The Forestville Flyer

Monday, 24 February, 2020 Term 1 Week 5Address: 7 Melwood Ave, Forestville, 2087 Ph: 9452 5444 Email: forestvill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Website: www.forestvill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

DATES TO REMEMBER

Mon 24 Feb P & C Meeting – 7pm Staffroom Thur 3 Apr Year 2 Schoolhouse Museum

Tues 25 Feb Year 5 CARES – 5B & 5PB Sat 4 Apr P&C Trivia Night

Wed 26 Feb –

Fri 28 Feb

Year 6 Basin Tues 7 Apr Cross Country

Mon 9 Mar Zone Swimming Carnival Thur 9 April Last day of Term 1

Thur 12 Mar School Tour – 9.30am at Office Fri 10 April Good Friday

Thur 19 Mar Year 1 Gibberagong Mon 27 April Staff Development Day

- No students at school

Mon 23 Mar P & C Meeting Tues 28 April Students return for Term 2

Wed 1 Apr School Tour – 9.30am at Office

Principal’s Report

Moving to Year 7 in 2021

An Expression of Interest form has sent home today with all year 6 students for

placement in Year 7, 2021 in NSW Government schools. Please complete the form and

return to the school no later than Monday, 15 March, 2020. All information relating to the

expression of interest is on the form. If you have any questions or concerns please see

Katy Costa (Stage 3 AP).

School Bathrooms

Our school bathrooms are unfortunately regularly being mistreated by the students at

Forestville. I had a big talk to our 3-6 students at assembly last Friday but I would really

like to get parents involved also.

Students have been throwing whole rolls of paper into the toilets, have been stuffing

paper into the soap dispensers so that they are clogged and are leaving large amounts

or toilet tissue in the wash troughs or all over the floor. They are also not always flushing

or using the toilets appropriately. This makes the cleaners job very challenging and is

totally unacceptable behaviour.

Please talk to your children about what habits they should be practicing in using our

bathrooms and the teachers will also spend some time talking about the appropriate use

of our facilities. It is vital that these toilet facilities are respected and maintained in good

condition.

Principal’s Report

Bikes and Scooters

We encourage students to be healthy and ride or walk to school. Part of students using

bikes and scooters is ensuring their safe passage from home to school. Please spend

some time with your children explaining the hazards on their journey and also the need

to walk their bike or scooter in the playground in our very busy before and after school

periods. We would also like to remind students to lock their bikes in the bike racks

during the day, as leaving them scattered around the school can cause issues with

safety.

Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL)

We would like all of our community to participate in identifying our 3 focus areas for our

positive behaviour for learning directions. Please use the link below and indicate which

3 areas you feel are important for our students and community.

https://tinyurl.com/FPS-PBL

What is mindfulness?

Mindfulness is paying attention to the present moment with openness, curiosity and

without judgement.

At Forestville we have been working with staff to introduce the Smiling Mind program.

This program will not only benefit staff, but also students, and it is going to be used in

classrooms across the school to promote good wellbeing practices and help students

to focus on their inner health and concentration.

Year 6 to the Basin

Our Year 6 teachers and students, along with Ms Costa will be heading to the Basin in

Pittwater for the annual Year 6 Basin Camp. We are the only school in Sydney who

utilises the camp facilities and works in partnership with Gibberagong Environmental

Education staff to give our students this experience. It takes an incredibly dedicated,

selfless team to ensure the students at Forestville have this experience, and I would like

to thank them all for volunteering to spend the 3 days with our students at the Basin.

Bring on the warm weather and starry nights!

Student Banking

School Banking Information Session

Forestville Public School is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking

program to all students.

We will be holding a School Banking Information Session at our school:

Time: Between 8:30am – 9:00am

Date: Tuesday 3rd March, 2020

Location: Near the Canteen Area

Please join us and find out more about the School Banking program and how your child

can get involved.

If you are interested in opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account for your child

you can visit www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a

Youthsaver account.

A School Banking representative will be available at the Information Session to explain

how you can do this. In order to verify yourself and your child, you will need your driver’s

licence and your child’s birth certificate, but if you don’t have these with you on the day,

you can complete verification online at home.

Exciting new Term 1 Treetop Savers rewards are now available, while stocks last!

Terry Denton’s Activity Book Mini Soccer Ball (size 2)

Principal’s Report

SAGE

Students Aim HighGive it a Go

Encourage Others

The link below is from the Smiling Minds website. It shows Associate Professor Dr Craig

Hassed from Monash University explaining the benefits of mindfulness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsXxvPWd_k4

P & C Trivia Night

Dear Parents

Davidson, Forest and Killarney Heights High Schools have agreed to do the same entrance

test on the 17 March at 4.00 pm.

Students should sit the test at their local high school.

Out of area students are able to apply for the enrichment class of their choice, however

they will also need to fulfil the out of area application process of the school.

Copies of these application forms will be available on the High Schools' websites.

Year 7 2021 Extension Class Exams

Student Banking

For every deposit made at school, students will receive a silver Dollarmite token. Once

students have individually collected 10 tokens they can redeem them for exclusive School

Banking reward items, in recognition of their regular savings habits. There are two new

items released each term so be sure to keep an eye out for them!

Thank you for supporting the School Banking program and remember, School Banking day

is every Tuesday between 8.30am and 9.00am at the School Canteen.

From the Office

From the Office

SKOOLBAG APPPlease download the SKOOLBAG

app to your device to keep up to

date with school newsletters and

notifications. Please make sure

you are subscribed to your

current Year Group.

Please note that we will be

trialling the delivery of some

notes via the skoolbag app. A

note will be sent home in the

coming weeks with further

information.

TERM ACCOUNTS

Term accounts were emailed to everyone 2 weeks ago. Thank you to those of you who

have already paid. If you have not paid these fees as yet, we would appreciate if you

could make payment at your earliest convenience.

KINDERGARTEN 2021

If you have a child starting Kindergarten in 2021 or have any friends with children who

may want to enrol in 2021, please contact the school office to register for a Kindy School

Tour.

Please click on the link School Tour Dates.

CHANGE OF DETAILS

If you have had any recent change of contact details such address, phones numbers or

email please update us via the Skoolbag app. Go to eform – Change of Details and

submit.

https://www.moqproducts.com.au/skoolbag/installation-instructions/

From the Office

Swimming Carnival Results

Swimming Carnival Results

Dance News

Please note that the P & C Meeting will be held in the Staffroom at 7.00pm.

All welcome.

This year the boys Hip Hop Group will be taught by Amber, a hip hop teacher from

Vanessa Price’s dance school.

Rehearsal will be held every Wednesday morning from 8:00am - 8:45am.

Students must attend all rehearsals to be in the group.

As we are using a professional teacher, there will be a cost involved. This will be

$40.00 plus costume hire for the 15 weeks.

Auditions will be held this Tuesday 25th February.

Years 3&4 at lunchtime and years 5&6 at 2.20pm.

Rehearsals will begin next Wednesday 4th March.

This will be a great opportunity for the boys.

Ms Costa

Boys Hip Hop Group Auditions

P & C

Due to the Yr 6 Camp there are changes to our dance schedule for just this week. Please

could you make sure that your child is aware of these changes.

Yr 5 / Yr 6 DANCE GROUP

Only rehearsal this week is TUESDAY @ RECESS

YR3/YR4 DANCE GROUP

Change for this week to THURSDAY LUNCH

K-2 DANCER OF THE WEEK:

Congratulations to the following students:

2Z Kelly A, Jay B

2N Audrey H, Teddy M

2L Holly V, Delane W

2B Kobe K, Aika S

1HM Henrik L, Imani N

1Y Amy G, Nathaniel S

1A Olivia L, Levi L

Thank you

Vanessa Price

Dance Teacher

Band News

Forestville PS Snowsports Team

Are your children interested in being part of the Forestville Snowsports

Team (Skiing and Snowboarding)?

I am looking for expressions of interest to join our Team and compete in the

Interschools Snowsports Competition in Thredbo, 7 – 11 July, 2020. This is

open to all children attending Forestville Public School in 2020.

If you are interested (no commitment yet!) please send an email to me at

teira@jansen.com.au and I will send you information. You child does not

need to be a high level skier to compete, just be able to link turns on blue

runs and be ready to have fun!!

Please spread the word.

TEAM APP

TEAM APP is the main form of communication between your Conductors, the Band

Committee and Band Members. Please could all band families download the TEAM

APP and join their relevant band group. You can change your group from last year’s

group in the TEAM APP under Settings then Access Groups within the app. This

year’s groups have 2020 after each band name. If you need help downloading the app

please contact Alison on fpsbands@gmail.com

FUTURE DATES TO PUT IN YOUR DIARY

Committee Meeting - Monday 17th February 7.45-9.30pm Forestville RSL

Music Mania – Sunday 29th March 11.45am-4.30pm, Forestville Public School – All

bands

Band Camp – 8.00am Monday 25th May - 4.00pm Tuesday 26th May, Camp Kedron –

All bands

NSW GOVERNMENT CREATIVE KIDS VOUCHERS!

Forestville Band is an approved provider of the NSW Government’s Creative Kids

Programme. Parents of school age children can claim $100 per year from the

Government to use towards any creative activity including our band fees if you chose.

Visit their website https://www.service.nsw.gov.au/transaction/apply-creative-kids-

voucher apply for your voucher and forward it to the Band Committee to use towards

your unpaid Semester fees this year. We are listed as Forestville Public School P&C

Association Incorporated.

PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR BAND PIECES

Please could all students practice at home and ensure some time is set aside in

lessons for band pieces, it’s all too easy to miss the band pieces sometimes, however

this practice will help with keeping up in band rehearsals.

Band News

INSTRUMENT HIRE

Instrument hire contracts were emailed to all relevant families last week, if you are

hiring an instrument from FPS please sign and return this form asap if you haven’t

already done so. The contract contains important information regarding T&Cs and

instrument repair procedure.

INSTRUMENT HANDLING

We have had many repairs needed in previous years due to instruments being packed

and unpacked incorrectly. It would be a great idea if you could ask your child’s tutor to

have a recap on how to handle and pack/unpack instruments. It would be great if you

could remind your child that they should be the only person who handles their own

instrument and that they should not handle or play with other students’ instruments to

avoid any accidents.

REHEARSALS

If you are not able to attend a rehearsal or performance please let your band

coordinator know asap so they can forward this information onto the conductors, this

way they know who will be absent and can plan the rehearsals and performances

accordingly.

Rehearsal times are as per below table;

Band Rehearsal Day / Time

Training Band Tuesday 7.30-8.45am

Intermediate BandMonday 7.30-8.45am

Thursday 3.15-4.15pm

Concert Band Tuesday 3.15-4.15pm

Thursday 7.30-8.45am

Stage Band Monday 3.15-4.15pm

Band Committee fpsbands@gmail.com

Strings News

Term 1Player of the week: Shuprio – 3J

Any questions please contact

Kylie Lake - Strings President

fps.strings@gmail.com ph: 0414 666 711

Dance NewsCanteen

Bronwyn Barlin - 0424 513 527

2nd hand Uniforms are available through the school – please contact Bronwyn on

0424 513 527.

Uniform Shop

SECOND-HAND UNIFORM SHOP

Canteen

Forest Bites Canteen

LOST PROPERTY

If your child has lost any items such as a lunchbox, jumper, hat or other items, please

have a look in the lost property. Lost property is located outside the old uniform shop

which is now the Learning Support room.

Welcome back and hello to our new families.

Just a reminder to please label all uniforms, lunch boxes and drink bottles as it makes it

easier to return them.

All NEW uniforms can be bought online from Pickles or their store at Brookvale.

If you need to try on sizes before ordering please contact me.

Volunteer Roster Weeks 5, 6 and 7

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

24 February

Belinda G

Jen M

25 February

Jo D

26 February

Paula M

27 February

Myrna H

Joelene F

Lisa T

28 February

Emma S

Belinda C

2 March

Dolly M

3 March 4 March

Paula M

5 March

Sophie S

Julienne T

6 March

Zoe M

Lucy Q

9 March

Dolly M

10 March 11 March 12 March

Kris E

Farheen

13 March

Edwina K

Michelle M

Sushi Friday

The canteen has had a number of new parents to the school asking

how big the sushi boxes are. Here is a picture to guide parents on

the sizing of the sushi rolls and the mini boxes.

Order online with Munch Monitor

www.munchmonitor.com

School ID: Forestville, Password: munch2087

There is an account-keeping fee of $3.65 per parent per account per term, payable via

your online account. For assistance, contact help@munchmonitor.com, call 1300 796

190 or visit us in the canteen.

Volunteers Needed

If you are able to help in the canteen especially on a Wednesday or Thursday please

contact us via email at fpscanteen@gmail.com. If you cannot commit to a full day we

would welcome even an hour first thing in the morning or just before lunch to get the

lunches ready for distribution.

Volunteers

If you can’t make your shift, please contact other volunteers from the list (2nd page of

your roster).

Contact details for the Canteen Managers:

Tania Laytham (Monday, Tuesday & Friday) 0414 528 534

Kim Egelton (Wednesday, Thursday) 0412 254 310

Canteen

Community News

Community News

Community News

Australian Girls Choir –Complimentary Open Classes

The Australian Girls Choir is

currently offering free open classes

to school-aged girls during

February and March. Attending an

open class gives girls the

opportunity to explore their musical

and performance skills in a fun and

nurturing environment. Girls have

fun as they learn to sing, dance

and perform in weekly classes that

emphasise personal growth and

self-esteem. Visit

https://ausgirlschoir.com.au/openclass/ for more details.

Community News

Community News