Ralston Avenue Belrose NSW 2085 Phone: 9451 6203 www.belrose-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Email: belrose-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au

NEWSLETTER DATE: 19 March 2020 TERM 1, WEEK 8

Belrose Public School

Principal’s Message

Belrose OSHC Centre Phone: 0430 247 493

Dates WELCOME We welcome Aurelia to 5D. The students are excited about having Au-relia and her family within the Belrose PS community. CONTINUED GREAT LEARNING AND TEACHING AT BELROSE We continue to have all of our teachers doing a magnificent job with teaching our students. Along with our class programs, our curricular activities are proceeding as we are looking forward to presenting our instrumental, songs and dance routines later in the year. We continue to update the community on the latest developments from the Depart-ment of Education and Department of Health. In keeping with the gen-eral community advice, we have four main messages: -Clean your hands with soap and water, or hand sanitiser -Cover your nose and mouth when you cough or sneeze -Avoid close contact with anyone with cold or flu like symptoms -Stay home if you are sick. Our teachers and their students need to remain healthy during current times, so please continue to work with us by not sending your children to school with flu related symptoms. If we need to communicate promptly with parents, it will be through email and the Parent Facebook page. If our school is ever closed, the teachers and students already use the digital platforms of Google Suite for Education and Seesaw depository of learning to share work. Other subscriptions of imaths, mathletics, soundswaves spelling, Sunshine reading, World Book and Reading eggs could be utilised, if required.

A KIG group of students enjoying Captain Captain

Term 1 2020

Monday 30 March Class visits for awards

Thursday 2 April School Cross Country Postponed

Friday 3 April Disco P&C Postponed

Monday 6 April Class visits for awards Awards Day Postponed

Tuesday 7 April P&C Meeting 7.15pm

Thursday 9 April Easter Hat Parade within classrooms Last Day of Term 1

Friday 19 March Canteen open Tennis on Come ready for school and class sport

MON TUES WED THUR FRI

YR 3 AND CLASS 4M IN NON ASSEMBLY WEEKS (REFER TO CALENDAR)

YR1

YR2

YR 3

YR 4

YR 5

YR 6

K—6

WEARING OF SPORTS UNIFORM

Monday 27 April Staff Development Day

Tuesday 28 April 1st Day of Term 2 Students Return

Term 2 2020

THANK YOU YEAR 6, 2019 Our Year 6 gifts to the school have been delivered consisting of 8 ipads, covers and a docking station. We are also testing a Portable Tablet Stage Stand for an ipad so that students’ work can be mirrored onto the commboxes. All classrooms have 80 inch 4G touchscreen commboxes as well as our library and ICT rooms. We are the only school within our Community of Schools to replace all out-dated technology. Our students and teachers deserve the best. ‘EARLY READING SUCCESS’ INFORMATION SESSION Thank you to Mrs Green and Mrs Iwakura for presenting ‘Early Reading Success’ to our parents last week. SCHOOL INTERVIEWS At this stage, we are unable to do the interviews in weeks 10 and 11. We will update you in time. EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST Thank you Year 6 parents for returning the EOI forms for high school for 2021. Please complete all booklets, regardless of at-tending an independent school by tomorrow. EASTER HAT PARADE WITHIN CLASSROOMS We are going to continue to have our Easter Hat Parade but within each classroom on the last day. Students are asked to de-sign a hat of non-perishable objects. As the students move through the grades, many are able to reuse their hats from previous years. The event will occur on Thursday, 9 April during class time, unfortunately without parents. Students wear mufti/play clothes to school on this day. Maybe a special and healthy furry friend may visit the school that day! BULLYING NO WAY Each child will be receiving a wristband tomorrow. The band represents our school’s stance against bullying. Our school has a No Bullying policy of which the main message is that it will not be tolerated at any time and in any form. Although students may refer to the word ‘bullying’ it is often used loosely today. Students disagreeing or bickering over an event or during a discussion are then accused of bullying. Teachers from time to time may present a lesson or have ‘circle time’ which focuses on this area. Our message is clear that students need to speak out if bullying occurs, especially if it is witnessed by peers. All of our staff are here for all students and they investigate promptly. The free bands may be worn each day until the end of term to school. Belinda Zorian Principal belinda.storr@det.nsw.edu.au FROM COMMBANK SCHOOL BANKING The health, safety and wellbeing of our communities and our people is our first priority. Due to the developing situation with coro-navirus, School Banking has been temporarily paused from 20 March 2020 until the start of Term 2. Please don’t bring your de-posit book with your weekly banking into school and we will notify you when banking will recommence.

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Congratulations To Our Bronze Awards Recipients

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Observe Problem Behaviour

Belrose P.S. Managing Inappropriate Behaviour

Conference with student using Restorative Practices

Follow PBL MINOR Behaviour Response

Follow PBL MAJOR Behaviour Response

No Yes

Behaviour stops

Behaviour continues

Give positive

verbal/social

acknowledgement

5-10 minutes timeout in class-room/playground

Record incident in Sentral

If behaviour continues

Refer to Executive for a

Reflection Session

KINDERGARTEN STUDENTS

Record on Sentral (web-based admin software) and then

discussed with supervisor for appropriate consequence

Disrespectful Behaviour

Rough Play

Inappropriate language

Exclusion

Physical Contact – non serious but inappropriate

Incorrect wearing of uni-form

Disruption in class (talking while teacher is speaking, loud voices or noises in class)

Lying

Out of Bounds

Sustained disrespectful or disruptive behaviour

Physical Violence

Abusive or Explicit Lan-guage

Spitting

Bullying

Stealing

Damaging Property

Disrespectful behaviour towards teachers

Repeated minor inappro-priate behaviour

Aggressive and threaten-ing behaviour

Truanting

Actions considered crimi-nal or delinquent behav-iour

Minor Teacher Managed

Major Executive Managed

Monitored daily

PROCEED TO MAJOR RE-SPONSE PROCEDURE, IF DEEMED APPROPRIATE

Depending on the severity and frequency of breaches of the Whole School Expectations, a student may by-pass some steps in this program of Managing Inap-propriate Behaviour. At any point teachers can refer the student to the Learning Support Team.

Is Behaviour Executive

Managed?

Inform student of behaviour

Violation. State expected

Behaviour. Refer student to

Executive

In Classroom-call office for

PRINCIPAL or AP ASSISTS TEACHER ON DUTY

INCIDENT INVESTIGAT-ED BY AP. Consequence

given – Reflection Session and/or stern warning. Rec-

ord on Sentral

Student attends a Reflection Session the following lunch time with Executive. Parent

Letter sent home to be signed and returned the fol-lowing day. Parent may be

2 MAJOR INCIDENCES Parents contacted by AP/

Principal Meeting to devise a behaviour action plan to

PRINCIPAL

WARNING SUSPENSION

LETTER OR SUSPENSION

Parents Contacted Incident recorded on Sentral

Response to ALL student problem behaviour is: Calm, Consistent, Brief, Immediate, Respectful and Private

Remind Student of the class/playground expectations

PSSA HAS BEEN CANCELLED CROSS COUNTRY HAS BEEN POSTPONED SENIOR CRICKET

Today we were playing Terrey Hills. They beat us 37-69. I think the player of the match should be Tim for improving in his bowl-ing and batting. It was a tough game.

James N

JUNIOR CRICKET

Today at Wyatt Oval we lost 61-58 against Terrey Hills. We need to work on our bowling because we constantly bowled wide balls so this week at training we will work on our bowling. The highlight of the game was the great communication from our team. The player of the match was Lachlan A.

Ryan W

SOFTBALL A

On Friday we played an excellent game and won 10-9, it was so close. The player of the match goes to someone who tried hard which is Sahraa because she did a great job as catcher. Ruby did a great job at sneaking and Ella did a fabulous job at pitching.

Lilah O

T-BALL A

We had an awesome game against Terrey Hills with a score of 12-4. Belrose won. The player of the match was Lily. She was a great pitcher and batted very well. The captain was Hayley. We had a great game with Terrey Hills, they played really well.

Ella L & Charli B

T-BALL B

Well done to all the T-Ball players. T-Ball B’s score was 22-15. Our batting was really consistent. Great job for the win and the player of the match is Harper S because of her confident catching and batting.

Emma C

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Sport News

Students of the Week

KIG Holly P Jasmine P

1S Holly N Tom W

1K Sam J Kree L

2J Isaac A Lily F Lucas R

3K Zac M Sonja A

3W Chelsea T Harry F

4M Alex S Angela G

4/5S Gemma E Peirson C

5D James H Leah R

6M Amber R James N

P & C News

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 CANTEEN NEWS Health and safety guidelines adopted. Parent volunteers need to be well to attend.

Friday 20 March Monday 23 March Wednesday 25 March Jacqui Power No volunteers as yet No volunteers as yet We still desperately need volunteers. Please click on the link and check the roster if you’d be so kind to spend some time helping out. https://volunteersignup.org/ATRTD P&C Look out for our annual awesome Easter Raffle, great prizes on offer. UNIFORM SHOP Thank you to everyone for using Flexischools for your Uniform Shop needs. Please note that Flexischool orders do not get emailed to me until after 5pm on the day the order is placed. Therefore, I am not receiving orders placed on the day the Uniform Shop is open (Thursdays) until after 5pm. Orders placed on this day will not be fulfilled until the following Thursday when the Uniform Shop re-opens. Thank you.

Lou Webb

Big Bi hday Coming by 1K

On Monday Mum pointed to the calendar. I got excited. “Your birthday is soon” said Mum

On Tuesday my birthday was still not here. On Wednesday Mum was panicking trying to

get everything ready. On Thursday my birthday was still not here.

On Thursday afternoon my dog found all the party food!! On Friday my party was still not here.

We bought more food, made the cake and decorated our house. On Saturday my party was here!!

Fantastic Fun Awesome Epic Party

Written by 1K

Inspired by the book ‘Big rain Coming’ by Katrina Germein

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