10 May 2021

Newsletter Articles

May PBL Focus

Principal’s Message

SIPPS P&C

Our SIPPS P&C has a core of hardworking and passionate parents who consistently think of creative ways to involve the community in events and raise money to support our school. If you would like to join the school P&C to share your ideas and participate in a range of activities which supports the environment and community of the school, please feel free to attend the next meeting on 9th June, 7:15pm in the library. This year the P & C Voluntary Contribution is included on the Term 2 and Term 3 schools fees for your convenience.

Mother’s Day Stall

An enormous ‘Thank you’ to Mrs Robson for her exemplary organisation behind the scenes to ensure the Mother’s Day Stall was such a wonderful success for our students. She also had a wonderful band of mothers assisting on the day and also parents organising donations for the event. Thank you to all the parents involved. The bags and presents were really beautiful and such a lovely range. Hopefully all our SIPPS mothers had a glorious Mother’s Day yesterday!

National Assessment Program: Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)

Just a reminder that the NAPLAN online testing window commences in Week 4 on 11th May 2021.

Further information has been provided to Year 3 and Year 5 families and online information may be viewed at the link below:

Thank you to Mrs Hayllar who has worked behind the scenes to ensure all the laptops have the required programs installed and tested prior to the testing window.

Dates for your diaries

11/5 NAPLAN Online starts.
2/6 Years 5 & 6 to Great Aussie Bush Camp commences.
9/6 P&C Meeting - hope to see you there.
23/6 Semester 1 reports go home to families.

Did you know?

Finn W has been awarded a great honour in the Ku-ring-gai Little Athletics as the 20/21 Best All Round Male Athlete. Such an honour and inspiration for all students at SIPPS. Certainly demonstrating your personal best on many levels. Congratulations.

We have some fantastic gymnasts amongst our student population. Congratulations to both Charlotte and Eloise on their recent placings at the Gymnastic Competition in Newcastle.

Our Zone Cross Country team represented our school very well with many students gaining points for the school team!

ANZAC Day

Thank you to our parents and community members who were able to attend our ANZAC service in Week 2. The floral tributes from each class were wonderful and the students were exemplary in showing respect, responsibility and personal best. The band performance was a wonderful addition to our ceremony. Thank you to Kate Habkouk, our band liaison and parents who helped set-up the band for the service.

Celebrating Student Success

Zone Cross Country

Congratulations to all our Zone Cross Country runners! I was so proud of all of your efforts, you definitely demonstrated your SIPPS Personal Best!

Also a massive thank you to Mrs Pullar and Ms Seo for being the parent managers!

Well done to Natalie P for placing 5th and moving on to the next stage, Area. Special mentions to Hal C-N (7th), Keira O (10th), Jake C-N (11th), Ava C (20th), James C (20th), Rhys D (24th), Liam C (26th), a massive feat to make the top 36 when there were over 80 runners in each race!

Thank you
Stephanie Kekwick

Gymnastics - Eloise and Charlotte

On the weekend my sister and I had a gymnastics competition in Newcastle. We do artistic gymnastics which means we compete on four apparatus that includes floor, uneven bars, beam and vault. On the floor we do routines with dance and skills in time with music. On beam we do routines with dance and skills on bars, we do many tricks and swings. On vault we usually sprint, then jump onto the spring board and go into a handstand and either fall onto our backs or onto our feet.

At presentation the top six are awarded medals or ribbons for each apparatus. Trophies are awarded to the gynmasts who score in the top ten. After the first competition of the year I am very proud of my sister and I.

Eloise 5/6

Inspiring & Nurturing
Successful Lifelong Learners

National Young Leaders Day

Our leadership team had a wonderful day in Darling Harbour where they were privileged enough to hear four inspiring speakers talk about the challenges they have overcome to achieve some amazing things. Here are some of their thoughts on the day.

Mrs Field

Going to Young Leaders Day was an exciting experience. I was very grateful to be able to learn about others' lives and how they have overcome challenges to achieve their dreams. David Campbell taught me a lot about how I can become a leader and become a person who can understand how to work things out. I will remember this experience from my last year of primary school.
Maya D

One of my favorite parts of young leaders day was the badges because they inspired me to encourage myself. The halogen pin was my favorite one because it gave me fond memories and lifelong lessons. I will never forget the lesson and the mottos I have learnt.
Eva K

I really enjoyed young leaders day and I had a great time. My highlight for me was Jimmy Rees, who was the actor in Giggle and Hoot. I really enjoyed listening to him because I grew up watching his show. He is a great role model. He inspired me and I hope to be a kind, funny person when I am older. I was so grateful that I was lucky enough to be able to attend.
Sylvie C

Stage 3

Stage Three found learning about Earth’s place in Space a fascinating and engaging Science topic. Students worked very hard to produce dioramas and presentations of a feature of our solar system. Projects ranged from the planets including: Saturn, Neptune, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter to Hayley’s Comet and the Perseverance which landed on Mars. Everyone was very impressed with the calibre of work shared. Students considered which facts would be interesting for others to find out about and how they could present these in a way that others could relate to and understand. They can be very proud of their work.

Melissa Field

ART

Visual Art News

After a very colourful and wonderful Term 1 in the art room, where every student developed their understanding of colour and colour mixing. All stages have now moved on to different projects.

Stage 3

Year 5 and 6 students are learning about one point perspective and creating their very own art gallery. They have drawn a room using one point perspective and are now adding their own and famous artwork to complete their gallery, this artwork will be finished using watercolour and coloured pencil. The students seem to be really enjoying this project with lots of students coming along to the art room at lunch to continue with their work, which is very exciting to see! I have attached some images of their initial drawings.

Stage 2

Year 3 and 4 students are also developing their knowledge of one point perspective and are creating their own landscape. They have all drawn a landscape using one point perspective and will be completing these using water colour and coloured pencil. This is a tricky topic to understand, but the students have risen to the challenge and are all developing their understanding and giving it a really good go!

I look forward to putting examples of this work up in the exhibition later in the year. I have attached an image of the planning stage.

Stage 1 & Kindy

All Kindy, year 1 and year 2 students are being inspired by the work of Joan Miro. They have discussed the work as a group and created their own artwork and figure in his style. They will start to improve and develop their painting skills by completing this work with paint and crayon/oil pastels. They have found the work interesting to look at and have started to discuss what they see in the artwork and what they like or don't like about the artwork. We will continue to look at art by different artists throughout this term.

ART COMPETITION - NSW Schools PULSE Alive Competition

The PULSE Alive team are seeking submissions from students in Years 3 to 10 at a NSW public school to create the featured artwork for the cover of the PULSE Alive 2021 program. Schools may submit one artwork per student for as many students as they wish. There is no cost to enter the competition. As well as the winner's artwork being featured on the cover of the PULSE Alive 2021 program, a number of additional works may be selected as highly commended entries and showcased during the PULSE Alive 2021 performance.

THEME

Works submitted should reflect the aim of PULSE Alive 2021 - to provide high quality opportunities in music, dance, drama, visual arts and public speaking to students from all over the state. You might also be inspired by our change in venue to Ken Rosewall Arena, Sydney Olympic Park.

ENTRY GUIDELINES

All entries must be two-dimensional and no larger than A3 (size 42cm x 29.5cm) with a maximum of 5mm depth. The entries should NOT contain any text or student names on the front Mixed media can be used, however, sculptures and low relief works will not be accepted.

Applications close: Wednesday 2 June 2021 (Term 2 Week 7). Please hand in any submissions to Mrs Stone.

Check out all the information at the link below:

Mrs. Yvonne Stone
Visual Art Teacher
St Ives Park Public School

Notes from the school office

Kindergarten 2022

Now is the time to let the office know if you have a child starting Kindergarten 2022.

We will print off a pre filled enrolment form for you to complete and lodge. Information regarding Kindergarten 2022 will be shared with the community in the coming week.

If you know of anyone in our school catchment area who would like to enrol at St Ives Park Public School please advise them that they are able to enrol online. Just visit the school’s website and look under the heading Enrolment.

Please find below the Kindergarten 2022 Information

Please label all of your child/children’s belongings such as lunch boxes, lids and containers, hats, jumpers and bags.

Please advise the office of any changes to your phone number, address and/or child’s medical condition as soon as possible.

If you have any queries please do not hesitate to contact the school office on 02 91444085.

Schoolzine app – Please download the schoolzine app. The school uses this app for payment of fees, viewing of school newsletters, absentee notes, school alerts

Qkr! app – Please download the Qkr ! app – this app is used by the P & C for the ordering and payment of school uniform items and for Canteen ordering and payment of items.

Canteen

Uniform Shop

The uniform shop will open every second Friday starting in Week 2 from 8.30 am to 9.30 am approx.

If you are ordering online please have your uniform orders in by the Wednesday evening of even weeks ie Week 2, 4 etc of the school term.

Goods will be handed out to your child just before the end of school on the following friday afternoon. If you have any questions please call the school office or send an email to the uniform email address below.

School Uniform items can be purchased every week by using the QKr! App.

sippsuniform@gmail.com

P & C

2021 SIPPS P&C Voluntary Contribution

The SIPPS P&C is passionate about supporting our school to improve the infrastructure and resources for your children. This year they have made it simpler to help, by splitting contributions into instalments by Term via the school's quarterly invoice. Whilst the school voluntary contribution supports resources in the classroom, the P&C voluntary contribution supports additional resources and facilities around the school, as outlined in the P&C flyer. Thank you in advance.

Community