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Newington Public School Learning for Life

Thursday 23 May 2019 Volume 18: Issue 7

Newington Boulevarde NEWINGTON NSW 2127 email: newington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au ph: (02) 9748 7933 fax: (02) 9748 3120 web: www.newington-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

School Hours: 8.55 am - 3.00pm

Contents: Page 2: From your Principal Page 10: PBL Page 3: From your Deputy Principals Page 11: P&C Page 4 & 5: Reminders & Notices Page 12 & 13: Parenting Insight Page 6 & 8 School Programs Page 14 & 15:Advertisements Page 9 Community News

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NAPLAN—Years 3 & 5 Last week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) students in Years 3 and 5 sat the NAPLAN tests for reading, writing, language conventions (spelling & grammar) and numer-acy. The students were asked by their teachers to try their best. The data collected will help teachers to vali-date what, in most cases, they already know about stu-dents from their ongoing formative and summative as-sessments. NAPLAN is not designed to measure all the things a school does to ensure students are progress-ing, are creative, are resilient, are physically active and are being prepared for the future as life long learners. Our school once again took part in the ‘pencil/paper’ (hard copy) version of the test, which allowed us to avoid any online issues which other schools experi-enced.

NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY TIME

National simultaneous story time is held annual-ly. Every year a picture book, written and illus-trated by an Australian author and illustrator, is read simultaneously in libraries, schools, pre-schools, childcare centres, family homes, bookshops and many other places around the country the same day. It’s 19th year running and it is a fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and litera-cy, using an Australian children's book. 2018 was the biggest and most successful NSS to date, with over 1,062,230 participants at over 8,255 locations. 2019 will be bigger and better!

P&C thankyou It’s been a busy time for our P&C with two recent elections and Mothers’ Day. A big thank you to all those P&C volunteers who assisted with the Mother’s Day stall, whether it be through purchasing, sorting, wrap-ping, setting up the stall or selling on the day. It was a great success, with many positive comments received about the quality of the presents available for students to choose from. The children who purchased gifts were very excited about taking them home for Mum!

The Federal Election polling day BBQ and cake stall was another long day from 7.30am set –up through to pack up around 3.00pm. Thank you to all those P&C executive members and volunteers who gave up their time to help on the day or who donated baked goods. There were certainly long queues of voters to keep fed during the day!

The school is always appreciative of the monetary support we receive from the P&C. We will talk further at the next meeting about short and long term projects to assign P&C funds to.

School Statement payments for Term 2—Please pay now! Thank you to those families who promptly paid their Term 2 account statements. It certainly helps with our budgeting process. A number of the activities are underway or have been completed so we need to ensure payments are made so that we can make payments to the necessary suppliers or venues. Payments can be made with cash or EFTPOS at the Office or through the on-line system (link below) https://newington-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/ Next week we have the Yrs 3-6 athletics carnival—so we need the payments made to cover the bus and venue hire costs.

Updated mobile phone and other devices policy Our student mobile phone policy has been reviewed and updated and will be emailed to the community early next week. Our policy is still that parents should notify the school in writing if their child brings a phone to school. The phone is turned off in the student’s bag during the school day and whilst on the school grounds. We have updated these arrangements to include watches, sometimes referred to as ’smart watches’ as many brands of watches also act as telephones and/ or cameras. If a child is wearing such a watch, then it must be switched to “School or class’ mode whereby during school hours the phone and camera functions are disabled. This will help to ensure learning time is not disrupted and that the safety and wellbeing of all students can be maintained.

Visitors to school We request that any person visiting our school grounds during the school day goes to the Admin Office first to sign in and collect a visitor badge or a classroom helper badge if helping in a classroom. This allows us to keep track of people on our school grounds. Of course, those here prior to 8.55am or from around 2.45pm to pick up children after school or attending Wednesday assemblies, need not sign the visitors book. Visitors on our site during the school day should display our visitor badges. If the visitor is a maintenance worker or contractor, they will display their relevant identification badge.

Parking issues Unfortunately we are not unlike other schools in that parking and traffic issues do arise at both ends of the school day. As principal I have no authority over how other adults drive or park their vehicles. All schools can do is keep highlighting what the traffic and parking rules are and that our expectation is that everyone will follow them to ensure the safety of ALL children is considered. Parramatta City Council (PCC) Parking Rangers do patrol our school at different times and they can be contacted through PCC on 9806 5050. This week’s reminder: Please do not park across the driveways of our neighbours.

Staffing update The vacant School Administration Officer position in our school office is currently being advertised and will be filled through a Merit Se-lection process.

Ian Adamson Principal

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From your Principal

Deputy Principal Awards Congratulations to these students who have earned themselves Deputy Principal awards for their spe-cial efforts: Ella and Mina (2F) for a thorough story graph for 7 Steps to Writing Rivaan, Lily, Adam, Christine, Huzaifa, Antonio and Raha (6K) for brilliant sizzling starts and endings with

IMPACT Bentley, Winston and Salima (5/6H) for a fantastic magnetic maze game for science project Xavier, Bass, Toby, Jolina and Esther (5/6H) for designing and making a stadium with lights and air con-

ditioning Daniel, Haan, Eunchan, Teresa and Natalie (5/6H) for designing and making a campfire with light and air

movement Aiden, Adam and Yena (4L) for a sizzling start If Spring didn’t exist Nyla, Brandan and EnLong (1G) for composing, peer checking, editing and revising their writing Sonny (5F) for a wonderful multicultural speech about sport across the world

Assemblies The following classes were awarded Class of the Week for their display of PBL expectations: Buruwang: 2C and 3W Cumberland: 3A and 1C deCoubertin: 3G and 1W

Maths Olympiad and Maths Games All four teams competed in the first round this week, producing some excellent results! Mr Fifield, Ms Kogias, Mrs Oliveira and Ms Stanton all report that the teams are keen and enthusiastic participants during training and did a great job during the competition. Congratulations to all these students for their achievement and level of commitment leading up to the first com-petition: This means that three out of our four teams earned their team a perfect score of 50/50 (top 10 scores added). What an achievement and we all look forward to seeing how they continue to grow and achieve!

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From your Deputy Principals

Sarah Williams and Greg Weeks Deputy Principals

Congratulations to all those students and keep up the hard work! We are looking forward to seeing how they progress and grow throughout the competition.

Maths Games Homework

Maths Games Perfect Score

Maths Olympiad Homework

Maths Olympiad Perfect Score

Karen A Danwoo K Fey C Xavier C Riley H Han L

Kylie Z Dahn B William D Hannah L Christine C Esther H

Paul H Shlok S Roisin W Taha H Ethan X Natalie T

Edwin K Olivia B Daniel Y Ivan X Wyatt L Antonio Z

Kevin B Samuel K Kate Y Joshua J Taha H Joshua H

Matthew R Imogen Y Jinyoung B Shirley C Ken C Teresa L

Milla D Sam C Kevin B Daniel S Bryant L Daniel S

Brandon H Rayan M Brandon H Natalie T Aaron H

Kyle C Zahra N Kylie Z Wyatt L

Amelia C Dominic L Samuel J

Dallas W Danwoo K

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Calendar Notices & Reminders Thursday 23 May Year 1 Excursion –Hambleton Cottage—1M & 1C Tuesday 28 May Yrs 3-6 Athletics Carnival (8 year olds in Year 2) Wednesday 29 May WSPSSA Zone Cross Country Friday 31 May Our Spectacular dance auditions –at school Tuesday 4 June Senior Band Camp Monday 10 June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday Friday 14 June School Disco K-1: 3:45-4:45pm 2-3: 5:00-6:15pm 4-6: 6:30-7:45pm Monday 17 June PYLO Cyber Safety talks (Stage 2 & 3) Tuesday 18 June P&C Meeting 7.30pm Wednesday 19 June Our Spectacular Choir rehearsal day Kindergarten walking excursion Monday 24 June Engadine (Senior) Band Festival 12.00 Wednesday 26 June P&C Pyjama Day Thursday 27 June Band & Strings Winter Soiree 5pm Monday 1 July Reports to go home Tuesday 2-Thursday 4 July Year 6 Canberra-Snowy Excursion Friday 5 July Last day Term I TERM III Tuesday 23 July Student return for Term 3 Wednesday 24 July Premier’s Spelling Bee Finals Stage 2: 9.30am Stage 3: 11.30am Wednesday 31 July OC Placement test Monday 5—Friday 9 August

STUDENT BANKING

Don’t forget student banking program each Friday morning from 8.30am. There is a growing number of regular savers each Friday, and it’s not too late to sign up. It is a great way to teach children about responsibility and saving with regards to their pocket or birthday money. The P&C also earns a commission from the Commonwealth Bank based on total deposits and new accounts opened.

LABEL EVERYTHING Please ensure your child’s name is per-manently and clearly labelled on belong-ings such as school hats, jackets, lunch boxes, drink bottles and school bags.

use a permanent laundry marker to label

clothes, hats and shoes, or sew or iron on per-sonalised labels

go through your child’s bag with them each night

check that labels haven’t faded with washing if something doesn’t come home, ask at the

office where your school’s lost property area is.

Safety Reminder—Scooters and Bikes Students who ride their bikes or scooters to school are reminded about these expectations: Once at the school gate, please walk your

bike or scooter to the parking area. Please stand your bike and where

possible, neatly store your scooter. Keep stairs and walkways clear.

Students riding bikes MUST wear a HELMET.

Students riding scooters are advised to wear a helmet.

KINDERGARTEN 2020 ENROLMENTS

If your child is starting Kindergarten in 2020 or you know someone who lives within our enrolment boundary who has a child start-

ing school next year, please collect an Application to Enrol form at our Office.

Children will need to turn 5 years of age before 31 July 2020.

Kindergarten Orientation Program will run Fri 8, 15 November (day sessions)

& 27 November (Evening session) - 7pm.

*Wentworth Point or Olympic Park residents with siblings already at NPS can also enrol for

Kindergarten here.

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Notices & Reminders

Congratulations to these recipients of Bronze Awards for Week 3 & 4 Term 2. Aiden Hwang Braeden Crow Hannah Chung Lachlan Ding Lana Yi William Tupou Aayan Aryal Minji Lee Kate Crawford Irene Bae Daniel Chung Taher Poonawala Dominic Lin Azlaan Qureshi Felix Qiu Roy Son Iria Thapa Yacoub Ali Jida Arni Mankotia Connie He Sara Osra Gio Yeom Max Hwang Lewis Chaisumdet Samah Alsmadi Ye Hee Kim Rayden Chan Isra Eqbal Amelia Margiotta Pravin Ramachandran Joshua Ma Tomasi Waqabaca Leroy Huynh Arda Polat Turkeli Adam Ali Jida Sebastian Vrtkovski Hussain Fateh Amber Shin Olivia Antoune Mohib Chekeri Ayden Te Max Silanesu Elwynn Xian Tyler Bell Zara Dardas Catharina Cho Nicky Chen Diana Barquinha Loureiro Yuna Lee Zak Hamelin Hana Burd Juah Lee Justin O’Neill Lukas Papalyriakou Yejee Yun Daniel Evran Emika Pinyo Izaac Fabe Jonah Chahrouk Ruby Condliffe Talia Bozkus Miranda Tran Finn Gibson Arin Gokhale Teja Condliffe James Cocks Angelina Rizkallah Felicity Kouch Maximus Tan Evan Bailey Isaac Zreik Lilian Coubrough Shirley Chan Sonny Wenham Tejas Joshi Elise Du Abeeha Iqbal Nathan Thawornwiphat Adam Kurlow Wyatt Li Sophie Tan Raha Yu Maryam Zaidi Jasmine Bassal Chloe Kim Chloe Sun Whitney Maike Isaac Lui Janice Jang Kaled Sowaid Samakhya Girish Sam Cocks Soyun Lee Yuna Oh Aston Yuen Zachariah Ghazzawi John Puno Angelina Boustani Jaxson Keenan Eugene Kim Sarah McCamley Elliot Gibson Irene Kim Roisin White Celine Choi Gabriella Ho Deniis Chen Liam Contemplacion Isaiah Poon Paris Go Eliana Yosua Jackson Showyin Joshua Ji Joshua Bartle Yejoon Jung Ethan Gonzales Lyla Leaitua Melisa Anar Kora Hopping Princeton Ye Elizabeth Jiang Sienna Allan Jenan Abdulatif Chloe Ha Yulia Lim Riley Goodridge Daniel Puno Annabel Nagy Emily Hirscchorn Emily Leiton Ian Kang Inaya Siddique Irish Geng Lee Sheen Pong Natasha Tiet Anna Ko Ethan Harrison Kate Son Mackenzie Li Jamie Ma Sarina Hassan Jia Kim Nur Pulotov Shiv Sudhish Elvin Ha Ginny Park Amelia Yeh Milla Dickson Hassan Jamboo Gilbert Na Mina Ju Lucas Tran Emily Zhoo Kyle Camarda Ivan Xian Nikitha Arunkumar Sophie Yang Andrew Cleall Arini Suman Alissa Chen Eliz Kasapoglu Juan Kim Sakina Murtaza Sonny Han Kurtis Lai Noah Caxala Myan Tran Zefanya Coplestone Ben Nagy Exelina Halim Akasya Uluc Rachel Shim Felix de Paula Ryu Stevens Charlie Andrews Claire Ye Emily Duong MJ Hwang Eve McGregor Adhvik Rao Taj Gupta Clovey Hendra Grace Gu Stanley Lau Saskia Watson Kevin Ryu Briseis Taylor Samson Alogwu Ryan Heo Ecrin Soyak Baran Bozkus Daniel Lambropoulos Mia Batts Eugene Halim Melissa Politis Rachael Kang Andrea Loricco Maisha Mahmood Aaron Oh Nikolas Rompies Ryan Shannahan Tupou Tapueluelu Ava Wong Scarlett Yoo Grace Kim Chance Lin Mishika Kapadia Ruby Nolan Sophia Liwanto Emily McCleery Khaldun Abdulatif Winston Joe Ashton Choi Aaliyah Gandhi Caleb Naicker Kareem Telfah RachelLi Jiya Majmudar Aiden Fahmy Mahmoud Fayad Tarek Ali JIda Milena Dabin Mina Railey Coen Chu Ryan Camarda Louie Bax Ethan Hong Joshua Wang Maxim Tararykov Nathaniel Magtanong-Santos

Congratulations to these recipients of Silver Awards for Week 3 & 4 Term 2. Gabriel Evans Hawra Tinwala

PRC T2 W4 Congratulations to the following students who have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge and given in their Reading Record to the Library.

1C Zane E 1E Emma B, Millie H 1G Elise D, Miqdad A 1M Declan T, Jezaniah C 1O Rianne C 2MG Mason S 3A Amelia C, Rayden C 3O Brian C 4A Ronson C 5O Jackson S

Belinda Arnott

Library Tacher

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School Programs

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School Programs

ICAS TESTING ICAS testing this year has moved away from paper testing to online testing where stu-dents will complete tests on a device. This has made it extremely difficult for us to admin-ister logistically as we have upwards of 250 students who sit the English and Maths tests each year. As a school, we have decided that we will conduct the maths online test this year for Years 2-6 in Term 3 on our school devices. The tests will run in Week 9 Term 3 –Monday 16th – Thursday 19th September. The expression of interest notes have been returned to school and teachers are coordinating the process for Term 3.

GIRLS TOUCH FOOTBALL TEAM SUCCESS 

Last Friday  the Senior Girl’s Football Team won their first match 8‐2.  Mr Fifield was extremely proud of the team and their success. Congratula ons girls! 

MORE NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY TIME PHOTOS

School Programs

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Brickworks Incursion  On Monday 20 May, all Kindergarten students a ended the Brickworks Incursion, held in our school hall. Using different Lego kits, students were able to design and build their own versions of houses, apartment blocks, hospitals, police sta ons, fire sta ons, parklands etc. that they may find in their local community. All stu‐dents were ac vely engaged and thoroughly enjoyed the whole hands‐on experience. 

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Community News

Woolworths Earn & Learn

stickers are back in 2019. Collect your stick-ers with purchases at Woolworths stores and donate them to our school. In years past we have managed to collect many stickers which has equated to thousands of dollars of classroom resources. There is a box in the Admin Foyer to deposit your stickers into.

MORE KINDY INCURSION PHOTOS

Positive Behaviour for Learning

Term 2 Week 5 Non-Classroom Setting Behaviour

Everyone is RESPONSIBLE HALL

Participate ASSEMBLY Use whole body listening Remember important messages Stand, sit and clap sensibly OTHER ACTIVITES

Return equipment

Term 2 Week 6 Non-Classroom Setting Behaviour

Everyone is RESPECTFUL WALKWAYS

Be polite and thoughtful

Walk quietly during learning time

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P&C

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Parenting Insight

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Parenting Insight

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