New Lambton Heights Infants School

Kaayi

Our little school certainly lived up to its motto, The Family School, on Saturday at our P&C working bee. Over 15 families came throughout the morning to help paint, weed and lift rocks! I know that families are very busy and it was a lot to ask for time on a Saturday morning, so the amount of people who contributed and the amount of work we achieved exceeded my expectations. I left here on Saturday very tired, but buzzing! 

What I enjoyed the most was seeing the interactions between the families. We had lots of new Kindergarten families, longer established families (including teenage former students) and new families that have not long lived in Australia. Saturday's working bee was a perfect  way to connect with their new community. At one stage I took a photo of Nancy and her family painting the mural .. three generations at work! 

I was so excited for the kids to arrive at school this morning and see what had been done over the weekend .. and their reactions made it all worth it. We now have a finished mural, complete with a stall to sell fruit and veges. Some delicious coffees were being made this morning .. marshmallows included! The rock creek and mud kitchen have been restored to their former 2019 glory and our Year 2 2023 families have done a beautiful job of restoring the fairy garden with items donated by Year 2 2023. This includes two very special hand made mosaic stepping stones, made by Henry and Iris' grandmother. The playground equipment and sandpit area and garden around the water tank look neat and tidy with a mountain of weeds being pulled out! Mr Williams will be very happy tomorrow. 

It wouldn't be a successful community event without food! Thank you to Ellen, Matt and Roisin for providing us with a delicious BBQ lunch and Iggy's uncle Bill for cooking the BBQ. Thank you to Kelly and Anna for inspiring this community event with their generous offer to paint the mural. When you come in for drop off or pick up this week please be sure to come and have a look. 

Lisa Hughes

Principal

It is fun when we learn at school, especially being in year 2 with Mrs Stanbridge. I have really liked learning about action, saying, sensing and linking verbs.

We have also been learning about circular narratives. Narratives are a story that is not real. Sometimes narratives can be like a mountain where it starts at the bottom and goes up to the top and finishes off back at the bottom again. Other narratives can be circular narratives where the story starts and finishes at the same spot.

Year 2 have also been learning about patterns. We have learnt that there are a lot of patterns around us. We have also learnt about symmetrical shapes and lines. That is when you have equal parts on both sides or both halves.

In art, we have been making Awabakal sunsets, which look beautiful, and we have also been making Thomas Croft lizards. He's a local Aboriginal artist that we art learning about and he is very creative!

By Izzy Maltby

P&C Update

Hello everyone, What a success the working bee was this weekend! This week just gone, we also has a successful AGM and have filled all of the executive positions. We will introduce our executive with photographs in the next newsletter. With Easter coming up, we will call out for volunteers the week before, so please keep an eye out for this notice or let us know if you would like to help.

Easter Grandfriends Day and Raffle

Please bring in donations for the Easter Raffle to the school or P&C office. Extra raffle ticket booklets are available from the school office.

Working Bee

The working bee was a success. A big thank you to all the families that came and supported us on the day, special thanks to the parents that donated their time to painting, donating items, weeding and keeping us fed!

Snack Canteen

Snack Canteen is held every Friday during Second Lunch - between 12.45pm and 1.10pm. Most items cost $1.00 and these include flavoured milks, juice boxes, packets of chips, popcorn or grainwaves, and boxes of sultanas. For $0.50 students can purchase a frozen Quelch ice block. Students are restricted to purchasing two items. Each week we need two volunteers to run the canteen. This week (Fri 15th March) we have Claire Morrisey and we are looking for one more volunteer. For the following week (Fri 22nd March) we have Louise Erickson and Laura Lister. Thank you to all of our volunteers! To volunteer for a spot, please put your name down here: https://signup.com/go/uWWvMOR You will need to fill out volunteers declaration prior to volunteering which you can do through the School Office. 

Recycle your cans, cartons and bottles!

You can help us fundraise for the school P&C AND help the planet at the same time simply by recycling drink containers (remember not to crush them). You can now donate your 10c refund(s) to New Lambton Heights Infants School P&C Association from any Return and Earn machines located near you using the Return and Earn app.

And it's easy as 1,2,3:1- Download the Return and Earn app (available from your App store or Google Play store)

2- Look up New Lambton Heights Infants School P&C Association under the “Charities” menu and press "Set as payout”

3- Scan the app, return containers and press "TRANSFER" on the RVM screen when finished! 

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop is open every Friday after assembly or by appointment. Please email ahead to find a time on: nlhiuniform@gmail.com It is getting to that time where the weather is cooling off so please get your winter uniform orders in by Friday 15th March to ensure the stock will be available for your child. Tunic stocks are also low in a range of sizes so if you know you will need another tunic please get in early ordering these items too. You can find uniform items online at http://new-lambton-heights-infants-school-pc-association.square.site. 

For any questions, please get in touch at nlhipandc@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Tiff

On behalf of the NLHIS P&C executive committee and members