Heights Happenings Winston Heights Newsletter WEEK 6 TERM 1 Dear Parents, Naonal Young Leaders Day I had the pleasure of accompanying our school captains and vice captains to Naonal Young Leaders Day in the city this week. They joined 5000 other primary school student leaders from across NSW to listen to inspiraonal speakers talk about their leadership journeys. Please have a read of their report in the newsleer. P&C AGM and Special Meengs for Parent Organisaons Thank you to the many new parents who aended our first P&C meeng of the year. Our school is very lucky to have many parent organisaons all working to benefit our students and community. The Just One Thing (JOT) form went home last week. Please consider seeing what you and your family are able to assist with during the year. You are able to volunteer to help out at many different things, if you wish. The first thing on the agenda is our upcoming Working Bee which will be held on Sunday 15 th March. The Annual General Meeng (AGM) for P&C will be on the 23 rd March. All posions will be declared vacant at this me to elect or re-elect a new Execuve Commiee. Special Meengs will be held for the Music Commiee on the 18 th March at 6:30pm and for the Canteen on Thursday 12 th March at 6pm. Role statements for the commiees will be emailed out soon to all families. ThinkUKnow Cybersafety Workshop Please consider aending the parent workshop on Cybersafety on Thursday 2 nd April. This will be run by our Police Liaison Officer. The workshop is an opportunity to learn about keeping your children safe when they are using the internet and also to ask quesons that you may have with regards to cybersafety. A similar session was held two years ago for parents, however, we have a different presenter and we all know that the internet is constantly changing and that more and more social media sites become available. More informaon is available in the note sent home this week. We have also invited Winston Hills Public School parents to the workshop as well. Olympathon Today all students have taken home a special Olympathon note and sponsorship form. This is our school major fundraiser for the year. We have teamed up with Mov8 Sports to hold our own Olympics. This event will take place on Thursday 26 th March on the school oval between 11am – 1pm. The children have been sorted into groups of 11-12, ranging from Kindergarten to Year 6. Our Stage 3 students will be leading their group (Country). Each country will compete in 20 fun “Olympic” sports. Please read the detailed note for further informaon. Parents, carers and friends are more than welcome to watch the Olympathon and then enjoy a picnic lunch on the school grounds at the conclusion of our Olympic sports. 123 Magic – Parent Workshop Our school chaplain, Mrs Bowman, is currently running a parent workshop over 3 weeks. This workshop was very well aended on Monday for the first session, with over 40 families being involved. We will ask parents to evaluate and will possibly organise to run this again in Term 2 or 3.
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Heights Happenings Winston Heights Newsletter
W E E K 6 T E R M 1
Dear Parents,
National Young Leaders Day
I had the pleasure of accompanying our school captains and vice captains
to National Young Leaders Day in the city this week. They joined 5000 other
primary school student leaders from across NSW to listen to inspirational
speakers talk about their leadership journeys. Please have a read of their
report in the newsletter.
P&C AGM and Special Meetings for Parent Organisations
Thank you to the many new parents who attended our first P&C meeting of the year. Our school is very lucky to have many
parent organisations all working to benefit our students and community.
The Just One Thing (JOT) form went home last week. Please consider seeing what you and your family are able to assist with
during the year. You are able to volunteer to help out at many different things, if you wish. The first thing on the agenda is
our upcoming Working Bee which will be held on Sunday 15th March.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) for P&C will be on the 23rd March. All positions will be declared vacant at this time to
elect or re-elect a new Executive Committee. Special Meetings will be held for the Music Committee on the 18th March at
6:30pm and for the Canteen on Thursday 12th March at 6pm. Role statements for the committees will be emailed out soon
to all families.
ThinkUKnow Cybersafety Workshop
Please consider attending the parent workshop on Cybersafety on Thursday 2nd April. This will be run by our Police Liaison
Officer. The workshop is an opportunity to learn about keeping your children safe when they are using the internet and also
to ask questions that you may have with regards to cybersafety. A similar session was held two years ago for parents,
however, we have a different presenter and we all know that the internet is constantly changing and that more and more
social media sites become available. More information is available in the note sent home this week. We have also invited
Winston Hills Public School parents to the workshop as well.
Olympathon
Today all students have taken home a special Olympathon note and sponsorship form. This is our school major fundraiser
for the year. We have teamed up with Motiv8 Sports to hold our own Olympics. This event will take place on Thursday 26 th
March on the school oval between 11am – 1pm. The children have been sorted into groups of 11-12, ranging from
Kindergarten to Year 6. Our Stage 3 students will be leading their group (Country). Each country will compete in 20 fun
“Olympic” sports. Please read the detailed note for further information. Parents, carers and friends are more than welcome
to watch the Olympathon and then enjoy a picnic lunch on the school grounds at the conclusion of our Olympic sports.
123 Magic – Parent Workshop
Our school chaplain, Mrs Bowman, is currently running a parent workshop over 3 weeks. This workshop was very well
attended on Monday for the first session, with over 40 families being involved. We will ask parents to evaluate and will
possibly organise to run this again in Term 2 or 3.
Working Bee
Our first working bee is coming up on Sunday 15th March from 3-5pm. We are hoping to do some painting of posts and steps around the school plus some gardening. If you are available to help please let the P&C know through the JOT form or by email at [email protected] School Photos – Monday 16th March
In just over a week we will have our School Photo Day. All payments and orders are online. If you have misplaced your child’s individual order form, which includes their unique “shootkey” code, please contact MSP directly on: 9831 5505 or through their email: [email protected] Sibling photos will be taken from 8am in the school hall on the same day. If you want a sibling photo please order and pay for
the family photo online. Envelopes can be obtained from the school office. To have a family photo taken all children must be
in attendance at Winston Heights Public School.
Tell Them From Me Survey
I am delighted that this term, our school, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Educa-
tion initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect aca-
demic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and
effective teaching practices.
More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au
The survey is a great opportunity for our students (Years 4-6 only) to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what
they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. More
than 6 300 schools in Australia and around the world have used Tell Them From Me to survey 5.4 million students. Capturing
the voices of our students will help improve how we do things at our school.
I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes
to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 16th March and 8th May. Participating in the survey is entire-
ly voluntary.
A consent form and FAQs for parents/carers about the survey is being emailed home. If you do not want your child or children
to participate, please return the form to school by 13th March.