What a Busy Year!

A well-earned rest coming!

■ 2016■ Term 4 ■ Weeks 9 & 10 ■ Principal: Kay Thurston

■ Phone: (02) 6924 1839 Loyal to my School

■ Fax: (02) 6924 1794 Junee North Public School

■ Email: juneenorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Queen Street

■ Website: www.juneenorth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Junee NSW 2663

Junee North Public School ■ Principal: Kay Thurston Loyal to my School

■ Phone: (02) 6924 1839

■ Fax: (02) 6924 1794 Junee North Public School

■ Email: juneenorth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au 1-15 Queen Street

■ Website: www.juneenorth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Junee NSW 2663

■ 2016 ■ Term 4 ■ Weeks 9 & 10 ■ Newsletter

Calendar Term 4, Week 9

5 December Medallion Assembly @ 2:30 pm

6 December Year 6 Transition visit to JHS –

includes parent information

session/ tour

8 December Presentation Night @ Junee

High MPC @ 6:30 pm

Term 4, Week 10

14 December Year 6 dinner @ Railway Café

15 December Year 6 special excursion

16 December Pool Party/ Last day Term 4

Term 1, Week 1 (2017)

27 January Staff Development Day

Term 1, Week 2

30 January Students return (Yrs 1-6)

31 January New Kinders commence

Term 1, Week 3

9 February Badge Ceremony 2:30 pm

Term 1, Week 4

15 February JNPS Swimming Carnival

In this issue ...

Principal’s report ........................................................................... 3

Congratulations Natalia! ....................................................... 3

Medallion Congratulations ................................................... 3

Presentation Night ................................................................... 3

Who will be our captains? .................................................... 3

2017 Staffing .............................................................................. 4

Happy holiday ........................................................................... 4

What’s happening in our school? ........................................... 5

Choir lifts the roof .................................................................... 5

Going, Going, Gone! ............................................................... 6

Feature Photo

Torah, Chloe & Maggie are worn out after this hectic

year!

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Principal’s report

Congratulations Natalia!

Last week was an event Natalia Shimpf will never

forget! Natalia as part of the Riverina choir, travelled to

Sydney to perform in the School’s Spectacular. Natalia

sang as part of a massive student choir. An amazing

experience for Natalia (& mum Katrina!). We are very

proud of you!

Medallion Congratulations

Well done to the many students who were awarded

with their Merit medallion on Monday. These students

have attained a total of 8 classroom merit awards

through their terrific efforts and achievements

throughout the year. A special occasion for our

kindergarten children who were receiving their very

first medallions; but also to many of our Year 6

students for whom this was their last.

Presentation Night

Our annual Presentation evening is being held this

Thursday 8 December at the Junee High MPC. The

event will commence at 6:30 pm. This is our celebration

of a wonderful year of achievement for our students. It

is a night where we recognize and award students for

their academic, sporting, cultural achievements.

Who will be our captains?

Presentation Night will also be a very nervous time for

19 of our Year 5 students. Last Wednesday 9 boys and

10 girls delivered some wonderful speeches to their

peers. Well done to our boy nominees: Linus

Schachtner, Charlie McEwen, Cooper Wright, Zach

Sheppard, Julian Schachtner, Ryan Rogers, Bayley

Guinan, Jack Armstrong and Benjamin Gallop. Well

done to our girl nominees: Isabella Cameron, Annabell

Eccleston, Ella Fitzgerald, Chelsea O’Rafferty, Grace

Robertson, Felicity Davis, Paige Vanzanten, Madeleine

Cameron, Tiger-lilly Kemp, Dimity-Lee Crocker. Votes

have been tallied, with our 2017 captains and vice

captains being announced at Presentation Night.

Good luck to our nominees!

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2017 Staffing

Congratulations to Stephanie Walters who was

successful at interview in being selected as our

Instructional Leader for the next 3 years. Stephanie will

lead our K-2 teachers in the Early Action for Success

initiative which has been funded by the state

government. Stephanie will work every Monday,

Tuesday and Wednesday in supporting our K-2

students in improving their literacy and numeracy

levels; as well as providing professional learning

support for teachers. As a result of this appointment,

next year we have a few changes with our staffing.

Kindergarten will continue to be taught by Mrs

McDevitt. We will have 3 Stage 1 classes, aimed at

ensuring continued intensive support and extension for

our K-2 children. These classes will be staffed by Mrs

Emily Dun, Miss Walters and Mrs Alison White will be

team teaching a class (Mrs White Monday –

Wednesday/ Miss Walters Thursday & Friday), and we

welcome Mrs Tammy Makeham onto the other Stage 1

class. Stage 2 will be taught by Mrs Sue Davis and Mr

Jared Maxwell; Stage 3 by Mr Adam Baldock and Mrs

Lynne Shephard. Next week parents and children will

be advised of their class teacher for 2017.

Happy holiday

Next Friday will be the last day of Term 4. We have

once again had an amazing year full of wonderful

opportunities for our students. I trust all of our Junee

North families will enjoy a happy, healthy and safe

holiday. I look forward to welcoming you all back in

2017.

Kay

Reminders

PRESENTATION NIGHT

Our annual Presentation Night is being held on

Thursday 8 December at the Junee High hall,

commencing at 6:30 pm. Students may wear mufti

on Thursday to ensure clean uniforms on the night.

YEAR 6 DINNER

Wednesday 14 December at the Railway Café.

RSVPs and money need to be returned as soon a s

possible. 6:00 for 6:15 start.

POOL & STADIUM REWARD DAY

Friday 16 December. Permission notes and money

to be returned by Wednesday 14 December.

YEAR 6 FINAL BELL

Our departing Year 6 students will do the

traditional bell ring following our pool party at

2:45.

P&C News

Christmas Movie Night

Due to it being such a busy time of year, our movie

night has been cancelled. Stay tuned for another movie

night in Term 1 next year!

End-of-year Raffle

A reminder to keep selling your tickets in our raffle.

The raffle will be drawn on Presentation Night –

Thursday 8 December. Please return all tickets (sold &

unsold) and money by Thursday morning.

Thank you Janet/ Welcome Kellie

Our P&C committee would like to express sincere

thanks and appreciation to Janet Howell for her tireless

efforts in our canteen this year. Without Janet, our

canteen would most likely not have operated this year.

A big thanks to Kellie Booby who will be taking over

the running of our canteen next year, Kellie will

appreciate help from our families. A note regarding

canteen helpers will be sent out early Term 1.

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Merit Awards Term 4 Week 7

KM Jacob Davis

Jessica Hume-Landrigan

KW Layla Ghannumi

Carlie Irvine

Shaylie Johns

Addison Reberger

Preston Thelan

Nate Wooden

1/2W Delaney Baxter

Cody Butt

Ace Hayman

Lucas Schachtner

Junior Dargin

Breannah Morriss

1/2D Kailyn Harris

Seth Wright

Lucy McGregor

Amelia Moon

Isaac Ghannumi

Leah Schultz

3/4D Cameron Richards

Lachlan Phillips

Erica Wooden

Myles-Cody Fletcher

Kyran Burgess-Finn

3/4M Lochlan Judd

Mazry Aurisch

Torah Newman

5/6B Dru Brodin

Kye Wright

Paige O’Rafferty

Cooper Wright

Chelsea O’Rafferty

Charlie McEwen

5/6S Nicholas Richards

Riley Hackett

Tenaya Gerhard

Paige Vanzanten

Hailea Baker-Shephard

Savannah Field

Benjamin Gallop

Seth Collins

Tiger-lilly Kemp

Home Reading Awards Term 4 Week 7

100 Nights

Samuel Holloway Thomas McCann

What’s happening in our school?

Choir lifts the roof

Well done to our junior and senior choirs for their

wonderful performance at Christmas on Broadway. It

was fantastic to have so many of our students

participating. Thank you to Mrs Davis and Mrs White

for preparing our singers.

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Going, Going, Gone!

As part of our Fun and Run day fundraiser, Mrs Davis

had offered to have her hair cut if we managed to beat

our total of $1100 from last year. As we know we well

and truly beat this target! Mrs Davis was a great sport

(and luckily for her our resident hairdresser Jodi

Crowder was on hand !) and had her very long mane

chopped off. Thank you Mrs Davis (and your new

haircut looks great!)

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