School Leadership Team:

OUR AMAZING DANCE GROUPS: Well done to our amazing Stage 2

and Stage 3 Dance Groups for

representing our school at the

Hawkesbury Eisteddfod on

Wednesday.

Each of our groups placed FIRST!

Thank you to our fantastic and dedicated dance

teachers, Miss Andeshmand, Mrs Coburn, Mrs

Dhillon and Miss Bandiera for all their time and

hard work with preparing our students.

We are a very proud school!

PARTNERS IN LEARNING PARENT SURVEY: The Partners in Learning Parent Survey is part of

the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys on student

engagement. The parent survey helps to clarify

and strengthen the important relationship

between parents and school. Parklea Public

School students in Years 4, 5 and 6 and teaching

staff will also be completing a ‘Tell Them From Me

survey’ later this term.

The survey is anonymous and can be used either

as a one-off survey or over time, with the ability to

identify trends within schools and better inform

school priorities. The survey is held once a year in

Term 3 and is run at the same time as the teacher

survey and the second optional student survey.

The survey is conducted entirely online at home

or on public computers during the specific survey

window. The survey takes around 15 minutes to

complete.

Parklea’s unique URL is below:

https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/pps2017

Please use this URL to log into the survey. The

closing date for submissions will be 8th September

2017.

UNIFORM

SHOP

Hours:

Monday 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Friday 8:30am – 9:30am

Download our Team App to stay

up to date with the latest

information.

https://twitter.com/parklythepelican Our students achieve some

amazing things both inside and

outside of our school. Has your child

achieved something outstanding?

Send an email to parklea-

p.school@det.nsw.edu.au with the

heading ‘Shout Out: Attn. Mrs

Cardwell’. We will do our best to

send an app notification out to

celebrate this achievement.

Term 3 – Week 6 Friday 25th August, 2017

We are Safe, Respectful, Learners!

Phone: 9629 2518 Email: parklea-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: http://www.parklea-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

NEXT P&C MEETING: Our next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 19th

September at 7pm. At this meeting, we will be

presenting this year’s NAPLAN data results. All

parents/carers and our community members are

welcome!

ICAS 2017: ICAS for 2017 has concluded. Well done to all the

students who participated in these assessments.

An extraordinary amount of organisation goes

into coordinating the assessments so every

student has the opportunity to further develop

their assessment capabilities.

Parklea will continue to offer ICAS into 2018!

ROAD SAFETY: We have increasing numbers of parents and

carers reporting issues of students and

parents/carers not following road safety rules

around our school. These include; running across

the road and not using the pedestrian crossing as

well as parking illegally.

These issues could result in serious injury to our

children. Please use the road rules in and around

the school with extra care.

We will be alerting Blacktown Council for their

assistance and asking for extra police patrols in

order to support safe driving, drop off and pick up

in and around our school.

Many thanks to the majority of our parents and

carers who are putting the safety of our students

first!

P&C FATHER’S DAY STALL: On Thursday 31st August, our wonderful P&C are

holding their annual Father’s Day stall where

students can buy a gift for dad, grandpa or a

significant male in their life. Gifts range from $5 to

$20.

We hope that you can support this annual event.

Please see the flyer attached to this newsletter.

We would like to wish our wonderful fathers a very

happy Father’s

Day for next

weekend. We

hope you enjoy

your day with

your loved ones!

MRS GIBB’S BABY ANNOUNCEMENT: We are very excited to

inform you that Mrs Gibb

and her husband welcomed

their second child, ‘Madelyn

Sara’ into the world on

Thursday 10th August. Both

Mrs Gibb and Madelyn are

doing well.

SCHOOL TOUR: Our next ‘school tour’ will be taking place on

Tuesday 19th September from 10:00am-10:50am.

This is for families looking to enrol at our school for

2018.

Please contact our office staff to book your

place!

PLAYGROUND MARKINGS: The school has added some additional

playground markings around our school. We have

also extra handball courts and we are currently

working on our entrance sign as you walk into the

school. The students especially love the animaze

and chessboard.

Below are just a few of these playground

markings:

SCHOOL UNIFORM: Please be reminded that the continuation of

wearing full school uniform is an expectation at

our school. Students are not permitted to wear

coloured or patterned jackets/ jumpers or

coloured tights/leggings under dresses.

It would be greatly appreciated if families could

ensure that your child/children are in full school

uniform when coming to school each day. Thank

you for your ongoing support.

NAPLAN ONLINE: Students in Year 3 and Year 5 will sit the NAPLAN

readiness test between the 4th and 8th September.

Your child will not need any academic

preparation as this is not a test of their literacy and

numeracy skills, but an opportunity for them to

experience the online test format and for our

school to assess its online testing capability. Your

child will be required to have a working set of

headphones at school for the week of readiness

testing.

Parents and students interested in familiarising

themselves with the NAPLAN Online format can

access the NAPLAN Online demonstration site

that includes sample tests for each NAPLAN year.

Use the following link:

http://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/

naplan-online/naplan-online-public-

demonstration-site

Further information about NAPLAN Online is

available on the national ACARA website:

http://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/

naplan-online

If you would like your child to be exempt from the

NAPLAN online testing, please contact your

child’s classroom teacher or Mrs Gracie.

Have a wonderful weekend and we look forward

to the next two weeks of amazing things

happening at our school!

Mr Sutherland, Mrs Gracie & Mrs Cardwell

(School Senior Leadership Team)

School News K-2 ASSEMBLY CHANGE:

As a result of our P&C’s Father’s Day Stall, K-2

Assembly has been moved to Tuesday 29th August

at 12:45pm.

DEBATING NEWS:

Congratulations to our two debating teams who

both won their debates this week!

Our Ridges Debating Team – Tammi, Seth,

Maxwell and Prashaant versed Ironbark Ridge

Public School. The topic was, ‘children should only

watch TV on the weekend’ and they were the

affirmative team.

Our Premier’s Debating Team - Swara, Parneet,

Arlene and Florence versed Walters Road Public

School. The topic was, ‘sport should be replaced

with more class time’ and they were the

affirmative team.

Both teams were strong and delivered their

content convincingly. It has been exciting to

watch their skills in rebutting develop, particularly

when the topics deal with current affairs.

We look forward to their next debates later in the

term!

Miss Du Preez and Miss Axiak Debating Coordinators

HAWKESBURY DANCE EISTEDDFOD PARKLEA

#1:

On Wednesday 23rd August, the Stage 2 and

Stage 3 Dance Groups performed at the

Hawkesbury City Dance Eisteddfod, where they

competed against other schools in the local area.

The day started with a very entertaining bus ride,

where the students sang an array of songs all the

way out to the Windsor Function Centre. Even the

bus driver was

bopping

along to our

delightful

singing.

Both dance

groups

performed

brilliantly, showcasing their amazing talents and

fantastic, well-rehearsed dance routines. Both the

Stage 2 and Stage 3 Dance Groups placed first in

their respective sections, receiving a plaque from

the major and also

some prize money -

which we are hoping

to put towards the

purchase of a cabinet

to showcase all of our

CAPA trophies and

banners.

The adjudicator’s

feedback stated that

both groups were beautifully attired, well

groomed and that the dance routines were very

well executed. Thanks to our awesome dance

teachers, Miss Andeshmand, Mrs Coburn, Mrs

Dhillon and Miss Bandeira for their outstanding

choreography. Thank you also to the teachers

and students for all of the time they have spent

perfecting their routines prior to this Eisteddfod.

We are very proud of all of the dancers and their

fantastic achievement!

Well done Parklea!

Mrs Koller CAPA Coordinator

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