Principal’s Message

Issue 17.16 6 June 2016

Quality Education in a Stimulating Environment

Dear Parents Last week the school commenced a chocolate drive. Every family was given a box of Cadbury chocolates to sell as an initial fundraising exercise to assist with the preparation of our major Family Fun Day initiative on Sunday 6 November. Your assistance in selling the chocolates is greatly appreciated by the school community. We request that students do not bring their chocolates to school to sell as we have a small group of students who are anaphy-lactic to nuts. Your co-operation in this fundraising drive is greatly appreciated. Thank you to Mrs Farquhar and Mr Field for their organisation of the event. Eye Testing At the beginning of the year notes were sent home to families regarding Optometrists coming to the school to con-duct eye tests on students. This service will commence this Wednesday and continue until all the students booked in for the testing are examined. This is a great opportunity to have your child’s eyes tested. For any further infor-mation, please contact the school. Zone Cross Country Congratulations to all our cross country athletes who competed recently at the Zone carnival. It was a very suc-cessful day with Engadine West winning the overall carnival trophy as well as the Handicap Trophy which takes into account the student population at each school. Congratulations to the students and staff. Good luck to those students who will now compete at Regional level. Biggest Morning Tea Our annual Biggest Morning Tea will be held tomorrow, Tuesday 7 June commencing at 8.30am. Parents, carers and students are invited to attend this event to help raise money for the Cancer Council. Four courageous stu-dents will have their hair cut and shaved, great work Luke, Riley, Skyla and Kiarna! There will be food on sale, stalls and lots of fun activities. We hope to see many people in attendance. Students are invited to wear crazy hair but we request that students not use hair colour particularly with the current wet weather. The school will resume normal operation at 9.30am. Donations can also be made by visiting the Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea 2016 website and search for the Engadine West Public School fundraising page. Create South A number of our talented students recently auditioned for Create South which is a creative arts initiative that pro-duces a performance utilising students from various schools in the area. Well done to all those students who audi-tioned and a particular mention to Haylee Mc, Mark T, Molly F, Sami H and Caitlin S for being selected to be part of the Create South production.

Engadine West Public School

Phone: 9520 8134 * Fax 9520 5314 * 4 Buckle Avenue, Engadine 2233

Email: engadinew-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.engadinew-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Principal: Mr Garry Royston

Engadine West Public School would like to acknowledge the ongoing support provided to the Community of Schools on the Park (COSOtP)

by the Rotary Club of Engadine

Principal’s Report

Girls Soccer

Our talented Senior Girls Soccer team will play Clempton Park Public School in their next round of the State Girls Knockout competition. The match will be played at Kareela Oval on Thursday 16 June at 9.30am Sporting Success

Good luck to Charlie T who will be competing at the State U/11s Rugby League this weekend. Congratulations to Zane K and Beau W on their selection into the Sydney East Rugby Union team. SSSMF Art Competition

Congratulations to Hannah B who was selected as one of the winners in the 2016 Sutherland Shire Schools Mu-sic Festival art competition. Well done! Have a great week!

Garry Royston Principal

Parent Workshops - Survey

Engadine West has a goal to strengthen our ties with our parent community so that we can work in concert to achieve the best education for our students. We are considering offering workshops or information nights in the second half of the year for parents. These workshops will focus on how we teach certain aspects of the curricu-lum and how you can help your child at home. The results from this survey will inform the topics and times of-fered to parents. We are exploring the option of having some sessions during class time but this can only occur if there is enough demand. To have your say please complete the survey at this link https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VPSQZWX The sur-vey will close at the end of this week. Hugh Hogan Assistant Principal

Deputy Principal’s Report This is a brief update upon the Teachers Professional Learning (TPL) within the school. Our staff have been very busy with Reporting and Assessment for most of this term and I appreciate all of the staff for their dedication. Today we will do our Teacher Professional Learning on Student Self-Reflection. Mr Hogan will be delivering this TPL (Teacher Professional Learning). Ms Davis has also been providing TPL opportunities to the teachers during their lunchtimes on the use of iPads. I appreciate our teachers giving up their own time for these pursuits. With our implementation of the new Science Syllabus we arranged for a Science Incursion. The students and staff really enjoyed this “Science Day” Incursion as it was fun and engaging. Most appropriately it engaged our students in line with the new Science Syllabus that we have already implemented in Engadine West. This incur-sion was great value and I thank Mrs Way for organising this. Jason Wilkins Deputy Principal

Our school is once again participating in the Sutherland Shire Schools Music Festival at the Sutherland Enter-tainment Centre in August. This year, tickets for this event will only be available online. All tickets will go on sale on Wednesday 8 June. On this day, tickets will be available to anyone wishing to purchase on a first-in, first served basis. As tickets traditionally sell out for some of the concerts, we recommend you order yours as early as possible. In the unlikely event that there are unsold tickets for a particular concert, these will be availa-ble at the box office on the afternoon/night of the concert. Tickets this year are $18.50. Due to health and safety regulations, the Entertainment Centre will not allow children to sit on parents’ laps. Each person attending the concert will require a ticket. The Sutherland Entertainment Centre will be managing the sale of tickets this year. To order and purchase tick-ets, go to Concerts 1-10 http://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Community/Entertainment-Centre/Whats-On/Sutherland-Shire-Schools-Music-Festival-Concerts-1-to-10 There will be tickets for fifteen concerts available for purchase so it is very important that you select the correct concert/s. Our school will be participating in the following concerts:

When your booking is complete you will have the opportunity to print your tickets. We strongly recommend that you do so and then keep these in a safe place. You will require these tickets on the night of the concert for en-try. If you are unable to print your own ticket, you will need to record the booking number and receipt number and then take this information to the box office on the night of the concert. This process may become time con-suming on the night, so where you can, print your own tickets please! When ordering your tickets, you will have the opportunity to pre-purchase a printed program @ $5.00. This pro-gram contains all of the concerts as well as artwork by students from the shire and makes a wonderful souvenir. If you have any questions about this please contact the school.

Jane Teal Co-ordinating Teacher

Group/s Concert/s Date

Junior Choir (Year 2) & Year 3 Dance Group

Concert 4 - Matinee 1pm, Wednesday 10 August

Concert 4 7pm, Thursday 11 August Senior Choir (Years 4-6) & Senior Band

Concert 5

7pm, Friday 12 August

Sutherland Shire School Music Festival - Tickets

Early Bird Reading

There will be no Early Bird Reading tomorrow morning, Tuesday 7 June, due to the Biggest Morning Tea.

In Week 4, the Bright Green Sparks prepared the veggie garden for planting. They also aerated the soil in the native garden. In week 5, we planted the veggie gardens with broccoli, lettuce, rocket and shallots. These veggies are all suita-ble for the winter climate. In the native garden, we planted new seedlings. This is how we did it: Put a stake in the aerated soil Dug a reasonable sized hole next to the stake Put the seedling into the hole Covered the roots of the seedling with soil Poured 2L of water over the soil around the roots of the plant Put two more stakes around the plant to make a triangle Placed a plastic shield around the plant to protect it Thankyou Mrs Herd, Mrs Hattenfels and Mrs Milliken for using your personal time to help out, and thank you to all the other parents who have allowed their children to participate in the Bright Green Spark Environmental Planting Day 2016. We are hoping that the showery weather will not only help the seedlings but it will also help the dry soil in the native garden. Our plants will be harvested at the end of the year and will be put on sale for you to buy!! By Olivia W and Sara P

Bright Green Spark News

Just a reminder that Winter uniform is now in place. Some students are wearing articles of summer uniform. If your child has any issues regarding wearing appropriate uniform, please notify us via the Front Office.

School Uniform

It is a good idea that children establish healthy hygiene habits. Liquid soap dispensers are provided in the toilets. Students should establish good routines about regularly using the toilets and washing hands. Another important matter for school children is keeping hair tidy and clean. Parents are asked to make regular checks for head lice and apply appropriate treatment. Long hair should be neatly tied back off the face with green or gold hair accessories or plain bands.

Good Health and Hygiene

We are proud to have extensive parent involvement in the school. For WH & S reasons we need to have all parents who are working in classrooms to sign the Visitor’s Book when they arrive and leave the school. All visitors are also required to wear a “Visitors” sticker (the Visitor’s sign on book and stickers are located in the Front Office). This procedure is important in the case of an emergency/evacuation in the school. The Admin-istration staff will then know who is officially on site. Please note that canteen helpers are excluded as the can-teen has its own Visitor’s Book.

Parents in the School

Biggest Morning Tea - Tuesday 7 June 2016

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For Your Diary

Monday 6 June

Tuesday 7 June CANTEEN CLOSED Student Banking Biggest Morning Tea 8.30am NO Early Bird Reading

Wednesday 8 June SSSMF Tickets on Sale Uniform Shop Open

Thursday 9 June

Friday 10 June PSSA Friday Swimming

Monday 13 June QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Tuesday 14 June CANTEEN CLOSED Student Banking

Wednesday 15 June Senior Choir - SSSMF Rehearsal in Hall

Sharks Knockout

Thursday 16 June

Friday 17 June PSSA Friday Swimming K-2 Assembly 12.00pm 3-6 Assembly 2.30pm

Excursions and Payments

Year Excursion or Payment Please pay by Amount

Years 3-6 (Optional) ICAS English (27 July) Friday 10 June $8.00

Years 3-6 (Optional) ICAS Mathematics (16 August) Friday 10 June $8.00

Years K-6 Reading Eggs (please pay ASAP) Friday 18 March $8.00

Years K-6 Groove Nation (please pay ASAP) Friday 18 March $22.00

Band Members Term 2 Band Fees $125.00

Years K-6 Voluntary School Contribution As soon as possible $50.00

Band Members Band T-Shirts Friday 10 June $26.50

Week 7 Week 8

PSSA Results

Buses depart EWPS at 9.00am Cost: $6.00 per week

Oz Tag at Heathcote Oval Netball and Soccer at The Ridge

TEAM OPPONENT SCORE TEAM OPPONENT SCORE

OZTAG Jnr Boys Green EWPS Blue Lost 0-7 OZTAG Snr Girls Gold Helensburgh Won 6-1

OZTAG Jnr Boys Gold Marton Brown Lost 3-4 OZTAG Snr Girls Blue Engadine Won 8-4

OZTAG Jnr Boys Blue EWPS Green Won 7-0 Netball Jnr Gold Heathcote East Won 7-2

OZTAG Jnr Girls Green Marton Brown Won 8-2 Netball Jnr Green Tharawal Lost 0-7

OZTAG Jnr Girls Gold Bangor Lost 2-5 Netball Snr Gold Heathcote East Lost 4-7

OZTAG Jnr Girls Blue Yarrawarrah Won 3-2 Netball Snr Green Tharawal Won 14-5

OZTAG Snr Boys Green Yarrawarrah Won 4-3 Soccer Jnr Red Marton Lost 0-1

OZTAG Snr Boys Gold EWPS Blue Won 10-0 Soccer Jnr Green Bangor Won 2-0

OZTAG Snr Boys Blue EWPS Gold Lost 0-10 Soccer Snr Red Marton Lost 0-1

OZTAG Snr Girls Green Heathcote Won 5-3 Soccer Snr Green Bangor Won 3-0

Family Fun Day News

EWPS Family Fun Day Sunday 13 November 2016

Basket Donations Needed

Do you have any old baskets that you no longer use? We would love them for the Family Fun Day chocolate wheel. Kindly drop them into the Front Office. Thank you!

Family Fun Day

Canteen News

Please note that lunch orders must be placed by 9.30am. Find us on Facebook - EWPS Canteen for information on menu up-dates, specials, red light days etc. Email: ewps.canteen1@gmail.com 2016 Roster - Your Canteen Needs You!

Please let me know if you are able to assist. Helpers are required to have a Working with Children Check completed before volunteering. Please contact me for further information. Lunch Order Specials

Chicken and sweet corn soup $3.50 (with garlic bread roll) Banana or chocolate smoothie $3.00 If anyone has any questions regarding the canteen, please come in and see me. Leanne Best Canteen Supervisor

This Week’s Roster

Tuesday - 7 June CANTEEN CLOSED Wednesday - 8 June S Savania, K Schnabel, K Dickenson, K Sinclair Thursday - 9 June M Boughton, K Allbon, N Leishman Friday - 10 June A Mathieson, A Bolton, C Milliken, T McIntosh

Uniform Shop News

The next Uniform Shop opening time will be:

Week 7, Term 2

Wednesday 8 June 2016 from 9.15-10.15am

Tracy Farquhar & Kathy Cunynghame Uniform Shop Co-ordinators

Community News