Coming Events 1 June Stage 3 Excursion

Parramatta 1 June Triple P Parenting

Program 2 June Stage One Calmsley City

Farm 3 June School Disco 7 June Song Crew Hornsby

Music Fest practice 8 June Triple P Parenting

Program 8 June OC Robotics class 9 June Stage 2 Rocks Walking

Tour 10 June P&C Meeting 9.20am 13 June QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY

HOLIDAY School Banking Wednesday Mornings Uniform shop Open Mondays and Thursdays from 8.45am to 9.30am Inside this issue From the Principal’s Desk 1

School News

Canteen News

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY PERSONAL BEST

Our Value this month is PERSONAL BEST It is the Waitara Way to:

Challenge yourself Be the best you can Be proud of your achievements Have a positive attitude

Newsletter The School newsletter will be emailed to each family on each second Tuesday. You will also be able to access it on the school website. www.waitara-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Please register for your personal copy. You will also receive the newsletter via SchoolStream App Schoolstream.com.au/download

Dear parents, caregivers, students and staff,

It may have been cold and rainy on Sunday, but to our eyes, the sun shone once again at The Concourse, Chatswood! ‘Junior Voices’ won first place in their section and Waitara Voices were placed 3rd in a large group of choirs at the Sydney Eisteddfod under the leadership of Choir Director Jenny Bell and accompanist Lucy Roh.

Our choirs were just outstanding! It was a proud moment for all of ua who attended. Thank you to each and every student for their hard work and commitment to the choir and to each other. Congratulations!

Waitara Ways Telephone 9489 3105 Facsimile 9489 7130 Email Waitara-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website www.waitara-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

Junior Voices Waitara Voices

Project Based Learning / STEM Education

It is without a doubt extremely important to equip our students with the skills to become innovators in our digital economy and prepare them for future jobs. And so, it was with this in mind that I attended the Science Expo last Thursday to witness the authentic learning happening in Stage 3. I listened as students confidently, enthusiastically and with great pride demonstrated deep understanding as they explained their projects to parents and members of our community. Thank you so much Stage 3 teachers for bringing such delightful engagement and motivation into your classrooms.

Children Arriving at School before Supervision Begins

Reminder Students are not to be left at school prior to the commencement of the before-school supervision roster at 8:45 am.

Schools often encounter the problem of parents leaving their children in the school grounds prior to the commencement of the before-school supervision roster at the school. This practice poses risks to both children and the Department - both in terms of child protection and the risk of injury.

We appreciate that many families have two working parents and may find it difficult to stay at home until school begins. However there are alternatives available so that parents can arrange appropriate supervision of their children.

We have before and after school care (BASC) on site for working families which operates from 7.00 am every school morning. Alternatively, you may be able to make arrangements with friends or neighbours for the supervision of your children. Please do not hesitate to contact the school if you have any concerns.

Zone Cross Country

Congratulations to the Cross Country team (pictured below) who represented Waitara at Rofe Park yesterday. Thank you to Mrs Dallinger and Mr Giuffre who led the team and spoke so highly of the team’s strong commitment to the competition and excellent behaviour during the day. Well done to Leo Phijidvijan who was 1st in his race and to Eva Bates who placed 4th. We wish both students well as they now go on to represent Waitara at Area. Thank you to all parents who supported our teachers to manage the team.

National Chinese Eisteddfod

Congratulations to Zhiqing (Sunny) who came 1st in the 2016 National Chinese Eisteddfod 7-9 Group and to Peter who placed 2nd.

What a lovely visit from Mrs Aberline and KA last week. Students in KA have been learning the school song and wanted to show me how well they can sing the first verse and the chorus. Congratulations KA. You were wonderful!

Lost Property

• All items of clothing are to be clearly labelled with the name of the student and their current 2016 class.

• No student is to take a hat, jumper, jacket or any other item belonging to another student.

• Students are encouraged to place items of clothing found in the playground into Lost Property located in Mrs Barrat’s classroom.

Road Safety Please think of the safety of all students when parking and dropping off your child. Do not drive to the end of Highlands Avenue and try to turn around in that small space. It is dangerous for our students. Please drop your child off further down the road so that they can walk along both paths to access the school.

The large driveway gate to the school will be closed each morning before students arrive. PLEASE DO NOT PARK ACROSS OUR NEIGHBOUR’S DRIVEWAYS.

I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MANY PARENTS FOR THE P&C DISCO ON FRIDAY EVENING. K-2 DISCO 5:00PM TO 6:30PM

3-6 DISCO 7:00PM TO 8:30PM

Warm regards until next time… Julie Webber Principal

Deputy Principal Report Last week I was fortunate to be able to take 2T for an art lesson. As it was reconciliation week we focused the lesson on indigenous artist, author and illustrator Sally Morgan. Sally’s art is very contemporary and colourful and each of her paintings tells a story. The students in 2T created an artwork using pastels that was inspired by Sally Morgan’s painting called ’Life’.

Gold Award Recipients Congratulations to our gold award recipients Week 6 Term 2

Waitara Wings

Waitara Wish Winners Congratulations to the following winners of our weekly Waitara Wish draw.

Dany Coelho Deputy Principal

First Name Class

Stuart Luo 6J Jessie Zhuang 5G Melody Kim 5A Arya Uprety 4K Janine Park 4G Harsh Shah 3GN Ummehani Bohari 3GN

Name Class

Lakshmi Rampalli 5/6L

Grades Names

Kindergarten Samuel KM, Amish KM Stage 1 Winnie 2T, Oliver 1B, Yvette 2T Stage 2 Arushi 3T, Soham 4K, Riya 3D Stage 3 Joseph 5G, Neja 6J

Bonus Wish RFF and EALD

21st Century Learners

From Stage 3 Assistant Principal Our Stage 3 Science Expo was a great success. Teachers were thrilled at the number of families who attended and therefore were able to discuss with their own children and many others the process of design that had been undertaken to create their electrical device. Thank you.

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week all students in Stage 3 will be travelling to Parramatta to learn more about the early days of our country. They will be experiencing a day in Parramatta which will show the reasons why Parramatta was chosen as the place for the developing colony, the use of the land by the local Aboriginal clan, the importance of Parramatta River and the lives of people in the 1800s. Whilst visiting Old Government House, Parramatta Park, the Parramatta Heritage Centre, the foreshore of Parramatta River and taking a guided historical tour of Parramatta on the bus, students will be working with experienced guides, artefacts and historic items to develop their knowledge.

Upcoming Stage 3 Events

Please add these to your calendar.

Term 3 Tuesday 13 September- Year 6 Mini Fete

Term 4 Celebration of Learning- Year 6 Graduation- currently Tuesday 13 December TBC

Term 4 Thursday 15 December- Year 6 Farewell

Mrs Kate Barrat

(on behalf of the Stage 3 teachers)

Act with integrity and empathy

Communicate

Problem solve and

take action

Think critically and analytically

Collaborate – work as part of a team Create and

imagine – bring ideas together

Understand self and others

have strong knowledge base in key disciplines

Technology news Parent Seminar - Tuesday 21st June 7-9pm Thank you to those families who have already booked seats for our Parent Seminar coming up in three weeks time. If you would like to attend we are still taking bookings and have seats available, This is a free event for our school community funded by the Parents and Citizens Association. Bookings are now open for you to reserve your seats online.

www.trybooking.com/201518

Communication survey Thanks again to the members of our school community who completed our recent communication survey. The results of this survey continue to help us to improve our communication to you. Many respondants were unaware that our school website has a translate function. This function allows the website to be translated into approximately 100 different languages.. The translate menu can be found at the top of the screen on our homepage (see picture).

Twitter Please remember to follow us in Twitter where we will regularly update our school community in different activities taking place across the school week. Last week we had quite a few short video clips of our Training, Concert Band and Tone Chimes. Please note: the newsletter remains the best place for events, information and reminders.

Linda Lazenby Technology Coordinator

PSSA Reports

www.twitter.com/WaitaraPublic twitter handle: @WaitaraPublic

Common Sense Media website Common Sense Media is a website dedicated to helping kids thrive in a world of media and technology. The information on the website empowers parents by providing trusted advice to allow media and technology to be a positive experience. They have excellent reviews of films, apps and games and can be filtered according to age. A great resource for parents. https://www.commonsensemedia.org

Round 6- 20th May Senior boys Soccer On Friday the 20th of May the Waitara P.S Senior Boys soccer team played Wahroonga P.S. Thanks to a free kick put away by Zane Waitara won the match 1-0. Man of the Match was Zane. Written by Matthew Junior Boys Soccer The junior soccer team had a fantastic game. We played against Wahroonga and won 1-0. Everyone played very well and tried really hard. The man of the match was Neo. Written by Rohith Senior Netball We played Wahroonga Public School. We showed huge improvements after our full day of netball this week. Unfortunately we lost the game, but showed excellent teamwork. Junior Netball We lost against Wahroonga Public School. We are trying to improve our passing of the ball and we are all enjoying playing netball. Round 7 – 27h May Girls Soccer We played Asquith Public School at James Park and won 5-0. Everyone played extremely well to the very end. Player of the match was Mia. By Minha Senior boys Soccer Today was a draw against Asquith Public, 1-1. Junior Boys Soccer Today was a draw against Asquith Public, 2-2. Junior Netball We played against Asquith. We continued to improve our passing and moving around on the court. We lost 19-1. Iva was the player of the match and scored our only goal. Senior Netball Our first win of the season! We played an excellent game against Asquith. The girls worked together as a team. We won the game 24-0. Player of the match was Teresa.

Netball NSW Schools Cup

On Wednesday 18th May the Senior PSSA team and Stage 3 mixed Netball team participated in the Northern Sydney region Netball NSW Schools Cup. It was impressive to watch the Senior team develop their teamwork and continue to work on improving the skills we have been developing as part of the PSSA competition. Over the day they managed a win, a draw and a loss. The mixed team were fabulous to watch and some of our male players had an opportunity to demonstrate the netball skills they have learnt through Stage 2 and 3 Sport groups. After a successful day the team won a game and lost three. Both teams demonstrated excellent teamwork and sportsmanship. It was with great excitement that a few of us had the opportunity to meet Caitlin Thwaites, a NSW Swifts player. Caitlin has previously visited the Waitara netball teams to discuss her netball journey. She took the time to chat with the Waitara players and have some photos taken. Thank you to the parents of Aisling, Tayla and Sam who volunteered to drive us on the day. A successful and fun day of Netball!

MUSIC NEWS

There have been many “opportunities to say “well done” this week to our students.

Last Wednesday our Training Band and our Senior Band gave their first performances under the leadership of Mr Adam Tomkins. I was thrilled to be able to listen to these performances and it showed the tremendous growth each student has made over the year. We welcomed many parents to the assembly and are hoping that we can increase this number over time as our students just love performing for their parents.

Following the performance Mr Tomkins presented certificates to

Band Captains Aida and Daniel Section Leaders Alice, Alyssa, Eva, Joshua, Sam and Derrick.

Congratulations to these leaders.

Last weekend was so busy with Waitara Junior Voices and Waitara Voices performing in the choral sections at the Sydney Eisteddfod. The support from parents and staff was amazing and this reflected in the student’s exhilaration when they performed. I am proud to announce that Waitara Junior Voices won their section and Waitara Voices came third. We will now wait to see which, if any of these choirs will progress to the John Lamble Choral Championship. The rules for this have changed in 2016 and the adjudicator will make the decision.

Mrs Bell

Music teacher

Waitara Public School Parents’ and Citizens’ Association: 68 Edgeworth David Ave Wahroonga NSW 2076: Messages 02 9489-3105

Next meeting: Friday 10th June at 9:15am in the staff room

ALL WELCOME

CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS !!! Our next major P&C event coming up is the DISCO on the 3rd of June. This is a night full of music and dancing enjoyed by all kids. If you parents can get involved we can together make this night a great one. Please e-mail Roisin Deane @ roisin.deane@gmail.com if you are interested in helping. The children love to see their parents involved at the school and this will be a great opportunity for you to support your child’s school too. IMPORTANT : If any child is attending the kindy-year 2 disco, attends BASC on a Friday afternoon they will need a BASC staff member to bring the child to the disco. Therefore a disco release authorisation form will need to be completed. This form will be available on Thursday and Friday mornings outside the hall and at BASC next week. Upcoming P&C Events 2016 for your diary…… This year at Waitara we are trialling a new way of running fund-raising activities and have allocated events to the different Stage parents. STAGE 1 Election Day stalls & book fair – July 2nd STAGE 2 Father's Day Stall - September 2nd STAGE 3 School Disco 1 – June 3rd School Disco 2 - October 21st

P&C Uniform Shop All students should now be wearing the winter uniform. The uniform shop is brimming with winter uniforms waiting for you to purchase if you have not already done so.

Please support the school by buying your Uniform items from the Uniform Shop – ALL profits go back to the school. Trading hours :

• Monday & Thursday – 8.45am – 9.30am

If you find it hard to visit the uniform shop during those hours, an easy option is to order using Flexischools as below and items will be delivered to the child’s classroom on a Thursday or Monday.

Order and pay for a range of school uniform items online with

Flexischools online ordering… www.flexischools.com.au

Waitara parents: supporting your child’s school experience

Uniform Donations If you are leaving the school please consider

donating your uniform items for re-sale at the Uniform Shop. Many

families within the school benefit greatly from this service. You can leave them at the Uniform Shop or near

the P&C tray in the Admin building.

IT’S DISCO TIME

WITH

DJ ANDY

GET YOUR DANCE MOVES READY !

3RD OF JUNE 2016

IN THE SCHOOL HALL

Kindy – Yr 2 @ 5-6.30pm Yr 3 – Yr 6 @ 7-8.30pm

TICKETS PRE-PURCHASED @ $12 OR AT THE DOOR

@ $14 (Includes snack, drink and re-usable flashing wrist band)

TICKETS ON SALE ON 2ND & 3RD JUNE @8.45-9.15AM

OUTSIDE THE SCHOOL HALL & ON 3RD JUNE @ THE DOOR

Sausage Sizzle for kids and parents

(Sausages-beef/vegie-$2.50, chicken-$3.50 Coffee, hot chocolate & cold drinks- $2.50)

Hindi classes at Waitara Public School IABBV Hindi School has commenced Hindi classes for students in Years K-6 at Waitara Public school. It is open to all native and non-native speakers. Classes are held after school from 3:30pm to 4:30 pm on Tuesdays (3T) and Fridays (3W). Tuition Fees for one child is $70 per term, two children in a family $120 per term.

This includes resources and books. Fees is to be paid at the beginning of each term or for the whole year (which is discounted further) by direct deposit (preferred) or by cheque or cash. Account details: A/c name: Indo-Australian Bal Bharti Vidyalaya; Bank: National Australia Bank; BSB: 082-418 A/c No. 51-753-7986 CHILDREN TO BRING: one A4 lined notebook, pencils, pen, eraser etc. besides lots of enthusiasm and willingness to learn Hindi. For further clarification or information please contact: Mrs Mala Mehta OAM on 0412283677 or hindi_school@hotmail.com [NSW DET Community Languages Program (IBNID: 91)]