12 June 2017

Newsletter Articles

June PBL Focus

Principal’s Message

School Grounds Maintenance

We are fortunate to have extensive grounds which provide many opportunities for students to learn and play amidst the natural environment. Maintaining our school grounds takes a lot of effort and we thank our P&C for supporting the school by organising working bees to assist with weeding, mulching and general clean-up of the school grounds. Special thanks to those families who attended the recent working bee.

The school is also required to employ a licenced contractor to undertake annual tree safety inspections and remediation. We also ask SIPPS students and visitors to our site to take responsibility for maintaining a litter free environment through the adoption of waste reduction initiatives and to dispose of rubbish in the garbage bins provided. This is consistent with our school expectation of Respect – ‘Care for your environment’

Winning Speeches

Congratulations to Lily, Summer, Aden and Amy making it to the next round of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition. They will represent SIPPS this week at the local final to be held at Belrose Public School. Good luck to our team for Thursday.

Reporting Student Achievement

Teachers are finalising Semester 1 student reports which will go home to parents on Tuesday 27 June. Student achievement is measured against stage-based outcomes and individual learning goals. They contain information about what has been taught and about students’ current levels of knowledge, skills and understandings, including areas for further development. Reports also provide parents with information about how students are progressing socially as well as academically.

ICAS Writing

Students who are participating in ICAS Writing need to be at school by 7:50am this Thursday 15 June. The test will start promptly at 8am in the 5/6 S and 5/6 H classrooms.

Sport News

Congratulations to Alex who recently was selected in the Sydney North AFL team that competed in the AFL State Carnival in Parkes NSW. The Sydney North team won 5/7 games and were only defeated by the premiers, Riverina & Sydney East. The team listened well and trained hard together. Thank you to Alex for being such a great representative for our school and the Kuring-Gai Zone PSSA network. We are very proud of your achievement.

Our Zone cross country team competed in the interschool’s carnival recently at St Ives Showground. Congratulations to all our team who managed to complete the challenging course. Thank you to parents who helped transport the team and to Miss Emerson and Mrs Hayllar for leading our team’s involvement.

Term 4 Swimming Scheme

Thank you to parents who expressed an interest in the school swimming scheme for 2017. We have had a stronger response this year and should be able to run the program in Term 4. The dates we have been allocated for the program are Term 4 Weeks 9 & 10 from 10:15 to 11:00am. The lessons will be held at Ku-ring-gai Fitness and Aquatic Centre West Pymble

Tribute to Trudi

Parents, staff and students are invited to attend a special tribute assembly to Mrs Morris who will be retiring at the end of this term. The assembly will be held at 9:30am on Tuesday 27 June in the school hall. Former students and staff of the school are also welcome to attend to acknowledge Mrs Morris’ longstanding contribution to our school and Public Education.

Best Wishes - Gillian Tegg

Inspiring & Nurturing Successful Lifelong Learners

Year 6 Jerseys

The Year 6 students were very happy to receive their jerseys this week .

Leadership Camp

Recently the captains and vice captains of our school and many others attended the 2017 leadership camp. We had lots of fun made new friends and learnt a lot about leadership.

We along with another 170 school leaders were lucky enough to experience this amazing camp. I made lots of new friends and I got closer to friends I already knew. I learnt, while doing the dual flying fox activity, that a good leader has to have courage, they have to be willing to take a risk and try something new even if you’re not sure it's going to work out.

At the trivia night, I learned that leaders need to be smart and able to make fair decisions.

When doing an activity called the matrix, I learned that leaders have to be open to suggestions. In this activity there was a big grid placed on the floor on which there is a path you must find to get from one side of the grid to another if you step on one wrong grid square you have to start again.

At the camp we had a paper plane competition my teams plane didn't fly very far and we kind of knew it wouldn't. In doing this game I learnt that good leaders have to have a go even if they might fail; they have to be positive and encouraging.

And finally a good leader needs to be able to make things fun and enjoyable. The reason I loved this camp so much was because it felt like I was just playing games. I was learning without even realizing it.

All in all I had a great time at this amazing camp.

By Aden on behalf of Student Leadership Team

1 / 2 E

1/2E have been working really hard this week to engage in our learning through technology. This week we watched a video conference by Aaron Blabey and Mem Fox presented by the Premiers Reading Challenge. We also created amazing stop motion movies with iPads about bugs. This was with the help of 'Movie Bugs' and it was to finish of our Schoolyard Safari science unit. We also got the chance to learn in our new multipurpose classroom! In this wonderful new room we logged onto the laptops and joined our very own 'classroom' in Google Drive

Thank you
Stephanie Emerson
Classroom Teacher
St Ives Park Public School

SIPPS Multicultural Public Speaking School Finals

On Monday 29th May SIPPS held the Multicultural Public Speaking School Final. In class each student in years 3 to 6 had presented a speech from a range of multicultural topics. Two students from each class were then selected to represent their class in the school final.

The finalists from Stage 2 were Zoe, Lily, Daniela and Summer. In Stage 3 the finalists were Amy, Aden, Patrick and Katherine. It was a very close competition with all speakers giving eloquent and thought provoking speeches on current multicultural issues in Australia and from around the world.

From each stage two students were selected to represent St Ives Park at the district finals. Lily and Summer were chosen as the Stage 2 representatives and Amy and Aden will represent Stage 3.

All finalists are to be congratulated on the high standard of public speaking demonstrated in the competition. We wish our school representatives all the best as they proceed to the district finals on Thursday at Belrose Public School.

Featured programs and events

Please enjoy the following gallery of students engaged in Chess program, Cross Country Carnival, Peer Support program, School Sport Basketball program

Creative Arts News

Visual Arts

Congratulations to Cherry for achieving 2nd prize in the recent art exhibition at St Ives Shopping Village for her sea-shell design. Thank you to Mrs Stobo for enabling our school to take part in this exhibition.

TEDDY BEARS’ PICNIC

These very cute teddies were painted by the following students in KH :

Chloe, Elizabeth, Harry, Annie, Lucas, Andrew, Ava, Ira, Callum and Bailey.

The patterned bow ties were created by making dots of primary colours. By allowing the dots to mix together, some students created secondary colours.

Music

St Ives Park Public School is fortunate and very proud to have been selected to participate in two wonderful concerts to be performed at the Sydney Opera House later this year. The first involves the recorder ensemble which will perform at the Festival of Instrumental Music on Monday 31st July alongside talented instrumentalists from all over New South Wales. The recorder ensemble has worked tirelessly during lunchtimes to learn the music for this exciting performance opportunity. The Senior Choir has also been working hard towards a performance on Thursday 7th September at the Arts Alive Primary Choral Concert. Congratulations to all involved for their hard work and dedication.

Megan Cronin
Music Specialist

Library

BookFest 2017

SIPPS students have been involved in this very exciting event, hosted by the Premier's Reading Challenge.

There were 20 authors presenting over 3 days all inspiring students during the scheduled VCR sessions. Jeff Kinney, creator of the very popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, opened the BookFest. There were hundreds of schools around the state of NSW excited to see and hear Jeff speak and interact with his virtual audience. Sofia was lucky enough to have one of her/his questions selected for Jeff to answer during his session. The BookFest was a great way to celebrate books and reading in a 21st century format.

Virginia Allman
Teacher Librarian

Notes From the office

A number of notes for incursions, performance groups and our Athletics Carnival have been sent home. Please read these notes carefully and return them by due date along with any levies which they incur:

Kindergarten Incursion - Golden Ridge Animal Farm visit on Monday 19 June. Notes went home last week. Please return your permission note with payment by Thursday 15 June.

SIPPS Recorder Ensemble – performing in the Festival of Instrument Music on Monday 31st July at the Sydney Opera House. Participants will be attending a full day rehearsal on Tuesday 27th June (Week 10, Term 2) in the city at the Salvation Army Congress Hall. Permission notes, publicity consent forms and levy for the recorder ensemble are to be returned to the office by Wednesday 21 June.

SIPPS Senior Choir – performing in the Arts Alive Primary Choral Concert on Thursday 7th September at the Sydney Opera House. Participants will be attending a full day rehearsal on Thursday 3 August (Week 3, Term 3) at North Sydney Girls High School. Permission notes, publicity consent forms and levy for the Senior Choir are to be returned to the office by Wednesday 21 June.

SIPPS Junior Choir – performing in the Festival of Children’s Music to be held on Tuesday 17th October at the Chatswood Concourse Concert Hall. There will be two rehearsals held at Pymble Public School. Permission notes, publicity consent forms and levy are to be returned to the office by Wednesday 21 June.

Athletics Carnival – Monday 26th June. All students will travel by bus to Bannockburn Oval. A permission note will be sent home shortly. The carnival costs and bus levy were invoiced on your Term 2 Statement of Account. Please pay your school account promptly.

Soccer Draw and Playing Fields Term 2 2017

Week 8 Round 6
Friday 16 June
St Ives Park vs St Ives at Barra Brui Oval

Week 9 Round 7
Friday 23 June
St Ives Park vs Chatswood C at Roseville Park

Week 10 Round 8 Friday 30 June
St Ives Park vs Gordon West at Hassell Park

Parents and Citizens Association

Italian School Lunch

Wed 21 June

We have an Italian school lunch day coming up, look out for menus in school bags soon.

If you would like to help co-ordinate another special cultural lunch day in the future, please get in touch with us at stivesparkpc@gmail.com.

Kids School Disco

Fri 21 July - first Friday back after the holidays.

We will be holding a kids school disco split into 2 times by class groups:

K-2: 4-5:30pm
3-6: 6-8:00pm

Save the date and look out for more details coming soon. Estimated charge will be $10 per child.

A great way to kick off Term 3.

Parents Trivia Night

Sat 5 Aug

And we have a night planned for the parents too. Book your babysitters for Sat 5 Aug and look out for more details to come closer to the time.

P&C Contribution

We have had some queries about the P&C Contribution. To clarify, this is separate from the school term fees which cover basic school supplies and excursions. The P&C Contribution (coffee letter) covers all the over and above school services and events and is a one-off annual payment.

Tennis Courts

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will be open fortnightly – the next date being 14 June 2017.