Ross Hill Public School Tuesday 23rd July, 2019 Week 1 Term 3

Phone: 6722 2475 Email: rosshill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Fax : 6722 5806 Website: www.rosshill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

What’s On … Term 3

Wednesday 24th July Reports to go home with Parent Teacher Interview notes Friday 26th July PSSA Cross Country Monday 29th July Debating team to IPS 9:20 to 3:00 Tuesday 30th July Variety Bash breakfast Thursday 1st August Jump Rope for Heart Week 3- 5th August to 9th August Education Week Activities Open Day classrooms Scholastic Book Fair-all week Parent Teacher Interviews Kindergarten 2020 Open Day Tours Netball All Schools Cup Finals Cantalina Singers Choir Workshops and performance

Welcome to Term 3 We would like to wish everyone a special welcome back to school this term. We hope everyone had a restful holiday and managed to stay warm. We are looking forward to a wonderful term, celebrating Education Week in Week 3. Parents are encouraged to keep in touch with what is happening through our newsletters and for urgent matters please contact the school office. P&C Meeting The Ross Hill P&C will be holding their next meeting in our school staffroom on Wednesday 14th August. All parents and school community members are invited to attend. NAIDOC Week Art Competition Congratulations to all the students who entered artworks in the inaugural NAIDOC Week Art competition. A big thank you to Mrs Walburn and Miss Howard for organising the event, to the Inverell Shire Library for hosting the display and to Armajun Aboriginal Health Service for their sponsorship of all the prizes. Lake Ainsworth Excursion Stage 3. This great excursion for Stage 3 will take place in Week 3 of Term 4 between 28th October and 1st November. As we are limited to the amount of children we can take we ask that permission notes and deposit of $100.00 be returned to school by Friday 26th July to secure a place. Subsequent payments are to be made later in term 3. Variety Bash Visit

Ross Hill Public School will welcome members participating in this years Variety Bash to breakfast at 8:00am on Tuesday 30th July. Cars and drivers will be at the school until 8:30am. Students are invited and encouraged to come early and meet the drivers and check out their cars.

Parent volunteers are needed to help man the BBQ stations, if you are able to help out please contact the school for more information. Variety helps when others can’t. They provide support through grants for children and families for things like: Mobility equipment and wheelchairs Communication devices and education aides Medical items and service Therapy services, including occupational therapy and music therapy.

P&C Canteen News

NAIDOC week Art Competitions At the end of last term Inverell Sapphire Community of Schools Naidoc Competitive Art Exhibition opened at the Inverell Town Library. The opening was attended by a large number of students and their parents with many Ross Hill students from Kindergarten to Year 6 being recipients of prizes. The judges, Ms Eleanor Harrison-Binge and Mrs Nikiah Harris were both delighted with the high standard of artworks. They were particularly impressed with the quality of the artists’ statements , that addressed this years theme of “Voice, Treaty, Truth. Lets Work Together For A Shared Future.” The exhibition will continue for viewing until Friday 26th July, so please take the time to enjoy the creativity of young artists from the Inverell district. Congratulations and well done to all winners.

T3 week 1 Fantastic Helpers

Mon 22 July Staff Development Day

Tue 23 July Jodie Haidle

Wed 24 July

Thur 25 July Michelle Blackburn, Carleigh Hall

Fri 26 July Ann Bussey, Carleigh Hall

T3 week 2 Fantastic Helpers

Mon 29 July Ann Bussey, Josie Sheck

Tue 30 July Jodie Haidle

Wed 31 July Therese McGann

Thur 1 Aug Michelle Blackburn, Carleigh Hall

Fri 2 Aug Ann Bussey, Carleigh Hall, Janet Mepham, Margaret Hewat

Anxiety Disorders Signs of Low Self Esteem in children Signs to look for: Has difficulty accepting praise

as well as criticism Unenthusiastic about going to

school Cheats or lies if it means losing a game or

doing poorly Controlling or bossy personality

Aggressive or bullying

Blames others rather than owning Responsibility for own behaviour Gives up at first sign of failure

Regularly makes excuses As many children with learning difficulties often lack self confidence and have low self esteem. It is imperative for parents and teachers to be conscious of the signs so that they may become more confident and self assured. These signs or responses could be revealed on a daily basis or may be displayed infrequently in specific circumstances. The school environment is where a child with learning difficulties will exhibit low self esteem. With some children it is quite obvious that they lack self esteem and are happy to express their frustration and feelings by remarking “I am stupid” or “I do everything wrong”. For others the signs are not so obvious. They can differ from one person to the next. In many instances, people with low self esteem believe they lack ability or intelligence. With this mindset it will be impossible for them to succeed and their outlook will be fixed with homelessness. To avoid further failure and embarrassment, the alternative is to learn coping strategies. Everyone, adults included, use different forms of coping strategies, the difference being that a person with good self worth will use different strategies that adjust and guide them to advance but a child with low self worth will use self defeating strategies. It is very unlikely that a person with low self esteem will seek help by themselves. It is important that they have caring adults who will help them to get assistance.

Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability

Notification for Parents and Carers

All Government and non-Government schools across Australia are required to participate annually

in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD).

All Australian schools will collect data on their students who are receiving adjustments to meet

additional learning and support needs in accordance with their obligations under the Disability

Discrimination Act 1992 and Disability Standards for Education 2005. This data will be provided to

the Australian Government to assist in the development of a consistent, national picture of the

education needs of students with disability.

The data provided to the Australian Government by the NSW Department of Education is provided

in such a way that it cannot be used to identify any individual student or school.

General information about the national data collection can be found on the Australian Government

Department of Education and Training website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-nationally-

consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability

Privacy Protection

The NSW Department of Education follows the requirements of the Privacy and Personal

Information Protection Act 1998 and the Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002. Schools

will collect, record, store and use data about individual students in line with these requirements.

Data security and protection is a priority and students’ personal details will be kept confidential.

Under Clause 52 of the Commonwealth Australian Education Regulation 2013, data collected by the

NSW Department of Education for the NCCD must be provided to the Australian Government

Department of Education and Training. This includes the number of students at each level of

education, the number in each category of disability and the number at each level of adjustment.

The information is provided to the Commonwealth as a series of number sets that cannot be used to

identify any individual student or school.

The Australian Government Department of Education and Training follows the requirements of the

Commonwealth Privacy Act 1988 when handling any data provided by NSW Department of

Education in connection with the national data collection. A public information notice has been

developed to by the Australian Government to provide students, parents and carers with important

privacy information in relation to the data collection. This notice is available on the department’s

website at https://www.education.gov.au/what-nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-

disability

If you have any questions about the data collection, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs Debbie

Baker, Principal, Ross Hill Public School 02 67222475.

Ross Hill Celebrate NAIDOC Week

2019