Kalori Term 1 Week 4 14 February 2017

Meryula St Narromine NSW 2821 P: 02 68894566 F: 02 68894451

E: narromine-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Denise King Principal

Narromine Public School Emergency Procedures Regularly during the school year, we undertake evacuation and lockdown practices to ensure the safety of everyone at our school. We plan to undertake one of these practices in the near future. Teachers will be talking to the children about our emergency procedures, if you could also share with your children the importance of practicing for an emergency this may lessen the fear factor

for them during our drills. When on site all visitors, parents etc. are expected to join in with these practices. We hope that we will never be put into a situation where we would need to carry out these procedures in real life but with these practices at least we are the best prepared that we can be. EVACUATION An evacuation is the organised and controlled movement of students, staff and visitors from a threatened or danger area in the minimum possible time and exposing them to the least possible risk. A copy of the emergency evacuation procedures is located on or near the main door of every room. This procedure will be used in the event of a fire, bomb scare, or any other event requiring immediate evacuation of the school. Emergency Evacuation Procedures • One long sound from the alarm bell or manual hooter, evacuate buildings via the most convenient exit or via classroom plan. • Close doors after ensuring no one else remains in room. • Everyone assemble on grass area near the cricket pitch on the back oval. • Remain in the evacuation area until the all clear is given. LOCKDOWN Lockdown is used when there is an immediate threat to the school, e.g. school intruders, an armed person on school grounds, potentially explosive object, storm situations etc. Lockdown secures staff and students in rooms, where everyone must remain until the situation has been declared safe. The staff, students and visitors will be alerted to follow the Emergency Lock-Down Procedure by short sharp blasts from the hooter. Any person noticing potential dangers in/or around the school should immediately notify the office. If this occurs during breaks in the school day students should approach the teacher(s) on duty, who should then notify the office immediately. Lockdown Procedures • If in the playground, move to closest room. • Close and lock all windows and doors. • Put down shutters if in the canteen. • Call the office 68894566 on your mobile or use the school’s internal phone system to advise the office that all are secure. • Remain in place until given the all clear.

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Kiss and Drop The ‘Drop-off’ area provides parents and carers with a safe environment to drop off their children by car. This area is on the school side of the road in Meryula Street. The kiss and drop zone provides convenience for drivers and will enhance children’s safety. Parents and carers are able to legally drop off their children within a two-minute timeframe. You may get out of the car to assist your child as long as you stay within three metres of the vehicle. The ‘Drop-off’ zone will allow drivers to drop off students legally at the beginning of the school day A ‘Drop-off’ zone has advantages for child road safety because it:

• Provides a designated zone at a school access point for drivers to stop and drop off their children, • Relieves traffic congestion around the school, • Allows smaller children to remain secured in the car while school age children are dropped off, and • Reinforces road safety messages and safe passenger behaviour to parents and children.

Safety tips for drivers using a ‘Drop-off’ area • Drop-off your child at the designated area, • Make sure children use the footpath-side door when getting out of the vehicle, • Never double park, and • Never undertake a U-turn in school zones.

Safety tips for students • Stay buckled up until the vehicle has stopped in the ‘Drop-off ’ area, • Make sure your school bag and other items are in a safe position, eg on the floor, • Be ready to get out of the car with your belongings when the car has stopped and you have unbuckled your

seatbelt, • Always get out of the backseat of the vehicle through the safety door – the rear footpath-side door.

Missing from our playground It is very disappointing to arrive back at school and discover that a number of our outdoor lunch tables have been stolen from the playground. This theft has been reported and as the lunch tables are not covered by any insurance they unfortunately will not be replaced. This is a loss to our students who make great use of this seating. Please help us to keep our resources in our school where all of our children can access them. If you happen to see people in our playground during non-school times please report this activity to the local police or to the police assistance hotline - 131 444. Head lice A number of families have reported cases of head lice to the staff, please be proactive as we are in head lice season. We have ordered in and will be sending home a treatment to all our families. We have found in the past that by all families treating at once we seem to be able to get on top of head lice and ease the discomfort for the children during the hot sticky days of summer. The following websites are also helpful; http://www.wikihow.com/Remove-Nits-from-Hair, http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/head-lice-busting-the-myths-so-we-can-nab-those-nits-20150303-13thml.html, http://www.mamamia.com.au/getting-rid-of-nits/

A snapshot of all the excellent happenings @ NPS During the past two weeks we have had a sensational time at NPS with our Holiday wetplay reward afternoon, we have commenced our interest groups, we have hosted our leaders induction assembly, our staff and parents shared an information afternoon, we have had our vision tested with the vision screening program, we swam at our swimming carnival, our leaders attended the Narromine Shire’s Apology ceremony, we have commenced Come and See our speech therapy program through Royal Far West and today our community focus with 3T kicking off our class visits to Timbrebongie House.

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School Photos

School photos will take place on Wednesday 15 March and order forms will be sent home this week. Students are to dress in full school uniform and order envelopes must be returned to school with full payment by Monday 13 March. Alternatively orders can be completed online in which case the envelope does not need to be returned to school. Group and portrait photographs can be purchased online through the website www.advancedlife.com.au using the code A3G DLQ MA4. Online orders must be placed by 12am Tuesday 14 March. Sibling photographs must be ordered either online or by order envelope (available from the school office) prior to the day of photography. A photograph will not be taken without an order. Sibling photographs only apply to children enrolled at this school.

SRC Pink Stumps - Week 5 The McGrath Foundation was co-founded by Jane McGrath and her cricketing husband Glenn after Jane’s personal experience with breast cancer at 31. Jane became a passionate believer in the need for breast care nurses and increased breast awareness for all women regardless of age. The McGrath Breast Care Nurse Programme and Curve Lurve are the result of Jane’s legacy. To continue Jane’s legacy, Narromine Public School will host the annual Pink Stumps event in Week 5 of this term. All money raised will go to the McGrath Foundation. The events taking place are as follows. Pink Raffle Competition- Commencing Monday 20 February Students will have the opportunity to buy a raffle ticket to go in the draw to win some wonderful pink prizes. The SRC members will run this event throughout lunch time for the whole week. The cost for a ticket will be 50 cents. The winner will be announced at our Monday morning assembly in Week 6. Pink Dress Up Day and Cupcake Stall - Thursday 23 February Students are invited to wear all shades of pink on this day. Students are encouraged to bring a gold coin donation which the SRC members will collect from each classroom during the day. Also on the day, the annual cupcake stall will be happening at lunch time at the canteen. The delicious cupcakes generously donated by our SRC students and families will be range from 50 cents to 1 dollar. Don’t miss out!

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Sport A huge congratulations goes to all students who attended the Narromine Public School Swimming Carnival, and to those who have progressed through to the Gobondery/NARRAF Swimming carnival to be held in Narromine on Friday 24 February. We were lucky enough to have one record broken by Lucy Shepherd. She broke the Girls 11yrs 50m Backstroke record which has been standing since 1998 with a time of 44.12s. Congratulations Lucy. Castlereagh was the winning house on the day with 372 points. Bogan came second, followed by Namoi and then Macquarie. Well Done to all of the age champions, who were as follows: Sr Boy Champion: Thomas Fidock Runner Up: David Sr Girl Champion: Belinda Campbell Runner Up: Ashleigh Woods 11yrs Boy Champion: Ruben Gill Runner Up: Zachary Everett 11yrs Girl Champion: Lucy Shepherd Runner Up: Chloe Corderoy Jr Boy Champion: Lukas McLauchlan Runner Up: Fraser Gill Jr Girl Champion: Abby Corderoy Runner Up: Phoebe Roberts A big thank you goes to all of our parent and community helpers that performed some sort of job to assist on the day, it is much appreciated. Reminder- We will not be participating in swimming for sport on Friday of Week 4 or Friday of week 5 as the pool has been booked for swimming carnivals on those days. We will be doing stage or class sport at school instead. Coming up we will be starting trials for the Gobondery/NARRAF Gala day in Peak Hill. These trials will be to make teams for Yr3/4 teeball for the girls and cricket for the boys, and Yr 5/6 softball for the girls and cricket for the boys. Listen for reminders from teachers if you are interested in trying out for any of these teams. Lacy Sampson - Sports Co-ordinator Family Literacy Challenges

Welcome to 2017 and our Family Literacy Challenges that you have all been waiting for all holidays. You will need to get a family team together to complete the challenges. There will be a box in the front office to submit your entries. To collect the prize you need to make sure you have one name of a family member per entry. For example: The Jones Family- Andrew Jones 4W. To be in the running for a $10 canteen voucher make sure you get your entry in the blue box in the foyer at the office. You have to be in it to win it!! Week 4- adjectives. Adjectives are words that tell us more about a noun eg: The big brown dog. Big and brown are both adjectives. Week 4 Challenge - Write as many adjectives as you can to describe the image in this picture.

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2017 Swimming Carnival

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2017 Leadership Team

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P&C News

A P&C meeting is being held today (Tuesday 14) February at 3pm in the school staff room. All welcome to attend and be a part of the NPS P&C. Tastebuds Specials Wednesday/Thursday - Macaroni Cheese $4.

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Community

Narromine Soccer

Registrations are available online from the 11 February. Please go to www.myfootballclub.com.au and click to register now. Please phone Lauren for any questions or concerns 0448720079.

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Term 1 2017 MONTH MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WEEK 4 FEB

13 14 P&C Meeting 3pm

15

16

17 Book Club due

WEEK 5 FEB

20 K-6 Assembly Host School Leaders Item 6T

21

22

23 Pink Stumps Day

24 NARRAF/GOB Swimming Vision Screening

WEEK 6 FEB/MAR

27 Yr 6 PDHPE Talks

28 Yr 6 PDHPE Talks

1 2-6pm. Parent Teacher Interviews / PLPs

2 3

WEEK 7 MAR

6 K-6 Assembly Host Yr5&6 SRC Item 3W

7

8

9

10 Western Swimming Carnival

WEEK 8 MAR

13 14

15 School Photos

16 17

WEEK 9 MAR

20 K-6 Assembly Host Yr3&4 SRC Item 2S

21

22 Challenge Camp Hearing Screening

23 24

WEEK 10 MAR/APR

27

28

29

30 PSSA RL 7s Science Challenge

31

WEEK 11 APRIL

3 K-6 Assembly Host Yr1&2 SRC Item 5B

4 RL – Peachie Shield

5 Grand Friends Day Interest Group Showcase

6 3-6 Disco

7 Easter Hat Parade

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