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Newcastle Middle School Newsletter

Friday, 8th February 2019

151 Christo Road Waratah NSW 2298 T 4960 2122 F 4967 5920 E [email protected]

Term 1 - Week 2

NEWSLETTER

Term 3 Week 1 2013

Friday 10th May

Principal’s Message

Welcome to 2019

Welcome back to our continuing

students and families and a warm

welcome to all our new students and

families. I hope you all had a fabulous holiday break

from school routines and are looking forward to another

wonderful year at Newcastle Middle School.

Jenny Moody, Director Educational Leadership, has

asked me to relieve again this term as Principal. Belinda

is currently relieving as PEO Learning and Wellbeing.

She is enjoying this new position and has a great skillset

and experience to underpin this vital role.

We have had a really smooth start to the year so far and

students are settling in well to new classes, teachers,

school etc. We welcome Jess Stoddard to our school

and congratulate her on achieving a permanent position

here on merit selection. Jess is working with Clare and

Shane on Room 6 and we are excited to have her as

part of our school family.

New programs we have organised for fitness and

wellbeing have proved highly engaging. Dance sessions

on Fridays with Lisa, which we commenced Term 3

2018, continue to be very positively received. We have

started an adapted Karate / Rock and Water Program

with Sam and Bec on Mondays. Staff and students alike

are really enjoying the sessions and improvements are

already evident.

School Leaders Induction Assembly

We announced our elected School Leaders from Year 8

at a special induction assembly. Proud family members

came to share this wonderful experience and pin the

badges on. Voting was very close and we are very

pleased to announce that Katinka Pettett, Noah Hanson

and Jack Burkill are our 2019 School Leaders. They will

do a great job as role models for their peers and as

ambassadors for our school.

Katinka Noah Jack

Congratulations to you all.

Staff 2019

Classes Rm 1 - Camille Jolly (CT) / Robyn Billett / Glenda Murch

(SLSOs) Rm 3 - Lenore Hanney (AP) / Sue Steel / Belinda

Furgiuele (SLSOs)

Rm 4 - Virginia Nicholson / Crystal McFarlane (CTs) /

Robbi Alarcon-Delazzari (SLSO)

Friday, 8th February 2019 Term 1 - Week 2

Rm 6 - Jess Stoddard (CT) / Shane Mitchell / Clare

Hamilton (SLSOs)

Rm 8 - Jenny Lewis (CT) / Kirk Aislabie (SLSO)

Rm 9 - Pratibha Harriram (Relieving AP) / Mandy Irwin

(SLSO)

Rm 11 - Andrea Connell (CT) / Simone Gosper (SLSO)

RFF Teachers - Susan McKinnon, Eliza Greening and

Crystal McFarlane

Admin Staff

Kristy Danks (School Admin Manager)

Karen Somerville (School Admin Officer)

Jane Ruming (School Admin Officer - Thursdays)

General Assistant

Bob Jones

Principal

Judy Mouthaan (Relieving)

Lead Principal (Newcastle School)

Ian Hughes

Individual Learning Plan Meetings

If you haven’t already been contacted, families will be

contacted shortly to organise semester 1 Individual

Learning Plan meetings (ILP’s). Your participation in

these meetings ensures the goals set for your child

reflect home and school focus areas including, where

appropriate, delivery of agreed aspects of your child’s

individual NDIS package therapy during school hours. If

you are unable to attend in person, a meeting can be

organised to be completed by phone. Thanks for your

support and please do not hesitate to contact your

child’s class teacher if you have any questions.

Newcastle Middle School emails our school newsletter

to our families and community. The newsletters are also

available on the Newcastle Middle School website.

School Community Charter The Department of Education’s School Community

Charter outlines the responsibilities of parents, carers,

educators and school staff in NSW public schools to

ensure our learning environments are collaborative,

supportive and cohesive. Important points in the charter

to ensure respectful learning environments are: that

we treat each other with respect; we prioritise the

wellbeing of all students and staff; unsafe behaviour is

not acceptable in our schools; we work together with

the school. A flyer is attached for you to read.

Driveway / Drop Off by all drivers

Drop off and pick up times are always very busy and I

seek your ongoing co-operation to ensure our driveway

operates as safely and efficiently as possible.

Assisted School Transport Program drivers and travel

support officers have completed our induction morning

tea and discussions.

For parents who bring their child, please hold onto your

child as you enter / exit the driveway and remain with

your child until active supervision commences. Morning

bell is 8.45am, classes start at 9am. End of school day is

2.40pm when the bell rings in readiness for bus duty

staff to call students as their parent, carer or ASTP or

respite vehicle arrives for pick up.Please let us know if

there are any issues. The driveway duty officer wears a

yellow hi-vis vest.

Reminder request to our families who have carers

dropping off or picking up their child from school:

We would appreciate your ongoing support if you

have a carer dropping off or picking up your child from

school to remind them to line up in the transport

queue. This is in preference to parking on the

roadside, even if it is on the school side kerb of

Christo Road. We have had a few safety concerns

about carers who may be new to the school or your

young person and are learning our school processes

and routines. We are avoiding any safety issues of

the busy road with many cars passing or parked close

by and thank you for your co-operation in this safety

matter.

Thank you for helping us keep our kids safe!

Kind regards,

Judy Mouthaan

Principal (Relieving)

Diary Dates

Week 3

Wednesday, February 13th School Banking

Friday, February 15th School Canteen starts


Volunteers are needed please We are always in need of community volunteers to

assist with the provision of programs at school and in the

community. If you are able to spare some time to help

with activities such as weekly swimming especially as

we need to ensure the correct number of spotters and

ratios for students with particular health needs, helping

in the classrooms and with fitness, etc. we would be very

grateful. Please contact the school and we will organise

necessary paperwork and induction orientation when

convenient for you and our volunteer co-ordinator,

Lenore Hanney.

Anaphylaxis health reminder to all Newcastle Middle School is concerned about the safety

and wellbeing of all our students. Many of you will know

someone who is affected by anaphylaxis, a life

threatening allergic reaction. Our school does its best to

be an allergy aware school.

Staff have completed their mandatory annual training in

severe allergy / anaphylaxis management and we

implement lots of strategies to help keep students at risk

of anaphylaxis as safe as we can. We have current

students who live with the risk of anaphylaxis to foods

and insect stings.

As a reminder, we request that you do not send foods

containing nuts, eggs or seafood with your child to

school. With increased awareness and understanding

of anaphylaxis, you will be able to help protect those

around you.

Admin Office News

Voluntary Contributions School Fees $100 per year or $25 per term. Please contact the office

for more information.

The office has the facility to accept payments by eftpos,

Mastercard or VISA, there is now the ability to pay via

our school website (see below for details). If this option

suits your lifestyle then please ring details through or

send details in with your child. (These will be shredded

once payment has been made). Credit card payment

slips attached.

Parent Online Payments Parents are now able to make online payments to

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, and can be made via computer, tablet or

mobile phone.

The payment page is accessed from the front page of

the school’s website at https://newcastlem-

[email protected] by selecting $Make a

payment.

Items that can be paid include voluntary school

contributions, subject contributions, excursions, sales

to students. There is also a category called ‘Other’ to

cover items not covered in the previous headings,

‘Other’ can be used to make a complete payment of a

school Statement of Account.

When you access the $Make a payment you must

enter:

the students name

class

date of birth

These details are entered each time you make a

payment as student information is not held within the

payment system.

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 more detailed instructions please see attached

pages.

https://[email protected]/

https://[email protected]/


Canteen Program Our student operated Canteen program will commence

Friday week 3. This valuable program develops

Numeracy, Literacy, teamwork, co-operation and

essential independent living skills in our students. We

have a specially chosen Canteen Team cohort who

engages in distributing and tallying orders, shopping for

ingredients, food preparation, deliveries and follow-up

cleaning tasks.

Order forms have been sent home and are due back

each Tuesday, if your child wishes to place an order.

School Banking Day Reminder Don’t forget that Wednesday is School

Banking day and students should bring

in their weekly deposit.

For every deposit made at school, no

matter how big or small, students will

receive a silver Dollarmites token. Once

students have individually collected 10

tokens they can redeem them for an exclusive School

Banking reward item in recognition of their regular

savings habits.

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program at

Newcastle Middle School.

Assembly Awards This section is a new addition to our fortnightly

newsletter. Each fortnight students who receive an

Assembly award for the period will be also recognised in

our newsletter.

I was delighted to present a large number of awards at

our first assembly. Staff nominates students for their

achievements and improvements in a variety of

curriculum areas, citizenship, being a star student, etc.

Award points accrue to lead towards Bronze, Silver and

Gold Award levels. Class awards secure one point each

and PBL awards (with each award receiving 5 stars) tally

for two points each. Congratulations to all our award

recipients and keep trying your best.

CLASS AWARDS

Room 3

Taj D’Angelo-Hunt Star Student

Tama Matoka Star Student

Room 6

Darcey Ahoy Star Student

Sam Burkill Music

Room 8

Joseph Austin English

Jacob Trahair-Tilse Citizenship

Room 9

Jamie Merit Award

Noah Hanson English

Room 11

Domenick Blanch PDHPE

Max D’Accione PDHPE

Isabel Lester Star Student

Hayley Scarr Star Student

Congratulations and well done to all recipients!

PBL Focus Areas

Term 1 We are Safe

Week Lesson Content

Week 1 and 2 Sun Safety - eg. wear hats

Week 3 and 4 Friends -

eg. new friends, being kind

Week 5 and 6 Playing safely -

eg. at school

Week 7 and 8 Taking turns and sharing

Week 9 and 10 Making good choices/ try your

best


WE CARE - PBL AWARD

Congratulations and well done!

WE LEARN - PBL AWARD

Jamie Sam T


WE ARE SAFE – PBL AWARD


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