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Edition 4 - Week 7 - Term 1
17th March 2015
Principal’s comments:
What’s On @ NWCS
Mar 27
High School Teachers In-Service
Mar 27 H/School Student Free Day
Dear School Family and Friends
‘Easter Eggs, Hot Cross Buns and Mind Obesity’
As we look at our world today, we are touched by the visual
representations of Easter. The multicolored ‘Easter Eggs’ catch our
attention in almost every shop that we visit. The hot cross buns
pervade the bakeries of every city and town. The fishmongers wait
for the boatloads of ‘white flesh’ to grace the traditional Friday
dinners. Our travel agents, airlines, airports, hire car companies all
gear up for one of their most profitable time periods of the year. The
police fear the carnage on the roads, as the holiday makers escape
their homes looking for the ‘ultimate’ holiday long weekend. Then the
churches wait for the influx of visitors to fill the vacant seats.
April 1
Interim Reports will be sent out
April 2
Last Day Term 1
April 5
Daylight Saving Ends
April 20 Term 2 Commences
April 27 School Council Meeting - NOTE
THE CHANGE OF DATE
May 12-14 NAPLAN Testing
1-3 June H/School Exams
11 June Parent Teacher Evening
July 3
Last Day Term 2
July 20
Term 3 Commences
20-24 July Primary Swimming Lessons
27-31 July H/School Swimming Lessons
Aug 3-7 High School Camp
Often we become so accustom to the routine of an event that the
significance is lost. Easter so often becomes the ‘holiday’ that is no
more than an escape from the normality of our lives. The ‘Easter Egg
Hunt’ is the scramble towards our continued ‘mind obesity’ where we
forget a single simple event – God so loved us that he sent His Son
down to this Earth to die so that every human in history and the
future can live for eternity!
Sept 25 Last Day Term 3
Dec 10
Last Day for Students
Contact Information
www.northwestchristianschool.com.au
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
03 6437 2705
Fax:
03 6437 0976
In Christian Service
Wayne Pepper
(Acting Principal)
Address:
P.O. Box 117
18 Ling Street
PENGUIN
7316
North West Christian School is owned and
operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church
NAPLAN TESTING: 12th - 14th May for students in
Grades 3, 5, 7 & 9.
We would like to inform you, the parent body, of your
rights regarding your child sitting the NAPLAN tests.
We quote from the NAPLAN 2015 Handbook for
Principals:
“All students in Years 3, 5 7 & 9 are expected to
participate in NAPLAN tests. However, parents / carers
may withdraw their children from the assessment as
follows:
Students may be withdrawn from the testing program
by their parent / carer.
This is a matter for
consideration by individual parents / carers in
consultation with their child’s school. Withdrawals are
intended to address issues such as religious beliefs
and philosophical objections to testing”.
TUCKSHOP: Tomorrow is tuckshop day. Thank you
to the volunteers who help out each week.
We
apologise that we had to cancel last week’s tuckshop.
FUNDRAISING TUCKSHOP:
To raise funds to help
with the costs of our High School Camp, we have a
Fundraiser Tuckshop each Friday. Thank you to the
ladies who come in and run our Friday tuckshops.
Order forms are sent home Wednesday each week.
Note - this is a different menu to our Wednesday
Parents & Friends Tuckshop.
Donations of packets of jelly crystals, English
Breakfast muffins, onions, cheese, or loaves of bread
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you to those who
have donated items.
Profit to date is $155.10.
HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT FREE DAY:
Our
apologies parents that we have had to close the high
school on Friday, 27th March. All high school teachers
from the Independent Schools Sector are required to
attend a day in-service at Campbell Town dealing with
legal documentation.
Note - Primary students attend school as usual.
VACCINATION: The vaccination clinic for Grade 7
students which was postponed last Wednesday by
Central Coast Council, will now be TOMORROW, 18th
March, at approximately 10.10am.
WINTER UNIFORM: Students may wear full winter
uniform as from Monday, 20th April. All students are to
be in full winter uniform by Monday, 4th May.
Students must in in full winter or full summer
uniform, between 20th April - 4th May.
ATTENTION PLEASE: A reminder to parents that if
your child is absent from school, please phone the
office 8.30 - 9.00am on the day, or send a note in with
a sibling. This is a legal requirement. If we do not
hear from you, your child is marked as ‘unresolved
absence’.
Also, if you wish your child to go home another way
other than the normal way of transport, you need to
contact the office before 2.00pm.
HOMEWORK BAGS:
We have a new supply of
primary school homework bags available at the office $10.50 each.
KINDY: A reminder to parents of kindy students:
If Monday is a holiday at any time throughout the year,
kindy students come to school on the Tuesday; and if
Friday is a holiday students come on Thursday.
Therefore we will look forward to our kindy students
joining us on Thursday, 2nd April.
HONG KONG BILLETS:
In August we will have
students visiting from Hong Kong. If your family can
help out by billeting two students or a teacher for a few
days please contact the office.
Dates are: 26th July - 2nd August (or if you wish just
part of this time would be ok). Please contact the
office if you would like to help out.
The Hong Kong students do pay for food at both the
host’s home and for the High School Camp.
High School Assessment Tasks Due Dates:
18th March Tech. project due (9/10)
23rd March Draft Creation Assignment (7/8)
25th March Tech. evaluation due (9/10)
30th March Science podcast due (7/8)
AWARDS
Computer Work: Scott Allen
Completing a level in Multilit: Charlee Ede
Writing by yourself: Isaac Zariffa
Being a great bucket filler: Kyesha Pascoe
Spelling:
Chevy Cooke, Eli Stockdale, Narissa
Chilcott, Reuben Cooke, Emilio Elias, Edward Howe,
Abbie Mitchell, Phoebee Stockdale.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Swimming Lessons: 5 swimming lessons for $25 Start swimming lessons at Splash, Devonport Aquatic
and Leisure Centre before the end of March and get
your first 5 lessons for $25! Heated pools and
change rooms. Qualified teachers. Royal Life Saving
Program - Swim & Survive.
‘Terms & conditions
apply’.
Phone 64 23 3007 www.splashdevonport.com.au
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: “Why wish upon a star
when you can pray to the one who created it ”.
BIBLE VERSE:
“God made two great lights - the
greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to
govern the night.
He also made the stars.”
Genesis 1:18