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GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL

APIA STREET GUILDFORD NSW 2161 Phone: 9632 9675 fax: 9892 1325

www.guildford-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

END OF TERM 2 NEWS UPDATE

Principal’s News What an eventful and wonderful term we have had! Students and teachers have been very busy with lots of wonderful celebrations and events to enjoy. I am sure we are all looking forward to a restful holiday over the next 2 weeks, before the commencement of Term 3 on Tuesday 23 July.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Last week we ran our first split K-2 and 3-6 Athletics Carnivals. Both carnivals were a great success, with students demonstrating their agility, strength and speed in a range of traditional athletics disciplines as well as a range of fun and active novelty events. The weather was perfect and we had lots of parents and visitors attend the carnivals, which was wonderful to see. I would like to thank both Miss Jones who coordi-nated and ran the 3-6 carnival and Miss Walsh who coordinated and ran the K-2 carnival for their outstand-ing organisation of the day. The students had a won-derful day and so did staff and parents.

SEMESTER 1 STUDENT REPORTS AND PARENT/ TEACHER INTERVIEWS Semester 1 reports will be handed out during parent/teacher interviews this week. All remaining reports will be sent home on Friday 5 July. I encourage parents and carers during interview time to ask questions if not sure about a particular aspect of their child’s learning or progress.

LATE ARRIVALS Every morning at Guildford Public School we have many, many students who arrive well after 9am. It is very important for all students to arrive at school on time every day. Every class commences their Reading and Writing learning activi-ties promptly at 9am just after rolls are marked. Students who are late miss out on this important learning. If a child is just 10 -15 minutes late for school every day this will result in one hour of lost learning time every week totalling 10 hours a term. Many students regularly arrive at 9:30/10am and even later. These students are disadvantaged because they miss out on crucial learning time. This also applies when students are collected early and they miss out on afternoon learning activities.

IMPROVEMENT OF SCHOOL GROUNDS This week we are installing a new PA/Intercom System across the school. This will now allow emergency contact between classroom and office, whole school messages, bells that can be heard everywhere in the school and line up music. What this means for parents is that from Term 3, if you need to sign your child out early this will be done through the office and they will call the classroom to have the student sent up to the office.

Kind Regards Ms Monique Levis

Releiving Principal

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TERM 2 2019 - BRONZE SUPERSTARS

1EH Ashtami Aji, Shiva Sharma, Zahra Sayah, Salma Zakout 1L Arushi Dey, Braxton O'Neill, Hala Maammari, Ekamjeet Maann 4B Ziad Abdallah, Muamal Al-Ganmi, Miracle Dakuaniviti, Amani El Ramlawi, Reanna Jbara, Youssef Khaled, Fatima Kouaider, Youssuf Naboulssi, Lorima Ravouvou Seuseu, Waleed Al Attar, Muhammad, El Ramlawi, Quella Fogarty, Malaak Homsi, Hailey Oymak, Alexander Piu, Benjamin Rasiga, Aymen Shouk, Hasty Sorine, Tasneem Zakout, Mohammed Taleb, Aliza Zahra, Zahra Rezaiy 5E Ali Ebrahimi, Tanveer Rattan 5G Mohamed Hafez, Roukaya Agha, Lebron White, Brianna Maisema, Maha Faraz, Saida Karimi, Brandon Law 5/6AB Amelia Piu, Noah Keogh, Waad Hafez Aissa, Yasmin Ebrahimi, Kiara Dunia

6Y Mohammed Taleb

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On Thursday the 6

th of June, our team of Year 4 and Year 5

students participated in an Academic Challenge at Fairfield High

School. My teammates included Darius, Derrick, Zahraa, Kelly and

Fiona. We travelled there in two cars with Mrs Byrnes and

Mrs Luongo.

On the way to the academic challenge, we were all buzzing with

excitement! Everyone was ready to cook and use their genius

brains in the math challenge. We finally arrived and walked to

Fairfield High School’s library where we met the head teacher in

maths. He was one of our judges. He explained that the maths

challenge was part of the cooking challenge and that we needed

to work out the math problems to make the pizza rolls. We also

met the head teacher of the cooking section of the TAS

department. He was our second judge. We were shown what to do and we finally got started. Our team

was organised into pairs and I was partnered up with Derek. We made a really good team just like

everyone else in our group.

We quickly worked out the math problems and then started making our pizza rolls. It was very messy

because we were using flour to knead the dough but it was extremely fun. Soon it was time for lunch, so

the head teacher of the food technology department examined at our pizza rolls and then placed them

in the oven. We ate our lunch and finally started to clean up our stations. Once we cleaned up we got to

try our pizza rolls. The pizza rolls were delicious!

Darius, Derek, Zarhaa, Kelly, Fiona and I started to walk back to the library so we could find out who had

won the Academic Challenge. The room was full of suspense and everyone was so excited to hear the

results. The head teacher of the maths finally spoke and said that Guildford came equal 1st place with

Smithfield in the cooking challenge. We were extremely happy but then it was time to find out who the

overall winning team was. The room was once again quiet with suspense and excitement. Every school

was hoping that their school name would be announced but the winner was Smithfield Public School.

We were not disappointed at all because we came equal first in the cooking section and we were very

proud of that. The day was coming to an end so we went back to school, all excited to show our parents

the delicious pizza rolls we made!

By Zeyjan Olca 5E

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Parramatta/Holroyd Family Support Inc. Presents:

Transition to School Program for 2020

Where: Guildford Public School Apia Street, Guildford

Venue: School Hall When: Tuesday afternoons Terms 3 & 4

Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Starts: 30th July 2019

Ends: 10th December 2019

Parramatta/Holroyd Family Support is running a 17 week Transition to School Program

for children who are 4/5yrs old and will be starting school (Kindergarten) in 2020

Students must be enrolled at GPS

Limited spaces are available

This is a free program To book your child/ren into the program please call Suzanne on PH: 9636 8437

Enrolment forms are available from the school office

Please complete the form and hand into the office.

THE WILL BE RUNNING A BOOK STALL

IF YOU HAVE ANY OLD BOOKS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DONATE PLEASE BRING THEM TO THE COMMUNITY HUB THERE WILL BE A

BOX LOCATED NEAR THE DOOR FOR YOU TO PLACE THEM IN

THE THANK YOU & WE LOOK FORWARD TO ALL THE WONDERFUL BOOKS TO BE DONATED

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Follow us on Twitter @Guildford PS #gps2018 Guildford Public School is now connecting on Twitter to up-date and connect with other schools and educators about the wonderful learning experiences and opportunities provid-ed to our students. Please note that students will not be identified by full names at any time on a Twitter post.

GPS SCHOOL APP

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TERM 2 – DATES TO REMEMBER

PSSA

PSSA TRAINING GIRLS LEAGUE TAG - Mondays (Lower Grass) @ 8:10am - 9am

BOYS SOCCER - Monday (Lower Grass) @ 3pm - 4pm

GIRLS SOCCER - Tuesday (Lower grass) @ 3pm 3:55pm

BOYS LEAGUE TAG - Wednesday (Lower Grass) @ 8:10am - 9am

NEWCOMBEBALL Thursday (COLA) @ 8:15am - 9am

NETBALL Thursday (Multipurpose Court) @ 8:30am - 9am

EVERY MONDAY

SPARKS (In the Library) @ 3pm-4pm

K-2 CHOIR @ 1:10PM - 1:50pm

EVERY TUESDAY

ART CLUB (2E Class Room) @ 3pm-4pm

ENVIRONMENT CLUB (Meet in the library) @ 3pm-4pm

EVERY THURSDAY

GARDENING CLUB - K-2 (in front of Library) @ 1pm-2pm

K-2 DANCE GROUP @ 1:10PM - 1:50pm

ENGLISH LESSONS - All purpose room - 9:30am-11am

WEEK 9 Wednesday 26th June

STAGE 2 “IN SCHOOL ACTIVITY” “Hot & Cold” By Fizzics Education

WEEK 10 FRIDAY, 5th July LAST DAY OF TERM 2

WEEK 1 TUESDAY 23rd July FIRST DAY OF TERM 3

WEEK 1 WEDNESDAY 24th July

STAGE 2 “EXCURSION” Wattamolla in the Royal National Park

PLEASE VISIT GUILDFORD PUBLIC SCHOOL WEBSITE TO VIEW THE NEWSLETTER

www.guildford-p.school.nsw.edu.au

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