TERM 3, WEEK 1 Wilberforce Public School July 25 2019

NEWSLETTER Macquarie Road, Wilberforce NSW 2756 Phone: 4575 1424 Fax: 4575 1096

Email: wilberforc-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Webpage: www.wilberforc-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Make it for Mason

Welcome back to Term 3. It was a great atmosphere on Tuesday night and the support the local Wilberforce community offered, once again, was heart-warming. Many thanks to everyone who attended and to the committed team led by Lesley Molloy who made the evening an awesome success.

Education Week

Education week starts in week 3, and we have a number of events planned. The Theme in 2019 is “Every Student, Every Voice'”. Our Open Day will be

Wednesday 7th August from 9:45am till 12:00pm. We will start the day with a celebration of our best-dressed book characters. All students who dress up and bring a copy of the book or a drawing of their character will go into our book fair raffle draw. We will also have performances by our Choir, and Recorder Group fresh from their performance at the Opera House next week. Parents and visitors will then be able to join their children in classrooms from 10:30-11:15am before sharing a picnic morning tea on the grass. A full schedule of the day’s events is listed below.

EDUCATION WEEK Timetable

Wednesday 7th August 2019

Time Event 9:00-9:30 before school and 3:30-4:00pm after school

Book Fair

9:45am - 12:00pm 9:45am Assembly with book character celebration and performances by the Choir, Dance Group and Recorder group. 10:30am Open classrooms 11:15am Recess where you can join your children for morning tea on the grass.

1:30-2:00pm Choir and Dance groups perform at the Richmond Marketplace.

26th July School Athletics Carnival

30th July Recorder Group Performance at the Opera House.

5th August Education Week begins

7th August Education Week Open Day & Book Fair

9th August Stage 3 Cricket Gala Day

29th August Father’s Day Breakfast

IMPORTANT DATES

SRC Induction

Next Friday, 2nd August, we will have our SRC induction ceremony at the assembly. All our Semester 2 representatives received notes this week. Our Semester 1 SRC Representatives have done an outstanding job in Terms 1 and 2, with a focus on developing the criteria for what it means to be a good Wilberforce Citizen and Learner. The Semester 2 Reps will continue implementing this across the school.

The Choir Perform at the Richmond Retirement Home

In week 10 last term our Choir, led by Mrs Ahmedi, performed for the residents at the Hawkesbury Living Retirement Home. It was wonderful for our students to give back to the local community.

Congratulations to our Public Speakers.

In week 10 last term some of our best Public Speakers competed in the Multicultural Public Speaking Finals. Claire T, Mackenzie K and Stephanie A were up against the best public speakers from across Western Sydney. Congratulations to all our students for making the finals and to Makenzie K who won the area division. She will go on to represent our school at the regional finals at Lewisham Public School.

Recorder Group at the Opera House

Our recorder group will perform at the Opera House next week as part of the Festival of Instrumental Music. We wish them good luck!

Kindergarten 2020 – Have You Enrolled?

To enable us to plan for next year, we would like you to contact us as soon as possible if you have a child enrolling in 2020. Kindergarten enrolments affect our whole school structures and the closer we are to knowing how many students are enrolling the better prepared we can be to create a solid plan for all students from Years Kindergarten through to Year 6 moving into 2020.

Thank you

Graham Wilkins

Principal

• To Ms Tierney for organising Peer Support and Year 6 Theme Day – It was a great success! • To Mrs Ahmedi and Mrs Dalzell for taking the choir to perform at the Hawkesbury Living Home. • To Mr Wilson and Mr Hawkins for volunteering their time to mark out lines for our Athletics carnival. • To Mrs Turner for all her time working hard in the office outside her normal hours. • To Ms Tierney for organising gymnastics.

NEWS, NOTES AND HAPPENINGS

Soundwaves

Week 2

Term 3

Graphemes: Graphemes: Extra Focus Concepts:

Graphemes: ar a ass ast, arge

Patterns: ard, ark, ast

are, half, laugh, heart, al, au, ear

Alphabetical order, Singular and plural, Using a dictionary

Week 3

Term 3

Graphemes: Graphemes: Extra Focus Concepts:

Graphemes: s ss se ce x(ks) c

Blends: sk, sm, sn, nd

Extra grapheme: Christmas

wrestled, answered, scientific, psychology

Homophones: cellar/seller, cereal/serial, soared/sword, Contractions: there’s, he’s, he’d, they’ve, Antonyms: unordered/ serial, weak/forceful, unadorned/fancy, failure/success, fail/succeed, stay/ escape, hold/release, happiness/

Child Protection Lessons

Child Protection lessons commence this term. The first topics to be covered are: Early Stage 1 Relationships Stage 1 Relationships and Trust – Adults You Trust Stage 2 Relationships and Trust Stage 3 Recognising Abuse – Body Parts

Gymnastics

Our gymnastics program has started. Below is a timetable showing what day your child/children is having their lesson:

Monday Tuesday 3/4R 3/4H 3/4B 3/4F 1/2W

1D 1E 2A 2C

5/6T 5/6C 5/6R

K Purple K Green

NOTES Home NOTES Due Cricket Gala Day – Stage 3 Friday 2nd August Riverview Performance – Dance Groups & Choir Friday 2nd August Hawkesbury Eisteddfod – Dance Groups Friday 16th August Hawkesbury Eisteddfod – Choir Friday 23rd August Outdoor Education Experience Camp (Stage 3) Friday 13 September - Full

payment or the first instalment

STAGE NEWS

Early Stage 1

Welcome back to Term 3! This term we will become more independent in our reading now that we recognise most of our sight words. We will continue to use decoding skills like blending to work out unknown words. In writing, we will learn to write using structure and make sure we use quality sentences. We will start to look at imaginative texts and how to write a story. In Mathematics, we are looking at addition and subtraction patterns like friends to ten to help us solve some number sentences. Our science unit this term will focus on living things, and will be supported by our first excursion – to the Zoo! We will also be able to watch the life cycle of a butterfly first hand. This term we will start a geography unit about mapping and look at some local places. In PDHPE we will look at the fundamental skills of underarm throw, hop and skip, and we will participate in the school’s gymnastic program each Tuesday. We will use the art skills we have learnt in the first semester to create mixed media artworks and some sculptures. We will also utilise skills learnt in semester one to dance to some Aboriginal music, and we will start to learn how to play the recorder! What a fun term we will have!

Stage 1

Stage one are looking forward to another exciting term of learning. We will be learning how to write information reports; learning about natural, constructed and managed features through our Geography unit ‘Features of Places’; trying our hands at a variety of Australian themed artwork during our Visual Arts lessons and are thoroughly looking forward to our Athletics Carnival and Gymnastics lessons this term! Another jam-packed term of fun and engaging learning experiences.

Stage 2

Stage 2 will be exploring the novel ‘Storm Boy’ this term in literacy. Our HSIE, Geography and Creative Arts units will also be based around the theme of ‘My Place’ and explore the cultural heritage of Aboriginal Australia. Our Science unit is literally ‘Too Hot to Handle’ and will explore how temperature changes the chemical composition of materials. In PD/H/PE we will be doing child protection and the unit Tackling Bullying.

Stage 3

Welcome back to Term 3, for Stage 3. We will be studying North America, Europe and their connection to Australia in Geography. We will be exploring the countries in these regions and study some of their traditional cultures, geographic features and natural resources. The students will be working on a project, with most of this being completed at school. If you have any posters, travel brochures or items that represent these countries, they would be greatly appreciated for classroom use, and be well looked after.

This term is starting off as a big sporting term. We wish the students success in the field event and athletics carnival during week 1. On Friday, 9th August, many Stage 3 students will be participating in the Milo Cup Cricket Gala Day. Gymnastics lesson will be on Tuesdays for Stage 3 and we hope they all participate and enjoy the challenges of this program.

In Science, the students will be studying the topic, ‘Light’. The students will conduct experiments and investigate what light is and what are some its sources. In Art, we will be studying colour and tone.

This term, the students will be completing the Child Protection Program for the first five weeks. This is a compulsory unit of work for all students, to understand relationships and protective strategies and networks they can develop to keep them safe.

Well done to all Stage 3 students for their great efforts in running the Peer Support Program, last term. They confidently organised and taught the lesson to the younger students of the school. Great job!

Thank you to all the students who participated in our annual Year 6 fundraising theme day. Everyone looked great in their disco fever clothes. We raised $1,300-00 to contribute to the Year 6 gift for the school.

Rehearsal for the Festival of Instrumental Music

On Tuesday 25th June, Mrs Chapple, Mrs Domars and nine of our recorder students travelled into the city for their rehearsal for the Festival of Instrumental Music. The students joined with three hundred other students from around NSW for the rehearsal. It was a wonderful experience for our students to be a part of. Our students played so well throughout the long rehearsal and Mrs Chapple and Mrs Domars were very proud of them. Our performance at the Festival of Instrumental Music at the Opera House is on Tuesday 30th July. We are looking forward to the opportunity to be able to perform at the Opera House!

Mrs Domars and Mrs Chapple

How far can 5c go?

Our fundraiser for One Step One Life is on again. The charity, One Step One Life, provides funds to students in Cambodia to give them access to education at school or university. More information can be found at www.1step1life.org/what-we-do. We are asking Wilberforce students and families to put aside 5 cent coins to donate to the charity. On Friday 23 August, the coins will be placed in lines to see which class can make the longest line.

Start saving your 5 cent coins in readiness.

WEEKLY ASSEMBLY Whole school Assembly every Friday 12:15pm

WEEKLY AWARDS

Bronze Joshua T 3/4R, Declan T 5/6R, Oliver T KP, Taylah F 2A, Adam M 5/6T, Liam H 3/4F, Thomas F 5/6T, Brayden B 3/4F, Lachlan B 1E, Zoe W 1D, Ned G 3/4F x 2, Madison Mc 5/6R, Madison R KG, Anna D 5/6C, Hannah W KG.

Silver Taylah F 2A, Isabella W 1E, Brayden B 3/4F, Dekoda-Rae B 3/4B, April Mc 1E.

SPORT

Athletics carnival tomorrow!

P&C ASSOCIATION NEWS

P&C Meeting

The next P&C Meeting will be held on Monday 5th August.

Date Class Teachers

26th July No Assembly Athletics Carnival 2nd August 2A Mrs Ahmedi 9th August No Assembly Stage 3 Cricket Gala Day

UNIFORM OPEN EVERY 2ND Monday FROM 3PM

Orders can be placed online through our online store at www.wilberforcepandc.com.au

The shop will be opened next on: Monday 5th August.

CANTEEN

Monday Wednesday Friday 29 July 31 July 2 August

Rebecca Stephen Emily Read

VOLUNTEER NEEDED VOLUNTEER NEEDED

Leagh Follington Cat McInerney

Monday Wednesday Friday 5 August 7 August 9 August

Sandra Binks Kerrie Allen

Bec Zerk Beck Dutschke Rachael Louisa

Janet McGrath Jade Jones

Lisa Christie

We wish to thank the following businesses for their kind donations:

We would also like to extend a big Thank you to our Music Man, Pete Vesperman and our MC Auctioneer, Michael Garofolo.

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