Narrabri West: PSSA Knockout Finalists!

Our Quarter Final match in the NSW PSSA Softball Knockout was played against Shalvey P.S (from western Sydney) today. The game was played on the Narrabri West softball diamond and heaps of supporters came along and cheered for our team in their efforts to make it to the semi-final stage of this state-wide knockout competition, which will be held in Sydney in early December.

And...we won! Look out Sydney - here we come!

The boys played a magnificent game, defeating Shalvey 16-3. The rain made conditions a bit difficult for both sides but our boys took it in their stride and came out the victors.

Photography Club Clicks into Action!

24 very keen photographers have joined Mrs Stewart and Mrs Galvin in our school Photography Club. They meet during lunchtime on Wednesdays, when armed with a digital camera each they have set about learning the art of digital photography. Mrs Stewart and Mrs Galvin's expert instruction and eye for a great shot will ensure that they not only learn extra skills, but also have and enjoyable and rewarding time. They are looking forward to an excursion to the Narrabri Lake shortly, where they will be on the lookout for various forms of wildlife as photographic subjects!

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