Normanhurst Public School

June 27/28  - NAIDOC Week at NPS - Uncle Laurie Visits NPS

June 28 - School Disco 

June 29 - Reports Home

July 1 - Last day of Term 2

July 19 - Students Return for Term 3

July 20 to 22 - Year 5 Camp Berry

July 21 - Kindergarten Science Incursion (Rescheduled)

July 27 - Cyber Safety Talk (Stage 3)

July 28 - OC Placement Test at NPS

Dear Parents and Carers,

Thank you to our amazing community for your support this term. Despite high levels of illness in students and staff beyond what we would normally experience, we have had a very busy eventful term. We have been able to continue with our planned events from Band Camp, Sydney North Dance Concerts, Multicultural Competition, Cross Country Carnival, Athletics Carnival, Debating, Chess Club, Code Club, Choir, SRC activities, disco and the painting of the Mural and most importantly keeping our students on track academically.

Staff News

This week we farewell Ms Barrett and wish her all the best. We welcome Ms Dougal who will be teaching 4S for the remainder of the year, 4S will be known as 4D from term 3.

NAIDOC Week

This week we have welcomed Uncle Laurie to celebrate NAIDOC Week. NAIDOC Week is a time to reflect and celebrate the history, culture and achievements of First Nation Peoples – recognising them as the Traditional Owners of the land. The theme ‘Get Up! Stand Up! Show Up!’ encourages all of us to champion change, while celebrating those who have already driven and led change in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities over generations.

Interschool Chess Challenge 2022

Congratulations to our Chess Team, Oliver Z, Antoni M, Alison L, Vihaan V, Evan K, Claire Y and Lewis K who were placed second in the Inter School Chess Challenge on June 16.

Athletics Carnival

The weather was kind to us and the students and staff were looking forward to a wonderful day of fun and competition. I was extremely proud of the students who participated with so much enthusiasm. I commend our senior students who enthusiastically participated in every race to earn points for their school house. Sportsmanship and perseverance were the themes for the day. Well done NPS and thank you Mr Hills and Ms Spender for your organisation of a successful carnival. Good Luck to all the students who will be competing at the Zone Athletics Carnival.

Parent Information Sessions Term 3 – Save the dates

If you would like to learn more about the approaches we are taking to teaching at Normanhurst Public School, we invite you to attend Parent Information Sessions in Term 3. The sessions will be held on Wednesday August 3 at 6:30pm and Wednesday August 24 at 6:30pm in the library. The sessions will provide practical advice for parents/carers about how to support children at home with reading, spelling and mathematics. More information about these sessions will be provided early next term.

The GOT IT team invite you to attend information on Emotion Coaching/Emotional Intelligence Workshops. These sessions are open to all families. Please register your interest here  https://forms.gle/5ojUw8iGsSjWtHe2A

Education Week – Open Day – 25 August

Creating Futures – education changes lives

Each year, Department of Education schools open their doors to parents/caregivers and the community to showcase a snapshot of the excellence that exists in public schools. Education Week is a state-wide, annual event to celebrate public education in NSW. This year Normanhurst will be celebrating Education Week on August 25. We have combined Book Week, Science Week and Education Week. We look forward to sharing and showcasing Normanhurst Public School excellence with you.

 REPORTING – SEMESTER 1 2022

 The Department of Education’s requirements for reporting to parents/carers K-12 have been amended to support schools through impacts caused by COVID-19 during Semester 1 2022. In response, we have amended our report template for Semester 1. This semester’s report template will include a comment for both English and Mathematics as well as an achievement and effort scale. For all other Key Learning Areas staff have commented on topics taught in Semester 1 as well as an achievement and effort scale. The information included in the reports will focus on individual student learning progress as well as learning goals.

For the “Love of Reading”

In term 3 we will be launching “For the love of Reading” Children will be asked to log a minimum of 20min of reading a day across K-6. By the end of term 3 we are aiming for a total of 9000 hours of reading across the school. More information will be sent home early in term 3.

 Parent Run Reading

 We are excited to welcome parent volunteers into the school again to assist with our reading programs. To support this, we will be running a parent reading helper information session in the Library on Tuesday 26 July at 9:15am. We would love as many volunteers as possible to attend the session. Please register your interest here: https://forms.gle/tmAPG3gs2uUBrqbc8

Please ensure that you have an up to date Working with Children Check.

 Semester 1 Fees

 A gentle reminder to pay your Semester 1 Fees if you have not done so. The additional programs offered at Normanhurst such as Zone sport, Athletics Program (Sports Pro), dance, Mathletics, incursions, camps and excursions are user pay programs to enrich our students’ learning experiences. Reminders have been sent this week, if you are unable to pay fees please contact me to discuss.

 We focus on academic achievement but there are other factors that contribute to student success.

I came across this TED talk: GRIT: The power of passion and perseverance. Click on the link and enjoy...

Wishing all our students, families and staff a well-deserved break.

Warm regards

Jacqui Gordon

 Principal 

Term 3

Tuesday August 2 at 2:30pm

Tuesday August 16 at 9:30am and Tuesday August 30 at 2:30pm

All tours will be a similar format (there is no need to attend them all but you are more than welcome to attend more than one if you like).  

Kindergarten Information morning is taking place on September 6 at 10am in the school hall.

Kindergarten Orientation/Transition Dates will be taking place in Term 4.

Tuesday November 8, Tuesday November 15 and Tuesday November 22 from 9:15am - 10:45am.

Congratulations to the following students who have finished the 2022 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge (please note that some names have been omitted as they are not to be published):

Year 2 – Luke F., Ethan G., Matt G., Reija J., Antoni M.

Year 3 – Declan F., Jiahe G., Oli H., Mahiya S., Zanna S., Vihaan V., Luella W., Finn W., Matilda Z.

Year 4 – Leo E., Audrey F., Gordon G., Malachy G., Jaydon H., Jasmine H., Aiden H., Sandy H., Lael H., Michael I., Talia J., Safwan K., Kinglsley L., Nathan L., Alison L., Hazel N., Jenny P., Will S., Alexander S., Natalie T., Lachlan W., Claire Y., Audrey Z., Elisa Z.

Year 5 – Fletcher B., Nathan C., Zoey F., Leo M., Patrick O., Natalie R., Sophia F., Oliver W.

Year 6 – Samika A., Tom C., Nico I., Max J., Lewis K., Hoon K., Minh L., Cameron N., Ieuan S., Christopher Z.

It has been wonderful to see so many students completing the Reading Challenge this year both at school and at home. “The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely” (NSW Department of Education, 2022)

Students have until Friday 19 August 2022 to complete the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge. For further information about the challenge please visit the NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge website https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html 

Thank you,

Carolyn Spender & Norma Insuasti
(NSW PRC Coordinators)

TV Shows and Characters TRIVIA NIGHT 2022

This was held last Saturday 18 June 2022 at Magpies Asquith and we had a FANTASTIC night of fun and fundraising!! Thank you so much to Eve Q and Alex R for all your efforts in project managing this event and sourcing so many awesome prizes, and also to Andrew V for the use of the venue at no charge. Thank you also to my committed P&C team members Edd, Brooke, Ian, Kerri and Leah who were also there in attendance and dressed to impress! Despite ticket sales being down from last year, we still made a tidy sum of just over $10k to add to our fundraising pool which was an increase from last year…! So THANK YOU to Everyone who attended to support the school… I have included some table pictures of the trivia participants in the news this week. Please take a look!! :)

Let’s not forget a MASSIVE SHOUT OUT to all our Generous Sponsors (slideshow link included.) A lovely Certificate of Appreciation will be sent out to each of them in the next few weeks to recognize their valuable contributions.

New Building Mural

Next time you are on the grounds please come to the COLA and take a look at our RAP project.

Building Fund

As we approach the EOFY we appeal to individuals and families (and those with businesses) who may wish to reduce their tax, and offer a tax-deductible voluntary donation to the P&C Building Fund before JUNE 30. If you are interested in taking advantage of this, your generous contributions go towards making improvements directly on the school grounds and buildings. See the Building Fund letter attached for more details.

P&C Meeting

The next General Meeting will be held on Monday night 8th August (week 4) in term 3. There will be some motions raised that evening that will require voting on, so please make sure you attend as a paid up member of the P&C to have an eligible vote.

Joining or renewing P&C Membership fees - please pay the $2 fee

Name: Normanhurst Public School P&C Assn
BSB: 032-084
Account: 691 588
Reference: Surname and PC Fee

Bonita Chan
NPS P&C Association President
president@npspandc.com

From Term 3, a number of uniform items will incur a small price increase. This is due to costs from our suppliers rising, as a result of increases in manufacturing and freight costs. If you’ve been thinking of buying any items, order today before the new prices commence.

Order online at - https://www.npspandc.com/uniform/. Orders are delivered to your child’s classroom on Friday each week.

Book an appointment to visit the Uniform Shop on Friday morning at - https://signup.com/go/cmDYUyW.

Please keep all packaging and tags attached until your child has tried on the clothes, in case you need to swap sizes. We are unable to exchange items without their original packaging. If you need to make an exchange, please email the Uniform Shop.

Kristie Whitehead
NPS Uniform Shop 

Email: uniformshop@npspandc.com

Lost Property 

Our lost property basket each week is overflowing with jackets and hats!  Also we have numerous 'other items' handed in that are kept in the office draw, so if you child has lost any item - please remind your child or children to check lost property and ask in the office.   

Please ensure that all your items are labelled with both their first and last name clearly - otherwise it won't find it's way back home!   

Thank you! 

Thank you to all those who have volunteered their time this term to help in the canteen, it makes things run more smoothly and helps the children get served quicker at the counter. Your help is much appreciated and the Children do love seeing parents or grandparents at the counter. A special mention to those who helped for Hot Dog Day when we had 280 orders!

A regular canteen week we have about 350 orders, with many items cooked in the canteen and needing to be finished at the last minute, having a helper does ensure things run smoothly and the children’s waiting time at the counter is less when they come up to buy.

Please consider helping for an hour or so over the lunch rush to pack and serve. The roster is on School24 or email me on canteen@npspandc.com

Hope your children enjoy the holidays.

Lisa Pang
Canteen Manager
NORMANHURST PUBLIC SCHOOL

Band Committee
E: bandpresident@npspandc.com

Normanhurst Public School will again participate in the Calendar for Cultural Diversity art initiative. In the past we have had some of our talented student’s artwork selected and they have been featured in the calendar.

The Calendar for Cultural Diversity promotes intercultural understanding, cultural and linguistic diversity, community harmony and social inclusion across NSW public schools and their communities.

Each year, NSW public schools are invited to submit student artwork for possible inclusion in the Calendar for Cultural Diversity around a given theme.

The theme of the 2023 Calendar for Cultural Diversity is “Creating Connections”. Each year the Calendar for Cultural Diversity also includes a page on the relevant lunar year (and its Australian zodiac equivalent) and 2023 is the Lunar Year of the Rabbit / Platypus. The artwork can also be on this theme.

The due date is Friday 29 th July (end of Week 2, Term 3).

All artwork submissions must be emailed as a photo, to the school email address normanhurs-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au before this date. They will be forwarded to Mrs Brisot for possible selection. If we are inundated with fantastic artworks ☺ Mrs Brisot will make a final decision and select 4 artworks for submission. If your artwork is selected, you will be notified and you will possibly need to bring it in immediately for mailing (sometimes the quality of the photo is good enough for printing and they will use the photo).

Artwork: must be A3 or A2 size for reproduction purposes (not A4). Possible media includes:

· drawing – inks, felt pens, charcoal, pastels, crayons

· mixed media – collage, photo montage

· painting – watercolour, oils, acrylic, gouache, poster paints, sgraffito

· photography – cameras can be conventional, polaroid, digital, disposable

· printmaking – etching, monoprinting, linocuts.

The following information MUST BE attached to each artwork (use a piece of paper and attach to the back)-

· name of student, dob and current age, and year at school

· name of school

· traditional country on which school is located = Dharug language group

· parent’s name and email and phone contact details

· title of artwork and description (must relate to the theme)

· name of teacher contact – Mrs Kate Clarke Brisot (Normanhurst PS)
 Further information can be found: https://education.nsw.gov.au/teaching-and-learning/curriculum/multicultural-education/culture-and-diversity/calendar-for-cultural-diversity#Artwork4