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NEW LAMBTON SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL
St James Road New Lambton NSW 2305
Email – [email protected]
Website – www.newlambtos-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
IMPORTANT DATES
THIS WEEK
Wednesday 11 September
Principal’s Morning Tea for School Award recipients
Year 2 Excursion – Emily Eyefinger performance
Thursday 12 September
Kindergarten Taronga Zoo Excursion
LEAVING SCHOOL AT 7AM SHARP
Monday 16 September–Wednesday 18 September
Hunter Life Education – All Stages
Tuesday 17 September
Regional Spelling Bee Final – Belair Public School
DATES TO REMEMBER
Wednesday 11 September
Thursday 12 September
Monday 16 September – Wednesday
18 September
Tuesday 17 September
Thursday 19 September
Friday 20 September
Friday 20 September
Tuesday 8 October
UNIFORM SHOP OPENING
HOURS
TUESDAY 9.00am – 9.45am
THURSDAY 3.00pm – 3.45pm
FRIDAY 9.00am – 9.45am
Term 3 Principal’s Morning Tea
Year 2 Excursion – Emily Eyefinger performance
Kindergarten Excursion – Taronga Zoo
Hunter Life Education – All Stages
Regional Spelling Bee Final – Belair Public School
Fathers Day Sports Day 1:30pm
Year 6 T-Shirt Orders due
School Disco
Last day of Term 3
First Day of Term 4
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
SHOWCASE
Once again NLSPS has excelled. Teachers and students are amazing. Full credit goes to you the parents as you are the ones who
develop those amazing children and allow us to share in and guide their education and learning experiences. Showcase is fun and
hard work but really worth the time spent to ensure children enjoy the opportunity to shine in front of an appreciative audience.
Last night proved what we all know – NLS rules! Well done everyone. I hope that you enjoyed the photos in the program and those
available for sale. We will not be posting these photos on the website so please make sure you order if you want one and were not
able to take one home with you last night. We are taking orders for photographs until Friday this week – please see the office for
further information.
There are so many teachers to thank – as all have given up their time and contributed as part of the great team of staff that we have
at our school. Mrs Campbell was the coordinator and artistic director of the Showcase and her expertise ensured the
professionalism of the night. Many thanks Mrs Campbell. Thank you to every other staff member as without each of you the night
would have been just that much less.
NAPLAN
The results for students in Year 3 and Year 5 who sat the Naplan Tests this year are expected to be available to parents on Monday
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16 September and should be home to parents during that week. Teachers anxiously await these results too as they guide
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evaluation of our teaching and learning programs. In the weeks following the release of results, teachers analyse these and use the
teaching strategies suggested for students who did not perform as well as expected to guide the programming for Term 4 and Term
1 2014.
ETHICS UPDATE
Natalie Sutherland is almost finished her coordinator course in Primary Ethics and asked me to address possible concerns from
parents who are considering volunteering to teach Ethics but are put off due to their own fear that they will be sent in to class to ad
lib on heavy philosophical questions. Natalie has spoken to Primary Ethics about the very structured nature of the curriculum and
parents should feel assured that they will receive training and support. Please don’t let these concerns hold you back. Talk to Natalie
– contact the office and ask Natalie to give you a ring. We really do need your support to get this off the ground.
CANCER COUNCIL DONATION
The morning tea held by the P&C for Daffodil Day and the raffle of the huge Toblerone chocolate raised $500. The chocolate was
won by Lily Macdonald of 5/6D.
A cheque for this amount will be sent to the Cancer Council this week from the P&C and NLSPS. Thanks to everyone who supported
this event.
SCHOOL APP
I wrote last week suggesting that you go to the school website and save the website to your phone home page so that you will have
ready access to our school information and Newsflash. We have purchased an app from Skoolbags and it is available via the Google
apps for Android or Apple App Store for iPhone products. The benefit of the app is that there will be push notifications available so
you will get reminders of events etc. This is new territory for us so bear with us as we navigate our way to ensure this technology
provides the best communication possible for you our parent community. Any suggestions warmly welcome!
This week we are training to learn how our website and app link so within a few weeks we should have a good product. More
information soon.
SATURDAY MARKETS ON SITE?
I have been approached by the local Rotary club to host a monthly Saturday Market (last Saturday of the month 8am – 1pm). The
market is currently at New Lambton PS and is not well attended – perhaps not good enough visibility? They are looking to move.
The Rotary would like to work in partnership with us and develop this market into a community market with a definite community
feel – they want good quality stalls for new/handmade items and they want to offer our school the opportunity to make a little
money and use the market to promote the school. Suggestions include allowing us to run a BBQ on any of the dates, have a P&C
stall, have our children perform during the market or run fund raisers as we consider appropriate (eg a garden stall etc). The Rotary
want a partnership where they can contribute to our school in lots of ways so this sounds like a win-win for us. I have spoken to
some of the P&C about this and to teachers. I will be outlining this at the next P&C meeting before going ahead but at this stage all
feedback seems good. Please let me know what you think about this idea for our school.
PRINCIPALS MORNING TEA
I am really looking forward to spending time with this term’s School Awardees. The absolute pleasure I get from spending quality
time with our wonderful students is hard to explain. For some reason the children really appreciate this invitation and are so happy
during the short time feasting on the wonderful spread prepared by Mrs Edwards and her canteen helpers. I will hold two separate
morning teas on Wednesday so that I do have time to spend with each child individually and so that they have a seat around the
staff room table. If your child is near to receiving the School Award but has missed out this term, then they will be included in the
morning tea event in Term 4.
KINDERGARTEN ZOO EXCURSION
I know the Kindergarten children will absolutely love the excursion to the zoo with teachers and their friends from Kindergarten.
Some parents do feel anxious allowing their child to leave head off alone (ie without parents) but I can assure you the children will
be well cared for. This excursion has been part of the Kindergarten agenda at NLSPS for some time and the children always report
that they have a great day and learn many things. They love to feel grown up travelling to Sydney with their classmates.
GAIL CORNFORD
PRINCIPAL
PRINCIPAL’S AWARDS
Congratulations to the following students who received a Principal’s Award at today’s assembly.
Eli Wood KS – Great reading and writing
Indianna Rypstra KG – Being a responsible and cooperative class member
Joseph Jayakody KD – Being a wonderful and cooperative class member
Cooper Symons 1H – Excellent multimedia presentation
William Ross 1O – Fantastic narrative writing
Sarah Micevski 1W – Creativitiy in literacy and numeracy
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Alana Guez 1/2M – Excellence in writing
Bayden Smith 2CN – Outstanding application at all times
Courney Daniels 2O – Outstanding application in all areas
Michael Yalung 3M – Always striving to achieve his best
Paddy Robertson 3/4E – Oustanding application in all subjects
Harpah Powell 4D – Excellent application in all areas
Noah Fenton 4T – Excellent application to all learning areas
Charli Nerney 5/6C – Fabulous attitude to all aspects of school life
James Kacev 5/6D – Demonstrating leadership and independence
Ryan Dean 5/6G – Excellent application to all work
Dominic Bufi 5/6S – Excellent application and work in all areas of maths
Kristiana Brown - Library – Consistent effort in library
Jakob Roxby - Band – Amaxing timing and strength on the drum-kit in band
Rosalie Etwell - Visual Arts K-2 – Mona Lisa artwork
Lucy Smeets - Visual Arts 3-4 – Ganesha artwork
Charli Nerney - Visual Arts 5-6 – Antarctic artwork
Brooklyn Parkes - Music Award – Great improvement and effort playing the flute
EMAIL ADDRESSES – NEWSFLASH GOES ELECTRONIC ONLY
We have sent out forms requesting email addresses from Years 3 -6. This will enable us to send our newsletter electronically to all
families and reduce our environmental footprint. Please return this form to the office by Friday 16 August.
If you have recently changed your email address, please contact the office.
PLEASE NOTE from the start of Term 4, no hard copy of Newsflash will be given to students unless a formal request is received for a
hard copy. All parents who supply email addresses will get an email reminder. Others will need to remember to check our website
weekly.
If you download the free phone app and set up your phone to receive push notifications for the newsflash, you will have access that
way too.
KINDERGARTEN ZOO EXCURSION
Kindergarten may be tired after the Showcase, but they're excited also as we're off to the zoo this Thursday. A reminder to parents
to meet under the hall COLA at 6.45am. Children need to be in full school uniform with comfortable walking shoes and a hat. They
will need a small bag (not their big school bag) with lunch, afternoon and morning tea as well as a drink/s. Please limit the
containers. Some rain is predicted so please pack a lightweight raincoat/poncho. If your child gets travel sick, please advise their
teacher in the morning and give them medication if necessary. This medication needs to be labelled and handed to the class teacher
for administration before we leave to come home. If you have registered your email address with the front office, you will receive
an email advising you of our safe arrival at the zoo and also an expected arrival time back at school. We will tell you all about our
trip in next week’s newsflash.
MRS HOLLAND
ORGANISING TEACHER
FATHERS' AND FRIENDS SPORTS AFTERNOON
We hope all fathers, grandfathers and special males in children’s lives had a great day on Father’s Day. Our celebration this year is a
Sports Afternoon on Thursday 19th September and we are looking forward to lots of fun.
1.30pm recess and lunch for our visitors (please complete lunch order form in this newsletter if you would like to order from our
canteen)
2-3pm rotating activities.
When you arrive, our sports leaders will help you to find your child/ren's group.
We look forward to seeing you then.
MRS HOLLAND
COORDINATING TEACHER
CHESS NEWS
Big Congratulations to our Kings team! Kings have played an outstanding season and are well rewarded by heading off to the
Regional Final this week at Singleton Heights PS. A win here could see the boys heading off to Sydney to play in the state knock out
finals. Good luck boys. Knights and Rookies have also played well and will finish off the season on 17th September. Good luck and
have fun!
JO DENNIS
CHESS COORDINATOR
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TRANSPORT FOR CHESS TEAMS
I am urgently seeking anyone who would be able to help transport our Chess teams next Tuesday 17th September. Knights will play
at Belair and Rookies will play at St Joseph's Charlestown. Both rounds kick off at 9:30am. It will be a great shame for New Lambton
South Public School to forfeit these games as we have fought back strongly this year to regain top honours in the region. If you can
help please phone the school office ASAP.
JO DENNIS
CHESS COORDINATOR.
NEWCASTLE JETS PRIMARY SCHOOLS REWARD PROGRAM
Our school is now part of the NEWCASTLE JETS PRIMARY SCHOOLS REWARD PROGRAM.
The NEW Newcastle Jets Primary Schools Reward Program is the latest way of getting behind the Newcastle Jets while giving your
school the opportunity to earn a number of exclusive Newcastle Jets rewards.
By empowering schools and allowing them to benefit from promoting Jets Memberships to their school communities, the Newcastle
Jets can provide exclusive educational, merchandise and activity based rewards.
The winning school will receive an exclusive Gala Day run by the Newcastle Jets which includes a coaching clinic, photo and
autograph opportunities and individual competitions including penalty shootouts, who can juggle the longest and other
competitions for students to win prizes. The day will also include a BBQ with all family welcome to attend the day.
Most importantly, every school that is participating in the program will have the chance to receive some fantastic rewards including
certificates, match-day tickets, signed footballs, signed jerseys and player appearances at your school. The more Members your
school community sign-up the bigger the reward!
There will also be additional prizes given away throughout the program including a signed Socceroo’s jersey for the school who signs
up the most amount of NEW Members in the first week of the campaign.
GET INVOLVED
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All you have to do is sign up as a Newcastle Jets Member.
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There are a number of affordable ticketed and non-ticketed Membership packages available.
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Joining is easy, call the Membership Team on 4979 7611, visit www.newcastlejets.com.au, or return the form in the
reply paid envelope provided. You can collect these from the office.
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Ensure you mention your school.
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Existing Members can call the Membership Team on 4979 7611 to allocate their Membership to their school.
JESSICA METCALFE
COORDINATING TEACHER
Asia Pacific Special Olympic Games Opening Ceremony
Tickets on sale now!
All students involved in DrumCrew at NLS have been invited to perform in what is hoped to be a 200 student DrumCrew in the
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opening ceremony of the Asia Pacific Special Olympic Games. The performance is at Hunter Stadium on the 1 of December 2013.
Tickets are now on sale for this very special event.
Tickets can be purchased through the Special Olympics website - http://specialolympicsasiapacgames2013.com/en
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SCHOOL BANKING UPDATE: REDEEM YOUR TOKENS FOR A MONEYBOX THIS YEAR!
In 2014 the School Banking program will be launching a new set of exciting reward items for students to redeem their tokens for.
Each reward item will continue to be valued at 10 tokens (i.e. 10 deposits) and there will be two new reward items for students to
choose from each term.
With exciting new reward items on offer in 2014, please be aware that the Dollarmites moneyboxes will no longer be available
next year. To avoid any child missing out on claiming their moneybox, please let your children know of this change and encourage
them to redeem their moneybox this school year.
In an effort to ensure your child doesn’t miss out, the rule of one money box per year has been removed. If your child is trying to
collect the series of Dollarmite moneyboxes, they are encouraged to do so before the end of the school year. Please understand
that they still need to redeem each moneybox for the required 10 tokens.
BANKING DAY IS WEDNESDAY.
KD NEWS
WOW! What a proud teacher I am after last night’s showcase performance. The students did an amazing job and looked as though
they loved being on the stage. The zoo excursion is this Thursday. Remember to be at school at 6.45am and please make sure your
child brings a light backpack/bag as they will be required to carry it around all day. They will need food, drink, hat, medication, if
needed eg puffer and a light raincoat. Please advise me if your child gets travel sickness. It will be a wonderful day with I’m sure a lot
of stories to tell. Just a reminder, no homework or readers till next term.
KG NEWS
Well done Stage 2 on your outstanding performance at the School Showcase! We can now finally return to some normal class
routine for the final week and a half of Term 3. Despite the last weeks being so busy our class has worked hard to complete a
narrative and description writing assessment so we will now focus on finishing our class novel and doing some reading
comprehension tasks related to it. In Maths we are finishing off chance and data and will soon move on to fractions. Keep up the
great work 3/4E!
KS NEWS
What a wonderful performance. I'm sure you are all proud of our fantastic KS performers- many thanks for all your support over the
past weeks with Showcase. Please check that notes have been sent back to school for upcoming events. No homework for the next
two weeks but Bugclub and Mathletics are there for you to work with. Thursday is our Taronga Trip, please check that you have all
the things listed for the day in your child's backpack, especially the raincoat, just in case.
1H NEWS
Some 1H students playing Pizza Symmetry.
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1O NEWS
1O have been writing introductions and complications of different narratives.
Denny- One scary night two skeletons were taking photos of themselves near a haunted house. The phone was out of charge and
they had lost the charger in the bush.
Aiden- One scary night two skeletons lived in a haunted house. The house was smashed and fell on the skeletons and broke them
apart.
Lincoln- One dark night two scientists were in a scientists room and the mean scientist threw the little scientist through the window.
The little scientist hung onto the window and......
1/2M NEWS
Wow what a performance!!! The performances that were put on by the students at our school last night were amazing. We have
such talented students at our school. Last night was a credit to each of them. They have been working so hard in their CAPA groups
at school and all of that hard work paid off. I am so proud of every student who got up on the stage, smiled and had a go. We are
very lucky teachers to work with such an amazing group of students. Well done everyone!!!
1W NEWS
WOW! What a fantastic Showcase... well done everyone on your performances and all of your hard work in preparing for an
amazing show! You were all fantastic!
Only two more weeks left of Term 3 and we are all still working so hard. During the next two weeks we will be finishing up our units
on 2D shapes/tessellating patterns and Families Past and Present. We have really been enjoying working on these units especially
looking at the 'Olden Days'.
Don't forget to check your diaries for dates as we have a lot coming up this week and next. Congratulations to our class members
who are attending the Principal's Morning Tea tomorrow. Our other upcoming events include Father's Sports afternoon, a visit to
the Life Education Centre and our school disco!!
Don't forget homework is due this Friday. I will be sending home a schedule this week for which days the children will be performing
their experiments for the class. Each child will be given a day in Week 10 so they are able to come prepared on that day with any
materials or resources they may need. We are all looking forward to this very much!
Have a great week everyone...
2CN AND 20 NEWS
This week is a very busy week for us. After a late night last night stunning our parents with our great talents we are busy at school
today preparing for our visit tomorrow to see Emily Eyefinger. Everyone is very excited about seeing the show in the beautiful Civic
theatre and catching the train in to town. We will be having an early lunch on Wednesday before we leave for the show so we ask
that students ordering their lunch, order sandwiches instead of hot food to help the canteen fill our early orders.
A reminder please that all students attending the show are to wear full school uniform.
3M NEWS
What talented and entertaining students we have at New Lambton South. Congratulations to each and every student on what was a
phenomenal Showcase experience. To 3M, well done!! Over the past term you have practiced with patience and continued to
preserve in what was a hard to master, yet sensational act. Thank you to all the parents and carers who supported 3M and we hope
you enjoyed the show as much as we did.
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3/4E NEWS
Well done Stage 2 on your outstanding performance at the School Showcase! We can now finally return to some normal class
routine for the final week and a half of Term 3. Despite the last weeks being so busy our class has worked hard to complete a
narrative and description writing assessment so we will now focus on finishing our class novel and doing some reading
comprehension tasks related to it. In Maths we are finishing off chance and data and will soon move on to fractions. Keep up the
great work 3/4E!
4D NEWS
What a wonderful evening!!! Congratulations to all students in 4D on your fantastic effort. Also thank you to all the supportive
parents and care-givers who have assisted in helping their child be organised for our Showcase performance. Extra special thanks to
Mrs Ingram and Mrs Hoitink who gave up their spare time to sew the colourful skirts for the girls’ costumes. The skirts look
amazing!!! Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Muchas Gracias!!!
4T NEWS
A few camp comments
We did not mean to capsize the canoe but it was funny. Jayson
When I went on the giant swing I was both crying and laughing at the same time!! Ruby
Jack Fraser’s dad almost fell off the jetty. Jack
We loved camp and I love looking at the pictures Mrs Drinkwater took of us. Braith
Thanks Mrs Drinkwater for encouraging me to go on the high ropes. Sorry Olivia and I kept you up so late. Nikiesha
Mrs Drinkwater was an awesome instructor and she took lots of photos of us. Angel
Thanks Mrs Drinkwater for helping to put the harnesses on us. Thomas
5/6C NEWS
WOW! What a fantastic Showcase! Well done to everyone who participated and thank you to all the audience members for
supporting us! In 5/6C we are working on a film study for the movie Toy Story. We are working towards transition to high school and
an understanding of how film study will work in subject of English. There are different types of ‘shots’ involved in any film and some
of these are long shots, medium shots and close ups.
5/6D NEWS
There is no news from 5/6D this week.
5/6G NEWS
Would you rather:
1 kilogram of $1 coins, a metre long of $2 coins (lying flat and touching) or 2 kilograms of 50c coins. What’s your choice?
By Jess and Lucy
5/6S NEWS
There is no news from 5/6S this week.
P&C NEWS
WOW! What an amazing two performances last night at the school’s annual showcase. It was so great to see the children happy and
smiling and so obviously excited to be performing for their families.
On behalf of the P&C – thank you to all of the students who participated and a special thanks to all of the teachers for pulling the
shows together. Well done!
On to some fundraising news and a HUGE thanks to Ali and Dave Martin who pulled together the election day BBQ last week. There
was over $2000 raised on the day which is a great effort! Special thanks to all of the parents/friends who baked cakes, cooked the
BBQ or assisted on the day. It was greatly appreciated. Thank you to the following parents for their amazing contributions:
CAKE DONATIONS
Louise Cornish, Margaret Godfrey, Siobhan Purins, Michelle Steverson, Sandra Monk, Kim Hee, Fiona O’Connor, Peta Bosworth,
Carole Guez, Eun Hye Kim, Lori Phillips, Megan Smith, Kylie Stonestreet, Lee Upton
HELPERS
Michelle Steverson, Margaret Godfrey, Sandra Monk, Siobhan Purins, Megan Smith, Sally Freeman, Kylie Stonestreet, Brett Godfrey,
Adam Stonestreet, Dave Martin, Mark Andre, Simon Cornish
BBQ DONATIONS
Bread rolls – The Blackbutt Hotel
Sausages – The Gates Hotel
Bacon – PFD
Bacon and Sauces – Bidvest
Eggs and Onions – Yellow Door Fruit & Veg
Next Wednesday night is the last P&C meeting for this term, starting at 7pm in the connected classroom in Block A.
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Prior to the P&C meeting, there will be a Fundraising Committee – Twilight Market Night meeting. This meeting will be from 5.45pm
for a 6.00pm start at The Blackbutt Hotel. We are looking for interested parties to take on a role as part of this sub-committee. If
this sounds like you, please come along or let us know your interest in assisting. The more the merrier – this is a huge but very
worthwhile event to run, but the more helpers we have, the better.
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Lastly, don’t forget to add Saturday 9 November to your calendars for family portraits. They are just in time for Christmas and will
be a great fundraiser for the school. More information to follow in the coming weeks.
Have a great week!
DATES TO REMEMBER:
FUNDRAISING MEETING – TWILIGHT MARKETS
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Wednesday 18 September
Blackbutt Hotel
6.00pm
P&C MEETING
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Wednesday 18 September
Connected Classroom, BLOCK A
7.00pm
FAMILY PORTRAIT FUNDRAISER
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Saturday 9 November
Natasha Andrei
P&C President
Phone: 4957 3821 or 0413 188 945 or
Email: [email protected]
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Megan Smith
16/9
Deanne Anderson
10/9
Olga Diaz
Cate Masterson
17/9
Louise Everett
CANTEEN ROSTER
11/9
Fiona Robertson
18/9
Tammy Inja
12/9
Kathryn Bell
19/9
Melissa Carr
Nerida Bradica
13/9
Lee Upton
20/9
Sally Freeman
Leanne Goodchild
*
23/9
24/9
25/9
26/9
27/9
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
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2/10
3/10
4/10
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
SCHOOL
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
Please note: * denotes a vacancy – please drop by the canteen if you are able to assist.
Canteen phone no. 0417 571168
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CANTEEN NEWS
A huge thank you to Laura and Sarah Stanton and Ryan and Melanie Edwards for their help in the canteen on Monday night for The
Showcase.
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Just a quick reminder that the Fathers Day order forms must be handed into the canteen by Tuesday 17 Sept.
Fruit available for Crunch and Sip this week include Apple Slinkys 60c, Small Fruit Salad cups 60c, Orange quarters 20c, Grape cups
60c and Strawberry cups 60c and Watermelon 30c.
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Senior Band
Nathan Petrovski’s solo
Kevin Heer’s solo
Junior Band
Ushers
Backstage
Choir
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