Woonona East Notice Board

• The gardens at our school are looking wonderful at the moment. The plants, native to this area, are thriving. The students are justifiably proud of them and comparing before and after photographs highlights the difference that has been made in such a short time. In this week’ s news there is an environmental update written by Jennifer Bean, mum of Alexandra and Thomas. Jennifer has been one of the driving forces behind our school’s environmental renaissance and I hope there are many volunteers to join her in the bush regeneration group on Tuesdays.
• Our back playground is also looking great, but unfortunately we can’t go on it yet. Hopefully we will be able to use it for our cross-country carnival next week. we will make a decision later this week after receiving advice from the appropriate government body.
• Congratulations to Brittany Clark who was selected in the South Coast basketball team. She will represent at the state carnival in May. Good luck to Joshua Court who travels to Nowra tomorrow to represent North Illawarra Zone at the South Coast AFL trials. Well done to Chad Wilson, Corey Quirk, Chad Butterworth and Ryan Thomas who were selected in the North Wollongong District rugby league teams.

Coming Up

Wednesday 26/3
Regional AFL – Mr Cummins to attend
Thursday 27/3
Year 6 Woonona High Disco
Friday 28/3
3L & 3/4A Excursion – Wollongong Library and Art Gallery
K-2 Gymsports
Monday 31/3
District Netball trials
Wednesday 2/4
School Cross Country (to be confirmed)
Thursday 3/4
6P Assembly
Friday 4/4
Last day of K-2 Gymsports

News

P&C Office Bearers
The following people were elected to the P&C Committee at the Annual General Meeting on the 11th March. Thank you for taking on these responsibilities.

President:
Bruce Blunden
Vice President
Nicole Nicholson
Secretary
Annie Waugh & Johnanne Sneddon
Treasurer
Ingrid Rylander
Canteen Co-ordinator
Toni Joel
Canteen treasurer
Kerrie Burton
Uniform Shop Co-ordinator
Sylvia Searle
Fund raising Co-ordinator (shared)
Nicole Nicholson, Petra Ward, Michelle
McDermott, Kate De Rome and Jennifer Bean

National Young Leaders Conference
On Monday the 17th of March, Ms Pechey took Ebony, Kye, Chloe, Mitchell, Adel, Luke, Olivia and Joshua to the 2008 National Young Leaders Conference held in Sydney, at the Entertainment Centre. There were many speakers like, Deborah Albae, who is a children’s author of the Max Remy Super spy series. James and Justin who kayaked from Australia to New Zealand that took them 62 days. Police Commissioner Andrrw Scipione, also spoke about how he got into the police force and the many steps he took to get his proudest moments, and Catriona Rowntree who told us about her lifestyle. There were over 8000 children in the Entertainment Centre from all over NSW. We learnt lots of leadership skills, like not just wearing a badge makes you a leader. I would like to also thank Mr Cummins for allowing us this wonderful opportunity and the parents for driving us, and Ms Pechey for taking the time to represent us as our teacher. We hope to use the skills we learnt in our school.
By Ebony and Olivia

Secondary Enrolments 2009
Expression of Interest for Placement in Year7 at a Government Secondary School in 2009 forms have been sent home to all Year 6 students. Please read through the instructions carefully, especially the section on how to complete the form. The forms must be returned no later than Friday 28th March.

SRC News
Thank you to all students and teachers who participated in the mufti and crazy hair day last Wednesday. We raised $290.00 for our World Vision child, Rita Jean. We will hold another fund raiser next term, so stay tuned. Kye and Adel.

Cricket Knockout
Last week the 11th March, the Woonona East State knockout cricket team went to Towradgi Park to play against Corrimal East. We won the toss and elected to bowl. At the end of the 25 overs Corrimal East were 7 for 65. We quickly overtook there score in only 19 overs, getting 2 for 69. Congratulations to Ryan who took 4 wickets, and to Stephen and Sam for putting on a great opening partnership of 55 runs, which led us to victory. Our next game will be played against the winner of Albion Park and Mount Terry. Thank you to Mr Cummins for organising the game, and we look forward to the next one.

Uniform Shop
The uniform shop will open Monday mornings 8:35 – 9am and Wednesdays 2:30 – 3pm. The alternative to visiting the shop is to complete an order form, place it together with full payment in an envelope. (order forms are available from the office). Place the envelope up at the school cash box and the order will be completed and given to your child.

Kids Café
This weeks lunch special, Toasted Ham and Cheese pocket with a orange juice available for $2.20. Due to our long weekend apple’s won’t be delivered this week. Apple’s will be delivered Tuesday next week. Sorry for any inconvenience. Just a reminder that canteen is CLOSED FRIDAYS. We now open Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
We have apples available every week. Please have orders back by Friday. Apples delivered to classrooms next week.

Canteen Roster
Term 1 – Week 9
Tues 25/03 – Carolyn, Lorraine

Wed 26/03 – Ann, Karen, Ainsley

Thurs 27/03 – Nicole, Allison

FRIDAY 21/03 CLOSED
Mon 31/03 – Vilmala, Donna Edwards