White Cliffs Public School

04/09/2026

WCPS NEWSLETTER Term 3 Week 7
Have a great weekend!

30/08/2026

AUGUST 2026 🌈🏃‍♀️🌿

This month has been terrific – again!

Fitness! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️

Alice, Nate and Levi ran, jumped and competed so well at the SOTA–TOPS–WCPS Sports Carnival that they went on to represent us at the Broken Hill District Carnival.

Miss Jo was so very impressed with their efforts across several events – some back-to-back! Their spirit, determination and skill never let up, and we gave them a big cheer when they returned to school.

Alice then travelled to Mildura to compete at the Barrier Athletics Carnival, where she achieved a personal best and came 5th across the Far West! We are incredibly proud of her.

It is probably also a good time to congratulate Miss Jo, who completed a 100 km marathon in Sydney about a month ago!
😮👏

Perhaps the White Cliffs air is the secret to all these excellent sporting results… or maybe it is our Morning Run and follow-up exercises – especially those very well-executed lunges! 😄

We were also very pleased to welcome Mr Gardiner, Executive Principal, and Janine, Leader in Community Engagement, from Wilcannia Central School, who brought Ms Henderson, Principal, and Wendy, Business Manager, from Anzac Park Public School over to say hello and share morning tea with us.

Ms Henderson showed us a great clip of her school and shared some stories about what school life is like there. She kept commenting on how much her students would enjoy visiting WCPS, particularly our wonderful playground. When she explained that their school is four storeys high and does not have a separate playground, our students’ collective jaws dropped! They could hardly imagine it.

Mr Gardiner, Janine and our WCPS students are now looking forward to doing some activities together over the coming term.

🌿 From our garden…

Luci, our GA, and the students collected beautiful bunches of parsley and coriander that they had planted and grown together. Each student took a bunch home on Friday.

Luci has asked everyone to come back to school on Monday ready to share how they used their herbs. I’ll have a pen and paper ready to take notes! 🌿😊

🌈 We have also been treated to some wonderful rainbows around White Cliffs recently – always worth stopping to admire.

And finally, all students joined in Healthy Harold sessions last week. They asked excellent questions and participated enthusiastically throughout the workshops.

A big thank you to SOTA for inviting us along.

Another busy, happy and very White Cliffs kind of month. 💙

27/08/2026

27/08/2026

An interesting little read.....

Our partner, Primary English Teaching Association Australia (PETAA), would like to congratulate all the teachers and students participating in the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge! PETAA is a proud supporter of the challenge, and of the work teachers do every day in schools to transform student lives with reading, imagination, and learning.

“It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to share worthwhile books – that will stretch their imaginations, help them make sense of their worlds and lives – and encourage them to reach out to people who are different to themselves – who lead different lives” (Katherine Patterson, author of Bridge to Terabithia).

27/08/2026

Wonderful!!!!!

📚✨ Celebrate Book Week with Book Bites! ✨📚

Looking for your students’ next great read? Book Bites serves up bite-sized introductions to books from the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge book lists for students in Years 3 to 12. 🎧📖

🎙️ Hear Australian authors read the first chapter of their books and discover new stories, voices and worlds, perfect for inspiring students to choose what to read next!

👩‍🏫 Teachers can also access editable classroom resources to bring Book Bites into the classroom or school library.

🌟 Featuring authors including Kristin Darell, Kate and Jol Temple, Nathan Luff, Katrina Nannestad, Pip Harry, Jack Heath, Lili Wilkinson and many more!

🎶 Make this Book Week a celebration of stories, discovery and reading.

🔗 Explore Book Bites: artsunit.nsw.edu.au/listen-the-arts-unit/literature-and-language-arts/book-bites

27/08/2026

25/08/2026

❗️IMPORTANT UPDATE ❗️
We are rescheduling our specail day to the new day & time of:-
FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2026
Thank you for your understanding and we look forward to seeing you here then!

25/08/2026

White Cliffs Public School P&C

IMPORTANT UPDATE
We are rescheduling our speacil day to the new day & time of:-

FRIDAY 4TH SEPTEMBER 2026

Thank you for your inderstanding and we look worward to seeing you here then!

Hello everyone,

We look forward to seeing you all next Thursday for a very special morning at White Cliffs Public School!

We will be coming together to thank our generous Books in Homes sponsors, celebrate our wonderful dads, grandads, uncles and all the special men in our lives, and share some of the fantastic learning happening at our school.

Our students are working hard to finish their Biome Projects and are looking forward to sharing them with you.

We will also hold our Annual Book Week Parade! All visitors are very welcome to come dressed as a favourite book character too — and yes, there will be prizes! 📚✨

And the icing on the cake? A marvellous morning tea prepared by Fran and Hayley for us all to enjoy together.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a wonderful morning of celebration, learning and community. ❤️










: )IMPRERTANT UPDATE

24/08/2026

More fun games to be had Fathers Day.

20/08/2026

white White Cliffs Public School P&C

We recently had a few great discussions about what makes White Cliffs Public School such a special place — and our scribe could barely keep up once the students started sharing everything they love and appreciate about their school!

Our staff also added their thoughts, and together we turned them into our very own “Brag Points”.

You may notice other public schools doing the same, and we think it is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate what makes each school unique. There is so much to appreciate across our Far West schools — from Tibooburra to White Cliffs, down to Euston and Wentworth, and all the schools in between.

We invite you to enjoy our White Cliffs Public School Brag Points and celebrate with us some of the many things that make our little school so special.

A big shout-out to Shelby, who did a fantastic job putting it all together! 🌟