LIBRARY NEWS

Welcome to another fine year of learning in 2010! Our library is open Monday – Friday this year from 8.30 am parents are very welcome to come to the library with their children and read a story. This is a lovely, relaxing way to start the day.

LIBRARY LESSONS:

Mon     Tues     Wed   Thurs    Fri
 
3E         6M        KG


3H         6I         KS       4C         5A


2CK     K/1O    1M     4/5TC  1/2C

Students who can read well, have a chance to do well in all other areas they explore. They are not held back and frustrated because they can’t understand and interpret information.

Parents play a vital role in the education of their child. At Sandy Beach Public School (SBPS), we believe that a strong and supportive partnership between home and school improves children’s learning capabilities.


As parents/carers you can help them in many ways.


1.Read to them for fun – enjoy. Even just 10 minutes per school day = 50 minutes per week = 200 minutes per month = 2400 minutes per year. See it will add up!!!!!!! Does reading a bedtime story to your children every night really make that much difference?


YOU BET IT DOES! The research proves it!


This habit should start in a child’s first year of life, and continue throughout childhood. Even some children in Years 4, 5 & 6 enjoy it. Perhaps by then they will be the ones reading to their parents.


2. Encourage your children to read. 10 minutes per day = 2400 minutes per year, BUT 30 minutes per day = 7200 minutes per year!!! Imagine how well they would be reading by the end of the year!

3. Borrow regularly from libraries, including our school library.


4. Be involved in their schooling. Research shows that children, whose parents/carers are part of the team teaching and guiding them, do much better at school than others.

HELPERS
We value our wonderful helpers and would encourage more helpers to join the ranks because it helps free us to offer more services to the students and staff.


If you can help with library duties (either at home or at school) please fill out the form at the end of this newsletter and ask your child to return it to the library.

  Please visit OUR SCHOOL BLOGS regularly:

SBPS Latest happenings


Mrs. Nay’s Internet Library Branch


Parents-partners in teaching and learning

Parents may also be interested in our other blog: These are a few of my favourite web2.0 things


Remember: “Kids who read, succeed”


Cheers :-)  Mrs. Nay,  Teacher – Librarian

Interested in finding out more about the MySchool website?

Go to my Parents- Partners in learning blog

Try Sweet Search

SweetSearch, a Search Engine for Students, searches only 35,000 Web sites that have been approved by our staff. SweetSearch allows students to choose the most relevant result from a list of credible results, without the distraction of unreliable sites.

    Every Web site in SweetSearch has been evaluated by our research experts.

      Visit our Web Links for teachers and students, organized by subject and academic level.

Return to School + Snack Shack News

2010 – Thursday 28th January – students Years 1 – 6 return to classes.

Tuesday 2nd February – Kindergarten students commence.

 Snack Shack

Next year the canteen will be open five days a week from week 2.

However, it will not be open during the first two days – Thursday 28th and Friday 29th January, 2010.

 

Bring your own lunch for Thursday and Friday of the first week.

Kathy Pfitzner – Organiser

Have you lost your newsletter? Need some information about school events?

 SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER is available online each week. 

The latest newsletter December 8, 2009

You can access it by going to the SANDY BEACH PUBLIC SCHOOL website  
and then clicking on the NEWSLETTERS tab. 

You can then access any of the newsletters by their date-Term by Term!!

Holiday activities- Library Summer Reading Clubs are great and FREE!!

Image by bowmanlibrary via Flickr

Don't forget to check out:

Coffs Harbour City Library Summer Reading Club

Year 6 Assembly and Farewell

To all Year 6,
I wish you all the very best for the years ahead. Enjoy High School and take up as many of the opportunities it offers you as you can. 

I'd like to share this little message from a past year 12 Woopi High student after leaving school and returning for a visit a year later:
Oh, wow..I wish I was back at school...they were the best days!!!

I hope that you will say the same thing when you look back on your experience.

Enjoy having your friends around you, lots of free time and plenty of great opportunities to learn about the world you live in,  life and living happily!! 

Cheers :-)     Mrs Nay

Free Christmas Online Games for kids.

Free Christmas Online Games

for kids of all ages.

To all of our wonderful volunteers at school-Thank you!!!.

Thank you to all of you for giving your time

 to help SBPS students.

We do appreciate it.

Coffs Harbour City Library announcesChildren's Summer Reading Club 2009 - 2010

The Summer Reading Club is happening at the Library these summer holidays, 'READ on the Wild Side' has loads of activities that will engage young people of all ages in reading and sharing books, games, craft and storytelling from 7th December through to the 21st January and it's all free!

To take part in the 'READ on the Wild Side' Summer Reading Club all you need to do is:-

Be a member of the library, ie have your own library card.

                                 Be a student aged 5 or over

                                 Register, and collect your Summer Reading Club Kit from Coffs Harbour,   Toormina or Woolgoolga libraries.

Kits are available from MONDAY 7 DECEMBER 2009

Then read, read, read! 

Read 5 books (or more!) and record them on your reading sheet.

Write a review or draw a picture about a book you have read.

Answer the cowboy's question that you will find in your Summer Reading Club Kit.

Bring your reading sheet, review / drawing and the answer to your question into the library by Saturday 16th January to receive your 

Reading Club Certificate.

The first 100 Summer Reading Club members to do so can also pick up a ticket to the

Wild West Party and Sausage Sizzle,

Thursday 21 January 2010 at "high noon"

 Come dressed as your favourite Wild West character

 Be at the party to have the chance to win "Lucky Draw" prizes!

 For any enquiries, please contact Judy at Coffs Harbour Library - tel: 66484905

Coffs Harbour City Library offers you an invitation to a free family event.

FREE FAMILY EVENT

Coffs Harbour City Library

Xmas Card Craft

Cards to make –

To keep or to give to friends

Saturday 12th December 2009

Coffs Harbour City Library

Anytime between 10.00am - 12.00noon

No need to book

For more information phone Judy on 6648 4905

www.coffsharbour.nsw.gov.au/citylibrary

Come and join SBPS P&C

The next P&C meeting (the A.G.M.) is on 

Monday 23rd November 

at 7pm in the Staffroom. 

Immediately following the A.G.M. (around 7.30pm), there will be an Ordinary Meeting.

At this meeting will be discussion around significant changes to the operation 
of the P&C run school canteen. 

Come along!!                               Join in!!                    

Be informed!!                               Have your say!!

Would you like to be more Internet savvy?

COFFS HARBOUR LIBRARY is holding an 

 Internet Savvy Information night.

If you would like to attend please contact Judy 66 48 4905.

This session is to be held on:

Thursday 19th November

from 6.00 – 7.00pm.

Put these dates on your calendar.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Term 4, 2009

Mon Nov 23       Intensive Swimming Commences                       
Mon Dec 14       Year 6 Farewell                                                    
Tues Dec 15      Presentation Day                                                
Wed Dec 16       Last day for students for 2009                           

2010

Wed Jan 27                  Staff return for Term 1

Thurs Jan 28               Yrs 1 – 6 return

Tues Feb 2                  Kinder classes begin

Surfboard raffle will be drawn on Friday 13th November

Image via Wikipedia

Raffle tickets for the Surfboard will need to be returned by no later than the first week of November so we can calculate the final cost for parents.

                Don't miss out!!


The raffle will be drawn on Friday 13th November.

Holidays end and Term 4 begins

Monday 19th October 

Students & Staff return to school 

(NO PUPIL FREE DAY)

Well done boys-Great effort and wonderful results.

North Coast Athletics Carnival

Congratulations to the following children for their outstanding effort at the

North Coast Athletics Carnival last Friday. 

They will now compete at the State Carnival in Homebush next term.
Kye - (11 Yrs) 1st in 100m, 200m & Long Jump
Tom - (11 Yrs) 3rd in Long Jump
Dane - (10 Yrs) 3rd in 100m
Senior Boys Relay Team - 3rd Kye, Tom, Marual & Jay

Trish Moffatt

Join us for the Drama Festival..2 days left

 Drama Festival Performance Times

We hope you will all be able to join us on these days.

 

Admission is by a Gold Coin Donation payable at the door upon entry.

Wednesday 30th September
10.00 1E
10.30 3S
12 noon Kinder
12.30 4M

Thursday 1st October
10.00 2CR
10.30 5R
12 noon 3H
12.30 5/6M

Congratulations! Well done! Great results!

Sandy Beach Public School obtained more good results in the UNSW International Competition, this time in English, where Oliviah, Patrick, Zoe and Kiahni all achieved Distinction (top 7%), Meg & Liljana received achieved Credits.

Roald Dahl Day-13 Sep 2009

Image via Wikipedi

13th September is officially Roald Dahl Day 

across the world! It's a fantastic opportunity to 

hold events, read Roald Dahl stories and to 

celebrate the World's No. 1 Storyteller wherever you are.

Venue:http://www.roalddahlday.info/

Resources  

Classroom activities: ideas, lesson plans and worksheets for classroom-based activities.

Schools' ideas: the best ideas from schools themselves.

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