Welcome back to 2017 at THPS!

The library is a hub of activity with new titles just arriving to start off the New Year.

 

Look out for these titles…

Hilariously funny and capture the love of reading for all types of students with its quirky writing and easy to follow format.

School Scholastic due: 14th February

 

 

Multicultural Speaking Competition

Calling future leaders and shapers of future Australia! The NSW Arts Unit is holding the Multi cultural speaking competition. The competition aims at getting students to investigate diversity in our nation and what we need to do for it to be successful in the future.

Students have been given information about this competition and it is for those who would like to enter.

Selection will take place in Week 5 (Monday the 19th till the 24th February) during class library sessions.

 

The NSW arts unit is offering all those students who are passionate about the future of our country and its diversity to speak about their perspectives, hopes and dreams.

How does the competition run?

representatives for each division (Stage 2 and 3) of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition are selected. This initial round will be completed in the library during class visit schedules in Week 5 this term! – so get writing!

Once selected the arts unit will advise all contestants of the date and venue of their local final which will be held in the last four weeks of term 2. The winners of local finals will proceed to one of 8 regional finals which will be held in August. Regional winners will proceed to the state final. The Years 3&4 state final will be held at the NSW Teachers Federation Conference Centre on Friday 3 November, and the Years 5&6 state final will be held at the Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre on Friday 17 November. All schools are welcome to attend the state finals.

 

What are the rules of the competition?                                                                                                                                         

Contestants are not allowed to use any props or external aids such as Powerpoint presentations during their speeches. They are encouraged to speak from palm cards and present from a stage without the use of a lectern or microphone. Finally, just a reminder that the prepared speech must have multicultural content to be successful

 

You will be asked to prepare a speech and also an impromptu speech as well on the day!

 

What are the prizes?

All contestants involved in the competition will receive a certificate acknowledging their participation. Certificates of congratulations will then be awarded to all local and regional winners. State finalists will receive a silver medallion, and the state winners in each division will receive a gold medallion and a perpetual trophy.

For more information come and speak to Mrs Derricott ASAP

 

Division / Speech	Warning Bell	Speaking time (2 bells)	Continuous Bell
Years 3&4 Prepared Speech	2 minutes	3 minutes	4 minutes
Years 3&4 Impromptu Speech	30 seconds	1 minute	1 ½ minutes
Years 5&6 Prepared Speech	3 minutes	4 minutes	5 minutes
Years 5&6 Impromptu Speech	1 ½ minutes	2 minutes	2 ½ minutes

 

 

2017 Years 3&4 Topics	2017 Years 5&6 Topics
The same but different	Sport and multiculturalism
Every family has a story	One Nation?
Kids can make a difference	Advance Australia Fair
“Boo” to racism in sport	What’s in a name?
Refugees	Racism online
Racism – it stops with me	Welcome to Australia
The Australian Flag	When does a migrant become an Australian?
Multiculturalism in the media	Breaking down barriers
What makes a community?	Words can hurt
Harmony Day	Multiculturalism at school

 

 

For more information please come and speak to Mrs Derricott.

 

 

 

 

                       February 14th

 

 

 

 

Hundreds and hundreds of new titles, fiction, non fiction, popular books series and up dated reference material is coming our way by the end of the year!

Keep your eyes posted on our library blog for pictures and on our new books stands in the library for amazing new titles.

Sneak preview of titles:

Non fiction:
Ancient civilisations
Ancient warriors
Unexplained Earth series
Countries around the word
Petcare and animal care
Australian animals
Animals of Africa
Eco systems protection
Robots and technology

Sports

Extreme sports

Famous Australians

Famous inventions

How to draw – series

Fiction:
Mine craft manuals
Lemony Snicket series
Toms gates complete series
When the Tripods came series
Diary of a Wimpy Kid – series
Freak Street series
Harry Potter – complete series
Don’t look now – complete series
Lulu Bell series

Spirit animals – complete series

The Maze Runner series !

Skulduggery Pleasant – New titles!

And many many more! Watch this space!

Thank you everyone for making our 2014 Book Week such an amazing success! It was great to see so many parents and community members in our library on the early birds Saturday opening and through the week of Book week to purchase a huge range of books.

This year we surpassed our previous year’s sales and generated an amazing $560 dollar commission for what we sold. We also were amazed by the highest number ever of donations for our school library – These books really do go along way so thank you for continued support of our little library:)

 

Special opening – Saturday the 30th August   10-1pm

THPS Book Week from September the 1st till the 5th

Early lunch from 12.20 till 1.20pm

THPS Book Week Celebration Assembly from 1.20pm under the COLA Wednesday the 3rd Sepetember

$2 sausage sizzle

Thats right THPS book lovers, the THPS book week celebrations are set to get underway the weekend of the 29th of August as we open the library for the sale of scholastic bookclub items.

The library will be turned into a book shop between the hours of 10am and 1pm. The sales will continue after school the following week concluding on Thursday the 4th Septemeber.

The week of the 1st September we will be hosting our Bookweek celebration assembly and Parade on the Wednesday the 3rd of September,   including student performance, sausage sizzle and celebration assembly. Best dressed prizes for each class!

The theme for this year is reading to connect, connect to reading – so source out those charcters you connect with or that make you connect with reading and come dressed as your favourite character from the book or book series that you most connect with.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harmony day is fast approaching yet again! Harmony Day is a great day for everyone to celebrate all Australians and our diverse cultural backgrounds.

This year THPS will be holding cultural art activities throughout the morning session and inviting parents who would like to share their experiences from living in or traveling to other countries around the world.

Parents and all family members are invited to attend the celebration assembly. Parents and family members are also invited to a parent/family sharing session from midday onwards to share photos or stories about their travels overseas in other countries.

From 12.40 onwards parents/care givers and their extended familes are welcome to come and join in as we hold a shared lunch in our classrooms celebrating foods from around the globe. Parents and students are asked to bring a plate of traditional dishes from around the world to share with their class.

(Please no nuts as we have severe allergies within our school, please list all ingrediants as we also have a variety of other food allegies within our community)

From 1.30 onwards we will be having a celebration assembly and all students and parents are welcome to perform on stage any songs and dances that are inspired by other cultures  – watch out for our students performances too!

Please come along wearing traditional dress insprided from another culture or support the day by wearing orange – Harmony Day’s colour and bring a gold coin donation for our sponser child Subrata

If not, please wear your normal school uniform:)

 

 

 

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Thank you everyone who came and supported our school lbrary throughout the week of Book Week last term! The school did amazingly well recieveing a whopping profit of close to 3000 dollars! As part of scholastics involvement we recieve a huge 25% of that as commission. This year has been our best year ever and we recieved over 350 dollars worth of donations directly for our library. Another huge thankyou for all those who supported us this year.

Another big thank you has to go to all those students who performed in the “Dr Suess dances” and the “Where the wild things are” dance. The students worked so hard and created a fantastic stage performance.

The library continues to grow and top quality books are flooding in. Check out the news books that have just arrived…

BOOK WEEK COMING SOON!  – Start getting those favourite intergalactic character costumes ready for our big day!

Welcome!

2013 Book week Theme: Read across the Galaxy! Our Book Week begins on Saturday the 24th August.

Our library turns into a book store this week and students and parents have the opportunity to purchase books from the Scholastic Press. Every book purchased supports our library as a portion of the overall profits. Please come down and support our library, every book you buy means another book for or library!

 

Our library is now online! Through this blog you will see posts about our new books, public speaking and debating information and most of all, celebrate the joy of reading at THPS!

This site will also keep you updated about the upcoming events and celebrations at our school that run through the library.

 

Have a look at these amazing “Just New in Books”!

Book of the Moment: “Thirteen” By James Phelan

http://www.thelast13.com/media/849/9781742831848_TheLastThirteen_Bk1_13_ChapterSampler_WEB.pdf

Go to the above website to read a sneaky peek of Book 1!

13 books, 13 nightmares, 1 destiny

I click my fingers and everybody dies

Sam wakes from his nightmare to discover the terrifying reality. It will come true.

Kidnapped from school and finding out his parents aren’t who he thinks they are, Sam is suddenly running from danger at every turn. Nothing will ever be the same again.

With his life and identity shattered, Sam’s salvation is tied to an ancient prophecy. He is in the final battle to save the world, up against an ememy plotting to destroy us all.

He alone can find the last 13.

Are you one of them?

Senior Non Fiction – Learn about our world

Senior Non Fiction

Excellent reading for Mrs Bowman’s Hypothesis Posse!

Senior Fiction – Great new chapter books!

Junior Fiction – Our boys love Zac power!

More Pokemon adventures!

Great general Junior Fiction  – Great bedtime reading

What about some new Senior Fiction? Highly recommended reads!

What about some great new Junior Fiction! – We love to read!