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 Road Safety – It is VITAL I am always deeply appreciative of those members of our community that always observe safe pedestrian and driver behaviour when dropping off and picking up their children from school. Unfortunately, I have been greatly disappointed of late by a number of unsafe behaviours that I have had to address with parents and carers when collecting their children from school in the afternoon.

As parents and carers, we should all ensure that we are modelling the highest degree of safety for our children, particularly when it comes to motor vehicles and roads.

In the interests of ensuring our students safety, it would be greatly appreciated if all parents and carers could observe the following rules:

the car

Never do a U-Turn at the front of the school near the designated crossing

zone, as there is a clear double white line.

Never do a three point turn at the front of the school near the designated

crossing zone.

Never double park.

Never ask your children to leave the car from the driver’s side. They

should only exit from the passenger’s side for their safety.

Never park across a driveway. We need to respect our neighbours.

Only cross the road in the designated crossing zones on both Oldfield Road and Wall Park Avenue. Both crossings are very well marked. Crossing the road at other points above or below both crossings and across double white lines is unacceptable and highly dangerous.

BLC Public Speaking Final Bert Oldfield Public School had the honour of hosting the 2017 Blacktown Learning Community Public Speaking competition, involving 18 schools from the local Blacktown and Seven Hills Area. The event was a great showcase of the wonderful talents of our students across the local learning community. I would like to pass on my congratulations to our four student representatives whose efforts were commendable and whose presentations were of high quality. My sincere thanks to Meya V. Julia C, Danielle V, and Dax D. for their

hard work, for their creativity and imagination, for their bravery, and for the

manner in which they represented the school. My thanks also to our students leaders, Kashish S, Keval P. and Kalala T. for the professional manner in which they hosted the event on behalf of our school.

Term 4 Week 4 Thursday 2nd November 2017

Safe, Respectful, Responsible Learners

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3rd November K-6 Assembly

3rd November Kindy Orientation Day 1

6th November CARES excursion-4G & 3T

7th-16th November Book Fair

10th November Kindy Orientation Day 2-Hall

17th November Kindy Orientation Day 3

17th November Principal’s Assembly

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STAR AWARDS

KB Emma Jing Haniya Hassan Tejdeep Singh

KP Khaleb De Guia Zara Maslak Crystal Tiwari

K/1R Mannat Dhanju Zaid Fadi Japjit Kaur

1M Mika Ansari Abhiraj Cheema Jenil Jethwa

1/2F Andrew Baclayon Hermione Deol Kulraj Singh

2/3T Gurvir Boparai John Manuel Manuel Arun Heidi Robinson

3/4A Ananya Banerjee Aaron Gomes Zachary Giudice

3/4S Dilpreet Samra Jeremy Thomas Cherry Win

4/5G Rajitha Amarasingam Rhianna Cook Layla Mourad

5/6W Caitlyn Crowther Keval Patel Corben Wilson

RFF Geography Japnaam Bains Marija Dobric

Library Elise Crowther Komeil Gholami

Music Tianna George Connor Howe

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

Semester Two Reports Our teachers are now preparing our students Semester Two reports, which will be coming home at the end of Term 4. These reports represent a formative appraisal of your child’s learning and application to their studies across Semester Two, 2017. The student reports provide information to parents, encompassing all six Key Learning Areas, as well as social and behavioural information.

Students will be provided with an overall assessment of achievement in the Key Learning Areas using a five point scale, Limited, Working Towards, Sound, High and Outstanding, with the majority of students expected to be within the Sound level of achievement. Students are also provided an assessment ranking for their application in all Key Learning Areas and are indicated as Limited, Consistent and Outstanding. As always, you are encouraged to focus on the level of effort your child has made towards their progress and regard it as equally important as their level of achievement. The Bert Oldfield Public School report is a stage based report and provides information about a student’s level of achievement against stage based syllabus outcomes and criteria. Kindergarten students learn within their own stage, that being Early Stage One. Therefore kindergarten students are expected to achieve at a sound level within this stage by the end of the year. Year One and Year Two students learn Stage One syllabus outcomes and criteria and are therefore expected to have achieved a sound level or higher against those identified outcomes and criteria by the end of Year Two. This represents a two-year learning commitment to achieve syllabus outcomes for Stage One. Year Three and Year Four students learn Stage Two syllabus outcomes and criteria and are therefore expected to have achieved a sound level or higher against those identified outcomes and criteria by the end of Year Four. Again, this represents a two-year learning commitment to achieve syllabus outcomes for Stage Two. Similarly, Year Five and Year Six students learn Stage Three syllabus outcomes and are therefore expected to have achieved a sound level or higher against those identified outcomes and criteria by the end of Year Six. This again represents a two-year learning commitment to achieve syllabus outcomes for Stage Three. Please do not hesitate to contact Mr. Perrott if you require further explanation.

Kindergarten Orientation This Friday will be the start our Kindy Orientation program. We are expecting between 50 - 60 new students to our school and we are very excited to meet them this coming Friday. Orientation days are a great opportunity for our staff to get to know the students and it also gives us an opportunity to get to know our parents and pass on some information, not only about how our school operates but ways in which parents can help at home with their children. This Friday, 3rd November is the first orientation session in the KP classroom with Kindy Orientation, Day 2 and Day 3 on the following two Fridays, the 10th and 17th November, between 9.00am and 11.00am in the school hall.

Our 2018 Kindergarten Parent Teacher Interviews commenced today with day 2 and day 3 of the Kindergarten Interviews occurring across the next two Thursdays. Please make sure that you arrive 5 minutes prior to your allotted meeting time. All interviews will be in the School Office.

General Contribution

Each year we ask families to make a general contribution to the school to assist us with our financial capacity and school resources. Our thanks again to all those who have made these important contribution payments. The fees are an important part of our finances providing much needed assistance with the purchase of classroom requisites, sporting equipment, library resources, art and craft supplies, computer technology, paper usage and reading resources and various items for the children. It should be noted that our fees are a once only for the year, unlike other systems which collect payments every term amounting to large sums of money per child. To enable us to fully utilise your contribution, please pay your invoice as soon as possible. When you receive your invoice, please pay it as soon as possible. SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOLS APPLICATION Thinking of applying for a government selective high school for Year 7 entry in 2019? Applications for selective high school placement in Year 7 in 2019 open on 10 October 2017 and close on 13 November 2017 at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-7. The Selective High School Placement Test is on 15 March 2018. Selective high schools cater for the specific needs of high achieving gifted students who may otherwise be without sufficient classmates at their own academic and social level. Selective schools help gifted and talent students to learn by grouping them with other gifted and talented students. Applications for selective high school placement in Year 7 in 2019 open on 10 October 2017 and close on 13 November 2017. The Selective High School Placement Test is on 15 March 2018. Parents apply when the student is in Year 5. The students sit the test in March of Year 6. To be considered for placement students must sit the Selective High School Placement Test.. Some selective high schools have vacancies in Years 8 to 12. Applications open in late June for placement the following year. For information about applying and the placement process go to https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/years-8-to-12. The selective high school placement process for Year 7 entry is administered by the High Performing Students Unit. Contact details—High Performing Students Unit NSW Department of Education Email: ssu@det.nsw.edu.au Telephone: 1300 880 367 Fax: 02 9266 8435 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Selectivehighschoolplacement The application process is only available online.

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

100 Night Reading 200 Night Reading

2/3T John Manuel Manuel Arun

KP Komeil Ghomami Gavenpreet Kaur Japman Bains K/1R Lucky Dhal 1M Ana Dobric Alex Cusack

ALL STAR ROCK STAR KP Zara Maslak Saifan Nasir Cesar Guardado Brahmjot Singh 1M Riley Connelly Gursheen Kaur Mika Ansari 1/2F Breanna Crowther Simon Adebumowa Shobana Gopalraj James Poloogadoo 2/3T John Manuel Manuel Arun 3/4A Sitt Naing 4/5G Pranzal Jain

1/2F Breanna Crowther Simon Adebumowa Sophie Clegg 2/3T John Manuel Manuel Arun 4/5G Pranzal Jain

MATHLETICS MATHLETICS GOLD AWARD SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

Maddison Scott Salvatore Ioane

News from the Library

The Book Fair is coming to Bert Oldfield Library. This is a great opportunity for everyone to visit the school library and buy some books and/or stationary items. All sales will benefit our school li-brary by allowing more new books to be put on the shelves for stu-dent to borrow. Please come along on the 7th, 8th, 9th, 14th or 15th of Novem-ber, 2017. Go wild for Books and swing past between 8:30 - 9:00am or 3:00 - 4:00pm. Hope to see you there! Mr Clarke

The Stewart House Clothing Appeal

This week we have sent home Stewart House bags with all of our students. These bags are to be returned to school by the 21st No-vember 2017. Please fill the bag with good, clean and usable cloth-ing, accessories and manchester that you no longer need to help disadvantaged children and families from NSW and ACT.

Gardening Club

Mrs Lessells has requested that if any families have any spare small green plastic plant pots at home that they no longer need that they could kindly donate to the school to use in our garden.

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

URGENT P&C INFORMATION. Change in Uniform Prices Dear Parents/Caregivers, Due to an increase of prices from our suppliers some of the uni-form prices will increase. Please find the new price list and order form in the newsletter the change will be effective from Week 3 of Term 4 – from 23rd Octo-ber 2017. Thank you, Funda Basaran and Alicia Giudice BOPS P&C Uniform Coordinators VOLUNTEERS We are still looking for volunteers to help out in the canteen. If you can spare a few hours or for the whole day, weekly or fortnightly, that will help us immensely. It would be a great treat for any stu-dents to see their grandparents who have also volunteered to help in the canteen. Please see Janel, the P & C President, on Fridays in the canteen. P & C Committee

BREAKFAST CLUB GOLD COIN DONATION The Breakfast Club is open on Monday and Wednesday mornings from 830am-8:55am. Thank you to the many children who were happy to donate their gold coin for slices of toast with honey or vegemite together with a cup of milk. Enjoy toast with Vegemite or honey and a healthy glass of milk . When: Mondays and Wednesday Time: 8.30am – 8.55am Where: Mrs Oldfield’s Room Cost:: A gold coin donation

Mums, Dads, Grandmas and Grandads - Volunteers are required for Breakfast Club on a Monday or a Wednesday from 8.30am – 8.55am to assist with preparing the food for the students who attend Breakfast Club. If you are able to assist please contact Mrs Sternaras.

MAKING AN ONLINE PAYMENT Did you know that you can make an online payment for most school transactions? Just go to the school website at www.bertoldfie-p.school.nsw.edu.au and click the $Make a Payment tab. It’s that simple.

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 and exit through the entry gate near the school sign when arriving at school, or the gates on Wall Park and Orana Avenue.

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

WELCOME TO THE COMMUNITY HUB! Dear community members, Welcome back to school. I hope that you all had a nice and relaxing break. Also a very warm welcome to all the new families who have recently arrived in Australia and Seven Hills. I hope that this year brings you all true joy, good health and success! I am Sivananthini, the Community Hub Leader at Bert Oldfield Public School. My role at the school is to coordinate the Community Hub programs for families in the local area. The Community Hubs is a national program that links families and their preschool children to services and support, learning opportunities and the wider community. The Community Hub at Bert Oldfield Public School is a safe place where families can participate in a range of programs which may include: Zumba, supported playgroup, Cubby house, Kids sports, gardening, first aid, volunteering (book covering, school events, P&C fundraisers, Can-teen) and more! Many of our programs are run in partnership with local organisations and is a great way for you to connect with them and learn about what their service can offer you. If you would like to join the Community Hub feel free to contact me by email ssuresan@ssi.org.au or SMS/ phone 0478836575. Sivananthini Suresan Community Hub Leader

Bert Oldfield Public School

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