Homebush Public School Rochester St Homebush NSW 2140
Phone: 9746 9171 9764 4472 Fax 9746 3516
Email: [email protected] Website: www.homebushpublicschool.com.au
Mon 20 Aug Book Fair & National Literacy Week Mon 27 Aug Year 4 Excursion /Raffle Tickets Due
Tues 21 Aug Tues 28 Aug
Wed 22 Aug Book Character Parade Reading with Parents Wed 29 Aug
Thur 23 Aug Zone Athletics Thur 30 Aug Bendigo Bank Presentation at Assem-
Fri 24 Aug Fri 31 Aug Fathers’ Day Raffle Draw
Next Fortnight’s Diary Term 3 Weeks 6 & 7
Arts Expo
Our Arts Expo is now only a few
weeks away.
All of our students and all of our
teachers are busy working to-
wards the event. Whether it is in
visual arts, performing arts or a
combina on of both, every stu-
dent at Homebush Public School
will be contribu ng to the specta-
cle on the night.
Artwork will be displayed across
the school; there will be oppor-
tunity to purchase calendars or
IPhone covers decorated with
your child’s artwork; you will be
entertained by a number of en-
thralling student performances
and you will be able to purchase
dinner at one of the famous
Homebush PS food stalls on the
night.
Tickets are priced at $10.00 for a
family or $5.00 for a single person.
So, make sure you mark Thursday
6 September on your calendar and
we’ll see you at 6:00 pm.
Jack Liston
Toilets at Homebush Public School
The highest priority of every per-
son who works at HPS is the safe-
ty and well-being of the students.
A very strict rule in every school is
that adults are not allowed to
enter the toilets. There are promi-
nent signs on some of the toilets
reminding you of this.
If there is a compelling reason for
an adult to enter a toilet (eg a
parent with a toddler who needs
to go) please see the teacher on
duty in the playground or, if stu-
dents are in classes, one of the
office staff. They will assist and
direct you.
Principal’s Report
We are now halfway through the
school term and it is proving to be
a very produc ve one. Our teach-
ing and learning programs are in
full swing and our staff are con n-
uing their learning through the
implementa on of our new litera-
cy program. Early indica ons in
kindergarten are that the program
is proving to be very effec ve.
The selling of the Fathers’ Day
Raffle Tickets con nues to go well.
All ckets and money need to be
returned to the school no later
than Monday 27 August. This
leaves the rest of this week and
the weekend for the ckets to be
sold.
Please encourage and assist your
children to sell their ckets. The
money raised will benefit all of our
students and it would be wonder-
ful if every student contributed to
the effort.
A big thank you must go to all of
the parents who have assisted in
collec ng ckets and money. Your
me and effort is appreciated.
Would you like to receive a full-colour newsle�er?
A full-colour newsle=er is available for parents willing to accept their newsle=er by email. The email edi on is much more
vibrant and photos are a lot clearer and brighter. You’ll also help us to ease paper costs while doing that li=le bit extra for
our environment. If you would like to receive a colour newsle=er via email please send us an email at Homebush-
Please mark the subject “Newsle=er”. Include in the body of the email your name, your child's name and class as well as
your email address.
Mrs Vicki Klay
Mrs Vicki Klay has worked at
Homebush Public School as the
Support teacher for Learning since
1998 and has been a public school
teacher for 34 years. Vicki had her
last day of teaching today
(Monday 20 August 2012) before
her re rement.
Vicki loves & lives in the local area
and her par cular passion and
exper se was in assis ng students
who had learning difficul es. No
doubt there are many young
adults and local high school stu-
dents who owe Vicki a debt of
gra tude for the work she did
with them.
Although Vicki has officially re-
red, she s ll intends to work oc-
casional days as a casual teacher.
Her last day was a special day for
her and evoked many mixed emo-
ons. We wish Vicki all the best as
she enters this new stage of her
life and thank her for the years
she dedicated to NSW Public
Schools and our students.
Na(onal Literacy Week and
Book Week
As you know our Book Character
Parade is taking place for the K-2
students on Wednesday 22 Au-
gust at 2:00pm.
Parents of students from Years 3 -
6 can also get involved on the day
by taking part in our “Read In”.
We encourage you to visit your
child in their classroom for an
informal reading opportunity be-
tween 12:15-12:45pm tomorrow.
Following this, we invite all par-
ents to stay for lunch and a=end
the book character parade in the
hall. We hope you have a lovely
me celebra ng with Homebush
Public School students and staff.
School Furniture Sale
Homebush Public School has an
excess of school furniture which
we are going to sell.
The furniture consists of class-
room tables and chairs in varying
sizes but mainly suited to stu-
dents who are in Kindergarten to
Year 2.
The furniture
is used and
may be
marked, but
it is quite
sturdy and
would give
good service for years to come.
The price for a desk is $10.00 and
each chair will cost $5.00.
If you are interested in purchasing
any of the furniture please see
the staff in the office. If you are
aware of any other people or or-
ganisa on who may be interested
in purchasing some tables and
chairs, we would appreciate you
giving them this informa on.
2012 BOOK WEEK & BOOK FAIR
The annual book week parade will be held in the school assembly hall at 2.00pm on Wednesday 22 August.
The parade will involve children in Kindergarten, Year One and Year
Two and it would be wonderful for the students if mum & dad are
able to come up and watch. The children need to wear a costume to
school dressed up as their favourite book character. They do not
need to wear their school uniform on this day as it is recommended
that they wear the book costume all day as part of this occasion.
The book fair, which is being held in the library this week Monday 20
August un l Thursday 23 August, will open from 8.30 am to 9.00 am.
We hope that many of our parents will come along to the library with
their children, select a book, buy it and then donate it to the library.
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Teach you children to become
persistent
Did you cringe when you read this head-
line because your child already persists
at home to get what he wants?
Maybe you have a child who whines
con nually un l someone caves in or a
child who throws tantrums to get his or
her own way.
There is another type of persistence
that children need if they are to experi-
ence success in any area of their lives.
They need to be able to persist when
work gets hard or life gets tough. They
need the ‘s ckability’ to work through
difficul es and hang in there when
things don’t go their way.
Some children are more naturally pre-
disposed to persist than others. They
have a determined, even compe ve
streak in their temperament that
doesn’t allow them to give in. These
children and young people can drive
themselves very hard to succeed (and
their parents and teachers to distrac on
in the process).
Parents and teachers can develop per-
sistence in children. The Australian Tem-
perament Project found that this is one
temperamental factor that is most likely
to be impacted on by a child’s social
environment.
Just as we can promote persistence we
can also impede its development. We
can make life easy for children so that
they are not expected to persist or hang
in there when things are tough.
Parents who allow children to stop work
when it gets too hard, stay home from
school for a minor reason or give up on
a sport because they are not succeeding
straight away are not doing their chil-
dren any favours. These children are not
developing persistence. Parents can
promote persistence by encouraging
their children to keep going and not give
in at the slightest hurdle or difficulty.
Parents can be a sounding board for
children’s gripes but they should show
confidence in their ability to cope and
get through their difficul es. “You can
do it” is far more powerful in terms of
promo ng an aOtude of persis-
tence than “If it is a li=le too hard
then try something else.”
Let children know that there is a
correla on between effort and
success. In fact, they need to learn
that by GIVING EFFORT they will
experience more success.
Talk about HARD WORK with your
children. They need to understand
that to be successful they need to
do things that are NOT fun or easy.
While it would be good if all work
and learning was fun, in reality,
this not the case. Help children to
remember mes when they expe-
rienced success by HANGING IN
when they were younger.
The ability to persist in the face of
difficul es maybe an old-fashioned
quality but it is one of the best suc-
cess a=ributes that your children
will ever develop.
Vitamins for parents
Develop a vocabulary of persistence:
Persistence like many personal quali-
(es has a vocabulary all of its own.
Develop your own vocabulary of per-
sistence so that you can promote this
quality in
your child.
Terms such as: hang in there, keep at
it, work tough, s�ck at it are terms
that children readily understand.
Wise & Wi�y Words
"Don't limit a child to your own
learning, for he was born in another
time."
Rabbinical Saying