Our wonderful Maypole dancers at last night's Presentation Evening

Calendar of Upcoming Happenings at Exeter

Swimming Scheme
Monday November 30 - Friday Dec 11

Celebration Assembly - Tuesday Dec 8
9:30 am at School

Captains' Elections will be run by the Australian Electoral Commission on Wednesday Dec 9

Presentation Evening - Thursday Dec 10
6:00pm at the school (in the event of inclement weather, the event will be postponed to Tues 15 at Moss Vale High School Hall)

Reports Home - Friday Dec 11

Class Parties - Tuesday Dec 15

Year 6 Farewell - Jamberoo - Wednesday Dec 16

Last Day of Term 4 for students - Wednesday Dec 16

They are happy campers!

Mrs Thomas has reported that all our Year 5 & 6 campers are having a great time at Narrabeen Academy of Sport.

Silver Medal for Exeter Debaters!

Exeter wins Silver Medal in the State Finals of the Premier's Debating Challenge!

Our fantastic team of Evie, Mark, India and Finlay have defied the odds and managed a Silver Medal in the final of the Premier's Debating Challenge held at Stanwell Tops over the last three days. They have debated many skilled teams from the 11 Education Regions across the state and aquitted themselves very well.

They were beaten in their final debate by the team from Bathurst Public School (population 386!) on the topic 'should the legal drinking age be raised from 18 to 21'!

Well done team! We are very proud of you.

Book Week

This week we are celebrating Book Week at our school. This year's theme is 'Book Safari' and Mrs Nash and the children have enjoyed dressing up the library to reflect the theme.

Today the students are participating in activities relating to the short-listed books, purchasing books from the Book Fair, having a sausage sizzle and then in the afternoon they will have a mini Safari where they will hunt for 'treasure' using clues.

Exeter Wins Premier's Debating Challenge Regional Final!

Evie, Mark, India & Finlay are the Illawarra/South East Debating Champions after competing at the Debating Camp held in Batemans Bay this week. They were the only team from a small school and overcame teams from Illaroo Rd PS, Minnamurra PS and Moss Vale PS to win the final debate.

This is quite an achievement and we are very proud of them. This is another example of the opportunities provided at Exeter for our students.

Sorry we have been away...

Due to a nasty virus infecting my computer, I have been unable to update our blog for some time (as can be seen!)

Hopefully all is now well and we can update you on the many wonderful achievements of our students in recent times.

Ann Morgan, School Administrative Manager

Sporting Success
Our soccer team has been progressing in the NSW Small Schools Soccer Knockout. They beat Berrima P.S. and Nowra Hill P.S. in Round 1 and will take on Otford P.S. at Exeter Oval on Monday 10 August at 11:00am.


Exeter P.S. won the Bong Bong PSSA Athletics Carnival and many of our students will represent Bong Bong at the Wingecarribee PSSA Athletics Carnival to be held at Chevalier on August 28.

Academic Success
UNSW ICAS Computer Skills Competition Results:
High Distinction: India Brown
Distinction: Imogen Harris, Finlay O’Neill
Credit: Julian Mendes, Ben Quirico

Our group of interested 4,5,6 students has come 3rd in this year’s Murder Under the Microscope investigation run by the DET’s Centre for Learning Innovation. They competed against primary and secondary schools from all over Australia so this is a fantastic result.
Well done Evie, Finlay and India!

Our Premier's Challenge Debating Team have not lost a debate so far and will now attend a Debating Camp at Bateman's Bay in Week 4. Well done Evie, Finlay, India and Mark!

Exeter's Biggest Morning Tea & Open Classrooms

Many thanks for the support from our local community for Exeter's Biggest Morning Tea held today at school. Your efforts helped to raise more than $700 for cancer research.

It was also wonderful to welcome many visitors to our Education Week open classrooms. The students enjoyed sharing their work with you all.

Week 3 Term 2

Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
Year 3 & 5 sit for the NAPLAN test each morning

Friday
Bong Bong Soccer Gala Day at Eridge Park. Bus leaves school at 9:30am and returns around 3:00pm

Australian Government assistance for our 4,5,6 Canberra excursion
Students from our school have recently undertaken an educational tour of the national capital. While on this tour they participated in a variety of educational programmes focused on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy.
The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit their National Capital as part of their civics and citizenship education. To assist withmeeting the cost of the excursion, the Australian Government is contributing funding under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) programme toward the travel expenses incurred.

We would like to thank the Australian Government for their support of this program.
Activities undertaken are shown below. (Students also visited the National Film & Sound Archive)

We hope that the excursion was a rewarding experience for all students.
Grant Schaefer
Principal

Electoral Education Centre—Old Parliament Houe
National Museum of Australia

National Capital Exhibition

Parliament House

Week 1, Term 2

Tuesday April 28
Staff Development Day

Wednesday April 29
All students return for Term 2

Week 10, Term 1

Tuesday April 7
Year 4,5,6 students leave for their exciting Canberra excursion.

Students should be at school at 8:00am - the bus will leave at 8:30am

Wednesday April 8
Senior students still in Canberra.

Thursday April 9
Students arrive back from Canberra at approximately 6:oopm. Please call the school between 3:30 and 4:00pm to find our their ETA.

This is the last day of Term 1.

We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable Easter break. School will resume for students on Wednesday April 29

Bong Bong Cross Country Cancelled!

Tomorrow's planned Cross Country Carnival at Berrima PS has been postponed due the horrible weather. It will now take place on Friday May 1. A note should come home with your child today, enclosed in the Newsletter.

Week 9, Term 1 2009

Monday March 23
School Photos - don't forget to send photo envelopes and payment along to school on Monday

Tuesday March 24
Mr Schaefer, Mrs Thomas, Mrs Morgan and Mrs Rolles will travel to Goulburn to attend the second day of a departmental course on 'Communicating with your School Community'

Friday March 27
Exeter School's Cross Country Carnival will be held in the school grounds from 2:00pm.

Our girls Paul Kelly Cup winners!

Our senior girls will go on to compete in the Regional Paul Kelly Cup after successfully qualifying at the District competition held at Loseby Park in Bowral today.
Congratulations to them all.

Week 3 Term 1 2009

Thursday 12 Feb
Bong Bong Swimming Carnival at Mittagong Pool for 50m qualifiers from our school carnival last Friday. Due to the inclement weather, all 25m races have been cancelled.

Friday 13 Feb
9:45 am Assembly in the library