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Wideview Public School Learn Wisely Live Proudly

T: 02 9456 1655 E: wideview-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Messages from Our Principal

Happy Fathers’ Day!

We would like to thank all of our Dads, Grandfathers, Uncles and other significant males in the lives

of our students for being great role models! We hope many of you enjoy gifts purchased at the

Fathers’ Day stall.

Discipline vs Punishment

One of the greatest challenges facing parents is how to correct a child’s behaviour commonly referred historically as

discipline. We all want our children to learn from the mistakes they make and to be able to self-regulate their behav-

iour and do the right thing. We all try through various strategies to make them happy, well-adjusted and resilient. To

achieve this means teaching them right from wrong and as part of this process we can sometimes bring in discipli-

nary measures.

For many of us though we have to define what is the difference between discipline and punishment? Discipline refers

to teaching children desirable behaviour for the future and punishment is the infliction of some kind of suffering

based on past behaviour.

What are the impacts of Discipline versus Punishment in our children?

The reliance on Punishment as a behaviour changer can lead to mental disorders, externalising behaviour (blamingothers or disowning actions), self-fulfilling prophecy (if told often enough you are naughty then individuals

will take on that persona), become bullies or victims and some research has even suggested poorer academic

achievement.

What is effective?

Always model good behaviour/your expectations

Use positive discipline as much as possible

Make it appropriate for the age of the child

And most importantly make sure of consistency-do not lapse in your quest for great behaviour.

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Discipline

Teaches the individual to follow the rules

by focusing on future behaviours.

Arouses the thinking part of the brain to

learn the new behaviour.

Punishment Inflict a suffering for past behaviour to

change future behaviour.

Involves the emotional brain to fear the

consequence.

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WHS

Many of you would have noticed the temporary fence around the fixed equipment. This installation is a

result of an incident report being made to WHS regarding some of our children running out of the fixed

equipment area and around cars after school whilst being supervised by parents. After a rather tragic

incident in November 2017 in a school carpark, which resulted in two deaths, DET has been very vigilant

in preventing any possible incidents involving vehicles and children. We are currently negotiating with our

WHS consultant how to best move forward with the possible erection of fencing from the front gate and

around the carpark at significant cost to the school. If you are with your child after school near the fixed

equipment please be aware of where they are at all times as another incident will close our fixed equip-

ment for all use not just out of school hours.

Celebrating the Work of our Fantastic School and Administrative Support Staff

Every year the Public Service Association organises a Recognition Week to recognise and acknowledge

the important work our School Administrative and Support Staff (SASS) undertake in schools across NSW.

This year SASS Recognition week is from Monday 26 August to Friday 30 August.

There is a substantial amount of administrative work required in any school and our fabulous SASS team

fulfil their varied roles magnificently. Whether it’s working in the office, in the library, the grounds, or in

classrooms, the contributions of our SASS team is beyond measure.

Our team includes:

Rikke Hansen School Administrative Manager

Jane Gregory School Administrative Officer

Lisa Fieramosca School Administration Office

Margaret Gibson School Administrative Officer

Frank Pegoraro General Assistant

Noni White School Learning Support Officer

Cynthia Gibson School Learning Support Officer

Desley Taylor School Learning Support Officer

We invite all of our school community, including staff, students and parents to join me in thanking our

fantastic SASS team for their tremendous efforts. If you can spare just a few moments to pick up the

phone or to write a note to say thank you, I am sure they would appreciate this.

We are so fortunate to have them at our school, as each makes our school all that much better.

Bush Camp Date Correction

Incorrect dates were momentarily showing in the newsletter school calendar on our website last week.

The correct dates are 9-11 September. Apologies for any confusion.

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Our visiting book illustrator

Wideview welcomed children’s book illustrator Leila Rudge on Friday for our Book Week celebrations. Leila

has illustrated several children’s books including Ted, The Skunk with no Funk, Let Me Sleep Sheep and the

award-winning Gary. Leila entertained our students with stories of book-writing challenges and how she

overcame doubts about her ability to draw! Leila guided the children through a drawing exercise, and she

was kind enough to autograph all our Leila Rudge books. Visit the library to check our one of her books.

Teacher baby photos competition

Our Teacher Baby Photos Competition is well underway.

Photos of 19 of our teachers are on a poster in the front window of the library. Each photo has a letter

(from A-S). A reminder that the letters have been chosen randomly and are not related to teachers’ names,

and not all of our teachers are on the poster!

Students make a gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation to receive an entry form. En-

tries close Friday 6 September (Friday Week 7). The student from each year who has the most number of

correct guesses wins a prize (winners are announced in Week 8).

Happy guessing!

Mr Smith

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My Amazing Brain Conference for Northside Gifted and Talented

Students from Wideview PS were fortunate enough to attend a conference with the focus of neural plasticity

and growing our brains throughout our lives. Students engaged in memory-based activities and looked and

how olefactory senses and music affect our ability to remember. Students worked as teams on a STEM chal-

lenge and examined the brains ability to filter information. They aso met a magician and a professor from

the University of NSW!

Here are a few reflections from some of our attendees.

My Amazing Brain

I enjoyed going to Newington College for My Amazing Brain very much. The magician at the start of the day

was very talented. He did great tricks that left us amazed. My favourite workshop was the first one we did.

We had to build a tower out of a metre of masking tape, 25 sticks of uncooked spaghetti and a marshmallow.

We had 20 minutes to plan it and build it. The marshmallow had to be at the top of the tower. The tallest

tower standing with the marshmallow on top unassisted won. I found it fun working in a team to build the

tower and keep it standing.

My Amazing Brain was a wonderful experience and I really enjoyed it. It was a great day.

Jemimah Year 4

The Amazing Brain Conference

My most enjoyed workshop was my second session. We started off sitting in a circle and singing, then, we

began passing wooden batons around the circle in time to the music. After passing the batons one way for a

while, we started passing the other way which was much harder.

After this warm up, we were paired up with people from other schools and we sat down at some xylo-

phones. We started to play music to the song we were singing earlier and it sounded much better with all

the xylophones tuned in together. After this activity, we sat down on the floor in front of a smartboard and

the teacher showed us videos proving that music can help restore memory to people with illnesses like am-

nesia and dementia. There was a lady that had this disease and when some headphones playing music she

had as a young adult were put on her head she immediately started to sing and all these memories came

back to her.

Overall I enjoyed the day a lot.

Finn Year 6

Newington’s college conference

I originally didn’t notice but music has something special about it. When I went to Newington’s college for

the conference I really began to realise that. Music activates a part in our brain that is in charge of memory,

simply listening to a song of you have heard or one that is significant to you can allow your brain to remem-

ber things. The reason this is powerful is because we can bring people back, people don’t have memory can

have that returned to them. Take a dementia patient for example, people who are diagnosed with dementia

are unable to remember basic things like, how to hold a cup. This has a big effect on their lives and makes

them unable to go along with their normal lives without supervision. Scientists gave these patients songs of

their childhood to listen to, results where amazing. It was as if music was pulling all the memories deep in-

side their mind to the surface. The patients began to sing. Someone who couldn’t even remember how to

drink from a cup could not only remember the lyrics to the song but the tune and the NAME of the song.

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Cont’

Music has a power and we must realise that. The sounds we create are changing people. Music is giving

people a life again. If music has this effect what could playing an instrument do?

We learnt from the conference that learning to play an instrument can benefit your daily life. A lot like lis-

tening to it, music takes a certain section in your brain to work correctly. When you are playing an instru-

ment your brain is working hard 100% of the time to allow that to happen. Playing music every day can

make you more mindful and better prepared to learn. Music simply can strengthen your brain.

I found all of this interesting, all in all this section of the conference made me more motivated to listen to

music on a daily basis. It helped me realise that music has a power,

The power to change people’s lives.

Alicia Year 6

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Kindergarten Enrolments for 2020 All enrolment applications are due tomorrow, 30 August 2019.

A reminder that enrolments are still open for Kindergarten in 2020. Please pop into the office to collect an

enrolment form and return it to us at your earliest convenience. If you have a sibling already at this school,

it is important that you too enrol your child for 2020 as soon as possible, so that we have an accurate idea

of student numbers. Student numbers directly influence and affect our staffing allocation, so it is helpful to

know our enrolment for 2020 as early as possible.

School Calendar

The Calendar is updated each week. Please check regularly for any additions or changes which will be

marked in red for your convenience.

Term 3 2019

August

Friday 30 Zone Athletics Carnival

September

Wednesday (each) To 25/9 Flip Sport—dance K-2 + 4AF (9 weeks)

Thursday (each) To 26/9 Flip Sport—dance 3-6 not 4AF (9 weeks)

Monday-Wednesday 9-11 Year 6 Aussie Bush Camp

Friday 13 Movies Under The Stars

Friday 20 International Mufti Day– Gold coin donation

Friday 27 Last Day of Term

Merit Awards

KGM Sebastian M, Lilly I KS Addison P, Darcy T KH Billy C, Jacob W

1L Belle G, Maisie P 1D Beau S, Kai H 2F Natalie R, Maggie R

2C Charlie H, Eric S 3H Lucas H, Isabelle G 3C Ewan W, Grace G

4LM Harry D, Liam W, Archie B 4AF Violet T, Ava B, Thomas B 4/5C Caden R, Molly S

5J Freida L, Sammie B 6T Tasha P, Tyler M

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Email: wideviewpandc@gmail.com

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P&C Update

The next P&C meeting will be held on 16th September in the staff room. This will be the last meeting be-

fore the AGM.

P&C Meeting

In exciting news, the P&C meeting was finished before 9pm on Monday night! This is a record since I’ve

been involved in the P&C!

We discussed the 50th Anniversary and our plans, Anne Chilton and Michelle Stevens are running with this

event. They’ve put lots of hard work in already, it’s going to be a great celebration of our school. Keep your

eyes peeled for more information.

Showcase conversations have started. More information about ticketing, dates etc will be coming before

the end of term. We will require volunteers to help at each of the performances.

Band are busy, out doing lots of performances at the moment. Thanks to Mr Harpur and Pippi Eisner for

their work. Special thanks to Jen and Karen on the committee who are keeping things running behind the

scenes.

We’ve been discussing the canteen upgrade and the progress there. Hopefully the building will kick off in

the next school holidays. Synergies between the Uniform shop and Canteen and how we might work

better across our areas to give parents a more streamlined and quicker service has been discussed. Watch

this space for more information here.

Uniform Shop Coordinator Role

We’re pleased to announce that Flor Muse will be our new Uniform Shop Coordinator. Flor is a new parent

to the school, recently moved back to Australia from the US. Flor will be working with Kate over the com-

ing weeks in a handover. Thanks to Caro Osborn, the Uniform Shop Chair who has been instrumental in

this.

Thanks again to Kate for all her hard work, we wish you all the best with your next journey.

Wideview P&C Association

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Father’s Day Stall

Thanks to Katie Gompertz for taking the lead on the Fathers Day

Stall. Thanks also to Natasha Suduk and Nicole Roberts for their as-

sistance. Thanks to each of the parent volunteers who came in and

donated an hour or two or their time to help on the stall. The kids

seem excited with their purchases.

Movie Night

There’s more information further down the newsletter including a

roster for volunteers and a survey so we can have a guide on the number of sausage sandwiches the APEX

need to cook!

NSW Volunteer of the Year Awards

After much discussion the P&C Executive have recognised the work Karen Francis puts into the P&C. Karen

does a lot of behind the scenes work for the P&C. She is the Chair of the WOOSHC subcommittee and the

Secretary of the Band Subcommittee and helps out with lots of other things. Karen has been nominated by

the P&C Executive at the Northern District Volunteer of the Year Awards. Thank you Karen!

Volunteers Required

Canteen Treasurer

The wonderful Corrie Hassan has been in this role for a while now and will be stepping down at the AGM.

We need to find someone to replace her. The canteen treasurer is responsible for paying the bills for the

canteen, this involves collecting the invoices and paying them via our banking system. The role is probably

about half an hour a week and can mainly be done off school grounds. There is a need to come to the can-

teen subcommittee meeting once or twice a term. Please contact Michelle in the canteen, Mel Hicks or me

if you’re interested or need more information.

Volunteer Coordinator

This role is fairly straight forward and works directly with the Executive. It can be done totally behind the

scenes, so no need to be at school (or to even talk to anyone face to face!). It involves maintaining are vol-

unteer database, adding new volunteers to the spreadsheet when required, checking with the office to

make sure our volunteers have done their paperwork and checking on volunteer rosters (such as the Fa-

ther’s Day stall) that people have completed their paperwork. Once things are set up (which they mostly

are) this is a very light role, not much work required on a regular basis perhaps an hour or two per term.

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Thank you!

Just gone to tender and waiting to confirm dates for the kitchen extension works.

Watch this space! So exciting!

To all that helped for the Open Day,

particularly all the Year 3 Mums!

Also thanks to the mums that helped last

Friday at short notice.

Your help was very much appreciated.

Michelle

*Friday 13th September*

Starting from 5pm for picnic dinner

The movie will be shown from approx. 6.30pm till 8.40pm

The wonderful APEX team will be cooking up yummy sausage & steak sandwiches

on the BBQ. Please take a minute to complete this 4 question survey to help us

determine numbers for ordering- https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QRF2VDK

Drinks, popcorn, snacks and novelty glow items will also be available for sale with

all profits to the school. A detailed list of what will be for sale and the prices will be

published the week prior in the newsletter. There will also be a coffee and ice-

cream van onsite.

The other option is for you to BYO picnic dinner & snacks to cater for your family’s

dietary preferences.

In the event of wet weather, we will reschedule the event.

Please add your name to the volunteer roster. 30mins of your time to help on the

night will be greatly appreciated- https://signup.zone/JHMyumtvGKGpENpAC

This event is for Wideview families only. Siblings welcome. There is to be no

alcohol on site. Children must be accompanied by parents/care givers. No drop

offs allowed.

More details to follow in next weeks newsletter.

Any queries please contact Michelle Bowden- 0425 316 008