Newsletter Term 1 Week 5 - Willoughby Public School
Newsletter Term 1 Week 5 - Willoughby Public School
Newsletter Term 1 Week 5 - Willoughby Public School
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Swimming Carnival<br />
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE<br />
Great minds discuss ideas.<br />
Average minds discuss.<br />
Small minds discuss people.<br />
E. Roosevelt<br />
Congratulations to all our swimmers for showing sportsmanship and enthusiasm at the swimming<br />
carnival. Well done to the teams who cheered them on and thank you to Juliet Spence and Nancy<br />
Lindley (team leaders) and all our staff and parents/carers who helped out in many and varied<br />
ways – great job everyone. See later in the <strong>Newsletter</strong> for results.<br />
Welcome Morning Tea<br />
It was terrific that so many parents and carers came to the welcome morning tea last Friday. I<br />
hope you got to know some new people and you learnt some more about the school from our Year<br />
1 parents/carers. Thank you for all the very positive comments about our fabulous staff and<br />
school. Thank you to our wonderful P&C President Penny Hackett and Vice President Vicki<br />
Thirwell and all our hard working Year 1 parents and carers for providing the delicious morning<br />
tea.<br />
New Sports Uniform<br />
We have had a delivery of the new red and yellow sport shirts and shorts. They look terrific and<br />
will be available for sale from tomorrow Friday 1 March. A stall will be set up near the uniform<br />
shop. Shorts will be $20, shirts $27—cash preferred. Orders can be placed for the blue and<br />
green sports shirts. We will let everyone know as soon as they arrive.<br />
Staff Development Days<br />
The staff will be making changes to their staff development days at the end of the year. The last<br />
two days for staff are 19 and 20 December – both these days are staff development days – no<br />
students at school. Instead of working the above two days staff will be working on Saturday 1 June<br />
and another Saturday 1 November 2013.<br />
Interrelate<br />
Year 6 students have commenced their Interrelate program. Students will be attending four<br />
sessions of this program which is designed to help enhance self-esteem, consolidate previous<br />
sexuality education and help develop communication and decision making skills. It explores a<br />
range of issues in greater depth, offering a comprehensive sexuality program designed specifically<br />
for this important time in senior primary school student’s lives.<br />
A wide variety of creative activities and teaching methods are used during this program. These<br />
include – discussions, student’s questions – written and oral, role plays, games and other<br />
activities. Feedback from the program implementation has been very positive.<br />
HAVE YOU RECEIVED THE SCHOOLKIDS BONUS?<br />
Do you know about the <strong>School</strong>kids Bonus? It is a new cash payment to help eligible families and<br />
students with the costs of primary and secondary school studies. Around 1.2 million families have<br />
already benefitted from the first wave of payments in January 2013 – have you?<br />
If you receive a family or income support payment, including Family Tax Benefit Part A, you could<br />
be eligible to receive $410 a year for each primary student and $820 a year for each secondary