Yarramalong Visit and Debate

Central Coast Dance Festival

The whole school danced in The Central Coast Dance Festival at Laycock Street Theatre. The theme was the riparian zone and the dance was integrated into our unit of environmental work. Students were dressed as lizards, butterflies, birds and water. A giant puppet was borrowed from StarStruck. We had lots of fun!

Central Coast Environment Network Poster Competition Congratulations to Lochie in Year 2 for winning 1 of 5 awards in this competition. His theme was “Don’t Litter!”

 Bush Dance and Book Week

For Bookweek this year we held a family Bushdance! It tied in nicely with our theme on early Australia and convicts. Students and parents joined in & dressed for the occasion too! We had wenches, convicts and soldiers all dancing the heel & toe polka, among other dances that we learnt at school throughout Terms 2 & 3.

Chess Competition

Our school chess team entered the Intermediate Division of the schools’ competition and came in 2^nd place to Wyong School. This was a great effort as our team had 2 junior members! Well done Brydie, Maddy, Josh & Tom!

Visit by Healthy Harry – Life Education

Healthy Harold visited again and our friends from Yarramalong School joined us for the day! Thanks for a great program Amy!

   Public Speaking

Alex was the Zone Winner in her age group for the 2^nd year running! Not bad for a little girl who has just turned 7 years old! She is a super public speaker and may take out the Hunter District Award next year!! 

Art work displayed at Gosford Regional Gallery

Our Indigenous art work was displayed at the Gallery in May for the 2^nd year running, as part of the Aboriginal My Story Display. This is a great opportunity to promote community harmony and tolerance. All students from K-6 had their artwork on show. Click here to see some of our art work.

 Canberra Excursion

The whole school from K-6 (plus some very keen mums and dads) enjoyed 3 days at the snow and Canberra late in Term 3, as part of our unit of work on Government. It was a great experience for all! Questacon, Parliament House, The AIS and of course the snow were highlights!! It must have been very cold because one Kindy asked, “Where are the penguins?”

Westfield Shop for your School

We won 1^st prize in the Westfield Shop for your Schools Promotion, thanks to the hard work from our mums and dads and friends in the community. We won a new digi camera, a laptop, a printer and a whiteboard. Thankyou to Westfields for sponsoring this competition.

 Frog Night

We held a frog information night at our school early in October. Sam from WaterWatch helped to organise it. We swa a great PowerPoint, ate some tasty hamburgers and went frog spotlighting. This was a terrific start to our unit of work on frogs!!

Sports News!!

-         Relay Team at Sydney North Athletics Carnival– RECORD BREAKERS!!

Great work David, Josh, Matthew and Brydie!!

-         Small Schools Athletics Carnival – Junior Boy Champion: David

-         Small Schools Athletics Carnival – Junior Girl Champion: Brydie

-         Small Schools Swimming Champion – Junior Boy: Matthew

-         Small Schools Swimming Champion – Senior Boy: Joshua

-         Small Schools Discus finalist: Annabelle

 Academic Awards

-         University of NSW Science Competition – High Distinction: Brydie

-         University of NSW Science Competition – Distinction: Annabelle

-         University of NSW Maths Competition – Distinctions: Brydie and Annabelle

-         University of NSW Computers Competition – Distinctions: Annabelle and Brydie

-         University of NSW Outstanding Teacher GERRIC Award – Mrs Ball 

Newcastle Herald Competition

 “The Wyong Creek Croaker” was again published in the Newcastle Herald early in 2006. The Croaker has become a yearly tradition to highlight our school and our community in the news. We find out if we win any prizes in November. Well done to all our budding journalists from Years 2-6! 

Today Show

Our Video was selected to appear on Today Show “Australia’s Super School”. We were very excited! The video showed highlights of our school’s activities. Although we didn’t win, it was great to be a finalist!! 

NBN Stars

We were interviewed by NBN News for our win in the State Web Awards. It was exciting to watch ourselves on TV! 

Investing In Our Schools

Our Multi Purpose Court and Covered Outdoor Environmental Classroom are now both completed. They are great assets to our school. We thank the Federal Government for making this money available to us! 

CC Education Awards for Staff and Parents

Congratulations to our hard working parents and staff on receiving an award: Brett, Janelle, Helen and Steve. Thankyou for all the work that you for us at school! It was particularly pleasing to see Janelle at the awards! 

Operation Christmas Box

Almost every child donated gifts in a box for needy children in third world countries. We also sponsor a little girl through World Vision – Jacinta in Kenya. Money is raised by ice-cream days. Wyong Creek promotes the values of caring, understanding and tolerance through programs such as these. We are currently collecting Christmas presents for needy Australian families. They will be given to the Smith Family. Please drop them to the office on a Tuesday or Wednesday.

Channel Ten Program

This week we had a visit from the Channel Ten program "The Total News" to talk about  the effect of the drought and some of our water saving programs. This program aired on Tuesday 28th November at 11:30am. The presenters were very impressed with our skills in front of the camera and excited about many of the projects we have underway.

 P & C News

We had a very successful Wyong Creek ‘Ball in the Hall’ and Trivia Night this year to raise money for our school. Our group works hard to help provide resources so that our children get the best education possible.

We are friendly and welcoming. We believe strongly that the school and home should work together as a team, so our children benefit. Meetings are held on the 2^nd Monday on every month.