TERM 1

Tel: 9452 5444

Fax: 9975 5037

WEEK 6

Monday 5 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 7-9 Mar Yr6 Basin Camp Mon 12 Mar Zone Swimming 14-15 Mar Yr5 CARES Wed 14 Mar Kindy 2019 school tour Fri 16 Mar Clean up School day Sun 18 Mar Run Forest Run Wed 21 Mar Harmony Day Fri 23 Mar Ride 2 School day Sun 25 Mar BAND: Music Mania 26 & 27 Mar Yr1: Excursion Bush Safari

Fri 30 Mar Good Friday Mon 2 Apr Easter Monday Thur 5 Apr Kindy 2019 school tour Mon 9 Apr Choir evening 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, 10.30

Principal’s Message 13 DAYS TO GO – RUN FOREST RUN

OFF ON AN ADVENTURE This week our Year 6 students and teachers head off for their 3 day camping trip to The Basin. The logistics are challenging, as they have to carry everything they need for the 3 days on and off buses and the ferry, and it’s not just camping gear and food supplies, but art supplies, sporting equipment and medical supplies etc

It's an amazing commitment our Year 6 team makes to ensuring the children have such a unique experience in their final year in primary school. They don’t get paid overtime- they do it because they consider the experience so worthwhile in terms of learning not just about bush life but about self-reliance, responsibility and teamwork.

The teachers certainly appreciate the assistance of the parents who will be accompanying them on “the adventure” and we look forward to the reports from their trip.

SRE AND ETHICS Scripture and Ethics classes have commenced for the 3-6 grades on Thursday mornings and for the K-2 grades on Friday mornings. Classes are only offered if there is availability of volunteer teachers, which explains why some denominations and Ethics classes are not offered in some grades. According to the Department of Education’s policy regarding Special Religious Education (SRE) , Ethics classes can only be offered to families that indicate a preference for “non-Scripture” during the designated SRE times.

MIXED REALITY PROJECT Late last year a team of keen IT enthusiasts were part of a project to develop a Tour around the Forestville Public School using mixed reality media. They only had one day to work on the project and they have done a fabulous job, well worth a look (on Chrome or Firefox), we hope to do a lot more of this work in the near future. Click Here to view the project

CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA It’s that time of year when communities engage in Clean Up Australia. We will be participating in the Clean Up Schools Challenge next Friday 13th March, which is great timing for our school to look its best for RUN FOREST RUN. Students will be encouraged to bring some gloves to assist in the clean up of the playground.

RUN FOREST RUN Our annual fundraiser is fast approaching, for more information review the Run Forest Run section of this newsletter. If you haven’t already make sure you put your name in to volunteer! Many hands make the whole event much easier.

Thank you for your support,

Cathie Ferguson Principal

Dance News 2018 Due to the Yr6 camp this week please take note of the following changes to dance group practices:

MON LUNCH: Yr5/6 Group TUES LUNCH: Yr3/4 Group FRI LUNCH: Yr3/4 Group.

Parents can you please remind your child on the day that they have a practice.

Thank you Vanessa Price

K-2 DANCER OF THE WEEK KC Sienna J, Sunny K KI Audrey H, Beau J KF George R, Jaimee T KS Henry A, Olive S 1K Naomi B, Aryan N 1O Emily F, Lachlan W

1J Ben C, Isla P 1S Kate S, Aaron Lan Z 2Z Hamish B, Jasmine K 2P Oliver C, Ethan H, Halle M 2L Aimee N, Nikolas O 2M Ruby H, Nicholas K, Samantha Y

CONGRATULATIONS !

Ride 2 School Once again Forestville Public School will be participating in the National Ride2School program. Last year we had 94% of our students ride, scooter, skateboard or walk on the day, 94% is going to be tough to beat! The program aims to increase the children's level of physical activity and awareness of road and bicycle safety through riding, scootering or walking to school. Students are encouraged to ride their bike, scooter or walk safely to school on Friday the 23rd of March. Students who participate in riding must wear a helmet and everyone who participates will be given a sticker upon arrival.

Please clearly label your mode of transportation and be patient at the end of the day when we try to clear all of the bikes and scooters out of the parking areas. The students will be told where to park their bikes as each stage will have a separate parking area. If you have any questions please contact Mr. Ellis. Happy riding!

Junior and Senior Choir Next week Junior Choir and Senior Choir will be swapping rehearsal times due to a Year 5 excursion and a tight schedule to record an audition video with Senior Choir.

o Monday 12th March - Senior Choir at lunchtime o Wednesday 14th March - Junior Choir at lunchtime

Harmony Day We will celebrate Harmony Day on Wednesday 21 March. Our diversity makes Australia a great place to live. Harmony Day is a celebration of our cultural diversity – a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home.

It’s held every year on 21 March to coincides with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The message of Harmony Day is ‘everyone belongs’, the Day aims to engage people to participate in their community, respect cultural and religious diversity and foster sense of belonging for everyone, and we encourage everyone to wear orange on that day.

Why orange?

Orange is the colour chosen to represent Harmony Day. Traditionally, orange signifies social communication and meaningful conversations. It also relates to the freedom of ideas and encouragement of mutual respect.

Facts and figures

There are some fascinating statistics about Australia’s diversity that can be good conversation-starters:

• nearly half (49 per cent) of Australians were born overseas or have at least one parent who was

• we identify with over 300 ancestries

• since 1945, more than 7.5 million people have migrated to Australia

• 85 per cent of Australians agree multiculturalism has been good for Australia

• apart from English, the most common languages spoken in Australia are Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, Tagalog/Filipino, Hindi, Spanish and Punjabi

• more than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in Australia.

These facts are taken from ABS 2016 Census Data.

Debating Team Are you fantastic at arguing? Do you enjoy public speaking? Then debating might just be your cup of tea. Debating is an exciting way to work on your persuasive and public speaking skills whilst having a heap of fun. If you're in years 5 & 6 and are interested in joining the 2018 debating team please come along to 4K to audition. You will need to prepare a 1 minute speech arguing the following topic, 'Computers should replace teachers'.

When: Monday 12th March, after eating time. Wednesday 14th of March (first half of lunch).

Where: 4K (please wait outside until called in). Who: Anyone!!

Practices will be held on Tuesday mornings from 8:15am starting week 8. Please make sure that you are able to attend the practice sessions.

Miss Kettlewell, Miss Wilson, Miss Parsons

Does your child struggle with Learning? Parents Support Group Disabilities or difficulties. Its aim is to offer friendship and support and where possible, share appropriate knowledge and experiences. Although there are Sydney-based support groups out there and there is a lot of information available online, this is an opportunity to connect on a personal level, confidentially, within the school community. If you'd like further information, please contact the School Office.

Clean Up Day

On Friday 16th March Forestville Public School will be participating in the Schools Clean Up Day. As part of this year’s event students at Forestville will be joining schools around Australia working to remove rubbish and tidy their school environment.

On the day students will need to bring: • a pair of sturdy gardening or rubber gloves • a bucket or strong plastic bag

Students will need to wear: • their normal sport or school uniform • their hat and sunscreen

Students will be participating under the supervision of their class teachers for a short period during the day. Please inform your student’s teacher of any allergies that your child may have prior to their participation in the event so this can be taken into consideration. Clean Up Australia Day is a simple way students can work together to take action to clean up, fix up and conserve our prized Australian environment.

Band News Band Fees are now overdue! Please pay promptly, thankyou If you need another fee notice please email fpsbands@gmail.com

Band Start Date Day / Time Notes

Working Bee Sat 10th March 4pm – 5pm Meet at the school hall

Music Mania 25th March 12-5pm Forestville Public School

Band Camp 23 & 24th May Overnight for IB, CB TB are bused there each day

Camp Kedron

Band members should arrive at 7.30am for morning rehearsals to help set up the hall for a prompt start at 7.45am.

If you need to contact any of the band committee, please email fpsbands@gmail.com

Band Committee

Strings

WANTED: A Handy Person and some PVC pipes! We need some handy volunteers to help build the dunk tank for Run Forest Run, or even better know one we could borrow for the day.

We also need some PVC pipe like in the picture. Maybe we have a parent plumber who could donate some supplies? If you can help please email the school.

Run Forest Run: Sunday, 18 March 2018 REGISTRATIONS OPEN! Run Forest Run: 18 March 2018 - we need your help to make Run

Forest Run 2018 a success!

We don’t have enough volunteers – can you help out? Did you know you can volunteer AND run? Just let us know when you sign up to volunteer. We need to fill the Pedestrian Marshall spots during the race. If these spots aren’t filled to meet Council regulations, we can’t hold the race.

We have broken the times up to cover the 2, 5 and 10 km races, so if you want to direct and cheer on other runners at different times you can. Sign up to help here:

https://signup.com/client/invitation2/secure/2158146/false?popup=true#/invitation

Where do the Run Forest Run funds go? Money raised from the 2017 event helped fund important projects including; air conditioning in our kids’ classrooms, STEAM learning space and synthetic turf outside the school office. If we equal our 2017 result, we will be able to finish the air conditioning installation across all classrooms – great for summer, but also winter.

Player of the week: Rose. L. 1J

Early bird extended: Register before 11 March and get your free sports cap. Support your school and register for our school’s major fundraising event, Run Forest Run. We had 1,510 runners in 2017, register now (www.runforestrun.com.au) and get the word out to your friends and family to help us beat this in 2018!

Get free training sessions with our Gold Sponsor Virgin Active! Virgin Active Training Sessions every Thursday: Meet at Frenchs Forest reception at 5.45am to register for a 6am training session. The sessions are FREE and anyone can join. Plus you can stay and use the facilities after your run. This is our major fundraising event for the year – help us make 2018 the best Run Forest Run yet! Run Forest Run Committee 2018

P&C News AGM – MONDAY 26 MARCH P&C AGM A reminder that Forestville Public School’s P&C Association will be holding our AGM on Monday 26th March 2018, 7pm in the Staff room.

Whilst all positions become vacant, some of the existing committee members are intending to stand for their current positions again. Of course this does not mean that anyone else can stand for those positions as well.

The positions of the P&C are: President – Not standing Vice President - Continuing Treasurer - Continuing Secretary – Not standing Canteen Co-ordinator – Not standing Canteen Treasurer - Continuing Class Parent Co-ordinator - Continuing Fun Run Co-ordinator(s) - Vacant

There is also committee positons on the Band and String committees which are elected at a separate AGM. I know they really need some new committee members this year.

In order to nominate or be nominated, as well as to be eligible to vote at the meeting you need to be a financial member. If you were not at our February meeting to be eligible please arrange to drop off $2 (in an envelope with your name on it) to the P&C box in the school office by Friday 23rd March 2018.

It would be really great to see some new faces to our P&C. We have a small group of hard working parents but it would be great to share that load with more families. The sense of pride and achievement of giving back to your children’s school really is fantastic. To be able to say we helped make that happen or we helped the school access those resources makes you feel warm and fuzzy.

There may be areas you feel could be improved, so why not come along and participate in making that improvement happen.

If you cannot make the meeting but wish to stand for one of the positions please email the below address, stating your name and the position you are standing for, by Friday 23rd March 2018.

Can’t make the meetings? If you still want to be involved then email forestvillepandc@gmail.com and we can arrange for you to conference in so you can be a part of the meeting from the comfort of your own home.

I hope to see lots of new and familiar faces on the 26th March.

President The President is responsible for:

• The successful functioning of the P&C Association meetings • The attainment of the P&C Association’s objectives • Ensuring that the P&C Association takes part in decision-making processes in the school • Fostering fair participation of all members and ensuring that all new members are made to feel

welcome • Supporting volunteers • Consistent adherence to the constitution • Acting as the P&C Association’s spokesperson when public statements or actions are needed • Setting up lines of communication with the Principal • Being signatory on the Association’s bank accounts • Chairing meetings, in the absence of the President, the Vice-President will chair the meeting or the

meeting can elect a chairperson from the members present for that meeting.

Vice President o Supports the President o Chairs the P&C meetings in the President’s Absence o Represents the P&C at school functions from time to time o Oversees the P&C sub-committees o Ensures Fundraising activities organised by Year groups are being fulfilled.

Treasurer Primary responsibility for financial accountability. Receives and deposits monies, maintains records, draws cheques and presents accounts. Ensures that all funds held and handled by P&C are properly and openly accounted for. Is a signatory on the P&C accounts and should not delegate this responsibility. Encourage members to understand the state of the P&C Association finances. Ensure a record of financial transactions are kept. Planning, budgeting and cash flow The financial accounts of the P&C Association must be submitted to an independent audit each year. The Treasurer produces a full statement of financial position declaring all funds held in the name of

the P&C Association, including those of sub-committees, along with the Secretary who presents the Minute book of the same period to the Auditor. After completion of the audit the financial statements, with all signed certificates appended, are to be presented at the Annual General Meeting for approval and adoption.

Secretary Responsible for carrying out the administrative tasks related to the decisions of the meetings as

resolved. Prepares all meeting agendas. Attend P&C Association meetings and take notes of the discussions in order to produce a set of

Minutes for subsequent distribution to members. Receiving and tabling all correspondence as well as writing and dispatching outgoing correspondence

as resolved/appropriate. Issues notice of all meetings and maintains official records of the P&C Association such as the

constitution, by-laws, rules of subcommittees, Incorporation Certificate, ABN details, list of financial (voting) members, Minutes, Attendance book.

Communication in newsletter – interesting facts, approvals.

Uniform Shop Liaison • Liaising with Pickles as to new stock items, stock levels and general requests. • Communicate Uniform Shop operations back to the P&C meeting. • Help ensure Second hand uniform sales occur at least once a term.

Fun Run Co-ordinator(s) o Call for volunteers and assemble an organising committee by September the previous year. o Ensures the various areas of responsibilities are working towards the deadline. o Makes decisions on marketing, sponsorship and suppliers. o Works with the school to promote and run the event.

Canteen Co-ordinator The co-ordinator manages the Canteen assistants (paid) and the canteen Treasurer (volunteer). The co-ordinator with the Treasurer are cheque signatories to pay suppliers. The Co-ordinator submits a weekly Canteen newsletter via email to the school office to be included in

the school newsletter. The Co-ordinator is responsible to the P&C Executive. Including reporting to the P&C executive on the

activities of the Canteen, including sales twice per term and producing an Annual report at the AGM; The Co-ordinator will liaise with Munch Monitor (online ordering and register system) from time to

time.

Forest Bites Canteen Volunteer Roster for week 6 and 7 (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

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

5th

Dolly M 6th

Jo Mc 7th

Renee P 8th

Heidi S David D

9th Edwina K Michelle Mc

12th

Dolly M 13th

Vacant 14th

Carolyn M 15th

Michelle J Trish W

16th Michelle K Vacant

*Note contact details for the canteen managers: Tania Laytham (Monday, Tuesday & Friday) 0414 528 534 Kim Egelton (Wednesday, Thursday) 0412 254 310

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