Newsletter

Greetings parents, carers and community members

I cannot believe how the rain has outskirted us all week! Considering the upcoming weather forecast I am hoping that our colour run will still go ahead on Thursday 27 October. We will keep everyone posted as Week 3 progresses!

STRATEGIC IMPROVEMENT PLAN

We are currently in the consultation phase of our school's next strategic improvement plan (SIP) where we gather feedback from all of our stakeholders about the strategic directions of our school as we strive to achieve excellence in learning, teaching and leading. All staff, parents/carers and students will have an opportunity to contribute to our SIP. Students have participated in an 'Adopt, Adapt, Abandon' feedback activity this week in their class groups and student voice will also be represented during our 'world cafe' sessions.

Parents at Monday's P&C meeting also participated in an 'Adopt, Adapt, Abandon' feedback activity and all parents will be invited to contribute to a feedback survey during Week 3 of this term. We are also running a number of world cafe sessions for our parents and carers as well as our staff. If you haven't yet registered for a world cafe session please do so at the following link: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/qs4cs

BANDFEST

Seven of our students represented our school at the 2022 Bandfest. They competed in the 'Developing band' section and their performance was excellent! Our budding young musicians received a highly commended on the day.

We had a large number of students sharing their out of school achievements with us this week! It is wonderful that we can recognise these achievements during the community recognition section of our weekly assemblies.

Wow! What a week it has been. So many great achievements across the school. Recognised for their contributions in the community this week are: 

Amber W (3H) for her performance at a Dance Eisteddfod. She received a 2nd place and highly commended. 

Alice F (2G) for end of season trophy

Mia P (2G) for end of season trophy 

Ari P (2G) for end of season trophy

Mabel C (2E) for end of season trophy

Ivy A (2S) for end of season trophy

Neave B (2S) for end of season trophy

Parker W (2E) for end of season trophy

Max T (1S) for end of season trophy

Jack B (2E) Cardiff Hawkes most dedicated player

Charlie G (2G) for end of season trophy 

Georgie B (2H) for end of season trophy

Stella J (2H) for end of season trophy

Zali D (2E)  for end of season trophy

Georgie B (2H) for end of season trophy

Finn M (3H)  for end of season trophy

Amadee L (3K) for end of season trophy

Baily H (3K) for end of season trophy

Austin B (4C)  for end of season trophy

Sarah C (4JT) for end of season trophy

Paige S (6P) for end of season trophy

This week's K-2 Spirit cup was awarded to Maggie W. from 2S for always being responsible, kind and looking out for her peers

This week's K-2 Spirit cup was awarded to Seamus C. from 4JT for always showing care and consideration towards his peers

I will leave you now with the images of our weekly assembly merit award recipients.

Yours in public education

Justine Abell

WEEK 3

Monday 24 October

• Diwali recognition day

Tuesday 25 October

• Year 1 - Hunter Wetlands Excursion

Thursday 27 October 

• Colour Explosion School Run 4 Fun

Friday 28 October 

• Cross Country Awards Assembly

We have been using School Bytes electronic permission notes for two terms now and they have greatly reduced our administration time.  If you would like to update the email address that the notes are sent to, please give us a call or email the school.

If you will be away while the event is on or your child cannot attend for some reason, please tick 'No' on the form where it asks if you give consent.  Then we'll know they won't be attending and we won't send reminder emails.

If you have any questions, please contact the office on 4957 1511 or email newlambton-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au.

Diane MacBean

School Administrative Manager 

Congratulations to our four athletes who competed in the NSWPSSA Athletics Carnival held at Sydney Olympic Park this week. Sam threw 22.68m to finish 27th place in the Junior Boys Discus. Madeleine ran her way into 24th place in the 9 years girls 100m with a time of 15.54 seconds. Hanna ran in two events, clocking 5:32 minutes in the 12-13 girls 1500m and 2:39 minutes in the 12-13 girls 800m. Kalan also competed in the long jump. A huge congratulations to these students.

Cross Country award winners from the school and zone carnivals will receive their ribbons and certificates at a special assembly on Friday of Week 3. 

Monday 24 October is the festival of Diwali, a time for celebration and light for many of our Hindu families. We would like to acknowledge all of our students and their families who will be celebrating this event and wish you all a wonderful time on the brightest of nights. Happy Diwali!

Should students wish to, they are welcome to accessorise their school uniform on Monday with traditional accessories and these could include: dupatta, bangles, tilak, henna or hair accessories.

Thank you to everyone who came and was part of the productive conversation around homework at our P&C meeting!

Colour Run BBQ

Fingers crossed the Colour Run can go ahead next Thursday! You can now place your BBQ order through Qkr! (slight change there). It sits under P&C/Special day. Please make sure you order under each individual child’s profile, and that they are in the correct class. This will make it run much smoother on the day. Orders will close at 5pm on Tuesday, 25/10. We still need some volunteers to help out, you can sign up here

What’s on offer:

Sausage sandwich and quelch ice stick $5

Extra sausage sandwich $3

If you are ordering a sausage sandwich to have lunch with your child it can go under their profile.

Disco

Get your 80’s gear ready, we are hosting a disco! We have filled our primary volunteer spots, but still need a few people to help out with the infants disco. You can sign up here.  Once all volunteer spots are filled, we will start selling tickets!

The details:

When: Thursday, 24 November

Infants: 430-600pm

Primary: 630-800pm

Where: Under the MPC, entry/exit via Regent St bus gates only.

What’s provided: A packet of chips, popper, DJ and glow sticks

How much: $10

Tickets will be sold through Qkr! and must be pre purchased under the child’s name, no tickets can be bought on the night. Kids will be given a physical ticket to present on entry. Tickets sales will close at 5pm on Thursday, 17 November.

We have a community group who use the basketball court on Thursday nights. To keep the groups separate we will have the Alma Rd side doors of the MPC closed and supervision on the steps leading to the upper playground. The groups will also use separate toilets.

Our final P&C meeting of the year will be held on November 21 at 7pm in the staffroom.

Katie Frankiewicz

P&C President