SCHOOL NEWS STAFFING 2018

We have been informed that Mrs Bennett regretfully will not be returning to Wombat Public School.

Therefore staffing for 2018 will remain as it is for as long as the director dictates. The Principal position will

be filled substantially, permanently, as the Director’s requirements. The school community will be notified

of any information regarding this as it comes to hand, and we thank you for your understanding in this. We

also welcome Mr Jamie Britt back, filling in the GA capacity following Mr Jurd’s leaving the position.

EPILEPSY DAY

Monday 26th March is Epilepsy day. We invite the students to wear purple on Monday and to bring a gold

coin donation to help this worthy cause in its fundraising efforts.

EASTER HAT PARADE AND HAT MAKING

We will be holding an Easter Hat making session in the Library on Thursday 29th

March at 9am. We are asking parents to come along and help out. Our Easter

Hat Parade will then be held that afternoon at 2:30pm. Whilst we have some

decorations, any donations would be greatly appreciated.

DOJO CLASS PARTIES

Well done to Primary for reaching their goal of 500 class dojo points, and infants who reached their goal of

1000 dojo points. Primary enjoyed their class party on Tuesday of this week. Infants party is planned for

Monday 26th March during recess. If infants students could bring a snack to share it would be greatly

appreciated.

SCHOOL PLAN

Mrs Fairey has been working on the school plan. This needs to be submitted by the end of Term 1 and the

plan outlines our school’s main focus areas for the next three years. Our two focus areas will be:

- Quality teaching and learning (in the areas of literacy and numeracy); and

- Positive wellbeing

HARMONY DAY

Thank you to those that dressed up, and participated in the Harmony Day activities. Harmony Day is a

celebration of our cultural diversity, a day of cultural respect for all who call Australia Home.

NSW Department of Education and Communities

Wombat Public School

Newsletter Term 1 Week 8 Friday 23rd March 2018

DIGITAL LITERACY GRANT

We have been invited by Stockinbingal Public School to join a group of small schools in benefiting from a

$50,000 Grant applied for and received in the area of digital technology. At this stage we are looking at the

possibility of bringing robotics technology into the classrooms to meet the digital literacies strand in the

Australian Curriculum. This is a great opportunity for Wombat Public School as alone we are unable to access

this technology or the training due to the cost. For our students this will mean that they will have the same

opportunities, and possibly at a younger age, accessible in many larger schools. This Friday 23rd March the

Principals of the schools involved will be meeting together in Murrumburrah to create a plan of how this will

look in each of our schools.

YOUNG SMALL SCHOOL PSSA CARNIVAL

The Young Small Schools PSSA Carnival will be held at Gus Smith Oval in Young on

Wednesday 4th April. This carnival is the selection carnival for representation at District

Athletics the following term. All children attend and participate in activities with the

8yrs plus students competing for a spot on the District Team.

Please find attached lunch order for the day, indicate your choices and return along with money to the office by Wednesday 28th March.

EASTER LONG WEEKEND – FRIDAY 30th MARCH TO MONDAY 2nd APRIL (NEXT WEEK)

The Easter long weekend is from Friday 30th March until Monday 2nd April. Students will return to school on

Tuesday 3rd April.

FROM THE OFFICE STEWART HOUSE DONATION DRIVE Each year our school supports the Stewart House Donation Drive. Your $2 donation will go toward supporting disadvantaged families as well as giving you the chance to win a family holiday worth $4,000 to a destination of your choice. Please place your $2 donation in the envelope provided and return to the office by 12th May in order to be eligible to go into the draw. SPORTING SCHOOLS GRANT Our sports funding for term 2 has been approved for an amount of $1,500. We are very fortunate to receive this as it allows our students to participate in Gecko sports each Wednesday. (Which costs the school $1,600 per term). Thank you Office Days Week 8: Wednesday, Thursday Tanya Slavin - School Administrative Manager

150 YEARS CELEBRATIONS VOLUNTEERS Volunteers are still needed to help in the organisation of the celebrations. Please offer what you are able, time, resources or ideas! All help will be greatly appreciated! NEXT MEETING Our next meeting is scheduled for Monday 9th April at 6:30pm in the Wombat Public School Library.

FROM THE P&C WOMBAT P&C ASSOCIATION AGM TUESDAY 27TH MARCH 2018 All positons are coming up for vacancy. If you are interested in applying for any of these positions please come along to the meeting and indicate your preference. The positions and responsibilities are outlined below: President: The President shall preside and chair at all meetings. Vice president: supports the president in their role. Treasurer: The Treasurer shall receive and deposit monies, maintain records, draw cheques and present accounts to each general meeting, present all records for auditing each year and shall hand over all records to the incoming Treasurer on relinquishing office. Uniform coordinator: handling all uniform related enquires, receiving money and orders etc. Secretary role: The Secretary shall attend meetings and keep a record of all business conducted. On relinquishing office the Secretary shall hand over records, minutes, account books, etc. Everyone is encouraged to attend to ensure our P&C continues to go from strength to strength, and continues to support the educational experience offered to our students here at Wombat Public School.

EASTER RAFFLE We are extremely fortunate to have received a HUGE donation of easter eggs and lots of other yummies for our Easter Raffle. The raffle will be drawn at the P&C AGM on Tuesday 27th March. Please have all tickets sold or unsold returned to the office.

Chelsea Sullivan – P&C President Kylie Bloor – P&C Secretary

Stars of The Week

PRIMARY

STAR OF THE WEEK

All Primary Class

For

Their learning in the “volume

and capacity” unit.

INFANTS

STAR OF THE WEEK

Penny Keenan

For

Her effort towards her

learning.

FROM THE PRIMARY ROOM

Hello to all,

Here we are at another Friday! I can’t believe it is the end of week 8 already, time flies when you’re having

fun I guess!

This week the primary class have impressed with some wonderful pieces of art, which is pretty exciting

considering that at the start of the term a large proportion of the class did not identify as artists. Great work

everyone!

We have started regularly writing journal entries this week in a bid to improve on a variety of English

outcomes. I’m pleased with the effort that has been made thus far so let’s keep up the good work.

The P.S.S.A carnival is on the horizon and to prepare we have been focusing on a variety of techniques to

enable us to achieve the best result we can on the day. It’s good to see students taking on board tips to

progress in a variety of events.

That’s it from me, see you all again in a shortened week 9!

Mr Walton

Relieving Primary Teacher

FROM THE INFANTS ROOM

Maths this week has been a collection of challenges and problems to solve so I can gauge the children’s

problem solving and mathematical thinking skills, as well as their knowledge on quantifying numbers. I

posted one activity we did on facebook, where I challenged the children to come up with a way to count a

container of small blocks. They quickly answered exactly what I wanted to hear – grouping in tens then

hundreds. We then estimated what we thought the count would be. The final count was 1,600 with a few

spares. Phoebie’s estimate was the closest. Another activity I gave the children was to plot numbers on a

numberline, children had to show their understanding of place value to plot the numbers where they would

go in relation to the other numbers.

On Thursday as one of our L3 literacy experiences we talked about the devestation from the fire at Tathra

last weekend and watched a video taken from a helicopter of some of the damage. We then read the book

Fire by Jackie French (Read to experience). I then wrote a sentence focusing on spaces and sight words for

Kindergarten, bossy e, and sounding out strategies for year 1 and 2 (instructional writing). Later in the day

we then did some sustained writing (30 minutes of constant writing) on fire. We have been looking at quality

of writing (nounds, adjectives, verbs – interesting words) for a while and now we need to go back to

encouraging sustained writing, looking for length and authorial skills (a variety of ideas that connect

together). While year 1 and 2 did this kindergarten engaged in a guided writing session (early writing).

Mrs Fairey

Infants Teacher/Relieving Principal

BIRTHDAYS THIS MONTH

Persaeus Bloor

Staff and students would like to wish these students a wonderful day!

WHAT’S HAPPENING

EVENT ACTIVITY DATE COST NOTES/MONEY DUE

Mr Walton PDHPE training

Tuesday 27th March

Easter Hat Making and Parade

Thursday 29th March

- -

YSS Sports Carnival Wednesday 4th April

- -

Whole School Assembly 2pm

Tuesday 10th April

- -

Year 6 Fundraiser

Thursday 12th April

- -

STAFFING WEEK 9 Term 1

DAY MRS FAIREY MR WALTON

MONDAY: Infants Primary TUESDAY: Infants PDHPE - Miss Noal Primary WEDNESDAY: Mrs Fairey - (office day)

Miss Noal Infants Primary Programming 1-3pm

THURSDAY: Infants Primary FRIDAY: Good Friday Good Friday

WORK HEALTH & SAFETY A safe school environment is important to our school, please report any safety concerns to the school so we can attend to them appropriately.

NON SCHOOL RELATED ACTIVITIES