PRINCIPALS’  This year Guildford PS were  fortunate  to be appointed 2 extra  Deputy  Principals,  as  Instruc onal  Leaders,  whose en re  focus  is  on  improving  the  literacy  and  numeracy learning outcomes of K‐2  students. Mrs Haidar  and Miss Haynes  currently  work  with  K‐2  students  and  teachers, developing  their  skills  in  reading  and wri ng,  constantly analyzing  learning data, growth and  refining  learning and teaching  strategies  so  students  can  work  towards  new learning goals. Every 5 weeks student data  is uploaded to NSW Department of Educa on data base known as PLAN. This data provides  teachers,  interven onists  and  instruc‐onal  leaders  the  base  to  engage  in  ‘Data  Talks’  about 

their  students’  growth/successes,  current  challenges  and future direc ons. There is no doubt the quality of the professional conversa‐ons between your child’s teacher, the interven onist and 

the  Instruc onal  Leader  is  of  the  highest  degree. When teachers  know  their  students  well,  how  they  learn,  the content  and  how  to  teach  it,  students  can  achieve  high growth. My  congratula ons  to  K‐2  students  for  demon‐stra ng a growth mindset  towards  improvement  in  read‐ing, wri ng and speaking and listening. 

OUT OF SCHOOL HOURS CARE OSHC - SURVEY

Thank  you  to  the  40  parents/carers who  completed  the OSHC survey. An OSHC would operate before school (7am ‐8.30am)  and  a er  school  (3.00pm  –  6.00pm)  providing care for school children whose parents/carers are working or have other commitments. Completed OSHC surveys will be  accepted  up  un l  this  Friday  a er which  I will meet with P&C execu ve  to discuss  if  there  is enough demand for an OSHC. Extra printed surveys can be collected  from the office. Families who  currently  receive  Family Benefit qualify  for reduced  OSHC  costs.  The  link  below  provides  details  to determine if you are eligible for a Child Care Benefit. h ps://docs.educa on.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/fact_sheet_2_what_is_child_care_benefit.pdf  

KINDERGARTEN TRANSITION FOR 2018 START

Thank you to those big brothers and sisters who encouraged their parents/carers to return completed 2018 Kindergarten enrolment  forms  to  the  school office. Kindergarten Transi‐on  is  happening  in  November  and we  certainly want  to 

assess all student  informa on before then. So,  if you know of  a  child who  is  turning  5yo before  31  July  2018, he/she needs to be enrolled for 2018.  

SCHOOL EVALUATION – HAVE YOUR SAY I encourage parents and  carers  to  complete  the upcoming survey.  It’s  your  opportunity  to  voice  your  opinion  about how Guildford PS supports learning, teaching and leading.  QUESTION: Do you want the opportunity to be heard? QUESTION: What can you do? ANSWER: Complete  the upcoming  ‘2017  Parent  and  Carer Survey’ 

STAGE 3 CANBERRA EXCURSION The three day Canberra excursion provided students hands‐on experiences and an insight in to how Parliament is struc‐tured, how laws are made and governed, the history of Aus‐tralian democracy and electoral procedures. We heard how democracy  is “of the people, for the people, to the people”. Questacon and the Australian Ins tute of Sport provided an opportunity for students to engage with scien fic principles and experience sports first hand. On night one, students had plenty of fun at Flipout Trampoline Centre. A guided tour of the Australian War Memorial enabled students to reflect on the  impact war has had on servicemen, servicewomen and civilians.  

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19TH SEPTEMBER NEWS UPDATE

Happy Holidays Kind Regards Mr Chris Haberecht

BRONZE SUPERSTARS 5J Kimmy Chung, Hasina Yosufi , Ahmed Ahmed 5T Sehaj Bejwa, Mina Assaf

5Y  Kriti Pandey

6K  Amy Tran, Mesum Rezai   

SILVER SUPERSTARS 1C Najeeb Moradi 1G Ghayure Nazari, Fuamai Ripine, Brayden Borg,  

  Jack Jiang, Bahara Haidarzadah, Noyan Raza    Wakilzadah

1M Ahmed Zakout 3B Amele Saukuru

3/4L Levi Mahony

3T  Hayder Al Anesy

4C Hainya Rezai , Tilangi Penitani, Mariam Maamari Rafael Lingad, Layel Jbara, Talitha Chung

5J Sumaiya Taleb , David Smith , Brian Mac

5T Khaldoun Khazma

6K Jana El Ramlawi, Yousef Nabizadeh

GOLD SUPERSTARS 2Z Zahra Nazari, Reanna Jbara, Meleke Begi

 

Year 5 and 6 students from our school

attended an education tour of the national

capital (Canberra) Wednesday 6 September

to Friday 9 September 2017. Students were

given the opportunity to participate in a va-

riety of educational programs with a focus

on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and

democracy. The teachers and students

looked forward to this special event.

The Australian Government recognises the

importance of all young Australians being

able to visit the national capital as part of

their Civics and Citizenship education. To

assist families in meeting the cost of the

excursion the Australian Government con-

tributed funding of $20 per student under

the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate

program towards those costs. The rebate

was paid directly to the school upon comple-

tion of the excursion. This rebate allowed us

to reduce the cost by $20.

Year 5 and 6 students that did not attend the overnight excursion were involved in learning activities related to the topics mentioned above at school.

Over the last few weeks in Tech Club, we have been exploring the features of the VeeScope app. During these sessions we have looked at the different features and capabili-ties of the app and how to use it with the Green Screen.

During ‘digital sandpit’ time we looked at some of the settings and features to assist with creating effective videos. This has included editing the screen’s contrast and brightness settings, as well as adding backgrounds to make our videos more engaging. We made some short videos and were pretty excited to share what we had made with Mr Haberecht when he came for a visit last week. Students are becoming more confident in using the app and we cannot wait to see what the students continue to create over the next few sessions.

In the following weeks we will be recapping presenting to an audience using a script, ex-ploring camera roles and using the VeeScope app to record short videos in small groups.

Until then… “Quiet on set”…

”ACTION”!

Environmental

Tips and Tricks!

Food Waste

Each week the average Australian family throws out 20% of the food they buy, that’s one in every five bags of groceries, this adds up to 3.3million tonnes of food a year. Food waste produces methane gas which has a 25 times stronger impact on the environment than car-bon dioxide. We have started putting our fruit scraps into worm farms. By putting your food scraps into a worm farm we can reduce food waste by 120kg a year and the methane isn’t released into the atmosphere.

How to Make a Worm Farm in a Small Apartment

1. Buy a Container Purchase a large plastic or ceramic container. You can find one at a gardening store or de-partment store. Poke holes in the lid and base of a plastic box to create ventilation and allow water to drain. Place a tray beneath the container to catch the drainage. You can keep the compost pile inside or outside of your apartment, though it should be in a cool spot that gets plenty of sunlight. 2. Pile the Components Before you can toss scrapped food in your compost, you'll need to prep the bin. Start by cutting strips of paper (you can recycle them from old newspapers) and soaking them in wa-ter. Use half of the strips to coat the bottom of the bin. Pour soil over the paper and drop in worms--the container size should be relative to how many worms you put inside. The bin needs to be one square foot for every pound of worms. 3. Toss in Scraps Now that you have a pile of paper, soil and worms, you can start throwing in your scraps. Compost piles can contain fruits, vegetables, produce peels, egg shells, paper, tea and tea bags, coffee and filters, and leaves. Do not add plastic, animal waste, citrus, meat, bones or dairy. Each time you add scraps to your compost pile, cover it with the soaked paper strips. 4. Repeat You can keep piling scraps and paper in your compost bin. You may consider having two bins in your small apartment, alternating between the two. This gives the worms time to work through the food scraps and will give you more room the next time you use that bin. Once you’re bin is full and the contents have decomposed, you can use the soil for garden-ing. If you don’t garden, consider giving a bag of the soil to someone who does. 

At Guildford we have started re-cycling our plastics and metal

in to co-mingle bins! Unfortunately we have had a lot of rubbish going into our recycling bin so our Environ-mental Leaders are on the playground to guide students in what is recyclable and what needs to go in the bin. Make sure you too are putting the right thing in the recycling bin.

Environmental

Tips and Tricks!

Environmental

Tips and Tricks!

Getting rid of your spare old fridge or upright freezer is one of the easiest steps you can take to

cut your power bills. Inefficient second fridges and freezers are one of the home’s biggest energy guzzlers, consuming up to three times the energy of new fridges. Running a second fridge adds an average of $300 a year to your power bills and results in greenhouse gases being released into the atmosphere. Old upright freezers use almost as much power as an old fridge. Fridge Buyback is a residential energy sav-ings program that actually pays you to re-duce your power bills and help save the environment by giving up your old second fridge or upright freezer. The appliances are professionally degassed and the met-als recycled. To participate, your fridge or upright freez-er must be a working, second appliance that has been in regular use and is 200 litres (7.06 cubic feet) or more in volume. Fridges and freezers are collected by pro-fessional removalists and a $25 rebate is paid if the removal involves stairs with six steps or less. Collection is free, but no re-bate is paid, where collection involves be-tween seven to 20 steps). A fee will apply only if the property has more than 20 steps. There are regular collection runs every few weeks in most built-up areas. Ring 1800 708 401 to book or see www.fridgebuyback.com.au for more infor-mation.

Environmental

Tips and Tricks!

Toy Library Went-worthville

Toy libraries keep unwanted childhood treasures out of

landfill.

Cumberland Council provides a toy library service at the Wentworthville Library, 2 Lane Street, Wentworthville. Phone: 9896 0083 or 9631 7564 In addition to borrowing books, maga-zines or movies… borrow toys for your child to play with! It’s a great way for your child to enjoy the novelty of a new toy without the expense. Toys can be borrowed for any child or groups of children under 11 years old. Before borrowing you must become a member of the Toy Library by com-pleting a membership form and paying an annual fee. Why a Toy Library? Toy libraries promote child learning and development through play experi-ences. Toys give children direct expe-riences and information about them-selves and their environment and de-velop basic awareness, attitudes and skills essential to later learning. What We Offer We offer a range of toys, suitable for young children and children with spe-cial needs. All the toys in the library help children develop various skills, provide enjoyment for groups and indi-viduals, and stimulate creativity and positive social behaviour.

http://www.cumberland.nsw.gov.au/library/children/toy-

2017BOOKWEEKCOMPETITIONS

Thank you to all students who entered the Book Week Competitions. The Book Week Committee was very impressed by all the en-tries. The team worked hard in selecting the winning entries.

The judging process was as follows. Every single entry was displayed in a specific area of the library labelled with the competi-tion’s name. Each committee member judged the entries and voted for who they personally thought was good. Children’s names were cov-ered so no one could choose by name.

Once each committee member finished voting for their personal favourite, Mr Norambuena and someone else counted the votes.

1st place vote = 5 points 2nd place vote = 3 points 3rd place vote = 1 point.

After the votes were counted, the decision was made. In case of a tie for 1st, the winner is selected by the number of 1st places they were given.

I have tried my best to make the judging pro-cedures fair and accurate.

We have 11 teachers on the Book Week Com-mittee and we voted as a committee. The committee consists of myself, an execu-tive member, 1 Kindergarten Teacher, 2 Stage One teachers, 2 Stage Two teachers, 2 Stage 3 teachers, 1 Interventionist and 2 EALD (ESL) Teachers.

Competition Winners will be announced on Monday Morning’s assembly (3 to 6) and the K-2 Wednesday assembly (K-2).

21st AUGUST

25th AUGUST

EARLY STAGE 1

Early Stage 1 Travel Book. 1st Adryan Estephan (KM)

2nd Omer Khan (KM)

Early Stage 1 Chip Packet 1st Finlay Veloso (KD)

2nd Najeeba Mokhtar (KF) = 3rd Maddie Rimando (KC)

=3rd Nicole Huang (KK)

STAGE 2

Stage 1 Travel Book 1st Shawn Ramkissoon (1G) 2nd Amani El Ramlawi (2S) 3rd Kokoda Mahony (2B)

Stage 1 Chip Packet

1st Kokoda Mahony (2B) 2nd Sammar Ayouch (1H) 3rd Omar El Kassab (1M)

Stage 1 Postcards

1st Sammar Ayouch (1H) 2nd Zabih Shahabzada (1H)

3rd Janan Zangana (1H)

STAGE 2

Photo Collection 1st Zeyjan Olca (3B)

3D Maps

1st Tristian Estephan (3T) 2nd Levi Mahony (3/4L) 3rd Ghazal Mahdavi (4E)

Stage 2 Recycled Vehicles.

1st Shubham Sheth (3T) 2nd Nerman El Kassab (3B

3rd AJ Floyd (3C)

Stage 2 Mechanica Design 1st John Singca (3C) 2nd Noah Keogh (4E)

3rd Melissa Khazaal (4E)

STAGE 3

Stage 3 Refugee Poster 1st Exodus Rees (5Y)

2nd Norah Ayouch (5Y) 3rd Amirah El Kassab (5Y)

Stage 3 Family Tree

1st Alexandra Floyd (6AK) 2nd Norah Ayouch (5Y)

3rd Nicole Tan Terles (6AK)

Stage 3 Recycled Vehicle 1st Exodus Rees (5Y)

2nd Faria Moosawi (6K) 3rd Norah Ayouch (5Y)

2017BOOKWEEKCOMPETITIONSWINNERS

VICTORIOUS DEBATE

On Wednesday 30th August, the debating team battled Hilltop Public School in a heated debate. We, the negative team, strongly argued that not everyone should engage in a type of sport. We were able to powerfully convince the audience and adju-dicators, which resulted in a triumphant win.

Our first speaker Jana, performed well by clearly projecting her voice and backing up our case with strong evidence and sources. Next, was our second speaker Sytori, who also backed up our case by using reliable sources and rebutted the affirmative team well. Our final speaker Samira, strongly summarised our case and held a firm stance the whole way through. As team advisor I recorded powerful rebuttals for our team by actively listening to the other team’s arguments. Finally, I want to acknowledge the rest of the debating team members, Mansoor, Sybelle, Me-likeh and Alexandra, who focused on researching and finding rebuttals for our team.

Yusef Tarabiya 6AK

1:2:1 Basic Numeracy & Counting Program

ABCN partners business with education through structured programs which in-volve corporate volunteers mentoring to improve the educational outcomes of stu-dents. BCCN AB

1:2:1 is a basic numeracy and counting program for primary school children who require assistance with their development and understanding of basic mathematical skills. It also incorporates a critical ele-ment of socialisation and confidence building, with mentors acting as positive and consistent adult role models for the participating students. Participating stu-dents have been identified, selected and matched with a mentor for weekly ses-sions. Stage 1 has participated in 1.2.1 numera-cy program this year and has benefitted immensely. Staff, parents and students have recognised the improvement in stu-dents’ confidence in numeracy and thank ABCN for their continued support.

1:2:1

The Active Kids Rebate Program is a program that aims to financially support families to meet the cost of getting their children involved in sport and fitness activities. From January 1st 2018, parents will be able to claim up to $100 per school child, per calendar year, to reduce the cost of registration fees for an after-school or weekend, physical activity program. The rebate is available to every school child wanting to get active in the community through sport and active recreation. These activities could include: traditional sport such as netball, football or basketball; swimming classes or lessons; as well as other fitness or physical activities such as gymnastics or ath-letics. In 2018, parents will be able to register online to get their voucher to a sports club or registered provid-er to receive the rebate. There will be more information and support to come! Thank you Miss Karamaneas

Be Active in The School Holidays

Be Active - Ideas’ for the School Holidays

TERM 3 DATES TO REMEMBER

13 Sept YRS K-2 ASSEMBLY

18 Sept OUR SPECTACULAR

OPERA HOUSE

20 Sept YRS K-2 ASSEMBLY

Friday 22nd September LAST DAY TERM 3

TERM 4 BEGINS Monday 9th OCTOBER

Author Visit Last Friday 1st of September, Michael

Salmon visited our school! He is an au-thor, illustrator and cartoonist who is so

inspiring and funny!

Dear Guildford Public School Neighbours.

Please note school holidays start next Monday 25th September through to

Friday 6th October. School resumes on

Monday 9th October. School Security can be

contacted on 1300 88 00 21

to report security incidents or suspicious activity.

Your support is appreciated!

9 OCT AFL Training 3- 4pm

10 OCT T-Ball & Soft Ball Training 3- 4pm

24 OCT Yrs5 & 6 Excursion to Sculptures By the Sea

25 OCT Yrs5 & 6 Sustainability EXPO

Friday 27 OCT World Teachers Day