GEPS NEWS Term 3 Week 8 Friday: 13th September 2019

Glendale East Public School - Safe, Respectful Learners

Glendale East Public School 8 Margot Street

GLENDALE 2285 Phone: 4954 9551 Fax: 4956 6248

And That’s A Wrap - what a wonderful performance by all our fantastic students at GEPS

Education Week Musical Locks on Gates Canberra

Matter of Seconds Whole School Production

PSSA PACER Rebate

Public Speaking

Congratulations to the following students who represented Glendale East Public School at the Zone Public Speak-ing Finals at Booragul Public School.

A special congratulations goes to Alex Holliday who received a Highly Commended Award for her speech on the day. Well done Alex!

Coming Up in Week 9

Monday—Assembly

Thursday—Year 6 Science Discovery Day

All week—Parent/Teacher interviews

Seussical the Musical

How AMAZING was our production of Seussical the Musical! It has been great hearing all the positive feedback from parents and the community. I was absolutely blown away by the obvious talent of our students, the support shown by our parents and community and the dedication of our staff to put together such a professional, exhilarating performance. I will once again make special mention of the amazing Mrs Johns for her huge effort in coordinating the show. Her commitment and passion for our school is something we should all be grateful for.

NAPLAN 2019

NAPLAN is an assessment of literacy and numeracy standards for our students in Years 3 and 5. It offers a snapshot of how our students are performing against the rest of the state and similar schools. This year, our results have been phenomenal. I am so proud of the students and staff for the extra hard work they have done to lift the standard of literacy and numeracy teaching and learning at our school. Some key highlights of our NPLAN data this year include:

Above state average growth in 4 of the 5 measureable NAPLAN areas.

Above state average results in Year 5 numeracy

Above our Statistically Similar Schools in Year3 and Year 5 Numeracy, Reading, Spelling and Grammar and Punctuation.

I am looking forward to unpacking these results with our community to share what our ongoing priorities will be in 2020. I will announce a time date for this in the near future.

Report Writing Review

We have recently sent out information regarding a Reporting to Parents review. The note with more information, including a link to the parent survey is included in this newsletter. It is important that our reports are beneficial to parents and that they are a purposeful, useable document. Please contact myself or Mrs Brown if you have any further questions about this process.

Kindergarten 2020

A reminder that we are still taking enrolments for Kindergarten 2020. If you know someone who lives in our school zone with a child starting school next year, please remind them to contact the school. A flyer with more information about transition is contained in this newsletter.

Have a great fortnight Nathan Forbes Principal

Message from the Principal

Education Week Musical Locks on Gates Canberra

Matter of Seconds Whole School Production

PSSA PACER Rebate

Public Speaking

Congratulations to the following students who represented Glendale East Public School at the Zone Public Speak-ing Finals at Booragul Public School.

A special congratulations goes to Alex Holliday who received a Highly Commended Award for her speech on the day. Well done Alex!

Wow what an absolutely amazing term it has been! It started with us heading to Glendale High to perform The Gruffalo for the ILLA Excellence Awards. All the students were very nervous but super excited to perform to such a large audience. Then we travelled to China!! Mrs Mantle looked the part as the air hostess and we all boarded the plane with our boarding passes. We were given refreshments in the Qantas plane after we watched the safety message from the Captain. We arrived in China and had a delicious meal at The New Shanghai restaurant. We tried dumplings, noodles, prawns, satay beef and spring rolls. We even tried some traditional green tea. Mrs Gorman was a visitor to our classroom to tell us about her interesting trip to China. A big highlight was performing in the school musical where we made great birds and fish!! We all loved learning the songs and dancing on stage. We have been learning to write informative text and we had so much fun writing a factual description of the crime scene when Humpty Dumpty was pushed off the wall at our school. I think we have some budding detectives amongst us!! We are continually wanting to move our learning forward by trying to achieve our learning goals and giving feedback to our peers. Mrs Mantle is always saying how proud she is of us and how we are all superstars! We can’t wait to see what is in store in Term 4!

Message from 1/2M

Education Week Musical Locks on Gates Canberra

Matter of Seconds Whole School Production

PSSA PACER Rebate

Public Speaking

Congratulations to the following students who represented Glendale East Public School at the Zone Public Speak-ing Finals at Booragul Public School.

A special congratulations goes to Alex Holliday who received a Highly Commended Award for her speech on the day. Well done Alex!

Message from the Office

Just a reminder that all money for all upcoming events MUST be returned to the office prior to the due by date as advised on notes. The office cannot accept any further payments after this date. Unfortunately, if payment is presented to the office after this date it will be returned home and your child cannot attend the excursion. Families are encouraged to use the POP (parent online payment) link on our school website. NO Uniform payments are to be made through the school parent online payment system. Uniforms are to be purchased on-line through Country Feeling on their website at www.countryfeelinguniforms.com.au Payments cannot be receipted after 3pm as the till must be closed and reconciled by the end of our working day. Cash payments can be left after 3pm and will be receipted the next day, however we cannot give change after 3pm. Eftpos cannot be processed after 3pm as it must be included in the day’s banking. NO uniform eftpos transactions can be made through the office. Correct amount of cash can be left in an envelope addressed to the uniform shop. Department of Education Visitors sign on requirements All visitors to the school site are reminded to please sign on and off in the office visitors’ book every time you visit between the hours of 9am to 3pm for a specific purpose for example; meeting with teacher, purchasing uniforms, parent helpers, canteen helpers etc. This does NOT include assemblies. Medications

As a general rule, the school does not administer non-prescribed medications. If medication is required during school hours, then it must be approved by the Principal. Parents/carers must complete a

medication form if a child requires a specific medication or ongoing health management. A letter from the prescribing doctor will be required.

Contacting Teachers Just to remind you that the best way to contact your child’s teacher is via our school email address. The address is: Glendalee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Please attention the email to the teacher you wish to speak with and include your child’s name and a contact number. Your child’s teacher can then contact you to make a mutually convenient time to chat. Messages for Students We respectfully ask that you discuss with your children prior to the school day the arrangements for the afternoon. This will help minimise interruptions to classes in getting messages to children. Transporting students by private vehicles on school business.

From time to time, it is necessary for our students to be transported by private vehicle. Parents who volunteer to transport students are reminded the following documentation is required: Parent Driver Declaration Form a copy of the current Vehicle Registration A copy of a current Drivers Licence Appendix 5 Form 100 Points of Identification Please provide this information to the office prior to the excursion if you have agreed to transport students by private vehicle. This will assist our school to comply with Department of Education Procedures. .

Education Week Musical Locks on Gates Canberra

Matter of Seconds Whole School Production

PSSA PACER Rebate

Public Speaking

Congratulations to the following students who represented Glendale East Public School at the Zone Public Speak-ing Finals at Booragul Public School.

A special congratulations goes to Alex Holliday who received a Highly Commended Award for her speech on the day. Well done Alex!

PBL Focus

Hi Everyone, My name is WOOF and I’m just letting you know that School Banking day is THURSDAY. So please bring your Bank Book into the office on Thursday mornings ready for banking. If your child/ren does not yet have a bank account, you can open one at your local Commonwealth Bank Branch. Kids, once you make 10 deposits you can claim one of our many rewards.

School Banking

PBL FOCUS WEEK 9

Persistence

Glendale East Public School Ph: 02 49549551

Email: glendalee-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.glendalee-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Visit 1 (15/8) Getting to know you (drop and go—structured play (9.30am-11am). Visit 2 (29/8) Getting to know you (drop and go—structured play (9.30am-11am). Visit 3 (12/9) Getting to know you (drop and go—structured play (9.30am-11am).

Visit 4 (31/10) Children meet their buddies (9:30am-11am) Visit 5 (14/11) Children learning session with buddies (9.30am-11am) Visit 6 (28/11) Children learning session with buddies (9.30am-11am) including

Parents “Meet and Greet” morning tea and Kindy Orientation Graduation at 10:30am

Parent Information Session

12/09—6pm in the school library:

Uniform, P&C, Canteen, School initiatives, Learning and Support Team

Kindy teachers discuss:

* Hints for getting kids ready

* Preparing for Literacy and Numeracy

* School Programs

* Best Start

2019 Important Dates

Literacy and Numeracy Info Session

28/11—9:30am-10:30am in the school library:

Literacy and numeracy expectations

How GEPS teaches literacy and numeracy

How parents can help at home

Literacy and numeracy resources

REQUEST FOR ALL SCHOOL MAINTENANCE LOCAL TRADES PROVIDERS AND

SUPPLIERS

The NSW Government has committed the largest investment in planned maintenance at public

schools in the history of NSW. A record $1.3 billion is being spent on an ambitious delivery

program, focused on employing local businesses and contractors across the state.

To assist in addressing regional school maintenance issues and at the same time

provide work for local trade’s persons and suppliers across the Hunter/Central Coast

regions, over $100 million is being invested to upgrade and maintain our school

Infrastructure.

Given this record spend by School Infrastructure NSW, you are invited to an Asset

Management Unit industry breakfast briefing. This will provide information to existing and new

contractors on how you can get involved.

To find out more by attending our Industry breakfast register at

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/industry-engagement-information-session-tickets-65766578607

or contact your Asset Management Unit on 4088 3500.

Week Day Date Event

Glendale East Public School Important Dates — Term 3

Glendale East Public School Important Dates — Term 4

Week 1 Mon-Fri 14/10/19 -

18/10/2019 Swim School

Week 2

Mon-Fri 21/10/2019 - 25/10/2019

Swim School

Monday 21/10/2019 Assembly - Both 5/6B & 5/6Q

Wednesday 23/10/2019 Tell Them From Me Surveys

Week 3 Thursday 31/10/2019 Kinder Orientation 4

Friday 1/11/2019 Grandparents Day

Week 4 Monday 4/11/2019 Assembly - 1/2I

Monday 4/11/2019 Children’s University Graduation

Week 5 Thursday 14/11/2019 Kinder Orientation 5

Week 6 Monday 18/11/2019 Assembly - 1/2A

Friday 22/11/2019 Senior Touch Football Gala Day

Week 7 Thursday 28/11/2019 Kinder Orientation 6

Thursday 28/11/2019 Kinder Literacy and Numeracy Session

Week 8 Monday 2/12/2019 Assembly - Both KA & KF

Week 9 Thursday 12/12/2019 Yr 6 Farewell

Friday 13/12/2019 Presentation Day

Week 10 Wednesday 18/12/2019 Last Day of School Year

Week 9

Mon - Fri 16/9-20/9/19 Parent Teacher Interviews

Monday 16/09/2019 Assembly 3/4M

Tuesday 17/09/2019 Children's University Gown Check

Thursday 19/09/2019 Year 6 Science Discovery Day

Week 10

Monday 23/09/2019 Assembly - 1/2M and Silver Assembly

Wednesday 25/09/2019 Silver Rewards Day

Wednesday 25/09/2019 SRC Footy Colours and Crazy Hair Day

Friday 27/09/2019 Last Day Of Term