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FOOTY COLOURS DAY Tuesday 3rd September Footy Colours Day is a national fundraising campaign held during the month of September. Participants are encouraged to wear their favourite team's colours to school and bring a gold coin donation to raise much needed funds for kids with cancer.

STAGE 1 EXCURSION The Year 1 & 2 Western Sydney Parklands excursion was postponed last Friday due to the weather condi-tions. This excursion will be rescheduled for another day. More information soon.

ES1 & STAGE 1 PLANETARIUM INCURSION Kinder & Years 1 & 2

Students will experience an interactive 360 degree look at the sky during the day and night. They will step into a planetarium and learn about the patterns of the sun, moon and planets through the sky. Students will hear about Aboriginal Star stories and watch a 360 degree surround movie about Earth and Space.

DATE: Monday 21st October WHERE: School hall TIME: 9.00am—2.55pm COST: $9.00 DRESS: Full school uniform Financial Assistance may be available to families in need upon application at the school office. Please re-turn all notes and money to the school office by 27th September.

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Issue 14 Term 3 Week 7 Monday 2nd September 2019

SCHOOL INFORMATION PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

If your child is turning 5 before 1st August 2020, they are eli-gible to start school next year. It is very important that you ask at the office for an enrolment pack now so that you are on the mailing list for Kindergarten Orientation for next term. This will also help us determine the number of non-local enrolments we can accept. Please pass on this information to friends, family and neighbours who may have a child that is ready to start school.

Last year, we held our first ever art exhibition in term four. This year we are holding it earlier to avoid the rush at the end of the year. The official opening of the exhibition will be on Tuesday 24th September from 4pm until 6pm. It will also be open for families to view each morning from 25-27 September. Classes will view the art works during the day. Don’t miss the chance to see your child’s work on display.

This week, a team of researchers will be in our school conducting lesson observations and interviews of staff in a few of our classrooms. The researchers are doing this to identify and document significant patterns and examples of English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) effec-tive practice in schools. Our school was selected for this pro-ject because of its identified strengths in EAL/D education. We are very fortunate to have a talented, hardworking EAL/D teaching staff of Mrs Scott-Glassock, Mrs Cruz and Mrs Harris. Their role in supporting the English language develop-ment of our students is vital to our students’ learning.

This Thursday our Aboriginal students will be attending a combined NAIDOC Day Celebration event at Ashcroft PS where they will have the opportunity to learn from elders and share in some fun activities with other Aboriginal students of the Liverpool area. Have a great day.

In this newsletter you will find a link to the annual Tell Them From Me survey. Please take some time to complete this as the feedback helps us make decisions about areas in which we need to make improvements.

Finally for this week, we have recently had some key staff (including myself) trained to help move the school towards being a White Ribbon School. White Ribbon is an organisa-tion against violence towards women. We be-lieve that if we raise our students to focus on being respectful towards each other at all times and solve issues peacefully, we will go a long way to making a better society. Whilst we believe we have always done this really well at GVPS, we have decided to support White Ribbon throughout the year to enhance our message.

Mr B Warwick

Principal

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS $40 for one student

$60 per Family Payments can be made any morning at the front office.

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DIARY DATES Dates are subject to change due to unforeseen circumstances. Changed dates are underlined. SEPTEMBER 2nd Premier’s Spelling Bee Regional Finals 2nd Arabic speaking Parent Program 2nd National Vietnam Day 2nd Parent Café 2nd Stewart House Clothing Appeal Collection 3rd SRC Fundraiser Fight Cancer Footy Colours day 4th P&C Meeting 6pm 5th Combined Schools NAIDOC Day at Ashcroft P.S. 6th ICAS Science 9th-13th Public Speaking Competition—Class Level 9th Commonwealth Bank Visit K-2 11.45am 10th ICAS Spelling 10th Stage 3 OzHarvest Incursion 11th Children’s Parliament 12th RU OK Day 12th ICAS Writing 13th Sydney South West Athletics Carnival 13th Moon Festival 16th-27th Public Speaking Competition—Stage Level 16th African Drumming K-6 17th K-2 Assembly hosted by KC 17th ICAS English 17-19 Western Liverpool Performing Arts 18th Ambassador Mtg GVPS 9.30am-12pm 19th ICAS Mathematics 20th P&C Movie Night fundraiser 20th K-6 Assembly KB & 5/6B 23rd Stage 2 Public Speaking final 23rd Stage 3 Public Speaking final 23rd ES1 Public Speaking final 24th Art Exhibition Opening 25th Art Exhibition open for classes to view 26th Art Exhibition open for classes to view 26th 3-6 Assembly 27th BUZZ Day 27th Stage 1 Public Speaking final 27th Last day of Term 3 OCTOBER 14th First Day of Term 4 16th Cowpasture Public Speaking Finals 21st Kinder and Stage 1 Planetarium Visit Incursion 22nd Yr 6 Fundraiser Inflatable Obstacle Course 28th Aboriginal Education Awards Ceremony NOVEMBER 4th 5th 11th 12th Kindergarten Orientation 4th Tonga National Day 11th Remembrance Day 21st White Ribbon March, Terone Park

Next P&C Meeting Wednesday 11th September pam

in the school staffroom All Welcome

ONLINE PAYMENTS

When making an online payment through our web site we ask that the appropriate permission note is sent to the school office the next morning.

WEBINAR SESSION

Stage 3 were lucky to have a webinar and meet the amazing author Oliver Phommavanh! He read 3 of our very own students’ books. Olivia, Amy and Ibrahim were very excited!

VISITING AUTHOR

We had author Susanne Gervay attend our book parade last week. She read two amazing books that Stage 3 students Zoe and Huzaifa created!

P&C MOVIE NIGHT

Movie entry is $5 each child. (no meals included). Movie and Meal Pack is available for $15 each child. (includes movie entry, pizza, juice box or water, chocolates, lolly bag and popcorn). See Flyer on Page 3 for more details.

All payments must be made with the envelope that was sent home and returned to the front office by 16th September.

NO ONLINE PAYMENTS WILL BE ACCEPTED

COMMONWEALTH BANK VISIT K-2

WHEN: Monday 9th September

The Commonwealth Bank will visit G.V.P.S. for a free Introduc-tion to Financial Literacy session for all our K-2 students.

STAGE 3 OZHARVEST INCURSION

WHEN: Tuesday 10th September WHO: Years 5 & 6

OzHarvest is Australia’s leading food rescue organisation. They have developed a special presentation for primary school stu-dents to raise awareness about reducing food waste. This is a free event that will run for 45minutes. A note with more infor-mation will be sent home soon.

TELL THEM FROM ME

The Partners in Learning parent survey is part of the Tell Them From Me surveys on student engagement. The parent survey helps to clarify and strengthen the important relationship be-tween parents and school.

Please take the time to complete the survey below as we real-ly appreciate your feedback:

http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/gvps2019

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Students from Years 3-6 represented Green Valley Public School in the Wakakirri Story Dance Competition last Wednesday night at the Parramatta Riverside Theatre. Students and teachers worked extremely hard to perform their story “The Good, The Bad & The Sinful”. An enormous thank you to the teachers and parents who took the time to support this very special event.

Green Valley Public School won Best Teamwork and Best Public Speaking Awards on the night!

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