The Bay TimesNeutral Bay School News

Week 3 - Term 2 2017

Neutral Bay Public School175 Ben Boyd Road Neutral Bay NSW 2089Tel: 9953 1798 Fax: 9904 1479

Website: www.neutralbay-p.schools.nsw.edu.auEmail: neutralbay-p.school@det.nsw.edu.auApp: Primary Parent Planner

Table of ContentsWeekly Calendar Page 1

Principal’s News Pages 2 - 3

Sport House Points Page 3

School News Page 3

Stars of the Week Page 3

Facebook Information Pages 4-5

Stage News Pages 7-9

P & C News Pages 9-10

Uniform Shop News Page 11

Canteen News Pages 11-12

Community News Page 12

Notes & Payments Due

Monday 22 May

Junior BandSenior ChoirYears 3,4 & 5 (10 Yrs) Public Speaking FinalsWinter Uniform

7.45am8.00am

Tuesday 23 May

Senior BandJunior ChoirYears 5 & 6 (11 Yrs) Public Speaking FinalsDebate V NorthbridgeConcert Band

8.00am8.00am

12.40pm

Wednesday 24 May

Chamber GroupOrchestraSenior DanceYear 6 Public Speaking Finals

7.00am8.00am8.00am

Thursday 25 May

Concert BandAuthor Visit- Aura Parker (Yrs K-1)

7.45am

Friday 26 May

Senior BandMixed DanceBay ChoirSydney Writer’s Festival (Yrs 5/6)Winter PSSA commences

7.45am8.00am8.15am

12.20pm

Week 5 - Term 2, 2017

Week 4 - Term 2, 2017

Year 5 Camp Payment Overdue

Year 2 Recorder Overdue

Year 4 Sport (gymnastics) Overdue

Year 6 Camp Payment Overdue

Year 5 & 6 Sport Fees 11 May

Year 2 Manly Q Station Excursion 11 May

Year 3 Coal Loader Excursion 12 May

Semester 1 School Program Fees due now Online Payments Please

K - Year 6

Monday 15 May

Junior BandSenior ChoirAFL Knockout

7.45am8.00am8.00am

Tuesday 16 May

Senior BandJunior Choir Concert Band

8.00am8.00am12.40pm

Wednesday 17 May

Chamber GroupOrchestraSenior DanceMother’s Day Mum & Son Dance Lesson

7.00am8.00am8.00am6.30-8.00pm

Thursday 18 May

Concert BandYear 2 Quarantine Station ExcursionYear 3 Coal Loader ExcursionZone Cross CountryYear 5/6 Debate vs Cammeray

7.45am

Friday19 May

Senior BandMixed DanceBay ChoirWinter PSSA

7.45am8.00am8.15am12.20pm

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Principal’s News

Mother’s Day We wish all mums a happy Mother’s Day for this Sunday 14 May. The P&C will be holding a Mother’s Day stall on Friday 12 May of this week and a Mother’s Day Dance. Further information is on page 10 of this week’s Bay Times.

Voluntary ContributionsThank you for your generous responses to our P&C Voluntary Contributions request. $102,000 has been donated which is being used to provide the following programs/resources for the children:• Music and Science Programs $110,000• Learning Support programs $30,000• Specialist furniture for the new senior library

$20,000• Air conditioning of 6 classrooms $40,000We appreciate the P&C assistance in raising the remaining funds through activities such as the Ball, Election Day barbecue, raffle and uniform shop.

Opportunity Class Applications 2018Online applications for Opportunity Classes in 2018 are now open and will close on Friday 12 May of this week. The website for applications and further information is www.schools.nsw.edu.au/ocplacement

Parent Mathematics NightThank you to the 165 parents who attended our Mathematics Night this week. We hope you found the workshops valuable.Thank you to the following teachers:Kindergarten/Early Stage 1- Mrs Lockhart, Miss S Migan, Mrs K ReeveStage 1 - Miss J Carew, Mrs H Graf, Mrs J Rudolph & Miss K BoyleStage 2 - Mr W MacInnes, Mrs J Cant & Mrs E ButlerStage 3 - Miss M Magney, Mrs C Brown & Mrs N RemenyiK-6 Curriculum Overview- Mrs G Javorsky

School CouncilThere will be three parent vacancies on our School Council this term. Detailed below are the procedures for nomination if you are interested.• Wednesday 17 May-A link to nomination forms in

newsletter will be provided. To nominate or second you must be a paid member of the P&C. (Please

contact Jenni Spillane at nbpspandctreasurer@gmail.com for further information on membership payment).

• Wednesday 24 May-Close of payments to treasurer to be a paid member.

• Friday 26 May-Nominations close and nominees informed.

• Monday 29 May-Nominees supply a biography of 200 words to be printed in the newsletter.

• Wednesday 31 May-Newsletter is sent out with biographies and link to voting forms.

• Wednesday 7 June-Voting closes at 7.30pm.

School Facebook PageAs of 22 May we are commencing a trial of a school Facebook page and group. We are trialling this initiative as an additional method of providing information to the community about our school. On pages 4 & 5 of this week’s Bay Times further information is provided. A note will be sent next week regarding the publishing of photographs of the students on Facebook. We will also be sending home an email with this week’s Bay Times providing information on how you can join the School Facebook Group. If you have any enquiries you are welcome to contact Miss Chapple, Miss Murray or myself.

ChessOn Friday 5 May, our chess team won the Interschool Chess Gala Day at Monte Sant Angelo school. Individually, there were some outstanding results. These were: Darien 4P (1st), Ewan 5R (2nd), Toby 5M (3rd), Bayley 4P (5th) and Affan 6C (7th).

Paul Kelly AFL CupWe wish the students in Years 5 and 6 participating in the Paul Kelly AFL Cup on Monday 15 May of next week all the best.

Cross CountryWe wish the students representing our school at Zone Cross Country at Artarmon Reserve on Thursday 18 May of next week all the best. The results of our school Cross Country are printed on page 4 of this week’s Bay Times.

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Sport House Points

Sports House Points Term 2 Week 2

Boyd Gilmore Milson Warung

Week Total

1 4 2 3

Term Total

3 8 3 6

Principal’s News

School News

Have a great Mother’s Day,David ShusterPrincipal

Chess Results for Round 1 - 5 May

• Neutral Bay A v Neutral Bay B (4-0)• Neutral Bay C v St Ignatius A (3.5 – 0.5)

Round 2 - 12 May

• Neutral Bay A v Castle Cove A (at Castle Cove PS) • Neutral Bay B v Bye• Neutral Bay C v Redland (at Redlands) Reserve:

Luke

Year 2 ExcursionWe wish the students in Year 2 an enjoyable and worthwhile excursion to the Quarantine Station on Thursday 18 May.Year 3 ExcursionWe wish the students in Year 3 an enjoyable and worthwhile excursion to the Coal Loader at Ball’s Point on Thursday 18 May.

School News

Chess News

Dear Parents and Carers,

A Mother’s Day stall will be open on Friday 12 May. This is an opportunity for all our children to independently purchase a gift for the special person in their life with whom they celebrate Mother’s Day.

The SRCs (student representatives) will collect money and assist all children as they come with their class to make their choice. This is a fundraising event for our school. Therefore, the gift is a token of the occasion and not directly reflective of the value of your donation.

If you would like your child to be part of this event, please send $5 with them to school on Friday 12 May. It is suggested that Kindy and Year 1 children bring their money in an envelope with their name and class on it.

The P&C take this opportunity to wish all Mums, Grandmas and their families a very special day!

Kind regards, The P&C

Stars of the Week

Gustav Burger and Mathis Christensen in 1A for finding and returning Mrs Willingham's butterfly pendent. So kind and thoughtful, thanks boys!

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Sports News - Cross Country Results 2017

Yellow denotes representation at Zone

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Facebook Information

Neutral Bay Public School is on social media because we want to positively promote our school by providing information to our community. We will talk to our school community through regular updates that aim to engage all staff members and parents in order to promote our school environment of happy, engaged and safe students. The channel we are going to use to do this is a Facebook Closed Group and this channel will be managed by Miss Stephanie Chapple (6S) and Miss Kate Murray (5K) along with access being provided to our Grade Media Representatives (GMR).

Account A pseudonym account, named NeutralBayPS, through which the GMR can post items to the Closed Group.

Location Page A public location page that Facebook automati-cally generates. It is the ‘shop window’ of our school. It is managed by Miss Murray & Miss Chapple using the pseu-donym account listed above. We will allow mon-itored location check-ins & posts on this account by the public.

Group A closed group, named Neutral Bay PS, that is NOT viewable by the gen-eral public. The group re-quires parents to request access to the group. Once access has been request-ed, Miss Murray & Miss Chapple are the only peo-ple that can approve the request as they are the administrators of the group. The link with be provided to family mem-bers via the school app, newsletter and class email from the class par-ent.

Neutral Bay Public School Social Media Strategy

Our Facebook Presence

P & C M e e t i n g

Facebook 0 3 . 0 5 . 2 0 1 7

Why are we moving on to Facebook? We want to provide our school community with up-to-date, easily accessible information and news. Posts will include: Celebrating student

achievement e.g.. Pho-tographed merit & Bay-ley award recipients

‘Good News Posts’ (classroom news)

‘Caught ya’ posts highlighting up-to-date and fun school based activities through a photo or video

Links to the newsletter and notes

Reminders and promotional posts of events

Uploading the school calendar and other important files

Rules of engagement:

Keep all comments respectful with no swearing or personal criticisms. Inappropriate content will be removed.

Please be aware of others’ privacy. Don’t post image or private or identifying details (including surnames) of children or adults without their permission.

We will try to respond to your questions as soon as possible, between 8am and 5pm on school days. If you have an emergency, please contact the school on 99531798.

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Facebook Information

Neutral Bay Public School is on social media because we want to positively promote our school by providing information to our community. We will talk to our school community through regular updates that aim to engage all staff members and parents in order to promote our school environment of happy, engaged and safe students. The channel we are going to use to do this is a Facebook Closed Group and this channel will be managed by Miss Stephanie Chapple (6S) and Miss Kate Murray (5K) along with access being provided to our Grade Media Representatives (GMR).

Account A pseudonym account, named NeutralBayPS, through which the GMR can post items to the Closed Group.

Location Page A public location page that Facebook automati-cally generates. It is the ‘shop window’ of our school. It is managed by Miss Murray & Miss Chapple using the pseu-donym account listed above. We will allow mon-itored location check-ins & posts on this account by the public.

Group A closed group, named Neutral Bay PS, that is NOT viewable by the gen-eral public. The group re-quires parents to request access to the group. Once access has been request-ed, Miss Murray & Miss Chapple are the only peo-ple that can approve the request as they are the administrators of the group. The link with be provided to family mem-bers via the school app, newsletter and class email from the class par-ent.

Neutral Bay Public School Social Media Strategy

Our Facebook Presence

P & C M e e t i n g

Facebook 0 3 . 0 5 . 2 0 1 7

Why are we moving on to Facebook? We want to provide our school community with up-to-date, easily accessible information and news. Posts will include: Celebrating student

achievement e.g.. Pho-tographed merit & Bay-ley award recipients

‘Good News Posts’ (classroom news)

‘Caught ya’ posts highlighting up-to-date and fun school based activities through a photo or video

Links to the newsletter and notes

Reminders and promotional posts of events

Uploading the school calendar and other important files

Rules of engagement:

Keep all comments respectful with no swearing or personal criticisms. Inappropriate content will be removed.

Please be aware of others’ privacy. Don’t post image or private or identifying details (including surnames) of children or adults without their permission.

We will try to respond to your questions as soon as possible, between 8am and 5pm on school days. If you have an emergency, please contact the school on 99531798.

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Kindergarten News Stage 1 News (Years 1 & 2)

Miss P. Moir - 1P Class TeacherMiss S Cooper - KC Class Teacher

Stage News

Year 1 have started a wonderful literacy unit called “Fractured Fairytales”. This unit has built on their knowledge about Fairytales from kindergarten.

This week, have been looking closely at the traditional story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and have been discussing the important elements of a story.

We have also designed our very own castles which are all so unique and look gorgeous! The Year 1 teachers think the students are artists!

Thank You Mum !

Mother’s Day is a day to pamper Mum. KC enjoyed creating the E-SPA-cially for Mum Giftivity and we hope the Mums will LOVE receiving it! We also wrote about how much we love our mum. Here are some of our examples:

I love you more than Batman

Jacob

I love you more than unicorns

Wynter

I love you more than Moosies

Ian

I love you more than my doll house

Hana

I love you more than doughnuts

Matthew

I love you more than school

Lukas

We love our mums a lot- Thank you for everything you do- we hope you enjoy your special day this Sunday.

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Stage NewsStage 2 News (Years 3 & 4)

Miss L. Irvine - 4I Class Teacher

Stage 3 News (Years 5 & 6)

Inspired by the work of British land artist and environmentalist, Andy Goldsworthy; 4I created mandala like sculptures using materials found in the environment, such as leaves and seedpods. When finished, they photographed their work for display before returning the materials used back into the environment.

Welcome to the Get PIE'ED Bakery where author's purpose is our focus.

Identifying the author's purpose can be challenging, especially when working with complex texts in Year 6. 6C have been studying the five different purposes for reading. Identifying these patterns allow us to better analyse a text to discover the author's intention. This gives us more perspective when reading as we come to understand how an author views his or her subject and how this, in turn, can shape the reader’s opinion.

So what are these patterns?

The five purposes for reading form the acronym PIE’ED.

They are:

• P = Persuade (We look for opinions supported with facts. Then we use the information provided, as well as the credibility of the source to determine the answer.)

• I = Inform (We look for facts organised by a text structure. What is the author informing us about? How is he or she organising the information?)

• E = Entertain (Most texts meant to entertain will be organised into a storyline. Therefore we should find evidence of a plot.)

• D = Describe (To identify a description, we look for evidence of imagery and descriptive language.)

• E = Explain (We look for evidence of steps teaching how to do something or how something happens. These steps may be given implicitly or explicitly.)

First, our students worked together in small groups to look for patterns and textual evidence in 15 different passages in order to identify the author’s purpose.

Students were then asked to state the purpose of each passage, as well as cite textual evidence to support their conclusion. Once completed, each group then ‘baked’ their pies by placing their passage into the correct pie tin labelled with the five different purposes.

If the purpose was correctly identified, groups followed the tradition of the bakery and played a round of Cake Splat!

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Miss G. Carnegie - 6C Class Teacher

Stage News

The look on their faces says it all. Here are some of our favourite action shots from the lesson.

Stage 3 News (Years 5 & 6) continued

P & C NewsBudget approved at P&C MeetingThis year’s fundraising target to support school programs and equipment is $200,000. We are pleased to confirm that the following allocation of funds to be raised by the P&C in 2017 was approved at the P&C Meeting on Wednesday:

• Science / Music Programs $110,000• Learning Support $30,000• Futures focused furniture for the new senior library

$20,000• New Air conditioning units $40,000To be able to deliver these funds to the school, we still need to raise around $90,000 this year.

Approval was also given to make a first payment to the school of $60,000 from funds already raised through voluntary contributions and the Welcome Picnic and By-Election barbeques.

Mother’s Day Stall –Friday 12th MayA Mother’s Day stall will be open on Friday 12 May for children to purchase a gift for Mother’s Day. This year we will have some new choices for the children. We’ve managed to get these items at wholesale prices, so whilst we are only charging $5 per item, these gifts retail at $5 and above. All funds raised will go to the school. See Flyer on Page 8.

Mother’s Day ‘Mum and Son’ Dance – Wednesday 17th MayThis year we are trying something different by organising a ‘Mum and Son’ Dance. Mums and daughters are also more than welcome to attend.

On the evening of Wednesday the 17th May we are having a Mother’s Day dance/lesson. Then for Father’s Day there will be a “Dad and Daughter” dance in a different format but something which will be just as special. Please see the attached flyers for further details and instruction on how to register.

Note, there will be no Mother’s Day breakfast. The Father’s Day breakfast will still go ahead as planned.

If you have any questions about this event, or how to register for it, please contact our Events Coordinator, Vanessa Baumer-Rowley at nbpspandcevents@gmail.com.

Raffle Tickets coming soonBooks for this year’s fundraising raffle will be distributed to each family at the school next week. Each raffle book will contain 10 tickets at $3 each. There are some great prizes to be won!

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P & C News

This year we are holding a Mother’s Day dance lesson for mums and sons. Carers, grandmothers and daughters (if you have no sons) are also more than welcome to attend as

well as fathers. The idea is the boys will learn some of the basic ballroom dances such as the waltz together

with some other popular dance styles which will be facilitated by a professional dance instructor from the Crows Nest Dance Centre.

These skills that the boys will learn will come in handy when they are adults. There will also be a “Dad and Daughter Dance” for Father’s Day with a slightly different twist.

When : Wednesday 17th May 2017

Time : 6.30pm to 8.00pm

Where: School Hall – Neutral Bay Public School

Cost: $25.00 per family which includes instructor, dessert, tea & coffee after the lesson

Payment is via the below website - cut and paste it into your address bar or

https://www.grouptogether.com/MothersDayDanceLessonplusdessertteacoffee

alternatively open the other attachment, click on the link and follow the prompts. There is a help sheet in the same attachment to follow if you need help. For catering please RSVP as soon as possible.

This will be a wonderful event for Mother’s Day and one that will provide lots of laughs and beautiful memories, we look forward to seeing you there.

This event is organised by the P & C and all the proceeds are returned to your children, in the way of teaching and resources.

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Uniform Shop News Canteen News

The New Hot Specials has been a great success, thanks to the amazing volunteers last week.This week you will notice that the Hot Rolls tab in Flexischools has changed to Daily Hot Foods. This change is because we have added Chicken strips to our Menu. Yum! The Children can now enjoy 4 pieces of crumbed chicken breast for $2. These are available for lunch orders only.

To check your class allocate week Canteen class roster 2017

Week 4 (May 15 - 19) 5T

Week 5 (May 22 - 26) 4D

The second hand uniform shop – needs you! We are currently seeking volunteers to help run second hand uniform sales. We currently have two sales each term on Tuesday mornings 8.30am-9.30am, however we would like to have more, maybe even one before pick up in the afternoon! We also need just help folding clothes and sorting, for an hour a week or a fortnight. If you have some time to help, the dates are flexible and full training and support is provided. We are a very friendly team, if you are interested please contact our Second-Hand Volunteer Eileen nbpssecondhand@gmail.com

FlexischoolsThe uniform shop is not open for over the counter sales. The ONLY method of purchasing uniforms is online through Flexischools (our online ordering portal). Sizing information is available on the school website and Flexischools. There are currently over 900 families registered on Flexischools at our school. If you have not yet registered, please go to www.flexischools.com.au and sign up!

Twice Weekly Delivery DaysThe Uniform Shop delivers twice weekly on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The cut-off time for placing an order for next day delivery is 4.50pm.

Exchanges, Returns & Faulty items If you need to exchange or return an item please leave the item/s in the box underneath the mail boxes at the office with your details (including Flexischools order number). If an exchange is required, the new item will be sent out to your child's classroom. If a refund is required, the funds will be refunded back to your credit card. All returned items must be in saleable condition with tags still attached. If you have a faulty item, please leave it in the box at the office (with a note with your child's name, class, details of the fault, and, if possible, details of the original purchase). I will have a replacement item sent out to you ASAP.

Queries or Questions?If you have any queries regarding the delivery of an order or if you have received an incorrect item, please email nbpsuniformshop@gmail.com rather than Flexischools. They are purely the order/payment portal. Best Wishes, Kate & the Uniform Shop teamnbpsuniformshop@gmail.com

Mon 15/5 Early lunch Brenda WaymanPeta Thomson

Late lunch Peta Thomson

Tues 16/5 Early lunch Ruth MartinWinnie AuMargaretCarol

Late lunch Ruth MartinSue Han

Wed 17/5 Early lunch Particia WYoshie JoAlex Middleton

Late lunch Patricia WVictoria FordAlex Middleton

Thurs 18/5 Early lunch Jen HarrisHelen Webb

Late lunch Jen HarrisKatsue Konetzn

Fri 19/5 Early lunch Mel LindseyVal RitchieAnn Whitfield

Late lunch Mel Lindsey

Canteen Roster - Week 4

Thank you to friends of 5T who have signed up already! The Canteen would love to have 4 people on for Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Don’t forget you get a free lunch.

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Canteen News Community News

Build Confidence with Drama Classes

DUE TO DEMAND KIDS UP FRONT are starting a NEW CLASS

MONDAYS in term 2 Neutral Bay Public School

Music Room Register online for a

FREE trial class

K to Yr 2 3:30 to 4:30pm Yr3 to Yr6 4:30 to 5:30pm

www.kidsupfront.com.au phone 9953 4040

Community News

Sign up via Sign-up Geniushttp://signupgenius.com.

Those who are new to the system please refer to the PDF below.

http://www.neutralbay-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/documents/34264368/34271426/How%20to%20use%20the%20roster.pdf

Cheers Alex Middleton Canteen Coordinator