HURSTVILLE SOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOL Maher Street, Hurstville 2220 9580 2695 9580 8984 [email protected] http://hurstvillesouthps.com.au/ WARATAH NEWS – 2nd April, 2015 Easter Hat Parade Happy Easter Easter Raffle Wrapping the generously donated Easter eggs and Easter gifts by our fantastic parent community. Principal’s Message EASTER HAT PARADE EGGSTRAVAGANZA! Our Easter Hat parade and raffle on Wednesday morning was the best parade ever! There were many imaginatively decorated hats celebrating this time of giving on show at our annual parade. It was so good to see so many parents and grandparents there to watch their children go around with the classmates. The two bunnies, Mr Madden and Mr Mak, did an incredible job for the whole two hours! They connected with the audience through their energy and creativity continuously ‘high-fiving’ appreciative members of the audience and making the receiving of hampers of eggs a great joy! They did this while being wrapped up in a furry white and pink suit on what turned out to be a very humid day- gentlemen, for services to school and country, I have been authorised to immediately award you membership of the ‘White Rabbit Society’. Benefits of membership to this selective group go way back to Lewis Carroll’s era will be revealed in the fullness of time. Well done also to Mrs Dimovska for her leadership and microphone work in keeping the program entertaining and moving along, should you ever get the urge to try another field, spruiking could be the answer, but not yet Hurstville South does not wish to lose you! To the P&C committee and in particular Mrs Scallone, a huge thankyou, I believe that early estimates of the money raised are in excess of $2000! This is a record and given that the eggs were generously donated by our wonderful parent community it is a real show of support as all funds will go directly back into continuing to improve our already great school. There are always huge numbers of parents who come up and help out and I would like to thanks the teams who came in to wrap the baskets as well, we really appreciate your support. Congratulations to all the students for their participation and to our school captains, Tim and Sanjana for their involvement and leadership! INTERRELATE FAMILY SESSIONS On Tuesday night we held our bi-annual human sexuality and relationship program for parent and child. There was a large number of families who took this opportunity to participate in what I believe is a very professional and informative presentation. Thank you to Sally and the team from Interrelate for their services. COMBINDED SCRIPTURE SERVICE Our Christian denominations celebrated the coming Easter with a combined service last Thursday led by Mr Ball and his team from the Anglican Church. Thank you to all of our religious teachers for your support to our students as your teachings, while they come from different faiths and beliefs, we have many of the same values and it is great to be at a school where we get along so well together. SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY Staff will be working hard on Monday20th April, which is our first day back following the two week break, on preparing for a very busy Term Two. We will be in serviced on improving student writing outcomes, looking into improving our student wellbeing program, mathematics and some compliance training around the new method of teacher performance and development. The students will all come back to school on Tuesday April 21st rested and ready. ANZAC DAY SERVICE This year Anzac Day falls on the first Saturday of Term Two, 25 April, we will hold our service on the morning of Friday April 24 at 9:30am in the amphitheatre. You are all welcome as this will mark the 100th year since the landing at Gallipoli to mark a significant chapter in the history of modern Australia. We also hope to have a current member of the armed services attending the traditional last post, and laying of wreaths by representatives from all twenty classes. Flower donations will be accepted in the office on the Thursday morning 23rd and Friday morning 24th. Our leadership team have also been invited to march under the school’s banner at the dawn service at Hurstville South RSL meeting at 5:30 am on the Saturday morning. SCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY Our cross country event will be held on Wednesday 29th April (Week Two of Term Two) in either Bell Park or Quarry Park. Students should wear their sports uniform on this day with sports shoes as they will be running some distance, finalists will then represent the school in the district cross country event later in the term. DANCESPORT CHALLENGE Our Year five ballroom dance team will begin their ballroom dancing tuition on Wednesday 22nd April under the expert guidance of supreme dancer, Natalia Danilova. This group of Year Five students will learn four dances over the course of fifteen weeks before going out to Homebush in September to compete in the Gala Night competition. Good luck and thank you to all of our families for supporting this wonderful opportunity. YEAR FIVE TO CANBERRA On Thursday 30th April and Friday 1st May our Year Five students will be visiting the nation’s capital, Canberra on a whirlwind visit over two days that will take in visits to Parliament House, High Courts of Australia, The Australian War Memorial, the Dinosaur Museum and Questacon. The group led by Ms Tairi, Mr Madden, Ms Aronis and Mrs Streater will leave very early on the Thursday and put in two extremely busy days. This will be a marvellous opportunity for this group to experience an overnight excursion and a visit to a lovely and exciting city. Thank you parents for supporting this program and thank you to the teachers for creating this opportunity for your students. NAPLAN Students in Year Three and Year Five who are eligible to sit the NAPLAN assessments will do so in week four of next term. Results from these assessments usually arrive late in Term Three. PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS Thank you to the 80% of parents who attended our Parent/Teacher interviews conducted over the two week period. These information sharing sessions play a vital roll in achieving continuous improvement for students and we thank you for your attendance. Our move to the online booking system worked extremely well for both school and home. Our next interviews will be student-led conferences on Wednesday 24th June. PLAYGROUND RESURFACING New COLA Philip Rouland DATES FOR THE DIARY Tuesday 21/04/15 Term 2 starts Students return to school Friday 24/04/15 ANZAC Day Service Monday 27/04/15 A case of Discovery Yrs 3-6 Science Incursion Tuesday 28/04/15 SPAF Junior Choir to Lugarno Wednesday 29/04/15 Cross Country Thursday 30/04/15 Yr5 Canberra Excursion Friday 01/05/15 Overnight Thursday 30/04/15 SPAF Senior Choir to Oatley Wednesday 06/05/15 Yr6 Debating Excursion Tuesday 12/05/15 NAPLAN starts Young Leaders Day Start Leading 10,000 Ideas Close the Gap Close the Gap day March 19th On Thursday 19th March, some students from Stage 1 participated in activities to raise their awareness of the Close the Gap campaign. The Human Right's Commission outlines that 'the campaign's goal is to close the health and life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and nonIndigenous Australians within a generation.' Student's learned that in some areas of Australia the life expectancy is 10 to 17 years less for Indigenous people and discussed some ways that the gap can be brought closer together. Our Aboriginal Culture and Language students from year 1 created a chalk drawing with Aboriginal patterns. The students from year 2 created a gap with an arrow to show that they would like the gap to be closed and also sat in formation for the word 'gap'. Combined these images present the phrase Close the Gap. The Vision China Times Art Competition Participating schools, contest results and winning artworks will be published on 4 April 2015 in the Vision China Times newspaper and website. Up to 30 prizes will be rewarded for participants in 2 categories 5-8years and 9-12 years. The competition is sponsored by the Sydney Royal Easter Show. Congratulations to our finalists Eden 3rd Yong Qian Thank you to Hurstville South Public School for participating in the Vision China Times 2015 "My Easter" Children's Art Contest. The judges panel feedback was very positive for quality of submissions from your school. Thanks to all the teachers and students for their wonderful efforts! Carole Lu Thank you to the Vision China Times newspaper, the Royal Easter Show and Officeworks who sponsored a lot of the prizes. Reminders Updates Have you changed your address or phone number? Please contact the office so we can update our records. Thank you to those who have forwarded their updated information. Uniform Shop Winter is on its way! The Uniform Shop is open on Friday mornings 9am till 9.30am Mobile Phones Please remember all student mobile phones must be signed into the school office before school and signed out after school. Easter Raffle Congratulations to all the lucky winners of this years Easter Raffle. Permission Notes and Excursion Payments Just a reminder Please place permission notes and money, if applicable, in an envelope clearly marked with the students name , class and excursion name. Stay Safe over the School Holidays School a to z website www.schoolatoz.nsw.edu.au/ Check out the fun educational games during the holidays
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