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Week 6 - Friday 18 November 2016

It’s all about the End of Year Festival!!! Only one week to go until our End of Year Festival at North Sydney Oval and we are all getting very excited!

A note was sent home this week advising of a practice taking place at the Oval on Monday 21 November. Students will walk over to the Oval in grade groups at staggered times to familiarise themselves with where they will be seated and where they will be performing.

For parents and students attending this year’s Festival, our much-loved Grade Student Performances will commence at 4pm directly in front of the Duncan Thompson Stand. As this is a tight turnaround from the end of the school day to the beginning of the first performance, the following run sheet has been provided for parents to familiarise themselves with.

Friday 25 November 2016:

2:15pm - 2:55pm: Students will change into their End of Year Festival costume at school with teachers assisting where appropriate. Please make sure you send your child to school with their costume in a separate marked bag ready for the end of the day.

2:55pm - 3:15pm: Parents will collect children from school and make their way

to North Sydney Oval. Entry will be via the Ridge Street entrance (not the main entry)

3:15pm - 3:55pm: Children will meet in designated grade areas and parents will

be seated in the O’Reilly and Duncan Thompson Stands. 4:00pm -5:00pm: Student Performances in the following grade order: Year 1,

Year 2, Year 3, Year 4, Year 5, Kindergarten and Year 6

5:00pm - 9:00pm: Festival

Of course this great event wouldn’t be possible without our P&C Festival Committee who has been working tirelessly to ensure that we have the best festival ever. Most of the hard work is done and we now require 80 volunteers to help for just one hour each on the night. If you have an hour to spare please register your availability at http://signup.com/go/MUWPtj

Rides passes are now available to purchase online at www.trybooking.com/237053

Please see the P&C pages in this newsletter for more information about the donation of items needed and the silent auction.

What’s On?

Monday 21 November

* Kindergarten Local

Walking Excursion

* Whole school walk-over to

North Sydney Oval for

Festival practice

Tuesday 22 November

Year 4 Aboriginal Incursion

Wednesday 23 November

Cammeraygal High School

visit for Year 6 students

Thursday 24 November

Year 3 Aboriginal Incursion

Friday 25 November

* PSSA TeeBall

* Sports in School program

* End of Year Festival at

North Sydney Oval

Monday 28 November

* Sports Presentation,

9:15am in Pacific Playground

* End of Year Band Concert

at North Sydney Leagues

Club

Tuesday 29 November

* Year 4 end-of-year

excursion to Brennan Park

* Book Fair 2016 in Hall

Wednesday 30 November

‘Thank you’ morning tea for

parent/carer volunteers,

from 10:55 in the

Staffroom

Thursday 1 December

End of Year Excursions:

* Yr 2 Orpheum Cinema

* Yr 3 Orpheum Cinema

* Yr 5 Berry Island

* Yr 6 SkyZone

Year Six Fair

Well done to Year 6 who organised and hosted a fantastic Year 6 Fair for the students of North Sydney Dem on Wednesday. Our Year 6 students prepared and served at multiple stalls including face painting, hair spraying, a haunted house, hot dogs, milo and some great side show alley games. Our younger students had enormous pleasure dunking their teachers in the dunking machine (some may say too much pleasure!). Well done Year 6! It was a great day and congratulations for raising $2400 for the Year 6 school gift. Keep making those memories!

Myra Wearne, Principal

myra.janes@det.nsw.edu.au

SCHOOL NEWS

Talent Fest 2016

Ready, set, go! Registrations for the SRC’s annual Talent Fest opened this week. We are looking forward to some dazzling entertainment! Class teachers will ensure that children have ample opportunity to register over the next two weeks.

Once registered, your child will bring home a registration note detailing when they will perform and who they can send music files to.

There are a few things to remember when entering Talent Fest:

1. this is a fun event open to all students and is judged by the SRC representatives (Kindergarten to Year 6);

2. students must bring their own instruments and props (there is a piano as well as microphones, gym mats and music stands in the Hall that students can use);

3. if you want music to accompany your act you must send your music as an mp3 file via email (please list your name and song title in the email) to your Grade’s Talent Fest co-ordinator (as listed on the registration note).

Creative Arts Evaluation Parent Survey

This year one of our minor program evaluations focuses on Creative Arts. The parent survey opens on Friday 18 November and closes on Friday 9 December. Please click on the survey link to complete https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/L57FGKS

K-2 Gardening Club The K-2 Gardening Club harvested some of the beetroot that we have grown and made a delicious Beetroot Salad. It was a huge success. All the children tried the beetroot (some for the first time) and enjoyed the salad. The K-2 Gardening Club meets every Thursday (first half lunch) – all K-2 students welcome!

FABStar!

FABStar! is an initiative to recognise

positive behaviours in the

playground. A FABStar! slip was

drawn from all the students who

received FABStar! slips in

recognition of their positive

behaviours on the playground last

week.

The K-2 Fabstar! this week is Caelan from Year 1 who found some toys in the playground after school and brought them back the next day. Thanks Caelan for thinking of others and for your honesty!

The Year 3-6 Fabstar!s this week are Matias, Marley and Pasquale from Year 5 who kindly helped a younger student to pick up his cards after he had dropped them.

Library News

The Magic Show is almost here! The highly anticipated magic show for

those students who have gone above & beyond and classes that had full completion in this year’s

Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) is coming to our school in Week 9! This year it will be a magic

show with a difference. More details will be released closer to the time.

Please join the whole school for a standing ovation to

congratulate the following 10 inspirational students who will be on the

PRC Platinum Honour Roll and receive their once a life time

Premier’s Reading Challenge Platinum Certificate for their 7th year of

competing the PRC:

Rehan A, Jemima A, Dexter G, Oscar G, Isabella G, Matthew L, Isabelle M, Stefan M, Keira P,

and Josha Z!

That’s Gold! A big thumbs up also to the following 53 students who

have successfully completed their 4th Premier’s Reading Challenge this

year:

Hugo A, Samara B, Mac B, Danielle B, Avi C, Nicole C, Lawrence C,

Sarah C, Sasha C Y, Max C, Sophie C, Malith D S, Oliver D, Ruby D, Camille G, Elise G, Yohan

G, Coco G Y, Jasmine H, Zoe H, Haylee H, Lisa I, Harrison J, Sebastian K, Nik K, Rafferty L,

Kevin L, Michael L, Ishnika L, Francisco L, Evie L L, Leila L, Georgia M, Angelique M, Isla M,

Jack P, Achintya R, Ryosuke S, Tara S, Evie S, Cyrus S, Amelie S, Adam T, Zara T, Dasha T,

Cameron W, Bella W, Olivia W, Stephen W, Ophelia W, Yann W, and Nina Y.

Congratulations to these fabulous readers! Not only will they be receiving a special Gold Certificate

from the Premier’s office, their names will also be appearing on the PRC Gold Honour Roll! To view

the Honour Roll please visit: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/news/goldHonourRoll.html

Oye! Oye! Parents/carers, you are invited to come

and take part in our Book Fair 2016! This year Carnival

Book Fairs will be running our book fair on Tuesday 29

November 2016. The Book Fair will be held in the

School Hall from 8:25am to 12pm and 1:30pm to

2:30pm. There will be a fabulous range of books, arts

and craft for all ages, and all the latest releases for our

students to purchase to keep or give as presents to

someone special. With the holiday season fast approaching why not start looking at some gift ideas

at the Book Fair? More information about the Book Fair will be released closer to the time.

Band News

Dates for Your Diary Monday 28 November - End of Year All Bands Concert at North Sydney

Leagues Club, All Bands.

End of Year All Bands Concert We look forward to seeing you all at the End of Year All Bands Concert which celebrates the achievements and progress of all three of our Bands.

Where: North Sydney Leagues Club (Auditorium), 12 Abbott Street, Cammeray;

When: Monday 28 November, 2016 commencing at 6:30pm;

Tickets: cost $12.50 per adult (children are free) – purchase through trybooking

website: https://www.trybooking.com/243535

Thank You and Congratulations

Thank you to the Senior Band for performing for parents at the final Kindergarten 2017 Orientation session yesterday.

Congratulations Junior Band on your performance at this week’s K-2 assembly. It was lovely to see how far you have progressed since starting in the band programme at the beginning of the year!

Thank you to Kate Gandy and Mick Elderfield for supporting the bands to participate in these events.

2017 Band applications

Please apply on-line at www.directionsinmusic.com.au or return the application form to the school office as soon as possible. Application forms can be downloaded from the school website.

All Band Enquiries: Melissa Lanigan (melissa.lanigan@det.nsw.edu.au)

P&C News

NSDS End of Year

Festival – please help!

Sign-up to volunteer by going to:

http://signup.com/go/MUWPtj

Buy your $25 ride passes by going

to: https://trybooking.com/237053

Please leave your glass jar and/or

hamper donations in the McHatton

Open Area. Thank you.

P&C News: Ride Passes and Glass Jar Donations

P&C News: Hamper donations please

P&C News: Silent Auction

Dem Community News

Carols under the Bridge will be held on Saturday 10

December 2016 in Bradfield Park, Kirribilli.

Fostering Young Lives is an Out of Home Care Agency within the Benevolent Society who are currently recruiting foster carers in our community. For more information, please call 8778 0600 or email Niamh.O’Connor@benevolent.org.au or go to www.benevolent.org.au for more information.

Become a WEP host family. WEP Australia is

looking for volunteer host families now! For more

information call 1300 884 733 or visit:

https://wep.org.au/host/

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