Newsletter: Week 3 Term 2 2020 Page 1

Bardwell Park Infants School t: 9567 8754 4 Crewe Lane, Bardwell Park, 2207 f: 9567 2952 e: bardwelpki-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au w: https://bardwelpki-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

N E W S L E T T E R Week 3 Term 2 11 May 2020

books, food, water bottle, Library bags School Day: 9.15am – 3.15pm

Lunch: 11.15-12.15pm, Recess: 1.40-2.00pm

Term 2 Week 3 Phase 1 (this week)

Phase 1: 1 rostered day at school begins today, Monday 11 May.

Term 2 Week 4 Phase 1 (next week)

Phase 1: students attend school 1 rostered day per week.

Scholastic Book Club orders: close online on Monday 18 May.

World Bee day: Wednesday 20 May

Dear Parents and or Caregivers, Congratulations to the following students who received Merit Awards in the virtual Assembly via Seesaw last Friday:

K Eleena, Sylvie

1/2 Jack, Jessica

We trust you all had a memorable 2020 Mother’s Day yesterday.

Phase 1: from today Monday 11 May Schools remain open for students who need them; children of essential workers and those who are vulnerable. Both pedestrian gates will be open this week. The back pedestrian gate will be locked at 9.30am and reopened at 3pm for the safety and security of our students. Please read the Phase 1 poster in the sidebar of the newsletter and attached to both pedestrian gates. Please ensure your child brings a packed lunch, recess, a water bottle, school books and library bag his or her rostered 1 day a week at school. Hours of the school day are 9.15-3.15pm. In the Learning from Home environment, the school continues to mark student attendance daily. If your child is sick, do not send them to school on their 1 rostered day, but please inform the office via email or phone. Similarly, if your child is sick on a day they are learning from home, please email or phone the school office, so the roll can be marked correctly and teachers will know the student will not be engaging in learning on that day. Crewe Lane does not have a car bay for drop-offs and pick-ups, so I ask parents to adhere to physical distancing when escorting children to school and minimise time spent in the school, as per advice.

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Health The school’s daily enhanced cleaning processes continue this term. The playground equipment remains cordoned off, at this time. Shared resources such as home readers will be cleaned before re-distribution to students. Returned library books will be quarantined and cleaned before being put back onto shelves for borrowing. The school has received the anticipated essential supplies from the Department. Thank you to parents and caregivers who reinforce the message of hand hygiene with your child at home. I seek your support in ensuring you maintain physical distancing from other adults, when dropping off or picking up your child and thank you for not lingering longer than is needed in the playground. Finally, please model a positive attitude towards your child’s return to school one day a week, as children take their cues from you!

Penguins Students will be taking their wooden penguin home on their 1 rostered day at school this week. Please read the instructions that are with the penguin. This is a K-2 art/environmental project which supports the restoration of Mawson’s Hut in Antarctica.

Bayside Council Bayside Council aims to improve road safety around schools and to remind parents and caregivers of the fines and demerit points for not obeying road rules. In the near future, you may see the following signs on our school fence.

P&C zoom meeting Current advice dictates non-essential visits to our school are not allowed; including Scripture, outside providers in school hours such as OT and Speech and the usual P&C meetings. Therefore, last week’s P&C meeting was via zoom. Thank you to Renee and Boyd who set up the meeting and Angela, the P&C President for chairing the meeting. P&C meetings are held twice a term and follow the usual format/agenda including the Principal’s report. The P&C minutes and a letter from the P&C are attached to the newsletter, see community announcements for further information. A list of community contacts for your information is attached, as requested.

From the school Office Refund/invoicesPlease find an invoice attached to the newsletter. Due to the flexible attendance of students last term, some families are in need of a refund for some of the Fundamental Movement Skills lessons, last term. Thank you to Mrs Maclean who will be providing a refund for those who have paid and deserve the refund.

Engraved personalised pavers 2020 The school offers parents the opportunity to purchase a personalised paver to be placed in the school grounds. 2020 will be remembered as an interesting year in a historical context! The cost of the paver is $40. If you are interested please ring or see the Lesley or Sheridan in the school office for more information about payment, as the paperwork and templates that need to be completed prior to the order being placed.

For Year 2 students only Parents and caregivers of our students currently in Year 2 should be considering their child’s enrolment options for next year, particularly those who are currently out of our local catchment area. Please visit the school website if you need to download an enrolment form for a public school.

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Term 2 Week 3 (this week) Teachers are very keen to reconnect with their students this week. We thank parents and caregivers for your support in these challenging times and we acknowledge the great work you have done at home! Walk Safely to School 2020 which was to be on 15 May, was postponed due to COVID-19 and the Learning from Home model. Notwithstanding, it is a timely reminder to walk safely to school on your rostered one day at school this week.

Term 2 Week 4 (next week) Scholastic Book Club orders: close online by Monday 18 May. Please view the link to the Scholastic book catalogue https://scholastic.com.au/book-club/virtual-catalogue-1/ The means of ordering books remains the same. Closing date for orders is by Monday 18 May. Students will be given their orders when the student is at school, following the delivery of book orders to the school.

World Bee Day: Wednesday 20 May World Bee Day is celebrated on May 20 each year. The purpose of the international day is to acknowledge the role and importance of bees and other pollinators, for the ecosystem. Our native stingless bees must surely be pleased to have the usual sounds of children in the playground! I can assure you the bees are busy buzzing around doing their job, particularly in those warmer days we have had.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Community Contacts for your information only (not exhaustive) as requested

• Parent Line NSW: 1300 1300 52o 24hr parenting support for families with children aged 0 - 18yrs

• 1800 Respect: 1800 737 732o 24hr counselling support for victims of sexual assault & domestic violence

• Domestic Violence Helpline: 1800 656 463o 24hr counselling support and accommodation for victims escaping violence

• Mens Line Australia: 1300 789 978o 24hr counselling support for men experiencing emotional, health, relationship issues.

• Tresillian NSW: 1300 272 736o 24hr parenting support for families with children aged 0 - 5yrs only

• Mental Health Access Line: 1800 011 511o 24hr crisis support for families experiencing mental health challenges

• Your room – Alcohol & other drug support: 1800 250 015o 24hour counselling support around alcohol & substance use

• Lifeline: 13 11 14o 24hr crisis support for suicide prevention

• Kids Helpline: 1800 551 800

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o 24hr support for children 5 - 25yrs and their caregivers and parents• My Forever Family – Carer support: 1300 782 975

o Support for carers; Mon-Fri - between 9am-5pm• Link2Home: 1800 152 152• Child Protection Helpline: 132 111• Beyond Blue: 1300 224 636 or https://www.beyondblue.org.au/about-us/contact-us

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P&C Newsletter11 May 2020

At our meeting on Wednesday night the P&C discussed ways to help the BPIS community feel more connected to each other and the school. If any of these are of interest and you’d like to be involved, please email Angela on ange.hume@gmail.com or text 0488 009 619

If you have any other ideas please let us know. We also have a closed Facebook group that we’d love you to join – Bardwell Park Infants Parents & Citizens Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/967301520105921/

Virtual playdates for parents and children: Virtual playdates with your child’s classmates. We will organise some small group Zoom or FB messenger catch ups. We could also run a parents only catch up (say 8.30 pm when the kids are hypothetically in bed asleep).

Chalk drawings outside your home: Many families are doing A LOT of walking at the moment. If you’d like to share your address details with other BPIS families, they could leave your children a chalk message when they’re walking past your house.

Book reading: We would look at setting up a weekly video chat where a parent volunteers to read a book. The children would get an opportunity to say hello to each and chat before and after.

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P&C meeting minutes next page

Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

ZOOM Meeting Wednesday Evening 6.5.20

Meeting Opened: Meeting Closed:

7.02pm 8.38pm

Attendance: Apologies:

Angela, Jo, Judy, Will, Renee. Ana, Louise.

Minutes: Renee.

Item Description Contributor/Owner

1. Welcome We Welcome and Acknowledgment of Country. Angela Hume

2. Previous Minutes Accepted. Renee 1st, Jo 2nd. Angela

3. Principal’s Report. P&C Principal’s Report @ Wed 6 May @ 7pm – 9.oopm via zoom hosted by Renee Burger P&C 25 March cancelled due to COVID-19

Staffing DoE casual employment package: the DoE is ensuring employment continuity of casual teachers who are eligible. We welcome Mr David Stark to our school on Mondays and Fridays for term 2. General Assistant – Michael O’Malveney was successful at interview for the role of General Assistant at our school. Congratulations Mick.

Annual Report 2019 The school’s AR 2019 was extended until 1 June. AR was finalised and published our school’s website, by the end of term 1, as per the usual schedule. A new format this year, with some information prepopulating and less compulsory sections.

School planning process: There will be a new planning process for government schools next year, for the next cycle of the school plan, 2021 forward. This may include a situational analysis. I trialled how a situational analysis would look for an infants school last term for Leadership/High Performance.

SBAR Approved: School Budget Allocation Report approved usually comes out at end of term 1. Principal received at 5pm Wednesday 6 May. Skype information session is on Monday 11 May, 2020 at 3:30pm, Lesley and Jo attending. The information session will outline changes to the SBAR for 2020 and define the support available, including the upcoming professional

Jo Fulham

Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

Zoom Meeting Wednesday Evening 6.5.20

learning opportunities delivered by the Strategic Schools Resourcing, Field Services team. Health Essential school supplies: delivery expected by the end of this week. Frist Aid room packages by end of this week (week 2). It is intended for support staff/office who care for students who are unwell. PPE supplies packages are for schools with support units. Physical Distancing: for adults at drop offs and pick-ups, please do not linger in the playground. Phase 0: schools remain open, no student will be turned away. See all previous advice. Phase 1: 1 rostered day learning at school, 4 days learning from home. Ours students will be with class teacher on his or her rostered day of learning at school. Curriculum based updates Robokids: was planned for Term 2 weeks 2-7 6 week program, 1 ½ hour each class Tuesday mornings. Due to COVID-19 this will not go ahead. We have booked for Term 2, 2021. Jellybeans Music program Term3 Term 3 Monday afternoons both classes $1430. Both the ES1 and S1 programs address NSW Syllabus outcomes. As of 6 May, there has been no word from Jellybeans, as yet. P&C have offered financial support for this project. Footsteps Term 3: email from Footsteps today 6 May, footsteps will go ahead in term 3 with social/physical distancing in place. School academic reports: no answer as yet as to how the student reports will look.

Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

Zoom Meeting Wednesday Evening 6.5.20

Refunds for those who have already paid for Fundamental Movement Skills and did not attend all lessons due to COVID-19. Lesley has looked at invoices and how many sessions individual students did not attend. The school intends to refund for lessons missed. Information regarding this will go out on Monday, in the newsletter (week 3) on the school website. Hard copies of the school newsletter will go home with students on their rostered day. Digital technologies nbn network COVID-19 Education Relief Package: via school newsletter term 2 week 2. The nbn network is working with net providers to connect low income families with home schooling needs. As of 6 May, no further communication. Devices for Teachers project: BPIS is involved in this project. Seesaw was the chosen platform for this. Classroom teachers are happy with it. Project is to have an impact on student engagement and student learning outcomes. Seesaw: school is currently using a free version of this. Beauty of this platform is it feeds back to teachers and if teachers plan with outcomes in mind, they are assessing, able to give feedback which is known to be a very powerful tool. Teachers who wish school to look into buying access to seesaw. Seesaw for schools is for 100 students minimum, we have asked for a quote. Jo will survey community later in the term regarding their perceptions of seesaw. Departmental web conferencing/digital tools The DoE has a number of tools such as Adobe Connect, Microsoft 365 & MS Teams, Google suite for education (google hangout meets –vc), DoE zoom, Skype for business. Student portal K-2. Kindergarten have not had exposure to their student portal in term 1. iPads 2 at school – all school ipads are working. Jo is putting seesaw class app on ipads. AppleCachi~.pdf

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Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

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Looking to the future…. To move the school to the supported MDM (Mobile Device Management) solution Jamf the school will need to have the following.

● Apple Caching Server – As discussed this will assist with app deployment. At present the school does not have one. As of 5 May the caching server

● Apple School Manager enrolment – As you already have a VPP enrolment we may be able to migrate it if it qualifies

● Devices – The school may have to purchase new devices for iPads that cannot run iOS 12 or higher. All new iPads come bundled with a Jamf licence - iPad 32Gb

If the existing VPP account cannot be migrated a new enrolment will need to be created. As of 5 May, the DoE are working with Apple on a solution to this. Asset Management issue PWA Public Works Advisory: door lock upgrade works was conducted by PWA. New locks for B. Block. Photocopier is out of warranty in October 2020 Jo met with company representative on Monday 23 March at 10am re new photocopier. School will pay for the new photocopier, around $6,000. Share Our Space: did not go ahead in the April school holidays, due to COVID-19. Roof and gutters were cleaned in term 1. Level 1 Water restrictions exemption permit approved: effective 28 April 2020, valid during Level 1 water restrictions As discussed, Jo has some links to go in the newsletter for parents re support services and phone numbers. The school wishes to thank all our families and we acknowledge how challenging it is in the current climate. You are all doing great things at home with your children! Thank you!

Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

Zoom Meeting Wednesday Evening 6.5.20

4. President’s Update Typically, at this meeting we would have been discussing the school disco event and the Mother’s Day stall. Unfortunately, both events were unable to proceed due to COVID-19. Events for the rest of the year are on hold, until we have more information about what social distancing measures will be in place. Students have been learning from home and staff at BPIS have worked hard to provide us with teaching resources. As parents we really appreciate the support that we’ve received and the communication about how children will gradually return to full time attendance. Everyone has found aspects of home learning challenging, particularly with uncertain end dates and the initial novelty of being at home more often wearing off. Many families will also be struggling with financial and mental health issues. With this in mind the P&C are keen to look at ways to support children and their families to feel connected. This is a key discussion item for our meeting tonight.

Angela Hume.

5. Treasurers’ Update ● Total cash on hand $ 21,928.46 ● ACNC charity register update for 2019 year is

completed ● No significant income and NIL expenses to report for

2020 so far

No Annual Contribution fees this year, due to Covid- 19.

1) Will 2) Angela.

Will Browne.

Bardwell Park Infants School (BPIS)

Zoom Meeting Wednesday Evening 6.5.20

6. Fundraising and

Promotions, and all

other extra

Updates/

Discussions.

● Disco and Mothers Day cancelled. ● Other school events (and fundraising) are all on hold at

the moment, for this year. Discussion about Virtual Playdates. Ideas on how to set this up and connect families. Community Engagement is the main focus of this discussion. Ideas to engage families. Encourage people in our school community to join the BPIS Facebook page, we will post the link in the School Newsletter. ZOOM and Meetings Online in the future School Community meetings. Future Zoom Meetings- kids book readings. Future P&C Meetings to take on a more Community meeting, so that everyone feels welcome and that more parents will be willing to join in on discussions, ideas and updates. Mental Health Support for families and parents. Finally, another very big thank you to the Teachers and Staff for all of their hard work, support and patience through this time. We all appreciate it very much.