Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

From the Principal’s Desk

Dear Parents and Members of the Community, “Merry Christmas and Happy New Year” As this will be the last newsletter for the year I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year and hope that you have an enjoyable time with your children and your families. I look very much forward to 2017 when students return to BOPS on Monday 30th January, 2017. Presentation day My sincere thanks to everyone for their attendance at our Annual Presentation Day Assembly. It was an excellent morning, well attended by many parents, family members, friends and visitors. It was great to recognise our students for their achievements throughout the year, culminating in our major academic awards. We showcased our Senior Dance group as well as the choir, and we delighted in celebrating our K-6 students learning achievements. Our student leaders Riya, Lachlan, Lea and Pritom did an outstanding job of leading the assembly and I am very proud of them. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs Fletcher and Mrs Wood for their coordination of the the dance group. Thanks also to Mrs Sigg for the wonderful job she has done coordinating our large school choir this year, culminating in our choir performance on Tuesday 13th December. I would also like to acknowledge Mrs Woolley, Mrs Bray, Mrs Sternaras, Mrs Martin, Mrs Reynolds and Ms Tracy, as well as Mrs Travers and Ms Perente for their work preparing and organising our Presentation Day Service. We hope that you enjoyed the event. My personal congratulations to our student award winners. It was great to acknowledge you in front of our community and recognise your efforts and successes.

Term 4 Week 10 Friday 16th December, 2016

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Bert Oldfield Public School

Newsletter

Oldfield Road, Seven Hills

Telephone: 9622 2122

16th December Last Day of Term 4 2016 Farewell to Year 6 2016

30th January 2017 Years 1– 6 return to school

2nd February Kindy commences

100 Night Reading 200 Night Reading

2/3T Cherry Win

1/2F Hamza Khattana 3/4D Raiden Reid-Rickard Dilpreet Samra 3/4D

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

STAFF CAR PARK A gentle reminder that parents and students are not to walk through, or park, in the staff car park area—this is a WH&S safety rule. We need to keep our children safe at all times so please enter an exit through the entry gate near the school sign when arriving at school, or the gates on Wall Park and Orana Avenue.

We have realized many successes for our students and our school this year thanks to the support provided by our parents and caregivers. My thanks to the parents and carers who help with classroom programs, attend parent workshops, and support the Community Hub, which I feel has had its most successful year. Thanks also our entire community for your encouragement of the students at school, your support of school initiatives, the volunteering to be team managers at sporting events, volunteering in the canteen, your support for P&C fundraising events, and support for school educational programs and working bees in the Community Hub. Our fantastic teachers are to be congratulated for their commitment and dedication in working to create a quality learning environment. They have again this year integrated a number of educational reforms implemented through the Department of Education and Communities. Despite the increased workload, throughout every reform and every hour of additional work, their level of care for our students and commitment to teaching and learning is again to be applauded. To my Executive team of Mrs Burgess, Ms Perente and Mrs Travers, my sincere thanks to them for the support provided to me and for their leadership of the school. I would also like to acknowledge the hard work of our Parent and Citizens committee. They have grown this year, implemented a number of new initiative and had a most successful fundraising year. The executive have again worked tirelessly to make a difference for our students. My particular thanks to the P&C executive for never giving up. I would like to acknowledge and give my sincere thanks to Mr & Mrs Simic, the parents of Lea Simic in Year 6 who have generously donated funds towards our Year 6 gift to the school. Your generosity is greatly appreciated. Next week we farewell a number of students and their families, who are moving to different areas and of course, sadly, new schools. I wish them every success and hope that your new schools are as enjoyable as Bert Oldfield. And of course we say farewell to our Year 6 students. Many of them have been at Bert Oldfield since 2010. I hope that they seize the incredible opportunities that lie before them and hope that they remember their time from Kindergarten to Year 6 at Bert Oldfield Public School.

Farewell 2016 Presentation day and the final weeks of school for the year give me the opportunity to reflect on the entire year. 2016 has been a very busy and challenging year at our school, with a collection of academic, sporting, and cultural pursuits, as well as a greater level of community involvement. It is easy to lose sight of all the things we get through in an entire year as we approach the final days of term 4, particularly the abundance of activities and achievements that take place outside the 4 walls of the classroom. Around the world, there are many changes occurring in education, and at Bert Oldfield Public School. As we enter 2017, we are committed to providing the best educational experiences and opportunities to meet this ever changing educational landscape. As all Australian schools move forward with new Syllabus documents, we must continue to challenge and excite our students with engaging teaching and learning. The powers that be seem to adopt an ever growing focus on “the data” within learning, as well as an emphasis on student academic outcomes. However, in this day and age it is increasingly important to highlight to the ‘number crunchers’ that teaching is a rare profession. As teachers, we are never able to learn the full impact we have made on the lives of our students. Of course, we receive small clues from the boys and girls, such as improvements on assessments, NAPLAN results, improvement in learning outcomes, and of course, smiles. Some outcomes can be assessed, measured and quantified but there are many significantly and profoundly more important outcomes that are beyond the standard measure, outcomes that I strongly feel may end up providing the most important aspects of our contribution as educators to the lives of our 260 students. To this end, we are encouraging individuals to be partners in their learning, students who know what they are good at, where they are in their learning journey in each learning area, and where they need to go to reach their learning goals. In 2017, this will be an area of great focus for our teaching and learning.

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

STAFF CAR PARK A gentle reminder that parents and students are not to walk through, or park, in the staff car park area—this is a WH&S safety rule. We need to keep our children safe at all times so please enter an exit through the entry gate near the school sign when arriving at school, or the gates on Wall Park and Orana Avenue.

Parent Helpers Morning Tea. I would once more like to thank and acknowledge the parents and helpers who make Bert Oldfield School a lovely community school. On Presentation Day we were able to thank some of our classroom and Scripture helpers, as well as our hardworking P&C members. We love the additional help and support offered by our parents and strongly encourage you to become involved in the school in 2017.

OOSH

Our OOSH providers in 2017 will again be “Helping Hands

Network”. They are a highly accomplished and accredited

service provider of before and after school care and are very

excited to be continuing their tenure at Bert Oldfield Public

School in 2017.

This service will be available to provide vacation care over

the coming January holidays for any families who might like

to use that service. The full OOSH service will re-commence

from the 30th January, the first day back at school.

Please make contact with The Helping Hands Network on

0448 003 267 for all related matters.

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS, 2017

Enrol now for 2017. We have had a great response from the

community and are growing as a school. As part of our

wonderful learning community you already know what a great

place Bert Oldfield Public School is.

The brilliant staff at Bert Oldfield Public School cater for the

individual learning needs of all children. If your child, or the

child of someone you know, is turning 5 before 31st July

2017, they can enrol at Bert Oldfield Public School for 2017.

Please collect an enrolment package from the front office and

return it as soon as possible, as places are filling fast. Proof

of age and proof of residence will be required.

Classes 2017 At this stage of the year our student numbers are uncertain, as we are not sure exactly who is returning in 2017 or how many students will be new to our community next year. We are planning for 11 classes next year. The possible configuration on 11 classes is below. Some of these classes will be composite in nature and at the moment there will be 2 Kindergarten classes, a K/1 composite class, a Year 1 and Year 2 class as well as a 1/2 composite class, three 3/4 composite classes and two 5/6 composite classes. Of course, all this can change based on our eventual student enrolment in 2017. School Executive: Principal: Mr Perrott Assistant Principal: Mr Galloway Smith (Newly Appointed) Assistant Principal: Ms Perente Assistant Principal: Mrs Travers Class Positions: Early Stage One - Mrs Paras, Mrs Burgess Stage One - Mrs Travers (Assistant Principal) Mrs Marshall, Mrs Browning and Mrs Fletcher Stage Two - Mrs Sigg and additional Teachers Year 5 and Year 6 - Mr Galloway Smith (Newly appointed Assistant Principal), Mrs Woolley Other teaching positions include: Learning and Support– Ms Perente (Assistant Principal) English Language Support– Mrs Sternaras Library – Mr Clarke RFF – Ms Perente, Mrs Robinson Reading Recovery – Mrs Bray Office Staff: School Administrative Manager - Mrs Martin School Administrative Officer - Mrs Reynolds School Administrative Officer / School Learning and Support Officer - Ms Tracy General Assistant - Mr Hamilton General Assistant - Mr Fletcher School Learning and Support Officer - Mrs Turnbull Staff Development Days, Term 4 2016 Monday 19th December is a Staff Development day. The last day for students is Friday 16th December. The staff of Bert Oldfield Public School will be involved in professional learning activities on Monday 19th December.

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

STAFF CAR PARK A gentle reminder that parents and students are not to walk through, or park, in the staff car park area—this is a WH&S safety rule. We need to keep our children safe at all times so please enter an exit through the entry gate near the school sign when arriving at school, or the gates on Wall Park and Orana Avenue.

We were very lucky on Thursday, Santa took time out

from his busy Christmas preparations and made the

time to visit all the good students at Bert Oldfield

Public School. Enjoy looking at all the beautiful and

surprised faces in the photos.

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Hi Everyone,

This term at Helping Hands the children have been enjoying our drawing com-

petitions and boat making challenges.

We have been excited to see the different drawings everyone enters into our competition

and the children are pleased to share their artwork with their families and friends.

Our boat challenge has the children thinking about how to make a boat that will stay afloat

using any of the recyclable materials available in the craft area.

We have seen lots of different boats using paper, cardboard and sticky tape.

The children have also expressed interest in gardening this term so we have been planting

seeds and watching them grow as well as trying to grow plants from cuttings.

Our December/January Vacation Care program is now available for you to book your chil-dren in for. If you would like to make a booking or for enquiries please contact the Coordi-nator. Costs are from $3.62 per day. The 23rd of December will be our last day for this year. We will re-open on the 9th of

January 2017.

Need a Break or some extra time to get things done at home coming up to Christmas? We

offer casual before and after school care for as little as $3.96 per morning and $5.68 in the

afternoon.

Please come and see us for an exact quote based on your family’s eligibility for Child care

Benefit and Child care Rebate. There are no upfront costs for enrolments in any of our pro-

grams.

We hope you enjoy the rest of your term.

Thankyou

Natasha Burge

Coordinator

Helping Hands Bert Oldfield

0448 003 267

bertoldfield@helpinghandsnetwork.com.au

www.helpinghandsnetwork.com.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Bert Oldfield Public School, Oldfield Road Seven Hills. Website: www.bertoldfie-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email; bertoldfie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au