

Thursday, 22 August 2pm in the C.O.L.A.

Students can dress up as their favourite storybook

character. In fact, we can’t wait to see the student’s

dazzling costumes. Each class will participate in the

book week parade, walking around the school to show

off their fabulous costumes. Students are actively

encouraged to carry a copy of the book that their

character is from. We look forward to seeing the

student’s creative flair and homemade costumes are

always appreciated. Feel free to embrace this year’s

theme to inspire your costume choice. Please try to

choose storybook characters from books children have

read and not movie characters.

Mrs Imogen Beckett

Principal’s News

Welcome back for Term 3! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and relaxing holiday are ready for the busy term ahead!

We held our parent teacher interviews on Monday. Thank you to all the family members who came to see their child/children’s teachers. If you have any feedback or ideas regarding how we run parent teacher interviews please come and see me. We are always striving to improve our practice to ensure that it meets the needs of our school community.

It is Education Week next week. The theme this year is ‘Every Student, Every Voice’. Due to the change of days for Zone Athletics we have had to move the open classrooms and barbeque lunch to Friday from 10am. I am sorry for any inconvenience that this may cause but it was out of our control. We look forward to sharing the quality teaching and learning that happens in our classrooms every day with you!

Last Friday we held our NAIDOC celebrations. Thank you to all the community members who were able to attend the assembly and hear Mrs Wright’s wonderful Acknowledgement of Country and listen to her explanation of the significance of the smoking ceremony. Jonathan Wright from Dhinewan Mentoring and Terry Hayek engaged our students in fun, interesting activities that helped to increase their understanding of Aboriginal culture. Thank you to Miss Mills for her organisation of this great event. This morning 4/5 and 5/6 worked with Andrew Balzer and Jarrod Bourke from the stem T4L team to learn how to use the film making kit that we have loaned and develop their coding skills with the Dash and Dot robots. I am looking forward to seeing all of the creative film projects that they produce!

Jodie Corrigan Principal

Nordsy Notes Term 3 Week 2 - Thursday 1 August 2019