P&F News and Events – Teaching our Boys Financial Literacy – at home and school

Dear Wyvern Parents

You are all invited to attend the Term 3 Wyvern Parent Information night on Thursday, 15 September from 6:30pm in the Wyvern Library. Light catering (sandwiches) will be supplied. There will also be supervised play for children. The night will include the following presentations: 

Teaching our boys financial literacy – at home and school.

Presented by Amy Hayes, Start Smart Primary Facilitator: http://www.startsmart.com.au/ 

Amy Hayes will discuss the importance of being financially literate from a young age, provide recommendations for teaching our boys at home and will also outline how the Start Smart program is encouraging financial for children around Australia.

You may find this article of interest:

http://www.theage.com.au/money/saving/the-basic-method-for-teaching-kids-about-money-20160711-gq35cu.html

Newington College Endowment Fund – Director of Community and Development Rod Bosman

School report – Head of Wyvern House Ian Holden

We hope you can join us.

Warm Regards
Wyvern P&F Executive
Wyvern_House_PF_parent_information_night_2016_Term_3_Agenda.pdf

Building Learning Power – Parent Information Session

Building Learning Power – Our Wyvern Learning Framework

At Wyvern we are deeply committed to equipping our boys with lifelong learning tools that will hold them in good stead into the 21^st century. As part of our learning, we embed lessons with strategies where we teach boys to be more resilient, resourceful, reflective and reciprocal.

Rebecca Stewart, our BLP Learning Community Leader, will be holding a parent information session this term to outline how we build your son’s learning power in our classrooms and around the school. Everyone is most welcome to come along and learn more about how learning has changed over the past decade and why these changes are having such positive effects on our boys.

Parent Information Session 

WHEN: Tuesday 20th September (last week of Term 3)

TIME: 8.30am – 9.30am

WHERE: Wyvern Library

Any further questions, please feel free to email Rebecca – rstewart@newington.nsw.edu.au

Seed Sports Multi-Sports & Activities Holiday Camp

Artists of the Week

K – 2 Artists of the Week

Year 2

Year 2 are working through a unit on Still Life and are exploring some basic printmaking techniques. The boys ‘sketch-etched’ their pineapple drawings into a scratch foam plate and then ‘inked the plate’ with washable markers and ‘lifted a print’ onto dampened paper. Sensational pineapples, boys! 

Charlie Kirikau 2M and Kieran Chan 2M

Sam Gallant 2W and Nolan Pham 2W

Heather Brodie
K-2 Visual Arts Teacher

RoboCup

On Friday 26th August, Tom Carlisle, Bodie Young, Hamish Ingham, Vasili Filippatos and Lachlan Tran participated in this year’s RoboCup 2016 at UNSW. To prepare themselves for the competition, they had made and programmed a robot during Robotics Club which they had brought with them along the day.

Our boys were part of the Search and Rescue Competition in RoboCup. In order for the students to complete all 4 rounds, they were placed into a prep room where no teachers, parents or non-participating students were allowed to enter. This meant that the programming was purely the student’s work. Unfortunately, we did not win the competition, but the boys were able to enjoy themselves and learn from others by collaborating with students from different schools. We would like to congratulate these boys for their tremendous effort and lively spirit at RoboCup 2016.

Well done boys!

Jenny Yoon
Teacher Intern

Does Your Child Use a Puffer? Important Research Study for Children Aged 4 – 18 Years

Dear Parents,

If your son uses a puffer would you mind taking the time to take part in a short study to help the Woolcock Research Company better understand how children use their inhaler medication. 

If you are interested in participating, please contact Pamela on 9114 0369 or email woolcock.respimedicines@sydney.edu.au

Regards

Woolcock
Leaders in Breathing and Sleep Research

Sausage Sizzle Day

Donut Day

Term Dates 2017

TERM ONE

Monday 30 January to Friday 7 April
Classes commence – Monday 30 January
Classes conclude –  Friday 7 April
10 Week Term followed by a 2 week break

TERM TWO

Wednesday 26 April to Friday 23 June
Classes commence – Wednesday 26 April
SPD Day – No Students – Friday 9 June
Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday – Monday 12 June
Classes conclude – Friday 23 June
9 week term followed by a 3 week break

TERM THREE

Monday 17 July to Friday 22 September
Classes commence – Monday 17 July
SPD Day – No Students – Monday 14 August
Classes conclude – Friday 22 September
10 week term followed by a 2 week break

TERM FOUR

Monday 9 October to Thursday 7 December
Classes commence – Monday 9 October 
Prize Giving – Years 3-6  – Thursday 7 December

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

Oshclub – Wyvern’s Before and 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 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 Book Stand

Martial Arts

• Kung Fu Action at Wyvern

Clubs and Extra Curricular Activities at Wyvern – Term 3

• 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 and Roster

Winter Second Hand Stock Sale – 50% Off

Dear Parents,

The Uniform Shop is having a Winter Second Hand stock sale of 50% off! This includes all Winter stock (blazers and second hand sports uniforms are included).

Please note that Summer stock is not included in this sale!

Wyvern Uniform Roster Term 3 Weeks 8 and 9, Click here

Wyvern Uniform Shop Order Form, Click here

Wyvern Uniform Shop Winter Price List 2016, Click here

Wyvern Uniform Shop Summer Price List 2016, Click here

Kind regards

Nicole Williams
Uniform Shop Convenor

Tuckshop Menu

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 Term 3 Weeks 8 and 9 Click here

Everyday Menu and Price List, Click here 

Online Ordering Instructions, Click here

Online Ordering FAQs, Click here

Wyvern Office

Sport

Sports Newsletter, Click here

Sporting Venue Addresses, Click here

2016 Sports Handbook, Click here

Next Two Weeks

Faith Matters

Upside Down

Have you ever been in a two dollar shop and found a real treasure? Not merely something that is useful but something of great worth? Probably not!

The philosopher Kierkegaard tells of a vandal who breaks into a department store at night. In the darkness he moves through each department, each floor, deliberately, carefully.  Just before dawn breaks and the light will reveal him, he exits the way he came. The amazing thing is he does not steal anything but rather rearranges all the price tags. The next day shopkeepers, not to mention the delighted customers, encounter such oddities as diamond necklaces on sale for a few dollars and cheap costume-jewellery earrings costing thousands.

The gospel, God’s Good News, is like that says Kierkegaard: it changes around all our normal assumptions about worth and value. Hence Jesus can say of a poor widow who puts a few cents in the temple treasury bucket, “I tell you she has put more in than all the rest!” Her gift from poverty is a real treasure compared to the tokenism of apparently rich benefactors. Jesus values the motives of the woman highly.

God’s kingdom is a strange upside down economy where poverty is blessed! Jesus says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.”

Peter Morphew
Chaplain

Clubs & Extra Curricular at Wyvern – Term 3

Dear Parents

Please find attached Term 2 Club and Extra Curricular Activities at Wyvern below.

Term 3 Clubs and Extra-Curricular Activities at Wyvern

Please refer to Spaces for more information regarding the Clubs and Activities.

Regards

Wyvern Office

Achievement Awards and House Points

House Points