Narrabri West wins a free tank!

This week we were excited to learn that we have won a 27,000 litre Bluescope Steel Tank, pump and associated equipment as part of the Australia wide ‘Tank a Day Challenge’ competition. This was announced on the ‘Today’ show on Tuesday. The competition aims to help schools with their water conservation programs, whilst teaching students about the water cycle and the importance of conserving water. We entered last term by providing details on our water conservation efforts and our students completing an online water saving quiz. We will use the tank to capture the runoff from our new Primary shelter, which we can then use to assist the watering of our lawns and gardens.

Sporting Success!

Boys Softball – Quarter-Finalists!

There was great excitement at Narrabri West last week with the news of our boys Softball team winning their Round 6 match against Molong PS in Orange. The boys won 16-11 in an exciting and tough game.

They are now in the Quarter-Finals of this state-wide knockout competition and will play the winner of one of the Sydney regions in a home game in Narrabri in the next few weeks. If (when!) they win this, they will travel to Sydney to play in the final series. This is great news and we are very proud of all the boys in the team. We look forward to the next match.

Sienna – Silver Medallist in NSW PSSA 200m Final!

More exciting sporting news last week with Sienna Brown coming 2nd in the 200m 10 years’ girls final at the NSW PSSA State Athletics Championships. Sienna is therefore the 2nd fastest 10 year old girl in NSW. How exciting is that!

She will now represent NSW in the Australian Championships later this year. We are very proud of not only Sienna, but also our other competitors at the NSW Carnival: Jack , Giulio and our relay team of Sienna, Lidia , Shaine and Khiarni , who all finished in the top 25 in their events – a fantastic achievement!

‘Arr, me hearties’ – Talk Like a Pirate Day!

Last Friday our school was invaded by a menacing assortment of pirates, with gruff voices and bloodcurdling screams for ‘Talk Like a Pirate Day’. Thank you to everyone who had some fun and joined in with the spirit. $125 was raised by Year 6 as a result of the gold coin donation by our pirate crew.

Ready, Set, Kinder ! Week 9

In week 9, the preschoolers imagined that they were going on a bear hunt and after reading "We're going on a bear hunt", we discussed what we might take on a bear hunt and all the sounds we might hear. The activities this week involved the children dividing into groups and making the sounds from the story, clapping the rhythm and and dramatising the story. At the end the groups came together to perform for the teachers! The preschoolers certainly are a creative bunch!

Ready,Set,Kinder! Term 3 Week 8

In week 8 the preschoolers read the big book, "Smarty Pants" and we all talked about some of the very clever things that we are able to do. The activities for week 8 included two talking & listening activities where the children used picture cards to say a sentence about what they can do and talked to a partner about what clever things they can do. In the third activity the children were given a large black outline of Smarty Pants and they had to choose coloured clever words to glue onto his pants.
Any activities that the children complete during Ready,Set,Kinder! will be kept and put into a special portfolio which will be presented to the children at the final assembly in Term 4.
Below is the timetable we are following each week in Term 3.
1:15pm - Big book
- children are divided into 3 groups
1:40pm - 1st activity rotation
2:00pm - 2nd activity rotation
2:20pm - Toilet
- Fruit & water snack
2:40pm - 3rd activity rotation
3:00pm - songs, stories

Ready,Set,Kinder! Week 7

This week we read the story "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" which the children really enjoyed. Our activities were then based around a theme of healthy eating and included sorting healthy and "treat" foods, making a healthy food caterpillar, sequencing the story using picture cards and making a human body caterpillar, focusing on ordinal numbers.

Each day the children attend Ready, Set, Kinder! we spend 15-20 minutes sitting outside eating fruit and having a drink of water. It's great to see a wide variety of fruits and vegetables being eaten as this encourages the children to speak about the different foods they are eating. The preschoolers are certainly getting good at naming all the different types of apples!

We finished our sessions this week with songs such as Dr Knickerbocker & Shimmy Shake by the Wiggles, which saw the children really testing out their dancing skills!

1/2M Book Week Celebrations

1/2M celebrated Book Week 2008 by listening to the story, ‘The Night Garden’ by Elise Hurst. In this story, a little girl draws a garden on her misty window one rainy day when she wishes she could play outside. That night, when the rain is gone, the garden comes alive with many weird and wonderful creatures, yet she feels very safe and secure in her special garden.

The class painted some vivid images of their own ‘night garden’, with spooky eyes peering out to look at us, although they are never really scary!

Many different book characters also visited us for our Book Week assembly! There was the Rainbow Fish (Emily), Princess Charlotte from Prncess Charlotte and the Birthday Ball (Charlotte), Chloe from the Bratz (Clariese), Lord Abrioll from the Golden Compass (Joe), Raymond Martin from the Crusty Demon Team (Jack S), Jessie from Toy Story (Jenna). Hannah Montanna (Grace H.) and finally the Monster from the Monster Shop (Jack R). What star studded line up!