EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Thursday

27 May 2021 Week 5 & 6

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

BCHS Transition

Congratulations to Odynn for being accepted

into year 7 one day per week as an early

transition student.

Odynn will be joining the year 7 classes in the

areas of Science, Technology and Maths.

Green Innovations

On Thursday 3 June, our Senior Class will be

participating in the Young Agents of Change program developed by The Green

Innovation Awards Team, at Southern Cross

University.

Their inspiring environmental ideas will be

mentored by industry professionals. We can’t

wait to see what comes from this unique

educational opportunity! Watch this space…

RESPONSES DUE EVPS Public Speaking (All students)

Please start helping your child/ren

Interrelate (Year 5/6 students), Biggest Morning Tea and Green Innovations (Year 4-6 students)

Due ASAP

Green Innovations – Mentor Visit

This Friday, App Creator - Stephen Austen

and Indigenous Culture Advisor - Oliver Costello, will mentor the Senior Class as we

work towards developing our Green

Innovation project.

We were looking for someone to support us

as we embarked on creating a mobile app to

collect data on local koalas and creating a

Mine Craft Educational Adventure to help

bring awareness to the cultural significance,

health and habitat loss of koalas.

We really wanted mentors who thought

outside the box and we are thrilled with who

the Green innovation Awards crew have

teamed us up with.

More information on our montors can be found later in the newsletter

WEEK 5 & 6

Electronic Attachments

Physical Attachments Receipts for payments (where required) Permissions:-

o Young Agents of Change (transport) o SSPSSA Soccer

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

The Science of Motion…..

In science the 3-6 students are exploring

forces such as friction and gravity by building

paper roller coasters. We have built our small

practice coasters learning about the

importance of careful folding and taping to

reduce the force of friction on our marble

“cars” and keep them moving along the track.

Now we are starting to build our larger roller

coasters to see who can create the longest

length of track or longest running time using

a limited set of materials and tools. Through

this process we will be able to understand

how changing forces affect the travel of our

marbles.

The study of Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton was considered to be one of the greatest scientists and mathematicians that ever lived. He was born in England on December 25, 1643.

Newton had new ideas about motion, which he called his three laws of motion. He also had ideas about gravity, the diffraction of light, and forces. Newton's ideas were so good that Queen Anne knighted him in 1705.

Students in the senior class were exploring

Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion in their Science

unit on Forces. We are now extending our

knowledge of Newton’s discoveries in our

studies of the ‘Great Mathematicians’.

Newton’s discovery of the refraction of light

gave the students the excellent opportunity to

use our light box and prisms to explore

refraction and the creation of rainbows

The more you tilt your track, the faster the marbles go because of the gravity pulling it down. Sophie

You need high berms for corners because the marble has a lot of momentum. Tully

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Small Schools PSSA Soccer

When: Friday 11 June

Where: Geoff Watt Oval Alstonville

Times: Leaving EVPS 9.15am

(10:00am start) Leaving oval at

11.00pm to return back to

school.

Transport: Private car

Needs: Boots. (Shirts, shorts, socks, shin

pads will be supplied by the

school.) Joggers or soccer boots

are fine to wear but no fotty tag

boots.

Teacher in charge of this event – Miss Smith

The Empire Vale P.S. soccer team will be

competing in the PSSA Small School Soccer

Knockout Competition for 2021. Students will

be competing against Elthan with the winning

team advancing to round 3.

Soccer Team 2021 – Sophie, Gemma, Taj,

Odynn, Oceah, Tully, John Carlo, Koda,

Keirah, Blake, Harry & Matthew.

10:00 Arrive. Warm-up. Play

11:00 Finsh & return to school

Permission notes are attached & need to

returned by no later than Friday 4 June,

thank you.

Southern Cross Community of Small Schools’ (SXCSS) Spelling Bee

When: TBA (early next term)

Where: Wardell Hall

Time: 9.30am start (finish approx. 1.30pm)

Good Luck to those students who will be

representing the school at the Small Schools’

Spelling Bee!

Stage 2 Stage 3

Matthew T Odynn M

Harry H Sophie B

Blake B Gemma B

Mia M Oceah O

Permission notes will be sent out in the next week once a date has been finalised.

Reminder - Public Speaking

Our whole school Public

Speaking Program will

begin next week. A

timetable and information

regarding topics has been

sent home with all students.

Please take the time to

work with your child to help

them create and rehearse a great speech.

We can’t wait to hear everyone’s great

presentations!

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Review - Assembly

Congratulations to all the students who

received awards at our whole school

assembly, it was wonderful to see so many

students being recognized for having great

personal characteristics and academic

achievements!

We all enjoyed the Junior Class’s creative

breakdown on how advertisements are

developed to persuade people to buy a

product, service or join an event.

The students created an advertisement for

our ‘Biggest Morning Tea’ and showed us

clever ways to get an audience’s attention

such a using mascots, catchy jingles, clever

questioning and calls to action. We all thought

Mackenzie did an outstanding job of being

our teapot mascot!

We have added an advertisement for our

Biggest Morning Tea just incase you were

unable to join our assembly. We hope to see

you Friday as we raise money to find a cure

of cancer!

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Sport at EVPS

Fridays are a favorite day of the week for

everyone but at EVPS, our students get fitter

each and every week. Between try outs for

soccer, junior sport, skipping & boxercise the

teachers can hardly keep up. The last 2

weeks have been no exception.

Some more parts arrived for the school’s Bike

Track Tunnel! Junior students had a great

time in Miss Smith’s PE lesson giving it all a

test run!

(Cheryl and Ms Smith had fun assembling our tunnel with the power tools…. Ms Avery and Ms Rantissi were also very “helpful”!)

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Monday each week (optional) Northern Rivers Conservatorium Music

Venue: EVPS

Friday 28

Biggest Morning Tea Venue: EVPS

Tuesday 1, 8 & 15 Interrelate

Venue: EVPS

Thursday 3 Green Innovations

Venue: EVPS

Weeks 7 & 8 (1-11 June) EVPS Public Speaking

Venue: EVPS

Friday 11 PSSA Soccer

Venue: Geoff Watt Oval

Friday 18 Multicultural Public Speaing Venue: Evans Head K-12

Thursday 24

Assembly Venue: EVPS

Date TBA

SXCSS Spelling Bee Venue: Wardell Hall

MOBILE LIBRARY

Wednesday 2 June

Peninsula Playgroup

We are hoping the Peninsula Playgroup will

be able to get up and running again soon but

we need to know who’s ‘out there’ with young

children who may be interested in coming

along!

If you know of any interested families in the

South Ballina-Wardell area, please ask them

to send us there contact details so we can

include them in any correspondence.

It will be great to get this up and running again

after our lengthy delay!

2021 General School Contributions

Thank you to those families who have already

paid their 2021 General School

Contributions. The School Contribution

assists the school in supplying your child with

items such as text books, pens, pencils,

exercise books, sport affiliation fees etc.

Payment is set at a low annual rate of $40

per student or a family rate of $100 if you

have 3 or more children.

Please make payments as soon as possible

through the website’s Parent Online Payment

(POP) system or by sending cash in to the

schoolin the usual way.

THANK YOU

May

June

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Biggest Morning Tea

Isn’t it wonderful to think that we could find a

cure for cancer just by enjoying morning tea

together!

We warmly welcome you to join us at our

Biggest Morning Tea.

When: Friday the 28th of May, 11am

Where: Empire Vale Public School

RSVP: ASAP – As we need to know numbers for our Covid Safety Plan

What to bring:

A donation to help find a cure of cancer.

A plate of something delicious to share.

Dress up as something Tea-rific!

(Parents, carers and community

members are welcome to dress up too.)

HEALTH WARNING

Please do not bring food that

contains peanuts or peanut oil.

Thanks.

We hope to see you on Friday!

empirevalep.c@gmail.com

P&C Membership & Insurance – P&C

membership and students insurance due as

soon as possible please. • P&C membership ($7 per family)

• Student insurance ($7 per student)

Payments made to the P&C - Please note

that payments made to the P&C cannot be

made via Parent Online Payments (POP)

through the school. Payments to the P&C

may be made by; Cash

Cheque

Direct Deposit (BSB 032 591 / Acc 378203)

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Have Your Say on Climate Change in Ballina Shire Community feedback is sought on Ballina Shire Council’s draft Climate Change Policy. The draft Climate Change Policy sets organisational emissions reduction targets for Council, and a framework for progressing climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience strategies for Council and the community. Ballina Shire Council targets are more ambitious than the NSW and Australian Governments and aim to achieve rapid emissions reduction by: • reducing Ballina Shire’s operational

greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero emissions by 2030

• using 100% renewable electricity for its

operations by 2030. These targets are considered achievable as they focus on Council’s operations such as water and wastewater, street lighting, community facilities, and planning and development.

The draft Climate Change Policy also looks at ways to progress climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience strategies within the Ballina Shire community.

In addition to seeking feedback on the draft policy, Council is also encouraging completion of a short survey to find out how important community-wide climate change action is, what community targets could be set, and how this could be achieved. Feedback on the Climate Change Policy and the Community Climate Action Survey both close Wednesday 16 June 2021. To view the Climate Change Policy and participate in the survey please visit ballina.nsw.gov.au/climate-change-action.

StoryBoard Master Classes

StoryBoard Masterclasses are ongoing, regular fortnightly sessions in which young writers work on developing and honing their writing skills throughout the term.

The free Masterclasses are 90-minute workshops where participants explore a diversity of writing forms and genres. They free-write, plan, execute, edit and revise their work, often with the aim of bringing a singular idea from concept to completion. In some cases, the final pieces are published as an Anthology.

When: Fortnightly at 5 – 6.30pm on Thursdays (started Term 2, Thurs 29 April)

Where: Lismore Library

Suitable For:

Junior Group: 8 – 12 years (with author Zanni Louise) Senior Group: 13 – 17 years (with author Sarah Armstrong)

FREE, bookings essential at

https://byronwritersfestival.com/storyboard/masterclass/ and scroll down to the 'Register Here' icon and book in for either masterclass.

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

NSW schools invited to have their say on playground shade Good quality shade can protect us from the sun and help lower the risk of skin cancer. The Cancer Institute NSW has partnered with researchers from the Queensland University of Technology to explore what is working well and not so well about shade in playgrounds. We are inviting NSW school students as well as parents or care givers to complete a brief online anonymous survey to help build shady and sun-safe environments for our communities and work together to end skin cancers as we know them. Find out how you can participate here: https://www.cancer.nsw.gov.au/benchmarking-shade-in-nsw-playgrounds. Responses close May 31st, 2021. See the attached poster for more info

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Jess Ingold from The University of Sydney is conducting a survey for her Honours project in Primary Education. In this survey, parents and teachers from rural areas are asked about their experiences teaching Mathematics during last year's school closure due to COVID-19.

This is link to this short survey

https://redcap.sydney.edu.au/surveys/?s=T49E984EEY . There are three pages if you are a parent. Jess is hoping this will lead to improved mathematics teaching during any future school shutdown.

See the attached flyer for more information.

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

PERMISSION NOTE

PSSA Soccer Gala Day

I give permission for my child/children ………………………………………………… to participate

in the Soccer Gala Day at Geoff Watt Oval Friday 11 June 2021. I understand that transport is

the responsibility of the parent.

� I will be transporting my own child to this event.

� I will be transporting ___________________________________(student/s names)

� I can transport _______ (number) additional students (other than my own)

OR

� I confirm that I have arranged transport for my child with ___________________

� I need assistance arranging transport for my child.

By signing this form I also acknowledge my responsibility to;

hold a current driver’s license,

drive a vehicle with current registration and

abide by the RMS recommendation to seat children 13 and under in the back seat if a

front seat airbag exists.

If I have organised transport for my child, I take the responsibility to ensure my chosen

transporter abides by the afore-mentioned regulations.

Signed …………………………………… Date ………………………………….

Parent/ Guardian

Please return permission by no later than Friday 4 June, thank you

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

PERMISSION NOTE

Green Innovation Award’s - ‘Young Change Agents Day’

I give permission for my child/children ……………………………………………… to participate in The

Green Innovation Award’s ‘Young Change Agents Day’ being held at Southern Cross University (Block A

– Enterprise Lab) on Thursday 3 June.

Please fill in the transport information and return as soon as possible.

� I will be transporting my own child to this event.

� I will be transporting ___________________________________(student/s names)

� I can transport _______ (number) additional students (other than my own)

OR

� I confirm that I have arranged transport for my child with ___________________

OR

� I need assistance from the school to arrange transport for my child.

By signing this form, I also acknowledge my responsibility to;

hold a current driver’s license,

drive a vehicle with current registration and

abide by the KidSafe recommendation to seat children under 12 in the back seat if a front seat

airbag exists.

abide by the RMS regulation to seat children under 7 in an approved:

o Forward facing child restraint with an inbuilt harness, OR

o Booster seat with a properly fastened and adjusted seatbelt or child harness.

o Must not travel in the front seat of a vehicle that has a two or more rows of seats unless all

the back seats are occupied by other children who are also under 7 years.

o Must not sit in the front seat if the vehicle is fitted with a front seat airbag

If I have organised transport for my child I take the responsibility to ensure my chosen transporter abides

by the afore mentioned regulations and recommendations.

Signed ………………………………………… Date ………………….

Parent/ Guardian

Please return permission by Tuesday 1 June so we can finalise transport arrangements. Thank you.

EMPIRE VALE PUBLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Principal: Ms Bonita Avery Ph: 6683 4298

Mentor Visits

This Friday, App Creator - Stephen Austen and Indigenous Culture Advisor - Oliver Costello, will mentor the

Senior Class as we work towards developing our Green Innovation project.

Stephen Austen General Manager. Product / Co-Founder | LanternPay Tech Support Stephen has experience spanning product and systems development, technology, sales and marketing

including creating and launching Flexischools helping over 1 million parents and 1000 schools.

In his current role as Chief Innovation Officer of InLoop, Stephen leads their product and innovation strategies,

distilling complex technical, social and external changes into simple, scalable solutions to achieve social

ambitions.When he’s not working with our teams on the next big innovations, you’ll find him piloting an aircraft

or riding his electric skateboard.

Oliver Costello

Bundjalung Jagun Director | Firesticks Alliance Indigenous

Corporation and Jagun Alliance Aboriginal Corporation

Indigenous knowledge

A proud Bundjalung man from Northern NSW, Oliver co-founded the Firesticks Alliance Indigenous Corporation

in 2018, a purposeful, passionate and powerful Indigenous-led organisation championing change and drawing

upon traditional knowledge, skills and experience in both cultural burns and contemporary fire management and

practices.

He has a broad range of experience from community, private and public sectors in Indigenous Cultural fire

practice, Aboriginal Joint Management partnerships, Indigenous Natural Cultural Resource management and

Indigenous governance. He is passionate about caring for Country, Indigenous leadership, empowerment,

partnerships and recognition of cultural knowledge and practice through community led mentorship on Country.

Oliver hopes that after the widespread devastating fires that swept the country earlier in the year the broader

Australian public will start investing in Indigenous knowledge and leadership.