1 July 2019

Newsletter Articles

July PBL Focus

Principal’s Message

Semester One Reports to Parents and Carers

Semester One reports will go home with students on Tuesday 2nd July, 2019. SIPPS reports are a snapshot of your child’s progress in written reports twice a year in line with the Department of Education guidelines. There are five levels of achievement and three levels for effort on the reports. The syllabus documents in New South Wales are designed so that the majority of students across the state will achieve a SOUND level of achievement with some students working either above or below this level.

If you have any questions regarding your child’s report, please make a mutually convenient time to meet with your child’s class teacher. Should you require further support after meeting with your child’s teacher you may wish to make an appointment with one of the Assistant Principals:

Thank you to our SIPPS Community

Parent seminar by Collette Smart -

A Mental Health Toolkit for Parents

I was delighted to see so many of our parents at the recent SIPPS seminar for parents. Mrs Smart shared many ideas with the teachers in the professional learning session in the afternoon.

Share Our Space

In the July school holidays SIPPS will again take part in an initiative to enable our community to access the school grounds through the Share Our Space program. The school will be open to visitors from Monday 8th July to Friday 19th July between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. There will be a Share Our Space representative present during these hours. Visitors are able to access the premises during these times.

Outside these times and hours, if you have concerns regarding our premises please call DET School Security on 1300 880 021.

A Busy Term 2 and Happy Holidays

Thank you for your patience!

It has been a very busy Term 2 with many changes to staff and our grounds, maintenance and facilities receiving updates and upgrades. We have received new colour bond roof installations on blocks D and E. We are currently having the classrooms in block E repainted (3 / 4 Blue and Red), the Music room and an office in A block. Our shade sails for the main quadrangle were installed last Friday and are looking just lovely.

Staff return to school for professional learning on Monday 22nd July.

During Week 1 of Term 3, we will be developing our knowledge and professional practices in the following areas:

Knowledge and understanding of Working Memory
PBL: Update and practices
Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
NESA: Teaching and Learning requirements

I would like to take this opportunity to wish all our families here at St Ives Park Public School a happy and safe holiday. The school holidays commence officially on 8th July and school resumes for students on Tuesday 23rd July.

SIPPS Athletics Carnival – Tomorrow 2nd July

This Tuesday July 2nd, I am looking forward to my first SIPPS Athletics Carnival at Bannockburn Oval. Thank you to Miss Emerson for all her organisation behind the scenes and in the running of the carnival. Hopefully it will be a lovely sunny day at Bannockburn Oval and I look forward to seeing our families in attendance and cheering for our students.

Term 3 @ SIPPS – 50th Jubilee Anniversary and school events

Dates for your diary as Term 3 is really going to be exceptionally busy term and hopefully a lot of fun for everyone.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone bright and rejuvenated after the holiday break.

Best Wishes
Caroline English
Principal

Celebrating Student Success

Inspiring & Nurturing
Successful Lifelong Learners

Kindergarten Korner

Multicultural Public Speaking Finals

Today the Multicultural Public Speaking finalists competed at Killara Public school against others schools in our area. They presented their speeches as well as prepared an impromptu speech in only 5 minutes! We are very proud of all our finalists for giving their #SIPPSPersonalBest.

Art News

Last week 1/2 RED were inspired by our artist of the term Hundertwasser and produced this wonderful group piece of art work. Every student made something for the piece, from lollipop trees, houses, onion domes, clouds and teardrops. They are very proud of their work and so am I... Well done 1/2 RED!!!

Drama team 2019

The drama team have been practising their play’s for the last few weeks. Our team have split into smaller groups and will be performing our short play’s and poem’s next term across a few Assemblies. We have a range of scripts to perform; From Narrators fighting over the Narrator role to the joy of losing a tooth. We can’t wait to show you!

Word Mania is back!

Starting next term SIPPS students will compete in the Word Mania challenge! The game is like Boggle and can be played on any device. Each word created is points for our school! There are over $350,000 in prizes to be won! All that is required is your child's Literacy Planet login.

Good luck and happy spelling!

UNSW ICAS Competitions 2019

This year students have the opportunity to participate in the English, Maths and Writing ICAS competitions at St Ives Park. The dates of these competitions are as follows:

All applicants must enter and pay for the competitions via the UNSW parent portal. Visit the link below and enter our school’s unique code 5605923400 to enter the competition and make a payment to UNSW Global. Online payment will close on 31 July 2019, no late entries will be accepted. For more information, please see the note coming home this week.

SRC News

To celebrate SIPPS turning 50 the SRC are raising awareness for those less fortunate than us. We want to raise 50 pairs of shoes for 50 years! Shoes will be donated to the Shoes for Planet Earth organisation. -

We are asking you to donate your old shoes!

Shoes must be in reasonably good condition, cleanish, with no holes and laces/buckles tied together (so they don’t get separated)

The SRC representatives have asked their classes what they would like to donate, below is the chosen shoes for each class:

Kindy - old Runners/Sport Shoes & old school shoes
1/2Red – old Runners/Sport Shoes & old school shoes
1/2Blue - old Runners/Sport Shoes
3/4Red - old Runners/Sport Shoes
3/4Blue - old Runners/Sport Shoes
5/6Red - old Runners/Sport Shoes & old school shoes
5/6Blue - old Runners/Sport Shoes & old school shoes

Each class will have a tote tray in their classroom to collect the shoes. If you have shoes that your class isn’t collecting you can donate to another class.

The class with the most pairs of shoes to donate will win a prize!

All shoes must be donated by Friday Week 2 of Term 3.

Notes from the Office

School Photos

Please note that there are extra photos available to order online. These include the 50Th Anniversary Whole school photograph, Year Six Leadership Team, School Leaders, Year 6 whole class and the Year 6 Fun.

To view/order the above photos please logon to this website:

and use the access code 19S2003PC39S

The preferred payment method is for the orders to be completed and paid for online.

Online orders are still open

The Stewart House Appeal has now finished. All your donations have been collected and sent to Stewart House. Thank You

Woolworths Earn and Learn Collection has finished – thank you to everyone for your stickers and support.

There is to be road work Mona Vale Road and Douglas Street between Tuesday 11 June and Friday 30 August. Please see the document below for information.

Parents and Citizens Association

Next P&C Meeting

Wed 31 July in the Staff Room

Tennis Court Hire

Book here:

Contact if problems:
Stewart Duncan
e: sippstennis@gmail.com
p. 0408 649 464

50th Jubilee - Facebook Group

Join here to help make this 50th jubilee year one to remember and keep on top of the events throughout the year:

50th Jubilee – Kids Disco

Fri 6 Sep - Save the date

50th Jubilee – Adults Event

Sat 7 Sep - Save the date

Keep up to date

To keep up to date with P&C social events, please make sure you have subscribed to receive P&C emails from our website:

If you have any queries or would like to get involved with the P&C, you can email us at: stivesparkpc@gmail.com

Canteen

Canteen needs volunteers

The canteen has been going every Monday throughout the school year. Our week 8 special lunches have been so much fun. But we still have a volunteer need.

Please please sign up:

We need the schedule to be completely filled out by the beginning of term 3 or we will need to begin closing on days it is not full.

We understand there are times you may sign up and not be able to make the shift, and we will work with you.

Please take a shift!

Uniform Shop

sippsuniform@gmail.com

Helping Hands OOSH & Vacation Care

Community Notices