Wambi's Wavebreaker

We are excited to be able to host a special Fathers’ Day breakfast this Friday morning. We have planned to ensure the event is enjoyable and safe for all. To assist with the smooth running of the event, we ask all parents to note the following important information carefully. The organisation is similar to our 2022 Mothers’ Day breakfast held in Term 2. The event is open from 7:30-8:30am only (gates open at 7:15am). 

Our Open class sessions were well attended last Friday with over 500 guests in attendance over the 3 sessions. It was lovely to see so many familiar and new faces and be able to share the great things happening in our classrooms. 

Following this week’s Fathers’ Day breakfast, we will send a link via Skoolbag to a short survey. We would love to hear of your experiences at these two great events (Open Classes and Fathers’ Day Breakfast) with the feedback also used to assist with future planning.

Access is available for those parents entering via Lea Ave or Tumbi Road entrances at 3:25pm for the sole purpose of waiting directly in the COLA to collect your child. To keep this safe for all please:

• only enter and wait in the COLA if in good health with no COVID or COVID like symptoms;
• social-distance wherever possible; and
• exit promptly once re-united with your child.

Please continue to contact our school office during operational hours for all other enquiries or access. 

Have a great week,

Paul Miller

Principal

When your child attends school every day, learning becomes easier and your child will build and maintain friendships with other children.

Parents and carers can help foster positive attendance habits by:

• helping their child learn the importance of punctuality and routine
• ensuring their child arrives on time from the start of the school day, ready to participate in learning
• reducing disruption to learning where possible, by planning appointments outside of school time
• promptly communicating any absence to the school (and within 7 days of the first day of any absence)
• working with the school to encourage and support regular attendance.

Information for parents provides information about compulsory school attendance.

At Wamberal Public School, we are safe, respectful learners. This week, all students have been learning about being safe, respectful learners when using walkways or pathways. 

From time to time the school has had to deal with some concerning social media behaviour by our students outside of school hours, with consequences often affecting peer relationships at school. We encourage all families to be mindful of the need to monitor and be aware of our children’s social media presence and activities. 

Parents are reminded that students are not permitted to have personal digital devices at school. This includes smartwatches and smartphones. Further information and our school’s procedures are available here.

Congratulations to over 600 Wambie students who have now completed the 2022 Premier’s Reading Challenge! I encourage all students to continue reading for fun and interest and set themselves their own reading challenges. Also, current reading can now count towards the 2023 Premier’s Reading Challenge. New 2023 records will need to be kept by students until next year’s Challenge opens student access to the online records.

Participation in the PRC is also the perfect addition to student resumes as they start to look for casual work at around 14 years old. What a great way to demonstrate goal-setting, perseverance and grit, by completing the PRC each year up to Year 9 when the PRC medallion is awarded. Keep up the good work Wambie students!

We know that readers succeed – research shows that reading supports all other areas of learning, including maths and science, as well as personal and social skills and general life and work outcomes. 

The winners of the 2022 CBCA book awards have been announced. These titles, and those on the shortlists, are good examples of quality books for young readers published in Australia in the preceding year.  

It is great to see students exploring, chatting about books and borrowing in the Library at at lunch playtime.

Book Club Issue 6 brochures are now available. Orders will close Friday, September 9. 

Please see the Skoolbag app for important Library updates.

Please feel free to contact the Library through the school office if I can help in any way.

Happy reading,

Nell Knight    👱‍♀️📚

Teacher Librarian

Currently reading from this Year’s Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Lists — When the Waterhole Dries Up by Kaye Baillie (EARLY CHILDHOOD AWARD).

When the Waterhole Dries Up is a rollicking, rhyming, repetitive story full of Australian outback animals and a touch of alliteration. Recommended for younger readers aged 3+.

Each award category has six titles. We will explore these over the coming term. Winners have now been announced.

Congratulations to the following students whose artworks have been selected to be displayed at Bateau Bay Square from 14 November. These students are in the running to receive an award at GulangFest, which is a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students' achievements throughout the year. 

• Harmony R - 6 Blue
• Ella N - 6 Purple
• Ella W - 6 Purple
• Akira S - 5 Purple
• Paris F - 3 Purple
• Mack W - 2 Orange
• Charlie B - 2 Orange
• Zoe S - 2 Blue
• William H - 1 Green
• Skylar W - K Green

In the meantime, the students artworks will be displayed in the front office so that we can celebrate their achievements. We will rotate these artworks over the coming weeks so that all the other students that participated in the workshop will also have their artworks displayed.