Hammondville Public School Newsletter

Mini Fete

A big thank you to the Stage 3 students who made our annual mini-fete such a success. Your planning, organisation and commitment to the day are to be congratulated. Thank you to the teachers who supported the Stage 3 students with their stalls and behind the scenes preparation. Days like this cannot be successful without the ongoing support of our wonderful families and community so thank you to everyone who participated.

Presentation Day 2019

I would like to take a moment to congratulate all students on their achievements this year no matter how big or small. It is a pleasure to lead this school and to watch all Hammondville students learn and grow. Tomorrow we will be recognising those students who excelled across the year. I hope you enjoy celebrating their achievements during our Presentation Day assemblies. Our K-2 Presentation assembly will be held at school from 9:10am in the hall and our 3-6 Presentation assembly will be held at Holsworthy High at 12:30pm.

P&C Meeting

Tonight will be our last P&C meeting for the year. It will be held at New Brighton Golf Club at 7pm. This will be a great way to celebrate our collective achievements and thank the P&C for the enormous amount of work, dedication and support they provide to our school, teachers, students and families.

Leavers and New Enrolments

As we are nearing the end of the year and begin planning for 2020, I urge all families to please tell the office as soon as possible if you will be leaving or if you have family or friends moving to the area who may want to enrol at Hammondville. If you are going on holidays and will be returning after the 29th January 2020, please contact the office as we will require families to indicate in writing the intended return date, so we can include your children in our numbers. The sooner we know our enrolment numbers the sooner we can begin class formations and staffing arrangements for 2020.

Positive Stars Week 8

I had the lovely opportunity to see many students across the school last week for producing excellent work, demonstrating outstanding work habits and being exceptional learners. Well done to the following students on being Positive Stars in Week 8: Aiyden, Annabelle, Miriam, Isabella, Moriah and Krystof in 4/5 Bronze and Bailey and Rose in 5 Yellow. Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to see more students this week. 

Have a wonderful week of learning!

Mrs Rebekah Murray
Rel. Principal

Monday 9th December - P&C Meeting 7pm at Brighton Lakes Golf Club

Tuesday 10th December - K-2 Presentation Day 9:10 - 10:30am - CANTEEN WILL BE OPEN

Tuesday 10th December - 3-6 Presentation Day Holsworthy High School 12:30pm - 2:30pm

Monday 16th December - Year 6 Farewell - LAST DAY FOR CANTEEN ORDERS

Tuesday 17th December - K-6 Picnic Day - CANTEEN WILL BE CLOSED

Wednesday 18th December - Last Day for Students - CANTEEN OVER THE COUNTER SALES ONLY

Our school office hours are 8:30am to 3:15pm.

EFTPOS Payments can be made between 8:45am - 9:00am and 2:30pm - 3:00pm.

Student Absences
The Education Act requires that a reason is provided to the school within 5 days of the occurrence of a student absence. 

If your child is absent from school please notify us via Skoolbag or drop a note/medical certificate in our secure letterbox on the outside of the office wall. Do not send absent notifications to the class teacher via Class Dojo.

Late Arrival/ Early Departure
All students who are late to school must come via the office to receive a late pass, which is then to be handed to their teacher.

If you are picking up your child early from school you must visit the office first to receive an early departure pass, which you then give to your child’s teacher.

Toileting Accidents
If your child is prone to toileting accidents please ensure that spare underwear and school clothes are kept in their bags.

If your child does borrow clothes from our school please ensure the clothes are washed and promptly returned to the office.

Nut Free Recommendation
Due to severe allergies of some students at Hammondville Public School, we do recommend that parents not send their children to school with nut products, eg muesli bars, peanut butter, nutella etc.

P&C Payments
All payments to the P&C must be CASH ONLY and in a separate envelope to school payments.

Take your holidays when we do!

School is an important time in your child’s life, where they learn social and academic skills and the routines and work ethic that will stay with them throughout their life. But because children need time to be children, there are also school holidays which allow them time off from the formalities of school. Students in NSW have a total of approximately 12 weeks off school each year. The school holidays for 2020 are as follows:

Term 1 Holidays: 10 April 2020- 26 April 2020

Term 2 Holidays: 4 July 2020 - 19 July 2020

Term 3 Holidays:  26 September 2020 - 11 October 2020

Term 4 Holidays:  17 December 2020 - 29 January 2021

Family holidays are an important part of growing up, but so is attending school. For this reason, we ask that wherever possible, you take your holidays when we do, during school holiday time. Even taking a couple of weeks off school during term time can make it very hard for your child to catch up on their work and if this is repeated over several years, children often find themselves falling behind.

If you must schedule your holiday during term time, we ask that you please do the following things before you go:

• Notify the school of the dates you will be away.

Provide additional documentation, such as travel itineraries. If you do not notify the school, your child’s absences will be marked down as unexplained.
Speak to your child’s classroom teacher about how best to help your child cope with the work they will miss while away. It may not always be possible for teachers to provide weeks of work in advance for your child to take with them as many of the activities done in class build on each other and require teacher instruction.

If you have a younger child who is due to start school next year and you have not yet enrolled them could you please contact the office as soon as possible. The sooner we know the number of children who are coming next year the better it is for our planning as the number of children in Kindergarten has a significant effect on the make-up of our classes and staffing across the school. 

Is your child leaving Hammondville Public School?

In order to plan our classes for next year, it is important that we know the number of students who will be enrolled at our school in 2020. If your child is not returning to our school next year could you please provide written notification ASAP stating your child's name, when their last day will be & what school they will be moving to via our email  address:-  

hammondvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

If your child is returning to Hammondville Public school next year but will return after our first day back, Wednesday 29 January 2020, could you please provide written notification ASAP stating your child's name, what date they will be returning & the reason why they will be away via our school email address :- 

hammondvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

This year’s 3-6 presentation day will be held at Holsworthy High School in the high school hall on Tuesday 10th December 2019. Presentation Day will begin at 12:30pm and finish at approximately 2:30pm. All students will be transported from Hammondville Public School to Holsworthy High school via buses, with the costs being covered by the school. Last week a note went out on Caremonkey, which all students must have signed to get permission to travel by bus for this event. Parents who are in attendance at the Presentation Day may take their students home at the end of the event and there is a space indicated on the note which allows you to show that you will take your child home after the Presentation Day. All other students will catch the bus from Holsworthy High School back to Hammondville Public School and are expected to be back by normal home time bell. Students who are receiving awards at the Presentation Day will be contacted via Caremonkey to inform them that their child will be an award recipient.

Well done to all the students who tried out for a student leadership role for 2020. We had a high calibre of students this year who tried out and we look forward to our new student leadership body beginning in 2020.

Congratulations to the following students who succeeded in securing a position on the student leadership board for 2020. In no particular order the school community congratulate the following students: Daymon Schuyt, Annabelle James, Jaxson Horton, Jessica Philpott, Alana Julius, Tahlia Lockhart, Cooper Wilson, Isabella Muc, Justin Brown, Kiana Wilson-Keanie, Miriam Gauld and Emily Hartland. The school leadership body will be presented with their student leader badges and the school Captains for 2020 will be revealed at the 3-6 Presentation tomorrow.

Mrs C Zanapalis
Student Leader Co-ordinator

Congratulations to all the Stage 3 students for the amazing job they did last Thursday at the Mini Fete. It never ceases to amaze the staff of the wonderful job that Stage 3 students and their parents do to make the day a success. The students were organised, hard working and had service with a smile. A sincere thank you to all of the parents who contributed financially, to the parents, carers and grandparents who turned up today to help with the running of the stalls, and also to the parents who were not able to turn up but helped behind the scenes in helping your child prepare for the day. Mini Fete is such an important day in the Stage 3 calendar and it was lovely to see it as another successful day. Finally, a big thank you to the Hammondville community for supporting this day!

Thank you to Anthony Reato for helping out on Saturday 7th December with the concreting at the school working bee, your time and assistance was greatly appreciated.

School Swimming Carnival - Friday 31st January 2020

Liverpool Zone Swimming Carnival - Thursday 27th February 2020

SSW Regional Swimming Carnival - Tuesday 10th March 2020

NSW State Swimming Carnival - Monday 6th April and Tuesday 7th April 2020

School Cross Country Carnival - To be confirmed

Liverpool Zone Cross Country Carnival - To be confirmed

SSW Regional Cross Country Carnival - Wednesday 10th June 2020

NSW State Cross Country Carnival - Friday 24th July 2020

School Athletics Carnival - Monday 27th July 2020

Liverpool Zone Athletics Carnival - Thursday 27th August 2020

SSW Regional Athletics Carnival - Wednesday 16th September 2020

NSW State Athletics Carnival - Wednesday 28th October and Thursday 29th October 2020

Permission notes for next year's school swimming carnival have already been handed out. The date of the carnival is Friday 31st January, 2020. Students in years 3-6 for 2020 are expected to attend and any students in Year 2 for 2020 who are eight or turning eight next year and can swim 50m unassisted are invited to attend.

Permission notes, medical forms and payment need to be returned to the office letterbox by Monday 9th December, 2019. If your child did not receive a permission note, spares can be found at the office.

New Food Trial - We are trialling 2 new items this term for lunch, please order these items if you are interested:

• Cheese Burger (halal beef patty and cheese) $4.00
• Fish Fingers $0.80 each

With only 1.5 weeks left until the end of term here is an update on what  is happening with the Canteen:

• We are open every day except Picnic Day Tuesday 17th December.
• Monday 16th December is the Last Day for Lunch Orders.
• Wednesday 18th December is counter sales only.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy holiday break.

Lost Property will be cleaned out next week, come and check if your child is missing any items before then.

Regards,

Tracey & Sue

The uniform pool will be open Wednesday afternoon from 2:30pm- 3:00pm.

Prices:

Non-logo items (pants, shorts, shirts) are $1.00

All logo items are $2:00

Dresses, Parkas & Bags are $5:00

When visiting the second hand uniform shop it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring small change with you. There is nothing over $5.00. Also any items purchased from the uniform pool must be paid for at the office or at the Canteen.

Thank you,

Louise & Sandy

Our final P&C meeting is tonight, Monday 9th December at 7pm. Our final meeting will be held at Brighton Lakes Golf Club to celebrate the year. All are welcome to join us on Mon 9th at 7pm. RSVP to Steph on 0410488346 if you can make it.

It's posting season and that means some of our families are on the move. If you know your family will be leaving our school please notify both the front office and myself. I can assist you with information and EDLO contacts in your new location in addition to transition and farewell activities to help your child.

Mrs Janelle Ford 

Defence School Mentor

janelle.j.ford@det.nsw.edu.au 

Liverpool City Libraries are running a Summer Reading Club over the Summer School Holidays. The program encourages children to engage with reading and storytelling over the break.

It is open to all children aged 2-12 from the 13 December 2019 to 5pm 31 January 2020. Children do not need to be a library member, and they do not need to live in the area.

Through an activity booklet we are providing various ways for children to engage in literacy activities. They can create a story, interview someone, read every day and borrow at one of our libraries.

We have exciting prizes on offer for participants- book vouchers, games or a gift certificate to the Opera House to see amazing kid's productions like David Walliams' 'The Midnight Gang' or Julia Donaldson's 'The Snail and the Whale.' Engaging in the activities in the booklet will become entries to the prize draw.

If you would like further information in regards to the Summer Reading Club please click on the following link:  https://mylibrary.liverpool.nsw.gov.au/events/summer-reading-club