Success for All

Epping

Heights Public School

TERM 1 | WEEK 6 | 03/03/2021

128 Kent Street, Epping 2121 p: 9876 2791

e: eppinghts-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au w: eppingheights-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER IN THIS EDITION

Principal Report Zone Swimming Carnival, Meet the Teacher, Strategic

Improvement Plan (SIP), SRE and Ethics, Assembly, Awards System, Teachers as

Effective Educators, Parent Helpers

Other Information Selective High School Test, High School Expression of

Interest (EOI), Religious Education, Ethics Teachers Needed, Premier Reading

Challenge

Classifieds

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Congratulations to our zone swimmers who represented our school so well. Alex- 6S,

Anabelle-5T, Catherine- 3/4G, Catherine- 2/3Q, Dilan- 5T, Ethan-3L, Hannah-5A,

Hyunho-5/6D, Irene-4M, Lachlan-6S, Murray-6S, Nirvana-6S, Osborn-3L, Ronni-6B

and William-5/6D.

Mrs Skennerton and Mrs Buwalda were proud of the behaviour, effort and

sportsmanship of this group of students.

Special congratulations to Ronni who came 3rd in 11yrs freestyle and 2nd in

breaststroke and to Annabelle who came 3rd in 11yrs 50m freestyle for whole zone.

Our school swimming carnival ribbons will be presented in week 9 of this term.

IMPORTANT DATES

Monday March 8

Register for P & C Zoom Meeting by 5pm

Tuesday March 9

P & C Zoom Meeting – 7pm

Friday March 11

Selective High School Placement Test

Monday March 15

Sydney North Swimming Carnival

Tuesday March 16

Parent Helper Induction

Friday March 18

Harmony Day

Newsletter articles due by COB Monday

Meet the Teacher

Thank you to those parents who joined us in classrooms and/or via zoom for our Meet the Teacher sessions. Overall the attendance was very high with a total of 322 connections made to our Zooms. Whilst not our usual format, this was still a successful event. Thank you to our dedicated teachers who gave up their time for this valued event.

Thank you also to the 117 parents who responded to our survey. We appreciate your feedback. A summary of the results showed parents appreciated the opportunity to visit the learning space, the efficiency of the presentation and the flexibility of Zoom with work arrangements. Parents also said they liked to be able to see the teachers. Staff were grateful for the many who thanked us for our time and effort, not just for the sessions but for the daily work we do.

Whilst most parents realised we had health guidelines to follow, the survey showed that in the future parents would like greater personalisation and the chance to speak with your child’s teacher (face to face or via Zoom) and to hear about classroom routines and to ask questions. Parents also want more information about curriculum, how we teach and how they can support at home. We are excited as this is part of our Strategic Improvement Plan and is a great opportunity for us to hold informative sessions about specific topics for parents.

Parents should have now received a copy of the term information letters outlining specific areas to be taught for each stage. This will be sent each term (usually in week 2). We look forward to meeting to discuss your child’s individual progress and learning behaviours at parent teacher interviews in a few weeks. More information will be sent home soon. Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP)- update

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Strategic Improvement Plan (SIP) update

Our vision

Our school is committed to the pursuit of excellence and the provision of high quality education to ensure every child is known, valued and cared for. Through explicit teaching in Literacy and Numeracy and a balanced curriculum, we prepare our students with personal resources to connect, succeed and thrive in a changing world. In partnership with our community, we share the vision for growth in our school, for every student, every teacher, every leader, every year. We value excellence in learning, teaching and leading to ensure success for all.

我们学校致力于追求卓越，并提供高质量的教育，以确保每个孩子都被了解，被重视和受到照顾。

通过明确的识字和算术教学以及均衡的课程，我们为学生提供了个人资源，以在不断变化的世界中

建立联系，取得成功并蓬勃发展。通过与社区合作，我们每年为每位学生，每位老师，每位领导者

分享我们学校发展的愿景。我们重视学习，教学和领导方面的卓越，以确保所有人都能成功。

Chinese (Thank you to Ping XU)

우리 학교는 모든 어린이가 관심받으며, 소중히 여겨지고, 보호받는 우수한 고품질의 교육을

제공하는것을 추구합니다. 명시적 교육의 문해력, 수리력 그리고 균형 잡힌 커리큘럼은 각각 개인의

자원을 이용, 우리 학생들이 급변하는 세상에서 성공할수 있도록 준비 시킵니다. 저희는 지역 사회와

협력하여 매년 학생들, 교사, 지도자에 대한 우리 학교의 성장에 대한 비전을 공유합니다. 우리는

모두의 성공을 위해 학습, 교육 및 선도의 우수성을 소중히 여기고 있습니다. Korean (Thank you to

Sue CHOI)

• If any parents are able to help translate our school vision into other languages, we would love that. Please email

our office if you are able to help.

On Tuesday night (9 March at 7p.m) at the P & C meeting I will be outlining an overview of the Strategic Directions for

our school for the next 4 years. You are warmly invited to join us to engage with our SIP give your input into our school

directions.

I would like to congratulate our incoming P &C executive (as mentioned later in this newsletter). I look forward to working

with you to achieve excellence for our children.

SRE and Ethics returns

It was wonderful to see the return of our valued volunteers who teach SRE and Ethics. We are grateful for their time each

week. Thank you also to Ms Gerard who spent many hours organising the timetable and class rolls and inducting the

volunteers.

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Assembly Week 7

Next Wednesday afternoon we will be holding a special assembly to present the SRC and library monitor badges to

students. Students receiving badges must return their note by this Friday in order to be able to participate in the live

Zoom. Parents of students receiving badges are invited to attend via Zoom (a note has been sent home with the link.

Please ensure you register). We are excited that the concert band will be playing live and the band committee has sent

the link to those parents. Please note we are unable to guarantee entry to late parents as we will be focussed on running

a smooth assembly for our students at school. As such we ask that you are in the Zoom at 2p.m ready for a 2:15p,m start.

Awards System

Did you know that if your child received 5 merit awards (class awards or program achieve

awards) he/she can trade them for a Principals’ award. Principals awards will be

presented at assemblies and names will be put in the newsletter. I look forward to

presenting the first Principals’ awards soon.

Teachers as Effective Educators

As stated in our Zooms I am proud of the dedicated and professional teaching and non-teaching staff at our school. Your

child may have recently told you they have had a casual teacher for a day. Parents sometimes worry about this. Whilst

sometimes a teacher (or their family members) are sick, in addition to School Development Days there are also some

planned professional learning days throughout the year. Recently teachers have undertaken their annual Performance

Development Process. This process aims to ensure a skilled and effective workforce to maximise student outcomes.

Teachers set goals against professional teaching standards and with their supervisor, they map out professional learning

they require. Teachers also actively work together in Stage Planning Days. These days focus on the analysis of

assessment data in order to design programs to meet your child’s needs. This collaborative practice is essential. Both

important professional opportunities are planned and structured to ensure the highest quality teachers for your child. On

days when teachers are involved in such planned professional learning, the class program continues with a casual

teacher. We hope this helps you understand and support such high impact professional practices at our school.

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Parent Helpers

Helpers are a valued and integral part of our EHPS school community. All helpers must go through a rigorous induction

process to ensure they are well supported to work with our children. Currently we have only returned essential service

parent helpers such as band, SRE, Ethics and uniform shop. As the restrictions hopefully lift in the coming weeks and

months, we hope to be able to welcome back our valued community helpers.

If you would like to be a parent helper at our school in the future this year when restrictions ease, you will need to

undertake the following:

• Complete the Declaration for Volunteers and non-child related contractors

https://policies.education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/associated-documents/non-child-related-declaration-wwcc.pdf

• Present with a competed declaration and photo identification (as listed on the form) at our office.

• Complete the EHPS Helper Agreement (see attached PDF)

• Complete our school based helper induction. The next helper induction will be held via zoom on 16 March at

7:30p.m

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://nsweducation.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5IqfuuorD0oHtJ38dtdtNZZV34zYdcr3uKs

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Please note we will hold another helper induction via zoom early next term if you are unable to make this one.

Once all induction processes are completed we will be in touch about what opportunities there are to help at our school in

the coming weeks.

Thank you, as always, for working in partnership with us.

Ms Megan Bridekirk

Principal

Week 5 Awards

Oscar KZ Dana KZ Eleanor KM

Phoebe KM Avhni KF Bevis KF

Hannah K/1H Winston K/1H Shreyansh 1C

Beatrice 1C Sivin 1HS Hillary 1HS

Charlotte 1/2M Aadyansh 1/2M Siddhi 2B

Musa 2B Alice 2S Norah 2S

Matti 2/3Q Riya 2/3Q Danielle 3L

Peter 3L Alex 3SP Ella 3SP

Maryann 4S Ayush 4S Ethan 3/4G

Catherine 3/4G Sophia 5A Hayden 5A

Abigail 5T Agatha 5/6D Jonah 5/6D

Eden 6B Rocco 6B Euri 6S

Alex 6S

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High School Expressions of Interest

Dear Parents,

Thank you for your attendance at the Zoom information session about moving into high school in 2022 and to support you to complete the high school expression of interest (EOI) form. It was great to see so many parents (46) joining our information session in order to support our students’ transition to high school.

Parents who wish to apply for a support class (for students with a disability only) in 2022 will need to discuss their application with our learning support team before completing the EOI form. Please email the school office to organise a time discuss this.

High school expression of interest (EOI) forms are due to our school office by 19 March 2021. All EOI forms must be submitted to our school office.

If you have any questions please direct them to our school office. Provided below are two links shared in the information session.

Local School Finder website

https://my.education.nsw.gov.au/school-finder

NSW Government website - information and translated documents about transitioning to high school

https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/going-to-a-public-school/translated-documents/enrolment-eoi-yr7

Mr Domonic Buckman

Assistant Principal

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Selective High School Placement Test 2021 for entry to Year 7 in 2022.

The test will be held on Thursday 11 March 2021 at 9.00am at your child's allocated test centre.

Parents must drop students off at the entrance to the test centre by 9.00am and

return promptly at 1.30pm to pick them up

Religious Education at Epping Heights Update

We are pleased to welcome an additional Hindu teacher to teach Scripture at our school. The school now

currently offers Special Religious Education classes for 30 minutes each Friday for:

• Years K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Protestant classes

• Years K, 1/2, 3/4, 5/6 Catholic classes

• Years K-2, 3/4, 5/6 Islam classes

• Years 1/2, 3/4 Hindu classes

• Years 3, 4, 5, 6 Ethics classes

K & 5-6 Hindu and K- 2 Ethics are currently unavailable so students have been placed in non-scripture this term.

Non Scripture means your child will be supervised while independently reading for the 30 minutes.

Heather Gerard

Assistant Principal

SRE/SEE Coordinator

Seeking Volunteer Ethics teachers

Are you looking for a really fun and meaningful way to get

involved in your child’s school? Each Friday morning during

term from 9-9.40am, our volunteers facilitate the children’s

discussion of the Primary Ethics curriculum. We don’t

currently have a volunteer for Kindy or Years 1 & 2 and

would love to offer this fantastic program. See

www.primaryethics.com.au for details, or contact our

school’s Primary Ethics Coordinator Kate on 0412 389 079

or ehpsethicscoordinator@gmail.com

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Dear wonderful Epping Heights families and carers,

We’re excited to announce the start of the 2021 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge! It opened on the

1st of March and will close for student entries on the 20th of August, 2021.

This is a wonderful opportunity to encourage our students to dig into high-quality literature and to

read far and wide across the genres. In our library lessons this week we are learning how to find

these special books and how to log them in our personal online lists.

In a nutshell:

• Students in Kindergarten – Year 2 can record any book from the PRC list that has been read

to them. They do not need to have read this book themselves. Students need to record 30

books that have been read to them. These are covered across our library and class readings

so I will log the books for students in these grades. Yay!

• Students in Year 3 – Year 6 must have read the book themselves. They can record any book

from the PRC list that they have read since the last challenge ended (20th August, 2020).

Students must read 20 books in total from the PRC list. They must read 15 books from their

grade category (if they are in year 3, they must read 15 books from the 3-4 category). They

are able to read 5 books they are outside of their category.

Each year group has slightly different guidelines to complete the challenge, so please see the QR

codes below for details.

Rules of the challenge:

Tips for parents:

Upon completion of the challenge, successful students will be given a certificate at the end of the

year. I hope you’ll join us in encouraging our students to love and learn from the books around

them, the Premier’s Reading Challenge is a really achievable and enriching goal.

Keep your eyes peeled for regular updates here in the newsletter!

EHPS P&C

2021 P & C Committee

President Ehps.p.n.c@gmail.com Mr Pedram Mojorrad

Vice President Ehps.p.n.c@gmail.com Mr WarwickTsang

Treasurer Ehps.p.n.c@gmail.com Mrs Flora Miao

Secretary Ehps.p.n.c@gmail.com Mrs Monica Seto

Band Convenor bandehps@gmail.com Mrs Hannah Chim

Community Relations Ehps.communityrelations@gmail.com Mrs Lynley Yeo

Fundraising Eppingheights.fundraising@gmail.com Mrs Nadia Hala

Uniform Shop Eppingheights.uniformshop@gmail.com Mrs Hayley Cho

School Banking Mrs. Grace Ji

The Epping Heights P&C Association invites you to join us for our next P&C general meeting at 7pm on Tuesday 9

March 2021. Due to the current COVID-19 restrictions, the meeting will be held online via Zoom.

If you are interested in joining us online for the meeting, please register your interest by

emailing ehps.p.n.c@gmail.com by 5pm Monday 8 March 2021 and we will forward the Zoom link via email to you on

the morning of the meeting.

We hope to see many of you there!

Warwick Tsang

P&C Vice President

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CARLINGFORD HIGH SCHOOL VIRTUAL TOUR AND ENROLMENT INTO YEAR 7 2022

This year in lieu of our usual Open Night, prospective parents for Year 7 2022 are invited to visit the school website for information regarding potential enrolments.

From Monday 8 March, a virtual tour and Principal’s presentation will be available for viewing at

www.carlingfor-h.schools.nsw.edu.au under the ‘enrolment’ tab at the top of the home page.

Enquiries can also be made by phoning the school during office hours on 9871 4222.

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