The Forestville Flyer

Monday, 17 February, 2020 Term 1 Week 4Address: 7 Melwood Ave, Forestville, 2087 Ph: 9452 5444 Email: forestvill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.forestvill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

DATES TO REMEMBER

Wed 19 Feb Year 5 CARES – 5C & 5/6M Wed 1 Apr School Tour – 9.30am at Office

Mon 24 Feb P & C Meeting – 7pm Staffroom Thur 3 Apr Year 2 Schoolhouse Museum

Tues 25 Feb Year 5 CARES – 5B & 5PB Sat 4 Apr P&C Trivia Night

Wed 26 Feb –

Fri 28 Feb

Year 6 Basin Tues 7 Apr Cross Country

Mon 9 Mar Zone Swimming Carnival Thur 9 April Last day of Term 1

Thur 12 Mar School Tour – 9.30am at Office Fri 10 April Good Friday

Thur 19 Mar Year 1 Gibberagong Mon 27 April Staff Development Day

- No students at school

Mon 23 Mar P & C Meeting Tues 28 April Students return for Term 2

Principal’s Report

Wed 19 Feb Kindy – 5.30pm Tues 18 Feb Stage 2 (Years 3 & 4) – 6.00pm

Wed 19 Feb Year 1 – 6.30pm

Parent/Teacher Information Evenings – in classrooms

Safety around our school

Students’ safety and wellbeing is our foremost concern and we all need to be mindful of

practices that may put children in danger. There are a number of considerations relating

to our school setting which need identification as they are potentially hazardous, and our

combined community needs to be vigilant about ensuring every student is kept safe and

that safe practices are in place. I have included information from the Transport, Roads

and Maritime Services website.

https://www.rms.nsw.gov.au/roads/safety-rules/road-rules/parking.html

NO STOPPING/NO STANDING

These signs mean that in the area in the

direction of the arrow you must not stop your

vehicle at any point on the road or kerb, unless

there is a medical or other emergency.

Sometimes a no stopping area is indicated by a

solid yellow edge line

Principal’s Report

We have a number of these signs around the entrances to our school which most

parents and carers observe, however there are some students being dropped in these

spaces. Please adhere to the road rules as they are created for the safety and benefit

of everyone.

Church Carpark

We have had a request from the Church next door that parents refrain from using their

parking spaces when attending Parent Information Evenings. Apparently they have

numerous meetings and need to use this space in the evenings.

Parent representatives

As part of our plan to promote good communication across all classes we are asking

for 2 parent volunteers for each class. These volunteers will liaise with the classroom

teacher and communicate information to other parents and work in conjunction with the

P&C to promote fundraising and the delivery of improvements in the school. As a

shared role the workload will be lessened and responsibilities divided. We truly

appreciate parents taking this role on board and it’s a great way to get to know the

other parents and the students. Teachers will ask for parent volunteers and also collect

parents’ emails to add to the communication lists during the parent information

sessions.

There are just two P&C meetings every term which can be shared also. Your

attendance at these would be greatly appreciated as then you will be able to represent

your class’s perspective and provide valued feedback. It will make Forestville an even

more community focused school.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

Our school is currently in the process of identifying improvements in wellbeing

practices and we are working towards using PBL to enhance and complement our

SAGE motto. The program will take some time to implement, and we need to liaise

with all the stakeholders to ensure best practice is in place and the program is

effective.

Students and parents/carers will be asked to complete a survey next week, but I

initially wanted to provide some background information for our community before

sending the survey. Below is an excerpt from the NSW DoE website and a link for your

information.

https://www.det.nsw.edu.au/wellbeing/succeed/positive-behaviour-learning

Principal’s Report

Student Leaders

Our Year 6 students lead a range of initiatives across the school. The students listed

below assist with the technical aspects of our sound room and help organise

presentations, and the second group assist in the library to ensure maximum patronage

and sound organisational practices. These students make a real difference to the smooth

running of the school, and we thank them for their dedication.

Sound Technicians

Congratulations to our 3 wonderful sound technicians;

Joel W, Joav P and Oliver D.

Library Monitors

Congratulations to our fabulous team of Library Monitors also;

Captains: Grace C and Lily B

Team: Claire H, Monique R, Arianne H, Michaela K, Isla G, Amelie P, Charlotte D, Matty

P, Arkie H, Logan S, Alex W.

Water bottles

Water bottles are an essential item for every student but we need to ensure they are both

safe and fairly indestructible. We had a student’s bottle break on Friday in the playground

and we found that it was made out of glass. The bottles below are the identified brand

and are very unsafe to bring to school.

Smash glass water bottles – not permitted

Principal’s Report

Can our community please ensure that students only bring plastic or metal water bottles

to ensure we don’t have smashed glass in the play area, which could cause possible

injury?

Best bottles: Made from plastic and metal.

Growth Mindset Parenting

Talk About the Brain

The brain is far more malleable than we once thought. Teaching our children that they

actually have control over growing their brains through the actions they take is

empowering! Tell your children that when they work hard, that’s the feeling of their

neurons connecting. The dendrites are reaching out to other dendrites, trying to connect

to make a stronger brain. What strengthens those connections is practice, asking

questions, and actively participating in learning. When children learn that their brains

physically change with effort, it leads to increased motivation and achievement. Show

your children the Brain animation clip attached to the link below to explain!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8FX2sI3gU

Many thanks for your support

Mrs Wellings

Principal (Relieving)

Student Banking

School Banking Information Session

Forestville Public School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking

program to all students.

We will be holding a School Banking Information Session at our school:

Time: Between 8:30am – 9:00am

Date: Tuesday 3rd March, 2020

Location: Near the Canteen Area

Please join us and find out more about the School Banking program and how your child

can get involved.

If you are interested in opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account for your child

you can visit www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a

Youthsaver account.

A School Banking representative will be available at the Information Session to explain

how you can do this. In order to verify yourself and your child, you will need your driver’s

licence and your child’s birth certificate, but if you don’t have these with you on the day,

you can complete verification online at home.

Exciting new Term 1 Treetop Savers rewards are now available, while stocks last!

Terry Denton’s Activity Book Mini Soccer Ball (size 2)

P & C Trivia Night

From the Office

From the Office

SKOOLBAG APPPlease download the SKOOLBAG app

to your device to keep up to date with

school newsletters and notifications.

Please make sure you are subscribed

to your current Year Group.

Please note that we will be trialling the delivery of some notes via the skoolbag app.

A note will be sent home in the coming weeks with further information.

TERM ACCOUNTS

Term accounts were emailed to everyone last week. Thank you to those of you have

already paid. If you have not paid these fees as yet, we would appreciate if you could

make payment at your earliest convenience.

KINDERGARTEN 2021

If you have a child starting Kindergarten in 2021 or have any friends with children who

may want to enrol in 2021, please contact the school office to register for a Kindy School

Tour.

Please click on the link School Tour Dates.

CHANGE OF DETAILS

If you have had any recent change of contact details such address, phones numbers or

email please update us via the Skoolbag app. Go to eform – Change of Details and

submit.

https://www.moqproducts.com.au/skoolbag/installation-instructions/

From the Office

Swimming Carnival Results

Swimming Carnival Results

Dance News

It was wonderful to have so many students try out for the dance groups. Thank you to

everyone who auditioned and gave it a go!

Unfortunately I can only choose 25 per group so many girls will miss out.

The lists will be put up in the hall at recess tomorrow so please come and have a look.

Some students have been asked to re-audition to fill the last few places.

Dance group rehearsals will start from tomorrow and will continue every week until the end of

Term 2.

If you accept your place you need to be available to perform in the last 2 weeks of Term 2.

Yr3/4 will rehearse every Tuesday lunch and some Fridays

Yr5/6 will rehearse every Thursday lunch and some Fridays

Thank you

Vanessa Price

Dance Teacher

From the Office

Swimming Carnival Results

Library – help with book covering!

From the Office

TEAM APP

TEAM APP is the main form of communication between your Conductors, the Band

Committee and Band Members. Please could all band families download the TEAM APP

and join their relevant band group. You can change your group from last year’s group in

the TEAM APP under Settings then Access Groups within the app. This year’s groups

have 2020 after each band name. If you need help downloading the app please contact

Alison on fpsbands@gmail.com

FUTURE DATES TO PUT IN YOUR DIARY

Committee Meeting - Monday 17th February 7.45-9.30pm Forestville RSL

Music Mania – Sunday 29th March 11.45am-4.30pm, Forestville Public School – All bands

Band Camp – 8.00am Monday 25th May - 4.00pm Tuesday 26th May, Camp Kedron – All

bands

NSW GOVERNMENT CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHERS!

Forestville Band is an approved provider of the NSW Government’s Creative Kids

Programme. Parents of school age children can claim $100 per year from the

Government to use towards any creative activity including our band fees if you chose.

Visit their website https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-creative-kids-voucher

apply for your voucher and forward it to the Band Committee to use towards your unpaid

Semester fees this year. We are listed as Forestville Public School P&C Association

Incorporated.

ARTS ALIVE

The Arts Alive CSB Ensembles still have a few spaces open for 2020. This is a wonderful

programme if you would like to be involved in participating in an additional band. For

more information on auditions please visit their website https://www.artsalivecsb.com/

PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR BAND PIECES

Please could all students practice at home and ensure some time is set aside in lessons

for band pieces, it’s all too easy to miss the band pieces sometimes, however this practice

will help with keeping up in band rehearsals.

INSTRUMENT HIRE

If you are hiring an instrument from FPS you need to sign an instrument hire contract.

An email regarding the instrument hire contract was sent out over the weekend.

The contract contains important information regarding T&Cs and instrument repair

procedure. Please check your email and ensure you sign the contract by the end of

February.

Band News

Library – help with book covering

If you are interested in helping our school library, we are always looking for people to help

with covering our beautiful new books. This is a job that you can do at home, and we

supply everything that you need to do the job.

We provide training on book covering and no experience is needed, so if you are interested

then please contact the school office to let me know. Thank you.

Andrea Normet

Library Assistant

It would be great if you could remind your child that they should be the only person who

handles their own instrument and that they should not handle or play with other

students’ instruments to avoid any accidents.

Band News

REHEARSALS

If you are not able to attend a rehearsal or performance please let your band coordinator

know asap so they can forward this information onto the conductors, this way they know

who will be absent and can plan the rehearsals and performances accordingly.

Rehearsal times are as per below table:

Band Rehearsal Day / Time

Training Band Tuesday 7.30-8.45am

Intermediate BandMonday 7.30-8.45am

Thursday 3.15-4.15pm

Concert Band Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm

Thursday 7.30-8.45am

Stage Band Monday 3.15-4.15pm

Band Committee fpsbands@gmail.com

Are your children interested in being part of the Forestville Snowsports

Team (Skiing and Snowboarding)?

I am looking for expressions of interest to join our Team and compete in

the Interschools Snowsports Competition in Thredbo, 7 – 11 July, 2020.

This is open to all children attending Forestville Public School in 2020.

If you are interested (no commitment yet!) please send an email to me at

teira@jansen.com.au and I will send you information. You child does not

need to be a high level skier to compete, just be able to link turns on blue

runs and be ready to have fun!!

Please spread the word.

Forestville PS Snowsports Team

INSTRUMENT HANDLING

We have had many repairs needed in previous years due to instruments being packed

and unpacked incorrectly. It would be a great idea if you could ask your child’s tutor to

have a recap on how to handle and pack/unpack instruments.

Strings News

Term 1Player of the week: Isabella – 2N

Any questions please contact

Kylie Lake - Strings President

fps.strings@gmail.com ph: 0414 666 711

Hello Strings Community;

Assistance required:

We’re looking for people to help out with the following administration jobs, let me

know if you’re interested, no previous experience required!

Instrument Rental Program

Tutor Co-ordination

Guitar Group:

We’re seeing if there are enough kids to start a guitar group in the morning before

school. If you know any kids in Yr 4-5-6 who would be interested, have them get in

touch with me.

Dates to put in the diary:

Sunday 22nd March ALL Groups; Strings Spectacular Workshop Day 9.30am

(Beginners 10.30am start)-2pm finish and concert.

Saturday 20th OR Sunday 21st June ALL Groups; Northern Beaches

Instrumental Festival at Pittwater High School, timeslots tba.

Festival of Instrumental Music Seniors to Audition for a limited number of spots

date TBA towards the end of Term 1, Rehearsal Mon 1 June at Croydon Public

School via bus from school, Evening Performance at Sydney Town Hall (Opera

House is being refurbished) Mon 29 June via bus from school.

Any questions please contact

Kylie Lake - Strings President

fps.strings@gmail.com ph: 0414 666 711

2nd Hand Instrument Register 2nd Hand Instruments Register

Creative Kids Voucher CKV Form

TEAMAPP Download the app for access to Strings Communication: TeamAPP

Link

Dance NewsCanteen

Bronwyn Barlin - 0424 513 527

2nd hand Uniforms are available through the school – please contact Bronwyn on

0424 513 527.

Uniform Shop

SECOND-HAND UNIFORM SHOP

Canteen

Forest Bites Canteen

Volunteer Roster Week 4, 5 & 6

LOST PROPERTY

If your child has lost any items such as a lunchbox, jumper, hat or other items, please

have a look in the lost property. Lost property is located outside the old uniform shop

which is now the Learning Support room.

Welcome back and hello to our new families.

Just a reminder to please label all uniforms, lunch boxes and drink bottles as it makes it

easier to return them.

All NEW uniforms can be bought online from Pickles or their store at Brookvale.

If you need to try on sizes before ordering please contact me.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

17 February 18 February 19 February

Karen S

Paula M

20 February

Helen M

Gabi G

21 February

Pip A

Sarah H

Kylie

24 February

Belinda G

Jen M

25 February

Jo D

26 February

Paula M

27 February

Myrna H

Vacant

28 February

Emma S

Belinda C

2 March

Dolly M

3 March 4 March

Paula M

5 March

Sophie S

Julienne T

6 March

Zoe M

Lucy Q

Forest Bites canteen is proudly sponsored by McGrath Forestville

Canteen

Sushi Friday

The canteen has had a number of new parents to

the school asking how big the sushi boxes are.

Here is a picture to guide parents on the sizing of

the sushi rolls and the mini boxes.

Order online with Munch Monitor

www.munchmonitor.com

School ID: Forestville, Password: munch2087

Volunteers Needed

If you are able to help in the canteen especially on a Wednesday or Thursday please

contact us via email at fpscanteen@gmail.com. If you cannot commit to a full day we

would welcome even an hour first thing in the morning or just before lunch to get the

lunches ready for distribution.

Volunteers

If you can’t make your shift, please contact other volunteers from the list (2nd page of your

roster).

Contact details for the Canteen Managers:

Tania Laytham (Monday, Tuesday & Friday) 0414 528 534

Kim Egelton (Wednesday, Thursday) 0412 254 310

Community News

Community News

Community News

Community News

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