Hornsby North Public School

HORNSBY NORTH PUBLIC SCHOOL

15 May, 2019

Ida Street, Hornsby, NSW, 2077 Phone : 9987 4605 Fax : 9482 2527 Before/After School Care : 9482 3484 Email : [email protected] Web site : www.hornsbynth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au From the Principal... in the hall for the nominal cost of a gold coin donation per person (please bring the correct money on the day). We look I trust all mothers had a lovely day on Sunday. If you were forward to seeing you on Friday. able to smile as widely as your children did whilst HORNSBY NORTH COMMUNITY FAIR - purchasing gifts for you at the Mother’s Day Stall I am sure Our annual School Fair is fast approaching. At the P&C your day would have been wonderful. Thank you to Marika Meeting on Monday, a progress report was tabled and asa Hannan and her team of helpers who worked all morning result of many hours of hard work and organization from to give the children this special opportunity. Below are Katrina Smith and Janelle McIntosh, all looks well for a most some photos showing the delight and joy on the faces of successful event. During the next 2 weeks, requests for goods the customers and volunteers on Thursday. and donations of money and time will be made. I ask parents and caregivers to respond and assist in as many ways as they can. No matter how small or how large the contribution is, it is appreciated and valued. Please remember to bring in Lucky Dip prizes as soon as possible. Mrs Butterworth and her class are eagerly awaiting the receipt of these goods. Another school-developed activity at the Fair will be a House of Surprises run by Mrs Fitzsimons and a band of teachers and children. This project has been supported by donations of objects made by the 3D printer from the Smith household. Thank you once again Katrina & Gavin. A request from Mrs Fitzsimons - Any objects with a Halloween theme or a “spooky” nature that could be used in the House of Surprises would be appreciated. On loan only! A second request from the International Food Committee, whose food is the best in the district - Does anyone have a BBQ that they are willing to lend the group for the day? Please call the office if you can help. YEAR 6 CANBERRA EXCURSION - The Canberra excursion for Year 6 students takes place in Week 7, commencing Tuesday, 11 June and concluding on Friday, 14 June. By now all Medical Forms should be returned. Students and parents who have not returned these important forms are asked to bring them to their teacher as soon as possible. Any medical problems, please contact Mrs Thank you again to Marika. Butterworth. Parents who are experiencing financial difficulty WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY - should contact the Principal as soon as possible, so that time Walk Safely to School Day will be held this Friday, 17 May. payments or other arrangements can be made. The following teachers will be at these meeting points at LOST PROPERTY - 8:00am. There is an overwhelming amount of lost property in the 1. HOOKHAMS CORNER (near the water tank) - Mrs school. These items include jumpers, pencil cases, lunch Butterworth, Mr Seifert, Mr Lawrence & Miss Butterworth. boxes, plastic containers and numerous water bottles. 2. Corner of AMOR STREET and HYACINTH STREET—Miss Parents, please make certain that all items are labelled with Barnes, Mr Howard & Mrs Supple. your child’s name. There are currently 18 unnamed water 3. Corner of SOMERVILLE ROAD and GALSTON ROAD—Mrs bottles in Lost Property! Also, please encourage your child to McGlynn & Mr Strange. search for their lost items. 4. Corner of SPEDDING ROAD and SPRINGFIELD ROAD— OC PLACEMENT 2020 ONLINE APPLICATIONS - Mrs Gates & Mr Peng. The above online applications close this Friday. No late On arriving at school, there will be a Walk Safely to School applications will be accepted. Day Breakfast for all walkers. This is provided by the Maree Sumpton Canteen Committee and prepared and served by our staff Principal Hornsby North Public School Newsletter Page 2 Coming Events…… front Office foyer and in the Library foyer. The competition Friday 17 May: Walk Safely to School Day / OC runs from the Wednesday, 1 May to the Tuesday, 25 June. Applications Close (No late Many thanks for your wonderful support. Debbie Bell and applications will be accepted). Georgia Barnes. Monday 20 May: 1Orange & 1Blue Wannabees Excursion . PSSA CRICKET—STATE KNOCKOUT - Tuesday 21 May: 1Purple & 1Pink Wannabees Our 3rd Round match of the NSWPSSA Cricket Knockout Excursion. Competition will be played on Monday 20 May, against Wednesday 22 May: Parent/Teacher Interviews Years Cherrybrook P.S. at their school oval. The meeting time 1-6 / African Drumming—Kindy / outside our library is 8:40am and the drivers are: Uniform Shop open 2.30- Amarasinghe, Ackland and Piper. Thank you, Michael 4.30pm. Howard. Thursday 23 May: Debating Workshop. Monday 27 May: 1Green, 1Red & 1Yellow PSSA AFL - Wannabees Excursion. After last week’s games being cancelled due to poor weather, all 3 Hornsby North AFL teams turned up to Rofe From The Classroom - Park with much eagerness ready to play hard! The Junior SCHOOL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS - Team were not troubled by the Hornsby Heights team. They had an outstanding win, with the final score being 93-6. The Week 2, Term 2: Senior B Team played well and displayed great heart Selina, Luning, Sherry, Kynan, Lara, Jordan, Karen, Coco, through to the very end, despite going down 65–13 against Catherine, William, Vivian, Kayla, Claire, Ishaan, Ashira, Charlie, Polina, Kmom, Amelia, Justine, Sarah, Jeffrey, the Hornsby South A’s team. The Senior A’s Team played very well and comfortably won their game against Hornsby Angelina, Crispin, Jack, Brandon, Katie, Finn, Evans, South B’s Team 81- 6. Isabelle, Renee, Aaron, Sarah, Rhyder B., Renetta & Emily. Well done to all 3 teams! Although many of the girls and boys are still trying to understand and learn the rules of AFL, KINDERGARTEN NEWS:- they all played well and displayed great sportsmanship Week 4: throughout their respective games which is the most What is your favourite season (Summer, Autumn, Winter or Spring)? Why is it your favourite? What clothes would important thing. Furthermore, thank you for the great turn out last Thursday to our special training session with the you typically wear during this season? Thank you, Kindy Sydney Swans. Don’t forget training again this week! Danny Teachers. Strange and Rebecca Habkouk.

LIBRARY NEWS - PSSA NETBALL - Bookclub: Round 4 Vs Mt Kuring-gai P.S. Issue 3 of Ashton's Scholastic Bookclub for this year was sent home last week. Please order your books online, Juniors 8-2. The girls were very eager to play after missing a few of our games due to the recent poor weather. They details are on the last page of the leaflet. When you order started strongly and dominated most of the game. Great books through Bookclub, our school earns points to buy defence work by Tara and Tamsyn ensured that our shooters books for our school. Thank you, Deb Nicklin. were given plenty of opportunity and they were rewarded with some accurate goal scoring by Erin (4 Red) who is my SCIENCE NEWS - Player of the Match. Well done girls, I am looking forward to Due the lack of girls in the Legomasters Final, I will be starting a Robot Building Lunchtime Club for a great season. interested girls in Years 3-6. We will build a class set of the Seniors 32-6. The girls came out firing! They played extremely confidently especially in defence with the mid basic EV3 Mindstorm to be available to use within class court bringing the ball down easily to the shooters. Ella, time. The children will be given more information during morning assembly next week. Encouraging girls in STEM! Alyssa and Renee were very accurate on the day but my Player of the Match goes to Renee (6Purple) who dominated Thank you, Karen Fitzsimons. the mid court as well as the goal circle. One of the parents

actually made a comment that the girls look like a well-oiled MINDQUEST & THINK CLUB - For enrichment activities. Leaflets are available in the foyer machine, which is a wonderful comment so early in the season. Let’s keep it up! of the office. The girls have been given a copy of the 2019 Draw as well as

WOOLWORTHS “EARN & LEARN” - a Code of Conduct form. The Code of Conduct form needs to be read and then returned with both player and parent’s It's that time of year again! signatures. We are collecting the Woolworths “Earn and Learn” The Senior girls actually played Mt Kuring-gai last term in stickers again to win equipment for our school. In previous years the support from the school community has been their first Knockout game and won so are through to the next game against Galston. The game is scheduled for amazing and we have been able to buy valuable Sports, Wednesday 22 May at school at 1:30pm. There will be a Science and Maths equipment for K-6. note confirming details sent home this week. If you complete your sheet, you are able to print off additional ones from woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn. Thank you, Mary McGlynn.

There are collection boxes for the completed sheets in the Hornsby North Public School Newsletter Page 3 P & C News - one of our Open Mornings. These give the boys and their Please join us on Facebook to keep up-to-date on all families the opportunity to see the school during a regular matters P&C. Simply search for Hornsby North Public school day. School P&C Association on Facebook and Like us to join. Thursday 23 May 9:15—10:40am. CANTEEN NEWS - Thursday 20 June 9:15—10:40am. DIP OF THE WEEK: Hommus. Thursday 1 August 9:15—10:40am. Helpers: Thursday 12 September 9:15—10:40am. Thursday 16 May: Toby Shan, Lyn Fisher. Cnr Falcon & Miller Streets, Crows Nest. Friday 17 May: Clare Rienits, Julie Hughes, Jean Ryan. If you have any questions, please phone 9955 4748. Monday 20 May: Stephanie Philpot, Nicole Wu. [email protected] Tuesday 21 May: Stephanie Philpot, Savanna Li, Fei Shen. The school is best accessed by public transport. Wednesday 22 May: Clare Rienits, Eric Gu. Vicki Stubbings, Canteen Manager. Community News - HORNSBY MUSICAL SOCIETY - SCHOOL FAIR - Kiss Me Kate 10-13 October 2019. In October we will be A note regarding the preparations for the School Fair, to be staging the Cole Porter classic, Kiss Me Kate. The show has held on Sunday 2 June, will be sent home tomorrow. a sophisticated songbook that includes iconic songs such as The Fair Co-ordinators are also calling for 2nd Hand Book 'Too Darn Hot', 'Another Opening, Another Show' and 'So In donations for our Book Stall. Please ensure the books are Love'. in good condition. Book donations can be delivered to the www.hornsbymusicalsociety.com.au school office. Please share this information with family & friends who might have books they can donate as well. PARENTING ANXIOUS CHILDREN—NORTHERN SYDNEY Thank you. Janelle McIntosh P&C President. LOCAL HEALTH DISTRICT - A seminar for parents of children aged 4-10 yrs discussing BAND NEWS - the nature of anxiety and the different ways it may present A reminder that there is no Rehearsal this Friday Morning in children, risk factors and potential implications for parents as it is Walk Safely To School Day. Permission Notes for and children, as well as identification of practical strategies Band Camp will hopefully be sent out later this week or & resources to assist. early next week. Friday, 24 May at 10am-12pm. Dates to remember for this term: The cost of the seminar is $10 however there will be no Sunday, 2 June all Bands performing at the School Fair– charge for concession card holders. Registration is essential times will be confirmed very shortly. as groups fill quickly. To confirm your place please call Sunday, 16 June Bands performing at the Wahroonga CYMHS on 9485 6155. Participants will be asked to Music Fesival – times to be confirmed. Thank you, Gavin complete feedback forms. Hunter.

SCHOOL BANKING - School Banking is in need of more volunteers and we are also looking for a new Banking Co-ordinator/s to take over the role this year. The Co-ordinator role is currently managed by two parents. If you can help out or are interested in finding out more about the role, please come and see us in the Staff Room on Wednesday mornings from 9.15am. Thank you, Pearl & Ruth.

KU-RING-GAI HIGH SCHOOL TOURS - Ku-ring-gai High School is a community that values the individual worth and contribution of all its members. Our school ensures excellent student centred, co-educational and comprehensive education with a positive focus on developing students through future focused learning. Come and see for yourself:- Tuesday 21 May at 1:45pm and Thursday 20 June at 9:15am. Please RSVP to the Administration Office, as numbers for the tours are limited. Alternatively, visits may be arranged by appointment. 403 Bobbin Head Road, North Turramurra, 2074. Phone: 9144 3477. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.kuringgai-h.schools.nsw.edu.au

NORTH SYDNEY BOYS HIGH SCHOOL TOURS - We invite prospective students and their families to attend Hornsby North Public School Newsletter Page 4 BRICKS4KIDZ Saturday 25 May, 12pm-1.30pm at Hornsby Library. Let your imagination soar in this stimulating and interactive session where you will be able to construct amazing technical models with motors and batteries. FREE Bookings essential. Book online at hornsby.nsw.gov.au/library

Bedwetting

For a fact sheet on all the causes of bedwetting and an outline of the treatment options available to cure the condition, please see the Bedwetting Institute website or text DRY to 0417 280 373 to have the fact sheet sent direct to your phone.