29 July 2019

Newsletter Articles

Term 3 PBL Focus

Positive Behaviour for Learning Focus:

Respect in all school settings.
*Use excellent manners*

Be courteous and polite.
Use your best manners with all adults and students at school.
Care for your environment.
Value yourself and others.
Follow teacher instructions. Speak politely.
Use an inside voice when in a building or classroom. Walk around the school sensibly and quietly. Be a good sport and share equipment.

Principal’s Message

Term 3

Welcome back to Term 3.

I sincerely hope all our students and families had a lovely holiday whether you stayed nearby or were enjoying time travelling.

Term 3 is going to be BIG here at St Ives Park Public School. We all love to have our birthday and now the school will have it’s 50th Birthday this term. Many of our parents are working very hard behind the scenes to organise this event and I would like to thank them in advance. We have a dedicated band of parents who really do a wonderful job on behalf of our school!

Birthday events will include:

Guests and Visitors: Open afternoon 1:30 – 3:00pm Wednesday 4th September.
SIPPS students: Disco Friday the 6th September.
Adults: Saturday evening 7th September.

Almost every week there are major events this term. Our community will be in and out of the school even more than normal and I would like to encourage you to come along to as many events as you are able to attend.

Education Week this year is focused on Every Student: Every Voice and we will have an open morning for our parents on the 8th August. There is more information in this newsletter, please refer to this information for the exact details.

Our Year 6 students went to St Ives High School for their first taste of High School and the Stage Coach Program. Thank you to Miss Emerson and Mrs Woodwell who are working closely with Tania McGurgan.

Attendance

If a child misses as little as 8 days in a school term, by the end of primary school they’ll have missed over a year of school. This is why parents and carers of children of compulsory school age are responsible for ensuring their child attends school every day. Once children commence school their attendance is monitored.

On occasion, your child may need to be absent from school. Justified reasons for student absences may include:

• being sick, or having an infectious disease
• having an unavoidable medical appointment
• being required to attend a recognised religious holiday
• exceptional or urgent family circumstance (e.g. attending a funeral)

Following an absence from school you must ensure that within 7 days you provide your child’s school with a verbal or written explanation for the absence. However, if the school has not received an explanation from you within 2 days, the school may contact you to discuss the absence.

Principals may request medical certificates or other documentation when frequent or long term absences are explained as being due to illness. Principals may also seek parental permission to speak with medical specialists to obtain information to collaboratively develop a health care plan to support your child. If the request is denied, the principal can record the absences as unjustified.

Arriving at school and class on time:

• Ensures that students do not miss out on important learning activities scheduled early in the day
• Helps students learn the importance of punctuality and routine
• Give students time to greet their friends before class
• Reduces classroom disruption

Lateness is recorded as a partial absence and must be explained by parents.

For further details, please see the hyper link below:

Teacher Professional Learning at SIPPS

Mathematics

Late last term our K-4 teachers started training in a Mathematics program entitled “TEN: Targeted Early Numeracy” with staff from other schools. This program focuses on the Number strand and enables teachers to monitor student progress informally. We will also have Laurinda Lomas joining our staff each Tuesday to engage with the 3-6 teachers to inform their Mathematics practice. Laurinda is a highly accomplished professional leader in the area of Mathematics who will lead the staff in using recent research and practice. These two projects will continue throughout Semester Two this year.

Compliance

The NSW Educational Standards Authority: NESA are continuing to change the requirements in schools across all sectors. NESA is the over-arching curriculum for NSW, which guides and inspects schools across all sectors, Departmental, Catholic and Independent school in NSW. This week our staff participated in professional learning regarding some of the requirements set by NESA to enable our Departmental and NESA compliance.

Christ Church St Ives – Sunday Morning Family Church

Pastor James and his Team from Christ Church St Ives have relocated to St Ives Park Public School whilst building works are under way at their usual abode. Their first congregation was yesterday. They will meet each week between 8am and 12pm and have access to the hall, canteen, several classrooms and the library.

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

Dates for your diary as Term 3 is really going to be an exceptionally busy term and hopefully a lot of fun for everyone with many events where our community will be involved. There will be more specific information to follow in Term 3 The Patter.

As a synopsis of events:

Week 3 Education Week – Thursday morning
Week 5 Book Week – Parade on Thursday morning
Week 7 – Jubilee Week – Open afternoon Wednesday 4th and P&C Evening 7th September
Week 9 – External Validation and Teddy Bears Picnic

Looking forward to a busy and rewarding Term 3!
Regards,
Caroline English
Principal

Celebrating Student Success

Congratulations to the following students who received wristbands for Personal Best, Respect or Responsibility

Education Week

Education Week is being held in Week 3 of this term. On Thursday 8th August our wonderful students will showcase their talents in a variety of ways and you are invited to come along.

We will begin promptly at 9.10am in the hall where you will witness wonderful performances from our band, choir, dance and K-2 students.

Following on from that, all parents and carers will be invited to go into the classrooms so that all students can showcase their learning.

We will conclude the morning with a lovely picnic recess in the playground.

We look forward to seeing you there!

N Mills & K Woodwell
Education Week Co-ordinators

Inspiring & Nurturing Successful Lifelong Learners

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 note on school calendar under ICAS events.

Library

This term, I am thrilled to be taking Library as some very exciting events are happening in the Library. Our focus is on the Children’s Book Council Awards (CBCA) Book Week theme “Reading is my Secret Power”.

Book week preparation is well underway and we are looking forward to some really stimulating library lessons based on the CBCA shortlisted Book Week finalists.

The official CBCA Book Week will be celebrated in Week 5 of term. We will be having a Book Parade where students are asked to dress up as a character from a book on Thursday 22nd August.

K-2 will be having a Book Week performance incursion from Big Dreams on Thursday 29th August and on Friday 23rd of August Stage 2 and 3 will have an Author visit from Mick Elliot!

Scarlet Jahn
Relieving Teacher

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 list of 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 donated will win a prize!

All shoes must be donated by this Friday 2nd August 2019.

Notes from the Office

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

Wednesday 31st July, 7:15pm in the Staff Room

P&C Voluntary Contributions

Last term we distributed our 'Infusions' themed annual voluntary contribution request. We hope you enjoyed the kindly donated Infusions drinks and that you will support the P&C in 2019 - to complete the playground with shading. See attached flyer.

50th Jubilee – Kids Disco

Friday 6th September 2019 - Save the date

50th Jubilee – Adults Event

Saturday 7th September 2019 - Save the date

Renew your Entertainment Membership

Update your Entertainment Membership (Book or App) here and support SIPPS while you are at it.

Enjoy hundreds of great dining and entertainment deals until 1 June 2020.

Tennis Court Hire

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

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 at the link below:

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

Uniform Shop

sippsuniform@gmail.com

Helping Hands OOSH & Vacation Care

Please have a look at our school website for information regarding our before and after school care.

Community Notices