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“Think of Others”
Strathfield South Public School Rule of the Week: Be an Active Learner
457 Liverpool Rd Strathfield NSW 2135 Value: Excellence, Participation, Integrity
Tel: 9642 1359 Fax: 9742 5878 Term 3 Week 6
www.strathfies-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
Email: [email protected]
FUTURE EVENTS
AUGUST
17 Musica Viva Year 6 18 Year 5 & Year 6 Author Visit 19 Primary Proms Choir Rehearsal 21 Winter PSSA Finals
24-28 Book Week 24 Year 3 & Year 4 Author Visit 25 Year 1 & Year 2 Author Visit 26 Kindergarten Author Visit 27 Home Reader Book Sale 27 Open Classroom Grandparents 28 Book Week K-2 Parade
SEPTEMBER
1 Camp Quality Puppet Show 3-4 Year 5 Canberra Excursion 4 Summer PSSA Begins 4 Fathers’ Day BBQ 7 Opera House Choir Rehearsal
7-18 Intensive Swim School 9 Koomurri Aboriginal Incursion K-4
10-11 Year 6 Canberra Excursion 16 Primary Proms Choir Concert 17 Peer Support BBQ 18 Last Day Term 3
OCTOBER
5 Public Holiday 6 First day Term 4 13 K-2 Sport Day
P & C MEETING DATES
17 August, 14 Sept, 19 Oct, 16 Nov
SCHOOL CLUB DATES
12 Aug, 9 Sept, 11 Oct, 11 Nov
PRINCIPAL’S REPORT
THE MINISTER OF EDUCATION
VISITS SSPS The Hon. Adrian Piccoli, Minister for
Education, visited us recently. Our school
leadership team proudly informed him
about our wonderful school, discussing
everything with him from the P&C funded
watering system for our grass to our
recently held, very successful Fete.
Minister Piccoli was very interested in our
school, and discussed the merit selection
process in particular with Ms Cidem. He
joined 10 other Principals in our staffroom
for a discussion about the complex issues
around staffing our schools successfully.
They all enjoyed a delicious morning tea
prepared by our canteen staff. The Daily
Telegraph visited Mrs Tran’s classroom
and interviewed Minister Piccoli in our
office foyer. This was yet another
opportunity to show off our incredible
school. Thank you everyone who ensured
that this impromptu visit was so
successful. Visits such as these are so
important as they give us the opportunity
to share our school vision and directions
with those who create educational policy.
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Our School Captains, Hannah Bahng and Samuel Vickery,
greeted Minister Piccoli on arrival. Allegra El-Hakim and
and Lin Thu introduced themselves to the Minister. Mrs
Mortimer and Ms Cidem had the opportunity to discuss our
canteen facility with Minister Piccoli.
BOOK WEEK SHINES A LIGHT …and to celebrate, we are holding a
whole week of special events
for everyone.
During the entire week,
authors have been organised
to visit our students. On
Thursday, 27 August, we are offering
you the opportunity to visit our
classrooms, inviting Grandparents and
older relatives and friends into our
school for morning tea. As part of this
special week, we want to “light up our
world” by giving you the chance to
purchase a book to bolster the reading
materials offered for our students K-6. The
canteen will be offering cake and drinks to
you, and we will extend our recess on this
day to allow you time to enjoy connecting
and sharing with your children. On Friday,
28 August, we have the annual K-2 Book
Parade at 9:30am.
We look forward to seeing you at one, or
more, of these exciting events.
I do hope you can join us in celebrating
the magic of reading. Keep your eye out
for more information about this exciting
week of activities and celebration. Light
up your world everyone!
GESHUNDHEIT
BREAK THE GERM CYCLE
At this time of year, many of
our students and our staff, for
that matter are coming down
with the typical colds,
infections and gastro bugs that
seem to be prolific in the
colder months.
It is particularly important to
stress hygiene for this reason. Effective
hand hygiene is the single most important
strategy. Below is a reminder about the
steps of hand washing. I have also
included a YouTube video demonstration
to support conversations at home around
hand hygiene.
YouTube video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYwyp
SLiaTU
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There are many resources you can access
on the internet – these are only two I have
found to support our students’ improved
health.
Enjoy your week everyone. Wishing you
super ‘wellness’ in your homes and for
your families
Karen Mortimer
Principal
ENROL NOW If you have not done so already, it is time
to enrol your child for Kindergarten 2016.
We have commenced interviews for all in
area and ‘out of area’ students.
Spaces are LIMITED for ‘out of area
enrolments’ for 2016, so please let
friends, neighbours and relatives know to
complete enrolment documentation
immediately to be considered.
If you live ‘out of area’, but have siblings at
our school already, you must complete the
‘out of area’ paperwork to be accepted for
enrolment in 2016. Siblings have high
consideration but the paperwork must be
in order.
Enrolment interviews for 2016 will
commence next week and will be
conducted by Executive. Please see the
office for further details.
ENROL NOW!
STUDENT WELLBEING REMINDER Please ensure that your child has parent
supervision until 8:30am. Staff members
are on duty from 8:30am. Students should
be seated under the COLA, outside the
office area, until this time and should have
parent supervision. It is also important for
your child to be at school NO LATER than
8:55am. Assembly time is very important,
and unless there are extraordinary
circumstances, it is expected that all
students are there to listen to updates and
begin their day positively.
P&C MEETING Monday 17 August 2015
Our next P&C meeting will be held tonight,
Monday 17 August at 7:30pm in the staff
room.
We invite all interested parents and carers
to come and join us and hear from the
school executive and discuss issues
important to the school and our children.
Parking is available on school grounds.
Also a big thankyou to the school
community for making our fete such a
successful day and special thanks to the
fete committee, headed by Ruth Choong
and Kerry Vickery for leading the way.
Sharon Oliver, Secretary P&C
ANZAC PLAQUE
On Friday 14 August, the prefects of
Strathfield South attended the unveiling of
an ANZAC plaque at the Strathfield
Council Chambers.
There was a short ceremony before the
plaque was unveiled. The ceremony
included speeches from the Mayor Gulian
Vaccari, Hon Tony Burke and an RSL
Club President on the importance of the
ANZACs and the sacrifices they made.
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When the short ceremony came to an end,
the sheet was lifted off and the plaque was
unveiled. The plaque is a small slab of
golden coloured metal, commemorating
100 years of ANZAC spirit so that we will
remember them. The centennial of
ANZAC Day will always be remembered.
Lest We Forget
Samuel Vickery and Hannah Bahng
STUDENT EYE CARE The school is pleased to
announce that the Student
Eyecare Program will
begin in Term 4, this year.
An optometrist will be onsite during school
hours to provide students with a free
comprehensive eye examination that is
covered through Medicare Australia. 1 in
6 students have eye conditions that go
undetected. This is due to the high level of
visual demand on their eyes from books,
laptops, tablets and smartphones. Every
attendee will receive a full report about
their eye health and a prescription will be
provided if glasses are required. The
prescription can be taken to any optical
store to get the glasses made. Don’t let
your child miss out on this worthwhile
health program! Your child will all receive
a note. Please sign and return to your
class teacher as soon as possible.
Ms M. Cidem
Deputy Principal
WOOLWORTHS
EARN & LEARN Woolworths Earn
and Learn is at
Strathfield South
School. Please
drop your sheet into the container in the
office. There are blank sheets provided
that you are welcome to fill in with your
stickers.
BOOK WEEK 24-28 AUGUST 2015 The theme for Book Week 2015 is Books
Light up our World. As part of our
celebrations we will be having author
visits, a book character parade, a book
sale and Grandparent’s Open Day.
Tuesday 18 August – Stage 3 Morris
Gleitzman author visit
Monday 24 August – Stage 2 Moya
Simmons author visit
Tuesday 25 August – Stage 1 Ben Wood
Illustrator visit
Wednesday 26 August – Kindergarten
Gaye Chapman Illustrator visit
Thursday 27 August – Grandparent’s
Day & Book Donation Sale – An
opportunity for families to purchase and
donate K-2 home readers and 3-6 high
interest classroom texts. Books will be
inscribed with the names of donors.
SCHEDULE
11:00-11:40 – Morning tea, cake sales in
the Canteen
11:40-12:50 – Open Classrooms &
Book Sale in Hall
3:00-3:30 – Book sale in Hall
Friday 28 August – K-2 Book Character
Parade. 9:30 – 10:30am at the K-2 COLA
OPEN CLASSROOMS Thursday 27 August
11am-12.50pm
As part of our Book Week
celebrations we would like to
invite all parents and
“grandfriends” to come and
enjoy an extended recess
with the children at 11:00am. Following
this the classrooms will be open for hands-
on activities with your children. Sales of
cakes in the Canteen and books in the
Library can be made at this time.
Come and join in the fun!
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FATHER’S DAY BBQ BREAKFAST School Club is
organising a Father's
Day breakfast at
7.30am - 8.45am on
Friday 4 September.
All dads, grandads
and families are
welcome to come. An
order form with pre payment is required.
Please fill out and return to the office if
paying by cash, or you may use your
Munch Monitor account to order by Mon
31 August.
Contact Natalie McDonald 0422 700 033
for munch monitor questions or Jo
Khodary 0409 832 966 if you can help out.
LOST PROPERTY The Lost Property
baskets in 3-6 and K-2
playground are again
full. Please ensure your child’s name is
marked clearly on their uniform so it can
be returned.
Thank you to the parents who volunteered
to take bags of lost property home to
wash.
All items that have been washed and have
names clearly marked will be returned to
students promptly. The items without
names will be given back to the uniform
shop for resale as recycled uniforms.
PLEASE LABEL ALL SCHOOL ITEMS SO THEY
CAN BE RETURNED.
The uniform shop is open every
Wednesday during school terms from
8.15 to 9.30am.
Mrs B Hamilton
Deputy Principal
YEAR 6 NEWS Don't be the one to miss
out, last chance to order your
Year 6 T-shirt.
Offer extended until this Friday 21 August.
Don't be disappointed and
order now! Samples and order
forms available at the Office.
Please consider purchasing a T-
shirt as students are allowed to
wear them during Term 4.
Other important dates:
Peer Support BBQ Thursday 17
September
Year 6 Farewell Monday 14th December
Parents and students can start collecting
any photos of school activities from
Kindergarten to Year 6 to be included in
the Year 6 DVD to be presented on the
Farewell evening.
Please email all images to
Fiona Walshe on:
Any queries regarding Year 6 activities
please call Kathryn on 0400 212 416.
CODING CLUB @ SSPS This week will mark the first session of our
Stage Two and Stage Three
coding club groups. Due to the
high volume of interested
students, we will be running the
club twice a week with students
being allocated their Odd or
Even groups tomorrow. This is
an informal club where we will
be learning, creating and sharing all things
code. Not sure what coding is? Coding is
the behind the scenes mapping and
instructions used to create computer
software, apps and websites. The browser
you use, the apps on your phone, social
networking are all made with code. Soon
you'll be able to ask one of our coding club
members to show you a little more and
we'll all look forward to showing you some
of our creations by the end of the year!
Tuesdays Stage Two
Thursdays Stage Three
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If your child has missed out this time there
will be further opportunities next term.
SCHOOL BANKING
All of our Outer Space Savers from Kindy
were surprised at last week’s assembly
when they had the opportunity to meet our
furriest Dollarmites team member – Pat
the Dog. Pat’s attendance had all the
children smiling for joy whilst the bank’s
representative, Melissa Rogers spoke to
the children about the Prize Portal
Competition that is being held this term
and to educate the importance of regular
saving. Pat the Dog is really looking
forward to coming back for another visit to
meet you all again soon.
Don’t forget that all you need to do is to
simply make three or more deposits in
Term 3 and you will automatically be
entered into the Prize Portal Competition
for your chance to win. To double your
chances of winning you must complete the
Money Mission online. To complete your
Money Mission, or to find out more, visit
www.commbank.com.au/prizeportal.
To assist children to learn more about
money and saving, please go online and
visit The Beanstalk activity centre via
commbank.com.au/youthsaver. This is a
one-stop resource for parents featuring
tips, advice and children’s activities. I
would highly recommend this as a great
read that will assist parents to teach pre-
school, primary and high school students
about money. Please feel welcome to go
online via
www.commbank.com.au/personal/youth-
students/youthsaver/money-lessons-
through-the-ages.html.
Remember Outer Space Savers that
banking day is our mission every
TUESDAY!
Lisa Kovac
SSPS Student Banking Coordinator
CANTEEN Special Thanks
Thank you to the following
volunteers for last week; your
time was invaluable and much
appreciated: Susan Weyland,
Joanne Khodary, Suzane Saba, Rina Akram, Meech Yoo and
Yoon Baek.
Important Note
ONE staff member serving breakfast from
8:30 to 9:00
Parents wishing to do lunch orders via
window or phone please do so between
9:00-9:30.
Roster
DATE HELPERS TIME
Tues 18 Aug
Joanne Khodary Suzane Saba
10-2pm 9-2pm
Wed 19 Aug
Rina Akram Susan Weyland
9-2pm 9-2pm
Thur 20 Aug
Susan Weyland Erica Wang
10-2pm 11-2pm
Fri 21 Aug Susan Weyland Joanne Khoday
9.30-2pm
9-12.30pm
Mon 24 Aug
Yoon Baek Suzane Saba Meech Yoo
9-2pm
9-2pm
10-2pm
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RED FOOD DAYS IS ON
THURSDAY 27 AUGUST To accommodate Open Classroom for
Grandparents on Thursday 27 August, the
canteen will serve various delicious foods
in the morning 10:00am till 12:00pm.
Potato Wedges with sour cream $3.00
Pluto Pups $2.50
Muffins $1.50
CRUNCH&SIP BAG A variety of fruits and vegies provided by
the Canteen is available for children to buy
for their Crunch&Sip time.
EFTPOS MACHINE- MunchMonitor - Please come after 9 am if
you wish to top up with EFTPOS. Note
that credit cards will incur a 2% surcharge.
Canteen Manager
HuiChing Su
0411415477
PSSA WINTER 21 AUGUST Girls Netball Junior A Team - Cintra Park
Boys Soccer - TBA
Girls Soccer – Centenary Park, Croydon
Touch Football – Blair Park
AFL – Picken Oval
LIBRARY NEWS
Library days for 2015
Monday – 4M, 4K, 3I, 3/4T, 2R, 2W, 2B,
6C & 6W Tuesday - 3R, 2I, 1F, 1G,
5/6E, 5G, 5K, 6F, & 5M Wednesday –
4H, KE, 1H, 1M, KM, KK, KG, 5L, & 1T
Thursday – KS, KL, 3J, 3A, & 2A
ENTERTAINMENT BOOK Dear Parent/Carers,
The 2015/2016 Entertainment
Memberships are still available.
$14 goes towards our school fundraising.
Please encourage family and friends to
buy a book. Extra books of any edition
(Sydney & Sydney North or Greater West)
may be ordered on the same order form.
The Entertainment Digital Membership
puts the value of the book into your
iPhone or Android Smartphone. Digital
membership - purchase or make
payments for traditional books online visit:
www.entbook.comau/204r274.
When making any orders or payments,
please include your child’s name and
class to facilitate with the distribution of
the books.
For any further details contact Ranjini
Ganesh – Phone: 0412 267 226 or email
JEANS FOR GENES A HUGE thank you to
all our wonderful
students, teachers
and community
members who
supported our Jeans
for Genes Day.
We raised a massive
$500 on the day.
Mr Kim, Mrs Ibrahim and Mr Dauparis
SRC Coordinators
PARENT ONLINE PAYMENT Did you know that you can make
payments to your child’s school
online?
This is a secure payment page hosted by
Westpac.
What expenses can be paid online?
Voluntary school contributions, subject
contributions, excursions, sales to
students and creative and practical arts
activities (these include band, drama and
dance).
Other can be used to make a complete
payment of a school invoice.
How?
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Log onto School site at www.strathfies-
p.schools.nsw.edu.au
HIGH SCHOOL FOR 2017
OPEN DAY
North Sydney Boys High School
Cnr Falcon & Miller Sts
CROWS NEST
9955 4748
Tuesday 25 August, 2015
9:15 – 12:00pm
Sydney Boys High School
Moore Park
SURRY HILLS
9662 9300
Thursday 3 September, 2015
9:30 - 12 noon
BAND NEWS FROM DIRECTIONS IN
MUSIC
Thinking about Sound When we enjoy a musical performance or
recording, we often don't stop to think
about what it is that makes it so enjoyable.
What is that magic element that makes us
pause in our day to listen and enjoy? What
is it that causes those feelings of joy and
intrigue? What is it that draws musicians
to play the instrument that they have
chosen?
One very important aspect of the music
that commands our attention is the
particular sound of an instrument or group
of instruments, often referred to as timbre
or tone colour. We often talk to students
about their tone quality, encouraging them
to experiment until they find a sound that
is warm and clear.
This fortnight, I encourage all students to
focus on developing and improving their
sound, as individuals and as ensemble
members. The best way to improve tone
quality and explore different possibilities is
through playing long notes. Focus on
correct posture, slow controlled breathing,
and good embouchure (lip and mouth
position). Listening to recordings or live
performances of experienced musicians is
a great way to develop an understanding
of the sound you are trying to achieve.
Practice Tip #3 Begin every practice
session with a warm up exercise. It’s just
as important to warm up your mind as
your body, so make sure you’re focussed
and ready to go BEFORE you even play a
note. Ask your teacher for some specific
warm up exercises that will be perfect just
for you.
Important Dates
Week 10 –
14th September 6.00pm
End of Term Concert
Solo performers are encouraged to come
forward now to prepare for the concert in
Week 10 of this term. Any student
intending on performing as a soloist
should discuss this with their tutor and
conductor. Due to time constraints, only a
few students can be selected to perform a
solo - so be organised, be prepared, and
be awesome!
Jane-Marie Talese
Program Manager
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PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE
The Premier’s Reading Challenges closes on Friday 21 August at 11:59 pm All K-2 students have completed and their records have been entered in the
Challenge by Ms Goes.
Students from Years 3 to 6 are required to independently read 20 books, 15
books must be from the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 3-4 or 5-6 Booklist. They must then enter
their own records on to the PRC website using the instructions below. Students have also had some
instruction during library lessons on how to update their records.
Student Reading Record Forms can be accessed via student’s Kids Space Portal or by logging on to
the PRC website using their DEC username and passwords.
Books read can be entered using the PRC id number, title or author.
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SPORTS REPORT
TERM 3 - WEEK 5 2015
PSSA
RESULTS SPORTS AWARD
SSPS
Other
Win /
Loss
Name/Class
Junior Netball As BYE
Junior Netball Bs 10 17 LOSS Madison McGrath 6F
Senior Netball As BYE
Senior Netball Bs 1 4 LOSS Vivian Yue 4K
Senior Boys Soccer BYE Solvin Kang 5M
Junior Boys Soccer BYE Nicholas Simmons 5L
Jnr Girls Soccer As 0 8 LOSS Ashmini Ganesh
Jnr Girls Soccer Bs 0 4 LOSS Aysha Abdel-Meguid
Senior Girls Soccer 0 6 LOSS Eleni Houllis
Junior Touch 11 0 WIN Jaiden Solinap 5L
Senior Touch 6 5 WIN Danny Bholm 6C
Senior AFL BYE
Junior AFL 8 48 Loss Ghassan Adra 3/4T
Other Sports Name: Class
School Sport Medha Kirigani 6C
Denise Kekatos 6F
Chloe Chiu 3/4T
Lucas Bang 3J
Mark Garcia 4H
Hannah Hardy 5G
Howie Khong 3I
Quy Huan 6W
Dimitrios Logothetis 3/4T
Elicia Katanasho 5K
Anthea Ampofo 4M