Wentworthville Public School QUALITY TEACHING TO MAXIMISE STUDENT LEARNING

Term 1 Week 3 2018 Newsletter

70 - 100 Fullagar Rd WENTWORTHVILLE NSW 2145 Australia Phone: 02 9631 8529 Fax: 02 9896 3079

Website: www.wentwthvil-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: wentwthvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Student Portal: http://portal.det.nsw.edu.au

From the Principal – Denise Lockrey

Welcome back to our new school year! I would like to extend a special welcome to all our new families who

are joining us at Wentworthville Public School for the first time. We hope that during 2018 and your time

with us you will have the time to join in many of our school activities and partner with us as we educate your

child. I submitted the school numbers for 2018 yesterday and we have 578 students enrolled currently at

WPS! With all the building being conducted throughout the community we expect to grow further throughout

the year.

Wentworthville PS 2018 class structure

23 mainstream classes and 3 MC support unit classes for students with disabilities. We had planned for a 3

class projected increased growth, but fell short of the third class growth numbers, due to movement in and

out of the school and we were not aware of until the beginning of the school year. As such, we formed two

new classes across the school and will be only restructuring in Stage 3 to make the 23 classes. Mr Warren,

Mrs Mohanaraj and Mr Wong-See will be the Stage 3 teachers and will each teach a 5/6 class. Mrs

Boersma will be the 4N teacher moving forward from week 4 and the class will be renamed 4B.

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Class Class Class Teacher

1 KK Mrs Deena Kamoda

2 KA Ms Arosha Bamunuarachchige

3 KN Ms Rebecca Drewery

4 KL Ms Bruna Lisciotto

5 KBM Ms Brittany McDermid

6 KM Mrs Lyndy McMahon

7 1G Mr Mitchell Gilson

8 1KS Mrs Terry Kouros (M-W) /Mrs Amanda Smit (Th / F)

9 1B Ms Bek Bolton

10 1M Ms Patricia Martelli

11 1W Mr Luke Williams

12 2S Mrs Darshana Shah

13 2G Ms Lethika Gunaratnam

14 2/3H Mr Mark Hobor

15 2R Mrs Renu Sachdeva

16 3C Ms Marie Chamoun

17 3M Ms Mandy Moorhouse

18 3/4G Mrs Shiler Goran

19 4R Mrs Clare Rafidi

20 4B Mrs Fiona Boersma

21 5/6M Mrs Shalini Mohanaraj

22 5/6WS Mr Michael Wong-See

23 5/6G Mr Gareth Warren

24 K-2C Ms Shantelle Camilleri for (Mrs Bianca Cozad)

25 K-2G Mrs Noni Gladden

26 3-6B Mrs Ramaa Bommireddipalli UFV (Mr Ben Train)

Executive Staff

Principal – Mrs Denise Lockrey

Deputy Principal - Mrs Tania Di Chio

Early Stage 1 – Mrs Fiona Boersma – Relieving Assistant Principal

Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) – Mrs Tareena Eastwood –Assistant Principal

Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) – Mrs Clare Rafidi –Assistant Principal

Stage 3 (Years 5 and 6) –Mr Gareth Warren- Assistant Principal

Support Classes – Ms Mandy Moorhouse– Relieving Assistant Principal Support

Specialist Staff

EALD –Mrs Navjot Gill, Mr Mike Matheson, Mrs Elizabeth Connolly Borg and Ms Clara Sanchez (M-Th)

LaST – Ms Alana O’Sullivan (Term 1)

RFF /LISC –Mrs Tareena Eastwood

QTSS –Mr James Sharp

Teacher Librarian –Mrs Melinda Hall and Mrs Kirrilly Dabinett (Th/F)

RFF teachers –Mr George Younan, Mrs Caroline Hatter and Mrs Joka Gojkovic

School Counsellor – Mrs Isobel Burchett (Wednesdays and every second Friday), Mrs Shannon Mitchell

Community Engagement Officer –Mrs Makeleta Felila (Wednesdays)

Full-time SLSO team - Denice Bates, Sue Campbell, Sue Bray, Sue English, Helen Brticevic,

Part-time SLSO team - Kellee Keast and Helen Paine

Administration Team – Mrs Lynn Deuis, Mrs Leslei Sargent, Mrs Christine Powell and Mrs Nancy Khanlu

(Tuesdays and Fridays)

General Assistant - Mr Mark Wiles

Formation of classes

Each year our school enrolments determine the need to form composite or multi-age classes in some

years. Our approach to this is guided by:

The number of students enrolled in a year and where they cannot be accommodated in a single year class

When placing students into composite or multi-year classes the school gives consideration to factors about

each student such as work habits, friendship groups and capacity to be an independent worker. Careful

forward planning at the end of each year occurs with staff in preparing the next year

classes.

Regarding class placement, we are always happy to talk to parents, however, the

placement of students into classes is not something that is changed upon parent

request. It is the school’s responsibility to determine class placement.

Wonderful Happenings at Wenty!

The holiday period was very busy with a lot of properties work occurring on site to improve the school asset

and manage the student population growth! See the entire roof replacement of B Block and scaffold work, the

3 demountable building sited and the happy Year 4 students occupying their rooms yesterday! Mr Wiles, our

General Assistant was a star managing all this work and movement on site and ensuring it all ran smoothly. I

thank him on behalf of us all! ☺

Denise Lockrey

Principal

Parent Information Session/

Welcome BBQ –all students

Captains

1. Zahra Sarwary

2. Isaac Fonua

Prefects

1. Jocelyn Arkapaw

2. Shiloh Chang

3. Rameen Zaidi

4. Jason Hanna

5. Jay Jadeja

6. Nisam Limbu

House Captains 2018

Patterson

Girl Captain - Ashika Nayak 4/5S Boy Captain - Aiden Johnpillai 5M

Girl Vice Captain - Ilakkiya Karunakaran 4/5S Boy Vice Captain - Muhammad Khalid 5/6H

Kendall

Girl Captain - Lashyah Kantharajah 5M Boy Captain - Kevin Huang 5/6H

Girl Vice Captain - Krisha Khambhadiya 5M Boy Vice Captain- Yanojan Navaneethan 5M

Gordon

Girl Captain - Vandana Sateesha 5M Boy Captain- Ansh Ganne 4/5S

Girl Vice Captain - Dhikshitha Nandakumar 5M Boy Vice Captain - Musab Albarbari 5M

Lawson

Girl Captain - Akshaya Kumanan 5M Boy Captain - Pratham Singh 5/6H

Girl Vice Captain - Yasmin Elmasri 5M Boy Vice Captain - Kassem Masri 5M

International Competitions and Assessment (ICAS) –

This year our school will participate in the University of NSW Competitions (ICAS - International

Competition and Assessments for Schools).

ICAS is a comprehensive skills-based educational assessment program. All participating students receive a

UNSW Certificate acknowledging their level of achievement. Parents choose to have their children enter

these competitions and a fee is charged to cover the test paper and marking. They are not compulsory.

The tests are held in Terms 2 and 3 and are now offered from Year 2 – Year 6. All money can be paid

online in the ‘make a payment section’ on the Wentworthville PS web site. Please use ‘ICAS’ as the

description for your child’s payment.

This year the tests will be administered BEFORE school in a classroom at Wentworthville PS. It will be

Parents and Caregivers responsibility to deliver students on time out of school hours.

PLEASE NOTE: Students who do not attend testing times will not be made up on another day.

Dates and Prices - Closing date for our school for all competitions is Wednesday 14 March, 2018.

Thank You

Ms Moorhouse - ICAS Co-ordinator

Test Sitting Date Time Amount

These costs do not include GST.

Digital Technologies – Yr 3 - 6 only

Tuesday, 8 May 2018 8:00am-8:55am $9.00

English- Yr 2 - 6 Tuesday, 31 July 2018 8:00am-8:55am $9.00

Mathematics - Yr 2 - 6 Tuesday, 14 August 2018

7:55am-8:55am $9.00

Students are welcome to borrow books from our wonderful school library during their weekly class

library lesson.

Students will need a library bag to borrow. Library bags can be purchased from the uniform shop or you can

purchase your own library bag. (Plastic bags are not acceptable).

Students can access the Oliver Library website from their student portal. They can search

for books and reserve their favourite books from this site. Lots of great websites and

information is regularly updated on the library website.

Borrowing champions- Each week borrowers from each class are tallied up. The class with the most

borrowers over the week is awarded a certificate. At the end of the year the class who borrowed most

regularly are rewarded with a class party and awarded the title ‘School Borrowing Champions’.

Library monitors for 2018 have been selected. They will be announced at this week’s school assembly.

If you have any questions, please ask.

Ms Hall

Teacher/Librarian.

melinda.hall@det.nsw.edu.au

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Scholastic Book Club

Students will receive a book catalogue twice a term from Scholastic. You can purchase books for your child/

ren.

Issue 1 orders are due by 21 February 2018

All payments must be paid online directly to Scholastic via Book Clubs LOOP for Parents. (No payments will

be accepted at the school office).

Please see Ms Hall in the library if assistance is needed with ordering.

melinda.hall@det.nsw.edu.au

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The Wenty Community Hub is new in 2018. The Wenty Community Hub is a support network for families at

Wentworthville Public School. Our Parent Mentors will be involved in supporting new families to our school.

Various workshops and guest speakers will be available this term to assist all families at our school. Makeleta

Felila the Community Engagement Officer will be available at each of the sessions.

Our first event for the Wenty Community Hub Is the Kindergarten Parent Workshop on Wednesday

28th February 9.15 -11am. See details below.

Wednesday 28

February 2018

Kindergarten Parent Workshop 9.15 - 11am.

This will be held in the library. Kindergarten parents will have

the opportunity to attend small workshops to assist with

understanding the curriculum and supporting their own

children at home.