Term 1, Week 7

Week 7

Mon

11/3 Halogen — National Young

Leadership Day, Sydney

Wed

13/3 School Band Rehearsals in

demountable from 8:00-8.45am

National Day of Action against

Bullying and Violence Fri

15/3 Sydney Swans visit K-2

Week 10

Mon

1/4 “Healthy Eating” Week

Wed

3/4 School Band Rehearsals in

demountable from 8:00-8.45am

Thur

4/4 Figgy Heights Fathers Dads Only Night

FHPS in 5/6TF @ 6:00pm

FHPS CROSS COUNTRY Fri

5/4 Infants Camp Out

Week 8

Wed

20/3

P&C AGM @6:30pm in “The Hive”

“Child Minding available”

Harmony Day Mufti Day and P&C BBQ

School Band Rehearsals in

demountable from 8:00-8.45am

Sydney Swans visit K-2 Fri

22/3 Superstar & Swimming Awards

Assembly @2:30pm

Sat

23/3 NSW State Election BBQ

TERM 1

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU ... Sophie Rasmussen, Ty Adlington

and Elizabeth Burns

Flying Figtree Superstars:

Congratulations to the following

Bronze

Superstar students:

Dylan Walsh

Superstar wristbands will be awarded at the

Friday March 22nd assembly at 2:30pm

Week 9

Mon

25/3 Auditions for WHSPA begin for

2020 placement

Tue

26/3 Steps Vision Screening for Kindy

Wed

27/3 School Band Rehearsals in

demountable from 8:00-8.45am

PSC L2L Day for select Year 5 & 6

students @ Figtree High School Fri

8/3 Sydney Swans visit K-2

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l Dear Parents and Carers,

Today I am excited to accompany our 2019 Student Leaders to ‘Halogen

Young Leaders Day’ conference in Sydney. I am sure this will be an

inspirational day for them, both personally and as leaders of our school.

Watch out for photos next week.

EARLY AND LATE ARRIVALS – SLIP NEEDED

We are continually reviewing our procedures to ensure that our students are

kept safe and that we comply with departmental policy. To this end,

parents need to obtain a ‘late arrival/early leave’ slip from the office before

their child is delivered to or collected from their classroom.

If you are bringing your child to school significantly late, please accompany

them to the office.

If you are collecting your child early, please obtain an ‘early leave slip’ from

the office prior to going to your child’s class as you will need to give the slip

to the teacher before your child leaves the classroom.

EARLY ARRIVAL at SCHOOL

We love that our students love coming to school but lately there has been a

growing number of children arriving at school close to 8:00am on days

where no extra curricular activities, such as Dance Troupe, are offered.

Teachers do not commence duty until 8:30am, which means there is a

period where no supervision is provided. If your child does not need to arrive

early please ensure that their arrival time is 8:30am or later. We are fortunate

that our OOSH facility provides before and after school care, which may be

useful if your child needs to arrive early.

CLASS ON-LINE SUBSCRIPTIONS AND VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS

This week we will be sending home invoices for ‘user-pay’ online

subscriptions (such as Reading Eggs) and other teaching resources (such as

the school magazine) that support your child’s learning in class. The

teachers reviewed these subscriptions to ensure that they are educationally

valuable and the cost is kept to a reasonable level. Students will be able to

access their subscriptions once the subscription fees have been paid.

Accompanying the statement is a request for voluntary contributions. May I

encourage everyone to consider making this contribution as it assists us to

provide quality resources and programs for our students, particularly in

numeracy, reading and STEM as well as purchasing additional technology.

SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL TEST

Best wishes to our students who will be sitting the Selective High School test

at Smith’s Hill High School this Thursday. Please see the reminder information

included in this newsletter.

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Our students have been fortunate to be offered the opportunity to attend

‘master classes’ at Figtree High School. We have included a few photos of

the Visual Arts lessons that have occurred over the past three weeks. I’m

sure you’ll be impressed by the beautiful art work that was produced. The

next three-week program focuses on music.

THE NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST BULLYING AND VIOLENCE (NDA)

will be celebrated this Friday. Our school will join over 5600 schools across

the nation to send a powerful message that bullying and violence is NEVER

OK. In support of the NDA 2019, the Office of the eSafety Commissioner has

launched new virtual classrooms as this year’s focus is digital resilience.

Students will be involved in classroom and Stage activities as they focus on

this year’s message: ‘Bullying. No Way! Take action every day.’

MONITORING SOCIAL MEDIA and KEEPING OUR CHILDREN SAFE

We encourage parents to be diligent and closely monitor your child’s use

of the Internet whilst they are using devices to ensure that only appropriate

sites are being accessed. This is an opportune time to have a conversation

with your child about what is appropriate and what to do if they are shown

or accidentally come across inappropriate sites. We have included some

information and helpful sites to assist with this.

We also encourage the use of ‘Kiddle’. Kiddle is a safe web, image and

video search engine for children.

Best wishes for a wonderful week.

Warm regards,

Dee

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Boys Soccer (Northern Illawarra Zone side)

Lenny Atsas Ben Parry

Alex Ladmore Toby Morrison

Khye Forrester

Open Boys Rugby League (Central Wollongong District side)

Carter O’Connor

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Girls Soccer

(Northern Illawarra Zone side)

Maeve Hicks

Girls Netball

(Northern Illawarra Zone side)

Sophie McCall

Under 11s Boys Rugby League

(Central Wollongong District side)

and

Boys Touch Football

(Central Wollongong District side)

Carter Cook

Figgy Heights Fathering Tips

Connect over shared interests

Talk with your child about the activities they love. Connect over shared

interests.

Tell your child a bit about your day as well. Share any funny moments.

Your child will enjoy hearing that you are not perfect!

Regular time together, talking, will only make your relationship

stronger.

Figgy Heights Fathers ‘Dads Only’ Night Thursday April 4 (Week 10)

6:00pm in the 5/6TF classroom. Food Provided.

All FHPS fathers and father figures are welcome to attend!

Wednesday

13/03 Julie Jones & Brooke Bridge

Friday

15/03 Sonya DeBruyn & Sylvia George

Monday

18/03 Simone Pratt

Community News

FHPS Canteen

The canteen is open for lunch

orders

Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Don’t forget to use our HEALTHY

canteen!

CANTEEN TUESDAY SPECIAL

Sushi and Rice Paper Rolls

On Tuesday 26th of March the canteen is

having a ‘special’. Sushi and Rice Paper

Rolls. Meals will be outsourced from

“Wasabi” (Figtree Grove).

The order sheet and menu is on back page of

this newsletter. Orders are due by Thursday

21st of March.

The canteen will be open for service during

the lunch break for drinks only.

Please note: S/S= selected students only

What When

School Magazine (s/s) $10 End Term 1

Mathletics (s/s) $26 End Term 1

MathsOnline (s/s) $10 End Term 1

Reading Eggs (s/s) $24 End Term 1

What is Due and When?

SMITHS HILL HIGH SCHOOL

SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL PLACEMENT TEST REMINDER for PARENTS

The Selective High School Placement Test will be held on Thursday, 14 March, 2019 from

9.00am to 1.30pm.

Unless parents have made special arrangements with the High Performing Stu-

dents Team to attend an individually allocated test centre candidates from this school

have been sent to:

Smiths Hill High School, Gipps St, Wollongong NSW 2500

Go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-

opportunity-classes/year-7 to find:

Test centre allocations by public school.

A map of test centre addresses under the heading 'The test'.

The bulletin, Test information for parents and students. The bulletin contains very im-

portant information about the test and should be read carefully

Yours sincerely

Magda Pollak

Leader, High Performing Students Team

CANTEEN TUESDAY SPECIALS:

SUSHI and RICE PAPER ROLLS

On Tuesday 26th of March the canteen is having a ‘special’.

Choose your selection of sushi at $4 per piece.

Orders will be available for collection from the canteen desk at lunchtime.

Meals will be outsourced from “Wasabi” (Figtree Grove).

The canteen will be open for service during the lunch break for drinks only.

Orders due by Thursday 21st of March

PLEASE NOTE ORDERS FROM THE CANTEEN MENU WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE. ONLY

RICE PAPER ROLLS AND SUSHI WILL BE SERVED.

________________________________________________________________________

Canteen Sushi and Rice Paper Roll Special Order (for Tuesday 26th of March)

Student _______________________________class _____________________

TOTAL: __________

QTY QTY QTY

RICE PAPER

ROLL

Vegetarian Chicken Prawn

SUSHI Chicken &

avocado

Chicken &

cucumber

Cucumber