Yabber, 2nd September, 2015 Week 36

York Public School
YABBER
Evan Street, South Penrith
Phone: 4731 6577
Fax: 4721 7522
Email: york-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au
Website: www.york-p.schools.nsw.edu.au
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From the Principal
2nd September, 2015
The first week of Spring is upon us and I am going to write something different for my Yabber item.
This week is SAS STAFF RECOGNITION WEEK.
At York Public School, as in all Public Schools in NSW, we have staff called ‘SAS staff’. These include
our office staff, our general assistants as well as our School Learning Support Officers (SLSOs).
It is the week we recognise all these members of our staff at York and thank them for the dedication to
our students, teachers and community.
Thank you goes to:
Lisa Dowton, our School Administrative Manager;
Leslee Byrne, Emma Tii Tii, Brooke Wyngaard and Janet Delanoue; our School Administrative
Officers.
Bob Cooke and John Priestly; our General Assistants who do so well to maintain our school and
grounds.
Linda Buchanan, Chris Knight, Helen Hosie, Doreen Cranridge, Darren Pearson, Mary Rose Cullen,
Wendy Wood, Bronwen Attard, Jacinta Bender, Joshua O’Grady and Melissa Amey; our School
Learning Support Officers who support our students in the classroom and the playground with their
learning and health care needs.
I cannot express to the community enough how vital all of these staff members are to our school,
dedicating their work life to our students.
If you come across any of these wonderful people this week, please take a minute to thank them for all
that they do at York Public School.
I thank each and everyone one of them from the bottom of my heart.
Kelly Paton
Principal
SCHOOL MANAGEMENT INFORMATION
School Hours
8.55am – 3.00pm
Office Hours
8.30am – 3.00pm
Receipting - Daily
8.30am – 2.30pm
BOOK WEEK
Thank you to all the parents, students and staff who
helped make our Book Week Activities so successful.
Michael Salmon delighted everyone with his drawings
and humour – so much so that all of his books in our
library have been borrowed in 3 days!
** EFTPOS IS AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE BUT
CANNOT BE PROCESSED OVER THE PHONE **
Playground supervision commences at 8.30am.
No child should be in the playground before this
time.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
ASSEMBLIES
K – 2 Friday 9.00am – 10.00am
3 – 6 Friday 2.00pm – 3.00pm
MONDAY WHOLE SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES will only
ND
be EVERY 2
WEEK (EVEN WEEKS) now.
The final Monday Assembly for Term 3 is on
th
14 September.
Thing 123 and Old Mother Hubbard helped make our
Book Character Parade even more fun with nearly
every student in the school participating.
UNIFORM POOL will be open from 9:00am –
10:00am on Friday mornings (only when K-2
assemblies are on).
STUDENT BANKING – DOLLARMITE ACCOUNTS
Wednesday’s – Bank books to teachers at the
beginning of the day.
NEWSLETTER – YABBERS
Please email york-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au to
receive the YABBER via email. The YABBER is also
available on our website and a link will be available
from our Facebook page when each edition is
uploaded.
SWIM SCHOOL
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Swim school starts next week on the 7 September.
Monday the children stay at school and then Tuesday
th
th
8 – Friday 18 will be at Penrith Pool.
Students must be at school no later than 8.45am and
must be dressed with their swimmers already on
underneath their uniform.
ZOOSNOOZ
REMINDER – Any students
who have paid a deposit for
the ZoosnooZ please ensure
the remainder is paid by
th
Friday 11
September.
Further information will be
sent home soon.
We sold over $3306.00 worth of books at our Book
Fair, which enables us to add nearly $1000.00 of
resources from the Fair to our own school library.
Thank you again to parents, grandparents, friends
and students themselves who even used their own
savings to purchase books.
I would also like to thank Mrs Buchanan for her help
“behind the scenes.”
Mrs Binns, Librarian
ICAS RESULTS
Results have been received from the University of
New South Wales for students who entered the ICAS
(International Competition and Assessment for
Schools) Digital Technologies and
Science
Competitions for 2015.
Students from York Public School achieved
outstanding results when they participated this year.
These students deserve the highest praise for their
efforts and participation.
The highlights of our results this year are as follows:
Digital Technologies
Credit Certificate:
Yr 3
Yr 5
Ryan Byrnes
William Waugh
Mavilee Johns
Jade Busst
Karina Doyle
Joel McDonald
Samuel Lapin
Yr 4
Charlotte Gimson
Yr 4
Merit Certificate:
Science
Distinction Certificate:
Yr 3
Yr 4
William Waugh
Jade Busst
Credit Certificate:
Yr 4
Melanie Ball
Mavilee Johns
Samuel Lapin
Yr 5
Spelling
Credit Certificate:
Yr 3
Yr 4
Merit Certificate:
Riley Busst
Ryan Byrnes
Carissa Paduch
Corey Partridge
Jade Busst
Yr 3 William Waugh
Summer-Jayne Robins
Yr 4 Mavilee Johns
Congratulations to all these students and to all who
participated.
D. Zoglmeyer & S. Ricketts
ICAS Coordinators
STUDENT LEAVE – HOLIDAYS & SICK
HOLIDAYS – If you are planning on taking your child
out of the school on vacation for 5 days or more an
‘Exemption from Attendance’ form is required to be
filled in and returned to school prior to your trip. You
will be required to take this away with you.
SICK – If your child is away from school because of
illness, it is a requirement that an absence note be
written and given to their teacher upon their return.
Alternatively, you can telephone the school informing
us of their absence and the teacher will be notified.
PREMIER’S SPELLING BEE
Congratulations to all students in Years 3 - 6 for their
magnificent effort in the Class Spelling Bee
Competitions. The two winners from each class then
participated in a nerve-racking School Competition!
The Junior competition continued for a nail-biting 12
rounds, while the Senior competition was completed
in Round 5.
Junior Class Finalists:
Jade Busst, Jasmine Sabaten, Corey Partridge,
Sienna Kennedy, Amelia Birnie, Stacey Hernandez,
Cooper Hale, Riley Busst, Charlotte Gimson, Rahmi
Youssef, Abigail Beukes, Hannah Koopmans and
Melanie Ball.
Senior Class Finalists:
Adam Lucantonio, Teagan Winderbanks, Danielle
Alcock, Laine Johnston, Tashana Opelu, Lilly Moeaki,
Nicklas Lusch, Elise Dekruif, Corey Doyle, Amelia
OpDenBrouw and Celina Trezise.
Special congratulations must go to our finalists who
will be representing York Public School at the
Regional Finals at Faulconbridge Public School on
th
Friday 11 September.
Junior Competition:
First Place: Jade Busst
Runner-up: Corey Partridge
Senior Competition:
First Place: Tashana Opelu
Runner-up: Nicklas Lusch
NOTIFYING THE SCHOOL – CHILD’S HEALTH
We welcome information from parents about your
child's health, even if you are not requesting specific
support from our school. Our school asks for medical
information when you enrol your child. It is also
important that you let us know if your child’s health
care needs change or if a new health condition
develops.
Information about allergies, medical conditions such
as asthma and diabetes and other health care related
issues (including prior conditions such as medical
procedures in the last 12 months) should be provided
to the school by parents.
Please provide this
information in writing to the Principal. This will greatly
assist our school in planning to support your child’s
health and wellbeing.
Please also remember to notify staff in the school
office of any changes to your contact details or to the
contact details of other people nominated as
emergency contacts.
We appreciate your assistance in this regard and
assure you that any information you provide the
school will be stored securely and will only be used or
disclosed in order to support your son or daughter’s
health needs or as otherwise required by law.
CHOIR
THANK YOU to all Choir members for their effort this
year in both PVPAF and PULSE. I would also like to
thank the parents for their tremendous support of the
choir, in helping their children to learn the words and
for listening to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang over and over
and over and over again!!!!
Mrs Smith
JUNIOR AND SENIOR RUGBY TEAMS
Victory! Congratulations to the senior and junior
rugby league team. Both were successful in winning
the PSSA Rugby League competition. You should be
proud of all your efforts over the course of the
season.
A special thank you to Mr John Burns who trained the
boys each week and took care of the juniors week
after week.
SOUTHLANDS COMMUNITY REWARDS is off and
running. This competition runs in conjunction with the
Woolworths Earn and Learn promotion.
How does the Southlands Rewards Work? For
every $2.50 you spend in a specialty shop in
Southlands you receive 1 sticker.
For every $10 you spend at Woolworths you also
receive 1 Southlands sticker (not to be confused
with the Earn and Learn stickers).
Place your Southlands sticker on their rewards card
(located in each shop), fill in school details and place
them in the barrel near Donut King. Over the last 4
years York Public School has received over $12,000
from this competition which has enabled us to buy
cameras, a sound system for the hall and musical
instruments. This is a great competition for the
school and I encourage everyone to get behind it.
Junior Rugby League Team
When you shop at Woolworths, at the checkout ask
for the Earn and Learn stickers, then proceed to the
FRONT COUNTER, show your Woolworths docket
and they will give you the Southlands Reward
stickers. TO RECEIVE ANY STICKERS YOU HAVE TO ASK
– SOME SHOPS/ CASHIERS FORGET TO HAND THEM OUT.
Thank you for your support in these promotions.
Ross Sinfield, Deputy Principal
FACEBOOK
Senior Rugby League Team
ROYCE SIMMONS SHIELD
Congratulations to the York Public School ‘A’ and ‘B’
Junior Rugby League teams who participated in the
st
Royce Simmons Shield on Tuesday 1 September.
Both sides played exceptionally well!
York Public School was lucky enough to have our
Junior ‘A’ team win the Penrith Final and the Junior
‘B’ team just missed out on competing in their final.
Many thanks to Mrs Barglik for leading the team
throughout the year, Mrs Robins for attending the
Royce Simmons Shield day with the students and all
the parents for their continued support over the year.
Best of luck to our Junior ‘A’ team competing again
next week.
Please remember this page is to keep everyone
updated on what is happening and is a reference
that can be accessed anywhere.
Please respect this page – no negativity is greatly
appreciated or posts will be deleted.
by Jack
As previously advertised the P & C are organising a
Family Portrait Fundraiser
A message from the Prefects and Captains:
Good job to everyone who made it into the Public
Speaking. Good luck to the people going to Sydney
West Athletics next week.
Everyone make sure to keep active, like the soccer
lady said.
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When:
Sunday 1 November
Where:
York Public School Grounds
To Book:
Visit www.schoolinterviews.com.au
and enter the code PTAHH, pay your
$15.00 donation / payable by CASH
at the school office. Payment is to
be separate to any other monies and
clearly labelled – P & C FAMILY
PORTRAIT FUNDRAISER
Link will also be on our facebook page.
Thank you to Michael Salmon for visiting us. It was
great!
Good job junior and senior Rugby League teams in
your grand final win. Better luck next time to the
netballers and soccer teams.
Nice book week costumes, you all looked fantastic!
By Hayden & Brodie
The joke of the month:
Q:
What has thousands of holes and can still hold
water?
A:
A sponge!
COMMONWEALTH BANK SCHOOL BANKING
UPDATE – PLEASE READ
Concerns have been raised regarding the ‘Cosmic
Light Beam Torch’ reward item due to the inclusion of
four button batteries that can be accessed by
unscrewing the back of the torch.
Whilst this reward has been independently tested and
deemed to meet relevant product standards the
Commonwealth Bank have made the decision to
proactively withdraw this item from the School
Banking Rewards Program.
Parents/Guardians are requested to dispose of any
‘Cosmic Light Beam Torches’ their child may have
already received as part of the Rewards Program.
Students who have previously received a ‘Cosmic
Light Beam Torch’ are welcome to redeem an
alternative reward item.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
PRICE LIST – AUGUST 2015
INFORMATION REGARDING ATTENDANCE …
We love it when large companies want to give us equipment
FREE OF CHARGE.
Woolworths is again running their Earn and Learn program.
From Wednesday 15th July to Tuesday 18th September, for
every $10.00 you spend at any Woolworth's Supermarket be
sure to ask for the ‘earn and learn sticker/s’. The stickers are
then to be placed on a sticker sheet (available from Woolworths
or online) and when your sticker sheet is full send it along to
the school office and place it in the ‘Earn and Learn’ Box.
At the end of the competition we trade in the sheets for
educational equipment. There should also be a collection box
at the store over at Southlands. Please share this with all of
your friends and family and from the 15th July, start collecting
stickers.
TERM 3 BANKING PROMOTION – Starting 13th July