2a Wyndham Street Greta NSW 2334

Email greta-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Fax 4938 7230 Phone 4938 7331

COURAGE AND LOYALTY

Respect, Responsibility

& Personal Best

Term 3 Week 1 26 July 2018

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Welcome back to Term 3 I would like to warmly welcome all of our families back to a very busy term and thank everyone in the Greta school community for ensuring I feel relaxed and comfortable in my new role. It has been a joy to be out in the playground with the students before school and during break times, trying to learn their names and a little bit of personal information about each of them. One of the immediate things I noticed about the student community was the respectful way every-one interacts with one another in learning and play time. Mrs Jarlett and I met with the P&C on Monday evening for the first meeting of the term, which allowed me to get to know some of our parent community. It would be wonderful to see some more community members at the next meeting in a few weeks’ time. Please feel free to come and introduce yourself to me if you see me out and about in the playground before and after school. Gymnastics Yesterday saw the beginning of our Term 3 Gymnastics Program, which runs in accordance with the PDHPE syllabus. The program runs each Tuesday this term and assists children to develop physical skills such as strength, power, endurance, flexibility and agility. In addition, it builds social skills which include cooperative learning and team building. It was wonderful to see children engaged in this program, listening carefully to the instructors’ directions and trying their best to execute each move correctly. There is a cost to partici-pate in this program. If you require further information, please contact the school office. Peer Support For the last two days our Year 6 students have been in training to run the Peer Support Program throughout this term. The key concepts of the program – resilience, sense of self, connectedness and sense of possibility – are determined by research and are evidence based. There are many benefits for all students who participate including enhancing positive school culture, leadership experience for all Year 6 students and all young people are empowered to support one another. Groups will start next week, so please take the opportunity to talk about the program at home. Many thank to Mrs Parrey and Mrs Page for accompanying and supervising the group.

Sharon Morris Principal

THIS WEEK AT SCHOOL

YR 6 PEER SUPPORT TRAINING

Our Peer Support Team have spent yesterday and today at their training in

readiness to commence the program back at school in the near future.

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SCHOOL HOURS

Supervision from: 8.30am Classes Start: 9.00am

School finishes: 3.00pm

Enrolment procedures - 24th July 2018 As we begin planning for 2019 it is timely to publish information about our implementation of the Department of Education’s Enrolment of Students in Government Schools – A summary and consolidation of policy. The policy is available for you to review at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/policy-library/relateddocuments/V03_pd02_06_enrolment_of_students.pdf . Under the policy, NSW government schools have a designated local enrol-ment area with a pre-defined boundary. Children are entitled to be enrolled at the government school that is designated for the intake area within which the child’s home is situated and that the child is eligible to attend. School policies and expectations also operate to support the necessary proof of residence to establish this. The NSW Public School Finder tool provides further guidance for parents and carers at: https://education.nsw.gov.au/school-finder . Under this department enrolment policy, each school will establish an enrol-ment ceiling, based on available permanent accommodation (excluding demountables). No additional accommodation (permanent or demountable) will be provided to cater for increased enrolments from non-local place-ments. Within the enrolment ceiling, a buffer will be determined to accom-modate local students arriving throughout the year. The size of the buffer will be based on historical data, on enrolment fluctuations and on the number of families moving into or out of the area. In schools where demand for non-local places exceeds availability, the school will establish a placement panel (which is chaired by the principal and must include at least one staff member, other than the principal and one school community member nominated by the school’s parent organisa-tion) to consider and make recommendations on all non-local enrolment applications. The development of criteria for the enrolment of non-local students will be the responsibility of the placement panel. At Greta Public School the ceiling, based on permanent classroom accom-modation is 186 with the buffer set at 6. We currently have 180 students enrolled and are therefore under capacity. The decisions made by the placement panel must be made within the context of the agreed enrolment ceiling and the buffer retained for local students arriving later in the year. The principal will ensure that the estab-lished criteria are applied equitably to all applicants. Waiting lists may be established for non-local students, but should reflect realistic expectations of potential vacancies. Our school policy and procedures are located at: http://www.greta-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/our-school/enrolment If a parent wishes to appeal against the decision of the placement panel, the appeal should be made in writing to the principal. The principal will seek to resolve the matter. If the matter is not resolved at the local level by the principal, the Director Educational Leadership will consult with the relevant principals and school communities, as necessary, consider the appeal and make a determination. The purpose of the appeal is to determine whether the stated placement panel criteria have been applied fairly. If you have any questions, or would like the process clarified, please call me at the school on 49387331. I am very happy to discuss these matters with you.

Sharon Morris Principal

FEEDBACK/COMPLIMENTS OR SUGGESTIONS

Our ‘Feedback, Compliments and Suggestions’ box is now up and running

in the foyer of the office.

ASSEMBLIES ARE HELD EVERY SECOND TUESDAY IN THE

SCHOOL HALL @ 2.10PM

DATES TO REMEMBER

BOOKCLUB ORDERS DUE BY NEXT FRIDAY 3RD AUGUST

WEEK 3 TERM 3

AUGUST 6TH—10TH

EDUCATION/SCIENCE WEEK

SMART STARTERS PROGRAM

INFORMATION SESSION

ON THURSDAY 9TH AUGUST

@ 2.30PM IN THE LIBRARY.

STAGE 3 BATHURST CAMP

AUGUST 20TH - 22ND

P&C NEWS

GENERAL MEETING

Monday 20th August @6pm in the Library Children Welcome !!!

CANTEEN Unfortunately the

Canteen Co-Ordinator position is at this point unfilled. The canteen will

only be operating on Wed, Thurs and Friday between 8.30am-12.00pm

Wk 2 31st July 3/4R Wk 4 14th Aug K Wk 6 28th Aug 3/4B Wk 8 11th Sept 1/2B Wk 10 25th Sept 1/2R

Smart Starters Next term our Smart Starters program will begin for children starting Kindergarten in 2019.

Please join Leanne Jarlett for an information session about what

Smart Starters is and what to expect during the

sessions. This information session will be held on

Thursday 9th August at 2.30pm in the school library.

Kinder Orientation Our 2019 Kinder Orientation

will commence on Thursday 15th November and be held each Thursday concluding on the

6th December. More information regarding times and session content will be sent

home in the next couple of months. Both Smart Starters and Kinder

Orientation are open to all students starting school in 2019.

P&C NEWS Term 3 Fundraising 5 Cent Challenge: Congratulations once again to Kinder for winning Term 2 Challenge. The challenge will continue throughout the whole year. There will be another term winner in the last week and an overall winner in Term 4 with prizes award-ed to the winning classes. So start collecting all your 5 cent pieces again and bring them into your class and place in the tin.

Father’s Day Stall: Our Father’s day stall will be held on Friday 31st August. We will have gifts ranging from $1 - $10. Disco Lock in the date our next school disco will be held on Thursday 20th September from 5pm-7pm. There will be an entry fee of $5 per student attending. The entry fee will include a sausage sizzle and a drink. On the night we will also have lollies, lucky dips, glow items and other items for purchase. Parent contact detail forms will be attached at a later time in the newsletter, it will need to be filled out and returned on the night. Only parent helpers will be welcome to stay on the night.

Sausage Sizzle/Mufti Day: We will once again be hosting a sausage sizzle in conjunction with a mufti day, details to be advised in future newsletters.

Krispy Krème Donut Drive: We are in the process of looking into a Krispy Kreme Donut Drive. Further details to follow once we have all the information.

SNACK SHACK Just a reminder that in Term 3 the canteen will NO LONGER be open on Mondays and Tuesdays. The canteen will also only be open for the lunchtime service. Food for recess can be purchased at this break. Sorry if this causes any inconvenience to our families. We are still in need of volunteers to help on Wednesday and Thursdays, if you are able to spare any of your time please fill in an availability form that is attached to the newsletter.

General Meeting Next meeting will be held on Monday 20

th August at 6pm in the Library. We welcome new members to come along

and join to share your ideas and skills with us. We would love to see some new and of course our familiar faces. Children are welcome to attend as we will put a movie on for them in the next classroom. Michelle Woodhouse P&C President.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Fri 27th July Rae, Simon Monday Closed Tuesday Closed Wed 1st Aug Pat (Helper Needed) Thurs 2nd Aug Pat (Helper Needed) Friday 3rd Aug Simon, Rae & Jacqui

UNIFORM SHOP

Tuesdays 8.30-9.30am

Fridays 8.30-11.00am

CANTEEN VOLUNTEERS

Name ______________________________________Contact Number ________________________ Please circle your preferred choices:

Wednesday Thursday Friday

8.30am - 12.00pm

Weekly Fortnightly Monthly Once a term As we are currently only opening for the first break of the day the volunteer hours are reduced. As part of being a volunteer in our school you would be required to complete a working with children declaration if you haven't already done so. Thank you For more information please contact Michelle Woodhouse 0404 495 655 (if unanswered please leave a message).

Y-PEP Child Protection Education Program In Week 3, Greta Public School is looking forward to accessing and providing each student with a professional-ly delivered child protection program The Y-PEP program has been designed by a team of professionals and will strengthen the existing mandatory child protection education already delivered at our school by our teaching staff.

The program follows the NSW PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) curriculum.

This education aims to assist students in: developing skills in recognising and responding to unsafe situations seeking assistance effectively

establishing and maintaining respectful and equal relationships strengthening attitudes and values related to equality, respect and responsibility. This year, our school is utilising the Y-PEP team of expert facilitators to support the delivery of

these lessons. If you have any questions please see Mrs Hemsworth