WEEK 6, TERM 3 2018

ENDEAVOUR

NEWSLETTER OF WEST RYDE PUBLIC SCHOOL

‘nothing left unattempted’

Principal’s Message

Thank you all for your support so far this term; we are all looking forward to ensuring that our students are ‘keeping their learning visible’. Fiver for a Farmer What a fantastic day to recognise and celebrate the important work that farmers do to ensure that food is on our tables each and every evening. It is fantastic to see West Ryde PS students raising much needed funds for farmers and their student colleagues in remote farming communities throughout NSW. A truly worthy cause. 2019 Kindergarten Enrolments The office will be open to process Kindergarten enrolments on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday between 11am and 2pm. Application forms and all information are available from our school website. Click on this link http://www.westryde-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/our-school/enrolment to download the required form. Please ensure you have all the relevant original documents and have completed the application form before coming to the office. Book Fair and Parade Thank you to everyone who participated so actively in the Book Fair and Parade. Once again it was very well supported and there were some fantastic costumes from students of all ages. A special thanks must go to Mrs Chase for organising the Scholastic Book Fair; it is always a great event in our school and not to mention a wonderful fundraiser. Peter Hayllar – Relieving Principal

UPCOMING DATES: 30th August Father’s Day Stall Father’s Day Afternoon Tea Canteen 3rd - 14th September Year 2 Swim Scheme 5th September Canteen 6th September Parenting Workshop 6.30pm

Canteen 7th September PSSA- Summer 11th September RSS Rehearsal Civic Centre 12th September Uniform Shop Canteen 13th September Parenting Workshop 6.30pm

Canteen 14th September PSSA

Deputy Principal’s Message Tell Them From Me Student Survey

I am delighted that this term, students from Years 4, 5 & 6, like many other public schools in the state, will again participate in a Department of Education initiative: the Tell Them From Me student feedback survey. The survey aims to help improve student learning outcomes and measures factors that are known to affect academic achievement and other student outcomes. The focus of the NSW-wide survey is on student wellbeing, engagement and effective teaching practices. You may remember that our students in Years 4, 5 & 6 also participated in a Tell Them From Me student survey in Term 1 this year. Asking students to complete the survey twice in one year allows us to identify trends in student responses as well as track engagement and motivation across the school year.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au/information-for-parents

The survey is a great opportunity for our students to provide us with valuable and quick feedback on what they think about school life, how engaged they are with school and the different ways that teachers interact with them. Schools in Australia and around the world have used the Tell Them From Me survey to help improve how they do things at school. I want to assure you that the survey is confidential. The survey is conducted online and will typically take less than 30 minutes to complete. It will be administered during school hours during weeks 9 and 10. Participating in the survey is entirely voluntary.

Partners in Learning—Parent feedback survey

This Term, our school will be participating in the Partners in Learning parent survey, another part of the Tell Them From Me suite of surveys (student, teacher and parent surveys) on student engagement. The survey asks parents and carers questions about different factors that are known to impact on student wellbeing and engagement.

Running this survey will help our school understand parents’ and carers’ perspectives on their child’s experience at school. These include: communication between parents/carers and staff, activities and practices at home and parent/carer views on the school's support of learning and behaviour. This valuable feedback will help our school make practical improvements.

The survey is conducted entirely online on smartphones, iPad, tablets, laptops or computers. The survey will typically take 15 minutes or less to complete and is completely confidential. The parent survey will be conducted between in the next few weeks. Although participating in the survey is entirely voluntary, your responses are very much appreciated.

More information about the survey is available at: http://surveys.cese.nsw.gov.au

A link to the survey will be sent via Skoolbag in the next few weeks.

The survey is available in 23 languages.

Albina Lee – Relieving Deputy Principal

Library News

Dear Parents and Carers,

Dear Parents/Carers Thank You SO much for dressing up your children and for coming to the Book Week Parade! It was wonderful to have so many parents there. Thanks so much to Mr Watterson and Mr Richardson for running the parade and to Mr Hayllar for judging and announcing the Book Week Poster Winners. The winning "My Greatest Treasures" posters are now displayed in the school foyer and the winners will receive a book voucher.

POSTER WINNERS

• STEM poster: Jacob Y – Kindergarten • Persuasive writing poster: Arequipa – Year 4 • Kindergarten: Nethara • Year 1: Ellie • Year 2: Eva X • Year 3: Alicia • Year 4: Abby and Anastasija • Year 5: Ayati • Year 6: Anju and Shivaani

Lizzie Chase, Teacher Librarian

PSSA Results

Netball - No results Soccer Girls - No results Boys - No results AFL – No results Making Online Payments

It is now possible for parents to make online payments to the school for amounts owing for students, via a secure payment page hosted by Westpac. Payments can be made using either a Visa or MasterCard credit or debit card. The payment page is accessed from the front page of the school’s website by selecting $ Make a payment https://quickweb.westpac.com.au/OnlinePaymentServlet

2018 Parent Volunteers – WWCC Declaration

We are very appreciative of all our parent volunteers in the classrooms and around the school. Please ensure you have completed a WWCC Declaration for volunteers and contractors at the school office. You will also need to complete the Proof of Identity that meets the 100-point check. Thank you for your cooperation in this matter. If you have previously completed this in 2017, you will not need to do so again this year.

Communication At West Ryde PS we use a range of communication methods to keep our community up to date.

Newsletter –The newsletter is sent out to families via the Skoolbag app. The newsletter can also be found on our website and a hard copy in the office foyer.

School Website – The website provides a platform to locate general information about WRPS. Permission notes, photos and new stories are uploaded throughout the year.

Skoolbag App. – The skoolbag app. provides notifications to your phone. The app. is used to provide you with reminders about school events. For information on how to download the app, please view go to the website.

Can I please ask that you do not come to class lines or to classrooms and expect the teachers to talk to you while supervising the children or teaching the class. Our staff are more than happy to talk to you at a time that is suitable to both parties and affords enough time to discuss any issues that you might have. We do understand if the issues are urgent. If this is the case please see the office staff so that they can communicate this urgent information to your child’s class teacher.

Canteen New lunch Item – Chicken Lasagne $3.50 Our school canteen operates each week on a Wednesday and Thursday. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED - If you are able to help on those days please leave a message at the school office for the Canteen Coordinator. Uniform Shop “NEW” …………….Centennial Badges, Cookbooks & Tea towels now available from the Uniform Shop. Track tops (jumpers) are a clearance item only. Stocks are limited and once sold out will not be replaced. Sizes still available are: 4, 8, 10, 12, 14 and 16 only. Term 3 opening days: 12th & 26th September. Uniform Shop will no longer supply plastic bags with your purchase - Please remember to bring your own bag. P&C News Building works Update

As you can see the preparation for building works at our school have commenced. The actual construction process is scheduled to begin in Term 1 of the 2019 school year. Construction and transition to the new building is scheduled to be completed by mid-2020. The school and Department of Education representatives, who are engaged for building works process are keen to ensure that building works run with as little disruption to children as possible. Safety of our children is paramount in this process. Key steps have been taken in this regard.

Firstly, the contractor awarded the contract for development must ensure that all workers onsite must gain permission before entering the site, avoid any contact with children unless planned or in emergency, use only approved toilets, are appropriately clothed and carry an identity card at all times. In addition to that, all workers need to report any concerns about safety of children to the school. If requested, the building contractor must ensure that all its workers provide written declaration that they do not have a history that may be of concern to the parents of school.

Secondly, the contractor has to ensure they maintain health and safety accreditation during the entire construction process and submit a clear plan on how they will manage bad weather and airborne construction material during the building process.

As you can see the process of placing de-mountable classrooms within the fenced area has started. All utilities such as water, electricity and drainage will be prepared over the next few weeks and two new de-mountable classrooms will be prepared first. Following that, the existing de-mountable classrooms will be moved to the allocated fenced area.

Concern has been raised with the Department of Education and building project team regarding the removal of play equipment and response of the parent community to the lack of equipment for an extended period of time. They are looking into this as a priority and we will update the parent community as soon as we hear from them.

Information on the building works is available at the following government website -https://www.schoolinfrastructure.nsw.gov.au/projects/w/west-ryde-public-school.html. Please provide any feedback you have at the information booths listed on the site as well as email address -schoolinfrastructure@det.nsw.edu.au

Love thy Neighbour

West Ryde is a beautiful suburb and our school sits right in the middle surrounded by many houses and apartments. With the increase in the number of the children in our school, our parking spaces are definitely reducing. The pickup and drop off are particularly busy times. It does not happen every day but sometimes unpleasant situations may arise. One of the residents near our school has approached us and mentioned that she was unable to get into her own driveway as there was a car double parked outside her house. She had to repeatedly request the owner to move his car. We understand and appreciate that we all need to pick our children on time but little adjustments can always be done. We have a beautiful community here at West Ryde Public School and I really request everyone to be considerate of the families living around us. I thank our parents’ community for their understanding in this matter.

There was a lot of excitement during the Monday morning assembly, when the Father’s day Raffle was drawn. We gave away 9 prizes and I would like to take this opportunity to thank the parents and the businesses that came forward and donated generously. A special shout out to Taffa’s Mitre 10, Bunnings Rydalmere, Ryde-Parramatta Golf Club, Thommy Thai Smile(Jamaree and Joe Jeepetch), Taj Foods (Gautam Varma and Deepak Varma) Chris and Carol Williams and Neesha Khushalani. The P&C really cannot thank you enough for your generosity.

Mr. Hayllar was kind enough to draw the winners for us.

Raffle Winners announced!!!

The winners were-

1. Sean - One year Membership to the Australian Herpetological Society – includes family passes to The Australian Reptile Park, Symbio Wildlife Park and National Zoo and Aquarium (valued @$313)

2. Yashashwi - Round of golf for 4 people (valued @280) 3. Maya - Thommy Thai Smile gift Vouchers for $50 4. Christy - Bunnings Rydalmere Vouchers for $50 5. Jarrah – Gift hamper of 5kg bag of rice, pappadums, jelly cups (valued @$40) 6. Christopher – Thommy Thai Smile gift Vouchers for $30 7. Yubin – $25 movie gift voucher 8. Pakin – $25 Mitre-10 gift voucher 9. Chloe – $25 Mitre-10 gift voucher

Congratulations everyone!!!! To make any event a success, there are many tireless volunteers working behind the scenes. I would like to thank our Fund Raising team for all their efforts. Thanks to Christine for organising it all! Thanks to Rochelle and Swapna for being so involved and helping at every step. You are all amazing! By the time you read this newsletter, our children would have bought the novelty items for their Father/Grandfathers, Uncles and Carers. We hope you enjoy sharing their love and excitement.

Happy Father’s day everyone! I look forward to seeing you all in our next meeting!

Many Thanks Rachna Bhardwaj P&C President president@westrydepublicschool.com.au

The next P&C meeting

Wednesday 19th Sep 2018, 7 PM

In the school library (Free child minding available)

THANK YOU TO OUR CENTENARY GOLD SPONSORS

Kreston Dormers is a multi-displinary professional service firm in taxation, financial and business advisory services located at 3/1049, Victoria Road, West Ryde.

Asiamart (and Jeunnal at Ryedale Tavern) is located on Victoria Road and is a Korean grocery shop and Korean restaurant business.

West Ryde Pine Furniture is located at the corner of Mons Ave & Victoria Road. It is an established quality furniture shop having been in West Ryde for over 30 years. They currently run Chalk Paint workshops and provide supplies.

The Fridge Doctor and Town & Country Air are school family run businesses. Specialising in refrigeration and air conditioning services for residential and commercial clients.

Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club on Ryedale Road in West Ryde has been a regular supporter of our school. Many members of the school community attend the swimming classes and events there.

THANK YOU TO OUR CENTENARY SILVER SPONSORS

First National Real Estate West Ryde is located on Victoria Road servicing your real estate needs 7 days a week be it buying, selling or renting in West Ryde, Meadowbank, Melrose Park, Denistone, Ermington, Dundas & surrounds.

West Ryde Rovers is the local sports and social club where many of our students participate in netball, soccer and cricket teams.

TERM 3 2018 Newsletter Snippets Instructions

Please see below a suggested bi-weekly newsletter topic schedule that may assist you in

planning your Term 3 school newsletters.

The newsletter snippets are easy to copy and paste and provide information to families on healthy eating, physical activity and limiting

screen time.

TERM 3 NEWSLETTER TOPIC Week 2 Crunch & Sip Week 4 Active Travel Week 6 Healthy Lunchboxes Week 8 Fruit and Veg Month

Week 10 Healthy School Canteens Extra Reducing Screen Time Extra Fundamental Movement Skills