“ A c h i e v e m e n t f o r A l l i n a H a p p y , S a f e & C a r i n g E n v i r o n m e n t ”

Volume 19 Issue 19

Date: Monday 17th June 2019

Phone: 6343 2122 Fax: 6343 1480

Email: grenfell-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: grenfell-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Facebook: www.facebook.com/GrenfellPS

June

Tues 18th School Banking

Year 6 STEM Day at THLHS

Wed 19th School Dental Screening

Fri 21st Whole School Assembly

4Violet & 2/3Indigo Plays

Mon 24th Year 10 Work Experience

Tues 25th School Banking

Wed 26th Forbes Family Dentist Visit 11.30 Whole School

Debating

Stronger, Smarter

Thurs 27th Police Visit—Bullying

Whole School

Fri 28th CAN ASSIST Morning Tea

5/6 Red & K/1 Aqua Plays

July

Wed 3rd Reports go home

21st June

Book Club payment

Loop is the Scholastic Book Club Linked Online Ordering & Payment Platform for parents.

To order & pay visit:

www.scholastic.com.au/loop

Or download on google play /App Store

The Cowra Dental Clinic will be providing

free dental checks for students at Grenfell

Public School this Wednesday 19th June.

Please return your consent form as these

must be signed and returned to school

before the visit if you would like your child

to attend.

Stage 1 had a wonderful STEM day with Mr Kilby on Thursday. Classes

enjoyed learning about different animal traits and designing an animal

for the class zoo. They then transformed their blue bots into animals.

Students programmed their blue bot with an algorithm to move around

the zoo and visit other animals.

Congratulations to Max Reid (20th), Maddison Martin (25th) and Billy Headley (26th) and all the other

students who competed at Western Cross Country at Geurie. A huge thanks to Mrs Kilby for being the school

representative and all the parents who supported their children.

Tomorrow Year Six students will be attending a STEM day at The Henry Lawson High School as part of their

transition process. A separate information note went home last week.

Staff will be participating in a Professional Learning Evening on Tuesday night. Janet Westcott (Literacy and

Numeracy Consultant) will be presenting the valuable training.

Next week we have Police Liaison Officer (Young) Constable Kentwell giving a talk on Bullying to all students.

There will be two sessions K-2 and 3-6.

You can never rely on a roster to have everyone’s name on it. I also want to thank Jenny Schneider, Tania

Mooney, Rick Power and Tamara Ingrey who also spent some time at the Henry Lawson Festival assisting with

the Donut stall. Your help is greatly appreciated. The Donut stall is a wonderful fund raiser but requires lots of

hands. I enjoyed my time throwing some cinnamon sugar on the donuts.

Our Whole School Assembly will commence

at 12.15pm this Friday 21st June.

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SCHOOL PLAYS

If you missed out on seeing your child’s play on

Festival Play Day, you are in luck. Our Students

will be re-doing their plays again so that parents

and peers get to see these fantastic productions.

12.15pm start time

Week 8

21st June

4 Violet

2/3 Indigo

Week 9

28th June

5/6 Red

K/1 Aqua

Play by 5/6 Purple

Play by 2 Orange

Premier’s Spelling Bee

Each year students in Years 3-6 are given the opportunity to

participate in the NSW Premier’s Spelling Bee. The school’s

Stage 2/3 event will be held early in Term 3. First and second

from each level will go on to the regional Competition which will be held at the

beginning of September.

Students can download the word lists to practice at home from the Premier’s

Spelling Bee website (using Google Chrome as Internet Explorer does not

seem to work):https://www.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/premiers-spelling-bee

The password required to access the lists has been given to the students and

is available from the school.

Students in Years 3 and 4 will be using the Junior list, students in Years 5 and

6 will be using the Senior list.

See Miss Forfar if you have any enquiries or difficulties obtaining the word

lists.

Stage 1, 2 and 3 Students that received Stage Awards and Quality Work Awards for Drama at last Fridays Assembly. Next week is a Whole School

Assembly so Principal Awards and Grenfell Blues will be recognised.

Morning Tea Raising

funds for Can Assist.

When: Friday 28th June 2019

Where: Under the Cola (GPS)

Time: 11am

Please send a plate of morning tea with your child to share (please no nuts) with their class mates.

Please send raffle tickets and money back to the office ASAP for your chance to win one of two hampers

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Hamburger (mince patty. Lettuce, tomato, cheese and sauce)

plus a Jelly Cup

$5.00

(Available Mon 18th June—Tues 24th June)

We've had another wonderful week in the kitchen celebrating

Asian cuisine. We had 2/3 Indigo, 2 Orange and 4 Violet

cooking up a storm. These guys, incredibly produced 3

beautiful meals including sticky chicken stir fry with crispy

noodles, sweet and sour pork and beef stir fry.

Cutting skills and balancing flavours were 2 important skills

learnt this week. Students enjoyed watching the rice noodles

expand magically in the hot oil to create texture in our dishes.

Well done everyone.

Our PBL Focus Area for this week is: Toilets and Bubblers

Save the Date - Friday 9th August

Bowling Club Trivia Night All proceeds will go towards Grenfell Public School P&C. So pop

the date in your diary and start organising a table with a group

of friends now. It’s a fun night out and you have the added

bonus that you can eat at the club and not have to cook.

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Parish Sacramental Information for St Joseph’s Grenfell

There will be an important meeting after mass on the 30th of June for all parents of this year’s sacramental

candidates. Parents must attend this meeting in order for their children to celebrate the sacraments.

All three sacraments will be celebrated in St Joseph’s parish this year. Candidates for Confirmation will be in

Year 5 or above and will already have celebrated the sacraments of First Reconciliation and First Holy

Communion.

Eligible candidates for First Reconciliation and First Communion will be in Year 4 or above.

Active Farmers in conjunction with

Central West Lachlan Landcare are

holding a Wellness morning of Yoga

& Meditation followed by a light lunch

for anyone in the area interested.

This is a free event which will be held on

Saturday 22nd June, 2019

from 10am – 12pm at the Caragabal

For further details and to RSVP by Thurs-

day 20th June, please contact -

Kim Broomby – Ph 6347 2152 ,

Haylee Redfern – Ph 0421 977 031,

Amanda Hampson grew up in rural New Zealand. She spent her

early twenties travelling, finally settling in Australia in 1979 where

she now lives in Sydney's Northern Beaches. Writing professionally

for more than 20 years, she is the author of two non-fiction books,

numerous articles and novels The Olive Sisters, Two for the Road,

The French Perfumer and The Yellow Villa.

Join bestselling novelist, Amanda Hampson, for an intense, highly

productive workshop. Find out how to plunder your life for material,

craft a killer premise, create a dynamic and sustainable protagonist,

outwit your readers with plot reversals - and get it written!

Participants need to be prepared to get involved, have some fun,

share their work and be ready to write the opening sentence of their

novel.

Smash Out Your Novel workshop with Amanda Hampson will give you

the direction needed for your writing journey and the practical tools

to get your first draft underway.

Location: Grenfell Public Library

Date: Saturday 22 June 2019

Time: 10am – 1pm

Cost: $18 per person

Bookings required due to limited places.

Writing workshop – Amanda Hampson