NICS News – Week 8

The upcoming PBL focus for Week 9 is “take ownership of your behaviour”. These key messages will be repeated throughout the week. PBL Awards are presented each week at assembly. As always, parents are more than welcome to attend our Wednesday assemblies.

A big congratulations to the following students who have qualified to represent the Darling Downs South West Athletics team at the QLD State Athletics Championships in October:

• Toby Christian – 13 Yrs Shot Put
• Vili Ratulevu – 14 Yrs Shot Put
• Rex Moore – 10 Yrs 100m

A big congratulations to Timi Snell who returned this week from the Trans-Tasman Secondary School Squash Challenge in New Zealand. Timi represented QLD as the No. 4 player in the under 15 Girls division. Timi finished with five singles wins from seven matches and one doubles win. These great results meant that Timi was successful in being selected to represent Australia as No. 5 for the upcoming Trans-Tasman Secondary Schools Challenge against New Zealand later this year. A huge congratulations on being selected in the Australian side. Well done, Timi.

Could I please ask that families not use the former principal’s residence driveway and yard area as a drop off or pick up space? Currently, there is limited access to this area. In the future, this will be a designated car park space; however, until this work is completed, please use the drop off / pick up drive through at the front of the school.

The A&H Show is on the calendar for Monday, 14 October, 2024. All students entering into the A&H Show need to register their entries at school with their teacher during the first two weeks of Term 4. Artwork, crafts, textiles etc should be brought to school by Week 2, Term 4. Any entries during the holidays may be entered and paid for during Term 4, Week 1 and 2, and then to be included, registered entries need to brought to the Supper Room on Sunday, 13 October, from 12:30pm.

Any perishable or fragile entries (cakes, sand posies, vegetable models, etc) must be delivered to the Supper Room on Show Day between 8:00am-8.30am ready for judging at 9:00am. All Prep-2 students need to bring in $1 to their teacher for their show entries which have been organised at school. Students in Years 3-6 need to bring to their teacher $4 or 50c per item for their entries. Secondary students are to organise their entry money with their teachers. All entry money is to be given to Mrs Tierney during Week 2, Term 4. Entries must be a student’s original work and should be labelled with their individual number on the front, and the back must be labelled with their name, year and entry class. All writing entries must be entered at the school and handed to Mrs Tierney or your teacher no later than Friday, 11 October. All Lego models are to be entered into Section 10. There are kit and non-kit models this year.

Russell Moore

Principal

Norfolk Island Central School