Penrith South Public School Opportunity Growth Success

172-190 Jamison Road Penrith NSW 2750 Phone: 4721 3160 Fax: 4731 1011 Email: penrithsth-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.penrithsth-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

PRINCIPAL’S MESSAGE Safe, Teamwork, Achieving, Respect

Every child’s journey at Penrith South Public School is one of purpose, high expectations, dignity and options.

Reports First semester reports will be sent home with students this Thursday. We encourage parents to read the school report with their children and discuss the progress each child is making. It is a great opportunity to talk about what your child has been learning so far in 2019 and what they would like to improve throughout the second half of the year. Celebrate your child’s successes and encourage them to continue their improvement during the next two terms. If you have any questions about the first semester report, please contact your child’s classroom teacher to clarify any information or arrange a meeting for discussion.

School Holidays As the term comes to a close I would like to congratulate and thank our students, staff, parents and community on a wonderful first semester. Children are making fantastic academic progress in classrooms and are involved in a variety of wonderful programs our school offers. Our debating teams have performed admirably with students developing many new skills, we have large numbers of children involved in sports and creative arts programs, our Stage 3 students have developed their leadership skills during our peer support sessions and our kitchen garden program has been flourishing. These are just a few of the things we are lucky enough to offer and be very proud of at our school. I hope everyone enjoys the school holidays. Have fun, be safe and come back in Term 3 ready to learn and continue to improve. Craig White Relieving Principal

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Term 2 Week 10 July 2019

60th Anniversary of Student Learning – Past, Present and Future Penrith South Public School 1959 – 2019

Past Present Future

KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS FOR 2020 Enrolments for Kindergarten 2020 are now being accepted at Penrith South Public School.

If you or someone you know has a child turning 5 before July 31, 2020 they are eligible to enrol to start school next year. Please visit our school office between 8.30am and 3.15pm Monday to Friday to collect the enrolment forms. Completed application forms should be returned to the Front Office together with the child’s original Birth Certificate, current Immunisation Certificate and proof of address (eg Utility Bill, Rental Agreement or Council Rates). The NSW Department of Education Policy states that a child of compulsory school age (6 years old) must be enrolled at and attending a government or non-government school by the time they turn six. I look forward to getting to know our new kindergarten students and their families before they start school next year. The Transition to School Group will commence next Term on July 26. If you have any questions regarding your child’s readiness to start school please feel free to make an appointment with me to discuss this. Cassie Sigmund Relieving Assistant Principal

STARTING SCHOOL GROUP

This is a relaxed playgroup that introduces our Kindergarten students for 2020 and their families to school life. The group meets every Friday in Terms 3 and 4 from 9:15am to 11am. The group starts July 26 2019. This free transition program is facilitated by a qualified Educator and aims to build friendships and confidence in a fun and relaxed educational environment. Parents and carers stay with their child and children are asked to bring a healthy snack, water and a hat. Please call Kim Martin on 0423 720 492 to enrol. Connect Child and Family Services Community Based Family Support

STUDENT ABSENCES Parents/caregivers must provide an explanation for absences to the school within 7 days from the first day of any period of absence. Where an explanation has not been received within the 7-day timeframe, the school will record the absence as unjustified on the student’s record. The Absence Note or letter should be given directly to the Class Teacher for processing.

ROAD SAFETY REMINDERS

Messages to share with your children in Kindergarten to Year 2 Hold a grown up’s hand when:

• you cross the road • you’re on the footpath • you’re in a car park

Messages to share with children in Years 3 to 6 Use a safe place to cross the road Stop! Look! Listen! Think! every time you cross the road and keep checking until safely across

• STOP! one step back from the kerb • LOOK! continuously both ways • LISTEN! for the sounds of approaching traffic • THINK! whether it is safe to cross and keep checking until safely across

Department of Transport

SUPERVISOR’S AWARDS BRONZE

Kindergarten Harlo Dimanno Kauan Gimenes DaSilva Year 1 Leeah McDonald Matthew Ayoub Ebony Farrell Year 2 Saxon Yelavich-Kent Eliza Fornari-Paine Kiara Robinson Payton Cliff Year 3 Harper Banks Makayla Consentino Bailey Ball Mason Vidal Year 4 Caylah Parker Oliver Hunt Year 5 Bayli-Jai Alvey Liam Lister Billy Brackenhofer Year 6 Axton Glendenning Samuela Hopoi Jimmy Gorrel Dontae Parker Billy Hutton

SILVER Kindergarten Maddison Crawford Kauan Gimenes DaSilva Amellia Raffan Alexis Martin Ron Donaczy Anika Austin Axel Portelli Tyson Ong Anastasia Carroll Year 1 Maddison Bell Joshua Gibbs Rohan Nangri Holly Laidler Damian Beale Year 2 Lily Pericleous Levi Emanuel Ruby Rose Wheeler Alex Montgomery Bonnie Naghten Year 3 Rianna Manandhar Ben Davis Joshua Hughes Mason Vidal Year 4 Josiah Faalogo Tayler Butler Year 5 Charlie Brown Vansh Banga Charli Phythian Hayley Shaw Sophie Wicht Year 6 Tallyn Bajada Michael Dezenieks Lucas Choma Azalia Henricks John Cook Isabelle Papsdorf

GOLD Year 3 Alexis Ridley Year 4 Isabelle Gibbs Year 6 Thomas Myers Bray Coghlan Daniel Small

PLATINUM

SCHOOL SECURITY

The school’s security phone number is: 1300 880 021

NAIDOC CUP 2019 Last Friday 21 June, 2019 we had 44 excited Indigenous children and 5 staff members, the most we have ever taken, go to this year’s NAIDOC CUP, where children participated in engaging Aboriginal Cultural activities. These activities included traditional art and craft, dreamtime stories, didgeridoo performances, dance and competitive Oz Tag competitions. The children were constantly on the go all day between activities and had an amazing time. The most popular activity of course, was eating all the amazing variety of food that was on offer all day. Wow! Those little ones really can eat. The Oz Tag competitions involved playing against other Indigenous teams, from over 25 schools in the district. All our teams were very competitive and all recorded wins throughout the carnival. We entered 2 senior teams and 2 junior teams. The junior “Penrith Stars” team, went on to the semi-finals and won convincingly. As a result we had our first Penrith South team ever to progress to the finals, which was very exciting. Our team played amazingly, but unfortunately were beaten by a very quick and sizable opposition on the day. Congratulations to all our children who behaved beautifully on the day and played the games and activities with great sportsmanship. I look forward to next year where we might hopefully even take a greater amount of participants. Gregory Waddell ( Aboriginal Education Coordinator )

SCHOOL HATS Due to a change of our school uniform supplier there will be an increase in the cost of the school hats, sold in the Front Office. As of Week 4, Term 3 the new cost will be $18.00. To make way for the new stock, the remaining stock of school hats in the Front Office will be reduced to $13.00. Please note: there are limited sizes available. So be quick! Exact cash payment is required as we do not have change or EFTPOS.

NAIDOC ASSEMBLY 9:15AM THURSDAY 4 JULY Please join us to help celebrate NAIDOC WEEK by attending a special assembly to mark this important occasion. This assembly will include a traditional welcome Smoking and Dance ceremony along with viewing some aspects of Auntie Julie Jones’ Aboriginal Cultural lessons our children have participated in this semester. A slide show will help showcase the amazing and cultural enrichment opportunities our children have been involved in across the whole school. The assembly will close with our Aboriginal Dance Group performing a traditional dance they have been working on for this occasion. Hope to see you there! Greg Waddell Organising Teacher

PSPS SPORT REPORT –WEEK 8

SPORT Junior Soccer Senior Soccer Jnr Rugby League Snr Rugby League Junior A Netball Junior B Netball Senior A Netball Senior B Netball Junior Boys AFL Junior Girls AFL Senior Boys AFL Senior Girls AFL School Sport

PLAYED Emu Plains Emu Plains York York York PCS PCS Kingswood South Emu Plains St Pauls Grammar Emu Plains Forfeit Athletics-relays, shot put, running, jumping, dancing

WIN/LOSS/DRAW Win Loss Loss Loss Win Win Win Win Loss Loss Loss

SCORE 2-2 5-3 16-8 14-4 5-5 3-0 29-0 12-1 50-39 27-18 58-1

PLAYER OF WEEK Byron Smith Sunia Fili Kai Cullens Billy Norman Nazia Lui-Menefata Chloe Tatafu-Pohiva Ella Sedwell Alyra Williams Maiwand Atmar Mia Tregear Vansh Banga Keita Glassie

LOANED CLOTHES

From time to time we loan clothes to students; jumpers and jackets on cold days or dry clothes in case of accidents. So that we may help other students we ask parents and carers to wash the loaned clothes and return them to the Front Office without delay. This will help us ensure that we have clothes on hand in the correct size to help our students. Thank you.

UNIFORM SUPPLIER Our new uniform supplier is Back to Basics School wear & Sportswear. They are located at 52 Cox Ave Kingswood. Their phone number is 4721 7422.

STAR DAY

Star Day will be held on Friday 5 July 2019. As decided by the SRC, it will be a movie day with students allowed to come to school dressed in their pyjamas. Students are encouraged to come dressed in appropriate, warm pyjamas and CLOSED in shoes must be worn. If students wish to wear a “onesie”, it is recommended that they have clothes on underneath. Students can bring a small amount of popcorn, chips or lollies to snack on during the day. If students do not want to wear pyjamas they can wear mufti.

TERM 2 2019 •

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

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Jul 1 P&C Meeting 9:15am Room 24 Clothing Pool 8:45am to 9:15am Room 24 Year 3-6 Assembly 2pm Hall

Jul 2 Tickets go on sale at 10am for “Night with the Stars” performance on 26/9/19. Tickets are $13. See note for details.

Jul 3 SCHOOL BANKING NEWSLETTER

Jul 4 Debating Team – Minchinbury PS Naidoc Assembly 9:15am Hall Naidoc Performance -Lucas Proudfoot Athletics Carnival payment and note due $10. Years 3-6 plus 8 year olds in Year 2 Semester 1 Reports sent home today

Jul 5 Star Day – Pyjamas or Mufti LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS

IMPORTANT DATES • Athletics Carnival permission note and payment ($10) due Thursday 4 July. The Athletics Carnival will be

held on Wednesday 31 July for Years 3-6 and 8 year olds in Year 2. • Night with the Stars note (green)- sent home explaining purchase of tickets. Tickets go on sale on

Tuesday 2 July at Penrith Panthers Box Office and Ticketek for $13. • Star Day - theme is pyjamas or mufti • LAST DAY OF TERM FOR STUDENTS FRIDAY 5 JULY. STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL IN TERM 3 ON

TUESDAY 23 JULY.

TERM 3 2019

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Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1

Jul 22 STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY

Jul 23 STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL TODAY

Jul 24 SCHOOL BANKING NEWSLETTER

Jul 25

Jul 26 PSSA

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Jul 29 P&C Clothing Pool 8:45am to 9:15am Room 24 P&C Meeting 9:15am Room 24 Year 3-6 Assembly 2pm Hall

Jul 30 Jul 31 SCHOOL BANKING Athletics Carnival Year 3-6 and 8 year olds in Year 2 Harold Corr Oval Werrington

Aug 1 Aug 2 PSSA

SAVE THE DATE

Education Week Open Day and Book Fair will be held on Tuesday 6 August – save the date. An invitation with all the details will be sent home to families.

DEBATING On Thursday 27 June, Penrith South's debating teams, the Wise Owls and the Super Stars went head to head in a debating battle royale for the 4th round of the Premier's Debating Challenge. The Wise Owls is made up of Nishika Talusani, Thomas Myers, Emey Sara Ginu and Alyra Williams (who was filling in for Kyra Russo). The Super Stars team is made up of Aaron Hart, Ella Sedwell, Pranali Gor and Skylah Riwai-Couch. The Premier's Debating Challenge is a very challenging style of debating where the teams are given the topic one hour prior to the debate and they have to prepare their arguments as a team, without any input from a teacher.

The topic for the debate was that primary schools should have compulsory organised sport for every student every lunchtime. The Super Stars were arguing for the change to be made whilst the Wise Owls were tasked with arguing against the proposal. The Super Stars made a strong case for the benefits of improved fitness and the social benefits of organised games. The Wise Owls argued that things were fine the way they were and that providing extra games was not necessary and overly burdensome for the negligible benefits it may bring. Ultimately, the Wise Owls provided the strongest arguments and they swayed the adjudicator to their way of thinking and won the debate.

It was a fantastic performance by both teams and the adjudicator's feedback was that it was one of the best she had seen this year (and they don't always say that). The debating coaches were particularly pleased with the improvements made by all team members. The debaters showed improvement in their ability to follow the debating processes they have been working hard to learn. They delivered arguments that were clear, well supported and utilised their available speaking time productively.

Both teams have a further debate in Week 10 and their final debate at home in Week 1 next term. If the Wise Owls continue on their winning streak, they may progress to the next stage of the competition and if the Super Stars stick to the form and improvement they showed this round, they will be sure to notch up a win or two in their final debates.

Paul Jones Organising Teacher

On Monday 1 July, Penrith South’s debating team ‘the Wise Owls’ headed to Ropes Crossing Public School to compete in round 3 of the Premier’s Debating Challenge. The Wise Owls is made up of Nishika Talusani, Thomas Myers and Emmy Sara Ginu and Kyra Russo. The teams were given the topic one hour prior to the debate and they had to prepare their arguments as a team, without any input from a teacher.

The Wise Owls argued as the affirmative team for the topic that parents should pay their kids whenever they help out around the house. The team continued their hard work integrating feedback from previous debates and knowledge from lessons at school. They made a strong case for teaching children responsibility with money and preparing them for adulthood. It was a close debate and although the Wise Owls made great arguments, their competitors swayed the adjudicator their way.

The Wise Owls should be extremely proud of their efforts and are congratulated for an outstanding performance. They are looking forward to their final debate in week one next term. Sharnee Martin Organising Teacher

WEARING HELMETS AND RIDING SAFELY

Always remember to check that your child is wearing a helmet whenever playing or riding on wheels: • Bikes • Foot scooters • Rollerskates • Skateboards • Rollerblades

P&C NEWS Hello everyone, P&C Meeting

• The next P&C meeting will be held on Monday 29 July at 9:15am in Room 24. Clothing Pool

• The next Clothing Pool will be held on Monday 29 July at 8:45am to 9:15am in Room 24. If you are unable to visit the next Clothing Pool or have an urgent request, please see one of our P&C members or the staff in the Front Office. Please note we do not have EFTPOS, cash only and limited change. Prices start at $10 for dresses, $5 for School Polos, School Jumpers and Sport Shorts and $2 for other items.

• Donations of clean second hand uniforms are always appreciated and can be left at the Front Office. Happy holidays end enjoy your break. P&C Committee and Members Email address:pspspandc@gmail.com

PLAY AND CHAT

Play and Chat is held at Penrith South Public School for 0-5 year olds on Tuesday and Thursday mornings 9:15am to 12 noon. Drop in and have a cuppa. Everyone is welcome. We have painting and playdough, music, stories and great activities. Enquiries: Call Kathy 0432 625 981 or Connect Child & Family Services 4759 1462

INFLUENZA An annual flu shot is your best protection against influenza. Flu shots are free for:

• People aged 65 years and over • Pregnant women • Children under 5 years old • Aboriginal people • Medically at risk groups

Speak to your GP and get a flu shot now. Flu fact: You cannot catch influenza from the flu shot. Find more information at the NSW Health website.

DON’T SPREAD THE FLU

• Get a flu shot • Sneeze into your elbow • Clean your hands • Stay at home if sick

Find more information at the NSW Health website.

WHOOPING COUGH

A member of our school was recently diagnosed with Whooping Cough (pertussis). A note from Public Health was sent home with every student in Week 6. Parents and caregivers are asked to take the time to read the note. Spare copies of the note are available in the Front Office. Public Health advise that if a student has a throat swab for Whooping Cough they must not attend school until the results are back from the doctor.

LOST PROPERTY Lost property can be found in a white laundry basket in the foyer of Room 24 (OshClub Room). Parents and carers are reminded to label everything so that items, when found, can be returned to the students. Lost valuables are held in the Front Office. We ask that during the holidays families check jumpers, jackets, hats and lunch box items are labelled with their child(s) name. This will help items be returned to their owners.

SPORT HOUSES AND COLOURS STUDENT SURNAME SPORT HOUSE COLOUR A TO E GORDON GREEN F TO K KENDALL RED L TO P LAWSON YELLOW Q TO Z PATTERSON BLUE

CANTEEN NEWS

Thank you for another wonderful term. Have a safe holiday break. Nerida Healthy Canteens