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Cricket Knockout Last Thursday, the school cricket team played Forster Public School in the first round of the PSSA knockout competition. Although our boys had far less experience, we pressured the opposition into a fairly close match. At one stage we even had a chance for a team 'hat-trick' (three wickets in three balls). We were able to bowl the Forster team out for 142 and made a brave effort to chase down their score. With only four wickets lost Nabiac scored 110 runs but, unfortunately, ran out

of time and overs to catch their total. A massive thank you to all of the supporters who turned up to cheer us on and another big thank you to Lucas Gordon for filling in at short notice. Mark Jackson

Message from the Principal…

Dear Parents & Carers,

Community spirit is alive and well in Nabiac! Congratulations to the P&C for a spectacular night

of singing and dancing at the 80s night. Such a lot of work went into organising the night and it

paid off with so many people coming along to support the event. On behalf of the students and

staff I would like to sincerely thank the P&C for their massive effort. The purpose of the night

was to raise funds for the school and we look forward to hearing the final total.

With new families at the school this year, it is timely to remind everyone that “The Fort” is

only supervised by staff during the school play periods. That means, in the interest of safety

for everyone, it is not to be used by anyone at other times, including pre-schoolers. I appreciate

your cooperation with this Work, Health and Safety guideline.

Have a great week

Narelle Kessey

Principal.

Calendar March

13 Cross Country

16 P&C AGM and Meeting

18 Soccer Gala Day Yrs 3 & 4

19 School Photos

20 Last day to order Grazing

Board

April

9 Easter Hat Parade

9 Last day of Term

27 Staff Resume

28 Students Resume

Core Value.

This week our Core Value is Responsibility.

“I can listen and follow instructions.”

Nabiac ‘The best little school...anywhere’ Public School Clarkson St Nabiac 2312 6554 1247 Email: nabiac-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

6554 1122 Web: https://nabiac-p.schools.nsw.gov.au Newsletter Term 1, Week 7 9th March 2020

Assembly

This week’s assembly will be held on

Wednesday at 2.30pm. 5/6 Goannas will be

running the assembly and performing an

item. All welcome.

Thought for the

week…

“You can’t go back

and change the

beginning but you

can start where you

are and change the

ending.”

~ C.S Lewis

Cross Country Just a reminder to parents that we will be holding our School Cross Country Carnival this Friday the 13th March 2020. The event will commence early in the day in order to get the best race conditions. Provided below is an approximate starting time for each age group; 5/6 Boys 9:28 5/6 Girls 9:30 7 Boys 9:36 7 Girls 9:38 8/9 Boys 9:44 8/9 Girls 9:46 10 Boys 9:52 10 Girls 9:56 11 Boys 10:02 11 Girls 10:04 12/13 Boys 10:10 12/13 Girls 10:12 We will need some people to volunteer as marshalls to steer kids in the right direction and to encourage them along! If there are any parents that would like to be of assistance on the day, please contact Mr Jackson through the office. Stewart House For almost 90 years, Stewart House has supported children from across NSW and ACT public schools who are going through tough times and are in need of a break In more recent times, this has included many children from families who have been adversely affected by prolonged drought and economic hardship. Children attend Stewart House free of charge and we rely almost entirely on charitable donations to run our 12 day program, designed to develop their physical, social and emotional wellbeing. School fundraising has always provided much needed revenue for Stewart House. Our school contributes by running the Stewart House Donation Drive. Every student will be sent home with an envelope. We ask every family to donate $2 into each envelope and return for a chance to win a holiday prize worth $4,000. School Photos – Change of date School Photos will be held on Thursday 19th March. Sibling envelopes are available at the office. Parents, please return the envelope/s to school by Friday 13th March. Payment can be made on line or cash in the envelope.

Nabiac Public School P&C Association Notice of Annual General Meeting The P&C AGM will be held on Monday 16th March 2020 at 6pm, in the Staffroom at Nabiac Public School. Following the acceptance of the minutes from the 2019 AGM and the tabling of the Audit Report, all current office bearer roles will be declared vacant and the nominations called for the following positions: President, Vice President, Second Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Uniform Coordinator

The AGM is open to all parents and carers who wish to attend, however only financial members are eligible to vote and /or nominate for vacant positions. At the completion of the AGM the general meeting will be held.

To be a financial member a $1 yearly payment will be required to be paid to the P&C prior to the meeting. To nominate yourself or someone else you may fill out a form at the office.

Gift yourself or someone else a slice of

Nabiac history with a chopping/nibbles

board milled locally (thank you Gordon's

Mill!) from the camphor laurel trees

formerly adorning the front of Nabiac

Public School. Here their silky legacy lives

on!

These beautifully sanded and oiled boards

can be PRE-ORDERED at the school's front office, or at the 80s Night. Approx sizes are small

(30cm x 23cm) $10; medium (45cm x 23 cm) $20; large (60cm x 28cm) $30. Wood grains will

vary between pieces. All funds to Nabiac's P&C and thus the school. Payment must be made

when ordering. Last orders need to be in by Friday 20th March. Thank you!

Canteen Roster

Wk Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

7 9/3 Gaye Godbolt Faye Thompson

10/3 Faye Thompson Wendy Currie

11/3 Lee Caithness

Steph Woolnough

12/3 Emily Pye

Faye Thompson

13/3 Steph Woolnough Lyn Dower Volunteer needed

8 16/3 Tanya Combe Faye Thompson

17/3 Lyn George Margaret Dale

18/3 Amanda Holden Faye Thompson

19/3 Elva Salmi

Volunteer needed

20/3 Steph Woolnough

Volunteer needed Volunteer needed

9 23/3 Lauren Campbell Michelle Gordon

24/3 Faye Thompson Wendy Currie

25/3 Lee Caithness Steph Woolnough

26/3 Emily Pye

Faye Thompson

27/3 Steph Woolnough Camilla Watkins Volunteer needed

10 30/3 Lauren Campbell Faye Thompson

31/3 Faye Thompson Tanya Combe

1/4 Amanda Holden Faye Thompson

2/4 Elva Salmi Kim Page

3/4 Volunteer needed Lyn Dower Steph Woolnough

11 6/4 Gaye Godbolt Taryn Margraf

7/4 Faye Thompson Wendy Currie

8/4 Hannah Kelly Margaret Dale

9/4 Easter Hat

Parade

Emily Pye Christal Pearce

10/4 Holidays GOOD FRIDAY

NPS 80s Night Fundraiser Saturday’s 80s night was a great success! Thank you to everyone who attended and for the incredible effort everyone

went to in getting dressed up for the night. What a sight! It was a tight contest, but the Best Dressed winners were

Kylie Mole aka Nic Hansen and Hulk Hogan aka Wes Bending.

The night raised a total of $4,245.25. This was thanks to ticket sales, food platters purchased for the evening, sale of

cheese boards and raffle tickets, passes for the photo booth, and coins from the arcade game. Thank you everyone for

your generous contributions and support! Congratulations to Guy Page on your raffle win.

The NPS P&C Association would like to say a big special thank you to the following people:

The school office staff, Mrs McKinnon, Mrs Crick and Mrs Dickson for helping with the sale of tickets and taking

platter orders. Thank you for your support.

Lauren Campbell and Tanya Combe for organising the food platters, and to Michelle Gordon for helping put them

together on the night. The platters were delicious, thank you!

Christal Pearce, Stacey Forrest and Lauren Campbell for the amazing decorations. Such a massive effort which

transported our local hall back to the 1980s.

The fantastic DJ’s, the Firefly Spinners, you guys really made the night. Thank you for donating your time, expertise,

equipment and energy.

Nabiac Pharmacy, thank you for selling tickets for us.

Wayne and Deb Kelly and DJ Alex who judged the Lip Sync Talent Quest. Brilliant job (although we’re currently

dealing with an appeal from the 4th placed entrants).

Hugh Murray aka David Bowie, for MC’ing the evening, thank you!

The Newell family for donating the cocktail table arcade game for the evening. Thank you Newells for your

generosity.

Those committed souls who stayed behind on Saturday evening to help stack chairs and tables and those who turned

up on Sunday morning to do the final clean up, thank you.

The teachers and support staff who performed a brilliant lip sync act on the night, securing 1st place in the

competition. Thank you for your enthusiasm!!

Finally, a huge thank you to all those who bought raffle tickets, came along to the event, got dressed up and got into

the spirit of the evening. It was a great night, thank you. Rebecca Harper P&C President