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Curly Communications

Thursday, 20 October 2016 Term 4, Week 2

Address: Playfair Road, North Curl Curl, 2099 Ph: 9905 1757 Fax: 9905 6895 Email: [email protected]

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

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Principal’s Report State Principals’ Conference and Lucy S and Sofia A

Yesterday morning, I attended the State Principals’ Conference and was absolutely delighted to see two of our students Lucy S and Sofia A performing, with a handful of students from other schools across the state, on stage to open the conference with an amazing dance. Well done Lucy and Sofia! Having two of our students be selected as two of six

dancers from the Primary Schools’ State Dance Ensemble to perform was extremely special! What a great honour to not only represent their elite ensemble group but also Curl Curl North PS. I was a very proud principal amongst the large audience of principals from public schools across the state.

State Athletics Today sixteen students competed at the State Athletics Championships at Homebush. This is a fantastic representation from one school. Congratulations competitors! Gor O was competing in the 12 years boys shot put. The Junior Girls’ Relay Team (Phoebe H, Jessica K, Pietra SM, Laura S and Jacinta C), the Junior Boys’ Relay Team (Oscar SG, Bryce C, Joe L, Joshua L and Baxter S) and the Senior Girls’ Relay Team (Lara P, Charlee E, Hannah S, Gabriella C and Kylah W) were all competing as well. Enormous thanks go to Ms Sayers for training the relay teams to this extremely competitive level and Mrs Winston for her coaching of Gor.

Well done CCNPS Dancers Last weekend a number of students from Curl Curl North were involved in the celebrations for Taronga Zoo’s 100 years. The dancers danced down Macquarie St to the Opera House, all dressed in their ‘animal onesie suits’, bathed in different lighting and accompanied by lots of music. The participating students, teachers and volunteer helpers had a lot of fun!

Thank you to our Senior Dance Group and Mrs Karen Auton. Thanks also to Miss Kim Jones and Miss Laurissa Moore for assisting on the day.

Building program and asbestos issue As I wrote in an email to you during the last weekend of the recent school holidays, part of the planning process for the new building program at our school meant that there was a number of surveyors and geo‐technicians surveying and investigating the school site over the school holidays. This resulted in a small amount of asbestos being unearthed by the geo‐technicians in two parts of the school playground. Following a thorough check of the playground by the qualified specialist team employed by the Department of Education over the last Saturday of the holidays, clearance was given with a detailed report and school thankfully could resume on the Monday morning. In order to avoid a situation like this happening again I have listed the incident as an agenda item for the next building planning meeting which is tomorrow 21 October.

Kindergarten 2017 We have commenced planning for our 2017 kindergarten and another successful Coffee and Play gathering for children commencing school next year was held yesterday. Thank you to Mrs Crawford and members of the school office team who supported the children and parents who attended.

Kindergarten 2017 Parent Information Evening Our Kindergarten Parent Information Evening will be held on Thursday 27 October commencing at 7:00pm in the hall. We look forward to seeing you and discussing the excitement of starting school at Curl Curl North next year. If you have a child who will be commencing school next year and have not provided enrolment details as yet, it would be appreciated if you could do so as soon as possible to assist in our planning of class formation for next year.

2016 Class Placement In the near future we will be commencing the process of organising classes for 2017. If you will be moving from our school at the end of this year it would be appreciated if you could contact the office. Also if you have any special social considerations you would like

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the school to be aware of when planning classes (e.g. siblings close in age) you are welcome to submit these in writing to the principal. The principal and staff will not be taking requests for teachers for next year.

Selective High School Applications Students in Year 5 have been provided with a letter detailing information in regards to selective high school placement in 2018. Please be aware that all selective high school applications need to be completed online by Monday 14 November 2016. Late applications will not be accepted. If you require further information you are welcome to contact the school. The Selective High School Placement test for students entering high schools in 2018, will be held on Thursday 9 March 2017.

Farewell Mrs Winston On Monday of this week we farewelled Mrs Michelle Winston and congratulated her on her promotion as a Deputy Principal to Walgett Public School.

Mrs Winston will be missed at Curl Curl North PS. Over the years she has been a willing helper with choirs, worked with the inaugral Student Representative Council (SRC), assisted with the organisation of the Premier’s Spelling Bee, chaired our PBL committee, convened PSSA Netball every year and also held the President’s role of the Manly District PSSA. All this as well as teaching classes.

This year Mr Winston has taught PE to classes Monday to Thursday and job shared on 4S with Mrs Silva, teaching the class on a Friday.

Mrs Winston has an amazing ‘care for kids attitude’ and her skills and welfare approach to students will be very much appreciated at her new school.

We thank Mrs Winston for her continuous contribution to Curly and wish her every happiness in the new challenges ahead.

Mrs Winston at the Y6 presentation(left) with Daisy,

Theo and Emma and (right) her farewell cake.

Judith Smith, Principal

Deputy Principal’s Report Congratulations:

Mrs Rebecca Duff has given birth to her second child, a boy and they have named him Mitchell. Mum and bub are doing well.

Maeve C and Rosie S who are performing in the State Drama Ensemble tonight.

to the school canteen operators (Tabitha and Emma). I love the new products you are trialling in the canteen. From talking to many students you have some winners on sale at both recess and second half lunch.

Parking I once again, ask for your assistance when parking in Ross St in the afternoons. Please do not park across our neighbours’ driveways, which includes the entrance area to the laneway. It makes it very unsafe for our students when entering and leaving our school.

Hats Thank you for your support of our school’s hat policy. All students are required to wear an appropriate school hat. Students who do not have a hat are directed to play in the designated shade areas at recess and lunch. If you require a new hat they may be purchased from the school uniform shop.

Gymnastics This term all Y3‐6 students in their classes are enjoying a gymnastics program provided by Be Skilled Be Fit.

Robotics Stage Three commenced their Robotics Program this week. This exciting program links to Digital Literacy which is embedded across all Key Learning Areas.

High School Orientation Days On the morning of Tuesday 6 December all state high schools will be holding their Orientation Days. Please mark this in your diary as it is an extremely worthwhile experience.

Welcome As stated above we farewelled much loved Mrs Winston this week. To replace Mrs Winston for this term, we welcome Mrs Debbie Watson, Mr Jay McKay and Mrs Jan Enright to our teaching team. Mrs Watson will teach PE on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, Mr McKay will teach PE on Thursday and Mrs Enright will job share with Mrs Silva and teach 4S on a Friday.



Band Information Thank you to all parents who helped to make the Band Fundraising Disco a huge success. $6,400 was raised which will be used to purchase some new band program instruments.

Last term the Band Program farewelled Mr Brian Hayes and I am pleased to report Mr Michael Votano and Mr Iain Howick are going great in their new conducting roles.

Mr Votano takes the Training Band and the Recorder Band and Mr Howick takes the Stage Band on a Tuesday evening.

The Recorder Band has already commenced rehearsing, but new students can join for one more week. The Recorder Band will become the Training Band in 2017 and instruments will be allocated later in November. 2016 Athletics Champions

Congratulations to the following champions who were awarded medallions at the week 10 assembly of term three.

L to R ‐ Kristian (12 yr boy champion), Bryce (jnr boy champion), Hannah (12 yr girl champion), Ryan (11 yr boy champion) and Gabriella (11 yr girl champion).

Absent was Phoebe H who was the Junior Girl Champion.

Jeff Ballinger, Deputy Principal

School News Selective High School entry to year 7 in 2018 If you would like your child to apply for selective high school entry to year 7 in 2018, you must apply online.

Applications are now open!

Parents must apply online at the following link: https://www.shsocplacement.org.au/registration/

The application website closes on 14 November 2016. No late applications will be accepted.

You can also find more information at:

http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/shsplacement/

If you have any questions, please see your child's teacher.

PBL – Follow the Curly Code

Responsible

Respectful

Personal Best Currently targeting: HATS!

All students must wear a hat when out and about in the playground. Students who do not have a hat will be asked to remain in a designated area and play in the shade. Students will need to remember to bring their hats out with them at recess and lunch, as they will not be allowed to return to classrooms to get them at a later time.

Regards, Talia Morgan,

PBL Coordinator Taronga Zoo 100 Birthday Parade Last Friday, 23 year 5 and 6 dancers, had their one and

only rehearsal for the Taronga Zoo Birthday Parade the following

day. After a very long day of rehearsal at Homebush we backed up on Saturday to catch the ferry to the city for the parade. We were platypi, dressed in green and blue onesies and carrying light wands.



We danced down Macquarie St from Hyde Park to the Opera House behind the big Vivid platypus light being transported on a truck. There were 10 Vivid light animals and 750 children, in onesies or carrying lanterns, involved in the parade.

The street was lined with thousands of people and the atmosphere was electric amongst both the performers and the audience. The parade culminated with a performance on the Opera House Steps by the 750 children.

The girls and I had a fabulous time and many thanks to Miss Kim Jones and Miss Laurissa Moore who came and helped. What fabulous, once in a life time experience we ALL had!

Karen Auton, Senior Dance

State Debating Team Trials At the end of term 3, Finley Y and Maeve C were invited to trial for the Sydney North Debating Team to compete at the State Debating competition. Maeve was one of 4 students in the entire region to be selected in the 2016 Sydney North Debating Team. This is a huge achievement and definitely deserved! Maeve will be attending workshops for the next 4 Tuesdays to prepare for the state competition. Below is a recount of her trials.

“On the last Friday of term, the day after Debating camp finished, I was lucky enough to be selected to represent Curl Curl North at the State Debating Team Trials, along with Finley; who was unfortunately sick that day and unable to attend. The trials were held at The Collaroy Centre, and there were kids trying out from all over Northern Sydney, though I was proud to wear my Curly uniform.

After everyone had signed in and the parents had left; the adjudicators split everyone up into roughly 8 separate teams, which were paired up as Affirmative and Negative.

We were given half an hour to prepare for a topic of the adjudicator’s choice. The topic my team was faced with was that “Students should be suspended for not reporting bullying”, and we took the negative side. Our 1st speaker was from Manly West and the 2nd from Mona Vale. My position in the debate was 3rd speaker, which was a challenge for me as I usually debate as a 2nd speaker.

After my team and our opposition had finished our debate, I got to watch all the other teams debate, and I was absolutely amazed at the incredible talent all of the students and how well all of the teams worked together; despite having only just met each other.

That afternoon, after school had finished for the term, my Mum received a phone call from the adjudicators in charge of selecting the team, saying that I had been selected to be in the Northern Sydney State Debating Team. I was thrilled!

Overall, the trials were an excellent experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed working side by side with so many amazing debaters from all over Northern Sydney. On behalf of the Curly debating team, I would like to thank Miss Morgan, Mr Neal, and Mrs Crawford for all their hard work and support for Curl Curl debaters. We will miss you when we all go off to high school, though we are sure that the future Curly debating teams will keep on getting better and better. Good luck to all you year 5’s considering trying out for the team in year 6!

Friday 28 October

Wear red for Daniel The Day for Daniel is a National Day of Action to raise awareness of child safety, protection and harm prevention. It is about educating children and adults about keeping kids safe through child safety and protection initiatives. It aims to help empower our children to Recognise, React and Report if they feel something is not right.

Wear Red and Educate is the theme for Day for Daniel as we strive to have schools, kindergartens, businesses and communities across Australia take action and conduct child safety activities in their local communities to help keeping kids safe. Curl Curl North Public School has registered to participate.



All students are asked to wear red to school on Friday 28 October (week 3). Please ensure that all clothing is sunsafe, tops with sleeves must be worn and that enclosed shoes are worn for safety.

For more information visit the website: dayfordaniel.com.au

Spelling Bee As Mrs Smith mentioned in our last Curly Communications, four of our very talented spellers represented Curl Curl North at the Regional

Spelling Bee Finals. The finals were held at Mimosa PS in the last week of term 3. Jarrod B and Rhys H represented stage 2 and Lucas H and Jessie T were on fire for stage 3!

I had the privilege of watching these students and couldn’t have been prouder. Rhys bowed out on the word ‘aide’, Jarrod on ‘unionist’, Jessie on ‘taxonomy’ and Lucas on ‘labyrinth’, finishing a very commendable second place.

Well done to these students. We are all very proud of your achievements!

Mrs Crawford

Term 4 Invoices Invoices along with this term’s activity permission notes were recently sent home. Please return permission notes to the office ASAP. A reminder that we are unable to accept payments into our school bank account. Payments may be made by cash, cheque or EFTPoS at the school office or by credit/debit card via the school website using Parent Online Payments (POP). Please see the link below for instructions on how to use POP.

http://www.curlcurln‐p.schools.nsw.edu.au/documents/79887246/79897080/pop_parent_instructions.pdf

Kenya Aid – Mufti Day Curl Curl North P.S. is a founding school in the NBLA Global Support of Kenya Aid which is a non‐profit charity.

We are having a mufti day to raise money for Shikunga School which is located in a remote and rural village in Kenya’s western province. Dr Ryan Snaith began Kenya Aid when he went to Shikunga as a medical student.

Dr Snaith spoke with students at an assembly in term three.

Kenya Aid has built the hospital for the community and the school. Kenya Aid’s motto is “students helping students and teachers helping teachers.”

At Shikunga students are enticed to attend school as Kenya Aid started a lunch program. In many instances this is the students’ food for the day.

It costs $1 to feed a child for 1 month.

At Curl Curl North P.S. between the students and the teachers, we hope to raise a lot of money to help these students and teachers in Kenya.

A lot of the time the teachers are working for free as there is no money to pay them.

Curl Curl North P.S. has so many kind, caring, compassionate and thoughtful students.



The following students have raised money on their own before our Mufti Day for Kenya Aid. These special students are:

Toby S 6T, Logan C 6T, Jack A 6T, Gabriella C 5P,

Aaliyah L 5PBraisen B 3T, Jamie B 3B, Dean L 3B, Lachlan P 3B, Jack H 3M, Toby H 3B, Charlie R 3B, Georgie Y 3T, Lyla C 6B, Chanel M 6B, Angelina E 6T, Jamie M 4M, Maya M 6M, Roque M 4T, Xavier M 1H.

Kenya Aid – Handball Competition We are having a doubles handball competition starting soon for all interested students. This idea was inspired by Dean L. in 3B. It will be heaps of fun. Each year group will compete against each other. Entry will be $2. Join in, raise money for Shikunga School and have fun.

The mufti day with a gold coin donation to support Kenya Aid, will be held on Wednesday 2 November.

Thank you in advance.

Michelle Sayers, 6M Class Teacher

Library News eBooks and the eBook Raffle This term in the library, children in years 3‐6 have been learning how to access our new eLibrary. You may recall after the Book Donation on Open Day in term3, I purchased an eBook package for our school with the money that was raised. In order to encourage the children to become independent users of the eLibrary we are running an eBook raffle.

To be eligible to win, the students have to log on to the eLibrary, either through their portal, the website or the app. They then write their name, class and the name of the eBook they borrowed on the back of their ticket. They hand their ticket in to the library and the raffle will be drawn on Wednesday 26 October in the 3‐6 Cola assembly.

The raffle is open to all children in years 3‐6 and the ticket is free. I have included a copy of the ticket below in the event your child has lost theirs.

Mrs Lisa Turner, Teacher Librarian

Band News Band News Today the Training Band performed for Year 2 and Year 3 children and their parents. This was to give them all the opportunity to see what they could achieve if they joined the Recorder Band this term and progressed to the Training Band next term. It also gave them exposure to the different kind of instruments that are available in the 2017 Training Band.

Recorder Band rehearsals are on a Tuesday morning, 8.15am‐9am in the hall. Training Band rehearsals next year will be on Thursday mornings from 8am‐9am in the hall

If you would like your child to join, it is not too late. Enrolment forms can be found in the office, please come in and fill out the form before the end of play tomorrow. If you have any questions, please give me a call at school.

Dates for your diary Warringah Mall performance for all 3 bands – Tuesday 8 November 12‐12.45pm

Blow tests for Recorder Band children – Wednesday 9 November

Lisa James, Band Administrator

P&C News Canteen new menu items!! Did you know if you have 2 kids you will need to make 2,800 lunches over their primary school careers? Would you like a break from this relentless job? Well, we can help because the Canteen menu is changing!! The old items are there and there are some new options too! We recommend:

NEW Chicken breast fillet burger: real marinated chicken breast on a generous bun with lettuce, tomato and mayo, $4.

NEW Pulled pork burger: pork shoulder slow roasted for 5 hours, shredded also on a generous bun with lettuce and tomato, $4.

NEW large size lean meat pie ‐ when a party pie is not enough, $3.80 (plus gluten free options coming next week or so!!).

NEW Banana smoothie, $2. NEW Fruit freezie (frozen fruit salad in a cup)

$1.50. Yoghurt cup ‐ with blueberries and granola ‐ you

can buy this over the counter, $2.

eBooks are here.

Borrow and read online.

Visit us at:

https://nccp.wheelers.co

or get the app

Sign in using your school log in and password.

Borrow online today for your chance in the eBook raffle.



Slinky apple ‐ BYO apple for slinky‐ing (20c) or you can buy one and we will slinky it for $1 (second half of lunch only).

There are lots more meal options, and you can get other yummy treats over the counter like baked goods and frozen watermelon pops. More new menu items will be introduced too, so watch this space!

There are 2 ways you can order: 1. via School24 (if you don't have an account it is easy to go to the website and create one using the school ID: 2533963, come and see us for help with this) 2. drop into the canteen in the morning

We would love to help you with any diet requests you may have or any suggestions.

We hope to see you soon!! New menu on the

following pages.

from Tabitha and Emma at the Canteen

Kadie Wegenaar, P&C President

Dates For Your Diary

OCTOBER Fri 21

Mon 24 8.00am Senior Band Rehearsal

Tue 25 8.00am8.00am 8.15am

Beginners ChessIntermediate Chess in 6S Recorder Band

Wed 26 8.00am8.00am

Junior Band RehearsalAdvanced Chess in the Library

Thur 27 8.00am7‐8.00pm

Training Band Rehearsal2017 Kindy Parent Info Evening

Fri 28

Day for Daniel (wear something red)

Mon 31 8.00am Senior Band Rehearsal

NOVEMBER Tue 1 8.00am

8.00am 8.15am

Beginners ChessIntermediate Chess in 6S Recorder Band

Wed 2 8.00am8.00am 9.30am

Junior Band RehearsalAdvanced Chess in the Library 2017 Kindy Teddy Bears Picnic

Thur 3 8.50am Year 4 Bondi Sculpture WalkFri 4

NOVEMBER

Thurs 17 Silver Assembly

Mon 28 Healthy Harold Commences

Tue 29 7.15pm

Years 5 & 6 Narrabeen Camp Commences P&C Meeting in the Library

DECEMBER

Tues 13 9.00am Years 5 & 6 Pool Picnic

Wed 14 9.10am Kindy Zoo Picnic All Day

Thur 15 8.50am 9.10am

Year 3 Art Gallery ExcursionYear 1 Movie Day

Fri 16 Last day for students



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