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Email:Email: blacktowns-p.school@det.nsw.edu.auPhone:Phone: 02 9622 6034

Fax:Fax: 02 9831 2379

9 March 20189 March 2018

Principal’s ReportDear Parents and Caregivers,

School Administration Upgrade

I was very excited on Monday to meet the builder who has beenawarded the contract to do our School Administration BlockUpgrade. The P&C Association and I have worked behind thescenes for the last three years to secure this AdministrationUpgrade which is greatly needed by our school. It will providefirst class reception and office spaces for our School OfficeStaff to work, new staff facilities and meeting rooms but mostimportantly a fully equipped and dedicated first aid room forsick and injured students.

I will be meeting with officials from the Department ofEducation’s Infrastructure Team and the builders today(Thursday) to finalise logistics and details. The builder hasinformed me that he intends to commence work within 3 weekwith the refurbishment needing to be completed by the end ofJune. I will keep families informed of details as they come tohand.

We are in the process of moving to our temporary officefacilities in Block 5. I will be sending home a map outlining theconstruction site and detailed changes of the office locationearly next week.

This construction phase will cause some disruptions to schooloperations but will have minimal or no impact on the students at

our school. I thank you for your cooperation and understandingin advance. I am very excited about the prospect of thecompleted product.

School Painting

The external painting program of the older buildings of ourschool is now coming to an end. The painters will be back ona weekend or the school holidays to complete a few bits ofinternal painting.

Induction Assembly for New SRCRepresentatives and House Captains

The Student Representative Council (SRC) and House CaptainInduction Assemblies were held last Thursday 1st March.Congratulations to all new SRC representatives and 2018House Captains. I am sure they will represent the school withgreat integrity and pride.

SRC Representatives – 2018

President: Hamish Barton

VicePresident:

Lachlan Koranteng-Gyasi, Aurora Julovi, ElinaSachdeva

KF Vivan Langalia KC Pia Singh

KRE Izam Mashrur KH Mopin Bakhiet

KM Aaliyah Faiz KD Naya Nasser

KA Asraa Lalee

K/1S

Emily Hecker, KaraOthman

IP Isabella Shleef

IH Hetanshi Patel IJ Sukrithi Karanth

IRM Sheryse Monteiro IB Shudhita Kumar

I/2L Zachery Li,Luselaine Lomu

2H Rick Deering

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2S Suhana Patel 2C AlashaNaguleswararajah

2M Nikolas Pagtakhan 2PK Pearl Patel

2B Elham Mahmudi

3E Ashvinth Sothivel 3M Jaivish Malhotra

3P Shimmer Bhardwaj 3K Anika Narayan

3HW Aarya Jhally

4X Emily Trinh 4K Nicole Binu

4G Mihailo Mitrovic 4C Varad Joshi

4/5P Julia Viado, AaronPech

5/6N Sabahat Iqbal,Arianne Monteiro

5E Aarish Prasad, MelodyTint

5S Marc Fauvette,Andrew Lee

5R Arabella Murphie, MaxMa

5M PranaviShanmugathaas,Urmil Patel

5V Thilan Perera, HayleyChauhan

6A Anna Finau, SmitPatel

6V Girry Nethra, RihannaRoychoudhry

6H Irem Salicioglu. WadiTagir

6L Sharmaine Maralang,Kingston Leatulagi

6E Ishan Dave, PaelMallick

House Captains – 2018

House Girl Captains Class Boy Captains Class

JuniorBalsdon

Avni Kumar 5R Musa Zahid 5M

SeniorBalsdon

RaakaviPalaraman

6E Riley Williamson 6E

JuniorDennis

MakaylahCuevas

4X Nathanail Kosta 3HW

SeniorDennis

FelicityFerguson

6A Ankon Dam 6E

JuniorMoore

Zaina Nasser 5E ZakarayyaShaideen

4/5P

SeniorMoore

Zaynab Zahid 6A Yousif Abdallah 6L

JuniorNicholls

Amber Reveley 4G Joshua Canoy 4C

SeniorNicholls

Mehra Monsur 6V Jordyn Ross 6A

Kindergarten Parents’ Literacy Workshop

On Wednesday we held our first Parent Workshop for 2018. Itwas for Kindergarten parents on how to support their child withReading at home. We had about 30 percent join us for a greatmorning of learning and activities. Thanks to Mrs Radecki, MissRillera, Mrs Zouriakas, Miss Miletic and Miss Magtibay for allyour efforts.

Zone Swimming

Blacktown South Public School was represented by 22competitors who completed with pride and greatsportsmanship. Unfortunately, we did not get any of ourswimmers through to the Sydney West Carnival, but it was agreat effort all round. It was a very well run carnival.

Thank you to Mrs Mussolum for being the team manager andlooking after the children on the day and also, thank you tothe parents for taking the children down to the venue andsupporting each competitor throughout the carnival.

Clean Up Australia Day

Many classes have been involved in Clean Up Australia SchoolsDay by collecting rubbish around our school playground overthe last week. A great job has been done these students.

Pop-Up Morning Tea

Thanks to the parents who joined us for our first Pop-UpMorning Tea held last Monday. We had a very good discussionand information session on PBL- our Student Wellbeing/Welfare systems. Thank you to Cathy Francis for presenting thissession.

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Harmony Day

This year, Harmony Day will be held on Wednesday 21st March,only 2 weeks away. This is always a highlight of first term andthe school year.

As is our tradition, we will be asking parents to contributetraditional foods to your child’s class, we will encouragestudents to dress in traditional costume or orange for the day.

The Cultural Concert will be held at 9.45am in the morning thisyear.

Information about this day has been sent home and is attachedto this newsletter.

School Uniform

Just a reminder that Jo-Jo bows and leggings/tights withpatterns on them are NOT part of the school uniform. We wouldask that students wear the correct blue coloured ribbon in theirhair and plain navy blue tights under their tunic.

School Curriculum Fees and VoluntaryContributions

Information about school curriculum fees and voluntarycontributions has been sent home. Information is also attachedto this newsletter.

Notes Online

All important whole school and grade notes can be found onthe school’s website under the parent tab then notes andforms. See below for the direct link.

http://www.blacktowns-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/parent/notes-and-forms

Yarning Afternoon Tea

Just a reminder to our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanderparents that we will be holding a Yarning Afternoon tea nextWednesday 14th March in the Computer Room at 2.15pm to3.15pm.

P&C Meeting

Our next P&C meeting will be held on Tuesday 20th March at7.00pm in the Library.

This meeting will be the AGM- Annual General Meeting wherethe association votes for new officers for the coming 12months.

I look forward to seeing you at our meeting and yourinvolvement in our school.

Parking

Unfortunately a few parents are still breaking the law in regardsto parking around our school. Last Friday afternoon the ownerof a small red Nissan parked across the driveway of aneighbour. The neighbour arriving home was unable to entertheir property so in frustration waited- causing traffic chaos onFlushcombe Road. I have pictures and number plates of bothcars.

Please be courteous of our neighbours and do not illegally parkin or blocking their driveways.

Andrew BowmerPrincipal

Clean Up Schools Day !Students have been out and about all over the school collectingrubbish in the playground for our contribution to Clean UpSchools Day. This sterling effort has been extended over theentire week so that every class from Year One to Year Six, hashad the opportunity to take pride in our school. A great efforteveryone!

Woolworths Earn and Learn PresentationA huge thanks to all families who participated in our Earn andLearn Drive in 2017. On Monday, during our morning assembly,Graeme Stewart , the Prospect Woolworths Manager and RodAlverton, a Woolworths Earn and Learn Director, came to ourschool and presented us with our Earn and Learn EducationalResources.

With 63,500 stickers collected we were recognised byWoolworths for our wonderful efforts and congratulated for ajob well done. Blacktown South Public School, once again wepulled together and produced a marvellous result. Well doneeveryone!

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PBL @ Blacktown South

At Blacktown South we follow the philosophy of PositiveBehaviour for Learning. We are Safe, Respectful Learners inall environments. We encourage our students to meet theseexpectations at all times and in all settings. We encourage youto ask your children about the weekly focus to help reinforceour expectations.

This term we are focusing on being safe and students will beengaged in interactive lessons that reinforce our expectations.

During PBL lessons students have been learning aboutthe

‘Zones’ around our school.At Blacktown South we have 3 zones –

Green, Orange and Yellow.

Green Zone areas are –Bottom Oval, Top Grass, Basketball Courts and Netball

Court.

Orange Zone areas are –Ball Games, Seats/Library, COLA and Quiet Area 1

Basketball Courts and Netball Court.

Yellow Zone areas are –All stairs, footpaths and walkways we use

to move around the school

At Blacktown South we have been explicitly teaching ourstudents strategies that support positive behaviours in theplayground. We do this by making expectations clear, teachingchildren how to meet them and reinforcing children'sappropriate behaviour.

Recently during PBL lessons students were engaged in learninghow to ‘plan their play’. Students had to share their own ideasand as a class brainstorm why it is important to plan their play.They also shared the different activities they could play withtheir friends during recess and lunch time.

PBL in the classroom:

Mrs Hayes and 1H have been writing about what they havelearnt during their PBL lesson. Each student did a fantastic joband could explain why planning their play is important. Here afew samples of their great work.

By Anshiha

By Jesse

By Hetanshi

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By Behshid

By Abbass

Principal’s Reading AwardsCongratulations to the following students from Kindergarten –Year 6 in 2017 who have been awarded the Principal’s Readingaward for 300 nights of home reading.

Anvi Sharma

Blacktown South now has Twitter!Keep up to date with what is happening in and outside of theclassroom. Click on the link @ http://twitter.com or use the QRcode to download and join Twitter.

Don't forget to follow the school page @ the link below

https://twitter.com/blacktownsthps

The School Opal CardBusways has asked all parents who have children catching abus to remind them that they must remember to tap on at thebeginning of their trip and off again at the end of their trip. Thisis a condition of using the School Opal Card.

Data being gathered shows that not all students are doing this.If students do not tap on and off, services may be cancelleddue to the lack of recorded patronage.

Please remember it is the parent’s responsibility to maintain/update any changes of details, this will ensure you will receivenew Opal cards as requested.

P&C NewsIt was great to see so many new parents at our first dayP&C meeting of the year. It was an informal meeting where itprovided parents with the opportunity to find out what the P&Cis all about and find out first hand from Mr Bowmer what ishappening in the school and future directions for 2018. Thankyou to the parents for coming and sharing your ideas andthoughts on fundraising ideas etc.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday 20th March at 7.00pm inthe Library. This will also be our AGM. If you wish to becomea financial member of the P&C which provides you with votingrights for the year, membership is $1.00.

Follow Blacktown South P&C on Facebook!

We now have a Blacktown South Public School P&CFacebook page. This page is run by the P&C and is a forum forfamilies of BSPS to stay up to date with our fundraising events,what’s happening in the school and to communicate with theP&C. So if you are on Facebook just search the following to jointhe group:

Blacktown south public school P&C

School Banking

School banking is on every Tuesday. To join school banking,your child will need a Youthsaver account. If your child doesn’thave an existing Youthsaver account, there are 2 simple waysto open one:

Students earn 1 token for each time they bank and once theyhave earned 10 tokens they are eligible for a reward. Thereare 2 rewards available each term. Don’t forget once you have10 tokens fill in your rewards slip and send it in with yourbankbook. If you don’t have the rewards slip please send us anote in your bankbook and we will send one home with you.

Remember, it’s not the amount you deposit; it’s theconsistency of banking that will help you earn great prizes!

Uniform shop

The uniform shop is open on Monday’s from 2-3.15pm andThursday’s from 9-11am. If anyone is available to help out inthe uniform shop please see Kim Jeffreys on either a Mondayor Thursday at the uniform shop.

• Visit commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click onthe link to open a Youthsaver account, or

• Visit any Commonwealth Bank branch withidentification for you and your child (Driver’s licenceand birth certificate) and they will assist you inopening up a Youthsaver account.

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If you have any questions about the P&C or would like to helpout with the fundraising events please contact me on 0403 694898 or Kerrie.barton1@det.nsw.edu.au

Kerrie BartonP&C President

BLACKTOWN SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLCALENDAR

2018

TERM 1

Week 6

Friday 9th March

Week 7

Monday 12thMarch

Tuesday 13thMarch

Wednesday 14thMarch

Thursday 15thMarch

Friday 16th March

Week 8

Monday 19thMarch

Tuesday 20thMarch

Wednesday 21stMarch

Thursday 22ndMarch

Friday 23rd March

Week 9

Monday 26thMarch

Tuesday 27thMarch

Wednesday 28thMarch

2018

Thursday 29thMarch

Friday 30th March

Week 10

Monday 2nd April

Tuesday 3rd April

Wednesday 4thApril

Thursday 5th April

Friday 6th April

Please click below for any notes that have gonehome in the past fortnight that you might havemissed:

COMMUNITY NEWSAt Blacktown South Public School, we support our localcommunity. Click on the links for further information.

• 3-6 Assembly – 5R/6L

• PSSA Starts

• Young Leaders Day

• OC Incursion – Forensic ScienceWorkshop

• Debating Camp

• Year 3 AFL

• Yarning Afternoon Tea

• Selective High School Test

• AFL – After School Program

• PSSA Round 2

• Year 3 AFL

• P & C Meeting – AGM - Night

• Harmony Day

• K-2 Assembly – 2C

• AFL – After School Program

• 3-6 Assembly – 4/5P

• PSSA Round 3

• School Photos

• Year 3 AFL

• Easter Hat Parade

• GOOD FRIDAY – PUBLICHOLIDAY

• EASTER MONDAY – PUBLICHOLIDAY

• Year 3 AFL

• Shooting Star Assemblies

• PSSA Round 4

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SCHOOL CONTACTSBlacktown South Public School183 Flushcombe RoadBlacktown NSW 2148Ph: 9622 6034, 9622 2449Fax: 9831 2379Email: blacktowns-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Mr Andrew Bowmer

Deputy Principals: Mrs Kathy Pizzinga and Mrs Kathy Price

Assistant Principals:- Early Stage 1 – Ms Michelle Cremona (Relieving)- Stage 1 – Mrs Renee Radecki and Miss Matilda Lee

(Relieving)- Stage 2 – Miss Bec Elgood (Relieving)- Stage 3 – Mr Matthew van Trier (Relieving)

Senior Administration Manager: Mrs Claire Dobbie

School Administration Officers: Mrs Robyn Taylor, Ms DorisMifsud,

Mrs Sharon Hawtrey, Mrs Kerrie Lee-Eyles & Mrs Bev Mills

School Counsellors: Ms Jennifer Ransley and Ms Keita Rennie

P&C AssociationPresident: Mrs Kerrie BartonVice President: Miss Kim JeffreysSecretary: Alyce AttardTreasurer: Mrs Nicole McDonald

CanteenCanteen Manager: Mrs Michelle MillingtonClothing PoolUniform: Miss Kim Jeffreys

The Uniform Pool is open every Monday afternoon from2.00pm to 3.00pm and Thursday morning from 9:00am to11:00am.

School AssembliesK-2 Assemblies Thursday 2:15pm – 3:10pm – Even Weeks3– 6 Assemblies Fridays 2:15pm – 3:10pm – Even Weeks

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