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Teamwork Respect Responsibility Honesty

Important Dates

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Indo Corner

Term 2|Week 2|2nd May 2017

“You can’t

stop the

waves, but

you can learn

to surf”

John

Kabat-Zin

Bagian Badan (Body Parts)

Term 2 2017

Friday 5/5/17

District Cross Country

Tues-Thurs 9/5 - 11/5/17

NAPLAN (Year 3 and Year 5)

Wednesday 10/5/17

P&C Meeting in LLLC at 4.30pm

Friday 19/5/17

MNC Cross Country

Friday 26/5/17

School Athletics Carnival

Friday 2/6/17

Small Schools Athletics Carnival

Muka - Face

Hidung - Nose

Mata - Eyes

Mulut - Mouth

Telinga - Ear

Leher - Neck

Lengan - Arm

Tangan - Hand

Jari Tangan - Finger

Siku - Elbow

Perut - Stomach

Kaki - Leg / Foot

Lutut - Knee

Jari Kaki - Toe

Punggung - Back

Macksville Show 2017

Last weekend was the

Annual Macksville Show.

Scotts Head Public School

entered a beautiful display

of art and craft creations in

the Valley Schools Art

Display Competition. We

hope that families and

friends who got the

opportunity to see the

displays enjoyed all the

amazing entries!

This year unfortunately we

did not receive a place

however, there’s always

next year!

Weekly round up

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LMBR Financial changes for NSW public schools - What is it?

LMBR stands for Learning Management and Business Reform.

The entire Department of Education is in the process of

implementing a modern, integrated IT system in human

resources, payroll, finance and student administration to

provide better service and value to staff, students, parents and

the community. It will impact on every facet of school life.

Among other things, LMBR will provide:

• Accurate reporting of financial operations.

• Better definition and reporting on services.

• A unique and secure student registration number and single

source of up-to-date information about our students.

• Increased and improved information about student

academic achievement and plans.

• Better tracking of important health, well-being and

emergency contact information.

Thanks to Jo Lane, Kelly Pacey and Julie Gooch for their

willingness to take on the significant retraining throughout

Term 2, to do with the implementing a standardised finance

system (SAP) and new financial processes as part of the

Learning Management and Business Reform. The new system

will go live on 4th September.

Family Support

Families are the first educators of their children and they

continue to influence their children’s learning and

development during the school years and long afterwards. This

is why it is important for families and schools to work together

in partnership and henceforth the interest to establish an

OOSH. OOSH stands for Out of School Hours childcare for

school aged children from Kinder to Year 6 providing a safe,

Principal’s Column Principal Awards Honesty Congratulations to Harry, Cohen, Callum and Isaac

Indigenous Seasonal Calendar

supervised caring environment from 2.45pm to

6.00pm.

We are interested to know your thoughts about the

possibility of setting up after school care at Scotts

Head Public School. A survey is attached to the

newsletter to find out if their is a need for an OOSH at

the school. We need a minimum of 30 students who

would access the service to apply for funding. Please

complete the survey attached to this newsletter and

return it the office by Friday 5th.

Thanks to all the students for the work that was

displayed in our entry into the Macksville Show.

Thanks to Bu Bettina and Mrs B for the time and

energy you put into putting the display together and

collection.

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Aboriginal people are deeply connected to their land. Each clan

has a knowledge of their area and the season changes and signs

for that area.

Our latest project at school is to get the students through art

drawing with Nelli to identify and collate our local Indigenous

seasons.

Traditional knowledge, like that captured in these Indigenous

seasons calendars, can tell us much about the ecology of our local

area and have distinct ways of dividing the year up.

Parent Information - reminders

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District Cross Country

Will be held this Friday 5th May at Bowraville. Please have permission notes in by

Wednesday.

Book Club—Issue 3

Book Club Orders are due back by Friday 12th May.

Senior Excursion to Canberra—Term 3 Week 3—Monday 31st July to Friday 4th August

The next note including the payment plan for the Senior excursion has gone home today

with more information regarding the Senior Excursion.

Links

School website:

http://www.scottshead-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

School facebook

page:

https://www.facebook.com/

scottsheadpublicschool?

fref=ts

Skoolbag Application:

Search “Scotts Head Public

School” in the app store.

8.30am Morning

Supervision (in

cola)

Start

School

9.00am

9.00am until

11.00am

Morning Session

(Crunch and Sip)

11.00am Lunch

11.50—1.30

pm

Middle Session

1.30 pm Recess

2.00pm-3pm Afternoon

Session

Bell Times

Remember to send in a

note if your child is

absent from school.

After 7 days, the system

automatically records as

an “Unexplained

Absence”.

Mother’s Day Lamingtons - We will be selling trays of

lamingtons for Mother’s Day this year. Order forms

went home last week, please have your orders in by

4th May (this Thursday).

School Jumpers - Our order has arrived, if you have

sent in a blue order form, you can now collect from the

office.

Canteen Term 2 Roster - If you would like to help in the

canteen this term, please contact our Canteen

Supervisor Rachel via text 0424 604 314 or email

rachelhickey@hotmail.com.

Meeting - The next P&C meeting will be held on Wednesday 10th May at 4.30pm in the

LLLCC. Please come along to support our school.

P&C News

Canteen Roster

Week 2

MON 1/5 Rachel

WED 3/5 Rachel

Week 3

MON 8/5 Rachel

WED 10/5 Rachel

Indonesian Puppet Workshop Year 3 /4 and 5/6

Artist Jumsaadi Jumaadi will present a workshop to Year 3/4 and Year 5/6 students

who are studying a Culture, Language, Arts in Schools Project (CLASP) visual arts unit

based on his work. He will present an overview of his personal work and facilitate

students creating individual shadow puppet characters and stories, subsequently

combining as a group to form a cohesive narrative whole. His teaching will also involve

techniques in modern shadow puppet creation, manipulation of light and shadows,

vocal and instrumental sound effects and using traditional arts forms in modern

contacts.

Jumaadi’s work was the basis for the CLASP visual arts unit and his experience moving

between cultures using creative process will be invaluable to the students’ experience.

Jumaadi is a successful artist who shows regularly at the Museum of Contemporary Art

in Sydney, and has participated in Australia’s group exhibition at the Moscow Biennale.

Jumaadi interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKlKKRnLUI

Jumaadi performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsM4hpZWsrM

Thanks to Bu Bibi for making this all

possible with a grant application and lots

of organisation in her own time.

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Weekly Round Up

On Monday 1st May, we travelled to Macksville High School to watch the

annual Year 10 Drama class performance. A mixture of puppet shows, circus

acts and clowns.

The puppet show featured a variety of topics and messages including fire

safety, bullying and road safety. The clowns were an absolute hit getting up to

all sorts of shenanigans. Lots of laughter in the audience and we were lucky

to meet the actors at the end of the show!

When we were getting out of the bus on our return to school the lovely bus

driver commented how well behaved students of SHPS are and are always a

pleasure to be with!

Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 Excursion to Macksville High School

This term as part of our Sporting Schools grant all

students will be participating in Tennis provided by a

local representative from Tennis Australia, Kylie Hunt.

Later in the term the Year 3/4 will be involved in a local

competition at Macksville Tennis Club in Week 8.

The tennis programs aim is to provide more

opportunities for people to play tennis more often and to

support students with movement confidence and

capabilities acquisition through structured and

unstructured play. There is a particular emphasis on

helping students understand the game of tennis as well

as being able to play a variety of modified tennis games

which are suited to the school environment.

Tennis

Good luck to all our students who will be going to Bowraville on

Friday to compete in the District Cross Country. Thanks to all the

parents for providing transport on the day to make this opportunity

available for our students. This year due to the changes going on in

our school we will not be sending a teacher.

Any parents who are willing to help out on the day please let me

know as that would assist in the running of the event. Bu Gillian.

District Cross Country

Kinder 2018

Calling all prospective families

with students who could possibly

be starting Kinder in 2018. Can

you please call the school and

inform us of your child’s name,

age and phone number. If you

know of any families who don't

receive the newsletter, could you

please get them to get in contact

with the school.

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School News

Calling all parents who are keen to be part of

our Annual Spring Fair Committee. This year we

want our Spring Fair to be bigger and better and

need SHPS amazing community to come and

lend a hand.

Next Tuesday the 9th May at 3.30pm we are

having a get together to start preparations for

our Term 4 Spring Fair. Please come along and

join in the fun!

Spring Fair 2017

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Community News

Lifetime Connect

Playgroup

Scotts Head

Wednesday 3rd May 2017

Mix “n” Mess play

Leaf rubbing

Mini Trampoline

Car mat with cars

First Octons

Block with animals

Book Corner

Home Corner - Office Play Playgroup Contact Number: 0447 485 276

Routine

10am-10:55am – Planned Activities

10:55am-11am – Wash Hands

11am – 11:15am – Morning Tea

11:15am – 11:35am – Free Play

11:35am – 11:45am – Pack Away

11:45am – 12noon – Group Time

12noon – Home Time

Please

remember

to bring a hat

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