GLENORIE SCHOOL

BULLETIN

Ph: 9652 1237 Fax: 9652 2538

Email: glenorie-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.glenorie-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Term 3, Week 10

26 September 2019

Upcoming Events Date Event

27 Sept Silver/Gold Assembly

27 Sept Bush Fire Wise Assembly

27 Sept Last day Term 3

14 Oct First day for teachers & students Term 4

16 Oct Sydney North Athletics Carnival

21 Oct First Monday 2020 Kindy Orientation

22 Oct 7:00pm P&C Meeting

24 Oct First Thursday 2020 Kindy Orientation

29 Oct Book Swap

4 Nov 10:45am Band demonstration

6 Nov NSW Athletics Carnival

8 Nov 6:30pm Performance Evening

14 Nov Kindy Parent Orientation morning

22 Nov Silver /Gold Assembly

The Partners in Learning parent feedback survey Receive an Ironbark for your child The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement. We really need parents to take part in this survey. At present, only 11% of our parents (growing) have completed the survey. Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements. The survey is conducted entirely online at home or on public computers. The survey typically will take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted between 27 August and 26 October. Participating in the survey is voluntary; however, your responses are very much appreciated. Tell the office when you have completed the survey and they will give you an Ironbark for each of your children.

Survey : https://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/7jqxq

More information about the survey is available at:

http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-

parents

Colour Run What an amazing effort by our Colour Run team last Friday. Even with rain pending, Mrs Solomon and her amazing team of dedicated mums and dads worked so hard to not only run a successful fundraising event for our school but made sure all the students had a wonderful day from start to finish. The day was such a big success that it raised over $18,000 for our students. This money will be used to purchase flexible learning furniture for our library. Congratulations to all the parents (too many to mention) on a great job in organising such a wonderful event.

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Canberra Camp – Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) Students from our school have recently undertaken an education tour of the national capital. Students will be given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy. The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the national capital as part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government contributed funding of $20 per student under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs. The rebate was included in the camp fees charged to your child.

Selective High School ~ 2021 If you would like your child to go to a selective high school in Year 7 in 2021, you will need to apply soon. All applications should be made online through an Internet connection. Applications for selective high school placement in Year 7 in 2021 open on 8 October 2019 and close on 11 November 2019 at https://education.nsw.gov.au/public-schools/selective-high-schools-and-opportunity-classes/year-7

The Selective High School Placement Test is on Thursday 12 March 2020 No late applications will be accepted.

How to help your child deal with online safety issues As parents and carers you know your child better than anyone and have the best opportunity to support and guide them to have safer online experiences. Help your children safely navigate their digital world and educate them to avoid harmful online experiences. Explore websites, games, apps and social media together and set some rules. Your support and guidance can give your children the confidence to make sound decisions online — and ask for help when they need it. Some of our students have been accessing some websites and games that can be harmful. Parents are often unaware that their child has accessed sites through YouTube or Google that are inappropriate and then share this information at school. For tips and advice on helping your child have safe and enjoyable experiences online go to:

https://www.esafety.gov.au/ Another Great term We would like to congratulate all of our students for working hard throughout this term to achieve many of their personal, educational, social, sporting and cultural goals. All of the teachers truly appreciate the “self-drive” you have all developed throughout this term. Thanks, as always, also to our parents for your ongoing support, at home and at school. We couldn’t do the focused job of teaching without your support. Thanks to the staff, teaching and support, for ensuring our core business ALWAYS revolves around teaching and learning. We have many reasons to feel proud. We look forward to achieving even greater things next term.

Enrolments Enrolments have now all been processed for 2020. If you have children who are due to start Kinder in 2020 and you live in Glenorie (no out of areas accepted), please enrol them before the end of this term. You will need to provide a Birth Certificate and Immunisation details and 100 points of residential proof. If you have new neighbours with school-aged children, please ask them to contact the school for enrolment packages. If you plan on moving out of the area at the end of this year (therefore resulting in your children not attending Glenorie PS in 2020), please inform the school in writing before the end of this term. Thanks

Thanks to our Volunteers On behalf of the staff at school, I would like to offer sincere thanks to the many parents who offer their time and effort to make our school a wonderful learning environment for students. Your commitment to the students and school certainly allows us all to work, learn and play in a great environment…you are all truly appreciated!

School Planning… As the year draws to an end, many students and parents will begin to think, “Who will be teaching the children next year?” As with previous years, draft plans will be developed, however, we will not inform you about teachers/classes until 2020; our decision is not based on a conspiracy-theory secret society…it is based on the fact that due to potential enrolments up to and during the holidays, any planned structure may change in the new school year anyway. Thanks for your understanding in this matter.

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Holiday Security As always we seek your support during the school holidays to ensure our school remains secure. If you see any suspicious person(s) in the school grounds, please contact our School Security Unit on 1300 880 021 or Hornsby Police on 96805399. Thanks for caring about your school. Please remind your children that our school is “off-limits” during the holiday period. We will be videoing all intruders.

Thank You! Thank You! Thank You!

Thanks to the many parents who are constantly praising our school. Many of the enrolment enquiries that we receive are as a result of positive feedback from you. Thank you for constantly “singing the song of your school”! Become involved in your child’s education. Enjoy learning! Lyn Pearce Principal

Upcoming Payment Reminders:

Year/Class Event Cost Due date

Years 2-6 (if elected) Swim School $110 ASAP

The Great Book Swap is being held on Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th October (Week 3) of Term 4.

Thank you so much to those families that have donated books for the swap- the books are piling up! We are still in need of books that would suit Stages 2 and 3, so please donate any books to the very worthy

cause.

Don’t forget that on Tuesday and Wednesday of Week 3, students who bring a gold coin donation will get the opportunity to select a book from the donated books which will be displayed in the library for the swap.

A reminder that there are a number of books overdue. Please return all library books as soon as possible.

Rest up over the holidays and keep reading!

Mrs Cook

Term 4 Starting Date… The starting date for term 4 is…

Monday 14th October We hope you all have a relaxing holiday

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P & C News

2nd GPS Warrior Colour Run 2019

We hope everyone enjoyed the 2019 GPS Warrior Colour Run. Below is an article

that will feature in the next issue of the Galston, Glenorie and Hills Rural

Community New magazine. We would like to congratulate all the students for

enjoying the day so much and in their fundraising efforts of $18,000.

We sincerely thank Olivia Solomon, Dennise Williams, Christine Gillies, Hayley

Murray, Madona Habkouk, Libby Cuza, Imelda Zubrycki, Kelly Kearns, Kristin

Stewart, Jennifer Tully, Brenda King and Kate Devaney for their dedication to the

organising committee. These days don’t just happen and without the efforts of these

wonderful mums a day like Friday couldn’t take place.

We would also like to thank all our dedicated business sponsors and a special mention to all the families that

donated lollies or other materials for the day – especially the Camilleri family for the wonderful fruit and bottled

water.

Glenorie Public School’s P & C recently held their 2nd Biannual GPS Warrior Colour run 2019 on Friday 20th

September. It started as a health initiative for the kids and turned into an amazing fun-filled day full of fitness,

challenges, community involvement and very enjoyable for all the community.

All students that registered, gained their fundraising card and an online link and

were asked to go out and gain sponsorship to complete the obstacle course. All

students involved completed the course in record time and were able to have a

laugh and cheer along the way. Not only did they have fun with their peers,

teachers and parents but Glenorie Fire Brigade and Hornsby Police station

joined in giving support to our community and our children. "A wonderful event

to show our commitment and support to our community". Our Local Hornsby

Police Officer joined in the fun with the teachers and parents race. One of our

students said "Its nice to see the police having fun with us”.

This year we surprised the kids with Kyle Jeffery, an NRL player from the North

Sydney Bears, who opened the event and motivated our kids. They were excited

with cheer!!

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All students were challenged to an inflatable obstacle to start the race, then

on to a further 12 obstacles (sack race, hanging noodle structure, fairy garden

with bubbles, hay barrel jump-overs, army net crawls, tractor tyre runs, mud

rolls and water sprayed from a fire truck, rock climbing wall, abseil and not

to mention colour bomb stations!!!! This was the students’ favourite obstacle

"Running through the colours was so much FUN!!"). All the students were

timed and ran to the finish line to cheer

on their house colours. It's not about the

fastest runner but the teamwork of our

house colours working together to get every student to the finish line in the

shortest amount of time. Year 6 students teamed up with Kindergarten to help

get through the course.

The organising committee and all the

parent volunteers did a fantastic job in

providing such a wonderful, fulfilled,

enjoyable and physical event to the

students and we look forward to 2021

where we will get the next opportunity

to do it all again.

We would like to thank our Community Sponsors – Gold - Glenorie RSL Silver - Phoenix Dance Studio, The Hills Bookkeeper, Camerlot Amusements, Belle Property – Carolyn Wheatley, Dooral Early Learning Centre

Bronze - Strive Dance Wear, Leaf it to me Garden Care, Solomon’s Fire Doors, Arbonne, Sweet Pea Skin & Hair.

Canteen Manager Role

We are excited to announce that Shelley Forwood will be joining the Canteen as the new Canteen Manager

commencing Term 4. During the term Shelley will take the time to learn the ropes of the canteen and start to

implement the changes she believes would be positive for the school canteen.

Shelley will step in as the Day Coordinator for each day the canteen is open and communicate to the P&C

everything to do with the Canteen, BUT we still need the support of our wonderful volunteers within our school

community to ensure the canteen runs smoothly for term 4.

Please log into SignUp to select your shifts for term 4 https://signup.com/go/uJXZKmf

Canteen for term 4 will commence on Friday 18th October – an updated price list will be updated on flexischools

for term 4.

Recess and Lunch orders can only be ordered via Flexischools, by cut off time of 9:00am on Mondays and

Fridays.

Before commencing your Canteen shift – Please sign in at the office and then go directly to the canteen and the

coordinator for the day will get you started.

Uniform Shop

The Uniform Shop will be operating every Monday and Thursday 9am to 10am in Term 4.

Any orders placed on Flexischools can be collected at the uniform shop during operation hours or it will be placed

in the teacher’s pigeonhole to be hand delivered to your child. If the item is currently out of stock you will be

contacted and then the delivery will be made once stock has been replenished.

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OOSH News

Please remember to book your Vacation Care spot to ensure you have adequate care for your child during the

school holidays.

From 14th October, the afternoon session fee will increase to $18 for permanent bookings and $25 for casual

bookings.

Just remember that you need to give 1 week’s notice for any changes to permanent bookings. If you have any

questions in relation to this policy, please contact Shannon McCarthy.

Please contact the OOSH on 9652 0074 if you have any questions in relation to the OOSH program and

availabilities for your children to attend.

Glenorie Bakery – Spring Pie Drive – P&C Fundraiser

During spring Glenorie Bakery is offering our school (and other local schools) $5 for each frozen/uncooked large

family pie sold - simply order and pay for it on the website provided and collect your pie from the bakery when

you need it. What a great meal idea while helping our school.

www.glenoriebakery.com.au/shop

Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program

Commonwealth Bank School Banking Program is available on Wednesday mornings 9am

to 9:25am. The rewards for 2019 are based on “Polar Savers”.

If you have any further questions please come to the school banking window and speak to

Hayley or Olivia and they can assist you.

Email: glenoriepandc@gmail.com Facebook: Glenorie Public School P & C Events

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