11 December 2017

Newsletter Articles

December PBL Focus

Principal’s Message

Celebrating 2017 Learning Achievement

Success at SIPPS is underpinned by the great people and practices produced by a public education system that is second to none in preparing young people to lead rewarding and productive lives in a complex and dynamic world.

The DoE strategic planning and a school excellence framework guides our school planning and decisions now and into the future by providing a clear description of the key elements of high quality practice across the three domains of learning, teaching and leading.

This year sees the successful accomplishment of milestones that have been the focus of the 2015-2017 School planning cycle. Over these last three years we have set out to improve and promote student engagement, collective staff efficacy and effective parent and community partnerships. As a result we now have our students engaged more fully in a rich, inclusive, futures-focused curriculum.

Evidence of this achievement was celebrated at last Tuesday’s Awards Presentation Assemblies. Congratulations to award winners and all SIPPS students who have given their personal best efforts towards achieving excellence in behaviour and learning this year.

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality." (Walt Disney)

I would like to acknowledge SIPPS teachers and administrative staff whose considerable talents, experience and time have been dedicated to put the learning needs and wellbeing of SIPPS students front and centre.

We also acknowledge and are extremely grateful for the continued support of our many parent volunteers including a wonderful P&C executive team and committees who have also devoted many hours of personal time to run the uniform shop, fundraising and social events. Special thanks and farewell to Matt Churchouse and Vera Dedijar for their support and significant contribution to our school.

‘Find JOY in the journey’

It was my great pleasure to represent SIPPS at the Sir Eric Woodward Memorial Schools 2017 Presentation Day last week. Their theme ‘find JOY in the journey’ and performances were inspired by Cirque du Soleil. On behalf of the school, I was delighted to present an award and also accept a certificate of appreciation for our school’s ongoing commitment, support and friendship to the students and staff of Sir Eric Woodward School.

2018 Student Leadership Team

At last week’s awards presentation evening we announced the 2018 student leadership team. Congratulations to the following students:

School Captains - Emily and Declan
School Vice Captains - Isobel and Matilda
School Prefects - Amy and Benjamin
SRC Leaders - Aiden, Yasmiin and Emma
Banksia House Captains - Jamie and Gabriella
Grevillea House Captains - Logan and Phoebe
Waratah House Captains - Andrew and Mathilde

2018 Planning

Anticipated student enrolment for 2018 is 183. If we hold this number we will have a staffing entitlement to form 8 classes. This will be structured in the following way:

2x Early Stage 1 classes (Kindergarten Year)
2x Stage 1 classes (Years 1/2 combined)
2x Stage 2 classes (Years 3/4 combined)
2x Stage 3 classes (Years 5/6 combined)

Teachers confirmed for next year are:

Ms Sheehy (Assistant Principal K-2), Mrs Myburgh (Relieving Assistant Principal 3-6), Mrs Meyers, Mrs Took, Ms Smith, Mr Dimmers, Miss Emerson, Mrs Shanahan/Miss Forsyth (job share from Term 2), Mrs Cronin (music), Mrs Stobo (visual arts), Mrs Allman (library)

Congratuations to:

Mrs Rhonda Fazzolari our new permanent School Administration Manager.

Miss Shin who has been appointed as permanent Classroom Teacher to North Ryde Public School.

Mrs Henman who has been appointed as permanent Classroom Teacher to Riverbank Public School.

Final Patter for 2017

Please see the following calendar events for the last two weeks of the school year.

Monday 11 December – Year 6 farewell/graduation
Tuesday 12 December – Heroes of the House Day – Grevillea students
Thursday 14 December – Class parties
Friday 15 December – Final day for students – SIPPS factor talent quest
Monday 18 December – Pupil Free, Staff development Day - OOSH running program.

For more information on the Helping Hands Program over the Summer Vacation please click here.

Thank you to all our students, staff and parents for another outstanding year. Best wishes to all families for the festive season and I hope you all have a safe and restorative summer holiday. Students in Years 1-6 will return on Tuesday 30 January and our new Kindergarten students will start classes on Friday 2 February following Best Start interviews.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

Gillian Tegg

Celebrating Student Success

#PBL@SIPPS

Congratulations to the following students who have been presented with their wristbands for receiving 50 catch cards! It’s great to see the positive values of Respect, Responsibility and Personal Best on display at St Ives Park Public School.

Elizabeth B, Elizabeth F, Layla M, Hanmo, Ava, Cherry, Milly, Liam, Joselyn, Erin, James

Recognition of SIPPS Gold

Last Thursday a special morning tea hosted by Mrs Tegg was held for the Term 4 SIPPS Gold Medal recipients families. Well done and congratulations to Patrick, Oscar, Fin, Amy T, and Tamara.

Community Language Award

Congratulations to Polina on her participation and achievement in learning Ukrainian through the NSW Community Languages Schools Program this year.

Inspiring & Nurturing Successful Lifelong Learners

Reflections of 2017 Student Leaders

School Captains

This year has been the highlight of my time at St Ives Park and being school captain was a big part of it. I remember how excited I was last year to find out I had been elected even though I didn’t really know what it meant. And now that I’ve experienced it, I can truly say that I have loved everything about being your school captain. It was awesome knowing that teachers and students at the school trusted me and believed I could get things done.

Taking responsibility was one of the biggest challenges, but it was also the thing I enjoyed the most. I never thought that getting stuck with doing extra tasks before school and during lunch would actually be a good thing. But it was, and heaps of fun too. Because it often meant that I had an important job to do. If a teacher or a student needed my help, I was ready to give it. It was this responsibility that I loved the most. It’s nice to be needed.

Helping with the organisation of school activities, writing the scripts for assemblies, communicating with the teachers about tasks that needed to be done and running errands around the school, became regular events in my life. But don’t think the job didn’t have its perks.

The Leadership camp and the National Young Leaders Day conference were definite highlights of my time as school captain because I got to learn about leadership, team work and identifying my strengths and weakness and how I can be a good leader.

But I learned the most about leadership by actually being school captain and walking in my own shoes. I learned the importance of communication and getting your thoughts across clearly, I learned the importance of listening to everyone’s ideas and building on them rather than picking out the flaws, I learned the importance of creating solutions to fix problems rather than focusing on the problem, I learned the value of kindness and enthusiasm for getting people to join you, and I learned how important it is for a leader to stop leading sometimes and follow.

I feel very fortunate to have been part of the leadership team at SIPPS, and I want to thank my fellow captains and prefects for all their help. I also want to thank Mrs Hayllar for been a great teacher and guiding me, Mrs Tegg for trusting me and giving me responsibility, and all my friends and school mates for always helping me out when I couldn’t do it by myself.

St Ives Park is a wonderful school where everyone is made to feel like they belong. It has given me so many opportunities and I have grabbed as many of them as I could. I participated because I wanted to build a caring school community, encourage other to get involved, and help make our school better.

I’m only 11 but I’ve done my best to set a good example as school captain. Mum says I’m a “servant leader”, because I enjoy helping others and my enthusiasm influences people in a positive way. There are many types of good leaders and next year’s school captains will have to find their own unique way of ‘leading’. But no matter what type of leaders you choose to be, I encourage you all to follow this simple recipe for success PARTICIPATE, HELP OTHERS and HAVE FUN.

By Aden

Good evening parents staff and students.

This year I have had the immense privilege of being a school captain.I am so grateful and fortunate to have been given this role and have had a blast. I never thought I could keep up with all the challenging responsibilities of being a captain but it has actually been really fun.

Leading the school has enforced and dedicated an important role to me to guide the school and assist teachers and fellow students.

Being a school captain has pushed me to always do my best, be in charge, be better at problem solving and be a role model for younger students.

I feel so lucky to be able to represent and lead such an outstanding school. St Ives Park has been like a second home to me and has been so warm and friendly to me. As school captain I have participated in many leadership excursions and events. I went to a leadership camp where I learnt vital leadership and life skills and mingle with other school leaders. I went to the Parliament House and learnt lots about the government, and have participated in many more leadership outings. I would never have all of these insightful experiences if I hadn’t been part of the leadership team.

I learnt tips on how to be able to lead a team, being organised and being responsible and socially aware. If you want others to respect you, you must earn that respect as a responsible and trustworthy leader. Every day that I come to school I try my best to be the best leader I can be.

In high school and further through life I will remember and apply these valuable skills.

To the new leadership team:

You are very lucky: it is a fantastic opportunity to represent your school and collaborate with many different types of people. Thank you to the leadership team for helping me lead by my side. Thank you Mrs Tegg and all the teachers for their hard work and dedication towards this school.

And finally, Thank you

Rachael

SRC Leaders

This year we had the privilege of being SRC Leaders. We have participated in events such as Harmony Day, Bully No way day and the Pyjama and Onesie day.

We successfully raised money for both our school, and Charities such as the smith family and the Aboriginal literacy foundation using gold coin donations.

We would like to thank the SRC representatives from each class and also Mrs Field and Miss Emerson as SRC wouldn’t have happened without you. The SRC also discussed Heroes of the House day, new paint colours for the bathrooms and gratitude. We would also like to wish next year’s leaders the very best. Thank you!

By Darcy, Meshma and Scott

House Captains

This year has been amazing as house captain of Banksia. We have enjoyed every step of the way striving for victory. We had an amazing time at the swimming carnival, athletics carnival and the cross country.

We hope for all the years to come that Banksia will get stronger and stronger. We are both very proud of our amazing house.

Cherry (Banksia House Captain)

This year we have enjoyed being Waratahs 2017 house captains. We loved cheering for our house at all school carnivals such as the swimming, cross country, and the athletics carnival

We both wish the new 2018 Waratah house captains lots of good luck and we hope they have lots of fun leading all the 2018 carnivals, Thank you

Leo
Waratah House

1S 2017 Highlights

This year 1S have done lots of fun things but we think the very best thing was when Eddie arrived in our room. Eddie is our elf on the shelf and he is very cheeky. Some of the other cool stuff we have done this year:

• Movie Bugs when we made movies using bugs we made from paddle pop sticks and pom poms.
• Young Engineers when we made washing machines from lego. The washing machine actually spun around!
• We learnt a dance and performed it on stage at the SIPPS Spectacular.
• We used puppets to tell a story about a seal starting at a new school.
• We visited Healthy Harold in his van and learnt about healthy food and how to keep ourselves safe.
• We did lots of fun sport with GOT Game and we won 2 balls for being good.

We did so many things that we can’t tell them all!

We think the most special thing about 1S is that we all care about each other and like to make each other feel happy. We have had a fantastic year this year and we can’t wait to be in Year 2!

By 1S students

2FTs Highlights of 2017

Bella: I enjoyed making new friends at my new school and I loved when we made the insects and filmed on the iPads to create our Movie Bugs movie.

Beatrix: This year I enjoyed meeting new teachers at SIPPS. I loved learning the recorder and practising for the Opera House.

Polina: My favourite things this year were being Cinderella in the reader’s theatre and using the Dash robots.

Max: My favourite part of this year was using technology like the Lego workshop and using the laptops.

Henry: Going to art has been a highlight for me this year.

Imogen: I enjoyed learning to play the recorder and being part of the recorder group with Mrs Cronin.

Elizabeth: I enjoyed doing the readers theatre for drama. I also liked going the zone carnival and running in the 100m

Smriti: I enjoyed the Young engineers Lego workshop.

Reuben: I have loved working in the new STEAM room especially the colourful furniture and the rainbow walls.

Jamison: I have loved working in the new STEAM room because there is nice furniture and I have enjoyed the chess club.

Harry: A highlight for me this year was the Got Game program especially playing the tug of war.

Meredith: I loved going to the hall and using puppets for drama.

Maya: I loved doing the Movie Bugs movies on the iPads and using the new laptops.

Rachael: I enjoyed playing with the Dash robots and using the laptops.

Eva: I really enjoyed going to the zone athletics, it was very exciting.

Matthew: My highlight was using the Dash robots in the STEAM room.

Ethan: One of the best things at school for me this year was playing soccer with our class.

James: The Got Game program was great fun as we were playing all kinds of games with our friends.

1/2E highlights

Maya – Robotics in the STEAM room
Saoirse – Athletics with Got Game
Elizabeth C – ‘Young Engineers’ workshop
April – Stop motion ‘Movie Bugs’ for Science ‘Backyard Safari’ unit
Sophie – Dance with Got Game
Eloise – ‘Marvellous Mixtures’ incursion for Science ‘All Mixed Up’ unit
Braedon – Assisting at Kindy orientation and making cars with Lego Wedo
Eliza – Playing ‘Pig’ in Maths
Charlotte – Making hot air balloons for History ‘Travel and Transport’ unit
Ava – Playing new games
Luca – Learning with Dash robots in the STEAM room
Hamish – Playing dodgeball in Social Skills with Got Game
Lachie – Learning to solve hard maths problems
Brandon – Improving at division
Marcus – Using laptops
Hanmo – Writing information posters about different countries for Geography ‘Features of Places’ unit
Jiyu – ‘Marvellous Mixtures’ incursion for Science ‘All Mixed Up’ unit
Charlie – ‘Drama toolbox’ incursion, ‘Young Engineers’ workshop, using laptops and having Miss Emerson again
Elizabeth F – Dance with Got Game

5/6 H Reflections 2017

Egor says...

This year was one of the hardest years of my life because I moved to a new country. In the beginning of 2017 I had no friends, no language and bad results on my tests. Then things began to get better, I moved to a really good soccer team and I learned how to speak English.

I spent a lot of time with my parents because I didn’t have friends and I experienced my first Halloween. This was my first year at St Ives Park Public School and I liked it. When I arrived I thought everyone would be mean to me, but no one was. Everyone helped me with Maths and English and I made friends because I was beginning to understand them. Sometimes students were mean, but I didn’t mind.

The teachers were all kind and helped me. I learned many new things like touch football, handball, google classroom, iMaths and many more. I had some bad moments but I had many more good, exciting things that I really enjoyed. So 2017 was the best year I have had and I will never forget it.

Mathilde says…

This year has been my first year at St Ives Park Public School. This school is much smaller than my old school but I have loved every single moment of my time here. I have one more year and I know it will be even better than the last. Although I have had good moments and bad, the best was when I got the chance to be House Captain for 2018.

This year has been a roller coaster, with many ups and downs, but that is part of life and I can’t wait to go on my next rollercoaster ride next year.

Jessica says…

2017 has been a great year because of all the great programs at St Ives Park Public School. During the first half of the year K-2 students participated in Seed Harvest Spoon and 3-6 got to do it in the second half of the year. We also participated in a Got Game program where we did gym, athletics, dance and team skills. This program was such fun. I also really enjoyed the new STEAM room and the laptops and robotics. I enjoyed creating a robot for kindy orientation day.

This year I learned a lot in all areas. It was a great experience to perform with different music groups. 2017 has been the best last year of Primary School.

Aden says…

2017 has been the highlight of my time at SIPPS. Being School Captain became a big part of my life. It came with a lot of responsibilities but I took them and embraced the challenges. I got involved in as many extra curriculum activities as I could and loved every minute of it. I had so much fun on camps and excursions and made the most of every activity.

The highlight of my year was the National Young Leaders Day Conference and Leadership Camp. I learnt all about being a great leader and knowing my strengths and weaknesses. I recommend all future students get as involved as possible.

Creative Arts News

STAGE 1 – MORE FLOWERS FROM MONET’S GARDEN

While learning interesting facts about Claude Monet, Stage 1 students were also learning some artistic techniques.

Textures were made by printing with bubble wrap or crumpled paper dipped in paint. Backgrounds were varied by mixing water with the paint to make it lighter and using the brush strokes for texture. Repeating patterns were made by drawing into thick paint with the handle end of the brush.

1S and 1/2E students painted their flowers and insects, cut them out and collaged them onto their backgrounds.

2F/T students painted their flowers onto their backgrounds and when dry, added details and enhancements using oil pastels.

The results are magnificent! Congratulations Stage 1.

Wouldn’t they look beautiful if they were framed?

Christmas Charity Concert

Congratulations to our combined choir and Mrs Cronin for an excellent performance last Sunday in the Kur-ing-gai Philharmonic Orchestra’s Charity Christmas Concert. The venue, St Ives Uniting Church, was packed with musical patrons of all ages who enjoyed a program of magical musical moments whilst supporting the charity ‘Beyond Blue’.

Library

Congratulations to Cherry And Patrick for achieving a Premier’s Reading Challenge Platinum Award. They have completed the PRC for seven consecutive years. Congratulations to Lara who has achieved her gold award for completing the PRC for four consecutive years. To all students and the SIPPS community, thank you for all your support in making our Library such a positive and vibrant part of the school.

Virginia Allman
Teacher Librarian
Kambora P.S And St Ives Park P.S

Notes From the office

Parents and Citizens Association

Thank You

Thank you to everyone who has been a part of the P&C this year and those who have helped out with our events. Nicole has done a fantastic job stepping into the President role, and the rest of the Exec and broader committee have all helped out in many individual ways. We'd like to say a special thank you and farewell to our Treasurer, Vera, who is moving to Perth and to our Vice President and Uniform Shop Co-Ordinator Matt Churchouse - whose family is off to the Big Apple! They have both put so much into our school community for many years.

AGM and 2018 Committee:

Congratulations to all our returning and new P&C Committee elected at the AGM:

President: Nicole Pruden
Vice President: Emmy Druce
Treasurer: Lorna Raine
Secretary and Marketing Officer: Felicity Harris
Fundraising Coordinator: Graham Warn
Environmental Officer: Samantha Romer
Grant Writer: Sarah Weller
Class Parent Coordinator: Sony Robson

Vacant - please get in contact with us if you can manage, or volunteer some time for these vacant roles:

Canteen Coordinator
Uniform Shop Coordinator

New Kindy Playdate:

Sun 4th Feb, Athena Ave Reserve.

Casual play date for new families to get to know each other before the first full week of school.

First P&C Meeting for 2018

Wed 21 Feb, 7:15pm, Staff Room.

If you have any queries or would like to get involved with the P&C in 2018, please get in touch at stivesparkpc@gmail.com

Tennis Courts

Uniform Shop

2018 Dates

Years 1 to Year 6 Students

The Uniform shop will be open 9.00 am to 10.30 am on Monday 29th Jan 2018 for Years 1 to Year 6 Students.

Kindergarten Students

The Uniform shop will be open for Kindergarten students on Wednesday 31st January 2018 from 8.30 am to 10 am. This is when the kindergarten students will be having their Best Start Assessments.