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CROAK Newington Public School Learning for Life

Thursday 1 August 2019 Volume 18: Issue 11

Newington Boulevarde NEWINGTON NSW 2127 email: newington-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au ph: (02) 9748 7933 fax: (02) 9748 3120 web: www.newington-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

School Hours: 8.55 am - 3.00pm

Contents: Page 2: From your Principal Page 12 & 13: Parenting Insight Page 3: From your Deputy Principals Page 14&15: Advertisements Page 4 & 5: Reminders & Notices Page 6—9: School programs Page 10 : PBL Page 11: P&C

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YEAR ONE SCIENCE DAY On the last day of Term 2, Year 1 students partici-

pated in a Science Fun Day. Students conducted

experiments exploring how mixtures are created

and react. There were exploding volcanoes,

milky plastic and delicious ice-cream.

“The volcano was the best experiment. I didn’t know that vine-gar would make it explode, but it did!”

“I learnt that oil and water don’t mix. My favourite

experiment was ice-cream. I now know how to

make it at home.”

Monday 5 August All Day FLIP Dance Open Classes—hall 9:40 6H, 10:20 6D, 11:30 6O, 12:15 4A, 2:00 6K Tuesday 6 August 8:00 am Open Rehearsal Junior Band - hall All Day FLIP Dance Open Classes - hall 9:40 2A/2W, 10:20 2L/2F, 11:30 2M/2C, 12:15 4L, 2:00 4S/4D 6:30pm Parent Workshop - Speech and Language (Allied Health Partn erships) - library 7:30pm P&C Meeting - library Wednesday 7 August 8:00am Open Rehearsal Senior Band - hall 9:30am Senior Dance Performance - amphitheatre 9:45 - 10:45am OPEN CLASSROOMS 10:45 - 11:20am Picnic Morning Tea 11:20am Burrawang Assembly - including Our Spectacular Choir Perfor mance 12:15pm Cumberland Assembly - including Junior Choir Performance 1:10pm Open Chess Club - D8 and D14 2:00pm deCoubertin Assembly - including Senior Choir/Ukulele perfor mance Thursday 8 August 1:20pm Open Rehearsal Junior Strings (HB14) and Intermediate Strings (Hall) 3:15pm Open Rehearsal - Senior Strings - hall Friday 9 August 8:15am Open PSSA Training - oval 8:55am Guitar Group Performance at 3-6 Assembly - hall

Welcome to Term 3 Welcome back to school for another term of learning; I trust that you all had an enjoyable break. The farewell arch for Mr Adamson on the last day of term 2 was a fabulous event and a great send off for our principal of 13.5 years. There was an article about the farewell arch in last week’s Auburn Review. For anyone who missed it there is a copy on page 8. We are now at the half way point of our 3-year school plan (2018-2020). Our plan focuses on key areas for ongoing growth and development as identified by our three strategic directions. A copy of our school plan can be downloaded from the school website. I look forward to leading the school over the next two terms while Mr Adamson is on leave.

Staffing Update - Term 3 The following arrangements are in place for Term 3 while Mr Adamson is on leave. Mr Greg Weeks (R/Principal), Mrs Na-talie Lewis (R/Deputy Principal Monday - Thursday), Mrs Marcia Skelton (R/Deputy Principal Friday), Ms Frances Colley (R/Assistant Principal Year 2) and Mrs Maria Sorras (R/Assistant Principal Early Stage One Friday). Mrs Ros Xagoraris is replacing Mrs Katie Whitelaw on 2W Monday - Thursday and Mrs Margarita Sozomenou on Friday. We welcome Mrs Bertha Sun (replacing Mrs Kimes on 5/6H), Mrs Irina Wood (RFF) and Mrs Georgia Kalis (RFF and in-class support). Ms Wendy Stanton (4S) is on long service leave for the first 5 weeks of this term. 4S is being taught by Mr Chris Hellier. Mrs Sarah Garlick is R/Assistant Principal Stage 2 on a Friday while Ms Stanton is on leave. Ms Zoe Kogias (6K) is on leave until 6 August. 6K is being taught by Mr Mark Fitzgerald. Ms Atachparian (KA) is on leave until 2 August. KA is being taught by Mrs Lauren Vuong.

P&C Meeting - Tuesday 6 August Please join us for the next P&C Meeting at 7.30pm. I will provide an update on the school’s 3-year plan and outline many of the programs and activities happening throughout Term 3. At 6.30pm, prior to the P&C Meeting, our school employed speech pathologist will present an information session for parents around children’s speech and how it relates to their edu-cation.

Term 3 Stage Brochures You will receive via the Enews Year list email, a copy of the Stage brochure for Term 3 which outlines particular areas of learning for your child’s class this term.

School Invoice payments for Term 3 - Please pay now! Term 3 invoices were issued last week. Payments (excursions, incursions, sports, FLIP dance, camps etc) need be final-ised in the coming days. If you require assistance with payments please call the Office to arrange to speak with me.

Payments can be made with cash or EFTPOS at the Office or through the on-line system (link below)

http://www.newington-p.schoolwebsites.com.au/parents-payment-online.aspx

Winter PSSA

The Winter PSSA season has been affected once again by wet weather and Council ground closures meaning several rounds have been cancelled to date. At the beginning of Term 2 the school invoiced students for 8 weeks of bus costs with the intention of adding further weeks as required on the Term 3 School Statement. At this time with only 2 or 3 rounds to play (dependent on which sport) we do not have to allocate any further costs as the 8 weeks already charged can now cater for the first weeks of Term 3. Should any of our teams qualify for the finals the school will cover the costs of the buses required.

Bell System upgrade We have recently upgraded the bell system to ensure that students and teachers in all classrooms and areas of he school can hear the bell. This includes the bell to signal break times, an evacuation, lockdown or lockout.

Education Week Education Week is a statewide, annual event, held during the first week of August, to celebrate NSW public education. The theme for 2019 is 'Every Student, Every Voice'. It is a celebration of student empowerment and how the NSW public edu-cation system gives students the skills they need in order to have and express a voice during their own educational journey and as engaged global citizens. Please join us next week to celebrate Education Week. The details are listed on page 1 of this Croak.

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From your Principal

Greg Weeks

R/Principal

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From your Deputy Principals

Sarah Williams and Natalie Lewis

Deputy Principals

Deputy Principal Awards

Congratulations to these students who have earned themselves Deputy Principal awards for their special efforts: Immanuel, Ava, Jovial and Maeve (KM) for interesting sentences about the weekend

Aiden, Sana, Lachlan and Hannah (KN) for creating a fantastic rhyming word bank

Atilgan and Hriday (KA) for fantastic writing about their favourite animals

Brooklyn, Callah and Eden (KS) for great writing about our pedestrian crossing

ALL of 4D for incredibly well illustrated MyOn biographies Brian C & Arin G (3O) for outstanding knowledge about Australia in a geography assessment

Assemblies

The following classes were awarded Class of the Week for their display of PBL expectations:

Buruwang: KM Cumberland: 5A De Coubertin: 3G

School Home Communication - Enews Productive and purposeful communication between parents/carers and the school is a vitally important component in the

partnership of educating children. Our school has a number of ways to ensure parents/carers receive information about

their child’s education and the school’s activities and achievements. These include:

School Newsletter—The Croak: This is published fortnightly and emailed to parents and carers. Please

ensure you have subscribed using your preferred email address. For those without email or internet you can re-

quest a printed copy of The Croak from the Administration Office.

School E-News—Year Lists: This comes via your email and also through a downloaded app to your smartphone

or tablet computer. We publish relevant information for each grade, school announcements and updates. When

you sign up please nominate for both the newsletter group and the Year group of your child (eg. Year 1). This will

ensure you receive all relevant information pertaining to your child. Go to our website:

https://newington-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Use the Newsletters and Notes tab and then click on the School Enews app hyperlink to receive alerts.

Maths Olympiad & Maths Games Update!

It has been a while since we provided an update on how our expert mathematicians are going in Stage 2 and 3, with our

Maths Games and Math Olympiad Teams. All teachers report that they are doing very well with an update on scores to

come soon. For now, a great big cheer for all these students that continue to show commitment and achievement due to

their dedication and hard work:

Maths Games [Term 2]

Full Marks = Kylie Z, William D, Jinyoung B, Stella G, Dallas W, Dahn B, Danwoo K,

Homework = Danwoo K, Dahn B, Shlock S, Olivia B, Samuel K, Hayley O, Imogen Y, Zahra N, Stella G, Dominic L,

Amelia C, Daniel L, Emily S, Damon W, Joel Z, Emma C, Sarah M, Dallas W, Karen A, Milla D, Kevin B, Kylie Z, Kyle C

Maths Olympiad [Term 2] Full Marks = Han L (3rd time in a row!), Emily H, Aaron H, Joshua H, Antonio Z, Esther H, Natalie T, Teresa L Homework = Daniel S, Ashley K, Natalie T, Justin H, Xavier C, Teresa L, Alexandra Y, Shirley C, Jolina C, Tony C, Melissa P, Bryant L Congratulations and we can’t wait to see what eventuates in Term 3!

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Calendar Notices & Reminders

TERM III OC Placement test Thursday 1 August Our Spectacular Choir rehearsal Monday 5—Friday 9 August Education Week Tuesday 6 September P&C Meeting 7.30pm Wednesday 7 September Open Classrooms (Time: TBA) Friday 9 August Yr 2 excursion—2A, 2C, 2F Friday 16 August Yr 2 excursion—2L, 2MG, 2W Wednesday 21 August WSPSSA Zone Athletics Carnival (SOPAC) Thursday 22 August Book Week Character Parade Friday 23 August CHS Band Workshop (selected students) Thursday 29 August P&C Father’s Day Stall Our Spectacular—Sydney Opera House Friday 30 August Premier’s Reading Challenge closes Thursday 5 September Year 5 Incursion Tuesday 10 September P&C Meeting 7.30pm Wednesday 11 September PBL & Blueington 500 day celebration Thursday 12 September Kinder Farm excursion Friday 13 September PSSA Summer recommences Monday 16 August-Thursday 19 September ICAS Maths week Wednesday 18 September Year 6 Fun Day Wednesday 25 September Year 6 Observatory excursion Thursday 26 September Newington’s Got Talent Showcase Friday 27 September Last day Term 3

TERM IV Monday 14 October Students return for Term 4 Year 5 Camp (Broken Bay) Mon 14–Wed 16 Oct. Monday 21 October School Photographs

Safety Reminder—Scooters and Bikes Students who ride their bikes or scooters to school are reminded about these expectations: Once at the school gate, please walk your

bike or scooter to the parking area. Please stand your bike and where possible,

neatly store your scooter. Keep stairs and walkways clear.

Students riding bikes MUST wear a HELMET.

Students riding scooters are advised to wear a helmet.

KINDERGARTEN 2020 ENROLMENTS

If your child is starting Kindergarten in 2020 or you know someone who lives with-in our enrolment boundary who has a child starting school next year, please collect an

Application to Enrol form at our Office.

Children will need to turn 5 years of age before 31 July 2020.

Kindergarten Orientation Program

will run Fri 8, 15 November (day sessions) &

27 November (Evening session) - 7pm.

*Wentworth Point or Olympic Park resi-dents with siblings already at NPS can also

enrol for Kindergarten here.

Woolworths Earn & Learn sticker campaign for 2019 has now finished. We collected 83 880 stickers on 1398 sheets. Thank you to all those families and community members who collected stickers on the school’s behalf. Many thanks to Mrs Debbi Singh who coordinated the sticker collection for us and her assistants!

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Notices & Reminders

No smoking or dogs allowed on school premises.

Visitors to the school during the school day MUST

Adult visitors to the school are asked not to enter

Drivers of cars are required to obey RMS and Council

Congratulations to these recipients of Bronze Awards for Week 1 & 2 Term 3 Arya Ghimire William Duong Gabriel Saycon Ethan Matson Julian Lettieri Ameena Harkaty Boa Kim Brendan Kim Tyler D’Mello Olivia Shashoua Atilgan Uluc Ibrahim Singh Jaenoh Shon Arthur Aliwijoyo

Congratulations to these recipients of Silver Awards for Week 1 & 2 Term 3 Patrick Jirgens Oliver Goodridge Shirley Chen Tejas Joshi Bryant Li Kevin Bae Sophie Li Tyler Bell Zara Dardas Jasmine Bassal Emma Kim Chloe Ha Liz Zhangsuo Keilah Caunca Felicia Liem Lucas Shim Elvin Ha Umme Hani Poonawala Dream Choi Damla Aras Rianne Chan Hali Anwar Chance Lin Aiden Hwang Ayla Tavlu Hannah Chung Irene Hyun Lachlan Ding Sana Thapa Tristan Nim Brian Chen Seah Yu Evan Bailey Erica Liu Isaac Song Jacob Ukardi Braeden Crow Allen Xie Felix Qiu Elena Liu Isabel Ballesty Kate Crawford Alia Coubrough Lena Jung Indigo Yaw Jaden Zhang Teja Condliffe Amarissa Ho Noah Salehi Inara Stephenson Alissa Chen Sonny Han Thomas Went Whitney Maike Samakhya Girish Kaled Sowaid Lyla Leaitua Yul Jiang Levi Morada Zefanya Coplestone Aleah de Chavez Evan Bailey Isaac Zreik Sophie Zhu Aahana Sharma Anne Ko Emily Hirschhorn Emily Leiton Ian Kang Inaya Siddique Iris Geng Natasha Tiet Lee Sheen Pong Irene Cho Paris Go Eugene Halim Kaelynn Khoo Melissa Politis Nikolas Rompies Jackson Showyin Eliana Yosua Cooper Lees

PRC T3 W2 Congratulations to the following students who have completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge and given in their Reading Record to the Library. KA James L KD Eunice K 1C Taylor H 1C Nikki Z, Inara S 1E Lucy M, Mitchell W 1G Aarav S 1M Felicity K 2A Whitney M 2F Annabel N, Riley G 2MG Yul J 4A Gabriel S 4S Keagan S, George A 5A Yosif A, Serah J, Ruhara P, Ellina H, Tanishq S, Berkay K 5O Ava W, Eugene H 6O Maya M

The following students completed the Premier’s Reading Challenge in Term 2.

KD Jaden C, Minji L, Hayun K KN Bethany P, Aiden H, Lana Y KS Brooklyn A 1M James K 1O Ginny P, Ryan L 2A Isaac L 2W Max H 3A Sienna S 3G Danwoo K, Dahn B 3S Kate C 4A Karen A 4D Sienna A 5F Shirley C, Sebastian F 6K Sophie T 6O Aaron H

Mrs. Arnott Teacher Librarian

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The Haunted House by Maya Valente 3O

Sizzling Start ( The Portal) As I stood up straight and looked at the endless tunnel with determi-nation, I didn't know exactly what to do but I also knew that there was only one way and it was to continue until it ended. I knew it was go-ing to take a long time but that was the only way. The long tunnel looked beautiful. It had lime green bushes covering the ancient old train tracks.

Pebble ( Door Closes) It was getting dark and I knew I was close to the end of the tunnel. Luckily, I brought my torch. I finally saw up ahead an ending. Sudden-ly, the door started opening as if it were inviting me inside. I had no choice, I was lost. It was dark and I had no food to eat so I had to move forward. I took a deep breath and entered into the unknown. Suddenly, I had a change of heart but the door had closed behind me before I could return. The door had a key hole but where could I find the key ? As I looked around, I realised I was standing next to an old, creepy house. I wondered to myself, “Was it haunted ? “

Rock ( Lost) I walked towards the creepy, old, dilapidated door. I knocked on it. Then, straight away the door opened. I was scared but also curious at the same time. I took a step forward on the creaky, discoloured wood-en floorboards. I was cautious when walking because I thought it could break but I had to continue the journey with no choice. I walked on the floor boards and they creaked loudly like the house was hun-dreds of years old. I saw a crackling fire place which illuminated the room. It was crackling so loud you could barely hear a mouse. There were cobwebs everywhere like spider caves. ..

Seven Steps to Writing

Success

SPOTLIGHT ON

LITERACY & NUMERACY

Seven Steps to Writing has swept through all class-rooms from Years 2-6 at Newington Public School this Year. Seven Steps to Writing is a fun and engaging tool box of writing skills and building blocks to equip our stu-dents with the confidence and creativity to develop writ-ing masterpieces.

Each writing step is isolated and taught to en-able students to build a solid foundation to write narratives, informative and persuasive texts. Did you know that you only have seven seconds to grab your reader’s interest when you create a piece of writing?

Have a look at these fabulous work samples!

7 Steps to Writing - The Lost City Motionlessly, I saw a mysterious tunnel. I felt as cold as ice, as I explored the tunnel. I saw a bright light in the distance. It allured me to it. When I got to the end of the tunnel a rusty, old wooden door caught my attention. “ Where does this lead to ?”, I thought. Cautiously, I opened the door. I was nervous yet excited to see where the door would lead me. I jumped through the door and landed face first on the dirt. “ Where is this place ?” I thought to myself tying to get up. I looked around this mesmerising jungle. As I walked through this magical experi-ence ,I noticed a tree with a face carved out of it, sleeping peacefully in the forest. I thought to myself, “ Who could have lived here ?” and “ How did I get here ?” I walked around and noticed an emerald green lagoon. I went closer and closer but then I heard a “BANG!”. The portal door closed. “ There has to be a way out ?”, I thought. I ran as fast as lightening. After a while, I felt tired. I rested under a shady tall tree. A few minutes later, I fell asleep. I finally woke up and found myself trapped in a cave. I thought to myself, “The forest was alive !”. I heard a strange sound. I came closer to it and saw three snakes with emerald, hypnotic green eyes dangling from a branch. I looked down on the ground and saw a sharp knife. I thought to myself, “ What is this doing here ?”, looking surprised. I ran back to the lagoon. I went into the lagoon and saw a flickering light coming from the bottom of the emerald lagoon. I dived under to find where the light was coming from. I got closer and it appeared to be an emerald jewel. I grabbed it and found myself stuck in a cage. I thought to my-self, “could there be a key under the Jewel ?” I checked and found a key. I unlocked the cage and swam out to see three trees with doors on them. “ One of these doors must lead me home, I thought “. I chose the middle door and went through it. Luckily, I found myself back in the real world and I ran home. By: Mikayla 3G

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School Programs

School Programs

YEAR 6 CANBERRA OVERNIGHT EXCURSION

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School Programs

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STAGE 2 & 3 SPELLING BEE FINALISTS

Both Stage 2 & 3 had their Spelling Bee Final last Wednesday. All the competitors tried real-ly hard and should be commended for reach-ing the stage final. The successful ‘spellers’ that will be going through to the Regional final are:

Stage 2 : Hayley Oh & Brian Chen

Stage 3 : Taha Hussain & Xavier Chalise

Congratulations and all the very best of luck to our 4 finalists for the Regional competition.

Positive Behaviour for Learning

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Term 3 Week 3 Non-Classroom

Setting Behaviour

Everyone is RESPONSIBLE

Playground

Play in bounds Sand stays in the pit Return equipment

Term 3 Week 4 Non-Classroom

Setting Behaviour

Everyone is RESPECTFUL Canteen

Stand behind yellow line Canteen users only

P&C

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Parenting Insight

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Parenting Insight

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