QUAKERS HILL EAST PUBLIC SCHOOL 1 14 Chase Drive, Acacia Gardens NSW 2763 Phone: (02) 9626 9264 Fax: (02)9837 1158

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

“Pursuing excellence in student achievement and community participation”

QUAKERS WHISPER No. 13 Thursday 20 August 2015

DATES TO REMEMBER AUGUST 21 Fri 11:40am – Infants Assembly LED BY 1/2T 12:15pm – Primary Assembly LED BY CAPTAINS WINTER PSSA 24 Mon Blacktown Music Festival Performance 25 Tues FOOTSTEPS – YEARS K-6 26 Wed Kindergarten Farm Excursion 27 Thur Dental Assesssments – Kindy, Years 2, 4 & 6 28 Fri 11:40am – Infants Assembly LED BY 1PT 12:15pm – Primary Assembly LED BY 4J ZONE ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

NO WINTER PSSA

SEPTEMBER 1 Tues FOOTSTEPS – YEARS K-6 2 Wed K-6 Soccer Clinics 3 Thur K-6 Soccer Clinics 4 Fri 11:40am – Infants Assembly LED BY 1B 12:15pm – Primary Assembly LED BY 5/6C WINTER PSSA QHEPSFEST - FILM FESTIVAL

SEPTEMBER 7 Mon FOOTSTEPS – YEARS K-6 Note change of day for this week

Principal’s Message …..

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

STAFF UPDATE Mrs Dickerson will be on leave from 31 Aug

until the end of term. Mrs Partington will be

teaching the RFF program during this time. Mr Thompson will be on leave from Monday

31 August until Tuesday 15 September and will be replaced by Mr Hanes.

QHEPSFest QHEPSfest is a short film festival to be held

on 4 Sept from 6-7:30pm. Students and teachers have been developing iMovies based

on the theme of “Light”. This has been a great opportunity for children to collaborate

and use their creativity in a new and

interesting format. We will showcase the work of groups of children in years 3-6 and

class entries from K-2 in a range of classrooms and then showcase the finalists in

the hall. More specific details will follow later

in the newsletter. Everyone is invited to come along and view these masterpieces!

LONGNECK LAGOON LEADERSHIP DAY

We had a fabulous day at Longneck Lagoon yesterday! Semester 2 SRC students, the

sports Vice Captains and a group of Year 5

students attended the leadership day and faced many fun and challenging group

activities. Thank you to Mr Ross and Mrs Reid for organising a very worthwhile day.

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS 2016 Enrolment forms are now available for

children starting Kindergarten in 2016. Please come in and pick up an enrolment form from

the office at your earliest convenience.

BOOK WEEK 24 – 28 AUGUST

Book Week is celebrated every year and this year marks the 70th Anniversary of Book

Week. It is being held from 24 to 28 August and the theme this year is “Books Light Up Our World”. To celebrate Book Week at

QHEPS Mrs Curnow, Mrs Weinert and the students have created art work based on the

picture books short listed for awards from the Children’s Book Council of Australia. The

posters will be displayed in the library for

everyone to see. Students in Years 3 and 4 have created PowerPoints based on the

Young Readers books. A selection of these will be shown at assembly on Friday this

week. We look forward to a great week with books lighting up our world!

BLACKTOWN MUSIC FESTIVAL

Students in the 3-6 choir and Stage 2 Dance group will be performing on Monday evening,

24 August in The Blacktown Music Festival at

Wyndam College hall. The children have spent many hours of their own time

practising to ensure they are perfect. I’d like to acknowledge the work of Mrs Taylor and

Mrs Rubino who have led the choir and Miss

Moylan who has choreographed the Stage 2 Dance group. We look forward to a wonderful

musical evening!

SCHOOL AND ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT (SAS) STAFF RECOGNITION

WEEK 31 AUGUST – 4 SEPTEMBER

Every year we recognise the vital role that SAS Staff play in schools. Our SAS staff play

an important role in ensuring the smooth running of our school. On behalf of the staff

and students I’d like to thank all of our SAS

staff for the wonderful job they do supporting the teachers and your children each day at

QHEPS. We wish Mrs Marshall, Mrs Devlin, Miss Hussey, Mr Thompson, Mrs Campbell,

Mrs Mann, Mrs Partridge and Mrs Watts an enjoyable week. If you have the chance,

please say a big thank you to our SAS team!

“EARN AND LEARN” AND “STANHOPE

VILLAGE SHOP FOR YOUR SCHOOL” We have registered for each of these

programs so if you are shopping at

Woolworths please collect the Earn and Learn stickers and send them in to the school

office.

If you are shopping at Stanhope Village

shopping centre please upload your receipts via your iPhone, online or via the Ipads

available at the centre located near Coles and KMart.

CONGRATULATIONS TO…

Premier’s Spelling Bee - Students in

Years 3-6 competed in the Premiers Spelling Bee last week and four students, Preethi and

Darsh (juniors) and Haille and Niklas (seniors) will now represent our school at the

regional finals.

Rachel, Grace, Carlie, Kalpa and Renee for

their excellent projects from the Prosperitas

program.

GOOD LUCK TO… The students attending the Zone Athletics

Carnival at Blacktown Sports Park on 28 August.

THANK YOU TO… The P&C who have paid for another 12

month subscription of Mathletics for all students at QHEPS

Michele Hedge Principal

Term 3 Weekly Award Winners Weeks 4 & 5

KAR Sanvi , Louis , Meliya , Ali

KC Saniya , Joshua P, Abie , Nathan

KG Elaina, Akshay,

Lawrence, Ava KM Jasmine B, Charlie,

Mia, Shea KR Charli, Samuel,

Charlotte, Eknoor,

KT Aarush, Neer 1B Gurveer, Cloris,

Mehtaab, Isabella M 1D Amalia, Eden,

Arshman, Zara 1PT Zachary F, Vera

Jayden, Sanjana

1R Lando, Jasmine K, Kati, Alexander

1/2T Mia, David, Suhana, Jimelle

2B Saviru, Daria,

Riley, Ebonie 2F Walid, Cooper,

Izabelle B, Gemma 2K Fatima, Ryder,

Trish, Jack 2S Siobhan, Alvin,

Omar, Julia

3B Bimisha, Aayush, George, Darsh

3C Keellan, Thomas, Karsimar, Kunal

3L Tahlia, Tyrone,

Yenuki, Cameron 3R Aidan, Deegan,

Caleb, Sanika 4B Teeankin, Adam,

Elise, Ethan

4J Lucas, Sophie, Alyse, Max

4K Sabriyya, Preethi, Joel, Hayden,

5/6B Mackenzie, Allen, Aryan, Haille

5/6C Yashasvi, Kartikay, Tanvir, Rachelle

5/6Q Niklas, Tanish,

Laura, Daniel 5/6T Deena, Alexander,

Mitchell, Nicholas 5/6WSerhat, Sarah,

Danielle, Kalpa

Weeks 4 & 5 Citizens of the Week

K-2 Justine H, Ameliyah P

3-6 Jessica K, Aaditya K

Weeks 5 & 6 “Be Your Best” Award Winners

K-2 Prabhjit C, Amy W

3-6 Kayla G,

Georgia L-S

2016 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS

Children turning 5 by July 31, 2016 are eligible to commence school at the

beginning of the 2016 school year.

Enrolment Forms are available from the school office.

Your child’s Birth Certificate,

Immunisation Certificate and proof of your place of residence

must be produced.

WINTER PSSA REPORT

WEEK 4

SOCCER - BOYS The boys’ soccer teams had a bye.

SOCCER – GIRLS

The girls’ soccer teams played Oakville Public School. The juniors lost 2-1 and the seniors

won 3-0. The players of the match were

Elise R for the juniors and Monique V for the seniors.

NETBALL The netball teams played John Palmer Public

School. The juniors won 8-2 and the seniors

lost 22-12. The players of the match were Sophie J and Amy K for the juniors and

Zoe S for the seniors.

WEEK 5

SOCCER - BOYS

The boys’ soccer teams played Schofields Public School. The juniors won 6-0 and the

seniors won 4-0. The players of the match were Richard P for the juniors and Oliver D

for the seniors.

SOCCER – GIRLS The girls’ soccer teams played Schofields

Public School. The juniors lost 3-0 and the seniors won 1-0. The players of the match

were Isabella F for the juniors and Teghan

M for the seniors.

NETBALL

The netball teams played Riverstone Public School. The juniors won 20-0 and the

seniors won 20-9. The players of the match

were Sonali S for the juniors and Jessica K for the seniors.

We are very excited about our upcoming QHEPSfest on Friday 4 September.

Teachers and students have all been working hard to create a short iMovie

about “light”

Some movies have been made as a whole class project while other classes have made films in small groups using iPads and some of our new filmmaking apps like Tellagami, MovieFX and green

screen.

All of the movies will be shown in various classrooms from 6 - 6:45pm:

* Kindy - in KT/KM (Homebase 11/12) * Year 1 - in 1R/1D (Homebase 17/18) * Year 2 - in Library * Year 3 - in 3B (Homebase 6) * Year 4 - in 4K/4J (Homebase 8/7) * Years - in individual classrooms 5 & 6 At 7pm the finalists from each year will be shown in the Hall with winners and

prizes announced.

Popcorn and drinks will be available for purchase on the night.

We would love to see all parents, family and friends coming to see our movies.

PAYMENT REMINDERS:

CALMSLEY HILL CITY FARM EXCURSION

26 August 2015

Year: Kindergarten

Cost: $29.50

As all permission slips and payments were due in by Wednesday 19 August any outstanding payments need to

be sent in as soon as possible

SYDNEY OLYMPIC PARK EXCURSION

Year 2: Monday 14 September Year 1: Wednesday 16 September

Cost: $23.50

All permission slips and payments due in no later than

Friday 4 September 2015

LIBRARY NEWS......

PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE

A reminder that the Premier’s Reading Challenge is finishing tomorrow 21 August.

It would be appreciated if all forms

could be printed off and handed in to me in the Library by this date.

Happy Reading

Kim Curnow,

Teacher Librarian

UNIFORM ORDERS

All purchasing of NEW school

uniforms must now be done online through Flexischools

The Uniform Shop will be open each

week:

Mondays – 2:30pm – 3:15pm (approx)

Fridays – 8:30am – 9:15am

(approx)

These opening times are only for trying on clothes and exchanging items (which must still have their

tags attached)

REMINDER:

Please check that children’s belongings are labelled clearly so

that they can be returned as soon as possible to their owners.

Thank you

REMINDER:

QHEPS iPhone/Android APP

Don’t forget to download our free school App

from either the Apple App Store and Google Play Store, searching by the school’s name.

This will be a convenient way for you to keep up to date with what is happening at QHE,

giving you reminders of events, excursions and payments due, enabling you to easily

send absence notes and much more.

Initially you will need to logon to the app with

the following details:

Username – Community Password – quakershieps

You will then be able to select the groups for which you wish to receive notifications (ie:

select either ALL or choose the relevant Year groups for your children).

At this stage the App is only available for

mobile phone devices. Once it becomes

available for tablets, we will advise the school community.

VACATION CARE AT QUAKERS HILL EAST

Quakers Hill East Combined OSHC Inc (CCB Approved) will be operating

vacation care at their centre in our school grounds over the school holiday period.

Hours of Operation 7am – 6pm

The cost is $48 per child per day which includes activities on the day.

For bookings or more information please call the centre

on 9626 6172