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26 February 202126 February 2021

Principals Report

Dear Parents and Carers,

We welcome back everyone to Term 1 2021 and by now allour students have successfully transitioned to school and theirclasses in Junior, Middle and High School. We welcome ournew staff-

Junior School: SLSO -Eman Qasem,Middle School- Teacher- Navneet KhakhHigh School: Teacher- Christine Beale

Congratulations to Liam Annesley who successfully progressedthrough the recruitment process to become a permanentteacher at Chalmers Road School.

We welcome Sara Cappello and Natalie Damjanovska whoare completing work experience as part of their Social Workuniversity degree. We value the support they give our studentsand school.

Our first P and C meeting took place in Week 3 on Monday8 February. We are looking at working together to organisethe Term Parent Forums, fundraising and completing Grants tosupport our students and school. We encourage all our parentsto participate; our meetings will continue on Zoom until furthernotice.

We look forward to seeing all our families at PersonalisedLearning and Support Plan (PLSP) meetings on Tuesday 23and Wednesday 24 February where you will have theopportunity to discuss in detail your child’s learning for the nextsemester.

Michelle DaviesPrincipal

What’s happening at Chalmers Road School

Term 1 2021

Monday 15February- 6 February

Swim School K-6, Weeks 4 and 5

Tuesday 23 February School Clinic

Tuesday 23,Wednesday 24February

Personalised Learning and SupportPlan (PLSP) Parent/Carer Meetings

Monday 1, Tuesday2, Wednesday 3March

Dental Clinic on site

Last Day Term 1 Thursday 1 April

Monday 8 March P&C Meeting – Week 7 meeting

Friday 19 March Harmony Day

Tuesday 23 March Yr 7 and Yr 10 Vaccinations

Thursday 1 April Last day Term 1

Friday 2 April Good Friday

Monday 19 April School Staff return

Tuesday 20 April Students return Term 2

Online payments

Parents are able to make payments for school contributions,excursions and any other expense through the Parent OnlinePortal. Access to this is from the school website at the linkbelow and the “Make a payment” link on the right hand side onthe top orange bar. Parents will have the option on notes senthome to indicate that they have paid through the Parent OnlinePortal. This is an easy and secure way to make payments.

http://www.busbywest-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

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P&C Meeting

The next meeting for the P&C will be held on 9 March 2020 at9:15am on Zoom, please contact the school to be added tothe invitation. All parents, carers and friends of Chalmers Roadschool welcome.

Covid Intensive Learning SupportProgram

In November 2020, the NSW Governmentannouncedaone-off funding support for department schools to delivertargeted, intensive tuition for students who have beendisadvantaged by the move to remote and/or flexible learning.

The purpose of theCOVID intensive learning support programis to deliver intensivesmall group tuition for students with thegreatest need in 2021, helping to close the equity gap fordisadvantaged students inallNSW Department of Educationprimary, secondary, central and SSP.

The COVID intensive learning supportprogram is for the fullyear and provides additional support to all schools ensuringidentified students benefit from high-quality literacy, numeracyor specific subject area small group tuition that best meetstheir learning needs, led by teachers and educatorsworking inpartnership with classroom teachers.

Covid Update

With the ever-changing guidelines for schools this is where weare up to at the moment.

Non-essential adults are not permitted on school grounds or atschool events. Visitors to the school are required to both sign inand also register through the Service NSW QR code.

Parents and carers are can be on school for the purpose of:

Communication with you

We need to be able to connect with all families. Please use theSZapp to receive messages Chalmers Road Facebook pageand website to keep up to date with our school news. If youhave changed your phone numbers please inform the office sowe can update your details.

Green Class

Green Class have had a great start to the term. They have beenpracticing there counting to 30 and adding numbers togetherby playing games on the IWB. They have also been looking atrepresenting numbers in different ways by matching numbersto the amount in pictures.

They also have been using blocks to represent differentnumbers when adding them together so they can see whatnumbers together make

• dropping off and picking up students at the schoolgate where they will be by staff

• essential parent and carer meetings with teachersand/or school executives, with a scheduledappointment

• entering a school administration building or anotherdefined location for the purpose of picking up theirchild if they are unwell or where they have beenasked to arrange for a COVID-19 test after their childhas displayed flu-like symptoms while at school

• attending organised school meetings such asPersonalised Learning and Support Plan and SchoolClinic

• students should be at school unless they are unwell.If they are sick with flu-like symptoms they arerequired to get a Covid-19 test and return a negativeresult before returning to school. This test result mustbe sighted by the school. All other absences need tobe explained and supported by either a medicalcertificate or detailed parent explanation.

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They have been listening to a variety of texts in class andpracticing their spelling on the IWB. They are enjoying swimscheme and having a splash in the pool. They are off to a blastin term 1!

Yellow Class

Yellow Class has been working well as term 1 has progressed,with the students settling in well to a learning routine each day,focusing on our individual and class learning tasks. Studentsenjoy beginning each day using our Morning Circle Program,where we can use our Interactive Whiteboard to find our namesand photos, count the students who are present, talk aboutthe day of the week, the weather and other items. In thisway we can and apply simple English and Maths tasks to oureveryday world in a way we can see and understand. We arealso working each day to build our use of expressive languageby using Key Word Sign, visuals, ProLoquo2Go and speechtogether to make comments and requests. The students veryengaged in special learning opportunities in music, dance artand the swimming program.

Ross and Laura

Red Class

What a great start to the year !! We welcome Kindergartenstudents to Red Class. Students have settled in beautifullyenjoying the Swim Scheme Program, Music lessons and so

much more. We welcome Wasi, Taseen ,Luna, Toby and Leoand their parents/carers to Chalmers Rd school. Alreadystudents have settled into a routine enjoying school for thefirst time. Looking forward to engaging in a variety of learningexperiences with our students this term.

Red Class Teachers

Miss Jacqueline, Miss Tania and Miss Eman

Blue Class

Blue Class have had a great start to the year and we are allexcited to be at Chalmers Road School. The students havebeen making lots of friends in class and learning all about eachother. The class have all been impressing Mr Luke with theirlearning, showing him how they can count and trace numbers,sing songs and dance during their lessons with Miss Tamie.

While at school Blue class have been enjoying the swimmingprogram and have taken to the water very quickly. Ourswimming teachers have been very impressed with theprogress the children are showing each day.

Blue class have had a great transition into Kindergarten and weare excited to continue our learning throughout the rest of theterm and the 2021 school year.

Luke and Sarah

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Purple Class

Purple class have had a great start to 2021. We have beenbusy engaging in activities to get to know all of our classmates,establishing our classroom routine and completing activities tounderstand what our personal goals will look like. As a classwe have each identified something we want to work on forTerm 1 and will work towards for the remainder of the term.A whole class favourite has been swimming in the pool onMonday mornings, we have enjoyed playing ball games in thepool and having swimming races. We are looking forward to therest of the term where we will be learning more about numberpatterns, our T Ball skills and our typing skills.

Brooklyn, Aisling, Bharti and Mary.

Pink Class

Pink class has been very busy this term, learning a newclassroom routine, the layout of the room and where theyshould put their bags, diaries and lunches. Students areengaging with the English unit, “Identity” where they arerequired to match photos of themselves and their classmates,indicate favourite items and make choices of things they to doduring their free choice time in the afternoon.

This term we have begun a Food Technology unit on Chineseand Australian Foods. No doubt sampling Vegemite on a smallpiece of toast will be involved. For Chinese food, we will beheating the food using the oven and, with great care, somehot water and making a dipping sauce to teach the tastesof “sweet” and “sour”. Food technology is a great way toapply maths (measuring) and science (dissolving, mixing andobserving changes caused by heat). Understanding the idea ofhot and cold is easily taught simply through touching a frozenpacket of peas and then a warm cup of water and asking thestudents to identify which is which.

We are looking forward to lots of learning with some fun alongthe way in the Pink Class of 2021.

Navneet and Christine

Magenta Class

Magenta Class have had a great start to the term. They havebeen learning to share and be kind to our friends in the classand in the playground. The students have been very busy in

the last 4 weeks, learning and exploring the concept of Identity,getting to know how they are by first looking for their photo inthe bottom of a tray filled with kinetic sand.

Every morning Magenta class breaks up into two groups,communication group using both Key Word Signs (KWS) andVisuals and the other group, handwriting where the studentsare learning to hold their pencil correct while practicing theirletters.

In week 4 and 5 the students in K-6 are learning to swimmingwith the swim scheme and having a splash in the pool. They areoff to a blast in term 1!

Audrey and Helen

Teal Class

I would like to welcome all our students, Naomi, Muhammad,Daniel, Aziz, Mohammad and Jason and my Student LearningSupport Officer, Mrs Barbara Davis to the Teal Class in theMiddle School this year. We have been very busy with lots ofinitial assessments and tasks to check what students know andtrialling some new activities to develop their abilities. The otherimportant thing is getting used to each other and practicing oursocial skills.

This term in English we are exploring the concept of Identity.To begin, we have been choosing photos of ourselves, of eachother and familiar places within the school. Some studentshave been practicing their handwriting skills slowly revising andwriting words such as family, mother, father, brother, sister,uncle. Other students have been matching photos and theirname tags identifying letters and pictures. We begin our daywith a morning circle, have a short break and then start ouracademic work folders comprising English and Mathematicsactivities. We have some students using calculators, rulers andpens while others use counters, Ipads and A3 size worksheetsto complete their activities. Everyone enjoys sensory play in Teal

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class, ranging from music (The Wiggles Song - Bear’s Asleep),water play, magnetic shapes and kinetic sand.

Barbara and I are pleased that all our students are settling intotheir new classroom routine, unpacking their bags and placingtheir lunches and diaries in the right spot and beginning theirfirst activity for the day. Thank you for all your correspondencein the student diaries – it has been so helpful. I look forwardto meeting everyone’s parents at the upcoming P.L.S.P.meetings.

Craig and Barbara

Orange Class

Orange class have had a great start to 2021. Tamie and Manalewould like to welcome our students to Orange class - Jaden,Nicholas, Yue Yang, Ali Haider, Erinc and Christian. Thestudents are settled and working hard. They have enjoyed usingthe interactive whiteboard whilst engaged in morning circleand have been busy with desk work activities. A whole classfavourite has been our weekly dance lessons where studentsenjoyed moving to music.

We’re looking forward to a wonderful term.

Tamie and Manale

Banksia Class

Linda and Liam would love to start by saying how excited theyare to welcome our students to Banksia class - Mia, Sasha,Sadia, Khoder, Taha, Julian and AJ are all getting settled andworking hard. Our students have gotten straight into somewonderful learning and this week we are focusing on speakingconfidently in front of our peers, describing our weekend withphotos and visuals and practicing our active listening.

In History we’re studying Australian’s at War by recognisingimportant themes of ANZAC day by discussing photos andcollages, listening to ‘The Last Post’ and making colourfulartworks.

In work experience, the students are keeping the high schoolgardens watered and fresh as well as assisting to collect moneyand take orders for the school café program.

We’re looking forward to a wonderful term,

Liam & Linda

Kangaroo Paw Class

Kangaroo Paw have had a busy and productive start to theterm. We have begun work on an English unit on “Identity” andour students have developed some excellent artworks basedon the things they enjoy. We have also been working on ourreading and spelling skills and have enjoyed working togetheron group activities. During morning circle and throughout theday, we have been working on our Spanish speaking skills i.e.greeting each other in Spanish, learning to count, name thedays of the week, the months of the year and everyday items.

During Food Technology we have been working on developingour independent cooking skills and have made some deliciouspancakes. Our Work Experience program began this week andthe class is to be commended for their hard work and effortwhen completing our playground maintenance work.

The students in Kangaroo Paw are to be commended for theirexcellent efforts and class staff are so happy to be part of theirlearning journey this year.

Chris and Chrissy

Wattle Class

Wattle Class have had a wonderful start to their school yearand have settled in well. During the past few weeks we haveparticipated in lots of learning experiences and programs inNumeracy, Literacy, Art, Online activities, and Sand Play.

The class have become familiar with the regular daily routineand seem to be comfortable in their learning environment.

Sally and Lubna

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Cafe

Yellow Class has been working well as term 1 has progressed,with the students settling in well to a learning routine each day,focusing on our individual and class learning tasks. Studentsenjoy beginning each day using our Morning Circle Program,where we can use our Interactive Whiteboard to find our namesand photos, count the students who are present, talk about theday of the week, the weather and other items. In this way wecan and apply simple

Luke

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