A Yeoval Central School CENTRAL OF EXCELLENCE 4 13 2012 · Helping yourself and others is a great...
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A CENTRAL
OF EXCELLENCE
High Standards, Individual Attention and Competitive
‘ A C H I E V I N G T O G E T H E R ’
Achieving excellence at your local central school Quality teaching and learning in a wellresourced environment
Yeoval Central School Term 1 Week 4
13 February 2012
Students are constantly reminded to wear their brown school hat (primary) and hats (secondary) during recess and lunch. Our rule is NO HAT NO PLAY in the sun. Mrs Gavin, our school librarian, is excited about encouraging students to “pick up a book and read”. She has organised book club and a Principal’s Reading Challenge. Information about the challenge will be ex‐plained to students and published in our newsletter. Certificates and prizes are asso‐ciated with this initiative. National Partnership funding for 2012 will allow our school to: Create an extra primary class (4). Have extra staff at our school quali‐
fied to teach subject areas. Maintain our Reading to Learn pro‐
gram and associated literacy initia‐tives.
Establish extension projects for stu‐dents.
Secondary students have regular PE classes and sport each week. Change room facili‐ties with showers are available for students to use. To play sport and PE the require‐ment is that students wear school sports uniform, appropriate footwear (joggers) and wear a hat. Students selected in our school team to swim at the next representative level, Cen‐tral Schools’ Carnival (secondary) and Dis‐trict Carnival (primary) will receive a per‐mission note about their selection. The next level for all students is the West‐ern School Carnival (WSSA secondary ‐2.3.12 & primary 9.3.12). Students are then selected for the WSSA team to swim at the state carnival (Week 11 Term 1).
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Principal
Mr John Bernasconi
Assistant Principal
Mrs Jo Blatch
Secondary Head
Teachers Mr Nathan Cluness
Mr Scott Olsson (Relieving)
Address
Obley Street
Yeoval NSW 2868
Phone
02 68464004
Fax
02 68464317
yeoval‐c.school@det.
nsw.edu.au
Web address www.yeoval‐
c.schools.nsw.edu.au
P & C President Mrs Gaela Elliott
Secretary
Mrs Kellie Burgess
Treasurer
Mrs Michele Kerin
Fundraising Coordinator
Ms Belinda Lorimer
P & C Meets the 2nd Tuesday of every month at 7.30 pm
Next P & C Meeting
14 February 2012
A member of the
Western Access
Program
Primary students, Years 2 – 6 competed at the 3‐Way Swimming Carnival at Cum‐nock last Wednesday. All students en‐joyed the day and participated in events. Three students from our school were awarded an Age Championship: Lochlan Cameron – Junior Boys Age Champion. Shanai Bulter – Senior Girls Age Champion. Lincoln Monk – Senior Boys Age Champion. Our senior students in Years 11 and 12 participated in a tour of Orange Univer‐sity to have an insight into life at univer‐sity. The tour included accommodation facilities, lecture rooms and practical fa‐cilities for dentistry and occupational therapy. All students thought the excur‐sion was a worthwhile experience. What is PSP? Parents received this flyer last week. It outlined the need for all par‐ents to complete the PSP survey during “Survey Week”. The survey for our school community measures:
Family occupations
Educational qualifications
Family employment
Aboriginal families Survey Week is 9 ‐13 March. A 100% response from parents is needed for our school application to be consid‐ered. Successful schools are funded from 2013 – 2016. A sample survey for parents to use was attached to the letter parents received.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND IN THE SURVEY
WHICH WAS ATTACHED TO THE LETTER
SENT HOME LAST WEEK ... IT WAS A
SAMPLE ONLY
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Parents are reminded that permission notes and any payment for school events and activities are due before the date. Unfortunately students with‐out permission notes / payment may not be per‐mitted to attend the excursion. Parents will NOT be called to follow up the permission note. Our school notice board has new photos of events and 2012 leaders. Have a look next time you visit. Helping yourself and others is a great value to rec‐ognise for Australian schools. The teenage years is an exciting time, but it can also be a time of emo‐tion, confusion and stress. The Reach out website, www.reachout.com, has information about family relationships, bullying, sexuality, alcohol, grief and loss. There is also a helpline and live chat help. Two rules from Bill Gates: 1. If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so
don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
2. If you think that your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss.
COMING EVENTS: TERM 4 14th February: SRC Valentine’s Day activities P&C meeting > 7:30 pm at Uniform shop. 15th February: Central Schools Swimming Carnival 21st February: School Leaders Induction Ceremony 22nd – 24th February: Western Access Camp for Year 11. 23rd – 24th February: Year 7 excursion (Wambangalang). 24th February: NARRAF / Gobondery Primary District Swimming 27th February: “Flute Tunes” performance ASSEMBLIES Student and class awards were presented at our Monday assembly. Primary Class of the Week: 5/6 for Buddy support. Secondary Class of the Week: Year 9 English for settling in and working well.
Students of the Week: Years K/1: Jayden Fox For being a role model. Year 2: Lara‐Jane McGlashan For her amazing start to Year 2. Years 3/4: Claire Smith For her fabulous efforts and sportsmanship at swimming carnivals. Years 5/6: Ruben Hudson For being a great role model for peers. Year 11: Emily Henry Working really well in general maths. STUDENT SAFETY For the safety of all students, we would appreciate it if all visitors to the school please report to the school office. School hats may still be worn at school this term Chewing gum is banned No aerosol cans No cans of drink at school YCS is a nut free school PRIMARY ASSEMBLY Primary assembly this week will be held on Friday 17 February at 12.45 pm in the school library. All welcome.
School invoices were sent out last week to all families. You may choose to pay these in instal‐ments or in one payment. Thank you to those families who have already finalised their ac‐counts.
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Have you met: TEGAN JEFFERY
Tegan’s favourite things:
Food: Chocolate Cake
Colour: Pink
Music: Barbie song
Movie: Cars 2
Interests: *Hide & seek *Sleeping *Watching movies
Dream: I want to be a Barbie
Have you met: DEAN JERRARD
Dean’s favourite things:
Food: Chops
Colour: Black
Music: Nickelback
Movie: Piranha
Interests: *Driving cars *Fixing things *Chilling with friends
Dream: To be a mechanic
KIDZ QUIZ The Quiz is for students to test their general knowledge. All students are invited to complete the quiz and hand it in at the office by Thursday each week by 3.20 pm.
To win a treat all answers must be correct (including spelling). 1. What is the answer? 39 + 25 + 8=? 2. What colour is at the top of a set of traffic
lights? 3. What does the abbreviation “mm” stand
for? 4. Which food can be scrambled, fried, boiled
and poached? 5. If a person can’t recognise certain colours,
they are said to be ...............
CAPTAINS CORNER Throughout the first 2 weeks of school I have been very excited to show the new kindy kids around and ask them how they like being here. According to some, they say they are having a great time! All other students seem to be having fun too! Also, well done everyone on the swimming carnivals—you
were fantastic! Lachie Blatch
3Way Swimming Carnival The 3‐way swimming carnival was great fun for Years 2 to 6. We all did our personal best, whether it was 1 lap or 4. The excitement culminated with every one cheer‐ing YCS relay teams. Yeoval was well represented with Shanai butler, Lincoln Monk and Lochlan Cameron age champions. We would like to thank Mrs Sargent for organising the day. It is always wonderful to catch up with our friends from Cumnock and St. Columba’s. Taleah Van Kemenade & Shanai Butler
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GETTING OFF TO A GOOD START Wondering how to help your kids do well at home and at school this year? The department’s parent resource School A to Z has a webcast full of expert tips for you to help your chil‐dren have a more successful year. The ‘Getting off to a great start webcast’ has a number of chapters on how to motivate children for learning, advice on peer relationships and how to handle bullying, communicat‐ing with children and the importance of strong home‐school relationships. The expert panel features advice from a child psychologist, an experienced family doctor and the department’s deputy director‐general (schools) Greg Prior. Watch the webcast at: http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing/development/getting‐off‐to‐a‐good‐start
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