Seaham Public School and P&C NSW

Phone: (02) 49886 234

Fax: (02) 49886 435

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

www.seaham-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

SCHOOL NEWS

Term 4, Week 9

Principal’s Message

Respectful

Responsible

Learners

Dates For Diaries

8 December 2016

Friday 9 December

PBL Assembly & items by

KL and Year 6

Afternoon Tea for our

Volunteers of 2016

Tuesday 13 December

Year Six Farewell

Wednesday 14 December

Class Parties

Thursday 15 December

PBL Water Day

Friday 16 December

Talent Quest @12pm

Final Goodbye and Bell Ringing

for Year 6 @2.30pm

Last day for Students

Due to enrolled children’s life threatening Anaphylactic Allergic reactions to

all nuts and peanut products, we would like to encourage families not to send

these products to school. with their children. These include peanut butter,

nutella, sesame seeds, loose nuts, muesli, nut or chocolate bars or any

products containing any type of nuts. We appreciate your support in this

matter.

Edi the Egret

Golden Egg Token

Winners:

(K-2) Jorja Daskalovski

(3-6) Shaun Bolt

2017

Friday 27 January

Staff only return to School

Monday 30 January

1-6 Students Return

Tuesday 31 January

Kindergarten Students for

2017 Commence School

Wednesday 1 February

School Photos

(Full School Uniform)

Friday 3 February

School Swim Carnival (3-6)

Friday 7 April

End of Term 1

Wednesday 26 April

Students return for Term 2

What a fabulous night last night! Our presentation evening

was supported by a huge number of families and

community members and it was great to see you all. Well

done to all students who received awards last night and at

yesterday’s morning presentation. These events are the

culmination of a lot of hard work inside the classroom and

beyond. Thank you to Mrs Shelley Neilson for her work

behind the scenes ensuring that our presentation evening

was a success and ran smoothly. To our new school leaders

Brylee, Archie, Rebecca and Harper, congratulations on

your achievements and I look forward to working with you

and supporting you next year.

White Ribbon Day: Today we were fortunate to have

representatives from the Port Stephens area command to

help us share the ‘White Ribbon’ message. Our PBL core

values of being respectful, using positive talk and being responsible by

keeping hands and feet to ourselves really fit in nicely with the ‘White

Ribbon’ message.

The other important message that “White Ribbon Day” teaches primary

age children is that they need to be brave and ‘stand up’ and report or

‘speak out’ if they see something happening to someone else. This

might include a friend or family member being bullied, hurt or

harassed by others. At school we have clear processes for reporting incidents but out of school our

students sometimes aren’t sure who to report issues to or where to get help. Our visitors then kindly

gave all students a white handball and joined us for a fun game of handball in our playground.

School Assembly: Our final school assembly will be

held tomorrow. It will be a joint assembly including

class items from KL and Year 6 and our final PBL

badge presentation. Assembly will commence at

2.10pm. Everyone welcome to attend.

PBL Water Day:

Our PBL water day

will be held next

T h u r s d a y 1 5 ,

December. This is

for those students

only who have

received their PBL

badge during 2016.

More information will

be forwarded home

on Monday.

End of Year Class

Parties: Wednesday

14 December will be

an out of uniform day

for class parties.

Friday 9 December

Alison Taylor

Sandra Batchelor

last day for canteen for 2016

12-16 December

Canteen Closed for Cleaning

Canteen Roster

Have you volunteered at Seaham Pubic School during 2016?

Seaham Public School is hosting an afternoon tea on Friday 9 December

at 1.30pm to thank the many volunteers who give up their valuable time

to make such valuable contributions to our school. If you are involved

in the P&C, canteen committee, school banking, bookclub, craft,

excursions, reading and classroom helping, sport or in any other way,

please come along and let our school and staff say thank you.

Following the thank you will be our final PBL assembly for 2016.

School Photos for 2017: Our school photos for all

students for 2017 will take place on Wednesday 1 February.

Full school uniform will be required. To assist our families

with budget planning, please see below a cost of packages

available. Individual photo packs will be given to students

on the first day of school next year. Family packs will also

be available (this is a family group photo only).

Premium Packs @$45

Classic Packs @$42

Value Packs @$40

Essential Packs @$38

Basic Packs @$35

Gift Packs @15

Family pack deluxe pack @$29

Family pack value pack @$25

Family pack stand pack @$20

Scholastic Book Club—2016: Hi everyone. Here we are at the end of term already and another

busy year at school over. For me, it is the ninth and final year of bookclub and for my family it will be

ten years of being part of the Seaham School community. I would like to take this opportunity to say

thank you to the staff of Seaham Public School for their support and encouragement given to those

who have been part of the bookclub team over the years, for their assistance with our fete stalls and

activities and the ongoing mentoring and support of our children in their reading journey. A big thank

you also to the families who continually support us through the purchase of books and offers of

assistance. Finally a HUGE thank you to the students of our school. The most wonderful part of my

role in bookclub was seeing the excited faces of the children and hearing whispers of “Yes, it’s

bookclub day!”.

Thank you to Rachael Rapson for taking bookclub into the future at our school and I wish her and her

team all the best.

For my family and I, it is now onto the next chapter. Thank you for the memories. Julie Vasic

Private Conveyancing Subsidy: Families that currently receive Private Conveyancing Subsidy have

been contacted by Transport NSW in relation to the new School Drive Subsidy. Families have the

option of staying on the PVC subsidy or changing to the new and improved system. If you require

further information or a brochure in regard to this, please contact the school office or contact

student@transport.nsw.gov.au.

Canteen News: Red Day items that are left over from today’s event

will be on sale tomorrow from our school canteen.

Daytime Presentation 2016

Yesterday was our annual day time presentation. Thank you to

our many families and friends who attended. Congratulations to

all students on their achievements throughout 2016.

Academic Achievement for Kinder Andrew Stapleton

Consistent Effort Lucy Taylor

Consistent Effort Dali Bobako

Class Citizenship Julian Vella

Academic Achievement for Year One Jocelyn Black

Academic Achievement for Year Two Amy Richens

Consistent Effort Ally Grierson

Encouragement Caleb Buckland

Class Citizenship Ella Johnson

Academic Achievement for Year One Jack Moroney

Academic Achievement for Year Two Jack Gretton

Consistent Effort Jackson Grono

Most Improved Eva Wilkinson

Class Citizenship Mikalah Hancock

Academic Achievement Year 2 Samuel Wade

Consistent Effort Hamish Witcomb

Most Improved Montana Renshaw

Class Citizenship Aleisha Charlton

Academic Achievement Year 3 Lilly Imber

Academic Achievement Year 4 Matthew McDonald

Consistent Effort Travis Charlton

Consistent Effort Taytum Hanson

Most Improved Jasmin Greentree

Academic Achievement Year 3 Jacinta Brooker

Academic Achievement Year 4 Ben Moroney

Consistent Effort Annaliese Caukwell

Encouragement Harrison Roberts

Class Citizenship Isabella Broad

Academic Achievement Year 5 Kye Andrews

Literacy Achievement for Year 6 Caitlan Faust

Mathematics Achievement for Year 6 Jacob Daskalovski

Consistent Effort Tahlia Jarvie

Encouragement Award Charlotte Warburton

Academic Achievement Year 5 Declan O’Donnell

Academic Achievement Year 6 Oskar Mella

Consistent Effort Sarah Hannaway

Encouragement Award Jesse Turner

Most Improved Claire Penfold

Mrs Dybell—5/6D Mrs Bowman—5/6B

Mrs Lawler—KL Mrs Stewart/Mrs Bartlett - 1/2S

Mrs Imber—1/2I

Mrs Millburn—2M

Ms Atchison—3/4A Mr Bennett—3/4J

Literacy Encouragement

Literacy Encouragement Asha Eden Library Achievement

Library Achievement Bridie Gillon

Principal’s Encouragement Award

Principal’s Encouragement Award Will Richards

School Citizenship Award

School Citizenship Award Madalyn Greentree

School DUX—2016

DUX 2016 Clare Moroney

Hunter River High

Scholarship—2016

Hunter River High School

Scholarship

Ellie Marquet

Night Presentation: Last night was a wonderful night where we celebrated the achievements of

students at Seaham Public School. Thank you to our school community and families who helped make

this night possible.

We would like to sincerely thank the following:

Hunter River High School for their continued support and to Ms Deb Dibley, Principal of HRHS

who attended our presentation to present the scholarship award.

Mr Mark Lilley, President of our P&C and Mrs Mandy Collins, President of our Canteen

Committee for their support with the night’s events.

Night Presentation 2016

KL Class Awards (absent Julian Vella)

1/2S Class Awards

1/2I Class Awards (absent Jack Gretton) 2M Class Awards

3/4A Class Awards

3/4J Class Awards (absent Jacinta Brooker)

5/6B Class Awards

5/6D Class Awards

Literacy Encouragement

Library Achievement

Hunter River High Scholarship School Citizenship

Principal’s Encouragement Award

Sporting Achievement for 2016

Premier’s Sporting Medal for 2016

Cross Country Champions for 2016

Winning House for Swimming

Dixon

Winning House for Athletics

and Cross Country

Fisher

Last night the P&C made a

lovely presentation to Mrs Johns

who retired as a permanent

teacher earlier in the year. Mrs

Johns has been a much loved

staff member at Seaham Public

for many years.

Our School Captains of 2016 K-2 Choir

Ian McMurray

Sportsmanship Award for 2016

School Dux for 2016

Ministers for 2017 Your School Captains for 2017

Swimming Champions for 2016 Athletics Champions for 2016

Special thank you to

Jordan and Connor

McMurray who were a

part of our official guests

a t l a s t n i g h t s

presentation. Jordan and

Connor were the family

representatives of the

McMurray family. We

thank them for their time

and commitment to our

annual presentation.

Goodbye Year Six

Shelby McNaughton—Nickname “Shelbinator”: Will be attending Dungog High School in 2017.

Shelby wants to be rich and fabulous when she grows up. Shelby’s favourite movies are all the

Marvel movies and she is undecided what her favourite TV show is. Shelby loves lasagne and her

favourite colour is teal. Deers are her favourite animals and her favourite accessory is her perfume.

Shelby’s favourite game is netball and her proudest moment at Seaham School was playing Jenny in

the school production, ‘Back to the Past’. Some of Shelby’s closest friends in Year 6 have been Ellie,

Clare, Jasmine C, Emity, Paige, Madalyn, Maddison and Jasmine A. Shelby is going to miss Ellie, Mrs

Bowman’s laugh and her friends that will be attending different high schools.

Jasmine Armitage: Will be attending Maitland Grossmann High School in 2017. Jasmine would like

to be a primary school teacher when she grows up. Jasmine’s favourite movies are the Harry Potter

Series and her favourite TV show is Victorious. Chocolate is her favourite food and blue is her

favourite colour. Jasmine loves to play netball. Dogs are her most loved animal and a book is her

favourite accessory. Jasmine’s proudest moment at Seaham School was being elected Minister for

Environment for 2016. Jasmine has been friends with Ellie, Emity, Madalyn, Maddison, Paige, Clare,

Jasmine C, Caitlan, Shelby and Brooklyn. Jasmine will miss all of Year Six, the teachers and being a

buddy.