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Term 1 Week 8 Wednesday 18th March 2015 DEPUTY PRINCIPALS REPORT DATES TO REMEMBER TERM 1 School Assemblies The first Kindergarten to Year 2 Assembly will be held this Fri Mar 20 K - 2 Assembly 10am th Fri Mar 20 Yr 3 – 6 Assembly 12 noon Friday 20 March, commencing at 10.00am (please note change of usual time). The first Years 3-6 School Assembly Fri Mar 27 Aboriginal Performance th Wed April 1 SRC Disco will also be held this Friday 20 March commencing at 12 Thurs April 2 Stage 2 Camp deposit DUE noon. Parents are very welcome to attend. Members of the SRC, Aboriginal Student Leaders and Environmental Group Thurs April 2 Easter Hat Parade 12 noon representatives will receive their badges at these Thurs April 2 Last day Term 1 assemblies. Easter Hat Parade PRINCIPALS REPORT Our Easter Hat Parade this year will be held on Thursday 2nd Week 8 already and I am continually amazed at all the April (the last day of term). The hat parade will be for all fantastic work that our students are producing. As I visit students in Preschool, Kindergarten and Years 1-6. The classrooms I see our students doing the best they can and parade will commence at 12.00 noon. Parents are invited to showing outstanding commitment to their learning. Well done view the parade and join their children for a picnic lunch keep up the great work. afterwards. The P&C will be running their sausage sizzle and will be drawing the winners for their Easter raffles. So come Congratulations to our Stage 3 students who visited The along and join in the fun. Entrance RSL branch for a tour of the museum, our students as usual set a high standard of behaviour and asked Win Bin Winners excellent questions to find answers to guide their learning. A Congratulations to Lily-Ann Salmon 2K, Madison Starkey 2K, big thank you to Diggers and the RSL branch for hosting our Madeline Nesbitt 2K and Rosealee Lockyer 5M who were visit. win bin winners. Congratulations and well done to all of our outstanding students who have received win bins. As learning changes across our school community at The NAPLAN Entrance Public school, a challenge for parents and carers Year 3 & 5 students will be doing the National Assessment will be to ask their children, “What good question did you ask Program Literacy and Numeracy (Naplan) tests in Week 3 of today?” rather than “How was your day?.” These types of next term. The Language Conventions and Writing tests will questions encourage students to direct their learning and be held on Tuesday 12th May, the Reading tests on encourages a wide perspective on learning. Wednesday 13th May and the Numeracy tests on Thursday 14th May. Friday will be used for catch up tests for those who A reminder that the toilets at school are for, The Entrance were absent on any of the previous days. Public School students use only, visitors to the school throughout the day including before school in the morning University of NSW Exams and afternoon pick up that need to use the toilets need to Each year the University of NSW runs international see the office and be directed to a staff or visitor toilet. Thank competitions for students in schools throughout Australia and you for your assistance with this issue as it is for the safety of in some overseas countries. The competitions are held for our students and is a child protection issue. students in Years 3-6 in Digital Technologies, Science, Spelling, Writing, English and Mathematics. There is a cost Facts about fractions: If you’ve forgotten 3/5 of primary involved in competing ranging from $8.00 to $17.00. All school maths and 7/8 of high school maths, what’s left? Ah students receive a Certificate and an individual Student ha! Kids need help learning how to add fractions too. The Report indicating which questions they answered correctly, only thing left is to print these fact sheets. as well as the average mark for the state. The Digital Technologies competition is a theoretical test not a practical test. Find our more: https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/eppcontent/glossary/app/resourc If you would like your child to compete in any or all of the e/factsheet/4013.pdf competitions, please complete the application form near the end of the newsletter, place it in an envelope, including the Amazing art: Autumn’s the perfect season to take a trip to a total cost and return it to the school office. All applications th gallery. The popular ArtExpress exhibition connects us to the must be returned by Monday 30 March. inner lives and self-expression of high school students. Amazing works are on show throughout NSW. Check out the Warren Mee calendar. DEPUTY PRINCIPAL Find out more: http://artexpress.artsunit.nsw.edu.au/ ABORIGINAL PERFORMANCE AT THE ENTRANCE Year 6 students moving into Year 7 in 2016: Completed PUBLIC SCHOOL th Expression of lnterest form should be returned to your On Friday the 27 of March, highly respected Aboriginal primary school no later than Friday 20 March 2015. performer, Fred Reid is featuring at The Entrance Public School in his ‘Let’s Bridge the Gap’ Performance. Making phonics fun. Help your child Sounding out aloud: Fred’s performance aims to bring about better understanding learn to read by sounding out their words. Here are some of Aboriginal people and their culture. The performance tips to help your child gain confidence reading. encourages audience participation and begins with an Acknowledgement to Country and Welcome Dance. Find out more: http://www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/homework- and-study/english/english-tips/phonics-helping-your-child- The cost of the show is $3.50 per student, money and with-letters-and-sounds permission notes need to be returned to the front office by Tuesday the 24th of March 2015. Have a great week! Mrs Liana Haslam Mark Rudd Organising Teacher PRINCIPAL 1 Term 1 Week 8 Wednesday 18th March 2015 K6BW NEWS children. We encourage and support our young children to ILP Meetings say “Stop it, I don’t like it” when things happen they don’t like. A big thank you to parents who recently If the negative behaviour of their peers continues, they go up K-6BW attended their child’s ILP meeting. It was to a playground teacher and report it. This is recorded on lovely to meet with you to share your clipboards and entered onto the computer. This way we can child’s achievements and successes and discuss their identify continuing incidents, determine whether it is bullying, learning goals for the coming year. Please remember that if notify parents and if need be, further interventions are you have any concerns or questions about your child at employed. school, you can always contact Mrs White or Mrs Best via email, your child’s communication book or telephone. If we Congratulations for the following children who received a are on class and unable to speak to you, we will always class award at our last Stage 1 Assembly: arrange to call you back at a more suitable time. 2A: Integration Class awards Being part of a busy mainstream school, offers students in Matthis Dewitte – an excellent class and school member the Support Class many valuable opportunities to integrate Kaitlyn Crouch – a responsible learner who is a pleasure to and socialise with their same-age peers. Sport, assemblies, teach scripture and whole school activities, such as the upcoming school disco and Easter Hat Parade, are some of the Value awards opportunities students have to join with their mainstream Baylie Kuech – a wonderful star of the week who peers, developing important social skills and networks. This demonstrated good responsibility to the job year, it has also been wonderful to see our students Chloe Osborn – showing respect, responsibility and confidently joining in play on the main playground before personal best all the time school and at recess and lunch times. 2K: SRC & Environment Representatives Class awards Congratulations to K6BW’s class representatives: Keliesha Loadsman Donovan – working hard in groups • Grace Groves-Loveridge, SRC Mason Tipping – gorgeous handwriting • Remy Sagaga, Environment Value awards Throughout the year Grace and Remy will take part in many – a kind and caring friend. Absolute events and activities, commencing with an excursion to Dominic Carpenter pleasure to teach Calga Walkabout Park on Wednesday. They will both be – beautiful manners and always trying her presented with their badges at an Assembly on Friday 20 Makayla White best March. Parents are welcome to attend. : Mary Best, Gemma White, Chris Green and Sabien 2M Class awards Stragliotto Shayla Bentley – great improvement in reading Support Class Team Mitchell Hughes – fast and accurate work in literacy groups KINDERGARTEN NEWS Value awards WIN BINs have now been introduced into the Teran Wood – a wonderful caring student K Kinder playground. They are our school’s positive Krystal Naylor – a quiet respectful student who always does playground reward system. If your child’s name is her best work lucky enough to be drawn out of the box on a Monday morning then they have won a prize from the Prize 1P: Box or a canteen voucher. It is a popular incentive that Class awards reinforces acceptable playground behaviours. Sunny Tierney – trying his best to be a fluent reader th Isla McMeekin – spectacular skip counting “Let’s Bridge the Gap” performance- Friday the 27 March. The cost is $3.50 and can be paid at the office or Value awards given to your class teacher.