GLENORIE SCHOOL

BULLETIN

Ph: 9652 1237 Fax: 9652 2538

Email: glenorie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.glenorie-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 2, Week 8

20 June 2019

Upcoming Events Date Event

21 June Bogan Bingo (book on Flexischools)

25 June 7:00pm P&C Meeting

27 June Reports go home

5 July Silver/Gold Assembly

5 July Last day Term 2

22 July Staff Development Day for teachers

23 July Students return Term 3

23 July 7:00 pm P&C Meeting

25 July Athletics Carnival

1 Aug OC Test

6 Aug Grandparent’s Day

National Consistent Collection of Data The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (the national data collection) is an annual collection that counts the number of school students with disability and the level of reasonable educational adjustment they are provided with.

The national data collection counts students who have been identified by a school team as receiving an adjustment to address a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (the DDA). The DDA can be accessed from the ComLaw website at www.comlaw.gov.au.

Every year we will collect the following information for each student with a disability:

the student’s level of education (i.e. primary)

the student’s level of adjustment

the student’s broad type of disability.

The information collected will be provided to all governments to inform policy and programme improvement for students with disability. Information about the arrangements that may apply to your child in relation to this data collection is attached as a separate note that was sent home today with further information about the NCCD

Celebrating Your Child’s Achievements Your child’s formal written report will be sent home Thursday, 27th June. The report will be a “snapshot” of some of the learning that your child has achieved this year. It is important that you celebrate your child’s every success (even if their successes do not match your expectations).

Glenorie Debating Team

Well done to the Years 6 Glenorie debating team who competed against the students from Castle Hill Public School. The effort and presentation of all the students was fantastic. Mrs Black was very impressed by the high standards set by the students involved. Well done, you did a fantastic job.

PSSA – Years 3-6 This week each student will be given a colour-coded note for either netball, leage-tag or tennis. Priority for junior teams has been given to Year 4 students and priority to senior teams will be given to Year 6 students. All students in Year 3-6 have been placed in their sport teams ready to start on the first week back next term. Please make sure that PSSA fees are paid for by Friday 5th July, as students who have not paid will be unable to attend. This is due to the school having to pay for buses and lessons. Thank you for your cooperation.

Multicultural Speeches Congratulations to Sebastian, Scarlett, Maddi and Remi, who represented Glenorie Public School at Tuesday’s Multicultural Speeches at Asquith Public School. Thanks to all teachers for doing a great job teaching public speaking skills and to parents for being the audiences during rehearsals at home. A special thanks to Mrs Harmon for the extra coaching this week and Mr Ure, who is coordinating this year’s Public Speaking competition. Well done everyone. They should be very proud of the excellent job that they all did.

Stewart House Thanks You. Thank you to all the parents that cleaned out their wardrobes recently. Stewart House have collected all the clothing bags last week and are very appreciative of your donations.

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“What did you do at school today?” If your child answers this question by saying “nothing”, try asking a different question: “What words did you learn today?”, “Who did you play with at lunch time?”, “What did you enjoy most about school today?”

Parent Teacher Interviews Thank you to the parents/caregivers who have called or emailed to request a Parent/Teacher/student interview in week 10. Please call the school if you would like this extra interview about your child’s report.

P&C Meeting Next Tuesday This year the P&C has been very active in supporting the efforts of the school to provide extra educational opportunities for our students (your children). Next Tuesday we will be hosting another P&C Meeting to further discuss allocating P&C funds to resources. We hope you can join us. 7:00pm ~ Staffroom

Staff Development Day End of Term 4 All our staff will be at school three Monday afternoons this term until 6:00pm working on Additive Strategies for Numeracy Program so our students increase their numeracy knowledge. Staff will not attend the Staff Development Day on Friday 20 December in lieu of these afternoon sessions.

Debating Our Stage 3 debating teams compete tomorrow and next Thursday at Samuel Gilbert PS and Dural PS. The teams have worked very hard on their debating skills this year and we wish Mrs Black and our students the best of luck.

Congratulations Ben! A big congratulations to Ben Stinger for being the only student in the Beecroft Zone to get into the PSSA State Touch Football team. Well done!

Become involved in your child’s education. Enjoy learning!

Lyn Pearce Principal

Woolworths Earn & Learn

We have been advised by Woolworths that they have run out of stickers and will not be getting anymore in.

Please return any stickers and/or sticker sheets, whether they are complete or not, as soon as possible to the school office.

Thank you for supporting our school!

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Well done to our fabulous Public Speakers

On Tuesday, Sebastian, Maddie,

Remy and Scarlett proudly

represented Glenorie Public

School at the regional final of

the Multicultural Public

Speaking Competition at

Asquith Public School.

All four children delivered their

outstanding, well-prepared

speeches as well as an

impromptu speech on the

unseen topics of ‘Honesty’

(Stage 3) and ‘Changes’ (Stage

2).

For over 23 years, the

Multicultural Perspectives

Public Speaking Competition

has been encouraging primary

school students to explore ideas

of multiculturalism in Australia,

as well as giving them an opportunity

to practice their public speaking skills and improve their confidence.

This annual public speaking competition usually includes approximately 2,000 entrants state wide and to reach

this level is an excellent accomplishment.

We are very proud of you all!

Soldier Care Packs Mia Fantini will be putting together Soldier Care Packs again this year. These packs will be sent to our

Australian troops posted overseas!

These “Care Packs” are a way to say thank you to our Australian Troops by sending them delicious Aussie

treats! If you would like to help please leave your donations in the Donation boxes in the Office.

Each box sent CANNOT exceed 2kg so it is important to donate SMALL and DELICIOUS items such as;

Vegemite squeeze tubes

Tim Tams

Other “yummy” biscuits

Peanut butter small

Lollies such as Mentos, small bags of lollies, gum

New magazines / words games

Crackers / BBQ shapes

Small coffee

Small boxes of black & herbal tea

Small Milo / hot choc sachets

Sugar sachets

Dried noodles (e.g. ramen noodles)

Sauce packs (tomato, BBQ, relish) small

Small hard containers chips (bags can burst)

Energy bars / muesli bars

Lip gloss

Small hand cream

If unsure please email kirsty@earlyyearstraining.com.au or text 0408 974 629

We will not be able to accept books (too heavy), large heavy items, out of date items or food items that are

not very tasty!!!

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The New Glenorie Public School App - Have you updated your App?

Thank you to everyone who has updated their app. There are still some of you who are still using the old app. Please ensure you are using our new app (pictured on the right) so that you don’t miss out on any messages.

Android users – new app needs to be installed:

You will need to uninstall your existing app and reinstall the new app.

In Google Play, you need to install the app called “Glenorie Public School App” by Your Phone App.

Or you can follow this link to take you to the correct app in Google Play:

http://cms.yourphoneapp.com.au/promo/glenorie and then just click on the Google Play store.

Apple users – update needed:

You only need to update your app. Some phones have done this automatically, but some of you will need to go to the App Store and search for Glenorie Public School and click “Update”. The new app should look like the picture on the right.

Or you can follow this link to take you to the correct app in Google Play or the App Store:

http://cms.yourphoneapp.com.au/promo/glenorie and then just click on the store you need.

You can now give online permission for excursions

There is a menu item called Online Permission which is a form you can fill out in lieu of filling out a paper permission note for excursions/activities. This cannot be used for any camps.

Reminder regarding payments:

School payments, which include payments for text books, school fees, excursions and incursions, need to be made via the Glenorie Public School website.

P&C payments, which include Canteen, Uniform Shop and fundraising events, need to be made via Flexischools.

Please let us know if you find any glitches with the new app. We appreciate your patience while any glitches are ironed out.

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WriteOn Competition

2019

DUE TO YOUR TEACHER BY: FRIDAY 28th June (Week 9)

WriteOn is an Imaginative writing competition run by NESA each year and is open to all

students in Years 1 to 6.

All entries must be students’ own work.

A panel of teachers will judge the entries and finalists will be announced from each Stage.

Use the stimulus picture below to write an ‘Imaginative’ text up to 500 words.

Imaginative pieces may include: letters, poems, scripts for radio, screen and stage, interviews,

journal entries or a narrative.

Assessment criteria

The following assessment criteria will be used by the judges when assessing entries:

making connections to the stimulus image

engaging the audience in imaginative, interpretive, emotive and/or creative ways

maintaining a consistent structure appropriate for the type of text selected

using a range of stylistic devices for the intended audience

using a variety of language forms and features, vocabulary and punctuation forms throughout the piece

considering the purpose, audience and context.

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P & C News

Bogan Bingo – Friday 21st June – 6pm

We are looking forward to our Bogan Bingo Night this Friday 21st June - starting at 6pm. If you want to come

along for the fun please buy your tickets by 5pm today via Flexischools.

If you are coming along to the fun night – bring your drinks and some CASH as we will have some great

prizes up for grabs!!

Thank you to the families that have contacted us and have donated items below - we still need the following

donations:

Beer tops – as many as you can collect

Male alcohol – whiskey, bourbon, box of beer – for prizes

Female alcohol – Moet Champagne, wine – for prizes

Black plastic table cloth roll x 3 rolls,

For decorating the hall we are looking for - empty beer boxes in good condition, toilet paper, anything

bogan

Australia Day decorations or Australia esky (to borrow and will return)

If any school family have any prizes they would like to donate for the bingo prizes and major raffle that we will

hold on the night please contact Dennise Williams at glenoriepandc@gmail.com

Canteen

Recess and Lunch orders can only be ordered via Flexischools, by cut off time of 9:00am on Mondays and

Fridays.

Upcoming roster:

Week 8 Friday 21/06 Coordinator AM Libby Cuza Coordinator PM KATE DEVANEY 9:30-10:30 DONNA ADAM 9:30-12 JEN RUTHERFORD 9:30-12 KAREN LETTICE 12-2 EMMA MORGAN 12-2 CHER CAMPBELL Week 9 Friday 28/06 Coordinator Libby Cuza 9:30-10:30 NERISSA A 9:30-12 EMMA Vumbaca 9:30-12 LIZ DO ROZARIO 12-2 JESS PESTANO 12-2 KYLA STEPHENSON

Before commencing your Canteen shift – Please sign in at the office and then go directly to the canteen and the

coordinator for the day will get you started.

WEEK 10 Monday 01/07 Coordinator Linda Zapletal 9:30-12 KATE LUGTON 9:30-12 FIONA TILLEY 11:30-2:30 CHRIS WATERSON

WEEK 9 Monday 24/06 Coordinator Libby Cuza 9:30-12 JODIE DE BONO 11:30-2:30 TAMARA Batson

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Uniform Shop

We need someone to step up and HELP on a Wednesday morning. If anyone can help between 9am – 10am

that would be great. Leave your details at the office.

The Uniform Shop operates Monday 9am to 10am AND Wednesday 9am to 10am.

Any orders placed on Flexischools can be collected at the uniform shop during operation hours or it will be placed

in the teacher’s pigeonhole to be hand delivered to your child. If the item is currently out of stock you will be

contacted and then the delivery will be made once stock has been replenished.

Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program

Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program is available on Wednesday mornings 9am

to 9:25am. The rewards for 2019 are based on “Polar Savers”.

Parents need to open or use an existing “Youth Saver Account” for your child to be involved.

If you have any further questions please come to the school banking window and speak to

Hayley or Olivia and they can assist you.

OOSH News - We ask all OOSH families to read this section

The Vacation care program for the next school holiday period is included in this Bulletin.

Please contact the OOSH on 9652 0074 if you have any questions in relation to the OOSH program and

availabilities for your children to attend.

Please ensure if your child can not attend an OOSH session that you call and cancel so you are not charged for

the service, plus it gives other families the opportunity to use the service if required.

P&C Meeting

Next Tuesday, 25th June

Staffroom

All are welcome to attend our next P&C meeting

to discuss current and future school matters.

Email: glenoriepandc@gmail.com Facebook: Glenorie Public School P & C Events

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Thank you to our sponsors…

Gold

Silver

Bronze

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