Wentworthville Public School QUALITY TEACHING TO MAXIMISE STUDENT LEARNING

Term 3 Week 1 2017 Newsletter

70 - 100 Fullagar Rd WENTWORTHVILLE NSW 2145 Australia Phone: 02 9631 8529 Fax: 02 9896 3079

Website: www.wentwthvil-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: wentwthvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Student Portal: http://portal.det.nsw.edu.au

Welcome back to an action packed Term 3 full of learning, connecting and fun!

☺ A special welcome to a number of new enrolments and their families, who are

joining our great school this term. We do hope you settle quickly and find a

welcoming and supportive community at Wentworthville.

Yesterday the staff met for our day of professional learning on our Term 3 School Development Day.

We had a most productive learning day and had sessions about:

Learning Intentions Success Criteria (LISC) – a session presented by Mrs Eastwood. LISC is so

vital as we move forward at Wentworthville PS in developing the teaching and learning cycle as it

describes clearly what the teacher wants the students to know, understand, and be able to do as a

result of the learning and teaching activities. As we continue to develop students in future focussed

thinking it is vital that the learning intentions of a lesson or series of lessons tells students what they

should know, understand and be able to do, and the success criteria helps teachers to decide

whether their students have in fact achieved the learning intention.

The Wellbeing Framework – a session presented by Mrs Di Chio assisted staff in enhancing the

work we have already been investing in over the last few years as a specific focus. Wellbeing is

best described as the quality of a person’s life. Wellbeing needs to be considered across a number

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From the Principal – Denise Lockrey

of domains including: cognitive, emotional, social, physical and spiritual wellbeing. As the Department

notes in the Wellbeing Framework for Schools document ‘there are strong links between school

excellence and wellbeing. Schools could consider teaching and learning and the development of

wellbeing as parallel, integrated complementary processes.’

An update on the Department’s resources on our portal page on Disability and supporting students with

additional needs

Voice Care for Teachers –a session presented by a Speech Pathologist. This session specifically

addressed strategies to assist staff to look after their voices and to help prevent

voice problems. In our profession our voice is the tool of our trade!

STAFFING UPDATE

Mrs Cozad will continue in her relieving role at the Nirimba office for the remainder

of the year as a Wellbeing Engagement officer. Ms Camilleri will continue teaching

class K/1C and both Mr Train and Mrs Gladden will relieve as the Assistant

Principal (Support) during Mrs Cozad’s secondment.

Our General Assistant (GA) Mr Welton (who has been on Long Service Leave for

the last 12 months) is transitioning to retirement and officially relinquished his one day per week at

Wentworthville PS during the school holiday period. We wish him well as he transitions to retirement! ☺ Mr

Wiles our GA (who is permanent 4 days a week) will continue working on the Monday until this vacancy is

filled.

As part of the Department’s commitment to improving student outcomes we have a staffing increase in our

Quality Teaching Successful Students (QTSS) initiative for Semester 2 and beyond. We will be utilising the

time to continue to up skill staff in Learning Intentions Success Criteria (LISC), technology and further develop

our mentoring of teachers via our very competent leaders, the Assistant Principals (Mrs Rafidi, Mrs Eastwood,

Mrs Di Chio, Mr Warren and Mr Train / Mrs Gladden).

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Wonderful Happenings at Wenty!

Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition

The Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition is

a state-wide public speaking competition organised by the

NSW Department of Education. It aims to heighten the

awareness of multicultural issues among NSW primary school

students while developing their interest in public speaking and improving their confidence and speech-

writing skills.

On the 28th June 2017 four students represented our school in the Multicultural

Perspectives Public Speaking Competition at Merrylands Public School.

These students were Jocelyn Arkapaw 5/6H, Zahra Sarwary 5M, Jheel Gandhi 3/4D

and Hari Ramsundar 4/5S. All four students put in a fantastic effort and delivered

exceptional prepared and impromptu speeches. We are very proud of you.

Enrolments being taken now for 2018 (K-6)

As you can see in our community with all the cranes and construction, we are growing! As a school, we

want to be on the ‘front foot’ and ready for all the students and families who will join us in 2018.

Our Kindergarten 2018 planning is well underway. If you haven’t yet enrolled your pre-schooler for

Kindergarten 2018 at WPS, please collect an enrolment form from the office. You will need to bring with

you originals of proof of residential address, birth certificate and immunisation records and any visa

paperwork (if required).

If you have friends living in the area who have children of school starting age you might like to let them

know it is time to sign up and enrol their children for school in 2018.

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Donations of flags from Wentworthville Public School families

As part of Wentworthville celebrating our cultural diversity as a school I invite

families to donate a flag for flying at the school which represents your family

heritage. The school will randomly choose a different country flag to fly each

week next to the Australian and Aboriginal flags. We will have student leaders

put flags of a variety of countries up and down each week.

We will have a list of countries published in our newsletter each fortnight, so you can see what countries

are already represented. This will assist the school in ensuring we do not have five of the same flag!

If you would like to participate, we welcome your flag donation to the school. Some requirements are

outlined below to ensure the process runs smoothly:

Please ensure you contact the school office on 9631 8529 to check if the country you are

considering has not already had a flag purchased for the school.

Please note the following desirable dimensions for a flag that is durable for external flying.

Flag Length – min 80cm – max 100cm (1 metre)

Flag Width – min 170cm – max 200cm (2 metres)

Thank you for being part of our school’s wonderful cultural diversity!

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Term 3 PSSA notes – for students involved in Winter PSSA (notes issued

via coaches)

Touch Football Gala Day note – issued by Mr Williams

Yandina Opening - all students

Athletics Carnival - all students

OC Testing Details

Applicants for Year 5 placement in an opportunity class in 2018 are required to take the Opportunity Class

Placement Test to be held from 9.00 am to 11.15 am on Wednesday 26 July 2017.

The test centre for students from our school is:

Parramatta High School

Great Western Hwy & Pitt St

PARRAMATTA NSW 2150

A number of our Year 6 students sat for the highly competitive Selective Schools Test

earlier in the year in readiness for High School in 2018. Wentworthville PS students who

sat the test gained:

4 offers of placements and

8 reserve positions

Congratulations students! We wish you well for your future high school years.

Term 2 Weeks 9 & 10

You are most welcome to attend the Yandina Playground Official Opening

Monday July 31 – Assembly 9.15am

Denise Lockrey

Principal

Name Class Name Class

Aryan P 2S Riley G 1/2W

Poorneshwar V 2S Hannah H 2S

Jessica S 2S ** **

Name Class Name Class

Om KK Brendan 1/3K

Tavandeep KV Taylan 1/3K

Krisha KD Tanay 1M

Elena KK Udit 2E

Hridai KO Dixit 1G

Adam KO Aarush 1B

Sreekar KO Samyukta 2S

Aadrinanda KO Zia 2S

Heer KO Harshika 2S

Krish KO Hersh 1M

Ashmita KO Dhruve 1B

Yuvvraaj KD Ephraim 1B

Dimahi 3M Veeshika 1W

Simona 3M Huatong 2S

Jheel 3/4D Gurrehmat 1M

Leena 3/4D Shruthi 1B

Vishal 3M ** **

On Staff Development Day in Term 3 Staff conducted professional learning about the Wellbeing

framework. At Wentworthville Public School students are supported to connect, succeed and thrive in an

enabling school environment. Students will be supported with their cognitive, emotional, social, physical

and spiritual wellbeing to enable students to be active and positive contributors to the society in which they

live.

Further information about the Wellbeing Framework can be found on the following link

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing/about/16531_Wellbeing-Framework-for-schools_Acessible.pdf

Come and join us for a BBQ lunch with a drink for Open Day!

Sausage sandwiches will be available on a pre-order and pre-pay basis to allow for

catering purposes. Keep your eye out for the notes coming home this month.

With Father's Day approaching this Term, we will be holding another Raffle. Keep your eye

out for the posters showing our prizes. I am very excited to be able to continue to provide

some amazing experiences for our students and their families.

The P&C Committee meet the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm. Feel free to come and

join us and see how you are able to help us to help the kids. We would love to see some

new faces!

If you have questions or would like to give suggestions, please don’t hesitate to email us on

wentworthvillepandc@gmail.com

Felicity Furner

President

Wentworthville PS P&C Committee

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