Newsletter Week 3 Term 4 2011 · 2021. 1. 24. · T h e C h a l k b oa r d The Newsletter from Narrabeen North Public School Week 3, Term 4 Thursday, 27 October 2011 From the Principal’s

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The Newsletter from Narrabeen North Public School

Week 3, Term 4 Thursday, 27 October 2011

From the Principal’s Desk…. Principal Award Recipients for Week 3 – Congratulations to: Ashley McEwan 6D; Lilly Shumack 5B; Mitchell Teppo 5B; Kristy Williams 3T; Indiana Harris 1M; Hayden Tucker 1J; James MacDonald 2B; Romy O’Leary 2B; Oliver Gordon 2B; Ruby Lambert 2AJ; Jacob Stewart 1P; Kaloe Humphrey 1P; Amber Robertson 1P; Marcus Powell 2H; Max Holstegge 2H; Hunter White 2H; Dane Burns KA; Mia McKenzie KA; Woody Percival-Carter KA; Kiara Palmer KA; Holden Kemp KA; Matthew Marcellino KT; Indi Cross KT and Joel Couper KT. Well done, everyone! Woolworth points and Coles vouchers Thank you to everyone who brought in dockets and vouchers for the Coles and Woolworths promotions over the last few months. We cashed in our 15 673 Woolworths points this week and purchased two sets of NXT robots to add to our robotics collection and a set of goggles for use in our exciting science classes. The wonderful ‘Coles counters’ in 3T are finalising the

Coles vouchers and looking at the catalogue to see what they can buy with the thousands of Coles points. At the moment, sets of walkie-talkies are a popular choice!!! Stop work called for Wednesday, 2 November The NSW Teachers Federation has called for a 2 hour stop work meeting for all DEC teachers across the state for Wednesday, 2 November from 9am. The stop work is to determine further action in the Federation’s current salaries campaign. Teachers will be attending

Dance Concert—2011 3 CONCERTS

Evening Performance—Tuesday, 22 November 7pm (Numbered seating)

Matinee Performance—Wednesday, 23 November 11.30am (General Seating)

Twilight Performance—Wednesday, 23 November 5.30pm (General Seating)

ON-LINE BOOKING SYSTEM

Tickets will be available on Wednesday, 2 November

from 10.00am

Follow this link: www.trybooking.com/5655

An information booklet on how to book has been sent home today!

6 Namona Street, North Narrabeen NSW 2101 Phone: 9913 7928 Fax: 9913 7873 e-mail: [email protected]

Website: narranorth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Before and After School Care: 9913 2846

Dates to Remember - Term 4 Fri 28 Oct

Tues 1 Nov

Wed 2 Nov

Now Thurs 3 Nov

Tues 22 Nov

Wed 23 Nov

Wed 23 Nov

Thu 1 Dec

Twilight Fair 5-8pm

Yr 4 on Gibberagong excursion

Stop Work Meeting 9-11am

Yr 3 still attend Gibberagong

Dance tickets go on sale on-line—10am

Kindergarten 2012 orientation-9.30-

10.45am

Dance Concert Evening 7pm

Dance Concert Matinee 11.30am

Dance Concert Twilight 5.30pm

Kinder 2012 Parent Info Session 7pm

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We walked up a thousand monstrous steps and we almost fell off five rocky cliff faces. –Mitchell Teppo

When the ride started it was slow, but then it suddenly went dangerously fast. –Kiara Robinson

I went to Wet ‘N Wild and my favourite ride was the fastest, darkest and highest ride- ‘The Black Hole’. Hayley Creed

Twilight Fair on tomorrow Finally, best of luck for all at our Twilight Fair on tomorrow afternoon, starting at 5pm! The Fair Committee is to be warmly praised for the hard work and dedication displayed over many months of planning. We didn’t have a fair in 2010 due to the BER building works and lack of transport access to the school and the closed driveway. Therefore, the 2011 fair promises to be exciting for all. Enjoy!

(The canteen will be closed on Friday due to preparations for the Twilight Fair.)

Anaphylaxis training at NNPS All school staff attended an anaphylaxis training session after school on Tuesday afternoon this week. The session was run by the anaphylaxis nurse educator from Westmead Hospital, Mrs Briony Tyquin. It is a DEC requirement that staff attend an anaphylaxis training update session every two years. We were also pleased to welcome several colleagues from nearby PCS schools who had missed the training at their own schools. Briony pointed out how important it was that the school holds current up-to-date action plans for all of our students diagnosed with anaphylaxis. These plans must be signed by a doctor and updated annually. It is crucial that the epipen held at school is the right one for the age of the child concerned as the dose of adrenalin needs to be proportionate to the child’s weight. This relates especially to children as they move from a junior epipen (green) to the regular one (orange). I ask all parents of students with an epipen at school to make sure that we hold the most current action plan. Robert Blanchfield

a video conference at various locations across NSW. Normal programs will be disrupted at NNPS next Wednesday morning. I expect there will be very minimal supervision available that morning and therefore students should arrive in time for recess at 11am. For the safety of our students, it is recommended that students arrive for either the 9am bell for 11am. They should not arrive at school between those two times.

The canteen WILL BE CLOSED on Wednesday as a result of the stop work.

N.B. The Year 3 excursion to Gibberagong will still go ahead on the day. Year 3 students still need to be at school as usual in the morning to catch the excursion bus. Ms McKenzie has checked with the Centre and it will operate as normal on the day. It was not possible to change the date of the excursion as there is no other excursion date free this year and therefore Year 3 teachers have agreed to be at school and not attend the stop work. Selective High Schools, Year 7 in 2013 Applications are now open for placement in a selective high school for Year 7 in 2013. Expression of interest forms were sent home with all Year 5 students on Wednesday. Most applications are now completed on line at www.schoolsnsw.edu.au/shsplacement. For those families without internet access, a limited number of paper forms are available from the office. Selective high schools cater for highly achieving, academically gifted students who may otherwise be isolated from a suitable peer group. These schools can provide intellectual stimulation by grouping gifted and talented students together, concentrating school resources and using specialised teaching methods. Students are offered places in selective high schools by a selection committee which considers all available information. The selective high school test is scheduled for Thursday 15 March 2012. Our NNPS GATS newsletter Attached with this newsletter is NNPS’s first GATS (gifted and talented students) newsletter. It is packed with interesting reports of the exciting GATS programs offered at NNPS. I congratulate Mrs Karen Reid, our GATS coordinator for her commitment to GATS programs at our school and for her fine efforts in publishing this new newsletter. Thank you, Karen!! Sentences of the Week – guest class: 5B 5B have been working on ‘dressing up a sentence’ to add more detail/description to our writing. Here are a few examples from our holiday recounts:

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NBISC CARPARK

Once again we would like to remind our community that we are privileged to have use of the NBISC carpark and request that you follow the basic rules which apply

No going the “Wrong Way”!

No parking in reserved places!

No parking in the designated disabled parking! Thank you

Kindergarten Vegie Garden End-of-Year Report Our little Kindergarten farmers are reaping the benefits of all their hard work in planting, watering and nurturing over many months with bumper crops of beetroot, celery, silverbeet, lettuce, broad beans and giant zucchinis right now. All 4 Kinder classes also planted their own beds of seed potatoes with me as part of my K/1 GO GREEN DAY workshops– if you haven’t seen the resulting green plants please check them out asap and explain to your young and not such young ones the magic that is taking place underseed potatoes so it’ll be interesting to see how many potatoes we produce this time. Still growing right now, along with the broad beans and zucchinis, are cherry tomatoes, mini eggplants, yellow squash and this year’s crop of sunflowers (in honour of Kindergarten’s favourite artist Vincent!) and we still have time to plant and harvest more radishes and lettuces before the end of term. The Kindergarten Vegie Garden has proven to be a wonderful learning experience for over 400 children at NNPS and a great introduction to sustainability practices for each of the grades K-5 when they were all in Kindergarten over the past six years since I saw ‘Pete’s Patch’ on Gardening Australia and asked Paul Wood (our previous Principal) if I could use the dustbowl barren patch outside my then KH room to start a vegie garden which would be cared for by my class (after some initial involvement with planting by the whole school on that year’s Go Green Day). Each year the other Kinder classes shared in its successes when they visited KH for singing time each week and were shown its progress for themselves. I know just how much many, many children and myself have gotten out of this experience over the past 6 years and I trust the vegie garden will go onto even greater success after I retire at the end of the year. I wish next year’s little vegie gardeners and the garden’s new coordinator well in 2012!

It’s going to be very hard for me to give up this special project which has given myself and many, many children so much enjoyment! Growing your own food is a very rewarding and even a calming

and healing experience and there’s nothing quite like the thrill of the harvest – seeing the results of all your hard work and dedication. A real highlight happened in 2007 when Olympian Ian Thorpe filmed a segment in the vegie garden with the KH kids for

use in his ‘Action Earth’ environmental TV series and another in 2009 when I met Peter Cundall at the Gardening Australia Show and told him how he had inspired me to create this wonderful (9 bed) vegie garden and help shape the environmental attitudes of many, many little Narrabeen Northers!! (I of course had A3 laminated photos to show him the evidence and he was thrilled to hear of his influence!) Other highlights include winning two grants of $500 and $700 to extend the garden as a result of submissions I had written about what we’d already achieved and just seeing the joy on the Kinders’ faces when they saw their vegies! Elaine Hartman (Vegie Garden Coordinator 2005-2011)


From the Desk of Miss Dickson A classroom is four walls with tomorrow inside! Stage 3 News It is hard to believe that it is week 3 term 4, time flies when you are having fun! Stage 3 students are presently revising concepts and completing common assessment tasks. It would be great if students could be at school on time and every day over the next weeks whilst completing these assessments. All classes are also toe tapping in preparation for our annual dance concert: ‘Network Narra Presents.... What’s on the box?’ We appreciate your assistance with costuming as per the note sent out by your class teacher. Many other fantastic events and programs occur in term 4 for Stage 3 so stay tuned and look out for notes and updates. Effective Communicators Competition All students in Yrs 3 to 6 are currently taking part in this program. Stage 3 class finals are being held this week. Our two class representatives will then compete in the grade finals to be held on the Friday of Week 4, after recess. The Effective Communicators for each grade will be announced on Presentation Day. Leadership Programs Our Yr 5 School Leader Candidates are embracing their program and proving themselves to possess many great leadership skills. Our Yr 6 leaders are also embracing opportunities. Last week a group of twenty Yr 6 students participated in a program with Mrs Pattinson, from the PCS, to begin the production of a big book of leadership to pass on to their successors. On November 15, our school captains, Nina and Conor, will accompany me and their parents to a leadership session at Parliament House hosted by our local member, Mr Rob Stokes. Student Leadership is thriving at NNPS! Just Like You Program Over the past two weeks, as part of our PD/H/PE program Yr 6 have participated in ‘Just Like You’ run by the Cerebral Palsy Alliance. We were lucky to have Sam and Gary visit for two sessions to share with us information about disabilities and broaden our understanding of how we are all the same and how we can all treat each other with respect. Thank you so much to Jodie Williams for suggesting this initiative. We look forward to incorporating this program into Stage 3 each year. High School Transition Program Over the last two weeks, Year 6 has also participated in high school transition sessions, as part of our PD/H/PE Program. The aim of these sessions is to better prepare our students for their transition by giving them a taste of high school life whilst discussing how

to deal with change, new experiences and new challenges. We have enjoyed an in-school day where the children moved from room to room and worked with not only class teachers but the high school counsellor and Mr Blanchfield. In addition to this each class visited the high school for half a day with another local school and took part in lessons with actual high school teachers. Milson Island Year 6 Camp This week notes for our three day camp at Milson Island went home. Please return the permission note and medical form by Friday if you have not already done so as I need to finalise numbers and accommodation arrangements by Monday, 3 November. If your child has been away or somehow misplaced the notes please remember they are available via the website (under “Calendar 30/11/11”), office or class teachers. Yr 6 Fundraising, ‘The Bizarre Bazaar’ In week nine of this term Yr 6 will be running their mini fete in order to leave the school with a gift to remember them by. Of course we will be running a trash and treasure stall so if you have any toys, books or ‘bric a brac’ in good condition please send it in to us (room next door to 6W). All funds raised from the bazaar will go to the funding of an inbuilt school BBQ. A huge thank you to Gary Coutts for offering his assistance to us in the construction of the barbie. Narrabeen North parents are just fabulous! PBEL INITIATIVE PBEL stands for positive Behaviour Engaging Learners. Our school is currently reviewing and revising our student welfare program in light of the PBEL approach (please see the handout within the newsletter). Eight of our teachers have undergone training in this approach and we have already begun to make some changes to our school systems. A new sports code of conduct, new green cards and new snap tickets has been designed to incorporate our refined school values. Our values are now reduced in number to four: NNPS embodies Achievement Respect Responsibility Acceptance Stay tuned for further updates as we continue on the PBEL pathway. Carpe Diem Oh and weren’t those Mighty Manly Sea Eagles fabulous! Enjoy your weekend Michelle Dickson Assistant Principal (Stage 3) Sports and Stage 3 Dance Coordinator


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Kids Club News Term 4

Welcome to a brand new term of Friendship and Fun!

At “Kids Club Narrabeen”

We are very excited to have finally completed the Task of putting up new Curtains and Blinds in the Dome.

Worth a visit! They cover up all the Kids Club Resources while not in use and smarten up our Dome.

(Great for Formal Functions and Wet Weather Banner Days)

A Big thank you to the P&C B&A School Care Committee

for releasing the funding and their commitment on improving our facilities and Mr. Blanchfield and Deb in

Admin for their helpful advice and cooperation! This term at “Kids Club” the children will have the opportunity to join in on the

“Active After-School Community Program” The program endeavors to enhance the physical activity of primary aged children. It is a Nationally Coordinated Program which provides opportunities for inclusive participation in quality, safe and fun structured physical activities. The Active Sports Program aims to stimulate local Community involvement. Kids Club’s Active Sport Activities for term 4 Mon: Yoga; delivered by Anna Graham Wed: Soccer; delivered by Brazilian Soccer School (Nthrn Beaches) Thurs: Theatre Sports, delivered by Prudence Weir. Tuesday and Friday: “Free Play” the children love to do their own thing! Have time to catch up and play with their friends! Or participate in fun games including “Capture the Flag”, “Bin Ball”, Hockey, Handball and Rainbow Equipment. The Children will also be offered help with their Homework and Project Tasks. Jewellery Making, Clay modeling, Plaster fun and Christmas Craft.

Due to the Spring Fair on Friday, 28 October 2011 there will be no “After School Care”

available as the Library will be in use. Please see Annie if any problems?

Kind regards Annie, Emma and the Kids Club Team.


CHICKEN POX We wish to advise that there has been a few cases of CHICKEN POX reported to the school. Please find below some information about Chicken Pox: What are the symptoms Chickenpox begins with a sudden onset of slight

fever, runny nose, feeling generally unwell and a skin rash.

The rash usually begins as small lumps that turn into blisters and then scabs.

The rash appears over three to four days. At any one time, the lesions of the rash vary in stages of development.

Symptoms usually occur two weeks after exposure to the virus.

Most people recover without complications, but sometimes the infection can lead to serious complications, such as pneumonia and inflammation of the brain. Rarely, the infection can be fatal.

How is it spread? Early on the virus is spread by coughing. Later by direct contact with the fluid in the blisters. The infection is highly contagious People are infectious from one or two days before

the rash appears (Chickenpox infection triggers an immune response and people rarely get chickenpox twice.

Do I need to keep my child home? Yes, for 5 days after the rash first appears and until the blisters have all scabbed over.

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NNPS TERM 4 2011 CANTEEN ROSTER WEEK BEGINNING MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

31 October Leanne Bennett Lynda Meth CANTEEN CLOSED HELP NEEDED X 2

Sam Cushway WK 4 Sharon Glasgow HELP NEEDED x2 Cathryn Raper HELP NEEDED 7 November Sharon Abbott HELP NEEDED Fin Mackenzie Jo Bryne Sophie Kennedy WK 5 Corina Klupiec Susan Miller Gay Raubal Bianca Barnwell HELP NEEDED Rebecca Chanak Nicole McKenzie 14 November

HELP NEEDED x 2

Martina Speyer Karen Orr Sharon Foster Elise Andrews WK 6 HELP NEEDED Brenda Webster Jacqui Grove Melinda Hunter 21 November

HELP NEEDED x 2

Amanda Downs Donna Drysdale Leah Carling Alyson Chapman WK 7 HELP NEEDED HELP NEEDED Karlee Granger Ian

28 November Leanne Bennett Lynda Meth Jenn Berry Sam Cushway WK 8 Sharon Glasgow HELP NEEDED x2 Rebecca Kinsey Cathryn Raper HELP NEEDED 5 December Sharon Abbott Susan Miller Fin Mackenzie Jo Byrne Sophie Kennedy WK 9 Corina Klupiec HELP NEEDED x 2 Gay Raubal Bianca Barnwell Nicole McKenzie Rebecca Chanak HELP NEEDED 12 December HELP NEEDED x 2 Martina Speyer Karen Orr Sharon Foster CLOSED WK 10 Daniella Boksjo Brenda Webster Jacqui Grove

THIS IS THE ROSTER FOR TERM 4 2011. IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO MAKE A SHIFT, CAN HELP OUT, OR IF YOU HAVE PUT YOUR NAME DOWN TO HELP BUT IT ISN'T ON THE ROSTER, PLEASE CALL EMMA BOUGHTON

0404473365 OR TONIA PAI 0417276311.

HELP NEEDED X2

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