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Ralston Avenue Belrose NSW 2085 Phone: 9451 6203 www.belrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: [email protected]
NEWSLETTER DATE: 2 July 2020 TERM 2, WEEK 10
Belrose Public School
Principal’s Message
Belrose OSHC Centre Phone: 0430 247 493
Dates CELEBRATION OF LEARNING ASSEMBLIES Historically, we have celebrated our students’ achievements with learn-ing at our Awards assemblies at the end of each term. This year, our teachers are still nominating students for these awards but we are postponing their presentation until our school community can join us. During semester one, we have nominated students for awards in: Term 1—Creativity in Learning and our core value of Respect Term 2—Literacy and our core value of Responsibility EDUCATION WEEK Education Week is celebrated in all schools in Week 3 of Term 3. This year’s theme is ‘Learning Together’. In 2020 with bushfires, floods and COVID-19, the key message of Education Week will be: -Schools are the cornerstone of communities where parents and carers are our partners in learning and we benefit from strong, respect-ful relationships where the responsibility for students learning is shared. -Change and being resilient where by learning together makes us stronger and creates resilient communities. -Connect Better and learn together signifies how our teachers are dedicated professionals who know, value and care for your children. Belrose Public School utilises technology and is a very future focused school. We are preparing and equipping our young students with the skills and the knowledge and the capabilities that they need to lead and flourish in tomorrow's world. Unfortunately, restrictions on visitors to schools will still be in place, but this need not stop us from engaging with our families. Education Week, at this stage, will be conducted virtually. Our Stage 3’s Celebration of their learning with the ‘Belrose Organisa-tion for Marine Protection’ is now planned for Thursday, 15 October from 5:30pm with Mayor Regan, Jann Pattinson, our School’s Director of Educational Leadership and all parents invited to this event.
ENROLLING FOR 2021? ENROLMENT FORMS AND SCHOOL TOUR TIMES ARE
AVAILABLE FROM THE OFFICE
Term 2 2020
Monday 20 July Staff Development Day-No students
Thursday 23 July School Athletics Carnival
Monday 27 July Class photographs Full school uniform
Friday 31 July PSSA training Tennis begins
Tuesday 21 July 1st Day of Term 3 Students Return Sportspro K-2
Friday 24 July PSSA Trial 2
Friday 7 August PSSA begins
Thursday 30 July NAIDOC incursion Sports uniform
Friday 3 July PSSA Trial 1
Term 3 2020
PROGRAMS TO RESUME IN TERM 3 Kindergarten, Year 1 and 2 Gymnastic program each Tuesday beginning in week 1 (21/7) Yr2-Yr6 choir each Wednesday from 8:00am beginning in week 1 (22/7) Yr5&6 boys choir each Monday at lunch beginning in week 2 (27/7) Mrs Meikle, Mr Warren and Miss Jarvis’ Dance group from Week 2 Stage 2 Maths Olympiad along with the existing Stage 3 one already operating NSW Junior Chess League from week 2 Scripture each Wednesday COMMUNITY USE OF FACILITIES Our Community-based activities will also begin, with adherence to health guidelines: Taekwondo each Thursday Japanese School each Saturday Keyboard lessons CLASS PHOTOGRAPHS-MONDAY 27 JULY 2020 (TERM 3 WEEK 2) Please return the envelope to school prior to or on the day. Sibling photos will be taken from 8:30am until 9:00am and at lunch time. Sibling order forms are available from the front office. Each day, all students are required to wear the full-school uniform. The boys uniform consists of grey socks, grey pants, shirt and tie. Next term, we will be monitoring this at a greater degree and will be notifying parents for their assistance in this area. ATHLETICS CARNIVAL At this stage, the carnival will be able to proceed. We endeavour to be ready for this by asking that the permission note be re-turned by tomorrow. There is exciting news for our Year 2 students with all eight year old Year 2 boys and girls invited to attend. The carnival will take place on Thursday, 23 July. In accordance with the NSW Department of Education current guidelines of 11/6/20, parents are unfortunately not permitted at school events, including this carnival. K-6 NAIDOC INCURSION All classes K-6 will be participating in NAIDOC Day activities on Thursday, 30 July 2020. As part of these activities, the Aborigi-nal group ‘Koomurri’, will invite students to create Aboriginal Artworks from an Aboriginal Visual Arts program called the ‘Ochres of the Land’. The program will begin at 9.30am and concludes at 1.00pm. This incursion covers the outcomes from the History and Geography syllabi and all students K to 6 are asked to wear their sports uniform. INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHOOLS-ICAS (REPEAT-DUE 17 JULY 2020) All students in Years 3 to 6 were given a note regarding the UNSW Competitions. These competitions are offered to students from Asia and Australia to compete against each other in Digital Technologies, English, Mathematics and Science. Please visit the following website to pay $15:95 for each of the completed tests. Please be aware that the above dates may clash with your Band training morning. Website: https://shop.unswglobal.com.au/pages/pps Access code is: JSI105 COMMUNITY SPIRIT Mrs Stephens continues to support our local community by being awarded Lion of the year for the second time with the Lions Club of Frenchs Forest. Congratulations. THANK YOU TO THE STAFF AND PARENTS We wish to thank the parents for their involvement during the ‘Learning from Home’ duration and for continuing to follow our guidelines with regards to drop off and pick up. Teachers spend many hours outside their teaching day actively engaging in whole school professional development and with designing lessons and the associated activities and resources. I thank them for their collegial work. Thank you to Mrs Cohen, our Learning and Support Teacher, who has been leading our support programs. These programs provide specifically target students requiring some additional support. Thank you to Mrs Judson, Mrs Maye and Mrs Watson for providing learning support to a number of students as well as our outstanding administration staff of Liz, Nicky, and Caroline who superbly liaise with all of our parent members as well as organise all administrative and financial transactions within the school. Thank you to the parents for assisting with the uniform shop, canteen, banking, library, P&C, beautification and marketing initiatives. We wish everyone a safe and happy holiday break. We look forward to seeing you all in term 3. Belinda Zorian [email protected]
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Stage 1 are learning
about daily routines
They have been learning verbs in Japanese
Some of the verbs they have learnt are:
Okimasu – wake up
Nemasu – sleep
Tabemasu – eat
Shimasu – do
Ikimasu - go
They are also learning how to write
these using the Japanese script of
Hiragana.
Stage 1 are all very clever!!
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Japanese News—日本語 News
Stage 2 have just begun their next unit of work on School.
To start we learnt the Japanese names for the stationery we use
at school
They played a memory game where they had to match the picture with the right Japanese word.
Some words we have
learnt are :
Fudebako – pencil case
Enpitsu – pencil
Keshigomu – rubber
Enpitsu kezuri – sharpener
Nooto – note book
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Japanese News—日本語 News
Lost Property
NAIDOC Day wall hanging At the end of last year when we celebrated NAIDOC Day, every child in the school put their handprint on some canvas to create an amazing design. This is now a wall hanging and is proudly being displayed in the library. Such a beautiful piece of artwork.
Book Week Book Week has now been moved to term 4. We will be seeing a performance based on some of the books from the Children's Book Council shortlist for this year. The performance is called “The Greatest Discovery.” I am sure this will be a very enjoyable experience for all of us. Notes will come out in term 4.
Premier's Reading Challenge The final entry date for validation of Student Reading Records by students is Friday August 28. There have been a few chang-es this year to the Challenge. Students on all Challenge levels are able to read 10 choice books, an increase from five. Please refer to the website for further information.
K.Wedlock Teacher librarian
Lost property will now be displayed every day on a trolley outside the office. Office staff will go through what is left on the trolley every Wednesday. Items labelled with a name will be returned to your child’s classroom.
School uniform items without a name will be given to the Uniform Shop for re-sale. All other non-school related items will be do-nated to charity or disposed of. Please encourage your children to check the trolley regularly.
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Students of the Week
Library News
Maths Olympiad Stage 3
Maths Olympiad for Stage 3 will resume
Term 2, week 2 at 8am in 2J
KIG Ava H Holly P
1S Beau S Ellie W
1K Chloe M Skye M
2J Audrey F Hugo S
3K Mia T Ella B
3W Margaret T Zac M
4M Owen F Emily C
4/5S Harper S Lucas D
5D Ella L Angus R
6M Amber K Jaydon H
News From 1K
Yesterday 1K made popcorn. First we heated a fry pan. The popcorn heated up and the oil sizzled. We waited and waited. Next we heard a loud POP!
The kernel burst apart like a beautiful flower. The kernel exploded like a speeding meteor. It opened into a soft, ball of marshmallow. YUM! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! POP! It smelt amazing like a movie theatre.
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Choir is starting again Term 3, wk1
on Wednesdays at 8am in the library
with Mrs Cohen and Mrs Jones.
Come one come all. We are so ex-
cited to start singing again and we
welcome all old and new students!
Artwork from 6M
Congratulations To Our Bronze, Silver, Gold and Student of the Week Award Recipients
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Congratulations To Our Bronze, Silver, Gold and Student of the Week Award Recipients
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UNIFORM SHOP OPENING TIMES
Thursday afternoon - 2.45pm to 3.15pm
Sport News
Winter Sport
PSSA trials for summer sport will be held on Friday 3 July and Friday 24 July (Week 10 Term 2 and Week 1 Term 3). Students in Year 4, 5 and 6 will be able to trial for:
Netball – Girls –Mrs Meikle and Miss Jarvis (coaches)
Soccer – Boys & Girls – Mrs Stephens (coach)
In order to reach the selection criteria for these sports, students must attend at least one trial. If your child is going to be ab-sent please notify the coach in writing as soon as possible. Please note that previous involvement in PSSA and participation in these sports outside of school will have no bearing on selection.
Coaches will be selecting teams based on the following criteria:
Sportsmanship Cooperation, attitude and listening skills Skill level and ability Commitment to training sessions and the team
If your child is selected to represent our school at PSSA please be aware that there is a cost involved and a strict uniform code.
Students who do not wish to participate in PSSA, or who are not selected in PSSA, may choose to play tennis or be part of our home school program. Year 3 students can also select Tennis as a sport option.
Good luck to all students during their trial sessions.
WINNING HOUSE: Freeman
Samantha Meikle
Sport Coordinator
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GARDENING CLUB (Students only) Come join us in the vegetable garden from 8.30-9.00 every Thursday morning.
Working in the garden helps students learn about growing, harvesting and eating healthy foods. We have new soil from our compost ready to mix into our existing garden beds! We look forward to seeing you there.
Mrs Jones & Mrs Iwakura
P & C News Playground and beautification projects update Thank you to all the lovely parents who attended our meeting last night. We have a wonderful group who represent kids across all year groups and both genders which we felt was important.
So far we have had site visits and received quotations from a variety of play equipment providers and playground designers. We have also applied for the Community Building Partnership Grant to support this project with funding and we look forward to hear-ing if we have been successful in late November.
We are very excited to announce that we have started receiving quotations for our new Wall Mural and Toilet Door Mural pro-jects! These fabulous initiatives are being led by Melanie Scott, Rebecca Keiller and Alison Thompson and they have wonderful ideas which will brighten and enliven areas in our school. The Toilet Door project will specifically focus on using the power of colour and positive reinforcement to enhance these spaces and is inspired by The School Toilet Project
We would like to thank Emma Burling for her work in applying for the Northern Beaches Council Arts and Creativity Grant this week. If we are successful in receiving funding in October we will be able to start that initiative.
Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 28th July and everyone is welcome to join!
Jo Stracey
UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop is open on Thursday afternoon 2.45pm-3.15pm .Please adhere to social distancing rules. Only one family at a time is allowed in the room and anyone waiting outside needs to be at least 1.5m apart. Please be aware of how long you spend inside if there are people waiting. Please enter the school and go directly to the Uniform Shop. Once you have made your pur-chases, please continue with your normal afternoon pick up routine and wait outside the gates for your child/ren. Thank you
Lou Webb CANTEEN NEWS Roster Friday 3 July Lee Purser Jacqui Power
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