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Calendar TERM 4

TERM 1 2020

16 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

We are always FAIR at FAIRVALE

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OSH CLUB operates on site everyday from 7-9am

and 3.00-6.00pm. For more information call:

02 8355 5300 0429 023 686

Week 10 What’s On

16 December Swim School Week 2 begins

18 December Last Day of School 2019

Follow us on Twitter @FairvalePS

Week 1 What’s On….

28 January Teachers return

29 January Yr 1 –6 Students return

Week 2 What’s On….

3 February Kindergarten commence

4 February Parramatta Eels visit

6 February Parent Group Meeting—9.15am

Week 3 What’s On….

12 February 3-6 Water Carnival

13 February SCHOOL BANKING Commences

Week 4 What’s On….

20 February SCHOOL BANKING

Week 5 What’s On….

25 February K-2 Meet the Teacher Afternoon

26 February 3-6 Meet the Teacher Afternoon

27 February SCHOOL BANKING

IF YOU SEE ANYTHING SUSPICIOUS GOING ON AT

THE SCHOOL PLEASE CALL SCHOOL SECURITY

1300 880 021

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16 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

FAIRVALE NEWS —holiday edition Ph: (02) 9724 3470 Fax: (02) 9727 8863

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Dear Parents/ Carers,

ROCKETING AROUND THE SCHOOL WITH MR PITT

Thank you everyone for another fabulous year rocketing around the school. The rocket will be traded in over the

holidays and next year I hope to have a new mode of transport. I visited every classroom and support based program at

Fairvale PS this year. I enjoy visiting classrooms and workspaces whenever I can but the ’rocketing time’ is special

because I am able to witness the great work everyone is doing and talk to the children about their learning.

STAFF NEWS

We say a sad farewell to some of our staff this year.

END OF YEAR CELEBRATIONS

It was great to see many families here over the last week for many of our end of year celebrations. Congratulations to

all our award winners and to the executive team for coordinating these events. I would also like to acknowledge the

attendance of Mr Guy Zangari, Member of Fairfield. Mr Zangari is a great supporter of the school and I appreciate the

support he gives to us. I would like to thank Fairfield RSL for their continued support each and every year.

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

The end of the year means we say a sad farewell to some of our families in our school community, many of whom

have been here for 7 years and in some cases even longer. Best wishes to all for the future. Children, remember

work hard, listen to your parents and have loads of fun! On behalf of the staff at Fairvale Public School, I wish all of

our children and their families best wishes for a safe holiday season. Enjoy this time together with your extended

family and friends. For those in our community that participate in Christmas festivities—Merry Christmas and Happy

New Year to you all!

Looking forward to working with you all again in 2020.

Anthony Pitt

Principal

16 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

I respect and acknowledge Aboriginal people as the traditional owners of the land on which I work, live and visit.

Mrs Helen Rigley—retiring from the Department of Education

Mrs Talita Terzian—maternity leave

Mrs Stephanie Baxter—appointed to another school

Ms Daisy Donaldson—working casually at various schools

Mrs Georgia Li—working casually at various schools

Mr David Katz – appointed to another school

Mrs Rima Matte—working at another school in 2020

Miss Louise Hoarau—school counsellor placement at another school.

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16 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

Take a break with Mrs Karam!

Each fortnight I visit a ‘break activity’ group.

Last week we celebrated another wonderful semester

with our presentation assembly. We also honoured our

amazing teaching and non-teaching staff. A huge

congratulations to Mrs Sarah Dean, Mrs Gayle Sloggett,

Miss Ashleigh Berry and Mrs Gai Bushby for receiving a

Director's Award for all of the outstanding work they do

at Fairvale Public School.

The semester two class newsletters have been uploaded to out school website. They are a wonderful celebration of learning. Please take the time to read them with your child.

You can find your child's class newsletter by following the steps below:

1. https://fairvale-p.schools.nsw.gov.au/

2. Select 'Learning at our school'

3. Select 'Class newsletters'

4. Select 'Class newsletters 2019'

5. Select your child's class.

Last Friday Mrs Dean took our school leaders

to Fairfield to participate in the annual trolley

drive. Students and families have donated

several food items over the past few weeks

and Fairvale Public School were able to fill two

trolleys full of groceries. These much needed

items will be able to help families and

students over the next 12 months. Thank you

to everyone for donating and to Mrs Dean for

coordinating this wonderful event.

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

The last day of school for 2019 is this Wednesday for all students. Students in Years 1 to 6

return on Wednesday 29 January, 2020.

New Kindergarten students will be attending Best Start assessment sessions over the 3 days

before commencing on Monday 3 February, 2020.

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

Before School Care After School Care

7.00am—9.00am 3.00pm—6.00pm

Contact Number Website

0429 023 686 www.oshclub.com.au

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR OSHCLUB CHILDREN AND

FAMILIES!!!!!

This week we celebrated our annual OSHClub Christmas

Party!! We had lots of fun dancing to Christmas music,

playing the Laser game, trying to avoid touching the

lasers and eating lots of yummy food! � Miss Keira did

some awesome face and hand painting and we wrote

some Christmas Cards to the Fire Fighters, Wishing

them a Merry Christmas and wishes of Staying safe

while helping our community.

Merry Christmas and Safe Holidays!! Miss Keira

Christmas crafts and cooking activities are going crazy as the

children create their own Christmas Cards and decorating

Reindeer cookies. Yum Yum

Year 2 and 3 students are currently

participating in the School Swimming and Water

Safety program. These students are

learning important water safety and survival

skills, so they can enjoy aquatic activities safely.

They have also learnt that swimming is a life

skill and it's something they will retain for the

entirety of their life.

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

We have recently received very exciting news regarding competitions and exhibitions that students from FVPS have been involved in. Mysha Khan from Year 4 has recently won a competition where she designed a Thank you card for the Public Education Foundation. Please see her creative design below. Mare Iskandar in Year 4 also won another competition run by Fairfield Council and Project Art and her artwork is being used to decorate the walls of the children’s ward at Fairfield Hospital. Kenny Tran (Kindergarten), Eliza Thoeung (Year 3) and Angelina Al Bazi (Year 6) all had art work on display in the recent Operation Art exhibition.

So proud of these students and their achievements.

Mrs Sloggett

Creative Arts Project Team Leader

Last week we celebrated all of the amazing banner winners at our end of Term 4 PBL award winners party. Jess from the Footsteps Dance Crew came out and put on an awesome disco and dance workshop. The students had a great time learning lots of new moves and burnt up the floor with their own routines. It was so wonderful to see them all having such a great time. Congratulations to all of our banner winners for their hard work and effort.!

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

A fabulous day was had by all the students during our annual FAIR Day. This year the students were blown away

by the rides and loved every single one. They also enjoyed all the food that was on offer. I would like to congrat-

ulate all the students for the fabulous behaviour they showed on the day and we look forward to an even bigger

and better FAIR Day next year—plans are already underway.

At Tuesday’s K-2 Semester Celebration Assembly we

farewelled Mrs Helen Rigley. Mrs Rigley has had a very

long and successful career with the Department of

Education, and we have been lucky to have her at

Fairvale PS as an administrative officer for over twenty

years.

Mrs Rigley has been celebrating over the past month or

so, firstly we had a special staff farewell dinner. It was a

lovely dinner with Mrs Rigley’s family attending as well

as some former Fairvale colleagues.

At Tuesday’s Assembly, Mrs Rigley received flowers, a

farewell page from each class and a very lovely book

with a collage of the special farewell dinner. I was also

honoured to present Mrs Rigley with her official

retirement medallion for service to children. The final

surprise was a farewell video message.

We wish Mrs Rigley a long, happy and restful

retirement.

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

We are now taking enrolments for Kindergarten. Please call into the

office to pick up an enrolment form. Kindergarten children need to be

turning 5 before 31/7/2020 You will need to bring along:

Child’s original birth certificate or passport

Proof of address eg. Council rates notice and/or residential

lease and/or Centrelink card and/or drivers licence

Parents born overseas please bring original passport or

citizenship papers

Current immunisation history statement

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5 December, 2019 Term 4, Week 10

Answers from the last Fairvale Superpower challenge:

Early stage 1— Show your teacher, I hope that you were able to find 5 things!

Stage 1— 24 spacemen Stage 2— Answer: b and c as well as various answers

Stage 3— Ignoring the two strange squares in the middle, there

are 16 1×116 1×1 squares, 9 2×2, 4 3×3,9 2×2, 4 3×3, and 1 4×41 4×4 for a total of 3030 Each of the two strange squares has four small and one large square, five each, ten total. The grand total is then 4040 squares.