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"Excellence, opportunity and success in a caring learning environment" Avoca Drive Kincumber 2251 Ph: 43691544 Fax: 43692963

Email: kincumber-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: kincumber-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Term 2—Week 7 P & C meet 2nd Monday of each month, 7.30pm

Thursday, 3rd June 2010

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

This week:

•Canteen Treat Day •The Festival Of Instrumental Music •SOS—Wet weather and parking

Canteen Treat Day

The Kinteen—our school canteen—offers a tasty

variety of healthy foods at reasonable prices. Under the Healthy Canteen strategy we are only able to

serve foods that would normally fall in the red

category twice a term. Next week the treat is a

Kinny Hot Dog and ice-cream. Get your orders in for

8 June, by tomorrow, Friday, 4th June.

The Festival of Instrumental Music

On Monday night, along with Assistant Principal, Mary Liddy, I attended the opening night of the Festival of

Instrumental Music at the Sydney Opera House. The

Arts Unit of the Department of Education and Training

conducts a number of programs to promote the creative and performing arts, including the Premier’s

Spelling Bee. It is staffed by very talented teachers

who are very committed to providing the highest

quality educational opportunities to students in NSW

public schools. There were some outstanding performances from a number of instrumental

ensembles including a jazz orchestra, primary school

concert band, wind and percussion ensembles and

many others. The absolute highlight of the night for me was the final performance where the combined

recorder ensemble (hundreds of students), the

combined string ensemble (again hundreds of

students including students from Kincumber Public

School) accompanied by mandolin, balalaika, guitar, accordion and recorder, played a Russian inspired

piece. Absolutely incredible to think that all the

children come from all over NSW, rehearse together

during the day before their performance and sound so

fantastic. Thanks Eva for being so dedicated; thanks mums and dads for supporting them and thanks kids

for putting in the hard yards. It was a privilege to be

there.

SOS (Save our students) Wet weather and parking

Wet weather brings out the worst in parking

behaviour. I know the temptation is to drive to the front door, let the children out and watch them walk

in the school gate. With around three hundred

families, many of whom drive their children to school,

and terrible parking arrangements, this is a recipe for

disaster. Arm your child with an umbrella, a raincoat, a second pair of socks to change into if they get their

feet wet, drop them off in legal areas and protect

everyone! I would also remind you that if you

observe adults breaking the traffic rules outside of

school , please take their details and report it to the police personally. The police will not take reports from

me if I have not actually witnessed the behaviour.

Let’s work together and keep the kids safe.

Hope you had a great week at our great school.

Trish Peters

Principal

Students of Week 6, Term 2 2010 KL Tyla Stuart 1D/L Megan Haigh 2A Isobel Golding 3E Keegan Ardita

KH Kasey McLean 1G Max Ryan 2C Brodie McGregor 3G Jade McGregor KM Jye Pickering 1K Ella Oberg 2D Damien Chapman 3K Ellie Hutchin

1R Brendon Nunn 2J Charlotte Higson 3M Jordia-Lee Pettinato 1S Felicity Middleton 2N Sarah Carter 3T Will Grassby

President P&C

Lisa Waite

YMCA OOSHC

0408 658 187

JUNE 2010 Friday, 4th June—last day for Treat Day Canteen orders Monday, 7th June—7.30 pm, P&C Meeting in the Staffroom.

Tuesday, 8th June—Canteen Treat Day Wednesday, 9th June—ICAS Science Test

Thursday, 10th June—Kindergarten Dental Checks Monday, 14th June—Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Thursday, 17th June—Sydney North Cross Country

Friday, 18th June—last day for payments for “Ryka Ali” and “The Sound Garden” performances

Monday, 21st June—NAIDOC Week commences Tuesday, 22nd June—ICAS Spelling Test Wednesday, 23rd June—Ryka Ali performance

TERM CALENDAR:

How Aboriginals got their food out of trees. Sophia

How Aboriginals made string and how they got things out of

trees. Jye

Stage 2 GIRRAKOOL and BULGANDRY EXCURSION

As part of our “Being Australian” unit, 2N visited two

Aboriginal sites on the Central Coast recently. On the day we learnt:

That Aboriginals lit a stick and put it under a tree trunk and

sometimes a possum would stick its head out. Jade

The rain comes from the south, and caves with paintings often face north so that the paintings don’t get rained on.

Jarred

That honey was used from a special plant called a banksia. I tried it. Kaya

How to get a possum out of a tree. Aboriginals would put smoke in a hollow tree and the possum would think there

was a bushfire so they would climb out and get banged with a boomerang. Qwennette

How to make fire. It’s hard to make fire with just sticks.

Isabella

That Aboriginals used two special leaves for washing your hands. Andrew

That Aboriginal girls made baskets out of the grass tree.

Georgia

That Aboriginals shared their caves and they tried not to

use caves with too much sun. Liam

That it’s hard to make a fire using sticks. Jack R

What foods are ok to eat and

how to get possums out of trees. Phoebe

About some very good bush

tucker. Alex

How to make rope and a fire. Peter

Many things and one of them was how to make an oar and

what the Aborigines ate, for example, sour berries. Sarah

Aboriginals didn’t sleep in dark, wet caves because they

were uncomfortable and didn’t have enough shelter. Danielle

How to make fire and how to make rope. They are both

hard to do. Erin

Aboriginal people carved the

ground with rocks. It really

amazes me that the Aboriginals made rope out

of bark. It is really strong and it was rolled on their

hips.

Jai

Hunter School of the Performing Arts—K-6 AUDITIONS

Applications for Enrolment Auditions are available from:

• Hunter School of the Performing Arts or,

• On the School’s Website: www.hspa.nsw.edu.au

Enrolment applications close:

• 1:00 pm on 16 June 2010

• Late applications will NOT be accepted

For further information, please contact: Ph: (02) 4952 3297 Fax: (02) 4956 2428

District Cross Country

Two weeks ago, Kincumber Public School competed in our

District Cross Country where 48 students went to race. We all did exceptionally well and eight of us

made it through to Sydney North. Congratulations to these people:

Kaitlin Clague, Bilal Belkadi, Kevin Robertson, Kiran Richardson, Caitlin

Fuchs, Luke Cassidy, Sam Webb and Anais Staff.

Thank you to all the parents who transported us and supported us

when we were there.

by Kaitlin Clague

Basketball

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, two weeks ago, I went away to

Sydney North Basketball. We came 3rd all up and we went really well.

We played 8 games altogether and won 7 of

them. I had heaps of fun when I was away!

by Kaitlin Clague

Netball Report

On Friday, 28th May, the netball girls went to Wyoming Public

School to play the Wyoming netball girls. We all had a fantastic game and enjoyed ourselves. We won 21—12. Our

shooters were Kirra, Mikayla and Dom. They all were strong shooters. Unfortunately, Dom fell over many times. We all

had fun the whole game and that was the whole point of going.

On Wednesday, 2nd June, Kincumber’s lovely netballers went to Brisbania Public

School to play netball. Sorry to say that we

lost 24 to 39, but the main thing is we had

fun and enjoyed it.

Our goal shooters were Mikayla and Dom.

Mikayla bought ice-blocks and Georgia

bought some lollies. Dom slipped over a lot

of times. Rebecca did the splitz! Thank you

to the parents who transported us and supported us on the days.

Mikayla and Georgia-Lee

CANTEEN ROSTER TERM 2, WEEK 8

Reminder: Fleximeals on line:

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2) Collect your lunch order

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One lucky winner

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Monday, 7th June NEED HELP

Tuesday, 8th June NAREE

KAY NEED HELP

Wednesday, 9th June NEED HELP

Thursday, 10th June KATE

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P & C NEWS

There will be a P&C Meeting next Monday, 7th June, at

7:30pm in the Staffroom. Everyone is welcome to attend.

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Competition starts 27 May

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