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Wednesday, 4 November 2020

Term 4 Week 4

PBL “Reach for the Stars” Badges and Awards Congratulations to the following students who have received our Reach for the Stars Gold Star Award and badge: K-2 Lola (2AM) for always being a hard working and responsible student in the classroom and the playground. 3-6 Indiana (4D) for being a caring, respectful and kind student to her peers and teachers.

UNSW ICAS Competitions GNPS is very proud of the excellent results achieved by students participating in the UNSW ICAS Digital Technologies and Spelling competitions. Digital Technologies In the Digital Technologies competition one distinction, two credits and two merits were achieved. Congratulations to the following students: Distinctions Abdurrehman Credits Kurt and Daniel Merits Addison and Sophie

Spelling In the Spelling competition three credits and one merit were achieved. Congratulations to the following students: Credits Mason, Sophie and Kurt. Merit Mason

Dates To Remember Thurs 5 Nov Year 3 and 4 NRL GALA Day

Debate against Hanwood PS P&C Meeting- Griffith Leagues Club 7.15

Tues 10 Nov NAIDOC Week Assembly and Rotations Kinder Orientation

Fri 13 Nov Indigenous Games

Wednesday, 4 November 2020 Term 4 Week 4

NAIDOC Week Celebrations

NAIDOC Week is usually held in July, however due to COVID-19, the celebrations were postponed to 8th-15th November this year. GNPS will be celebrating NAIDOC Week next week. We have planned the following activities for the week: Tuesday 10 November:

K-6 NAIDOC Week Assembly 9.15 am

Tuesday 10 November:

K-6 students rotating around different

activities with a buddy class.

Friday 13 November:

Classes participating in Traditional

Indigenous games.

We will be following DoE Guidelines with these activities, so unfortunately, parents, carers and community members will not be able to attend.

K- 6 Class Awards - Term 4 Week 4

KP: Evelyn, Thea, Xavier KA: Lucas, Hussain, Ava KS: Hunter, Destiny, Hudson KC: Hugo, Zoe, Rylee 1U: Lylah, Elijah, Lottie 1D: Nethum, Cowen Wynne, 1R: Livai, Yahya, Ariya 2H: Willow, Elijah, Ben 2C: Winston, Mikayla, Kartik 2AM: Charlie, Harmony, Jordan Italian: Kiralee, Chelsea 3P: Montana, Xavier 3M: Shikib, Chloe 4D: Dakota, Jashan 4R: Nicole, Zephyr 4M: Shoaib, Milly 5G: Bray, Ruby 5W: Aidan, Abbey 6A: Julia, Joshua 6B: Mikaere, Fahima Italian: Savo, Liam

Bands Information 2021 Due to COVID restrictions, we will not be holding a Band Information Session this year. If parents are interested in securing a 2021 band position for their child please email lachlan.pendlebury@det.nsw.edu to express your interest. Mr P will send you some information to read as well as a form to fill out. Thank you, Mr Pendlebury/Mrs Remke

Wednesday, 4 November 2020 Term 4 Week 4

PBL Expectation Focus This week’s focus for PBL is:

“Think Before You Act” Our PBL focus for this fortnight is “Think Before You Act”. Before taking action, you should ask yourself, “How will my actions impact on other people’s feelings?” We all need to take time to think before we act.

PBL Reward Tickets

Congratulations to the following students who were drawn out of the PBL Reward Ticket box for following school expectations;

Isaac

Greta

Andrea

Ruby

Rueben

SRC The next fundraiser for the SRC will be selling gift cards with art from students at GNPS. The cost is $2 per card or 6 for $10. Order forms will be sent home tomorrow.

Kindergarten Orientation 2021 Our first Kindergarten Orientation sessions went very well. We are looking forward to seeing everyone again next week. Our final date for Kindergarten Orientation is: Week 5: Tuesday 10 November 2020 The start times are staggered due to COVID-19 guidelines. Please refer to your Kindergarten Package with the time your child is expected to start and finish.

P&C Meeting Our next P&C meeting will be held this Thursday 5 November at the Griffith Leagues Club at 7.15pm, due to DoE guidelines. Thanking you Cate Yates P&C President

Parking Around the School When parking around the school please make sure you are parking, dropping off and picking up in the correct parking zones. Please do not park in or across private driveways. The school has received several complaints about this occurring. We appreciate your support in keeping our students safe.

Wednesday, 4 November 2020 Term 4 Week 4

Enviro Mentors Last week we had a visit from Elizabeth from Enviro mentors. She taught us about compost and worm farms. She showed us her very own worm farm with red wriggler worms. We learnt about foods that could kill worms if we put them in the worm farm and learnt what worms love to eat. They love a good mixture of wet and squishy and dry and crunchy materials for example egg shells, shredded paper, fruit (try to avoid citrus so there is not too much acid), vegetable scraps, leaves, grass and more. You need to have 1000 worms to successfully start a worm farm. We were able to make our own compost and the winning team had the best ratio of wet and crunchy. If you have a compost or worm farm you need to make sure you don't leave it in the sun as they will get too hot and damaged. As we have been learning about sustainability this visit was very useful to learn how we can save the planet and our resources. We really enjoyed the hands-on experiences and thank Elizabeth for a great presentation. 4D

STEM Academy Last Wednesday, Emma King and Kurt Roberts from Year 6 started participating in an International STEM Academy called ‘ANZSEA’ (Australia New Zealand STEM Education Alliance). There are 5 students from NSW, 5 from QLD, 5 from NT and 5 from NZ. Each week, Emma and Kurt will be attending a ‘Virtual Online School’ and together with their peers they will be completing a range of STEM projects and tasks. The first lesson was a chance for students to meet their peers and they learnt to navigate the different parts of the online campus.