The Engadine Public School

WARATAH WHISPERS OUR SCHOOL VISION

Engadine Public School promotes an inclusive environment that fosters confident, innovative, successful

learners with high moral values. Excellent academic, creative physical and social programs empower each

student to become an active, resilient and informed citizen in our rapidly changing world.”

Tel: 0435 087 919

SCHOOL DIARY

Nov

8 Stage 3 Deer Park Camp

13 Stage 2 Wattamolla Excursion

15 Kindy 2018 Transition 3

16 Christmas Disco

21 Support Unit—Variety Club Xmas Party

22 Drama Film Night

Dec

6 Sport Presentation Day

6 Year 6 Musical 7pm

8 Presentation Day

11 Yr 6 Big Day Out

14 Yr 6 Farewell Dinner

15 Last day for students

Jan

30 First day back for students Year 1-6

Working Bee—Due to unforeseen circumstances the working bee scheduled for

tomorrow has been cancelled.

Art Show

Last night was the culmination of months of hard work by the students and their very

talented art teacher Mrs Gizas. The artworks on display were of an extremely high

standard and everyone should be proud of the work they had produced. Congratulations

to the winning bidders of the silent auction. If you were unable to attend the Art Show

and would like to purchase your child’s artwork, please see Mrs Gizas or the office staff.

A special thank you to Mrs Gizas and her elves (Mrs MacAlpine and Mrs Mitchell) for

the hours of preparation for this wonderful event.

Book Fair

An amazing $7000 has been spent over the last few days at the Book Fair. It is great to

see so many families helping to develop a love of reading with their children. Thank you

Mrs Bourke for coordinating the fair.

Water Polo Trials

Congratulations to Nell Payne who has successfully trialled for a

position in the Sydney East Region Water Polo team. The team

will play at the State carnival later this month. Best of luck for the

tournament.

Support Unit Performance

Well done to the Support Unit students who

entertained members of the community at The Engadine Caring

Centre earlier this week. The audience appreciated their singing. Thank you to the staff

members who were able to facilitate this lovely outing for our students.

Sensory Room

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous benefactor the Support Unit is able to make

use of their sensory room more regularly.

Book Fair

An amazing $7000 has been spent over the last few days at the Book Fair. It is great to

see so many families helping to develop a love of reading with their children. Thank you

Mrs Bourke for coordinating the fair.

Kindergarten Transition

The 2018 Kindergarten students are in the midst of their transition sessions. It was

lovely to meet them on Wednesday. They enjoyed completing activities in the classroom

and story time in the playground.

The Engadine Public School

WARATAH WHISPERS 1A Waratah Rd Engadine NSW 2233 Phone: 9520 8559 Fax: 9548 1186

Term 4 Week 4: 30th October—3rd November Email: engadine-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Assemblies Held FORTNIGHTLY On Even Weeks, Yr 3-6 Odd Weeks, K—2 Friday at 2:30pm Two whole school assemblies per term. Next Assemblies: Friday 3rd November: 3-6 Friday 10th Nov: Whole school

Karen Simula—Principal (Relieving)

Tour de Cure

The school was a sea of yellow on Tuesday in support

of the Tour de Cure. Thank you to our community which

has raised $1200 to help find a cure for cancer. The

school gratefully accepted a cheque from the

Commonwealth Bank for $2500 to help raise

awareness with students about lifestyle choices that

help prevent the likelihood of cancer developing. The

SRC will be surveying classes about how this money

can be utilised most effectively.

Year 6 Fundraising

Year 6 will be having a Cake Stall on Wednesday 22nd November. Students will be able to purchase a

cupcake and a water ice block for $2.00. Items will be on sale at recess under the COLA area.

All money raised will go towards Year 6 end of year celebrations. Teachers, students, and parents of Year 6

thank you for your support.

SCHOOL NEWS

Next week is National Recycling Week. The Environmental Team will be coordinating the collection of toothpaste tubes and caps, floss containers, toothbrushes and the outer packaging of these products. Please bring these used and empty products to school and place them into the box near the front office. The waste will be sent to Terracycle where it will be recycled into various products, such as park benches. Please help us to make a difference by contributing to this

recycling initiative.

Mrs Gallen from The Royal National Park Environmental

Education Centre visited the school last week to conduct a waste audit with the Environmental Team. She

highlighted the types of rubbish that is produced at school and the team is looking at ways of disposing this in

more environmentally-friendly ways. Mrs Gallen explained how to sort waste into compost, co-mingled

recycling, paper recycling and landfill.

SCHOOL NEWS

Environmental Club News

PSSA $28 OVERDUE Band Term 4 $125 OVERDUE Wattamolla Excursion (Years 3 & 4) $28 OVERDUE Deer Park (Years 5 & 6) $325 OVERDUE For security and convenience, it is recommended you use our online payment facility to make these payments. This is

so you can easily keep track of payments, as you can print or save a receipt immediately to your device.

Gingerbread House Kits The P & C are selling Gingerbread House Kits as our Christmas Fundraiser. These kits are selling for $35.00 and can be purchased via the order form that was sent home this term. All Gingerbread Folk products are nut, dairy, and egg free—there are also a limited number of gluten free kits available. Christmas Disco Please join us to celebrate Christmas with our School Disco on Thursday 16th November. All students are welcome to attend and to wear a touch of Christmas! Kindy to Year 2 disco will be from 4.30pm—5.45pm Year 3 to Year 6 disco will be from 6.00pm—7.15pm. Tickets are $7.00 each and will include a packet of chips and bottle of water—to be given out at the end of

the disco. All tickets will be sold on the night and are available from 4.10pm. Glow bands will be sold by Year 6 for a separate cost. The canteen will NOT be open. Bad Moms 2 Movie Fundraiser The P & C have organised a fundraising movie night on Saturday 25th November. We have secured 100 tickets for a special screening of Bad Moms 2 at Cronulla Cinema from 4.00pm. Tickets are available from the office. For $20 each. Hope you will be able to join us for this fun afternoon!

The Canteen is open Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday every week. If any parents or grandparents can spare some time to help out in the canteen please let the staff at the office know and they will pass the message on—we are always happy to welcome any help! Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers!

SUSHI HAS COME TO OUR CANTEEN!!!!

In conjunction with Kanawaka Japanese Restaurant, sushi is now available to order

from the school canteen on Wednesdays.

Our school canteen menu is available on the Engadine Public School website and at

the front office.

SCHOOL NEWS

Payments Now Due

P & C News

SCHOOL CANTEEN INFORMATION

Key Value: - Wellbeing (Community Key Of Success)

SCHOOL NEWS

Parents, we ask that you go through these skills with your children, and discuss the dos and don’ts. Children learn best when

they are supported from both school and home with a consistent message. Your assistance is greatly appreciated.

Giving and Receiving Compliments—Good Mates Look for the Good Things About Others

Giving Compliments

Receiving Compliments

Wellbeing can be defined as the condition of being contented, healthy, or successful; and is a welfare matter. Of course we want

all students of our school to feel happy to be here, healthy and successful learners. Helping students to focus on their wellbeing,

are the focus points on our award system where students aim towards improving levels of responsibility for looking after

themselves and taking care of others, to make safe choices—ensuring they act in a manner that does not put themselves or

others in danger, being sensible in their choices and actions, taking care of the environment in which they live, work and play

and using strategies to build their resilience. Wellbeing can be related to many aspects of our lives— having a group of

friends can help us to have a sense of belonging and can improve our sense of well-being. Having a healthy self esteem and

optimistic outlook—where we look for the positives which are occurring in our lives can help us to feel good about our life and

ourselves and therefore impact our sense of well-being. Being in a pleasant environment can help to lift our spirits and sense of

wellbeing and hence we try to make our school an appealing place for students to be. At school our aim is to be increasingly

supporting students to develop skills in being able to identify personal goals for success. These need to be both realistic and

achievable, so as a child aims towards these goals and succeeds, they increase their sense of personal wellbeing. We also

support students to build friendship skills and to build their self esteem as we are aware how important these factors can be to

having a sense of personal worth and success. Continuing to build skills in the students of our school means they can take some

important steps towards knowing they too can impact their own sense of wellbeing — an important skill for life. Learning self-

discipline is a life-long process and many children will struggle with self-discipline at various times. Parents and teachers can

give them age appropriate tools to help them practice using self-discipline throughout their childhood. The good news is, the more

self-disciplined children become, the less discipline they’ll need from parents and teachers. When a child takes responsibility for

things like:- to brush his teeth on his own, get ready for school on time, complete class tasks, do his homework, it means less

arguing, nagging and negative consequences. Instead, parents and teachers can focus on teaching new skills and building more

positive relationships.

Social Skills

Do’s

Look for anything about another person that you

genuinely like or appreciate.

Look in their eyes and smile.

Tell them what you like about them.

Tell them what you like about them.

Don’ts

Don’t give a compliment that isn’t true.

Don’t give too many compliments.

Do’s

Wait till the person finishes giving you the

compliment.

Look in their eyes and smile.

Say “thank you” and perhaps add an interesting

positive comment (e.g. Thank you— I’ve worked

hard on it).

Don’ts

Don’t laugh or say something silly.

Don’t look away.

Don’t say something which suggests they’re

wrong. (Don’t say “No it’s not one of my best

efforts’).