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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY (please see Skoolbag for further details and copy of notes)

Term 1 – 2019

Week 10

1 Apr Parent Teacher Interviews

Stage 3 Maths Enrichment Day

3 Apr PSSA Cricket

Week 11

8 Apr Parent Teacher Interviews

2 Apr Zone Touch Trials

10 Apr Netball Gala Day

11 Apr NSW PSSA Swimming Homebush

K – 2 Easter Hat Parade 11.30am

PSSA Boys Football

12 Apr NSW PSSA Swimming Homebush

ANZAC Assembly 9am

Last Day of Term 1

Term 2 – 2019

Week 1

29 Apr Pupil Free Day

30 Apr Students Return to School

Week 2

9 May Mother’s Day Stall

Week 3

13 May P&C Meeting 5.30pm

14-16 May NAPLAN

Principal’s / Deputy Principals’ Report Another term coming to a close. So much has

happened and is happening at Forster Public School

on a regular basis.

Firstly I would like to take this opportunity to thank

Mrs Lesley Campbell for her role as President of the

Parent and Citizen’s Association for the last 2 years.

Her commitment to the role and her years of hard

work and dedication are commendable. Due to

personal family reasons Lesley has stepped down

from her role as President but will still be actively

involved in our school community and the P & C.

On that note I would like to welcome the new P & C

committee that were nominated at the Annual

General Meeting last week.

Congratulations to

Sarah Wilkinson-President

Sarah Barlow-Vice President

Suzie Reinhold-Secretary

Alarna Zammit-Treasurer

Uniform Shop- Lesley Campbell and Jo Harris

Grievance Officer- Jada McNeil.

We look forward to working with you to provide

ongoing quality experiences for the Forster PS

students and families.

Suzie Reinhold, Sarah Wilkinson & Sarah Barlow

During the holidays the building near the basketball

court will have a new roof. This will mean that OOSH

will be located in the hall and will be accessed via

Hadley Street.

At the beginning of next term the Year 5 and 6

rooms belonging to Mr Lavis, Mr Blacker, Ms

Henderson and Mrs Gonzalez are being renovated.

The four rooms are going to be made into 21st

century learning spaces. We are very excited and

look forward to the transformation.

Forster Public School A vibrant, caring and successful learning community

Respect Personal Best Safety

Head Street, Forster Tel: 6555 6766 Email: forster-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Term 1 Week 9 Friday, 29 March 2019

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It is with great sadness that we farewell Ms Layne

Ross at the end of this term but wish her the best

in her new position at Gloucester High School. Ms

Ross will be replaced by Ms Sam Simmons for the

remainder of the year. Ms Simmons is looking

forward to taking the class and meeting the families.

Thank you to all our families who have paid our school

fees. These funds assist us in resourcing classrooms

with essential items to enhance learning. The fees

are very minimal, but greatly appreciated and valued.

If you have not had a chance to pay your fees can you

please contact the front office, who will assist you.

The fees are: $35 per child and $50 per family.

Students return to school in Term 2 on Tuesday 30

April, 2019. I hope you all have a safe and happy

Easter break and look forward to seeing you all again

after the holidays.

Annie Everingham Principal

Lorelle O’Brien Deputy Principal

Tianne Buderus Deputy Principal

Katrina Pettet Instructional Leader

Keryn Stone Instructional Leader

Whole School News Terracycle Colgate Recycling Program.

Forster Primary School is once again participating in

the Terracycle Colgate recycling program.

Our school has the chance to win one of five (5)

recycled community garden sets, and we are inviting

you to recycle oral care waste and earn online votes

in the Colgate Community Garden Challenge. The

more Garden Points, the more chances of winning!

1 unit of oral care waste = 10 Garden Points.

1 online vote = 1 Garden Point.

https://www.terracycle.com.au/en-

AU/contests/colgategardenvoting

Each prize is worth $6,000! They include:

* Three (3) garden beds

* Two (2) custom-made benches

* One (1) $500 Bunnings Warehouse gift voucher to

buy gardening supplies

What you can recycle in this program?

Any brand of used toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes,

plastic toothbrush packaging, interdental brushes,

wisps, pumps, stand up toothpaste bottles and any

kind of non-electric toothbrush or toothpaste tube

and all affiliated non-recyclable packaging.

Ask your friends, ask your neighbours, ask your

family... start collecting waste now!

And don't forget to cast your online vote...

https://www.terracycle.com.au/en-

AU/contests/colgategardenvoting

Support Unit K-2 Crocodiles have been working hard in Science.

We have been exploring our space in the world.

Students have enjoyed playing games to experience

competing with others for space and discussing the

protection and shelter provided by their home space.

They had fun making a cubby house and building lego

models of homes.

Mason, Alexia, Noah & Mason

3-6 Scorpions learned how to create a volcano in

science which spewed red foaming lava out of the

top. They have also been exploring their creativity,

through role playing and dress ups.

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Samantha, Jasmine, Natalie & Josie

4-6 Great Whites investigated the process of

fermentation. Students applied the scientific

process to conduct their experiment. The result was

a delicious loaf of bread. Students concluded that

combining water, yeast and sugar = Fermentation =

BREAD!!

Jzye & Gordon

Angela Coffey

Assistant Principal Support

Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 It has been a settled transition into the students’

new classes for 2019. Everyone is working well,

remembering our Forster

PS expectations of

Safety, Personal Best and

Respect.

We are looking forward

to celebrating Easter on

Thursday 11 April at

11.30am at our annual K-2

Easter Hat Parade.

On Friday 12 April all students will wear their full

school uniform to commemorate Anzac Day. A whole

school assembly will be held in the hall.

The holidays are coming around quickly and we hope

it will be a fun and safe time for our students.

Kindergarten consent notes will be coming home

regarding School based Occupational Therapy and

Speech Pathology sessions for specific students.

Look out for Parent Teacher interview notes and be

quick to book your time. This is your time to meet

with the teacher and have a chat about your child’s

progress.

Kindy at the beach making volcanoes with bi-carb

soda and vinegar

Penny Holm ES1 Relieving Assistant Principal and

Melea Tyrie St 1 Relieving Assistant Principal

Stage 2 Stage 2 have been learning about traditional ways of

Aboriginal People in History. 3 Whale sharks and 3-4

Turtles were lucky enough to accompany our

Aboriginal Education Worker, Will Simon to

Bennett’s Head for a cultural walk and local Dreaming

story.

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Thank you to all the Stage 2 students who supported

our National Anti-Bullying Day by purchasing and

wearing a wristband! It was great to see so many

students supporting the SRC and building positive

friendships along the way.

Brooke Egan

Assistant Principal - Relieving

Stage 3 Stage 3 are beginning their unit on Government in

preparation for the visit to Canberra scheduled for

Term 3. As part of the program, the Year 5 and 6

students voted in the election this week for the new

state Premier. The candidates were The Rock, Lady

Gaga, Vin Diesel, Arianna Grande, Post Malone and

Ava Maxx and more. The students paid close

attention to the policies espoused by the candidates

and then cast their votes in ballot boxes left over

from last weekend’s elections. They learnt how votes

were counted and saw first-hand why their second

and third preferences are just as important as their

first. The process was thoroughly enjoyed by all and

gave them a taste of what they will have to do as

adults.

The School Leaders and SRC are attending a training

day this Friday at One Mile beach. They will be

involved in leadership activities and team building

exercises in what promises to be a fun and

challenging day.

There are still some students who have outstanding

payments for Kitchen lessons. These need to be paid

off regularly. We are also taking payments for the

Canberra excursion which needs to be completely

paid off by the end of Term 2.

Persuasive Writing

A piece by Jarrah from 5-6/4

Plastic pollution is the worst type of pollution

impacting our environment

I strongly believe that Plastic is the worst type of

pollution. How would you feel to be a poor helpless

turtle, suffocating from plastic? It is absolutely

disgusting, and it is up to us make a stand, it is up to

us to make a change and it’s up to us to help save our

land.

Firstly, there is just too much plastic! The amount of

plastic is disgusting with 2.6 trillion pounds of

plastic, equal to 7,000 Empire State Buildings! Come

on, you’ve got to realise that is too much waste! In

Europe “Seas at risk” did a survey on its plastic

pollution, and the results were devastating with 46

billion plastic drink bottles a year, 16 billion coffee

cups and 36.4 billion drinking straws a year!

Secondly, it kills. Way too many animals choke on

plastics that float in the ocean. The ocean contains

50-70% of the world’s air, so if it dies, then we die

too. It is up to us do something about it, and luckily,

people are working to clean the ocean. The “ocean

clean-up” has invented a machine that will collect lots

of rubbish and have said that if the prototype works

then they will make bigger better ones.

Finally, if we start now we can make a difference.

The man who invented the machine was 19 years old

when he first came up with the idea, so why can’t we?

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It may cost a lot of money, think about the future

generations, they deserve a good healthy life, not a

horrible toxic one.

In conclusion, we should help save the ocean or the

entire world will die out. So, save the ocean! Save the

ocean! Save the ocean! Save the ocean! Save the

ocean! Save the ocean……..

Susan Gonzalez

Assistant Principal - Relieving

Sport Netball

Shaylin, Jessica and Asha represented our school at

the Manning Zone Trials two weeks ago. The girls all

played well and Shaylin made it through to the next

round. She is off to Newcastle on Friday 29 March

to try out for the Hunter Team. Congratulations and

good luck Shaylin! We are also sending two netball

teams off to Boronia on the last week of term to

compete in the Gala Day. They have been training

hard and I’m sure they will make us proud on the day.

Cricket

The 2nd round of the PSSA was played against

Tuncurry last Friday. We started out bowling. With

some great helpful advice our boys knocked off

Tuncurry for only 65 runs. Next we took to chasing

down the total. We did really well only losing the one

wicket and scoring the 66 runs very quickly, being

done and dusted and back at school before lunch. We

would like to say a big Thankyou to Mr. Everingham

for his support and umpiring for the day. Next round

will be played Wednesday 3 April against Gloucester

again at Lake St Oval Forster between 10-2 for

anyone wishing to come watch.

Rugby League

Last week, 13 Forster PS students attended the

Manning Zone Rugby League trials in Tuncurry. Six

students were successful in gaining a spot in the

team to attend the Hunter Trials held yesterday.

Those students were Jesse, Brody and Tye in the

opens and Ryley, Noah and Lyrikah in the under 11’s.

Congratulations to these students as the Manning

Zone team is usually the strongest team to attend

the Hunter trials. Good luck and tackle hard!

Ryley, Noah and Lyrikah after their selection in

the Manning Zone under 11’s

Football

Last week Cameron, Josh, Jaiden, Louis, Cooper and

Toby were selected to trial for the Manning

Representative Team. Congratulations to Josh and

Jaiden who have progressed to try out for the

Hunter team.

The PSSA boys football team will compete in their

first round clash against Tuncurry PS next week.

Good luck boys.

Dorota Osinski

Sport Organiser

P & C News The P&C held its AGM this month and I was excited

to be elected as the new President. Sarah Barlow was

elected as the new Vice-President, Suzie Reinhold

and Alarna Zammitt were re-elected as Secretary

and Treasurer, Lesley Campbell and Jo Harris were

elected as Uniform Shop Coordinators and Jada

McNeil is the new Grievance Officer.

With a growing number of parents joining the

Committee, there is a great energy amongst the

members and we are looking forward to what we can

achieve in the year ahead.

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We already have a number of activities in the

planning. One of these is our inaugural Spring Ball on

Saturday 28 September. This is a chance for

parents, carers and community members to get

together, celebrate and of course raise important

funds for our school. Keep an eye out for details, as

it is set to be the event of the year. We are

currently looking for sponsors, so if you would like to

be involved, please get in touch.

We also have our annual Mother’s and Carer’s day

stall on Thursday 9 May. Children just need to bring

$5 on the day to pick out a present for that special

person in their life. If your child is away that day,

there will be some gifts available the next day.

Children can check in with their class teacher for

details.

We would love to get more people involved in the P&C.

Our next meeting is Monday 13 May, 5:30pm in the

Staffroom. If meetings aren’t your thing, but you

would still like to help out, please get in touch and we

can let you know when we have events and activities

coming up that you can get involved in.

To get in touch, just send an email to

fpspandc@yahoo.com.au

Many Thanks,

Sarah Wilkinson

P & C President

Community News

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Location Forster Public School Operation Times 7am – 6pm

Contact Number 0423 328 040 Email Address forster@activeoosh.com.au