Studio W – Art Exhibition

Rugby Season Launch

Sausage Sizzle

Donut Day

Hot Cross Buns

OshClub Holiday Program

Please find below OshClub Holiday Program for April School Holidays or click here to download.

Student Representative Council 2016

At Wyvern our SRC student body is important to us. We find it benefits all boys in a myriad of ways, which include:

• Fostering a sense of vision and purpose in a friendly K-6 student environment
• Providing all boys with an opportunity to determine and achieve collective goals
• Promoting active, reflective listening skills where considered responses are encouraged
• Application of learning in a context that directly affects our school community
• Linking in with our Citizenship syllabus
• Promoting Social Justice values

We are also very conscious of the asset we have within our Year 6 cohort. As part of this, we have trained our Year 6 SRC representatives to take on an active leadership role. This allows them to help mentor and guide the younger boys, which in turn allows the younger boys to benefit from the wisdom of their senior cohort.

In 2016 we will divide the SRC year into two components. This semester we will focus on Helping our School and our local community. We feel that starting our work in ‘our own backyard’ helps boys gain a sense of responsibility and reinforces the importance of appreciating what we have here at Wyvern. In second semester we will organise an event to raise money for our World Vision Sponsor Child. We will also aim to increase student’s awareness of some of the issues faced by school children around the world.  

Our first initiative this Term was a Book Drive being run in conjunction with Wyvern Library. The Book Drive was for St Brigid’s Catholic Primary School in Marrickville who lost all of their books when their school library burnt down during the Christmas break. 

We are excited by our SRC journey this year and hope to help ourselves and others whilst gaining valuable learning insights.

Rebecca Stewart
SRC Lead Teacher

Oshclub – Wyvern’s Before & After School Care Provider

Wyvern’s Before and After School Care Program is run by OSHClub. Enrolment for all students is recommended and allows parents to easily manage their before and after school care needs via an online account. Visit www.oshclub.com.au to use the free enrolment service.

For all late bookings, please contact the Coordinator, Marc Dunlop, on 0428 131 700. OSHClub’s head office number is (03) 8564 9000 Click here for the OSHClub Information Flyer.

Newsletter, Click here

Kind regards

OSHClub Team

Flyers in Bookstand

Martial Arts

• Kung Fu Action at Wyvern

Clubs and Extra Curricular Activities at Wyvern – Term 1

• Clubs and Extra Curricular (Before and After School) Activities at Wyvern

Speech Pathology

• Gladesville Speech Pathology & Learning Centre

Hopalong

• Occupational Therapy for Children

Uniform Shop

News from the Uniform Shop:

• Scarves are now in stock – $30 (limited stock)
• New Style Swimming Towels  – $35 (limited stock)
• Rugby Socks and Current Style Tracksuits are still 50% off!

Winter Second Hand stock will be available 

Wyvern Uniform Roster Term 1 Weeks 9 & 10 Click here

Wyvern Uniform Shop Order Form, Click here

Wyvern Uniform Shop Summer Price List 2016, Click here

Tuckshop Menu, Roster & Online Ordering

Dear Parents,

As a parent volunteer working in the Tuckshop can you please make sure that you adhere to the rules and regulations regarding appropriate footwear – closed in footwear with a rubber grip sole (ideally leather trainers). No sandals, thongs, open toe shoes or fabric trainers (fabric shoes may bring bacteria) may be worn.

If your son suffers from an allergy it is imperative that you advise the Wyvern Office and the Tuckshop so that we are aware of it. Click here for the ‘Alliance Catering  – Food Allergens Advisory Statement’.

Please click here for the Spotless Food Safety Information for Volunteers Guidelines

Tuckshop Menu and Roster for Term 1 Weeks 9 and 10, Click here

Everyday Menu and Price List, Click here 

Online Ordering Instructions, Click here

Online Ordering FAQs, Click here

Wyvern Office

Term Dates 2016

TERM ONE

Thursday 28 January to Friday 8 April
Classes commence Thursday 28 January
SPD Day – No Students – Thursday 24 March 
Good Friday Public Holiday – 25 March
Easter Monday Public Holiday – 28 March
11 week term followed by a 2 week break

TERM TWO

Tuesday 26 April to Friday 24 June
Classes commence Tuesday 26 April
Anzac Day Public Holiday – Monday 25 April
SPD Day – No Students – Friday 10 June
Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday – Monday 13 June
9 week term followed by a 3 week break

TERM THREE

Monday 18 July to Friday 23 September
Classes commence Monday 18 July
10 week term followed by a 2 week break

TERM FOUR

Monday 10 October to Wednesday 7 December
Classes commence Monday 10 October
Years 3 – 6 Prize Giving – Wednesday 7 December

Sport

Wyvern Sports Newsletter Term 1 – Week 8 Click here

Sports Results and Match Reports, Click here

Sporting Venue Addresses, Click here

2016 Sports Handbook, Click here

Next Two Weeks

Have you Forgotten to Place an Online Lunch Order?

Dear Parents,

When ordering your son’s recess/lunch orders online please ensure that you do this before the cut-off time of 8.45am each day to ensure that your son gets his lunch order. If you order after the cut-off time of 8.45am his order will not be processed.

Please note that no late orders will be accepted by the Tuckshop and no money will be loaned out. There are no exceptions.

In the event that your son does not have any lunch or recess with him he will be given a sandwich/es of either vegemite, jam or cheese. These sandwiches are free of charge.

Thank you for your consideration and attention to this matter.

Kind regards

Wyvern Office

Faith Matters

More Than Meets The Eye

My favourite Dr. Seuss book is “On Beyond Zebra”. This is about a boy who boasts about his proficiency in saying the alphabet, only to be told …
“In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I’m telling you this ‘cause you’re one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!
My alphabet starts with this letter call YUZZ.
It’s the letter I use to spell Yuzz-a-ma-Tuzz.”

The point being that we often take things at face value. We tend not to push beyond the obvious. We can be satisfied with first appearances, rather than pushing our comfort zones to dare I say, discover what’s possible.

Easter for many people falls into this category. It is accepted at face value … a Jew who lived 2000 years ago, made some outrageous claims, did some good stuff but ends up dying on a cross.

This Easter can I encourage you to take a journey On Beyond Zebra, to look for more than the obvious in the Easter story? To consider what God is doing behind the scenes so to speak?

The cross is God’s way of saying, “I know how you feel” and the resurrection is God’s way of saying, “there’s more to death than meets the eye.”

Peter Morphew
Chaplain

Clubs & Extra Curricular Activity at Wyvern

Dear Parents

Please find attached Club and Extra Curricular Activities at Wyvern – Term 1 below.

Once you have clicked on the link below, hover and click over the activity you are interested in joining.  This will take you to that page on SPACES with further information on how to enrol you son in the activity.

2016 Clubs and Extra-Curricular Activities at Wyvern

Regards

Wyvern Office

Achievement Awards and House Points

House Points

A Message from Mr Holden

As we continue to sprint through this very busy term I am sure that boys and parents are looking forward to a few days of down time over the upcoming Easter break. A reminder that Thursday 24th March is a Staff Development Day. On that day we will be focusing on developing our already strong professional links with staff at the senior school campus. Vacation care is available on this day via www.oshclub.com.au

From the start of Term 2 Ms Alina Belshaw (Head of Music) and Mrs Melanie Bryden (IT Coordinator) will take periods of maternity leave. We wish them well for the exciting weeks ahead. I am pleased to announce that two very experienced teachers will take over these important roles. Mrs Rowena Tall will join us in Terms 2 and 3 as Acting Head of Music. Mrs Tall is currently at New England Girls School in Armidale having previously worked in independent boys schools in Sydney.  Mr Mark Potter joins us for the rest of the year as a STEM teacher (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) with a particular focus in the upper primary section of the school. Mr Potter has significant experience in this area working in Australian and US schools.

Thank you to those parents who were able to attend the Prep Schools Cross County event yesterday. Despite some threatening weather earlier in the morning the event ran smoothly and it was a tremendous sight to see the Wyvern and Lindfield boys running against the backdrop of the superb campus facilities of the Senior School. There were some excellent individual  performances, and on the basis of these, a number of boys will now go on to represent the Prep Schools at the IPSHA Cross Country Carnival on 2nd April. I was especially pleased with the great spirit, enthusiasm and determination shown by all. Well done to Coates House who were the overall winners of this year’s carnival.

Ian Holden
Head of Wyvern House

Artists of the Week

K – 2 

Beau Lilley KS
Beau painted a wonderfully balanced rainbow. He used the primary colours to mix the secondary colours and was careful to place the colours in the correct order. Beau demonstrated excellent brush control and took great care and pride in creating his artwork.  Excellent work, Beau. (left)

Jordan Dib 1L
Jordan created a fabulous landscape in oil and chalk pastel. He used line and colour effectively in his work and showed pride and care in his craftsmanship. Wonderful work, Jordan. (right)

Heather Brodie
K-2 Visual Art Teacher

Years 3-6 

Year 3 have been discovering patterns and drawing frogs. They were able to create a frog in a zentangle pattern landscape, complete with landscape perspective. These works were then tinted with liquid crayon markers. The boys also created foliage rubbing using oil pastels, and used these to mount the work. These lovely quirky frog drawings can be seen in their classrooms and/or mounted on the Year 3 display board on level 2.

Congratulations to Max Paisley (left) and Owen Rees (right) for their exceptional work during this unit.

Meredith Buining
Years 3-6 Visual Art Teacher

Year 1 Excursion to The Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick

Last Tuesday 8^th March, Year 1 went on an excursion to The Sydney Children’s Hospital in Randwick to support our unit ‘People and Places’. With much excitement, the boys explored different areas of the hospital and participated in various presentations from people who work at the hospital. The boys listened to a Doctor and Child Support Therapist, used a stethoscope to hear each other’s heartbeat, sat in the X-Ray room, walked around the Fairy Garden and played in the Starlight Room. They listened carefully to a nutritionist, had a healthy morning tea, went in the hospital classroom and the physiotherapy room. The boys discovered a lot of new things and asked lots of thoughtful and sensible questions. Their first big school bus ride was definitely a highlight for them.

Aimee Parkinson
Year 1 Team Leader