Wentworthville Public School QUALITY TEACHING TO MAXIMISE STUDENT LEARNING
Term 3 Week 9 2017 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: [email protected] Student Portal: http://portal.det.nsw.edu.au
From the Principal – Denise Lockrey
It has certainly been a busy couple of weeks at Wentworthville PS with our PBL signs being installed,
18 students representing our school at the Opera House for the Festival of Instrumental Music, a
Premiers Spelling Bee first place getter and to top it off a range of events to celebrate Father’s Day!
Thank You
Many people make things happen at our great school and this is always best achieved with a
team effort.
Thank you to:
Our P&C volunteers under Shanti’s leadership who assisted in providing students the opportunity to
purchase a gift for dad or the significant person in their life and participate in the Father’s Day raffle.
They wrapped gifts, sold tickets and sold items for the students! Well done ☺
Mrs Lawrence and Mrs Hall for supporting the 18 students who performed at the Opera House in a
massed ensemble for the Festival of Instrumental Music last Wednesday night. Great job!
Mr Williams who supported four students attending the Premier’s Spelling Bee and having a first
place getter! How impressive!
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Mr Warren who supported a number of Stage 3 students who
participated in a Maths Extension day held at Darcy Road PS last week.
They certainly expanded their mathematical minds and worked on their
collaboration and critical thinking skills!
Our P&C volunteers who cooked for the BBQ Father’s Day Breakfast
–thank you Felicity, Sharron (and Sharron’s dad!)
Mr Wiles (our General Assistant) and North Parramatta Bunnings who
conducted out first workshop for our Men of Wenty (MOW) –our dads
and grandads. It was such a positive but windy morning and they enjoyed constructing their tool boxes,
kindly donated by Bunnings. This community engagement activity is so positive and we are continuing to
build relationships with our school community.
Our P&C volunteers who cooked for the Council Election BBQ – Thanks to Felicity, Sharron, Leanne,
Raghu, Catherine, Thushy, Grant, and two students: Chloe and Crystal. They were set up from 7:30am for
the voting opening at 8am and finished cooking at 5:30pm all cleaned and packed away at 6pm when
polling closed! An amazing effort and raised funds for P&C which ultimately assist all students at WPS.
Well done team! ☺
Denise Lockrey
Principal
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1. Stage 3 –Swimming note (issued Monday September 11)
Wonderful Happenings at Wenty!
A visual snapshot of some of the events in the last two weeks
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The welcome….
The people…. The P&C BBQ cookers!....
The breakfast
eaters!....
We are ready…..
And they came and enjoyed the
breakfast!
The team hard at work...
Concentration on the
tool box...
A happy MOW!
A great effort by all our MEN OF WENTY!
Last Wednesday, Mrs. Lawrence and Mrs. Hall took 18 very
excited students into Sydney to perform at the Opera House,
as part of the combined recorder ensemble in the Festival of
Instrumental Music. They left school in the morning and
travelled by train into the city where they rehearsed with hundreds of other recorder
players from all over New South Wales.
After the rehearsal, they spent time in the Botanic Gardens
before heading to Circular Quay for dinner.
The concert in the evening was amazing, and featured
instrumental groups from a number of schools. The
recorder ensemble played 3 quite challenging pieces, which
they have been learning since February.
The concert finished with a very rousing piece, which was
played by 700 recorder players and 300 string players.
Congratulations to Shreya, Aesha, Sasha, Jocelyn, Vandana, Sanatani, Maya, Marwa, Riya, Jalleni, Hari,
Jiah, Jheel, Aditi, Monica, Vaidehi, Dakshina, and Samya. Their hard work paid off and Mrs. Hall and Mrs.
Lawrence were extremely proud of them!
Report by Nuha Dole of 6W
On the 5th of September, four students from Wentworthville Public School
represented us at the 2017 Premier’s Spelling Bee Regional Final at The
Meadows Public School. Two junior
students, Anvi Mehta and Diya
Pandey, competed in the Junior
Regional Final and made it to the
fourth round. The winner was a young
girl from Parramatta East Public School and the runner up was
from The Meadows Public
School.
Naman Mehta and Nuha Dole
represented us at the Senior
Regional Final. The
competition was over five rounds and eventually reached the unseen
round, which included words that the competitors hadn’t seen on their
practise lists. Nuha made it into the top ten, finishing ninth.
Naman went on to win the competition and qualified for the
State finals in November. Well done Naman! The runner up
was a boy from Westmead Public School. Both Naman and
the runner up received a dictionary and thesaurus from Macquarie Dictionaries, the official word list
supplier.
The Year 6 leaders and Year 5 supporting leaders have made
great efforts in each Peer Support lesson to build the resilience
of the students in their group.
In the final session of the module Moving Forward children will
reflect on what they have learned. The students will reflect
upon their strengths, achievements and people who support
them when faced with challenging situations.
These protective factors promote confidence and motivate students to approach new
situations where they can then apply the Pause, Plan, Proceed Model.
FLIP OUT MINI BLACKTOWN
This was one of our prizes for the Mother’s Day stall. The company have indicated to our P&C
President that if they are advertised in the newsletter they give a voucher for 1hr jump time per
newsletter. This is a positive way of supporting our school! They can be contacted on…
Flip Out Mini Blacktown
Phone : 02 9679 8888
Enrolments being taken NOW for 2018 (K - 6)
As you can see in our community with all the cranes and construction, we are growing!
As a school, we want to be on the ‘front foot’ and ready for all the students and families
who will join us in 2018.
Our Kindergarten 2018 planning is well underway. If you haven’t yet enrolled your pre-schooler for
Kindergarten 2018 at WPS, please collect an enrolment form from the office. You will need to bring with
you originals of proof of residential address, birth certificate and immunisation records and any visa
paperwork (if required).
If you have friends living in the area who have children of school starting age you might like to let them
know it is time to sign up and enrol their children for school in 2018.
Name Class Name Class Scarlette KR Netra 1Z
Nirthika KK Heli 2S
Rutvi KV Anita 2S
Siya KR Alexis 1-3K
Dev KK Ishanvi 3C
Angela KV Monica 3C
Anujan KV Anvi 3M
Krishnendu KR Nihitha 4/5S
Mayukh KR Lakshmi 3M
Suki 2S Khyanshu 3M
Vyaas 1G Rohan 3M
Ragavan 2WS Jiah 4/5S
Gursimar 1B ** **
Students in Years 3 and 5 will participate in the NAPLAN technical readiness test in Week 10 (18 - 22
September). This is to ascertain the technical readiness of schools for NAPLAN online.
Students will complete an omnibus test that encompasses a literacy and numeracy component. Year 5
will also complete a writing test. No results will be recorded for this test in Week 10.
More information can be found at: https://www.nap.edu.au/home
We would like your feedback about the possibility of initiating Mathletics as part of the classroom and
homework program at Wentworthville PS.
The Mathletics program is completely online and is aligned to the requirements of the Australian Maths
Curriculum and is designed for all learning styles.
Mathletics assists students to think critically, make learning choices, seek help when they need it and
reflect on their learning by being able to visually track their progress.
Families would be required to pay an annual subscription of approximately $10-$15.
Please complete the survey below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HRS2HMX
For further information about Mathletics see the website below
http://au.mathletics.com/primary/
This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of
the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different
factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.
Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s
experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and
practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valua-
ble feedback will help our school make practical improvements.
The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The sur-
vey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey
will be conducted between 21 August and 13 October. Although participating in the survey is entirely
voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.
More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au.
Please complete the parent survey by clicking the link below
https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/bw528
Thank You to our wonderful fundraising committee and parent helpers who made the
Father’s Day stall so successful this year. Thank you to the P&C for the outstanding
prizes for the Father’s Day raffle this year.
The P&C Committee meet the first Wednesday of the month at 6pm. Feel free to come and join us and see
how you are able to help us to help the kids. We would love to see some new faces!
If you have questions or would like to give suggestions, please don’t hesitate to email us on
Felicity Furner
President
Wentworthville PS P&C Committee
Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017
Dear Parents,
This year Wentworthville PS will be participating in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through this
program we will be able to get new educational resources for our school/early learning centre – and all we
need you to do is shop for your groceries at Woolworths.
From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th September or while stock lasts, we are collecting
Woolworths Earn & Learn Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker for every $10
spent. Place the Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and
when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be dropped into the Collection Box here at the school or at your
local Woolworths.
At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able to get some great new equipment. The range is extensive and
offers lots of items ideal for our students – including resources for Maths, English, Science and some
fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport and for our library. If you’d like to know more visit
woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn
Wentworthville Public School Term 3 – 2017 as at 12 September
9 11 September
Peer Support –
session 3
(whole school)
12 September
Xenontech Day
13 September
SISA Social Skills
K-6
Celebrating the
Arts @Riverside
Theatre –
rehearsal; day
and night perfor-
mance
Newsletter
14 September
R u OK Day?
15 September
16
P&C
Fami-
ly
Photo
Day
17
Sep
10 18 September
NAPLAN online
Readiness
Testing -All
week ->
Peer Support –
session 3
(whole school)
19 September
Author Visit
(Stacy Gregg)
Stage 3 1pm
20 September
SISA Social Skills
K-6
TELL Professional
Learning for staff
3.30-8pm
21 September
Concert Class Viewing
–rostered sessions
22 September
23
24
Sep
Hols 25 September 26 September 27 September 28 September 29 September 30
Sept
1 Oct
Hols 2 October 3 October 4 October 5 October 6 October 7
8
Oct