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CROAK Newington Public School Learning for Life

Thursday 18 June 2020 Volume 19: Issue 9

49a Newington Boulevarde NEWINGTON NSW 2127 email: newington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Phone (02) 9748 7933 Fax (02) 9748 3120 web: www.newington-p.schools.nsw.gov.au School Hours: 8.55 am - 3.00pm

G.A.T.E.WAYS

Thirty students from years 2-6 participated in a trial of the G.A.T.E.WAYS online program yesterday. This enrichment experience targeted writing, numeracy, science, coding, critical thinking, language and literature. Topics included:

Years 1 and 2 Starting From SCRATCH (Coding), Pursuing The Little Prince (Critical Thinking) and Nemo and Dory (Language and Literature)

Years 3 and 4 Is AI Coming to Take Over the World? (Science), It's Barter On! (Maths), Count Like An Egyptian (Maths), Portals For Mortals (Language and Literature), A Troubling Hawaiian Mystery (Critical Thinking) and Can You Scratch It? (Technology) Years 5 and 6 Into The Unknown: An Adventure in Astronomy and Astrophysics (Science), Figurate It Out! (Maths), Ballistic Birds (Maths), Making Rules Breaking Rules (Language and Litera ture) and Talkin' Tolkien (Language and Literature)

Updated face-to-face guidelines

Last week the DoE released updated face-to-face learning guidelines. In line with health advice, many additional activities are now able to recommence. After careful thought and planning the following now apply:

• School assemblies can occur if less than 15 minutes. Tomorrow there will be a 3-6 morning assembly in the hall. Students in 3-6 will need to proceed to the hall when the 8:55am bell rings. From next week K-2 Monday morning assemblies will recommence. When the 8:55am morning bell rings students in K-2 will meet at their classroom and will then walk to the hall with their teachers. Wednesday assemblies to contin-ue as a virtual assembly until, at least, the end of term 2.

• All PSSA Winter sport has been cancelled. All zone, regional and state PSSA carnivals have been can-celled for 2020. We will conduct our school Cross Country and Athletics Carnivals when the time is appro-priate. These events may run in their traditional format or as a modified version.

• All extra-curricular groups can restart - dance, choir, debating etc. Coordinating teachers will let students know when groups recommence.

• SRC met yesterday for the first time since COVID-19 • Incursions can begin from June 15. • We will be in contact with external providers to organise recommencement dates for band, strings, FLIP

Gym, chess etc. • SRE and SEE will recommence in term 3 week 2 • Drop and Go and Collect and Clear procedures will continue until further notice. A number of activities remain under DoE consideration:

• school camps • excursions (except field trips) • parents attendance at assemblies • parent volunteers

Digital notes

Digital notes will now replace most paper notes for incursions, excursions, sport and other events where permis-sion is sought. Digital notes will be pushed out through the Newington Public School app and via enews. The first digital note was pushed out yesterday for the Year 2 Toys incursion. We hope that you find this new procedure more convenient than paper permission notes.

Earn and Learn

In 2019 NPS collected 83880 Earn and Learn stickers. The following resources (valued over $3300) were re-ceived: • Pro-Bot recharchable robots and mat (x4) • First coding robot sets (x12) • Large plastic dice (x2) • Edison Robot V2 (x10) • Lego compatible building pieces (x2) • Edison spare parts (x1) • Erasers (x29) Thanks to Kim McCleery for collecting the stickers from Lid-combe Woolworths and to Deb Singh for coordinating the Earn and Learn initiative.

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From your Principal

Greg Weeks

Acting Principal

Deputy Principal Awards

Congratulations to these students who have earned themselves Deputy Principal awards for their special efforts: EnLong (2D) a fabulous informative text about sharks

Jonah (4D) an extremely convincing persuasive text about increasing break times at school Atilgan, Esma and Chloe (1CG) for fantastic stories about Noah Dreary

Anna and Devvin (6F) for exemplary journal entries from the point of view of a refugee

Assemblies

The following classes were awarded Class of the Week for their display of PBL expectations: Buruwang: 1CG and 5F Cumberland: 6B and 2D De Coubertin: 3O and 5H

Parent Teacher Interviews

Parent teacher interviews will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 1 July. All interviews need to be booked online at www.schoolinterviews.com.au using the school event code a4q65 Information regarding accessing Zoom interviews will be provided early next week.

Reid Against Racism

Fiona Martin MP, the Federal Member for Reid, recently ran a creative competition for school students. Newing-ton Public School promoted this competition to Year 6 students, and we have had several very talented entries. Congratulations to all students who entered the competition. Here is a sample of some of their work:

Unity is a dream. We’ll never be sure if that dream will be fulfilled, but we have to try. Some people will always be judgemental or greedy. Someone will always think that a certain race has a certain characteristics. But it’ll bring our world a little happiness if you tried to be the kindest you could be. Think of someone as a person, not an object. We cannot change how we look. But maybe we can change what we see.

By Sophie Zhu

Emma Gibson (R) and Natalie Lewis (R)

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From your Deputy Principals

Jackson Showyin

Brandon Robinson Allen Weng Hazhi Anwar Indigo Yaw Sia McGregor Paige Jorgenson Jibbran Muhammad Katherine Joji Samuel Cocks Briseis Taylor Ian Chen Kevin Ryu Christian Kilioni Ryan Heo James Lee Ana Roni Charles Mao Izabela Atic Enzo Barreto Noah Caxala Kora Hopping Eric Hur Brendan Mao Charlize Matson Ammar Rangwala Dona Weerasooriya Aston Yuen Hareem Imran Ayla Tavlu Arini Suman Cathy Zhang Gordon Wang James Cocks Jenna Hwang Soraya Gandhi Zane Elali Rayul Kim Miqdad Attarwala Emma Bishop

Angelina Boustani Keilah Caunca Rianne Chan Teja Condliffe Sophia Elliott Millie Hancock Taylor Ho Sienna Kong Julia Lay Ayden Mourad Aazaan Nabil Selina Odabas Ryan Park Aarav Sharma Lucas Shim Jaenoh Shon Rowan Simsek Ablaj Sohail Declan Tampubolon Elena tran Mitchell West Amelia Yeh En Long Zhang Orson Merrett Chloe Baker Owen Gonzalez Hana Burd Jayden Ng Ibrahim Singh David Joji Orson Merrett Aaliyah Dardas Delrick Huynh Eugene Kim Yoonah Kim Ammaar Waqar Sereena Kaur Dulguun Undrakhbayar Arda Polat Turkeli

Denzel Saritas Emma Zhou Izaac Fabe Taher Poonawala Jun Chang Rena Liu Asher Kim Aahana Sharma Alicia Rhem Ela Anar Mustafa Hussain Rachael Ryu Ahaan Sarabhai Inaya Siddique

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Awards

Congratulations to these recipients receiving Awards for Week 7 and 8 Term 2

Cooper Lees Felix De Paula Chloe Go Sarfeeya Rajendra Sakura Stevens

Gabriel Evans Grace Chung Tejas Joshi Stephy Liang Aaron Choi Ceylin Bozkus Joanne Lee Elise Du Milla Valente Felicia Liem

Isabella Lau Dream Choi Connie He Abby Fung Eden Kang Ellie Weeks Constance Liang Aayan Aryal Sophia Liwanto Sophia Mikati Susie Han Cielle Choi Mikayla Lees Andrea LoRicco

Aymen Vaqas Berkay Kayabas Isaac Zreik Kaelynn Khoo Joshua Hong Mia Lilley Micah Gold Sauls Thomas Farag Levi Morada Nihira Lingamaneni

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Positive Behaviour for Learning

Term 2 Week 8 Non-Classroom

Setting Behaviour

Everyone is A LEARNER

Equipment

• Know when and how

to use the equipment • Understand the rules • Know the roster

Term 2 Week 7 Non-Classroom Setting Behaviour

Everyone is RESPECTFUL Walkways

• Be polite and

thoughtful • Walk quietly during

learning time

Spotlight

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SPOTLIGHT ON LITERACY

AND NUMERACY

Did you know that during our Remote

Learning at Newington Public School all

grades from Years 2-6 engaged in Seven

Steps to Writing tasks through the Conti-

nuity of Learning Plans? At home or at

school, we were all writing!!! The solid front gates creaked and turned. Large smiles from ear to ear. The pitter patter of black leather school shoes rubbing on the backs of heels. That strong morning coffee flavour circulating in my mouth. Freshly washed uniforms all crisp and clean. The waft of warmed car motors on a cold and frosty morning in drop off zones. My fin-gers grasped the cold sil-ver handle of the room. My heart raced with ex-citement, as adrenalin filled my body. Today is the day! It has finally ar-rived!! 8.55am and it has chimed! Mrs Organ.

Tessia Severi Persuasive Device used: Narrative Topic: Mickey Mouse You know that mouse on the tv show? Yeah, Mickey Mouse. Every-one thinks that he's just a cartoon...but what if I told you that he's real?

7 Steps to Writing

Success

Jemma, 2GO Samantha, 2GO

Lewis, 2GO

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Parenting Insight

Conquering kids’ techno-tantrums

Many of us have witnessed our kids or teens emotionally combust when asked to switch off their gaming console or put their phone away. I colloquially call these ‘techno-tantrums’. Many of us fret that this sig-nals that they’re ‘addicted’ to technology and find ourselves worrying about why they behave in such in-tense ways.

So, what makes technology so psychologically appealing for kids and how can we help them to unplug so that screen-time doesn’t end in scream time?

Technology is so appealing

Technology has been intentionally designed to cater for our kids’ most basic psychological drivers. As humans, our three most basic psychological needs are the need for connection, competence and con-trol.

Technology caters for these needs in very clever ways. For example, our need for relational connection explains why many of our boys are obsessed with multi-player video games and girls are infatuated with social media. These online tools have also been designed to help young people experience competency- gamers see tangible measures of their performance by their levels of attainment, or battles won. Scroll-ing through YouTube and ‘selecting’ which video they’ll watch next also enables young people to experi-ence a sense of control and agency over their lives – something they biologically crave.

Here’s what technology does to their brains and bodies Digital technology impacts on children and young people in the following ways: ‘It feels good’

When our kids use a screen it’s usually a pleasurable experience for them. Their brains secrete the neu-rotransmitter dopamine, which makes them feel good. This means, when you demand that they turn the device off, you’re terminating their production of dopamine (pleasure response). It’s better to provide a choice of more appealing transition activities when you want them to move away from a screen. For ex-ample, suggest that they ride their bike, or walk the dog after they’ve switched off the device. ‘I want more’

The online world has no stopping cues, so our kids and teen never feel ‘complete’ or ‘done’. They can always refresh social media; continue to play to attain another level in a game; or watch another YouTube clip. This is also referred to as the state of insufficiency. One parenting tips that works is to give your children and teens hard end points. Rather than giving them a quantity of time (for example, you can watch an hour of TV today), give them the finish time (for example, I’d like you to switch off the TV at 4:30pm). ‘It’s so novel’

Our brains are wired to seek out new and interesting stimulus. The online world is always instantly grati-fying, fast-paced and requires minimal cognitive effort. In comparison the offline, real world doesn’t al-ways offer novelty. The real world is a lot slower-paced, and it’s not always instantly rewarding and inter-esting like our kids’ digital world. Ensure your kids and teens have ample time to experience boredom. Our brains were never designed to be switched on and processing information as they are in the digital world. Opportunities for boredom allow the brain time to reset and help our kids become accustomed to not always being ‘switched on’.

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School Programs

Student reviews of the G.A.T.E.WAYS online programs

On Wednesday 17 June, selected students from grades 1 to 6 participated in our first G.A.T.E.WAYS online program. There was great excitement prior to the course starting and then intense focus and engagement as students started their online courses. Here are some student reviews of the day. Lachlan (5O) – Figurate it out! It was really fun, I didn’t know a lot about algebra before I did this program. I wouldn’t normally pick a maths program, but I learnt a lot. The program explained really hard algebra problems using dots that created shapes. We also looked at figurate numbers. Anna (6F) – Making rules, breaking rules: writing challenges gone mad! I learnt so many new things, it really improved my creative potential for literature. It has made me think in a new way. I am so grateful, writing is definitely awesome. Devvin (6F) – Into the unknown: An adventure in astronomy and astrophysics. It was really great, I loved it! It enhanced my knowledge of what I already know and gave me a differ-ent perspective of what space really is. It made me think about space as room kept for discovering new planets and life.

ICAS Assessment

Newington PS will again be facilitating the online Mathematics ICAS assessment offered by the Uni-versity of New South Wales Educational Testing Centre, with assessment dates from Monday 31 Au-gust to Thursday 3 September. The school will have access to administer the mathematics assess-ments for each grade on a specified day and places are limited to 60 applicants per grade. Permis-sion notes were sent home on Monday, additional notes can be collected by students from the school office.

Congratulations to the following students who have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge for 2020. Kindergarten Camden F, Emrys N, Jordan P, Marcus Z Year 1 Aayan A, James B, Tyler B, Yun C, Irene H, Sophia L, Emmy M, Tristan N, Ava S, Dylan W, Serena X Year 2 Taylor H, Elisha K, Isabella L, Julia L, Tye M, Arini S, Avni S, Daniel T, Sophie Y Year 3 Izabela A Year 4 Olivia B, Emma C, Kate C, Alex F Year 6 Melissa P

Mrs Arnott ‘The more that you read, the more things you will know.’ Dr Seuss.

Book Parent-Teacher Interviews online

Dear parents and caregivers,

Parent-Teacher interviews will be held on

Tuesday 30 June and Wednesday 1 July from 3:10pm.

All interviews need to be booked online. Interviews are strictly 10 minutes.

BOOKINGS OPEN: Thursday 18 June at 10am BOOKINGS CLOSE: Thursday 25 June at 4pm

a4q65

Go to www.schoolinterviews.com.au Enter THIS school event code. Then follow the 3 simple steps.

When you click finish, your interview timetable will be emailed to you automatically - check your junk mail folder if you do not receive your email immediately. You can return to www.schoolinterviews.com.au at any time, and change your interviews - until bookings close.

Some teachers have organised additional times to those listed. Please visit the web-site when bookings open for these times. Parents will have the opportunity to speak with EAL/D, LAST and Reading Support teachers if their child is directly involved in these programs. Please contact the school to arrange to speak with these teachers if required. Parents can change their interview bookings, any time prior to the closing date (Thursday 25 June), by re-visiting the www.schoolinterviews.com.au website, and using the event code. Parents needing to change their interview times after the closing date should contact the school directly on: 97487933.

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School Programs

ART GALLERY OF NSW YOUNG ARCHIE 2020

Congratulations to the following students, who submitted their artworks to the Young Archie Awards at the NSW Art Gallery. All students have been awarded a certificate of participation.

Jason 4Z Jackson 6B Emma 4D Patrick 2D

Mason 3G Dream 2A Kiana 3C Bella KS

Sofiah 3O Edith 3C

Other students who entered the NPS competition and are to be congratulated for their efforts are: • Yuna KS • Mina 3O • Rya 1F • Serena 1E • Chloe 5F • Elkan 3L • Emily 4A • Chloe 3G • Sakura 3C • Ray Ern 2GO • Yuna 4MA

• Kaled 3W • Rohan 6F • Sienna 2O • Samuel 4A • Jenna 2D • Jessica 5H • Ryan 2GO • Zena KS • Minji 1S • Lejla 2GO

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