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Term 1 Week 7 Tuesday 10th March 2020 Issue 6

Hannam Vale Public School 1159 Hannam Vale Road HANNAM VALE NSW 2443 Tel: 02 6556 7636 Email: hannamvale-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: www.hannamvale-p.schools.nsw.edu.au A proud member of the Camden Haven Community of Schools

Through this gate walk the nicest people in the world

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The Star of the Week for Term 1 Week 7

is… Isla Miller

For her fantastic reading and expanding

vocabulary! What in-school activity did you enjoy most last week?

Assembly because it was fun to share our work.

What book are you reading at the moment?

The Weirdo Series at home and I’m catching up on

The Peacock Detectives because I moved reading

groups at school

What project are you working on in class?

We’ve started work on our Easter hats and we’re

doing timelines for our History project

What do you enjoy most about Maths?

That you learn new stuff and we get to practise our

Memory Maths

What do you like most about Kitchen/Garden?

I like how we get to eat the food that we made with

the whole school

Do you have a hobby? What is it?

Sleeping and drawing (not at the same time)

What is your dream holiday? Where? Doing what?

Probably sailing around the Caribbean or the Great

Barrier Reef because there is interesting stuff to see.

What would you like to be when you grow up?

A Zookeeper at Billabong Zoo or Taronga Zoo!

Coming Events

Thursday 12th Mar Robotics @ CHHS (Year 4-6)

Combine with JRPS (2-3)

Friday 13th Mar Kitchen Garden

Friday 20th Mar CHHS Expression of Interest for Year 7 in 2021 due

Friday 20th Mar 3MAPS Cross Country, Harmony Day & Colour Run

Friday 27th Mar LDPSSA Cross Country @ HVPS

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Principal’s message: I had the pleasure of attending the P&C AGM

this week and I say pleasure because it is

great to see how passionate and productive

our P&C are. They provide an invaluable contribution

to our school and I congratulate the newly elected

committee for 2020.

External Validation: As I mentioned last week the drafting of our submission

for External Validation is well underway and I thank

Mrs Stevenson and fellow 3MAPS Principals for all their

assistance thus far. Enclosed in this newsletter is an

overview of the School Excellence Framework that

each school evaluates itself against for your

information.

Family Survey Please complete and return your survey ASAP. This is

an important piece of the puzzle for our school

improvement processes (including External Validation)

but is also required for our Annual School Report which

is due for completion this term. And don’t be afraid to

share areas where you feel we could improve. That

reflection and information is an important part of the

process. I thank families for their time in completing

this vital feedback.

Changes to routine this week On Wednesday, Mrs Stevenson will be working with

other 3MPAS teachers, doing some professional

learning around writing and curriculum planning. Mrs

Menzies will remain on class.

Thursday Mrs Stevenson will accompany students in

Years 4-6 at the CHHS Robotics Introduction Day (9:30-

1) and Ms Dennis will be teaching students in Years 2-

3 at Johns River Public School. Please ensure your

notes are returned ASAP so we can check and

facilitate any travel arrangements.

On Friday I am attending Professional Learning at

Wauchope so will be out of the school. Friday will

operate as normal, including Kitchen Garden which I’ll

be sorry to miss.

And then we’ll be at Week 8 already! Oh my!!

Nicole Menzies

Premier’s Reading

Challenge The challenge has commenced and

will run from Monday 2nd March to

Friday 28th August 2020. As part of

our library lessons students will be

able to explore the recommended

book lists for their age group and gain access to real

authors who give talks about their characters, their

inspirations, the writing processes and more. For more

information you can visit the PRC website:

https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html

Students, as always are encouraged to return and

borrow library books each Wednesday.

Easter Hat Donations This year we are taking on a challenge of upcycling for

our hat decorations. We will be asking students to

bring in old craft supplies that could be ‘upcycled’ as

decorations for our Easter hats.

Items may include: offcuts of ribbon, old Easter cards

that could be cut up, Easter fabric, wool, old (but not

falling apart too much!) straw hats, and any other craft

supplies that may make nice Easter decorations.

If students could bring these in over the next week we

can finalise our ‘upcycled’ creations.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Thank you to those who have

generously donated pantry

items. If you wanted to

contribute but have not yet had

the chance we still need the

items below:

Chickpeas Pepitas Passata

Cornflour Castor sugar Vermicelli noodles

Couscous Arborio rice Balsamic vinegar

Dried GF egg noodles

Gluten free self-raising flour

Red wine vinegar

Fish sauce Rolled oats Instant dry Yeast

Gluten free plain flour

Gluten Free soy sauce

White sugar

Rice flour Sesame oil Pine nuts

Honey Stock Tomato paste tubs

Sweet chilli sauce Oyster Sauce Baking powder

Dish cloths & scrubbers

Baking paper Pantry storage containers

Thank you to Odette’s family who provided

a blender/food processor for our kitchen!

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P&C News

AGM Thank you to those who were able to attend our AGM.

The office bearing positions for 2020 are:

President: Michelle Dennis

Vice President: Gemma Baker

Secretary: Angels Channells

Treasurer: Magda Rogers

Uniform Coordinator: Magda Rogers

Thank you to Donna White for her many years of

service as the P&C Treasurer.

Hot Meals

Spaghetti bolognese is back!

Thanks to Magda we will have a supply of bolognaise in

the freezer in the staff room from this week. They can

be taken out at the beginning of the day and heated by

a staff member at lunch time.

As per last year hot meals are $5 each. Please let a staff

member know about your order in the morning and

leave payment in the school office. Yum!

Cross Country This year our school will again be hosting the 3MAPS

and the LDPSSA Cross Countries. Our P&C will be

running canteens on these days…

The 3MAPS one will be a smaller, however, the LDPSSA

cross country is a larger event and we will require more

volunteers for this. Please consider helping out at one

of these events so we can fundraise for our students.

We will also need cakes / slices to sell at the events so

if you are able to provide some that would be great.

Dates for your diary:

Friday 20th March – 3MAPS Cross Country

Friday 27th March – LDPPSA Cross Country

LAST CALL FOR 100 CLUB! Our fundraising 100 club still has numbers available for

sale at $5 each. We are hoping to draw this as soon as

possible as it has dragged on for quite a while now. If

you haven’t yet had the chance to purchase your

numbers from the shop, now is your last chance. Thank

you for your support with this.

Uniforms Our Uniform Shop superstar Magda is available by

appointment to help you with all your uniform needs.

If you are unable to submit an order form, please text

your order to Magda on 0408 090 462.

Also, please ensure you use the P&C Uniform Shop’s

bank details to make any EFT payments for uniforms.

Please do not make payments to the school using the

Parent Online Payment tab on the school website.

Hannam Vale P&C Uniform Shop bank details:

BSB: 062 603

Account: 28020970

Fundraising Chocolates We have been lucky enough to have Cristy Miller selling

chocolates as a fundraiser for the P&C Association at

her workplace over the past few years. If anyone else

is willing to sell chocolates at their workplace to help us

raise money, please let us know.

Quote of the Week

Thank you everyone for your ongoing support.

Michelle Dennis

President

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School Excellence Framework (SEF)

As follow up to my words on External Validation (EV) last week, please find below a summary of the SEF statements

of Excellence that schools strive towards and use to annually reflect.

The framework has 3 key domains: Learning, Teaching and Leading.

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Term 1 2020 Mar

Week 7

9 P&C AGM – 5:30pm

10 11 Robotics notes & Combined learning with JRPS notes due back at school CHHS EOI sent home

12 Robotics (4-6) Combine with JRPS (2-3)

13 Kitchen garden

Mar Week 8

16 17 Issue 2 Book Club orders due back at school

18 19 20 CHHS EOI due back at school 3MAPS Cross Country/Harmony Day/Colour Run

Mar Week 9

23 24 25 26 27 LDPSSA Cross Country

Apr Week 10

30 31 1 2 3 Kitchen garden

Apr Week 11

6 7 EV Panel visit

8 9 Last Day of Term Assembly & Hat Parade 2.30pm

10 Good Friday