Newsletter Week 2 Term 3 2020

Principal’s message

In this current climate, which continues to be challenging for many of us, I am proud of how our students have jumped into Term 3 learning with such dedication and enthusiasm. We may not necessarily know what tomorrow will bring, however we do know that at Summer Hill Public School the education of our students remains at the forefront. You will be invited to meet with your child’s teacher later this term – virtually or face to face. We look forward to discussing your child’s achievements and learning goals with you.

After her long standing service to Public Education, 40 years which includes over 16 years at Summer Hill Public School, class teacher Ms Alison Wagstaffe is retiring. We would like to acknowledge and thank Ms Wagstaffe for the dedication and care she has shown to the students she’s taught. Ms Wagstaffe’s impact was widespread, she says ‘The highlight of my time here was producing Susical the Musical in 2007 and Louis the Fly in 2016. I also enjoyed being the co-ordinator of the Art Shows for many years. I loved bringing back the old fashioned notion of teaching children how to sew at school. I was lucky to have one of my favourite classes twice. Once in Year 4 and then in Year 6. Those students brought me great joy and many laughs. That year my Year 6 class performed with such enthusiasm in Louis the Fly and they made me so proud and gave me many happy moments to treasure’. We wish you all the best Ms Wagstaffe.

As you may be aware, due to current Covid restrictions our P&C meetings are held via zoom. That means parents, carers and community members can join the meeting from the comfort of their own home (and me too!). If you are one of our many parents unable to attend meetings in the hall at 7.15pm Tuesday evenings, please consider joining us for a meeting via zoom while this platform is being used.

Hopefully by now your child/ren have come home excited about our new multicourt. After numerous delays it was completed in the holiday break. The multicourt is a welcome addition to our school and provides more handball courts, a basket court, a netball court, volleyball/newcomball court, and two half soccer fields. This initiative is the result of a strong partnership between the Department of Education, the school, P&C, students and their families – thank you and well done everyone.

Last week, our Summer Hill Blues assemblies were held to acknowledge students who have been outstanding role models, demonstrating Respect, Resilience and Responsibility (the 3R’s) at Summer Hill Public School. Due to the Department’s current restrictions parents and carers couldn’t join us this special day, so we took a photo for you. We’ll send it to you this week.

In our previous newsletter we reminded students to wear school uniform and I’m pleased to say we have had a positive response. In acknowledging student choice and voice we have good news – new royal blue baseball style caps for our Year 3-6 students. Please purchase one for your child if they wear a non-uniform baseball style cap. We’ve even left off the logo so the kids can wear them anytime. Caps can be purchased from our friendly administration staff for $10.00 or via Pickles uniform shop. You can find more information here https://summerhill -p.schools.nsw.gov.au/about-our-school/what-we-offer/uniform-shop.html or by calling our office. Thank you for taking the time to read about what’s happening at Summer Hill Public School, we are excited to report what our students have been doing. If you enjoy reading our newsletter and would like to see what’s happening around the school more regularly visit the website at https://summerhill-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/. For day to day updates and reminders download our Skoolbag App for your phone or tablet device. Click here to go to the school website for further information to upload to your device.

Natalie Armstrong Principal

August

Mon 3 Education Week 3 - 7 August

Mon 10 Science Week 10 - 14 August

Thu 13 Athletics Carnival K-6 at Campbell Park

Tue 18 P&C meeting 7:15pm. Via Zoom

Fri 28 Wear it purple day

Mon 31 Legacy week

September

Sun 6 Fathers Day

Tue 16 P&C meeting 7:15pm. Via Zoom

Wed 16 OC placement test

Fri 25 Last day of Term 3

October

Mon 5 Labour Day public holiday

Mon 12 First day of Term 4. Welcome back students!

Tue 13 Y5 indicate leader role

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Find more on EVENTS on the school webpage

Communications

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Kids giving back - Congratulations and thank you to your students. They have made an impact!

NAIDOC Week performance by Walangari Karntawarra

Canteen

Summer Hill PS new canteen operators are Yummy Bears Kiosk. Order lunch and recess via flexischools (by 8am) or over the counter. Canteen is open from 8:30am for purchasing food. Bring your own fork, supporting SHPS sustainability initiative, alternately purchase an eco friendly fork for 20c.

Click here to view the menu or visit the school website.

On Wednesday 22 July all stages attended performances by the multi talented Ar-

rernte Elder Walangari Karntawarra. His presentations included didgeridoo, stories,

language, bush tucker and dancing. Students commented that Walangari was a wel-

coming and friendly person who taught them a lot of facts they did not know. Some of

these facts include; cultural gender roles, how to make a didgeridoo, what the lines of

ochre represent, the many uses for a paperbark and boomerang, icons in Central and

Western Desert Aboriginal Art and how to use an Emu Caller! In Drama lessons we

have been using Western Desert Iconography to inspire our verbal story telling.

I write to acknowledge the volunteer work undertaken by members of your school community through participation in programs wi th Kids Giving Back. In Term 4 2019, December School holidays 2019/2020 and Term 1 & 2 2020 the following students, Alexandra N, Louis N and Micah M-C participated in one or more of our programs: Cook4Good, Cook4Dignity, School Holiday Programs, Connect4Good & Care2Give (COVID-19 Program). It is always a pleasure to have young people and their families engage in our programs. Your students have undertaken these opportunities in their lei-sure time and facilitators of the programs have been unanimous in their praise for the enthusiasm and engagement of all our young volunteers. Kids Giving Back is a charity whose mission is to create the next Generation of Generosity. Our programs are delivered for children 6-18 years old and their families and offer opportunities to assist vulnerable people in the community. This year we reached the milestone of 25,000 participants in our programs since we began in 2012. Robyn Monro Miller F.A.C.E CEO www.kidsgivingback.org In the Term 1 holidays we went to the big kitchen to cook. We made cookies, bread , soup and pasta. We then packaged it and gave it to families and the elderly. We met people and felt good about giving them food we cooked. Micah C-M 5AW, Alexandra N 3/4PC, Louis N 6FD

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P&C News

The P&C held its regular meeting on Tuesday, July 21st via Zoom. There was a great turn out and thank you to everyone who participated. This was our second virtual meeting and it is working really well. It’s a really easy way to join meetings, so we encourage parents and carers to log on and participate – without leaving the comfort of your own home! Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, August 18 th.

Prescribed Constitution Review Call for submissions The P&C Federation is planning to revise the Prescribed Constitution which is used by all P&C Associations and has invited submissions from member associations. Summer Hill P&C is inviting interested members to join a sub-committee to consider a submission. Please email the P&C at summerhillpandc@gmail.com or approach a member of the executive to express your interest. Deadline for submissions is August 15 th.

Grants Applications Volunteer We would like to invite a volunteer to take responsibility for grant applications on behalf of the P&C. If anyone is interested, can they please let the Exec-utive know in the next two weeks. Upcoming Webinar: Technology for Parents & Carers: Thursday 6 August at 7:00PM The P&C Federation is offering this webinar in partnership with the Department of Education to celebrate Education Week 2020. This is an offer of an early registration to P&C Associations before it is widely promoted from next week. Register here: https://www.pandc.org.au/pc-federation-webinar-registration/

'Wear it Purple Day' celebrates all the diverse and rainbow families and children who make up our community, and embraces the message that 'All young people have a right to be proud of who they are'. Students are invited, if they wish, to wear purple (a lot or a little) to school on Friday 28 August to celebrate 'Wear it Purple Day'. Sadly, we won't be able to hold our Wear it Purple picnic in the park this year, due to Covid-19 health restrictions. But we'd still love you to share your experiences and thoughts about what 'wear it purple' means for you, your child, your family. Please email summerhillpandc@gmail.com

Scholastic Book Club

Wear it Purple Day Friday 28th August 2020

Scholastic Book Club is back this term! Please order on Scholastic LOOP, click on the image to connect to Scholastic. Place orders by 7th for free delivery to the school..

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Across the stages

Welcome back to Term 3! Kindergarten have settled back into school and are working hard. The teachers have planned some fun activities we will be completing as a whole grade. This term, we start News Café! Everyone in Kindergarten tells their news on Monday. We will be in small groups of four students, mixed with one person from each class. We sit knee to knee and tell our news to our friends. It was wonderful seeing all the interesting items that came in for news yes-terday. We are also planning whole grade writing on Wednesday. This term we are focussing on writing information reports. The doors between KIJ and KDT will be open and all the students will learn together. We will break off into smaller groups to complete our writing activities. Here are photos of our beautiful classrooms. Regards

The Kindergarten Teachers

Kindergarten

Stage 1

Stage 1 students have been learning how to write recounts, information reports and creative stories. Stage 1 students have been learning about living things in Science and writing information reports about different animals they are studying. Year 2 EALD students have been learning to be creative with their writing as well. They have created some imaginary themed information reports on unusual animals.

Students in Stage 1 are learning the difference between fact and fiction, how characters can make a story more exciting and they have also learnt about

the structure of a story, information report and a recount. The children have used their imaginations to write some creative pieces of work using descrip-

tive language. We are very proud of the writing on display in our Stage 1 classrooms!

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Across the stages

Stage 2

Stage 3

4TK have been enjoying some STEM challenges.

Here we see the students trying to build a structure

that can hold a tennis ball.

Some great writing in Stage 2. Frazer has compiled an information report on his chosen "animal". Cerberus Facts Classification: Cerberus is a Three headed guardian of the Greek under-world. (Hell) Description: Cerberus has 3 heads, 2 glowing red eyes, one serpent tail, 4 giant fangs on each head & 20 sharp claws in total! Diet: Cerberus’s diet is passing strangers & the dead who try to escape. Habitat: The habitat of Cerberus is in a watery cave that said to lead down to the Greek underworld. (Hell) Coda: Cerberus once wrestled Heracles (the Greek hero) & Cerberus’s call is spine-chilling barks & snarls By Frazer.B

5MA have been learning all about persuasive writing in Term 2. They have learnt how to make their writing really convincing and using high modality

words. As an end of term task, they created wonderful and interesting advertisements using the persuasive devices they have learnt about. Check it out!

Year 5 have started an Athletics Friday Sports program to help prepare them for the upcom-

ing Athletics carnival. They are developing their skills in track (running), long jump, shot put

and ball games. Look at these all these wonderful "action shots"

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Library

During Library lessons in Term 3 we are exploring the short-listed Australian Children’s Book Week titles and considering the theme: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds.

We are glad to announce that the Summer Hill Public School community will

be able to join the national celebrations for Australian Children’s Book Week

this year. The date has been officially changed to October, we will hold our

annual character parade in some form on Friday 23rd October.

Australian Children’s Book Week 2020

The closing date for entries into the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge is Friday 28th August 2020! Students are encouraged to take part in The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2020. The SHPS class teachers and teacher librarians recommend the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC) as a great way to extend students’ reading skills as they enjoy a wide variety of classic and contemporary children’s literature. Titles in the K-2* section of the PRC are marked with a pink star and located separately in the school library for ease of selection. At Summer Hill PS, PRC books in the Year 3 and 4 section of the challenge are marked with a yellow star and a selection is available on display. Books in the Year 5 to 6 section are marked with a green star. Year 5 and 6 students participating in the PRC are able to self-select items of interest to them from the library catalogue. Once read, each PRC title should be recorded into the student’s reading record online, click the image below to find out how:

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge 2020

Rule changes to the NSW PRC make it easier to complete the 2020 challenge during these topsy-turvy times. Key changes include: - All students will be able to include 10 choice books on their 2020 Student reading records. - All students will be able to include books read as part of collaborative reading with teachers or parents/ carers, either in person or online. (This in-cludes ebooks, Story Box Library viewing and Audible audio books available through our school library). - Students who do not complete the Challenge in 2020 will not be disadvantaged from achieving cumulative PRC awards in the future. Use the same student username and password as you use to log into school computers to find more detailed information about rule changes to the NSW PRC 2020 through the following link: https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/logon.html *Please note that ten titles read aloud to Kindergarten, Year One and Year Two students during library lessons in Term 1 have been added to the students’ PRC records online.

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Library

Click on the image below to find out how to access our school library online to borrow ebooks, Story Box Library online and audio books.

Summer Hill Public School’s online library

Use the following link to find out how to customise fonts, spacing and background colours and other ways our ebook loans display to support students with reading challenges such as dyslexia.

Regards

Carmel Grimmett and Kate Phillips, teacher librarians

Music

Bands and Orchestras

Regular rehearsals for all ensembles are on at the usual times.

If you are unable to attend a rehearsal, please email the Music Administrator (Kris Golds) via the school email or let your conductor know beforehand, if

possible.

Chess

Students participating in the NSW Junior Chess League competition will have their first match this Friday 31 July. This first round match for SHPS is a home game and will take place in the school library. The Chess Captains and Mr Tindall will ensure that players are reminded of their weekly game for the competition. This will generally be done at the chess coaching time on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday morning from 8.00am. Parents of chess players are asked to subscribe to the chess group on the Skoolbag app to receive chess updates.

NSW Junior Chess League Competition 2020

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Community notices

Canteen Menu

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