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Recently, when our K-2 and 3-6 lost property was sorted there were 85 jumpers, jackets and a few hats with no names. Items of clothing are expensive so to find that many unnamed is a shame. Please remember to mark your child’s clothes (particularly jumpers and hats) with his/her first name and surname so they can easily be returned. If your child loses an item, please ask them to go to lost property with a friend the following day. Currently our amazing office staff are spending far too much of their precious time sorting through unclaimed lost property. Please note that any items without names are given to our 2nd hand uniform shop to re -sell.

Just a reminder that summer uniform is only worn terms 1and 4 and winter uniform is worn for terms 2 & 3. This is regardless of the weather and is common practice in all schools. Please also ensure that trainers are not worn with the winter uniform as only black leather shoes should be worn, unless it is your child’s sports day. Thanks for your assistance in keeping our students looking smart so we can all be proud of the students of Harbord Public School.

Last Friday was National Jersey Day. This was an opportunity for our staff to raise awareness for The Organ and Tissue Awareness Authority. Thanks to Mrs Iacovitti for organising this initiative for us. 

Unfortunately, we have had to suspend all face to face school tours due to COVID 19 restrictions. Please contact the school office to get your name on our virtual tour list and an email will be sent home. At this stage, kindergarten orientation is also on hold. We are in the process of planning a remote package if the restrictions are still in place.

A reminder that enrolments are open for Kindergarten in 2021. Please contact the office to be sent an enrolment form and return it to us at your earliest convenience with your 100 point residential address check. If you have a sibling already at this school, it is important that you, too, enrol your child for 2021 as soon as possible, so that we have an accurate idea of student numbers. Student numbers directly influence and affect our staffing allocation, so it is helpful to know our enrolment for 2021 as early as possible.

Susan Tickle

Principal

Parents, we need your help.  At Harbord, we are keen to encourage children to ride their bikes to school, however, this needs to be done safely.  As part of our PDH curriculum we teach road and bike safety in class.  It is also important that you remind your children to stay safe while riding.  Recently, teachers and members of the community have seen Harbord students riding on the road and crossing the road on bikes in a dangerous manner.  Please help us keep our students safe by discussing with them how to ride safely around roads. 

I am currently working with the P&C to revise our riding to school policy and to help educate our students and families about bike safety.  In the meantime, please refer to this publication from the Department of Education. 

For Children’s Week, the Office of the Advocate for Children and Young People together with the NSW Children’s Week Council is inviting entries for the NSW Children’s Week 2020 Art Competition. Children’s Week runs from 24 October to 1 November 2020.

The competition is open to all children and young people up to the age of 18 living in NSW. Children and young people can enter by creating an artwork to show how they are keeping safely connected with their family, friends and community during this time.

More information can be found here: https://www.digitallunchbreak.nsw.gov.au/activities/arts-crafts/childrens-week-2020-art-competition

What a treat it was to witness an impromptu performance of the band this morning.  Under the guidance of Mrs Sandie Rose-Castle, the band have creatively adapted to the new COVID restrictions.  At lines this morning, some students demonstrated their new performance skills with an entertaining recycled instrument percussion piece.  We were so impressed that Mrs Hanlon asked for an encore.

Danielle Yates

Deputy Principal

There is a parent component of the TTfM survey. We would like as many parents as possible to give feedback around student learning, wellbeing and engagement. This information will be triangulated against student and teacher responses and used to help with our next four year School Improvement Plan (SIP).

Parents can access the survey from the link below. The survey is now open and will close on Friday 23rd October, 2020.

http://nsw.tellthemfromme.com/Harbordps20

Last week Ava and Lexie came to share their beautiful handwriting. They were practising the correct formation of letters and the different ways to make the ‘or’ sound. We looked at letters that were touching the top and bottom lines and were sloped correctly. They then identified a letter that they could work on to improve. Great effort and reflection girls!

All Kindergarten classes have been learning about animals. They have then incorporated facts and information into their writing. Congratulations to Kai and Harvey for their impressive writing about koalas. Keep up the great effort, boys!

Just a reminder to parents of students starting school in 2021, we be holding a Zoom parent information session on Tuesday 27th October at 6:00pm. Parents can register for the meeting via our school website. Parents are required to have a Zoom account to register for the meeting. 

A huge thank you to the wonderful families that have donated Lego and board games that are no longer being used. We are still accepting donations and they can be dropped at our office where we will let them sit for 24hrs to ensure safety for all staff and students.

Lisa Miller

Deputy Principal

For the past two weeks, Mrs Yates, Miss Wright and myself have had the privilege of working with the Kindergarten team in mathematics. The focus for the two weeks was additive strategies. Students move through the Numeracy Progression using fingers and objects, visualising covered objects in their mind, counting on to add, counting back to take away, to using non-count by one strategies such as doubles, near doubles, friends of ten and bridging to ten.

Students participated in a variety of activities including, friends of ten snap, technology tasks and tens frame activities.  I encourage you to ask your Kindergarten child to teach you one of the activities they completed in the past two weeks.

Tanya Scicluna

Instructional Leader

Over the next few weeks students will revisit the PBL expectations at assembly lines, when walking to and from lines and when moving around the playground. Our aim is to ensure our PBL expectations - Respect, Responsibility and Personal Best are being practised at all times in these areas to ensure safety and efficiency when moving around our school.

Students will revisit discussions about being at lines on time, listening carefully to any messages, walking calmly, respectfully and safely, staying together as a class, and acknowledging other classes around respectfully when moving to and from lines safely. Discussion will also fall around some changes to playground boundaries for Years K-2 and Years 3-6 to ensure Department of Education and Health NSW COVID-19 guidelines continue at our school.

Eagle Rock winners have been excitedly spending their Eagle Rock canteen vouchers. Eagle rock winners have been:

Kindergarten: Harper KY, Finlay KR, Lucy KW, Mia KD, Olivia KS, Annabel KH, Talia KI, Clayton KI, Freddie KP.

Year 1: Connor 1N, William 1S, Blair 1H, Thomas 1G, Thomas 1A, Finlay 1I, Anna 1F.

Year 2: Jack 2A, Henry 2T, Lachie 2B, Reef 2W, Tasya 2L.

Year 3: Charles W 3H, Felix B 3L, Akari T 3K, Cooper O 3N, Jude T 3R, Liliana B 3B.

Year 4: Baylie 4A, Lucy 4C, Mitch 4W, Juliana 4M, Torin 4H.

Year 5: Phoebe 5S, Milo 5W, Isabel 5F, Jasper 5A, Levi 5L Max 5D.

Year 6: Finn 6N, Freddy 6K, Jasmin 6M, Geni 6H, Morgan 6Y. 

Jo Fazzolari,

Assistant Principal and PBL Coordinator

Harbord Public School is participating in a free virtual running and walking event called the Zaidee’s Run for Life which supports the Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation.

Zaidee's Rainbow Foundation partners with various organisations and members of the sporting community and hosts events that promote an active lifestyle.

Zaidee Turner passed away suddenly in 2004 when she was 7 years old. At the time of Zaidee’s death the Turner family had been registered Organ and Tissue Donors for 5 years. Zaidee donated her Organs and Tissues at the Royal Children’s Hospital, as were her wishes at the time. From this gift, the lives of seven other people were improved or saved. Zaidee’s parents, Kim and Allan, founded Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation to raise awareness of the need for increased organ and tissue donor registration in Australia. 

Get the family involved this October, each of you can register for the Run for Life event as part of the Harbord Public School Team and select a challenge distance to run or walk over the month of October as well as a fundraising target. Once you start your event, you can add your Km’s manually to your activity page using the instruction sheet attached.

Be sure to share your progress with your friends, family and supporters so they can watch you achieve your target over the month and contribute to your fundraising.

Because this is a virtual event, you can complete your walking or running in your own space and your own time so that you are able to socially distance.

As a team, Harbord Public School is hoping to make a difference to the lives of those in need.

Be sure to join as part of our team using the link: https://www.zaidee.org/join/HarbordPublicSchool9

The Public Space Ideas Competition is a recent initiative of the New South Wales government, established to highlight the value of public space. The pandemic we have encountered in 2020 has certainly shown us the importance of public spaces in supporting the mental, physical and social wellbeing of our community. Over the last few weeks Year 6 students have been working hard to submit applications on behalf of Harbord Public School. Students have given up their lunchtimes to work on this project and done a fantastic job creating revised designs for Harbord Park. They were required to write a 250 word description to support their sketches and worked collaboratively to put their ideas together. The P&C have also submitted an application, so let’s keep our fingers crossed! 

Well done to all the students involved, we are very proud of the effort you put into your submissions! 

Miss Young and Miss Norwood 

HPS successfully completed the class and individual photo day on Monday, 17th August. A reminder that Sibling Photo day is scheduled for Thursday 17th September, 2020

 All students are to wear winter school uniform for the photographs.

 Families can order photographs for their child/children in two ways:

The photographs will be taken using the prepaid system. Students need to return the order envelopes to their class teacher or place an online order before the scheduled photograph date.

 It is our preference that orders be placed online to reduce administration and potential security issues related to the return of cash and envelopes.

Natalie Hanlon

Assistant Principal

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 23rd September at 7.30pm on Zoom. Everyone is welcome to attend. Register here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUkd-utpzsqG9f67a9lJhBIPt4h0nS2fSV7

I have contacted Transport NSW to request that they extend the school zone and alter the traffic light sequence outside the school. I am waiting for them to respond.

Remember to walk to school whenever possible to show the council how much we need more pedestrian crossings in the area!

If you notice any lights out in the area, visit https://www.ausgrid.com.au/In-your-community/Our-services/Streetlights#!/map and type in the street to identify at the lights in the street then submit your report. Ausgrid will fix any broken lights. If you think a light is being obscured by an overgrown tree, call the Northern Beaches Council on 1300 434 434 and they will send out the tree-trimmers.

Nick Richter has submitted our entry for the Public Spaces Ideas Competition and it looked great! Hopefully we will hear something soon…

Danielle Yates and several parent reps, led by Tati, have been working on putting together an HPS bike policy so that younger students are able to safely ride to school and secure their bikes. This will involve installing more bike racks in the school grounds. Great news for all!

For the month of October, we are asking HPS families to support Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation by signing up to the virtual walking/running event. Fundraising is not compulsory but it would be great to see as many families as possible clock up a whole lot of kms! Challenge your neighbours or class mates – just get moving and have fun! More information will be sent out before the end of term.

You can join the HPS team here:

https://www.zaidee.org/join/HarbordPublicSchool9

Let me know if you have any issues you would like raised at our next meeting. Email president@harbordpandc.com.au

Heather Lawson

P&C President

What you get in the year:

·         Unlimited classes & gym access

·         Weekly check in’s for support and guidance

·         Unlimited access to Inbody scanner

·         Nutritional guidance & access to meal plans

·         Joining a friendly & supportive community

Simply enter the draw via the link below to go in the draw:

https://www.code5.com.au/join-the-draw-now/

The office staff will sort any lost property once a week. If clothing is labelled the item will be returned to the student's classroom. If items are not labelled they will eventually end up in the secondhand clothing pool.

IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT TO LABEL ALL SCHOOL BELONGINGS

P&C Uniform Shop

Please use Corella Street driveway

Tuesday 2.30 - 4pm

Thursday 8.30 - 10.30am

uniforms@harbordpandc.com.au

Secondhand Uniform Shop

Please enter via kindy gate off Corella Street

Tuesday 2.30 - 3.15pm

Thursday 8.30 - 9.15am

useduniforms@harbordpandc.com.au

Social distancing applies so please wait outside the shops if we are already helping others.

 What you get in the year:

• Unlimited classes & gym access
• Weekly check in’s for support and guidance
• Unlimited access to Inbody scanner
• Nutritional guidance & access to meal plans
• Joining a friendly & supportive community

Simply enter the draw via the link below to go in the draw:

https://www.code5.com.au/join-the-draw-now/