Volume 29 Issue 1 - canleyhts-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Volume 29 Issue 1 7 February 2020

Phone: 9724 3320

www.canleyhts-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

IMPORTANT

DATES

Wednesday 12

February

Welcome

Evening

Principal’s Message

Principal Address

SCHOOL

NEWS

Welcome everyone to our first CHPS Newsletter for 2020. I wish to for-mally welcome our returning students and their families as well as wel-coming the many new student /families to CHPS this year. As always, we are off to a busy start to the year and it is wonderful to see the enthu-siasm of our students, staff and parents in their quest to dive straight into the quality teaching and learning practices at CHPS.

I would like to remind everyone of our clear Mission and Vision state-ment, which gives all of us an understanding of what we are striving for.

Canley Heights PS

Principal’s Message

Below you will see a brief overview of our School Plan’s Strategic Directions and our mile-stones/ focus area. (Completed School Plan available on our school website)

A reminder that our Welcome Evening is coming up and this is a wonderful opportunity for our school community to come together to meet the teachers, listen to your child’s teacher explain in detail the vision for the teaching and learning programs for 2020, time for you to ask teachers questions, and meet and reconnect with new and old family friends.

I look forward to seeing you then.

Regards

Mrs E Hidson

Principal

Canley Heights PS

Deputy Principal Message

Special Religious Education (SRE) is the beliefs and practices of an approved religious persuasion delivered by authorised representatives of that persuasion. It is the distinctive religious tenets and beliefs of the home and family, provided by the churches and other religious groups for children of parents expressing the desire that they receive such teaching. Canley Heights Public School offers Catholic and Buddhist Special Religious Education (SRE) to our stu-dents. These classes take place on Thursdays for 30 minutes at different times through out the day. Students attend the classes appropriate to their grade. • Students already attending these classes continue each year unless the school is notified in writing that

a parent or carer no longer wishes their child to attend. • A parent or carer may withdraw or change their child’s SRE participation or nomination at any time. • Parents and carers who wish their child to begin attending SRE classes need to fill out and return the

Participation Note to the school. • The school is responsible for student behaviour management and duty of care, including for student

supervision, health, safety and wellbeing, during SRE. Schools intervene in cases where it is necessary to maintain good order and conduct.

Attendance at CHPS

At Canley Heights PS we are very proud of school community and the work

that we do as partners to ensure the children under our care have the best

opportunity to be successful, both now and in the future.

Daily attendance at school is very important if our students are to achieve

their best academically, socially and emotionally.

Every child has the right to the best education we can provide them.

Our attendance goals for this year:

1. to have all students achieving a minimum 90% attend-

ance rate.

2. to have all student absences explained by par-

ents/carers.

Please note the following from the Department's Attendance Policy

Parents are required to explain the absences of their children from school promptly and within seven days to

the school. An explanation for absence must be provided to the school within 7 days of the first day of any

period of absence.

Special Religious Education (Scripture)

Canley Heights PS

Deputy Principal Message

Welcome Evening

• In the allocated time/s set aside for SRE, students not attending are provided with supervised alterna-tive meaningful activities. This could include reading, private study or completing homework. No new topics of learning are introduced at this time.

• SRE providers will make available the lesson content to parents and carers if requested.

Wednesday 12 February 2020 - 5:00 to 6:30pm

Join us on Wednesday evening for a chance to meet your child’s teachers and hear about their plans for the year. All class teachers will be available to discuss the various subject re-quirements, class organisation, ex-pectations and to answer any questions you may have.

5.00- 5.30 Kindergarten, Year 1 and Year 2 meetings Kindergarten in K Green classroom (Mrs Munro’s room) Year 1 and 2 in the Hall.

5.30- 6.00 Years 3-6 meetings Years 3 & 4 in 3S room (Mrs Filpi’s room) Years 5 & 6 in 5/6B room (Mrs Whitfield’s room)

5.30-6.00 Sausage Sizzle under the Hall COLA Come and have a chat while enjoying a FREE sausage sandwich, either after grade meetings. Year 6 will be selling drinks for $1.00 to raise money for the Year 6 Farewell.

We look forward to seeing you!

Canley Heights PS

Preschool News

We would like to welcome all our preschool children and families to Canley Heights Public School. The staff are looking forward to getting to know each family and child. Ms Hutton and Mrs Ahmad are our full-time preschool staff. Please feel welcome to see any staff member with any questions, concerns or suggestions. We look forward to an exciting year of learning!

Beginning Preschool 2020

All our children have had a very positive and happy start to they year. This year children have been running inside the gate eager to put their bags away and wave goodbye to mums and dad. It has been amazing to see such happy smiling faces, ready to explore, investigate and learn. Our children are learning to respond to and recognise their names, independently take care of their belongings and to share with others. What a great start everyone!

Here are some special moments of our children first exploring the preschool environment.

Canley Heights PS

Preschool News

Things to remember :

• Label all your child’s belongings.

• Send a water bottle every day.

• Each day pack some fruit and lunch.

• Hat and spare clothes must be provided.

Canley Heights PS

News

FAMILY DONATION

Canley Heights PS

News

School Uniform

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

We would like you to donate any school uniform items you may have

that are no longer of any use to your children. We especially have a

need for smaller sizes (to give children when they require a change of

clothes) however, all sizes are great.

Thank you.

No Parking on School Grounds

Parents and Carers have no access to the school parking area at any time. Security gates will be closed, and no access granted. Please park in surrounding streets and walk to the School.

School Access

The security gates are locked between 9.30am and 2.45pm. Parents / Carers gain entry by pushing the access buttons on the gates and the reason for the visit explained. All visitors entering the school throughout the day must proceed to the School Administration Build-ing and register.

Canley Heights PS

News

LIBRARY NEWS

ARE YOU READY TO READ?

All students Years 1 to 6 will be able to borrow from our school library next week from Monday

10th February. Kindergarten children will be able to borrow in Term 2. Please check with your

child’s class teacher as to what day they will be coming up. All students must have a library

bag to be able to borrow.

Kindergarten=1 book each week in Term 2

Years 1/2= up to 2 books each week


$4 from front office


LIBRARY BAGS

Library bags help your child to look after our books. Damage/lost books are a cost to the

school library or to parents.

The Right School Uniform

Dear Parents/ Caregivers,

Please make sure that your children are wearing school uniforms suitable to the weath-

er.

Thanks.

Canley Heights PS

EMERGENCY

CONTACT

NUMBERS

Please make sure that all your contact

numbers are up to date.

If your child gets sick or is injured we need

to be able to contact you

Stars of the Week Term 1 Week 2

3/4C Samira Great participation in class.

3/4H Tristain Great enthusiasm.

3/4P Caitlyn -

3/4S Jacky Setting in extremely well at Canely Heights PS.

3/4A Alessandro Great participation.

5/6C Andy Positive, enthusiastic and mature approach to all set

tasks.

5/6H Emily Excellent participation in class discussion.

5/6P Ann Positive role model.

5/6S Richard Setting in well to his new class and being an amazing

helper.

5/6A Angie Enthusiastic start to ‘2020’.

5/6B - -

2019 School Camp memories

Canley Heights PS

CHPS on Social Media

This year our school has been working to build our presence using

the social media platforms of Facebook and Instagram. These are

being used by the school to keep everyone up to date and provide

our community with a window into what is happening in the school.

Stay Informed

When you view our website, Facebook page and Instagram account

you have access to photos, videos, and articles as well information

on upcoming events. This allows you to stay in touch with what is

happening day to day in your child’s life at school.

Share our story

We are proud of our school and community and we want to show it

off to everyone. We want to hear you comments and have you share

us with your friends and family. Share with everyone, our talented

students, staff and families.

Canley Heights PS

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