Hammondville Public School Newsletter

Gate Closure

Thank you to all members of the community for your acceptance of the new rules regarding the driveway gate closure. This is an important improvement to school safety and I appreciate your understanding in this matter.

Christmas Carols

The teachers, students, Carols Committee and P & C have been working hard to get everything ready for our Carols night this Friday. Gates open at 6pm and tickets can still be purchased. Last year was a lovely community event and we cannot wait to get into the Christmas spirit. Remember to bring along your picnic blankets. Food and drinks will be available on the night.

Please be advised that this is a smoking and alcohol free event. We also ask that no dogs are brought onto premises to ensure the safety of all members of the community.

Sports Stars

Congratulations to Miriam Gauld and Annabelle James for receiving the ‘Outstanding Sporting Achievement Award’, for representing our school and region at three state carnivals of swimming, cross country and athletics. The achievement of these girls has been amazing this year and the whole school community is very proud of you both.

In addition to this award, this year Miriam Gauld has demonstrated excellence in many sporting arenas and has been named the following: School Age Champion in Swimming, Liverpool Zone Age Champion in Swimming, Liverpool Zone Age Champion in Cross Country, School Age Champion in Athletics, Liverpool Zone Age Champion in Athletics and Regional Age Champion in Athletics. What a superstar effort Miriam, congratulations.

Year 6 Fundraising

Thank you to Mrs Millot and the Year 6 students for organising the Sushi Lunch fundraiser. It went down a treat.

Thank you to all Stage 3 parents for your support of our Mini Fete that will taking place on the 5th December, without your support of this event, it would not be possible. I cannot wait to see what amazing stalls we will have on display. Keep up the hard work Stage 3, the school community are very excited for what we be a wonderful day.

White Ribbon

Thank you to the school community for your support of White Ribbon day last Friday. It was great to see so many white shirts on students and staff. I’m sure many of you enjoyed the icy poles that were on sale. This is a great initiative that empowers our students, teacher and whole school community to engage in respectful relationships with others.

Leavers and new enrolments

As we are nearing the end of the year and begin planning for 2020, I urge all families to please tell the office as soon as possible if you will be leaving or if you have family or friends moving to the area who may want to enrol at Hammondville. If you are going on holidays and will be returning after the 29th January 2020, please contact the office as we will require families to indicate in writing the intended return date, so we can include your children in our numbers. The sooner we know our enrolment numbers the sooner we can begin class formations and staffing arrangements for 2020.

Positive Stars Week 6

I had the lovely opportunity to see many students across the school last week for producing excellent work, demonstrating outstanding work habits and being exceptional learners. Well done to the following students on being Positive Stars in Week 6: Adiy and Luke in K Red, Toby and Isabelle in K Yellow, Oliver, Micaela and Dylan in 1 Green, Ellyana, Matthew, Selina and Tristan in 2 Red, Kaitlan and Gabriel in 2 Yellow, Jarrod in 2/3 Bronze, Marli in 3/4 Platinum, Maverick in 4/5 Bronze, Shelby, Levi, Cooper, Ryan and Matthew in 5 Yellow, Jessica, Tahlia, Lachlan and Jaxson in 5/6 Gold, Ava, Meredith, Hannah and Daniel in 6 Red. Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to see more students this week.

Have a wonderful week of learning!

Mrs Rebekah Murray

Rel. Principal

Friday 22nd November - 3-6 Assembly 1:50pm

Friday 22nd November - White Ribbon Day

Friday 29th November - K-2 Assembly 9:15am

Friday 29th November - Carols

• K-6 End of Year Picnic Day Excursion Note

• AFL - Ash Road

• Cricket - Juniors Amalfi Park, Seniors Hammondville
• Girls T-Ball / Softball - Jacquie Osmond
• League Tag - Woodward Park

Our school office hours are 8:30am to 3:15pm.

EFTPOS Payments can be made between 8:45am - 9:00am and 2:30pm - 3:00pm.

Student Absences
The Education Act requires that a reason is provided to the school within 5 days of the occurrence of a student absence. 

If your child is absent from school please notify us via Skoolbag or drop a note/medical certificate in our secure letterbox on the outside of the office wall. Do not send absent notifications to the class teacher via Class Dojo.

Late Arrival/ Early Departure
All students who are late to school must come via the office to receive a late pass, which is then to be handed to their teacher.

If you are picking up your child early from school you must visit the office first to receive an early departure pass, which you then give to your child’s teacher.

Toileting Accidents
If your child is prone to toileting accidents please ensure that spare underwear and school clothes are kept in their bags.

If your child does borrow clothes from our school please ensure the clothes are washed and promptly returned to the office.

Nut Free Recommendation
Due to severe allergies of some students at Hammondville Public School, we do recommend that parents not send their children to school with nut products, eg muesli bars, peanut butter, nutella etc.

P&C Payments
All payments to the P&C must be CASH ONLY and in a separate envelope to school payments.

Medical Certificates

Principals are legally responsible for keeping accurate records of student attendance. Principals are also responsible for deciding if the reason given for an absence is justified. For this reason, Principals may request medical certificates or other documentation for long or frequent absences explained by parents as being due to illness. If Principals don’t consider an explanation to be satisfactory, they will record the absence as unjustified.

If you have a younger child who is due to start school next year and you have not yet enrolled them could you please contact the office as soon as possible. The sooner we know the number of children who are coming next year the better it is for our planning as the number of children in Kindergarten has a significant effect on the make-up of our classes and staffing across the school. 

Is your child leaving Hammondville Public School?

In order to plan our classes for next year, it is important that we know the number of students who will be enrolled at our school in 2020. If your child is not returning to our school next year could you please provide written notification ASAP stating your child's name, when their last day will be & what school they will be moving to via our email  address:-  

hammondvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

If your child is returning to Hammondville Public school next year but will return after our first day back, Wednesday 29 January 2020, could you please provide written notification ASAP stating your child's name, what date they will be returning & the reason why they will be away via our school email address :- 

hammondvil-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Our lesson focus for K-6 Week 7 is “Be a Learner: Include Others”. We will explore what this looks like during our PBL lessons. We include others in our play, playing sport and during small and large group activities. It is important to ensure we make everyone around us feel valued and supported by including

The PBL team

Carols tickets will be available for purchase from the front of the school on:

Tuesday 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Wednesday 8:30 am - 9:15 am

Thursday 2:30 pm - 3:15 pm

Eftpos will be available.

Book Club has gone home today. Please place your orders through the online LOOP service.

NO CASH orders will be accepted.

Book Club orders will be due by Monday December 2nd to ensure that they will arrive back to school before the end of term.

Please Note:   
* no late orders will be accepted. All orders on LOOP - No CASH orders.
* If your child should not know about the order (ie if it is a present), please let Mrs Stanley know before week 9 so alternative  pick up arrangements can be made.

Thank you,
Mrs Stanley
Teacher - Librarian

This year’s 3-6 presentation day will be held at Holsworthy High School in the high school hall on Tuesday 10th December 2019. Presentation Day will begin at 12:30am and finish at approximately 2:30pm. All students will be transported from Hammondville Public School to Holsworthy High school via buses, with the costs being covered by the school. Last week a note went out on Caremonkey, which all students must have signed to get permission to travel by bus for this event. Parents who are in attendance at the Presentation Day may take their students home at the end of the event and there is a space indicated on the note which allows you to show that you will take your child home after the Presentation Day. All other students will catch the bus from Holsworthy High School back to Hammondville Public School and are expected to be back by normal home time bell. Students who are receiving awards at the presentation Day will be contacted via Caremonkey to inform them that their child will be an award recipient.

School Swimming Carnival - Friday 31st January 2020

Liverpool Zone Swimming Carnival - Thursday 27th February 2020

SSW Regional Swimming Carnival - Tuesday 10th March 2020

NSW State Swimming Carnival - Monday 6th April and Tuesday 7th April 2020

School Cross Country Carnival - To be confirmed

Liverpool Zone Cross Country Carnival - To be confirmed

SSW Regional Cross Country Carnival - Wednesday 10th June 2020

NSW State Cross Country Carnival - Friday 24th July 2020

School Athletics Carnival - Monday 27th July 2020

Liverpool Zone Athletics Carnival - Thursday 27th August 2020

SSW Regional Athletics Carnival - Wednesday 16th September 2020

NSW State Athletics Carnival - Wednesday 28th October and Thursday 29th October 2020

Permission notes for next year's school swimming carnival have already been handed out. The date of the carnival is Friday 31st January, 2020. Students in years 3-6 for 2020 are expected to attend and any students in Year 2 for 2020 who are eight or turning eight next year and can swim 50m unassisted are invited to attend.

Permission notes, medical forms and payment need to be returned to the office letterbox by Monday 9th December, 2019. If your child did not receive a permission note, spares can be found at the office.

Well done to the following teams who have made the semi-finals:

AFL juniors: Hammondville 2nd vs Wattle Grove 3rd at Ash Rd, Prestons

AFL seniors: Hammondville 4th vs Wattle Grove 1st at Ash Rd, Prestons

League tag juniors: Hammondville 2nd vs Dalmeny 3rd at Woodward Park

Softball: Hammondville 2nd vs Wattle Grove 3rd at Jacqui Osmond Reserve

Cricket juniors: Hammondville 4th vs Dalmeny 1st at Amalfi Park

Cricket seniors: Hammondville 4th vs Holsworthy 1st at Hammondville Oval

Thank you to all the students and parents who put their change in the canteen fundraising jar. We have donated $65.00 to the Salvation Army/Woolworths Bush Fire Appeal.

Tuesday's Tempting Treats - Surprise check at the canteen $1.20, available at lunch and recess, please order to avoid disappointment.

New Food Trial - We are trialling 2 new items this term for lunch, please order these items if you are interested:

• Cheese Burger (halal beef patty and cheese) $4.00
• Fish Fingers $0.80 each

Regards,

Tracey & Sue

The uniform pool will be open Wednesday afternoon from 2:30pm- 3:00pm.

Prices:

Non-logo items (pants, shorts, shirts) are $1.00

All logo items are $2:00

Dresses, Parkas & Bags are $5:00

When visiting the second hand uniform shop it would be greatly appreciated if you could bring small change with you. There is nothing over $5.00. Also any items from second hand must be paid for at the office or at the canteen.

Thank you,

Louise & Sandy

Christmas Raffle Prizes
We are all looking forward to our Carols night this Friday. The P&C and Carols Committee are working hard to finalise the organisation. We are still seeking donations of prizes, vouchers or sponsorship for the Carols. Please let me know if you, your business or your workplace can donate in some small way.

We’d like to say a big thank you to the families who have donated prizes for our Christmas Raffle. The raffle is a big fundraising opportunity for us?

2020 P&C
At the end of this year several long term P&C parents will be leaving our school. Next year, the P&C will need several new members in order to be able to continue. Without sufficient numbers the P&C cannot legally operate. One position that must be filled is that of treasurer. Our current treasurer, Stephen Gauld will be in his last year at Hammondville in 2020 and throughout next year, will teach and mentor anyone interested in taking on the role for 2021. This is a great opportunity to be supported and work with Stephen before taking on the role. We also require a number of general members and those who don’t want a specific role but are happy to come along and support the work the P&C does.

Being on then P&C is not difficult. Everyone is friendly, welcoming and are all there for the same reason; building partnerships with our teachers and staff and doing what we can to fundraise and make the school a better place for our children. I encourage you to come along and be a part of our P&C.

Marlene Greenwood

P&C President

It's posting season and that means some of our families are on the move. If you know your family will be leaving our school please notify both the front office and myself. I can assist you with information and EDLO contacts in your new location in addition to transition and farewell activities to help your child.

Mrs Janelle Ford 

Defence School Mentor

janelle.j.ford@det.nsw.edu.au 

Attention Defence families,

Please be advised that Holsworthy Community Group’s Defence Partners Professional Workshop, which was advertised in the recent edition of the DCO Sydney/Liverpool Newsletter, has had a date change. The workshop will now be taking place on Saturday, 30th November 2019. 

If you intend on attending, it is essential to sign up to the sessions and send any information on positions you are interested in applying for to Cath Allen at cath.allen@bigpond.com and to book your tickets via https://www.trybooking.com/BFSBZ 

Sydney Jobs Fair - providing job seekers with access to current employment opportunities.

Tuesday 19 November  Quayside in Sydney Olympic Park   10.00am - 6.00pm 

Comedy Cruise - Friday 29 November, 7.00pm -late

Join HCG for a night out on Sydney harbour, enjoying dinner and comedy. Book your tickets via https://www.trybooking.com/BDHMZ 

Our Year 6 Defence students are invited to attend morning tea on Wednesday 27 November. The DSM from Holsworthy High School will be attending. Invitations will be sent soon. 

Mrs Janelle Ford   Defence School Mentor   
janelle.j.ford@det.nsw.edu.au