Term 3 Week
1
30 July, 2009
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Friday 31 July 100 Days of Kindergarten
Tuesday 4 August Year
3 – 6 Athletics Carnival
7.45am
Maths Competition
Wednesday 5 August OC Placement Test
Thursday
6 August Chocolate drive
begins
Dear Parents and
Caregivers
WELCOME BACK
We would like to welcome
students and parents back to school. A very special warm
welcome to our new families who have recently enrolled at
Mrs Sadleir
sends her thanks to the students for the lovely gift they gave her of a Seiko
watch. She says she will think of them whenever she looks at the time. Thank
you also to the Community Club of the lovely gift of a mobile phone for when
she travels.
Congratulations
to Mrs Hanley on the birth of her baby girl, Haylee.
Mum and baby are doing very well.
At our K-6
assembly in week 2 (Monday at 11:30 am) we will be awarding certificates for
the Computer competition, silver awards and prefect badges. If the weather is
wet, we will move the assembly to the hall.
This term we have many
things happening, starting next Tuesday with our Athletics Carnival for
students Years 3 to 6 and the following week after that, the K-2 Carnival will
be held. In other weeks we will have: a
STAFF NAME BADGES
All our staff are proudly wearing their new name badges. This will help
parents and visitors identify staff members and get to know their names.
CONGRATULATIONS SHIRLEY GU – CHESS CHAMPION
Shirley Gu, from 5/6S, has become the NSW Under 12 Chess Champion. It is the first time in a decade that a girl has won the NSW title, in this boy dominated championship. The NSW Junior Chess Championships were held during the school holidays. This is the highest-level junior chess tournament in the state.
After the three-day
competition, Shirley Gu
scored 9 points out of 10, one point ahead of her nearest rivals. She was
the only undefeated player in the whole championship. The Under 18 title was
won by our ex
CONGRATULATIONS ALEXANDER BORG
Congratulations to Alexander Borg who has just gained a place at the Sydney Region Dance Camp. This is a highly sort after opportunity and allows students to train at the facilities of the Sydney Dance Company. Well done, Alexander.
UNI NSW COMPUTER SKILLS COMPETITION
Congratulations to all
students who sat for the UNI NSW Computer Skills Competition. Special
congratulations to the following students who accomplished excellent results in
the Computer Skills Competition.
HIGH DISTINCTION:
YEAR 3: Eric
Lin, Laurel Lu, Eddie Qi,
YEAR 4: Frank
Fei, Amy, Guo,
YEAR 5: Amit Deep,
Cindy Chen, Tabitha Roberts
YEAR 6: Lianne Wong,
Anna Lee, Remy Blatch-Williams, Marc Betbeder-Matibet
DISTINCTION:
Year3: Yianni Alkiviadou, Helen Chen,
Vicky Chen, Fiona Roberts,
Eric Rong
YEAR 4: James Chen, Clarence Feng,
Jason Huo, Alex Luo, Roy
Ma, Sarah Purvis, Arelia Te, Grace Vedamuthu, Gordon Wang, Danny Zhao,
YEAR 5: Ryan
Betbeder-Matibet, Kenneth Guo,
Kenny Zhu, Bonnie Zhu,
Daisy Zhang, Olivia Yang, Lawrence She,
YEAR 6: Wincentia Wu,
Liz Tang, Carrie Tan, Sarah Li, Ryan Kwok,
POGO PULSE POGO-THON
On Thursday 9th July at
lunchtime the whole school was treated to a school first and world first (as
far as we know) in the very first ever Pogo-thon fundraiser!
The following students
jumped continuously on a pogo stick to fundraise money for the team to help
purchase more equipment. Congratulations to:
Nathan Chalak,
Pawit Laosuksri, Brandon Mazevski, Braydon Pilot, Hendrix Timoti, Damien Ho, Susan Huang, Alexis Olsen, Sarah Ishak, Michael Elias, Sleiman
Choker, Michael Dadson, Peckett
Nicholls
Eight members of the team
managed to successfully jump for 50 minutes continuously!!!!! This is an
amazing result and a true indicator of how far their fitness and skills have
come with Pogo Pulse.
Well done Pogo Pulse Team
members and a special thanks to all the students and teachers that came out
to cheer the pogo riders on and a big thank you to 5/6F for
helping set up/pack up and run the Pogo-thon!
ANAPHYLAXIS – Nut awareness
This is a friendly reminder
to all parents seeking your support in not sending to school any peanut butter
sandwiches and where possible no other peanut products. Some of our students
have anaphylaxis, which is an acute allergic reaction in humans and other mammals. Minute amounts of allergens like peanuts
may cause a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction. Anaphylaxis may occur after
ingestion, skin contact, injection of an allergen or, in rare cases,
inhalation.
Applicants for Year 5
placement in an opportunity class in 2010 are required to take the Opportunity
Class Placement Test to be held from 9.00am to 11.15am on Wednesday 5 August
2009. The test centre for students for our school is:
KOGARAH 2217
Students should present
themselves at Moorefield Girls High by 8:45am. Parents please note that
Test Information for parents
and students are available to principals from the Department’s intranet site to
parents at <http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/media/downloads/schoolsweb/learning/k_6assessments/oc/octestcentres.pdf> .
If any of your details have
changed since you made the OC application, please contact the Testing centre on
9707 6262.
100 DAYS of KINDERGARTEN
Yes! It is time to celebrate
children in Kindergarten being at school for their first 100 days. WOW!
On Friday 31July (tomorrow) we will have a special cake and the students will
be involved in fun activities before lunch. To help
with the party mood, kindergarten children should come dressed in green clothes
as it is National Tree Day for Schools and they will be planting trees after
lunch. Parents should feel free to come
along and join in the celebration at 12:45pm for the cutting of the cake.
ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
Year
3 - 6 Athletics Carnival is to be held on Tuesday 4 August and will be held at
Bexley Oval,
BOOK CLUB
This week all students were
given the latest catalogue and order form from Scholastic Book Club. If you wish to order
please mark the books required on the order form and write your child’s name,
class, and amount on the form and also on an envelope with the correct money
enclosed. These orders are due at the office before Monday 10 August, 2009.
FRIDAY INDOOR SWIMMING LESSONS FOR YEAR 3 – 6
There are still a few places
available for swimming lessons as part of Friday morning sport. The cost is
$100 for ten lessons. Please come to the
office and complete a form ASAP.
CHOCOLATE DRIVE
It is time for our Annual
Chocolate Drive. This year we will have Cadbury’s chocolates, to sell for $2.50
each. We are asking each family in the school to take one box containing 24
items to sell at work or to friends and relatives. All families will be given
one box of chocolates to sell unless they return a slip indicating they are
unable to sell or buy any chocolates.
Please try very hard to sell
the chocolates as all the money goes to the education of your child. We again have a fantastic prize program with
four major draws. All families that sell a complete box of chocolates (total
$60) will go in the prize draw. The more boxes you sell,
the more chances you have.
Prize
pool: 1 IPOD
1 Portable DVD player
1 Digital Camera
1 Digital Camera
Four tickets will be drawn,
with the first ticket drawn having first choice of a prize. Chocolates will be sent home on Thursday 6 August and all money and
unsold chocolates are to be returned by Thursday
20 August. Families are welcome to see the office for additional boxes.
Miss Rasmussen would appreciate any parent help in distributing the chocolates
to children on Thursday 6 August.
BOOK FAIR WEEK 2 - TERM 3
The book fair will arrive on
Monday 3 August and be ready for parents
to view that afternoon from 2.00pm – 5.00pm. PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A VIEWING TIME ONLY – NO
PURCHASES WILL BE MADE. This year the fair will remain in the library all week
and students will be invited to purchase books in their allocated class timetabled slots.
Classes will visit the
library with their classroom teachers and students will have the opportunity to purchase a book. (Parents are also welcome to purchase books
with their children during the following times):
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CLASSES: |
TUESDAY 4 AUGUST |
WEDNESDAY 5 AUGUST |
THURSDAY 6 AUGUST |
FRIDAY 7 AUGUST |
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9.00 |
2C |
6H |
3A |
1’OG |
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9.30 |
2T |
4K |
3K |
1G |
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10.00 |
1L |
KK |
5M |
1A |
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10.30 |
1K |
KH and KR |
6KM |
2J |
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11.30 |
KMC |
2F |
4C |
5/6F |
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12.00 |
KF |
3T |
4A |
4G |
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12.30 |
KD |
KS |
5T |
3/4W |
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2.00 |
1W |
4R |
6C |
2/3M |
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2.30 |
1J |
5D |
5/6S |
2A |
MAN ON THE MOON
A huge thankyou to Mr Pilot,
Mrs Danzey (Mrs Miller’s mother) and to those other
parents who donated copies of the Daily Telegraph magazine “Man on the Moon 40th
Anniversary” to Stage 3 for use in future years in the teaching of the
HSIE/Science topic Space. Altogether over 230 copies were donated. Thankyou, we
really appreciate it.
NATIONAL TREE DAY
Sunday 2 August 2009 - National Tree Day,
is
Schools Tree Day,
will be held on 31 July and is a special day for
COMMUNITY NEWS
Sunday 2 August 2009, 10am – 2.30pm
The day’s activities include:
·
Tree planting
·
Getting up close to
native animals
·
Bush regeneration
workshops
·
Guided bushwalks
·
Competitions (test your
knowledge on local flora and fauna!)
·
BBQ lunch
For more information contact Council’s Environmental Projects Officer
Deborah Cooke on 02 9562 1663
Positive Parenting Program: Triple P
When: Starts on Monday 3 August 2009 : on 4 consecutive Monday nights to 24
August
Time: 6:30pm
– 8:30pm
Where: Carlton South Public
School Library in Jubilee
Avenue
To book or for more information about this free course contact:
Amy Forward oosh@kogarahcommunity.org.au or Nicole
Koukoumas: Both on 9546 4811 option 1
Look on the Website http://www.kogarahcommunity.org.au/news.
http://www.kogarahcommunity.org.au/news/Triple+P+Positive+Parenting+Program+Course+August+2009
The Course will be facilitated by Amy Forward, Kogarah Community Services Inc, Children's Services Manager.
website: www.kogarahcommunity.org.au
KEEPING KIDS ACTIVE
With winter holidays fast
approaching, here are some websites with great ideas for keeping kids healthy,
active and away from the couch and computer games.
www.healthykids.nsw.gov.au/active/
(lots of active ideas)
www.freshforkids.com.au/activities/activities.html
(activity sheets)
www.gokids.com.au/ (indoor and outdoor
activities)
www.kidspot.com.au (many indoor and
outdoor activity ideas)
www.sportingwheelies.org.au/doc.php?ID=802
(for people with disabilities)
SILVER
AWARDS
During the year the children
receive bronze points that go towards earning them a silver award. Our Silver
Awards are very special and two silver awards then lead to a Gold Award.
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EARLY STAGE ONE |
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Rayaan Wehbie |
Ellis Pinkerton |
Gary Liu |
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Thomas Castan |
Anthony Gong |
Ryan Lee |
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Blake Makki |
Cleti Ng |
Maya Toubi |
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Nathan Singh |
Carlos Bilbao |
Angelina Graoroski |
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Ayah Alawieh |
Anna Giannopoulos |
John Tokouzis |
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Charlie Asplet |
Louisa Zhang |
Helena Zhang |
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Duncan Mc Donald |
Deena Loukadellis |
Amanda Haidar |
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Fiona Wu |
Emily Fisher |
Lenya Chatzikosti |
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Patrick Spencer |
Mithil Patel |
Phoebe Tandjiria |
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Marianna Cvetkoska |
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STAGE ONE |
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Wendy Lu |
Spencer Llewellyn |
Kieran Guan |
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Jenna Blatch-Williams |
Mare Petrevska |
Amanda Wehbi |
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Alex Haragli |
Jason Lin |
Kevin Luo |
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Fatima Awada |
Ayisna Takhel |
Ashjayeen Sharif |
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Georgia Stepowany |
Rachel Dai |
Rhiannon Ho |
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Ben Holzer |
Jade He |
Kayla Carroll |
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Aaya Omar |
Gordon Yang |
Rayanne Haidar |
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Ryan Shi |
Gideon Mareko |
Goddy Dadson |
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Jenna Yan |
Amani Haragli |
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STAGE TWO |
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Frank Fei |
Grace Vedamuthu |
Vicky Chen |
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Harrison Vranistas |
Theresa Gu |
Cory Cai |
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Renae Haldezos |
Yolanda Zhang |
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Lucy Koh |
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STAGE THREE |
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Patrice Alkiviadou |
Remy Blatch-Williams |
Kelly Cai |
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Anna Lee |
Sarah Li |
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Liz Tang |
Shane Li |
Lianne Wong |
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Alissa Farran |
Brian Liang |
Braydon Pilot |
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Carrie Tan |
Nader Haidar |
Nadia Fares |