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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

2

Cake Stall 2

Fathers Day Stall 3

Poems from S3S 3

Term Planner 4

Glenmore Park Public School

Newsletter

“Girls Can Do Anything “ SPYNS—COMMUNITY SCHOOL

PARTNERSHIP

Students from Stage 3 have been involved in a School-Community partnership providing young people with skills and learning which enhances their self-esteem and resilience. The girls are certainly enjoying the opportunity to work together closely in a girls only pro-gram, working for two days on team building and confidence building exer-cises.

STOP PRESS!! Diarama

Craziness Hits Year 6

Over the last two weeks Year 6 have been designing dio-ramas of their information re-

Dear Parents

Leading for the Future! On 21st May Madelaine Gillman and Joshua Nargar attended the Penrith City Council recep-tion acknowledging their election in 2009 as School Captains. This important role offers stu-dents the opportunity to learn new skills and to make a difference in the school and the future community. Students met the mayor, Jim Ait-ken, and received a special acknowledgement.

We are very proud of you.

A Taste of Community Leadership Chloe Lopez was selected to represent our school along with 22 others to be a Penrith City Counsellor for a day. Chloe will enjoy practising her leadership

skills.

Issue 9 16 June, 2009

SILVER AWARD WINNERS

Tyler Yr 4

Hollie Yr 6

Chloe Yr 6

Matthew Yr 6

Kaytesha Yr 6

Grace Yr 4

Mackenzie Yr 6

Sophie Yr 3/4

Aimee Yr 6

Brandon Yr 3

Siyumi Yr 6

Aryan Yr 3/4

GOLD AWARD WINNERS

Hollie Yr 6

Chloe Yr 6 Inside this issue: From the Principal Gold Award Winner

Profile Athletics Carnival Regional Cross

Country Walkathon Rugby League

Reports Cartoonist Visit Cake Stall Term Planner

From the Principal……….

Learning GrowingForever Together

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STAR STUDENTS

Congratulations Bridie in KW. Heidi had her poster published in the 2009 Water Calendar.

K/6S students Callum and Anthony

are excelling with their work.

Mathletics Award

Winners Students have been very conscientious on the ‘Live’ mathletics site: “The highest correct answers per grade have earned these students an orange award. You too can earn an orange award just by completing your mathletics. See if you are the highest by Week 11.” Congratulations- Kindergarten, Bridie Murphy—6932 Year 1, Tyler Jones—5427 Year 2, Jayden Clark—13663 Year 3, Aryan Grover—32821 Year 4, Matthew Tranter—21589 Year 5, Heidi Midcalf—16329 Year 6, Charmaine Cobol—36892 Special thank you to these parents who donated toys and books to the “Constructive Playground” Mrs Saxby, Mrs Marchetta, Mrs Cotten, Mrs Dawson, Ms Meldrum and Mrs Barnett.

WE’RE ON THE WEB!

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

ports. They are fantastic and of a very high standard. See them displayed in the library and in the front office.

TEAM EFFORT SCORES A WIN Congratulations to our Senior U11 Football Team who played in the Panther Trophy on Thursday 11th June.

MEMORIES OF THE PAST—YEAR 4 Year 4 students visited local historical areas to research their local area. Students experienced

school in 1800’s and were fascinated by histori-cal grave sites.

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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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We have plenty of toys now…. Michelle Collins PRINCIPAL

GOLD AWARD WINNER PROFILE

CHLOE Yr 6 - Hi, my name is Chloe. I have been at GPPS since Kindie. During this time I have partici-pated in swimming carnivals, dance group, choir and PSSA Netball. I enjoy dancing, camping and cooking outside of school and my favourite subjects are maths and science. My favourite teachers have been Mrs Chaulk my year 5 teacher and Mr Corry my year 6 teacher.

PRIMARY ATHLETICS CARNIVAL The Athletics Carnival will take place Wednesday 24th June at Werrington Oval. All students in the pri-mary (years 3-6) will be involved in a series of events rotating throughout the day. All students enjoy the day as they have the opportunity to participate in many activities. We welcome all parents to come along as spectators to support your children. It prom-ises to be a fun day. Information and permission notes have already been sent out.

REGIONAL CROSS COUNTRY On Wednesday 10th June 6 Glenmore Park students represented the Penrith District at the Regional Cross Country at Castle Hill. They performed very well with the following results:- Matthew Lalor 9th in the 12 years Andrew Cotten 10th in the 12 years Siyumi Dassanayake 15th in the 11 years James Saxby 27th in the 11 years Madelaine Gillman 81st in the 12 years Johnny Smyth 76th in the 11 years

WALKATHON The total so far is $13000 – all money should have been finalised by last Friday. We will still accept late payments during this week but prizes will not be allo-cated to anyone after this Wednesday.

RUGBY LEAGUE REPORTS

On Thursday the 11th of June two teams represented our school at the Panther Trophy. The U11’s boy’s qualified for the grand final UNDE-FEATED. The scores were 42-0 defeated Crawford Public School, 20-0 defeated Tregear Public School, 32-0 defeated Holy Spirit Catholic School, 20-0 de-feated Kellyville Ridge Public School. All of the boys played very well. After all the hard work all the boys did they were very tired but there’s more football to come!!! By Jy The under 10’s had a busy day also playing three games against Lethbridge Park, Regentville and Bennett Road. Unfortunately we lost all three matches but displayed great sportsman-ship throughout the day. Special thanks to the par-ents who took time to assist with transport to and from Whalan Reserve. Your help and support is greatly appreciated!!

CARTOONIST VISIT—DAVE HACKETT A reminder that this cartooning workshop is being held at school tomorrow and Thursday for all stu-dents K-6. The cost is $5 per student. Extra permis-sion notes are available at the front office.

CAKE STALL WEDNESDAY 17TH JUNE 1/2B and 1E will be operating a Cake Stall at recess time tomorrow. Please support this fundraiser by sending 50c or $1 to purchase one or two things from the stall. The parents of 1/2B and 1E have been asked to kindly donate the cakes and treats for this stall. We thank you for your efforts.

The Principal and Staff at Glenmore

Park Public School do not endorse any of

the paid advertisements which appear in this Newsletter. Organisations which sponsor our school will

carry a sponsorship

acknowledgement

SHINING STAR WINNERS WEEKS 5 & 6

3-6: Grace 4M, Jesse 5N, Shania 5N, David 5L,

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TERM 2, 2009

WEEK 8

15/6

16/6 17/6 Cartoon Dave Cake Stall 1/2B & 1E Final Day Walkathon prize allocation

18/6 Cartoon Dave

19/6 PSSA

WEEK 9

22/6 23/6 Choir Rehearsal at Jamison ICAS Spelling Competition ICAS Writing Competition

24/6

25/6 26/6 PSSA

WEEK 10

29/6 30/6 1/7 Reports go home

2/7 3/7 PSSA

WEEK 11

6/7 NAIDOC Week Primary Parent/Teacher Interview Night

7/7 Aboriginal Cultural Visit Infants Parent/Teacher Interview Night

8/7 New Date for Pri-mary Athletics Car-nival, Werrington

9/7 10/7 NO PSSA Yr 6 Incentive Activities

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