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Principal’s Report Ryde Road Pymble 2073 Telephone: 9498 4644 Fax: 9498 4436 Email: gordonwest-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.gordonwest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Thursday 11 June Area Cross Country Monday 15 June P&C Meeting Friday 19 June Jump Rope For Heart Saturday 20 June Movie Afternoon

Mon 22-26 June Parent/Teacher Interviews Thursday 25 June Yr 4 Rocks Tour Friday 26 June Last Day Term Monday 13 July Staff Development Day Tues 14 July Students Resume T3 Thursday 16 July Athletics Carnival

Dates to Remember

On Thursday and Friday of last week I attended the Harbour to Hawkesbury Principal’s conference held at Terrigal. The conference was aptly named “A Brave New World”. Attendance at such conferences is invaluable in the exposure provided to best practice pedagogy in addition to the obvious benefits of networking opportunities available at a gathering of over 80 principals. Speakers included Geoff Scott (President NSW PPA) “The NSWPPA and Public Education”, Michael McQueen (Specialist in demographic shifts, change management and future trends) “The Shape of Things to Come in Education” and “21st Century Teaching and Learning”, Jayne Ann Young (Visible Learning Plus Consultant) “Visible Learning Research”, Andrew Churches (Classroom practitioner, author & presenter) “Technology and Thinking Skills in the Classroom” & “Growing Digital Citizens” and Adam Spencer (Author, broadcaster, mathematician). Overall the conference was very informative, exciting and inspiring. Our school administrative staff are a very talented group who are so capably handling all the challenges of a rapidly evolving educational system. As principal of Gordon West I am very fortunate to have the support of such excellent individuals.

Congratulations to Mrs Walmsley our Band Director, Concert Band 1 members and their parents on their outstanding performance at last weeks Chatswood Eisteddfod. Gordon West finished 2nd out of the 32 schools in their division which was truly a magnificent achievement.

A recent incident after school highlighted the need for everyone to be aware of the procedure that if for some reason a parent is unable to meet a child as planned or if there is a mix up in arrangements for collection after school then the child in question is to go immediately to the office steps until the problem is resolved. Usually a phone call or two can quickly solve the issue to everyone’s satisfaction. Please remind your child of this procedure. School Half Yearly reports will be sent home on Friday 19 June 2015. Included with the reports will be instructions on how to complete an online booking for parent teacher interviews to be held Week 10 (22-26 June). Bookings will be available on Friday 19 June from 7pm onwards.

Pictured Concert Band 1 Captains Skye and Raj with the band’s plaque from the Eisteddfod.

If parents experience any difficulties with this method of booking an interview please contact the school for assistance. Parents are reminded that although we have scheduled parent/teacher interviews the school expectation is that parents and teachers can and will organise meetings at any time should the need arise. Grade supervisors will present an overview of the new reporting format at the next meeting of the Gordon West P&C to be held next Monday at 7.30pm in the staffroom. Our new look Senior Dance Group, under the choreography of Mrs Sutton and Mrs Dutra will perform at The Glen Street Theatre on a number of occasions next week. We wish them all the best and look forward to watching them perform at the school later in the year. J Huckerby Principal

2016 Kindergarten Enrolments

If you have a child who will be enrolling in Kindergarten in 2016 please call into the school office and collect your enrolment form. If you are unable to visit the office or have neighbours/friends who need to enrol for 2016 the forms are also available on our website. We are now processing the 2016 Kindy enrolments and would like to start assessing our numbers for next year. Other documents required for enrolment include birth certificate/passport, immunisation papers and proof of address.

Book Covering There are a significant number of Guided Reading books which require covering before they can be used in classrooms. If any member of the school community is available to help with the covering of these books, Mrs

Garland would greatly appreciate your assistance in the school library next Wednesday, 17th June from 1:00pm – 3:10pm.

HOLIDAY TENNIS CLINIC

A holiday tennis clinic will be con-ducted at Gordon West School during both weeks of the school holidays: Clinic 1 June 29th-July 1st (Mon-Wed) 9.30 - 12pm $80 9.30 - 2.30pm $140 Clinic 2 July 6th - July 8th (Mon-Wed) 9.30 - 12pm $80 9.30 - 2.30pm $140 Enquiries and enrolments to Scott 0414 554 612

A Date for Dad’s Diary Come along and meet other GWPS dads at the West Pymble Bowling Club on 8th August a er 3pm. S ck around for a bite to eat and the Bledisloe cup rugby later in the evening. This is an informal event, which has no connec on to the school or P&C.  

If you are planning to be there for the game please let me know, as we will need to book tables.  Tom Lineen lineentom@yahoo.com.au 

 

Maxwell Street, South Turramurra

OPENMORNING

Friday 12 June 2015 9:00am to 11:00am

  We invite parents to take this opportunity to Come 

along and see our fantas c school in ac on. Enjoy morning tea with the Principal and other key 

members of staff. Guided tours commence at 9:00am.

www.turramurrahighschool.com.au

STUDENT NEWS

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE 

Congratula ons to the following students  who have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge 

Gabriel Allan KZ Erol Eskinazi KS Chen Rong KS 

David Daniels 1P Daniel Gunawarman 1F 

Woosung Lee 1P Mahalia Allan 2W 

Isabella Cardinale 2S Anni Huang 4/5S 

Soccer Results 29/5/15 Div 1 vs St Ives North Senior A won 5-0 Junior A1 won 3-1 Junior A2 lost 2-3 Div 2 vs Lindfield Senior B won 2-0 Junior B1 won 2-0 Junior B2 won 1-0 5/6//15 Div 1 vs Gordon East Senior A won 5-1 Junior A1 won 2-1 Junior A2 drew 0-0 Div 2 vs St Ives Park Senior B lost-1-2 Junior B1 lost-0-1 Junior B2 won 2-0

Netball Results 29/5/15 Jnr 1 vs Gordon West 2 won 15-4 Jnr 2 vs Gordon West 1 lost 4-15 Jnr 3 vs Lindfield East won 3-1 Jnr 4 vs Chatswood won 8-8

Snr 1 vs Roseville won 31-16 Snr 2 vs Killara won 19-0 Snr 3 vs St Ives Nth won 13-9 Snr 4 vs Lindfield won forfeit

5/6/15 Jnr 1 vs Roseville won Jnr 2 vs Lindfield won Jnr 3 vs Lindfield won 8-3 Jnr 4 vs St Ives Park won 18-0

Snr 1 vs Killara lost 11-15 Snr 2 vs Pymble lost 11-14 Snr 3 vs Beaumont Rd won 22-10 Snr 4 vs Chatswood won 5-3

Gerald Su 2D Kevin Xu 2D 

Sco  Daniels 3H James Woodbridge 3A Lily Hartshorn 4M Ethan Kim 4M 

Eleanor Wheatley 6D Hannah Woodbridge 6E 

SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL RESULTS

The children above all competed recently at the Zone Cross Country Carnival at St Ives Showground on Thursday 28 May, 2015. All the students competed admirably. Georgia Spanswick and Andrew Mance advanced to the Sydney North Area Carnival after placing 3rd and 6th in their age races and are competing today at Gosford Racecourse. We wish them all the best. D Papic Cross Country Coordinator

8/9 yrs Girls Boys 1 Amelia Watkins Lachie Herbert

2 Isabelle Stack Chris Goh

3 Gabby Brooker Nick Bagnall

4 Ava Luxford Rowan Nairn

5 Sasha Tate James Woodbridge

6 Elena Rostami Jason Kim

10 yrs Girls Boys 1 Georgia Spanswick Max Steel

2 Chloe Mudadu Thomas FitzGerald

3 Caitlin Blackburn Isaac Denny

4 Lara Van Bilsen Jude Murray

5 Scarlett Appleyard Jayden Alam

6 Isabella Brooker Junhee Seo

11 yrs Girls Boys 1 Hannah Gray Will Key

2 Abby Jackson Harry O’Neill

3 Amelia Waland Nick Nairn

4 Eleanor Wheatley Connor O’Byrne

5 Scarlett Sweeney Sam Guenther

6 Chloe Luxford Finlay Easson

12/13yrs Girls Boys 1 Jess Maciver Andrew Mance

2 Ella Daniel Will Blackburn

3 Caitlin Fletcher Ed O’Reilly

4 Charlie Bird Oscar Tate

5 Emily Kamata Jamie Holdsworth

6 Thea Whittaker Josh Dyer

KD Billy Hewson, Angie Ho, Ellie Riegels-Morgan KH Janelle Chai, Arvand Habibi, Jonah Zreika KS Leighton Zhang, Alicia baek, Jaren Sun KZ Blair Easson, Alfred Truong, Sophie Chen 1F Alana Frost, Carter Armstrong, Cailin Nipper 1P Ava Hartshorn, Tabitha Riyaz, David Daniels 1S Rainbow Wang, Cameron Dillon, Ben Rose 1W Hugo Evans, Penelope Danziger, Jian Jung 2D Jessica Bunce, Sabrina Cooke, Aaron Yang 2S Noah Mudadu, Kate Walters, Nicola Barnes 2W Tegan Murray, Susie Chen, Lucas San 2Z Joseph Whittaker, Sophie Eldershaw, Connor Sweeney 3A Jason Miao, Mia Wingrove, Rory Easson 3H Jason Kim, Alwyn Zhou, Amelie Hansen 3T Sienna Perego, Melissa Duke-Yonge, Billy Lineen 4M 4R Justin Wang, Kayla Jang, Isaac Denney 4/5S Marcus Len, Caitlyn Chen, Lachlan Sneddon 5D Luke Yoon, Elaina Chao, Sophie Johnston 5W Andy Miao, Arabella Judson, Ella Gibietis 6D Sonya Baker, Raj Parmar, Reese Rachman 6E Mia De Riz, Ali Sheng, Elizabeth Thompson

3/6/2015

Congratulations to Hugo Gibietis and Matt

Reeves who won their Division at the recent NSTA competition.

Well done boys !

KD Flynn Mallaby, Stephen Sun, Dominic Hayes KH Harry Woo, Kiara Hopwood, Emily Holdsworth KS Baxter Montgomery, Geena Hwang, Liam Broome KZ Alex Burrell, Caitlin Valentine, Yisen Pan 1F Yerin Seo, Rose Gilbert, Sophie Fisher 1P Sacha Littlemore, Flynn Pospech, Indigo Jakeman 1S Angus Carley, Sophia Bock, Billy Harris-Nevill 1W Nicole Molina Vassallo, Bowie Park, Skye Wienand 2D Anthony Bui, Tevin Kim, Jasmine Keith 2S Leo Shen, Emily Buchner, Charlotte Fowler 2W Cameron Fisher, Siyeon Seo, Sebastian Fry 2Z Laura Key, Thomas McCotter, Justin Zhan 3A Alex Currie, Chloe Frontczak, Tiffany FitzGerald 3H Fletcher Thompson, Romina Cooke, Annabel Boots 3T Cameron Fulwood, Georgia Gray, Aryan Bhalerao 4M Abtin Habibi, Eric Shin, Samuel Key 4R Zara Wood, Tom Sweeney, Bella Hall 4/5S Harry Ko, Lara van Bilsen, Keela Simpson 5D Amelia Waland, Lui Covey, Li Yan Low 5W Yue Hun Chia, Laura Melville, Maddie Alfred 6D Josh Dyer, Xanthe Iliopoulos, Baxter Sellen 6E Pilar Fraser, Ed O’Reilly, Layla Darwich

10/6/2015