Sunshine North Primary School 65-71 Suffolk Road, North Sunshine 3020, Phone: 9311 2400, Fax: 9311 2578

Dear Parents/Carers and Friends,

Welcome to our third newsletter for Term 3! How quickly time goes by as we only have 4 weeks left before our students are on holiday again. As we head towards Spring, I am sure we are all looking forward to some warmer weather.

Step up to Prep Program: What a fantastic program! It’s FREE to all students who have enrolled in Year Prep 2020 at Sunny North. It is held every Thursday and Friday from 9.00 am—12.00pm in our Rainbow Room. We currently have 38 students attending this program. The children are taught by Ms Kylie Crosbie a wonderful, experienced teacher and Mrs Penni Godley, one of our fabulous Education Support Staff. If your child is enrolled for Prep 2020 and you wish them to attend this amazing program, please contact the school office.

Our School Environment: Miss Nguyen and all of the wonderful students in 1/2N have put in a landscaping proposal to School Council which was approved at our last meeting.

They have designed the new garden area outside the offices and will be shopping for plants and planting soon. So keep an eye on this space!

Father’s Day Stall: The Parents & Friends Association will be holding their annual Father ’s Day Stall on:

THURSDAY 29TH AUGUST & FRIDAY 30TH AUGUST. The idea of this stall is to enable the children to purchase a gift of their very own choice for Dad on his special day. This is the only time of year that we are able to specially ask parents to help, that is by allowing each of your children a small amount of money to spend on a gift. Gifts will range in price from $1.00 to $6.00.

Athletics Carnival: Congratulations and thank you for your efforts to all the students who participated in our District Athletics Carnival today. We also thank all the staff who have helped train and prepare them for this day. A special thank you to Miss Chircop for coordinating our involvement.

Ms Nelly Santos Acting Principal

Volume 13/2019 23rd August, 2019

DATES TO REMEMBER

STEP UP TO PREP Every Thursday & Friday, until 24th & 25th Oct

CURRICULUM DAY—STUDENT FREE DAY Wednesday, 28th August

FATHER’S DAY STALL Thursday, 29th & 30 Aug

F.Y.BUNDOORA FARM EX Monday, 9th September

MULTICULTURAL DAY Wednesday, 11th Sep

WHOLE SCHOOL PHOTO Wednesday, 18th Sep

SCHOOL COUNCIL Wednesday, 18th Sep

YR 5/6 ARTS CENTRE EX Thursday, 19th September

“HATS ON” DAY AND SPECIAL LUNCH Friday, 20th September

LAST DAY OF TERM 3 2019: 2.30 PM FINISH Friday, 20th September

FIRST DAY OF TERM 4 2019: 9.00 AM START Monday, 7th October

YEAR 3/4 ECOLINC INC Monday, 14th October

YEAR 5/6 ECOLINC EXC Thursday, 24th October

YEAR 1/2 LEGOLAND EXC Friday, 1st November

CURRICULUM DAY—STUDENT FREE DAY Monday, 4th November

MELBOURNE CUP DAY Tuesday, 5th November

YR 5/6 CAMP MANYUNG Wed 13th—Fri 15th Nov.

inning books and best sellers, Book Club catalogue. Each

Acting Principal: Nelly Santos

CURRICULUM/STUDENT FREE DAY - WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28TH

On Wednesday, August 28th there will be a Curriculum Day and the school will be closed for all students. The staff will be spending the day looking at our whole school reading practices and how we can support all of our students reach their individual goals.

School will resume again on Thursday, August 29th at 9.00 am.

The following students have celebrated their birthday so far this term:

*James in 1/2G *Aiden in 5/6W

*Henry in 3/4G *Owen in FYC

We hope that you had a wonderful day!

The following students will be celebrating their birthday next week:

*Yuri in 1/2G *Adrielle in 5/6W

*Shayna in 3/4N *Kian in 3/4S

*Kiarash in 3/4W *Anshika in 3/4S *Jamie in 5/6L

The Sunny North family wishes you all a very Happy Birthday – have a great day!

YEAR MERIT AWARD VALUE OF THE FORTNIGHT

YEAR MERIT AWARD VALUE OF THE FORTNIGHT

FYD Juju, Affan Thao, Anas 3/4S Liam

1/2B Ahmed Arianna, Elizabeth 3/4W Avneet

1/2C Munazza, Hadiqa 5/6L Levi Ann

1/2N Phong, Hadiya Soundus 5/6S Jonathan

3/4N Ayman Samaria 5/6W Aiden

On Tuesday the 27th of August ten grade 5/6 students from Sunshine North Primary School will be travelling to Scienceworks to present a workshop to their peers from around Victoria at the Kids Teaching Kids Conference.

Their presentation will focus on renewable energy, and how we can use this valuable resource to make a sustainable

playground. Chelsea, Binh, Jonathan, Tan, Damien, Daniel, Amelia, Karen, Melissa and Isla have been working really hard on their presentation over the last couple of weeks. Please wish them the best of luck!

This year we will be celebrating our Multicultural Day on Wednesday, the 11th of September. The aim is to celebrate our diverse world, in particular the 35 cultures represented at our school. Our students will experience watching a Cultural Dance performance presented by Australian Vietnamese Arts celebrating multiculturalism. They will also participate in a variety of exciting activities acknowledging different cultures. We are encouraging all our students to wear their traditional clothes/costumes or bring something that represents their

culture on the day. Please don’t forget to fill in the permission form and return it with the payment to your children’s teachers as soon as possible so that your children won’t miss out on this wonderful celebration. Thank you for your cooperation. Thu Cao—Languages Specialist

The 3/4 Team has had a busy start to Term 3!

We have worked hard in Reading to practice our summarising skills and use our own

words to share the main idea of a text - our next topic will be about learning to make

reasonable inferences using the clues in the text.

In Maths we have spent a great deal of time practicing

strategies which will help improve our ability to complete

addition and subtraction problems - a BIG thank-you to

our parents and older siblings who have helped their 3/4

relative practice these strategies at home and return our Maths Homework

Bags promptly.

In Integrated Studies, our students have been investigating what it is like to

put ourselves in another person’s shoes as we discuss fairness and equity in

our school, the community and wider world we live in.

Earn and Learn is well underway - how wonderful

it has been to see our 3/4s working hard to

complete their jobs and earn school money to

spend at Market Day in Term 4!

Sunshine North has many wonderful enrichment programs and opportunities for student involvement which contribute to their rich and well rounded learning experience at SNPS. The programs we offer are: Visual Arts, Physical Education and Sports, Performing Arts, Languages (Vietnamese), the Kitchen Garden Program, Breakfast Club, S.R.C, the Rainbow Room, and SPARKS just to name a few.

LEARNING AND BEHAVIOURAL VALUES 2019 Our Core Values are statements of belief about attitudes, skills, and approaches to learning that we want

to foster in our students. They are intended to permeate and to be reflected by every aspect of school life,

in and out of the classroom, as well as home and community life.

In addition, they can be seen as broad statements of purpose that focus the school’s energies in curriculum,

programs, and policies.

Sunshine North Primary prides itself on being a safe and happy learning environment. Every 2 weeks we focus on a particular value that contributes to this.

FOCUSED

What does it mean to Be Focused? Putting your full attention on your important goals and committing to tasks in the classroom by staying focused and separating yourself from distractions will lead to success.

Students being Focused say: “We have to stay on task.” “I will not let the person that I’m sitting next to distract me from doing my work.” “If I’m not sure of something, I will ask questions and clarify what I’m doing.” “I will choose a quiet place to work where students won’t distract me.”

How do you know you are being Focused? Do you make sure you don’t have things around you that will distract you from doing your work? Do you make sure you sit next to someone who won’t talk and distract you from your work? Do you commit to a task and keep focussed to finish it on time? Do you seek help and ask questions about the task to understand what you're doing?

Thank you for everybody’s support to make our book character dress up a HUGE success. Everybody had a fun day celebrating National Book Week. This year’s theme is ‘Reading is my Super Power’. All students have been celebrating the short listed books in class this week. A student from each class won the book award for best book character costume. Check out some of the photos: