Calendar

Week1 20/7 Whole School Athletics Carnival – Track Events Week 2 23-27/7 Yrs 5/6 Aussie Bush Camp Excursion 27/7 London

Olympics begin

30/7-3/8 Education

Week – NSW Public Schools Creating the Future

31/7 Choir

Performance at Ballina

3/8 Ballina District

Athletics 3/8 11.35am

Education Week Assembly

Professional Learning Open to Persuasion - Writing ------------------------------ For more events on our

calendar please go to:

http://www.wollongbar

-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Principal’s Report

Save the date, Wednesday 1 August, for Appreciate, Create, Reflect- a showcase of student artwork. As part of Education Week-NSW Public Schools Creating the Future we invite you to a showcase of our students’ artwork, visits to the classrooms and a (BYO) picnic lunch. Parents and extended family are warmly invited to attend. A flyer will be included in next week’s newsletter. As part of Education Week, on Tuesday 31 August our choir and dancers, along with other members of our Plateau to the Sea Community of Schools, will be performing at Ballina Fair (10.30-1pm) - hopefully you can get along to see them. Stage 3 will be away next week at The Great Aussie Bush Camp at Tea Gardens. Activities include bushcraft, Fencing, Archery, Indoor Rock Climbing, Dual Flying Fox bushwalks and a nightly campfire. Have a great week everyone- we know that you will be great ambassadors for our school. Our Athletics Carnival is tomorrow, 20 July. We’d love family and friends to come along and cheer on our terrific athletes. Cross your fingers we have a beautiful day like today. Included with this newsletter is information about School Attendance and Absences. Please read this information carefully. Those receiving this newsletter via email will be able to access the hyperlinks to DEC policy. We will be awarding our inaugural Outstanding Attendance awards (for Term 2) at our Friday assembly next week. I am thrilled with the number of students who will be receiving an award. Don’t forget, Kindergarten 2013 interviews have started. Interviews generally last 30-45 minutes, and are designed to mark the beginning of transition into our school for your child. Important Term 4 Transition dates are:

Kindergarten Orientation: Friday 2,9,16 and 23 November, 12.15pm

Big Day at School: Friday 30 November

Regards,

Jennifer Thomas

Principal

Thursday 19

th July 2012

Term 3, Week 1

Volume 21

Wollongbar Public School

Simpson Ave, Wollongbar 2477

Ph: 66281 302 Fax: 6628 1976

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

Principal: Jennifer Thomas

Also don't forget the Sports Carnival on tomorrow - No Lunch Orders will be accepted.

The canteen will be down on the oval serving the usual Recess items and a BBQ Lunch of

Sausage Sizzle and Chicken Rissoles $2 each. Drinks and Ice Blocks will also available.

Attendance & Absences Taking Leave… Regular attendance at school is essential if students are to maximise their potential. While parents are legally responsible for the regular attendance of their children, school staff, as part of their duty of care, attendance.

It is very important for all parents to note that the principal may grant: 1. Sick leave to students whose absences are satisfactorily explained as being due to illness. The principal may request a medical certificate when absences are frequent or prolonged; 2. Leave to students totalling not more than 15 days per school year.

Principals may decline or accept as satisfactory an explanation for an absence.

Applications for leave in excess of 15 days (e.g. family holiday, domestic necessity, employment or health of the child) will be treated as applications for exemption from school attendance. Application for Exemption forms are available from the school and the school website, and must be returned to the principal before the leave is required allowing time (at least 14 school days) for the application to be processed.

Late arrivals… Late arrival is disruptive for the student(s) involved, and it also disrupts the other students in the class. Teachers often need to stop what they are doing to help settle and organise late comers. We require that parents accompany their children to the office to fill out the late arrival form just as you would come to the front office to complete an early departure form. In this way we will be more able to monitor and hopefully reduce the partial absences that are causing concern. Please help us by ensuring that late arrival is the exception rather than the rule.

Sick notes… Sick notes must be received within seven days. If no note is received within the seven day period immediately following a student's return to school the absence will be recorded as unjustified. Acceptable reasons for absence include: 1. Sickness (a teacher may request a medical certificate in the event that a student is absent in excess of four days); 2. Leave for participation in special events or for misadventure Unacceptable reasons, which apply to whole or part day absences, include:

shopping hairdresser's appointment birthdays slept in/running late leaving early

Missing school means your child misses out on vital information and maintaining learning routines. This can result in a loss of confidence and missing out on forming vital friendships. Attendance is recorded each day. As a parent or caregiver you are responsible for ensuring your child attends school every day, including sports days unless your child:

has an unavoidable medical or dental appointment (preferably these should be made after school or during holidays)

is required to attend a recognised religious holiday

is required to attend an exceptional or urgent family circumstance (such as attending a funeral)

is sick, or has an infectious illness.

If you are having difficulty getting your child to attend school regularly, you might like to talk to your child’s teacher, the leader of the Learning Support Team, Debra Imms, or the school counsellor, Jenny Strong.

If your child has to be absent from school for any reason, including arriving late or leaving early, please either tell your child's teacher or one of the ladies at the Front Office, or explain the reason by phone, email, or written note as

soon as possible, or within seven days. Exemption Application (pdf, 253 KB)

Congratulations

To these students who have achieved 100 nights of Home Reading:

Monty, Jordan, Miles, Georgie, Katie, Sheridan, Indianna, Ash, Noah

This week’s progress in the Woolworths Earn &

Learn Program:

5,930 points

Sticker Cards are available at the front office

Gold Platinum Birthdays

Miles Charlotte Holly Kye

Ella Miles Kaleb Henry

Gemma Luca Ethan

Jordan Aeryn Tia

Jasper Elliott Harry

Lucinda Jarrod

Kyle Jack

Schools Spectacular Dance Group

Another exciting term ahead of us, so many things happening!

Our support WPS Dance Group wristbands are now in stock - watch out for fundraising

events coming up where you will be able to purchase a wristband

for $3 to show your support.

We would like to continue our thanks to the local community and beyond for their ongoing support to the school

and our lucky dancers heading to Sydney in November.

School Spectacular Pens are available for a small cost of $4, please contact

Clare Cassin - cc534238@bigpond.net.au if you would like to purchase one. They will also

be available at upcoming fundraising events. Be quick as stocks are limited.

The Tally board is in the Foyer, come have a look and see how many wonderful people are

helping these talented students go to Schools Spectacular.

School Spectacular Dance Group & Fundraising team

2013 Kindergarten Enrolments

Kindergarten Interviews for 2013 have begun.

Parents who intend to start their child/ren at school are welcome to phone or come in to the front to set up an appointment with our Principal.

Our Transition to School days will be held on the first four Friday’s in November- 2nd, 9th, 16th and 23rd - at 12.15pm.

Our Big Day @ School, where both children and parents attend for the day, will be on Friday 30th November 2012. For more enquiries please call 6628 1302

Merit Awards and Birthday Awards

Issue 5 Book club has been issued and is due back at

school on:

Wednesday 1st August 2012

Unfortunately we will not be taking any late orders. Please remember to write your child’s name clearly on ALL order forms.

Susan Dyer is the P&C President and can be contacted on Ph: 0428 788 715, Susan.Dyer2@det.nsw.edu.au.

Welcome back to Term 3. Hope you have had a relaxing and enjoyable break. The sports carnival will be held tomorrow and we'd like to thank in advance all the parents and friends who help the

school to make this day such an enjoyable one. The kids have a wonderful time and it’s great to see the enthusiasm

from spectators and competitors.

Our next meeting will be the 1st August 7 pm in the staffroom. Baking will be delicious...so see you there!!

Thank you to all our WONDERFUL volunteers

This month our lucky winner receives a $15.00 voucher for Alstonville Garden House. So,

next time you volunteer at school don’t forget to write your name and phone number on

a raffle ticket and put it into the box in the front office for your chance to win.

News in the Canteen

If you would like to contribute to the Baking Roster on either Mondays or Fridays could you let me know as soon as possible so I can add you to this Terms Baking Roster. Anyone who would like to try out volunteering in the canteen on Fridays please get in touch it would be great to have some new faces in the canteen. Also don't forget the Sports Carnival on Friday - the canteen will be down on the oval serving the usual Recess items and a BBQ Lunch of Sausage Sizzle and Chicken Rissoles $2 each. Drinks and Ice Blocks will also available. No Lunch Orders will be accepted Andrea Pearce andrea.pearce4@bigpond.com or Tel: 0435 930645 Canteen Coordinator

The following article was written by Kate Hunter (2010). It was found on the internet by one of our trusted

fundraising members while vigilantly hunting for innovative fete ideas to bring to the next fund raising meeting.

To all Wollongbar Public School families….. A few tongue in cheek words of advice ……

Spring has sprung (well nearly). The magpies will soon be swooping and if you have young children you will notice in

the coming months the fundraising section of the newsletter will grow to something resembling the yellow pages.

Coming upon us is serious fete season and it’s not for the faint hearted.

Be warned….

Once you have a job on the fete, it will be yours until your youngest child leaves school. It is easier to get out of

Guantanamo Bay then it is to offload the fairy floss stall, so make sure you are absolutely sure you are happy to do it

for the duration.

If you have ever worked in the accountancy field, keep it a dead secret unless you want to be in charge of fete

finance. When the marquees are coming down and everyone is kicking back with a hamburger and a warm chardy,

you’ll be counting 10c pieces in the library.

If you have ever worked in media, beware….If there is the slightest possibility you have ever met or even walked past

someone remotely famous you will be expected to invite them officially to open the event or at the very least have

them sign something for the auction.

Having a baby is an excellent and possibly the only excuse for getting out of stall duties. I suspect many children have

been conceived for precisely this reason.

If, despite your best efforts, you find yourself in command of a stall, be sure to recruit your helpers early and lock

them in. As the day approaches, volunteer trading becomes rife with people being lured from homemade gift to

sweet treats with promises of bonuses paid in fudge.

No matter how bad you are in the kitchen, you will be expected to bake something. You will need to make the effort.

There is no fear greater than that of seeing your gluten free banana loaf on the ‘make us an offer’ stand at the end of

the day.

DO NOT attempt to buy a cake and pass it on as your own. Any cake stall convenor worth her cream of tartar can

sniff a supermarket job at 100 paces. Be warned, constructing the cake box is often more difficult than making the 12

tiered sponge to put inside it.

There will at some point come the time when you will wonder along with everyone else why the P&C Committee

does not ask every family to contribute $100, skip the fete and be done with it and on that note…….

NEXT A FAIR TO REMEMBER MEETING SCHEDULED FOR 26th July, same time & place.

Contact Donna Lloyd for details (0413138743)

Canteen

Volunteers Term 3 week 1 and Term 2 Friday 20th July Monday 23rd July Friday 27th July

Anna Robyn Andrea

Chris Amanda Leigh

Tash Lorna

Katrina * *9.30 – 12.00

Dianne ** **11.30 – 2.00

P & C Calendar

P&C Calendar

What’s happening When Where

Fundraising Meeting Thursday 26th July @ 7pm Fiona Barnes

Canteen Meeting Friday 27th July @ 2pm Staff Room

P&C Meeting Wednesday 1st August @ 7pm Staff Room

Uniform Shop Date Opening Hours

Thursday 26thJuly 8.30am – 9.30

Don’t forget: A Fair to Remember.

Wollongbar Public School Fete 2012

3rd November…VOLUNTEERS WARMLY RECEIVED!