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Kalori Term 1 - Week 8 18 March 2020

Respect, Honesty, Responsibility – RHR – That’s Who We Are

Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821

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Denise Toohey – Principal

P&C 2020

I would like to congratulate and welcome our new school P&C Team for 2020: President Crystal

Paine, Vice-President Mel McCutcheon, Secretary Kelly Robertson, Treasurer/Canteen Treasurer

Kristel Chapman, Canteen Liaison Sophia Heckendorf and PBL Liaison Fiona Gibbs. With the

installation of our new committee we also farewell Louise Woods who has been a long time member

and Secretary of the P&C. Lou has done an amazing job over the years and we thank her for

dedication and involvement with our P&C and its many activities.

While the P&C executive has been set for the year there are still plenty of opportunities to be involved with our P&C

through volunteering in canteen, Mother’s and Father’s Day stalls, 3-6 Social canteen, athletics carnival canteen, and

our bi-annual fete. For more information on the P&C call our office on 6889 4566.

COVID-19 UPDATE

There is understandable concern in both schools and the wider community about the threat posed by Covid -19. It is

important we work together to take steps to minimise the spread of the virus to protect our community. We are

providing updates via our Facebook page and app where necessary to keep our community abreast of changes to the

situation.

The Secretary of the NSW Department of

Education Mark Scott has provided schools with

guidelines for all staff and students. The key

points he outlines are:

Stay home if you or your children are

sick.

Support good hygiene in schools with

frequent handwashing and hand

sanitising.

Report suspected and confirmed cases

of COVID-19.

Practise social distancing.

The department has been planning and

operating in accordance with its pandemic plan

to support the safety and wellbeing of staff and

students. With regard to concern about whether

schools should remain open the Department of

Education has indicated we are following advice

from the leading health experts in the country.

The decision about when and if to close schools

is a decision that will be made based on the best

health advice.

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Denise Toohey – Principal continued

What this means for the students and staff at Narromine Public School:

The following have been cancelled or postponed until further notice:

• All interschool sporting events including NARRAF/Gobondary gala days and

the Western trials for; rugby union, football, hockey, softball, rugby league.

• NSW Primary Schools Sports Association Swimming carnival.

• NSW Primary Schools Sports Association state-wide knockout competitions.

• Science and Engineering Challenge.

CWA Public Speaking Compeition.

Change in dates, but still proceeding at this stage:

• The Stage 3 excursion to Sovereign Hill and Bendigo has been tentatively rescheduled to Tuesday 3 November to

Friday 6 November, 2020.

• Challenge Camp (for Stage 3) has been brought forward as a result of the Term 4 excursion to the new dates of 24,

25 and 26 June, 2020.

• Grandfriends Day and our volunteer’s morning tea has been postponed to 16 September.

Scheduled with minor changes:

• K-2 Easter Hat Parade 9 April – will be an in-school/students only event – unfortunately we will not be hosting a

community assembly. Parents and community will be able to enjoy via photos on our social media platform and

website.

Progressing as planned:

• Pink Stumps Day on 1 April

• 3-6 PBL Social on 8 April

• Swimming for Sport (Fridays each week until the end of term)

We will continue to keep our community updated as to changes for school routines. Staff are thankful to our NPS

families for their support and cooperation.

Assembly Awards Week 7 Attendance – KM Uniform – 56T Best Class of the assembly – 2AW RHR – 56S Super Val – 2AW That’s Super – 34E PBL Draw – Mia Hines, Jahmahley Edwards, Braxton Hutchison, Bryce Dixon, Zaylee Dawson and Kayden Hodge. Class Awards – Elanore Moses, Hope Thurbon, Eli Jacobson, Aaron Dempsey, Anthony Hines-Jackson, Chasidy Allen, Keiahnee-Jean Morgan, Jakobie Lodding, Troy Murphy, Harper Anthony, Kaylah Beer, Tilly Mulloy, Jyson Ritchie, Kerrod Anderson, Nikita Edwards, Nikeirah Boney, Justin Fletcher, Caleb Hutchison, Shantaya Byrne, Jed Sunderland, Kyerin Murphy, Klaneesha Knight, Bailey Farvis, Kayla Bonwick, Bryson Reid, Jackson Smith, Riddock Scott, Spencer Craft, Meg Mitchell, Javier Guyot, Mariah Jackson, Taio Hodge, Bridgett McDonnell, Summer Adams, Gemma Mellner, Tamika Moss, Makayla Colville, Bryce Dixon and Millie Packham. House Points – Castlereagh 49, Namoi 44, Bogan 41 and Macquarie 37. Family Literacy Award – Gill Family. Birthday Awards – Maisy Weir, Nattay Ebsworth Adams, Reuben McCarney, Michael Nelson and Jimmy Sunderland.

NOTES HOME

Headlice K1S and Stage 3

Changes to Stage 3

excursion

Chickenpox

Have you downloaded our school app?

Did you know our school app allows you

to easily access all newsletters, notices,

events, online calendar, online

payments, emergency alerts and submit

absences. Search the App Store or

Google Play for the Narromine Public

School App or go to http://cms.yourphoneapp.com.au/promo/narromin

Are you following our Facebook page?

We use social media to recognise

success and celebrate good practise in

our school. For all the latest news and

event information about what is

happening in our school search

Narromine Public School in Facebook

and click follow.

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Crazy Socks On

Thanks to our school community

for supporting the first of our

Year 6 fundraisers this year –

Crazy Sock Day. Students and

staff put on their craziest socks to

help our Year 6 students raise

funds towards their graduation.

There were odd socks, layering,

colours, pictures and textures to

add to the festivities. - Stage 3

Teachers

Family Literacy Challenge Organise your family team to complete the challenges. There will be a box in the front office to submit your entries.

To collect the prize you need to make sure you have one name of a family member per entry. For example: The Jones

Family- Andrew Jones 4W.

To be in the running for a $10 canteen voucher make sure you get your entry in the blue box in the foyer at the office.

You have to be in it to win it!

Week 8- Vocabulary

Find as many words as you can by using the letters from the word ‘knowledge’.

Mathematics Matters with 56T 5/6T have just completed a unit called 'If I were a Martian' in Mathematics. This unit explored place value in larger

numbers, equivalent fractions, expanded notation and fractions and decimals. Students were able to apply their

knowledge to a Math investigation where they took a look at the solar system. Students investigated how

Mathematics fits into the real

world, looking at the distances

between the sun and the planets,

the impact of gravity on the planets

and how this is all measured using

Mathematics. - Amanda Turnbull

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PBL News What an exciting time we have been

experiencing at Narromine Public

School with so many students achieving

some amazing milestones with their

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL).

Congratulations to all the students who

participated in the 100 point reward

days and have been chosen in the PBL

spinner at assembly for demonstrating RHR.

Students have been learning how to demonstrate responsibility

this week through being encouraged to deal with their emotions

in appropriate ways including keeping hands and feet to self,

speaking with appropriate language, remaining calm using their

self-management techniques and refraining from making unsafe

choices. Students have also been learning to demonstrate

responsibility by doing their best. Doing their best means

students are trying their best at completing all learning tasks, they

show sportsmanship, they seek to challenge themselves, they

make positive efforts in every area of school life, they

demonstrate initiative and they are organised by having learning tools ready.

Well done to all the students who have been sighted applying responsibility by doing their best and dealing with

emotions while at school. Teachers have been on the lookout and been handing out SuperVals to these students.

RHR, That’s Who We Are! - PBL Team

Pink Stumps Day – Wednesday 1 April

Narromine Public School will host the annual

Pink Stumps event in Week 10 of this term. All

money raised will go to the McGrath

Foundation. The McGrath Foundation was co-

founded by Jane McGrath and her cricketing

husband Glenn after Jane’s personal experience

with breast cancer at 31.

The events taking place are as follows.

• Pink Stumps raffle- Ticket selling 30 March to 3 April $1 per ticket.

Students will have the opportunity to purchase a ticket to go into the draw

to win a pink bat, stumps and a ball. SRC members will sell tickets

throughout lunch 2.

• Pink Dress Up Day and Cupcake Stall-Wednesday 1 April

Students are invited to wear all shades of pink on this day. Students are encouraged to bring a gold coin donation for

being out of uniform and wearing an item of pink. The SRC members will collect the donations from each classroom

during the day. Also on the day, the annual cupcake stall will be happening at lunch 2 at the canteen. The delicious

cupcakes generously donated by our SRC students and families will be range from 50 cents to $1.

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Sport

On Friday 13 March, 17 students represented Narromine Public School and the

Gobondery/NARRAF district at the Western School Sports Association Swimming

Carnival. We had individual swimmers and all four of our relay teams compete. It was

a fantastic day with several students achieving personal best times. Congratulations

to Ally Gill who has progressed to the PSSA State Swimming Championships.

Kristie Mackay - Sport Coordinator

Footy fever Our Rugby 7's team have braved the

very wet weather to take part in the

Rugby Junior Ella 7's. They played

very well despite the cold, winning

two games, losing one and making

their way to the semi-final. Thanks to

the parents and carers who also

braved the weather to support the

team. Kevin Geyer - Rugby

Coordinator

Are your details up to

date?

Please notify the school

office of any change of

contact details.

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P&C Community

MONTH MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

WEEK 8 MARCH

16 P&C AGM 5PM

17 18 19

20 Swimming for sport

WEEK 9 MARCH

23 24

25

26

27 Swimming for sport

WEEK 10 MARCH

30 31

1 Pink Stumps Day

2

3 Swimming for sport

WEEK 11 APRIL

6

7

8 3-6 Social

9 Easter Hat Parade Term 1 concludes

10 Good Friday

OPEN DAY –

POSTPONED

On advice from the Department of Education, Farrer advises that our Open Day scheduled for Wednesday 18 March has been postponed. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause your family but the safety of our students and the wider community is of paramount importance. A new Open Day date will be advised in due course.