Calendar Term 3

29.8.17 Father’s Day Stall Pres/

EI

1.9.17 Father’s Day Stall

11.9.17 CTA festival

12.9.17 P&C Meeting

22.9.17 Last day Term 3

9.10.17 First Day Term 4

Assembly

24.8.17 KR

21.9.17 Captains

Nut Products

We have several students with

severe nut allergies to reduce

exposure to anything which

may cause an allergic reaction

we ask that all families assist

by not sending nuts or foods

with nuts to school with your

child. This includes nutella,

peanut butter or muesli bars

with nuts.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Welcome to all our new Kindergarten, preschool and

e furtherdetails.

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL

Daniel, Ben, Kade and Aaliyah represented our

school with great sportsmanship. They all did

really well, beating their personal best times.

Daniel qualified for regionals and will represent

Pendle Hill PS next Wednesday for 50m

freestyle, 50m breaststroke and 50m backstroke.

I've also attached 2 photos.

Pendle Hill Public School

Newsletter 24.8.17 NSW, Department of

Education and Training

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Thank you to everyone who attended our Book Week parade. It has been wonderful to celebrate reading and literature with a range of activities. With so many options to entertain children it is really important to remember the regular reading to and with children encourages a love of literature and helps develop a lifelong love of reading. Regular reading to children at home helps build their reading skills and vocabulary in a positive and enjoyable way.

Our Art Exhibition was hugely successful. Lots of positive messages were left for the artists. Special mention to the students below who received a Principal’s award for their efforts.

Pres Hashonaa Dilara EI Nazeef Marcus KL Kavya Aryan KR Veda Nathan KV Nikhil Ellie 1F Ira Nihaal 1S Shiyamsam Maxine 1-2 Prarthana Kapish 2K Hari Aditi 3-4C Grace Joel 3/4R Isabella Lawrence 4/5S Markcus Yashika 5/6M Taylah Het 5/6V Samira Matt

We hope to see lots of Dad’s at our father’s day BBQ next week. Please return your RSVP by Monday morning if you are attending.

We will be looking at our preschool applications in early September. Please make sure you have your child’s application in if you wish them to attend preschool next year.

Gabrielle Buczynski

The Premier’s Reading Challenge runs from Monday 6 March to Friday 25 August.

Year 3-6 students can use their school logons to update their own records at:

online.det.nsw.edu/prc.

K-2 student records are kept by each teacher and will be updated online at the

end of the challenge by Mrs Hart.

Principal’s Award

Students at Pendle Hill PS are encouraged to be

Helpful, Safe and Respectful Learners. This year

we are highlighting students who follow our

school rules and exhibit great learning

behaviours with a weekly award at assembly.

Congratulations to this week’s nominations and

winners pictured below.

KL Aryan

KR Anwitha, Prabhnoor

KV Shlok

1F Dhrupal

1S Rayyan

1-2 Olivia

2K Madushan

5/6M Max

5/6V Ben

Preschool and Kinder enrolments

Kindergarten

We are now enrolling for kindergarten 2018. Children

must turn 5 before 31.7.18 to start school next year. If

you are intending to start your child at school next

year or know of someone who wishes to enroll their

child enrolment forms can be collected at the school

office. If your child is currently in our preschool and

you are a local area student you need to let the office

know you are intending to enroll them at school here.

Preschool

We are also taking preschool applications for 2018.

Children must turn 4 before 31 July 2018 to start at our

preschool next year. The preschool expression of interest

form can be collected at the office. The preschool will

runs on full day sessions in 2018 with children attending

five day fortnight. Preschool enrolment applications must

be submitted before 1 September, 2017 in order to be

considered for the first round of places.

The preschool program is a one year program for children

in the year before they commence formal schooling.

Children are only eligible for preschool for one year

before they commence school. We are happy to discuss

your child with you and offer advice if you are not sure

of when they should commence preschool in 2018.

The daily fee for preschool is currently $30.00 dollars a

day full fee and $15.00 a day for healthcare card holders

and pensioners. We are able to adjust the fee rate with

families on a case by case basis to assist if familes are

unable to meet the applicable fee due to financial

hardship.

Earn and Learn

Woolworths are running their Earn and Learn

promotion once again. Collect the stickers after

you make a purchase and stick on the sticker

sheet. When the sheet is full or at the end of

the promotion return the sheet to the box in

the office. The school is then able to redeem the

stickers for classroom resources.

Story Tellers The Cumberland Council Library team came to our

school to celebrate Children's Book Week. They

presented a storytelling session using this year's CBCA

short-listed books.

The first book was Chip by Kylie Howarth. This was hilariously acted out by the seagull character, who threw big chips around, wet the audience and gave Mrs. Hart a good soaking!

The second book was Go home, cheeky animals by Johanna Bell. The funniest part was when the

students wearing animal masks had to run away to the back of the hall.

The storytellers then acted out the beginning of Jimmy Cook discovers third grade by Kate and Jol Temple. We are hoping to find out how that story ends soon.

We had a great afternoon of loud fun and we hope that the storytellers come again to help us celebrate book week.

Peer Reading

On Thursday we held a peer reading session as

part of our Book Week celebration. Year 5/6

peer leaders took their Peer Support groups and

read them a book from the Children’s Book

Council of Australia, short listed books for 2017.

The leaders shared the book with their group

and we talked about the books. The leaders

presented the children in their groups with a

book mark at the end of the session.

Debating Our last debate was against Guilford West Public School. The topic was “Everyone Should Play Sport” and we were the affirmative team. The debaters were Jenny, Daniel and Mannat. Our advisor was Matt. Our argument wasn’t persuasive enough and the other team won the debate. We congratulated them afterwards.

Festival of Instrumental Music

On Tuesday the 1st of August, the Senior

Recorder Group went to the Opera House to

perform for the Festival of Instrumental Music.

We went to the Opera House via a bus with

Widemere Public School and Greystanes Public

School. Then we had our final rehearsal. Our

conductor was Susan Sukkar.

That evening, we played three pieces of music

with almost 600 other students.

It was a thrilling and tiring experience!

Father’s Day Stall Next week, the P&C will be holding a Father’s Day stall. This is an opportunity for students to select and purchase a gift to take home for their dad, grandfather or other special person. Teachers will take their classes to the stall throughout the school day to make their surprise purchases. Please mark the appropriate date on your calendar as a reminder to send along a few coins with your child/children to support the stall:

Preschool and EI: Tuesday 29th August K-6, Preschool and EI: Friday 1st September

Gifts will range from $2.00 to $10.00.