principal`s message - Carlingford Public School

Newsletter 16
03 June 2014
PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE
DIARY DATES
PARRAMATTA CITY COUNCIL
RESPONSE
Parramatta City Council has responded to
the letter I sent to them in April regarding
the school’s disappointment at their action
regarding traffic management and
pedestrian safety surrounding our school.
The main points they addressed are as
follows:
 Traffic & parking conditions
around CPS be reviewed after
Keeler St development is
occupied
 Trees in Keeler St be trimmed to
improve pedestrian visibility.
 ‘No Stopping’ signs erected on
both sides of Keeler St walkway
through to school
 ‘No Stopping’ signs erected either
side of pre – school driveway
 PCC follow up with RMS re
crossing supervisor for Rickard St
& Flashing Lights
 Our request for ‘bus bay’ in front
of Library, was rejected by
council as it is on school property
– suggested we approach DEC
On behalf of our students & community, I
will continue to push for initiatives that
maximise the safety of pedestrians and
motorists surrounding our school.
2014 -Term 2
Week 6
Tues, June 3 - Multicultural Public
Speaking Competition Zone Final
Wed, June 4 – UNSW Science
Competition, Stage 1 Dance, SRC wear
your PJ’s to school day
Thurs, June 5 – Kindy Open Morning,
Paul Wade Cup
Fri, June 6 – PSSA
Week 7
Mon, June 9 – Queens Birthday Public
Holiday
Tues, June 10 – K- 6 Commonwealth
Games Day
Wed, June 11 – S1 Dance, Sydney West
Cross Country
Thurs, June 12 – CPS Athletics Carnival
Fri, June 13 – PSSA,
Week 8
Mon, June 16 – UNSW Writing
Competition, P & C Meeting
Tues, May 17 – UNSW Spelling
Competition, Kindy Farm Excursion,
Stage 2 Stars & Planets Incursion
Wed, May 18 – CPS Photo Day,
S1 Dance
Thurs, June 19 – CPS Athletics Carnival
(back up date)
Fri, June 20 – PSSA, Reports home
MULTICULTURAL PUBLIC SPEAKING
COMPETITION
The final of our ‘Multicultural Public Speaking
Competition’ was held last week.
Congratulations to the following stage finalists on
their fantastic speeches.
STAGE 2
Joe Boyd
Romie Makin
Eric Pan
Ariane Fouracre
Thinaya Jayasinghe
Lauren Pendlebury
Arwen Trezona
STAGE 3
Skye Brownlow
Elen Davies
Brian Guan
Elka Makin
Vaishy Jeyananthan
Kellie Omura - Davis
Samantha Caldwell
Alanah Pendlebury
Diya Goswami
Melissa Sepulveda
Tanisha Hall
Isaac Protogeros
Rishabh Mukherji
Maleeha Mohammad
Naved
Congratulations to Lauren Pendlebury and Eric Pan
(Stage 2), Elka Makin and Rishabh Mukherji
(Stage 3) who were declared the winners and will
compete in the zone finals to be held at our school
today.
KINDERGARTEN 2015 - OPEN MORNING
Our Open Day for 2015 Kindergarten families is
this Thursday, June 5 commencing at 9:45am. The
morning will consist of a ‘Welcome to Carlingford
Public School’ address in the hall, a tour of the
school, a visit to the Kindergarten rooms and
conclude with morning tea.
We look forward to meeting our new students and
their families.
Please inform any potential 2015 Kindergarten
families of our Open Day and our wonderful
school.
(800m, 200m, 100m and relays), although long
jump heats will also take place. High jump and
shot put heats and finals (as well as long jump
finals) will take place at school over the remainder
of Term 2.
K – 2 students will compete in 50 & 70 metre
running races and will also take part in some great
tabloid activities.
Students are asked to wear their sports uniform
with their house badge attached to their sleeve or
alternatively a green red or blue shirt may be worn.
SRC PYJAMA DAY
The SRC have declared tomorrow, Wednesday,
June 4 ‘Wear your Pyjamas to School Day’. We
are asking students to donate a gold coin which
will go to Stewart House. Unfortunately, due to
safety reasons students are not permitted to wear
slippers to school – joggers must be worn.
UNSW SCIENCE COMPETITION
This Wednesday, June 4, the UNSW Science
Competition will take place. Good luck to the 80
students from Years 2 – 6 who have nominated to
sit this test. Hopefully wearing their pyjamas won’t
affect their performance.
COMMONWEALTH GAMES DAY AT CPS
2014 is the year of the XX Commonwealth
Games to be held in Glasgow.
On Tuesday, June 10, Carlingford Public School
will be holding our own version of the
Commonwealth Games, although on a slightly
smaller scale and budget than Glasgow.
Our students will participate in an opening and
closing ceremony, be divided into teams
representing commonwealth countries from
around the world, compete in a variety of events
and participate in medal presentations.
Opening Ceremony - 9:40am – 10:10am
K-2 Olympic Events – 10:10am – 11:25am
Yrs 3-6 Olympic Events – 11:45am – 1:15pm
Closing Ceremony – 2:00pm – 2:30pm
Students are to wear their Sports Uniform for
Olympic day. Parents are most welcome to join
us.
ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
BOYS SOCCER KNOCKOUT
Our K–6 Athletics Carnival will be held at
Kingsdene Oval on Thursday, June 12.
Primary students, (and Yr 2 students turning 8 in
2014) will predominantly compete in track events
Last week, our boys Soccer team ‘finished second’
against Hambledon PS in Round 1 of the NSW
PSSA State Knockout. The boys had a great day,
but were outclassed on the day.
Zheyu, Pui Shing Sato Hui, Yicheng Shen, Portia,
Brian Guan, Skye Brownlow, Melissa Sepulveda.
BOOK NOOK
PAUL WADE CUP
This Thursday, our Senior Soccer team will be
competing at the Paul Wade Cup at Ted Horwood
Reserve with games commencing at 9:00am.
Parents are most welcome to cheer our team along.
REPORTS / PARENT / TEACHER
INTERVIEWS
Teachers are presently assessing their students and
writing reports for Semester One.
Reports will be sent home on Friday, June 20.
Parent / Teacher interviews will be held during the
last week of term, 23-27 June. Interview slips will
be sent home next Wednesday.
PARENT / TEACHER INTERVIEWS –
REQUIRING INTERPRETERS
Interviews for parents requiring an interpreter will
be held on Friday, June 27. Professional
interpreters will be present at school to assist
parents who need assistance understanding
English.
If you require an interpreter, please complete the
form included in last week’s newsletter and return
to Mrs Maguire by Friday, June 6. Please note that
these interviews will be held during school hours
and an interpreter can be arranged for any
language.
Neil Hinton
Principal
STUDENT OF THE WEEK
Vaishy Jeyananthan for her helpful and positive
citizenship
MERIT CERTIFICATES
Amy Watson, Deborah Shen, Kaia Olsen, Sherine
Pow, Tyler Boyd, Jessica Schmitt, Alessia
Sultana, Adrian Lee, Josh Dillon, Grace Baker,
Sofia Beltran Cattanach, Enoch He, Alisa
O’Donnell, Sophia Younger, Zaynab El Ramlawi,
Garry Lui, Bianca Yue, Darren Nguyen, Jaykob
McKinnon, Daniel Cho, Rashin Sadr, Charlene
Kaoutal, Quinn Stephens, Jacinta Ballarino, Ella
Towers, Aditya Budihal, Romie Makin, Zorin
BOOK CLUB
Issue 4 Book Club flyers were distributed by
class teachers last Thursday 29th May and are
handed out one week prior to collection. So that
means collection day for Issue 4 will be on
Thursday 5th June, 2014.
Money will only be collected on this date.
Students are to take their book club order in an
envelope directly to the Library on the Thursday.
Please use an envelope with name, class, total and
BOOK CLUB clearly marked on the front.
If you have any concerns regarding how to
complete the order form or methods of payment,
please don’t hesitate to see me in the library.
There are two issues per term for the duration of
the year. As soon as the orders are returned, they
will be sent home with the students.
OVERDUE BOOKS
Just a friendly reminder that there a quite a few
students who borrowed earlier this term but have
not returned their library books. If one week is
not long enough to complete a book simply return
the book on your library day and reborrow it for
another week. Otherwise, please return the book
as soon as possible as they are now overdue and
other students could be waiting to borrow them.
Overdue notices will be going home over the
coming week.
Helena Castelletti
Teacher Librarian
PSSA
Junior
Netball
Blue
Junior
Netball
Maroon
Senior
Netball
Blue
Senior
Netball
Maroon
Junior
Soccer
Blue
vs Dundas 1
10-0
Win
vs Burnside 1
0-14
Loss
vs Dundas 1
11-5
Win
vs Burnside 1
4-9
Loss
BYE
Junior
Soccer
Maroon
Senior
Soccer
Blue
Senior
Soccer
Maroon
Junior
AFL
Senior
AFL
vs Ermington
West
1-2
Loss
BYE
vs Ermington
West
1-0
Win
vs Parramatta
61-0
Win
vs Parramatta
26-24
Win
SRC PYJAMA DAY
Tue
10/06
Thur
12/06
Fri
13/06
V Monteiro, K Catt
ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
M Olsen, L Kruger, D Panetta, K Catt
Kim Catt
Canteen Manager - 0411 298 395
UNIFORM SHOP
Roster:
Thursday
5th June
Thursday
12th June
Kate Dillon
Leaine Chesterfield
Julia Li
Michelle Kemp
Yasmin Moon
0412 466 643
It is a great idea for all the children of
Carlingford Public School to wear their pyjamas
to school this Wednesday.
Firstly, when you wake up all you have to do
is roll out of bed and you are almost ready
because you are dressed for the day. Just put
on your sneakers and Mum won’t have to nag
you to get dressed.
Secondly, it will be lots of fun to come to
school wearing your pyjamas.
Thirdly, by bringing a gold coin donation for
wearing your pyjamas to school, you will be
helping other people. The money raised will go to
support Stewart House, a charity that helps
children.
Now you have three excellent reasons for
wearing your pyjamas to school on Wednesday
the 4th of June, so join in the fun.
CANTEEN NEWS
ROSTER
Fri
06/06
J Mackres, K Keats, K Catt,
HELP NEEDED
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Too sick for school?
As the cold weather hits, so do the winter bugs.
It’s often hard to know whether to send your child
to school or let them stay home to recover,
especially when that means an adult cancelling
work. For safety's sake, if your child seems
unwell you should always keep them home from
school and seek medical advice.
School A to Z and the NSW Health have created
an at-a-glance chart to help answer your questions
about common childhood illness and how long
sick kids need to miss school. Find it by typing
this link into your web browser
www.bit.ly/1hytn2E
Mental maths strategies
We teach children a range of different strategies
to add and subtract numbers. By showing them
several methods for solving maths questions,
we’re helping them to look for patterns. All this
builds a good sense of “number” which means
they understand the relationships between
different numbers and why different ways to add
and subtract work well. The goal is that your
child will understand many ways to approach a
maths problem and will be able to choose a way
that makes the most sense to them. School A to Z
has a lot of resources, including help sheets on
mental maths strategies, here :
www.bit.ly/JkiUsY