Plattsburg Public School Newsletter

This is a whopper of a newsletter! Even with the rain our NAIDOC was a brilliant day. Big shout out to Renae Lamb (Aboriginal Education Officer Mayfield West). Renae facilitated some spectacular performances including a Māori and Samoan HAKA!! It's been wonderful to work again with both the Wallsend and Jesmond Campus students and staff who also contributed to and supported our NAIDOC Day.

So, our next big celebration is Book Week/Education Week. Details are in this newsletter and hope you can make it to school to join in. If not, our amazing Newsletter author, Mrs Moriarty, will upload lots of pics to our Facebook page. 

Keep an eye out for out Murook permission note. This is a whole school excursion to Murook and will be a fun and educational day.

Thursday, 28th July 2022

Year 5 Opportunity Class Placement Test

Friday, 29th July 2022

Junk Sculptures Due

Friday, 29th July 2022

Whole school excursion to Grease at Callaghan College Jesmond

Friday, 29th July 2022

Public Speaking Finals in the Hall at 2:15 p.pm.

Wednesday, 3rd August 2022

Book Week/Education Week

Parents/Carers invited to join us for lunch and parade from 1.15pm

Friday, 5th August 2022

Jeans for Genes Day

Monday, 8th August 2022

P&C Meeting

Tuesday, 9th August 2022

Callaghan College Wallsend Taster Lessons for Year 6 students

Monday, 22nd August 2022

Kindergarten Student Orientation - 9:30am to 10:30am

Sunday, 28th August 2022

Bunnings Wallsend BBQ - P&C Fundraiser

Monday, 29th August 2022

Billy G's Cookie Dough Orders Due

Monday, 5th September 2022

Kindergarten Student Orientation - 9:30am to 10:30am

Tuesday, 13th September 2022

School Photos

Monday, 19th September 2022

Handball Competition - 2:15pm

Parents/Carers are invited

Wednesday, 19th October 2022

Year 7 Selective High School Applications Open

Friday, 28th October 2022

Day for Daniel - Keeping Kids Safe

Monday, 31st October 2022

Halloween Spectacular

Wednesday, 9th November 2022

Kindergarten Parent/Carer Information Evening

Wednesday. 16th November 2022

Kindy 2023 Picnic 9:30am to 10:15am

Thursday, 24th November 2022

Kindergarten Student Orientation - 9:30am to 10:30am

Tuesday, 29th November 2022

Year 7 CCWC Orientation Day

Thursday, 1st December 2022

Kindergarten Student Orientation - 9:30am to 10:30am

Friday, 9th December 2022

Everyone Belongs Multi Themed Gala Day

K-2 in the Gully, 3-6 at Federal Park

Wednesday, 14th December 2022

Presentation Day

Thursday, 15th December 2022

Year 6 Graduation

We started the term with our NAIDOC celebrations after several postponements and plan changes. The weather was predicted to again rain on our parade and teacher's worked hard to put a wet weather plan into place.

We welcomed students from Minmi Public and Mayfield West to join us. Students enjoyed and experienced the opportunity to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth.

Students enjoyed cultural performances from Plattsy’s Cultural and Didge groups which were joined by students from Minmi, Mayfield West and Callaghan College Wallsend Campus. Following a day of activities, which included traditional art, native planting, boomerang art and indigenous games, students experienced cultural performances from Hunter Sports High Indigenous group. Their demonstration included traditional First Nations dance, Māori Haka and traditional Samoan Siva Tau.

We would like to thank Leigh Ridgeway, Perry Fuller and Renee Lamb for joining us and teaching us further about First Nations culture. We would also like to say a big thank you to Wallsend Bunnings for cooking up a delicious sausage sizzle of over 600 sausages to feed the very hungry students, staff and special guests. 

The Plattsburg Public School Skoolbag App is a great way to stay in touch and up to date with the school. We send alerts and event information as well as the Noticeboard. You can also notify the school regarding absences. Search for Plattsburg Public School in the App Store or Google play to download the app.

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Free webinars for parents and carers. These live webinars give parents and carers the knowledge, skills and tools to support their children to have safe online experiences.

Learn about TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube and help your children stay safe online. This webinar is designed for parents and carers of young people aged 8 to 13.

It will cover: 

• case studies, research and targeted advice 
• ways of supporting the young people in your life to have safe, enjoyable online experiences.

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Term 3 dates (Australian Eastern Standard Time)

Monday 1 August 12:30 to 1:30 pm

Tuesday 16 August 7:30 to 8:30 pm

Thursday 25 August 12:30 to 1:30 pm

Junk Sculptures are to be brought to school on Friday 29th July, this Friday. Students will be required to carry their sculpture into school on their own, without the assistance of a parent or carer. Sculptures are to be taken directly to the school library between 8:30am - 8:50am on this day. Please note - sculptures will not be accepted before this date. Please do not place your child's name on the sculpture to ensure judging is objective. 

Prize winners will be announced during the Book Week Parade on Wednesday 3rd August 2022. 

This term, we are running a Billy G's Gourmet Cookie Dough fundraiser to raise money for our year 6 farewell at the end of the year.

Billy G's Gourmet Cookie Dough is an exciting fundraiser, made by an Australian, family owned and operated business. There are ten (10) dough-licious flavours to choose from, including the most popular Choc Chunk and Caramel White Choc.

Get started!

Cookie dough orders must be placed online using the online platform. Create your child's profile by visiting australianfundraising.com.au, and follow the instructions in the order form. Orders are open from 22/07/2022 until 29/08/2022 so make sure you get rolling and create your online fundraising page today!

How do prizes work? Every student/member who sells a tub will receive an incentive prize for their efforts!  The class that sells the most tubs of delicious cookie dough will be reward with 2 tubs to bake and enjoy at school.

Family and friends are your greatest supporters, so make sure you ask them for support. You will reach your fundraising goal in no time!

Don't have time to register an account but still want to support? Use our school link to purchase: https://cookiedough.com.au/campaign/62d743d89b64901efa02c22e/view

If there are any questions, please contact Miss Tjarnah or Miss Sarah.

Thank you for your support, Year 6 Team.

This Friday students can register their interest for the Handball Competition running throughout Term 3. All students welcome. Matches will be played at recess time on the asphalt from next Tuesday.

Plattsburg community, the Finals Day is Monday 19th September from 2:15 p.m. on our asphalt area. Please come along. Plattsburg families, a note will go home in the coming days for interested family members to be part of a community team to verse teachers and students on Monday 19th September.

Promises to be a fun afternoon and our students are excited for the competition!

A reminder for the Zone Athletics team to bring their note (download available at the end of this newsletter) and $10 into the office by Monday, 1st August.

Students in the 1500m race please arrive at 8:15 a.m. on the day and meet Mr Hopson as this event starts at 8:30 a.m.

Any questions please contact the school and ask for Mr Hopson.

Every year, all schools in Australia participate in the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD). The NCCD process requires schools to identify information already available in the school about supports provided to students with disability. These relate to legislative requirements under the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 and the Disability Standards for Education 2005, in line with the NCCD guidelines (2019).

Information provided about students to the Australian Government for the NCCD includes:

·         year of schooling

·         category of disability: physical, cognitive, sensory or social/emotional

·         level of adjustment provided: support provided within quality differentiated teaching practice, supplementary, substantial or extensive.

This information assists schools to:

·         formally recognise the supports and adjustments provided to students with disability in schools

·         consider how they can strengthen the support of students with disability in schools

·         develop shared practices so that they can review their learning programs in order to improve educational outcomes for students with disability.

The NCCD provides state and federal governments with the information they need to plan more broadly for the support of students with disability.

The NCCD will have no direct impact on your child and your child will not be involved in any testing process. The school will provide data to the Australian Government in such a way that no individual student will be able to be identified – the privacy and confidentiality of all students is ensured. All information is protected by privacy laws that regulate the collection, storage and disclosure of personal information. To find out more about these matters, please refer to the Australian Government’s Privacy Policy (https://www.education.gov.au/privacy-policy).

Further information about the NCCD can be found on the NCCD Portal (https://www.nccd.edu.au).

If you have any questions about the NCCD, please contact the school.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Due to COVID restrictions the last couple of years have been very difficult to fundraise for the P&C which provides essential resources for our school. We are kicking off this year's major fundraiser with a BBQ at Bunnings Wallsend and WE NEED YOU!

We have secured a booking at Bunnings Wallsend on Sunday 28th August and we are going to need as much help as we can get.

Please sign up on the volunteer form in this newsletter or email Kylee Burnett (P&C President) at plattsburgpandcexec@gmail.com

Come along and meet some parents from our community and maybe forge some new friendships.

1 hour time slots are available from 8.00am-4.00pm.  If you would like to volunteer for more than 1 hour please feel free.

Thank you!

Plattburg Public School P&C

Australians throw out the equivalent of 1 in every 5 bags of groceries they buy.  That’s about $1000 each year.  Food waste fills up our landfill creating greenhouse gases which are bad for the environment.  Fighting food waste is EASY.  By making a few simple changes you can save money and help save the planet. For more info see here. 

Reducing your food waste starts before you go to the shops.  Try and plan your meals around the things you already have in the pantry, fridge and freezers.  Then make a list of what you need, this will help stop you from buying things you don’t need.   

Did you know it’s best not to keep bread in the fridge?  Either keep it in a cool place in the pantry or freeze it.  By storing food correctly, you can cut down on waste.  In the fridge, store meat and poultry on lower shelves and fruit and vegetables in the vegetable drawers.  Check your fridge is below five degrees and freeze foods before their use-by dates.  Use airtight containers to store food in the fridge and open packets of food in the pantry.  There are lots of websites that show you how to store different foods – see Oz Harvest. 

A ‘use by’ date is put on food that may become unsafe if stored for too long.  Don’t eat anything that is past its ‘use by’ date.   

Food with a ‘best before‘ date  is still safe to eat after the recorded  date  as long as it is not damaged or has not ‘gone off’ such as growing mould or starting to smell.  A ‘best before’ date simply indicates that the food may lose some of its quality after this date.  So, don’t throw food out just because its past its best before date. For more information see the Food Standards Australia New Zealand website. 

Check what food you have and think about what you could create with it.  Take a look at our recipes for inspiration.    

Don’t be scared of wilted vegetables.  There are plenty of recipes that can take your bruised, wilting and wrinkled food and transform them into something delicious.  Throw over ripened tomatoes into a pasta sauce, your floppy zucchini into a fritter and soft carrots into fried rice.  Use the search button in the top right-hand corner of the Healthy Lunch Box website to find recipes that will use what you need to use up.    

Add leftover roast chicken to soup, roast vegies in a couscous salad, and rice to make our delicious chicken burrito bowl.  Don’t forget to add leftovers to a toasted sandwich or rolling up into a wrap.   

Learn more about what foods can be frozen.  You can freeze things like bread, cooked rice and pasta, grated cheese and milk.  It’s safe to freeze food right up to the use-by date, and then defrost in the fridge when you want to use it.  Don’t forget to freeze leftovers in single serves for a quick and easy meal. Search the Healthy Lunch Box website for our recipes tagged “easy to freeze”. 

Using these tips to reduce your food waste will save you money, time and our planet! 

From the Cancer Council Website.

Latest COVID-19 Information from the Department of Education and NSW Health for parents can be found at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19