Principal s Column. A few key dates: Monday 3 September round 1 for ticket sales. Monday, 8 October round 2 for ticket sales.

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1 Newsletter 24 9 August 2012 Term 3 Week 4 Principal s Column Books Alive 2012 Preparations for our School Musical have stepped up a gear this week with the first run-through day for all items held with members of the Musical Committee and Band on Wednesday. The production of props is also well underway with some very creative applications of materials from Reverse Garbage and other sources. A few key dates: Monday 3 September round 1 for ticket sales Monday, 8 October round 2 for ticket sales Monday, 22 October Performance 1 (Evening) Wednesday, 24 October Performance 2 (Matinee) Thursday, 25 October Performance 3 (Evening) Regional Public Speaking Finals Congratulations to Year 6 student John Bivell on his excellent performance at the Sydney Region Finals of the 2012 Public Speaking Competition. John represented Port Jackson District at this event this week and performed with distinction. Debating Success Our debating team enjoyed a double success this week with wins for both teams (home and away) in the debate against Dobroyd Point PS. 2 wins with a particularly challenging topic, That social media does more harm than good, showed that our teams could rise to the challenge set for them by Ms Schenker. Fencing Project The K-2 fencing project is now backon-track after a delay when additional funding was required due to finding some very hard rock when drilling for the posts. The project should be finished by 17 August. Kind regards Peter Widders

2 TERM **bold entries are new this issue** 14 August Tuesday UNSW Maths Competition 16 August Thursday P & C Olympathon (Mufti) 22 August Wednesday K-2 Book Week Performance Monty Prior 22 August Wednesday Legends of League Final 23 August Thursday 3-6 Book Week Performance The Surfing Scientist 23 August Thursday Zone Athletics 27 August Monday St 2 Observatory/IMAX 27 August Monday Kindergarten to Featherdale Wildlife Park. 27 Aug-7 Sept Mon-Friday Yr 2 Intensive Swimming Program 30 August Friday Fathers Day stall 29,30,31 Aug Wed,Thurs,Fri St 3 Canberra Excursion 12 September Wednesday School Photos TERM 4 SCHOOLMUSICAL 22 October Monday Evening Performance 1 7pm 9pm 24 October Wednesday Matinee Performance 1pm - 3pm 25 October Thursday Evening Performance 2 7pm 9pm PSSA FOOTBALL & NETBALL DRAW 10 August Boys Football training for finals Greenlees Park, Concord 10 August Girls Netball A Croydon Cintra Park 10 August Girls Netball B friendly Cintra Park 10 August Girls Football v Strathfield North PS Centenary Park, Croydon K-6 ASSEMBLIES TUESDAYS 2.20PM 14 August Tuesday 2V Presenting 2.20pm P & C MEETING/SCHOOL COUNCIL MEETINGS 22 August Wednesday P & C Meeting 7.30pm in the Library. 13 September Thursday School Council Meeting ASAP MONEY & NOTES TO BE RETURNED School Fees & Contributions 17 August Friday $4.50 K-2 Book Week performance 17 August Friday $ Book Week Performance 20 August Monday $30.00 Kindy Featherdale Wildlife Park 23 August Thursday $62.00 Year 2 Insensive Swimming Program 24 August Friday $25.00 Stage 2 Sydney Observatory/IMAX

3 PRINCIPAL S K-6 ASSEMBLY AWARDS Congratulations to Class 3/4K on an excellent assembly item on Tuesday, 7 August The Class presented a very timely item based on their work on Space and were able to view the Mars landing as inspiration for their Assembly. CLASS STUDENT STUDENT KF Liam Pham Miranda Szabo KH Erin Howarth Louise Wendt KM Olivia Milicic Samantha Brady KW Mia Turcotte Eric Wong 1B Maggie Peterson Lance Pilot 1C Lucy Garraway Nathan Aldridge 1D Chloe Tselis Gus Howells 1L Zoe Le Roux Zachary Izzard 2C Samet Kocak Nelson Cheng 2E Aaron Carini Kiara Johnson 2V Luca Zappia Alan Liu 3/4A Emilio Fasanella Eloise Ellacott 3/4H Angelina Brophy Eliyar Kaysar 3/4K Isabella Pietrobon Olivia Wales 3/4N Eric Kim Yasmine Tabikh 3/4P Sienna Di Peno Salvatore Spano 5/6H Daniel Navan Alex Bousfield 5/6I Alannah Cazzolli Ryan Tang 5/6J Richy Wang Harrison Akdeniz-Newton ESL Tanya Al-Zubaydi 3/4A Jacaranda Zhu 3/4K ICT Italian Noah Robertson 3/4H Gabriel Cooper 3/4P STLA Bianca Simmons 5/6I Isabella Budicin 3/4H Congratulations to all students. Please have a look at their terrific work on display until the next assembly on the 14 August 2012 when 2V will present.

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5 Baby News We received the very happy news that Mrs Ford has had a baby daughter and Mother, Father and Baby Olivia are doing well. We have passed on the very best wishes of our school community to Mrs Ford and her family.

6 MUSIC NEWS What a wonderful celebration our Education Week Assembly was! It was exciting to see and hear the results of such hard work. Thank you to our tutors for their imaginative arrangements and enthusiasm. New singers in Years 3-6 are welcome to join the choir next week on Tuesday morning at 8:30am in the hall. Singers in Years 1 and 2 meet me on the path at change of duty teachers at 1:15 pm on Tuesdays. New ensemble players begin next Monday afternoon. Come straight to the Music Room after school with some afternoon tea.please bring a plastic ring folder for any sheet music you will be given. All players need to ensure their name is on their folder and their instrument case. Percussion Ensemble 3: :55 Woodwind Ensemble 3: :35 Brass Ensemble 4: :15 Thank you for the fees I have received. Camille Hollingdale

7 Senior A Netball Team Last week the senior A netball team played against Concord West and won It was a windy and rough game. It was a good game for Esra Valerio and Grace Garraway because they were playing their best positions but on a whole, the team was playing very well. We are all really proud of our efforts and we re looking forward to the next game. By Mikayla.Allan

8 Senior B Report Netball On Friday last week, we had a friendly game against Five Dock Public School. It was heaps of fun as they were good opponents. When the game had ended, the score was6-3 to us so even if it was a real game, it was probably wouldn t change where we are on the leader board. By Natasha Dalima 5/6H

9 Senior Girls Soccer Report Last week, on Friday, the senior girl s soccer team had a great game. Our opponents were Hurlstone Park. Unfortunately Abbotsford lost 4 0. We played very well and we all enjoyed it. Hopefully, next week will be better and very enjoyable. Great team work was shown and a lot of passes were shown as well. Our team has made great effort in this season and we will try to show more in the next games. By Mila McHardy 5/6I

10 Debating Congratulations to both the affirmative and negative debating teams who won against Dobroyd Point PS on Tuesday 7 th August 2012! The topic was That social networking does more harm than good and the whole debating group worked hard to develop good arguments and rebuttals. In the next round we will meet Annandale Nth PS to debate that animals should have the same rights as humans. Ms Schenker Debating Coordinator

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12 In our first match we versed Christian Brothers Red. We got up to a good start with Tane and Riley scoring a quick 30 runs. When Tane retired and Riley got out the boys carried on the momentum with Nick hitting some big sixes. Our final score was 61. Now it was our turn to bowl, the whole team bowled really well with only a couple of wides. We ended up winning In our second game we were up against Christian Brothers yellow. We played really well in the second game with some great bowling by Adam Quinlan (getting a Hat trick) which is a great effort. We ended up winning In our next game we were versing Petersham. We were all focused on making the final so we were ready to play. The team batted brilliantly with Tane and Nick both getting 18 or more runs. We got 68. We bowled really well but the big highlight was Connor, Josh and Riley bowling really tightly. We won WE WERE IN TO THE FINAL! In the grand final we were up against Stanmore. We got off to a good start with Tane and Nick both retiring. Ben and Riley had a great partnership towards the end hitting some great boundaries. We ended up getting 77, our highest score yet. We bowled really well with some great bowling by Guy and Ben. We kept them to 41. The end score was WE WON THE MILO CUP!

13 Milo Cup Cricket On Tuesday the 31 st July, 9 girls from Stage Three left at the first bell for Milo cricket and we won against Haberfield. Then we sadly lost against South Coogee White and then we lost against Petersham. Then we got into the finals to compete for the position for 3 rd or 4 th place, but we sadly lost against South Coogee Black. So even though we did not make Regional s we still had lots of fun and that s what matters the most (on the inside we won).

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15 PO Box 1604 Rozelle NSW 2039 Wests Boomers under 12 Grand Final Winners 2011/2012 Wests Boomers Baseball Club will be holding a Try Baseball Session and Registration day on Sunday the 19 th of August between am and 2 00 pm. Children aged 5 16 are welcome to attend and talk to the club and the younger kids are welcome to have a bat and a throw with some of the coaches and players. Date: Sunday the 19 th of August 2012 Time: 11 00am to 2 00pm Place: Leichhardt Oval Number 3 (adjacent to La Montage) Website: Proudly Sponsored By Wests Ashfield

16 FORT STREET HIGH SCHOOL Parramatta Road Petersham OPEN EVENING Thursday 16 th August pm for prospective Year students See how our selective high school works Enquiries: (02)

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19 Kids Jungle Bar Abbotsford Public School Menu Winter special Available Fridays Only Meat Pies and Sausage Rolls now on the menu Meat Pie $3.00 Sausage Roll $2.50 Barbecue/tomato sauce 20c On sell now Banana Flavour red Milk is now on sale We no longer have Vanilla Milk YOU CAN ONLY ORDER PIES and SAUSAGE ROLLS FRIDAY! Even if you play PSSA! You can still have the luxury of having a hot pie or sausage roll Just make sure you put your order in before assembly