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TERM 3 ISSUE 10 2016

WARREN CENTRAL SCHOOL PAGE 20 RESPECTFUL, RESPONSIBLE LEARNERS

JUMBUNNA

63 - 101 Chester Street WARREN NSW 2824

Ph: 02 6847 4438 Fax: 02 6847 4419

Email: warren-

[email protected] Website:

warren-c.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal Duncan Lovelock

Deputy Principal Wade Greenwood

Executive Staff Head Teachers

Robyn Taylor - Secondary Studies Dianne Hamilton - Science/Maths

Judy Smith - English/HSIE Jenny Brooker - Wellbeing

Assistant Principals Elyse Perry (Rel) Lyn Westgarth

School Administrative Manager Roz Hunt

Learning and Support Teacher Jade Lovelock

Teacher Librarian Narelle Whittaker

Aboriginal Education Resource Teacher

June Hawkes

Aboriginal Education Officers Phyllis Oates Allison Fuller

IT Manager Cade Wilde

School Counsellor Sally St-Clair

School Chaplain Stephen Bignall

Canteen Manager Janice Oriel

Breakfast Club Coordinator Joanne Lincoln

Term 3 Issue 10 2016


WARREN CENTRAL SCHOOL COME AND VISIT OUR LEARNING AREAS

WEDNESDAY 3 AUGUST 2016 OPEN LEARNING AREAS 12:30PM - 1:20PM

PICNIC LUNCH 1:20PM - 1:50PM ASSEMBLY 2:00PM - 2:50PM

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Education Week - Experience our Excellence

Education Week is to celebrate and showcase the excellent learning opportunities that are available to all students in public education especially at Warren Central School.

We are looking forward to having the families and community of Warren participate in our open learning areas day next Wednesday 3 August.

We will be having open learning areas’ experiences from 12:30 - 1:20, enjoying a relaxing and inviting atmosphere with our picnic lunch from 1:20 - 1:50 and then wrapping up with an Education Week Assembly from 2:00 - 2:50.

We are looking forward to seeing you at Warren Central

School.

Cup of noodles - NO thank you Could we please ensure that students are not sent to school with the cup of noodles that require boiling or hot water to prepare the noodles. This is due to the WHS issue of hot or

boiling water in the playground. We would not want to see an accident involving a student being injured by hot or boiling water. We thank you in advance for your cooperation and please remember on these cold winters’ days that the school canteen has some great warm food for our students to eat.

TERM 3 Here we GO! This term is always an exciting term for both students and teachers. We have multiple sporting activities available for students and some of the regional and state finals are on as well where WCS is represented with pride and passion by our students.

We have some exciting educational opportunities and excursions coming up for all students and this is our last term for Year 12 to develop and deepen their knowledge and understanding of their courses before the HSC exams begin next term.

NAIDOC WEEK NAIDOC Week will be taking place in Week 8, 5 - 9 September with some great ceremonies and activities for students, families and community members in which to participate

in. We will provide more information about the events in the coming weeks.

Professional Learning and Development The staff of WCS will be actively engaged in various educational and professional learning activities which will complement and ensure success in meeting our key areas and goals within our School Plan.

SASS Recognition Week We will also be recognising and acknowledging our SASS staff for all of the effort, work and support they provide for our students, families and staff. This will be the week of 29 August – 2 September.

Marathon Health Our wellbeing focus continues with Marathon Health returning to assess our students. There is a community

meeting with Hear our Hearts community bus on 8 August to discuss their future plans. The RAISE Mentoring program enters its second term of supporting students and Barnardo's will continue to deliver age appropriate programs to selected years.

Welcome Mr Nathan Hinze We welcome a new face to our outstanding school staff. Mr Nathan Hinze has moved from the Gosford area on the Central Coast of NSW. Nathan is married with a 15 month old son. Nathan is enjoying Warren immensely with the community being so friendly and the students great.

Welcome back Mrs Appleyard We welcome back Mrs Shannon Appleyard back into the Learning Support role.



Nathan Hinze - Industrial Technology Teacher





Your local Vinnies Centre is always looking for more volunteers to assist them in their work. Men and women of all

ages and denominations are welcome and encouraged to become volunteers at our Warren Vinnies Centre. Even a

couple of hours a week would be a great help. Your local Vinnies Centre has a very friendly, social environment and the

work provides a special sense of satisfaction you get from helping others and learning new skills. Various tasks include

sorting donated goods, serving at the counter, clerical, basic computer, interviewing and listening to people in need.

If you are interested in volunteering, drop into the Vinnies Centre, or telephone the Centre on 02 6847 4883.

We would love to hear from you.

Thank you.

Marathon Health Hearing will be returning to Warren Central School in week 6, Tuesday 23 August, to undertake Hearing Screening Tests. This service is free of charge, and if needed offer a direct link to appointments with an Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist in Dubbo.

Please complete the attached referral form and return it to your child's classroom teacher, or Mrs Brooker via the front office.

TED Martin - Community Memorial Service We would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Ted Martin. We greatly appreciated the effort and support from all who were involved in creating the memorial service last Friday. Ted, you will be sadly missed.

Science, Maths And PDHPE News The SMAP faculty welcomes the arrival of Indigo Lola Hinton to Kate and Ian at the end of last term. Ian is currently on parental leave until week 3 and we wish to thank Erin Wise for looking after all of his classes. Indigo is getting along very well and doted on by both Mum and Dad.

Sport Choices for Term 3 Sport choices for this term have been completed and students have chosen either Gym, Indoor Sports, Netball or Touch Football.

Please make sure that your student is prepared for Friday Sport in periods 3 and 4.

7 - 12 Sporting Teams Sporting teams will be travelling again this term. We are travelling to Coonabarabran, combining with Trangie Central for Women’s League Tag on Thursday 28 July and Orange for round 2 of the Boy’s CHS State Squash, on Friday 5 August.

On Friday 29 July, a small number of athletes are competing at Western Region CHS Athletics Carnival at Dubbo. We wish all of our competing students the best.

Maths In Mathematics all students from year 7 to 11 have an assessment investigation task due in week 3 and Extension 1 Maths has a second task due in Week 4. Please encourage your students to complete these as they are worth 15% of the assessment marks. Also do not forget about the requirement that students must wear leather shoes or boots for Science practical lessons. These can be kept at school if you wish.

Year 12 Trial Exams Year 12 are getting ready for their trial examinations in all of week 6 and the Monday of week 7 this term. An exam timetable will be out at the end of this week.

Year 11 Maths Students visit Macquarie Toyota On Friday 22 July the Year 11 General Mathematics class visited Macquarie Toyota to investigate costs of buying and running a car. The excursion was designed to provide practical examples of what is being learnt as part of the “Mathematics in Driving” unit in General Mathematics. Brett Williamson discussed all aspects of budgeting, accessing money and running a car as a young person and had the group enthralled for the entire discussion.

What the students learnt formed the basis for a project they are undertaking in Mathematics in Driving to help them prepare for the next stage of their lives. The school wishes to thank Brett and Macquarie Toyota for their time and expertise. The students now have a much more realistic expectation regarding car ownership.

The unit involves buying a car, the costs involved including stamp duty, registration and insurance and how it will depreciate. Students will also learn how to calculate blood alcohol content, stopping distances and fuel economy.

Year 11 Biology Year 11 Biology students Matthew Marks and Tristan Gale doing a practical to find out the relationship between surface area and volume ratios using pink agar.

Indigo Lola Hinton



Tristan Gale and Matthew Marks

K-6 news Education Week

Come and experience a wonderful time with your student looking over work samples, observing a class in action, sharing a picnic

lunch with all the staff and students and being a part of our K-12 Assembly, recognising students’ achievements. Everyone is welcome to come along and be a part of a wonderful afternoon on Wednesday 3 August starting at 12:30pm.

PBL Bands The K - 6 department is trialling a different approach this term to the handling of bands. Students are continually losing bands having them slipping off small

wrists, breaking when playing or being misplaced at home and on the school buses.

Each classroom teacher has a bag for every student in the class and the bands will be placed in these bags daily and changed

regularly. Students will be kept updated on how many bands they have and where they are up to with changes.

Positive Behaviour for Learning - PBL Our Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) focus is: to reduce the incidents of inappropriate language.

Stage 3 Excursion The Stage 3 excursion this year is to Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreation Centre near Newcastle from 14 November through to 18 November.

Although a final cost has not been finalised due to on-going fund raising activities please start paying some money each fortnight towards your final balance. The total cost of the excursion, per child, will not be under $250.00 so please start on your payments now so it is not such a financial burden on families towards the end of Term 3.

Kindergarten Beans Students in Kindergarten Beans have been learning to make patterns during Mathematics. They have experimented with twos, threes and fours patterns using different materials and resources.

With Miss Williams students have been studying the unit ‘What’s it made of?’ As part of this engaging unit students had to design and create their own playground.









What’s On??? JULY

Wk 2 Friday 29 WSSA Secondary Athletics Carnival - Dubbo

Saturday 31 P & C Association Boot Sale

AUGUST

Wk 3 Monday 1 EDUCATION WEEK

Wednesday 3 Open Learning Areas 12:30pm

Picnic Lunch 1:20pm

K - 12 Education Week Assembly 2pm

Wk 4 Friday

12

Gobondery/NARRAF Touch Football and Netball Gala Day

Wk 5 Tuesday 16 Gobondery/NARRAF Athletics Carnival - Dubbo

Wednesday 17 K - 6 Assembly 2pm

Thursday 18 Ridley/Trudgett Netball Gala Day 9am - 3pm

Wk 6 Monday 22 BOOK WEEK

Thursday 25 Book Week Assembly 1:30pm

SEPTEMBER

Wk 7 Friday 2 PSSA Western Region Athletics - Dubbo



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/factsheets-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.qov.au/notices

If you have any questions about the Data Collection, please do not hesitate to contact Mr Duncan Lovelock (Principal) or Mrs Jenny Brooker (Head Teacher

Make Online Payments It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the schools website by selecting $ Make a payment

Items that can be paid include voluntary school contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales to students and creative and practical arts activities (these include band, drama and dance).

There is also a category called Other. This is to cover items not covered in the previous headings. Other can be used to make a complete payment of a school invoice.

When you access the $ Make a payment you must enter: the students name and class and reference number OR the students name and date of birth.

These details are entered each time you make a payment as student information is not held within the payment system. *There is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number if you are aware of them, these are optional fields OR there is also the option to enter the Student Registration Number and Invoice number these are not used at our school, please leave blank.

This is a secure payment system hosted by Westpac to ensure that your credit/debit card details are captured in a secure manner, these details are not passed back to the school.

You have the ability to check and change any details of the payment before the payment is processed. Receipts can be emailed and/or printed.

Details of the payments are passed daily to the school where they will be receipted against your child’s account. As a receipt has been issued from the payment page a further receipt will not be issued by the school.

For any enquiries regarding the Online Payment process please contact the School Administration Office.

Roz Hunt



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