Term 3 Week 7

                                                                                    10 September, 2009

 

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

                        Monday 14 September        Kindy Transition Program Day 1

                        Tuesday 15 September       Photo Day 1

                                                                        St 3 Personal Development- 6F, 6S, 6H

Wednesday 16 September Photo Day 2

                        Thursday 1 October Kindy 2010 Orientation Night – 7pm

                                               

 

Dear Parents & Caregivers,

 

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS

A reminder to parents to please send back to your class teacher the pre-order forms for school photographs. This year there are two methods of payments:

1. paying by credit card via  www.advancedlife.com.au

2. paying by cash or cheque.

Photographs will be taking place on 15 and 16 September.

 

TRANSITION FOR 2010 ENROLMENTS

On Monday, we begin our transition to school information sessions. Parents will receive invitations to one of the sessions, which will be occurring over the next five weeks. It will give parents an opportunity to meet members of the staff, while the children visit a Kindy room and join in activities.

 

DEBATING NEWS

Last Thursday, the Peakhurst West debating team came to our school and debated against our team in the first round of the Interzone Finals.  The topic was a tough one, "That young people today are overly concerned with image". Carlton was the affirmative, which meant that we had to convince the adjudicator that we agreed with the topic statement and we won!  We are now off to the next round of the finals against Arncliffe Public School in week nine.  Congratulations to our fantastic debating team and Mrs Smith on their win and all of their hard work!

 

 

BUILDING NEWS

Painting is well under way in Block A. The project should take another 4 weeks. I’m sure everyone will be impressed at how fresh the building is looking with its new coat of paint.

 

Grounds refurbishment – We are hoping work will begin after the holidays to complete landscaping work around the games court and where demountables have been removed.

 

We are looking forward to commencement of our new building. A start date has not yet been set. The building will comprise 4 classrooms, in the same design as block G. This will be a fantastic addition to our school. The original plan was for 6 classrooms, but this has proved to be beyond the project budget. We are anticipating some funds to be released to improve existing classrooms as well.

 

 

 

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS

Tomorrow is the last day to order girl’s summer uniforms with long sleeves. This option is available to those who require extra protection from the sun or need the coverage for religious reasons. Please see the uniform shop.

 

WEBSITE NEWS

Don’t forget that excursion notes are now also available on the school website. The website also has links to the Department of Education for important information in other languages.

 

CHANGES TO BUS AND TRAIN SERVICES

City Rail have advised us that there will be changes to both the State Rail timetable and connecting government buses. Information is available 131500.

 

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.

 

 

EARLY STAGE ONE

 

 

Jawad Fares

Anthony Huang

Kataraina Poi

Rivica Kharel

Ali Awada

Julia Kingham

Shruti Prasad

Cindy Situ

Grace Chen

Violeta Shopova

Shimone Yan

Alyssa Pavlovski

Abbas Karnib

Clare Jenkins

 

 

 

 

STAGE ONE

 

 

Ritia Hoepper

Kristijan Sekuloski

Jad Sayed-Ahmad

Dejan Bakrdanikoski

Emily Markoski

Jordon Zhong

Henry Kingham

Batoul Kabalan

Georgia Anastasiadis

Derek Liu

Charlotte Vedamuthu

Thomas Chen

Dylan Gogovski

Kareem Kais

David Ristovski

Aamna Wasim

Nathan Hartono

Alicia Patolo-Vitale

Hollie Crook

Rasya Anwar

Billy Busevski

Shahrina Alam

Kevin Pham

 

 

 

 

STAGE TWO

 

 

Rachel Roberts

Louisa Hamilton

William Chen

Zean Harris

Elizabeth Li

Ahmad Affouf

Tyler Jacobson

Eve Ibrahim

Tina Ma

Nathan Kostadinovski

Vladimir Lozanovski

Si Si Duan

Amy Cao

Hussein Ayad

Mohammad Farran

Anthony Trajceski

Lucas Jeff

 

 

 

 

STAGE THREE

 

 

Wincentia Wu

David Trajkovski

Ivan Hong

Monica Kiseloska

Ryan Betbeder-Matibet

Daisy Zhang

Olivia Yang

Joseph Hand

 

 

 

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Students in Year 4 recently participated in a “virtual excursion”. You can read some of their comments in the newsletter. In a virtual excursion, students can participate in an information session with a location such as a museum or an art gallery without leaving the school. Virtual excursions will never completely replace the traditional excursion, but they open up so many more opportunities. As you read the comments by 4W, you can see the value of the virtual excursion from all the things they learnt.

 

Hatching the Past – our Virtual Excursion

Comments from some 4W students

 

“Hatching the past” virtual excursion was about dinosaur eggs and babies. It was on the 3rd of September, 2009. It was a video conference with a museum in Bathurst with some other schools. We were guided by Professor Warren and Penny. It was quite interesting; especially the bit when a student from another school asked if dinosaurs lived underground and Prof. Warren said that archeologists found a dinosaur burrowing under the ground.      Clarence

 

 

First Ms Wood called the Australia Museum Of Fossils in Bathurst. When Ms Wood called in, we could see ourselves on the little TV attached to the wall. We had to wait for about five minutes for the museum to connect our school. When they finally did, they checked every school was there.    Maggie

 

 

I learnt that in one year a dinosaur could grow to 100 times its birth weight! I also learnt that I can’t create a dinosaur and have one as a pet. Boo hoo!  I think the virtual excursion could be improved by not having to check through all the schools at first. I think the VC was great and I’d like to have another.     Jack

 

I liked the part where they told us about the T-rex. I also liked the dinosaur eggs. A very fascinating thing was the baby dinosaur in the egg!  I learned many more dinosaur names such as the Seismosaurus or the Oviraptor.     Frank

 

The scientists used to think that Oviraptors stole eggs until they discovered a nest with an Oviraptor lying on it! Hence, they decided that the Oviraptors were protecting, not stealing, the eggs.    Roy

 

 

The best part of the virtual excursion was when we were saying things, actions to the microphone. I felt really tired because we sat for a long time on a chair.  I enjoyed the video conference but I think they should improve on showing the things because when they show something it’s really fast.      James

 

Interesting Facts:

  1. Dinosaurs with two legs and eat meat have oval shaped eggs.
  2. Dinosaurs with four legs, long necks and eat meat have sphere shaped eggs.
  3. When they find fossilised eggs, one out of five thousand eggs have a baby dinosaur in it.
  4. The dinosaur’s calf is bigger then a child or some are even bigger than a man.   

My over all experience was great!!!       Emily