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Award Winners Silver Awards

From the Principal 1

K-2 Fun Day 2

SRC Update 2

PSSA Rugby League 2

10 Year Celebration Bush Dance

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Cake Stall 2

Fathers Day Stall 3

Poems from S3S 3

Term Planner 4

Glenmore Park Public School

Newsletter

GOLDEN GUMTREE

POSTAL RUN Highlights from the Golden Gumtree Postal Run .

HIGHLIGHTS OF

INDIGENOUS CAMP Some highlights of the recently held Indigenous Camp held at Port Macquarie.

Dear Parents K-2 FUN DAY

Last Wednesday K-2 held their annual Fun Day. See the report further in the newsletter.

LITERACY LINKAGES The following students in Years 5 and 6 have submitted narrative writing that will be published in a book. Mackenzie Seeds, Lani Stone, Brayden Geurts, Eliza Murphy, Ben Turnell, Kaytesha Warren, Nicole Chandra, Chloe Blevin, Chloe Sheridan, Ebony Salama, Madeleine Bridge and Matthew Lalor.

GOLD MATHLETICS AWARD WINNERS

Congratulations to our latest Gold Mathletics Award achievers.

Issue 14 15 September 2009 SILVER AWARD

WINNERS Shaun M 2J

Lachlan B 5C Courtney M 5C

Shane M 3H Shania C 3S Sally B 3S

Shianne G 6P Aimee B 6P Luke C 3/4R Marlon F 3H Ryan F 6C

Devan B 5N Nicole C 6C

Harmony J 6C Chloe B 6C

Michael B 4H Madeleine B 6C

Isabelle L 3A Tony C 5N

Lino R 3/4R Thomas R 3/4R Isabella LM 5N Jack Cook 4M

Jesse B 4H Dean W 3/4R

GOLD AWARD

WINNERS Aimee B 6P Luke C 3/4R Chloe B 6C

Michael B 4H Madeleine B 6C

Dean W 3/4R Inside this issue: From the Principal K-2 Fun Day Indigenous Camp Sport Changes Sport News District Athletics Maths Survey Performing Arts

News Debating News Gold Award Winner

Profiles Tournament of the

Minds Term Planner

From the Principal……….

Learning GrowingForever Together

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INDIGENOUS CAMP / CELEBRATION In week 6 of this term a group of Year 5 and 6 boys, accompanied by Miss Jones and Mr and Mrs Daniel, travelled to Port Macquarie to participate in an Indigenous celebration. The first day we drove around six hours to reach Bonny Hills Beach where we stayed. A great place – lots of good things to do, good beds and good food! After our long drive we were rewarded with an evening of ten pin bowling. Congratulations to Raeidyn Peachey, the overall winner of the day. On Thursday we headed out to Wauchope for our History lesson at Timbertown. Port Macquarie was an early convict settlement, and having excellent forests, the timber industry had its beginnings here. In the afternoon we visited the Koala hospital for our Science lesson. On Friday we were treated to a range of activities including hip hop lessons with ‘Demolitian’ from ‘So You Think You Can Dance’, and a concert by Jessica Mauboy. In the process Raymond Wilkinson and Jase Edwards won T shirts for their participation in the Beat box contest. Of course we all had to have our arms put in plaster although Michael Alberts was the only one who kept it on till we got home ‘just so he could scare his Mum.’

WEEK 8 SUMMER PSSA CHANGES With Year 6 on school camp this week we have had to forfeit Kanga Cricket, Basketball and Softball. The only teams that will play are Opens Cricket with selected Yr 5 Kanga to replace Yr 6, supervised by Mr Arnold and Teeball supervised by Mrs Haberley (girls) and Mrs Chaulk (boys). ONLY the students attending PSSA this week will need to bring their $5.00, a hat and plenty of water as the weather is warming up. PSSA will resume as per usual next week, Week 9.

SPORT NEWS

Towards the end of Term 2 we recognised the sporting achievements of several students in Stage 3 who represented Penrith District at the Sydney West Trials and those who made it to participate at the State Championships. Just when we thought it was all over, there was a late selection for the Sydney West Softball Team. Congratulations to Eliza Murphy who is representing the region in Softball. This is an outstanding achievement and we wish her all the best for the State Championships in Tamworth, Week 10. Congratulations also to Matthew Lalor for being awarded District Senior Boy Champion at the recent District Athletics Carnival. This is a

WE’RE ON THE WEB!

http://www.glenmorepk-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

NAPLAN RESULTS The results for the National Testing in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) for Year 3 and 5 have arrived at the School. Parents should receive their results through the mail this week. Any parent wishing to discuss their child’s results is asked to contact the Acting Principal Mr Arnold. VOLUNTARY SCHOOL CONTRIBUTIONS 2009

(SCHOOL FEES) This years school contributions have been set at $35.00 per child or $60 per family. These funds will be used to purchase interactive whiteboards for classrooms.

FIVE CENT FUNDRAISER Our annual Five Cent Fundraiser will be conducted over the last two weeks of this term. If you have any five cent pieces lying around at home send them into school to add to your child’s class collection. The highest class totals in K-2 and Years 3-6 will earn a barbeque early in Term 4. Happy collecting!

PREMIER’S SPELLING CHALLENGE Good luck to Haadi Zubairi and Shane Munaweera (Year 4), Eliza Murphy (Year 5) and Mackenzie Seeds (Year 6) who will be representing the School in the Regional Final for the Premier’s Spelling Challenge at Cambridge Gardens Public School next Monday 21st September. Good Luck!!! Mark Arnold RELIEVING PRINCIPAL

K-2 FUN DAY Last Wednesday on a beautiful spring day, the K-2 Fun Day was held. It was wonderful to see the children all happily participating in races and activities and cheering on their House Teams. The mums and pre-schoolers were enthusiastic in their races and the ground shook when the dads took to the field. As co-ordinating teacher, I could not have organized this event without the support and exper-tise of the wonderful staff of GPPS. Thank you to everyone for making this such a fun day! Mrs Killeen

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HOW TO CONTACT US Address: 33-41 The Lakes Drive GLENMORE PARK NSW 2745 Phone: 4733 6204 FAX: 4733 6430

Thank you to the Vella Family (Jack in 4M and Eliza in

1/2B) for their kind donation of

two televisions to the school. Your

generosity is much appreciated

by our children.

Catholic Scripture

Please join us for our annual school Para-

Liturgy on 22nd September. This will commence at 10.25 am for

Primary and 11.25 am for

Infants. Parents are welcome to

attend.

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wonderful achievement. Best wishes to all the Glenmore Park Athletes attending the Regional Athletics at Homebush on Monday 21st September.

DISTRICT ATHLETICS CARNIVAL REPORT

On Wednesday September 2 and Thursday September 3, 48 children travelled by bus to Werrington Oval to represent Glenmore Park at the District Athletics Carnival. The weather was perfect for most of the carnival, except the Thursday afternoon when the rain set in. The relay finals were completed in light showers but the Junior High Jump had to be abandoned for safety reasons. All the children competed with enthusiasm and excellent sportsmanship. There was a strong school spirit with everyone cheering loudly for all our competitors. Many thanks to the parents for coming along and supporting the children over the two days. The following students will represent the Penrith District at the Sydney West Athletics Carnival to be held at The Sydney International Athletics Centre at Olympic Park, Homebush on Monday 21st September. Matthew Lalor , Mitch Haggart, Brandon Tavae, Bryson Besters, Brandon McFall, Spike Teio, Andrew Cotten and Shannon Munaweera. The following students all reached the finals of their respective events: Shay Lee Bent, Bryson Besters, Siyumi Dassanayake, Mitch Haggart, Devan Brown, Shannon Munaweera, Chantelle Cobol, Chelsea Graham, Matthew Lalor, Shane Munaweera and James Saxby. .

MATHLETICS SURVEY This year we have been trialling “Mathletics” in our school to enhance our mathematics program. We are now at the stage of deciding whether to implement the program again in 2010. We would like your feedback on your child’s use of the program. Can you please fill out the survey at the end of this newsletter, add any comments and return it to the office by this Friday the 18th September.

PERFORMING ARTS NEWS In Week 4 of this term, several performing arts groups attended the Penrith Valley Performing Arts Festival. The primary and infants tribal groups and boys hip hop performed excellent routines and were well received by the sold out audience. Our choir joined the combined choir to create a beautiful performance of some dazzling songs. The drama group, who also performed at the Sydney West Drama Festival in Week 3, performed a brilliant piece called “Scuttle” and made our skin crawl by exploring the world of cockroaches. Last Friday evening, our jazz dance group performed at the

Blue Mountains Nepean Dance Festival. The group were performing a piece entitled “Extraterrestrial” where two astronauts are drawn into an eerie alien world. The girls danced beautifully and are proud of all the hard work that they put into learning and perfecting their performance. The boys hip hop and infants tribal dancers performed again yesterday evening and their performance reflected all of their hard work in rehearsals. Mrs Curran

DEBATING NEWS Last Thursday, our debating team competed against Regentville P.S. in round four of the debating competition. Mackenzie, Daniel, Aimee and Chloe worked hard to represent the case “that electronics are ruining our social lives”. Unfortunately our team was defeated by a narrow 6 points but they argued well and made some excellent rebuttals. Our next debate will be “that the media promotes a selfish society” at Luddenham P.S. Mrs Curran

GOLD AWARD WINNER PROFILES Chloe Blevin 6C Hi, my name is Chloe and I am in 6C. My favourite subject is writing and I am also going to the writer’s environment camp later this term. I am currently in the jazz dance group. My hobbies are guitar, which I have been playing for three and a half years. I also enjoy Reading. Some of my favourite books are Inkheart, Er-agon, the Twilight Saga and the Deltora Quest series. I have 2 dogs, Jasper and Cooper, 2 cats Abby and Holly, two birds and three fish. Madeleine Bridge 6C Hi, my name is Maddy Bridge and I’m in Class 6C with Mr Corry. I have achieved many things while being at Glenmore Park Public School such as PSSA netball, softball, dancing, choir and my latest achievement is reaching the public speaking cluster finals and of course taking the role of School Vice Captain. My favourite sub-ject is sport with Mrs Daniel and my hobbies are playing netball and shopping. I am so happy that I have received my gold award and I am hoping to receive an honour award this year.

TOURNAMENT OF THE MINDS On Sunday 30th August our first Maths/Engineering team presented at UWS Kingswood. They worked extremely hard to solve the problem without any outside assistance. Congratulations to Chloe Lopez, Nicole Chandra, Madelaine Gillman, Matthew Lalor, O’Rion Faletolu, Claire Hughes and Sarah Pamplin, who did a great job in representing Glenmore Park. Kylie Webb Co-ordinating Teacher

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TERM 3, 2009

WEEK 8

14/9 BMDF Evening Performance (Infants and boys Hip Hop)

15/9 BMDF Afternoon Matinee

16/9 Maths Olympiad

17/9 Year 6 to Canberra

18/9 Summer PSSA Begins Year 6 to Canberra

WEEK 9

21/9 Regional Athletics Spelling Bee Regional finals

22/9 Catholic Mass—Library (during scripture) Basketball workshop

23/9 Cake Stall Year 2 Showcase

24/9 Year 2 Excursion to Muru Mittigar

25/9 PSSA

WEEK 10

28/9 29/9 Public Speaking Final Year 5 High School visit Basketball workshop

30/9 Drum Beat Choir rehearsal at JSPAC

1/10 Year 5 Antarctic Visit

2/10 NO PSSA PBL Reward Day

———————————————————————————————————————————————————————- MATHLETICS SURVEY (Please complete and return to the office by Friday 18th September) 1. Was Mathletics beneficial as a homework activity? Strongly disagree Agree Strongly Agree 2. Is Mathletics effective in helping your child develop and practise his/hers mathematical skills? Strongly disagree Agree Strongly Agree

3. Did your child participate in the Mathletic challenges e.g. Titian’s Competition, World Mathletics Day? Yes No 4. Will you be willing to pay the $10 for the program again in 2010? To access this program privately it would cost over

$100. Yes No

5. Any comment about the program that you would like to add? ________________________________________________________________________________________________

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