Holsworthy Public School

High Quality Education, Strong Discipline Relieving Principal: Tammy Deiri

36 Infantry Parade Phone: 9825 1479

Holsworthy NSW 2173 Fax: 9825 2860

Email < holsworthy-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au>

Website: www.holsworthy-p.schools.nsw.gov.au

Wednesday 25 September Newsletter Term 3 Week 10

Rule of the Week

Week 10: Be in the right place at the right time

Principal’s Message

Students and teachers will commence Term 4 on Monday 14 October.

There is NO Staff Development Day in Term 4.

From the Relieving Principal

I would like to acknowledge and thank the many parents for the kind messages, wonderful gifts and

well wishes for Mr Ward. He was very appreciative. He is receiving ongoing treatment and at this

stage he will still be on leave at the start of Term 4.

Thank you to all parents and members of the school community who have supported the school this

term. It has been an exceptionally productive and busy term with all classrooms across the school

focused on learning and engagement. Students have being active learners through many high

quality learning opportunities that are relevant to their stages of learning and

development.

I would also like to thank Ms Taylor and the school executive team

for their support, care and interest in leading and managing the

school. I would also like to acknowledge the professional and

dedicated staff that work tirelessly to provide high quality learning

experiences and opportunities for our students. Thank you also to

the wonderful SASS staff who support parents, students and

teachers in the smooth running of the school. You should be

assured that Holsworthy Public School is a well organised learning environment.

Thank you to the many wonderful parents who attended the ‘Fun With Robotics’

Parent Workshop. The session was very informative and introduced how the robots

are being integrated into literacy and numeracy programs Kindergarten to Year

6. During the workshop parents had hands-on experience with the robots and the

language the children will be using.

To ensure we are as prepared for 2020 as we can possibly be we need to identify

how many students we will have at the school. If you know of anyone with a child

starting Kindergarten in 2020 and is in area would you please encourage them to

enrol their child as soon as possible. Also, if your child/children are not returning to Holsworthy PS

next year it would be greatly appreciated if you could notify the office staff and fill in the form below

as soon as possible.

We have come to the end of another great term at Holsworthy PS!

Congratulations to all the students and staff for all their hard work over the term. You have earnt a

rest and I hope you enjoy your holidays with family and friends.

I wish everyone a wonderful vacation and I look forward to working with you all in Term 4.

Tammy Deiri

Relieving Principal

STUDENTS NOT RETURNING OR RETURNING LATE IN 2020

Please tick:

will not be returning to Holsworthy Public School in 2020

will be returning late to Holsworthy Public School in 2020 due to the following reason:

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My child/children:

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Signature Parent/Carer ______________________________________ Dated: ____/____/2019

YEAR 5 – CANBERRA/SNOWY MOUNTAINS EXCURSION

Year 5 students from our school have recently undertaken an educational tour of the National

Capital. Students were given the opportunity to participate in a variety of educational programs

with a focus on Australia’s history, culture, heritage and democracy. The Australian Government

recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit the National Capital as part

of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist families in meeting the cost of the excursion

the Australian Government is contributing funding of $20 per student under the Parliament and

Civics Education Rebate program towards those costs.

Year 5 Teachers.

YEAR 5 CAMP

On Monday 16 September Year 5 went to Canberra for our 3 day camp. On the first day we were

in Canberra and went to Parliament House. As we got there we could hear cannons going off for

the arrival of the Fijian Prime Minister. On the way in to Parliament House we saw Scott Morrison

and he waved to us. After morning tea we went on a tour of Parliament House. The rooms were

very formal and it was very quiet. We got to do a role play as well and I was the Opposition

Leader.

Going to the snow was the best part but I hated the fact that we had to put our snow gear on – that

was uncomfortable! On the way there we saw a lot of snow covering the trees, making them look

like comfortable floating clouds. When we walked onto the snow it felt like I was walking on clouds.

Mrs North first talked about the limits and boundaries where we could play and then she said

PLAY! All of us sprinted up the hill. Miss Grayson was sliding down the hill with some of the boys.

Miss Hatzitanos and Miss Papathanasiou were getting hit with snowballs! It was so much fun at

the snow.

On the last day we went to the War Memorial where we learned about how the soldiers ended up

overseas in the Wars. It made me feel honoured that our soldiers died for us to have our freedom.

After lunch we went to Questacon. My favourite part was where we got to talk and interact with the

robots.

By Mark Johnson 5V

YEAR 4 CAMP BLURB

On Monday the 16 of September Year 4 gathered in

the hall, excited to leave for their first overnight camp.

We packed our gear and headed off on the short bus

journey to The Royal National Park. What an exciting

two days we had ahead. We built catapults and tested

them, we tried our luck at fishing, learnt about the

mangroves and built sandcastles and tested our

strength on the lower ropes course. Although the

weather was not on our side all of our Stage 2 students

had an excellent time and displayed excellent

behaviour and manners.

KINDERGARTEN OPEN DAY

Last Wednesday, Holsworthy Public School opened the doors of the Kindergarten classrooms to

families of the Kinder 2020. The school Ministers ran the event taking care of everything from

technology to leading the new families around the Kinder classrooms. During this time Kinder

displayed the wonderful things that are happening during their Number and Writing groups. Before

the new families visited all five of our wonderful Kinder rooms they were blown away with the talented

children in the Choir and Drama group. We are so lucky here at Holsworthy to be able to ‘show off’

such wonderful talented student.

Mrs S Murdoch

DEBATING NEWS

We would like to congratulate all of our debating students who competed this year. Our ‘Titans’

team did a fantastic effort in their round robin winning 2 out of 4 debates. Our ‘Rookies’ team won

3 out of 4 of their debates which meant they progressed through to the knockout rounds, this puts

them in the top 16 schools in the Sydney South West region! In the first knockout round they

debated against Minto Public School ‘That all supermarket promotions like Ooshies and Little

Shops should not be banned’ but in a very close result they lost the debate. Well done to all these

students.

Debating Teams 2019

Rookies Titans

Aahil Malik 5V Vrinda Dhar 5/6G

Kody Swe 6C Lola Marcetic 5/6G

Harsha Sheoran 5/6N Trisha Tamhankar 6C

Adhruth Anand 5/6N Surabhi Marathe 5/6N

Niomi Egodapitiya 5/6N Onnonto Ahmed 5/6N

Ranjana Rao 5/6N Charlotte Selkirk 5/6N

Mrs Hatzitanos and Miss Grayson

DSM NEWS

Term 3 has flown by and many ADF families have already learnt of or are just finding about

upcoming posting orders. If you are posting out please inform me either by emailing

Karen.e.wilkins@det.nsw.edu.au or contacting the school administration office. Information for

changing schools is available on the DCO website.

DCO is currently asking families to complete a “What Suits You” survey so they can cater better

for ADF family needs. This survey is available through DCO or I can email out an attachment upon

request.

Holsworthy Community Group have a whole variety of activities organised up to November this

year. The activities range from sausage making, a ghost tour, drawing and a Sydney Harbour

Comedy Cruise. If you would like further information on any of these activities either contact HCG

directly or I can forward you the details upon request. The YMCA has a range of activities for the

school holidays at Liverpool and Hammondville. Further information for these activities can be

found by phoning Dani Layton on 9725 0704.

COLOUR RUN

We will be holding a Colour Run this year. Our major fundraising event will be held on Monday 28 October. Our goal is to fundraise $18,000. This is to raise money for classroom technology and resources to support our students as 21st Century learners. The resources include Chromebooks, robotics sets and guided readers.

Each student received a Sponsorship Form which will be used to keep track of every donation they receive. Students need to have a parent or adult present when seeking sponsors. Sponsorship forms need to be returned with the money raised by Friday 25 October. Donations can also be

processed online. Prizes will be awarded to classes and individual students who raised the most money in each grade however, the best prize of all is participating in the Colour run.

SILVER AWARD:

KA Isabella Buck; Sorna Vijaysampath

KB Arghya Aithala; Kevin Dang; Brian Nguyen; Yoganirek Nivas; Prashna Sapkota; Dimitri Silver; Sudharsana Anandan;

KCR Parisa Acharya; Aiden Dennis; Zaviyar Hasan; Deming Liu; Arif Rahim; Aashvi Satram; William Semmens; Mugdha Shinde; Tavish Shrestha; Rayhaan Siddiqui; Eilena Tarpey; Isaac Wu; Max Wu

KF Felicity Liu; Ranveer Seth; Muhid Ul Shabib; Jerusha Nithila Thampan; Jayden Young; Michaela Burden; Sofia Gasparini; Zeo Oligo

KM Avan Amir; Visrudh Bala; Marcus Campbell; Nicholas Delcasse; Aadhiv Krishnan; Hayden Teasel

1P George Swinton

2H Sienna Salvadori

2J Abigail Edwards; Nevzad Tursun

3J Abel Thomas

3S Damathmari Shreesha

4A Aashish Deepak; Miya Phillip

4J Aiden Cox; Charli Deguara; Fernando Dylan; Sameep Karki; Skye Ma; Zea Oligo; Griffin Price; Zunera Aziz

4/5P Nefeli Illiopoulou

GOLD AWARD:

KA Alisha Bhatta; Jake Duchatel; Kaden Pradhan; Eric Zhao

KB Nadia Rabhi; Harper Rowley; Zahra Yaghi; Morah Deng; Isaac Fenech; Asiya Salami; Kyra Sami

KCR Annabel Howells; Ayra Misbah; Ozgu Tursun

KF Anh Quynh Phoung (Kristie) Pham; Asfiya Amir; Sia Dahal

KM Chloe Nguyen; Chanel Chang

1D Nicolas Biordi; Siri Madivada; Muhammad Syed

1L Joseph Gayed; Simiao Huang; Potiki Messent; Tushar Sengupta; Brihadh Sivakumar; Audrey Williamson; Jeremiah Wyness

1P Samantha Bartlett; Renee Cao; Enoch Chen; Tazmeen Faiz; Diya Girish; Ameera Khambiye; Eshaal Shahzad

1R Brian Guico; Milan Raja Durai

1/2M Liam Nicol

2H Emily King; Ishayat Rahman

2J Preksha Arun; Neel Shinu; Ceryn Tan

2K Onnushka Ahmed;

3J Cheney Blackmore; Gracie Bryant; Leyla Daoudon; Liba Haque; Danilo Kablar; Alfred Marsh; Millie Pearce; Summer Toms

3S Matai Felix; Rehaan Hussain; Neha Narayan; Makayla Pons; Acacia Reed; Radiya Salami

3/4C Onngkita Ahmed; Alisha Bonney Joseph; Zitong Hao; Daniel Kitsoukilias; Shekinah Pilly; Aditya Sehgal; Rani Sharma; Jade Vickers; Alisanne Withayaban; Jasmine Yang

3/4L

Ishan Bhondve; Brithi Herman Kumar; Liyana Hossain; Amelie McKeon; Yochy Okubo; Liam Olson; Naveen Egodapitiya; David Kablar; Mia Kouwenberg; Inaqui Lin; Ashleigh Nguyen; Everest Pan; Ananya Puri; Nazim Rabhi; Laryssa Sinn; Sakina Syeda; Anwesha Vohra; Aaron Williams

4A

Emma Bailey; Mia Chapman; Anushka Dabir; Nadia Daoudon; Ameenah El-Gendy; Danny Foster; Daniel Francis; Trinity Freitag; Brianna Garrett; Jithin Girish; Chloe Hudson; Luke Jacques; Anisha Kazi; Iris Liang; Jessica Lorimer; Jesse Matar; Anesuishe Musakura; Miya Philip; Meenakshi Punnadi; Safiyya Salami; Haris Shahzad; Frasier Swinton

4J Harry Zhao

4/5P Ahyan Amir; Avika Gurram; Akshobhya Kumar; Tahmid Naim; Dianka Pradhan; Jacinda Tran; Anh Minh Vu

PSSA

WINTER PSSA RESULTS

All Grand Finals were cancelled last week due to the weather and ground closures. As a result, our Junior Netball B’s, Junior Hockey and Senior Hockey teams have all been declared Premiers for finishing the season in a higher position on the ladder than their opposition. Congratulations to these teams on their wonderful achievement!

SUMMER PSSA

Summer PSSA will start on Friday 18th October, 2019 – Term 4 Week 1.

TERM 3 DIARY

2019 HPS Diary Term 3 22 July – 27 September

TERM

Three Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

WEEK

10

September 23

September 24

September 25

Year 6 Mini Fete

September 26

Living safely with

pets K-2

September 27

LAST DAY OF

TERM

Spring Holidays- Monday 30 September to Friday 11 October 2019

TERM 4 DIARY

TERM FOUR Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

WEEK 1

October 14 Selective high applications

opened on 8 October

October 15

October 16

October 17

October 18 Summer PSSA

Round 8

WEEK 2

October 21 NRMA Road

Safety

October 22

October 23 Kinder

Transition

October 24 State Drama

Festival Stage 3

Planetarium Incursion TBC

October 25 Summer PSSA

Round 9 Disco

WEEK 3

October 28 Colour Run

October 29

October 30 Kinder

Transition

October 31 Woolworths Blast Cricket Tournament

Stage 3 Planetarium

Incursion TBC P&C Meeting

November 1 Summer PSSA

Round 10

WEEK 4

November 4

Enrichment testing

OC Orientation 9.30

November 5

Enrichment testing

November 6

Enrichment testing

Kinder

Transition

November 7

SPORTS PHOTO Day

November 8 Summer PSSA

Round 11

WEEK 5

November 11 REPORTS TO

SUPERVISORS

Remembrance Service

November 12 Minister

Nominations

November 13

November 14

November 15 Summer PSSA

Round 12

WEEK 6

November 18 November 19 Diwali

celebration

Pre-school visit

(Diwali dancers)

November 20

November 21

November 22 Summer PSSA

Semis Schools

Spectacular 22 & 23 Nov

WEEK 7

November 25

November 26

November 27

Combined Christian

Performance 9.15 and 10am

November 28

Holsworthy Pre School Visit x 4

classes 10.30

P&C Meeting

November 29

Summer PSSA Finals

WEEK 8

December 2 Closing

Parliament

December 3

December 4

Year 6 Farewell Brighton Lakes

December 5

December 6 PSSA Winter

Extreme Weather Back up

WEEK 9

December 9

December 10

Presentation Day

Assemblies

December 11

Stage 2

Party day

December 12

Stage 3

Party day CAROLS NIGHT REPORTS HOME

December 13 K-2 Party Day

WEEK 10

December 16 Moving Day

December 17

December 18

Last day for students

December 19

December 20