Term 3 Week 6 - Holman Place School

HOLMAN PLACE SCHOOL
HOLMAN PLACE PUBLIC SCHOOL
NEWSLETTER
TERM 3 WEEK 6, 2016
TERM 3, 2016
Newsletter Date 26 August 2016
From the Principal
PBL
Student of the
Week
Congratulations
Mathew Woods
We have experienced
an extremely sad and
difficult two weeks
with the passing of one
of our “school family
members”. Although a
terribly sad time, I felt
so humbled by the response of our school
community. I would
like to personally thank
parents and carers for
the phone calls, messages and donations of
cakes and slices that
assisted the P&C with
catering for Malakye’s
wake, the response
was truly overwhelming. Malakye was a
much loved member of
our school and the
weeks and months
ahead will have a void
that will not be filled.
We have the support
of school councillors
for our students,
please let me know if
you feel your child
needs to access these
services.
Last week our students
had the opportunity to
visit Health Harold and
the Life Education Van.
As always, this proved
to be a great hit
amongst students and
once again we will
wait with anticipation
for his visit again next
year.
Koalas and Goannas
had been invited to
join Koorawatha in a
mini Olympics day,
unfortunately we have
had to postpone the
event and it will now
take place on Friday
9th September. As
always it is great to
join up with our
friends from the small
schools network.
I am also pleased to
hear the news that the
Emus have been invited to a luncheon next
week at Meals on
Wheels are they are
volunteers of this service. This is a great
program that we are
involved with and I
think it is wonderful
to see our kids giving
to our community and
being recognised for
it.
Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe
Next week we are
celebrating
Book
Week. I would like
to invite families up
to the school next
Friday 2nd September from 10.15 for a
10.30
start.
Our
Mayor, Bill West is
going to join us in
reading a book to the
students. We will be
having a parade followed by a morning
tea. We would love
to see as many students
as
possible
dress up as a character from a book for
the day.
We are looking forward to a great day
to celebrate books
and the value of reading with our kids. I
look forward to seeing you next Friday.
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HOLMAN PLACE PUBLIC SCHOOL
Wombats
It’s been a tough couple
of weeks since our last
newsletter. It was very
heavy hearts that we
said our goodbyes to
Malakye Davison last
week. I had the pleasure
of teaching Malakye for
a number of years and
his upbeat, cheeky zest
for life was something to
be admired. We will miss
Malakye as I am sure
everyone that knew him
will. Goodbye mate.
On a more positive note
we had the pleasure of
witnessing the fly over
of the Hercules C-130J
aircraft last week. We
parked up on Billygoat
Hill with dozens of locals
to witness the spectacle.
The kids loved being so
close to the giant of the
sky and their was excitement all around after
the fly by.
Lastly I would like to
thank the Kibbler family
for their wonderful generosity in buying all of
the little Wombats a
Happy Meal for lunch.
What a wonderful gesture of goodwill. The
kids loved their treat.
Thank you.
Koalas
Wow! What a busy and
exciting time the Koalas
have been having. With
the recycled art competition, Father’s Day and
the Cowra Show all fast
approaching we are
busy trying to get everything ready. We will
keep you posted on
more details as it gets
closer!
Jono, Dale, Mathew and
Tom have been enjoying
their reading program,
with all four of them
making huge improvements. Zahli and Jessica
have been learning more
sign language with Sue
and I, so much that the
rest of the Koalas have
picked up on it too.
This week we have been
looking
at
Aboriginal
paintings and artists and
hope to paint some symbols on our rocks that we
collected. We can’t wait to
show you the finished
product.
We look forward to
putting on display all of
our hard work!
Goannas
The past fortnight has
been a difficult time for
the Goannas with the
passing of our classmate
and dear friend Malakye.
Malakye was a valued
member of the Goannas
class and his passing
leaves a massive hole in
our hearts and our class.
The Cowra Show is rapidly approaching and the
class have been working
hard to ensure their entries for this years show
are ready for display. The
Goannas will be displaying our boomerangs that
we made during term 2
and some wonderful
looking sheep that were
made during art.
Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe
On Tuesday of week 6
our wonderful school
cleaner, Geoff brought in
his poddy lamb. The Goannas were given the
opportunity to feed the
lamb and even hold it.
The class continues to
work hard in the classroom and Miss Nat and I
are very proud of their
efforts.
TERM 3, 2016
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Emus
We have been very busy
preparing some artworks
for the Cowra Show. We
have kept some of our
artworks from earlier in
the year and so far we
have weaving and mosaics to show at the Cowra
Show.
This week we have been
working on a recycled
art project. We have had
a trip to the Cowra recycle centre to find materials. We found recycled
wood, bottle tops and
wire. We have been
threading bottle caps
onto wire to make the
word sorry. ‘Sorry’ By
Justin Bieber is the song
that we are basing our
art work on.
We have wrapped up
our Olympics studies for
the moment and we are
looking forward to the
start of the Paralympics
in the coming weeks.
As the weather is warming up please remember
to pack a hat for your
child.
Have a good week.
Kangaroos
Last week saw a visit by
Healthy Harold with the
Life Education Van. The
students enjoyed learning about personal hygiene, being safe and
healthy foods. Tori Lee
enjoyed seeing Harold,
whilst Nicky, Nash and
Austin help Harold by
sharing their knowledge
about healthy habits.
The class began a major
artwork for the Recycle
Art Display that will be
held in the coming week
at Cowra Pool. Jakayla is
continuing work experience at Royce’s Bakery
with the support of Mr
Lynch. Over the past
weeks she has made
Lamingtons, Donuts and
Scones while also helping out staff at the bakery.
In class we have been
learning about conjunctions
and how we join two ideas
in a sentence. We wrote a
mystery story and continued
our personal protection
learning.
During class cooking we continue to make toasted sandwiches and learning about
cleaning and using kitchen
utensils.
Riding for the Disabled
Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe
HOLMAN PLACE
SCHOOL
Holman Place School
Around the school
Holman Place
COWRA
NSW 2794
Phone: 63422301
Fax: 63411265
E-mail: [email protected]
We are on the
internet. Find us at:
www.holmanplacs.schools.nsw.edu.au
Important dates:
Sep 2—Book fair
and parade 10:15—
Morning Tea
Sep 7—8 10am to 2
pm People’s
Choice voting Recycled Art Award
Sep 9—Mini Olympics @ Koorawatha
Sep 13/14 Cowra
Show
Sep 23—Last day
of Term 3
Be Respectful, Be Responsible, Be Safe