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UPCOMING IMPORTANT DATES PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

We are over half way through Term 2, and as usual it has been extremely busy with lots more to come before the end of the term! Our teachers are busy running first semester subject assessments, ready for the students’ reports to go home in Week 10. Stage 3 students are getting more and more excited as our Canberra/Snowfields Camp draws near. Our morning Coding Club is about to start and class finals are being held for the annual Poetry Recital competition. Also, last week our entire staff attended a 3 hour training session after work on Tuesday to maintain accreditation in CPR and Anaphylaxis Response Emergency Training. I had the pleasure of sitting in on our recent debate against Vardys Road PS. My goodness it was close! I was glad that I wasn’t the adjudicator - it was a very difficult decision as both teams argued their points very well. We were arguing for the affirmative that: Recess and Lunchtimes Should Be Extended in Schools. We won and our entire team is to be congratulated - Timekeepers: Haleigh and Hunter, Chairperson: Joanne, 1st Speaker: Arjun, 2nd Speaker: Mannat, 3rd Speaker: Danijela and Team Advisor: Emma. Well done everyone! I was very proud of you. Just a reminder to parents that there is no student supervision in our school prior to 8.30am in the morning. Playground supervision is provided from 8.30am onwards. If you send your child to school before this time you are placing them in an unsafe environment. Camp Australia provide before school care up to 8.30am. If this is not an option for you, please organise for your child to possibly wait with a neighbour until it is safe to walk to school and arrive after 8.30am. On the fundraising front we have also been very busy! Dymocks have included us this year in the annual list of schools to receive one of their Library Restocking Grants. They have very generously given us $4,300 to purchase books for our students. Our wonderful P&C has organised and distributed a mammoth Chocolate Drive that we hope will raise lots of money for our school. Keep those Woolworths Earn and Learn stickers coming - we trade them in for lots of valuable equipment each year and they form a large part of the “expenditure” we are able to use for extra equipment for our students. Also, it’s not too late to make your Voluntary Contribution of $45 per student ($70 per family) and these can be made throughout the year. It would be nice to have more than 15 families respond . If you have children who will be starting kindergarten next year, or know of friends and neighbours with school aged children, please pop in to see our lovely office ladies for enrolment forms and information for 2020. Have a great fortnight! Mrs Leigh Bade

Principal

7th June , 2019

Date

Event

24th May Winter PSSA begins

5th June BFOPA Choir rehearsal

10th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

11th June P& C meeting 6-7pm

12th June Area Cross Country

13th June Home Debate

17th June K-6 Assembly 2pm

19th June NSW Health Dental Assessments

26th June -28th June

Stage 3 Canberra Excursion

2nd July P& C Meeting

4th July Home Debate

5th July End of term

NB: Check the calendar regularly in our Newsletter, on our website

and on our school app—updates/changes are made as required.

Quote of The Week

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” - Anthony J. D’Angelo

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Focus on ICT

Students have been learning a range of new

skills and information while using

technology.

The capability to use information and communication technologies encompasses the knowledge, skills and behaviours to assist students to live and work successfully in the 21st century. The use

of ICT is included across all areas of the curriculum, allowing the students the opportunity to become competent, discriminating and creative users of ICT when investigating, creating and communicating ideas and information.

Web wonders- ICT Try these games and activities online!

Kahoot.com Sign up or play a range of free Kahoot quizzes online

or from your device.

typing.com is good for Years 3-6, and parents can easily sign

their children up for a free account to follow a learn to type program.

For K-2 students mousepractice.altervista.org has good basic

mouse skills activities that the children love.

Parent tip! Use Internet Explorer to play these types of games as the flash content may not work in other browsers

Dental Assessments Parents and Carers

Dental Staff from Blacktown /Mt Druitt Dental Hospital Clinics will

be visiting the school to provide Years Kindy, 2,4, and 6 with a

short talk regarding oral health information and diet advice plus a

Free Dental check on Wednesday 19th June .

Please return your Dental consent form by Friday 14th June to

your child’s class teacher.

Mid Year Reports 2019

Teachers are in the process of completing mid-year reports.

All students will receive their reports at the end of the term.

The reports comprehensively cover student progress for

Semester 1. As parent-teacher interviews were held in Term 1,

they will not be held at this time. The front cover of the report

explains the levels of assessment. Please note: if your child is

working at the expected level for their grade, then he/she is

working at a SOUND level.

Your child has been assessed against a number of indicators on

which the stage has been working this semester. The end of year

report will be reported against another set of indicators. Included

in the report will also be your child’s self-assessment of their

progress this term.

The staff has spent many hours in preparing the reports on the

students and they have been checked many times for errors.

However, as we are all human, it is possible that a report slips

through the many eyes that check it and it goes home with an

error in it. If you do find an error and would like a corrected copy

of the report, please let your child’s teacher know so that an

amended copy can be produced for you.

If you wish to discuss the report, please see your child’s teacher.

From the Office

Notes sent out - Camp Medical / Waiver note

- Cadbury note

- Dental Consent forms

Notes to be returned

Camp Medical / Waiver note

Dental consent form

Kindergarten Kindergarten have enjoyed learning to

log-on to the computer and are

developing their skills when navigating

the keyboard to type. They are

becoming more independent when

using the mouse to navigate to and

open programs as well as manipulating

the paintbrush and stamp tools when

using Tux Paint and other drawing

programs.

Stage 1 Students will be focusing on basic computer and word processing skills.

Stage 2 In Term 1 our Stage 2 classes had fun

using spreadsheets. The students were

able to use the fill-down function, create

graphs, format using colour and borders

as well as use basic formulae. These

skills were then applied to create a

budget and a run schedule for their

science projects. A flow chart was also

created using Google slides. Some

students inserted hyperlinks as a form

of navigation between their files.

Stage 3 Stage 3 students have been using Chromebook computers in science lessons to research sources of energy

used to generate electricity as well as the transformations required to deliver this energy to our homes. Some classes have also been using computers to

complete challenges and quizzes using Google Forms and Kahoot, a fun online program that allows the teacher to

present fast paced questions to the

class that are then instantly marked to provide feedback to each student.

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Positive Behaviours for Learning

Fortnightly focus

*Be Respectful : Office

*Go tot the office only with

permission

*Enter quietly

*Wait for someone to help you

VALUES Great people are :

* Hardworking

* Determind

* Focussed

* Responsible

* Disciplined

Awards

Congratulations to the following students on achieving their Silver

Awards this term.

1/2 Yellow –Gemma, Steven

3/4Magenta– Kgaon, Levi, Tahlia, Poppy & Jordan

3/4Ruby Angel & Thrishaa

Blacktown Festival of Performing Arts

This week our Choir and Recorder students travelled to

Hambledon Public School with Miss Gross and Mrs Thompson to

rehearse for the BFOPA.

This wonderful event is held in Term 3 each year and showcases

the amazing performances of students in the Blacktown Learning

community.

We look forward to seeing our students perform at this event!

Debating News

In Week 4, our debating team competed against a team from Vardys Road Public School on the topic “School recess and lunch times should be extended”. Our debaters are to be commended on their effort, working as a team to prepare a set of solid arguments that carried them to a win, confidently arguing the affirmative case

Following on from their success with wins in their first 2 debates, the team are now hard at work preparing for the next round in Week 7 when they will be arguing the affirmative case on the topic “Homework is useful”.

LPPS Mobile phone App

The Lynwood Park Public School App for smartphones and devices

may be downloaded from the Apple Store and Google Play store.

You can receive notifications about school events relevant to your

child’s grade or check out the calendar, photos or read the latest

newsletter. All you need to do is search for the school name ie

'lynwood park public school' in the relevant App Store and you will

be able to find the app to download. Once downloaded, you can log

in with:

Username : community

Password: lynwoodpk

Select the check box/es for the year in which your child is and you

will receive notifications relevant to those years only.

Uniforms

As it is getting colder please remind your child to dress warmly in

school uniform and wear their school jacket or jumper each day.

Please ensure all clothing is labelled with your child’s name so

it can be returned to them if it

has been misplaced.

If you have any spare school

jumpers or uniforms please

donate these to the school

office as it would be greatly

appreciated.

Be Respectful

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ENROL NOW FOR KINDER 2020

We are now taking enrolments for Kinder 2020.

Children enrolling in Kindergarten 2020 MUST turn 5 before 31

July, 2020. Please visit the office to obtain enrolment forms.

The forms should be returned as soon as possible so that we can

notify prospective parents with information about parent

information night and student orientation sessions to take place

next TERM.

If you know of any families with children who will be starting

Kindergarten next year, please let that them know enrolments are

now being taken.

Woolworths Earn & Learn

The Woolworths Earn and Learn program gives schools and Early

Learning Centres around Australia the chance to earn amazing school

equipment.

Between 1st May and 25 June, collect as many stickers as you can.

Stick them on the sticker sheets and give them to your local school or

drop them into the Lynwood Park collection box at Woolworths Kings

Langley and Woolworths Seven Hills.

Please support this program to help raise equipment for our wonderful

school.

Cadbury Fundraiser

Congratulations to our Cadbury Fundraiser winners Kaylee and David

Well done!

PSSA

In Week 4, our PSSA netball and soccer teams commenced their competitions. Both our soccer teams were treated to new repre-sentative shirts supplied by the P&C. The teams have had great games in the last two rounds and are demonstrating great sportsmanship after the game. On behalf of the team, we would like to thank the P&C for the shirts. We look like a winning school! Mr Gonzalez Coach

Cake Stall -Thank you Thank you to 3/4 Magenta, 3/4 Ruby and 5/6 Teal for providing the

cakes / biscuits and muffins for our last cake stall and to our stu-

dents for supporting this fundraiser to raise money for our school

Mrs Sinclair

Teaching & Learning Activities in Stage 2

Lynwood Park P&C News

We hope you are all having fun selling for our

delicious fundraiser. With the first week already

behind us we have our first WINNERS!

And the lucky winners are:

Kaylee from 2/3C who receives a $20 Stockland gift card

David from 5/6S who receives a Cadbury Hamper

Congratulations! We hope you will enjoy your prizes.

You have one (1) more week to sell! Please return all the money collected to the

school office in the envelope provided no later than Friday 14th June, 2019.

This week’s winner will be announced on Monday.

Don’t miss out on a chance to win some of our amazing prizes!!

• 2x Massive Cadbury hampers

• 2x $20 Stockland Mall Vouchers

• Massive 5kg Cadbury Favourites

Thanks for your support.

Please contact lynwoodparkpandc@gmail.com or Bec Collins 0404 081 748 if

you require more boxes or assistance.

CONNECT WITH THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY

To keep informed about what the P & C are up to Like us on Facebook.

www.facebook.com/lynwoodparkpandc

Our next P&C meeting

When: Tuesday 11 June 2019

Where: In the staffroom

Time: 6 pm

Enter via Turner Street gate

Children allowed though we ask if you could please bring a quiet activity to occupy them. New faces are welcomed!!!

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LYNWOOD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL

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LYNWOOD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL

ABSENTEE NOTE

(To be returned to class teacher first day back after absence)

STUDENT’S NAME:…………………………………………………… CLASS: ……….

Date of Absence/s: ………………………………………………………………………

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Signature of Parent / Caregiver ………………………………….. Date: ….. /….. /….

LYNWOOD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL

ABSENTEE NOTE

(To be returned to class teacher first day back after absence)

STUDENT’S NAME:…………………………………………………… CLASS: ……….

Date of Absence/s: ………………………………………………………………………

Reason for Absence/s …………………………………………………………………...

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