The Bell Edition 41– December 17th, 2015

Principal: Mandy Elliot
School Council President: Rick Smith
Vision : Our school strives to ensure all students, regardless of ability or style of learning, are provided with the
opportunity to reach their full potential in a positive, supportive and engaging learning environment.
The Bell Edition 41– December 17th, 2015
BSB: 803 070
Acct: 76468
Dates to Remember:
Phone Number: 02 60712590
3rd Feb– P and C AGM
TONIGHT– Grade 6 Grad Dinner
18th Dec– Last Day for the year
28th Jan– School Resumes for Students
From Mrs. Elliot Principal
Dear Parents and Members of the School and Broader Community,
School focus-
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Have reasons for all that you say and do.
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Overseeing/Co-ordinating/Delegating-to-others of
Parents’ Club activities.
Quote of the week:
“Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality”- Warren Bennis
Writing an annual report for the AGM.
Vice – President
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Chairing the meeting if the President is absent.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year-
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Helping the President with their role.
All the staff at Tallangatta Primary School would like to
wish are students, parents and community a very MERRY Christmas and a HAPPY and SAFE New Year.
Secretary
Staffing newsI would like to announce to all parents that I will be taking up the Acting Principal position at Baranduda Primary
School commencing in first term 2016, for 6 months. I
wish all families the very best for Christmas and the New
Year. I hope that the beginning of 2016 will be a positive and rewarding one for all. Ellyssa Brennan will take
on the role of interim Acting Principal for the first few
weeks of term one, whilst an expression of interest is
called for. The appointment of my acting replacement
will then be announced to the community. I hope that
you all can show support and encouragement to Ms
Brennan as she undertakes this role.
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Taking the minutes of each meeting, typing them
up and emailing them to members.
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Emailing out the meeting agenda to members
prior to each meeting.
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Collecting the mail for Parents’ Club from the
school and keeping a record.
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Keep a list of financial members for each year.
School Council Representative
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Attend the School Council meetings as a Parents’
Club representative.
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Present a short report to the Parents’ Club meetings about what’s happening at School Council.
Friday Assembly:
The kids love for their Mums and Dads to come along
and witness any successes they may have.
TPS Parents’ Club Information
Assembly starts at 2.15 PM in the assembly area tomorrow – We hope you can come along.
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To provide a welcoming environment to new families to our school.
P and C AGM
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To communicate effectively with the school council, principal, staff & other parents.
The Tallangatta Primary School Parents’ Club AGM will
be held on Wednesday 3rd February 3.30 PM in the Bell
Hall. Office bearing positions for 2016 will need to be
filled, and an annual membership fee of $1 is to be paid
if you would like to be a financial member with voting
rights.
TPS Parents’ Club Position Descriptions
The Tallangatta Primary School Parents’ Club aims to:
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To keep all parents informed of state-wide educational changes.
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To fundraise for the ‘extras’ for all students.
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To improve the educational outcomes and the
learning environment for our children.
President
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Chairing the monthly meetings.
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Writing a short monthly report for each meeting.
AT TPS
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To contribute to the school’s policy making.
Lost property-
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To be a social group—meet with other parents & have fun!
If you are missing jumpers, please have a look in lost property.
These items will be washed over the holidays and placed in the Op
shop if they are unclaimed.
The Committee meets once a month on a Wednesday evening at
7pm in the school staffroom.
Library booksIf meetings aren’t your thing, that’s okay. You don’t have to be at the
The school library for 2014 has now closed. We ask that all library
meetings to still be a part of the Parents’ Club. There are lots of
books are returned to school NOW.
things throughout the year that we need help with. Keep an eye on
the newsletter to find out more.
Rotary BBQ and break up dayFoundation grade one and two swimming carnivalOn Tuesday, whilst the grade 6 attended their Lazer tag break up
Yesterday saw the foundation grade one and two students compet- day, the foundation – grade 5 students engaged in some fun
ing in their swimming carnival. Well done to all the students for
Christmas based activities. We were then lucky enough to have a
having a go and showing off their excellent swimming skills. Thank
delicious BBQ lunch and icy pole, provided by the Tallangatta Rotayou to all the parents, grandparents and younger siblings that came ry group. Tallangatta Primary school would like to thank Rotary for
along to cheer us on. Thank you also to our swimming instructors
their efforts on the day and we hope to be able to work together
and Mr Morphett for their organisation on the day.
into the future.
Grade 6 graduation dinnerGrade 6 students are allowed to invite 2 guests to the dinner commencing in the Supper room at the Memorial hall at 6 PM,TONIGHT,
the meal is provided by the P and C. Then any family, friends or
community members are invited to attend the formal presentations
in the Memorial hall 7.15 PM.
Last day of the school year and casual clothes dayThe last day of the 2015 school year will be Friday 18th December,
TOMORROW. Students will be dismissed at 2.22PM, so parents are
asked to ensure that they are aware of this early finish time. As it is
the last day of the year it will be a casual clothes day, for no charge.
First day of 2015Students will resume at school on Thursday 28th January 2015.
Staff will be engaging in professional development activities on
Wednesday 27th January, our office will be open during usual business hours of 8.30 am- 4.30 PM on these days.
Walk to school morning tea and parent helpers morning teaOn Monday morning Tallangatta Primary school hosted our Walk to
school morning tea. The Towong Shire Mayor, Mr David Wortmann
attended to present our sporting equipment and drink bottles. We
also received our $500 prize money for purchasing further sporting
equipment.
Tallangatta Primary school staff also took the time to thank our parent helpers for 2016 by providing them with their own yummy morning tea.
Thank you to everyone who supported Book
club and Book fair throughout the year. We
have been able to purchase many new resources for our library.
What to watch for in 2016!
From Issue 1 2016, your student catalogue will
be an expanded all-in-one catalogue that combines the best of Wombat, Lucky, Arrow, Star
and Extra.
Still carefully selected and curated by age level.
Also ordering online is easy using LOOP.
Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year!
Regards Leanne
Parents please note we encourage you all to come and watch your child being presented with their
success story awards this Friday morning at 9am.
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Rueben Dutton– The way you have been organizing yourself over the last few weeks. It is
great to see you packing your bag quickly and keeping your table tidy. Well done Rueben!
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Harry Bosse– Your confidence during the junior Swimming Carnival events. It was excellent
to see you participating to progress Harry!
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Zak Moyle– The focus you have given to all your tasks this week, even though it is the end of
the term. You are always ready to get started and always give your best.
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Taylah Gaffy– Your fantastic efforts at the Junior Swimming Carnival. It was great to see
your confidence in the water! Great job Taylah!
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Bella Sanderson– Noticing that we were missing a category in the pet parade note. Excellent reading!
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Kayli Razeng– Your wonderful efforts during our Swimming Carnival. You have improved so
much.
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Seth Hanley– Your outstanding story about seeing one of Santa’s reindeer– I loved the use of
the ellipsis!
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Caitlin Smith– Your polite yet ruthless onslaught at Laser Tag on Tuesday. Even though you
shot me many times, you said sorry every time.
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Zali Attree– Your very informative pitch to recommend Jack Dyer to be knighted. Well
done!
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Lindsey McDonald– Being an excellent role model for younger students. This will allow you
to work with a range of people in the future.
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Renee Cawood– For always having a go at all tasks. Well done Renee! This will put you in
good stead for the challenges you will face at Secondary College.
$5 voucher for a lunch order at Tallangatta Take Away: Rueben Dutton
$5 voucher for a lunch order at Tallangatta Take Away: Lindsey McDonald
Congratulations, your vouchers will be presented to you at Friday’s assembly.
Last week’s GOTCHA raffle winners are:
All of these children have been spotted doing something positive at school.
Bradley Zienert, Meredith Butler, Chad Reid, Grace McCourt, Demi Harding, Henry Brewer,
Nathan White, Murray McCabe
Grade 1/2
Under the sea exploration in Grade 1.2 has come to a sad end
with the completion of these posters. The students have spent
time over three weeks, asking questions, researching answers,
designing posters and finally completed these wonderful informative posters. Please enjoy having a look at these wonderful posters.
What a day it was!
Fun and frivolity! Relays, races, marshmallow shootouts and a yummy lunch! What could it be? That’s easy! It
was our annual end of year special event. The threatening clouds meant we moved our event back to school
but this did not dampen the enthusiasm.
Starting just after recess, the whole school F-5 was mixed into multi-age groups and completed three crazy
Christmas rotations. Mrs Reid and Leanne provided plenty of exercise and a memorable tune with their
Twelve days of Christmas relay. Miss Brennan and Ms Webster got into a ‘white winter’ snowball storm (it
was fierce!) before sharpening our aims to stuff a snowman full of marshmallows and using a specially designed marshmallow shooter to sling marshmallows through hoops suspended from the ceiling. And let’s not
forget about Janine and Mrs Godde who were enveloped in a present wrapping frenzy – you should have
seen that paper fly – and candy cane precision that could have rivalled a biochemist! Enormous fun was had
by all.
We headed off to Bell Hall for a rest and munched on a delicious BBQ lunch, kindly donated and prepared by
the Tallangatta Rotary Club. The Club even provided us with a delicious icy treat that was enjoyed by all.
Thank you to this group of hard working community members! We were delighted to have the Tallangatta
Rotary Club involved in our school and hope to continue this association into 2016 and beyond. Be sure to
thank any of this group if you see them out and about!
Check out some of the pictures below!
Are you Tiqbiz ready for 2016?
Make sure you are ready for the 2016 school year by downloading Tiqbiz –our school App. We currently have 64 registered users who receive reminders, notes, newsletters and a whole lot more
through our App. Parents can also use the app to send it absence notes, request an interview or
even send in a bus note.
Help spread the word by asking your friends if they are on board yet. We would love to have all of
our families being part of our Tiqbiz community in 2016. Download the Tiqbiz app and help us
achieve our goal!
What to do:
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Go to Google Play or iTunes (depending on your device).
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Search for tiqbiz
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Register for a free account.
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Tick our school
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Tick “Whole school” and then the classes that apply to your family.
Tiqbiz till then!
Tallangatta Students Hit by a ROCKIT!!
They had the students of Tallangatta dancing, laughing and really
thinking about the cyberworld.…
Last week PROJECT ROCKIT, blasted into Tallangatta giving more
than 150 local kids a chance to share and learn together about
interacting in the cyber world.
PROJECT ROCKIT is Australia’s youth driven movement against
bullying, and in 10 years has worked with more than 100,000
students to addresses bullying and cyber-bullying. The national
anti-bullying and cyber safety education program was delivered to
Tallangatta Primary school students from years 3 to 6 in the
morning, and then Tallangatta Secondary school Year 7 and 8
students in the afternoon. Tania Reid heard PROJECT ROCKIT
speak at the Positive Schools Conference in Melbourne in June
this year. After meeting with the speakers she was very keen to
try to arrange for them to speak to students in Tallangatta. The
PROJECT ROCKIT programs empower young people to stand up and equip school students with real
ways they can stand-up to cyber-bullying without putting themselves at risk.
Caitliin and Cassie from PROJECT ROCKIT gave students these Hot tips to stay safe online:
- Difficult conversations should always be had offline
- Using emojis can help to avoid miscommunications
- Passwords should be kept secret
- Don't add “randoms” and keep your profile private
- Think before you post info about yourself or someone else. Would I be okay with my Mum seeing
this?
- Click on the "report abuse" button if you see online abuse
- Reach out: if you or somebody you know are going through hard times, nobody should have to deal
with it alone.
Tallangatta Primary School Year 5 and 6 students commented
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“Caitlin and Cassie were so interesting
to listen to!”
“It was really interesting doing the human chain where we could see how
messages can get (inadvertently)
changed!”
What a fantastic opportunity our local students were given!
Pets Parade Day
What a wonderful (and hairy) day! Thanks to all the parents who came to the parade and for bringing their family
pets. From smallest to largest; cutest to scariest, all the
pets did a beautiful “catwalk” to show off their abilities.
Well done to the SRC for organising the special event
and to all the pets, for being so well behaved!
Literacy and Numeracy Corner!
Congratulations:
Congratulations to Kyra and Jacinta Bussau for solving last week’s Christmas maths puzzle! You have been
awarded a small prize for your efforts!
Feedback requested:
Throughout 2015, as Literacy and Numeracy Co-ordinator, I have placed a small article in the newsletter
each week. These articles contained handy hints, quirky facts and puzzles to stretch your thinking. I’d love to
get some feedback regarding these! Are they helpful, useful or even fun to read? Would you like to see more
or less of something? Do you need different sorts of information? Please send me a little note, or give me a
quick call, or catch me at school. I would love to hear your ideas looking forward into 2016!
SCHOOL HOLIDAY FUN!
It’s school holiday time again and as always there are lots of different things you can do with your children
that are not only fun but also help promote literacy and numeracy as well. Of course, reading regularly, even
if it is just a few pages, helps students retain their reading skills. Writing a few times a week is also beneficial
and can be loads of fun. And let’s not forget about maths – counting sheep, cars, posts (ANYTHING) to save
us from the “Are we there yet?” car conversation! Art and craft activities open up a whole new world of conversation, problem solving and interest. There are many websites available that offer great ideas – try the
following Google search “craft+kids+activities” and select to your hearts content.
Check out the websites below for some fantastic suggestions or just come up with
your own plans.
http://www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/whats-on
http://www.wodongalibrary.com.au/
http://www.vic.gov.au/about-victoria-tourism/holidays-daylight-saving/schoolholidays/school-holiday-activities.html
Have a happy and safe holiday everyone!
Pat on the Back Compliments from 3/4
Kloe: Jess and Claire for being such great friends
John: Miss Webster for having an awesome sense of humour
Ruby: For the students from Tallangatta Secondary who came to
play games with us, they were prepared and we had lots of fun!
Hudson: the 5/6ers for accepting our kick ball challenge, we enjoyed playing against you!
Taylor: To the Tallangatta Rotary for giving up their time and coming to cook us a BBQ as
part of our end of year celebration.
Lily: To the visitors from Project Rocket who came to speak to us about people being left
out. We enjoyed all the activities that we did with them.
3/4’s- Thanks to all the teachers who have been wonderful to us this year.
Preston: Mr Morphett for organising sport for us all year. We all had lots of fun.
TOMORROW!
Library News
Thank you to those who have returned overdue library books.
As the year is ending I need to do a stocktake of the library books and would like any
borrowed books returned to the tub in the
library please.
Overdue notices have been sent home so
please check if you have any books hiding
under the bed or in the toy box!
If you are sure a book is lost, return the slip
with the details and I will mark the book as
lost on the library system. That way your
child can borrow books next year.
Thank you for you assistance.
Leanne
Meal Deal
Friday 18th
Cheeseburger
Diary Dates
The end of year is fast approaching;
we have an amazing opportunity to
raise much needed funds with a
Bunnings BBQ during the holidays
that will need your support!!!
Meat, Cheese & Sause
Sunday 27 December – Bunnings BBQ,
Wodonga, help required 8.30am-4.30pm
Jam Lamington
Please fill out and send back to school or txt
Fruit Selection
Juice
Orange, Apple, Apple and Blackcurrant
$6.00
Natalie Butler 0412 907395 with your availability
Name:
___________________________________
Contact Number: _____________________________
8.00am – 9.30am
9.30am – 11.00am
11.00am – 12.30pm
12.30pm – 2.00pm
Kids on Keyboards
2.00pm – 3.30pm
3.30pm – 4.45pm
We totally understand that this is a very
busy time of the year for most families,
but it also an amazing opportunity for
Parents Club to kick off next year with a
bang!!
Fun Holiday Programs
There are many fun and engaging school holiday programs happening this school holidays that I
though your students, staff and community may be interested in. This provides the details of all
school holiday activities being held at MAMA, Albury LibraryMuseum and Lavington Library.
For more information go to our school App and discover heaps more fun activities for the family
during the holidays.
If you have any further question or queries about any of the events, please do not hesitate to contact the learning and outreach team.
553 Kiewa Street Albury NSW 2640
t. 02 6023 8346
www.ablurycity.nsw.gov.au
Have a Crafty Christmas
When: 8 Dec 2015 - 17 Dec 2015
Where: LibraryMuseum, Corner of Kiewa and Swift Streets, Albury
Price: Free
The countdown to Christmas has begun, so get into the swing of things with some crafty fun. Families - drop in
after school and make fabulous decorations, cards and so much more!
Lavington Library: Tuesday 8 December and Thursday 10 December, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
LibraryMuseum: Tuesday 15 December and Thursday 17 December, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Bookings on 02 6023 8333 or 02 6043 5645
Summer Reading Club
When: 1 December 2015 - 31 January 2016
Where: LibraryMuseum and Lavington Library
Price: Free
Kids, join the Lost Worlds Summer Reading Club and discover some great books over the school holidays.
The Summer Reading Club will kick off on Tuesday 1 December, and don't forget, the more you read the more
rewards you earn!
Collect your reading records from the LibraryMuseum or Lavington Library and get reading.
Cool Summer Holiday Activities at Lavington Library
When: Monday 4 January 2016 - Friday 22 January 2016
Where: Lavington Library, Northpoint Tower, Griffith Road, Lavington
Price: Free
Bookings: 02 6043 5645
Wavy Whispery Jellyfish
Tuesday 5 January, 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Using ribbon and lace, shimmery paint and paper bowls, imagine-up your own wonderful jellyfish. Transform
any space into a mysterious underwater world with these beautiful creatures.