Term 2 Week 3 - 2023
Term 2 Week 4* 2023*error fixed |
School Events |
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Monday 15th May |
Year 5 & 6 Library Canteen Day Guitar Lessons Kilometre Club 8.35 am Years 6 Incitare & Year 5 Leadership Day |
| Tuesday 16th May |
Year 1 & 2 Library |
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Wednesday 17th May |
Brass Lessons Kilometre Club 8.35 am Kindergarten Library |
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Thursday 18th May |
Sports Uniform Kilometre Club 8.35 am  |
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Friday 19th May |
Year 3 & 4 Library Canteen K-2 Rugby League Skills |
| Upcoming Events |
Term 2 Week 5
Sunday 21st May - Children's Liturgy 9 am Kendall
Thursday 25th March - Sacrament of Reconciliation 5 pm
Term 2 Week 7
School Photos to be sent out TBC
Term 2 Week 7
Thursday 8th June - School Athletics Carnival
Term 2 Week 10
Thursday 29th June - Last Day of term 2 for Students
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Mother’s Day
This Sunday, 12th May, is Mother’s Day. A day to celebrate the women in our lives who love us unconditionally and would do anything to protect us. When our students reflected on why they love their mothers, few mentioned material things like a big house or the best toys; they mostly mentioned the cuddles and kisses their mum gives, the time their mum spends with them, the way their mums care for them and the food mum cooks. Thank you for being such wonderful mums to our students. You are all doing a wonderful job. We wish all the Mothers and Mother figures in our community a very happy Mother’s Day.
We hope all our families loved our special Mother’s Day liturgy hosted by Year 5 and Kindergarten. We had some special performances from our school choir and also from our Eistedfodd Dance groups. Our P&F also hosted a very special Mother’s Day stall and raffle. It was a huge success, and we hope all our Mothers love their special gifts on Sunday.
A huge thank you to all our parents, staff, community members, and businesses who continue to support our beautiful school. A special mention to Emma Hockham, Justine Reedy, and Hayley Guffogg who spearheaded the Mother’s Day stall and Raffle and who have been working tirelessly for months, and also to Mrs Lulham, Mrs Dedal, and Mrs Toole for organising such a wonderful liturgy and performances. Lastly, to Ashley Sargeson for all the beautiful flowers given to mothers today and all the individuals and businesses who supported our stall and raffle.
2024 Enrolments
This week, we have also been promoting our 2024 enrolments and have received lots of interest in 2024 and mid-year enrolments in our beautiful school. Thank you to everyone who has liked, shared and/or commented on our Kindergarten 2024 Facebook post; an extra Mother’s Day raffle ticket was put in the raffle box for you. If you know anyone who is planning on joining us in 2024, make sure they know about our Kindergarten Open Night on May 18th.
P&F
On Wednesday our P&F met to discuss many aspects of the school, including our P&F models, new Behaviour Management Policy, Compass, Uniform, Friendraising, Fundraising and the Tell Them From Me survey.
It was great to get some constructive and positive feedback across a whole range of areas the school has been working on, and the different committees have been working on. Notably, the fundraising committee is working on a big K-6 parent night at Laurieton Hotel, and the Fundraising Committee spoke of the excitement around the Mother’s Day Raffle and the upcoming Lego Brickfest Fundraiser of which a few more volunteers would be great.
Significantly, a motion was passed to use some of the school’s fundraising money to purchase a new sports/excursion shirt for every child in our school (ETA beginning of Term 4). The idea is that this will support all families financially and all students will then look the same when we represent the school at sporting events, excursions or at public events where high visibility is important.
Eistedfodd
Congratulations to our fabulous Dance teams who competed at the Taree Eisteddfod Schools Dance section last Friday. Our dancers have been practising hard all year to learn an Infants dance choreographed by Carlie Dedal and Samara Koenig and also a Primary dance choreographed by Leah Toole. We would also like to thank our fabulous helpers on the day such as Jess Koenig, Bec Faddy and Amy Bender and the many parents who helped with hair, makeup and dressing. The teams shone on stage and showed such confidence in performing their dance routines as a group. It was a tough competition with many schools competing with high-quality routines. We were very proud to achieve third place for our Primary group. All dancers are congratulated on representing our school so beautifully, and it was so exciting to see them all perform again for us after our Mother’s Day liturgy. We look forward to more performances again throughout the year and continuing to perfect our routines for the next competition in September. Amazing work!
Best wishes from the leadership team
Zone Cross Country
On Wednesday, our school team travelled to Kempsey to compete in the Zone Cross Country Carnival. In very competitive races, all students ran exceptionally well and represented our school with pride. Thank you to Mrs Peck, Mr Marshall and Mrs Hanson for organising the students on the day and also to all the parents that provided travel, support and the opportunity for the students to compete.
Wendy Hudson
On Monday, Wendy Hudson, Police Youth Liaison officer for our region spoke with students in K-2 about personal safety, years 3-4 about Cyber safety and gaming issues and 5-6 about more serious youth safety concerns. We thank Wendy for supporting our community to keep it safe.
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Some of the things Constable Wendy told us…..
Sophie T - Year 6 “It was very informative and reminded us all how to stay safe online and look after ourselves.” Zeke - Year 6 “I learnt that some games and apps actually have an age limit, and are illegal for some age groups to play” Harry - Year 6 “I learnt that vapes and e-cigarettes have so many poisonous chemicals in them, like hand sanitiser and toilet cleaner” Freddie - Year 6 “I found it interesting that you need to have your entire fishing kit with you if you are carrying a fishing knife. It’s actually illegal to just carry a fishing knife in your bag on its own. Braxton - Year 5 “It was good to learn about keeping safe online - when you are playing interactive games” Leah - Year 5 “I learnt a lot about vaping and how many dangerous chemicals are in them and how unhealthy they are for your brain.” Tanvi - Year 5 “I learnt that e-cigarettes and vapes were so bad for your body and brain development. It was really informative and a good lesson. |
Parents may be interested in these free online webinars. If you register, often a recording is sent to you in case you miss the live webinar.
P&F Models
At the P&F meeting on Wednesday, we discussed the two P&F models including the benefits and concerns people had. We had a great discussion around what our needs were as a P&F and the suitability of each model. In the formal model, the most discussion was had around the role the treasurer would need to fulfil unless we went to the informal model. The roles in the formal model can be found here:
https://sjpslaurieton.schoolzineplus.com/newsletter/article/1702
If you would like to add your opinion to the models, this survey will be open for a few more days. Click on this link
A copy of the P&F Fundraising minutes can be found here:
https://sjpslaurieton.schoolzineplus.com/newsletter/article/1703
LAST CHANCE: Please complete the Parents & Carer Tell Them From Me Survey! We are almost to 60 responses ... if we get there, we have promised the children a treat! Closes Friday 12th May.
http://tellthemfromme.com/2023sjlaurieton
P&F Brickfest Fundraiser
Beautiful hand-drawn artwork by Daya Jones in Year 5
Welcome Club
The welcome club is on from 8:30 am every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Kilometre Club Week 3, Term 2
This week in Kilometre Club students participated on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Monday, there were 32 participants running a total of 30km with 18 participants for both Wednesday and Thursday achieving 20km and 17.25km for these days. A total of 67.25km was accumulated this week- well done!
- Congratulations to Airlie Gebhardt and Harper Lee who have run a total of 5km since Kilometre Club started.
- Congratulations to Mason Hardy, Harry Shean, Linden Lee, Jasmine Barker, Amelia Hunt and Miles Gebhardt who have accumulated 10km.
- Congratulations to Johannes DeVries who have achieved the 15km milestone.
- Congratulations to Bradley Quinn and Thomas Hayward who achieved 25km
- Special congratulations to James Randall who is the first student to achieve an accumulated 30km!
Total kilometres run since the start of Kilometre Club is 794.25km!
Kilometre Club will continue to be held on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8:35-8:50am as long as the school grounds remain dry.
Mrs Fiona Hayward
Assembly
Happy Birthday
Date |
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Term 2 Week 3 Saturday 13th May |
Kindergarten - Drinks and Dinner at Kew Hotel from 4 pm |
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Term 2 Week 4 Saturday 20th May |
Year 4 - BBQ/Picnic at Pilot Beach 11 am till 1 pm |
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Term 2 Week 5 Saturday 27th May |
Year 2 - Mums drinks at Moo and Bean from 4 pm |
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Term 2 Week 6 Sunday 4th June |
Infants (K-2) - At Bago Maze |
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Term 2 Week 9 Sunday 18th June |
Year 5 - Spring loaded times to be advised closer to date |
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Term 2 Week 9 Saturday 24th June |
2023 K-6 Parents Night Out! |
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Term 3 Week 3 Sunday 30th July |
Yr 2-3 Barefoot Bowls Ladies Day! |
*Further dates will be advised via Schoolzine. Please contact your class parent/s for more social activity information.
Class Parent "Friendraising" Group 2023
K: Bel Davis (Will), Brooke Burgess (Edie), Emma Hockham (Benji), Justine Reedy (Mackenzie), Rachel DeVries (Johannes)
1: Katie Barker (Jasmine), Emily Fogg (Jory), Lauren McNeice (Alyssa)
2: Emma Hockham (Olivia), Katie Barker (Madison)
3: Erin Thompson (Jeremy), Bel Davis (Oliver), Lidi Patrzala (Iggy)
4: Emily Fogg (Gideon), Tamara Romer (Lincoln), Rachel de Vries (Willem)
5: Michelle Latham (Zarli), Brooke Hudson (Eadie)
6: Erin Thompson (Kynan), Michelle Latham (Jayla)
RSVP HERE
We have some exciting news! Camden Haven First Responders Challenge are hosting a Lights and Sirens Ball to raise funds for Mental Health Awareness. The funds will be shared between SES, RFS, Marine Rescue and Fortum Australia in the Camden Haven.
Link below to book tickets. https://lusc.sales.ticketsear
