GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL

APIA STREET GUILDFORD NSW 2161 PHONE: 9632 9675 FAx: 9892 1325 www.guildford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWS UPDATE 5 MAY 2017

DEAR PARENTS AND CARERS, I take this opportunity to extend a warm welcome to all existing and new families. A significant number of students have arrived at GPS this term with the intention of achieving big things. Thank you to those boys and girls who help support our new students by explaining where and how things work at GPS. It is wonderful to see that some students are beginning to receive Guildford Star bronze certificates as fortnightly assemblies. These awards are for consistent hard work and behaviour and provide students a valuable sense of pride and achievement.

STUDENT ACHIEvEMENT Congratulations to Lorima Rokosuka (5Y) who was recently selected for the Sydney Western Region Under 11’s Rugby League team to compete in the NSW state Championships from Tuesday May 30 to Thursday June 1 at St Marys. We look forward to hearing about Lorima’s performances.

STAFF DEvELOPMENT DAYS The last two days of the school year, Monday 18 and Tuesday 19 December, are for staff development days. Please be advised students do not come to school on these two days. Staff are currently participating in extra after-school time professional learning in terms 2 and 3 in place of the last two days.

ATTENDANCE AT SCHOOL Every student is expected to be at school every day. It is vital students are ready for learning from 9.00am so as they can access the expectations of the day and being involved in lesson beginnings. • If your child is absent, you are required to

provide an explanation of why they were absent. • Any child absent because of ongoing sickness

should provide a doctor’s certificate explaining the child’s illness.

• Unjustified absences will be followed up with a phone call by your child’s teacher.

• Continued absences will be investigated by deputy principal, Ms Levis and/or the Home School Liaison Officer.

The message here is simple – Education is the key to opportunity

ExTRA-CURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES Many extra opportunities are on offer for students to develop their social, cognitive and physical skills. Many staff coordinate lunch time and after school activities with the goal of providing students experiences that interest and motivate them. Please talk with your child’s teacher if you want him/her to get involved in a new activity.

TELL THEM FROM ME STUDENT SURvEY 173 students from years 4-6 recently completed a student survey. The survey is a measure of student voice that provides the school with insight into student engagement, wellbeing and experience of effective teaching practices at their school. The beauty of this survey, is the fact that students can confidentially express their opinion about learning and wellbeing at our school. The survey is confidential with over 200,000 students from over 1000 government schools participating. During this term we will share results from the 2017 survey.

TELL THEM FROM ME STUDENT SURvEY

Follow us on Twitter @Guildford PS

#gps2017 Guildford Public School is now connecting on Twitter to update and connect with other schools and educators about the wonderful learning experiences and opportunities provided to our students. Please note that students will not be identified by full names at any time on a Twitter post.

KIND REGARDS

CHRIS HABERECHT

SPECIAL STUDENTS SENT TO SHOW GOOD WORK TO THE PRINCIPAL THIS FORTNIGHT Week 1& 2 Term 2

2S Dima Daoudi, Zahraa Rufi, Amani El Ramlawi Mahnaz Mousdi 3B Aliasghar Shannell, Manaia Moimoi 3/4L Ali Sajad Jafari, Danial Nanim 4E Austin Pan (RFF)

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK Mr Christopher Haberecht (Principal)

TERM 2 DATES TO

REMEMBER

4 MAY P&C Meeting 9 -11am

5 MAY 1ST Excursion Instalment DUE

8 MAY Whole School Photo

11 MAY Mother’s Day Stall

16 MAY ZONE Cross Country

16 MAY Year 6 Fundraiser BAKE SALE

18 MAY P&C MEETING 2pm - 3pm

18 MAY Health & Wellbeing Parent Workshop

18 MAY – 8 JUNE Parent Workshop - BMS

22 MAY – 26 MAY EDUCATION WEEK

5 JUNE Auditions 4 Spectacular

5 JUNE YR5 Open Day @ Merrylands H.S

6 JUNE YR6 Mufti Day

8 JUNE - 29 JUNE

Parent Workshop ‘MINFULLNESS’

12 JUNE PUBLIC HOLIDAY QUEENS BIRTHDAY

21 JUNE Athletics Carnival

15 JUNE Parent Workshop ‘FRUIT & VEGGIE SENSE’

16 JUNE 2nd Excursion Instalment DUE

21 JUNE Senior Choir @ Granville CAPA High School

22 JUNE P&C Meeting 9 -11am

26 JUNE 29 JUNE

Parent/Teacher/Student INTERVIEWS

TERM 2 30 JUNE

YEAR 6 1ST Joelle Alamaddine 2ND Zac Singca 3RD Sybelle Alamaddine

YEAR 5 1ST Jack Waddington 2ND Charlize Krupowicz 3RD Norah Ayouch

YEAR 4 1ST Gazelle Agha 2ND Ahmad El-Assaad 3RD Rubaba Ebrahimi

YEAR 3 1ST Tristan Estephan 2ND Rami Ajaj 3RD AJ Floyd

YEAR 2 1ST Neev Doshi 2ND Ahmed Ahmed 3RD Youssef Khaled

YEAR 1 1ST Addyson Krupowicz 2ND Aydin Atasoy 3RD Ghayure Nazari

KINDERGARTEN 1ST Adryan Estephan 2ND Mariam Masoudi 3RD Skylar Irving

1st Jayden Estephan 2nd Yelda Mohammadi 3rd Celine Mahmoud 4th Sami Elchade 5th Tura Kurak 6th Fatima Hassan 7th Janet Jiang 8th Michelle Gafa 9th Lorima Rokosuke 10th L Shlema 11th Danyel Tanek 12th Mohamed Khazma 13th Michael 14th Aisha K 15th Lateesha Maisema 16th Suana Basnet 17th Manitepi Latu 18th Tristan Estephan 19th B Sincero 20th Shevel Nthan 21st Hassan Khazma 22nd Norah Ayyoueh 23rd Tura Kurak 24th Saif Abdulrahman 25th Gilliane Portes 26th Yalda Mohammadi 27th Shawn Ramkissoon 28th Michelle Gafa 29th Benjamin Zath 30th Momasah 31st Gladwin Jen Hong 32nd Sherel Nathan 33rd Rac 34th Brayden Borg 35th Aarshan Noor 36th Ali Naaman 37th Mohamed Khazma 38th Pranay Subedi 39th Mouamal Al-Muhsen 40th Akram Nui 41st Brayden Borg 42nd Norah Ayoueh 43rd Jack & Bailey Waddington 44th Carissa Chung 45th Sammar Ayouch 46th Mohamed Khazma 47th Blake Collar 48th Saif

49th Tipu 50th Tylah 51st Jack Jiang 52nd Ainsley Eastwood 53rd Braydon Borg 54th Isaac Ravatudei 55th Jerry Huang 56th Tristan Estephan 57th Omer Khan 58th Youssef Khaled 59th Hainya Rezai 60th Najeeba Mokhtar 61st Caroline Memea 62nd Dania Warith 63rd Amir Alibaigi 64th Mele Teu-Tekeu 65th Sehaj Bajwa 66th TJ Ah See 67th Lateesha Maisema LUCKY LAST 1 Finlay Veloso

LUCKY LAST 2 Anjie Kerdi

LUCKY LAST 3 Aisha Alkozay

PLEASE NOTE: The names entered were copied from the names that were written on the raffle tickets

On the 27th of April, 2017 6AK and 6K went to Guildford Leagues Club for Peer Support Training. Both classes were involved in many activities including; two stones and six people get across the river, coin pass, team agreements and everyone's favourite a newspaper fashion show. The purpose of all these activities was to learn to collaborate and develop our skills friendship with one and other. These purposes will not only help us in our school life but we also learnt it will help us in the future when we get jobs. This is as in most jobs you will have to work together and we learnt that it can be easier to work as a group and together in a team. Some ways to show you are collaborating are: showing correct body language, listening to opinions, questioning and the most important showing friendship! Samira Kamoda 6AK

Yesterday the 27th of April 2017, we went to the Guildford Leagues Club to develop our leadership skills and prepare for Peer Support. 6AK and 6K walked to Guildford Leagues and were amazed by the looks of the awesome club. We walked into an incredible, wide room to do our work and there were plenty of fun activities to do. An exciting activity we did was a stepping stone activity, whereby we had two newspaper pieces and we had to try to get our group to the other side. Another cool activity was a coin game which we had to balance a coin around our group. My favourite activity was dressing up someone from our group with newspaper as it was really fun! Both classes had an extremely fun time collaborating with each other and we learned a lot! Nicole Tan Terles 6AK

On Thursday the 27th of April,Year 6 and Year 6 teachers decided to visit Guildford Leagues to prepare for our amazing peer support team! We discussed about how to work as a team and collaborate too. We also learnt how to work with other students not just the peers we have already learnt with. We did many creative activities. My favourite part was when we had to create a costume using newspaper, my group and I had lots of fun creating the outfit! I also loved the amazing coin game where you had to pass the coin to your teammates around the circle starting with coin on top of your hand and only using one hand. At the end of every game,all groups had a competition about who had the best outfit and who played the coin game the fastest which was great! The games were so much fun. Year 6 and Year 6 teachers had a great time and we are ready to go to Guildford Leagues again! Anjie Kerdi 6AK

Yesterday (27/4/2017) 6AK & 6K had an amazing day! So, you may be wondering why? Year 6 was lucky enough to have been invited to Guildford Leagues Club for our Peer Support Training. Peer Support is a program where Year 6 leaders are taught about leadership, teamwork and most importantly how to be a role model. We started of by discussing a few housekeeping rules and choosing the groups we wanted to work with, our activities included a heap of fun things! Whether it was games, worksheets or very competitive games. My favourite part of the day was the paper costume wrapping design competition. Every team had to decide on a model and costume, our model was Ray and our costume was a Paper Robot. We faced lots of challenges on the way but with our leadership skills we got it over and done with. “Be the leader you want to follow” Yusef Tarabiya 6AK

Session includes : Yoga Session

Self-Care & Stress Management Physical Activity & Getting Healthy

Cancer Prevention Pampering

To register for this workshop please see Asenati &

Zzainab or ask the ladies in the office.

This program is a partnership between Boronia

Multicultural Services and Guildford Public School

Teachers have organised an excursion for Students in Years 5 and 6 with the purpose to further support students learning about Australia’s history, our democratic government system and build their confidence, communication, responsibility and social skills in line with the History and Physical Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus documents. Male and Female teachers from Guildford Public School will accompany the students. The Excursion is on Wednesday 6 September, 2017 to Friday 8 September, 2017 (Term 3, Week 8) Total Cost $340 per child (Non- refundable) If you prefer, this amount may be paid in instalments by the dates below. Deposit: $140 to be paid by Friday 5 May Instalment 1: $100 to be paid by Friday 16 June, 2017 Final Payment: $100 to be paid by Friday 28 July, 2017 You will be notified of additional information and updates as we approach the overnight excursion date. Please feel free to contact your child’s teacher for further information. Mr Haberecht Principal Miss Ali Khan Assistant Principal Stage 3

Tuesday 16 May, 2017 Recess: 11am & Lunch: 1pm

Courtyard 20c to $1.00

Proceeds from the sale of the yummy treats will go towards the upcoming Year 6 events and towards a gift for the school at the end of the year. Support the Year 6 students and buy a delicious treat.

Please be aware there may be traces of nuts, eggs, dairy, gluten, etc.

NAPLAN Reminder:

NAPLAN testing for all students in Years 3 and Year 5 will take place

from 9 -11 May 2017.

Please ensure your child arrives at school by 8:55am on the test days.

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 and Communities 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 http://education.gov.au/fact- sheets-nationally-consistent-collection-data-school-students-disability.

Privacy Protection

The NSW Department of Education and Communities 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 and Communities 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 and Communities in connection with the national data collection. A privacy 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 http://education.gov.au/notices

If you have any questions about the data collection please do not hesitate to contact: Dot Hemming or Sarah Hutton at Guildford Public School 9632 9675

Year 5 Opportunity Class Placements 2018

The process for applying for a position for

your child to attend an opportunity class for 2018 has begun. Please read carefully the information found on the website and take

note of the strict dates for applying. https://education.nsw.gov.au/selective-high-

schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-5

Wednesday 26 April 2017: Online applications opened.

Friday 12 May 2017: Online applications

close.

Wednesday 26 July 2017: Opportunity Class Placement Test.

Opportunity class application information and Information bulletin for primary schools will be

sent to all schools by 26 April 2017. Please ask your child's teacher if you require any

further information.

GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL 2017 CANTEEN LIST

LUNCH O2DE2S A2E TO BE 0LACED BY 9.00am EACH MO2NING

ALL FOOD IS HALAL Excluding the 0izza Slabs

SAND7ICHES White or Wholemeal Nread Vegemite $1.60 Vegemite & cheese $1.60 Jam $1.60 Ham $2.00 Devon $1.70 Tomato $1.60 Roast Chicken $2.50 Chicken Burger $3.00 (lettuce, tomato, mayonnaise)

Salad $3.00 Salad Roll $3.50 Salad Box $3.50 (cheese, lettuce, tomato, carrot Beetroot & cumcumber)

Salad Box WITH $4.50 ROAST CHICKEN OR TUNA Tuna $2.00

SAND7ICHES Extras Cheese $ .30 Tomato $ .30 Mayonnaise $ .20

2ECESS ONLY (Cannot be ordered for Recess OR Lunch9 Jumpy’s $1.00 Corntos $1.00

D2INKS Flavoured Milk $1.50 Poppers $1.00 Springs Water Large $1.50 Small $1.00 Bottled Water $1.80 Quench $1.50

HOT FOOD Lasagne or Spaghetti $3.50 Macaroni & Cheese $3.50 Chicken Wedges (5) $3.50 (OR .70 cents each)

Nuggets (6) $3.00 (OR .60 cents each)

Pizza Slab $2.50 Hot Dogs $2.50 Pies small $2.00 large $2.50 Potato Pies $3.00 Sausage Rolls $2.50 Chicken Chips (5) $3.00 Chicken & Corn Roll $2.0 Corn $1.00 Potato Nuggets (10) $2.00 Fish Fingers $ .50ea Garlic Bread $2.00 Noodles $2.50 Tomato Sauce (Sachet) $ .30 F2OZEN LINES (Cannot be ordered for Recess/Lunch9 TNT’s $ .60 Kablueys $ .60 Moosies $1.00 Assorted cruit $ .60 SCHOOL HATS $12.00