THE WEEKLY NEWSLETTER OF THE
POST
OFFICE KUTTABUL. 4741.
Phone: 49540189
Fax: 49540258.
Email: admin@hampdenss.eq.edu.au
Website:
www.hampdenss.eq.edu.au
Parents & Citizens’ Assn meets 3rd
Monday of each month at
ANZAC
It was great to see our Kuttabul service
receive a good coverage by the media this year, both before and after the
event, and hopefully this will encourage even more along in 2008!
Thank-you to all our parents who
brought their children along again this year. I know
it’s no easy task organising a family of young children to be out of the house
before
Out on the oval the kids were again able to
move the sailors (and the ute!!)
in the tug-o-war, but the oldies were too good in the cabbage ball events! Thank-you everyone for
joining in the fun.
The weather was magic this year, and
the grounds looked magical to match. Thank-you to the Mackenzie and Patchett families for their terrific
work in this regard, and also to Iris Thomas our tireless cleaner.
And it you think 2007 was good, there promises
to be something really special arranged for Anzac Day 2008!
DE-ANNE KELLY
VISIT: Mrs Kelly was very impressed with our school
and our student councillors when she visited last Friday.
After presenting us with a new flag, Mrs Kelly
made the presentation of Student Council badges to this year’s executive, shook
hands with the ‘shadow’ executive and 
announced additional funding for the
school, before adjourning to the library for morning tea served by the
students.
Thank-you to tuckshop convenor Cheryl Barratt for co-ordinating this morning tea, and to the
other parents who contributed the “goodies” which were consumed eagerly –
especially by the students after the officials departed!!
P & C president Frank Perna and the other
parents able to be present deserve acknowledgement for making their time
available to talk to De-Anne about local issues.
Howard Frost
Principal
FAREWELL:
Sadly we’re saying goodbye to the
We wish Cory-Lee and Tina, along with parents
Anita and Colin, all the best for the future, and hope to see them back on
regular visits.
CROSS COUNTRY
TRIALS: The sub-district trials at Seaforth are now
less than a week away, so I trust all permission forms are being returned to
Sue Wales.
It’s great to see the enthusiasm still evident
in our athletes as they train each morning.
We have just been notified that Seaforth WILL
NOT be operating a TUCKSHOP next Thursday, so all attending will need to take
along their own food and drinks.
LIQUID PAPER:
As more year 7’s obtain their “pen licences”
and are able to write with biros, it seems timely to remind everyone that only
dry erase tape is allowed at school for correcting errors in ink.
“Liquid Paper”, “White-Out”, and other liquid
forms of correction fluid are not permitted, whether in bottle or pen forms.
SELECTION SUCCESS:
Congratulations to Michael Volker who was selected in the Calen
District tennis team last week.
SPORTS SHIRTS FOR
PRINTING: As per last week’s newsletter item, we will
be printing sports shirts with the Cobras, Taipans and Pythons logos on the
back if required.
Please have shirts to school by May 18 (clearly
named) if printing is required.
THOUGHT
FOR THE WEEK
Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is
indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in
two small jumps. David Lloyd George
Hello
Everyone
We
continued with traditional tales this week talking about where the stories were
set, who the characters were and whether they were portrayed as good or
bad. We also talked about the different
parts of the stories – what happened first, next, and last.
Year ones
wrote a list of sandpit tools so we can keep track of them all after
lunchtimes!
Our Prep
children went mining in the sandpit and built a house and a pool for mermaids.
Today we
designed and built our own Prep family house with bedroom, kitchen, dining
room, office, bathroom, and dog and chook pens (for the scraps). Somewhere in the forest near the house is a
rocket ship but we need to follow a map to get there. At the moment we are busily drawing maps and
writing shopping lists and the phone is ringing!
It was
wonderful to see so many children from Prep and Year One at our ANZAC Day
event. Thank you for coming everyone.
WEEKLY CLASS AWARDS
Principal’s Awards:
For groundscare activities during their holidays and weekends: Tim and
Tamara Patchett; Nicholas, Courtney and Chelsea Perna; Kristen and Lacey Mackenzie.
Year 6/7:
Class award for verse speaking on Anzac Day.
Year 4/5:
Listening Award – Andrea Perna,
Year 2/3:
Beautiful Colouring – Mikaela Gee, Douglas Pridmore, Melissa Burns, Nash
Hutchinson, Jayde Mellross, Riley Cruickshanks, Alyce Volker, Ben Perna,
Courtney Perna, Dylan Kippen, Amee Insch, Cory-Lee Rogers, Abbey Medway.
Prep/Year One:
Reading Award – Harley Proctor, Kade Starrett. Writing Award – Nakita
Daniels, Mikeely Morrison.
Congratulations to DEMI CRUICKSHANKS and
JOESPHINE FALTINSKY for reaching Milestone Award targets this week. Demi has 135 certificates, making her a
FUTURISTIC CHALLENGER, while Josephine is now a PERFECT PUPIL with 80 awards.
A reminder too, that all students who attended
on Anzac Day will receive a participation certificate as a reminder of their
role in making the day so successful.
The Best Anzac Day Ever
On the
When we got
there we had to walk to the oval and had to march to the memorial garden. It was hard to march because it was dark.
In the
garden we went to the steps and sang while people laid wreaths. When the song was finished we had 2 minutes
silence and a man started talking.
Next we had
a yummy breakfast which included damper, Anzac biscuits and a sausage
sizzle. I had most of that.
Then we had
to go under the building to listen to a speech that people were saying. Then we sang fun songs and the year 6/7 done
poems and the choir sang a song and I was in it.
That was
the best Anzac day I’d been to for a long time but I was very tired from waking
up early.
Tim
Patchett
ANZAC
On
At the
start all the people marched around the school and into the
The wreaths
were laid and a song was sung called Lest We Forget.
After that I had breakfast.
I had damper and Anzac biscuits.
After that
we had more singing… not all that bad.
I’m glad that it was done in 5 mins.
PHEW. That’s all over and done
with.
We had a
game called tug-o-war. Kids won twice
and sailors won twice. The sailors tied
the rope to a car!
There was a
cabbage tunnel ball game. It was
fun! After a cabbage fight
commenced. I got hit about 15 times.