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TERM 1

1 April 2020 Term 1, Week 10

We are always FAIR at FAIRVALE

We are Responsible means:

Following your parents/carers

instructions from home

Making good choices whilst you are

learning from home

Encouraging your brothers, sisters,

cousins and friends to follow the rules

Telling the truth

Admitting to and fixing your mistakes

Taking care of the equipment you are

using

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Remember to access our school app from mobile devices on both the Apple app and Google Play store. This application provides instant notifications so that you can stay up to date with current information about what’s happening in the school. This includes sections for school newsletters, notes, electronic absence submissions, important locations and the school calendar.

You can search for Fairvale Public School in both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store or scan the QR codes below.

OSH CLUB operates on site everyday

from 7-9am and 3.00-6.00pm. For more

information call:

02 8355 5300 0429 023 686

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Week 10 What’s On….

30 March Year 5 Excursion

31 March Netball Gala Day

2 April Parent Group Meeting—9.10am

2 April SCHOOL BANKING

3 April ANZAC DAY Assembly—9.15am

3 April FAIR Principal’s Morning Tea

Week 11 What’s On….

8 April Stage 2 Excursion

9 April Easter Hat Parade/ Raffle

9 April SCHOOL BANKING

9 April Last day of Term 1

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Class Student

K Barbados Orisi. R

K New Zealand Murtaza. A K

K Oman Skyylie. H

K/1 Canada Kevin. B

1 Dominican Republic Adreana. M

I Hungary Khalessi. R

1 Romania M. R

1/2 Egypt Maria. N

2 Croatia Ezra. D

2 Thailand Brael. A

2 Zambia Calvin. N

3 Australia Margarita. S

3 Denmark Zak. S

3 Lithuania Yousif. T

Class Student

3/4 Mexico Luka. J

4 Brazil Joven. B

4 China Mirisa. J

4 Samoa Dang. T

5 Cambodia Carola. Z

5 Japan Abdullah. F

5 Vietnam Mysha. K

5/6 Belgium Amanda. D

6 Luxembourg Rojena. H

6 Monaco Atena. R

6 Netherlands Nina. P

6 Venezuela Chiara. G

This week, I visited Year 4 students who received a ‘Principal’s Into Learning Award’. I have organised for all other awards

to be mailed. So . . . If your name appears above, look out for a special letter and award in your letterbox very soon!

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Dear Parents/ Carers,

LEARNING FROM HOME, LEARNING FROM SCHOOL

Congratulations to all the Fairvale children who have commenced learning from home. I have spent the last

few days reading all of the posts on seesaw—everyone is doing their best. Keep posting your work! It is

important to see that you are learning during the day. This plan can be a little stressful for families to adjust

to, my advice is simple—children like routine and we have planned the learning grid in such way that you

should see children engaged and ready to learn each morning. Besides learning, being active is just as

important. Allow your child to play in the backyard, go for a walk down the street, set up your own little gym

in the house—there’s lots of options

WORKING FROM HOME, WORKING FROM SCHOOL

This week our Fairvale staff commences working from home and working from school. All teachers attend school

for professional learning, supervise children at school and contact children/ families. On the other days at home,

staff may be involved in on-line courses, making resources, attending online meetings and contacting children/

families. I am really pleased to announce that the staff have worked immensely hard to make this work. We are

now supporting the directive from the government by allowing staff to work from home and in isolation. Please

note due to being at risk of infection, some staff are working from home daily—this is a directive from the

Government and the Department.

PARACHUTING AROUND THE SCHOOL WITH MR PITT

Due to the current changes, I am now parachuting around the school talking to teachers about what they have

been up to since we changed to learning and working from home and from school. This week I spoke to our Years

3 –6 EAL/D and New Arrivals teachers. EAL/D stands for English as an Additional Language and/or Dialect. The

teachers work very closely with the children ensuring they are given ample opportunities to learn to speak, write

and read in English. Check out my report in this edition of the newsletter.

TERM 1 REVIEW

Term 1 is just about over. I have included some of our highlights below:

This holiday break is going to be a difficult for us all. For those in our community who celebrate

Easter—Happy Easter to you all! Please be kind to each other, listen to news alert and stay safe!

Anthony Pitt - Principal

1 April 2020 Term 1, Week 10

I respect and acknowledge Aboriginal people as the traditional

owners of the land on which I work, live and visit.

Seventy-five Kindergarten students successfully

completed the Best Start Assessment and settled in

well to school at Fairvale

Playgroup (Mon &Wed), Parent Café (Thurs) and

School Banking (Thurs) recommenced.

PSSA kicked off for our students in Years 3-6

Induction Assembly was a very special day

3-6 students enjoyed the Swimming

Carnival and K-2 enjoyed Play On Day

at school

Parents/ Carers attended Meet the Teacher afternoon

PSSA kicked off for our students in Years 3-6

Parent Group commenced, led by Miss Michelle and

Miss Samira

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Mrs Fedele

I have been doing my best to make sure my IEP groups still have

access to our regular teaching and learning activities. I made phone

calls to all students to check in and see how they were doing as well

as to make sure they knew how to access our IEP work online

through Google Classroom. I enjoyed making a video of myself

reading our focus text aloud for the students and uploading this to

our Google Classroom. I look forward to viewing their wonderful

work.

Miss Giannaula

This week I have been assigning activities to SeeSaw for

the Year 4 students that I withdraw. I have uploaded

some fun maths game videos that you can play at

home with your family and a deck of cards. I look

forward to seeing you upload some photos or even

videos of you playing these games at home.

Mrs Sheppard

This week in IEP we are learning at home. Our

text of the week is titled 'A forest' . We can read

the text on paper and online and there is also a

video of the text being read. Our learning goal is

to identify the nouns in the text.

Mr Derband

On Monday Mr Derband read ‘Tiddalick the frog’.

Students were asked to select one Australian animal to

research and present the information on google slides. He

is excited to see what everyone presents!

Mr Derband and other EAL/D teachers have also been

busily preparing various activities for our new arrival

students to work on whilst they are learning from home.

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Hi Everyone!

We are all missing you at school. It is very strange not having our 650 students at school. We

have been working so hard to ensure all of our students have access to some work each day.

Some students have been completing work online using Seesaw and other students have been

completing work using pen and paper. Please keep in contact with your classroom teacher. Class

teachers have been calling families throughout the week. We are here to help as best we can.

Last week Miss Fletcher and I visited a few families to deliver some much needed work. It was

great to see them. Take care. Mrs Karam

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Due to the changes to normal school routine, the staff at Fairvale PS will be sharing some of their favourite

food dishes in the Community News Section. Check out Miss Samira’s yummy recipe!

WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT COVID-19? Click on the link below and you will be able to download the information in a number of different languages.

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/diseases/Pages/coronavirus-resources-cald.aspx

LAHM BI AJIN (OR SFIHA) Servings: 10

INGREDIENTS (for the dough)

2 cups of flour

1 tablespoon active dry yeast

1 teaspoon sugar

1/2 teaspoon salt

3 tablespoons vegetable oil

1/2 cup warm water

Hot chilli pepper to taste

1 teaspoon paprika

1 tablespoon 4 spices blend (black

pepper, clove, ginger, nutmeg)

1 cup pine nuts

2 tablespoons olive oil

Salt, pepper

1/2 cup warm water

INGREDIENTS (for the filling)

500g beef or lamb (mix both)

I onion

3 cloves of garlic

1/2 bunch parsley

1/2 bunch cilantro

2 tomatoes

INSTRUCTIONS

1.Prepare the dough by mixing the flour, sugar and yeast.

2.Pour warm water and mix without kneading for a minute.

3.Then add the vegetable oil and salt and knead for 5 minutes until the dough is smooth and does not stick to the edges of the container.

4.Cover and let rise for 45 minutes.

5.Chop the onion and garlic. Fry in hot olive oil until the onion becomes translucent.

6.Then incorporate paprika, 4-spice blend, chili pepper (optional) and stir for 2-3 minutes. 7.Finely chop the parsley and cilantro. Finely dice tomatoes.

8.Add the meat to the pan and mix well, then add the herbs and tomatoes. Add salt and pepper.

9.Simmer for about 15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

10.In a dry skillet, toast the pine nuts, stirring constantly.

11.Knead the dough for a minute, then divide it into fifteen equal balls. 12.Spread each ball of dough into thin circles with a rolling pin. 13.Place the dough circles on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. 14.Divide filling among all mini pizzas. 15.Press lightly with the back of a fork to squeeze the topping so that it adheres to the dough. 16.Garnish with toasted pine nuts. 17.Bake for about 10-15 minutes in an oven preheated to 400 F (200C̊).

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Before School Care After School Care

7.00am—9.00am 3.00pm—6.00pm

Contact Number Website

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Aboriginal Dot Painting

We just loved getting our fingers all messy when

we did some Aboriginal dot painting with our

fingers! The children created sunsets, animals

and other creations showing their understanding

of the Aboriginal Culture.

Musical Chairs

As we are being very careful to follow Social

Distancing rules, the children suggested playing

musical chairs with these tough new rules!

Although we did get close at some points of the

game, we were careful to follow these rules and

also had so much fun doing so!

On Monday the 23rd of March, the students below

took part in the Prime Minister's Spelling Bee.

Stage 2 students: Bassam Appasa 3L, Maria Laygan

3L, Joey Wong 3A, Zaina Jozdan 3A, Carmina Atto

3A, Giovanni Molai 3/4M, Luka Jelic 3/4M, Andrew

Streeter 3/4M and Tyson Lam 3/4M.

Stage 3 students: Elijah Alkibbah 6M, Andrew Lee

6M, Maryana Habeeb 6V, Jean Thornton-Finn 6N,

Elena Markovic 5/6B, Nathan Nguyen 5/6B,

Christina Ngoy 5/6B, Joanne Nguyen 5/6B, Nathan

Ninh 5/6B, Peter Ninh 5/6B, Christian Tobar 5/6B, Ann

Huynh 5/6B, Lolita Nona 5/6B and Charlie Roche

5C.

This was a new, free and online spelling competition

which saw students spell 30 random words as

quickly as they could. Students received a

certificate upon completing the spelling bee.

Thank you for taking part and I eagerly look forward

to see if any of our students have made it to the

next round, next term.

Mrs Fedele

Spelling Bee Coordinator

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On Tuesday 24th March, Fairvale Public School recognised the multiculturalism that we share within our

community by celebrating Harmony Day. Students and teachers wore orange clothes and ate delicious

oranges to acknowledge this special day and show their support for cultural diversity and inclusiveness.

Every class worked on their own unique Harmony Day activity. Some classes created special artworks and

some wrote about the importance of Harmony Day and what it means to them.

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