PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE

HAMPDEN SPORTS DAY, 2008: Thanks for your attendance at our annual inter-house sports day last Friday, and for your participation in the novelty events. A wonderful atmosphere of enjoyment, and satisfaction at personal achievement, prevailed. And talk about a colourful spectacle!

I would like also to add a special note of thanks to all those who assisted in any way on the day, whether in the tuckshop, cooking the barbecue, on the oval measuring or raking, or packing up afterwards. Without your help the day couldn’t be as special as it always is.

Congratulations to Pythons House for making it a clean sweep again this year, although they didn’t have it all their own way in either the relays or ball games. Thus heartened, Taipans and Cobras will be out to take these trophies next year!

Congratulations also to all our age champions and over-all champions for your outstanding efforts, and also to every other competitor for giving your best efforts at all times. It certainly made choosing the Encouragement Award very difficult for the staff again this year.

And on the subject of overall champions, due to an oversight we actually had a 3-way tie for the overall boy champion with Nicholas Perna also achieving 19 points. Thanks to Ray and Shirley Watt all three will receive a lovely trophy now.

With the Calen Sub-District Sports Days to take place this coming Tuesday and Friday, all our sporting efforts will now be focussed on preparing for these. You’ll find all the details later in this newsletter.

ADULT COMPUTER COURSES: As mentioned last week the Hail Creek Mine sponsored adult computer courses have now come to an end after running for the best part of 12 months.

I would like to pay tribute not only to the many community members who availed themselves of this opportunity to improve their personal skills in the various courses on offer, but particularly to our Hampden staff members who also attended.

Zoe Burns, Rita Nicol, Iris Thomas, Sue Wales and Bronwyn Wiseman have all been shining examples of our school motto “Learning for Life” and demonstrating that education doesn’t necessarily stop when you leave the school gates after year 12.

Howard Frost

Principal

MS READATHON: The latest correspondence from MS Australia shows that four Hampden students have so far registered for the 2008 MS Readathon, namely Zoe Hall, Jack Mitchell, Anthony Leeding and Jazmine Holliday.

For anyone not yet registered, it is still not too late to do so. Register online at www.msreadathon.org.au.

Books read for the Readathon can also be included on the Premier’s Reading Challenge log.

ARTS COUNCIL: What a great show we witnessed this morning from our Arts Council visitors!

“Groovin-as-we-saurus” kept everyone involved and entertained throughout their performance.

STATE OF ORIGIN 2: Big screen (B.Y.O.) State of Origin footy will be on again in the Library for game two. All adults welcome.

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

“Change is created by those whose imaginations are bigger than their circumstances” – Unknown source

EEC NEWS

Hello Everyone,

We hope you enjoy Year One’s descriptions of their imaginary creatures written independently.

The Frogcat

By Ashlyn Burley

It is green with red stripes up the top and a blue and yellow tail that is curly and the tail has hair on it.

It lives in a gum tree and its baby is born in a tree.

It flies, it eats gum leaves, it sleeps at day and it hunts at night.

It can flash and it has two claws on each leg.

It drinks milk and it likes to play.

My Imaginary Creature

By Alicia Keast

It has a human head.

It has spikes.

It has 23 legs.

It has a bug-like shell.

It has red, pink, yellow, green, blue and purple skin.

It has pink wings and it has spikes so if you stop on it you will get spikes on your foot.

It lives on the human head and it eats dandruff.

The Space Monkey

By Joel Ashcroft

It has hair and it has claws and it has 2 legs and it has 2 arms and it has space banana to eat.

The Spiky Snake Catcher

By Jake Lisle

The creature has suction caps to hold onto prey. It has 12 legs on each side and a long forked tongue for catching little animals. It has 2 lots of 3 fangs top and bottom.

My Creature

By jack McLeod

It has spikes all over it.

It has pink dots.

It has fake eyes.

It has a human head.

It has fake human eyes at the swirly tail end for camouflage.

Features of Long Skinny Leopards

By Rowan Leahy

My leopard has sharp teeth for ripping animals and on the tail it has sharp fangs to fight with.

My leopard lives in a cave.

It looks like this – it has black spots, and it looks like this – the fur is orange.

REMINDER: P & C Monthly Meeting for June will be held on Monday 16^th at 7.30pm. All welcome.

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Many helpers make light work and this was the case on Sports Day. Thank-you to the many parents who helped with food preparations, setting up and helping in the tuckshop on the day. To the Mum’s for the generous supply of home baking (too many to name). A huge thank-you to Kuttabul Butchery for their delicious steaks and to the “chefs” who cooked them.

Thank-you

Barbara

FOOTBALL BARS: Saturday the 7^th & 14^th June are our next dates for the football bars. Please see me or give me a call if you can help at any time on either of these days. We require people from 1.30 and finish around 9.00 – 9.30. Thanks Karen Gee.

Issue no.18, 5th June 2008

Issue no.18, 5^th June 2008