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2016 Term 3 Week 2

Principal’s Message Welcome back to Term 3

I would like to welcome everyone back to school for

Term 3. We have welcomed a few new families to

our school this Term and a few families have moved

back to the area. I hope that the new students settle

quickly into the school’s routines and activities.

Next week is Education Week and we have a full

program of events planned to highlight and celebrate

our students, staff and school. This is an excellent

opportunity for family members to get involved with

our school and be involved in your child’s education.

We hope you will take the time to look at our program of events and come and join the fun.

Increasing Enrolments

Our student numbers continue to grow and we now

have the numbers for 23 classes. This has created a

new teaching position and we have employed Miss

Sam Bourke to fill this position. We also had another

demountable classroom installed at the school and

this is situated next to 2L. When our numbers

increase to this level we reviewed our classes, and in

some circumstances need to change class structures.

At this stage, we have no immediate plans to form a

new class in the short term. Thanks to our hard-

working teachers who as always put the needs of

their students first, to ensure continuity of learning.

Kindergarten 2015

Please make sure you get your enrolment papers in

as soon as possible so we can start organising our

class groups and have everything organised to make

sure your child’s first days at TBPS are happy and

successful. Also if you know of anyone who intends

to enrol their child in kindergarten at TBPS next year

who is not currently involved with the school

encourage them to contact us as soon as possible.

Our Transition program is starting very soon and we

hope to get as many families as possible to our

parent information evening, Teddy Bears Picnic and

our orientation days.

Stuart Wylie - Principal

Calendar of Events

Mon 1st Aug Education Week

Assembly 2.20pm

Tues 2nd Aug Open Classrooms

9-11am

Sausage Sizzle Lunch

S1 Assembly

9.05-9.30am

Girls Soccer

Wed 3rd Aug PSSA Touch

Principal/Deputy for

a Day

Thurs 4th Aug Whole School

Artwork/Art Show

Fri 5th Aug P.E. High School

Day

Grandparents

Day/Morning Tea

10.30-11 am

Mon 8th Aug Zone Public

Speaking SI

Debating – RTPS

Kinder Parent Info

Night – 6pm

Tues 9th Aug Zone Athletics –

Field

Zone Public

Speaking S3

Wed 10th Aug S3 Spelling Bee Final

9.15 am

Zone Public

Speaking ES1

Thurs 11th Aug S2 Spelling Bee Final

Zone Public

Speaking S2

Fri 12th Aug Zone Athletics -

Track

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Thursday, 4 August 2016 Week 2 Term 3

Flexischools Online Canteen

Starting in Term 3, we will be implementing the

option of online Canteen orders through

FlexiSchools. This will give our families the option of

ordering lunch and recess from computers,

smartphones and tablets without worrying about

lunch orders being left in school bags, finding change

or lost money. The P&C have worked with the NSW

Department of Health to have our Canteen menu

coded using the green, amber and red health food

traffic lights and these will be integrated into the

online ordering process. More information is

available from www.flexischools.com.au and further

details will be sent home before the end of the Term

about this exciting new option.

Canteen

GREAT NEWS! The online canteen ordering system

is up and running. Our first week has been very

successful with many families choosing this easy lunch

order option. We have received numerous positive

comments on the implementation of this easy to use

service. Follow the link below to register and check

out how easy ordering school lunches can be!

https://www.flexischools.com.au

Remember, all lunch order labels that are placed in

the raffle box at the canteen will go in the running

to win a canteen voucher. The raffle will be drawn

each Friday. The raffle is running for 4 weeks. The

final raffle will be draw on 19 August, 2016.

Sports News

Tanilba Bay P.S Athletics Carnival will be held on

Monday week 4 the 8th of August at 2pm. Students

will receive a 1st, 2nd or 3rd place ribbon if they have

been placed in the top 3 fastest times in their age

group as we did not have time for finals this year due

to terrible weather. Zone athletics will be held at

Raymond Terrace on the 9th of August for field

events and the 12th of August for track events.

Students who have qualified for zone will receive a

note this week. I would like to congratulate Tanilba

Bay students on outstanding behaviour whilst

representing their school at sport.

Yours in Sport,

Mr Gattenhof

Stage 1

Stage 1 have had a busy start to the term with our

wonderful NAIDOC celebrations and Public Speaking

Finals. Well done to all of the public speaking finalists.

What fantastic speeches! A big congratulations to

Jaiden-Lee Fraser from 2A and Billy Knoke from 1M

who will be representing Tanilba Bay Public School at

the Zone Public Speaking Finals. We are all looking

forward to what is going to be a very exciting Term

3 for our wonderful Stage One students.

Stage One Students

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Stage 2

Welcome back to Term 3.

We started off the Term with our Author/Illustrator

workshop with Cameron Stelzer which was great

fun.

Last week we celebrated NAIDOC where we shared

stories with other classes, played games and

completed artworks.

In Science we are learning about products and

packaging and in Geography we are examining

features and characteristics of places and

environments.

At this time of the year we would ask that you check

that your child has all their class equipment such as

lead pencils, coloured pencils, sharpener, glue and

ruler for daily learning activities.

We are looking forward to a wonderful Term.

Important Notice for parents/carers of

Catholic children:

If you have a child in Years 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, and that

child has been baptised, that child is eligible to receive the Sacrament of Reconciliation (in the past

this Sacrament was called Confession) towards the

end of this year, in preparation for receiving the

Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy

Communion next year.

On Wednesday 19th October at 7pm in St Brigid’s

School Hall (cnr William & Irrawang Streets

Raymond Terrace) there will be an information and

enrolment night for PARENTS/CARERS who would

like their eligible children to receive the Sacrament of

Reconciliation.

NB: It is essential that at least one parent or carer

attends this meeting to enrol their child/children.

Please contact St Brigid’s parish office on 49871888

(email: rtparish@mn.catholic.org.au ) if needing

further information.

The Parish Office is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays,

Thursdays and Fridays from 9am – 3pm.

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Canteen Online Ordering

Our school has now introduced a great new online

ordering system for our Canteen, called

FlexiSchools. This system allows parents, students

and staff to place orders from home, work or school

at any time. The payment is also done online, so less

paper bags and cash are sent via your student to

school. As well as being convenient for parents, the

online orders are much faster and easier for Robyn

our Canteen Manager and our canteen volunteers to

process - so it makes everyone’s life a little easier.

FlexiSchools is well established and tested, operating

in hundreds of schools across Australia.

Getting online is easy and only takes a few minutes

to register. Simply go to www.flexischools.com.au

and click “Register Now”. You will be sent an

email with further instructions on how to complete

the registration. If you have any questions, FlexiSchools provide a great help desk on 1300 361

769, or you can contact them via their website.

There are a variety of payment options supported,

including Visa, Mastercard (credit and debit) Paypal

and Bank Transfer. The system operates via a pre-

paid account, so you no longer have to worry about

the manual process of sending payments into school,

and you can easily budget your students spending and

expenses throughout the year.

You can register now and the ordering system

will be available TUESDAY 19TH JULY, so we

look forward to seeing your next order online!

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Uniform Shop Our Uniform Shop is open Mondays 9am – 10am and

Wednesdays 2.30pm – 3pm. Don’t forget if you can’t make it on these days, you

can also leave an order at the office and we will put it

together for you next time the uniform shop is open

and these can be sent home with your child.

Winter Stock has been replenished and there are

Pants and Jackets available to beat these cold winter

mornings.

TBPS Uniform Price List

Hats $8

Shirts $20

Shorts $21

Skorts $21

Pants $25

Jackets $35