3/4Ws report on the Cross Country

On Thursday 4th of June Narrabri West Winners went to Number 2 oval for PSSA Cross Country and ran their hardest. These are the results of the PSSA runners from our school:

1st - Josie Wilson, Jack Edwards
2nd -Dylan Phillips
3rd -Josie Kirkby, Kate Brown
4th -Tom Baker, Lidia McCauley
5th -Lawson Morley
6th -Joe Baker, Will Brennan
7th -Brandon Gold
8th -Khiarni Cornish, Jenna Baxter
Others- Drew Merten 3rd last, Howard Litzow 20th, Tyler Arnold 40th, Jordan Harvey 9th , Will Alexander 18th, Emily Stiller 9th, Amber Meskill 12th, Tegan Bush 10th, Kiara Neave 9th, Jacob Shields 13th

Those people above represented our school extremely well and they had wonderful manners too. They were also pleasant to the other runners and the organisers. As excellent role models, they cheered our school on when they were running. The next level is Coolah - We wish them luck!

Written by Howard Litzow and Josie Wilson

3/4Ws plant news and other activities

3/4W has planted some winter vegetables such as: Broccoli, Cabbage, Peas sillver Beet and Brussel Sprouts in large, plastic pots outside our classroom in front of our balcony where they receive lots of sun. The seedlings took 7-10 days to germinate. 3/4W worked in groups of 4 or 5 planting a vegetable. They get watered once a week by chosen people to keep them up and running. They have really taken off! 3/4W are very proud of their plants and are having loads of fun with them!!!

Written by Gwenieve Merten & Georgie Guest

Edited by Reading Group 5

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Knitter's Club 2009

The Knitting Club is off to a great start this year with 20 keen knitters showing up on Wednesday, armed with brightly coloured wool and needles, ready to create beautiful knitted masterpieces! It is great to see many students returning this year after learning to knit in 2008 and these students are proving to be excellent helpers, assisting some of the new knitters this year. Ms Dafter has been assisted by Mrs Phillips who also shares a love of knitting, and they have sure been busy casting on and teaching basic knitting techniques to everyone. The children, from Years 3-6, are a very enthusiastic bunch and are planning to make nice warm scarves for Winter as well as little bags and purses. The group will meet every Wednesday at lunchtime in Ms Dafter’s classroom during the colder months. All knitters are welcome, but our spare needles have run out so be sure to bring along some of your own!

Narrabri West Public School has won the 2009 New England Education Region Award for Excellence in the Arts. This year a total of nineteen ‘Excellence in Education’ awards were announced by Relieving Regional Director Mr Jim White in Education Week. These awards recognise excellence within a school.

Narrabri West’s Excellence in the Arts Award was judged on criteria which included:

• exemplary professional practices in one or more of the art forms of music, dance, visual arts, drama;

• an excellent record of developing opportunities for participation by students in school, regional and state events; and

• exemplary practices in encouraging students to develop their talents in one or more art forms.

All nominations were judged by a panel that included the Regional Director of Education, a Principal representative, a Teacher representative and a P & C representative.

The judging panel determined that all areas of Narrabri West’s performing arts program were the most outstanding examples of ‘best practice’ within the New England Region. The judges acknowledged in the award citation that music is an integral part of the school’s curriculum, with students experiencing a sequenced program which also allows those with a particular interest or aptitude to receive specialised instruction and further develop their talents. Special mention was made of the schools concert band program, sequenced instruction program for teaching all student s the recorder and the percussion (drumming) program. They also acknowledged how the school music program impacts not only on the school, but also the whole community, with many students going on to join Narrabri High School music programs and also the Narrabri Shire Band.

This is the fourth major award that Narrabri West has won in the last two years, which is indicative of the high quality educational programs that we have implemented. The real winners of course are the children attending Narrabri West, who get to benefit from the impact of these award winning programs.

Newcastle Variety Bash Visit

We had a terrific time when we were visited by the Newcastle Variety Bash entrants for breakfast. The highlight of the morning was the presentation to the school of a cheque for $2000, to assist in the purchase of another interactive whiteboard. We were also given $1500 to supply breakfast for the 150 entrants, which due to the outstanding support we received through donations, enabled us to make a profit of $1250. This means we raised $3250 through the ‘bash.’ Thank you to everyone who assisted.

Boys Soccer Knockouts

On Monday the 18th of May the boy’s soccer team walked down to gately fields to play soccer against Wee Waa.

Mrs Burtenshaw coached the Wee Waa team that lost 11-1. These were the boys that scored the 11 goals for the westies. Mrs Smith’s husband Scott Smith was our coach that helped us with our victory.

Daniel 4
Scott 2
Dylan 2
Jack 1
Conner 2

We all had a very fun day and enjoyed their company and I hope they enjoyed ours. All tried really hard and did their school proud.

By Coby and Dominic

Narrabri West - a very busy place!

It is is so busy at Narrabri West at the moment. We have the Narrabri Eisteddfod, Education Week, sporting events and many more exciting events to keep us occupied. We enjoyed our Mothers day stall and are loving playing on our new 9 hole Narrabri West Golf Course. WE also had a special visit from the Easter Bunny just before Easter. He had lots of yummy eggs! Here are some photos.