Week 2, Term 1

Phone: 4934 3584 Emai l : ashtonf ie l -p .school@det .nsw.edu.au

WEBSITE: www.ashtonfield-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au

FACEBOOK:

www.facebook.com/ashtonfieldpublicschool

SCHOOL HOURS:

Supervision from: 8.25am Classes begin: 8.55am Classes finish: 2.55pm

NOTES SENT HOME:

Swimming Carnival

School Usage Agreement

Drum Corp Program EOI

School Chaplain

DATES TO REMEMBER:

Tuesday, 12th February

Swimming Carnival

Thursday, 14th February Debating Workshop Bookclub orders due

Zone Swimming Carnival

Tuesday, 19th February

Meet the teacher afternoon Wednesday, 20th February

Friday, 22nd February

Cross Country

SPORT—TERM 1:

Every Friday

for Kinder—Year 6

WEEKLY ASSEMBLIES:

To be advised

NEXT P&C MEETING: AGM—Tuesday,

19th February, 7pm in Library

CANTEEN OPEN: Monday—Friday

UNIFORM SHOP OPEN: Days to be confirmed

EFTPos facilities available

at the Uniform Shop.

WELCOME Welcome back to Ashtonfield Public School for 2019, I hope that you are well rested and energised for another successful year. A very warm welcome to our new families and students, we looking forward to getting to know you! Keep an eye out for further information about our ‘Meet the teacher’ afternoon which will be held on Wednesday, 20th February. Our teachers worked hard over the break to create a settled learning environment for our students. Classes were formed last week and I am happy to report that our students are settling beautifully into new classes and routines. If you have concerns about your children, please contact your child’s teacher. Some subtle changes throughout the school have been made with staff, and we welcome a some new faces to our teaching team; Aisinn Mullins sharing classes in Kindergarten and Year 2, Alicia Marcus sharing classes in Year 3 and 4, Heather May teaching Year 6, and Pieta Shiells as Hearing Support. We have additional support in the office by welcoming Sheryn Long to our team and are adding an expanding team of Student Learning Support Officers (SLSOs) including Joanne Levey and Lauren Norley. A full staffing list is available on Page 4 and Page 5 of the newsletter. STUDENT LEADERSHIP Today we welcomed our new student leadership team as they hosted our first Monday morning assembly. Parents are invited to attend our Monday morning assembly, an opportunity to meet as a whole school, share a PBL values and celebrate success. These assemblies will be approximately 15 minutes in length.

Monday, 4th February, 2019

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SWIMMING CARNIVAL The Year 3-6 Swimming Carnival is on Tuesday, 12th February at Maitland Aquatic Cen-tre. A permission note has been sent home with all students in Years 3—6. The cost is $8.50 each to cover bus and pool entry. Students in Year 2 who turn 8 this year are also invited to attend if they are competent swimmers and can confidently swim 50 metres unaided in their strokes. There will be novelty events (within the pool grounds) for those students who are not participating in the competitive races. Everyone will be busy! Please note: as per Department guidelines there will be no free swim time. To ensure our carnival runs smoothly and on time we ask that students do not buy food from the kiosk - instead bring recess, lunch/drink from home. Parents are more than welcome to purchase from the kiosk for them-selves. Please be aware that there will be no ‘set time’ for lunch/recess so your child will need to have their lunchbox and water bottle with them in the grandstand. Student break times will depend upon the progress of the carnival events.

Please remember:

Sunscreen

School sunsafe hat

Towel and swimmers

A healthy lunch, recess and water bottle

Arrive at school on time ready for the bus.

Please ensure ALL ITEMS ARE LABELLED with your child’s name. VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION Resource fees for 2019 cost $45 per student. These fees go directly to providing every day resources for all students in the classroom. Please send payment in an envelope with your child’s name, class and “Resource Fee” written clearly on the front and place envelope in the silver tin at the school office. You may also pay online via the school website. Please enter “Resource Fee” under the payment description. SUPERVISION IN THE MORNING - Supervision in the playground starts at 8.25am in the morning and ends after bus duty in the afternoon. Please make the necessary before and after school care arrangements to ensure the safety and wellbeing of your child. PERMISSION NOTES AND NEWSLETTERS are posted on our school website. Go to ashtonfield -p.schools.nsw.edu.au. All whole school/class notes are posted but individual/sport team notes may not be posted. A REMINDER THAT PARENT ONLINE PAYMENTS can be made through our school website. Go to ashton-field-p.schools.nsw.edu.au and click on “Make a Payment” in the menu bar. Follow the prompts to make a pay-ment via Visa or MasterCard. Please ensure you enter the payment description as mentioned in your child’s per-mission note. Detailed instructions are included on our website under Permission Notes. SCHOOL USAGE AGREEMENT 2019 notes have been sent home with all students. Please complete these forms and return to the school office by this Friday, 8th February, 2019. This form includes our Local Walking Ex-cursions and Permission to Publish. STUDENT ABSENCES Parents may phone the school office to advise of their child ’s absence. Alternatively, an SMS will automatically be sent to parents each day if their child is marked absent. Parents are asked to reply to that SMS and their child’s reason for absence will be recorded. A REMINDER that parents and visitors are not permitted to park in the staff car park unless they have a disabled parking permit. Parents, students and visitors are also asked not to walk through the car park for safety reasons. INDIVIDUAL HEALTH CARE PLANS will be sent home with students (who already have health care plans at our school) in the near future. Parents are asked to update these plans and return them to the school office as soon as possible. PARKING AROUND THE SCHOOL Please be careful and obey the road rules when parking around the school. We ask that you also show consideration to our neighbours and do not park across driveways or walk through gardens. Thank you. Please see the school zone parking information further on in this newsletter. WAITING FOR STUDENTS IN THE AFTERNOON We ask parents and carers to wait under the COLA or on the paved area outside the office of an afternoon, not outside classrooms. With such a large number of students leaving at the same time we need to keep our pathways clear. Thank you for helping to keep our students and visi-tors safe.

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BOOKCLUB ORDERS When placing an order through Scholastic Book Club parents are required to order and pay online. You do not return an order form or payment receipt details to the school. Orders will still be delivered to our school and distributed to the students. Please contact the school if you would like to collect your order from the office (for birthday presents, Christmas presents etc). Please follow the step by step instructions below to place an order. Orders for Issue 1, 2019 are due by 3pm on Thursday, 14th February, 2019. Thank you.

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Role Staff Member Role Staff Member

Principal Melissa Scully Deputy Principal Sue Holt

Assistant Principal Wellbeing K-2

Donna O’Neill Assistant Principal (rel) Wellbeing 3-6

Shaun King

Assistant Principal Teaching & Learning K-2

Erin Staniland Assistant Principal Teaching & Learning 3-6

Matt Leleu

Kindergarten

Donna O’Neill Aislinn Mullins

Year 3

Luke Johnson Aleta Snow

Susie Burgoyne Biannca Ernst Alicia Marcus

Dan Willis Natalie Wilson

Prue Shillingsworth

Year 4

Ellie Wade

Year 1

Zac Manton Belinda Bower Emily McNamara

Jenny Freeman Emily Price

Cassandra Micallef

Year 5

Richelle Galluzzo

Year 1/2 Jenny Leggett Rebecca Singleton

Year 2

Erin Staniland

Aislinn Mullins

Samantha Lewis Kayla Perry

Natasha McDermott Year 5/6 Matt Leleu Jaymie-Lee Glanville

Bec Gilchrist Brigita Meynell

Year 6 Library Adela Davey Karen Brown

Shaun King

Defence Transition Sally Twelvetree Heather May

Chaplain Louise Ernst Support

Megan Gray

Aleta Snow

Keah Tilbrook

Counsellor David Lambert

RFF

Phil Cliff

Band Russell Thornton Jaimie-Lee Glanville

Hearing Support Pieta Sheills Paul Gorton

Teaching Staff for 2019

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Library News

The library is back into full swing with lessons for all students in Year 1 to Year 6 commencing today. There are many new and exciting books available, so a reminder for students to find their Library bags ready for borrowing on their lesson day. It is a requirement that students have a library bag if they wish to borrow. This is to protect the books in their care from those lost rotten bananas lurking in the bottom of school bags or the odd leaking water bottle. All students have been provided with a library bag when they started school, however, if it has been misplaced, you can purchase a new one from the Library at a cost of $5.00. Library lesson days for the Year 1 to Year 6 classes this term are:

Debating News Debating is off to an early start this year with an information and tryout session being held today. Any students who have an interest in debating were invited to come to a meeting at Lunch 1, to learn about what is involved in debating and then decide if they wish to try out for the school teams.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

3W

4P

5G

1M

4W

6M

5S

6K

4B

5L

5/6L

6H

2G, 2S, 2M

1C, 1F, 1/2L

3E, 3J

Role Staff Member Role Staff Member

School Administrative Manager

Wendy Smythe School Administrative Officer

Melanie Miller

School Administrative Officer

Sheryn Long School Administrative Officer

Melinda Oke

School Administrative Officer (Library)

Jo Bullen School Learning Support Officer

Donna Jenkins

School Learning Support Officer

Natarsha Lawton School Learning Support Officer

Rebecca Gorman

School Learning Support Officer

Lyall Burgoyne School Learning Support Officer

Joanne Levey

General Assistant David Fitzgibbon School Learning Support Officer

Lauren Norley

Site Manager (Spotless) Jim Linigen

Administrative and Support Staff for 2019

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P&C News

Welcome back everyone. The P&C is ready for another busy year and we are looking for to 2019. AGM: The AGM is on Tuesday 19

th February 2019. As always it would be great to see some new members and

we look forward to all the current members returning. Everyone is welcome.

Day: Tuesday Date: 19th February 2019 Time: 7.00pm

Agenda as follows: Apologies: to be received prior to the commencement of the meeting

Treasurers Report

Presidents Report

All positions declared vacant, nominations called for: President, Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President (2 positions)

Principles Report

Nominations for all positions listed above can be sent to apspandc@hotmail.com

Canteen: The canteen has re-opened with the start of the new year. It will be open 5 days a week for lunch orders and lunch time purchases.

Term 1 2019 Calendar

Week MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

2

Feb

4

Kindergarten’s first

day

5 6 7 8

3

Feb

11 12

Swimming Carnival

13

14

Debating Workshop

15

4

18

19

Zone Swimming

AGM

P&C Meeting

7pm in Library

20

Meet the Teacher

afternoon

21

22

Cross Country

5

25 26

27 28

1

6

March

4

5

Hunter Regional

Swimming

6 7

8

7

11 12

13 14 15

8

18 19

P&C Meeting

7pm in Library

20 21 22

9

25 26 27 28 29

10

April

1

2 3

4

5

11

8

9 10

11 12

Last day of Term 1