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Gunnedah South Public School Newsletter

Friday 15th March, 2019

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Gunnedah South Public School

Winder Place Gunnedah NSW 2380

Term 1– Week 9, 2019

Tuesday 26th March

Southern Football Boys & Girls Trials AECG Meeting

Friday 29th March

Zone Trials for Cricket Whole School Assembly Earth Hour

Term 1– Week 8, 2019

Thursday 21st March

Harmony Day

Friday 22nd March

Rugby League Zone Trials

Saturday 23rd March

STATE ELECTION DAY 8am to 6pm

P&C Cake Stall Apex BBQ & drinks

EASTER HAT PARADE

This year’s Easter Hat Parade

is open to

all students K-6

and will be held on

Wednesday

April 10

at 11.30am

Dear Parents and Community Members,

Congratulations to our school leaders who attended the Halogen Leaders Conference this week on Monday at Darling Harbour Sydney.

From all reports, their appearance, maturity and engagement was outstanding. The leadership team will be working collaboratively to initiate a project in the school throughout the year, giving them the opportunity to use the training and new skills that they were gained at the conference.

2019 Easter Hat Parade After an overwhelming amount of feedback from our 3-6 students, the Easter Hat Parade this year will be open to all students K-6.

It is with much excitement that we can announce that students in years 3 to 6 will have the chance to join in with the Easter fun. This is a direct result of students in 2018 requesting involvement and being disappointed that they didn’t get to have a hat parade.

The parade will commence at 11:30am on Wednesday 10th April. All Easter Hats are to be made at home and we look forward to seeing how creative our students (and parents) can be!

Parents who do not wish their child to participate in Easter activities need to contact their class teacher by phone, through the App, by email or in person.

Student Attendance at School Thank you to parents who provide notes or call the office with details of their child’s absence from school.

Regular attendance at school is essential for students to achieve quality life outcomes. Schools, in partnership with parents, are responsible for promoting the regular attendance of students

Parents or carers of children of compulsory school age are responsible for ensuring their child attends school every day. Children must commence school by age 6 and then complete year 10.

Please provide your child’s teacher with a reason for non attendance within 3 days of their return.

In accordance with our school procedures, if your child is away from school, you will receive a phone call from your child’s teacher on or before the 3rd day of them being absent from school.

Attendance SMS At the beginning of the year a glitch with software resulted in many parents receiving SMS messages regarding their child’s absences that had already been explained or were from a very long while ago.

Please note that next Monday 18th March, we have arranged with our software provider to trial the SMS messaging system again. Many parents and teachers found this form of communication very helpful and an easy way to explain their child’s absence.

The SMS messaging should only be for Monday 18th March, so if you receive notice of absence for any other day, we ask that you please disregard them, and there is no need to reply.

I thank you all in advance for your patience in this matter and hope the trial on Monday is a success.

Congratulations Mrs Higgins Mrs Higgins and Mr B have spent Thursday and Friday participating in the 2019 Leadership Initiate training in Sydney.

Congratulations to Mrs Higgins who applied to be part of the initiative and was successfully chosen to take up one of the 75 positions out of over 1000 applicants.

Wishing you all a happy and relaxing weekend.

With Kind Regards,

Nicki Walsh

Deputy Principal

MERIT CERTIFICATES

GOLD 6W Danyella Young

6F Oscar Donoghue

4L Justin Pung, Annaliese Maguire

4C Ruby Beasley

2LZ Lainey Stewart-Harris, Chaise Meredith, Danielle McGregor

SILVER 6W Danyella Young, Max Jewiss

6F Williams Hicks, Mason Louis, Charleigh McArthur, Kadence Milne, Jayla Woolaston

4L Brooklyn McAlpine, Ella Carter, Justin Pung, Annaliese Maguire

4C Ruby Beasley, Sara Pike

3G Addison Laws

2LZ Lainey Stewart-Harris, Chaise Meredith, Stella Goodall, Danielle McGregor, Isaac Vallada

On Monday the 4th of March, Year 1 and K6R attended a living world talk delivered by Mark

Kesby. The students extended on what they had learnt in class this term as they heard

about the needs of living things in our local environment. Mark shared his knowledge of

Koalas, Micro Bats and other animals that can be found in the local Gunnedah area. The

students focused on the importance of water and shelter for living things and looked at

some strategies for helping local animals survive. Mark kindly donated two shelter boxes to

the school and the students are looking forward to watching to see who comes to live

inside them. After the talk the students went on a koala hunt and were lucky enough to

spot a koala resting in the tree, as well as some native birds.

Koala Craze!!!

Yarn Up

with Deakyn & Mackenzie

MRS HOPPE

Mrs Hoppe grew up in Ipswich in

Queensland. Her favourite sport is hockey and her

favourite animal is a cockatoo. Her favourite thing

about South is her class 2H.

MR FITZGERALD

Mr Fitzgerald grew up in Newcastle

and has New Zealand and

English background. He loves basketball, kangaroos, his

class 6T and the staff at Gunnedah

South.

MISS LENNON

Miss Lennon loves the koalas that visit

our school. She grew up in

Turondale and plays netball. Her favourite native

animal is the quokka.

MRS MULDOON

Mrs Muldoon is a Gunnedah local.

Her favourite sport is Rugby League

and she loves koalas. Her

favourite things about our school is

cooking and dancing.

MISS WEST

Miss West teaches 3W. She grew up in

Curlewis and has an Aboriginal

background. She loves swimming

and thinks all the kids at Gunnedah

South are very kind.

On the 11th of March all of the Leadership Team

travelled to Sydney to attend The National Young

Leaders Day. At this event we were given the

opportunity to listen to four amazing guest

speakers: Tim Diamond (Cotton On Foundation),

Tasmin Janu (Author), Cate Campbell (Olympic

Swimmer) and Holly Ferling (Australian Cricketer).

All of these inspiring people taught us more

about how to work through challenging times

and how our actions can have a positive

influence on those around us.

We all look forward to telling the rest of the

school about this wonderful experience at the

Week 9 Whole School Assembly.

We will leave you with some of the inspiring

quotes we took from the day.

“Embrace the scary but exciting”.

Holly Ferling

“A set back is life’s way of asking you, how much do you really want it?”

Cate Campbell

Gunnedah South 2019 Leadership Team

Equipment

Knives

Chopping Board

Bowl

Fry Pan- small and large

Wooden spoon

Spatula

Fried Rice

Method/What to do

1.Chop up the vegetables from the garden and the bacon into small pieces. Set aside.

2.Crack the egg into the bowl and whisk lightly.

3.Heat the oil in the frying pan on heat 5. Add egg and swirl over the pan to form an omelette. Cook for 2 minutes. Turn over and cook for another 2 minutes.

4.Transfer to a clean chopping board and leave to cool slightly. Cut into small pieces.

5.Add the bacon to the frying pan. Cook for 2 minutes.

6.Add spring onion, peas and any other vegetable from the garden. Cook for another 2 minutes.

7.Add rice and stir continuously for 3-4 minutes making sure all ingredients are mixed together well.

8.Add chopped up egg and soy sauce. Stir until all heated.

9.Serve and enjoy.

Ingredients

2 cups cooked rice

1 egg

2 tsp vegetable oil

1 bacon rasher

½ brown onion

1/8 cabbage

¼ cup frozen peas

2 tbsp soy sauce

½ carrot

Other vegetables from the

garden

Join in the election fun at GSPS. Our P&C are running a

cake stall. Donations welcome. Also Gunnedah Apex

will ne running a BBQ with drinks. All funds raised

benefit our school and wider community