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Monday 1st June 2020 Term 2 W6

From the Principal

Welcome Back:

Welcome back to all of our students! It is fantastic to have you all back every day of the week! The teachers and I are excited to be hearing the happy noise from the playground each day and the excited chatter in the classrooms!

COVID Anxiety:

It is normal for students to feel anxious to return to school after being at home for so long and it is also normal for them to feel some anxiety about COVID 19 while being at school. If your child is showing signs of being anxious, there are several great resources that can help. These include Emerging Minds, MindSpot and Beyond Blue. Links to their websites are available on our Remote Learning Hub.   

Link to WBPS Remote Learning Hub - Wellbeing

Please also let your child's teacher know so they can be supported at school.

Semester One Reports:

Semester One reports will be sent home in Week 2 of term 3. This report will be in a different format to the regular report. It will consist of a short list of outcomes for literacy and numeracy, comments for literacy and numeracy and a general comment. There will also be a section for parents and students to complete on how your child worked when learning from home. Please note, the outcomes and comments from teachers are based on evidence seen at school for your child.

Payments to Office:

While our office is open for any payments, all payments should be via internet banking and EFTPOS. We are currently not taking cash payments. 

Thank You:

A very big thank you to Food and Friendship at Warners Bay for the wonderful food hampers they supplied to our community last week. We really appreciated the kindness. A big thank you to our Home School Liaison Officer, Sally Jenkinson for liaising with Food and Friendship for the hampers.

We look like a new school!

We have had a lot of work completed in our school while students have been working from home. Our library has a new roof, ceiling and carpet, the new G Block classrooms are almost complete, the hall exterior has been painted, the canteen has a new floor, new asphalt has been laid in the primary playground, a new path has replaced the uneven pavers leading to the Year 1 rooms, the new Kinder play equipment is ready to be used, new court markings have been painted on the basketball and netball courts and the primary toilets have a new roof. The school looks amazing- our builders have done an incredible job!

Basketball Court
Primary Playground
Freshly painted hall
Kindy enjoying the new fort

Millsy Visit

Our students were very happy to see Millsy visiting their classrooms last week. Mrs Lane and Millsy visited each room to remind students of our three expectations – Safe, Respectful, Active Learners and share balloons with each class.

Changes to opportunity class placement process for 2020 Year 4 Students

The 2021 Year 5 opportunity class placement process was put on hold in April 2020 due to the COVID-19 situation.

We now have a revised and simplified timeline for the OC placement process to ensure that students and families can have certainty about their placement as soon as possible.

The changes include:

* A new date for online applications. Parents must apply between 9 June 2020 and 26 June 2020. Late applications cannot be accepted.

* A new test date - Wednesday 16 September 2020.

To ensure fair and consistent assessment of students across New South Wales, students will be offered places based only on their test results this year – there will be no school assessment scores.  

There will also be no opportunity for appeals given the tight timeframes.

For further detailed information I encourage you to visit:

Opportunity Classes Year 5 2021

Welcoming back Kindy this week

Thomas Gleghorn's years at Warners Bay Public School

Tom enrolled at Warners Bay Public School in 1931 and was a pupil here until 1936. The school enrolment in 1931 was 49 pupils. Many were temporary pupils of unemployed families who were camped by the lake.

By 1932, the principal, Mr. Malcolm Munro, applied for a second teacher as the pupil numbers had risen to 63, with 26 described as temporary. These temporary families would fish by the lake and were expected to leave when the weather cooled, or employment conditions improved.

Mr. Munro would bring extra lunches for needy pupils and often visited homes to see if the children had enough food and clothing.

Mrs. Viola Collins was appointed as the second teacher. She taught 1st and 2nd class while Mr. Munro taught 3rd to 6th class in the same room. Later, 1st and 2nd classes moved to the School of Arts hall in Jones Avenue.

Mr. Munro retired in 1933 and was replaced as principal by Mr. Victor Gilmore. Mr. Munro was presented with a clock and silver service and both have recently been donated to the school.

By June 1933 the School of Arts hall, located at the bottom of Jones Avenue, near todays service station, was being used as a temporary classroom. A verandah on the single 1904 classroom was enclosed as a shelter shed.

On 13 November 1933 the school was officially named Warners Bay. The previous name of Warner was deemed to be confusing.

In June 1934 a new building was recommended for Warners Bay. The younger classes had been located in the School of Arts building which was most unsatisfactory and parents were refusing to send their children to school. The protest scored results and a double portable classroom was moved from Chatswood to Warners Bay. The School of Arts hall blew down in a ‘cyclone’ in 1936 or 37.

In 1934, Tom’s brother George enrolled at the school.  The new three classroom brick building was opened in 1935. These rooms had heating stoves as the school by the lake was extremely cold in winter. A request for a power point and one electric light was refused but a water connection was approved.

The enrolment was now 163 and the principal requested that the portable double classroom from Chatswood be retained. The Department decided that half the classroom would remain. This would have been the small classroom that until recently, stood between the current Oosh building and the hall. A third teacher was also approved. The original 1904 classroom was removed in August 1936.

One pupil named Don Fenwick who also enrolled in 1931, remembers that he and other boys lined up to be tattooed by Tom Gleghorn. In the school centenary year of 1992, Don still had his original Tom Gleghorn tattoo. Thomas Gleghorn, who turns 95 in 2020, has stated that he remembers with great fondness, his years at Warners Bay Public School. Decades ago, he donated the water-colour of The Old Warner Homestead to the school. It now hangs in the library. He later donated the large oil-painting of The Paper Boy and around 1995 he donated three smaller oils from his Lake Eyre period. These now hang in the school office.

The Tom Gleghorn exhibition is currently at Newcastle Art Gallery running from May 9th-July19th.  You can also take a virtual tour by clicking the link below and see the four works that we loaned to the gallery, including his earliest in the exhibition of the Old Warner Homestead from our Library.

Click here to take a Virtual Tour of Tom Gleghorn's exhibition

Greg Powell 2020.                  

Source: Warners Bay Public School 1892-1992, Rose Greenwell.

Students learning about Reconciliation week

NDIS Planning Information Session

During June 2020, the Better Start team at Carers NSW are facilitating free online National Disability Information Scheme (NDIS) Plan Information Sessions for parents and carers of children with a disability or developmental delay.  For more information see the link below:
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Intervention for Families

Hunter New England Health are running workshops for families, foster families, carers and friends on staying connected when emotions run high.  Download the information sheet for further details or to register your interest.
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Exciting Baby News

Congratulations to Ms Lisa Bath and her husband Pat who welcomed baby boy, Cooper John Bath Warren to the world on Friday 22nd May. Both mum and bub are doing well.
Congratulations to Ms Lisa Bath and her husband Pat who welcomed baby boy, Cooper John Bath Warren to the world on Friday 22nd May. Both mum and bub are doing well.
Congratulations to Ms Lisa Bath and her husband Pat who welcomed baby boy, Cooper John Bath Warren to the world on Friday 22nd May. Both mum and bub are doing well.

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