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Tuesday 20 March, 2018 Term 1 - Week 8
DIARY DATES
Week 8
Mon March 19 Stage 3 Incursion
Tues March 20 Year 2 Local Park Excursion
Wed March 21 Harmony Day
Thurs March 22 3S Parent Information Evening in class-room - 5.30pm
Friday March 23 Absent Photo Day
SRC Training Day
Boy’s Knockout Cricket Competition
Week 9
Thurs March 29 Easter Service - 9.10 - 10.10am All Saints Anglican Church
Easter Hat Parade - At School 11.45am
Friday March 30 GOOD FRIDAY - Public Holiday
Week 10
Monday April 2 EASTER MONDAY - Public Holiday
Tuesday April 3 School resumes after Easter break
Week 11
Monday April 9 - 13 Parent Teacher Interviews
Wednesday April 11 P&C Meeting - 7.35pm - Library
Friday April 13 LAST DAY OF TERM 1
The Silent Volunteers
Over the last 7 weeks we have been privileged enough to have a large group of parents cover over 500 books for our students. This is an amazing effort and it should not go unrecognised. Thank you so much to the following par-ents: Albina Bradford, Alex Arcan, Alice Guo, Annmaree Baines, Carolyn Jensen, Carly To, Charles Lo, Clare Friend, Daria Rzasa, Eve Dirago, Farah Jan, Fern Ong, Gai Smith, Gordon Ninness, Janet Kwan, Jenni Flannagan, Josie Pellicane, Karen Gullotto, Kelli Ann Knox, Julien Ronfeldt, Laura Creelman, Libby Wilkes, May Ho, Melissa Schmidt, Merryn Gib-bons, Michelle Zhang, Minami Maxwell, Natalie Col-lins, Nisha Ray, Peter Daniells, Reinis Grauds, Rie Gove, Sasha Moore, Satomi Lowe, Shana Pathmathe-va, Tanya Rintoul, Tara Bennett, Ulrike Dunn and Rosie Cooper.
New Principal appointment
Following Ms Joanne Wilcher’s appointment to Murray Farm Public School, the process for selecting a new per-manent principal as now begun. The process is one of merit selection, led by the Director of the Ku-ring-gai Net-work of Schools, Sue Lowe. A four-person panel led by Ms Lowe will be responsible for writing the job criteria and position information. The job advertisement has appeared through various job feeds and eligible candidates will ap-ply. Following a shortlisting and interview process, a new principal will be selected ready to commence permanently at Epping North PS in Term 2.
VRP Class Awards
KB - Hamish; KG - Evie L; 1 K/C - James B, Ethan; 1S -
Micah; 1N - Ela; 2B - Annabel, Sophie T, Aidan, Valarie; 2J -
Connor; 3/2W - Marnie, Chloe P; 3S - Mia G, Zoe; 4/3B -
Anna R; 4/3R - Aurora, Jamie, Luke; 4D - Alice; 5B - Grace;
5T - Aidan, Angelina; 6/5L - Mia, Ellisa; 6B - Chloe G, Kitty.
PRINCIPALS MESSAGE
PBL - Focus of the Week
We are learning to be responsible by wearing our school hat.
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NAPLAN Online In order to be prepared for NAPLAN online, student from Year 3 and Year 5 will be participating this week in a trial online assessment. The is only a practice test, the purpose of this assessment is test to determine logistics and to en-sure our procedures are in place. There shall be no assessment data collected. Volunteers Needed – Easter Hat Parade BBQ Volunteers are desperately needed for the Easter Hat Parade on Thursday 29th. If you are able to help please email [email protected]
Congratulations to KG & 5T for sharing their learning at assembly this week.
Alex Montgomery Acting Principal
SCHOOL NEWS ICAS No more payments for ICAS tests will be taken. Nude Food - Every Day! Beginning Week 8 (20th March), Epping North Public School will begin encouraging Nude Food at school every day, particularly on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday when the canteen is closed. To support this initiative the Environment Monitors would like your children bring in “Nude Food”. Nude food is food that has no plastic wrappers or packaging. Consider packing sandwiches, fresh fruit and vegetables etc in reusable containers. Please make sure all plastic containers are labelled with your child’s name and class, lids and bases. Also consider purchasing larger bulk foods and sending smaller portions for recess and lunch. Remember that soft plastic packaging can be recycled at Coles and Woolworths stores along with plastic bags. It unfortunately can not be recycled here at school. The REDcycle Program is a supermarket-based recycling program that invites consumers to gather together all their empty bread, cereal and frozen food bags, plastic and reusable shopping bags and other flexible plastic packaging and take them to their nearest Coles and Woolies drop off points. The Environment committee are extremely concerned about the environment and are doing this so we can help sustain
the Earth and keep Epping North clean.
To encourage and reward nude food the Environment Monitors have voted to give children a green VRP if children bring
a lunch box that contains no plastic wrappers. These VRP’s go towards a class prize K-2, and 3-6 each week in assem-
bly. VRPs will also be awarded in the playground for recycling clean brown paper bags on canteen days.
Rubbish affects marine life, such as turtles and native animals that are around our school such as possums and birds. Rubbish takes up most of the Earth’s landfills, so participating in Nude Food will help. We look forward to your anticipated support. Kind regards, K-6 Environment Monitors and Mrs Colburt
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Which soft plastics does the REDcycle Program collect? The rule of thumb is: if the plastic can be scrunched up into a ball, it can be placed in a REDcycle collection bin. Examples of acceptable plastics include: bread, pasta and rice bags, cereal box liners, biscuit packets, frozen food bags, ice cream wrappers, squeeze pouches, plastic sachets, bubble wrap, cling wrap, chocolate and muesli bar wrappers, silver-lined chip and cracker packets, confectionery bags, fresh produce bags, netting citrus bags, polypro-pylene bags, plastic film from grocery items like nappies and toilet paper, courier satchels, newspaper and magazine wrap, sturdy pet food bags, plas-tic bags from boutique/department stores, large sheets of plastic that furniture comes wrapped in (cut into pieces the size of an A3 sheet of paper first) If you're curious about whether an item can/can't be recycled using RED-cycle, and it doesn't appear on the list above or in its FAQs, ask them in an email.
COLES SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS
The school is participating in the Coles Sports for Schools give away. If you shop at Coles, please collect the vouchers and send them with your children to be placed in the collection box situated in the office foyer. Thank you very much for your support. Micheal Taylor Assistant Principal
BAND NEWS Important Dates for your diary Thursday 29 March Easter Parade at 11:45am – Concert Band to perform TBA Badging Ceremony – Senior Band to perform TBA ANZAC Day Service – Senior Band Year 6 trumpet players Saturday 23 June ENPS Band Festival (formerly known as Band Camp) will be held on the school grounds from 8am-7pm The following families are rostered on for the few weeks of band: Training Band Wed 21 Mar – Jensen family Wed 28 Mar – Davis family Wed 4 Apr – Gullotto family Concert Band Thu 22 Mar – Poulton/Zopf family Tue 27 Mar – Marshall/Bonney family Thu 29 Mar – Klarich family Tue 3 Apr – Thien/Wee family Thu 5 Apr – Crowley family Tue 10 Apr – Grauds family Senior Band Fri 23 Mar – Rzasa/Watson family Mon 26 Mar – Melham family Fri 30 Mar – GOOD FRIDAY Mon 2 Apr – EASTER MONDAY Fri 6 Apr – Shandil/Pandaram family Mon 9 Apr – Elsmore family Fri 13 Apr – Wood family Glenn Thomson, Band Convenor 0438 295 019 email: [email protected]; web site: https://sites.google.com/site/eppingnorthpublicschoolband/
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MODERN JAZZ & BOYS’ DANCE NEWS
MODERN JAZZ AND BOYS DANCE
We are looking for parents to join the Dance Committee, we meet 5 or 6 times per year to discuss matters related to the dance program. If you are interested in joining or would like more information please contact [email protected] or Carla on 0402 466 672. Parent Supervision Roster: WEEK 8
Monday 19/3/18 – Year 1 Girls – Atousa Yaghoubi
Monday 19/3/18 – Year 3 Girls – Vanessa Whyte
Tuesday 20/3/18 – Kindy Girls – Eve Dirago
Tuesday 20/3/18 – Years 2 Girls – Carly To
Wednesday 21/3/18 – Year 5/6 Boys – Olga Avramenko
Wednesday 21/3/18 – Years 5 Girls – Meredith Poole
Thursday 22/3/18 – Years 6 Girls – Qiqing Wang
Thursday 22/3/18 – Year K/1 Boys – Andrea Austin
Friday 23/3/18 – Year 4 Girls– Nathan Purvis
Friday 23/3/18 – Years 2/3/4 Boys – Sara McCracken
WEEK 7
Monday 26/3/18 – Year 1 Girls – Kathryn Lawrenson
Monday 26/3/18 – Year 3 Girls – Qiqing Wang
Tuesday 27/3/18 – Kindy Girls – Kathy Fahim
Tuesday 27/3/18 – Years 2 Girls – Melissa Schmidt
Wednesday 28/3/18 – Year 5/6 Boys – Lisa Brown
Wednesday 28/3/18 – Years 5 Girls – Michelle Wong
Thursday 29/3/18 – Years 6 Girls – Rebecca Guan
Thursday 29/3/18 – Year K/1 Boys – Andrea Pattihes
Friday 30/3/18 – Year 4 Girls– NO DANCE – GOOD FRIDAY
Friday 30/3/18 – Years 2/3/4 Boys – NO DANCE – GOOD FRIDAY
If you are unable to do the supervision on the day which your family is rostered, please arrange to swap with another parent in your dance group. Please email [email protected] to notify us of the change. Failure to turn up on your rostered day may jeopardise your child’s place in the program. Invoices for Terms 1 and 2 were emailed to all parents over the weekend. Payment is due by 4 April 2018. If you have not received an invoice, please contact the Dance Treasurer, Karen Gravestock at [email protected] as soon as possible. ENPS Dance is open to all children (both boys and girls) in Years K-6. The program is coordinated by parent volunteers, but the classes are taught by external dance teachers. The cost of each class is $8.00. Classes run before school from 8.00am in either the school’s Performing Arts Studio (PAS) or the Library. If your child would like to join our dance pro-gram, or if you require further information about our program, please contact [email protected] or call Car-la 0402 466 672.
UNIFORM SHOP Bookings for WINTER FITTINGS are available on Flexischools. The uniform shop will open for fittings on Thursday 5th April and 12th April from 3.15pm to 8:00pm Kindy parents, please note, Term 2 is the change over from our summer to winter uniform. Take the time to fit your child for winter uniforms now. SECOND HAND & PRE LOVED ITEMS - we are currently looking for any clean, unused or outgrown uniform items with the current school logo. We will be running a second hand/pre loved items sale during the winter fittings shop opening on the 5th and 12th of April. Please leave any items at the uniform shop. We have a lovely group of parents who regularly volunteer to work in the Uniform Shop, if you would like to help out (its super easy) we would love to hear from you. Please email us at [email protected].
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THE UNIFORM SHOP IS OPEN MONDAYS (8.30AM TO 9.30AM) AND THE FIRST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH (8.30AM - 9.30AM).
Full details about the shop, the school uniform and how to lodge orders online through FlexiSchools, can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/enpsuniformshop/home Flexischool Orders are delivered to the classrooms on MONDAY of each week.
ROSTER
Monday 19th Mar Sharlene Cook Emma Willmott
Monday 26th Mar Sharlene Cook Emma Willmott
Monday 2nd April CLOSED - EASTER
Thursday 5th April 3.15pm - 8.00pm (Winter Uniform fitting day, kindy & new students)
Volunteers required please email [email protected]
Saturday 7th April Volunteer Required Volunteer Required
Monday 9th April Volunteer Required Volunteer Required
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OPPORTUNITIES
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