20 November 2012

Principal’s Message

The school has received notification via a parent that the NSW Ministry of Health has been notifying families of a measles epidemic within our local area.

Measles is highly contagious. Symptoms may include high fevers, tiredness, coughs, a runny nose and sore eyes prior to the appearance of a red rash. The key step that parents need to take to protect their family is to ensure that everyone born after 1965 has had two doses of MMR vaccine. This can be easily checked by contacting your GP or calling ACIR on 1800 653 809.

Measles vaccine is free from your doctor. Further information can be obtained from www.health.nsw.gov.au/factsheets/infectious/measles.html.

Thank you to Ms Batros for organising the election process for next year’s school leaders. All candidates presented a speech to the school last Wednesday and this was followed by all children lodging their vote through a ballot sheet. The votes will be counted by Ms Batros and a representative from the Glenfield P&C Association on Friday.

The school captains for 2013 will be announced at the Celebration of Learning Assembly on Monday 10 December.

I would like to remind all parents that footage from assembly items or in fact any school activity cannot be posted on a social media site such as YouTube. If you are filming or photographing an event, the focus can only be on your own child due to privacy and child protection issues.

Diary Dates

November 28 School Disco 29 Principal’s Awards Assembly December

3 Carols Night 10 Celebration of Learning 10 Parent Helper’s Morning Tea with staff 11 Year 6 Farewell 13 Reuben Andrew Performance

NOTES GONE HOME: Notes can be downloaded from this website:

www.glenfield-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Reuben Andrew performance

Newsletter

If you have not returned the advice slip regarding your child/children returning to our school next year, another copy is available at the bottom of page 3. We need to know the names of students returning to Glenfield to place them on a class list for 2013.

Last night a number of our students were presented with awards for their participation and sporting achievements at the Fields PSSA presentation night. These students were all mentioned in previous newsletters as each district and zone event took place. Special recognition should be made to C. Nyantakyi and N. Ferrer (pictured below) who were the athletics age champions in each of their divisions. Glenfileld also won the prestigious small school’s shield for athletics. Our girls senior softball and our junior girls tee ball teams were the 2012 premiers.

Year 6 Farewell The Year 6 Farewell will be held at the Ingleburn RSL on Tuesday 11 December starting at 5.45pm. Invitations and relevant information have been sent home. Meal options need to be returned to Miss Batros by this Friday 23 November whilst money and RSVP’s need to be returned to the office by the same date. Any Year 6 student who was not at Glenfield PS in kindergarten when the school photos were taken needs to bring a school kindergarten photo ASAP and give it to Miss Couloumbis for scanning. These photos will be returned. Year 5 students are invited to the disco part of the Year 6 Farewell. The disco commences at approximately 7.45pm. Permission notes are due to Miss Batros this Friday 23 November. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact Miss Batros.

Miss Batros

Bronze, Silver, Gold Level Awards The cut off date for students to bring in awards to receive a bronze, silver or gold level award this year is this Friday 23 November. Please hand these to your classroom teacher with any previous bronze, silver or gold level awards you have received to ensure you receive the correct award. Any handed in after this date will be handed out in 2013.

Miss Batros

Disco On Wednesday 28 November, a disco will be held after school in the hall. The disco is to raise money for the Year 6 present to the school. Infants (K-2) disco will be 3.30pm-4.30pm and primary (3-6) will be 4.45pm-5.45pm. The cost will be $3.50 (pay when entering the hall) which includes entry, a drink and a packet of chips. Parents need to drop children at school 5 minutes prior to the start time and be back to collect them promptly at the finishing time.

Miss Batros

MUSICAL PERFORMANCES Last week we were fortunate to hear some of our musical students perform. Rebecca, from 2/3P, performed two tunes on the piano on two separate occasions. She was very eager to perform for the parents of our new Kindergarten students for 2013 and then last Friday, she played for all of the students and teachers at our assembly. Rebecca did a magnificent job, playing confidently and beautifully. She learns keyboard each Wednesday during lunch time with the Music Bus.

Anabelle and Anastazia also performed magnificently at our assembly last week. They confidently played ‘Little Brown Jug’ on their clarinets and are busy practising for our Carols by Torchlight, which is fast approaching. Both girls are in our school band and have lessons each Tuesday.

N Lilly

Weekly Achievement Awards

Term 4 2012 Week 6 Congratulations to the following students who received awards at the assembly last week:

KC M Rana, N Bassi, V Tumanuvoa, K Ramos

KE A Chandler, A Mainali, J Guterras, I Pyne

1M T Phatarpekar, T Mckay-isaako, A Zhang, A Sharma

1/2D Z Saadat, D Tan-Bautista, C Artsivourtsis, S McClure

2L L Rajendran, R Devi, J Guo, C Shaji, J Asad

2/3P

3/4C S Brown, H Ratima, C Tan, B McIsaac-Nestor, S Khan

3/4E L Hossain, M Tran, E Mathew, D Broad, J David

5/6B A Koirala, A Lin, K McClure, A Kumar, N Ferrer

5/6C G Opku Mensah, S Stalin, J Aidoo, L Dimeski, N Alam, B Woodward

5/6S C Nyantakyi, C Viray, D Williams, M Ratima- Gemmell, B Hughes

From The office If you have recently received a statement for Text Book Payments, can it be payed at the office as soon as possible please.

Mrs Taranto

LIbrary News Book Covering: A huge thank you to Ms Warianka and Mrs Allen for donating their time to cover our new books this term. The students have definitely made the most of the new additions to the library. Book Borrowing: There will be no book borrowing from this week on, as we prepare for our annual stock take. Please return all your books. Overdue notes will be sent out on Thursday. If you cannot find the book at home, please send the replacement money up to the office, so a new copy of the book can be purchased. Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation.

Ms Cooper Librarian

K-6 Dance And Choir Group Performance The choir and dance group will be performing at the Celebration of Learning assembly. Costumes they need to bring include: The choir need to wear black pants/jeans, a plain, bright t-shirt and black shoes. The dance group need to wear black pants/tights, a plain bright coloured t-shirt and flat, comfortable shoes (eg: joggers). As an optional extra, dancers can wear a bright, appropriate hat. Miss Schroder, Miss Couloumbis and Miss De Giorgio

Class Placement for 2013

Please complete this form and return it to your eldest child’s class teacher before Friday 16 November, 2012. School resumes on Wednesday 30 January 2013 for Years 1-6 and on Monday 4 February for Kindergarten.

If your child/children will not be returning to Glenfield, please indicate the school / area in which they will be relocating —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— If your family is taking an extended vacation beyond January, please write down the intended date that your child/children will return to school. This will ensure that all students are placed on a class list and their position will be held in this class until their return to school. My child/children will be returning to Glenfield Public School on ——————————————————————————— Parent’s signature:—————————————————–————— ——— Date:—————————————————

Name of Child Current Class Returning to Glenfield Public School?

Yes No

Yes No

Yes No