WAGGA WAGGA PU LI NEWSLETTER

WAGGA WAGGA PUBLIC NEWSLETTER

C A L E N D A R

INFANTS ASSEMBLY

Every Friday @ 9.30am—

Cancelled this week

PRIMARY ASSEMBLY –

ODD WEEKS ON TUESDAY @

2PM

JULY-

Wed 24th-

Author Visit

100 Days of Kindergarten

Tue 30th-

P & C Meeting @ the

Commercial Club @ 7pm

AUGUST-

Thurs 1st-

Theatre Performance

Fri 2nd-

Dance Mufti Day

Mon 5th– Fri 9th-

EDUCATION WEEK

Thurs 8th-

WWPS Marketplace

Performance @ 11am for

Education Week

Tuesday, 23 July, 2019 Newsletter 22

Principal: Leanne Harvey

6921 3398 6921 8745

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

I N T H I S I S S U E

Page 1- Principal’s Report Page 2- ICAS Page 3- Theatre Performance, Chess, Colour Run, Dance Mufti Day Page 4- Quality Teaching Rounds Page 5- P&C Meeting

Email: [email protected]

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

Welcome back to Term 3. We hope you have had an enjoyable and relaxing time

over the holidays with your children.

Term 3 is shaping up to be a busy term. As well as many sporting activities, this

term includes activities such as Education Week, the much enjoyed Book Week

Parade, Stage 3’s excursion to

Canberra, the Middle School

Creative Arts Concert and

Kindergarten Orientation.

Congratulations Kindergarten

who celebrate 100 Days of

School tomorrow. Unbelievable

how quickly this time has flown

by.

TERM 3 NEW FACES

Tarryn Birthisel—returns from

Maternity Leave—Instructional

Leadership, Numeracy.

Justin Graham— here for the long

haul now—Assistant Principal.

Zach Jackson—Above

establishment appointment—

Learning Support & Wellbeing.

Bella Oehm—University

placement—6 weeks on 2T

Juanita Pinder—replacing Patrice

in the office whilst she is on leave.

Website: www.waggawagga-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: [email protected]

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT CONTINUED...

Mindfulness in the Classroom

We know that to really make a positive impact on children’s mental health, we need to provide them with skills that can be used throughout their lives. If we tune in to our body and our mind through mindfulness and meditation, we can improve our learning. The Smiling Mind Education Programs are mapped to the curriculum and designed to support educators to bring mindfulness into the classroom.

The Smiling Mind Education Program offers mental health and wellbeing tools designed for primary and secondary aged children. It has been successfully implemented in a wide variety of government and non-government schools with positive results in classes of all sizes, backgrounds, locations and ages. The Smiling Mind Education Program has

been proven to help students with sleep,

wellbeing, managing emotions,

concentration and school behaviour

including reductions in bullying. The

program also assists with:

stress management,

increased resilience,

increased creativity,

better decision making, and

a sense of calm, clarity and

contentment.

Research has shown that involving the

whole community – teachers, parents and

students – is the most effective way to gain

the long-lasting benefits of mindfulness. At

WWPS, we will be using the Smiling Mind

program to enrich the learning and

wellbeing programs we already offer. This

highly effective program will support us in

building our culture of caring,

compassionate, and mature students, and

provide us with the further skills and

resources needed for an optimal learning

environment. To find out more or to

try some mindfulness for yourself, go

to: Smiling Mind.com.au or install the

Smiling Mind app. Have a great week.

Leanne

In Week 3 (5th to 9th August) NSW Public School’s celebrate Education Week.

The theme for Education Week 2019 is ‘Every Student, Every Voice.’

Education Week will give everyone a great opportunity to visit our school to

talk with our teachers, to look at great learning in practice and celebrate all

there is about public education.

Please join us on Thursday 8th August at the Wagga Marketplace at 11.00am

to enjoy the talents of our performance groups. They will perform outside Big

W. Seating and standing spaces are limited so it is worth getting there a little

early.

On Friday 9th August we will be holding our school Open Day. Details are being

finalised and we will let you know next week.

ADVANCE NOTICE

Our 2019 Book Character Parade will be on Friday 23rd August. We invite all

children to come dressed as their favourite book character or superhero.

If every Australian did one act of kindness

a day for the month of July, that would

be 775 million acts of kindness in Kind

July.

It’s not too late, pledge your kindness

today.

https://www.staykind.org/campaign/

Many of our students are doing

some amazingly kind things for

Kind July and next week each

class will be embarking on a

combined challenge.

Who will turn out to be the

kindest class at WWPS?

https://www.staykind.org/campaign/kindjuly/


ICAS COMPETITION


COLOUR RUN THEATRE PERFORMANCE

Theatre Performance

On Thursday 1st August we are very fortunate to be able to present to the

students of WWPS,

Hansel and Gretel

directed by Mrs Louise Blackett.

Students from our school will make up some of the cast members in this production.

Entry to the performance will be by gold coin donation, which Mrs Blackett has kindly suggested be donated to the school. Money

collected will go towards the P&C refurbishment of the school bathrooms.

CHESS NOTICE COLOUR RUN

Chess Players/Location

Round 9: Friday, 26th July

WHERE: WWPS (HOME game)

Players: Tyler, Hayder, Danni, Oliver

If you cannot make this match, please ask one of our

reserve players before Friday.

Parents, please remember that your child needs to be

at the match by 4pm or they will forfeit for this round.

All games should finish be 4.30pm.

DANCE MUFTI DAY

SAVE THE DATE

On Friday, Week 10 (September 27th), WWPS will be holding a school Colour Run as a major fundraiser for our school. Please make sure you are checking your child's bag in the upcoming weeks for further information. Amanda O'Connell


QUALITY TEACHING ROUNDS AT WWPS

CHANGE OF DATE

Quality Teaching Rounds at Wagga Wagga Public School

Wagga Wagga Public School is lucky enough to be one of 200 schools participating in a research project be-ing led by Professor Jenny Gore from the University of Newcastle. It’s called ‘Building Capacity for Quality Teaching in Australian Schools’. The study focuses on teachers and teaching. All Year 3/4 teachers are very excited to be beginning this project and implementing Quality Teaching Rounds (QTR) at our school. Miss Amanda O’Connell and myself recently travelled to Newcastle to take part in two days of professional learn-ing as part of this research.

What are Quality Teaching Rounds?

Quality Teaching Rounds (QTR) is an approach to teacher professional development that involves teachers working in groups of four or more (known as Professional Learning Communities) to observe and analyse each other’s teaching using a framework we call the Quality Teaching model. Results so far are inspiring. Re-search has found QTR build significant improvements in the quality of teaching and has positive impacts on teacher morale and school culture, with encouragement and recognition of teachers' good work.

What will QTR look like at WWPS?

Starting this week, Mrs Elsley, Miss O’Connell, Miss Pokoney and Miss Lipinski will begin their first QTR. This will involve us being off class every Wednesday for 4 weeks (Weeks 1 - 4). We are hoping as the year pro-gresses, to roll out this professional learning model in other Stages of our school.

A typical teaching round

QTR involves four or more teachers working together to observe and analyse lessons in each other’s class-room. As teachers observe and discuss teaching in a non-confrontational environment, they become more aware of their strengths and what they can improve to help their students learn. Each week, we will be vis-iting each other’s classrooms and observing teaching.

Over one day teachers will:

discuss teaching based on a reading proposed by one of the group

sit in on a lesson taught by one member of the group to observe and analyse the quality of teaching

independently ‘code’ the lesson in line with the Quality Teaching model

re-group to discuss the lesson, and teaching in general.

The NSW Department of Education strongly endorses participation in Quality Teaching Rounds as an ap-proach to teacher professional learning with a rigorous evidence base. We are looking forward to imple-menting this model in our school with the core aim being to develop teacher capacity to provide for im-proved teacher outcomes.

Erin Elsley

Middle School Assistant Principal


ATHLETICS CARNIVAL P&C NEWS

P&C Weekly News Facebook Group: Facebook/Wagga Wagga Public

School P&C

Email: [email protected]

P&C Calendar

of Events

Term 3

30/7/19 P&C Meeting

3/9/19 P&C Meeting

Term 4

22/10/19 P&C Meeting

AGM

26/11/19 P&C Meeting

The Uniform Shop The Uniform Shop is open

Fridays 8.30 to 9.30.

Tracksuit pants available

for sport days

School jackets are $40.

Second hand jackets are

$15.

If you have any good

quality, unwanted uniform

items, the uniform shop will

gladly accept them

Canteen News

Wednesday Special

Nachos with beef & cheese

$6.00

If you can spare an hour or two,

Silvy would love a hand in the

canteen.

Please check to make sure you

have the new canteen menu as

there has been a slight price

rise for Term 3

Tuesday 30 July, 7pm,

Board Room of the

Commercial Club

All Welcome

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