GEPS NEWS Term 3 Week 4 Thursday: 15th August 2019

Glendale East Public School - Safe, Respectful Learners

Glendale East Public School 8 Margot Street

GLENDALE 2285 Phone: 4954 9551 Fax: 4956 6248

GEPS IILA AWARD RECIPIENTS

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 5 As always, this term is quickly going by. There is a lot happening during that time so I have listed the important information. For more specific details, please check Facebook and SkoolBag.

Monday—Assembly and Stage 3 GATS challenge Tuesday—Visiting author

Education Week and Book Week The theme for 2019 Education Week was Every Student, Every Voice. It is a celebration of student empowerment and how the NSW public education system gives students the skills they need in order to have and express a voice during their own educational journey and as engaged global citizens. Last week we celebrated Education and Book Week through our Book Parade, Open Classrooms and Book Fair. A big thank you to all those who helped us celebrate. IILA Excellence One of the events we hold to celebrate Education Week is our IILA Excellence Awards. These awards recognise outstanding commitment to learning from our students and staff. This year, awards were given out to the following students: Erin Forrester (Year 3) Chloe Lang (Year 3) Jorja Newstead (Year 4) Jasmyn Mascord (Year 4) Shae Musgrove (Year 5) Jasmine Davey (Year 5) Malakai Newstead (Year 6) Belinda Smith (Year 6) For the first time this year, we also celebrated teaching excellence. Our staff nominated a number of deserving staff but the decision was made to recognise Mrs Brown with the award. Congratulations Mrs Brown. 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. Welcome back Mrs Furner Glendale East is tremendously excited about welcoming back Ms Lisa Furner to our school. Ms Furner is a very experienced, excellent educator who will be running a number of new and exciting programs in our school. These programs will include offering extra support to students with learning difficulties in Years K-2, running an extension program for students in years 3-6 and assisting classes trial a form of teaching called Project Based Learning. We will communicate more about these programs over the course of the term. Kind regards, Mr Forbes

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!

KA have been very busy as usual enjoying many varied and exciting learning experiences. Some recent highlights have included celebrating Education week and Book week. It was great to see stu-dents put in such a big effort into coming up with such creative and original costumes and we really enjoyed welcoming families into our open classroom and later parading. Earlier this term we were proud to perform our short play based on a book by Julia Donaldson. It can be a little bit nerve racking getting up in front of the whole school to present your very first class item and after some very dedicated rehearsals we were proud to perform ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ which turned out to be a lot of fun and was enjoyed by all. Another great thing that Kindergarten are involved in along with all the infants classes are our Sci-ence, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) rotations. This involves all the infants classes rotating around over the Term to different learning experiences including Coding, Robotics, Science investigations, Movie Making, Problem Solving and Design, Nature Play and Critical and Creative thinking tasks. KA have LOVED participating most re-cently in Nature Play and have enjoyed some of the many benefits that this engaging activity is de-signed to offer the students including researched academic benefits such as:-

Improved classroom behaviour;

Increased student motivation and enthusiasm to learn;

Better performance in maths, science, reading and inquiry learning;

Higher levels of classroom engagement;

Higher scores on standardised tests; and

Helps students to perform measurably better in school.

Through Nature play students are given opportunities to develop dispositions such as Inquisitiveness, reasonableness, intellectual flexibility, open and fairmindedness, a readiness to try new ways of doing things and persistence! And all this while having a fantastic fun time!

Message from KA

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. Correct amount of cash can be left in an envelope addressed to the uniform shop. 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 5

Courage

PBL FOCUS WEEK 6

Courtesy

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.

Glendale East Public School Important Dates — Term 3

Week 5

Monday 19/08/2019 Stage 3 GATS Challenge

Tuesday 20/08/2019 Visiting Author

Wednesday 21/08/2019 Stage 3 Newcastle Perm Maths Competition

Wednesday 21/08/2019 APSMO Maths Comp 4

Thursday 22/08/2019 Scope IT Stage 3

Friday 23/08/2019 PSSA Final - Senior Netball

Week 6

Monday 26/08/2019 Assembly - 3/4M

Thursday 29/08/2019 Fathers Day Stall

Thursday 29/08/2019 Kindergarten Orientation No. 2

Thursday 29/08/2019 Scope IT Stage 3

Friday 30/08/2019 Fathers Day Breakfast

Week 7

Tuesday 3/09/2019 Musical Dress Rehearsal

Wednesday 4/09/2019 Musical Matinee and Night Performance

Thursday 5/09/2019 Musical Night Performance

Friday 6/09/2019 Stage 2 Touch Football Gala Day

Week 8

Monday 9/09/2019 Assembly - 3/4S

Wednesday 11/09/2019 NRL Gala Day

Wednesday 11/09/2019 APSMO Maths Comp 5

Thursday 12/09/2019 Kindergarten Orientation No. 3

Thursday 12/09/2019 Kindergarten Parent Information Session 6pm

Week 9

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

Thursday 19/09/2019 Year 6 Science Discovery Day

Friday 20/09/2019 Senior Touch Football Gala Day

Week 10 Monday 23/09/2019 Assembly - 1/2M

Friday 27/09/2019 Last Day Of Term