Term 4 Dates 2019

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2019~ Term 4 - Week 1 At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

Term 4 Dates 2019

2019 TERM 4 DATES

Thursday 14 Nov Kindergarten Orientation Day #2

Monday 18 Nov OC Orientation Day

Tuesday 3 Dec Year 6 High School Orientation Day

Thursday 5 Dec Parent Helpers Thank you Morning Tea

Monday 9 Dec Presentation Day – 9:30 Years 3-6 and 11:30 Years K-2

Tuesday 10 Dec Combined Scripture Christmas Assembly Symphonic Showcase

Wednesday 11 Dec Year 6 Farewell – Epping Club Year 2 Olympic Park Excursion

Wed 18 Dec Last Day of Term 4

FROM THE PRINCIPAL: Welcome back for Term 4. I trust students and their families had a great holiday and are now refreshed for another engaging term of high-quality learning. The final term of the year is always an incredibly busy one with many activities already planned and locked-in. I encourage families to keep a close eye on the school calendar included in each newsletter to keep up to date with events around the school. The North Rocks PS staff and I wish every student a very successful, productive and happy term and look forward to celebrating their learning success throughout the term. NEW ADMINISTRATION BUILDING IS OPEN It is with great pleasure that I announce the new North Rocks PS administration building is now operational, and what a won-derful building it is! We are so grateful to NSW School Infrastructure and INTREC for the professional design and finish they have provided within this excellent facility. Our move into the building is progressing very well and we expect to be fully oper-ational in the next few days. As part of the building upgrade, the Department of Education has made extensive security upgrades around the administra-tion building. This includes security cameras and electronic door and gate access. Security cameras are recording all move-ment around the new building as well as access around the gates and front fence 24/7. At present, electronic gates will re-main open from 7:30am – 9:30am then from 2:30pm – 3:30pm and 6:00pm for the car park. Outside of these times visitors will need to buzz the office from the gates to be allowed entry to the front of the school. If you are already in the car park and the gate is closed, it will open automatically as you approach the exit. The pedestrian gate near the bus stop will remain open until cleaners close it after their evening shift and the current system for the rear gate from Don Moore Reserve has not changed.

2019 TERM 4 DATES

Friday 25 Oct P&C GOLF DAY – Muirfield Golf Club

Saturday 26 Oct Celebration Sing Out rehearsal

Sunday 27 Oct Celebration Sing Out – Sydney Town Hall

Tuesday 29 Oct NRPS Walkathon

Tuesday 5 Nov 2020 Kindergarten Information Night – 7:00pm

Wed 6 Nov Kindergarten Orientation Day #1

Saturday 9 Nov TSA Band Camp – Vision Valley

Tuesday 12 Nov Band Demo Concert for Yrs 2-4

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2021 SELECTIVE HIGH SCHOOL APPLICATIONS The Year 7, 2021 Selective High School placement test will be held on Thursday 12

th March 2020. Selective High

Schools are a strategy used by the Department of Education to cater for the learning needs of gifted and talented students transitioning from Year 6 into high school. Application for 2021, Year 7 Enrolment in a Selective High School opened online on Tuesday 8

th October 2019 and close on Monday 11

th November, 2019. Please ensure any

applications are completed online by the closing date as late applications for Year 7 Selective High Schools 2021 will not be accepted. Please use the link below to access the online application process. https://schoolsequella.det.nsw.edu.au/file/eafa8804-3a28-4730-9fc0-0ee49dd90f83/1/SHS-application-information.pdf PLANNING FOR 2020 CLASSES The school’s planning for 2020 is underway and in the coming weeks the teachers and I will be working on formation of classes and school organisation. At this time each year some families move homes or plan changes for the education of their children in the coming year. If your family is relocating and you are aware that your children will not be returning to North Rocks PS in 2020, can you please inform our school office as soon as possible so that we can plan with accurate student numbers? This will help ensure a smooth transition into new classes is possible on day one of the new school year. 2019 MATHS OLYMPIAD COMPETITIONS It is great to announce that North Rocks PS has received official confirmation that the team from 6W has been recognised as the top team in the 2019 Maths Olympiad competitions. This award is shared with a team from Greystanes Public School. In order to achieve this, the students answered 25 questions across 5 separate papers with the winning team having the highest aggregate score of the top ten students. Congratulations to each of the following students who achieved a perfect score of 25/25: Krisha Batra, Joyce Chen, Gina Chen, Emily,Chen, Leah, Choi Mya Wu, Mikayla Young, Eamon Jia, Matthew Cai, George Chen, Jonathan Jin, Anthony Law, Jamie Lee, Justin Liu, Andrew Wang RETURN & EARN PROMOTION The school is very grateful for the community’s support of the Return & Earn Recycling program which has been in operation over the past two weeks. To date, three cubic metres of plastic bottles and aluminium cans have been collected all of which will be processed for recycling with the funds going towards updating the line marking of handball courts in the primary quadrangle. I would like to formally congratulate Eva Galayini of Year 6 for her passion in developing this idea for the school and her team of helpers for their drive in implementing this wonderful initiative. P&C GOLF DAY The P&C Golf Day is all set and ready to go for tomorrow under what is predicted to be a very warm Friday. This P&C fund-raising event has been a wonderful success and a credit to the extraordinary efforts of our P&C President, Mr John Bolwell and his brilliant team of helpers. A huge thanks to the sponsors for their generous support of the P&C and we wish the teams every success during the day. KINDERGARTEN INFORMATION NIGHT & ORIENTATION DAYS The Kindergarten information evening will be held on Tuesday 5

th November from 7:00pm. Dates for Kinder orientation

are – 6th November and 14

th November. The support of the P&C for these days is greatly appreciated, especially with

the uniform shop availability. KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS FOR 2020 I would like to remind parents that enrolments for Kindergarten 2020 are now due to be returned to school. If you live in our school catchment area and have a child who will be starting Kindergarten next year, please visit the front office for an enrolment form. This will ensure the school can maintain places for all our in-area students. I would like to thank those families that have already visited the school and completed their enrolment details. FIVER FOR A FARMER A huge thanks to the entire NRPS community for their generous support of the Fiver For a Farmer program which was held at the end of Term 3. In all, over $4000 was raised which is a wonderful effort and will go towards supporting our good friends at Warialda Public School and the broader Warialda Community. ASIC REVIEW INTO STUDENT BANKING PROGRAMS The Australian Securities Investment Commission (ASIC) recently announced a review of school banking programs and are seeking the public’s view and input about the provision of student banking. If you would like to contribute to the review, please access the short survey prepared by ASIC which can found at the following link; www.consultation.asic.gov.au/financial-capability/review-school-baniking-programs/

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SCHOOL CALENDAR UPDATE Please keep an eye on events for Term 4 in this and future newsletters as dates for many end of year activities have already been published. Mr Rob Ieroianni Principal

The Premier’s Reading challenge is now finished!!!

Congratulations to the 445 students who completed it. What a champion effort! The students who have completed the challenge will receive a certificate later in the year. Well Done North Rocks!!

Mrs Bezkorovainy

Mrs Bodlay Teacher / Librarians and PRC Co-ordinators.

PRINCIPALS AWARD—2019

Rhys TEO 3D

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P&C Report Term 4 Week 1 Welcome back to Term 4. We are kicking off our fundraising with a fabulous day on Fri-day 25th October at Muirfield Golf Course. Thank you to all those school and community members who have registered for the day, and to those who have purchased a ticket for dinner. We appreciate your support. A big thanks to the year 3 parent group who formed a Golf Day Committee and have organised this event. The forecast is sunny and we have plenty planned for afterwards including a raffle, prizes, silent auction and deli-cious buffet dinner. Enjoy your day on the green…. and fingers crossed that someone gets a hole in one and wins that car!! A huge thank you to our sponsors and to the local businesses who have donated prizes for the Golf Day This event could not have gone ahead without you. Please support these businesses: These are our amazing sponsors:

These are our amazing local businesses who have donated prizes:

Have you been collecting sponsors for our school Walk-a-thon on Tuesday 29th Octo-ber? Don’t forget to order a sausage sandwich for lunch too. Kindergarten Information Night is coming up on Tuesday November 5th. Thank you to those who are volunteering to assist on the Orientation Days on Wednesday 6th and Thursday 14th November 9am-11.30am, and then Tuesday 12th November 3.30-6pm, as part of the uniform shop. If you can assist on these days please call the office. If you have any questions or want to know how you can be involved in the P&C then you can email nrpspandc@yahoo.com.au or come along to our next meeting on Tuesday 19th November at 7.30pm in the staffroom. All welcome. See you there! John Bolwell P&C President

Intrec (our major sponsor)

Cameron Langley Real Estate

Stewart Follows Auto-motive

Centricity Finance

McCarthy Salkeld Chartered Accountants

Rawson Dental A&N Design I Talk Travel & Cruises Castle Hill

Cool Change Mechanical Parramatta Motor Hanlow Pty Ltd

KE Academy Giants AFL Hogsbreath Cafe North Parramatta

Parramatta Eels

Northmead Cellars Copper & Cocoa Aquatics Down Under Euro Menswear

Goodfellas Barber Power Golf The Vitamins Shoppe North Rocks

Craig Cook The Natural Butcher North Rocks

Taronga Zoo Officeworks North-mead

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A huge thank you to our Golf Day sponsors and supporters. We appreciate it!

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY

The Rocks Report At NRPS we value RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY, SAFETY, HONESTY