2 July 2018

Newsletter Articles

July PBL Focus

Principal’s Message

Quality team that teach the future

Our inspirational teachers have worked hard to ensure that Semester 1 reports truly reflect the abilities of every student at SIPPS. Thank you to all staff for their dedication, time and energy in creating such detailed and meaningful reports for all students in their class. Semester 1 reports will be issued to all students tomorrow afternoon. I would also like to congratulate every one of our students for the successful achievement of their Semester One learning goals.

Dance performance

Best wishes to the dance team performing at Glenn Street this evening and tomorrow night in the Sydney North Dance Festival. I look forward to attending Tuesday night’s performance. Thank you to Mrs Shanahan for choreographing the routine and donating personal time after hours to manage students for both evening performances.

NAIDOC Week - ‘Because of Her We Can’

NAIDOC Week 2018 celebrates the invaluable contributions that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have made and continue to make – to our communities, our families, our rich history and to our nation. The following artwork of tarmunggie-woman by Cheryl Moggs portrays the courage and resilience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women. ‘From the ripples of fresh water and salt water, across the travel pathways and song lines of our traditional lands and skies.’

NAIDOC occurs during the school holidays, however we commenced our celebrations at SIPPS last week with a special Musica Viva performance from Wyniss, a Torres Strait Song and Dance group. Thank you to Mrs Cronin for delivering to our students the program of learning that preceded the concert. By comparing their own childhood games to those from the remote Torres Strait, students learnt the importance of traditions, and to be thankful to those who teach them. For more information about the performers or the program please see the following link.

Also this year our SRC decided fundraise to support Aboriginal children by selling Koori Kids merchandise in the first week back next term.

Principal’s Gold Morning Tea

This week those students who have received a SIPPS Gold medal this term will enjoy celebrating with their families at a special morning tea hosted by me in the staffroom. Congratulations to Jamie, Julia and Olivia for successfully and consistently demonstrating our school’s expectations of Respect, Responsibility and Personal Best.

Happy Holidays

Friday 6th July is the final day for Term 2. I would like to wish all SIPPS families a safe and happy winter holiday. School resumes for all students on Tuesday 24 July. Please book with the Helping Hands OOSH if you would like to use their service for Vacation Care or the Term 3 Pupil Free day, Monday 23 July. Their contact number is: 0475 838 226. Please see the following for further information.

Best Wishes
Gillian Tegg

Helping Hands OOSH & Vacation Care

Celebrating Student Success

Wrist Band Winners

Congratulations to the following students who have collected 50 catch cards

Beatrix
Eva – (2nd wristband)
Meredith
Polina
Elizabeth
Maya PA
Harry A
Jamison
Luca A-DC
Natalie
Chelsea

Public Speaking

Once again our debating team defeated their competition in last week’s round of interschool competition. Congratulations to the team who argued the negative case on the topic: We should donate to Australian charities rather than overseas charities.

Well done to Evie, Bella, Isobel and Amy for representing SIPPS at the local final of the Multicultural Perspectives Public Speaking Competition last week at Beaumont Rd PS. All prepared and impromptu speeches were of a very high standard this year. Congratulations to all our girls.

Sydney North Cross Country

Congratulations to Alex P who finished 9th out of 72 competitors in the 8/9 boys 2km division at last week’s Sydney North Cross Country at Gosford Racetrack.

Futsal Fever

Coinciding with the Soccer World Cup was the NSW Futsal Schools Regional Tournament at Dural. For the first time SIPPS sent four teams to compete in this tournament. Thank you to Mr Dimmers for coaching our teams and to parents for transporting students. The skills and teamwork of our students were impressive and our senior girls’ team got through to the semi-finals which was an outstanding first-time achievement.

Inspiring & Nurturing
Successful Lifelong Learners

3/4 Blue Bin Audit:

On Tuesday 3/4 Blue did a bin Audit as part of our sustainability unit. At the bin Audit our job was to count how many pieces of rubbish there was in our playground bins.

As a class we predicted that there would be more lolly wrappers than any other rubbish. We were surprised because we found more rubbish than expected and not one of those was a lolly wrapper!

We discovered that food scraps fill our bins the most, which made our work quite smelly. On our recent excursion to Kimbriki we learnt that half of our rubbish goes to landfill and can be recycled. As a class we discussed changing Waste free Wednesday to Waste Free Weekly.

Henry and Scarlett

Great Assembly 3.4 Red

Notes from the Office

Children's crossings

These are part-time crossings which operate just before and after school hours, as well as other times such as school excursions and lunch times. They are highlighted by red flags with the words CHILDREN CROSSING on them.

When the flags are displayed you must slow down and stop before the stop line if a pedestrian is on or entering the crossing. You must not proceed until all pedestrians have left the crossing.

You must not stop on or within 20 meters before or 10 meters after, a children’s crossing.

Combined children's and pedestrian crossing

Some pedestrian crossings are used as children’s crossings at some times during the day. The display of CHILDREN CROSSING flags means that the children's crossing is operating.

When the flags are not displayed the crossing operates as a normal pedestrian crossing.

Term 2 Fees

Just a friendly reminder that any Term 2 fees are now overdue. If you are currently overdue with your Term 2 fees, please check your child’s backpack as the fee statements will be coming home with your child this week.

Parents and Citizens Association

Voluntary Contribution

Thank you to those who have paid their annual P&C contribution. A reminder to those who are yet to pay. We hope you are enjoying your complementary box of tea. Please support our primary project this year for a new playground. We are extending the prize draw out until the first Friday back after the holidays, to give you time to pay. So please do make your payment by Fri 27 July and you'll go into the draw to win a beautiful Twinings tea chest. Payment details are in the letter attached via the link below:

Thank you for your ongoing support of our school.

No canteen

Mon 2 July - due to the athletics carnival

Next P&C Meeting

Wed 15 Aug - 7:15pm

Kids School Disco

Save the date: Fri 24 Aug

Fathers Day Breakfast

Save the date: Fri 31 Aug

Parents Casino Night

Save the date: Sat 3 Nov

We are collecting donations for silent auctions and raffles. Please let us know if you or your business can support us with goods such us vouchers, hampers, wine or other tempting prizes at stivesparkpc@gmail.com

sippsuniform@gmail.com

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