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Another wonderful Easter Hat Parade occurred on Friday 11th April to conclude Term 1. The K-2 teachers and their students did themselves proud with many imaginative hats being created including one for our Principal, Mr Arnold, now proudly on display in his office. Well done to Mrs Watts for the co-ordination of the event and the enthusiastic parents and grandparents who formed our audience.

CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS 2014

On Thursday 3rd April, primary students competed in the school Cross Country Carnival. The weather was perfect for running the carnival, which was held at school. All the children competed with great enthusiasm and sportsmanship. The final results were as follows: 8/9 Years 1st – Latishia & Jai 2nd- Krystal & Kaelem 3rd- Taylah & Lucas 10 Years 1st – Saskia & Caelum 2nd- Jasmine & Rhys 3rd- Elina & Cruz 11 years 1st – Madison & Brayden 2nd- Genevieve & James 3rd- Emily & Jacob 12/13 Years 1st – Tayler & Jalu 2nd- Sarah & Jayden 3rd- Caitlin & Brock The winning house on the day was Jillack. The District Carnival is on Friday 9th May at Jamison

Award Winners

Silver Awards

Inside this issue :

From the Principal 1

K-2 Fun Day 2

SRC Update 2

PSSA Rugby League 2

10 Year Celebration

Bush Dance 2

Cake Stall 2

Fathers Day Stall 3

Poems from S3S 3

Term Planner 4

Glenmore Park Public School

Newsletter

From the Principal Dear Parents Welcome back to Term 2! Thank you so much to all our families for your wonderful support of our fundraising efforts this year. Your donations for our upcoming Mother’s Day stall on Friday have been outstanding and promises to be one of our best ever stalls. The support of our school community is greatly appreciated and the funds will directly benefit all the students in our school. We have also had the best response in recent school history to our request for Voluntary Contributions (school fees). We have received approximately $6500 so far to go towards creating some wonderful spaces for student use in the library and back playground. Invoices were distributed last term and we encourage all families to forward their contributions to the office. If you have misplaced your invoice and need to confirm amount owing please contact the school office.

EASTER HAT PARADE

Issue 6 6 May 2014

SILVER AWARD

WINNERS

Emma 3H

Harrison 3H

Jadyn 3H

Chanel 4B

Jasmine 4B

Carrisse 4W

Charlotte 5H

Zoe 5H

Ebony 5M

Liam 5M

Liana 5M

Nicholas 5/6A

Cooper 6C

Alyssa 6C

Winnie 3W

GOLD AWARD

WINNERS

Jadyn 3H

Kaitlyn 3O

Charlotte 5H

Zoe 5H

Holly 5M

Cooper 6C

Alyssa 6C

HONOUR AWARD

WINNERS

Zoe 5H

Holly 5M

Alyssa 6C

Inside this issue: From the Principal

Easter Hat Parade

Cross Country

AFL

Milo Cricket

Trail Blazers

Mother’s Day Stall

Easter Raffle

2W Meeting

Sport team

Uniforms

It’s Academic

Dance trip

Honour Award

Winner Profile

Term Planner

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WE’RE ON THE

WEB!

http://

www.glenmorepk-

p.schools.nsw.edu.

au

Park, Jamison Road, Penrith and the first 6 placegetters in each age group have qualified.

On Sunday 6th of April 15 students from Years 5 and 6 travelled to Spotless Stadium at Sydney Olympic Showground. The Glenmore Park students were selected to play in the half-time Auskick game during the Giants and Melbourne AFL game. The Glenmore Park students were very excited to play in front of a crowd of 7,000 spectators against Faulconbridge Public School. The students scored some fantastic goals and kept the other team scoreless. A big thank you to all of the parents and friends who joined us on the day. What a wonderful experience for our students!

Milo T20 Cricket Gala Day

At the end of last Term on 2nd April, 40 students from years 3-6 travelled to St Mary’s Indoor Sport Centre to compete in the Milo T-20

Cricket Gala Day. The students played various other schools and two of our senior teams were successful in remaining undefeated throughout the day. Congratulations to all Glenmore Park students on an outstanding day. Westcare Leadership Program (Trail Blazers)

In Term 1 Westcare ran a program with our current school leaders. This program focussed on modelling positive behaviours, initiating, encouraging others, listening, communicating and making decisions. Well done to all involved! Westcare 'A Girl Like You' program ran in Term 1 with 9 girls across grades 2-6. The girls had a wonderful time with Emily learning about themselves, being unique, making healthy choices and how to develop positive friendships. The girls were involved in lots of fun activities during the sessions!

Salvos Leadership Program

During Term 1 a group of 13 boys across grades 4-6 were involved in a social skills program run by the Salvos. The boys will continue the program in Term 2 developing self awareness, resilience, strengthening self confidence and self esteem. The social skills programs currently running at GPPS are of huge benefit to our students and we look forward to running similar programs throughout the year.

PAYMENT CHANGES TO MOTHER’S DAY STALL 2014

At our Mother’s Day stall this year, the Parent Fundraising Committee have prepared presents in two categories, $5 and $10. On the morning of the stall children will bring in their $5 or $10 note in an envelope to hand to their teacher who will mark off on a class list the present category your child will be selecting from. It would be appreciated if exact money can be provided. Children in each class will be issued with shopping tokens to the value of the money they have paid when they arrive at the stall and will be directed to the appropriate present table to make their selection assisted by the Fundraising Committee. Due to the large number of donations children will have the

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HOW TO CONTACT

US

Address:

33-41 The Lakes

Drive

GLENMORE PARK

NSW 2745

Phone:

4733 6204

FAX:

4733 6430

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opportunity to purchase more than one present. We are accepting donations of items for the stall through until tomorrow, Wednesday 7th May. The Fundraising Committee hopes that all families will support this yearly fundraising event for our School. Please note: The District Cross Country students will be able to purchase their gifts at 8:30am before they leave.

EASTER EGG RAFFLE At our recent Easter Egg Raffle the Fundraising Committee raised a total of $1687. Congratulations to the hard working committee who gave so much of their time in making this event a success and the school community in donating the items that formed our prizes.

2W MEET THE TEACHER MEETING Parents from our newly formed Year 2 class, 2W will have an opportunity to meet 2W teacher Miss Witherspoon this Wednesday at 3:15pm in the 2W classroom. Miss Witherspoon will outline her planning and procedures for 2014 and provide a chance for parents to see their children’s new classroom.

SPORT TEAM UNIFORMS The past few years have seen an increase of the number of students at our school participating in physical activity at school, and in particular, representative sport. Last year our senior girls were the only team in the State Paul Kelly Cup not wearing AFL jerseys. Although it didn’t affect our skill—we won the Cup, it outlined the need for our school to keep abreast of the trends in sports management. So with the support of some special funding we began a project to update the equipment and uniforms for the representative sports our school participates in. New netball bibs were purchased and, for the first time our school basketball teams now have singlets to play in. However, we needed to raise sponsorship for jerseys for the other sports. Our first sponsorship was for our rugby league teams. Thank you to the family whose business ‘Shades’ was responsible for their new look rugby shirts. The Pease family came to our rescue with a sponsorship from ‘Sydney Dragway’ to upgrade our soccer jerseys. Thank you to the Pease family. As a result of running lunchtime activities with AFL NSW coaches we now have a sponsorship by the AFL for our first set of AFL jerseys. Thank you to those students and their parents who, by supporting this program, secured the sponsorship for us. Although new equipment and pants for softball were purchased we are now looking for a sponsor to upgrade our 18 year old and very tired softball jerseys. (2 sets of jerseys cost around $1000). So if your business, or one you know of, would be interested in supporting our final uniform project, please contact the school office or Mrs Daniel. Once again a huge thanks go out to SHADES, SYDNEY DRAGWAY, and AFL NSW.

IT’S ACADEMIC In the second half of last year Miss Whitby prepared a group of children from Years 5 and 6 to take part in “It’s Academic”. The program is being screened at 7am on Channel 72 this week so it may be something you will need to record but quite a few of the team involved are in our present Year 6 so we are encouraging all students and their families to make it compulsory viewing. Well done Miss Whitby on your work in making this presentation possible.

EMILIE’S AMERICA DANCE TRIP On Friday 11 April I will be on a plane to represent my dance school, Exite Dance Co, in California. My dance school and I are going to dance at Disneyland, Universal Studios and California Adventure Park. All of the songs we are dancing to are Australian. There are four dances and I’m in three of them. I can’t wait to perform there.

HONOUR AWARD WINNER PROFILE ALYSSA 6C—Hi, my name is Alyssa and I’m in 6C. I’ve been at this school since Kindy and my favourite subjects are: Maths, Art, P.E., Science and HSIE. I’m also very excited that I got into dance group this year. I like doing Hapkido and I use to play soccer. Some of my friends are: Alexis, Billie, Genevieve, Ruby and Beth. I’m very happy with myself that I achieved my goal of getting an honour award.

LLW@S

Live Life Well at School

FORTNIGHT FACT

GET ACTIVE EACH DAY

Encourage fair play Sport and games are a great way for children to learn

about teamwork, rules, winning, losing as well as providing invaluable physical activity. Parents can

encourage fair play by:

Emphasising effort and having fun, not just

winning.

Cheering and acknowledging good play by both teams.

Talking about the game not the result. For more information about encouraging fair play go to

the NSW Sport and Recreation website

www.dsr.nsw.gov.au or phone 131 302.

Our school will be hosting a free parent workshop about “Healthy Eating” in Week 5 on Thursday 29 May form 1:30-3:00pm. It is run by NSW Health

and the Cancer Council.

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TERM 2, 2014

WEEK 2

5/5 6/5

Infants Auskick

7/5

Primary Auskick

8/5

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Summer uniform

9/5

District Cross

Country

Mother’s Day Stall

WEEK 3

12/5 13/5

NAPLAN

Infants Auskick

14/5

NAPLAN

Primary Auskick

15/5

NAPLAN

16/5

Winter PSSA begins

WEEK 4

19/5 20/5

ICAS—Computers

Panther Trophy

21/5

Year 1 Cake Stall

22/5 23/5

PSSA

WEEK 5

26/5 27/5

Greg Alexander

Shield

28/5

Senior Boys to Paul

Kelly Cup

29/5

Cancer Council

Fruit & Veg Parent

Workshop 1.30-

3pm

30/5

PSSA

WEEK 6

2/6

Stg 3 Digi Ed

3/6 4/6

ICAS Science

5/6

PVPAF Choir

rehearsal

6/6

PSSA

WEEK 7

9/6

QUEENS BIRTHDAY

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

10/6 11/6

Yr 6 CPR Course

SydWest Cross

Country

Panther Trophy final

DISCO

12/6 13/6

PSSA

WEEK 8

16/6

ICAS Writing

17/6

ICAS Spelling

18/6

Primary Athletics

Carnival

19/6

Yr 5 Antarctica

Incursion—Hall

20/6

Last week PSSA

Reports go home

WEEK 9

23/6

Aboriginal

Performace

24/6

Infants

Parent/ Teacher

interviews

25/6

Yr 2 Cake Stall

Primary Parent/

Teacher interviews

26/6

PBL Rewards Day

27/6

Last day Term 2

NO PSSA