GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL

APIA STREET GUILDFORD NSW 2161

Phone: 9632 9675 fax: 9892 1325 www.guildford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

27TH OCTOBER NEWS UPDATE Principal’s news Term 4 is the me when we prepare students for moving to the next grade. For Kindergarten students, they finish their first formal year of educa on and move in to Stage 1 as Year 1 stu-dents. Year 6 students graduate from primary school with the vision of establishing themselves as a valuable, resilient and crea ve secondary student. At the same me almost 90 young, 4 and 5 year olds are building up the courage to move in to Kin-dergarten in 2018. Term 4 is also when students are assessed against syllabus out-comes to determine their grades for Semester 2 Academic Re-ports. Of course, Presenta on Day is an enormous occasion, acknowledging students for their progress and achievements during 2017. GPS now has over 560 students and as such we have decided to split Presenta on Day in to two assemblies. One for K-2 and the other for Years 3-6. A separate Sports and Performing Arts Presenta on Assembly will also take place. Please see the updated calendar for details. The SRC are hos ng K-2 and 3-6 discos on November 29 while the Year 6 Farewell will be held at Guildford Leagues Club. I’d like to thank Guildford Leagues Club for providing us the venue free of charge. Year 5 student leadership speeches for 2018 captains, Vice Cap-tains and Prefects are being held on Thursday November 23. This is an incredible assembly in which we have the privilege of hearing from 2018 student leaders and perhaps even leaders of our community a few years from now. I wish all students the best of luck in preparing and presen ng. On Thursday December 7, star ng at 3.30pm, the GPS Crea ve and Performing Arts Showcase will open its doors to parents, carers, family, friends and local community members. Our elite ar sts will exhibit their drawings, pain ngs, cra , dance, de-ba ng, drama and vocal song. This special event is certain to draw a considerable crowd to admire the crea vity, passion and talent of GPS students. An opening ceremony followed by a number of performing arts items is sure to entertain you.  

Student Achievement A large number of students have recently been presented their Bronze, Silver or Gold Superstar Award. It is an honour to pre-sent these awards to students who have applied themselves with great energy and inten on to improve their academic, social and physical capacity. I congratulate those students and families for receiving Bronze, Silver or Gold already this year. Students who achieve GOLD will be invited to a GOLD Party to be held on Monday 11 December. Lunch and a movie will be organised for these students in recogni on of their commit-ment to the values of GPS.  

 

Parents and Ci zens Associa on (P&C) At todays P&C mee ng we heard about their plans for the Christmas Raffle and Mu i day, Lolly Day fundraiser and about how parents are cooking lunch for the GOLD party.  

Kindergarten Transi on for 2018 start Wow, this starts next Thursday for three weeks. This program pro-vides both children and parents detailed informa on and advice about star ng Kindergarten. Of course, our teachers are able to build rela onships with your children from now so they feel safe and comfortable when they start on February 1, 2018. So, if you know of a child who is turning 5yo before 31 July 2018, he/she needs to be enrolled for 2018.

Supervision at School Please remember that students are supervised from 8.30am each day and that all students should be picked promptly a er the 3.00pm home bell. One of my concerns is that of students coming to school late. This is unacceptable and can lead to bad habits of being late for school and other appointments. Students must be ready to engage and learn from 9.00am. Regular late stu-dents will have their parents contacted re-ques ng a reason.

Parent and Carer Feedback – Survey Your feedback is appreciated! I invite parents and carers to respond to the 2017 Parent and Carer Feedback Survey. Please click on the following link or copy and paste in to your browser to complete. Your responses are confiden al. h ps://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2093GPSparent

 

 

 

 

ONE day at Guildford PS The following collage of photos represents just a few of the learning ac vi es GPS students were engaged in on Wednesday 25 October. Yes, that’s correct, these all occurred on just one day.

 

 

 World of Maths

Gymnastics

School Hours 9am - 3pm

BE ON

TIME

School Evaluation & planning

K-2 Assembly Sustainability

EXPO

Exploring

Learning

BRONZE SUPERSTARS 2B Nazanin Ishaq

2S Cnarj Beazley

3B Abbass Moosawi, Ayaan Bilal, Waleed Alameddine, Manaia Tipu, Roukaya Agha, Nermen El Kassab , Ali Ebrihimi, Mohammad Al Badri, Moimoi Latu

3/4L Rami Ajaj, Abdulsamet Atilgan, Ayman Naanai

4C Zuhair Rizvi, Ali Rostami, Sadia Muhammad Yaseen Jawed Moosawi, Fattma Kufi, Belal Kamara 4E Amen Behbahan, Mariam Wazney

SILVER SUPERSTARS 1G Shahnaz Naaman, Matty Hikyu, Rakshita Sudhkar Shawn Ramkissoon

2B Nuh hamadan, Karim Naaman 2S Aymen Shouk, Zahraaa Kufi

3B Mele Lafo, Mohammad Al Badri, Fiona Chen, Ammar Dannawi, Moimoi Latu, Ali Ebrihimi

3/4L Waad Hafev-aissa

4C Nicole Irving, Margaret Tan Terles, Ryttdk Ah Lam

4E Maria Abuhanden, Mahmoud Taleb

GOLD SUPERSTARS 2B Izaac Chung, Rumaisa Menaal

3B Blake Goller, Heba Ali Minhas, Zeyjan Olca

4E Ghazal Mahdavi

SPECIAL STUDENTS SENT TO SHOW GOOD WORK TO THE PRINCIPAL

End of Term 3 & Week 1,2,3 Term 4

2B Darud Djan 1B Meisa Katoa, Emaan Zahra 1C Najeeb Morabim Aisha Alkozey Amira Taleb 1G Jack Jiang, Phoebe Empasis, Rakshita

Sudhakar, Brayden Sincero, Ghayure Ali Nazari

1H Musa Abu-Bayor, Nidaa Behsoodi 1M Bryce Macaraeg 2Z Chris Bull 5T Mina Assaf, MelikehKhan KM TJ Ah See, Adryan Estephan 1M Jerry Huang 3/4L Levi Mahony, Hassan Aljabiri, Waad Hafez

Aissa, Mirna Khaled, Mayewod Sahebi, Ab-dulsamet Atilgan, Mariam Wazney, Hadeel Kerdi, Jema Greenhill

KM Rukaya Al Fadly, Kalolaine Lolohea 5T Rahzaib Asad 6K Yousef Nabizadeh, Mohamad Jbara Jana El Ramlawi, Fatma El Omran COMMUNITY LANGUAGE 4C Layel Jabar, Madj Mahmoud

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Mr Christopher Haberecht (Principal)

Fantastic work

JUNIOR BOYS LEAGUE TAG

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to the “Junior Boys League Tag team” for an outstanding season win-ning the Grand Final in the Au-burn PSSA competition for the se-cond year in a row. They were undefeated all year and defeated Blaxcell Street 4 tries to 2 in the Grand Final. A special mention to the Senior Boys League Tag team who fin-ished runners-up. They put in an amazing effort narrowly going down to Blaxcell Street 5 tries to 4.

Mr Nicolacopoulos

On Monday  the  18th  of  September,  16  stu‐dents a ended  ‘Our Spectacular’. The theme for

this year was a ‘Sense of Belonging’. Miss Jones and Miss Toth developed a dance to the song ‘My Island Home’ by Chris ne Anu to reflect the displacement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and a loss of iden ty in expecta ons of metropolitan life.

On Tuesday’s final dress rehearsal, the dance group re-ceived some great feedback from the directors about the improved dance quality, ming and wonderful costumes. This gives us the confidence and excitement to to finally perform our dance to the wider community. Two year 6 students collaborated and wrote about their experience.

“One of the best parts was from our first prac ce while we were at the Opera House. During the 2nd round of prac ce, we received compliments and feedback which boosted our energy and enthusiasm. Not only for the fact that we got to dance for our parents and parents from other schools, but we exceeded their expecta ons which made us really hap-py. Thank you to Miss Jones and Miss Toth. The Dance Group of 2017 would not have been a huge success. Both teachers gave up their a er school me, lunch and recess to help us achieve our goal.”- Sytori 6AK

“What I liked was when we first started Dance Group and we had a lot to improve on and we ended up ge ng there. The choreographer that visited our school helped us to be stronger in our dance. On the day of ‘Our Spectacular’, there were a lot of people on stage. When it was our turn we were all excited, scared and nervous. It was a long day, we did not get back to school un l 11 pm, but we had a break and went to eat McDonalds!” - Ali 6AK

1st row from the front: Sulia, Zeyja & Lorima 2nd row: Jana, Khaldoun, Jean & Exodus 3rd Row: Amy, Alexandra, Samira, Melikeh, Ali H & Hamze 4th Row: Miss Toth, Sytori, Saif, Yusef T & Miss Jones 

St Vincent DePaul supported our refugee students with a ending the Overnight Canberra excursion by subsidis-ing their payment. The following messages have been wri en by the students to show their apprecia on.

“Thank you to the people who paid for me to go to the Canberra excursion. My favourite part was Questacon because it was fun and I went down the Freefall slide.”- Aliaqa (6AK) 

“Thank you for giving us an opportunity to go to Can-berra to learn about Prime Ministers and how govern-ment works. I also liked the Royal Australian Mint be-cause I learned how money was made and why it is im-portant to have money.” - Mansoor (6AK)

“Thank you for giving us an opportunity to go to Can-berra. My favourite part was going to Questacon and staying at Leumeah Lodge. I really enjoyed the War Me-morial because I loved learning about the past and lis-tening to stories.”- Morteza (6K)

“Thank you for paying for me to go to the overnight ex-cursion. My favourite part was going to Flip Out. I had a really fun me.” - Wajiha (6K) 

“Thank you for the chance to go to the overnight excur-sion. My favourite part was when we went to Flip Out.”- Moayyed (5Y)  

“Thank you for the opportunity to go on the overnight excursion. My two favourite parts of the excursion were visi ng Questacon and Flip Out.”- Lojain (5J)

“Thank you for giving us a chance to on the overnight excursion. My favourite part of the excursion was Questacon and sharing a room with my friends!” Diana (5J) 

The SRC have decided to hold an end of year disco for their last fundraiser for the year. After deep thought and research into various charities, the SRC have decided to donate all the money fundraised from the disco towards the Cathy Freeman Founda-tion. This foundation gives Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students the opportunity to have the same standards in education in Literacy, school attendance, Health and wellbeing. Come and join us for our end of year disco to help support these children!

News

Check out all the Free activities our community can access at

Guildford Library.

For Primary aged children: Afternoon Antics; Every Tuesday after school, craft and activities, no need to book. Free Homework Help; Every Thursday after school, no need to book. Free Pre-school children: Story Time; Every Wednesday and Friday at 11.00am, no need to book. Free Adults: Ladies English Conversation Class; Every Tuesday at 10.00am, no need to book. Free

Last term the Life Education van visited Guildford Public School and delivered an effective drug and health program for students from Kindergar-ten to Year 6. Our students under-stood how to look

after their bodies and make wise choices that positively affect their health and wellbeing. The lessons were engaging and thought provoking which was thor-oughly enjoyed by students at Guildford Public School. We look forward to seeing Healthy Harold again next year in Term 4. Mrs L. Sekhar Assistant Principal

Environmental Club

Environmental club is making T‐shirt bags as part of reduce, reuse, recycle art and craft and we are looking for donations of clean, old t‐shirts. Size doesn’t matter! Please put in the box outside the li‐

brary where KF line up.  

   

  

  

Thursday 2      November 9:15am—10:45am Thursday 9     November 9:15am—10:45am Thursday 16   November 9:15am—10:45am 

 If you and your child attend all 3 sessions  your child will receive a FREE school hat. 

Christopher Haberecht                             Principal  Jeanice Corso and Salam Haidar Kindergarten Transition Coordinators

Please do not park in the vacant lot - across from the Catholic Church on Calliope Street. This is Private Property, unfortu-nately when someone has parked on the property water pipes have been damaged.

Thank you for your cooperation.

EnvironMentor

Workshop

By Ghazal Mahdavi 4E On Tuesday week 1 Term 4, 4E went to an Environ-Mentor Workshop. We learnt a lot about the rubbish that goes down our drains and ends up in the ocean causing damage to wildlife and the envi-ronment. We did some drama which involved the class getting into groups of five or six. One of the leaders showed us a model of the countryside which contained small creeks and rivers. We add-ed food colouring to different areas on the model, then poured water over it which represented rain. You could see how the rubbish moved around the waterways and ended up in the ocean. We had an excellent time. Thank you EnvironMentor work-shop leaders.

Stage 2 Visits the EnvironMentor Workshop

By Shokoofeh Ishaq 4E During week 1, Stage 2 went to an EnvironMentor workshop in our school. We did lots of fun things. For one activity we had to get into groups of 5 or 6. We were given a poster, then 1 – 3 minutes to practise a short play about what was written on the poster. It was great! We also talked about littering and how it can harm animals living near or under the sea. The best part was when Hailey asked us questions and we had to answer them. We learnt lots of inter-esting things about the damage that littering can cause.

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TERM 4 – DATES TO REMEMBER MONDAYS  AFL TRAINING 3PM – 4PM 

TUESDAYS TEEBALL & SOFTBALL TRAINING 3PM – 4PM

WEDNESDAYS    

GYMNASTICS 9:15AM – 9:45AM – 1G & 2B 9:45AM – 10AM – 2S & 2Z 

WEDNESDAYS SCHOOL ASSEMBLY K/2 – ODD WEEKS 3/6 – EVEN WEEKS

WEEK 3 FRIDAY, 27TH OCTOBER  ‘WORLD TEACHER’S DAY’ 

WEEK 4 MONDAY, 30TH OCTOBER GRANDPARENTS DAY

TUESDAY, 31ST OCTOBER  STAGE 3 – SCULPTURES BY THE SEA EXCUR‐SION 

THURSDAY, 2ND NOVEMBER P & C LOLLY BAG DAY

THURSDAY, 2ND NOV, 9TH NOV, 16TH NOV 

KINDERGARTEN 2018 TRANSITION 9AM – 10:45AM  IN THE SCHOOL HALL 

FRIDAY, 3RD NOVEMBER DRAMA TOOLBOX – SELECTED STUDENTS 3:15PM – 4:15PM

WEEK 5 MONDAY, 6TH NOVEMBER  MERRYLANDS HIGH SCHOOL OPEN DAY 

THURSDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER TALENT QUEST AUDITIONS

MONDAY, 13TH NOVEMBER  SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOLS WEBSITE CLOSES 

WEEK 6 WEDNESDAY, 15TH NOVEMBER YEAR 6 FUNDRAISER – SPIDER DRINK & JELLY DAY

WEDNESDAY, 15TH NOVEMBER  REMEMBRANCE DAY – 11:20AM – 12:00PM 

WEEK 7 WEDNESDAY, 22ND NOVEMBER DEBATING GRAND FINAL – HOSTED @ GUILD-FORD PUBLIC SCHOOL

FRIDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER  TALENT QUEST 1PM – 2PM IN THE HALL 

WEEK 8 WEDNESDAY, 29TH NOVEMBER SRC DISCO K/2 – 3:30PM – 4:30PM 3/6 – 4:45PM – 6:00PM

THURDAY, 30TH NOVEMBER  P&C MEETING 

WEEK 9 MONDAY, 4TH DECEMBER KOORI DAY – HOSTED BY GUILDFORD PS

THURSDAY, 7TH DECEMBER  CAPA SHOWCASE – 3:30PM – 5:00PM 

THURSDAY, 7TH DECEMBER  CHRISTMAS RAFFLE MUFTI DAY – DONATION FOR CHRISTMAS HAMPERS 

WEEK 10 MONDAY, 11TH DECEMBER  GOLD CERTIFICATE PARTY 

TUESDAY, 12TH DECEMBER YEAR 6 FAREWELL

WEDNESDAY, 13TH DECEMBER  YEAR 6 GRADUATION CEREMONY 

THURSDAY 14TH DECEMBER P & c CHRISTMAS RAFFLE DRAWN

FRIDAY, 15TH DECEMBER  LAST DAY OF TERM 4