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Teamwork Respect Responsibility Honesty

Important Dates

Gillian Stuart—Principal

Indo Corner

Term 4|Week 7|21st November 2017

“The great aim of education is

not knowledge, but action”

Herbert

Possible responses : Menyenangkan It’s fun

Seru It’s exciting

Biasa saja It’s OK

Membosankan It’s boring

Melelahkan It’s tiring

Bagaimana akhir pekanmu?

How’s your weekend?

Term 4 2017

Monday 20/11 & Tues 21/11

Year 4 Camp

Tuesday 21/11/17

P&C Meeting 6.30pm

Friday 24/11/17

End of Year Celebration Disco

Mon 4/12 to Fri 8/12

Swimming Scheme & Beach Program

Tuesday 5/12/17

Year 6 Orientation Macksville HS

Thursday 7/12/17

Year 6 Farewell

Wednesday 13/12/17

Presentation Night

K o m p e t i s i S i s w a ( S t u d e n t

Competition) is an annual Indonesian

writing competition for NSW schools,

sponsored by the Australia Indonesia

Association of NSW (AIA NSW) in

conjunction with the Modern

Languages Teachers Association of

NSW (MLTA NSW) and the

Indonesian Consulate.

This year classes K/1 and 3/4

entered the competition.

Frieda Parkhouse won the first prize

in the Kindergarten section drawing

and labelling an A3 size picture in

Indonesian Binatang favorit saya (My

favourite animal). Frieda drew and

labelled a bird.

Congratulations Frieda!

Kompetisi Siswa

Hebat

Weekly round up

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Hello, Giinagay, Hai,

The Bilingual Network: Teachers, Principals and Executive

Last week has been a great opportunity for myself and the

Indonesian Team to connect with the other three New South Wales

primary schools who are part of the State's Bilingual Schools

Program. These included Rouse Hill Public (Mandarin) and Murray

Farm Public (Japanese) in Sydney's northwest, and Campsie Public

(Korean) in Sydney's inner-west.

The initiative back in 2010 was prompted by the need to increase

the number of students achieving fluency in priority Asian languages.

It reflects Asia's importance to Australia's future economic and social

prosperity and the likelihood that many Australian workers will need

to be comfortable in the use of an Asian language.

In 2010, the participating schools met a range of criteria required

for participation in the program. These qualities included a

demonstrated capacity and commitment to implement a language

program; a commitment to the bilingual program across the school

staff and the school community; and established relationships, or

commitment to establishing relationships, with the Asian community

in Australia or with businesses and schools in Asia.

The program is expected to give primary students a head start on

language studies in later years, improve their understanding of other

cultures and, in the longer term, increase their job opportunities. It

builds on a broad body of research which indicates that bilingual

education stimulates intellectual development, generates greater

flexibility in thinking, gives learners a better understanding of their

first language, and develops listening skills.

We spent two days visiting the other bilingual schools, with all

teachers gaining valuable experiences work shadowing, sharing

ideas and resources. The other two days was the ongoing

professional learning with Dr Russel Cross, deepening staff

understanding of Content and Languages Integrated Learning (CLIL)

methodology training.

Thanks to the Indonesian team for your passion and dedication to

the program, where our kids are certainly reaping the benefits as

reflected in our NAPLAN results. The feedback from the team is that

it was a valuable experience and they all are inspired to return home

and continue to enhance our highly successful Indonesia program.

Thanks to Annie and Lyndsey for stepping up into the Acting

Principal role in my absence and all the staff for supporting this

Principal’s Column Last Week’s Awards

initiative.

The next Kitchen Garden/Canteen meeting will be held at

3.15pm on Monday 27th November. Hope to see you there!

Thanks, yaarri yaraang, terima kasih.

Gillian Stuart—Principal

A big thank you to Penny Craig for donating a

coffee machine to the school.

What happens when an egg laughs? (see back page for answer)

Weekly Riddle by Zach, Koby and Jonah

Parent Information - reminders

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Payments to School

Payments can be made to the school using the

following options:

EFTPOS— at the office.

Parent online payment (POP) - via the school

website—using the button ‘Make a Payment’.

Cash and cheque are still accepted at the office.

Please do not make payments through the Westpac bank as this account is not longer

used by the Department.

Year 6 Shirts

The Year 6 shirts will be arriving any day. The cost of the shirts are $40. Payable at the office.

Swimming Scheme & Surf Safety Beach Program

Our Swimming/Surf Safety Programs will be running in Week 9 - Monday 4th to Friday 8th

December. Permission notes were sent out yesterday regarding the Swimming Scheme at the

pool. Notes for the Surf Safety will be sent home once arrangements are finalised.

There is a cost of $25.00 per student for the swimming pool to cover bus and entry costs. This

has been subsidised by Sporting Schools funding. Please send permission notes in as soon as

possible.

End of Year Disco

The disco money is due in by this Wednesday 22nd November. Please return your note and

money if your child is attending tomorrow.

Orientation day for Year 6 students enrolled to attend Macksville High School in 2018 on

Tuesday December 5th.

Free bus transport is available on this day and as part of their transition to high school students

are encouraged to travel to school by bus if appropriate. Students are to wear their primary

school sports uniform with fully enclosed shoes. They will need to bring their pen, pencil and

ruler, their recess, lunch and a bottle of water. They may bring money to purchase items at the

school canteen.

Students will participate in a range of lessons and activities in groups (not their 2018 classes).

Book Club—Issue 8

Book Club Orders are due back to school by Friday 1st December.

Links

School website:

http://www.scottshead-

p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

School facebook

page:

https://www.facebook.com/

scottsheadpublicschool?

fref=ts

Skoolbag Application:

Search “Scotts Head Public

School” in the app store.

8.30am Morning

Supervision

(in cola)

Start

School

9.00am

9.00am until

11.00am

Morning Session

(Crunch and Sip)

11.00am Lunch

11.50—1.30

pm

Middle Session

1.30 pm Recess

2.00pm-3pm Afternoon

Session

Bell Times

Remember to send in a

note if your child is

absent from school.

After 7 days, the system

automatically records as

an “Unexplained

Absence”.

Canteen - We are in URGENT need for some canteen

helpers! Canteen is open Wednesday and Friday’s each

week. We need parent helpers to go on to a roster. At this

stage the canteen will not be operational on certain days

due to the lack of helpers. Please contact the school if you

are able to help out. Please note Canteen will be CLOSED

on Friday 1st December.

School Banking - Don’t forget banking day is Tuesday each

week. We will be running a competition this term, if you

have banked 4 times this term you will go into the draw to

win a prize pack which will be drawn on Friday 1st

December.

Reward orders need to be in by Friday 8th December.

Canteen Roster

Week 7

WED 22/11 Rachel

FRI 24/11 Jenny

Week 8

WED 29/11 Melanie

FRI 01/12 CLOSED

P&C News

Weekly round up

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Wonderful Local Businesses in Scotts Head All the students and staff of SHPS would like to say an enormous THANKYOU to all our local

businesses for their very kind and generous donation for our Spring Fair Raffle.

The K/1 Class went for a walk around town last Friday to present each contributing local business with

a Certificate of Appreciation!

It takes a village to raise a child!

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Weekly round up

NRL Gala Day Friday 10th November

A the Gala Day we all had so much fun

we played like six games. We also got

tired. We met new people. Brodie

Last Friday Years 3 to 6 went to Buz Brazel oval

for an NRL Gala Day. We played 6 games

against all different schools. It was very hot, but

really fun. Hopefully we can do it next year.

Evie & Imogen

On 10th November the year 5/6 and Year 3

and 4 students went down to Buz Brazel oval

to the NRL Gala Day. We versed other teams

from around the shire. It was a fun day for

everybody. Kieran

During our time in Sydney we

were fortunate to have a

meeting with Ibu Zani and

her assistant to discuss our

Indonesian program as it is

currently running. It is always

a great privilege to share the

vision of furthering people to

people relationships, cultural

understanding and education

re la t ionsh ips between

Indonesia and Australia.

Indonesian Visit to Sydney

School and Community news

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Lifetime Connect Playgroup

Scotts Head

Routine

10am-10:55am – Planned

Activities

10:55am-11am – Wash Hands

11am – 11:15am – Morning Tea

11:15am – 11:35am – Free Play

11:35am – 11:45am – Pack Away

Riddle Answer: It cracks up.