TERM 1

Tel: 9452 5444

Fax: 9975 5037

WEEK 9

Monday 26 March 2018

email: forestvill-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

web: www.forestvill-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Primary OOSH Care: Tel: 0433 474 352

DATES TO REMEMBER

26 & 27 Mar Yr1: Excursion Bush Safari

Mon 26 Mar P&C AGM, 7pm

Thur 29 Mar Kindy Easter hat parade

Fri 30 Mar Good Friday

Mon 2 Apr Easter Monday

5-13 Apr Life Education visit to school

Thur 5 Apr Kindy 2019 school tour, 9.30am

Mon 9 Apr Choir evening, 6pm

Wed 11 Apr Yr 2: School House museum

excursion

Fri 13 Apr Last day of Term 2

Mon 30 Apr Staff development day – no students

Tues 1 May Students return for Term 2

Tues 1 May ANZAC Day service, 10.30am

Principal’s Message MANY THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT

Heartfelt thanks to the community for your messages of condolence and support for Mrs Teppo.

It’s been lovely to see the drawings and tributes the children have made in her memory. We will collate them into

a memento for the family, so any additional offerings are most welcome at the school office.

We are also planning a special assembly in the next week or so, and ideas about dedicating a space in the school

are being discussed – so we will keep the community informed.

PARENT- TEACHER INTERVIEWS

During these last weeks of term we will be holding Parent Teacher Interviews to give parents the chance to meet

one-on-one with their child’s teacher to check progress and raise any concerns. Interviews are generally held in

the classrooms and you will see a range of times available for booking. CLICK HERE TO BOOK

School Code: 5wex3

RUN FOREST RUN MOMENTS

A picture tells a 1000 stories

WARRINGAH RD OVERPASS

The new overhead bridge on the corner of Starkey St and Warringah Road is almost complete. Our Year 6

leadership team is invited to the opening this Wednesday morning from 10.30 am to be part of the ‘first official

crossing’.

SIBLING ENROLMENTS 2019

A reminder to those that have siblings starting with us in 2019, enrolments are open and if we can get our sibling

numbers it helps with organising the year ahead.

EASTER BREAK

Our Kinder parents are undertaking the ‘creative engineering challenge’ of constructing an Easter hat for their

child for the traditional Easter Hat Parade on Thursday morning. It’s always such a popular event with ingenious

ideas and amazing creations.

No doubt we will all enjoy the extra long weekend over the Easter break.

Thank you for your support,

Cathie Ferguson

Principal

Library News The 2018 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge has begun! To complete the

challenge and earn a certificate, students need to read a certain number of

nominated books by 31st August 2018. Students who have completed the

challenge for four years in a row are awarded a Gold certificate.

It is easy to enter the challenge. Students simply log on via the Premier’s

Reading Challenge Website using their school logon and enter each book

they have read on their personal reading log. K-2 students can either read a

book by themselves or have a book read to them. 3-6 students must read the

book themselves but can have the book chosen for them. Click here for an

extensive explanation of the rules.

To make it easier for you, many of the books listed are in our library. Happy

Reading!

Hilary Sheriff

Leadership Camp On the 20th to the 21st of March, the Leadership Teams from schools in the Warringah Community of Schools

including: Killarney Heights, Mimosa, Terrey Hills, Arranounbai, Allambie Heights, Belrose, Frenchs Forest and

Kambora went to the Leadership Camp in Narrabeen Sydney Academy of Sport to learn all about working in

groups and decision making. Our school Leadership Team consisted of Oscar and Indie (School Captains),Theo

and Ava (Vice Captains) and Jeremy, Dylan, Felicity and Bianca (Prefects).

The activities that we did were interesting and we learnt a lot. Our first activity was the Welcome to Country. Dave,

an Aboriginal man came and taught us about Welcome to Country. Welcome to Country is a speech you would

do before a presentation to acknowledge the traditional Aboriginal people of the land. We were then told to make

our own acknowledgement to country to share with our school and our school principal.

The activities we did were raft building, high ropes and initiatives. They were all extremely fun and exciting things

to do. They split us into 3 groups and we all did different activities at different times. The groups were mixed up

with lots of other schools so we could meet other people we didn’t know. This really helped with our team skills

because we had to slow things down a bit to see what other people's talents were.

Initiatives was our first activity, there were lots of obstacles that we had to get through while working in groups

with people we didn’t know. Some of the activities were really hard, like leading someone through a maze with

the person in the maze’s eyes closed. This required a lot of trust in the person who was leading you.

The next activity was Raft Building, this was extremely fun and exciting. This was challenging our teamwork as we

all had to agree on one design and carry out building that

design. It was also difficult to make the raft while making sure

you didn’t drop any of the equipment on anyone’s toes (this

would hurt a lot!). When we finally got everything together,

it was difficult because everyone was running around like

mad people! When we finally got the raft in the water it was

crazy, people were splashing everywhere and trying to get to

the other side first! Our team actually won the race, and that

was very fun!

The following day we all did High Ropes. High ropes is like

Tree-Tops (lots of ropes really high up that you walk along)

it was very fun and it was definitely a favourite activity for lots

of people. There was a small zip-line coming off the ropes

that we got to jump off that was scary but very exciting!

When we were not outside, we were either in our cabins or working on our school project. Our school project was

to find a problem in our school and try to make a plan to fix it! In the end our leadership team decided to put

mesh over all the gutters. We thought this would be a great idea, as when people accidentally kick balls on the

roofs in the school it would roll down to the edge of the roof but then get stuck in the gutter. This would not

happen if we would put mesh over the gutters as the ball would just roll off. The other reason we want put mesh

over the gutters is sometimes the gutters get full with leaves and this causes the gutters to overflow and the

classrooms to leak.

Overall the whole camp was a very exciting experience and the whole leadership team would absolutely love to

go again!!!

By: Ava, Oscar and Jeremy

Dance News Yr3/4 Dance group will rehearse on Tuesday Lunch as per usual.

Yr5/6 Dance group will either do Tuesday recess or Tuesday lunch too - Mrs Costa will advise.

Thank you

Vanessa Price

K-2 DANCER OF THE WEEK:

KS Kitty M, Jasper M

KF Alana J, Eoin W

KI Dineth K, Meiya S

KC Blake D, Abigail H

1J Rose L, Bronte M

1K Kyran L, Bailey P, Olivia V

1S Ben R, Seyla T, Samuel T

1O Michaela G, Charlie S, Oliver Y

2P Eve M, Cooper W

2Z Rori E, Malith K

2M Kai B, Holly C

2L Leon M, Jasmine P

CONGRATULATIONS !!

Cross Country Carnival – Tuesday 10 April Our FPS Cross Country Carnival will be run at Melwood Oval next Tuesday the 10th of April (Back up day, 12th

April). The course will be around the top and bottom ovals including running around the inside of the synthetics

pitches. The event will be held at Melwood Oval from roughly 9:30am to 12:00pm, however all students will meet

at school and walk down together. We will require many helpers on the day, so if you are able to help, please

indicate on your child’s registration form. Volunteers will be contacted later this week. Roughly the order of events

is as follows:

Race 1 10 year old boys 2km Born in 2008 approx time (9:45am)

Race 2 10 year old girls 2km Born in 2008 approx time (10:00am)

Race 3 8/9 year old boys 2km Born in 2009/10 approx time (10:15am)

Race 4 8/9 year old girls 2km Born in 2009/10 approx time (10:30am)

Race 5 11 year old boys 3km Born in 2007 approx time (10:45am)

Race 6 11 year old girls 3km Born in 2007 approx time (11:00am)

Race 7 12/13 year old boys 3km Born in 2005/2006 approx time (11:15am)

Race 8 12/13 year old girls 3km Born in 2005/2006 approx time (11:30am)

Happy Days Village Fundraising Pencil in Thursday the 12th April, where the Year 6 leadership team will be running

a Fundraiser for Happy Days Cambodian Village School. The School and the wider

community hope to raise enough money, to fund the building of an open

classroom, which can accommodate the learning of up to 200 students from the

village at the one time. The structure is similar size to the Gunyah and is a necessary

requirement to aid the students and the teachers due to the school growing from

200 to 500 students within the past 12 months. This growth is testament to

the funding Forestville Primary School and other local schools have contributed,

which goes a long way in providing students a chance at an education. A chance

that would not be provided without funding and initiatives such as these.

It is a great initiative that the leadership group have taken on and it is a great way

to support them, as well as the Happy Days Cambodian Village School.

Well Done – Ride to School day stats Trees celebrate!

Last Friday for National Ride2school Day 582 of you, or 91% of our school, either walked, rode, scootered or took

public transportation to school - and the trees had a party with the reduction of carbon in the air! What an

outstanding result considering the weather forecast. We hope that everyone had a bit more fun than usual chatting

with family members and friends while making your way to school. If smiles and good spirits were the measure,

the day was a success - it was so good to see so many families involved! Remember that the long term goal is to

try to make this sort of behaviour habit. Happy safe riding, scooting, skating, walking! Below are the results.

James Ellis

Book Covering We need parents to help cover classroom readers. If you have time to cover some

books, please see our office staff, as soon as possible, as we would like students

to have these new resources to use in classrooms.

Thank you in advance.

Louisa Wellings

Ride Skate/Scooter Walk Bus Car

127 201 242 12 64

Band News

Thank you all so much for helping with Music Mania. Days like

that don’t work unless we have lots of volunteers, thankyou for

giving up some hours on your Sunday. As you could see the

result, The Concert, was brilliant. All the kids sounded amazing.

Thank you so much for our two lovely teachers Mrs Mackenzie

and Mr Williamson for helping as well.

Thank you to the fabulous Ms Young and our conductors and

tutors and young assistants. They all guide our young musicians so

well in their musical career.

With Music Mania over we are now well on our way for organizing the

brilliant Band Camp that the kids absolutely love.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the

imagination and life to everything”

Plato

Band Committee

Strings

Player of the week:

Giorgia N 2Z

Forest Bites Canteen Volunteer Roster for week 7 and 8 (Term 1):

Volunteers If you can’t make your shift, please contact other volunteers from the list. (2nd page of your roster)

Forestville ID code for Munch Monitor For those that are not aware, the school ID and password to register for a munch monitor account, is as

follows: School ID: Forestville

Password: munch2087

There is an account keeping fee of $3.30 (less than a price of coffee) per parent per account per term. If

you don’t have a credit card then you can top up your account with cash at the canteen between 9 -

9.30am in the morning.

For more information send an email to help@munchmonitor.com or call 1300 796 190 or visit us in the

canteen.

Carolyn Morey

Canteen Co-ordinator

P&C – Run Forest Run update Just a quick note to let you all know that we raised

approximately $20,000 from the Fun Run and Fair.

Thanks again for everyone’s support.

We also neglected to thank one supporter last week.

Thank you to Socrates Distribution for keep us all

hydrated last week. The water was a crucial element to

the run and especially on such a hot day.

Thank you Joe and Mel.

Save the date for next year – Sunday 17th March 2019.

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

26h

Belinda G 27th

Vacant 28st

Myrna H 29nd

Jacqeline B Jenique P

30th

Good Friday

3rd

Easter Monday

4th

Vacant 5st

Vacant 6nd

Julienne T 7th

Lucy Q

*Note contact details for the canteen managers:

Tania Laytham (Monday, Tuesday & Friday) 0414 528 534

Kim Egelton (Wednesday, Thursday) 0412 254 310

Forestville OSHCare Vacation Care Click the image for the details:

Class Awards Week 8

KF Margot Super skills when learning about 3D objects

Firdous Putting in a big effort when learning about ordinal numbers

Henry Fantastic participation and listening during literacy groups

KI Meiya A fantastic effort making her Mrs Wishy Washy face

Walid An increased effort with his book work and pictures

Isabella Excellent effort blending phonemes together to read new words

KS Kobe Excellent painting of sunflowers

Jasper Using expression when reading

Dylan Improved concentration when working at his table

Georgie Enthusiasm shown when textwriting and having ago at writing on her own

3S Hayden Demonstrating a deep understanding of fractions and answering complex questions

Krista Contributing well during literacy groups and inferring meaning from the text

Austin Consistent hard work in class and completing all tasks with a positive attitude

3I Archie Demonstrating impressive researching skills during science lessons Emily Displaying a Growth Mindset when learning about the compensation strategy. You're a STAR! Cameron Demonstrating impressive ICT skills during computer lessons, and helping others when they are stuck 3W Ned Demonstrating outstanding problem solving skills during our Robotics session. Well done! Kade Demonstrating outstanding problem solving skills during our Robotics session. Well done! Emma Improvement in all areas, especially in maths demonstrating the compensation strategy. Well done! 3PT Joshua A fabulous watercolour painting of a praying mantis Jayden A fantastic watercolour painting of a kookaburra Jemima Accurate data collection and recording of Run Forest Run information 4M Jess an improved effort in classroom behaviour and sticking with hard tasks. Gidget Always giving it a go and being a kind and respectful role model to her peers. Olivia Constistently going above and beyond in her learning, both in and out of the classroom. 4CB Hannah Interest in exploring texture during our 'Insect Art' lessons Charlotte Fabulous work ethic and mature attitude towards learning Luke Quick maths calculations, and positive attitude towards problem solving tasks 5C William Cheerful nature and his positive attitude to learning and life in general Sophia Record time in completing all of the twelve times tables David Well-presented speech on the CARES excursion Amy Beautifully written poem on Women at War 5A Charlotte A descriptive journal entry during a history activity and her enthusiasm to share during class discussions Shaun Impressive results when completing his weekly multiplication challenge. Keep it up! Milly An excellent persuasive writing piece that incorprated strong persuasive vocabulary to state her point of view 5G Erica Beautifully presented book work Liv Making a great start to Year 5 and demonstrating a positive attitude to her learning Lachie Creative silhouette shadow artwork 6C Annabelle Consistent effort, participation and dedication in all class activities Olivia Giving everything a go and being a great helper at the Basin Oscar Writing an interesting dreamtime story about 'Why the Kangaroo hops' 6M Charlotte W A beautifully presented recount of the Basin incorporating a slide show. Christopher Being such a fabulous camper at the Basin and for being Mrs Mac's right hand man in technology. Lara Showing such a positive can do attitudeupskilling herself when creating a slide show in library. 6E Isabella Getting the most out of school and being a genuine friend to all. Gus Questioning everything and making insigtful deductions as a result. Ollie Thinking outside the box in maths and relating applications to real life successfully. Kaden Relating well to his audience when writing as a result of using clever language.

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