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Teamwork Respect Responsibility Honesty

Important Dates

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Term 1 |Week 5| 26 February 2019

"Stay committed to

your decisions; but

stay flexible in your

approach."

Tony Robbins

Indo Corner

“O” is pronounced:

Like the “o” sound in “stop” when it is the first letter or within a word.

Like the “o” sound in “low” when it is the last letter of a word

Bola - Bohla ball

Orang - Ohrung person

Olahraga - Olahrugga sport

Potong - Pohtohng cut

Komodo - Kohmohdo Indo island & its giant lizard

Kuno - Koono ancient, old fashioned

Pronunciation

Term 1 2019

Tuesday and Wednesday 26 & 27/2

Year 5/6 Filming

Wednesday 27/2/19

MNC Zone Swimming Carnival in Coffs Harbour

Monday 4/3/19

WAVES Program

Wednesday 13/3/19

Parent/Teacher Interviews

Wednesday

13/3/19

Macksville High School Expo

4.30 - 6.30pm

Friday 22/3/19

Visiting Performance

“Moz’s Monster Music Mix” 2.00pm

District Swimming Carnival

Thank you to Pak Chris and the parents who assisted at the District Swimming Carnival last Thursday.

Boys Relay Team received 3rd place.

Well done!

Weekly Round Up

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Principal’s Column This Week’s Whale Awards and Class Academic Awards

Hello, Giinagay, Hai,

Congratulations to Lyndsey Caldecott and the 5/6 class for their

outstanding achievement in being part of the filming project from State

office, regarding literacy and quality teaching. We are very fortunate to

have the calibre of talent within our teaching staff that is being sort after

by the rest of NSW.

Congratulations to Bayley Lane, Noah Gray, Emi Evans, Urukhai Vallance

and our junior boys and girls relay teams, who all made it through to the

Mid North Coast swimming carnival in Coffs Harbour tomorrow. Thanks

to all the parents who supported our students at the district carnival,

especially Stacy Miners who was a leading organiser. Thanks to all the

students who represented our school so proudly. Pak Chris said that the

sportsmanship and behaviour from our school was outstanding.

Parent teacher interviews

Research shows that parents have a significant impact on their

children’s educational achievements. The value of events such as

Parent teacher interviews cannot be underestimated, that are coming up

in a couple of weeks.

In fact, parental engagement overrides all other factors that have been

shown to influence a child’s achievement. It is therefore critical that we

continue as teachers and parents to develop effective relationships to

bridge student learning between home and school.

Parents are encouraged to take the lead of the ten-minute time slot and

bring up issues they’d like to discuss. Teachers will then work through

relevant affirmations and areas of improvement and subsequent

strategies appropriate to the needs of your child. Your child's teacher will

be prepared with some very specific feedback of their performance thus

far in 2019.

I would encourage all parents to take notes of their meeting, particularly

when discussing strategies for your children. Parents can then refer

back to these strategies with their child weeks and months later.

The Waves Program will commence next Monday. We would like to thank

the Surf Club in advance for their generous time spent assisting us with

the WAVES Program.

Thanks, yaarri yaraang, terima kasih.

Bu Gillian

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Book Council Visit On Wednesday, 22 February, Scotts Head

Public School students were very lucky to

meet Amanda Cooper, a judge on the

Children's Book Council of Australia for

picture books of the year.

Every year Australian authors of children's

books submit their book in a competition to

be awarded Children's Book Council of

Australia Book of the Year.

Established with the first awards in 1946,

the annual CBCA Book of the Year Awards

aim to:

promote quality literature for young

Australians;

support and encourage a wide range of

Australian writers and illustrators of

children’s books and;

celebrate contributions to Australian

children’s literature.

Mandy talked about and showed us many

books. Books that had previously won prizes

and books that may be the winning books

for 2019.

If you would like to find out more

information about the Children's Book

Council of Australia go to www.cbca.org.au

The staff and Year 5/6 students had the

expertise of John Morrison present a

Leadership Program which he delivers

and inspires teams from government

agencies, civil construction firms and partners

to achieve elite project outcomes by ‘Leading

and Learning Together’.

John challenges leaders and teams to utilise

their neural intelligence at Head, Heart and

Gut levels to reduce the impact of errors and

therefore build high quality team strengths.

The staff and students enjoyed his

presentation and to take the challenge for

each person to ‘Do their best work’.

Parent Information - Reminders

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8.30am Morning

Supervision

in cola

Start

School

8.55am

9.00am until

11.00am

Morning Session

Crunch and Sip

11.00am Lunch

11.50—1.30

pm

Middle Session

1.30 pm Recess

2.00pm-3pm Afternoon

Session

Bell Times

Links

School website:

http://www.scottshead-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

School facebook page:

https://

www.facebook.com/

scottsheadpublicschool?fref=ts

Skoolbag Application:

Search “Scotts Head Public

School” in the app store.

P&C News P&C email scottsheadpandc@hotmail.com

2019 Canteen Roster

The Canteen is still needing volunteers to

help on Wednesdays. It is only a couple of

hours but will make a huge difference to the

workload in the Canteen.If you are interested

please email the P&C email address above.

Head Lice There has been an outbreak of head lice in the school. Please refer to link below to see the Department policy for treatment. https://education.nsw.gov.au/student-wellbeing/health-and-physical-care/health-care-procedures/conditions/head-lice Waves Program The Waves Program was cancelled on Monday 25 February due to the rough conditions. The program will commence next Monday for a period of 6 weeks from 9.30 to 11.30am (each Monday). Please ensure students wear swimmers and bring a towel, water and dry underwear. Year 5/6 Filming The K-6 English Advisor for NSW will be filming for the English Textual Concepts today and tomorrow. Lyndsey Caldecott has been working with the Learning and Teaching Directorate to develop new resources to support teachers in the explicit teaching of English in primary schools. The purpose of the filming is to gain some examples of exemplary teaching in action to be uploaded as a resources for teachers. This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase learning at our school on a statewide level. 2019 Permission to Publish Permission to Publish forms need to be signed by every parent and returned to the office as soon as possible. Parent Teacher Interviews Will be held in Week 7 on Wednesday 13 March. Please return notes to the office. Macksville High School Expo Macksville High School is holding an Expo on Wednesday 13 March from 4.30pm to 6.30pm. More information regarding the Expo will be sent out shortly. Workbook Fees and Voluntary Contributions Thank you to parents who have paid their fees, your contributions are greatly appreciated. Payments can be made online and receipts will be sent home with students.

Payments to School

Payments can be made to the

school using the following options:

EFTPOS — at the office.

Parent online payment POP - via

the school website—using the

‘Make a Payment’ button.

Cash and cheque are still

accepted at the office.

Canteen Roster

Week 5

MON 25/2 Mel & David

WED 27/2 Mel & TBA

Week 6

MON 4/3 Mel & David

WED 6/3 Mel & TBA

Notes to Students

Whole school notes are

sent home with the eldest

child in the family only.

Please fill in permission

notes including all SHPS

students in your family.

School News

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Halo! So, what’s

happening in the

Indonesian Program?

Well, there’s lots!

SHPS is leading the way in promoting and

providing the study of Indonesian in the Valley.

Locally at Scotts Head we have implemented

another tool for learning Indonesian; from an

Indonesian person in Indonesia! Years 3/4 and

up are undertaking one session a week online

with tutors we have gained access to in Bali,

Indonesia. It has been working well and students are getting the chance to brush up on their Indonesian

basics live with an Indonesian person. We are the first State School in NSW to undertake this journey and

we’re very proud to see our students doing so well in these sessions.

Bu Bibi and Pak Mur have been instrumental in motivating and engaging our students here at SHPS to learn

more about performance skills including dance and singing. Pak Mur will be starting select dance groups as

an extracurricular activity upon his return from Indonesia. These activities will culminate in some great

Indonesian performances from our students!

Bu Bibi has successfully set up our junior classes to be involved in the Early Language Learning Acquisition

(ELLA) app and we’re just waiting on our log on details for our K-2 students to get a great start with their

Indonesian learning. This will be something students can learn at home too, and parents!

Apart from teaching at SHPS, Pak Karl is also teaching Indonesian at Macksville High School in both year 7

and now year 8. He is supporting our students who are now year 7 at MHS and he is teaching a class of 24

year 8 students who have elected to enter an enrichment class designed to help them on their way to

completing Indonesian as a HSC subject. This is great news for MHS and the learning of Indonesian in NSW.

To further strengthen our Indonesian networks and provide authentic experiences for our students at SHPS,

we have invited the Indonesian Ambassador and his entourage to come and visit us. They have kindly

accepted and will be visiting on Friday 17 May. This visitation will include performances, cooking and a lot of

networking at various levels. Our students will be very lucky to join in on cultural activities and, at the same

time, reinforce their understanding that learning Indonesian, and learning in Indonesian, has a positive effect

on their development and future outcomes.

Terima kasih banyak orang tua atas dukungan Anda, (Thank you so much parents for your support)

The Indonesian Team @ SHPS

Did you know that the language Indonesian is not the first language of all Indonesians? It is the

language used to unite over 265 million people living on over 17 000 islands in the Indonesian

archipelago. Do you know how many different languages are spoken in Indonesia?

The answer will be in next week’s newsletter.

Indo Quiz Question

Community News

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Introducing LASH talks at The Hub

On the first Thursday of every month, starting on 7 March, The Hub will have an evening of expanding

your mind. About what? About Scotts Head and its beginnings. We call these talks LASH talks, Learning

About Scotts Head.

Our speakers will trace the history of our beautiful village and surrounds from its very earliest beginnings.

LASH One, on 7 March, will cover how the land formed. There is an Indigenous view and a scientific one.

Michael Jarrett, a Gumbaynggirr man, will recount the Dreamtime stories that tell us how the various

features in our landscape formed, like our headland, the coast, Yarriabini, the Warrell Creek, the

Nambucca River etc

John Schmidt, trained in the earth sciences and a local of many years, will give us the scientific view on

how the land we live on was formed. John points out that there are many similarities in the indigenous

and scientific views.

We plan on beginning the evening at 6.30 pm with a wine/beer/iced tea on arrival, followed by foraging at

the grazing table. Then the talks from 7.30 to 8.30 pm. After the talks, sweets and coffee will be served.

Cost? $29/head!

We see the time after the LASH talks as an opportunity for us all to get to know each other better.

LASH Two, on 4 April, will be about the first people to come here

The Aboriginal people, of course, were the first to come, followed 50,000 years later by Europeans.

Michael Jarrett and John Schmidt will again team up. Michael will tell us about the Dreamtime stories

describing how the Gumbaynggirr and Ngaambaa people came here.

John has a great knowledge of the first Europeans, namely the cedar getters and the government

surveyor, the man who had first contact with ‘the people’.

Jono and Janet Granek, Michael Blockey

Boomerang Bags

Boomerang Bags has

started back up for 2019.

If you are interested in

being a part of this great

initiative, come along on

Mondays from 3.15 to

4.15pm.

SCOTTS HEAD HONEY

BEESWAX WRAP WORKSHOP @ THE HUB

TUESDAY 12TH MARCH

10.30am - 12.00pm

Come along and learn how to make beeswax wraps made out of 100% local

beeswax.

Learn two different techniques

Make small, medium & large wraps

Get to sample honey & honeycomb straight from the hive from where the

wax comes from

All materials supplied

$20.00 per person, to book phone 6569 7715

School & Community News

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Bus Safety Week

Feb 18 to 25

Rafting Day - Girl Guides invites girls and

families to join them for a fun day of rafting and

games at Bellwood Park, Nambucca Heads on

Saturday 9 March 10am – 2pm.

This is a great opportunity for girls to enjoy one of the many

activities Guides can offer to girls in a safe environment with

experienced Leaders.

There will be a sausage sizzle, drink and

fruit available for $6.00. There is no cost

for rafting and games.

For more information contact Leonie

Holley 6567013 or 0419285331.

Lifetime Connect

Playgroup

Scotts Head

Wednesdays in the LLLCC at SHPS

Playgroup Contact Number: 0447 485 276

Routine

10am-10:55am – Planned Activities

10:55am-11am – Wash Hands

11am – 11:15am – Morning Tea

11:15am – 11:35am – Free Play

11:35am – 11:45am – Pack Away

11:45am – 12noon – Group Time

12noon – Home Time

Clean Up

Australia Day

Sunday 3 March

Meet at the Rec

Hut at 8.30am

to register. Come

along to help

clean up our

wonderful town.