EUNGAI PUBLIC SCHOOL E-mail : [email protected] NEWSLETTER TERM 1 WEEK 2 3 FEBRUARY 2020 Our Mission: To provide a unique, challenging and world class education Main Street Eungai Creek NSW 2441 Phone: (02) 6569 9248 Fax : (02) 6569 9428 Mobile: 0438 463 912 PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Dear Parents and Carers, Welcome to a new school year. It was lovely to see all of our returning students last Wednesday morning after our holiday break. I enjoyed listening to all of our students’ holiday adventures. Some of them have certainly grown a lot over the holidays. A very special welcome to our new students in Years One to Six; Riley, Maddison, Blake, Cruz, Bronx and Jax who started last week. It was also lovely to welcome back Max and Maddison and to also welcome our fantastic Kindergarten students who started last Thursday. Annabelle, Harper, Natasha, Lilly, Leo, Levi, Ben and William have all settled into their classroom and are doing a fantastic job. We also welcome new staff to Eungai Public School this year. Ms Melinda Low teaches K/1L and Ms Jodi Lennox will be supporting K/1L as an SLSO on Monday, Tuesday and Friday. This year we are introducing a new program called Sound Waves. S ound Waves is a whole- school synthetic phonics and word study program. It uses a sound-to-letter strategy which acknowledges that sounds can be represented in more than one way in written form. Teachers will discuss this new program during Parent Information sessions on Tuesday 25 th and Wednesday 26 th February. Don’t forget to come tomorrow morning to our annual P & C Welcome Breakfast. This is a complimentary breakfast that is hosted by the P & C every year for all staff, students, parents and EPS community members. Breakfast will be served from 8:30am. CALENDAR DATES NO ASSEMBLY February 4 th P& C Welcome BBQ 8.30am 6 th P & C Meeting 3:15pm Library 11 th Swimming Carnival – Years 3-6 21 st First Assembly for 2020 – Captains Induction 25 th 3:15 – K/1L Parent Information Afternoon 4:00 – 1/3W Parent Information Afternoon 26 th 3:15 – 4/6J Parent Information Afternoon March 5 th P & C Meeting