14th September, 2016

Principal’s Message

Dear Parents and Carers, I am starting my report this week by letting you know that Mrs Trish Hagan, who is the substantive principal of Glenfield Public School, will be returning to Glenfield Public School at the beginning of Term 4. As such, Friday 23 September (the last day of this term) will be my last day at Glenfield Public School.

Working at Glenfield Public School since the beginning of 2015 has proven to be an absolute pleasure for me. The whole school community welcomed me from my first day. I am proud of all our achievements in my time at Glenfield. The growth in community participation has been wonderful. We have seen the opening of the Community Café, Skoolbag, Twitter, the painting of the school buildings by our community, parent helpers volunteering in our classrooms and recently a number of parents who have volunteered to support some of our primary students with Multilit (a reading program). Attendance at all our school functions has been fantastic. This is truly indicative of the community spirit. Continued Page 3

Mrs Joanne Urry Relieving Principal

Diary Dates

SEPTEMBER

15 International Day Class

Visits 1

16 Gala Day back-up

19 Regional Spelling Bee

20 Stewart House Bags return

Stage 1 Public Speaking

21 International Day Class

Visits 2

23 Last Day of Term 3

OCTOBER

10 First day Term 4

Dance 2bfit

Notes Gone Home

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Notes can be downloaded from this

website:

www.glenfield-p.schools.nsw.edu.au

The Next P & C Meeting: 17th October 2016

Merit Awards

Sakura Bello KC

Kavim Kirti KC

Jaylah Gaggioli KC

Kanishua Gaba KC

Ernesto Fitzgerald KW

Phoenix Wenban KW

Ciera Montenegro-

Brooks KW

Fawor Leila KW Areesha Shafiq KL

Rishikesh Chand KL

Bradon Bennett-

Hunter KL

Aurelia Morrison KL Aarav Kapur K/1B

Suhani Singh K/1B

Jonah Ekkaldevi K/1B

Mathew Joseph K/1B

Vansh Wankhede K/1B

Hridah Auroni 1H

Rithvi Modugu 1H

Thao Nguyen 1H

Anila Rahman 1H

Aryan Sikhrakar 1H

Pritish A R 1/2O

Ridwan Rana 1/2O

Afsana Kareem 1/2O

Steven Shaji Thomas 1/2O

Mohammed Nabi 1/2O Jacob Gilbert 2E

Reyarth Upadhyay 2E

Makayla Fairburn 2E

Talia Pele Taula 2E

Wynter Taylor 2E

Ronin Rois 2/3P

Keenan Raihan 2/3P

Andrew Zapata 2/3P

Shinji Watanabe 2/3P

Ivy Vo 2/3P

Heleina Lavilla 2/3P

Malakai Suluka 3K

Chelsea Campbell 3K

Zubaer Zoha 3K

Natalie Neiufi 3K

Kunaal Prasad 3K

Nikhil Singh 3K Rhyna Singh 3/4M

Isam Alam 3/4M

Dennis Jiang 3/4M

Mahina John-Varu 3/4M

Riwaj Thapa 4/5C

Sawsan Aungona 4/5C

Aaurav Surve 4/5C

Elijah Fetui 4/5C Leah Neiufi 5/6W

Nikki-lea Farr 5/6W

Nikolai Durmisevic 5/6W

Jeremy Johannes 5/6W

Aryan Shahdosti 5/6W

Cont’d

The school has grown in my time from 325 students to currently having just under 400 students. The school has a wonderful reputation in the outside community. Our students are extremely polite and enthusiastic learners who respect each other and their teachers. To walk around the school everyday and to be warmly greeted by “Good mornings and afternoons” and “How are you?” would make anyone’s day. I would also like to publicly thank all the staff at Glenfield. They are an amazingly dedicated, professional and caring group of people who have student well being and learning at the forefront of all they do. Your children couldn’t be in better hands. Glenfield Public School will always be an important part of my professional life because of the experiences I have enjoyed here but more significantly, because of the people, students, community and staff that combine to make such a wonderful school community. Thanks to all of you for the opportunity that my time here at Glenfield has afforded me. I will certainly miss Glenfield Public School! Signs and Community Gardens Thank you to the Ross family and the Lamba family for all their work on the Friendship Tree on the side of the sports storeroom. They spent many an hour after school painting and decorating. It looks terrific and reflects words that we associate with friendship – this is what our school and community are about.

A large group of our teachers stayed after school last week to begin work on our community gardens by painting them - they are nice and bright now. The ones that are not currently painted will soon be covered with Aboriginal artwork.

Keep your eyes open on the large white expanse of the toilet wall. Soon two very large artworks will be placed on the wall.

These artworks have the handprint of every student and staff member in our school and the slogan represents our multicultural school. Again staff stayed after school to complete the slogans. If you come to our assemblies, please have a look on the stage where we had a large canvas Aboriginal artwork framed and hung on the wall. This artwork was created when we had an Aboriginal performance at the school. The stage looks great with our school vision, school song, picture of the school and the artwork.

School Camp Our Stage 3 Canberra excursion returned at 7:45pm on Friday night. Everyone had a great time and the teachers report the students were well behaved and represented our school with pride. If you have Glenfield Public School’s Skoolbag App, you would have received regular updates and photos and would have known that they were running 15 minutes late when returning. Skoolbag The Skoolbag App is proving very worthwhile for the community. It has allowed us to notify you quickly when, for example, sport is cancelled. We also put on the Broadcaster, let you know about excursions and other school activities. If you have the app, encourage others to download it. Canteen Tender As I mentioned previously, our canteen operation has gone to tender. Advertisements were placed in the Macarthur Advertiser and the Daily Telegraph on 7 September 2016 and the advertisement will appear in the Macarthur Advertiser again on 14 September 2016. Tender applications close on the last day of this term. The tender process may have an impact on the canteen being open at the start of next term. I will advise you about this in the last week of term.

Premier’s Spelling Bee

In Week 5, the stage competition finals were held for the Premier’s Spelling Bee. Congratulations to the following students who represented their classes: Stage 2 Finalists: 3P: Ivy Vo, Rehaan Anand 3K: Marcus Misi, Jan Lardizabal, Rayyan Ahmad 3/4M: Emily Clarke, Rhyna Singh, Aditi Lohan 4P: Ryan Zhang, Ayaan Ahmed, Emma Mathews 4/5C: Namish Bassi, Gaurav Surve, Hoimontee Khan Winner Ayaan Ahmed Runner up: Namish Bassi Stage 3 finalists: 4/5C: Noor Ahmad, Tabassum Ahad 5/6C: Shunova Khandaker, Dakota Tan-Bautista, Renesa Devi, Negar Hossein-

Noori 5/6M: Farita Anowar, Jeremy Johannes, Aryan Shadohsti, Alexis Misi 5/6W: Stanley Shaji-Thomas, Jareef Zaman, Suneyra Mahmud, Lakshmi Rajendran Winner: Stanley Shaji-Thomas Runner up: Shunova Khandaker The winners and runners up will now represent Glenfield in the Regional Finals held in our hall on Monday 19 September. The Junior Division (Years 3 and 4) will take place from 9.30am-11.30am and the Senior Division (Years 5 and 6) from 12.30pm-2.30pm. Good luck to our representatives. Miss Batros (Premier’s Spelling Bee Coordinator)

Stewart House Bags Dear Parents, A Stewart House bag has been distributed to your child to collect some old clothing. Your co-operation to a worthy cause is much appreciated. All bags should be placed outside the sports store room, next to the top car park. The collection date is Tuesday, 20th September. Kindly bring all bags before that date. Thankyou. Teacher Organiser, Mrs Hemans.

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