Moama Public School Simms Street, Moama NSW 2731

REMEMBER NO NUTS OR PRODUCTS CONTAINING NUTS ARE

PERMITTED AT SCHOOL DUE TO SOME CHILDREN BEING HIGHLY

ALLERGIC. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE.

Newsletter Wednesday 25th

March 2020

Term 1 Week 9

EVERY STUDENT MATTERS!

EVERY MOMENT COUNTS!

UPCOMING CALENDAR DATES

Term 1

Friday 27 March

Pyjama & spider drink day—is now

postponed

Easter Hat parade—cancelled

Assembly—cancelled

Last day of term to finish at 2:05pm

Term 2—subject to change

Tuesday 14th April

Pupil free day

Wednesday 15th April

Students return to school

Important links for parents:

Please see inside for some helpful links,

information and resources in regards to

Covid-19 (Coronavirus).

These will also be available to read in

Schoolstream under the Health tab. Please

make sure you have ticked Notifications in

your Schoolstream app settings to receive the

Alerts beep. Information on

downloading the app is inside.

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Please keep checking our school’s social media

pages and the Schoolsteam app. Newsletters

are always uploaded to our website and

Schoolstream.

It’s never been more important

than ever to stay safe and

healthy during this upcoming

term break..

Keep well and safe everyone!

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

NEWSLETTER TERM 1 WEEK 9

Every Student matters! Every moment counts!

On behalf of the Moama Public School staff I would like to thank all of our community for your patience

and understanding during this current climate around COVID-19.

As stated in correspondence sent out recently we have had many events, incursions and professional

learning opportunities either postponed or cancelled.

We are now in a “Learning from Home” environment of learning. The NSW government have stated that

NSW schools will be open but they are strongly encouraging parents to keep students at home if they are

able to.

As part of this new phase of learning we have sent home hard copy packs of student work for this week

but we will be transitioning to online learning in Term 2.

As we are transitioning into this we are training staff and preparing for the delivery of this style of learning

this week. We have been advised that the style of learning that we expect from students at home

students at school must be completed.

Staff will contact all parents and/or carers on our first day back in Term 2 to set all of this up. They will

send out the usernames and passwords for online platforms such as Mathletics, Study Ladder and Literacy

Planet. We will also invite you to join on online learning community through the SeeSaw app.

It is important too that students, staff and all families have a break during the school holidays.

Please stay safe, stay positive and importantly stay healthy.

Staff Development Days in Terms Two and Three

The first day back (Tuesday April 14) in Term Two will now be a student free day.

Thursday April 30 and Friday May 1 will now be normal school days as the Bridges out of Poverty

professional development sessions for all staff has been cancelled.

The first day back (Monday July 13) in Term 3 will now be a student free day.

GRIP Leadership Day for year 6 students

See inside for some photos of the students undertaking activities at school last week. This was due to the

trip to Bendigo being cancelled due to COVID-19.

Scott McKenzie

Principal

NSW health website: https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/diseases/Pages/coronavirus.aspx

Department of health: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/collections/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-

resources

NSW Department of Education advice: https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/school-safety/novel-

coronavirus

COVID-19 Information and Resources

Resource Audience File Source

Social script – Coronavirus- Covid-19

Children with ID and/or ASD Primary school

SA_corona_socialstory.pdf

South Australia TBC

Social story- My Story About Pandemics and the Coronavirus

Children includ-ing special needs

https://carolgraysocialstories.com/wp-

Carol Gray carolgrayso-cialstories.com/

Booklet – My name is coronavirus

Children

Mindheart_CoronavirusBookletforKids.pdf

Manuela Molina www.mindheart.co

Various E-books [Not corona specific but for various natural disasters including flu]

Children with and without ASD

https://littlepuddins.ie/coronavirus-social-story/

Little Puddin- The Autism Educator littlepuddins.ie/

Booklet/ social script on coronavirus with cartoons

Older children/ teens

VIC_Covid19_for_teens.pdf

Victoria TBC

Info sheet/ Newsletter=- How to cope with the stress related to novel coronavirus

Young people

headspace_COVID_newsletter_newc 1.pdf

Headspace headspace.org.au

Website/article – How to cope with Stress related to Covid-19

Young people https://headspace.org.au/young-people/how-to-cope-with-stress-related-to-covid-19/

Website article- 10 ways to take care of yourself during corona-virus

Young people https://au.reachout.com/articles/10-ways-to-take-care-of-yourself-during-coronavirus

Reach Out https://au.reachout.com

Information sheet – Tips for coping with coro-navirus anxiety

Adults & parents of children

https://www.psychology.org.au/getmedia/38073179-4701-48bd-afd9-988c560ee2f9/20APS-IS-COVID-19-P1.pdf

Australian Psycho-logical Society www.psychology.org.au

Website article – How to talk to your chil-dren about coronavirus

Parents of chil-dren

https://www.unicef.org.au/blog/news-and-insights/march-2020/how-to-talk-to-your-children-about-coronavirus

UNICEF www.unicef.org.au

Easy Read Information Booklet- Staying safe from Corona-virus

People with Intel-lectual Disability

https://cid.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Staying-safe-from-Coronavirus-council-intllectual-disability-Mar2020.pdf

Council for Intellectual Disability www.cid.org.au

COVID-19: an online safety kit for parents and carers is available to read from the eSafety Commissioner—18/3/20. Here are some snippets from their webpage. You can read the whole page here :

https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/blog/covid-19-online-safety-kit-parents-and-carers?

HOW TO MONITOR THE SITUATION

There’s a lot of fake news and misinformation about COVID-19 being spread across the internet, so stay alert!

AVOID GETTING CAUGHT UP IN THE HYPE AND FEAR

Select one or two reputable information sources for your news, to avoid false reports and unscientific claims. The major national and state news services provide regular online, television and radio bulletins.

The Department of Health’s coronavirus news alert provides daily updates on cases across Australia and the most up-to-date advice for preventing and responding to COVID-19, including translated resources.

Each state and territory health department also has information on its website:

NSW — Department of Health Click on the webpage above for advice and suggestions on the following : BEWARE OF FALSE INFORMATION AND SCAMS TAKE BREAKS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED HOW TO STAY CONNECTED HOW TO HELP KIDS STAY SAFE ONLINE

1. Start the chat 2. Use parental controls and safe search options

3. Check smart toy settings 4. Look out for unwanted contact and grooming 5. Know the signs of cyberbullying

What to do if your child is being cyberbullied HOW TO LOOK AFTER YOURSELF

The Kindergarteners have settled in really well into school life! They have been very busy learning lots and lots of

new things! Here are some of the activities they have been up to.

Learning to write our

SMART spelling sight

words.

Maths time. Making a

‘3’ pattern necklace

using coloured pasta.

Maths time. Learning about

capacity and what is Empty,

Half Full and Full. Kinder stu-

dents coloured a decorated

jars to show amounts.

Literacy and Fine Motor

rotations. This is birds and

worms. Students picked

up pipe cleaners (worms)

with pegs (birds).

Literacy and Fine Motor

rotations. Pegging and

matching alphabet letters.

Literacy and Fine Motor

rotations. Matching

magnetic letters to

alphabet letters.

YOUNG LEADERS DAY ACTIVITIES LAST THURSDAY

CLASS AWARDS

Class awards were presented to:

Respect Responsibility Achievement

KC Ruby Currie Levi Goddard Kenny Kerr

1A Jye Green Max Walker Adalyn Peace

2B Jett Plattfuss Beau Sime Fenella Johnston

3/4D All students All students All students

3/4H Harry Sutton Tom MacFarlane Kyron Griffiths-Sharma

5/6C Ollie Glover Chad Shanon Summer Carter

5/6J Demi Wright Harrison Dargan Heidi Marriott

Congratulations to all students for your efforts to support your learning this week

Please note that ‘NPP’ means that parents have not granted permission for these students

to have their name published in the newsletter.

Our School

Captains and Vice

Captains

March 2nd to

28th August

Register online

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/

booklist/home.html

SCHOOLSTREAM APP BENEFITS

Receive immediate alerts from the school

Access information on uniforms, sport, excursions,

bus information, school times and contact details

Access our school calendar dates

News items are stored there

Look up how to make payments online or in person

Send in an absence note from your phone

Read your newsletters

Look up Events

Send forms back to school

Our passcode is 1777

MPS Junior School Council

On Friday 27th March the

JSC invite all students, staff

and parents to wear their

pyjamas to school to show

support for children who are

sick in hospitals around

Australia.

A gold coin donation is greatly appreciated.

We will also be selling soda spiders before recess for $1 to raise money

to go to the Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal.

Moama Public – The Power of Play

Over the last couple of years the school has participated in activities in conjunction with the iPLAY project. iPLAY is a

school-based program conducted by Australian Catholic University and the University of Newcastle, and is funded by the

National Health and Medical Research Council and NSW Department of Education. In 2018 and 2019 our school was se-

lected as a target school for the iPLAY study. Representatives from the university came and spent time with a selected

group of students and monitored their physical activity levels and collected data of physical activity and healthy lifestyle

habits in and outside of school.

iPLAY aims to promote children’s physical activity through implementing a whole-of-school approach. iPLAY involves 6

key components: 1) quality physical education and school sport, 2) classroom movement breaks, 3) physically active

homework, 4) active playgrounds, 5) community physical activity links and 6) parent/caregiver engagement.

To continue our promotion of the importance of physical activity and the commitment to continuing to promote healthy

lifestyle habits for all our students in 2020 we will have information and ideas for promoting physical activity and

fundamental movement skill development in children.

Our first item includes information on the importance of physical activity and the Active Kids Voucher. I hope that you

enjoy the newsletter updates and if you require more information please don’t hesitate to contact me at school.

Isabelle Campbell

The Importance of Physical Activity … Let’s Get Active!

Regular physical activity is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. Making physical activity a priority and encouraging

good habits in children from an early age is important and can help them to develop the skills they need to be active

throughout their lives.

Why is being active important?

Children benefit greatly from being active as it can:

Promote healthy growth and development

Build strong bones and muscles

Improve movement skills

Improve cardiovascular fitness

Help achieve and maintain a healthy weight

Improve academic achievement

Help relaxation

Provide opportunities to make friends

Improve self-esteem and self-confidence

Children who are not physically active enough will not have the opportunity to gain these benefits and are at an

increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. Being overweight or obese long term can contribute to conditions such

as Type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and heart disease.

Dance2bfit Online

As most schools now have very low attendance we have

introduced some Dance2bfit online “follow us”

15min routines. Parents can keep their kids moving and

burning some energy at home.

https://www.facebook.com/dance2bfitaus

We will be uploading two dances each week for students to

follow.

Kind regards,

Trent Taylor, Dance2bfit & Challenge2bfit Manager

YEAR 5/6 CANBERRA EXCURSION — PAYMENT SCHEDULE

Deposit $110 was required last term.

$25 due Wednesday 15 April 2020

$25 due Wednesday 29 April 2020

$25 due Wednesday 13 May 2020

$25 due Wednesday 27 May 2020

$25 due Wednesday 10 June 2020

$25 due Wednesday 24 June 2020

$25 due Wednesday 15 July 2020

$25 due Wednesday 29 July 2020

$25 due Wednesday 12 August 2020

$25 due Wednesday 26 August 2020

$25 due Wednesday 9 September 2020

Alternatively, if you do not wish to pay instalments each fortnight, you may pay the

remaining $275 in full by Wednesday 15 July 2020.

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