Term 3 Week 9

24 September, 2009                      

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY:

                       

Dear Parents & Caregivers,

            Monday 28 September                    Year 4 Excursion

                                                                        Stage 3 Incursion

            Tuesday 29 September                   Year 4 Excursion

            Thursday 1 October                          9.15am Community Club meeting

                                                                        Whole School photo

                                                                        7.00pm Kindergarten 2010 Orientation

            Friday 2 October                               Last day of School this term

 

     

THURSDAY DUST STORM

Thank you to everyone for the way you supported the school in dealing with this difficult situation. We operated on our “wet weather” roster. This meant that students were kept indoors all day and movement was kept to a minimum. If you kept your child home due to health concerns, you will still need to fill in absence note for the day.

 

A REMINDER FOR ALL PARENTS

The school grounds are protected by the “Inclosed Lands Act”. This means that all people, including parents and grandparents, are invited to do so by the Principal. We welcome all parents and grandparents to the school site to be involved in the many activities at the school. If any visitor comes to the school outside of the drop- off and pick-up times they need to sign in at the office and wear a visitor’s badge.

 

All parents are reminded that they are not to approach any children on the playground, except their own. If parents are concerned about a matter they are to talk to the class teacher or to an executive. Any visitor, including parents, to the school who does not follow these guidelines can be excluded form the school site for a period of time, under the Inclosed Lands Act.

 

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS

This year we are experiencing high level enrolments for Kindergarten in 2010. In order to prepare for Kindergarten orientation days and for staffing next year we would ask that anyone who has not enrolled for Kindergarten in 2010 to do so now. Please remember we have strict criteria for enrolment and students either must have a sibling in Kindergarten to Year 5 or live within the school’s boundaries.

 

Don’t forget our Orientation Night, Thursday 1 October, 2009 at 7pm in the hall. This is a very important night in our orientation process for Kindy 2010. Parents are invited, but please leave your children at home. There will be guest speakers who will give important information about the new school year.

 

We have begun our Kindy Start program on a Monday morning. All parents will be invited to attend a Monday session from 9-11am. Your child will also attend a Kindy room to see a classroom in action.

 

DEBATING NEWS

Yesterday, Carlton Public School battled the dust storm and competed in the Quarter Finals for debating.  We were up against Arncliffe and the topic was "That children should accept more responsibility".  We were the negative team and came up with some excellent arguments against this statement. Our efforts were highly commended by the adjudicator who indicated that it was an outstanding debate and difficult to award a winner.  Arncliffe were the winners on the day and they did a great job too.  Congratulations to our super debaters:  Anna Pietruszka, Bill Eftimovski, Marc Betbeder-Matibet and Nellie Zhang.

 

 

YEAR 3 – 6 SPORTS FOR TERM 4

Notes have now gone out for various sports for Term 4. The money collection day was today, 24 September. If vacancies exist after today, students will be notified. The sports that we will be offering next term are:

  • Tennis lessons for Stage 2 and 3
  • Mini Tennis lessons for Stages 2 and 3
  • Basketball for Stages 2 and 3

 

There will be no gymnastics or swimming as there will be intensive swimming in the last two weeks of Term 4.  Of course, PSSA sports will continue with cricket and softball and there will be a wide range of school sports.

 

UNI NSW ENGLISH COMPETITION RESULTS

Congratulations to the following students for these wonderful results :

High Distinction:

Year 3:            Eric Rong

Year 4:            Jason Huo, Clarence Feng, Alexander Luo, Gordon Wang, Kurt

                        Wang

Year 6:            Ryan Kwok, Shane Li, Wincentia Wu,

Distinction:
Year 3:            Eddie Qi, Helen Chen, Lucas Jeff, Emily Kasovska, Katiya

 Kraljevski, Fiona Roberts, Frederick Zhang

Year 4:            Jessica Guo, Daniel Hu,  Roy Ma, Sarah Purvis, Maggie Tang,

                        Grace Vedamuthu, Joshua Zhou

Year 5:            Cindy Chen, Amit Deep, Denny Fu, Kenneth Guo, Peter Lin,

                        Sandy Nyunt, Tabitha Roberts, Nina Tang, Daisy Zhang, Kenny

                        Zhu.

Year 6:            Marc Betbeder-Matibet, Sarah Li, Sherrie Liu, Carrie Tan, Liz Tang, Lianne Wong

 

School Holidays:              Start on Monday 5 October, 2009

Term 4 Begins :               Monday 19 October 2009

                                            9am Whole school assembly

 

                                   

 

 

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

 

 

Jordan Stojceski

Mahdi Safa

Jason Ripiloski

Batoul Tawbe

Andrew Matisan

Adam Hawi

Elaina Yankos

Rebecca Saadie

Alana Rostankov

Christina Chrisovergis

 

 

STAGE ONE

 

 

Sofia Melo-Moore

Phoebe Tao

Lucas Vranistas

Harry Tsiros

Anni Li

Martin Radeski

Victoria Haldezos

Daniel Khan

 

STAGE TWO

 

 

D’Angelo Hunia-Lewis

Thomas Luong

Julia Bednarczyk

Carey Guo

Harrison Lin

Gordon Wang

Michaela Hanley

Maggie Tang

Eric Lin

Gabby Fernandez

Eddie Qi

Nour Najem

Aymon Karout

Terry Smith

Andre Cadlaon

Danny Nehmani

Zakariyya Omar

Isabella Velentzas

Laurel Lu

Ellie Moustakas

Daniel Bakrdanikoski

Hassan Saab

 

 

STAGE THREE

 

 

Kyle Vasilevski

Neville Pan

Alexis Olsen

 

CHESS CLUB

Want to learn or improve your chess?  Chess Club is held each Tuesday lunchtime, 1 – 2 pm in room 2F. Chess Club is run by trained tutors from Sydney Academy of Chess and a fee is involved for these lessons. Please ask the office for a note if you are interested.

 

 

CONGRATUALTIONS TO MRS CASTAN

One of our parents at the school, Mrs Castan, is the winner of the Playgroup NSW volunteer of the Year award. There was an article about the award in the Leader on 8 September. Well done.

 

 

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS

School photographs have now been completed except for the whole school photograph. We now have ten years of whole school and Year 6 photographs hanging in the office area and they are an excellent historical record of the school. When many of our ex-students in the photographs come back to visit, the first thing they want to see is their photograph. We will take the whole school photograph next Thursday 1 October. All photographs should be back in six weeks.