Hammondville Public School Newsletter

Principal Network Awards

I had the pleasure of recognising two of our Hammondville Public School members for their ongoing service and commitment to supporting students at our school. A big congratulations to Mr Betts for receiving an award in the classroom teacher category and Marlene Greenwood for receiving an award in the parent or community member category. We are blessed to have you at Hammondville Public School and I would like to personally thank you for the many wonderful things that you do.

P & C

For parents who are interested in supporting our school further or getting involved to further support school and community projects, I highly recommend your attendance at our monthly P & C meetings. All are welcome and we would love to see some new faces. Our next meeting will be on Monday 4th November in the school library at 7pm.

Positive Stars week 7

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 7. William and Lacey in K Red, Oliver C. and Nathaniel in K Blue, Selena and Breanna in 1 Red, Isaac and Zion in 1 Blue, John in 1 Green, Zara, Abdul-Rahman, Tilli and Connor in 1/2 Gold, Cooper, Lucas, Zack, Pavlos, Bear, Jack, Bella, Chiho, Ava, Kaitlan, Gabriel, Ryan, Tilli–Jean, Ruby, Jericho, Sam, Saoirse, Eliza, Harper, Benjamin, Qassem and Mikaela in 2 Yellow, Jacinta and Chloe in 3/4 Gold, Elizabeth, Mia, Emily, Alyssa, Indiya-Rose and Mitchell in 3/4 Platinum, Chace and Mehmet in 3/4 Silver, Annabelle, Sienna, Elina and Moriah in 4/5 Bronze, Sophie, Adeisha, Zoe, Nathaniel, Tyler and Kiana in 5 Yellow and Mitchell and Alex in 6 Red.  Keep up the great work and I can’t wait to see more students this week.

Chipping Norton Network Public Speaking competition

This week we had the pleasure of sending four students to compete in the public speaking finals at George’s Hall Public School. Well done to Amelia Erian, Jack Roberts, Marli Gomes and Jules Cross for your efforts. You all represented Hammondville Public School with pride. A big congratulations to Jules who will be representing Stage 3 at the grand final in November!

Planning Days

Over the next two weeks we will be having our stage planning days to prepare for next term. This is a time for teachers to come together and collaborate on ideas, resources and lessons for the term ahead. During this time teachers will be off class. I thank you for your understanding of these rewarding and productive days for our staff.

White Ribbon Men’s Breakfast

Next Wednesday is our White Ribbon breakfast for all the significant males in our student’s lives. Thank you to the committee for organising this event and I can’t want to see you all there next Wednesday morning. 

Have a wonderful week of learning!

Mrs Rebekah Murray

Rel. Principal

Monday 9th September - Kindergarten Farm Excursion

Thursday 12th September - Stage 1 Zoo Excurion

Friday 13th September - 3-6 Assembly 9:00am

Friday 20th September- K-2 Assembly 9:15am

Monday 23rd September- Kindy 2020 Parent Info Evening

Wednesday 25th September - Jump Off Day

Friday 27th September - Colour Run

• Stage 3 - Dance Fitness
  

• Junior Rugby League - Belmore Oval
• Winter PSSA has finished for Netball, Girls Soccer, Boys Soccer & Senior Rugby League
•  Please return jersey's to the office
  

School Office Hours of Operation

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.

This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements. 

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPads, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted between 2nd September and 25th October. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

Information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au.

To access the survey for our school go to: http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/70hm

We have also included a FAQ sheet in today’s newsletter regarding the parent survey.

The survey is available in 23 languages.

Mrs Murray

Relieving Principal

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. Our information night for the parents of 2019 Kindergarten students is Monday 23rd September at 7pm in the school hall.

Dear Parents/Carers, 

Our school has increased enrolments to the point where we are reaching or exceeding a capacity to accommodate our students in permanent classrooms. The revised Department of Education Enrolment Policy implemented as of 22 July 2019, will have an impact on the manner in which we process non-local enrolments over coming years.

All students who reside within our local intake area will continue to be offered places at our school, however non-local enrolment applications can only be considered by schools that can accommodate new enrolments below their designated enrolment buffer level. A buffer is calculated by our school to allow the enrolment of local students who arrive throughout the year.

The impact of this requirement is that our school may not be able to enrol non-local students from 2020. To assist with the transition to this new requirement it has been agreed that non-local siblings of current students will be permitted to enrol in 2020.

As from 2021 the school may only be able to enrol local students.

The school will continue to have a non-local application process in place to prioritise any applications that may be considered exceptional circumstances or for any places that may become available if the school enrolment falls below the designated cap.

Please contact me if you wish to discuss these changes further.

Rebekah Murray

Rel. Principal

All students K-6 are continuing to follow our PBL expectations; Be Safe, Be Respectful and Be a Learner.

This week our lesson focus for the whole school is to “Be A Learner: Follow the rules of the game and take turns.” Please discuss with your child the importance of talking about the rules of the game before beginning their play and taking turns as the game is taking place. Discuss strategies that they can do if the rules of the game become confused or others are not following the rules.

Have a great week of learning!

The PBL Team

Hammondville students have been very busy achieving hero tokens for meeting our three whole school PBL expectations of Being Respectful, Being Safe and Being a Learner. We are so excited to reveal that we are going to be getting our first Whole School Reward for all of your hard work and effort in the classroom and the playground.

The students were given the opportunity to vote for the Whole School Reward and the chosen reward is an early recess and an ice block for every student. We will be having this Whole school Reward in Week 10. Details to come. Well done, to all of the K-2 and 3-6 students. Mrs Murray and all of your teachers are extremely proud of you reaching this whole school reward. 

We are also happy to announce that teachers are also receiving Hero tokens (Teacher Tokens) for their efforts in being safe, respectful learners. Well Done to Mrs Hudson-O'Farrell and Mrs Hogan for being the winners of our Teacher Token Draw. Keep doing the right thing and remember to do your best at Being Respectful, Being Safe, Being a Learner. 

The PBL Team

With the change to environmentally friendly bags don't forget that our school offers a reusable excursion bag for $10, purchase yours today at the canteen as the price will increase in term 4 so get in fast.

Congratulatons to Amelia Erian, Jack Roberts, Marli Gomes and Jules Cross who competed in the Chipping Norton Network Public Speaking Finals on Thursday at George’s Hall Public School. We are all extremely proud of our your achievements!

A special congratulations to Jules who was selected as the winner of the Stage 3 finals and will be competing at the Grand Final in November.

Well done to the students who competed in the regional spelling bee finals last week. We are extremely proud of your achievements.

Jules Cross - 2nd place and Round 6

Natalie Bolger - Round 6

Mehar Gupta - 8th place and Round 5

Juliette Zammit - Round 1

Thank you to our community and our hardworking P&C for funding one of our new soccer goals. The new goals are on our top oval and have already been put to good use. A special thanks also to Mr Royce who has installed extra posts on the oval to cater for our AFL teams and the primary students when in the playground. 

Code Camp Spring School Holidays: These Spring holidays Code Camp are returning to Hammondville Public School to teach your child to code, or to help them continue on their coding adventure! Code Camp has already taught more than 50,000 students in Australia and is a great way to spend time over the holidays as kids have lots of fun with friends while learning important new skills including logic, creativity, problem-solving, app development and game building. It’s fun and engaging, and gets them prepared to take on the digital world of the future.This season from Wednesday the 2nd- Friday the 4th of October, Hammondville Public School will be hosting Spark and 2D Game Makers. The cost is $350 for 3 days. 

• ​​Spark Grades 2-6, New Students : Fun, engaging and challenging… and are our most known Code Camp that over 25,000 students have completed. Code Camp Spark is where every student in years 2-6 should start their Code Camp journey.

• 2D Game Makers Grades 2-6, Returning Students: The next step in your child's game-making and coding journey. Your child will confidently learn the code and logic to create flashing gems, invisibility cloaks, spinning platforms, mini-games, bouncing clouds, shrinking potions and so much more! We asked 10,000 Spark kids what they'd love to create next, and then put our creative team to the task of bringing this to life as a brand new course. Mission accomplished. But we also added more logic, more code, more problem solving... and introduced JavaScript, the language of the web!

Code Camp has also been working with Service NSW and are proud to announce that they are one of the first approved providers eligible for the $100 Creative Kids rebate! Just enter booking to receive $100 back on you enrolment. Please click on the following link for more information: www.codecamp.com.au/creative-kids-nsw

To register go to http://www.codecamp.com.au/hammondville

Regional Athletics Carnival - Friday 13th September, 2019

Going in to the semi-finals and finals of the PSSA competition, students who are competing, as well as parents and spectators are reminded of the Liverpool Zone PSSA Code of Conduct, which our school strongly supports.

· The goals of the game are to have fun and improve skills. Be modest in success and generous in defeat.

· Play for the fun of it.

· Play by the rules and always respect the decisions of officials.

· Make no criticism either by word or gesture. Deliberately distracting or provoking an opponent or player is not acceptable or permitted in any sport.

· Be a good sport. Applaud good performance and efforts from all individuals and teams. Congratulate all participants on their performance regardless of the game’s outcome.

· Condemn unsporting behaviour and promote respect for opponents.

· Condemn the use of violence in any form.

· Respect the rights, dignity and worth of all participants regardless of their gender, ability, cultural background or religion.

· Place the safety and welfare of the participants above all else.

Junior Netball Semi-Finals

Hammondville v Newbridge Heights: 10-12 loss

Player of the Match: Jordyn Green

Hammondville vs Prestons: 30-12 win

Players of the Match: Byren Talataina and Aidan Lewis

Seniors Rugby League Semi-Finals

Hammondville vs Nuwarra: 12-48 loss

Player of the Match: the whole team

Girls Junior A Soccer Semi-Finals

Hammondville vs Dalmeny: 1-5 loss

Goal Scorer: Holly Salzmann

Player of the Match: Tia Youssef

Congratulations girls on making it through to the semi finals. Unfortunately we didn't win on Friday but you all should be extremely proud of yourselves. Your hard work, determination, team work and attitude is a credit to you all. Well done on a great season.

Well done to our Superstars of School Sport who showed sportsmanship, enjoyment and skill in this week's school sport activities.

Basketball - Natalie Pou, Eilah Riches, Naho Kawamura and Shyanne Lockhart

League Tag - Mira Alzoubi, Ben Galway, Hunter Kayess and Rawayda Shwan,

Soccer - Jarrod Gibbons, Daniel Brun, Ryan Sookee and Kweli Peroumal-Swift

Socc'et - Zander Page, Jessica Philpott, Natalie Paul and Logan Douglas

All the best to the following students who are competing at the Sydney South-West Athletics Carnival this Friday 13th September:

Miriam Gauld - 800m, 1500m, long jump, high jump and relay

Kalani Godinet - 100m, 200m and relay

Aidan Lewis - 100m, 200m and relay

Annabelle James - 100m and relay

Tarryn Leggatt - 800m and 1500m

Oscar Lindbom - shot put and discus

Isabella Muc - 800m and 1500m

Cooper Wilson - 1500m and relay

Antonio Zammit - long jump and relay

Jack Blake - relay

Justin Brown - relay

Emily Campbell - 200m

Zak Cridge - relay

Mason Gomes - 1500m

Emily Hartland - relay

Jaxson Horton - discus

Nathan Johnstone - relay

Kylan Larkins - 800m

Lemeki Ngalu - relay

Sienna Sprice - high jump

Mya Tiller - 100m

Taine Vamarasi - shot put

Shelby Whiting - shot put

This term, our school will be participating in the NSW Premier's Sporting Challenge which is a 10 week challenge for students. Award levels for the 10 week challenge reflect a daily activity time commitment. Students aged 5-18 should accumulate at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity every day, which in the challenge equates to a gold award. Activities may include time spent in a broad range of sports and recreational pursuits during lunchtime, in school sport programs, class time, before or after school and on weekends.

Students in Years 3-6 received a logbook at the beginning of the term and they use this to record their weekly physical activity. At the end of the term students in 3-6 will be asked to hand in their log book if they achieve a Diamond level.

Students in K-2 do not receive log books for record keeping but receive a Gold award at the end of the challenge. Children should be encouraged throughout the challenge to be active daily and establish healthy habits. Students in K-2 received a fridge magnet at the beginning of the challenge.

Award Level - Daily Activity Time

Bronze - 30 minutes per day

Silver - 45 minutes per day

Gold - 60 minutes per day

Diamond - 80 minutes per day

Tuesday's Tempting Treat:- Fried Rice $3.00 each, available at recess and lunchtime. 

Regards,

Tracey & Sue

Last week the Canteen donated $40.00 to Legacy from the fundraising jar. Thank you to everyone who contributed.

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

Prices:

All logo items are $2:00

Dresses, Parkas & Bags are $5:00

Thank you,

Tracey

27 September - Colour Run

1 November - Halloween Disco

4 November - P&C Meeting

29 November - Christmas Carols and Concert Save the date!  

Marlene Greenwood
P&C President

Military life comes with unique pressures and challenges for both members and families. Taking care of our mental health and wellbeing is vital.

The Defence Family Helpline is available for support - 1800 624 608

Here are some other resources that may be helpful:

Apps -             PTSD Coach        High Res        Operation Life

Websites -     at-ease.dva.gov.au 
                            mentalhealth.asn.au
                            understandinganxiety.org.au
                            WayAheadDirectory.org.au

24 Hour Counselling -
Mental Health Line    1800 011 511
beyondblue                  1300 224 636
Domestic Violence Line  1800 656 463
Kids Helpline                 1800 551 800
LifeLine                           131114
Mensline Australia       1300 789 978

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