Selected for appreciation awards
Three members of the Woy Woy South Public School community have been selected to receive an Award of Appreciation at the Central Coast School Education Area awards ceremony to be held at Erina High School on Thursday, September 5.
Michelle and Jason Te Puia and Diane Burley will receive an Award of Appreciation for the contributions they have made to enhance the learning opportunities to students.
"Over the last two years, Michelle and Jason have been responsible for introducing and coordinating our Pacific Island Group," said principal Mr Terry Greedy.
"Each week they have met with students with a Pacific Island heritage to teach them about significant areas of their cultures.
"The strength and effectiveness of the program can be gauged by the quality of the performances they deliver not only at our own school events but also at demonstrations they have given at other schools across the Peninsula.
"Their reputation continues to grow as other schools explore the possibility of introducing similar programs.
"Di Burley volunteered many, many hours of her own time to carry out a stock take of all reading resources in the K-2 area, identifying areas where we needed to strengthen the number of titles available and collating all this information in a database so that the school could maintain a record of what was available and add to it as new resources were purchased.
"This whole process was extremely time-consuming and would have taken school staff many months to be able to complete the work she was able to accomplish.
"As a result teachers now have easy access to books to support the literacy programs they are implementing in their rooms.
"Staff and students are most grateful," said Mr Greedy.
Newsletter, 27 Aug 2013
Terry Greedy, Woy Woy South Public School