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20 MARCH 2017 WEEK 9 TERM 1

ZONE SWIMMING CARNIVAL Congratulations to all our zone swimmers. Thank you to Mr Anderson and Mrs Self for representing Brisbania’s staff and to parents for transporting students. Special congratulations to Chloe, Ben, Mia, Skye, Katie, Emily, Molly, Georgia, Ava and Claire who are going to Sydney North carnival today.

COMMUNICATING WITH THE SCHOOL Please call the school to make an appointment with your child’s teacher for a mutually agreeable time or emails can be sent to the school email address. Please put Attention and the staff member in the subject area. Alternatively if your message is confidential, please send in a note to the staff member in an envelope clearly marked CONFIDENTIAL. Calls, emails and notes will be responded to ASAP.

TELL THEM FROM ME (TTFM) SURVEY- Years 4-6

Brisbania Public School, like many other public schools in the state, will participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices.

The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help improve how they do things at school.

I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours between 20 March and 7 April. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.

A consent form about the survey has been sent home with students.

Information for Parents and Carers is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/images/TTFM_Student_Survey_FAQs_Parent_and_Carers_T12017.pdf

BUMP IT UP As part of the Bump It Up initiative, students in Years 2-6 will be undertaking Maths and Comprehension assessments online in the next few weeks and again in Term 3 to assist with school planning in Reading and Numeracy.

HARMONY DAY- STRENGTH IN HARMONY Tomorrow is Harmony Day. Please wear orange to help celebrate Australian diversity.

Harmony Day is a day for all Australians to embrace cultural diversity and to share what we have in

common.

Harmony Day is a community celebration. Since 1999, more than 60 000 Harmony Day events have

been staged in childcare centres, schools, community groups, churches, businesses and federal,

state and local government agencies across Australia.

Multiculturalism is in Australia’s national interest and speaks to fairness and inclusion – it enhances

respect and support for cultural, religious and linguistic diversity.

Our cultural diversity is one of our greatest strengths and is at the heart of who we are. Multicultural Australia is an integral part of our nation’s history and character.

FOCUS OF THE WEEK

‘BE SAFE’

BRISBANIA PUBLIC

SCHOOL

1 High Street Saratoga NSW 2251

Phone: (02) 4369 1246

Fax: (02) 4363 1068

Email: brisbania- p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

School Web Page: www.brisbania-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

WE ARE NOW ON FACEBOOK !

School Security: 1300 880 021

Skoolbag: www.skoolbag.com.au

We also have a school App which you can download for free at iTunes or Google play. Just search for Brisbania PS

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CRAZY HAIR DAY The SRC are holding a Crazy Hair Day on Tuesday 28 March to raise funds for The World’s Greatest Shave. Please bring in a GOLD COIN and wear your hair CRAZY!

CROSS COUNTRY The annual Cross Country for 8-12 year olds will be held at the Davistown Waterfront on Friday, 31 March weather permitting. There will be a change in area due to construction of toilets at our regular location. We will be closer to “The Pirate Park” end this year as there are toilet facilities there.

WUSHKA

Learning to Read ….Wushka

Brisbania’s students and staff are now trialling Wushka until the end of the holidays.

Wushka is a cloud-based levelled reading program. The program encourages students to engage with fiction and non-fiction texts on interactive devices. All school readers are levelled from Level 1 through to Level 31+ and have been developed using decades of educational experience. Recognising that the best outcomes are achieved when students continue reading at home, your child can use their login details received at school, to complete readers set by their classroom teacher, at home. Visit wushka.com.au to login and start reading!

VOLUNTEERS IN 2017- WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECK All volunteers are requested to submit the Appendix 5 Working with Children Check- Declaration for volunteers and contractors and proof of identity to 100 points as listed in Appendix 6- eg Licence and Passport/ Birth Certificate, prior to assisting in the canteen, uniform shop, classrooms, coaching teams. Thank you in advance for supplying the documents to the office. When volunteering, we also need volunteers to sign in and out each time they enter and exit the premises.

Have a good week. Annette Parrey PRINCIPAL’S GOLD BOOK

Henry Milly Marley Jacqueline Oliver Charlotte Harlan Lahnia Elizabeth Matthew Finn Josephine Lochlan Braeden Sienna Lacey Claudia Kobi Delaney Holly Ellie Bailey Jarvis Jake Jack Marli Ben

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Harmony Day – 2017– Strength in Harmony

Harmony Day celebrates Australia’s cultural diversity. It’s about inclusiveness, respect and a

sense of belonging for everyone.

It is a day for all Australians to embrace cultural diversity and to share what we have in

common. The central message for Harmony Day is that ‘everyone belongs’, reinforcing the importance of

inclusiveness to all Australians.

Celebrating it at BPS On Tuesday, 21 March all students and staff are invited to wear ORANGE on this day. Students will

participate in activities during the day. The canteen will have a special menu for recess.

TERMS 2 - 2017 DATES

Tuesday 21 March Harmony Day

Tuesday 28 March Crazy Hair Day

Friday 31 March School Cross Country Year 3 - Year 6 @ Davistown Waterfront

Wednesday 5 April Assembly of Excellence State PSSA Swimming SOPAC Homebush

Thursday 6 April State PSSA Swimming - SOPAC Homebush School Disco Cost $4 K - Y2 @ 4:30pm - 5:30pm Y3 - Y6 @ 5:45pm - 7pm

Friday 7 April Last day of Term 1 Easter Hat Parade Kinder - Year 2 & Bunny visit

Wednesday 26th April Term 2 Resumes for Students

CRAZY HAIR/HAT DAY - TUESDAY 28TH MARCH

Our Student Representative Council (SRC) have decided this terms charity is World's Greatest Shave.

Brisbania PS will be having a CRAZY HAIR/HAT DAY on Tuesday 28th March. Students will be allowed to wear their hair in a crazy way or wear a crazy hat in support of this charity. A gold coin donation is required if you child is participating. We thank you in advance for your support.

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WEEK 11 Monday - R Cattley Tuesday - K Dobell W’day - A Russell

Th’rsday - S Purtell Friday - E Brock

CANTEEN

ROSTER

Week 9 Mon - T Ukalovic Tues - T Sansom Wed - U Brozka

Thur - M Turnbull Frid - S O’Donnell/

K Hourn

Week 10 Mon - VACANT Tues - VACANT

Wed - J Trigg Thu - R Cattley Frid - M Martin

Thanks to all those families who have already sent in donations for our Easter Raffle baskets. If you haven't sent in your donations yet, please do so by Friday 31 March. We will be sending home a book of raffle tickets with the youngest child in each family this week. Please sell the tickets to friends, family and neighbours - there will be lots of lovely baskets full of Easter goodies to be won!

The canteen will be selling special recess treats tomorrow to celebrate Harmony Day. A massive thank you to Paula Egan, our amazing canteen manager, for preparing these treats even though she is very busy! Paula is still looking for more volunteers to help her in the canteen. You don't need any experience and any help would be most gratefully received.

Two of our uniform shop volunteers have resigned due to work commitments. We desperately need some more volunteers to help in the uniform shop on Friday mornings from 8.30-10am. Unfortunately if we don't get some more volunteers by the end of the term we will have to reduce our opening times next term. With the volunteers we currently have, we will not be able to open the uniform shop every week - we may only be able to open once a month. Please contact Julie Hale on 0407885303 if you can help!

Save the date! We will be holding a Family Bingo night at the Davo at 6pm on Friday 16th June. It promises to be a great night out for the whole family and will help us raise funds for our school. More details to follow closer to the time.

P&C President Suzanne Petrie Sapsford P&C President

CANTEEN NEWS

Brisbania Public

School

Uniform Shop

Opening Hours:

Every Friday

Morning

8:30am - 9:00am

Uniform

Coordinator:

Julie Hale

0407 885 303

AUSSIE Mini Pie with tomato or BBQ sauce

$1.50

U.S.A. Mini Hog Dog with tomato or BBQ sauce

$1.00

ITALIA Spaghetti Cups $1.00

Mini Pizzas $1.00

‘Cup Cakes’ 50c

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STAGE 1 AWARDS Hana, Duke, Lila, Archer,

Isabella, George, Isla, Aiden, Lacey, Blake, Tobias, Phoenix,

Layla, Mathew, Riley, Millie, Peyton, Jett, Lahnia, Jack,

Leila, Luka

STAGE 1 LEADERS Bella & Phoebe

What’s happening in our library? Each week in the library there will be either a competition, quiz or interesting facts about people,

places or things for you to enter or read. Line up on the mezzanine and get a library voucher to visit the library

at second half lunch.

Last week’s Dr Seuss answers were- Where the Wild Things Are,

The Lorax, Guess How Much I Love You, The Wizard of Oz, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Very Hungry Caterpillar!

CONGRATULATIONS to Charli who had the first most correct answers drawn out.

THIS WEEK: All about Ireland. (because it was St

Patrick’s Day)

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The Eggcellent P & C Easter Basket

Raffle is back for 2017

We will be holding the 'Easter Chocolate Basket Raffle' again this year to support our ongoing fundraising for the school.

It would be greatly appreciated if every family is able to donate chocolate eggs, chocolates or Easter craft activities to contribute

to the baskets. If you are able to donate items, please send them to the school

office as soon as possible. If you have any baskets that you can donate for the raffle we would

love to have these too. The Easter Raffle will be drawn on Friday 7th April 2017 following

the Easter Hat Parade . Thank you, Andrea Young, Brisbania P&C, 0458 003 651

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INTRODUCING TO YOU! Brisbania Public School

Wellbeing Policy, 2017

HEALTH CARE POLICY & PROCEDURES

Health care policy and procedures at Brisbania Public School are informed by DoE policy.

Parents have the primary responsibility for the health of the children. School staff members have a duty to keep

students safe while they are at school or are involved in school activities. The school encourages parents to

provide information about their children’s health both on enrolment and on an ongoing basis. When students need

help with health issues at school, parents may need to consult with their medical practitioner about the implications

of the child’s health condition for their schooling. Parents need to convey relevant information from the medical

practitioner to the school.

The school will arrange support for students to have their health needs met so that they can participate in their

learning program. Refusing enrolment or continued access to education because of a need to administer

prescribed medication and/or health care procedures other than in circumstances where there is unresolvable

safety issues would be to unlawfully discriminate against the student on the ground of his or her disability. When

student’s health support needs are more complex or sensitive, a written individual health care plan is required.

Parents need to provide prescribed medication or other consumables as agreed with the school before the plan

commences.

An Individual Health Care plan must be developed for:

severe asthma, type 1 diabetes, epilepsy and anaphylaxis

any student who is diagnosed as being at risk of an emergency reaction

any student who requires the administration of health care procedures

Care of Students Who Become Unwell at School

Students who become unwell at school are best transferred to the care of a parent or caregiver. The aim of care

provided at school for such students is to make them comfortable in the interim. The school has identified staff

members who will care for students who are unwell and the procedures that are to be followed. Parents are asked

to ensure their contact numbers and emergency contact numbers are always current to assist the school in

contacting them immediately if needed.

Administering Prescribed Medication at School

Parents are asked to liaise with their doctor to request prescribed medication that can be administered outside

school hours if possible. When a medical practitioner has prescribed medication that must be administered during

the school day, parents are responsible for:

bringing this need to the attention of the school

ensuring that the information is updated if it changes

providing the clearly labelled medication and instructions from the doctor for administration

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