DATES TO

REMEMBER

SEPTEMBER

15th - Touch Gala Day

21st - Education for Carers

22nd - Last day of term 3

Premier’s Reading Challenge

Yamba Public School Newsletter RESPECT: LEARN IT, EARN IT, SHOW IT.

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which we live and work and we pay our respects to the Elders both past and present.

12/9/2017

Term 3

Week 9

Principal’s News

Two weeks left of Term 3. Can you believe how fast the year is flying by?

School fete: What a great afternoon, last Friday. Unfortunately

I went home sick, and I am still fighting off the dreaded lurgy.

However, everyone reports that it was a fabulous event. From

the rides to the stalls to the yummy food on offer, as well as the

awesome raffle prizes; a great time was had by all! Well done to

the fete team.

Tell them form Me Parent Surveys: On Monday, a separate note went home

with families regarding the parent survey. Please log in using the URL given on

the flyer and answer as many questions as you can about Yamba Public

School. Your responses will assist us in our 2018-2020 planning cycle. The

URL is: https://nswtellthemfromme.com/nmg47

Spelling Success: Congratulations to River for winning the Premiers Spelling

Bee. He will be off to Sydney next term for the state finals. Awesome work

River!

Life Education: Is coming soon to YPS: Healthy Harold will

be visiting Yamba Public School in the first week of next

term. Detailed information will go home in next week’s

newsletter and will be repeated next term. Classes from

Kindergarten to Year 5 will be attending at a cost of $10 per

student.

Touch Football: Well done to both teams who played great

games last Thursday. While the girls played well, they were

defeated by a stronger team. The boys, however, will be

progressing to the next round. We have not yet been notified

as to when that may be. Congratulations to the team and

their coaches.

Sport Award: Earlier this year, I nominated Mr Clifford for the 2017

Excellent Service to School Sport Award. The state-wide award recognises the

dedicated and valued service to local school sport that teachers provide. On

Monday, I presented Mr Clifford with a “Certificate of Recognition” for the

many years of service to sport at Yamba Public School. Thank you Mr. Clifford

for all that you do for our school.

Diana Foley,

Principal.

Fete 2017

WOW! How lucky were we with the amazing weather last Friday for our wonderful and very successful Annual FETE! Thanks to everyone’s efforts we raised in excess of $10 000. Which will go towards rigid shade shelters for the playground area. We have so many Thank you’s – without so many helpful people the FETE simply would not have been so successful!

We would like to thank our wonderful teachers and their students for their amazing effort with their stalls. We know that a lot of outside of school hours goes into making the stalls extra exciting and we are very grateful for all their efforts.

We would like to give a very warm thank you to our P&C committee members artists extraordinaires – Michelle and Sasha for their creative signs to the entrance of the Fete. Definitely setting a fun tone to the Fete as soon as the students entered the school on the day.

An extra special thank you to Rod for all of his help leading up to the Fete during and after the Fete and to our MC’s - Mrs Woods and Mr Bucks. Your lovely voices were greatly appreciated. We would like to thank all of those

fantastic parents that volunteered to help run rides on the Fete Day. Without all of those marvelous parents (giving up their work time) the Fete would simply not have been so successful. In fact, we simply would not have been able to run the Fete. We really appreciate it.

We would like to thank those students and parents with supporting our new ‘Buy a unlimited wristband’ idea. It was the purchase of the bands in advance of the Fete that allowed us to bring so many wonderful rides to our Fete for 2017.

Thank you to those parents whom brought a fabulous fundraiser to the FETE. Eg Monica and Jenny – your enthusiasm and special stalls were very much appreciated.

We appreciate you donating 100% of your work and effort from the day to our great school.

Our Canteen Managers, Trish and Crystie created an amazing amount of wonderful healthy food choices on the day from healthy kebabs to hamburgers – it was an amazing effort and we sincerely appreciate it. We would like to thank the students and their wonderful behavior and manners during the day of the Fete. It was a pleasure putting on a Fete for such a lovely school of students. YPS should be very proud.

Our Annual Fete Raffle was absolutely huge with some of the best prizes we have ever seen! We received amazing support from our local businesses this year. And we would like to express our appreciation to each and everyone of them. A ‘ Certificate of Appreciation’ will be going out over the coming weeks to all of those businesses that donated to our Raffle. Please see the list of our valued supporters in this newsletter.

The next P&C Meeting will not be held until the 3rd week of October, (Tuesday the 17th of October). All are welcome. Our next ‘Yamba Golf Club Raffle’ will be held on Sunday the 24th of September from 4pm. We look forward to as many families from Yamba Public School getting there as possible.

Buffy Williams-Robinson President Yamba Public School P&C

P&C NEWS

OUT AND ABOUT!

North Coast NSW

Premier's Spelling Bee

Congratulations to our 3

representatives who completed

in the North Coast Final of the Premier’s Spelling

Bee at Maclean Public School last week. River

Robinson and Emily from Stage 2 and Lucas Becker

for Stage 3 were our worthy participants. All

contestants represented our school proudly with

River taking out the Stage 2 section. He will now

compete in the state final to be held in Sydney

during November.

New South Wales Junior Chess League Semi-Final

Yesterday, four students represented our school in one of the North Coast Chess semi-

finals. Sean Sowell, Harry Close, Jack Austin and Lucas Becker played two games each

against St Joseph’s Primary School, Alstonville. At the end of the competition, each school

had won four games each, resulting in a draw. Points were then awarded according to the

weighting of the players’ positions in the team. As a result of this St Joseph’s was declared

the winner on the day and progress through to the next round. Congratulations boys for

reaching this level and the manner in which you represented your school. Thank you to

Rob Becker and Tracey Sowell for transporting the team to Alstonville. Mary Hogan

Crumbling Heart

Sadness overwhelms my entire being. Brightly coloured leaves are they only heart-

warming entity in my life. As an arrow of misery strikes my heart, I grieve with mourn-

ful and sorrowful thoughts. This sobering world is ripping me apart. How can I hold

on? My heart like a withering old man, may never beat again.

By Dolores Johnson 6P

My Darkest Hour

The hour has come. Cruel thoughts overwhelm my mind. My soul crumbles to my

feet, as tears cascade down my face. How dreadful it is to think, I will never see my

loved ones again. The only true colour left in my world is my flower, as colourful as

the brightest rainbow.

By Sean Sowell 6P

Ezra Pound Couplets

Birds flying south for the winter,

Scattered thoughts finding a resting place.

By Tess Davey 2H

Bolts of lightning,

Gods raging across the land.

By Gabe Ellis and Zephyr Green 2H

An invitation to junior and youth artists!

Ferry Park Gallery, Maclean is proudly continuing the promotion of junior and youth art in the region by encouraging primary and sec-ondary students to participate in an on-going display of their art at the gallery.

Artists must be willing to display their artwork for sale (no commission to be paid)

Displays will operate on a rotational basis, each display running for 4 – 6 weeks Work must be ready for hanging, either framed or on stretch canvas The artist’s name, title of painting or photograph and price must be clearly displayed on the back of the art-

work.

A free-standing display column with space for approximately 12 paintings/photographs has been allocated with a maximum width of 50cm per painting. f you would like to be included on our waiting list and have permission from a parent/guardian, please forward your acceptance to Bev: brscof@iinet.net.au

Book Club Payments Parents are encouraged to purchase book club orders online.

LOOP, our Linked Online Ordering & Payment

platform, allows parents to order and pay for their

child's Book Club requirements in one simple online

process.

LOOP orders are linked to your school and your Book

Club Ordering Group. Orders sit pending until you

submit the final school order to us.

If parents want to pay by credit card for online Book

Club orders, LOOP makes it easy! Orders will be sub-

mitted safe and sound to schools, eliminating the

need for paper order forms.

CANTEEN ROSTER—September

SWIM LESSONS

At Yamba Community Heated Pool, 78 Angourie Rd, Yamba. ( 66461750; : yambaswimmingpool.com.au; * rydj@nsw.chariot.net.au

ENROLLING NOW

(Includes stroke correction and mini-squad)

5-day Intensive Program in Sept School Holidays. Ages 6yrs to 12yrs. Mon 25th Sept to Friday29th Sept 2017.

Term 4 swim lessons, one to two lessons a week from 9th Oct to 1st Dec 2017. Preschoolers in mornings after 9am, School-age lessons after 3pm.

Adult Learn-to-Swim and stroke correction. Saturday early afternoons Term 4.

New Enrolments: Visit the Pool and complete an enrolment form, or email us for a form at rydj@nsw.chariot.net.au. New Enrolments will be contacted to book a time at the pool prior to lessons commencing, to have their swim skills assessed.

Re-enrolments: We have emailed your re-enrolment forms to you. More forms are available at the pool. Please return completed forms promptly.

POSITIONS ARE LIMITED - earlier enrolments have more chance of getting their desired days/timeslots

NOTICE BOARD

11 12 13 14 15

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Lisa Russo Susan

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Susan

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm Phillipa Hayman 9am to 2pm

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Les Green

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Natasha Burgess Les Green

18 19 20 21 22

9am to 12pm Megan Ridgmay 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Susan

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm Roxanne Williams 9am to 2pm

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Les Green

9am to 12pm 11am to 2pm 9am to 2pm Les Green

PRINCIPAL

Diana Foley

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

Ian Clifford

Mark White

Debbie Woods

SCHOOL CAPTAINS

Kalani Henwood

Malik Elabbasi

Yamba Public School Angourie Road YAMBA NSW 2464

Telephone (02) 66462420 * Fax (02) 66461578

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

Website: www.yamba-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

RESPECT: LEARN IT, EARN IT, SHOW IT.

PARENTS & CITIZENS’

ASSOCIATION

Meets—Second Tuesday of each month.

PRESIDENT

Buffy Williams-Robinson

CANTEEN SUPERVISOR

Trish Verran

OPENING HOURS

Wednesday 3.15 - 5.30pm

Thursday 3.30 - 6.00pm

Friday 3.30 - 5.00pm

2a/4 Mooli Place YAMBA

Ph:-0401 182 287 Email:- thedancingtutu@bigpond.com